Chronological Archives

“I went to see Resident Evil 4 alone yesterday. Big-breasted women running around with big ...”

“I greatly enjoyed a showing of "The Social Network" last evening. But that doesn't make ...”

“I can't believe I asked the woman I was with how I should go about ...”

“The heat (no, not smoke) detector in the home I'm staying in went berserk all ...”

“Ice cream makes you skinny.”

“Walking home famished at some ungodly hour, I reluctantly forced myself into a seedy kebab ...”

“One of my very first memories is from kindergarten. To this day, I vividly remember ...”

“I just dropped one of those cheap made-in-China coffee mugs from a height of six ...”

“When you see your gay friend practising his toast for his lesbian best friends' wedding, ...”

“After months of use, I realised in the supermarket today that I'd forgotten all my ...”

“After having my tickets for public transport checked just once over six months, I've found ...”

“I'm going to be spending the next few days in a place called Voksenåsen for ...”

“In the midst of a heart-to-heart, Cecille's mother broke down and sobbingly admitted to her ...”

“I haven't ever made an investment, but if the DJI dips below 5000, I think ...”

“The screen on the new MacBook Pro is so fucking bright, it confounds its inbuilt ...”

“Anyone else find it funny that Obama pronounces "Pakistan" correctly but enunciates "Afghanistan" like an ...”

“If women can have a range of underwear for different purposes, so can I.”

“I live in a 2 x 2 square room with a washing machine in the ...”

“I nearly burnt my power adapter's wire on the stove. How it got there is ...”

“I couldn't help but gawk at the most perfect face I've ever seen on my ...”

“You know your nails have grown a little too long when they begin to impede ...”

“I finally figured out a concrete goal for my Postdoc: To learn how to implement ...”

“(Can you taste the delicious irony?) From flamewars defending one's favourite publishing platform, to worrying too ...”

“No matter what computing platform I move to, I need to keep a copy of ...”

“If you're still here to read this after my long hiatus, I have to commend ...”

“I noticed an abandoned bag in the metro on my way to work. Sadly, my ...”

“Enticing smart people to resume doing real things as opposed to wasting their time on ...”

“I tried wiping a droplet of blue ink I spilt on my shirt with a ...”

“On my way back home, a girl requested my help in guiding her park her ...”

“I just realised that the scribbles on the pieces of paper strewn around me serve ...”

“Stop pronouncing half the letters in every word and most languages begin to sound more ...”

“With enough volumising conditioner and subtle combing-over, you can convince most people you're not bald; ...”

“My incessant humming led me to stumble across a resonant frequency at a passageway at ...”

“If I had to pick between security and liberty, I'd pick liberty every single time. ...”

“Oh that, and Gwyneth Paltrow is kinda cute when light hits her the right way.”

“What I learnt from watching Iron Man: Many problems can be solved (or created) by ...”

“Sri Lankan Tamil in itself is amusing. Bastardised further still with decades of evolving in ...”

“Never attempt to shower in competition with your water-hungry washing machine.”

“I've been running my new computer through a battery of tests as I've been setting ...”

“I woke up really late this morning. Things are just plain silly when you can't ...”

“After nearly a month of nurturing, I decided to shave off my goatee this evening.”

“English desperately needs a gender-ambiguous singular pronoun for referring to people.”

“As I've been unpacking, I've been finding money stashed into various nooks and crannies.”

“I've begun to realise that telling people "people are really nice to me" is a ...”

“I can hear my hotel-room neighbour snore across the walls. Damn my super-sensitive hearing.”

“"... and the answer is that we're not smart enough as people." --- Alan Greenspan”

“It's a pity men can't pull off dangly things as well as women can.”

“I really need a hair cut. I guess that means I need to ask someone ...”

“I just realised that balance sheets, derivative securities and other esoteric commercial things are actually ...”

“I ordered me one of them (ridiculously) shiny new Apple MacBook Pros; 2.8GHz dual core, ...”

“People think that if they casually throw around words like "expert," they can get you ...”

“You know you've become really old when you only remember its your own birthday after ...”

“After an entire night of poking, probing and (controlled) dropping, my computer boots again. Now ...”

“My watch battery drained the first week I got here. The cool thing is that ...”

“It's funny how the support staff (whose help I've enlisted in finding a home) seem ...”

“Her grand idea of a sweeping career change was for me to shift my focus ...”

“"Abandon solid mechanics," a strange, disembodied voice whispered to me in semi-sleep.”

“I woke up snickering to my own comedy routine in a dream. Now that was ...”

“For a moment last evening, I actually regretted leaving Ann Arbor. Actually, it's strange that ...”

“I was rudely awakened from a horrific nightmare a few minutes ago to the even ...”

