tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-169700302011-04-21T16:49:28.040-05:00Random thoughts on life, media, food, the day-to-day experiences of a recent college graduate, and whatever else I feel like BS-ing about at the moment.Mithrandalfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00183223190150462525noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16970030.post-43848943136700526242008-06-01T23:01:00.001-05:002008-06-01T23:19:29.869-05:00

Posting Location: My Home, Parma, OH.For the past week or so, we've had a gray cat coming around our house about once a day or so. It's mainly kept itself occupied with encouraging our three cats and our dog to freak the fuck out whenever they see it (which puts it mostly in front of our screened-in front porch), but occasionally we've seen it in the backyard.For the past week or so, we've also

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Posting Location: My Home, Parma, OH.WARNING: There are points in this post where I grow entirely too poetic considering the subject matter. I blame this on both the hour and the lack of any other recent writing on my part providing an alternative outlet.Being both a fan of the first two games and an absolute sucker for crossovers, I got excited when Super Smash Brothers: Brawl was first

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Posting Location: My Home, Parma, OH.So one of the perks of being employed by a brick-and-mortar film rental store is that I can rent up to five DVDs or games per week for free, pre-release DVDs included. Being free, this has led to me branching out in both my film tastes and my rental standards. Stemming from the latter, one of the DVDs I got recently was Loch Ness Terror, a film which thanks

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Posting Location: My Home, Parma, OH.Honestly, I'm not sure when I'll next get the opportunity to post to my blog (what with trying to find a job before now, and next month looking to be a busy one as well) but I didn't want my favorite holiday to go by without at least one post, so I figured I'd put this up. This is from about three years ago, so it no longer quite syncs up with my sense of

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Posting Location: My Boyfriend's Place, Columbus, OH. Check out item #3 on their list of new features: Labels Give your posts a category label so that you and your readers can easily sort by topic. The concept seems familiar for some reason... *glances at sidebar*Also, as can be seen at the top, I am now officially out of University Village, and spending anywhere from three days to a week

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Posting Location: University Village.Incidentally, this will be the last post I'll be making from University Village Apartments. Summer Commencement was this past Sunday, and I'm moving out / getting kicked out of the apartment I currently inhabit today. Hopefully I'll have time to make a more substantial post later today.So, um....how about that Penny Arcade game, huh?

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Posting Location: University Village.With Summer Commencement less than two weeks away at this point, I've discovered a disturbing trend in my plans for the future, as well as those for these last two weeks. Essentially, my thoughts have been treating my graduation and my death as the same thing. I was initially unsure as to why this was. After all, I'm not suicidal, and I recognize that life

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Who would've thought that Valentines Day 2006 was when the Temporal Nexus intersected with Columbus, Ohio? I mean, one minute I'm on a date with my boyfriend, the next I'm flung to the year 1376 where Time Pirates were having a secret war with the Illuminati. I got drafted into that pretty quickly, let me tell you! Man, it was just one thing after another after that. I had to prevent robot

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My impressions of the 23rd Annual Ohio 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon will come sometime next week. I figured I'd post a link to their site, though.

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Posting Location: University Village.Okay, normally I don't go in for these kinds of jokes, but had to give this one props.

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Posting Location: University Village.So, yes, the aforementioned excuses. The reason updates have been slow to non-existent lately is largely due to the one fault of mine that comes up the most on here: procrastination. To make a long story short, last Monday I realized that the coming two weeks for me looked a little something like this:Thursday: Comparative Studies response paper due.Friday:

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Posting Location: University Village.Today marks the beginning of the week-long made-up holiday of Wintereenmas. Wintereenmas is a celebration of gaming and the gamers behind it. Due to scheduling constraints, I've chosen to celebrate through music. I currently have a playlist going of various game songs taken from VGMP3.com over the past two years. Hopefully I'll get some actual gaming in later

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Posting Location: University Village.At least, that's what I think Freud's trying to tell me in this book I'm reading.I mean, seriously. The first chapter is a discussion on the "psychological origins" of religion, and the man can't go five pages without tying it in somehow with an infant's innate desire for "his mother's breast."I'm not even going to go into what he has to say about the

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Posting Location: Somewhere on North Campus.I think that pretty much sums it up.

