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Am I the only one disturbed by this article about public schools buying curriculum from corporations for $16 a pop so they can learn how to gamble on the stock market?

The Flu Strikes

November 3, 2008 at 7:54 pm | In life, nanowrimo, random | 5 Comments

Warning: the following was written while in the throws of flu-induced fever. I cannot be entirely responsible for the content.

I’m sick. I’ve got all the classic symptoms. I haven’t knitted or written at all today. I watched Regis and Kelly, Rachael Ray, and The View before taking a nap. When I woke up I watched CNN until 4 pm (it was an eternity), at which point I switched over to Oprah. Followed by the 5 pm news, the 6 pm news, the 630 “world” news and then the Election Eve News Special. Now I’m watching the Chinese restaurant episode of Seinfeld and Mr. Interrupted is trying to wrangle the children by bribing them with Taco Bell food. To top it off, 3000+ words into my novel, I think I need to start over. I’m already bored with it. I mean, two of my main characters are eating cereal and talking about the National Enquirer, for crissakes! Although, I probably won’t change the plot, just the starting point and the voice (from 3rd person to 1st). How long does the flu last?

I got nuthin’

October 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm | In 3 am Epiphany, random | 2 Comments

This week’s 3am Epiphany just never materialized for me. The exercise was to choose a list of 10 words (e.g., the top 10 words of 2004) and write a story fragment using them. I simply wasn’t inspired by it. My sister had a good one, though. Come to think of it, my sister has had a string of really amazing blog posts, you should go over and read the last week or so. Speaking of lessons learned, I’ve learned a couple of lessons myself this week:

1. It’s not a good idea to eat crystallized ginger by the handful.

2. It’s easier, by far, to spin BFL than a Merino/Silk blend.

likeohmygodi’msosure!

October 7, 2008 at 3:18 pm | In random | 7 Comments

The 80’s rule! This was my favorite video and song back in the day and now someone has gone and made it all make sense. Now if I can just find my swatch watches and friendship bracelets, I’ll be all set! (Thanks again, buzzfeed!)

My New Favorite Internet Game

October 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm | In random | 7 Comments

Update–> my friend Rima is right. Yahoo’s Babel Fish is WAY more entertaining!

Put some English text into Google’s translator and translate it to Japanese. Then copy and paste the resulting Japanese characters back into the translator and translate form Japanese to English. Awesome!

for example:

Google’s English translation of several types of text to be translated into Japanese. Back to copy and paste the result of the translation into Japanese characters as a form translated into Japanese and English. Awesome!