Author: splicer

Start­ed with bare­ly eat­ing yes­ter­day. I guess I only ate break­fast the day before, but my stom­ach has been tied up in knots and I haven’t been hun­gry. I’m hav­ing to choke down Clif bars just to get by. Of course, liv­ing on Clif bars is con­ceiv­ably enough to cause my stom­ach to be tied up. Must look up “causal­i­ty” in the dic­tio­nary some day.

I slept OK Mon­day night, but last night I went to sleep at about 11pm … Read the rest

Went out on a date tonight. Saw Hero at the Park­way, which was OK, and then to cof­fee on Pied­mont in Oaktown.

We had some pleas­ant con­ver­sa­tion, and none of it was exact­ly forced, but it was all real­ly basic “oh, so what’s your job like?” stuff. I recall think­ing that she’s real nice and all, but that we did­n’t seem to have any­thing in common.

Oh well. Gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion and all, right? I got to go to a movie … Read the rest

Every­one got anoth­er mes­sage today with my race results. Here’s my lat­est missive:

Thanks again for this expla­na­tion, but I still don’t see why I and every­one else on my list are con­tin­u­ing to receive mes­sages from your com­pa­ny 72 hours after the race fin­ished. Sure­ly this is not what you intend­ed your sys­tem to do. It’s def­i­nite­ly not what was advertised.

This is absurd. Is there any way to stop these mes­sages from spam­ming my friends? This was sup­posed

I signed up for a ser­vice that was offered on the USHalf.com web­site. For $3 per num­ber, this com­pa­ny said that they would send my split times and fin­ish­ing time to the cell­phones or email address­es I spec­i­fied. Now, in my mind, three dol­lars is a bit steep for send­ing out an email to an SMS gate­way, espe­cial­ly when I had to do the work of find­ing out the email address­es of my friends’ SMS email gate­ways. But it … Read the rest

NAME A CD YOU OWN THAT NO-ONE ELSE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST HAS:

Con Repe­tizione, by Con­rad Schnit­zler. Strange Ger­man elec­tron­ic exper­i­men­tal music.

NAME A BOOK YOU OWN THAT NO-ONE ELSE ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST HAS:

The Joy of Hand­set­ting Type by Fred C. Williams. Pret­ty sure about this. Maybe some of my friends share my inter­est in set­ting type by hand, but since my copy says it is #89 of 125 print­ed, I bet none has one of the oth­er 124… Read the rest

Looks like The Weath­er Chan­nel was right. I get to run my first half marathon in the rain. This should prove interesting.

I had a dream that I over­slept. I woke up at 8am and the start­ing gun had fired an hour ear­li­er. I was so angry with myself and sad and wished that I could redo the morn­ing and try again. Then I opened my eyes and real­ized, “It’s still dark!”

I’m up a cou­ple pounds today and my … Read the rest

Stuffed myself full of food? Check
Drank plen­ty of water? Check (but continuing)
Switched to amber lens­es? Check
Put ID, bus pass, and emer­gency cash into zip­pered pock­et of shorts? Check
Packed bag with sweats? Check
Marked bag with race num­ber? Check
Pinned race bib to shirt? Check
Affixed tim­ing chip to shoe? Check
Placed sun­screen, body glide, and heartrate mon­i­tor in con­spic­u­ous loca­tion? Check
Cell­phone on charg­er? Check
Alarm clocks set for 5am wake­up? Check

OK, I guess … Read the rest

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004 – 04/19/12.00.sfc

Pre­mieres Jan­u­ary 2005. sigh It’s TV I don’t have any choice about. I will love it.

I hope the 2‑part “minis­eries” comes out on DVD real soon. I’m a fool itch­ing to part with his money.

God Is God—Juno Reac­tor… Read the rest

From http://www.handwritingwizard.com/

For a graphol­o­gist, the spac­ing on the page reflects the writer’s atti­tude toward their own world and rela­tion­ship to things in his or her own space.  If the inputted data was cor­rect Steven has left lots of white space on the all four bor­ders of the paper. Steven fills up just the cen­ter area of the page. If this is true, then Steven has  a par­tic­u­lar shy­ness toward peo­ple and a fear of mov­ing too fast in any