Yearly Archives: 2009

This was too good not to share. Oh, NeoOffice, how you disappoint me. Anyone running standard.dic on OpenOffice 2.4 or 3.0 want to test this word and see whether it’s wrong there, too? If anyone else can confirm, then a bug report is in order. As of right now, Googling for OpenOffice and/or NeoOffice and … Continue reading

This has been a week of library marathons. I’ve been writing papers since Monday, every waking moment, save to eat. So far I’ve written over 30 pages (double-spaced), and I’m nearing completion. I won’t sleep tonight until everything’s finished, and the PDFs are mailed out so the sugarplums can dance in my head. I just … Continue reading

It’s finals week. That means no classes and a whole hell of a lot of paper writing. Right now I’m on campus, rather than at home, because I subscribe to the myth that there are places where I’m more productive. So, I’m seated at the tables outside a coffeeshop here, working on a 13″ MacBook … Continue reading

Man, it would have been cool to’ve done Friday Random Ten XIII on Friday the 13th. Ah, well. I don’t have the patience for that. Paradise Lost – Look At Me Now (#4, Believe in Nothing, 2001) David Bowie – Can You Hear Me (#7, Young Americans, 1975) Blut Aus Nord – II (#2, Decorporation … Continue reading

A friend recently shared a wonderful piece of music with me: a cover arrangement of the seminal melodic death metal album The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity, for piano. This is an album indescribably dear to me. Since I first heard the opening notes of this disc, I’ve never stopped wanting to engineer a way to … Continue reading

Please excuse the use of verbal communication throughout this post. Last night, while training home with some friends after watching an incredible performance of classical guitar at a coffee shop in a suburb, it was somehow decided that it would be interesting to hang out with friends while not using verbal communication. I believe this … Continue reading

For a while now I’ve been meaning to compile a list of what I view to be the greatest compliments one can give. Only tonight did I get the proper inspiration to write them down. Naturally this list is quite skewed toward compliments that would work best if given to a personality similar to my … Continue reading

Here we go again, on the late train. Vader – Damien (intro) (#1, Live In Japan, 1999) Children Of Bodom – Kunckleduster (#11, Bodom Covers, 2007) Dark Tranquillity – Sacred Reich (#13, The Gallery, 1995) Angra – Unholy Wars (#1, Rebirth World Tour: Live in São Paulo, 2002) Taproot – Believed (#6, Gift, 2000) Heaven … Continue reading

Yesterday I went to a Magic: The Gathering tournament with friends. It was decent. A friend and I registered for some 2v2 matches and faired alright. We ended up winning enough cards to build at least one new deck each, and half those cards were from the yet-to-be-released expansion Conflux. My favorite event of the … Continue reading

The resurgence edition. Machine Head – None But My Own (#4, Burn My Eyes, 1994) Enslaved – Ansuz Astral (#4, Blodhemn, 1998) Linkin Park – By Myself (#7, Hybrid Theory, 2000) Muddy Waters – I Can’t Be Satisfied (#5, Hard Again, 1977) In Flames – Jotun (#3, The Tokyo Showdown, 2001) Andrew Lloyd Webber – … Continue reading

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