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10:44 pm
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Writer's Block: All-Nighter
The lock-in at X3O! Yep, that was a fun night of videogaming, indeedy! (And we rocked out in the Left 4 Dead tournament!)
Tags: journalling, read time: 10 seconds, video games, writer's block
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08:42 am
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Writer's Block: There Can Be Only One
I don't believe in enforced monogamy, no. That said, first, most people do better in closed monogamous relationships, and second, it's not a good idea to betray the trust of the people you're with.
Current Location: school\EGR\ASME_lounge
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Tags: monogamy, read time: 10 seconds, thoughts, writer's block
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08:35 pm
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Writer's Block: BFF
Almost certainly ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nanakikun - he's still on my list, though he hasn't updated in months.
Tags: first friend, link time: many minutes, lj birthday, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:56 am
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Writer's Block: Meant to Be?
Assuming the author meant, "Do you believe fate exists?" - no, I don't.
Quick definition: fate is that which must happen regardless of any person's choices, regardless of any person's actions, regardless of any conceivable action by any conceivable person, ever. You know how Oedipus killed his dad and married his mom? Yeah - fated, had to happen.
Well, the universe doesn't work like that. If Oedipus had confronted his foster parents about the prophecy, none of it would have happened. Heck, if the weather had been a little different and he'd died of exposure on the road, none of it would have happened, and the weather is chaotic - anything you do can change it a month down the road.
Tags: fate, read time: 10 seconds, thoughts, writer's block
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07:52 am
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Writer's Block: End of the World as We Know It
"All" is the key word in that question. Nuclear weapons or meteorite. None of the others have the pure biosphere-warping powers of those two.
Tags: apocalypse, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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10:15 pm
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Writer's Block: Swine Times
The problem with the swine flu isn't that it's deadly, but that it might spread easily through the population. It probably kills something like one in two hundred who catch it, if previous outbreaks are any measure - but if very few people have resistance to the disease, that could become a two-hundredth of hundreds of millions of people, so it's worth taking precautions.
But nah, I'm not scared. I'm not even convinced it'll go pandemic.
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, swine flu, writer's block
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05:19 pm
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Writer's Block: Community-Minded
As blatantly ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) community_promo as it may seem, it's nomicide - the Livejournal Nomic community I manage with active_apathy. It's one of my favorite games, and I'm thrilled to be playing it, still.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood:  happy
Current Music: "Apply Some Pressure (Original Demo Version)
Tags: favorite community, link time: variable, lj birthday, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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10:45 am
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Writer's Block: Philanthropy
I donate a lot of blood to the American Red Cross. Mostly because of Hal Clement.
No, I'm serious. I was reading Hal Clement books all the time as I grew up, and the biography always mentioned that he donated a lot of blood.
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:15 am
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Writer's Block: LiveJournal Book Club
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. Picked it for two reasons:
- It's well-written.
- It's funny.
Seriously. If you can read in English, I think you will enjoy this book. J. is one of the greatest raconteurs of all time.
P.S. It's out of copyright - 1889 - so it's available everywhere online.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: "Look Up" - Oppenheimer
Tags: books, read time: 10 seconds, recommendations, writer's block
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06:01 pm
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Writer's Block: Shhhh
Assuming no emergencies arose, assuming textual writing was prohibited ... the first day and the first week would be the hardest, but I could do it. It would be an interesting experience, I am sure.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  calm
Current Music: "Wet & Rustling" - Menomena
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, thoughts, writer's block
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11:44 pm
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Writer's Block: Taxmen and Poetry
But I, being poor, have only my dreams ...
(No appropriateness intended.)
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  okay
Tags: poems, read time: 10 seconds, taxes, writer's block
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08:40 am
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Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice
Mega Man 9!
Okay, okay, I'll choose a real one: Mega Man 2. Or, if I have to choose something Older Than The NES (warning: TVTropes), Moria.
Current Location: school\EGR\ASME_lounge
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette
Tags: games, link time: substantial, read time: 10 seconds, video games, writer's block
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10:08 pm
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Writer's Block: Confidences
Strangers. Why do you think I have a Livejournal?
But in all seriousness, many of my problems are things I have shame over - but if I embarrass myself in front of someone three states away, that doesn't really bother me. I'm more open about being an atheist here for the very same reason.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  accomplished (did my taxes!)
Current Music: Shotgun Down the Avalanche
Tags: confidences, friendship, read time: 10 seconds, relationships, writer's block
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08:52 am
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Writer's Block: Grab and Go
I'd find the full list of secret detainees around the world and send it to all the papers.
