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Monthly Archives: January 2006

corvallis mid-air meteor burst?

28-Jan-06

Last night (this morning?) around 3:30am, I was woken up by this insane thunder-like noise. Only it didn’t sound like thunder at all… it sounded like an explosion. It lasted long enough to have me frozen to my bed, looking around. I had vague dreamy memories of a bright flash and the sense [...]

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strange lightning?

28-Jan-06

Local peeps:
Did anyone here get woken up by some odd thunder and lightning…? like, a flash as if it was going off inside your own room, and then these ear-piercing explosion sounding thunder?
Happened around 3:30am as far as I can tell. my whole house woke up and we were pretty scared.
it didn’t sound/feel/seem like normal [...]

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Go go gadget READING!

22-Jan-06

I’m finally getting engaged in my Joseph Conrad readings. So stay tuned for quotes and stuff.
Here’s the first that jumped out at me and reminded me of why I love being an English major:
But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is [...]

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QotD

22-Jan-06

From Kenneth Keniston’s Social Change and Youth in America in The Challenge of Youth:
“If Growing up were merely a matter of becoming “socialized,” that is, of learning how to “fit into” society, it is hard to see how anyone could grow up at all in modern America, for the society into which young people will [...]

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TotD

20-Jan-06

Typo of the Day:
invasion of piracy
:)

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special hello

16-Jan-06

special hello and thanks to people visiting me right now from this thread on the ubuntu forums.
ooh I’m so self-referential! (self-absorbed maybe?)

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gender, liberal arts, ubuntu-linux

16-Jan-06

I’ve posted the following to a bit ago because I wanted to get some nifty conversations going. I also wanted to keep a record of it in my own livejournal in case anyone on my friends list wants to contribute to the discussion, and so i can tag and save the entry for future [...]

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winblows2000!

16-Jan-06

So, after my compy being winblows-free for SO LONG, I reinstalled win2k last night on my smaller hard drive so that I could put ubuntu on my newer bigger one, and it’s funny… before I even could finish DOWNLOADING firefox, I was already getting gambling and porn popups and requests to add hotsex38382.com as my [...]

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gender, ubuntu, literacy, and liberal arts

16-Jan-06

Original post: yesterday, a friend of mine told me that I exist in a really unique niche as far as my geek-tech-linux-gender identity. I’m a female undergraduate English major who uses ubuntu as an end-user. In other words, I use linux the way the rest of my department (and the world?) uses OS [...]

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ICO. Winner of the “make emily seriously swoon” award for 2006.

05-Jan-06

Reasons ICO is probably the best game I’ve ever swooned over:
The Animation: The animation is so sweet. Sentimental and subtle. Like puppy-dog romance between children. You jump across a gap, and you call to her. She hesitates, steps forward, jumps. You catch her before she falls because she can’t jump far enough and pull [...]

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