“If I watch or read anything even remotely evocative right before going to bed, I ...”

“Finally arrived at a repeatable system to cook fluffy, tender, non-mushy rice without making too ...”

“Guess I'm working from home today; completely drenched from both earlier attempts to head to ...”

“I just found out my travel expenses to Oslo are being reimbursed. Happy happy joy ...”

“Found out what Bergamot is, and why it makes my tea delicious.”

“I managed to shave without cutting my face. I should have bought one of these ...”

“I believe it's time for breakfast, and it's nearly noon. Maybe I should be waking ...”

“@jackdaw Sweet!”

“Probably need to work this Saturday, considering I spent most of yesterday on chores around ...”

“I signed up. Am I one of the cool kids now?”

“I've lived in various parts of the world and travelled to numerous others. Ever since ...”

“The entries on this journal have been noticeably sparse because I have had little to ...”

“ It turns out, unsurprisingly, that "Hey, where did you meet your wife? I'm looking for ...”

“For just a few days of my miserable existence, I don't want some nonsensical thing ...”

“During a recent flight, I came across, arguably, the hottest mom ever; and I really ...”

“(Not to get into anything technical, but I'm writing this from a new computer. And ...”

“When they say, "Shake well before use" on a bottle of juice, what they really ...”

“:( A number of factors contributed to this, but: Thank you for contacting the Apple Store. ...”

“Like I've said time and time again, it's hard enough to find someone who cares ...”

“So here's what's going on. My biggest beef is not with the masses who are ...”

“From Clear Channel Radio: "To all the rap fans out there, Merry Christmas, to all the ...”

“The following describes events in my life over the past few days. It attempts to ...”

“Every week, I get a letter from my cellphone service provider—T-Mobile—to upgrade my service (for ...”

“"Though intellectually stimulating, working on fundamental theories can often feel like a thankless task. Results ...”

“This is something I learnt as a toddler and has provided innumerable hours of amusing ...”

“The line between 'white hat' hacker and 'black hat' hacker is a surprisingly easy one ...”

“(Anywho, for those curious, it's girlfriend and not friend. And they live together and not ...”

“Thank you for your E-mail. Your Visa will cover the UK, i.e. England, Scotland, Wales, Northern ...”

“There has been much confusion over the past few days. (Apart from being randomly assaulted ...”

“My family is around, and my tiny home surprisingly fit everyone for a few days. ...”

“It's some 2 AM, I've wasted all day and now I'm unable to sleep.. I ...”

“And so, entropy begins to live. This time, I'm going to actually finish what it ...”

“I just got back from pretty much an all night bar/club hop. Some observations: 1. Most ...”

“A ton of things bug me, some more than others. This is just one of ...”

“I bought some new hardware for a computer at work. Said hardware needed some random ...”

“I beg to differ; I am a sociophobe. I don't hate social events or gatherings ...”

“Today, I got my hair cut. And this time, it was "for real". Here it ...”

“Not to be ignorantly insensitive about the N. Korean scheme of doing things, but hey, ...”

“An earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale (read insane panic and horror) hit ...”

“Or I'm broken beyond repair - Part I of II. Take your pick of post title, ...”

“Or nothing I actually plan to expend energy boring you with. So I'll bore you ...”

“I did almost nothing this entire term. Which was good, for all the time I ...”

“I don't usually get bored out of my skull when I'm at places where intellectual ...”

“I have absolutely no self control, and that sucks for a variety of reasons. But ...”

“I've not been able to write too much recently. I have at least 4 unfinished ...”

“Sometime early afternoon, yesterday. arbitrary person: Dude, it is going to snow soon. me: Quiet down foo, ...”

“- Site 1 - Site 2 - Site 3 I had at least 3 more, but I've forgotten ...”

“This is probably the funniest thing I've seen on slashdot in ages. It's a picture ...”

“And have felt, touched, and started using: - this camera body - with this lens - storing images ...”

“Recently, I've been playing quite a bit of Resident Evil. I mean, I've been playing ...”

“You come across a variety of different sorts of people everyday. That's not necessarily a ...”

“(Since everyone loves them.) me: and what do you think you're doing?she: oh, nothing. i'm just ...”

“just spent 2.5 grand on "impulsive" camera related purchases. Guess who doesn't feel all that ...”

“No one will wonder or particularly care about this subtle change, but I just made ...”

“WoW. And oh my goodness. Related hilarity!”

“I just got back from a bar I'd been in since some 9 in the ...”

“The following is an excerpt of a converstation between a random guy at my street ...”

“First, a totally random and off-topic observation. I saw a 2 year old at lunch ...”

“I've done all I can at the moment to minimize spam. - All "linkdumpable" files have ...”

“Eminem's new video - Mosh. Surprisingly "activistey" and informed.”

