Archive for December, 2004

Hintses

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

As it’s now been a few days and people have either guessed what they’re going to guess or (as is more likely) it’s scrolled off of their friends pages and they’ve completely forgotten about it… I guess it’s time I provided some (hints for the music meme)
Original post here.

Sweet!

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004

Just checked my grades. My physics grade hasn’t posted yet, but apparently I squeaked by with an A in calculus — yay! Just when I’d gotten used to getting Bs in calc!
<<sam does happy dance of the mind, but not an actual happy dance because sam doesn’t dance>>
[UPDATE: I also got an [...]

That Music Meme Thingy

Monday, December 20th, 2004

All right. This one seems interesting enough to give it a shot…

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty-five songs on the list (no matter how embarrassing)
Write down a line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line.
Have your friends comment and see if they know [...]

Hippie Infidelity

Friday, December 17th, 2004

fawnapril just went out the door on her way to work. She came in seconds later, asking, “Why are there Swedish meatballs in my car?”
Several seconds of shocked silence — I had the car last night, but as far as she knows, I don’t eat meat, in balls or otherwise. DO I? [...]

Physical

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

I must’ve been bored (and near a force plate) during one of my recent physics labs: on the back page, I found a note saying that my computer weighs 29 Newtons.

Chunk La Revolution!

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

I am a hippie in many ways: I don’t own a car; I wash my dishes with eco-friendly soap; and I drive my partner crazy in the way my mom drove me crazy, by ripping off half of the paper towel when half of a paper towel is all I need to accomplish a [...]

Oooh, time wastage…

Monday, December 13th, 2004

museumgirl sent me a link to Technovelgy.com. Aside from having a not-immediately-pronounceable name, this is exactly the sort of unspeakably cool thing that makes me fall in love with hypertext all over again: a website devoted to technology predicted in sci-fi novels, interleaved with real-life examples of how those technologies have appeared.
Among other [...]

A Ray Of Hope

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

Amidst all the general post-election blahs, the usual end-of-term wackiness, and the extra time crunch of preparing for the Holidaze, this was a particularly welcome piece of news:
Dec. 9, 2004 | TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s highest court said Thursday the government can redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, but it added that [...]

HIP PAPY BTHUTHDAY

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

Happy birthday to tiggrrl!

Da Pain! Ow Ow OW!

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Thanks to tiggrrl, I’ve spent the last ten or so minutes laughing at uglyweddingdress.net when I really should be working. For those of you who enjoy a well-written review of a bad movie (and let’s be honest: who doesn’t?), this is the site for you. Go and have a little chuckle and sleep [...]

Megamedia

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

http://letitblog.com/epic/ (8-minute Flash movie, work-safe, narration-driven) - this sparked an interesting discussion in computer science class today. Definitely worth watching, although the ideas therein won’t be new if you’ve read Snow Crash and The Diamond Age…

Oog

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004

I rode my bike to school today. 17.5 miles round trip, at an average speed of about 11 mph* — and for all the huffing and puffing and stopping partway up hills to rest, it took the same amount of time as riding the bus. If I didn’t have to take so damn [...]