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Posting Location: University Village.I've decided to start doing a "link of the week" over on the side under Happy Pumpkin. To start with, I went with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Film of the Book in Ten Minutes Or Less. Apparently this was someone's podcast originally.More to come later!

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Posting Location: University Village.Okay. LOT to cover, so despite my better judgement I'll just pull a megapost to make sure I get it all in.Post-Holiday PlugsI received some very good gifts this year. Among them:*GURPS OGRE, GURPS Religion, and GURPS Y2K --- Sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games' fine GURPS line, my RPG system of choice. These came as no suprise, since I knew I was receiving

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Posting Location: Behind Stillman Hall, OSU Campus.

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Posting Location: University Village.Yuk yuk yuk. So, frantic holiday season all around; obviously I didn't get to making another post before New Years, nor did I get a chance to give the blog a make-over like I was planning. Of course, I've decided to make that last one a New Years resolution, so at least now I have an excuse not to do it.Unfortunately, I have no time to post much more than this

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Posting Location: Family Home, Parma, OH.So from my previous post expounding on Christmas and the surrounding traditions, one might assume that I'm a practicing Christian. That's not entirely accurate, but I'd like to focus on something that not many people like to openly admit: The fact that Christmas is no longer a strictly religious holiday. Actually, I'd like to take things one step further.

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Posting Location: Family Home, Parma, OH.There's a very good excuse for the dropoff in blog entries lately. Unfortunately, it involves admitting how behind-the-times I am currently.You see, it's mostly been because I've been reading the fifth Harry Potter book.That's right, I have not yet read the fifth Harry Potter book all the way through; what's more, I only just started Saturday. I meant to

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Posting Location: Family Home, Parma, OH....I've just been settling in. It took some creativity, but I finally found places for everything I brought back with me while I'm here. It's ironic; my room here is larger than the one in my apartment, but since it has it's own junk cluttering it up there's no longer really any room for the stuff I brought back with me. Even though obviously it all fit in

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Posting Location: Family Home, Parma, OH (Family Laptop).*May be a lie.Between the excitement of last weekend and the excitement of this one I was forunate enough to enjoy a week's worth of something I rarely enjoy: time away from both family and academic concerns. In past years I was subject to dorm policy at the end of every quarter, where (officially) we had to be on the way home within 24

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Posting Location: University Village.If things had gone smoothly today, I would have been making tonight's post from home. As you can see, things did not go smoothly today.See, the plan was to see my boyfriend one last time before the break, as the odds of us getting together over the holidays are slim. I would then come back to the apartment, finish cleaning up some, throw my stuff into the car,

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Posting Location: University Village.So, looking over my last few entries, I realize that I haven't actually mentioned a lot of what's happened lately. Let's remedy that, shall we?Starting with academics, my first --- and last --- two finals of the quarter were both on Monday, which I believe I did reasonably well on. The preceeding Friday the last two response papers for my Utopia and AntiUtopia

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Posting Location: University Village.So on Saturday I had the opportunity to visit MoMo's a second time. The pen-&-paper RPG game I'd been running that night wrapped up early, so we decided to cap the night off with some karaoke. I should mention this was at about an hour after midnight, by the way --- appropriate, no? They only had one small room operational at the time, however, and that was

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Posting Location: University Village.I almost ran over a guy just now because he felt like running a red light with his bicycle. Not even motorcycle --- bicycle. What the fuck. I'dve felt like killing the guy if, you know, I wasn't trying so hard not to kill him at that moment. Now added to one of the many reasons I hate driving in this city, which I might rant on later.

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Posting Location: University Village.Breaking the somewhat-formal style I adopted for the essay, I'm going to rant a bit about another late-night entertainment option I found off-campus: MoMo's KTV. University Plaza isn't exactly within easy walking distance of campus, but those of you with a car will find it less than 15 minutes away, and of course anyone in University Village is within easy

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Posting Location: University Village.Note: This post is my contribution to the Earliest Memories of Computing blog project. I would've just submitted the full thing to that blog, but I kind of rant off-topic a bit here. As usual.My earliest memory of computer use is sometime in --- first grade? Second? I can't even remember how old I was at the time. Shoot, might even be kindergarten. At any

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Posting Location: Bus stop at Stillman Hall.Revised At: University VillageI swear, I'll stop this kind of thing soon. Maybe. Chalk it up to general hyperness due to the quarter almost being over. It's been a somewhat tough one, first quarter I've taken more than three courses since Fall Quarter my freshman year. Okay, so the one class is a 100-level course and the other one is about blogging.

