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- 08:21 We had snowballs yesterday, so it must be summertime. #
- 09:22 Pondering the idea of Twitter as a thought collection tool -- GTD inbox but to-consider/expound on/write instead of to-dos. #
- 09:27 Just read "A-Wall" in a Gambit article. Really? Is AWOL just too complex, or is someone being ignorant? #
- 21:14 I keep finding awesome charm packs from UK sources. Grr. #
- 14:38 When I see people studying for the MCAT it makes me want grab and shake them, no! don't do it! For the love of pete don't do it! #
- 15:23 Singing the flexor retinaculum song. Do-be-do-be-do-be-doooo. #
- 09:05 RT @The_Gambit Voodoo Music Experience headliners: Eminem, KISS, Jane's Addiction, the Pogues, Widespread Panic. #
- 11:12 I have figured out the perfect way for me to study, and it does not exist. Alas. Perhaps if someday I am teaching, I'll create it. #
- 12:01 Sad, but not unexpected. Also short-sighted, stupid and greedy. RT @magpie Augh! Round One to WalMart #wilderness bit.ly/Ananh #
- 07:58 So, last night my iPhone suddenly went to apple logo of death. Think Apple put in a self-destruct so I'd buy new one. #
- 08:26 Having to restore the damned iphone makes me think I need to buy the laptop version of OmniFocu$$ from the greedy asshats (aka Omni Group). #
- 09:04 Been using Alton Brown's "Gear for your Kitchen" to guide registry choices, reduce kitchen clutter. Good book. tinyurl.com/m6uotn #
- 17:48 Watching Michael Jackson push #iranelection out of the Trending Topics. Sad statement of our priorities. #
- 08:38 Cleaning the house to Medical Schoolhouse Rock, whee! www.youtube.com/user/StudyWithSubstanceP #
- 08:39 FlyLady's Morning Routine is much easier to establish and maintain when one doesn't have to be anywhere in the am. Say, the hospital at 5. #
- 11:01 Still hoping George Tiller's assassin is tried for domestic terrorism. #
- 13:15 RT @Orbitz We’re giving away a free airline ticket today! FOLLOW @Orbitz & RT this msg to be eligible to win bit.ly/bVSuU #
- 13:41 Another hypocritical Republican stands up for "traditional marriage" by lying down with his mistress. Good work, Gov. Sanford. #
- 22:29 Zombie kitty is yowling on Buffy. Without thinking I say, "Aww, that sounds like Maggie." Poor misunderstood little Maggie. #
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ryuseisui has also asked for blogs, but I think this is more than enough for today -- I'll do her list another time.Girl Genius is just awesome. It's a romp through a steampunk world following Agatha, the aforementioned Girl Genius and reluctant heroine. Definitely worth reading, but go back to the beginning on this one and read from the start, it's not one I'd advise jumping in the middle on. At the moment it's on an intermission between acts of the real story, a side adventure which neither the boy nor eye find all that engaging, but that just means it's a good time to start from the beginning!
Weregeek is made of gamer win. This woman has managed to work in just about every geek group I can think of -- SCA, miniatures gaming, LARP, D&D, WOW and its ilk, Shadowrun -- seriously, she spares nobody. It's definitely a laughing -with- you, not -at- you, kind of comic, and I love it. It's super cute, check it out! This one you should start from the beginning, too, but it's not quite as necessary as Girl Genius or Order of the Stick (up next).
( Funny comic behind cut! )
Order of the Stick is yes another geek-rific comic based around a group of D&D characters. Go back to the beginning on this one, too. This one has a lot of in-jokes about D&D in various editions, some of which are too esoteric for me but which I am assured are amusing. Early OOTS is very different than recent OOTS, but both are enjoyable.
Gunnerkrigg Court is a beautifully drawn story about a girl, Antimony, who is at a boarding school of an unusual nature. This is another one which requires starting at the beginning. If you read only one of any of these.
XKCD is awesome and bizarre. It's intellectual and geeky and funny. Just read it. :)
Piled Higher and Deeper is about grad school and is really funny (if sometimes painful) in its accuracy. It's mostly about science programs, but they throw in some humanities/soft sciences for equality's sake.
