I left a voice mail for the resident manager at around 10:51 a.m. She returned my call at 12:57, and told me they would replace the ceiling fan right away, but the A/C would have to wait until the next day or maybe later in the week, depending on the availability of repairmen. I arrived home around 6:30 to find, indeed, a brand-new ceiling fan, more modern and much quieter than the old one, complete...

It's not enough that my personal life is in a shambles. (So what else is new?) A few weeks ago, a bookcase in the library fell over, falling on and breaking the free-standing fan I keep there. No problem; there's still the AC in the hallway ceiling, and the living room ceiling fan. Then on Saturday, the AC, which had been dripping condensation slightly, began to issue forth a stream of water. (Fortunately...

... with LJ last night. Something was preventing my post from appearing, and that's all there is to it. I can't believe that all of my friends here are so callous and thoughtless that they would just ignore me completely. They are all so much better than that! I am painfully aware that my life is an endless string of disappointments of this sort, and that it must be tiresome and a chore to read...

As part of a general housecleaning/winnowing of kipple, I've been going through boxes and boxes and boxes of belongings. I came across an interesting artifact from, I think, near the end of 1987. I had come home from work one day to find that my then-girlfriend (who had failed to join the workforce herself) had rendered the below on the phone-message pad: The reference is to the Riddle Scene from...

In IMAX, yet, at the AMC in Burbank. I took a vacation day so I could see it on opening day (or what was supposedly opening day, anyway), since so many people I know saw previews and I wanted to avoid hearing spoilers from them. Naturally, my own spoilers are hidden behind this cut. First, assuming that Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D., Ph.D. won't be reading this right away, the first spoiler: It was mind...

It's possible you've been shown this by several people already. But then, it's worth the chance. Credit edgreen86 with bringing it to my attention by posting it on his own LJ.

Can you guess? I will say, however, that I'd rather look at his grave than that of Dr. Sigmoidoscope.

This is for you.

The geek media are starting to weigh in over this thing (for example last night's "South Park"). Thanks to Paul Ilechko, who pointed this out to me.

I've been finding Facebook more and more interesting lately, and LiveJournal less and less so. That's just the way it is. So I'm going to be spending more time and effort there. My recent hissy fit about WastePail09 is a symptom of this, not the (or even a ) cause. The recent rise in weeping and wailing just threw into relief the fact that I'm having much more fun on Facebook, and somewhat less...