Big Five Personality Test
Drug Use & Learning
I’ve repeatedly said that chronic substance abusers are slow learners. Now there’s a study to back up my impression: Scientific American: Drug Use Impairs Ability to Learn from Future Experiences
Happy Birthday KeiraCaitlyn!
Happy Birthday to keiracaitlyn! Marvelous quote from starrchilde: The gloom of the world is but a shadow; Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. –Fra Giovanni
Various Geeky Bits
Sam wants a way to be notified by email when certain people update their journals. I think that would be nifty. I found one entry in lj-nifty talking about Bloglet, but 1) that requires that the journal owner subscribe and…
Miscellany
SCORPIO—EXPERIENCE—”I base my view of reality on personal experience more than popular opinion. I honor and embrace the life lessons that are ever expanding who I am.” I have a migraine. It’s the first one in a while. I hate…
Books & Pagans
Home now! We went by Border’s on the way home, as we’d promised shadowkatt a visit there. sambear, then I were shanghaied into the Town Center Border Pagans meeting by grizzlydan. I wasn’t expecting that at all, but seeing folks…
School & Book Notes
Note to self: WEAR SHORTS TOMORROW YOU IDIOT! It’s ridiculously hot in this room, and I have another class here tomorrow night. This whole building just doesn’t have good air circulation, period. I hate being cold, but at least in…
Homework
So we got some of my books today, and will order the rest at Border’s so I can use the 20% educators’ discount we get as homeschoolers. I have four chapters to read before my 6pm class, so I’d best…
More Hard Drive Woes
So yes, fixed the MBR on my hard drive. I used the disk utility that came with the drive when we bought it 3 years ago—one victory for being a packrat! 😉 I ended up having to do a low-level…
MBR Problems
Grrr. The master boot record on my hard drive is screwed up. That’s a first for me, in over a decade of working with PCs.