| *sigh of contentment* |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|11:50 am] |
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Home made green curry with potatos + ramen noodles (no sauce packet) = bliss |
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| I'm not Jon Stewart. :-/ |
[Jun. 14th, 2006|10:13 pm] |
Ignignokt
You scored 40% Totality, 80% Awesomeness, 70% Randomness, and 30% Conceptitude! |
You're Ignignokt the Mooninite, and John Stewart is interviewing you
for some reason. I'm not sure why. Please don't spank me with moon
rocks! |  |
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 99% on Totality | | You scored higher than 99% on Awesomeness | | You scored higher than 99% on Randomness | | You scored higher than 99% on Conceptitude |
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not much else to say on that one. |
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[Mar. 31st, 2006|02:07 pm] |
yoinked this one from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) demure_carp
Think of your favorite underrated film, type the name into Google and
do an image search. Find the best pic and then post it in your journal,
but don't say what the name of the movie is! Once you post the picture,
it's up to your friends to figure out what the movie is from the pic
you posted!
It was a fairly famous movie in its time, but had a couple of remakes done, which got progressively worse. The most recent remake completely destroyed the original purpose/plot of the movie.
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| meh... taxes |
[Feb. 4th, 2006|01:36 pm] |
it's not that they're hard. it's that I have to wait until Monday for dad to get around to sending me my previous years tax information. MEH! Work's going all right, still haven't heard back from grad school, and my cataloging course is still going all right, other than the fact that I always want to spell it cataloguing. Inserting the U, while still appropriate, has gone out of vogue in the LIS world, for the more simplified spelling. Unfortunately, I loves me the complicated spellings.
In other news, I am very worried about the freedom of Information in this country, not because of anything specific that bush did at this moment, but because of actions by the Library of Congress. About 170 of their top catalogers were paid about $25k each to go into early retirement to cut down on the cataloging budget. In addition, a recent article from a well known preservationist at the LoC attacked the necessity of cataloging, and the amount of money the library of congress spends on it in a year, offering google, and other search engines as alternatives. Not everything is available online, and even with all that is available online, there is currently no bibliographic control. By that, I mean that whatever search you use, yes you may get the information you want, but it will be necessary to wade through pages upon pages of entries containing $^%#$%. There is more information on many topics available in print than online. Yes, online resources are wonderful, but they are not everything.
Lastly Rex the mountain lion is the department of homeland security's new mascot that is going to go around to schools and teach young children the necessity of disaster preparedness. O. and he has a family. Purrcilla his wife, and a daughter named Rory. A DAUGHTER named Rory...
My big complaint is that I don't want kids learning idiotic "disaster preparedness" routines that a) they will never have to use and b) are fairly useless. C) I'm assuming they are targeting kids so that the children will badger their parents about it. If/when I have kids, I will just explain to them politely that duct tape, and plastic sheeting will do nothing in the face of a supposed attack.
*sigh* At least the mascot isn't noticably based off of a texas ranger. o. wait.... it is. never mind. |
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| both anode and cathode today. |
[Aug. 4th, 2005|08:05 pm] |
anode : Beth wrote a really sweet LJ entry about me, finished my LIS class, got to help and hang out with Coey and I'm going back to work in two weeks which means that I may, at some point, have a positive cash flow. Going to see parents tomorrow means I get to see my brother and grandma.
cathode : Nervous about visiting parentals, have worked about 4 days this summer, Health insurance wanted to hit me with a big bill (which I since figured out that I don't have to pay), lots of housework, tired after LIS test, no matter how well I think I did, and no one bothered to tell me there was no game today until I was already at the house. Strike that... I was there at 7, and two of the players were there. I left briefly to help move Coey, and when I came back at 7:30 I was informed there was no game...
Normally figured it would have been decent of SOMEONE to let me in on the little secret that game was cancelled. Especially since Coey helped me make an extra trip out for my bike so I could bike back after game.
GRRRRRR... David's in a depressive swing right now, and nothing's really helping...Possibly will feel better when Beth gets home, or I grab a rest. |
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| thank's Adin |
[Jul. 7th, 2005|07:17 pm] |
On an odd note, I'm sort of annoyed that the role playing game that I play on Thursdays was apparently cancelled without anyone telling me... Unfortunately I assume wraith is probably off Friday also, but I would like some form of confirmation if anyone can give it.
**EDIT**
Wraith is on for tomorrow, and game today was held. It's just that no one was picking up the phone at all, so I had no idea.
( Star wars quiz ) |
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| where to begin? |
[Jun. 25th, 2005|08:00 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | My wheezy computer | ] |
Taking the Cataloguing course, it's going well... seem to get MARC tagging and all that's left is some practice. Job search is still biting me in my o so tender posterior, but Zorba's is apparently hiring for lunch stuff, and if I can get in early on monday morning, I might have a chance. Also I'm starting to participate in a study for the university so that'll give me a couple more hours of work. Actual work starts the eighteenth of August so it's just going to be a month more. I can dig it. New computer comes on Monday :-) so that means I don't have to deal with my wheezy old friend any more. I'll keep it around as an extra just in case we need to set up a third one around here, but it's on its dying breath. mmmm..... working computer.