Tags: conspiracies, cover-ups, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:51 am
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Writer's Block: How Does This Apply to Real Life?
As a homeschooled kid, "elementary or primary school" is a bit ill-defined, but at a guess ... mathematics, probably geometry and algebra.
Engineering is pretty math-heavy, I must admit.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  bored
Current Music: "September Grass" - James Taylor
Tags: favorite subjects, journalling, read time: 10 seconds, school, writer's block
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04:34 pm
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Writer's Block: GIP (Gratuitous Icon Post)
Well, it's not that awesome, but I hardly ever use my X-Box-Live-avatar icon.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\southeast_desk
Current Music: "Everyday (Album)" - Vetiver
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, userpics, writer's block
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10:29 am
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Writer's Block: Multimedia
Do you have to ask?
(I am so setting myself up for disappointment...)
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood:  energetic
Current Music: "October Road" - James Taylor
Tags: geekery, link time: few minutes, politics, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:50 am
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Writer's Block: Things You Don't Want to Know
I would confront the S.O. before anything else (not the least because some people are in open relationships). Then I would talk to someone I trust, to make sure that I'm not being utterly stupid. But if I did that and still knew, I would tell my friend - it's what I'd want.
(See, that's the thing with lies - it's much easier to think lying is okay if you don't put yourself in the shoes of the lied-to. I know - I read it in a book!)
(But seriously - it's true, and it's a good book: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok. I recommend it.)
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood:  awake
Tags: books, ethics, etiquette, friendship, life, link time: few minutes, read time: 10 seconds, take my advice, writer's block
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11:49 am
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Writer's Block: Take Your Chances
Yes. Sometimes right away, sometimes not for a long time, but should they live long enough to learn how they erred and learn better, I would give as many chances as are in the world.
Current Location: home\living_room_stairs\lower_landing
Current Mood: calm
Tags: do-overs, link time: substantial, read time: 10 seconds, second chances, writer's block
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03:47 pm
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Writer's Block: Divided Self
A bit - I am sometimes short-tempered and often inarticulate in the meatspace, where real-time factors weigh much more heavily. To employ a bit of catachresis, in the parts of online that I inhabit, I am free to compose myself and my replies.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: tired
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, thoughts, writer's block
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07:55 pm
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Writer's Block: The Kids' Section
The first favorite movie I can recall is actually Twelve Angry Men. For a brief time, Pieces of April displaced it as my favorite, but it has resumed the throne.
Tags: childhood memories, kids' movies, movies, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:05 am
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Writer's Block: Big Debates
Stem cell research is a highly promising field, and no more 'dangerous' than carbon nanotube research. Further, the chief objection to it - that embryonic stem cells cannot be acquired morally - is baseless: the blastocyst is a barely differentiated bundle of cells, lacking even sensory organs, much less intellectual capacity.* There is no legitimate reason for this research not to be funded by governments.
* Certain religious Christians may object to my argument in this line, on the grounds that the blastocyst - undeveloped as it may be - nevertheless has a soul. I refer them to bradhicks Christians in the Hands of an Angry God series, which, in Part 4, demolishes the claim that the Bible puts the beginning of life at conception.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  annoyed
Current Music: Goo Goo Dolls - "Black Balloon"
Tags: government funding, link time: few minutes, rants, read time: 10 seconds, stem cell research, writer's block
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01:35 pm
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Writer's Block: Chatty
I prefer texting to answering machine messages. But if the call is going to get through, I'd prefer the call.
Tags: cell phones, read time: 10 seconds, text messages, writer's block
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10:16 pm
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Writer's Block: Desert Island Time
In order by increasing cheerfulness:
- The Third Man (1949)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Crank (2006)
- The Rocketeer (1991)
- Enchanted (2007)
Crash would have made the list, but I wanted two cheerful movies on the list, so...
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: bored
Tags: desert island, dvds, movies, writer's block
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10:44 am
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Writer's Block: Daily Grind
As the man says:
After that, shower, chat with Mom, go to school. (I brush my teeth in the evening, before bed.)
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: bored
Tags: comics, geekery, habits, links, morning, read time: 10 seconds, routines, writer's block
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11:24 am
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Writer's Block: Jackpot
Assuming it was the proverbial million-dollar jackpot, I would, in order of increasing frivolity:
1. Pay off my parents' mortgage.
2. Buy a nice, new, reliable, environmentally-friendly car (but probably not a Mini - it's a splendid vehicle in all four respects, but the back seat is cramped and my parents already have one); let them drive it, but learn to drive.
3. Get all our bicycles repaired to fighting trim; get a new bike helmet that's designed for freakishly oversized heads like mine.
