Stolen from actourdreams :
Post the first sentence from the first post of each month (I was a bit liberal with the definition of sentence).

January
My family and I went up to Illinois for Christmas.
February
So, I'm doing my Digital Music homework.
March
So, I was going to listen to music I have on my laptop.
April
Beard hats!
May
2 hours of sleep
June
I'm in Northampton/Easthampton, and finally have a room (in Easthampton).
July
My brother's school apparently has dorms made of wow.
August
My birthday is Sunday, and I'll be in Northampton/Easthampton.
September
My parents are coming, so I may be a bit scarce at mealtimes-I'll be eating out, since they're paying.
December
So, I have 3 pounds of shrimp, which can serve around 6 people, including me.

I appear to have moved from mostly contentless introductions, to phrases, to announcements. At least I've posted at least once each month, which is new.

Just so people who haven't heard know, I will be on my grandmother's wireless for a while starting tomorrow, so my Internet presence will be low. I'll try and post again when I have good internets again.

So, I have 3 pounds of shrimp, which can serve around 6 people, including me. I thought it might be good to make it tomorrow for dinner. Would anybody be interested/be willing to provide a kitchen? Would a different time be better (would have to be Sunday, the shrimp only keeps for so long and I won't have time during the week)? Let me know! I can adjust the spiciness.

Here is my master list of browsers for the mac. I've seen lots of roundups claiming to mention every mac browser, which clearly don't. Except for Chromium, SeaMonkey, and the non-Songbird comedy options, all of these are installed on my computer. Let me know if you know of any I missed.

Safari - Comes with your mac. Very quick and slick, but a little lightweight in features. Currently my backup browser (for when something doesn't work right in one browser, or I don't want to deal with sessions)

Firefox - I'm pretty sure that you've heard of this. Used to be my primary browser. Very customizable.

Opera - A really nice, very slick browser that has lots of features that are only available through extensions, such as bookmark syncing across machines, and "Speed Dial", which opens up when you open a tab and gives you 9 (or more) spaces to put frequently used bookmarks. Also features things which to my knowledge are not available for Firefox, such as "turbo" mode which compresses things on the Opera servers before sending them to you when you're using a slow connection. It has previews of all your tabs when you double click the tab bar, or when you're cycling through your tabs using option-tab. There is an option to draw a line where the previous bottom of the screen was when you are hitting spacebar/page down/etc. to scroll, but hit the bottom of the page, so it doesn't scroll down a full page (good for finding your place again). Also, the themes available seem much nicer. In short, it has a lot of really nice features integrated, some of which are not available in vanilla Firefox, all while being much faster/less hard on the computer than Firefox. This is currently my main browser.

Shiira - A browser based on WebKit, the base of Safari. Used to be very nice, better than Safari and my backup browser, but hasn't had a release in a while and is falling behind (especially with Safari 4 released). Has visual tabs and such, though I'm not nearly as fond of its implementation as I am with Opera (either they're on or off, no easy situational switch or preview when switching tabs).

Demeter - A browser based on Shiira, sadly discontinued. Was my backup browser for a while, then it stopped working for some reason. Basically added bugfixes and minor refinements. Was quite nice in its day, but hasn't even been updated to the most recent version of Shiira.

Omniweb - A web browser thats been around for a bit, but used to cost money (the company decided to focus on other stuff, so they made it free). Reasonably nice, with visual tabs (this seems to be a popular thing with "alternate" web browsers). One unique feature is that it checks for updates on your bookmarks.

iCab - Has been around longer than Safari. I used it before I had OSX, and to my knowledge it is still the best option for pre-OSX macs. Brings back memories. Has been updated to be a reasonable modern browser.

Camino - A mac optimized version of Firefox. I'd use it more, but in terms of Firefox-based things, I care more about extensions than integration.

Flock - Another Firefox-based browser, this one integrates social networks. I tried it, but I found I preferred to just use the web interfaces of social networks.

Sunrise - Another webkit-based browser. This one has visual bookmarks and the ability to take full-page screenshots (what I keep it around for).

