| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violetshade
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12:21a |
Unless an owner appears to claim her, it looks like by the end of break I will become the owner of twelve pounds of medium-hair dark brown/black cat. Pictures sometime. |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violetshade
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8:50p |
So in what will be the six-month-long process of preparing to leave Terre Haute, I am conducting a Book Purge to reduce the amount of stuff I have to haul back across the country. My plan is to sell some of this to people on campus and put the rest on the "free to take" table in the CS department, but I figured I should post the list here in case anyone wants anything badly enough to pay for whatever it takes to get the books from me to you. In particular, I'm thinking it's finally time to divest myself of my English-language manga collection. It's just not a language I read manga in anymore. Also a bunch of old textbooks which I may just list the category to and you can ask me if you want to know the specifics. For the manga, I figure $2.50/book is reasonable; anything for a different price will be marked as such. Series will generally only be sold as a complete set (well, as complete as I have them); finding someone who wants books 2-7 of a series after having sold book 1 is not my idea of a good time. Conditions all look fairly good; if there's something specific you want me to check, let me know. There are some incomplete series here that I'm pretty sure I have more of; I'll be posting an update when I get back to Boston and can do inventory on what's there. I'll include a note to that effect in the list. ( The list )Any questions, you know who to ask. |
violetshade
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8:23p |
Yet another reminder that not all cultures are hung up on precisely the same issues, at least not to the same degree: reading a manga series serialized in a magazine targeted at the general audience of teenage boys by an author with no particular connection that I can identify to transgender-acceptance causes in which romantic/non-explicit erotic scenes appear in styles clearly intended to induce positive reaction in the reader between a heterosexual male and a pre-operative (gender-reassignment surgery has not been mentioned in the manga, and they're high-school age anyway) MtF transgendered individual. |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violet_shade
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5:32p |
Things decided today: 1. It is, at long last, time for me to suck it up and make a Facebook page. 2. I should change my name to Zenobia and have people call me Zen. Feel free to take this up starting now. Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: FOB- Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:02p |
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violetshade
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4:57a |
"The first rule of the game is that in this discussion we must regard science as if it were an end in itself. We both know that it never is, yet we must do 'as if', because, whatever the ends may be, you will never get any agreement on them. (At an American computer conference a few years ago, the keynote speaker explained that computing science was very important because only computing science would enable the USA to maintain its technological superiority in the face of the Japanese threat. Some years later, at a computer conference in Tokyo, the keynote speaker explained that computing science was very important, because only computing science could free Japan from the American technological supremacy. So there you are!)" "This very morning I read a long paper by A.Endres (IBM, Böblingen) who seemed to suggest that our profession has now evolved to the stage in which the design of new programs has become less important than learning to live with the existing ones." "Computing practice on the average has dug itself into a hole of which it does not see how to come out again; by way of consolation it deceives itself by praising the hole for the protection it gives." Oh, Dijkstra. |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
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| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violetshade
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12:04a |
Once upon a time, in the category of endofunctors… Current Mood: I am the man to command electronic giants |
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violet_shade
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9:10a |
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| Thursday, December 10th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 |
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| Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 |
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| Monday, December 7th, 2009 |
xannish
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8:01p |
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violet_shade
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8:52a |
Life, it is busy. Friday night was anime night at Amanda and Alasdair's. Friends, kitty, soft serve, anime, and Thai martial arts movies! Yay! Saturday morning Alasdair and I went to BB&B because he and Amanda were registered there and wanted to pick up some of the items that were left, and there was a 20% off deal for registered couples. But Amanda hates BB&B and Alasdair didn't want to go alone, so he asked me along instead. This was hilarious. I thought I might just get away with letting people assume and being quiet, but they kept addressing me over him! He explained about half way a couple of times, but mostly we just laughed. And I got a mandoline, a really nice one, and some other kitchen widgets out of it! Kids in a candy store. Saturday afternoon I decided to go to the Asian market. This was evidently a mistake, since they didn't have what I wanted in stock and I ended up coming home grumpy. I made dinner and felt better, but I wasted a lot of time I didn't need to that day. After dinner, we watched some of the Monty Python dvds Dad made for me (I love my Dad). Then I noticed it was snowing. ^_^ Kevin and I took a walk in the snow. It was wonderful. Yesterday I slept until noon. I then conceived of a desire for ramen, so we went out for ramen, and it was delicious. Then I attempted to help Judith resolve some art gallery drama, and then we went out to a giant craft faire. So many shiny. But so many shiny I could make myself... I got a couple of things, including a nice-smelling lotion that supposedly helps with eczema (that would/will be awesome for my hands). Then we went out for Indian food, and for perhaps the second time, I was not sick afterward. Yay! And we watched some more Monty Python. On the down side, the Quest thing I thought would be really fun for Amanda and Alasdair is turning into a hassle. I feel really bad, because they're essentially doing me a favor. If I have to drive them back that night and miss Initiation, I will. But I really hope I don't have to. Also, my productivity for this weekend was distressingly low, and my expenditures distressingly high. Ugh... Tonight. Tonight I will get things done. I have to. Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: IST- Regina Spektor- Hotel Song |
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