4. Have a nice family dinner at a good restaurant.
Whatever remains, I would invest.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: awake
Tags: lottery, read time: 10 seconds, spending spree, writer's block
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04:37 pm
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Writer's Block: Half a Glass
I would love to meet the person who did not consider themselves a realist. Excluding that option, however, I have to say I'm pessimistic in particular and optimistic in general.
When I am called upon to make a quantitative guess, my natural tendency is to exaggerate the odds of the worst plausible outcome. When I am called upon to complete a task, my natural tendency is to exaggerate the difficulty of completion to the point of paralyzation. And when I am called upon to describe what I have accomplished, my natural tendency is to understate my claim as much as possible.
On the other hand, I honestly expect things to turn out for the better. I think the world is a fine place, that a century ago it was worse, and that a century from now it will be better. I am appalled at those who speak of needing to compromise their principles - "have they no faith in the power of Good?", I think. When I meet a friend coming out my front door, he gives me a ride to the Metro just in time to catch the train, and both transfers come within the minute, I am not even perturbed - I just look at my watch and say, "Hey, I'm almost on time today!"
All that said, though, I reject the words, let alone the trichotomy. They are useful ways to describe the inaccuracy of estimates (a la "You don't think a month to finish the book is optimistic?"), but dispositions don't divide along those lines.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: What Else Is There? - Röyksopp
Tags: read time: a minute, thoughts, writer's block
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10:42 am
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Writer's Block: Fearsome
Falling, most likely. I remember being terrified of jumping out of a treehouse only five or so feet off the ground. And even standing many feet from the edge, climbing up stories past all the high diving platforms at the rec center to get on the waterslide - very nerve-wracking.
I'm mostly over the irrational fear, I think.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Summer of Love - B-52s
Tags: childhood fears, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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12:30 pm
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Writer's Block: Left Behind
I'll be dead - it doesn't make a difference to me. I would prefer it be treated in a way which those alive find satisfactory.
Tags: death, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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07:44 pm
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Writer's Block: Spoilers Below the Cut
Indeed I have, and have been! Most memorable of the former regards "Just Cause" (1995), starring Sean Connery and Lawrence Fishburne, where I in my effusive state blurted out a major plot twist (fortunately to an individual who didn't care, or at least so professed), and most recent to my recollection of the latter regards "Wall-E" (2008), which I still haven't seen.
As a rule, I avoid spoilers assiduously from both ends, regardless of the age of the work. I firmly believe I benefited greatly from seeing "The Sixth Sense" (1999) without knowing even the tagline, for example, and I would have been quite peeved if someone had blurted out the solution to the mystery in "The Woman in White" (1860) before I reached it. For other people, though, I generally do not voice any objections if the work is at least thirty years old.
(I'm still mad about the widespread disregard for this rule with respect to "The Sixth Sense", actually. I didn't suffer from it, but only because my mom sat me down and made me watch it before I had the chance.)
(By the way, if you get the DVD, after you've seen the movie, check out the alternate ending in the deleted scenes - it's worth seeing.)
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\southeast_desk
Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: Busy Child - The Crystal Method
Tags: books, movies, read time: a minute, spoilers, writer's block
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08:30 am
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Writer's Block: Open Arms
Dude, it might even have been that guy!
Tags: etiquette, hugging, link time: few minutes, national hugging day, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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11:44 am
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Writer's Block: Resolved
Oh, I should make some of these!
1. Practice being calm when being calm is the best strategy - most prominently, when receiving unwanted advice. (I was going to say "senseless courtesy", but civility sometimes requires rudeness.)
2. Ride my bicycle more, building up to commuting to school on it.
3. Reclaim time from those pleasures which do not give me much pleasure, and gather up fragments of time, lest they perish.
4. Work out the list of things I need need to pay attention to (my financial status, my health care coverage, my health, my...) and pay attention to those things.
...okay, those seem like good ideas. I'll leave them there.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Planned Obsolescence - 10,000 Maniacs
Tags: life, link time: few minutes, new year's, read time: a minute, resolutions, writer's block
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10:31 am
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Writer's Block: Beyond Our Ken
Something I haven't bothered to explain.
For cripes sake, coincidence, people! Weird stuff happens all the time! Grow up!
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood:  aggravated
Current Music: Billie Jean - Chris Cornell
Tags: link time: few minutes, paranormal, rants, read time: 10 seconds, strange things, writer's block
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10:22 am
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Writer's Block: The Wrath of Ohrwurm
Most painful for me is the Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" - one, it's pretty catchy, two, it's so popular that it'll even enter my mind without prompting, and three, it drives me up the wall.
