• Helping the neos with auditions, this is a nervous place #
• Back at home — WoW Insider show going live on wcradio.com in about 40 mins #
• so you can’t do the flying rats achievement in multiplayer — that sucks. Why would I want to do that by myself? #

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• there is a tornado warning in Chicago right now, and I don’t feel so great. But I’m still charging on ahead anyway #

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• Eating some lunch (after spending the morning help kids write) from a Chicago greasy spoon so good they infringe on copyright #
• you know, I dreamed about you, and missed you, for 29 years before I saw you #
• he was born with a silver spork in his mouth #
• I really, really need to go to Hot Doug’s, Hopleaf, and Portillo’s. Also Moto. I need to find me some foodie friends, I guess. #

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• about to take a break to make some dinner and some miis, I think #
• just watched lars and the real girl — unfortunately it had the opposite effect on me than intended. and that’s bad. :( #
• Lots to do today, better get started. #
• I’m the King of Boggle, there is none higher — I gets 11 points on the word “quagmire.” #
• how can we not have developed an inkless printer yet? don’t we have lasers that will just burn marks into paper? #
• I hate you Firefox. I hate you so, so much. #

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• gave denise richards’ show five minutes, just in case it broke new ground, but it sucked. Bring back the Gary Busey reality show! #
• aw, sydney pollack passed away. he was great, RIP. #
• seems like nobody slept well last night, me included #
• mc frontalot = completely and totally overrated, btw. MC Chris is the only nerdcore rapper worth listening to. #
• didnt eat lunch, paying for it now #

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• balls of fury is turning out to be much, much funnier than I ever gave it credit for #
• I have such an awesome desktop background today that it’s a shame I’ve got all this work covering it up #
• oh, florida, is there no end to your stupidity? http://tinyurl.com/52weel #
• I should apologize to Floridians actually, that wasn’t fair. But I saw that story and I was like “I bet that’s in Florida,” and it was. #
• @isheepthings yeah it wasn’t that hilarious. But I expected no laughs at all from it, and I actually had a few guffaws; the panda was one #
• @martz Diner by Alex S from the great Desktoptopia http://tinyurl.com/6lermu #
• called comcast to ask about showtime pricing, and they tempted me with all kinds of crazy offers. feel like I just finished talking to satan #
• whenever I look through my RSS feeds for TUAW post fodder, I always see great stuff — and then realize it’s coming from the TUAW RSS feed #
• going down to greektown to see an old friend in town for the weekend #

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• rented ssbb to see if it might be something I was interested in playing, and have determined that I am too old for this game #
• don’t you hate when you’re playing a game when someone leaves your house, and you just happen to be playing it again when they come back? #

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• I guess you’re not a real reporter until you get on at least one blacklist, right? #
• @MikeTRose I hope you ebayed that junk and used the money to buy a real music game #

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• sweet http://tinyurl.com/3wonl9 #
• molly mcaleer is rockin’ it on the defamer daily to-do videos #
• @Zonk I’m too scared of spoilers — did you like it? #
• @Zonk sweet, can’t wait to see it! #
• Firefox just made me force quit it. I think that’s a message — I’m going to bed. #
• there was something called the “all candy expo” in chicago and I didn’t go http://tinyurl.com/52woz7 #
• software request (before I go looking for myself): an app that syncs clipboards across two macs and a PC #
• @joshgray synergy? It might. #
• wow, apparently 18 million Americans have been rickrolled (and they didn’t even poll under 18) http://tinyurl.com/2msmwl #
• haha did I get you? Just doing my part. Here’s the real link: http://tinyurl.com/55gz39 #
• bah, imovie doesn’t take avi files. lame #

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• forcing myself to take a break #
• Still have lots of work to do, but I’m going to bed — have to wake up early tomorrow #
• very excited about the cars album in rock band next week. would be even moreso if they were putting magic in there too #
• this makes me have weird feelings about luigi http://flickr.com/photos/katigiblin/2509421443/ #
• hurrying home after spending the morning helping kids write plays #
• Also hacked into a donated computer at 826 — I couldn’t log in to the admin account, but I did guess the password, first try: “password” #
• wait, robin williams was on SVU? and he did a fictional version of the Improv Everywhere Grand Central freeze? #
• this walkthrough writeup I’m supposed to do is so huge that I don’t know where to even begin #
• blockbuster is offering me a free gift if I buy GTA IV. You’re three weeks late, ‘buster. #