PVP is about a bunch of geeks who work at a company. I think it's a magazine or something, but I can't remember right now and a quick search didn't uncover any FAQ obviously displayed. Anyway, it's fun and makes office jokes, geek/gaming jokes, and Apple-phile jokes.
( This is one of my favorites recently )
I also read Something Positive and Dork Tower, but I don't have really strong feelings about either of them. Something Positive is wrong and occasionally offensive, but when it's good it's really good. Dork Tower is funny and geeky, but doesn't resonate with my strain of geek as much as Weregeek does.
If you were going to read only one, I would... tell you to re-think that decision. Er. Then I would recommend Gunnerkrigg Court, Girl Genius or Weregeek, depending on what you are looking for in a comic. Girl Genius and Gunnerkrigg Court are more of graphic novels. Of the two, Girl Genius has a lot more funny, "punchline" kinds of frames, although both have their funny moments (and touching, and sweet, and scary, and sad...). Weregeek is funny and geekrific and more episodic than the other two.
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- 09:22 RT @The_Gambit: Heat index today 105-110°. OK ENOUGH STOP NOW WE GET IT #
- 10:17 Very excited about the prospect of seeing Transformers at the Prytania next Monday or Tuesday! #
- 10:47 Sorry, but these look like a quick trip to a sprained ankle as far as I'm concerned. tinyurl.com/d77vgr #
- 12:00 RT @madwabbit: Wonders if anyone else feels like anti-intellectualism is on the rise again? -- Did it ever go on the decline? #
- 12:06 I'm not the only one with iphone 3.0 battery life issues, but Apple is claiming "not a problem": tinyurl.com/my4l46 #iphonefail #
- 12:09 Interwebs seems to be suggesting to turn Push off to help with the battery problem, have done so and am keeping fingers crossed. #iphonefail #
- 13:53 Yes indeed, I have confirmed that VooDoo Fest is the same weekend as my wedding. They .would. pick 2009 to return to Halloween Weekend. :P #
- 13:54 Thank God we didn't end up booking the City Park site!! Gah, what a nightmare. #
- 15:20 Turning off Push seems to have helped with the SUCKING CHEST WOUND that was my battery. Knock on wood. #iphonefail #
- 00:56 Something has officially horked my battery life since the 3.0 switch. This is me really ticked off. #
- 09:22 Unnerved at Nokia Siemans' involvement in Iranian technology crackdown: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8112550.s
tm #iranelection # - 10:41 Less than three hours off the juice, not being used and we're at 50% battery. Augh. #
- 19:55 RT @madwabbit: Bad derailment/collision on the DC Metro Red Line between Takoma and Ft Totten: 6 dead, 70 injured. tinyurl.com/7y35fy #
- 08:34 Went to bed at 4-ish. By 8:30, after 4 hour of non-use sitting by the bed, iPhone is totally dead to the point of not-turn-on. #
- 11:55 Recommitting to FlyLady out of desperation. Still stinks that most homekeeping systems are built for SAH moms who don't want DH to help. #
- 10:27 I so need to re-season my cast iron skillet. Ugh. #
- 10:54 Really enjoying Royal Pains, a funny little medical show on USA via Hulu. Totally farfetched, but cute with decent writing. #
- 11:07 Sometimes I get the most random follows. How do people even find me? Is it the short name? Look, I got this back before Twitter was big. #
- 11:15 Alright. Now I have to figure out how one goes about writing a discussion section. #
- 14:22 Something is seriously devouring my iPhone battery lately. Maybe a 3.0 thing? #
- 18:39 RT: WE CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH, MULTIPLE SOURCES CONFIRM: BASIJI ARE AT HOSPITALS.GO TO EMBASSIES #IranElection #
- 19:04 Ironic tweet is ironic? RT: TAKE THE GOVERNMENT DOWN, PEACE BY PEACE! STRIKE TODAY! NO shopping, NO working, NO school! #iranelection #
- 13:20 I would like to point out that my Baby Sister is very very awesome. #
- 14:59 Please to be shooting me? #
