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06:40 pm
kestrels_nest
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You Could Put It That Way
Our 11 year old son's comment, watching a Star Wars episode on Cartoon Network: "General Grievous has some real anger management issues." When I started laughing, he looked at me and said "Seriously. He does."
You've got to wonder where they get it.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood:  amused
Current Music: Cartoon Network
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07:29 pm
peteralway
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NASA photos of MLAS launch
Here's NASA's photo gallery:
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/multimedia/galleries/mlas-gallery.html
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07:08 pm
phillip2637
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Trucks
This was a day for signs on trucks to make me stop and think. The ice cream truck with the loud ringing bells that I encountered on my way home had a "Free Iran" sign on the front. Predictably, I completed it in my head as, "...with every purchase." I can truly imagine some kid complaining that he didn't get his free Iran when he bought his popsicle.
More worrying, however, was the one I saw at lunch. It proclaimed that it belonged to an information management company named Recall. They didn't seem to be offering vacations. (I just have to keep reminding myself that Philip K Dick wrote fiction.)
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03:58 pm
pir_anha
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grand funk railroad
Tags: dailies
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06:20 pm
peteralway
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MLAS Trip conclusion
Tourism and Heading Home ( Read more... )
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04:54 pm
ericcoleman
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One down
V1 of one Mahtowa song done ... one more to go. And a Toyboat song to get done as well
Oh, and a very mean cover song(s) that I will probably do at tomorrow's show
edit V1 of my first Toyboat song is done as well
Tags: songs
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05:35 pm
filkertom
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Off To LibertyCon
Already there, actually. ;) Opening ceremonies at 6:00, a concert tonight at 11:00, a kids' concert at 1:00 tomorrow, and another set 1:00 Sunday. And I'll be selling out of my room (213). Sadly, two guests will not be here; Chris Christopher cancelled just this afternoon, and Artist GOH Darrell K. Sweet could not make it, as his wife had a heart attack earlier this week. She should recover; we wish them both well. Fortunately, the con got ahold of Beth Willinger to fill in, and her husband B.J. is coming along. I haven't seen them in years.
Who else is gonna be there? Or, if not, what are you doing this weekend?
Tags: conventions
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05:00 pm
gorgeousgary
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They followed me home. Can I keep them?
One of the services $EMPLOYER provides to its members is an online bookstore. So once a year, the book-selling division takes all of the excess books, obsolete books, and sample copies of books they chose not to offer, piles them up in a cubicle or two, then yells "FREE BOOKS!" The result is fairly similar to what you would expect if you dumped a pile of books in the middle of a hotel lobby during a con and yelled the same thing.
I walked away with about a dozen books, most of them actually directly applicable to my job. Those are piled in a corner of my cubicle, waiting to be skimmed. Also, waiting for me to figure out where in my cubicle I'm going to put them.
I brought home two interesting-looking books to add to the to-be-read bookcase. One The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, by Nicholas Carr. The other is A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers & Baseball Bats. According to Amazon, the latter book isn't even available yet; the release date is given as August 18, 2009. Now that's what I call a score! It appears to be a bunch of anecdotes, stories, bios, and factoids strung together into a loose history of woodworking and wood construction. It looks fascinating. I'll let you know. 8-)
Tags: books, work
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02:56 pm
billroper
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Counting Down
It's now one week until my office closes and I start working from home. I'd already packed two boxes of seldom-used references, but there's a lot of stuff that just can't be broken down until the last minute.
Today, I ceremonially packed up all the personal stuff from my desk, the breakable items not so much wrapped as enmeshed in bubble wrap. That box will spend some time in storage in the basement, at least until I find out whether I'll eventually find a place where I can work from that isn't home that's closer than a 90 minute commute from my house.
To the first approximation, that's being voted on next Thursday, when the Sun shareholders vote on whether not to accept Oracle's offer. After that, if the acquisition goes through, there's some possibility of jumping to Sun's Itasca office.
We'll see how it goes.
Tags: musings, work
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01:36 pm
chirosinger
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Last minute reminder
[I'm thinking I need to find a more seasonable picture of us. The leather and wool coats seem a bit too much for July. Even in Minnesota!]
We're playing at the Coffee Grounds tonight!It's one of our favorite coffee house stages in the Twin Cities. Hope to see you there.
8:00 Friday July 10, 2009
THE COFFEE GROUNDS
A neighborhood coffee shop, open seven days a week
651-644-9959
1579 Hamline Avenue Falcon Heights, Minnesota
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01:20 pm
ericcoleman
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Numbers ...
I am updating my phone book ... If your number has changed recently, and you think I should have it ... please post it here. If you think I should have your number for whatever reason, post it here
Comments are screened.
Keep in mind that if you give me your phone number you stand the risk of getting a call from me when I am on the road, traveling headset jockey that I am ...
Tags: phone numbers
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11:20 am
peteralway
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MLAS launch
The Trip Out
( Read more... )
The Rockety Part
( Read more... )
Next Time: The Trip Back
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10:30 am
seanan_mcguire
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Write! Right? Fifty MORE thoughts on writing.
