I use my keyboard a lot. I don’t just mean for typing up poems or homework or editing my book. I use it for all those spiffy little shortcut commands like Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and the function keys and especially the delete button. I like to use the number pad a lot, and I’m a huge fan of just using the backspace key to go back in webpages. Opera has this little feature where pressing Continue reading
Author Archives: Erando
40 teas
It’s official: I’m a tea feind. Yesterday evening while taking a break from DnD, I came up from the basement to fix a mug of tea. I started pulling various types of tea out of the cupboard over the stove, trying to decide what I was in the mood for while also taking into consideration the methods of making tea that I had at my disposal. I finally settled on a second-flush darjeeling from Adagio Continue reading
100 things
Being unable to think of anything else to post but wanting to post something, I decided to go through my old files on the server from the old page to see what sorts of crap I had there and what crap I could put back up here. I came across my list of “100 things” about me. Now I’m updating it because a few things are out of date or have changed since then. Most of you already know Continue reading
Joints
When Ian and I moved, somewhere in the shuffle (or even before), we lost my favorite yoga tape. The tape was one of the few reasons why we bought a cheapy VCR. At our apartment, there really wasn’t enough room to do yoga anyway because the living room was so tiny. At the new place, there’s tons of room, but no tape. So last Friday when Ian and I went out for our Continue reading
Early poem
I really need to keep a pad of paper tacked to the wall near the bed so I can reach it easily while I’m lying there trying to fall asleep and instead keep coming up with great ideas for my novels or for poems. I woke up this morning around four and went to the bathroom, figuring that that was what was waking me up. I just switched out the blue and pink towels for white and green ones, Continue reading
I hate crowds
No, this isn’t the rant I was talking about this morning. This is in response to lunch in the Commons with the throngs of other ISU students, staff and faculty. First off, before I begin my laundry list of problems with crowds, I need to point out that I should start bringing in my lunch every day to try and avoid the aforementioned crowds. That being said, here’s my list of gripes against crowds. Continue reading
I had a point earlier…
I had a point I wanted to go over earlier, but do I want to make it right now? At eight in the morning, I had even formulated a sort of mental outline of the way I would construct this rant, delineating major points and even adding in some examples. I had a goal and I had the drive to do it, but then work set in and I realized I needed to get my weekly mass e-mail out to my students Continue reading
More comics on the links page, as if I need them
I added some more comics to the links page like the title explains. Most of them are syndicated comics with newspapers and such, and there’s one webcomic tossed in there as well. The webcomic I had been archiving for a couple weeks intermitently, and I just finished it off yesterday morning to add to my links page. The syndicated ones don’t require much (or any) archiving Continue reading
Sister’s blog
That’s the translation to an article which mentions my big sis’ blog. Spiffy, huh? The translation’s not that great, but it’s better than Babelfish or whatever other web-based translators there are out there. I figure that I need to keep up on my French anyway since it has been quite a while since I’ve taken a French class. What else am I going to do with my major? As it is, the article is in Continue reading
Magic wands
Yesterday in Univ 101 while talking about resources available on campus, I was talking about tutoring and how there’s no magic wand to wave to fix their grades if they come in a week before finals without having bought the book or having gone to only half the classes. I got to thinking about how funny the idea of a magic wand would be for the office since we already have the “Pick Continue reading