Living in fear is no good to anyone.

I know this is really far away, but I also know I can't make it work for 2010. I'm planning to go to Australia for the 2011 Bathurst 1000 and other touristy things. My very vague plan is to start in Sydney and work my way west over a few weeks. I'd like to add some diving and/or sea fishing in somehow, but in don't know ~anything yet. If you're interested in joining, meeting, etc., let me know.

I read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time. I should have been made to read it 20+ years ago, because then it would have been useful to me. I don't mean to say it was a bad novel; I enjoyed it. It just didn't teach me anything I haven't figured out through my experiences. Also, having read it finally, I'm surprised by the lack of modern allusions to it I've encountered given how famous it otherwise is. When I've read other similarly famous works, I recall many more recently made works that allude to them. With Fahrenheit 451, I recalled none.

I probably got a contract at Microsoft again; just waiting on the background check to finish. I could start as early as Thursday, but possibly not until after Thanksgiving.

Through a crazy sale, bad signage, and haggling, I got 75.83lbs of turkey for $37.45+tax at QFC. :D

Steamcon was the best first-year con ever.

I am super-proud of being a part of it. Most of the attendees that commented to me said it was an excellent con. Many attendees that have years of various con experience said it was run like a fourth- to fifteenth-year con. One of the people that said "fifteenth" has been participating in sci-fi cons for over 20 years.

Everyone on our staff is excellent. It is so awesome.

Also, even with my name misspelled, the Steamcon program book is the best looking con program book I have ever seen. Pel, our program book designer, did an incredible job. I've got a small wad of them to give out to people that couldn't make it to Steamcon.

Unrelated to Steamcon, ladymarguerite is arriving tomorrow night and not leaving until November 3rd. We're going to do lots of fun stuff including traveling around the Olympic Range (which includes visiting Forks even though we are not Twitards). The whole trip will be great.

If you can't tell, I feel ~awesome right now. :D

I don't know why it jumped to mind, but now it's keeping me awake not being able to figure it out. Sometime in the last couple of years I saw the short film I'm about to describe (though I don't remember much of it); I'm trying to figure out what the film is.

There is a twitchy (more than just twitchy, really) man, alone in a ratty boarding house room. He has a photo of a girl (possibly his dead daughter?) and some related mementos. Often in the film there is some sort of scratching/destructive violence at one of the doors of the room like a monster is trying to get in. A man in a suit is there for a time and is present for/part of all of the dialogue. The suited man is possibly claiming to be a doctor or lawyer but maybe he's a demon of some sort? The twitchy man may already be dead?

Anyway, if this rings any bells, leave a comment to that effect. Thanks. :)

States I've visited:

visited 24 states (48%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

States I've traveled in:

visited 43 states (86%)
Create your own visited map of The United States

I've taken this one at least twice before, but seeing the one from ~4 years ago prompted me to do it again:

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.1
Mind:	6.9
Body:	5.5
Spirit:	8.6
Friends/Family:	5.3
Love:	7.3
Finance:	6.8
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

This is a really excellent article about how Texas executed an innocent man for triple homicide and arson forensics:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all

DragonFlight was super fun.

Friday I played a dinosaur breeding/continents breaking apart game called Trias then a couple games of Dominion.

Saturday before the Catan tournament, I played about half of a game of Dominon before it started. In the tournament I won what was probably the tightest game of Catan I've ever played. The final score was 10-9-9-8. Round two just got away with 10-7-6-5 and I was the 5.
After that I played some sort of tank battle miniatures game; I forget the name.
Then the Dominion tournament. It was double elimination with 16 players (2/4 won and lost each game advancing and falling on the brackets as needed). I lost in the first round and then advanced twice and lost again instead of advancing to the final match.
Then I played Power Grid Korea (very interesting/different flavor from the European/US maps) and the guy with the China/Korea board sold it to me for cost; so now I've got all of the expansions again.

There wasn't enough time to play Bohnanza before Pirate's Cove, but I ran/played a few 8 player games of Tsuro. Then I taught 4 people how to play Pirate's Cove and we played a 5 player game; I got 3rd.

Sunday morning was Power Grid China. It's really tight and forces everyone to be slow and careful. The game ended with the winner connecting and powering 18, me connecting 17 but able to power 18, and the other two connecting and powering 17. I ended up in last due to money being the tie-breaker for 2-4th. One of the guys in the game and I exchanged contact info and I possibly will get involved with another board gaming group in Seattle for ~regular games.

