My father is a geek extradordinary. He recently sent me an Amazon wishlist for his birthday (yes, yes, I KNOW), and on it are four typical history books. See, that's the thing with my dad-- he consumes non-fiction history books like A CRAZY PERSON. He's read multiple biographies on at least the first ten to fifteen presidents, and can quote facts ( Read more... )

I broke down and bought the new BSG soundtrack; to make the $25 for free shipping, I also got The Decipherment of Linear B, as I've been wanting to read it for a while now and it's not in our public library system. I really didn't want to think I could be more geeky, but oh, I so can be ( Read more... )

You know, I am intensely amused that everyone on Stargate and in Atlantis uses Dell Inspirons. Like, THIS is the laptop model they choose to interface with ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. My laptop. With WINDOWS.

There's a joke here somewhere. All right, so also, this is the dorkiest post that I have ever made. The end.

sarken = !!! <3 because she shares code.

*uses appropriate Saint Clinton icon*

(Moving the tag-line under mood/music actually took quite longer than it should have, as I became distracted by all the shiny things I could suddenly control about my entries and temporarily broke my world the LJ. Twice. Oops. In the end, the only additional customization I ( Read more... )

I made a Moebius strip out of a strip of paper, and have put it on prominent display atop my computer.

Send help. Immediately.

Y'all should be aware that mejuxtaposed and I have stared our own blog. Because we can. Neither of us know what the hell we're doing, so this should be fun. Be afraid, be very afraid. Also, I'm pretty sure that I just half-assed the Constitutional analysis in the most recent post. I used to be good at that stuff, you know.

g33ktastic!Oh, yeah, baby. That's ( Read more... )

I'm spending this lovely Thursday at work surfing around for a decent pattern to crochet myself an iPod case, since I doscovered earlier that this week that iPod + sun = OWMOTHERFUCKERTHAT'SHOT. Which led me to this other train of thought, which I'd like to blame on my father, who used to lecture me on the "true price" of beef ( Read more... )

Oh.

You know the only thing my brain processed about the season finale of Law & Order: SVU last night?

Exhibit A: In a cute pop culture reference (as well as an attempt to hide their shameless rip-off of The X-Files), a reporter sarcastically referred to Munch as "Mulder."

Exhibit B: In 1989 (also known as The X-Files, "The Unusual Suspects"), ( Read more... )

Because I am a complete genius and quite deserving of my status as an English mjaor, I have just now made the connection between Don Quixote and "quixotic."

pronunciation musings: How come Quixote is key-oh-tay, but quixotic is quiks-ah-tik? Shouldn't it, logically, be key-oh-tik? Or is (American) English just delightfully retarded like that? This ( Read more... )

Battlestar Galactica needs to do Panathenaia-in-space (that's the ancient Athenian new year, by the by). Or maybe Anthesteria (the one that celebrates the opening of new wine, and is celebrated with city-wide drinking contests participated in by children as young as three... NO SERIOUSLY). Also, I can now recite the Greek creation myth BY HEART.

I ( Read more... )