Category: lj-import

I just realized that I have been keeping up my book list for a year. Here are some statistics: time period: April 13, 2006 to April 12, 2007 books read: 102 books per month: 8.5 best month: August 2006 – 22 books worst month: September 2006 and February 2007 – 3 books best author: Roger…

Sarah can attest that I do something similar to this. Except instead of factoring, I convert them into their lowest possible base. So, a time like 10:01 would be in base 2 (decimal: 9), a time like 1:22 would be in base 3 (decimal: 17), etc. It gets harder and harder to do, so base…

Joyous news today: iTunes will carry label EMI's entire catalog in higher-quality, DRM-free form some important bits: they will be priced at 1.29 instead of 0.99; old, DRMed tracks can be upgraded by paying the difference; albums will be upgraded with no price difference; Beatles music will still not be among the offerings This is…

Sarah sent me this, and it is utterly amazing. O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded just waiting to get at the drinks and food– And the priest! He looking at me if I masturbated asking me Do you take this…

“Once upon a time,” Finnan had told her, “the gods got fed up with this not existing malarkey that they'd had to put up with for the last forever, because if you don't exist, well, there's no pressing need to get out of bed of a morning; it's not like ye've got any work to…

If anyone doesn't have photoshop or the Gimp, or doesn't want to bother opening them up (because they take up so much system resources), and doesn't use IE…. I programmed some JavaScript color selectors. One based on the Red-Green-Blue channel model, which will help you understand how web colors work if you play around with…

Okay, those of you who have read the Scarlet Letter need to, without looking it up, tell me which of these spellings is correct. Don't look at other people's answers, just say what seems right to you. I'm curious. Roger Chillingsworth Roger Chillingworth I spelled it incorrectly throughout the entirety of my essay that I…

Stereotypically, it\’s the guy who doesn\’t remember when he first saw the girl; it\’s the guy who misplaces somewhere that golden feeling he had: she separates from the crowd, time lingers upon the moment, that first glance, and somehow she is special, he will remember her. Instead, it\’s Sarah who can\’t recall me from that…

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Has it been too long since my last truly-insightful personal entry? Yes it has. Am I about to make one now? Yes I am. Frabjous day. (Isn't it interesting that I know how to spell nearly all words that I've encountered, including absolutely nonsensical ones? No, not really: I just remember them as sequences of…