Then I playtested a developing card game called Junk Mail where all the players are spammers spamming and avoiding spam. It could be fun in the right crowd, but wasn't great. It was vaguely like Munchkin combined with Hacker.

Finally I played Railroad Tycoon with 4 other guys (two were the designers of Junk Mail). None of us had ever played it before, but even though it's a huge game (it ~fills a 5' round table) with hundreds of pieces it was pretty easy to learn from the book. I lost thoroughly (1st was ~80 points and my 5th was 27), but it was still a good learning experience.

I left the con with pretty much the worst headache I can remember having in many months; I took the evening quietly at home.

Gmail claims to have fixed the "On Behalf of" thing:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html

This fix is wrong. Removing/not adding the "Sender" header is what they need to do, but they refuse to do it even though they add it in violation of the RFC specifying email headers.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

4.4.2. SENDER / RESENT-SENDER

This field contains the authenticated identity of the AGENT (person, system or process) that sends the message. It is intended for use when the sender is not the author of the message, or to indicate who among a group of authors actually sent the message. If the contents of the "Sender" field would be completely redundant with the "From" field, then the "Sender" field need not be present and its use is discouraged (though still legal). In particular, the "Sender" field MUST be present if it is NOT the same as the "From" Field.

The Sender mailbox specification includes a word sequence which must correspond to a specific agent (i.e., a human user or a computer program) rather than a standard address. This indicates the expectation that the field will identify the single AGENT (person, system, or process) responsible for sending the mail and not simply include the name of a mailbox from which the mail was sent. For example in the case of a shared login name, the name, by itself, would not be adequate. The local-part address unit, which refers to this agent, is expected to be a computer system term, and not (for example) a generalized person reference which can be used outside the network text message context.

Since the critical function served by the "Sender" field is identification of the agent responsible for sending mail and since computer programs cannot be held accountable for their behavior, it is strongly recommended that when a computer program generates a message, the HUMAN who is responsible for that program be referenced as part of the "Sender" field mailbox specification.

It's 87F with 57% humidity in my bedroom right now. It's about 85F outside. Now is 11:40 p. m. PDT.
It was the hottest day ever recorded in Pugetopolis today.
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-record-down-one-to-go.html
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/07/update.html
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/07/update-ii-record-is-broken.html
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2009/07/update-iii.html

A couple of weeks ago a new Szechuan restaurant opened in Bellevue. Yesterday Lauren and I tried it. It's now the top of my list:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/spiced-bellevue
(If any of you are on yelp, please friend me so I can see what you have to say about places. http://jarrodlombardo.yelp.com )

A paper I was 2nd author on got accepted to CSCW. We're going to a vegetarian south Indian restaurant tomorrow to celebrate.

The last day on my contract at Microsoft is August 5th.

The weekend after, I'm attending DragonFlight, which should be fun.

August 11th - 24th, I'll be in NJ. There will be a cookout at my parents' house on August 15th. NJ-area people that read this should let me know if you want to come and I'll get back to you with details.

August 29th is SAX (PAX bag stuffing) and then September 2nd - 7th I'm working PAX.

September 9th - 14th I'm in Denver working Nan Desu Kan.

October 22th - 25th I'm working Steam Con.

During the whole period described above I'm also working on Steam Con planning/preparation stuff, looking for work (since I'll be unemployed), and secret projects.

In no particular order, list your ten favorite albums:
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Pearl Jam - Ten
The Cars - The Cars
The Who - Who's Next
Hybrid - Morning Sci-Fi
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

Yesterday I woke up early, picked up my friend Howard in Redmond and we drove up to Verlot to meet some other friends to go hiking. One friend got terribly lost and decided to go home before finding Verlot. We then hiked the "Lake 22" trail, 2.7mi up the mountain to the lake. Howard and I went around the snowy lake while the others hung out for a while. There were places where we fell into the snow up to our thighs. I'd guess it was in the low 70s even though there was so much snow at the lake. Then we all went back down the way we came. I'm not sure of the perimeter of the lake, but if it was a mile (probably less), that makes it a 6.4mi day. There will be more hiking in the near future.

I made bacon asparagus for dinner (peel asparagus and lay in small roasting dish; lay a considerable amount of raw bacon on top; season as you wish; roast until GBD) along with reheating leftovers from the Vietnamese restaurant we took evilcheshire to last week.

