damn it

I put on my jacket to go outside to get quarters for laundry but it’s 6:05pm and all the banks are closed. No clean clothes for Judy!

the things you learn from promotional newsletters: happy 01:02:03 04/05/06!

“Yelp Fun Fact: Tomorrow, as in Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after one in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. This won’t happen again for a thousand years, so love someone fierce, and if you can’t be with the one you love, then make like CSN and love the… Continue reading the things you learn from promotional newsletters: happy 01:02:03 04/05/06!

tang yuan

I just made some tang yuan: sesame rice balls. Here is some recipe I found on the internet; I am, however, not sure if I have ever eaten tang yuan made from scratch in my life. We get ’em frozen. I assumed that the package says “tang yuan” on the front, but what I thought… Continue reading tang yuan

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http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/ crazy shit! wow, i can’t believe nobody’s thought of that before. maybe it’s cuz it hasn’t really been technically feasible to do it nicely and cheaply enough until now. i’ve seen plastic transparent covers that go over your entire keyboard to add on the “be pe me fe” “phonetic alphabet” used for Chinese to… Continue reading Untitled

bone marrow drive april 1

Angela (from my high school, not andeja) passed this on to me. Her brother’s friend, who is also the brother of another Lynbrook classmate from our year, is organizing a bone marrow drive on Saturday, April 1 at Lynbrook (in the south bay). I’ll be on a plane coming back from Iowa, but posting this… Continue reading bone marrow drive april 1

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happy pie day (courtesy of the ucb livejournal community)

apartmentmates

My new apartmentmate is named Alex. He draws good. http://www.wanderingpanda.com/ Derek and Theresa’s album is coming out on March 21. It’s a real CD. Even more real than DeCadence’s second CD. http://www.magnetichiphop.com/products.html You should really check it out. If knowing that Magnetic North is awesome isn’t enough for you, well, VIENNA TENG sings on one… Continue reading apartmentmates

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Pictures of 0.5 sets: http://vnboards.ign.com/wow_general_board/b19789/95453349/p1/?30 Just new colors. I think the “Darkmantle” looks cool, but other than that, meh–I’m so used to these patterns going with the old colors that the new ones just look wrong. I looked around on the test server for a while–the quest (for all classes) starts at a new NPC… Continue reading Untitled

earthquakes

11:24am: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40183687.htm — I felt it, but I thought it was a truck passing by. The second quake (stronger and 10 minutes later) prompted me to check the website. 11:34am: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40183688.htm It was very short, but packed a strong jolt–you could really feel the Z-axis on this one. I looked up an Jenny’s flying pig… Continue reading earthquakes