Since it's been so long since I've updated this, a few things have changed. The most important (and most surprising) is that I'm now married. This is from someone who had very nearly despaired of this. It might be fair to say I never really had a girlfriend before Samantha (henceforth referred to as Sam, but just to be clear that this is a female ( Read more... )

of reviving my LJ. Someone has been bugging me for some time to do so, so since I am finished with school, I thought I'd give it a try.

1. It by Stephen King (~1100 pages) - The most interesting thing about this book is that the evil is not simply the monster the heroes are fighting, but the entire city it has corrupted. The story alternates ( Read more... )

Note: This post was written earlier this summer. The computer crashed while I was in the middle of posting it and I assumed it had been lost. I was posting something else this afternoon and found (to my pleasant surprise) that LJ saves incompete entries. So this is my mood at the beginning of this summer.
So my first year of graduate school is now ( Read more... )

I'll warn you before you read this: As the subject line says, this is a rant. This is me venting frustrations and anger that I've carried at one level or another for some time. Having given warning, let the rant begin ( Read more... )

I just found out yesterday night about a decision by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that could kill Pandora.com and almost every other form of internet radio. If implemented, this would create massive increases in their royalty payments ( Read more... )

So, I'm finally starting to believe I'm going to be able to pull this whole graduate school thing off. From my first week of classes I was terribly convinced that I was going to screw this whole thing up in the very first semester ( Read more... )

Yes, I haven't updated in some time ( Read more... )

I just got done watching A River Runs Through It with Travis. His choice. The ending left me feeling kinda weird ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in my kitchen at near midnight eating ramen noodles and listening to the first iTunes track I downloaded ("Everyone Who Casts a Shadow" by Wolfsheim. Muchas muchas gracias, Pandora.com). My bedroom is now almost entirely empty. All I've got left are two large peices of furniture I need help moving. Oh yeah, and the little weird ( Read more... )

Eesh! So long since I've posted and so much to post about. I suppose I'll start with the immediate. Tonight at work there was a cute little 2-year-old girl at my one table. After I filled her sippy cup and brought it out to her, she decided to say thank you. That was very polite of her, so I said, "You're welcome." The only reason I'm writing about ( Read more... )