Today I slept poorly, woke up at 0630 and then could neither really sleep nor get out of bed until ~0900. I went to Home Depot and got stuff to fix the coffee table (a leg has been falling off for months) and a chair (broken barstool attached to the house). After fixing stuff, I hacked on tree-strangling vines for a few hours. The 5 trunk tree next to the garden and the 2 trunk tree a bit east of that are now free of vines roughly from the base up at least 2 feet (some trunks are good to ~7 feet). Then dinner-making (pork loin, sweet potatoes, shallots, celery, all cut to 3/4" dice then roasted; we also had a spinach/young carrot salad) followed by beer and Zelda: Ocarina of Time (I need to get a GC controller so I can play Windwaker* on my Wii). Now I'm just laying around feeling pretty lazy/tired/bored.

*Yes, houdini_cs I still have your copy.

I realized something unusual one of the many times I woke up in the middle of the night last night (I rarely sleep well the night before traveling; I'm on the way to A-Kon in Dallas).

Pretty much everyone I meet gets classified into one of a few categories about the kind of relationship I'd like to have with the person: none, acquaintance, friend, dating, fuck-buddy. People sometimes move between categories and sometimes fall into more than one. Another category people sometimes end up in is cuddle-buddy. This is usually someone that I wanted to be fuck-buddies with, but they didn't want to go there, though sometimes it's a friendship that expands into physical closeness.

The unusual thing is that I realized that there's someone that's somewhere between acquaintance and friend right now that I want to be cuddle-buddy with but do not want to be fuck-buddy with. I can't recall ever feeling like this before.

Unrelated to this person, there's another person that I've recently started getting to know better. She's a friend now, but I think I'd like to be dating. I think she'd like to be fuck-buddies, but maybe dating. We'll figure it out eventually.

Your result for The Kink Spectrum Analysis Test...

Green (530 nm)

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On Wednesday a friend asked for help in a semi-public way. She needed to drive to Cincinnati as soon as possible, but wasn't emotionally stable enough to make the drive alone. I worked out the logistics with the necessary people, and bought a plane ticket from Cincinnati back to Seattle. We left my house in Bellevue Saturday morning. Some timestamps from the trip are as follows:
0502 PDT Bellevue, WA.
0928 PDT Coeur D'Alene, ID
1412 PDT US287 and I-90 in MT
1939 PDT Buffalo, WY
2246 PDT Rapid City, SD
0408 PDT Presho, SD
0734 PDT Jefferson, SD
1157 PDT Colfax, IA
1737 PDT Mahomet, IL
2055 PDT Scottsburg, IN
0011 PDT Cincinnati, OH
I drove until Rapid City, SD and then was too tired to continue. She drove for a few hours but was then too tired herself to keep driving, so we stopped at a rest stop and she napped for about two hours (I was already napping). I don't remember which timestamps it was between, but there was ultra-thick fog for quite a while in SD, but there was also a point in SD where the sky was so clear and the light pollution so low that we pulled off and looked at the stars for a few minutes (it was far higher visibility than I've encountered out in the NM desert, which surprised me since that is such great naked-eye stargazing).

On Sunday, I resumed driving somewhere before Colfax, IA and drove the rest of the way. We stopped for about an hour in Scottsburg, IN to visit ladymarguerite and nura_skye. We were only able to spend about an hour there, but it was really great to see ladymarguerite again and finally meet nura_skye in person.

The satnav my friend has in her car had us take back roads into KY and then up I-71 into Cincinnati. At about 0120 EDT, we crossed the Ohio river on the Milton-Madison_Bridge, which was really scary (especially when I saw the top of an oncoming box truck come into view while we were far above the river on the long, narrow bridge). Reading about the bridge's condition after the fact was not at all reassuring.

I got about 2 hours of sleep at our destination before I was woken by some loud noises. I dealt with the situation to the best of my ability. It is not my place to discuss what happened, so curious parties should ask the participants directly.

On the way to the airport, CVG (where I am currently waiting for my flight to PHL and then on to SEA), we stopped at a Skyline Chili and I had a Five-Way. It was fine, but baphijmm makes better.

