((A few sentences from a project I've been working on!))
"Closest to the door were familiar-looking machines. Test your love prowess. How manly are you? How long will you live? The only difference was that the electronic sensors and LED strips from the games at the movie theater were replaced with decades-old grip bars and rows of incandescent bulbs. Still riding high from the excitement of exploring Harland's, I would have been a near-immortal-Charles-Atlas-sex-machine for just a quarter at the theater. There was no telling how I might fare here, though."
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The eyes have it
Today began with an adventure.
This morning, my razor broke. Since I use a cartridge-based razor, all I needed to do was replace the blade, but while I was fiddling with the mechanism, my hand slipped, the head went flying, and nicked me good right by the corner of my eye. Good thing it didn't go flying off just a few millimeters to the right (left, in the following photo), or I'd have been in trouble! Here's a not-too-great picture of the wound, although I'm sure no one would actually want to see it in sharper detail:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95781046@N00/3924552076/
It didn't bleed too much, but the nick is RIGHT where the nosepad of my glasses rest, so I had to choose between irritation and blindness all day long!
In other eye-related news, when I got off work this evening I had received a voicemail from the vision center saying my new glasses were in! "Whaaa?..." you may be saying, if you remember that I got new glasses only about 2 weeks ago. What happened was that the when the vision center ordered the lenses for my frame, the manufacturer cut them incorrectly, and they started popping out of frames on day 2. The left lens especially was prone to trying to escape, which is a bad thing since my vision is worse in the left eye than the right. I went back to try to get adjustments done that day, and then the day after, but when the left lens tried to escape AGAIN (this time before I was even out the door of the vision center!), they offered to just go ahead and re-order everything and make sure it all fit properly. And now the end result is New Glasses v.2.0! They are the exact same frame and style, but hopefully a bit more agreeable than the glasses I've been wearing!
In NON-eye-related news, the Carolina Renaissance Faire is coming up, and the first day is 10 October! That's less than a month away; I'm so excited! I have lived in North Carolina since 1996, and have been to the Renaissance Faire 18 times in those 11 years (Eleven years because I'm not counting 2006 (I was doing an international internship in Europe then), and because the 2009 Faire hasn't happened yet). I'm tentatively making several trips to the Faire this year; anyone interested in going with me please contact me so that we can work out schedules and other details!
This morning, my razor broke. Since I use a cartridge-based razor, all I needed to do was replace the blade, but while I was fiddling with the mechanism, my hand slipped, the head went flying, and nicked me good right by the corner of my eye. Good thing it didn't go flying off just a few millimeters to the right (left, in the following photo), or I'd have been in trouble! Here's a not-too-great picture of the wound, although I'm sure no one would actually want to see it in sharper detail:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95781046@N00/3924552076/
It didn't bleed too much, but the nick is RIGHT where the nosepad of my glasses rest, so I had to choose between irritation and blindness all day long!
In other eye-related news, when I got off work this evening I had received a voicemail from the vision center saying my new glasses were in! "Whaaa?..." you may be saying, if you remember that I got new glasses only about 2 weeks ago. What happened was that the when the vision center ordered the lenses for my frame, the manufacturer cut them incorrectly, and they started popping out of frames on day 2. The left lens especially was prone to trying to escape, which is a bad thing since my vision is worse in the left eye than the right. I went back to try to get adjustments done that day, and then the day after, but when the left lens tried to escape AGAIN (this time before I was even out the door of the vision center!), they offered to just go ahead and re-order everything and make sure it all fit properly. And now the end result is New Glasses v.2.0! They are the exact same frame and style, but hopefully a bit more agreeable than the glasses I've been wearing!
In NON-eye-related news, the Carolina Renaissance Faire is coming up, and the first day is 10 October! That's less than a month away; I'm so excited! I have lived in North Carolina since 1996, and have been to the Renaissance Faire 18 times in those 11 years (Eleven years because I'm not counting 2006 (I was doing an international internship in Europe then), and because the 2009 Faire hasn't happened yet). I'm tentatively making several trips to the Faire this year; anyone interested in going with me please contact me so that we can work out schedules and other details!
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Well, it finally happened...
I was eating lunch with a friend yesterday, and I became that guy. You know the one. The guy who orders a salad, and not even on the side! I ordered a salad for my meal. What the heck is going on? Am I finally becoming a responsible adult? Next thing you know I'll be going to bed at 10:00 p.m. and eating bran muffins for breakfast instead of apple sauce! =P
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Nerd-citement
Okay, so we're having our first class in the computer lab this evening (class is just about to start, so I'll make this quick), and I noticed that NCCU's on-site computers all have an updated version of SPSS on them! When I was working on my undergraduate degree, I did all my statistical analysis on SPSS 14.0, so I got SUPER excited when I saw a desktop icon for 17! I didn't even have any data to enter, but I opened it up and started playing around. Yay!
"...two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean"
I was trying to figure out why the formatting on the paper I wrote last night was so strange when I printed it off, so I was looking around in the settings of my word processor. For some reason the paper size was set to A4 (the international standard) which is longer than standard letter size...and which gave me an extra half-page of text once I formatted the document back to the proper size! That's a HUGE difference, considering I was working on only a 4-5 page assignment.
Most people I know complain about the length of papers they write, but I'm one of the few who probably worries from time to time that assignments I turn in may be too long. [chuckles]
My computer has been doing strange little things like this ever since I got back from England a few years ago. Even though I've tried to change them on more than one occassion, the time stamps on my IM client, my blog, and a few of the other web-based services I use still default to GMT instead of my proper time zone. Similarly, if I type "Amazon" into my browser's address bar and hit enter, I'll be taken to amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com. I also had to adjust settings on my spell-check, because I kept getting red squiggles under words like "color" instead of "colour", "favor" instead of "favour", and "aluminum" instead of "aluminium" (...although that spelling might actually be standard; I'm not sure though!).
Most people I know complain about the length of papers they write, but I'm one of the few who probably worries from time to time that assignments I turn in may be too long. [chuckles]
My computer has been doing strange little things like this ever since I got back from England a few years ago. Even though I've tried to change them on more than one occassion, the time stamps on my IM client, my blog, and a few of the other web-based services I use still default to GMT instead of my proper time zone. Similarly, if I type "Amazon" into my browser's address bar and hit enter, I'll be taken to amazon.co.uk instead of amazon.com. I also had to adjust settings on my spell-check, because I kept getting red squiggles under words like "color" instead of "colour", "favor" instead of "favour", and "aluminum" instead of "aluminium" (...although that spelling might actually be standard; I'm not sure though!).
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