Powerpoint makes people stoopid

From The New York Times: Powerpoint Makes You Dumb

Excerpt:
In August, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA released Volume 1 of its report on why the space shuttle crashed. As expected, the ship’s foam insulation was the main cause of the disaster. But the board also fingered another unusual culprit: PowerPoint, Microsoft’s well-known ”slideware” program.

MT back online

it looks like it was a problem with the perl modules rather than anything else, and apparently it’s been fixed! yay! no tedious time consuming reinstall!! ^_^

two more days left. @#$%@#$%

stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress stress

it’ll be so nice when it’s all over.

EDIT: gosh, it’s so nice to see my familiar looking site up and running again. :)

frustrated-ness

this website needs a serious overhaul. so many dead links, so many outdated links, archaic structure, etc etc etc. i’m really tempted to go the jeff route and take down all the other stuff since i haven’t been updating it anyway…

so totally utterly frustrated right now. this quarter has totally not gone the way i wanted at all. so many stupid little things this quarter have come up to screw things up. this is a long post, so you’ll have to click to continue. =P
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low – sunflower

discovered the band low. discovered the song ‘sunflower.’ haven’t listened to anything else on the rest of the album or anything else because i’m so completely hooked on that song. the music, the lyrics… augh it’s so beautiful. i can’t get anything done.

sunflower
low

When they found your body
Giant X’s on your eyes
With your half of the ransom
You bought some sweet, sweet, sweet
Sweet sunflowers
And gave them to the night
Underneath the star of David
A hundred years behind behind my eyes
And with my half of the ransom
I bought some sweet, sweet, sweet
Sweet sunflowers
And gave them to the night

Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet sunflowers x 4
And gave them to the night

i’m so lonely without jer here.

does this really exist?

a heated lash curler??

first off, would this $16 contraption really be so much far superior to a $3 lash curler you can buy at Long’s? second, do you really want a hot iron that close to your eyes? for that matter, do you want any small electrical device that could possibly explode and permanently blind you near your big pretty orbs??

i certainly don’t. But obviously plenty of people do, as the item is totally sold out on Sephora. It’s making someone a pretty nice chunk of change. =P

punting work

i have a tendency to be most productive when i’m hitting a deadline. this includes productivity in relation to what i’m supposed to be doing and what i’m not supposed to be doing. 0_o

anyway, i’m swimming in a sea of really good music right now. here’s a snapshot of what i’m listening to.

bought:
:: the flaming lips – ego tripping at the gates of hell EP
:: death cab for cutie – transatlanticism
:: michael jackson – HIStory vol. 1
:: travis – 12 memories

borrowed:
:: the postal service – such great heights (single)
:: the postal service – the district sleeps alone tonight
:: fountains of wayne – welcome interstate managers
:: low – things we lost in the fire
:: mirah – you think it’s like this but really it’s like this
:: kylie – body language
:: the black keys – the big come up
:: the black keys – thickfreakness
:: the strokes – room on fire

bought on iTunes:
:: michelle branch – breathe
:: outkast – hey ya/way you move single
:: james – sit down
:: james – laid
:: ludacris – stand up
:: elliott smith – say yes
:: pulp – common people

other songs in my head:
:: 50 cent’s in da club mixed with NIN’s closer. oooh that’s good shit!

okie, that’s it. back to work.