bloomheller22

• 00:54 I got a Hit The Counter in Maximum Attack G on PSU? NO WAY. None of you even know or care what that means! #
• 11:30 @cbartlett: I -would- try and claim that life as my own if the blog weren't SO UGLY. I will assume I built a time machine in the future. #
• 11:31 @JohnBooty: I notice you left out the Wolfman. #
• 15:30 Looks like more car trouble. FANTASTIC. #

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• 14:39 Some days demand that you make your own hours. #
• 15:59 After much debate, I believe I may attempt the Stark. #

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• 01:57 Oh wow, I totally did not notice my interbutts stopped making me reload everything twice before it would show properly. Choice! #
• 10:43 Hey Giant, where's my money? Hey gummint, where's my money? Nng. #
• 17:35 @PirateDavid: I will be there 6/7 despite not having reged on your message board. #

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• 22:59 Today was the sort of day that demands drinking. I'm not even going to bother swearing, as that doesn't begin to cover it. #
• 15:35 Don't feel like working, so instead I'm looking for people I knew ages ago on Facebook on a tiny phone screen. #
• 15:44 And by "people I knew," I obviously mean "girls I liked." This is me we're talking about. #
• 17:02 @apulo: Where have you been? I can walk to it. #

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• 20:45 Perhaps tomorrow shall end with a trip to Liberty City, finally. Perhaps. #
• 11:50 Liberty City can wait until my paycheck completely deposits. #
• 15:02 Potentially troublesome discovery: I work harder and faster after a beer, at least at job primary. #

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• 20:51 I grabbed my Snakes Flying A Plane shirt to wear tonight, and am now unsure if I'd been to a theater since Snakes On A Plane. (OhwaitClofo) #
• 23:47 Cannot wait for War Machine in the next Iron Man. Speed Racer theater is empty! #
• 02:34 Fanwank of the year 2K8 #
• 16:35 Closing forever. By forever I mean until Thursday. Bleh. #

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I need a subscription to Lapham's Quarterly, posthaste. It takes numerous historical texts and uses them to try to bring perspective to a topical contemporary issue. I've been reading the newest (and only the second) issue which deals with the eternally topical subject of money. It takes the writings of those as diverse as Karl Marx and Ayn Rand, includes primary documents from numerous periods throughout history

So far here is my favorite part so far:



The notion of selling one's kidney is repugnant to so many... I don't know if it should be dismissed entirely though. Personally I wouldn't shed many tears should Croesus die of renal failure. Death must be the great equalizer. As bloomheller22 oft points out, what if the Borgias or de Medicis lived in an era which medical science enabled them to cheat death?  On the other hand, we don't live in a world entirely consisting of lollipops and rainbows, and many destitute could live happily on the funds by whoring their organs to the rich. But then again, how soon is it that it becomes commonplace that college students sell their organs to offset their egregious amounts of debt. And for the final counter-counter-counterpoint, is it worse for college students to donate a kidney over the course of an afternoon instead of wasting years of their lives in wage slavery to pay loans? My initial reaction is to say that a person is degraded when required to part with an integral part of themselves in order to obtain meager wealth.

Well, anyway, I am currently browsing through my copy of the first volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, what impresses is his frankness and his faithfulness in maintaining his diaries.  I Must write more about it later. golden_silence is home and wants to go to dinner.

Iron Man was amazing, but my fanboy bias forces me to say that Speed Racer was better. There were a few parts in Iron Man that felt a bit rushed to me, and the fight at the end felt a bit cut short, but on the whole, still good. My only problem with Speed Racer, on the other hand, was the timejumping/flashbacking they did for what felt like too long during the exposition in the beginning. The technique comes up again later, but at those points, it's a good deal briefer and less jarring.

Go see both, but you've probably already seen Iron Man so call me if you go see Speed Racer so I can watch it a bajillion times.

• 06:05 Bakery is using seafood bags. Does one trawl for donuts or are they line caught? #
• 10:23 Not recommended for children, pregnant women, or people sensitive to change. #
• 15:18 @cbartlett: Sounds like it might've been a pocketdial. They seem to be all the rage these days. #

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Just a reminder, I'm going to the midnight showing at Oaks tonight. I'm heading in early for the 9:30 PM showing of Iron Man, too. Comment or call me if you want to meet up.

• 06:59 I love propped up on energy drink days. Mrglbglf. #
• 11:27 @oneautumnday: WMGK ends every morning show with that, in case you feel like hearing it until you're driven mad. #

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• 13:26 All right, I guess I ought to get some -real- work done today. #

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After a lot of googling and trying different companies for a cheap-ish airfare from Sweden to the US (I'm moving over for a couple of years to study) I found a pretty good price through Orbitz.com. The flights them selves are through SAS and Delta.

So figured I'd also google them and check the reviews which after what I've read is very up and down, either all positive or all negative it seems.

Does anybody here have any personal experience with Orbitz?
Okay but keep an eye on things, run screaming in the other direction, God sent to travelers? :p

• 20:09 Huzzah! My rough budget for between now and Bootycon doesn't make of want to drink myself to death! #
• 01:12 I think I just quoted Gravity Kills. #
• 14:50 @mark_argent: I always pick at the final rise. #
• 14:52 @JohnBooty: Try S'wheat Scoop. I swear by it. #
• 14:53 @calliecat: Still hot. #
• 15:46 Wonder how much of my Cinco De Leftovers I'll get through tonight. If anyone wants to help, I get home at 10:30. #

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I just pulled this picture off of my camera from when Dan and I went to lunch in Doylestown: FOOD IS AMAZING.

• 20:18 @cbartlett: Are you seriously fucking twittering from a party? My party?! #

I have an excuse, I was taking a second to burp the router. He took the time to text something in when he could have been drinking more.

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If the first batch look good, I swear I'm going to make some that say that, and force my friends to wear them in public. Also, Etsy is awesome. You can find anything there, even reasonably priced, customized buttons. For the same price as moo cards, how could I resist?

I finally started knitting a sweater I had planned months ago. I got out the lovely malabrigo lace yarn, and knit a swatch. My gauge was about as close as I was going to get, so I picked what looked like the right size and started knitting. One pattern repeat in, and I realize something... if you look closely at the measurements on the sweater diagram, and the sizes they relate to, it is a very fitted sweater. Snug, in fact. Which would be fine, except in the photos they show an extra-large sweater on an extra-small model, so all along I've been imagining it as a loose slouchy sweater. I'm going to sleep on it, and decide tomorrow if I want to rip out what I've done and make a larger size. At least I have enough yarn.

• 21:51 Today's mail is the invitation for my dad's 35-year high school reunion. :/ #
• 09:08 Financial juggling finally came out right, for once! HUZZAH FOR THE EMPEROR. ONWARD TO TACODOM! #
• 10:20 @cbartlett: More booze to go with the booze. #
• 11:48 Hellooooo $20 cases of Tecate! #

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