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  • In Soviet Russia

    In America, everyone carries national ID cards.  In Soviet Russia…

    …

    …

    well crap, that joke just got alot less funny.

    I’m sure I’m not the first to apply the genius of Yakov Smirnoff to this situation, but I just couldn’t help myself.

  • Irritation

    Fact: I sent my final rent check in well ahead of it’s due date.

    Fact: My landlord deposited said check, also well ahead of the check’s due date.

    Fact: I have 22 days left on my lease.

    Fact: My housemates have found a replacement housemate who has already signed a lease that starts June 1, 2005.

    Fact: There are piles of that person’s crap sitting in the “other room� (which I think of as a 2nd living room and everyone else thinks of as a place to play Beer Pong) and, more importantly, my bedroom.

    I believe these truths to be self evident, and furthermore, if the above-mentioned crap isn’t out of my room when I get home from work, something, possible something bad, is going to happen.  My window if very tiny, but there is a very convenient stairway just oportunity for bad things is somewhat limited.

    5/10/05: The stuff is out.  Aparently the new person is staying in an existing housemate’s room until I move out, but that existing housemate hadn’t finished moving out when the new person was moving in, hence the overflow in my room.  They appologised, and I graciously accepted with an “oh, don’t worry about it.�

  • You cant stop the signal

    Just got back from Bean-town after seeing the preview of Serenity.  Morena Baccarin (Inara) and Sean Maher (Dr. Simon Tam) were there, which was pretty sweet.  We got their autographs as well as free Serenity keychains.  I won’t post any spoilers, lest someone like Tycho check their referrers and decide they must do me physical harm.  I will say this however:  I left the theater shaking and thinking “OMG, WTF,� and I will still go see it in the theater.  It was good, if controversial.

    The few pictures we took will be up soon.  Special thanks to Noah et al for driving me all over Boston trying to find Alewife Station.

  • Various bits

    Jenny scored us tickets to Serenity on thursday.  After having watched the entire sereis in the past two weeks, I can see why Firefly was such a talked about topic on /.. Feel free to be as jealous as Tycho.

    Jenny also found my cell phone in Bev’s front yard, and it seems to have survived a day and a half of drizzly weather.  Go Jenny and Audiovox!

    The 640×480 images from my phone don’t seem to fit the new layout too well, nor does the banner below.  I’m adding that to my todo list, which means that everyone is just going to have to get used to it.

  • final fantasy tactics advance: pwned

    One good thing about not having a computer:  more time for gameboy

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  • Incentive

    Friend of Housemate (female): Where’s the spray?  (referencing the air freshener that used to be in the bathroom)

    Housemate: I think it’s all gone.

    Friend of Housemate: I’m sorry then.

    Housemate: It’s okay, man.

    At this point I start looking for an apartment again. Speaking of, if anyone knows of an affordable rental, for a non student in or around Keene, NH, either comment here or drop me a line another way.

  • Housemates

    Housemate #1: Did I spell barely right? 

    Housemate #2: Let me see.  No.

    HM #1: How do you spell it?

    HM #2: B-A-I-R…

    HM#1: What?

    HM#2: Let me think.  B-A-I-R-L-Y

    The moral of the story is always check your sources.

  • All better?

    Now, for your reading pleasure, one of the funniest setences in the english language:

    That’s not milk.

  • My new LDS

    Tonight after dinner, I called the local dive shop, figuring no one will be there, but I could listen to the message to hear the store hours.  It went something like this:

    *ring… ring… ring*

    Guy: Hello?

    Me: Hi, is this [local dive shop name]?

    Guy: Yeah, we’re closed for the day.  What can I help you with?

    Me: I was looking for your hours…

    Guy: We’re open from 10 to 6 on *pause* Monday *pause* Tuesday *pause* Closed Wednesday *pause* Thursday *pause* Friday *pause* Close at 5 on Saturday *pause* Closed Sunday.  Anything else?

    Me: No, thank you.

    *click*

    I feel like I ought to go buy something so they can afford an answering machine.

  • Trackback Spam Redux

    EE’s blacklist didn’t seem to do jack for trackback spam.  Twelve hours after turning the blacklist on, I had 33 more of the bloody things.  I checked the EE forums again, and found reference to a setting that randomized the trackback URL, and authorizes each URL for only one use.  This seems to have done the trick – about 24 hours after turning on that, I’m still trackback spam free.

    UPDATE: As of 7/1/05, I’m no longer running EE.