good things today:
i got a new cordless phone, yay. so now i can have conversations longer than twenty minutes.
i found a hawaiian takeout place that has more than poke! (there's a poke place not far from me so i don't need more poke options.) so i got spam musubi and a mixed plate and a pog [1] for dinner and was very excited. no purple poi ( Read more... )

you'll all be thrilled as hell to know i finished (more or less) editing the captions for that youtube video with all the unclear audience members. there are a certain number of "[unclear]"s, tho. after a certain point you just have to give up trying to figure out what people are saying. now it's on to the next video, which is... two hours long ( Read more... )

so i had this idea for a story for writing group (action! adventure! deserts! potential weird shit!) (altho maybe mountains instead!) and because i have no idea how to write this thing, i discovered a fic on ao3 that seemed to have the general idea. so i thought i'd read it to get an idea how it's done, right? not for story ideas, but just to see ( Read more... )

in 1873, four americans (well, three, but one of them had gone on his honeymoon) managed to steal the equivalent of $10m from the bank of england. this is a long article about it but it's really interesting. and ballsy.

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day 8: a song about drugs or alcohol - spirit of the west, home for a rest

i keep forgetting to mention, mostly so i remember when it happened, that mississippi is taking the confederate battle flag out of the state flag. (it's the last state flag with elements of the confederate flag in it.) state residents will vote on a new design in november ( Read more... )

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so yesterday my sister came over and we picnic'd in the softball field across the street (SO NICE altho not as nice as having my own porch and/or yard), and when it got dark we came inside and watched avalon because a movie about jewish immigrants in baltimore made sense for july 4. it's just a really nice movie - and if you come from a largeish ( Read more... )

happy birthday, steve rogers! you look good for such an old man. :D *gooses america's ass ( Read more... )

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i'm off tomorrow and monday for july fourth, so today is like friday. yay. :D i spent some quality time trying to caption a video of a presentation one of the groups i support did at a conference last year, and let me tell you, it's a lot harder to caption than the tutorials i was doing before. for one thing, every so often someone in the ( Read more... )