"You will enjoy doing something different this weekend"

( Last night's dream of international subterfuge, civic pride, false labor, and karate that comes in a box )

I had a nightmare last night in which I had to move out of every apartment I had ever lived in AGAIN (and some other apartments I didn't know I was living in now) - by THURSDAY.

Also, there were cyborg bears.

Crap! My team accidentally came in first in the MN0PQ6 (the sixth Minnesota Puzzle Quest)! This means we have the honor of designing the next one, which, honestly, should be hella fun.

This song is in my head on repeat: http://hypem.com/search/O%2BS+Lonely+Ghosts Not really sure if it's because of the upcoming move, or what. It just seems hauntingly right.

"A controversial activist, he paid from his own funds for ads to have Utah allow horse-race gambling, and he was actively opposed to the banning of cockfighting. He has campaigned in Arizona and New Mexico against laws banning cockfighting."

Really, I had no idea. There was always something unsettling about the man, but now I can put my finger on it.

Sometimes, after watching an episode or two from Seasons 3 or 4 of Battlestar Galactica, I'll get "All Along the Watchtower" stuck in my head.

Two hours later, I start to wonder if I'm a Cylon.

Theory: The Internet has finally reached the right combination of users that I can no longer tell the difference between "intermediate ESL speakers" and "lazy as hell English speakers" on any given forum. My spending at least three hours a day speaking with Czech engineers over IM may have something to do with this, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?

I can not find it conveniently, and it vexes me. I am horribly vexed.

ETA: I DO! And Damn Napster for making me look up all those tracks which I found with bad tags. You do not want to know how long it took to find out (for certain) the names of tracks 2, 6, 10, and 13.

Artist:Album:Track

1: Yasunori Mitsuda: Chrono Cross Sdtrk: Time's Scar
2: Ghost in the Machine : The Haunting Begins : Electric (Rave Remix) (Wonka Beef Shotgun Dub)
3: KMFDM : Light EP : Light (Aerobic Dub by Excessive Force)
4: provoker : Counter-Strike (OC Remix) : In the Line of Fire
5: Front 242 : Headhunter 2000 : Headhunter (Front Line Assembly Mix)
6: Drowning Pool : Pieces of Nothing EP : Bodies (Demo Version)
7: Apollo 440 : Millennium Fever : Don't Fear the Reaper
8: Nines : Shadowgate (OC Remix) : Death Rave
9: SFLaValle : Ninja Gaiden 2 (OC Remix): Devil's Mask
10: SFL : DJ Networx 7 : Paint It Black (DJ Delay Remix) [Abaddon Dub]
11: Bart Klepka : Quake 2 (OC Remix): Cerberon (Fragfest Mix)
12: Gravity Kills : Manipulated : Guilty (Juno Reactor Remix)
13: Powerman 5000 : Dracula 2000 Sdtrk : Ultra Mega
14: Rammstein : Mutter : Feuer Frei (Wonka's Got a Posse Dub)
15: Better Than Ezra : Deluxe : The Killer Inside

I had my every-other-year optometrist visit yesterday (yay new prescriptions!), which included a fitting for contact lenses. I have never worn them before, and sometimes I feel like they would be more convenient than glasses. This may have been a lie I told myself.

I spent one and a half hours today trying to get the damn things in today, losing one and tearing the other one. Is there some secret way to put these damn things in that I don't know about? Are my eyes just too small? Are my eyelashes too long? What the hell?

CONvergence Goers: our panel for "Campaign CONvergence" is at 7:00 PM this Friday in Atrium 6. See me face off as Dr. Evil in a town hall meeting against Dr. Horrible and Dr. Strangelove (with Special Guests) as we contend for The Presidency*!

Be there, or be even more rectilinear than the average CONvergence attendee.

*Sponsored by Virtucon Industries and the Guild of Calamitous Intent

Since the Twilight franchise snuck up on me out of nowhere, throughly proving that I am now out of touch with the entertainment tastes of adolescent girls, I have been waiting to see somebody put a "Buffy Summers vs. Edward Cullen" video together. What I was not prepared for was a video which attempts to showcase just how frigging creepy and dysfunctional Edward is.

I am a huge fan of truly awful movies. Many of my friends have also mastered the distinction between movies that are "good", and movies that are "awesome". So how did I not hear about this movie until now?

I'm trying to remember how to blog again. Not that I was ever particularly good at it, but I have to get these training wheels off some time. Stupid database migration.

I know I've talked to some of you already, but if I haven't talked to you yet, here's the deal: I will be in your neck of the woods the week of May 25-29. If you would like to see me while I am there, please let me know.

The title of this article is all for you, baby: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8015487.stm

In the last decade since switching to Linux, I can't recall seriously playing a game on my computer that was not:

1. Kingdom of Loathing
2. Starcraft running under Wine
3. Something I found on the Internet made in Flash

Weird.

I learned a new favorite phrase today: "second-order incompetence". It is the condition of being incompetent at recognizing your own incompetence.

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