We got to Cincinnati safe. I'll probably write a ~long post from the airport(s) tomorrow.

http://homepage.mac.com/lpetrich/Asperger/Index.html
For the ones with two ways of scoring, I put both.
AQ: 28/50 45/100
EQ: 9/40 15/80
FQ: 60/135
SQ-R: 59/75 94/150

http://twitpic.com/30454
9 cabbages, 9 broccoli, 18 cauliflower, 4 tomatillo, 4 artichoke, 3 genovese basil, 2 rosemary, 4 roma tomato (these 4 are not shown), the sad spider plant that's been in my office for about 3 years, part of a Microsoft Surface, and my debugging monitor. Since there's been ~no useful sun at the current house, there was no way for me to grow seeds, so I had to buy seedlings (some more developed than others). The last frost of the year was almost definitely last Thursday and all the big farms around are cooler (higher in the mountains) and planting their fields (e.g. our CSA farm planted 40,000 broccoli in the last week), so I think I'll be able to plant the big ones this week, once I have mulch. I've got about 1.5 yards coming from a friend in the next few days and then ~2 more in the next few weeks, so that's enough to do the whole area I want to plant. :D

I stole the icon from royal_spice.

Update: There was an image on top when I previewed, but it doesn't show up when I actually post, so you get a link instead.

I needed to be on a bus at the park and ride at 0911, so I set my alarm to 0750.

It went off, and I felt especially tired. I had ~1 more beer than I should and I figured that was the reason. I got ready to go and got in the Jeep at what I thought was 0835. The clock in the Jeep confused me. On the way to the park and ride, I determined that my alarm clock decided that today was the start of Daylight Saving Time.

So, now I'm waiting for a bus an hour earlier than the one I planned on to get me into Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con, which doesn't open until 1000. It's a very nice day though, so extra time outside isn't bad.

I'm not sure what she did, but I really felt I needed to buy two_pi_r's mother a gift to thank her for it. I got it in my head that she needed a bowling ball with her name engraved. It was green with gold sparkles and all the engraving had gold paint.

For my birthday this year (I'm turning primes[9]), I'm going to my
favorite Seattle area restaurant (of the one's I've tried, which is
quite a few considering my short tenure in the area). Any of you all
that want to come are invited to join me.

Thursday, April 16th
Seating at 6:30 p.m
http://www.szechuanchefchi-rest.com/
15015 Main Street , Suite 107
Bellevue, WA 98007

We're gonna eat family style and split the check evenly for simplicity
(unless you're getting Hot Pot, which will be a separate check per Hot
Pot group); please bring cash. You are welcome to invite your friends that know me.

If you want to come, you must email rsvp so I have a count to
give the restaurant for the reservation. email:
birthdaydinner2009@jarrod.spum.us
No gifts please.

During April, Lauren and I are in two houses and will be moving all of our small stuff gradually over the month. On Saturday the 25th, we'll need help moving all of our big stuff (couches, dining room table, beds, chest freezer, shelf units, desks, television). It's under 4 miles all within Bellevue, so if someone has a full-size pickup truck that can help, I won't need to rent a moving truck, but I will if I have to. We can have something of a housewarming party that night. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=4339+157th+Pl+SE,+Bellevue,+WA+98006&geocode=&dirflg=&daddr=1827+Richards+Rd,+Bellevue,+WA+98005&f=d&sll=47.569447,-122.130289&sspn=0.007514,0.015149&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14

The best Thai restaurant I've ever been to reopened yesterday after moving locations and then months of trouble getting approval from the city government.
http://tangerinethaicuisine.com/
Takeout has been ordered. :D

I agree with this very closely. Thanks for the link sabrarosa. :)
http://tacit.livejournal.com/280915.html

Reply, and I'll tell you what I think of you. Since I try not to hold things back I'm going to screen comments which aren't by me, which should make things more interesting for everyone else. If you want, try and guess who I'm replying to.

ADDENDUM: I will unscreen all appropriate replies to my replies, but I will not tell you if your guesses are right or wrong.

A largish refund is on the way. I can use the money, but I'd rather have been allowed to put a larger number on my W-4 to have had lower withholdings.

If you use statefarm.com they are providing free TurboTax Online Deluxe for Federal and State tax filing (I'm not sure if the promotion covers everyone, but checking won't cost you anything). It's the best tax filing experience I've ever had.

I had a generally good weekend on Orcas Island, but I still can't honestly call the any of 12 people we went with "Friends" because I have so far (since October) been unable to feel really connected with any of them. :(

Somewhat unrelated, I took many photos while hiking Mt. Constitution, but they won't be uploaded to flickr until tomorrow at least.