“Because the other style (wordpress' default) made me want to gauge my eyes out, I've ...”

“Ok, you can calm down now. While changing a ton of journal related 'backend' ...”

“Where do I begin? Ah yes, due to an unfortunate turn of events in her ...”

“Well on the inside anyway. I just cleared up 192 MB of spam and brought ...”

“I have an SQL database size limit of about 100 MB on my host, and ...”

“Mean, but what're you going to do. "hello sir my name is obfuscatedforsavingface , my gre ...”

“Amazon keeps thinking I am this post-breakupal woman and constantly recommends books of this sort ...”

“I woke late. But I've been feeling tired all day. It's like, you're in this ...”

“ It feels nice to be at home and in my own bed again. I got back ...”

“ My talk's done. In order to commiserate my aging process, my folks got me a GameCube ...”

“To steal lines from one of the greatest classics of all time, Sally sobs, "I'm going ...”

“From Lincoln, NE. Everything seems larger. Everyone's larger and more-fully clad. And much whiter.”

“- You shouldn't start packing for a trip at 12:10 after your ride calls and ...”

“ I went out to dinner to this fancy place, the Bella Ciao, with a friend ...”

“I just loaded a fishing drink dispensing machine with the required number of quarters for ...”

“Or is that I. So you see this lady across the street trying to get into ...”

“You probably already know I am not a big fan of competition. This is especially ...”

“I've really got nothing to say. Being annoying-roommate-free is good, but being unable to afford ...”

“Well, not good enough anyway. Did I say good? I meant strong, yes strong, that's it.”

“What's come over me? I'm looking at *gasp* cell phones and I've nearly decided on ...”

“I just received my first ever thank-you-style positive feedback for releasing the work site's style. ...”

“I was browsing everyone's favourite design rip-off inspiration site when I came across this. Go ahead, ...”

“Since there is absolutely no way you can be tired of this sort of thing, ...”

“It's funny how brains (well, my brain anyway) seem to process information while we're asleep. ...”

“Last week was awesome, in an almost-tedious sort of way. I had something (arguably fun) ...”

“And so it begins. I'm finally making the time to upload pictures taken during my ...”

“From the register. Microsoft can roll out countless studies that point out how proprietary software is ...”

“I've been trying very hard to make and reason out a bunch of decisions. It ...”

“Spent most of my day with my mom (except for the little while I spent ...”

“It is all beginning to make sense now - my agitation I mean. For those who ...”

“I cannot believe I am going to be home in a couple of days. *Points to ...”

“I was talking to H a while ago and kept (proudly?) harping on the fact ...”

“You'd assume that large research institutes won't be bothered by a few bolts of lightning ...”

“I've been meaning to migrate from my aging (and slowly beginning to get too kludgy ...”

“There is this extremely huge electrical storm? going on outside right now. Muuuusstt sttanndd oouutt ...”

“I've been afraid and tense. Very. Which in my world seems to be the only ...”

“Today was, well, quite awesome. The feeling of being abandoned is slowly being morphed to ...”

“I was planning to put something else down, but now all of it is a ...”

“For the first time ever in my life, I decided to do something waaay before ...”

“I spent all my day shopping, for other people. Bought a lot of little (and ...”

“I've got this final exam test tomorrow. And since I'm this self proclaimed bastion of ...”

“Music today is not always nice and happy. Never go to sleep with one angry ...”

“The term is almost over. Which means obvious end term pressures, but I've got a ...”

“Sorry, but I have to use this journal as a (low tech) way of clarifying ...”

“Hmm. Dozed off at work for something like an hour. Just woke. That hasn't happened ...”

“And I'm well. Well, relatively anyway. It's not like I have run out of photos ...”

“After mucking around for a very long time with ORIGINAL and Gallery, I decided to ...”

“SCIENTISTS say, size does matter. How cold should a place be to be called "cold dwelling" ...”

“Spending two out of the past three nights at work isn't fun. No it isn't. :/”

“:/”

“Today was amazing. I've felt this way after a very, very long time, and I'm ...”

“Allegories - Now with 100% less animal analogies! As a result, no horsies were harmed in ...”

“"Back" to large (or small) bodies of boring text, for a bit. Most of my ...”

“Why am I not home at a 10 to 2? wahgnube.org - Tables cleaned up and 137 ...”

“And post a bunch of test results. DisorderRatingParanoid:LowSchizoid:Very HighSchizotypal:ModerateAntisocial:LowBorderline:LowHistrionic:LowNarcissistic:LowAvoidant:LowDependent:LowObsessive-Compulsive:Low-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! -- Thanks ...”

“Guess who was handed a codebase that was at the time capable of handling ~9 ...”

“Hmm. This isn't so bad really. I am more than used to it by now. ...”