The flip side: I love it when 10,000 Maniac's "Planned Obsolescence" or Maxïmo Park's "Apply Some Pressure" gets loaded in the mental sound buffer. Actually, on the whole, songs I like earworm much more often for me, and for the joy those bring me I'll gladly take the risks.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood:  cheerful
Current Music: Songbird - Eva Cassidy
Tags: earworms, music, ohrwurm, read time: 10 seconds, songs, writer's block
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11:24 pm
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Writer's Block: Ten for the Tenth
Don't know. Here are a few likelies, though:
- Graceland, Paul Simon.
- Blue, Joni Mitchell (probably #1)
- Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissete
- Matters of the Heart and Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman
- Recovering the Satellites, Counting Crows
- Revolver, The Beatles
Tags: music, read time: 10 seconds, top 10, writer's block
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11:05 am
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Writer's Block: Idiomatic Confusion
"Your money's no good here" is a pretty confusing one - took me a while to twig to that one. (It means, "It's on the house". Edit: Okay, so it's ambiguous.)
(That said, I totally had to look up the waitress in the weeds.)
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: King of Pain - The Police
Tags: read time: 10 seconds, words, writer's block
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10:37 am
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Writer's Block: A Little Light
As an engineer, I would bet on condensation and ice deposition. Unlike in the refrigerator compartment, freezer compartments tend to accumulate water (generally solid) on the interior surfaces. If this water is melted by the heat of the lamp, it can short out the system. (Further, the obvious way of avoiding this problem - having the light behind an insulating shield - fails, because the shield develops ice and obscures the light.) In addition to this problem with the light, the switch that would turn on the light when the freezer opens is vulnerable to icing and the resultant clogging.
A light in the freezer would be handy. Unfortunately, it's not practicable.
Tags: engineering, freezers, guesswork, lightbulbs, read time: 10 seconds, refrigerators, writer's block
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11:42 am
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Writer's Block: Secret Ballot
At Woodlin Elementary School in Maryland, lines were much like last election's - about an hour at 7 a.m. opening, according to reports from my siblings and mother, and forty minutes or so around nine a.m. when my dad (zhurnaly) and I went. Campaigning was light - other than road signs, there was only a representative from the teachers' union (I think) with a slate of endorsements. (zhurnaly asked her about the local slots initiative - creditably, the union had no stance and she didn't feel too good about it.) (Oh, and I took one of her sheets to help me decide on the school board race where I was still dithering.)
Attitudes were cheerful. The PTA had a bake sale running. The electronic voting machines read my touchscreen inputs correctly (and thank goodness they'll be gone next election!). It might start raining later, but it was fairly nice when we went.
Oh, and we got free stickers. zhurnaly gave me his as a joke.
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Making Pies - Patty Griffin
Tags: ballots, journalling, polls, presidential race, read time: 10 seconds, u.s. election, voting, writer's block
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07:58 pm
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Writer's Block: Confidential
Like most people, I use the incredible power of not doing anything worth invading my privacy for. It's dumb, but I don't really worry about people invading my privacy most of the time.
Tags: online security, privacy, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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09:16 am
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Writer's Block: Fright Show
Darkness Falls is my favorite. Definitely Better Than It Sounds fuel, and well, well done.
Tags: horror, link time: many minutes, movies, read time: 10 seconds, scary movies, writer's block
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10:16 pm
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Writer's Block: The Beatles
Britney Spears.
Really, though, the nature of the modern music scene is that people are choosing to be more idiosyncratic in their tastes, now - there's a reason why people turn to classic rock songs when they want commonality. Spears may be the biggest figure in pop right now (or in the recent past), but 'big' is smaller now.
Current Location: home\upstairs_staircase\upper_landing
Current Mood:  geeky
Tags: beatles, music, pop music, read time: 10 seconds, writer's block
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03:37 pm
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Writer's Block: United Nations World Teachers Day
...wow, the question has nothing to do with the setup.
Now, English was a pain in the butt, but I have to admit that it is extremely important.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
Tags: school, students, teachers, united nations world teachers day, writer's block
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07:40 am
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Writer's Block: Day of German Unity
When the Cold War was at its height, nobody expected to survive. (Just read Farnham's Freehold and try to disagree.) I'd rather have a future.
Tags: cold war, german unity, writer's block
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09:23 am
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Writer's Block: The Meaning of Freedom
Fundamentally, the ability to chart your own course of action without overwhelming resistance. One of the goals of modern government is to ensure roughly equal freedoms for all by restricting those acts which greatly reduce others' freedom.
