Written because Mom requested it. She never specified non-fiction!

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After Germany, I made a brief stopover in a little town in Massachusetts, and saw some good friends there, and the house in which I theoretically live.

I know some pretty sane-seeming people who claim to be from California1, so I tended to believe it existed. But, then again, unless you paid careful attention, you might get the impression, just ( Read more... )

Okay, that last post was actually kinda structured. Take a look at this one instead!

So, I went to the station to take a bus to the Universität. Local transportation is provided by a series of bus lines, except for line 1, a tram system. It's just like playing Traffic Giant, although I suppose it's not entirely unlike OpenTTD. Our badges also ( Read more... )

The problem I have with traveling alone is that I don't have anyone around to talk at. I've come up with a radical idea to solve it, though. I'll use my LJ as a record of the things that happen as they happen. A sort of "live" "journal", if you will. On account of certain time constraints, my writing may be more disjointed than usual. I did ( Read more... )

Reading debates on Language Log and inserting curly brackets into a BibTeX file so that proper names in paper titles didn't get automatically lowercased got me thinking about the exciting topic of orthographic privilege!

Unless you're a the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as 'Prince'", you probably think that there are some ( Read more... )

At our local grocery store, there are some perfectly normal shopping baskets, and also some larger green ones that have two different handles. One allows you to operate it as a normal basket (see Figure 1); the other allows you to pull it behind you on its little castered wheels, like a tiny strange shopping cart (see Figure 2). I've noticed that ( Read more... )

So, one Saturday, I was sitting in my room, innocently browsing the Web ("There's nothing innocent about browsing the web!" -Jake), when I see a brown blur in the corner of my eye. It's the bat signal! It indicates that a bat is flying around my room in circles ( Read more... )

Playing a version of Black Shades (where you run around beating up or shooting would-be assasins in slow motion) that I've modified slightly for balance and realism while listening to 1963.


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Horsing around on the bomb is strictly forbidden.


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HOUSTON, TX - Officials from NASA announced that the Squanto Rover has uncovered proof of bacteria living on the surface of Massachusetts ( Read more... )