That is all. |
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| Wrestling question for Ryan... |
[Jun. 21st, 2005|06:35 pm] |
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A friend of mine has a bunch of old wrestling (WWF) shirts and a jacket for sale. Also in the pile of "to sell" stuff is a Shawn Michaels wall plaque. looks sort of impressive, and decently large. Just wondering, other than ebay, if there was a set place to auction/sell off WWF memorabilia. |
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| Don't normally do this, but... |
[Jun. 17th, 2005|07:37 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | X-1: Gun for a Dinosaur. 3/7/56 | ] |
http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927
There but for a few more laws go I...
Jubilee, much awaited, is this weekend, and I have just about finished making tunic and accoutrements to go with it. (coif, and pouch.) I'll be slumming it and wearing sandals because I haven't made proper shoes, but other than that it should be all good. Class is going well, and I'm as happy as an unkosher bivalve. Job still hasn't materialized, but I can still get by for the summer.
I wish there were still radio dramas etc. played. I just have to rely on the wonderfulness of Old time radio. |
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| Heyyyyyyyyyy Kiiiiiiiiids |
[Jun. 8th, 2005|06:16 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
So, the Carle Job flopped, as it only gave me 16 total hours, and then decided to drop me. I just did a U of I study for some cash, and I'm working 4 hours on (unfortunately) Saturday, so I'm going to miss The housewarming party.. GRRRR... This, of course means that unemployment still rears it's ugly head.
However, this also means that I have a lot of time on my hands and a large amount of wire to do stuff with. That's right... STUFF. Including patching up my old chain maille shirt for Jubilee (ren-faire) on the 18-19th of June, and starting an all new wonderful project. Etched aluminum 18 GA shirt at 3/16" inner diameter ring size. I'm sure this means nothing to most of you, but I think it's pretty. I've also figured out how to set up an automatic coiling station, so I can get the armor quality stuff done much quicker. I've been meaning to do that for years... It's amazing how much a cheap drill can help.
Luckily, employment may be a possibility soon. I have applications in to the University for a couple of full time positions, no layoff (crosses fingers) and put in an application to Pizza Hut on Mattis. Given I helped train their staff last year, I don't see why they shouldn't hire me.
That's all for now. Off to do more wire torture to see about getting my old shirt fixed. |
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| Early early mornings. |
[May. 25th, 2005|10:50 am] |
That's going to be my summer for a while, but it's good... because I got a job through opportunity specialists. Starting Friday I'll be working 6-9 AM at the Carle Breezeway making sandwiches for the day. Which works out well, because I will also be taking a Library Science course second session from 10 AM to 12:10 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays. I now have something to actually do with my summer instead of be a layabout.
That is all.
O. and on another note:
I do not live in a post 9-11 world, I do not live in a post Columbine world. The world we live in has only changed since those events insofar as the federal government wanted to use those events to their own ends. That's why it makes things like this: http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/29/grinnell make me so annoyed. |
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| To all, especially poli sci majors |
[Jan. 23rd, 2004|05:07 pm] |
From 6:30-8 on Sunday night there'll be a meet and Greet with Joyce Washington, who is a democratic Senatorial candidate, at Jackson's Ribs and Tips on 400 North 1st Street.
Good chance for Poli Sci majors to get their hands dirty and every one else to come out, eat ribs, and meet one of the candidates...
It's a good thing the dorm options for her to speak fell through because 7 day in advance reservations are necessary and they only told me about this in the last 24 hours. This way she'll get to meet more people, and dormies are, of course, welcome also...
Hopefully next time I'll get more heads up time on this so I can actually do something about it. :-P
On a more personal note, I finally have my driver's license. :-D |
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| reaching for the stars and a steering wheel |
[Jan. 9th, 2004|07:09 pm] |
Firstly: the way Bush plans to fund the manned trip to the moon, in 2018, is partially by cutting ties with the international space station... may look good on paper, but there are a number of problems with this. Firstly, the international space station is one of the few things that we still do in conjunction with other countries. We've been ignoring NATO, want to ignore NAFTA and have been playing "tag" with the Middle East. So far we've "tagged" them with a whole bunch of bombs. I'm not saying that backing out of the space station is going to be the last straw, but it will help aggravate some people.
Secondly, to do both we'd only have to spend a couple billion dollars. Normally, I wouldn't say "only" but given the hundreds of billion dollars funneled to Iraq, our dreams of space deserve more than the 840 million extra allocation to NASA. (putting them at 15 billion as less funded than any one of the Pentagon weapons programs.)
Lastly, it'll take us 14 years to LAND A PERSON ON THE MOON? Kennedy promised it within 8 years and that was back in the sixties. the government is lax without the Soviet Union to impress.
On a personal note, I'll be taking my driving test later this week. time to eat now. |
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