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Posting Location: 343 Denney Hall (English 574C: History and Theories of Writing).A revised look at what I'm (ideally) planning to happen in the blog in the next month:0.) Blog Essay: Campus After Midnight (For Non-Drinkers). (complete)1.) More frequent and/or more regular posting.2.) Improved archive menues (going to try and do away with the whole "hover mouse for titles" dealie; it serves

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-Alexander Cueto, OSU student and long-time Columbus residentBack to Part 2.

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In my previous entry I mentioned the large number of food businesses open in the campus area. What may be surprising is the number of such establishments still open after midnight. Somewhat less common are the businesses still open after 2:00 AM, but even here there are options.To start with, there are the four dining options present on campus itself. Mirror Lake Café, Burritos Noches Café, the

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-James Porch, OSU student.Unfortunately, this claim that entertainment is lacking after nightfall seems to be more or less the truth as far as the immediate campus area is concerned. A survey of High Street, arguably the highest concentration of commercial establishments near campus, reveals a disproportionately large amount of dining options to anything else (so much so that they deserve and

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To Whom It May Concern,As may be apparent by now to anyone who has been reading my blog, I tend to keep odd hours. I've found in recent years that it is almost impossible for me to fall asleep before midnight; on nights with nothing scheduled the following morning I have been known to push 5:00 AM before falling asleep. My peers also tend to keep similar hours (at least on weekends), and

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Posting Location: 343 Denney Hall (English 574C: History and Theories of Writing).A quick look at what I'm (ideally) planning to happen in the blog in the next month:1.) Blog Essay: Campus After Midnight (For Non-Drinkers).2.) More frequent and/or more regular posting.3.) Improved archive menues (going to try and do away with the whole "hover mouse for titles" dealie; it serves it's purpose now

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Posting Location: Office for Disabilities Services computer lab.So I had an odd experience yesterday. And the day before. Through a series of events and circumstances, I essentially ended up staying awake for roughly 33 hours. That's already taking into account the half-hour catnaps I took here and there throughout that period, but I don't really count those as sleep, per se; I don't really fall

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So last night me and my roommate hosted some kind of spur-of-the-moment dinner party at the apartment. It's kind of odd how it happened, we'd just come back from getting groceries and she had decided to finally do something with the whole chicken we'd gotten last week (we still had plenty of "meal" food when we got groceries, but almost no "snack" or "goes with a meal" food). Earlier this week

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Well, it was mentioned on the main site over at Penny-Arcade, so I just figured I'd mention Child's Play, my favorite seasonal charity that I never have a credit card to donate to. Maybe this year I can convince someone to substitute a donation to this in place of a gift for myself. Anyways, just figured I'd throw that out there.

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I'm not sure if mallard physiology is properly equipped to handle heaps of rice, and I'm pretty sure it's not equipped to handle sweet-and-sour chicken, but does that stop them from begging? Of course it doesn't.I swear, I don't know if those sidelong looks remind me more of my dog or my iguana.

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So I tried canned Kona coffee this morning. It's been sitting in the fridge since I got it from Seafood Japan about a week ago, and this morning I was finally tired enough to try it. Well, okay, I'm always that tired at ^9:00 AM, but I'm running low on Black Black (and starting to tire a little of the taste). I'm not that much of a coffee guy (I preffer to feed my caffiene addiction through

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*WARNING: POTENTIAL SPOILERS*It's actually been over a week since I watched this, but I still feel like ranting about it (and kind of feel weird about posting nothing but a blog review and a belated holiday greeting this week). It's just one of those films. Besides, when it comes to ranting on films I've seen recently, my only other two choices are currently the original Rollerball and Zardoz,