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• wow I found that movie I was looking for this morning: http://www.thejudasproject.com/ #
• ah, st. louis county, my hometown. http://tinyurl.com/6zt2hg That’s actually a pretty brilliant plan, except that it’s idiotic. #
• @jaimeharvey that is lame! how’d they get in? You have some bad luck with theft, sorry to hear it. #
• @joshgray yes that was me. I don’t remember what I did for them — I think it was something sound related. Got recruited by Emmy. #
• @blankbaby I did and yes. #
• my parents are here on a stopover, so I’m heading out to grab some lunch with them. #
• on a conference call with the good folks at D&D Online #

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• Just decided that I’m never eating at mcdonalds again. #
• back in chicago (finally!). was hoping to do some posting tonight, but looks like I’ve got a mountain of email to get through #
• well that ain’t cool — itunes is crashing whenever I try to play something #
• the problem was coversutra-related in some way. because I know you all care. #
• this is driving me nuts: I remember seeing a movie poster as a kid that looked like Jesus in New York, but I can’t remember the name of it #
• this day is creaking by like an old man on a walk #

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• Found a nice motel for the night after a long New England Sunday drive #
• going to look at the sea before heading back to Boston #
• sitting in Logan waiting for a plane. At this point, I really just want to go home #

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• thinking about driving over to the atlantic ocean today, would have to find a motel on the MA coast. #

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• @joshgray do what the cool kids do and go wii60 :) #
• welp I’m in new Hampshire. And apparently there’s nothing else here. #
• Waiting for the lawyer brother’s graduation to start #

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• not feeling great and tons to do. No idea how i’m going to get on a plane tomorrow at 1. #
• bahahaha ron magers got caught on camera wiping his nose during lost. local news is amateur, even in chicago. #
• listening to rivers cuomo’s youtube-made song while I’m supposed to be packing #
• I hate my printer. In fact, I hate all printers, regardess of make or model. #
• Not 100% sure I’m going to make this plane. About 75% chance of departure #
• Well I made it, but they’re boarding and I don’t have a seat. GG united, what a mess. #

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• Colbert is interviewing this girl who wrote a book about why the Titanic sank. No idea why she did all that research, but man she’s a cutie. #
• so who among you have wiis? #
• @jaimeharvey it’s set up, and pretty fun. But I need some wii friend codes, everybody: gimme yo’ miis! #
• I have discovered: the amount of work I have to do is directly proportional to the amount of email still sitting in my inbox #
• Done tutoring, heading home to finish work, and pack #

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• guildwatch is done and up. still not done working, though. #
• heading to bed, as I have to wake up early so I can go visit the taxman. #
• Going to hopefully get the taxes done #
• Europe is now Sony’s biggest region. Never thought I’d seem them fall so hard. #
• ok time for some serious spring cleaning time, seriously #

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• back and home, going to run through email and hopefully get a post or two up #
• hungry. but it’s 11pm. so I’m torn. #
• Was excited about Banjo Kazooie, now downgrading that to cautiously optimistic. We don’t want another Kameo on our hands. #
• kind of really want to set up the wii. but to do that, have to do spring cleaning. and to do that, have to to guildwatch. #

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Here’s the full list. Here’s what I believe I’ve read (I may have forgotten some, and I may have “read” others, a.k.a. browsed through enough to pass a test when I was too busy doing other stuff in college).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides (I have to admit, I didn’t like this one and only finished about half of it)
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace (reading now)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Neuromancer – William Gibson
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Sula – Toni Morrison
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
The Plague – Albert Camus
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (hate this book)
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses – James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan

I actually have school (and an English minor) to thank for most of those. If anything, this just tells me I need to read more. I’m glad they included the Dirk Gently novels, though, that’s classic stuff.