... must ... resist ... quoting ... Janis ... Joplin ...
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01:05 pm
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Writer's Block: Missing from Nature
I think I could survive the loss of the human immunodeficiency virus. ;)
Current Location: school\EGL\office
Current Mood: bored
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09:53 pm
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Writer's Block: 9/11
On the eleventh of September, in the year two thousand and one of the common era, I was still taking classes at the Rockville campus of Montgomery College in the state of Maryland. I first heard rumors of the plane crash in the basement of the Macklin Tower (which may still have been the Campus Tower, then) near the phones at the bottom of the stairs where the vending machines were (there was an auto-mat-ish one with sandwiches and the like, or perhaps my memory is inaccurate), and dismissed them as unlikely. Shortly thereafter, I reached the classroom, where I discovered class was canceled and we were being sent home. Noncomprehending, I proceeded to the bus stop and thence home (I do not recall how), and came in to find people watching the coverage.
We rarely watch TV in our house. We were glued to the set all that day.
I remember when the footage of that guy on the street, his camera pointed to the sky, catching one plane enter one tower ... I remember when that hit the channels where I lived. I remember seeing them burning. I remember the people running through the streets with the dust from the collapse chasing them down. Odd that this is still topical, but I remember John McCain being interviewed - probably by telephone, the picture was of the towers - and saying we had to attack, go to war over this. (I'm sure it was the same day.) I remember Mom being disappointed with his response - I don't know why, because I disapproved from bullheaded war-is-evil simplemindedness that I still haven't wholly got over, but I think she expected him to be more thoughtful than that, more measured in his response. I remember the speculation about the fourth plane, and where it might have been aimed if the passengers hadn't stood up to the attackers.
And ... well, I don't remember much else. It was seven years ago, I was sixteen, and things in New York had little to do with me. And it still seems like an utter shock to me that people found this so ... well, shocking, that their lives and worldviews were torn up and left inverted because of it. Because I don't think I ever lived in a pre-9/11 or post-9/11 world, I lived in maths and sciences, in Prince of Persia on the IBM 8086 PC, and in books good and bad, and who ever thought 'America' was invincible anyhow? But tear things up it did, and somehow as a nation the U.S. still isn't over it.
I thought about what I'd say today, but I've nothing to say. Us us-ians lost two buildings, three thousand people, and our collective minds, and none of it did the slightest good to anyone ...
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed\
Current Mood:  melancholy
Current Music: Memories of Patty Griffin's "Nobody's Crying"
Tags: journalling, politics, thoughts, writer's block
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10:56 am
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Writer's Block: The Expendable Sense(s)
Assuming that the question refers to the five Aristotelian senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste...
...I think I would have to go with sight. Hearing would be a less inconvenient disability, but to lose music? I cannot bear the thought.
Current Location: home\west_bedroom\south_bed\
Current Mood:  apathetic
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09:29 am
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Writer's Block: Spirits
First: "believe in" is the wrong phrase. I don't believe in torture, but it still exists.
Second: to my recollection, I have never encountered anything that appeared to be a ghost.
Finally: based on my knowledge of the sciences (from physics to biology to neuroscience to computer science), the existence of ghosts strikes me as not merely implausible, but downright ludicrous. fin.
Current Location: school\engineering\ASME_lounge
Tags: writer's block
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08:22 am
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Writer's Block: Six-Word Story
Tried this a few times before, but I suppose I'll give it another go:
Day 16: Jeff begun spoiling. Lonely.
Current Location: school\student_union\basement_lounge
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Have You Seen Me Lately? - Counting Crows
Tags: writer's block, writing
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09:28 am
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Writer's Block: Feeling Better
Rock.
Spoon, "The Way We Get By". Suzanne Vega, "Blood Makes Noise", "No Cheap Thrill", "Widow's Walk", "Rock In This Pocket (Song of David)". The White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army", "The Hardest Button to Button". Counting Crows, "Have You Seen Me Lately?", "Rain King". Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made For Walking". Regina Spektor, "That Time". Tom Petty, "Love is a Long Road". Tracy Chapman, "Bang Bang Bang". Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, "Thou Shalt Always Kill". Empires, "I Want Blood", "Spit the Dark", "Modern Love". R.E.M., "Orange Crush", "Disturbance at the Heron House", "Me in Honey". The Cardigans, "My Favorite Game". Daryl Hall & John Oates, "Rich Girl". Semisonic, "Sunshine & Chocolate".
I've found no better catharsis.
Current Location: school\union\basement_lounge
Current Mood:  predatory
Current Music: Something indecypherable from the co-op.
Tags: music, writer's block
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