Ten days ago was the one year anniversary of my following the http://www.fast-5.com diet. I cheated sometimes, of course, but I'd estimate that I cheated an average of less than one day in fourteen. I lost 35.4 pounds. My BMI went from 35.6 down to 30.7 (for my "Large" bone structure based on wrist measurement: "Obese" is 33.0 and above, "Overweight" is 27.5 and above, "Normal" is 20.35 and above). I'll cross the "Overweight/Normal" threshold when I lose another ~23lbs and will be in the middle of the "Normal" range another ~25lbs after that (though I think I'd be uncomfortably thin if I lost that much weight).

I'm rationally really happy and irrationally really depressed/broken. Having feelings is really hard the past couple of months.

*Silliness/history note: This is maxim #2.

Most people are imminently forgettable. Others stick in your head. When away from them, these require effort to forget so as to stave off loneliness.

Due to snow, its effect on buses, and my Thursday night plans, I couldn't go to work the last two days.

Thursday morning, I left the house at 0515, walking down the hill toward the bus stop; there was less than 1/4" of snow, and it wasn't coming down. While waiting at the stop (where they recently removed the bus shelter, *pout* ), it began to snow lightly. The bus arrived about 10 minutes late, so I wouldn't be able to get my connection, instead needing to wait for the next one. I got off to wait for the next connection about one mile from the stop near my house; there was an inch of snow here. It was now snowing hard, then hailing heavily (tiny hail though, under 1/8 inch), then snowing again; I was thankful for the bus shelter here. My bus was late (or very early), but eventually came. The snow was still coming down, but the accumulation was steadily increasing. At my stop, the Overlake Transit Center, about 6 miles from home, there was four inches. I found out here that all the Microsoft shuttles were being canceled for the day (this is how I usually get to my office when I bus in) and the buses that go even kinda near my office were already canceled. No more northbound or work for me.

I walked over to the other side of the 520 to hope for some southbound bus at the freeway stop. The first bus that came could take me to the Bellevue Transit Center, and from there I could decide if I was going to go home and try to get to hadrian and Xefyr's later or to just bus there now. I thought about how the snow was and figured I'd just start on my way to their place, since the conditions would get worse before they could get better. Getting into downtown was easy, but getting to West Seattle was ~tough since many roads there were closed and at least two buses had gotten into accidents on the way there already that morning. I ended up getting what should have been a useful bus, but without making an announcement by the driver, it had been decided by Metro Transit, that the route was going to skip nearly all of West Seattle, and just go straight to White Center. The disgruntled passengers figured this out and demanded a stop at Delridge and Genesee to walk up to Alaska Junction. I ended up walking about two miles to hadrian's house, arriving at 1050. The 5 hour 35 minute trek was generally enjoyable, though cold when not on a bus.

General hangout occurred for the rest of the day with another short snow hike about a mile to and fro dinner at a local bar/restaurant. After dinner we watched "Howl's Moving Castle," which I hadn't yet seen. It was enjoyable with some minor similarities to "Kiki's Delivery Service." It probably helped that I had low expectations (I found "Spirited Away" to be thoroughly boring, unlike every other Miyazaki film I've seen).

I woke up early hoping to bus over to work, but some of the buses weren't running, and the shuttles were down again, so I sent a "fuck work--it's snowing" email, and went back to sleep on the couch. Xefyr's buses were running, so he went to work. I ran some errands with hadrian and then went to the Junction to get a bus home (another ~3 miles of walking in the snow). I had left her house at 1500, and through much lucky timing between three buses, I arrived at the door of my house at exactly 1700.

I made a simple but hearty dinner for lalabob11, two_pi_r, and I, and we've been vegging on the couches for the evening. We were supposed to go to a party tonight, but it was postponed until next Friday because of the snow. One cool thing about the postponing is that latenightparty can join us at the party next weekend. :)

Tomorrow we're heading over to Bremerton, weather permitting, for a holiday feast and, probably, gaming party that some friends are throwing. Except for the cost of the three pairs of snow chains I want to buy tomorrow, I expect that this accidental four day weekend will overall be awesome since it's been that way so far.

Life is pretty good right now.

Livingroom View
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

phyxius tagged me. Here are the rules:
“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog, and pass it on to six other people.”
I'm not gonna tag anyone though. Just play along if you like.

I stayed home sick today with ultra-sleepiness and a cold. I'm reading Neal Stephenson's newest novel, Anathem, currently, and am almost done. It is highly philosophical and may have nudged The Diamond Age out of its spot as his best novel* (in my ranking of course). The novel, being in bed most of the day, and already having been in a generally introspective mood, led me to some "deeper" introspection about my experiences. The most poignant thing I think I thought of today is the below. Tell me what you think/feel about it.

