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Archive for December 2003

tolkein madness

Posted on 12/17/2003

got home a little bit ago from seeing Return of the King at the Seattle Cinerama…after spending the whole afternoon/evening before at Kat’s watching the first two movies (extended editions, of course). so good….
(when Eowyn pulled off her helmet and killed the Nazgul, I swear the whole theater let out a cheer.)
more later….

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invisible adjunct goes nuts with the quizzes…

Posted on 12/15/2003

“What color are you?”:http://www.invisibleadjunct.com/archives/000389.html — hmmm, must be grading season.
But I love this:
bq. After Henry croaked, Katherine dropped the prim and proper act and married Thomas Seymour, a dashing pirate-y kind of guy who was dumb as a post. Which goes to show you that even bookworms know how to get it on.
I am […]

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as k calls it, pasturbations

Posted on 12/12/2003

sometimes you shouldn’t be nostalgic, but you are anyway.
(having seen X-Men movies recently, and listening to Cranberries (followed by Depeche Mode!), and been working on reuniting Aila and Reboa. sigh.)

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minimalism?

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I’m finding I actually like the undesign I’ve got now. partially because the visited link color works with the purple in the crocus.
I do want just a little bit more, though. more of *what* — that I can’t yet say.

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ah, much better

Posted on 12/10/2003

I really can’t emphasize enough the importance of a really comfortable chair.
I just got a “new desk chair”:http://www.steelcase.com/servlet/ProductServlet?ACTION=4&CAT_ID=9&CAT_NAME=Seating&TYPE_ID=23&TYPE_NAME=High+Performance&LINE_ID=259 at work which is super-duper adjustable and actually fits my body. After a full day of work, I still felt totally comfortable sitting in it, not hunched or slouched or cramped. Now if I could […]

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and the winner is…

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last night we got the January (!) edition of “Maximum PC”:http://www.maximumpc.com/ — they had their annual “Softy” awards for the best non-game software. I was pleased and amazed to see that “Firebird”:http://mozilla.org/products/firebird/ was #1. (has anybody told the Mozilla people yet?!)
the funny thing was that in their help column, someone wrote in with […]

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Hi! This is Elaine Nelson's site, which used to be at epersonae.com, and which is sometimes known as emergency weblog.