- 21:28 Sitting on my hands to keep out of another snack swap. Mine was SO AWESOME, but I suck & have yet to get the photos off camera to post. :( #
- 16:01 "If you use your iPod, iPhone, or notebook in temperatures higher than 95° F, you may permanently damage your battery’s capacity." Uhm. #
- 17:21 We're the pirates who don't do anything! We just stay at home and lie around. And if you ask us to do anything, we'll just tell you... #
- 17:43 I don't like where the new Safari moved the refresh button. It's confusing me. #
- 23:55 Why yes, I have been sucked into fangirlishness involving a bet between @peterfacinelli and one of his buds. Why do you ask? #
- 23:56 I think perhaps it has something to do with an evolving crush on Carlisle. Clearly, I have a thing for hot docs. (Like my fiance. ;) #
- 00:04 As seen over in #IranElection: Blog from an Iranian (female) medical student: bit.ly/6yyRc Scary stuff. #
- 00:14 RT @Ciataich RT from Iran: I realize now I do not fear death. I fear my daughter will not be free when I die. #iranelection #gr88 #
- 00:18 From #iranelection -- READ THIS before you retweet: bit.ly/S8UpD #iranelection #gr88 #
- 10:01 I don't want to work today. I want to stay home and make lemon bars and cheese straws. :( #
- 11:18 RT @peterfacinelli: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtq6nY9Twk (I know, I know... :P Let me have my amusements.) #peterfacinelli #
- 12:37 Installing 3.0 on Hedwig! Woo! #iPhone #
- 12:57 Hey, there's a cat in my lap. When'd you get there, Oliver? Sneaky lap cat is sneaky! #
- 13:01 Landscape keyboard ftw! #
- 13:09 Apparently I will be eligible for upgrade in December. Just in time for Christmas? Hmmm... #
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- 10:34 HI CLEANING LADY PLEASE GO AHEAD AND MAKE A CRAPTON OF NOISE ITS OKAY IM NOT DOING ANYTHING IMPORTANT. #
- 10:35 I am apparently pretty irritable today. :P #
- 19:01 Some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug, and some days you're the goo splatting out of the bug's squishy buts. #
- 23:51 Who would have thought it would be so hard to find a pretty egg plate or a ginormous mixing bowl? Okay maybe the latter, but the egg plate? #
- 23:54 RT @peterfacinelli I am going to GIVE my chair backing to one of my loyal followers if we hit the 500,000 mark... bit.ly/frl6W #
- 08:32 Nothing like a FB message informing you you're a terrible person first thing in the morning. Woo! #
- 09:24 So as it turns out, I have to start some student loan repayment this year after all. I wish someone had warned me... :P #
- 11:18 Made it all the way to the library only to realize I forgot my power cord. d'oh. #
- 11:20 RT: @gwyndyn @ClayRobeson: makes another shout out to Digg users. Spare a wine guy a bump? bit.ly/fC42Y #
- 12:31 What part of "silent study area" do you loudmouth pre-med idiots not understand? #
- 17:44 RT @joehoevah If you believe in the rights of Iran, rt this. #twitterstayup tonight and protect the #iranelection protesters #nomaintenance #
- 18:20 RT @nttajohn retweet this: maintenance is postponed, twitter will be posting press release soon #nomaintenance #iranelection #
- 19:23 Appalled at what is coming up on @Change_for_Iran, #iranelection #
- 20:58 It's a bizarre statement that Trending Topics includes #iranelection, NBA Finals and Go Team Carlisle. Strange, warped world. #
- 21:31 RT @electricsoup RT @neilhimself RT @elvenkayt: New proxy for iranian protestors 128.112.139.28 port 3124 please RT #iranelection #
- 11:33 Where to find advice on combining finances? We're meeting with a financial planner in August, but I'm still looking for ideas. #
- 11:36 Ah, Fool.com, I never should have doubted. Took some digging though, I suppose I am just impatient. (Still taking suggestions, though!) #
- 11:37 Grumblecakes. Login issues are preventing me from seeing the articles. I feel so betrayed, all over again. :P #
- 12:10 SallieMae, despite repeated calls, still has not got the clue that I DID NOT GRADUATE THIS YEAR, and is expecting loan repayment. AUGH. #
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