2008-10-21 09:22:36: Kind of stuck in a rut like that now. Job hunt not going too well, midterms piling up left and right, and just generally no interest in working.
Usually I give myself a deadline and some music. Aka, I'm allowed to wallow for x minutes/hours, but then I have to ...
2008-06-24 19:26:01: Thirding laziness. Most websites can't be bothered to really strictly enforce their spammer policies, and spammers know they can get away with a lot of crap.
2008-03-26 10:17:28: Hee. I tend to pun a lot. And I think they (mine and others') are terrible and lower than sarcasm on the pecking order of witty things to say. But I still giggle inwardly whenever someone says one.
I guess I'm just juvenile.
2008-03-21 07:36:39: my laptop. I know it's trite, but I have copies of all my photos on there, and copies of my high school's digital yearbooks, and conversation logs.... sentimental stuff that can't be recovered, in other words.
beyond that it'd be a toss up between my guitar and my stuffed elephant.
2008-03-19 10:32:36: This question is oddly poignant in light of this entry on the Customers_Suck LJ community.
I don't have a pet. I do want to own a cat eventually - perhaps irresponsibly, as my only criteria for the desire is the fact that pictures of cats go a long way in ...
2008-03-18 21:19:49: A writer. I was so upset at my parents for trying to explain to me that you don't "become a writer" and how it's not a job etc. etc., especially since the Chinese word for writer has the same suffix that a lot of other professional positions have. If that ...
2008-03-17 13:11:21: Hmm. I feel fairly strongly about NC-17 images/videos/whatever, and threesomes. Will not do either. Dunno if that counts. Oh, and plagiarism/violating academic integrity. Drives me fucking insane to think that people could let themselves do that.
2008-03-14 07:17:19: "Politics: An Introduction" by Kenneth Minogue.
I absolutely detested reading it, and 100-odd pages took me an entire freaking week to get through.
1. He was absolutely in love with his own prose and delights in not only using obscure words that often barely make sense in context, but also ...
2008-03-04 21:00:08: I was definitely bewildered the first time I heard a "your mom" joke, as it was entirely inconceivable to me that something like that could possibly be insulting. And let's not get into the incredible wit permeating such a repartee *rolls eyes*
2008-03-04 21:03:56: @BitterOldPunk:
hahahahaha... hahah... hah. Yeah. My high school counselor, an amazing man in every other respect, tried to convince me that the "Arts and Business" arts degree at University X was just as valuable as the "Bachelor of Commerce" degree at University Y. He meant the best and wanted me ...
2008-03-04 21:07:05: I miss posting at the BBQ.
But no, most of my time has been spent either practicing for or going to the ridiculous amounts of gigs the Samba band's been scheduled for this week, or researching and writing my Politics essay. 25% of a full-year-course and I get to write ...
2008-03-04 21:12:53: I was for a while obsessed with Manga, and still sort of keep up with which titles are currently out, if not the Mangas themselves. I spent my fangirl years trying to convince other people that no, these comics really aren't for little kids.
And they aren't. I mean, if ...
2008-02-15 10:14:14: Oh. I know this one. People typing "could of, should of" instead of "could have, should have". Honestly, do people not READ? Or "I could've went" instead of "I could've gone". Ditto "I should have came" - no, you should have come. "Here here" instead of "hear hear". Something is ...
2008-02-11 09:53:29: It would proliferate the way the pot-business is, perhaps even more rigorously due to a larger number of already-addicted people.
I never understood why smoking hasn't been banned yet, apart from tradition and habit. Silly reason, but there you go.
2008-02-06 09:06:09: (I was totally going to call this out as chatfilter until I realized this was BBQ, not AskMe. Silly RSS feeds.)
The WTC is definitely the first major event that I remember, though that day was a blur of confusing. I was in grade 7. We had a school-wide lockdown around ...
2008-02-04 08:59:46: *wince* note to self. Edit more. I read the word 'pain' three times in three sentences. Ouch, Phire.
2008-02-04 08:58:24: Haha, I think to some extent a lot of hardcore traditionalists will insist on handwriting, but in the current generation, yeah, it's largely obsolete. The most that students use handwriting for now is math - no matter how good an equation editor may be, it's still not as quick and ...
2008-02-04 09:07:50: Hmm. I would definitely spend a few years living totally frugally to save up a decent nest egg/to prepare for whatever big purchases I might need in the future (car, house, etc.)
That said, I would draw, a lot. I would write, a lot. I'd play guitar, and I'd listen to ...
2008-01-30 01:19:03: I usually do the whole pros and cons thing, but I also include my emotions in that. I do agree with dbl that a lot of decisions are subconscious and that we then make up explanations that seem to 'fit' (it's exactly the topic we're discussing in Organized Behaviour right ...