“It rung. It was apparently for me. I got up to pick it up, and ...”

“Designers of FORTRAN should be shot. GOTO users should be shot. Fish them and a whole lot ...”

“I "went to sleep" at some 10ish last evening. Spent all my time tossing and ...”

“Of course, I feel like the bravest guy in the world, but you'd realize what ...”

“Got things done to a decent enough level (as judged by someone who'd gone for ...”

“Apparently non-engineers need sleep. The library where I was at closed for the "night" at ...”

“In more moments of mind blowing side tracking, I just came across some words (some ...”

“No, not really. It's 3:55 or some such in the morning and I am unable ...”

“Except it is some system and not really a horse. I will go on and ...”

“Having no computer at home has some perks. Like getting to squeeze some quality TV ...”

“Ahh yes, it's that time of year again. Your brain tells you it's just a ...”

“Ok, the term is kinda sorta officially over. There was this rather insignificant incident near ...”

“Ahh yes, the evil term hasn't ended yet. You just freaking know the longer it's ...”

“Contrary to what I expected, my semester isn't going to be done until Monday, and ...”

“Aww fish it's 3 already.”

“It saddens me to see how so many people underestimate how much our minds can ...”

“Finally left home for a bit. Spent the last couple of days preparing myself to ...”

“It never dawned on my that there could be something as too much cheese. Unfortunately, ...”

“Spent of most of the morning organizing and sorting things. Threw out some 1.5 Kg ...”

“Yesterday was all nice and in the 50s. The sun was shining, people jogging in ...”

“Ahh yes, back at the uni and at my computer again. I doesn't really bother ...”

“reality, in the eyes of a wannabe. Downtime's good. I had more time to actually do ...”

“Feeling strangely peaceful at the moment. It's this mix of sadness and happiness and all ...”

“I just got back after seeing Moulin Rouge. I have to say it was one ...”

“This is just a bunch of notes to self. about . rewrite fluctuant with intj input to ...”

“Yet Another Blackout So here's the thing. You come all wide eyed and excited (or unmoved ...”

“Hmm, I can't help it. Since I saw an episode of the show, I've been ...”

“Been at a library all day. It felt good. Not that that's news in itself ...”

“Ok, I've idled and tried to avoid this long enough, now to get back to.. ...”

“Guess who, just guess who is on a spanking new 2.6.0-test9 Linux kernel. Where the fish ...”

“A couple of people have asked me about this and I've essentially typed up the ...”

“Yes, that's like the only way I can describe last evening. Reached home rather earlyish ...”

“I mean literally. This thing isn't due for another hour or so, and I still ...”

“I need a nap.”

“When people give you three weeks time to do something and keep hinting that it's ...”

“Oh my god. Yesterday was one of the most funnest days I have had in ...”

“I'm sad right now. It's technology's fault. Technology is evil.”

“Riding back up to north campus, I was continually greeted to the strong aroma of ...”

“(If you're seeing this and wondering what's the cause of this blog weirdness, there is ...”

“Gah! I just realized I'm almost THIRTY. Yes, 7-8 years is not a really long period ...”

“Well, I guess I lied. There were no "frequent updates". There however, has been an ...”

“Thinking about my 'not entirely high energy' state for a while, I decided to try ...”

“It's that time of year (couple of months?) again. I really want to buy something. ...”

“This would have been one of the saddest things, ever.”

“I normally don't steal too blatantly from other places. But this is important to me, ...”

“Just saw Coupling a while back, the American version. God awful. The show is so ...”

“I had been quite smart yesterday and outsmarted me by leaving my computer at work. ...”

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“I just realized I've been spending waay to much time at the uni. I mean, ...”

“I'm too tired to do too much more. Just had to, it being International Talk ...”

“A myriad of small changes forces a version number bump to v0.1.5b. The beta tag ...”

“Not been near my computers for a while. I mean, I have been, but not ...”

“I don't know what it is That makes me feel alive I don't know how to wake The ...”

“Due to, I assume, lack of entrants, this week's "Picture of the week" is mine. ...”

“It was cold today morning. No, I don't know how cold. I don't want to ...”

“I boot up, load everybody's favorite messenger, gaim, when all hell breaks loose. I get ...”

“Read and laugh, child. And you thought Malayalees sounded funny. And a link to a screeny, the ...”

“Yes, it's official. I hate it. Until now, I was a free software zealot because ...”

“Check out some of the geekiest features, ever. Rock on. And let's see what google fight seems ...”

“And here they are, as promised, in small doses. The italicized stuff are the quotes, ...”

“The recent sobig.f worm rampage has left most people with painfully slow networks and resulted ...”

“This post has been stolen from an earlier blog of mine. The post itself is ...”