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picture perfect

02-Jan-07

When the MSG invited me to dinner tonight, I didn’t think much of it. We haven’t been going out to dinner lately, so his announcement that we should seemed to make sense, despite just having spent a long weekend together, filled with plenty of good food. Just after 21:00, he texts me with his location: [...]

simulated humility

18-Nov-06

Work overwhelmed me this week. For the first time since I started, I felt like maybe I had made a mistake, like I was losing my grip not because I was new but because I really couldn’t do it. And just when I was feeling so proud of myself for pushing myself outside my comfort [...]

puzzle pirates

04-Oct-06

I have nothing to write about because I am too busy playing a puzzle-solving pirate. Puzzle Pirates is the cutest MMORPG EVAR. I am particularly hooked on the swordfighting, especially because different weapons result in different puzzle outcomes. I love well-crafted games. Join me, ye landlubbers! (I’m Carinah on the Sage Ocean.)

thanks, TiVo

25-May-06

Thanks, TiVo, for recording the mildly entertaining yet ultimately pointless “let’s review nearly everything from season two” episode of “Lost” yet NOT THE TWO-HOUR SEASON FINALE. I checked all the settings — date/time, “keep episodes until I delete them”, season pass priority of #1, etcetera — everything was set correctly. I thought the new Overlap [...]

tappity

03-May-06

I thought I was so clever. I did the research. I planned and plotted. I waited, too, to be sure. And then I sprang, I pounced, I purchased. I bought a new keyboard for my Mac, just as the old one gasped its final letter. And I didn’t buy just any keyboard. I bought the [...]