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Environment
  • Sight: The Two Towers, The Punch
  • Sound: best of Willie Nelson, best of Bond Films
  • Touch: Mark of Kri, Roadside Rescue
  • Taste: Mountain Dew
  • Smell: smells like Back to Work
  • Virtual: Fark, TMOL

    Book List 2002
  • Live From New York, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
  • Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Greg Rucka and Ed Bruebaker
  • Long Bomb: How the XFL Became TV's Biggest Fiasco, Brett Forrest
  • JLA: Tower of Babel, Mark Waid et al
  • The Archer's Tale, Bernard Cornwell
  • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
  • Narcissus in Chains, Laurell K. Hamilton
  • A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain
  • ** A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Madeleine L'Engle
  • ** A Wind in the Door, Madeleine L'Engle
  • ** A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Leper of Saint Giles: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters
  • Pyramids, Terry Pratchett
  • ** Halloween, Curtis Richards
  • Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain
  • ** Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, Martin Gardner
  • Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman
  • Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students, Anders Henriksson
  • What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, Robert L. Wolke
  • Would You Rather?, Justin Heimberg, David Gomberg
  • The Descent, Jeff Long
  • St. Peter's Fair: The Fourth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters
  • Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
  • ** The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • American Gods, Neil Gaiman
  • The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Monk's Hood: The Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters
  • A Kiss of Shadows, Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft
  • Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, Michael Moore
  • Detachment Bravo, Richard Marcinko
  • Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World, Walter Mosley
  • Eric, Terry Pratchett
  • The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkein
  • The Bear and the Dragon, Tom Clancy
  • Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
    ** -- previously read

    Book List 2001

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  • Thursday, September 27, 2001
    Jules and I watched the premiere of Enterprise last night, and I was glad to see that it wasn't a train wreck. The opening credits were great, if you don't mind the faux-Rod Stewart.

    I guess the thing I liked about the show was that, tho it was in the Star Trek universe, it was so different -- not just in the show, but in things like the music, titles, etc. Granted, it's just the pilot, and as Dann said there was a pretty big formulaic element to it... my hope is that when it goes into episodic formula mode that it doesn't lose anything in the process. I'll keep watching for now.

    I wish I'd of been able to see Mer go crazy about the use of the name "Rigel" tho...


    Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    I'd been sick over the last coupla days, but not much has been happening anyways, other than the continuing deterioration of our box spring. I whooped up on my opponent in fantasy football, and I'll make another effort to get through Melville again.


    Thursday, September 20, 2001

    Acts of Gord -- Man, if I ever cash out here at the U and run a video game store, this will be me.


    Wednesday, September 19, 2001
    I had a dream last night that Julie had been duplicated. Amazingly enough, I couldn't get either of them to do what I wanted!


    Monday, September 17, 2001
    Busy lately. Here's the highlights:

  • Over the weekend Jules and I made our annual trip to the Michigan Renaissance Festival, which unfortunately is becoming more and more like 'White Trash Disneyland'. (I should trademark that phrase.) We saw Don Juan y Miguel (excellent as always) and then my lovely wife strongarmed me into buying a winter hat that makes me look like a Cossack. Maybe I'll get a picture of it soon.

  • I Gave My Cat an Enema. No, not me, some other guy. You have to love Cafepress for letting anyone with an idea and an image sell product.


  • Thursday, September 13, 2001
    Revamped original Resident Evil for Nintendo Gamecube

    HOLY CRAP. I may need to get a Gamecube just on general principle. Check out the graphics, especially the manor interiors.


    Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    Let the games go on

    Couldn't have put it better myself.


    Tuesday, September 11, 2001
    Grapefruit's doing better. We give her just enough meds mixed in with wet cat food that she won't balk at it. She's less paranoid as well.

    The big news today, of course, is the terrorist attack in DC and New York -- check any media sites for more info. Upon learning about it, and seeing the footage, I will admit to feeling very concerned and scared as I made my way to work. I guess we should have seen something like this coming; America is very secure in our status on the planet that we think this could never happened.

    Now it has. The thing that worries me is what happens next. Obviously we need to go after who did this, but can we prevail without pushing our world towards armageddon, or moving towards living in a world where every day is filled with uncertainty?

    I'm going to go home soon and hug my wife for a long, long time.


    Thursday, September 06, 2001
    I have a cat, and her name is Grapefruit. Grapefruit has an allergy to something in our townhouse that makes her lick (itch) at spots on her belly, which become lesions after a time.

    She can get shots that clear the problem up, but it's not good for her to have that more than twice or so a year. So the vet has prescribed pills for her to take to accomplish the same thing. However, she's just not having any of this pill stuff.

    What Julie and I have been forced to do is capture Grapefruit and mush her pills in CatSip, then feed this into her mouth with an eyedropper. However, this has also made her totally paranoid around either of us, fearing she'll be hijacked at any moment. This is not the kind of life that I envisioned for my cat.

    I can't just leave the medicated food out for her to eat, because it's more likely that the bully in the house will eat her medication before she does. So I guess the only thing left to do is to get Grapefruit good and hungry, then mix the meds in with a tiny amount of wet food. Unless anyone has any better ideas.


    Tuesday, September 04, 2001
    I haven't had much time to post anything lately because work is getting crazy with the return of students to campus, but this weekend was a sorely needed respite from the insanity here at work.

    What did I do?

    Well, I got a whole bunch of home-related stuff done. I modifed a handmade shelf by knocking one plank out of it, then repainting so it would hold my books a bit easier. I filled the propane tank on our new grill and made steaks for Labor Day yesterday. I played a lot of Diablo 2 Expansion and just got started on Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for the Playstation 2 (which finally has some titles to justify the 300 bucks it cost to get). Plus it's football season again.

    But now I'm back here at work, trying to help people, railing against a DSL service that we provide for fraternities and sororities (get this -- they advertise this service as being perfect for such houses, yet to use it for everyone there, they need to use it in a way that isn't supported. Thus the users are pissed and rightfully so, and they get angry at the help desk and we look bad.), taking a compliment from the odd nice caller... urgh. It'll slow down in a week or so, but right now, it's not cool. If you don't hear from me in a while, all of the above is why.