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  • Ways Not To Wake Up

    At 6am, I was (apparently) asleep on my stomach… until some sort of mental alarm went off on account of there being water and bile working its way up into my mouth.

    Waking up in a desperate effort not to puke all over your bedding is not the way I normally prefer to start my day, thank you.

    So, I burned a sick day and stayed home. I ended up sleeping ‘til almost noon, and have been dining on little more than toast and mild sandwiches all day. I’m feeling… okay-ish now, if you don’t count a slightly touchy stomach and (of course) the horridly uncomfortable heat in my room. Ah well. It’s summer, I’ll get over it.

  • Mmm, Chocolate. (It’s good for you!)

    I’ll just get out of the way and point you to the following entry at collision detection.

    ‘Nuff said.

    Take Your Medicine

  • Shilling For The Cause

    With a week and a half to go, I have… two sponsors for this year’s Blogathon? C’mon, people. You have a golden opportunity to shell out a few dollars for a worthy cause, and contribute to my sleepless misery. What more could you want? Rubber ducks performing Shakespeare?

    Okay. I understand that not everyone can a) spare the cash or b) get behind my choice of monetary recipients. I understand. But you will be around to cheer me on, right? Right?

    (And yes, you can expect at least a couple more reminders posted here between now and the 6th of August. Hey, it saves me having to come up with original content for a couple of days…)

  • Gorge Pics Posted

    The aforementioned pics from the recent trip out to the Gorge are now posted in the Gallery.

    That will be all.

    (Yes, I’ll get on those captions. Later.)

    Gorge Trip Pics

  • Remakes Gone Wrong

    Like many folks, my initial impression upon seeing trailers for the Michael Bay-directed summer flick called “The Island” went something like this: “Oh, they’re doing a ripoff/remake of Logan’s Run. How nice. Next!”

    I then discovered that Logan’s Run has nothing to do with it. No, instead they’re remaking an entirely different movie… “Parts: The Clonus Horror.” (Or just “Clonus” if you prefer.)

    Wait a minute! Are you telling me that really bad movies, bad enough to be riffed by the MST3K crew, are now fodder for big-budget remakes? What’s next, Tim Burton’s “Manos: Hands of Fate”? (Note to Johnny Depp: Don’t do it!)

    This is horrifying in a new and not-particularly-delightful way.

  • One Reason To Love OSS

    I love the fact that someone can save a file in PowerPoint, end up with a corrupted file (at least, corrupted enough for PowerPoint itself to throw up a cryptic, useless error message when someone tries to open said file), and I can come along with OpenOffice.org to save the day by opening the supposedly-corrupt file and saving it to a new, working copy.

    …from my Linux box.

    Sure, some of the font and formatting information is gone, but at least the AE hasn’t lost the fruits of their labor. Heck, it’s not even their fault… I mean, they are “saving often” like we tell them to, after all. It’s PowerPoint itself that seems to have issues.

    Go, OpenOffice.org!

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