So per one of my friend's recommendations yesterday, I decided to give Google Chrome another shot.  I had installed it on my laptop before but wasn't entirely impressed by it.

Now I have it on my desktop... have had it for the last two days.  Here are my comparisons between it and Firefox:

Firefox - Lots of user-customizable options (+) but ( Read more... )

So, as many of you know, Amy and I were supposed to be moved out of Baltimore by the end of this month and setting up shop in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Cary/Wake Forest/etc. Well, that hasn't happened, and we're here for another year. I'll explain why.

One of our main motivations for wanting to move to the Triangle was that I was applying to UNC ( Read more... )

I just found out that Tamlyn Tomita, the actress who played Kumiko in The Karate Kid Part II is slated to play Jun Kazama in the Tekken movie this fall.

My interest has been piqued.

So, master's degree #2 down, PhD to go ( Read more... )

I know, I know, it's been forever... I just had to post this ( Read more... )

I just got RickRoll'd twice in 3 minutes...

Normally I would write a monthly year-in-review, but I'm feeling quite lazy. tarahesq posted a survey that I think I'll repost here.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

Teaching was great. I hope next semester turns out as well as this one did, with a good, attentive class and all.

Now, as far as the classes I took:

• Latin-American Short Story - B+. I'm not too surprised, as my quiz average wasn't that great in there. I must not have done as well as I hoped on my final paper and exam though.
• Cultural ( Read more... )

* Semester's almost over, and I'm quite happy about that. Not that I'm not enjoying everything, because I am. But I, like anyone who's been at something a long time, need a break ( Read more... )

YES WE DID!

¡SÍ LO HICIMOS!

And I gotta travel to DC TWICE tomorrow. It's gonna be bedlam, I tell ya, bedlam!