Saw Star Trek. Was enthralled. Tons of fun.

^Accurate

Saw Gatsby. It looked wonderful, and was entertaining, but it was by no means great.

Really the hardest part is deciding what parts you want. As I said, its certainly the most difficult part of the process, but I wouldn't really describe it as work. Then again I deal with computers for a living and I find my job very easy. So if my work is the "work" we're describing, and...

It'll be a lot of work, but I want some longevity from it, so... XP Its not actually a lot of work. Really the hardest part is deciding what parts you want. The actual assembly+OS install probably takes >5 hours tops if you're being careful. The inside of a computer is actually way less complicated...

It doesn't feel like it's overheating,s o I might need a new graphics card, which pisses me off. Why can't laptops be like desktops and let you replace parts? *groan* I needed a laptop for school and everything worked on it fine until it got wiped. I still dont own a laptop and I got all the way th...

My beard looks good today. This is why I am happy.

Currently running the new Vampire Weekend album in heavy rotation. Digging it very much.

I just got back from Iron Man 3. It's a better finish to a trilogy than TDKR was in my opinion. Less plotholes and just more my thing. The first Iron Man is still my favorite superhero movie though. TDKR was extremely bloated, the plot holes become glaringly obvious upon repeat viewings, and it was...

Food poisoning. Yay! Thanks hospital cafeteria!

Mostly I was talking about how buck is no more strange than quid, and how it was weird that people sometimes aren't able to make the connection.

The most common terms are "quid" which means pound, (so twenty quid is £20), a fiver or a tenner (£5 or £10) and a grand, which is £1000. This always used to confuse people when my family moved to the States from Ireland, and I have no idea why. People in the US say "buck" as in...

Phone interview tomorrow morning with a charter school in Oakland for my upcoming Defense Against the Dark Arts class (English). Exciting.