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November 18th, 2009
10:31 pm [Link]	Very silly ideas A children's bedtime story book about particle physics: Goodnight Muon Current Mood: silly Tags: prattle (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
May 16th, 2009
02:03 am [Link]	Things I am none too fond of The bus driver driving aggresively and likely illegally. (That's not what the shoulder is for. Especially when you're as wide as a bus.) The fact that if he weren't, we'd be barely moving at all. Current Location: going nowhere slowly Current Mood: tired Current Music: Boston, "Foreplay/Longtime" Tags: prattle (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
February 21st, 2009
02:10 pm [Link]	I'm in a six-player RPG. We have a Julian, a Julia, and a Julie. This could get confusing. Current Location: Dreamation Current Mood: tired Tags: prattle (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
February 19th, 2009
06:24 pm [Link]	facebook After a few incidents in a row that suggested I might want to be on Facebbok, I took advantage of my wasted afternoon and sat down to play with it. Last I looked, I had five friends, had made requests of a bunch more, including several people I'd lost touch with, and had one friend request from somebody I sort-of knew in high school, who appears to have detected me by magic. I'm still figuring out the interface, but it's not completely horrid. I also still need to add a picture to my profile, to help differentiate me from the other Julian Lighton out there. And I just realized I can make a dedicated email address on jl8e.org for all the notification emails. Current Mood: pissed off Current Music: Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain" Tags: mindless trend-following, prattle (Leave a comment)
February 15th, 2009
01:20 am [Link]	One of these things is not like the other... From visiting a few Circuit Cities today, I ended up with five new CDs: Disturbed Nine Inch Nails Disturbed Still more Disturbed and... Paramore Current Mood: amused Current Music: None, believe it or not Tags: music, prattle (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
February 13th, 2009
05:27 pm [Link]	Not the definition of "fun" Being on a bus heading toward the Lincoln Tunnel, sitting right above the squealing brakes, which are being used every 5-10 feet. Ow. Current Location: 163 Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Disturbed, "Land of Confusion" Tags: prattle (Leave a comment)
December 23rd, 2008
02:58 pm [Link]	An important question Does anybody have a better name for the non-denominational winter gift-giving holiday? That name's a bit unweildy, and "NDWGGH" sounds like you're suffering from severe gastro-intestinal distress. Current Mood: joking Current Music: Alice Cooper, "Blue Turk" Tags: prattle (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
December 2nd, 2008
12:34 am [Link]	The cheese is strong in this one... One thing that happens with ripping my old tapes is that I get to hear some really cheesy lyrics. I think I'd be getting less cheese if I were mainlining Gouda than I do from Europe's song about ninjas. Which has no idea what ninjas were. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Europe, "Ninja" Tags: music, prattle (Leave a comment)
November 24th, 2008
10:36 pm [Link]	Things I Would Never Have Believed in 15 Years Ago Not just having two gigabytes of memory in my computer, but taking steps to make sure I don't run out. Current Mood: boggled Current Music: Led Zeppelin, "Achilles' Last Stand" Tags: prattle, sheesh (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
November 4th, 2008
12:12 am [Link]	I've finally got the point of Twitter It's where you go to post things like this: I've mustered enough energy to go to bed, where I may dream more dreams combining politics and rock band. Current Mood: tired, sick Tags: geekery, prattle (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
October 6th, 2008
11:19 pm [Link]	sigh I'm supposed to get stuck in traffic on my way into the city, not on the way out. Current Location: going nowhere slowly Current Mood: -- Current Music: Nine Inch Nails, "Something I Can Never Have" Tags: prattle (Leave a comment)
03:45 pm [Link]	Weird My queue of unread books borrowed from other people is currently empty. Maybe this will let me make a dent in my queue of unread books that I own. Current Mood: - Tags: books, prattle (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
September 21st, 2008
02:53 pm [Link]	Fun with the English language Headline from my local paper: Woman stabs ex-beau over cell phone Hands up if you first read that the same way I did. Current Mood: amused Tags: prattle (3 comments \| Leave a comment)
August 21st, 2008
01:07 am [Link]	A twisty maze of electric spaghetti, all different I have just plugged in: My computer My iPod (into the computer) An iGo multi-gizmo charger A Bluetooth transmitter for the iPod (into the iGo) My Palm (into the iGo) A Bluetooth headphone/headset (into its own charger) My phone (into its charger) Current Mood: bemused Tags: gadgets, prattle (Leave a comment)
August 16th, 2008
12:29 pm [Link]	The 80s left their mark For the first time in about a month, I'm planning to buy some of the downloadable songs for Rock Band. And it's Duran Duran. Current Mood: shocked Current Music: Metallica, "The Shortest Straw" Tags: gaming, prattle, rock band, video games (Leave a comment)
July 17th, 2008
05:45 pm [Link]	I'm at DexCon I will return to reality on Sunday night. Maybe. For once, I got every event I signed up for. Except for the one I thought I was signing up for, but instead signed up for a D&D 3.5 game from midnight to 4 on Saturday. Apparantly I can't tell the difference between 209 and 296. I also seem to have managed to sign up for two events simultaneously. Oops. I think I can manage to play in both of those, though. Current Location: DexCon Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Who, "Behind Blue Eyes" (internal) Tags: gaming, prattle (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
July 16th, 2008
02:27 am [Link]	My weird internal soundtrack One thing I noticed in the past is that, when I was in a really good mood, the two songs that had the greatest tendency to pop into my head were singularly inappropriate: Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", and Nirvana's "Lithium". Paranoid's wandered out of that playlist, probably due in part to Rock Band, but Lithium's still there. The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" may have joined it, but I'm not sure yet -- I've been on a Who kick recently anyway. Current Mood: happy Current Music: The Who, "The Real Me" (internal) Tags: music, prattle (Leave a comment)
July 12th, 2008
02:41 am [Link]	Having read this, I'm half tempted to suggest a road trip. I'm not old enough for the things of my childhood to start showing up in the Smithsonian. Current Mood: tired Tags: muppets, prattle (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
July 11th, 2008
04:42 pm [Link]	Now with mind-reading technology I settle down on the bus, activate all my bluetooth tech, and pick what to listen to on my iPod. Since I have a song wanderring around my head, I pick the playlist I've made for that band... ...and it randomly starts on that song. OK, I understand the laws of probability say something like this would eventually happen, but it's still kind of creepy. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: The Beatles, "Drive My Car" Tags: music, prattle (Leave a comment)
July 9th, 2008
10:58 pm [Link]	Perhaps Missing the Point There are currently posters splattered around Manhattan advertising the "National Texting Championships". (No, I'm not making that up.) As far as I could tell, on these posters, every word is spelled out fully and correctly. Current Music: The Beatles, "Run For Your Life" Tags: prattle (Leave a comment)

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