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Depressing obit roundup: * Scifi author Octavia Butler dead at 58. She fell and hit her head, isn’t that awful?? * Christmas Story actor Darren McGavin dead at 83. * Don Knotts at 84. You happy, world?? You got your nerd trifecta. >:(

* Unofficial, unconfirmed, rumor-only OotP cast list includes centaurs Bane and Magorian, Percy (yay!), and Trelawney (yes!) But no Peeves or Dung, sorry. * TLC’s banned books contest produced some compelling entries: Avatars to get the word out: * Bob Geldof for a Nobel Peace Prize for reuniting Pink Floyd? Cool! * Oh, oh G_d: [...]

Results for my second accounting quiz are in. 106%, woo hoo! I missed two “multiguess”, but got all the extra credit. Plus, the teacher asked if I wanted to tutor accounting students. Haw haw, soon my evil, spacey version of accounting will spread across the school. >:) —————————————————————— * Just heard an article on NPR’s [...]

This news item– Streaker protests sacking of Stanford Tree– made me ask, “Stanford’s mascot is a freakin’ tree?!?” Well, no. But it is part of the band: Is that the weirdest mascot you’ve ever heard of?? Is that weirder than… … The Santa Cruz Banana Slug? The Evergreen Geoduck? The Wichita State WuShock, which is [...]

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Spring fever is here. Let’s hope I don’t end up in the emergency room again. It’s one of those listening to D-Plan and GIS’ing Godzilla pics kinda days. ‘Know what I mean?

Matt and I just watched the most bizarre, funny, cheap show. Now, normally, a show can be bizarre and cheap, and bizarre and funny, but rarely funny and cheap. And by cheap I mean cheap– an “animated” show where characters mostly narrate their thoughts so their lips don’t need to move, a show with an [...]

Quiz today, at last. ‘Should know how I did in several years (my teach is a little slow with the grading). The gal next to me erased whole pages of answers, yikes. I got done with five minutes left, and most of the class was still there. That is too long of a test for [...]

Spent five hours on my Accounting homework. Actually, it was only half my homework, due Thursday. This stuff is so detail-orientated, and if you make one mistake, boom, it spreads to other parts of the work and mucks everything up. Quiz Thursday– think good thoughts! ——————————————————– We watched 3/4 of the Superbowl, mostly for the [...]

I made this for Matt. It was much funnier in my head: ——————————————————– Finally figured out who the gal cast as Luna Lovegood reminds me of: Tina Yothers! ——————————————————– * You may have heard that my hometown of Portland just had a minor earthquake. I didn’t feel it, but it still scared me. And now [...]