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This is so awesome, my geekness exploded. (And not just because the article used pics from the Doctor Who episode "Being Human.") You should all endeavor to do something awesome with your Leap Second tonight. Make a wish. Make it a good one. Tweet

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Oh, FUN.

On this, the last morning of 2008, I have made a brilliant discovery that will affect the rest of my life forever: Wheat is one of my migraine triggers. If you’d like to know more about migraines (and some of the foods that are major triggers), you can read about them online (like here). Dr. Theda also highly recommends…

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My Haiku

I used nihilistic_kid ‘s haiku generator and came up with this one for me: odd people roamingthe grounds what a wonderfulmagical place this I like it. Here’s the link if you want to make your own! Tweet

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Happy Days Meme Five

Technically it’s not "day five" anymore, but who’s counting? I’ll still make it to eight. Thing that made me happy today: irony. I realized, after going over my exhaustive list of movies this weekend (while on the crosstrainer at the gym working off all those sausage balls), that 1.) most of the films I watched were period pieces which…

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It’s All Soteria’s Fault

For Christmas, my sister (who owns this place) sent me a bunch of DVDs. So instead of waking up Saturday morning and calling my family and thanking them properly for my gifts, I finished PS, I Love You (the book) curled up on the couch, and hid from the world for 48 hours…well, until Kelli Dunlap called me and…

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Happy Days Meme: Day Four

Merry Christmas, everyone! What made me happy today: Emily. She’s certainly not the only thing that made me happy today — phone calls from family and far away friends, meeting Mary Robinette’s grandmother, the infamous centenarian, and feasting on homemade pickles and sausage balls while Mary and I sat on the well in the sunshine. It’s Christmas, after all,…

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Happy Days meme: Day Three

The "best" way I’ve found so far of curling my hair has been sleeping in perm rollers with newly-dry just-after-a-shower hair. The unfortunate thing is that these are twenty-year-old perm rollers, so the ones that don’t tear half my hair out end up breaking when the elastic loses to the strain of too many years. Last night I stopped…

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Happy Days meme: Day Two

Thing that made me happy today: caffeine. Which reminds me…what exactly *is* on the end of the Starbucks swizzle stick? Is this a mermaid with a cup of coffee? Really? Is she flying? Coffee doesn’t steam underwater… Discuss. Tweet

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You’ve Been Idolized

The iPunk Team here at Ingram was having waaaaaay too much fun yesterday…and the virtual soundtrack was Billy Idol. For your musical earworm enjoyment, my dear friend Hampton Ryan brings to us the Idolized version of "White Christmas": Hey little Santa what have I done?Hey little Santa I’m a good one.Hey little Santa I want a supermanHey little Santa…

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