http://www.pixcapacitor.com The Fruit of Knowledge Digest: Now in weblog technology Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:41:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 89.  When I was 14 I made a conscious decision to be honest and stop making up stories.  As a direct result, I've become a terrible, terrible liar. [caption id="attachment_1292" align="alignnone" width="450" caption=""... Dad??""][/caption] ...  And now, back to semi-retirement. http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/07/wanna-see-what-ive-been-doing-during-my-vacation 88. I am a citizen of the world, but only two countries recognize my nationality: Mexico and the U.S. So weird. What's this? Am I eating a cookie? How did that come about? Well, I'm glad you ask, World. See, it started with this post. ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/06/c-for-cookie 87. I'm afraid of waiters, secretaries, and janitors. Seriously. They have so much power over such a small area of your life that I fear angering them. http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/06/rigid-definitions 86. I wore braces all of senior year in high school and into my first semester of college. I don't know why, though, because my teeth were never that bad. I guess I just wanted to fit in. Hey, last year this was my birthday, so I sort ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/110o 85. I worry I share too much. I also don't worry that I share too much. But it turns out I rarely worry about sharing the right things at the right times. Pixel was the kind of guy that would leave at any occasion. He often found ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/nab%c2%b5f-14-of-29 84. I get really into board games. This is probably a bad thing. Actually, I get into games really easily. I just get tired of them as soon as I beat them. That's probably not a bad thing. I've been steadily worse about my posting since ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/punching-elderly-pigeons 83. I've gone to the ER far more times than I'd care to remember. But I've never stayed overnight at a hospital. Doctors scare me. http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/there-there-shut-up-little-girl 82. None of the products in my bathroom were tested on animals. So I've decided to extend my contest a bit to give people more time to enter.  PLUS: I'm going to be traveling in a third-world country soon, and everybody loves lead-based toys and candy, right? http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/and-that-was-when-i-stopped-caring 81. I'm a really, really bad vegetarian: I basically hate vegetables. If boca burgers didn't exst, I think I'd've died by now. On the realm of loving to think, this occurred to me a few weeks ago when I was in Arizona for a photography blah-blah. ((Photos included for ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/evolutionary-aesthetics 80. My circle of friends hasn't really changed since middle school. This alone makes me want to leave New Mexico. This is Daniel’s long awaited response, In a recent conversation, Pixel and I argued whether or not “streets-smarts” was anything beyond a made-up term that stupid people used to make ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/book-smarts-vs-street-smarts-part-2-of-2 79. I've needed glasses since I was in fifth grade, but I didn't get them for eight months because my mom couldn't believe that her darling son didn't have perfect vision. How F'ed up is that? I start a lot of projects without finishing them. Sometimes I start ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/blindness 78.  I twice had long(ish) hair.  I claim I've had red, yellow, and pink hair, but most of the time I'm exaggerating.  (We had no idea what we were doing at the time.) Pixel was invited to his younger cousin’s graduation.  She talked to him about high school and he reminisced ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/nab%c2%b5f-13-of-29 77. My parents immigrated to the United States in 1987. As a direct result, I sort of want to thwack people whenever they talk about immigration (illegal or otherwise). Frankly, there are very few people I consider qualified to talk about the subject in any in-depth way. I'm ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/enter-now-supplies-are-limited-entry-is-not 76.  I've kept a digital diary since Sunday, November 19, 2000.  Nobody will ever read it, but it's really whiny and tells a lot of secrets that I'll take to my grave.  I'd delete it, but it sort of reminds me of how far I've come: now I whine to ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/sometimes-i-feel-my-life-is-a-dinosaur-comic 75. I went into college as a Journalism major and graduated as a journalism major, but I never had any illusions of desiring to be a journalist. :-) I actually hate it when people attack 'the media.' I've probably stated why in the past, but for those of ... http://www.pixcapacitor.com/2008/05/silly-media