Jessica

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Name: Jessica Dennis
Date registered: 11/30/-0001

Latest posts

  1. Being Nice is Stupid: A Lesson Learned from My Cat — 2/9/2009
  2. Upgrade — 2/3/2009
  3. Products — 9/29/2008
  4. Drives me crazy — 6/2/2008
  5. Not very much fun at all — 5/9/2008

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Dec 03 2005

Day two of holes in my head

I really want to poke at them with my tongue. But then I stop myself, because I'm afraid it will hurt or mess up my healing. But I'm really interested in what's going on in there, and I can't figure out how get things arranged to look in there with a flashlight and mirror. Doesn't …

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Dec 02 2005

Thank god I don't have to do that again

Just got my wisdom teeth out (all three of them). I really wish I had brought my iPod--I couldn't feel anything (except the really fucking painful shots in the roof of my mouth, which made my eyes water), but I could hear it--may I never have to hear my teeth being yanked out again. Really. …

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Dec 01 2005

Have you tried dropping it?

So, the other day a guy brought his iPod in for me to look at, because it was misbehaving, and had the most adorable little error screen ever: Awww. So anyway. I hooked it up to my Mac, but it wouldn't mount (show up on the desktop), and Disk Utility couldn't see it, although System …

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Nov 09 2005

A wizard did it

From Slate: The Kansas Board of Education adopted science standards that allow supernatural explanations. The standards 1) recommend the teaching of shortcomings in evolution and 2) eliminate a definition of science as "a search for natural explanations of observable phenomena." Because who needs to bother with natural explanations?

Oct 14 2005

You do not have the right not to be offended

Not even by stupidity. So. There's this girl in Pennsylvania who says that, should her biology curriculum mention Intelligent Design, she would have to excuse herself for that portion of the class, potentially causing her to be ostracized by her peers (boo hoo). Um. Couldn't she just sit still, shut up, and roll her eyes …

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