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test post for 3060

2007-09-20T09:13:00.000-07:00

Hilary Anne WardEnglish 3060: Advanced Tech Writing
Assignment 1: “Infuriating by design” narrative
Description and Criteria

Text: Norman [distributed in-class on Sept. 13]
Genre: Narrative
Required length: 3-4 pages

Write a narrative (i.e. story) about the “infuriating” design problems associated with the technology adopted by your team. These design problems will help to provide a focus for your collection of hacks.

Moving to blogsome!

2007-08-14T12:13:00.000-07:00

Ok everyone, move on, nothing to see here! After 3 years @ blogger, bloggerandme has moved to the land of enhanced customizability. Update your bookmarks!

The new URL is stardotstar.blogsome.com

Please pardon the stock images while I figure out how to customize. Also, I haven't found the blogsome login page yet so there may be a slight delay before I am able to post.....

2007-07-19T09:24:00.000-07:00

Going up the wide open sidewalk Hilary thought about how many times she had defeated the building and how many times the building had won. Champion swivel doors: 1, Hilary: 0. Even the bacteria on the brass on the doors had won. The security guard wasn't sure that he could let Hilary in.

In a dream that morning she had trudged up the square square stairs and fell asleep on the edge [name deleted]'s fictional bed. Now any time [name deleted] talked there was a halo effect of the mint comforter cover to deal with. Hilary glared bravely at her reflection in the elevator doors, not knowing who might be standing there when the doors opened.

word of the day

2007-06-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

In a Sentence: Adroit is one of those combo pak vocabulary words because you get both adroit and maladroit out of one root word.

Vocabulary Word: Combo pak

Sometimes I Worry

2007-06-08T12:52:00.001-07:00

Sometimes when [name deleted] is the last person I spoke to before going to sleep and is the first person I'm going to see now that I'm up, I worry that [name deleted] and I might be spending too much time together.

At least it doesn't seem to me like we are, or ever do, but I think that there might be applicable social rule. Now you don't see me rushing to look up that rule.

Let's Just Say

2007-06-06T16:28:00.000-07:00

Let's just say that there appear to be no unwanted toppings on the pizza, although I seem be allergic to condiments.

automagically

2007-06-02T10:08:00.001-07:00

I'm feeling better this morning due to the magic of drano. Last night my bathtub water was at tsunami level, staying in place on surface tension alone. Now surface of the tub is gleaming with a coat of mild skin irritants.

...

2007-06-02T10:02:00.001-07:00

Wouldn't it be hilarious if I renamed this blog "the petri dish?".

Because I hate it when people get all Dr. Phil about not letting their problems define them. I mean, the spirit of not letting problems define you is right on point, but I just don't want to be the thousanth person to go:

I'm not letting this setback define me!

You know, like I think I'm saying something new and snappy? And then my friends would go:

Yeah, be strong.

No matter what happens, I do not have to talk like Dr. Phil. It's boring.

Example of a faulty mental model (Norman):

2007-05-15T11:07:00.000-07:00

But what if we get bored while the salad is in the oven? Hilary inquired.

not to my recollection.

2007-05-14T09:09:00.000-07:00

However, I do recall heeding the natural sorting of the leaves into random piles at the abandoned Ford-McGraw plant: phusimorphism?

...

2007-05-10T09:58:00.000-07:00

And when the doorbell tolled I realized that I am naked. At first I was trapped in a clean bathroom and then I got scared, and then bored. Now I am trapped in a dirty bathroom making a Faux Hawk in the bubble bath.

10:31:

2007-05-03T13:10:00.000-07:00

Ashen-hungry faces following you through State Hall like the crescent moon.

the hard sell

2007-04-30T11:44:00.000-07:00

Current status: Trying to get fjr to go in with me on a pair of lizards, which we would house on 10 to help control the outlaw cockroach population. It's part of my 3-step plan to suck up to Margaret.

grace

2007-04-30T11:29:00.001-07:00

Dear Thor, thank you for the shirtless man who cooks for me.

oh crap crap crap crap crap

2007-04-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

Look who has been conjured by my bad mood.

Matlock ain nothin to f^&*;> with

2007-04-23T14:44:00.000-07:00

Basically, I would describe my personality as the Wu Tang clan meets Matlock.

Wo-HOO!

2007-04-23T14:41:00.001-07:00

No fines
No tickets
No points
No court date

Your final grade in ENG 3060:

2007-04-19T14:50:00.000-07:00

"It is not born,
it does not die
having been,
it will never not be;
unborn, enduring,
constant, and primordial,
it is not killed
when the body is killed" (bhagavad gita 2.20).

how to sort messages from everyone-so-far as spam:

2007-04-17T15:17:00.000-07:00

Step 1: Click this is spam in the message header.

Step 2: Check spam options:

block messages from this sender
move message to junk folder
report spam to administrator

Step 3: Click purge deleted items to clear spam folder.

hmmm

2007-04-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

I wonder what would happen if Grendel got in a fight with some dementors.

some girls

2007-04-15T10:20:00.000-07:00

Did you know that some girls view their friends as boring placeholders to pass the time before they get a boyfriend? And he's always a mook, but she adores him, and she wears this revolting yellow ribbon in her hair that bounces as she carries out a festive snack tray while he and his buddies play poker.

Nothing makes me quite so sick as watching an All-American ponytail girl babying her mooky boyfriend.

...

2007-04-15T09:47:00.000-07:00

Ow, my bronchioles.

coming down from all the excitement,

2007-04-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

Hilary has 2 &*##%^& papers to evaluate.

guest speaker

2007-04-11T12:01:00.000-07:00

Hilary reclined on the ledge of 213 STAT as women in hijab walked in , startled, and backed away slowly.

it

2007-04-10T11:18:00.000-07:00

it's non-skid to prevent your premature death.
It's Pink Duchess Oil Sheen!
it's #2/30
it's leather but it has some give to it
it's hard to listen to you eat your doughnut
it's like smuggling a giant moose into the English dept.