2008-01-27 13:56:31: Also, does anyone use MSN Messenger? Anybody else get the... "You have received one new message from [insert name here]" and then have it not show up in your inbox? The alert stays at X New messages, but it goes away if you sign out and sign back in.
... ...
2008-01-26 13:29:13: Light and chatty is good for the weekend, I think. Something silly that we can keep talking about. The heavy fare, well, you run out of things to say pretty quickly.
2008-01-27 13:57:47: Granted, Meatbomb, but I'm talking in terms of college student living paycheck to paycheck type of not-having-enough, not the "zomg must have home theatre system for $30K now" type.
2008-01-25 09:07:15: You get to be all self-righteous about those silly rich people?
TBH, money is only insubstantial to those who already have oodles of it. I like being able to afford groceries, TYVM.
2008-01-15 06:43:58: 1. In a Western Society such as our own, the government should do enough/its best to keep as many people off the streets as it can. If people choose not to take the welfare and stay on the streets anyway, that's for them to decide. Anything beyond that is personal ...
2008-01-10 07:37:57: That depends on a lot of factors. Whether that family member had ever expressed a strong opinion towards living purely on lifesupport, for one. Whether or not they'll be in pain, for another. If they're not in pain, I'm inclined to wait a significant number of years unless they would've ...
2008-01-09 13:59:04: In the total list of "sight, touch, smell, taste, hearing", I think I would give up taste least reluctantly.
A very pithy, simplistic explanation of my choice:
Sight: I'm a visual learner, a reader, and an artist.
Smell/Touch: convey a lot of comfort when associated with certain things, and this ...
2008-01-07 11:10:48: I sort of have a couple of knee-jerk reactions to Eugenics.
First of all, one of my own personal concerns about childbearing is disability. I'm not entirely certain I am capable of loving a child who is disabled as much as I would love a healthy, clever and overall well ...
2008-01-05 22:55:26: See I don't quite understand the concept of the cocaine vaccine. If your body is altered to combat cocaine instead of accepting it, wouldn't you still go through withdrawal?
I personally would, I think. I don't like the idea of something else controlling me that completely and I'd want to eliminate ...
2008-01-21 10:13:32: Hmm. If I recall correctly it also had something to do with the way we perceive tastes. I remember the bio teacher saying that our sense of smell makes up a large portion of our perception of the taste of a food, and something in the environment (the equalized air, ...
2007-12-29 21:22:50: Yeah, the lying thing would really get me. Which is sort odd. I used to lie a lot when I was younger - it was cool to twist the truth, it was cool to get away with stuff. But there was also something really destructive about keeping people away, which ...
2007-12-31 11:42:31: I don't think I could. Not necessarily cause of some inherently idealistic views about marriage for love and love only, but because of the way my personality is. I'm far too proud to enter a relationship that was essentially based on someone else's superiority over mine, even if that superiority ...
2007-12-14 11:40:54: Usually MeFi/AskMeFi is my trump card when it comes to these things, though I also have this mildly jealous possessive streak when it comes to recommending AskMe. One of the things I like about online communities is that it's a break from the "real world", and I use that term ...
2007-12-08 08:16:54: Hmm, the tombstone question links here instead of the animal taking over the world question. Not so much an RSS feed test as a glitch, perhaps?
2007-12-06 20:50:42: I don't think credit cards should take all of the blame for this, since they are useful to many households, and it's not like "living beyond your" means is exactly a new concept. It's been around for as long as banks have, I'm pretty sure.
2007-12-02 07:50:23: A favourites system? That, and is there anway to make the font smaller/expand the column ... or get rid of the column altogether and let individual browsers do the word wrapping a la Metafilter? The narrowness is rather jarring >.>
2007-12-02 16:02:28: Favourites as in bookmarks, I guess. IIRC the pony request for a way to mark "this is good" in a thread has always been shot down at MeTa..
2008-01-02 07:26:20: I don't quite know enough technologically to answer the question, but this article seems relevant, in terms of the the available technology and infrastructure we have simply failing to be able to continue supporting the amount of information that we keep pumping into it, in the near future.
2008-01-03 21:45:52: Hah, Go Meatbomb.
Yeah, half the questions that pop up in here I look at and think "Weeeeell if I say anything I'll destroy that carefully-crafted image of a semi-educated, semi-literate middle-class citizen I've built up, SO... *twiddles thumb*"
2007-12-27 07:42:44: Oooooh. Let's put the 10K-a-year Education to use!
*ponders*
Right now Coke and Pepsi are already really ingrained in the minds of the Western populace - I worked at a fast food place and we regularly had people turning away in disgust because we only offer Pepsi products. So I wouldn't ...