"A work of art has to be judged by its interior vitality, not by its agreed prestige. Prestige alone was never enough to keep an acknow...

And I'm pretty sure it was me. Sigh. Not only am I blind as a bat because I'm so near-sighted but I now have reading glasses for whe...

While playing Myst III (I finished by the way), I kept thinking "Gosh, that crazy guy Saavedro looks an awful lot like Brad Dourif....

...your Friday evening consists of working at the bookstore, playing 4 hours of "Myst III: Exile" after you get home from work at...

I accidentally washed my cats' ugly blue rat. Not my fault, they left it in the dirty laundry pile. This is a crinkly, catnip-y blue r...

It turns out that once you install Norton 360, you can't install Systemworks as well. Bugger. You can, however, run the CheckIt Diagnost...

Today while the Internet repairman was here, he commented on how slow my desktop was since it took about 5 minutes for all the start-up prog...

I love literary sound bites. "Shock news: Grown-up critics think e.e. cummings sucks. I honestly didn't know. I read him in high sc...

Call me crazy, but I added on yet another activity to my already over-scheduled and totally manic life (and you all wondered why I consume s...

So all three of my favorite TV shows - the CSIs - all had their season finales this week. CSI: Miami ended on a good note, but a little am...

As some of you know, one of my (least) favorite tasks at the research job is to take over a study from another RA. My main reason for (not) ...

I still call my parents and tell them my grades. Guess I still like to get that pat on the head (who knows, I might even get dinner out of ...