SeaMonkey - A continuance of the now discontinued Mozilla Suite, what Mozilla did before firefox. Has a browser, email client, IRC chat etc. I haven't tried this one, although I do have Mozilla Suite due to stupid compatibility issues with UTD's Moodle equivalent. I don't really have a need for a suite - I prefer independent programs.

Chromium - Early efforts at Chrome for the mac. I haven't actually tried this one; from what I hear, it's still very rough and incomplete, which is backed up by the downloads page (which I had to get the link to from an external website). I probably won't take a look until it's a bit more finished.

Stainless - Inspired by Google Chrome and its multi-processyness, this is incomplete browser with some promise. Features parallel sessions, where you can be logged into more than one account on a website at a time. Haven't used this much yet.


Comedy options:
Songbird - Based on Firefox, actually a music player, but it does have a built-in browser, which is good for downloading music (a panel at the bottom lists all the mp3s linked to by a page), but I'm not sure why you'd use it as your main web browser.

Lynx - A text-based web browser, for when you need a web browser in your terminal and don't need things like tables, pictures, or frames

W3m - Another text-based browser. Runs in emacs, for when your hot-keys just aren't confusing enough. Plus, it does tables! Wow!

My parents are coming, so I may be a bit scarce at mealtimes-I'll be eating out, since they're paying. I'll try to be there Friday dinner after SSFFS.

My birthday is Sunday, and I'll be in Northampton/Easthampton. I should do stuff, particularly with friends. Any suggestions?

My brother's school apparently has dorms made of wow. They provide sheets, change them for the students, clean the student's rooms once a week, and the rooms come with minifridges.

Today I encountered 1 telephone repairman, 2 landscapers, and a bicyclist ignoring the bike lane, all on one-lane roads. One of the landscapers was parked right before a bend in the road, so that not only did I have to move into the lane for oncoming traffic, I couldn't really tell ahead of time whether there were any cars coming.

I'm in Northampton/Easthampton, and finally have a room (in Easthampton). More updates when I'm more coherent.

A Japanese blog about a cat named Maru. Contains both pictures and videos.

See title.

-2 hours of sleep
-I hate going to bed after the birds start singing/the sun comes up
-I got Praxis!
-Chairs that can roll and swivel are hard to sleep on
-I won't be at lunch, I have a "recital" for computer music
-Glargleblav

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I'm not sure this is accurate - I'm relatively uncaffeinated (for me).

I think I'm finally starting to enjoy computer music (yes, 2 weeks before it's over). It's finally gotten to the point where it's a combination of programming and creating art, so it's good for the bad mood I'm in (I love programming, and artsy things are good for making me feel okay, presuming I'm not just incredibly frustrated). I probably should be working on my paper instead, but I think I need this right now. I haven't broken out the Bawls yet, but I suspect I will soon. At least the interview is edited, and within 3 seconds of the time it's supposed to be (2 minutes). So I at least have what I need to do for the paper, and I discovered that I don't have any math homework due tomorrow. So, I may not get much (if any) sleep tonight, but I'll have that done. And I'm starting to learn how to draw seals for Anna. They're currently indistinguishable from whales or ghosts, but they use to look like fish. Progress! :)

Edit: Bawls tastes like Ramune (possibly mangled spelling). Huh.

Firstly, an epic video.
Next, a bunch of awesome shirts.
Third, epically horrible music.
Finally, going to do my homework and discovering that it's not due until Monday.

This
Also, sleep.
I'm not getting either.

Despite the fact that I've spent over 6 hours on a 400-word paper, I'm feeling okay because this is the first paper I've written in a long time that I don't hate. Also, it is over the minimum length, which doesn't happen often.
I'm not looking forward to doing the rest of my homework, though. I may get up in the morning to do it. I'm not sure I'm capable of learning new math concepts at the moment.

Edit: Did my math homework, though not all the reading. Will work on CS homework in the morning. I'm going to bed, I might get 4 hours of sleep!

Beard hats!
MC Hawking MP3s - I'm particularly fond of "What We Need More of Is Science"

This post will probably be expanded through the night.