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http://bama.ua.edu/~hasel001/ You answered “yes” to 160 of 214 questions, making you 25.2% WoW pure (74.8% WoW corrupt); that is, you are 25.2% pure in the World of Warcraft domain. According to the scoring guide, your World of Warcraft experience level is: Thrall, pwn

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I have just read jonathan strange & mr norrell. It is an altogether astonishing book. I rather enjoyed it.

flexcar and google maps

The Flexcar website uses Mapquest. It is sub-optimal. So, instead of going to the store to buy a mop and drano and food to eat, I made my own Google saved map of the Flexcars in Berkeley. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=1&msa=0&msid=109366388378158015978.000434542906e651465d1 It’s not a mashup, since I just did it manually, tabbing back and forth from Flexcar’s list.… Continue reading flexcar and google maps

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By the 20 questions they asked me first, I got a whippet named Calanon. You can change it! I changed Elanor’s from a lion to a spider. Haha.

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(written on monday, half-finished… i’m posting it now out of some sense of completistism) there is so much to DO: http://community.livejournal.com/ucberkeley/2496076.html http://community.livejournal.com/bayareamusic/896187.html jarring: getting in a car in hot, hot berkeley and emerging somewhere south of pacifica and north of half moon bay (montero?) and falling over. oh wind! you are so strong! oh sand,… Continue reading Untitled

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Yesterday I failed to buy 2-cent stamps because I left my house for the post office at 5 ’til 5. Today I failed to get a science fiction book I’ve been meaning to read because 1) I forgot its name and 2) the berkeley public library (which I haven’t stepped inside of since 2002?) doesn’t… Continue reading Untitled

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intensely fascinating article in ny times magazine about chinese gold farmers in world of warcraft. Interesting tidbits: Nick Yee, an M.M.O. scholar based at Stanford, has noted the unsettling parallels (the recurrence of words like “vermin,” “rats” and “extermination”) between contemporary anti-gold-farmer rhetoric and 19th-century U.S. literature on immigrant Chinese laundry workers. Min’s English is… Continue reading Untitled