The Gentlemens’ Haberdashery

I keep mentioning a list of things I was going to buy after I finally got myself out of my credit card money hole.  I figured I’d put it somewhere, especially now that all my money isn’t earmarked for something in particular. (more…)

So I bought a car. I mean, it’s kind of a car. (more…)

I haven’t posted an update in a while, so here is this.  I know some of you complain that you don’t know enough about what’s happening in my life (read:  one of you complains that you don’t know enough about what’s happening in my life), so here’s a (fairly) thorough update (parenthetical statement).

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I saw Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist today.  This is convenient, because now when people ask me what kind of girls I’m into, I have a single example to which to refer them.  The Norah character is basically awesome and it is sad that she isn’t a real person.  I am okay with the level of patheticness pining after a fictional woman brings me.

… is sitting around me as I speak. I can itemize it, if you’d like. If you don’t like, you can get bent. (more…)

Every six months seems to be a good span for these things, eh? Anyway, self-imposed internet deadlines are ridiculous. Here are more short movie reviews that no one cares about. Christ, the movies from this update I watched more than a year ago. For reference, including these ones, there are 217 movies on the list. (more…)

So some of you might notice that when I am away on AIM, it often says HC, or hc, or Harvard Calls.  It might be perplexing, but the most astute of you will realize that this tends to coincide with when I sleep.  The basic gist is this:  When I was a freshman, I was taking a nap.  During my nap, I had a dream where my phone kept ringing.  In my dream, I answered it, and it turned out to be the “Harvard Collegiate Dictionary”, asking me about something or the other.  It turned out my phone really was ringing, and I eventually woke up and answered it.  Long story short, the concept of the Harvard dictionary calling me became the impetus for “Harvard Calls”, my code phrase for “I am sleeping.”  So now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

Some of you might know that for the past dozen months or so, I’ve been working on-and-off on an amateur computer game. You can read about it on its new page right here at TGH.  In general, I’ve been far more interested in doing stuff with this recently, so I’ve gotten quite a bit of the underlying architecture done.  Still very little visible content, but all the background stuff is falling into place.  Soon you might even be able to target another ship!  And maybe shoot at it!

I got a phone call this morning, and it would appear that the firm in Greensburg I interviewed with a couple weeks ago really wants me to come aboard.  I tried to play it a little coy and told her I’d take a couple days to consider it, but the only thing to really consider is when I’m going to start/where I’m going to live.  Attention Greensburg buds: I am coming back.

…are hard to get.  I technically have one, but it’s taking forever for them to let me get started on it.  It’s kind of crucial that I do so, immediately. :(  I also need a real people job.

In other news, I learned today that there is such a thing as “The Astronaut Hall of Fame”.  It seems to me that just being an astronaut should be the only criterion for entry.