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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Today’s Word

…has always squicked me out. wetware \WET-wair\ noun : the human brain or a human being considered especially with respect to human logical and computational capabilities It makes me think of the kinds of noises you’d hear if someone opened up your skull and went poking about in your brain.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Small Update

Just so you don’t think I fell of the earth, I’m still here, and I’m still attempting to deal–although I’m not necessarily dealing well. I’m still having a rough time with my medication–in fact I left a message for the doctor to call me, because I think I’m doing worse than I was when is started [...]
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Categories: Depression  

Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is the day we are to remember those who fought for our country. This is the day we remember those who fought for our freedom and for justice. This is the day we remember those who gave their lives to so that we might now have: freedom of speech…. freedom of religion…. freedom of association…. freedom of [...]
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Categories: Politics  

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Book Reviews Are Not for the Masses

What a complete asshat. See SmartBitchesTrashyBooks for a longer refutation.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Quizzy Goodness

Theological world views: (more…)
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Monday, May 21, 2007

Finally, a Positive!

After a month and a half of phone calls and hair pulling, a new DSL modem, multiple checks by Earthlink and Verizon, and finally a new line from the telephone pole to the house after we eventually had difficulty with our phone service, we finally have stable Internet! As a complete and total geek, you can’t [...]
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Mending

Or perhaps not. I’m not sure how much I’m going to be posting for awhile. I’m still having problems with my depression, and so don’t really have much to say other than things along the line of, “woe is me,” which may be amusing the first time, because it’s not like you hear the word “woe” [...]
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Categories: Depression  

News Flash!

West Virginia least like the rest of the country! No kidding. Here are the bottom five: Kentucky 47 Vermont 47 New Hampshire 49 Mississippi 50 West Virginia 51
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

More Random

We’re still having internet problems at home. (At this point, we get about 30 seconds of connectivity, then crash.) So until things are better, enjoy this: Bound for Glory: American in Color 1939-1943 This is probably my favorite picture. It’d be just as interesting in black and white as in color.
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Friday, May 11, 2007

This Week

It’s like being nibbled to death by cats. Context? (more…)
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Next

So, we’re now watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, and of course we’ve started with Season One, which is only marginally better than Season 2, which I find… horrific. However, while watching the pilot, I realized why I find the character of Wesley Crusher so grating–he’s a Mary Sue. Lo and behold, I look up Mary [...]
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Cringe

As I was walking from the ATM to the cafeteria, I noticed that one of the signs I regularly passed had two words in English that you never want to see together. Emergency Dentistry I can’t think of any dental emergency that would be anything less than horrific. And there’s your reminder to make sure you floss every [...]
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Monday, May 7, 2007

Vomitorium

vomitorium• noun (pl. vomitoria) 1. each of a series of entrance or exit passages in an ancient Roman amphitheatre or theatre. 2. a place in which, according to popular misconception, the ancient Romans are supposed to have vomited during feasts to make room for more food. — origin Latin. Okay, I also thought that the definition of vomitorium was the [...]
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Sunday, May 6, 2007

Today’s Word

sparagmos noun [mass noun] the dismemberment of a victim, forming a part of some ancient rituals and represented in Greek myths and tragedies. — origin Greek, literally ‘tearing’. I think the most disturbing part is the idea that it happened so often that they needed a word for it.
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Friday, May 4, 2007

Speaking of Depressing…

Went to pick up my prescription yesterday. Cash price was $133. My cost? $110. I am really hoping that was just me needing to meet my deductible. Though things like this are why Michael and I live under our income level. As much as one doesn’t like spending $110 out of nowhere, at least we have [...]
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Truth (and Google Bombing)

This is the truth. Especially the bit about whiskey. (for more information, see here.)
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Thursday, May 3, 2007

Easily Amused

And today’s spam winner is: Mr. Watson! Come here! I need you!
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Well Who Doesn’t?

Doctor: So do you ever have thoughts about hurting other people? Me: I did mention that I do software support, didn’t it?
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Slices of Life

It was a people watching extravaganza this evening in Morgantown. As I was walking to meet my co-workers for dinner we passed two intoxicated white trash guys having a yelling match in a parking lot off High Street (Townies: Daniel’s parking lot near where the “Steppin’ Out” mural used to be). I say intoxicated because not [...]
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Gladiator Graveyard

A gladiator graveyard was discovered at Ephesus. The Ephesus graves containing thousands of bones were found along with three gravestones, clearly depicting gladiators. Two pathologists at the Medical University of Vienna – Professor Karl Grossschmidt and Professor Fabian Kanz – have spent much of the past five years painstakingly cataloguing and forensically analysing every single bone for [...]
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