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The Magician's Land
I just finished this book and now I have all the feels and really wanna talk about it to people who have also read it. If you have, could you let me know so we can talk about our feelings? Pretty please? -
suuuuuurveyyyyy
I don't have a paid account, so I have to do a poll the old fashioned way--leave your answer in the comments
Which foreign language should I learn?- Arabic
- Mandarin
- Welsh
- Japanese (well, this is a continuance, but it's been 8 years)
- Spanish
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Running for president
...don't you love polysemy?
I just got a Nike+ gadget. I was running 5k/day, but after a break I'm having to build back up to it very slowly. As motivation, however, I've joined a few "challenge" groups. Among them...Obama-Biden vs. McCain-Palin 2008. Go Obama-Biden!!
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mooobie meme
You know the rules ( Read more... ) -
meme-age
Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
Step 2. Post the first line (or few, if necessary) from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrasing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
NO GOOGLING.
1. Please allow me to introduce myself
Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones solieri2. Communists are no longer dangerous ( Read more... ) -
tonight's menu
Appetizer ( Read more... ) -
wtf department
my sims had a whoops baby. as in, they didn't "try for baby" but they got one anyway. i didn't know that could happen. -
Dear Ms. Sherley-Appel,
On behalf of UCLA, it is my pleasure to extend to you an official offer of admission to the Graduate Division. Our graduate programs attract an exceptionally qualified and talented group of applicants and the selection process is rigorous and highly competitive. Your selection for admission is a recognition of your academic accomplishments and ( Read more... ) -
Response (read earlier post first)
I wrote this to Lanier (he sent me the article):
I wish it would come out sooner! Everything I've read (including this) indicates that it's going to be really really fabulous, bending genre well beyond expectations. I cannot tell you how excited I am that Wright has created a game to do all this. I like the "massively single player" approach, ( Read more... ) -
heh heh, i'm a dork
I recently created a facebook group called "I EARNED my geek stripes," dedicated to real geeks instead of the "geek chic." If I don't know you (and thus know you're a real geek), you're required to send a geeky story in order to get in. Gotta separate the real dorks from the riff-raff somehow. Today I received a message from a hopeful. His geek ( Read more... )