Okay.. after some irritation i've discovered how to enter non-keyboard characters in Pidgin. Instead of the alt+___ that windows uses, it actually uses unicode (a cool thing), unfortunately, this means instead of the nice simple number things from before, i have to learn unicode :P (not a cool thing ( Read more... )

And one more recipe ( Read more... )

Tiana kindly provided me with various Hawaii-related books as entertainment during my stay, so i've selected a book entitled "Hawaiian Cookbook". For the most part it seems like Hawaiian food reflects the large asian populations which migrated there. Unique aspects include large amounts of pineapple, coconut, orange and banana in nearly every dish ( Read more... )

I saw an article asking the question "When did America become a place where the only things worth doing are those things that make money?". A good question! It is a very sad thing and makes life feel very worthless to think that one's only purpose is to produce income. That's actually not a bad thing to point at as a root for this country's ( Read more... )

Yet another successful day of biking! Lovely and sunny and pleasant. Leah and I were hoping to go sailing with her father today, it's absolutely perfect weather, but i have to work at 2pm and that wouldn't give us much time, sadly.. we're going to try again on Thursday, but they say it's going to be bad weather for sailing. I say wait and see, ( Read more... )

Okay! Just got an email titled "RE: Diedre wants apartments". Well, i'm pretty sure i would spell my name right if i wanted apartments... and also, i doubt i would title it like that >_> Nice try though! I hope there aren't any people who *would* title it that and actually think that was in reference to something they actually sent. Then again, a ( Read more... )

Well, this was a very interesting find! Apparently on wiktionary they have lists of ancient greek words by declension! Neat! While browsing through, i find a very amusing definition.. it goes from being perfectly expected to very funny ( Read more... )

I feel like such a hippy... today's lunch is as follows ( Read more... )

AMAZING!!! I must watch all of these... I've been wanting something like this. It's amazingly difficult to find good books on these subjects!!

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For the first time in what feels like an entire chunk of life it was sunny and pleasant out today. Above 70 and not raining... and all of Wakefield exploded out from it's various hovels and businesses and paraded around in the streets. The first real taste of tourists, hungry for some vacation weather hit the store today-- how do i know? 1. the ( Read more... )