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This was surprising…

I know shaving doesn’t affect how thick your beard is.

But now that I’ve shaved my beard, after letting it grow for over a month, it sure feels different.

Larping is a strange drug.

There were many times this weekend when I felt miserable, cold and generally useless. I wondered to myself exactly what the hell I was doing out at that scout camp on the coldest Victoria Day weekend ever. Wearing a feggin’ kilt, of all things.

Afterwards, though, all we could talk about was how much fun the event was and what we have planned for the next one.

Selective memory? Obviously.

Collective delusion? Possibly.

Group masochism? I have little doubt.

The “ignorant slut” crack in the comments of the post below is, of course, a reference to Saturday Night Live and is not an indication of Darth Surly’s relative ignorance or sluttiness.

(Although between you, me and the Internet, those Star Wars fans are a randy bunch.)

I’ve been writing science stories the past couple days.

That Spider-Man story? Oh, yeah. That was me.

I’ll tell you right now, ICQ2Go is not going to be good for my productivity.

ICQ on the Web that doesn’t require a program download and isn’t blocked by the CBC firewall. Yeah, that’s just what I need.

I installed Internet Explorer 6 at work yesterday and found the fonts on this page were smaller than they appear in IE 5

Could it be that *gasp* Microsoft is finally using the sizes as defined in the W3C spec, rather than their own goofy system?

Well, all it means is I have to rewrite the PHP that decides which style sheet to use to show the “proper” one to IE 6 users.

OK, one more. But I swear, this is the last one…

Which Sluggy Freelance Character Are You?

At a restaurant hours before midnight, April 30.

He: (holds up his glass) To tax evasion.

She: It’s not evasion. It’s avoision.