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CURSE YOU, EVIL TIVO!!!!!!!

in Archive Geeky Stuff on December 14, 2005 December 9, 2016

I checked my TiVo this weekend and, sure enough, it was all set to record the “reunion” episode of America’s Next Top Model tonight. Tonight comes… it’s like 8pm and I see the red light…

Stolen from Chip

Books I Plan To Read By The End of 2006 Which incidently is also the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000. Okay, so this is where I realize I’m not nearly well-read enough. Oh,…

Definition of Wrong

in Geeky Stuff on December 9, 2005 March 5, 2023

*shudder* When did Carrot Top become… this? Ew. Just ew.

Li’l

in Archive Creative Writing Geeky Stuff on December 4, 2005 August 24, 2019

So, I’ve had a debate with one of my most-respected, brilliant friends about the “word” li’l. She tells me it’s wrong… like ya’ll is wrong (sheesh–I shudder to type that so very incorrectly). Well, I…

My First PPV Experience

in Geeky Stuff on November 26, 2005 December 11, 2016

Okay, so I bought my first ever Pay Per View program: Ga. vs. Ga. Tech, which we can’t watch on our ABC station due to dumb ol’ Stanford. Okay, fine, so I pony up the…

Good Guy

in Geeky Stuff on November 18, 2005 December 11, 2016

I knew I always liked that Negroponte guy. MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte started a project to give $100 laptops to millions of schoolchildren in developing countries. “In Cambodia when the kids brought the laptop home,…

Pop Quiz

in Archive Geeky Stuff Quizzes and Memes on November 5, 2005 December 9, 2016

Because I have no photos to upload (dammit–they’re *so* all up in my camera) in honor of Chip’s Day in the Life Challenge, I give you this, stolen from PARF: Let’s find out just how…

So Proud of Myself

in Archive Cricket Feet Casting Geeky Stuff Ramblings on November 2, 2005 November 7, 2020

I’m seriously proud of myself. Starting at 6:30pm PST yesterday, I began my 24 hours of documentation of “A Day in the Life of Bon” per instructions at Chip’s blog. I remember the results of…

Two Spynotebookers Rock My World

in Archive Bragging on Folks Geeky Stuff on November 1, 2005 June 13, 2022

Well, more than that many, really, but I must specifically say THANK YOU to SpyNotebook‘s own Hamil and BrYan, for kicking oh-so-much ass. Truly. Worshipful am I! Oh, and I think I will rise to…

Losing My Touch

in Archive Creative Writing Cricket Feet Casting Geeky Stuff Ramblings on November 1, 2005 December 9, 2016

This is what happens when an HTML junkie begins to age… She can’t fix code on a page she’s been maintaining for over six years. Yup. Something went wonky and I can’t fix it. Can’t….