When one says, "I am falling in love with someone," it is really a euphemism for, "I have already fallen in love with someone," designed to insulate themselves from possible hurt.

*This is especially significant because I had already ranked Diamond Age as one of my favorite novels of all time with Camus' The Stranger as its only close competitor.

The 3 day food-fest went well, but there weren't quite as many people as I hoped and there was correspondingly less board gaming than I had hoped. Everyone was surprisingly better mannered than I expected (~everyone cleaned up after themselves and wasn't a dick). Also, much less drinking was done than I expected, which may account for the better manners. There's a good amount of turkey left, but it's not too unmanageable. I ended up not making any of the ribs, but since they're thawed, I have make them later this week. Everyone that came seemed to have a very good time, I'm glad they all could come. :)

Lately, when people ask me how I'm doing, I think about it and honestly answer "pretty well." I really enjoy my work almost every day. I attend many and enjoy nearly all of the social events I go to. I am regularly surrounded by gorgeous views and enjoyable wet weather.

I'm still often melancholy though. I haven't been able to make any close friendships since moving up here. I have lots of "friends" but few I'm really comfortable around. Everyone I am at all close with is inconveniently far away most of the time.

I need to do something to improve my connections with people, but I don't know what.

"To Obama, race in all its complications has long been a defining part of his life, and he is comfortable talking about it."

I made a separate journal just for Twitter posts: jaberwockytweet

Also, you can get context for the @replies by clicking on the '#' link at the end of each tweet and then work your way back with the arrow links on the twitter pages that load.

• 07:16 @technoclave What kind of interchange are the putting in? Hopefully not another SPUI like Louisiana. #
• 16:18 San Mateo won't be a SPUI :D The plan: tinyurl.com/653jkw (I care surprisingly much, not living there anymore.) #

Poll #1282429 Twitter
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

You...

• 16:57 Leftover pork from Warp's plus brown rice and a little bit of NM red chile. Nom nom nom. :D #

• 19:05 I need to cook a vegetable side dish for 60+ people to go along with cheese tortellini in cream sauce. What do you think I should make? #
• 20:34 @hrmortcia I've made stuff like that before. Eggplant might be too adventurous for this crowd; I'm making tomato salad and cooked spinach. #
• 22:09 @requies That sounds great, but it doesn't work with the logistics of this event. #
• 23:21 @raingirllori Mine came today too. :) #

Some especially funny political commentary:
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2008/10/several-other-r.html

• 09:33 Lesson learned: Szechwan Mung Bean Jelly over 1.5 weeks old leads to minor food poisoning. #
• 18:09 @serafinak I'm worried about the the-pad-is-the-button "feature" though; tap-pad-to-click is the first thing I turn off on a new laptop. #
• 18:14 @serafinak The G1 looks SO much nicer than the iPhone. It's nicer and cheaper than my SK LX too. I'll probably upgrade to the 2nd gen one. #
• 21:49 My friends, I am retweeting @wilw's retweet of @rstevens retweet of @eargang's tweet because I love it too: myfriends.blankmeme.com/ #
• 21:55 @brokenangel I never speak well of you... only awesome. =p <3 #
• 22:21 @serafinak I didn't know that, so I was worried. That sounds awesome. #

• 23:20 @serafinak: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and IE? #

• 09:42 @4thirty5: I was only kinda drunk. If I was fully drunk, I would be much less adorable. #

• 11:53 People are gathering by the tennis courts at Ravenna Blvd and Ravenna Ave. #
• 23:26 Ooooooo.... Piece'a'candy #
• 23:48 "I am the queen of Nerf because I shot between the faucet and the chip bag." --Liger #

• 14:57 Lazyweb: Are there any devices that act _only_ like firewire harddrives when plugged into pc or mac, but are music players otherwise? Thanks #
• 16:32 "For instance, the 8087 has been used to invert a 100x100 matrix of 64-bit floating-point numbers in 90 sec." Old papers can be fun reading. #
• 16:44 So you all can know what I'm reading while waiting for compiles and file transfers: tinyurl.com/4jmaom #
• 17:03 @two_pi_r That's still valid; those kbytes add up. =p
  Oh yeah, I got a WRT54GL the other day and put Tomato on it. #

• 08:44 It's annoying how similar "wilw" and "wigu" look in my phone's txtmsg font. #