I finished reading Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister today. A quality book. Emotional. I don't think I'll ever be able to read the fairy-tale version of the story the same way again. Pick up a copy of it next time you're at Borders, or your local library. Anyway, the other day I went out to a bar with a few people from work. It was a pretty good time. I hope to go again some time. It seems like in that environment it's the expected thing that you'll go up to people of the opposit...

I have. T-Shirt Hell I need to get me a baby so I can put this shirt on him.

I have. T-Shirt Hell I need to get me a baby so I can put this shirt on him.

I need an alarm clock that doesn't trust me. When I'm barely conscious enough to figure out where the sound is coming from, what makes you think I can be trusted with something as dangerous as a snooze button? Sometimes, after the third or fourth time it beeps, I just turn the thing off. And that's never good. I put another alarm clock on the desk, so I have to get out of bed to shut that one up. I usually turn that one off instead of snoozing it. Of course I mean to go get dressed...

Happy birthday to me Happy birthday to me Happy birthday, dear PJ Happy birthday to me

I have pens, but no paper to write with. And I'm tired of sitting in that chair in front of the computer. So I'm lying in bed, with the company laptop on my stomach. The keyboard is hard to get used to. Backspace is in a different place, and the spacebar isn't as sensitive as mine. Typing this takes almost as long as writing it out by hand. But I shall persevere. What did I want to write? I'm not sure. I finished reading Lovelock today. It's a moving story. You should read it. ...

Here's my accomplishment for the day: I asked my roomate to limit the bandwidth used by his P2P program, because it was dominating our cable connection and preventing me from surfing the web. You know, the fact that I'm a little bit proud of that tells me that I'm normally way to non-confrontational. That can't possibly be healthy. But I choose not to think about it that way, because that would wipe the smile off my face. So I'm just going to be happy with what I've got.

I've heard some remarks on the news about how the US is always expected to cough up humanitarian aid when national disasters happen abroad, but when they happen here other countries don't step up with a few billion dollars to help us out. I've heard some ridiculous reasons for this, like the idea that the hurricane was caused by President Bush's failure to sign the Kyoto treaty. I've also heard that the US, being an exceedingly wealthy country, can take care of itself. And you know what...

I think I just had an emotion. Damnedest thing. It was while reading the first few pages of Rebbecca Ray's Pure on Amazon. So I thought back to that discussion we had in group therapy about feeling emotions , and I sat down and tried to figure out what it was. I ruled out anger pretty quickly, since that's the one that I do have a pretty good idea of what it's supposed to feel like. This one had sort of an emptiness to it. Is there a name for that one? Is there an associated emot...

So there I was, sitting in the living room playing Eat Hot Death! , when suddenly I hear "Pete! Pete, come here! You've got to see this!" What was it I had to see, you ask? It was a really big worm that my mom found in the compost pile. I've known since I was four that playing with worms was the best part of gardening. I'm glad to see she's finally come around to my way of thinking.

I saw the "Gmail is creepy" website over a year ago, before I even had gmail, but I just got a link to it again today and it has a new (to me) cartoon at the bottom that I just had to share: Effing hilarious.

The other day I was reading an article on How Stuff Works about 3D glasses. The clear ones that don't screw up the colors work by using polarized light. One lense lets up-and-down polarized light through, and the other lense lets side-to-side polarized light through. That way they can show two different images on the screen, and each eye only sees one of them. That's how you get the 3D effect. Then last night I started thinking about a conversation I had a few months ago, just befor...

Everyone's seen it in science fiction already, but now it's for real. There's a guy who has a prosthetic arm that he controls with his thoughts. It's hooked up to his nerves, so he can control it the way you normally control an arm, and it even transmits sensations back to him, which his brain interprets as coming from his arm (which, after all, they do)! This reminds me of a discussion I had last year with a fellow student about what constitutes a cyborg. I think they've definitely ...

Eye-catching title, isn't it? And the sad part is, it's not too far from what happened. I don't like to put political stuff on my blog, but I can't keep my mouth shut about this. Check out the whole story here . There's a shorter version of the story here that I didn't want to use as the main link, but it still has a quote that I had to include. "With today's decision, no one's property is safe," said Roger Pilon, director of the Center for Constitutional Studies, at the Cato...

This is me, right after I found out that I was being offered a co-op for the Fall. Yes, I've turned into a banana.