Last night, I almost lost a non-MLP novel I've been working on due to the file being corrupted; the only reason I didn't was because, by sheer luck/providence/whatever, I made a backup copy back in early January. Still, knowing how close I came to losing it scared me half to death. Without that backup, almost two years of work would have been lost forever.

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After almost 18 years, we're finally getting an Alien sequel!

First a new Terminator movie with Arnold (and two more in the coming years), a new Jurassic Park movie, and now a bonafide Alien sequel, all coming within the next five years? I think I'm going to faint!

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No, seriously, why are these things starting to pop up all over the place? Did I miss something?

Ah, it's the holiday season! A time of love, joy, peace, goodwill towards all, and the incredible stress that comes with spending approximately $45, 201, 355 on presents for your loved ones when you have a minimum wage job and only work part time hours. And don't forget spending the last two weeks before Christmas scrambling to make sure your list has been checked twice only to realize you've forgotten half your gifts and need to go shopping RIGHT NOW. And also working like a maniac the last

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It's been quite a long while since I gave an update on my Statistics class, and thankfully things did get better since my last math-related blog post. There were several tests with increasingly convoluted formulas and equations that made the earliest examples look like elementary school arithmatic. Thankfully, our professor took pity and allowed us to use powerful calculators on the tests, as well as having a cheat sheet that we could write whatever we wanted on, from formulas to entire

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Well, a few things today, but first of is the traditional Thanksgiving greeting to all one's online acquaintances. So here's hoping everyone's having a great day with great food! (protip: pumpkin-flavored ice cream mixed up with ground graham crackers makes a ridiculously easy and delicious desert)

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As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I picked up a copy of Alien Isolation and having been thinking of trying my hand at Let's-Play videos for a while, I recorded myself playing through it. I'm still editing the footage together, but I'm curious if anyone would be interested in seeing me get brutally murdered by the Alien again and again.

Me, before:
So excited! I hope Christopher Lee shows up! He's one of my favorite actors, and I really hope he has an awesome moment here!

Me, after:

SARUMAN VS SAURON, MOTHER-BUCKERS!

...the thought of getting a full night's sleep sounds so much better than staying up all night playing the new video game you've finally gotten after almost a year waiting for.

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Well, things did get a bit easier after that last journal I posted; it turns out that the reason I couldn't make heads or tails of any of the presented math problems is that the writing in our textbook is terrible. It's written in scholarly mathematical English incomprehensible to human beings, making even the simplest formula nearly impossible to figure out (imagine the question's writing style in the last post applying to a 400+ page book). For example:

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