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One of the more subtle elements that play into a blog's popularity is the issue of time. The word "timeliness" can take on several meanings when relating to blogs, and all of them contribute to a blog's success.The more obvious way time plays a part is in regards to regular updates. Blogs that update infrequently or at odd times are less likely keep a regular audience than blogs that update

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As I mentioned in the third installment of my genre analysis essay, one near-definitive aspect of the blog is the ability of others to leave their comments. It is logical to conclude from this that commenting plays a part in determining what makes a blog, a good blog.First, it should be noted that the very number of comments left on a blog can be used as an aid in determining whether a blog is

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One important factor that must be considered when evaluating a blog's popularity is how the blog looks. One can't underestimate the value of visual appeal in the highly visual medium of the Internet. A website (any website, not just blogs) that looks bare holds less appeal for the casual web-surfer than one with a high amount of effort put into its appearance.* While blogs are certainly subject

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In attempting to answer the question "what makes for a good blog," I chose three blogs that at first glance appear to be very popular: The Book of the Gear, This Is Not My Life, and PeterDavid.net. All three of these blogs address different things and appeal to different people. PeterDavid.net is a personal blog that deals not only with the author's works and proffession, but also with American

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Even considering the fact that I had a Halloween get-together on Saturday, it just seems like Halloween sneaked up on me this year. For some reason this year I don't feel like I've "captured the magic" of the holiday, so to speak. I feel weird making a Halloween post at 10:00 PM the night of, almost as if it's too late to be talking about it. But then that's silly; it's still Halloween for

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I have absolutely no excuses to offer. The only thing I can say in my defense is that I was testing out the Audioblogger feature, and I didn't want it to be bland.(***don't scroll until you listen***)

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So just now a random Asian guy hit on me at the bus stop.Just, out of nowhere. Kind of cute, too. He got onto another bus before mine, tried to get me to come along or something(!). It kind of caught me off guard because (a) you wouldn't expect that sort of thing in so public a location, and (b) I'm not used to being hit on, at all (and usually don't recognize it when it's happening). I declined

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*WARNING: SPOILERS*W. T. F.This film has to be, without a doubt, the single most f&$%ed up film I have ever seen. Don't get me wrong. It's a good film...I think. But man, if you're looking for a film that you can watch casually, is this ever not it.The plot --- as near as I can gather --- is that in 2095 a floating pyramid appears above New York City, which is the home to a bunch of Egyptian

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It takes too long to take the little happy pumpkins into Photoshop and color them every time I want to put them in a post (like I've been itching to do). So from now on I'll just remove any blue lines that might show up and post them as "black and white" pictures....On an unrelated note, there'll be posts with actual substance to them a little later today.

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I found out something interesting about myself yesterday. As I mentioned, the fudge incident was essentially the straw that broke the weekend's back. I was *ticked off yesterday morning, to put it nicely. You ever had one of those days where you just feel like throttling the closest thing to you? That was my morning yesterday. It was kind of one of those weekends.And just as I am contemplating

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My roommate threw out my second piece of fudge. I still had two half-pound bricks of fudge from when I worked Geauga Lake this summer, and she threw the second piece away yesterday, without telling me. Of course that' trash is gone now, so I can't even try to recover it.That was the really good piece, too. Cherry vanilla. The piece I intentionally didn't eat first because I wanted to save it for

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: On second thought, let's stick with this shade for now.)Well, as you can see, I've been busy prettying up the sidebar and such. I got bored during Astronomy class and started doodling these little happy jack-o-lanterns on a spare sheet of paper. That paper is now covered in these little guys, and most of them are all costumed up in one way or another. Rather than let them go to

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: I believe I like this shade of orange better.)A sample of text from early in the fiction blog I've started reading: After some weeks in the forest, Heinrich and I are at last approaching the clockwork labyrinth. It’s possible that this wasn't the best way to approach, as we are nearly a month’s journey from the nearest village where one can purchase supplies, but the other

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"Express Service Schedule 8:00 am - 10:15 am every 15 minutes" my eye! More like "Express Shuttle comes around 15 minutes past the hour, then waits around another 15 minutes to pick up the 9:30 crowd while they're at it!"On a similar note of things that have gone wrong today, I somehow missed the fact that I had an Astronomy 162 midterm today.I mean, it's Astronomy 162, which means it's

