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I’m Gorbulas Frumblefoot of Scary, aka Aranel Nénmacil.

Yes, I know… No entry for yesterday. Give me a break… I double posted for the last few days before that, right? Anyway, I was busy installing some new hardware in my work machine, and then we headed off for the huge movie get together, so by the time I was thinking of posting yesterday it was already almost today…

So.

Return of the King. Not a bad movie…
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So, I’m back at work today… I woke up late last night to the realization that I was absolutely famished. This was a good sign that I was recovering. The fact that I’ve kept the food down is even better. Illness has not yet left the house though… My wife is down with, I hope, a milder version of what I had. Maybe I softened it up before handing it off to her for the coup de grace.

None of which has anything to do with plastic feet. That’s a bit of work related oddness.
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Lore Sojberg has updated his old Cyborg Name Generator and given it a site of its own… He’s also done something freaking brilliant by hooking it through Cafepress, so now you can get a shirt or a mug with your cyborg name and character on it.

So, I’ve been sick as a dog all day… Actually, I’ve been worse. I guess that’d make me as sick as whatever the dog caught it’s original illness from. Or something. All I know is that my bucket and my bathroom are my friends.

And telemarketers are not.
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Right now my left hand and my right hand are at polar disagreement with my brain… I’m working on a new laptop and the keyboard setup is different than what I’m used to. Y’see, early this year I started to notice some twinges in my wrists, a possible precursor to carpal tunnel badness… So I did some poking around into improving laptop ergonomics and switched my machine over to a Dvorak keyboard. I even swapped the key caps around so that I could look down and see what it was that I was writing. It took a bit of getting used to, especially since I was switching back and forth between Dvorak and QWERTY depending on which computer I was at, but so far it seems to have done the trick… My aches and pains have receded.
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Why do so many math story problems have trains leaving Chicago? Seriously, in some strange alternate universe created and influenced by the writers of math textbooks, there exits a Chicago with no trains left in it… All of them have departed for other cities at a rate of 60 MPH…

Got a little bit of Christmas shopping done last night… Mostly it involved looking around some of the boutique shops near the Michigan Theatre and seeing what they had that might be cool to get for people, then going somewhere less trendy that has the same thing for half the price. One of the perils of a college town is that the shops nearest to campus tend to inflate prices astronomically, mostly because they know that they’ve got a captive audience with little experience in handling a personal budget.
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We just (as in about an hour ago) had a home-smoked fish dinner from a recipe that my wife found in a “Food of China” book. It was really quite tasty, but we’re probably never going to make it again.
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From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.