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Dec 25 2008

Tidbits, moving along.

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For all its beauty, Wordpress 2.7 is very, very, very slow, and I’m not sure the aesthetics are enough to make up for the 10 seconds (oh, horrors) I have to wait for any given admin page to load. On top of that, the scrolly things on the left don’t even work and I can’t [...]

Dec 21 2008

The influence of webcomics?!

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I’m having a mini-fit over the hilarity of this right now, so bear with me. I wonder if anybody else has caught this yet — I can’t be the first.
Exhibit A: Listen to Yourself, an xkcd strip from a few weeks back.
Exhibit B: Any YouTube video, but let’s use this one because I love it.
Now [...]

Dec 12 2008

Traversing the travails.

posted by Leila in ,

Yesterday was my last day of classes, and I think it’s time to indulge in the old cliche of, “Damn, that went faster than I expected!” I have one-eighth of college almost officially out of the way, sans the three finals I hope to finish before Wednesday next week. Grades don’t come up in polite [...]

Nov 24 2008

Procrastination, perhaps? And Google.

posted by Leila in ,

I am currently posting because I am happy the domain is back up after going kaputz for a few harrowing minutes/hours, and it’s as proper a time as any to demonstrate gratitude for uptime I tend to take for granted (despite having, you know, paid for that guarantee and all). The point is, it makes [...]

Nov 05 2008

May I just take a moment and say…

posted by Leila in

…That I think history is going to take a turn for the better.
<3

Oct 17 2008

El oh el, John McCain.

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Seth and I aren’t very big fans of the lolcat phenomenon, but some of the pictures from the debate are absolutely priceless. And hey, sometimes we need to be lighthearted about these things. Click for the original image from Yahoo (because you know we couldn’t make this up).

QOTW: What the hell is up with John [...]

Oct 16 2008

I find your lack of issues…disturbing (Part II).

posted by Leila in , ,

So, coming hot and fresh off the heels of the last debate, I bring you the latter half of a two-part series featuring Leila Vader and her haughty condescension towards the US public! Would that I could give middle America a hard stare while curling my fingers and force it to metaphorically choke on things [...]

Oct 13 2008

I find your lack of issues…disturbing (Part I).

posted by Leila in , ,

Backstory: In an ill-fated attempt to stay somewhat connected to home life while away at college, I started frequenting my local newspaper’s website to maintain a vague idea of hometown events. One day, there was a small blurb issuing a call to anybody who was interested in giving their two cents on the presidential/veep debates [...]

Oct 02 2008

Rambled bits.

posted by Leila in ,

ETA: Google circa 2001. No Twitter, no Wikipedia. How ephemeral will these cybercultural landmarks turn out to be in the future?
It’s currently 3:30pm and I am sitting in my computer science class feeling rather unengaged while the computer says, “Tick, tock, tick, tock, BOOM” for a demonstration of conditionals in Python. Introduction to Computing is [...]

Sep 14 2008

David Foster Wallace.

posted by Leila in

Sorry for the emo post earlier; now there’s something to be “emo” about. This is a joint post by Seth and I, dedicated to a man we mutually admired when he was alive, and still appreciate even in death, though we both wish he had chosen an option less drastic and irreversible than taking his [...]