Wasted time on the internet

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I think we’ve all been here. I have been reading too much of the Dallas Mavs blogs over the last few weeks staying up on trade rumors, reading public opinion on deals, and keeping my finger on the pulse of the mavs fandom. This is of course a complete waste of time. [...]

Shameless Birthday Present Mongering

Someone’s got a birthday coming up in only 2.5 months (and a wedding two weeks later). If anyone is out there, scratching his or her head, thinking, “What can I get John to make his birthday the very best one ever?”, look no further. This soccer jersey, while not the greatest thing in [...]

Church of Ceiling Cat

All hail ceiling cat, creator of the heavens and the earth. For anyone who hasn’t been clicking on my links to LOLCats, first look at those. Then follow this link to the LOLCat bible; this is a wiki effort that I found through Sage’s blog. They are rewriting the entire Bible into [...]

Getting sick

I’m not feeling so good today.  I’m definitely coming down with some sort of head cold.  When I woke up, all I could feel was phlegm draining down my throat.  Freaking awesome.  Other than that though things are going well.  I finally got my oil changed in my car yesterday.  I was only like 3000 [...]

Licorice is so good

I’m up at Winan’s right now, and they have their Easter jellybeans out.  I couldn’t resist a nice sized bag of licorice jellybeans, and they do in fact go very well with a nice big mug of coffee.  I’m about to start reading John Ray’s Three physico-theological treatises and will continue to pop jellybeans while [...]

Sappy silly post

Enter the ICHC online Poker Cats Contest!

The In-laws

We went up to see Lisa’s dad and step-mom today and discuss wedding planning with them.  We were pretty worried, because they seem to be operating under a different set of assumptions than us.  They had also picked out a different officiant than us, and we were nervous that they would stick to their pick.  [...]

Lots of Blogs

I’ve been spending more of my time than I probably should looking around in the blogosphere for more HSCI blogs.  History News Network has a long list of blogs, including several that I have listed here, but there are many more out there.  My friend Sam Spence just started his own, Future of Our [...]

Mentally barren

I haven’t had a coherent thought in like 2 days now. I wrote a section of my thesis Thursday night, and I’m not sure that I’ve regained consciousness since. I had thought for a while that my undergraduate days would be the end of me: playing video games 24/7, drinking too much, never [...]

Thesis Work

I’m writing (or should be) the Salem part of my thesis right now.  For those of you who don’t want to go back a few posts to my Salem trip log, I’ll give a quick recap.  I went to the Salem Athenaeum to look at their collection from Richard Kirwan’s library.  I was hoping to [...]