March 2009
35 posts
That hail storm was quite jarring…
Matinee time!
My OMG Important Meeting is bumped from 4:45PM-5PM to 3:30PM-3:45PM. Yay! No rushing through rush hour traffic to make tonight’s call time.
Oops. My new black jeans lightened to brown after last night’s washing? Guess I need to make a last minute costume substitution for tonight!
Feeling more and more gross as the week progresses. :( :( :( Hopefully going to bed earlier tonight and tomorrow will curtail this trend.
on the graph of my commute time v road rage, there’s a asemtope as x approaches 5PM. suburbanite center city commuters are bane.
Tech week for Joseph has started. Eek! If you’re local, you should come see it: http://tinyurl.com/czzyd8
Why am I only hearing today about Richard Stallman coming to Temple this Weds?
I would feel much better about waking up ~ 6 if I managed to fall asleep at midnight like I originally planned. Gr. Arg.
The past two days I read through The Preacher. Quite an interesting book! Never thought I would give that sort of credit to a DC comic…
“i am interested in making friends with someone immoral and deceitful” http://community.livejournal.com/templeu/1300087.html WTF?
Chris was not raised on Eric Carle or “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. This fact makes me a little sad.
when I read that a lecture is titled “Autonomic Cloud Systems Management: A Machine Learning Approach”, why do I think skynet? :P
going into work late = few interruptions = fantastic productivity
I am determined to make a webapp with icons consisting entirely of funky unicode characters.
RT @calophi This website really shows that you don’t need Flash to do neat things on the internet. Javascript + DOM FTW! http://is.gd/nVdL
got a speeding ticket. :( :( :(
Curious how long it’ll be until FB flips the switch on my account so I can see what everyone is complaining about.
Apparently the answer to my prior tweet was “about an hour”.
Not sure why <br /> is so much obscenely larger in IE7 vs everything else…
Got email re: a CS lecture at Haverford that sounded somewhat interesting. Then I saw they have a designated tea time beforehand. Um, what?
http://bit.ly/19QLJo : Want. Actually, used to have but got ruined when I moved. :(
the people in the snuggie commercial look like cultists.
The new Mac Minis have dual monitor support? So pissed!
Looking at the source to some obscure cpan modules. perl can get much uglier than I remembered. Maybe Perl6 will fix this if it ever ships.
RT @elihorne: the count censored - http://tinyurl.com/2zxk7c
Hilarious mp3’s of Obama cussing up a storm for an audiobook http://tinyurl.com/cvrbap (via @sarady again)
Trapped in hybrid casino+slasher theme park built on major road blocking a hospital in crazy futuretech wildwood = WEIRD DREAM WINNER
Dalek found at bottom of marsh. http://tinyurl.com/b9vr8c (via @sarady)
I think Lifehacker knows I’m moving soon. http://www.myapartmentmap.com/rentaldata/ http://padmapper.com/
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My bed is sometimes like quicksand.
Second Dean meeting for BigWorkProject went much smoother/quicker than the first. Yay.
Dear City of Philadelphia: Please plow something sometime between now and when I leave work. Thanks!
Dear City of Philadelphia: Please plow something sometime between now and when I leave work. Thanks!