Battlestar Galactica is the best thing I’ve seen since Firefly. Yeah sure, it has had it’s slow moments… entire episodes devoted to a few pointless plot twists that have little to do with the main story. But holy shit mother of gawd, that show is good. Probably should have been a movie [...]
Reasons Gmail kicks other webmail services in the arse #237:
All your Amazon.com marketplace listing confirmations get stacked in one thread. weee!
Suck my pee pee, microsoft!
“Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers have been clamoring for Microsoft to update its CSS support to support the latest W3C standards for years. But Microsoft is leaning toward adding some additional CSS2 support to IE 7.0, [...]
From Paul Graham’s essay on Why Nerds are Unpopular
Even if nerds cared as much as other kids about popularity, being popular would be more work for them. The popular kids learned to be popular, and to want to be popular, the same way the nerds learned to be smart, and to want to be smart: [...]
Here’s some fiction I wrote for my Eng465 class (The Uncanny Novella) and I wanted to share. The setting is real, except the house actually was not directly between us and the waves. The dinosaur house was the dead crumbling house 2 houses down.
I’ve had a few people ask me if this [...]
I slept an hour later than I intended… but I had these really really funky dreams.
In one, I was in love with a zombie. Like, we’d been in love, and then he DIED. but somehow he came back to life and we decided to continue our relationship in secret. We went shopping [...]
To do RIGHT NOW:
write paragraph for Ahern’s class
DON’T PLAY GAMES
read Wild Thorns until page 150
brainstorm for creative assignment
IF the above gets finished by 11pm, start CWL portal website.
Inevitability of Exploration
I find that what is significant about Angela Carter’s stories are not the consequences of exploring a “curiosity”, but the pattern of the necessity in exposing the hidden, subverting an undesirable but persistent situation, or of finally expressing long repressed desires. Exploring something out of “curiosity” seems to be a much too [...]
The Turn of the Screw: Tangled Layers of Displacement
The way Henry James subjects us to tangled layers of narrative displacement from the events in The Turn of the Screw is fascinating and disturbing because of how far it reaches into the story and how far it reaches outside its pages. Ironically, the effect of [...]
Did YOU know p2p downloading is legal in canada? (Google search results) this thread.
Canada is so smart. someone needs to kick the USofASS in the balls. What the shit.
In Other News: here I am NOT writing my analysis, doing my Japanese, or reading for philosophy. I’m also NOT SLEEPING so [...]