HFCS: effika’s blog

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” - Albert
Einstein

Right now I’m supposed to be doing laundry and cleaning house. Instead I am spending [...]

Today started out pretty good. Fun improv rehearsal and hanging out afterwards. After arriving home I check my e-mail, since I haven’t check it since early afternoon. Getting on the computer was a bad mistake.

First up: forwarded e-mail from my grandparents. My uncle’s lymphoma has stopped responding to treatment (previously [...]

So if I’m bored on Labor Day, surely some of you are/were too. I spent a lot of today on-line looking for things to read. Luckily SA was back up, but my real passion lately has been blogs. I found very few updated blogs today, and was disappointed. I then realized [...]

I’m elitist. I’m not elitist about anything important, mostly just about what browser to use and what brand of pipette tips I like best. Regardless, the mindset is there and it’s not hard for it to spill over into everything else. I should be pretty desensitized to the elitists around me– we [...]

I have the bug for changing my stylesheets again (largely thanks to re-finding Urn’s blog). I’ve had relatively the same stylesheet since I first opened on effika.quackster.net (defunct) after Killingmachines.org went down in May 04 and took too long to come back up. I always amaze myself with how different this site can [...]

This is a list of all those things I did in high school but don’t do now because it took me until my senior year of college to figure out that I was supposed to keep doing things that I enjoyed. I still don’t do any of these things and people treat me like [...]

Public coils dr.cello says, “on 8bit, cage, the way to make friends with oldbies isn’t to be helpful”
I think I am getting sick. It would explain why I’ve been bitchy for the past few days. I had a slight fever today and woke up around 1. Jay is probably getting sick too– [...]

Sometimes I feel like I’m actively sabotaging my schooling. What am I doing instead of studying for my biochem test? Looking up information on fountain pens after reading a poll on /. and catching Billy’s post proclaiming his favorite pen.

I’ve used Pentel Fine Point RSVPs since middle school, or else my .5mm Zebra [...]

It’s things like this that make me wonder if anybody in the government bothered to read 1984 and its ilk at all. Bad Uk, bad!
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Take a look here (but disregard the blue, for that is the famous central OK ground clutter):

Looks like we’d be in for some Rita rain, except that the storm is totally not going west. Here’s what they have to say about it:

Analysis at 5 PM showed the center of Tropical Storm Rita over Shreveport [...]