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The Maple Leafs have placed Mike Komisarek on injured reserve because of a quadriceps injury and expect to be without their hard-hitting defenseman for up to three weeks.

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FORT HOOD, TX—Following Army psychologist Nidal Malik Hasan's shooting rampage on the Fort Hood military base last week that left 13 people...

Sleep
Got home last night. Made dinner. We didn't eat until around 10:30. After eating I went to lie down. Matthew drew me a bath. People, I was TOO TIRED TO GET INTO IT. Do we think I'm working too hard? Hell yeah. So I slept and slept and woke up between 2 and 3 I think because I was too tired to keep sleeping and slept some more and had a dream about reinventing mathematics or something? On my way back from a beach trip? It didn't make a lot of sense. And got up at 8 and was all "Hey, there's a bath here!" but it was cold, because a bathtub is not a giant Thermos bottle. So I tutored my way awake and then Matthew drew me another nice warm bath and I got clean and shaved and all that stuff that makes me feel like I have things together.

Classes
It looks like my classes are running about 15 minutes short today, which is nice for a change. I have decided to let this happen. We are getting into some tough concepts and starting something new and so I'm trying to do lots of problems and reinforcement. Hopefully it will work.

Outlook
Better than yesterday. Yesterday I was very very down on a lot of levels. Today I am not Up Up Up but I feel less like imploding.

From Here
I have four hours of Kaplan tutoring. I will probably think brilliant thoughts on the drive down from Cortland and then forget them all. I wish I were being more entertaining, because trust me, I'm way more fun to be with when I'm feeling entertaining.

Also
Best misspelling ever(ish), from someone else's locked post -- whore d'oeuvres. Reading that kind of made my morning, even more than the bath.

Got this from a friend. It's a point-by-point smackdown of all the 2012 foolishness in a handy graphic form, with 2012 mythology on one side, and real scientific & archaeological data on the other: Information is beautiful: 2012, skeptics vs believers.

I think my favorite section is the first one where they point out that the Maya actually have several different Long Count calendars, and that the only reference to 2012 ever found is on a stele from an area that used a 20 baktun cycle rather than the 13 baktun cycle the doomsday theorists tout. This is why primary sources are your friend. &hearts

Why does this bug me so much? Well, a lot of reasons. The main one is because I work with Maya and Aztec art at the museum (that's the Ceramic ID Project y'all have heard me babble about in the past), so I've done a fair bit of reading on the subject. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I hatehatehate seeing these cultures misrepresented by charlatans out to make a fast buck by exploiting both the general public's fear of the unknown and their ignorance of Mayan beliefs. It offends me, both as a scholar and a skeptic. My job is to educate the public with historical facts, and these idiots make it really hard to do my job by spreading all this BS misinformation.

You know, I think I'm going to suggest to my boss that we do a 2012 Fact vs Fiction display to put up in Ethnography along with various Mayan artifacts from our collection.

~ I don't know what the hell The Prisoner is about, but I know it had BETTER SHOW UP ONLINE IMMEDIATELY UPON AIRING. Man alive, I still love me some Jim Caviezel, crazy Jesus talk and all. Combine him with Ian McKellen, and you have must see tv.

~ Oh, NPR, never stop being awesome. The Ben Gibbard/Jay Farrar show at the 9:30 Club I didn't go to last month? Available for streaming online, courtesy of All Songs Considered. It's kind of a yawner, so I'm glad I didn't blow $40 on a ticket & parking :X

~ Huddy has re-upped with the Braves for another 3 years. No word on whether that includes a no-trade, but I would imagine so, since he gave them a hometown discount. I never see him with the Braves, but I'm happy that he's happy. And pitching.

~ Dollhouse has been cancelled. Quelle surprise.

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BOSTON—The move is the band's most radical shift in economic policy since its experiment as a drug-trafficking cartel and a brief merger with Run-DMC.

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Everyone goes through a hard patch at some point. Even if you watch every penny, all it takes is an unexpected layoff or a sudden medical crisis,...

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WASHINGTON—Diehard fans of H.R. 2651 charged the floor of the Senate chamber Tuesday after their bill, a 14-vote underdog nicknamed the...

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News In Photos

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President Barack Obama leaves for Japan Thursday, kicking off a nine-day diplomatic visit to Asia that will include four days in China. What do...

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WANTAGE, NJ—Acting on anonymous tips from within the Hispanic-American community, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials deported Luis Miguel Salvador Aguila Dominguez, who for the last 48 years had been living illegally in the United States under the name Lou Dobbs.

Short babble, followed by light spam, because my right eye is on fire and I nearly blew out a lung during the shootout:

• Fucking Barker. Fucking fucking motherfucking Barker. Fuck. I don't care about that goal, or how pretty it was, because he will never in a million seasons replicate it, or even come close, and that goal was the only reason I didn't barf all over myself thinking about how bad he is in his own zone. The CI stat sheet has had him listed as "Turnstile" since the second week of the season, goddamn motherfucking Barker. Shape up, son. You're making old man Sopes look good in comparison right now.


• Fucking Buff. Motherfucker. Etc. I also thought Steeger had an exceptionally bad game.


• Snakebitten...ness apparently only takes effect in regulation. I love how Sharpie, in the postgame interview, was like, "I was focusing more on puck control this time, rather than the shot." YEAH THAT SEEMS TO WORK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE THE PUCK UNDER CONTROL. KEEP DOING IT.
  
  Speaking of Sharpie,
  
  
  WHAT THE MOTHERFUCK IS THIS
  
  Don't even get me started on the terrible autotune dub job.


• HIS LITTLE FACE AT THE END OF THE POSTGAME INTERVIEW!
  
  
  
  Quit your judging. First Colorado goal aside, he was great tonight.


• As promised, for gottalooksharp, ( photos from warmups. +39 OOPS, also stats. )

BLAAAAFHRRRRRGUUUGH SLEEP

( My twitters for the day )
 

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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ—Though the the Chargers dealt the Giants a crushing fourth consecutive loss Sunday, running back Ahmad Bradshaw admitted...

Fandom: Highlander
Pairing: Duncan/Methos, Duncan/Tessa, Duncan/Amanda
Length: ~6500
Author on LJ: mmmchelle
Author Website: Chelle's Nightstand
Why this must be read: It's difficult to pick just one of Chelle's fics to rec, but this one is my favorite. This is a bittersweet and angsty au, where Duncan meets Methos about 175 years earlier than he does on the show. Chelle begins this with Methos meeting up with Duncan and Tessa under his cover of a Watcher and introduced by Joe. It follows with Tessa's eventual death and Methos rushing to comfort Duncan and the aftermath to that. This is the story of a Methos who is in love with Duncan and does what he can to make Duncan's life better. This is a Duncan who doesn't quite know what he wants or needs, but does know that Methos makes him feel better. And in the end, this is the story where Duncan realizes that he waited too late to figure out what Methos needs from him. With strong appearances by Tessa, Joe and Richie and a cameo by Amanda this is not a happy love story. It is still powerful and full of strong emotions.

( snippet )


Holes

This t-shirt is interesting:( Read more... )

If you were to create a piece of clothing to aid in surviving not just a Zombie emergency but the aftermath, what would you put on it? Could we as a community create such a concise shirt?

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Chris Clark scored the deciding goal in the 11th round of the shootout, and backup goalie Semyon Varlamov came on in relief and carried the Washington Capitals to a 5-4 comeback victory over the New York Islanders.

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WANTAGE, NJ—Acting on anonymous tips from within the Hispanic-American community, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials deported Luis Miguel Salvador Aguila Dominguez, who has been living illegally in the United States under the name Lou Dobbs for 48 years.