Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. Just as Claire got better from her cold, I caught it...
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So this was announced yesterday: (image source) As someone who vastly prefers physical keyboards to those on touchscreens, I can't help but show some interest in the new Microsoft Surface. And as much as J and I love Apple computers, we aren't fans of iOS due to its restrictive platform. Both of us own Android phones. As for a tablet, I gifted J the Asus Transformer Prime 2 for his birthday earlier this year (this is one of my proudest accomplishments as a blogger — I saved up money earned from this blog to get this for him...
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Artist Cynthia Rodgers has created a reinterpretation of Picasso's Guernica, featuring none other than our favorite mutants — the X-Men! Can you identify them all? This piece was submitted to the Comic Book Resources contest The Line Is Drawn, where contributors were asked to imagine radical re-designs for classic comic book characters. Be sure to head on over to the link to see the other reinterpretations. Via io9....
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I know many of you read this blog through an RSS reader, but if you have a moment, click on through to see my new layout! (If you view the site via Internet Explorer, you might miss out on some CSS hover transition effects!) Some of the new features I have implemented include: Front page only displays excerpts for long posts "Pin This Post" at the bottom of each post Links to the previous and next posts on individual post pages ...
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The thing about depression is that nobody can really understand how you feel unless they have been through it themselves. And even then, their experiences could be completely different from yours. When I first wrote of my current struggle with depression, I got the feeling that a few commenters believed the condition to have suddenly come over me one day. Or even over a span of weeks. But the truth of the matter is that I have been down for months now, and what probably precipitated my meltdown was my neck injury; I was no longer physically able to stay strong. It is no secret that I have been treated for depression in the past — in my early twenties, to be exact...
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