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I don't really believe in luck, but...
Could be a wave of good luck is about to break over me. Cross your fingers. -
Good news: Judge strikes down "breast cancer" gene patents.
Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority describes it far better than I could, so I'll just link you to his article ( Read more... ) -
Happy new year!
Man, I am so done with 2009 and the oughts or the zeroes or whatever history decides to call them. Welcome to 2010 and the second decade of the twenty-first century. -
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Merry Christmas to all! -
A long overdue post
Today marks three years exactly since my first date with Laura. She and I had both more-or-less forgotten this, but we met for lunch today at Fatburger, and that reminded her of our first date: we saw Eragon in the theater, and then hit Fatburger for a bite afterward. (Well, I had a bite. I don't think she ate, as she'd eaten earlier ( Read more... ) -
Laura is full of awesome.
Laura hit a deer last night. Never fear, she's completely uninjured, and she wasn't going particularly fast, so the damage to her car is cosmetic, not structural. She'll need to have a dent hammered out, plus a new right headlight, mount, and blinker, but it could have been a whole lot worse. Laura took it all like a champ, of course; she was a bit ( Read more... ) -
Girlfriend Achievements
Tonight Laura announced she has unlockable content.
As an obsessive completist, I will naturally have to unlock everything and get gold stars in all her mini-games.
I know baking bread for her is one of the unlocks. Anybody know where I can download a FAQ? -
you shall be as gods
One of my favorite games ever, which also has one of my favorite game soundtracks ever, now has an OverClocked Remix album. Rock.
It's actually a double album, with the first part focusing on "human" interpretations of the music, while the second emphasizes "machine" stylings. You can get it here, free:I less-than-three Falcon Northwest.
A while back I started having problems with graphics driver crashes and bluescreens. I hadn't installed any new software lately, so I suspected it was a hardware problem. A little testing suggested it was a low-level issue, most likely with my GPU ( Read more... )"I'm not anti-idiot, but..."
Some of you know the anti-vaccine movement is one of my bêtes noires. I don't discuss it much here, because this is my personal journal, not a current events blog; anti-vaxxers rarely impact my life so directly I feel the need to froth and rant about it here. Nonetheless, it's an important issue: Vaccines save lives. There is simply no rational ( Read more... )