• Kind of happy that the only moving I’m doing tomorrow is 5 hours on the train. The rest of my family is taking a moving truck x-country. #
• @luomat yeah Force Unleashed looks great, but I’m waiting for reviews and maybe a demo to see if I jump. Mario Galaxy and SSB are first :) #
• Hate hate hate having to work from on the road. This is why I never travel. #
• and just had my ipod sync with the wrong computer, losing half my music. terrible morning so far. #
• Writing something that’s not a post (well, not really) on the train back to Chicago #

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• Hanging out with republicans #
• Finally found a wii yesterday. Not sure if I want to keep it or not #

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• had a dream last night that I was missing class, despite the fact that I don’t go to school any more #
• Good wow insider show today #

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• wow SuperDeluxe got folded into Adult Swim. Not like they weren’t trying hard enough with all those ads. #
• buying the world ends with you for my two trips in the next two weeks, hope I like it #
• by the way, just broke 1,000,000 words on weblogs, inc sites. that’s a lot. #
• Redbelt is a David Mamet film about UFC. Yes please. #
• getting ready to pack up the laptop and take the train home to St. Louis #
• I’m so dumb when it comes to zelda puzzles #

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• by the way, if you’re following me and you play WoW, you should probably put @WoWInsider on follow, too #
• this is why traveling drives me nuts — everything piles up on the day before you’re supposed to leave #
• glenn beck is the biggest tool this side of toolsville. or the other side, for that matter. #
• @blankbaby yeah I am. but I believed it before I said it. dude’s like a poor man’s bill o’reilly, which is saying something. #
• Is Banjo Kazooie available on the Virtual Console? #

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• the hilarious postcards from yo momma (http://postcardsfromyomomma.com/) is getting turned into a book (http://tinyurl.com/3uqmjc) sweet. #
• wouldn’t the fact that limbaugh wants you to vote for Clinton be reason enough to vote for Obama? http://tinyurl.com/4jq3ws #
• still workin on Guildwatch. kind of craving some ice cream. how late is cold stone open? #
• finally done working. can’t say that was my most exciting birthday ever, but I got no complaints; not much I want that I don’t have anyway #
• wait, you can download games from the wii for the DS? Man I want one more than ever #
• so a new restaurant opened here. Should I go now (since they’ll all be anxious to serve good food), or wait (until they get some practice)? #
• @Kingfox congrats! #
• Idea: a firefox extension that only lets you load time-wasting sites x number of times per day #
• http://tinyurl.com/59ygkt some people could probably use this one #

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• if you think you’ve got it bad, try having Dracula for your dad. #
• even besides the actual commercialism angle, a shopping mall really is the best place to set a zombie movie #
• oh man my stomach is killing me #
• looks like I wasted money on an audio cable — sound out of the mini sounds terrible. I’m better off sticking with headphones. #
• @jaimeharvey hey thanks man #
• Thanks to everyone for the birthday kudos — actually, the first person to email me wasn’t a person. It was the forumbot at D&D Online. #
• giving the new NIN downloadable album a listen #
• working like mad. it is a Tuesday, after all. #
• ordering train tickets to go see my family and friends this weekend #
• Man, if Obama wins the Democratic nomination, that would be the best birthday gift ever #

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• just wrote up the biggest stretch for wow news I’ve ever done. but it’s worth it. #
• anyone have a mom who plays Warcraft who would want to come on a podcast this Saturday with us? #
• going to grab some lunch. doing my best to not worry about money. #
• I might be excited about ninja gaiden if those games weren’t so incredibly hard. I play to play, not to work. #
• now my iphone is cutting off my podcasts because there’s not enough memory on there. Need more space! #

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• Yeah iron man kicks some ass #
• @crumpy grats, wasn’t all ghilled up great? #
• need a tank for underbog then we’re gtg #

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• beer makes everything better. no exceptions. #
• well crap. Jonathan Coulton sold out. Guess I’m not going then. #

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• just called off the volunteering for today :( sucks when work piles up and I can’t do the fun stuff #

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• its all gone pete tong #
• discovery’s "awesome world" ad was great on youtube, but now that I’ve seen it like five times on TV I think I might be done #
• "Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio." Thanks, Jack Thompson. #
• I’ll probably be some kind of scientist, building inventions in my space lab in space #
• Amazing: http://tinyurl.com/5ekxx9 #
• best fazed.com comment about that last story: "drunk college girls will always get you past first base." funny. #
• the ron paul folks are trying to start their own co-op community in the middle of nowhere. But then who will they argue with? #
• What is a monster problem today will be a forgotten thought in the future. #

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