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For the last few days, my eyes have been sore whenever I've turned them a significant amount, and this has been coupled with occasional migraines as well (I'm not sure if one caused the other though). I've checked symptoms of common eye disorders online and I haven't seen anything which matches. It's not deblitating or anything, but I'm worried it might be a symptom of something worse down the road.

Or might it just be good old-fashioned fatigue, caused by various sleep problems I've been having lately or perhaps Vib Ribbon? That's basically what it feels like, sort of like sore muscles which have been exercised too much.

Called parents' house at 10:00 PM (by saying "mom, home"). Talked to my dad a bit. My sister wasn't home. He told me to try again in an hour.

Set a "to-do" message to call parents' house in an hour. An hour later, the reminder alarm happened, and after I pressed 'yes,' it offered to dial the phone number for me! (I accepted, of course.)

Fuck the Hiptop. This is real convergence.

The new phone arrived today. It's definitely a step up from anything I had before.

7:03 PM Finally, appointment reminders that don't suck!

7:54 ALL NEW hot hot xxx geek centerfold inside

Today I was waiting around for a FedEx shipment, namely some new nibs for my Wacom tablet. Then a little beep reminded me that there was this bullshit mandatory TA orientation today, which was mandatory even for people who had been TAs before, like me. So I went to campus for this bullshit (which, of course, didn't tell me anything new, yes I already fucking know not to have sex with my students or to show up to office hours drunk THANK YOU) and went home as quickly as I could, and saw that, of course, during the one hour of my absence, was when FedEx arrived (specifically, 15 minutes before I got back). GNAR.

6:42 PM It's like they're tired of keeping customers happy, or something...

a can of reduced-fat pringles

a rum and cherry coke

two pudding cups

I just finally got a (Japanese) import copy of Vib Ribbon.

I don't blame them for not releasing it in the US. Of course, trying to figure out which kana options do what gives me a headache, in addition to the one I get playing that totally acid-trippy game.

Good kind of headache though.

9:50 PM It is no longer a good headache. Jittery non-antialiased lines + fast-updating LCD projection display = hurty head

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.

Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.

Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003.

— Brian Appel

Wow, that's a tough one...

I wondered how long it'd be before someone made a public implementation of the linguistic gender analysis algorithm which was all over the weblogging world a few weeks ago.

(Thanks to Joy Larkin for pointing this out.)

I actually do have two entries on this week's SongFight. Sort of.

Basically, I wrote the lyrics to Brody's entry and to MC Spudalot's. (They're the same lyrics. It was an experiment.)

The cool thing is that Chris Onstad loved Brody's entry so much that it's probably going to go on an Achewood holiday album (all proceeds go to Onstaad, which I'm fine with because that absolves me of the guilt over never sending him donations).

So, the Nokia 3390 I have is refusing to charge reliably, due to the flaky power connector. It looks like my easiest way to go is getting a new phone. So, here's the research I've done so far...

(Short summary: The Ericsson R520 is my top choice, since it seems like the best phone in my price range, and apparently gets better reception than the T68i.)

8/23, 9:30 AM Bought the R520.

doesn't even mention furry at all. Hehe.

A few hours ago I finally had a successful lucid hypnagogic hallucination. Yay!

(Not too surprising that I'm getting hypnagogic hallucations right now... my sleep schedule is just totally messed up.)

My plans for the semester (also, I'm feeling a lot better from this morning now that I've had a chance to think and talk about this stuff)

Basically, the deciding factor was that the other guy had actually done direct research on some of this stuff. Yay for the self-perpetuating isolation cycle.

Ick. I dreamt that I was visiting my parents' house, which was suddenly infested with cockroaches which just wouldn't die.

A fair and balanced sheep.

It would appear that Livejournal allows the syndication of external feeds. Including republishing and LiveJournal-specific comments (which I would never even know about unless I were to look for them specifically, and which I can't even post to myself, since I don't have an LJ account).

only got a C rating, but it's a song which peaks at 10 steps per second and which I've found extremely difficult to even make it halfway through before.

now I can't stand up. hehe.

10:40 After regaining the use of my legs, I went and beat another nemesis, Sana Morette Ne Ente on heavy, then decided I'd had enough for tonight.

Not the store, the people who run the website.

Every now and then I get a message on my answering machine with, "Hello? Hello?" and then a hangup after several moments of silence.

It's good to be back, and I'm thankful that, barring an emergency, I won't be setting foot on an airplane in the foreseeable future.

Not sure if I got it yet. But if not, I'll probably get it later.

I should check my ticket times before I go through all of the trouble of getting up early and so on...

So while I'm waiting in the airport, a ramble about the WiFi business. (Gee, a ramble about boring geek stuff on a weblog?! Çest impossible!)

Also, the ultimate in cheese sandwich entries.

It's been quite a while since I've played with theming on OSX. Duality works very well.

The officer didn't show up. However, since it was a pre-trial conference (and not a full trial) it didn't lead to an outright dismissal of charges. But still, it worked out well.

The events which shape my life, in the near future

Konqueror, sync, wireless stuff

...did "Homestyle" become a euphemism for "extremely fattening?"

I mean, come on. 120 calories for one of these little tiny dinner rolls?

They're really yummy, at least. Especially with this chili I made!

I saw that a cop had pulled over someone in the same general area where I'd been speedtrapped a month and a half ago. "Poor guy," I thought.

I stopped thinking that when I saw that it was Jesse the Riceboy who'd been pulled over, since I'm sure he was going at least 50 anyway. (And he was going in the direction where the 25MPH speed limit sign is actually visible.)

So, the cops do occasionally get the people who deserve it, after all!

Considering how many sites I've gotten posted as SomethingAwful ALoDs, and considering how many of my pages would be definite ALoD fodder (for having both *gasp* furry content and a crappy webcomic, not to mention this weblog and occasional DDR fanaticism, oh no!), I'm kind of surprised that my site hasn't been posted as one...

Uninteresting number crunching.

2003/07/08 12:19 MDT Firmer numbers on pending income

Upon calling the other driver's insurance agency: "We're sorry, but the number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please check the number and try again."

I hate how whenever I have lots of things to do, I just can't bring myself to complete any of them. Especially when there's so many crappy dependencies to sort out.

As I said the other day, while my duffel bag was in the non-pressurized cargo hold on the airplane, my bottle of Aspercreme exploded.

So I put it in the washing machine, which was too much for the ancient duffel bag to handle. (It was around 20 years old and very worn out. Now it's just a pile of shredded nylon.)

So I just bought a new duffel bag. It is the awesomest duffel bag EVER.

I have just had a total gestalt moment with OSX as a communications-centric platform, via iCal, Address Book, and iChat.

Three weekends.

Three plane flights.

Three all-nighters.