About ten years ago the comic book fan fiction community was a huge part of my life. I even met ex1 in it. Today the community closed its IRC channel because things have been dead for a long time. I'm glad I heard about it so I could drop in and attend the vigil. It's not like I had much of anything to say to anyone, but I've always believed in the ( Read more... )

No news is good news.

In less than two hours' naptime, I dreamt the following ( Read more... )

As per Facebook,

"is in a relationship"

So there. :)

And yes, she's awesome. :)

Outlook very bright. :) :) :)

A woman who is so into science that she has the DNA helix tattooed around her arm. :) :)

While linking on from Wikipedia's existential crisis article, I chanced upon this webpage:

Existential depression in gifted individualswhich had some interesting things to say. I wouldn't consider myself "gifted" [in fact considering my scholastic success I'm probably below average (although one could always take the argumentative route that ( Read more... )

I think I'm definitely starting to think I have bipolar rather than depression. It's like my heart is making a sine wave. I get these waves of "life is great" and waves of "I wish I were dead". I think the amplitude (the intensity of the peaks and troughs) is lessening gradually though and maybe in a couple of years I could see the waves settling ( Read more... )

Well they finally unveiled it. My initial thoughts are rather underwhelmed. It's got barely better resolution than my current phone (800x480 vs 1024x768) so I don't know carrying around that huge screen gives me that much more advantage in screen real estate compared to something I can put in my pocket. What's more, it seems it *still* doesn't have ( Read more... )

Ah, wonderful. The evening papers today are again writing about another case where a mummified body was found in an apartment, having been dead for approximately 2.5 years. In a sidebar the article listed five other similar cases in recent years ( Read more... )