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Part 3: True Identity or Will The Real Blog Please Stand Up Now comes an important question that until now has been somewhat glossed over. In the introduction of this analysis, I hinted that the definition of "blog" may not be entirely appropriate for a few of the websites I have studied. Here I take a critical look and attempt to answer the question: "Are these really blogs?"As I've mentioned,

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Part 2: Multiple Authorship or I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends On a note somewhat different and yet somewhat related to the previous theme of reliance on other people, is the gamer blog with multiple posters. I'm not here reffering to the comments a person may leave on one's blog, although this can also contribute to the topic. I'm reffering to a blog in which there are multiple

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Today is National Coming Out Day! In honor of this, and to clear up any confusion that may have arisen already, I'll state that I myself am bisexual. Oh noes, now my secret's out!Have a good day everyone, and to all you straight people out there...don't be intolerant!

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Introduction For my genre analysis I have chosen the "subgenre" of the gamer blog, that is, blogs related to or revolving around the hobby of playing electronic video games. All three of the blogs were chosen not only for their relevance to the gaming hobby, but also because they have at times served as more personal blogs for the authors; these three blogs are game girl advance, PvP, and

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Just a quick update, I've beeen learning how to play around with images in Blogger. This little guy is from my Elfwood page. The image links to the larger image on that site. Ironically, I think he might actually look a little better reduced to this size, as it "cleans up" the image a bit.There's been a lot of irony today, hasn't there?Oh well. Mayhaps this will be become a regular thing. Who

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I think the time noted for when I posted my last post last night and the time noted for the post I'm making now say it all.Ironically I'm going to be using the last two sticks today to make sure I stay awake through both my classes.Let this be a lesson: Don't play with caffienated candy the night before you have a 9:30 class.

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Seriously, though, very busy week; I'll try to avoid such things in the future. To make up for it, I'll be tinkering with the sidebar a little immediately after this post.EDIT (10/10, 4:20 AM): First tinkerings finished! Check out the new topic archives in the sidebar!Adventures With Alcohol, Part 1: The Hangover! So a week ago I mentioned that I finally bought alcohol, in the form of Mike's

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EDITOR'S NOTE: It's orange for the rest of October.Film Rant 1: Santo: Contra La Hija de FrankesteinLanguage: SpanishNation: MexicoFor those who don't know, there was an entire genre of Mexican film in the late 1950's-1970's of "luchador films," which consisted of luchadores (Mexican wrestlers) in starring roles, protecting the innocent in their off-time by fighting crime, thwarting

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If You See One...So now we have roaches. Fan-FRICKIN-Tastic.Not just roaches, either. Oh no. Not five minutes after seeing one crawl across our rug we find a centipede hiding in a corner of the wall. Centipedes prey on pest species rather than eat food scraps, so, you know, it was actually doing some good there, but that's a small comfort when you've just found out your apartment is supporting

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Went to Marc's again yesterday. I drove with my roommate and her visiting sister, which proved somewhat interesting. Situation: Three people, each with their own means of payment, and each with their own consumer prefferences. Two are also purchasing for a shared living space, neither of which really wants to buy "for everybody." Result: Peculiarities such as there being a grand final total of

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So, the other day I saw a turtle sitting next to a duck in a tree.I'm dead serious. If anyone is familiar with the Ohio State Campus, they'll know about Mirror Lake, the once-a-big-lake-now-a-large-duck-pond at the west end of the South Oval. If anyone is familiar with that area in much detail, they'll know about that one tree whose branches dip right into the water on one shore. Well, for the

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WARNING: Potential Spoilers for a four-decade old film you've probably never heard of anyways.FURTHER WARNING: This isn't a "review" of the film so much as it is me ranting about my impressions of it.Okay, granted, it's a B-grade "horror" film one usually lumps together with the likes of THEM! and The Giant Claw. And, granted, the general populace usually tries it's best to ignore films like

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...after having waited about a week for the wireless card to get here. The quarter I have the most classes with online content right out the door is the one where I don't have immediate web access. Figures.So it would seem I have some catching up to do.Eeesh, where to start? Lot has happened this past week. It's the first week in the apartment, for instance, which has just been one continual

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A most inauspicious start.

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