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Which Battlestar Galactica Character Are You?Created by BuddyTV
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Sometimes I feel like life’s just a big jigsaw puzzle, only we’re missing that handy picture on the box cover that tells you how it goes. But every once in a while, if you look closely, you can catch a glimpse of the overall pattern.
Enlightenment is usually only temporary and then it’s back to [...]

Because I’m getting so many hits for people searching for “fight club paper,” I’m going to include the text of my paper in this entry so that Google can index it and suspicious profs can look it up. Suck it, intellectual property thieves.

Say what you will about Starbucks… I have a burr grinder from them that I bought a couple of years ago. It fell victim to my husband’s mysterious curse of breaking my coffee equipment (”Oops, I dropped it”). Definitely broken via abuse, definitely out of warranty. I called Starbucks to order [...]

One of my communication professors has recently published a book on the subject of Powerpoint presentations. Having had him for two classes, I can testify to the awesome-tude of his Powerpoints. Check him out if you get a chance. I’m not making a dime off this; just passing on something helpful:
Save Our Slides by Dr. [...]

A friend of mine messaged me tonight - he had this log of an instant messenger conversation from May of ‘05:
me: I just had a dream about you
me: you had kidnapped my husband and were driving a hay ride around my neighborhood
me: and I couldn’t tell whether you were your right age or 12
me: you [...]

Last week I found out that my usually very dependable for-pay email forwarding address wasn’t delivering any of the emails that my daughter’s teacher was sending me. She mentioned a newsletter at our parent teacher conference, and I was all, “Whaaaaa? Newsletter?”
Then earlier tonight I realized that none of the email to my [...]

Halloween is here, and in the air is a strong scent of bacon.
WTF? Why does the street smell like bacon? It’s been bacon-smelling since we took the kids trick or treating an hour and a half ago. Now the smell is so strong, it smells like bacon in the house.
Not that I’m [...]

Obligatory “SecuROM sucks” here.
Greetings,
I purchased Knights of the Old Republic 2 to play on my MacBook Pro
using Parallels virtualization software. When I try to play it, the
disk spins for a long time, then I get a popup window saying
“Original disc could not be found or authenticated.” I have all four
original disks, plus the [...]

Thought it might be interesting to show some of the Halloween costumes out there for little girls these days. For reference, size S is 4-6, M is 8-10, and L is 12-14. Sizes roughly correspond with age.
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