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I've returned from Arkansas, but am pretty much wiped out by the journey. I stayed buzzed-to-drunk pretty much any time I wasn't driving, and spent about 16 hours in a car, so I'll have to relay the trip tomorrow. For now, I offer my three main rules for driving on two-lane interstates ( Read more... )

My internet connection goes out sporadically. But it doesn't just boot me offline - it just pretends that it's a freshman fratboy and starts chugging data like crazy, and then pukes them all up five minutes later. For about five minutes, I'll have zero connectivity - then suddenly, everything floods in all at once. AIM won't boot me off, nor will ( Read more... )

Ah, it's election season at utd again. Since a guy running for senator assaulted me on campus today, trying to get me to vote, I figured I'd do a little research and see who the candidates were and what they had to offer. Since I'm too lazy to do actual research, I just picked up a copy of our campus paper, the mercury and flipped to the q-and-a ( Read more... )

Today in Rhetoric we had to bring in a visual argument to show the class. (Yes, we had show-and-tell.) I, of course, forgot all about it until I walked into a classroom where everyone was holding a magazine or a cutout or a poster or something, so I had to scramble to the internet to find something. After rejecting my initial choice, I remembered a ( Read more... )

So where the hell am I supposed to go drinking at 6 in the morning? Nobody's even awake!

Rather, Karma is awheel. Today I bent my bicycle's front wheel, and coming home from seeing a movie with chanceofgotham, I slid into a curb and bent my front left rim ( Read more... )

Apparently, November is Native American month (possibly with the words "Heritage" or "Culture" or "History" thrown in there, I didn't bother checking.) This strikes me as kind of a fucked up thing to do - just another continuation of the tradition of giving the Native Americans the shaft ( Read more... )

I want to meet the asshole who decided it'd be a cute idea to make the string concatenation operator the same as the mathematical addition operator.

Javascript. The only programming language where 2 + 2 = 22.

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