Tag Archives: rants

Dragon Age and credential grumblings

Published: 16 August 2010
What have I been up to these past weeks? Playing a lot of Dragon Age: Origins and Awakening on my PS3, that’s what. Well, that and working. Neither of which leads to much discussion, so I haven’t written here and I’ve not emailed my parents as much, causing them to wonder [...]
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the hunt for a decent cake mix

Published: 13 June 2010
Talking with Poonam last night, she said she was on her way to a party and was bringing cupcakes. Cupcakes! I hadn’t made cupcakes in years, and the thought of getting sprinkles and icing all over Jon’s clean, new kitchen was too irresistible to pass up. When searching through the grocery store [...]
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fuzzy animal photos and a rant about Indian restaurants

Published: 3 May 2010
My finals are tomorrow, and then this semester will be over! I’m going to take a visit home to my parents’ house soon and, boy, am I excited because they have had new ducklings and kittens born while I was away: Despite what it looks like, I don’t think my dad was poking the kittens [...]
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why I hate shopping

Published: 8 April 2010
I just got back from a run to Target. Buying things like toilet bowl cleaner and a shower liner were easy tasks, but when it came to finding the object that made me decide on Target over Meijer or some other store in the first place, it was a pain in the neck. [...]
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apartment + cable deals suck

Published: 9 March 2010
In searching for apartments, I found one place that I was really pleased with. It was in my price range; had a dishwasher, washer, and dryer in every apartment; and was in a generally pleasant area of town. I just found out that they’re working out an agreement with a local cable company [...]
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cheap apartment not worth the rent increase

Published: 28 February 2010
I’m so annoyed right now. I found posted in the hallway of my apartment several copies of the same notice saying that rent would be going up at the end of everyone’s lease. The rent for one bedroom apartments is only going up “by $55″ and we’ll somehow get “FREE high speed internet [...]
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the pain of Facebook application development

Published: 2 February 2010
For the past few days, I’ve been trying to create a Facebook application for interacting with Github. I hoped to spend my time mainly on the Github portion, figuring out how to post wall posts on Facebook about recent Github activity, etc. However, I’ve instead argued with the various Facebook APIs. I [...]
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TurboTax fail

Published: 28 December 2009
I received in the mail the other day a TurboTax install CD with an offer for free filing of federal and state tax returns. Neat, I thought, and I was initially under the impression that they were giving me TurboTax for free. Nope, turns out I still have to pay $60 for it, [...]
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why I’m not a dog lover

Published: 21 December 2009
I was just reading Rose’s post about her mom’s dog being mean toward male guests and it reminded me that I had aimed to write a post about why it is that I don’t really like dogs. I stayed at Jon’s aunt’s house a few days ago and they had two indoor dogs. [...]
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inflexible Adobe

Published: 8 December 2009
Wow, Adobe doesn’t make things convenient for you. I just called about their $199 offer for Photoshop CS4 for students, hoping that I could use it on my Mac or in Windows and perhaps be restricted to using only one at a time, but no. I can download it for Mac or Windows, [...]
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