• Chillin'

    Long lost

    Yeah, so yesterday I called up a great aunt who lives up in Sendai whose existence I only learned about recently, through correspondence with my mom. I was kind of…

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  • Web

    Guy Gabaldon

    This post over at f*ckedgaijin reminded me that I hadn’t posted about Guy Gabaldon yet. You really should read that last link, some of his exploits were seriously amazing. My…

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  • Web

    Semantix

    A deaf man with no eyes was arrested for driving in Smethwick, England. His defense is quoted as stating, “the question is not whether his driving was dangerous, but whether…

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  • Work

    What do you do?

    I’ve been compiling a task list at work to hand off my replacement, if they can ever find one (I may be *ahem* hard to replace). The thing is, I’ve…

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  • Chillin'

    Chatting

    Jabber transcript with my little sis, currently doing a gross anatomy course: sis: you know how when people die, their muscles relax? me: yeah sis: that includes their sphincters… i…

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  • Site News

    MT Update

    I updated MovableType to version 3.32 just now and it seems to be working a lot faster than the 3.31b version we were using before. Anyway, now I have Widgets…

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  • Chillin'

    Rot Canal

    The worst thing about getting a root canal, so far, is the pungent stench of rot that permeates my mouth when the epoxy plug is pulled out of my tooth…

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  • Photos

    A walk to the estuary

    This is the Sumoto River. It joins the sea just under the bridge. It is rich in mullet, and not much else, although they used to farm unagi in this…

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  • Web

    Star Wars Errata

    Besides Greedo shooting first, the most annoying change between the original and Lucas’ “new and improved version,” in my mind, was the disappearance of the green R2 unit. Green R2…

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