A year ago, I posted my fifty thoughts on writing, which has since managed to turn into an essay series (don't ask me how that keeps happening to me). Naturally, my thinking about writing didn't stop with those initial fifty thoughts, and working on the essays has just made me think about writing even more. It's a little disturbing. I've spent the last year a) writing at a pace that makes me wonder what the hell I've been doing with myself for most of my life (oh, yeah—having a life), b) revising at a similar pace, and c) thinking about writing enough that it's a miracle that I haven't managed to set myself on fire. Just give me a little more time.
I've also spent the past year really digging myself into the reality of what it means to be a professional writer, even if I am not yet full-time. So today, because I still believe firmly in the art of over-sharing, I've decided to write down some more of my conclusions about writing...and my conclusions about what it means to be a working writer, which means that some of these may be less universally applicable, but may still be helpful for relating to the writers in your life. You may look at my list and go "wow, she's totally out of her tiny little blonde mind." You may look at this list and go "wow, I never thought of it that way." And either way is totally fine. My method of writing is not yours. Your method of writing is not mine. And we should all be very grateful for that, because if we cloned my muse, the world would rapidly run out of absinthe and cherry pie.
( Click here to be subjected to a variety of disconnected thoughts on the wonderful world of writing. Fifty new thoughts for 2009! You must be at least this tall to ride this ride. )
Current Mood:  thoughtful
Current Music: Glee, "Don't Stop Believing."
Tags: advice, contemplation, writing
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12:23 pm
angka
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More Friends!!!! (But who are you?)
One of the things I both love and hate about LJ is the huge diversity of people who are online. I've been able to reconnect with some long-ago friends here, which is fantastic. I've also gotten some friend requests (and I'm sure this is a common situation), from people who give far too few clues as to who they are. Like most of fandom, I know a thousand different people, many of whom are interested in many of the same things. So when I get friended, it can be a bit of a mystery who's reaching out. Even having learned how to get to folks' profiles and their journals to search for clues (which wasn't as intutively obvious as I would have thought), there have been some folks that I just can't figure out. Just the other day I got a request and looked through several posts, the profile, and even glanced at images -- which of course were mostly icons for various things. It wasn't until the second time I looked through the images that I finally figured it out -- because this time I found a photo of her kids that had a title that gave it away. (I'm sure you know who you are, now. :-) )
So, sorry to anyone who may have tried befriended me and I didn't reciprocate. It might be because I couldn't figure out who you were.
Tags: livejournal
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12:18 pm
janmagic
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hi temp 84
low 63 as we were driving across the curving mountain in the hale storm
sunny day
miles 435
gas $2.40 to $2.72 we paid the $2.72
busy day corn palace – wall drugs – bad land loop
frustrations having an AT & T dead zone across the state of south dakota. unable to get a hotel room until we got to rapid city. the person at the holiday inn saying there were no rates below $120.00 a night. the next hotel i called was the Bavarian Inn they gave me a delux room for $89.00 a night with the following night in a regular room for $77.00 a night. ok it is a bummer to change rooms, yet we are on the first floor of a no elevator motel.
joys
seeing the “bad lands”in person on a 47 mile drive.
making watresses laugh with my stories.
finding my favorite brand of socks “for bare feet” at wall drugs
being able to snooze while hubby drives
the weather!! it has been great! there were predictions that it would be 90 ++ yet the forecast is for 70s
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11:43 am
filkertom
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Pharmacists Can't Refuse To Hand Out Plan B
Frickin' well about time. Here's the money quote:The right to freely exercise one's religion "does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability," the 9th Circuit panel wrote.
"Any refusal to dispense -- regardless of whether it is motivated by religion, morals, conscience, ethics, discriminatory prejudices, or personal distaste for a patient -- violates the rules," the panel said. Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) filkerdave for the heads-up.
Tags: politics, religion
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09:03 am
alymid
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Weirdly Recursive
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Tags: concerts, does not suck, music
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07:49 am
seanan_mcguire
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Things I have been called.
People keep trying to define me. This is okay, because it is funny. In the past few months, I have been called...
...the bastard love child of Neil Gaiman and Charles de Lint. (Biologically implausible!)
...Charles Addams crossed with Dorothy Parker. (This would make an awesome alternate-world supernatural romance FROM HELL.)
...a combination of Stephen King, Warren Ellis, and Rainbow Brite. (Angry cartoon horror author attacks city, film at eleven, evacuation at eleven seventeen.)
Have I mentioned recently that I am way too easily amused?
Current Mood:  quixotic
Current Music: Counting Crows, "August and Everything After."
Tags: silliness
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08:49 am
hbruton
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This weekend
Off to Toronto Trek/Polaris this afternoon. This is my fourth show in four weekends. ONe more to go and I get a weekened off. Phew, getting really wiped out and getting so far behind in my email that it's ridiculous. Ah well, it is the life I choose. I'll be running the print ship in the art show if anyone needs to find me.
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10:05 am
alymid
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Linky things
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Tags: good reads, link ink, time suck!
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11:42 pm
filknews
[starmalachite]
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Vote Dr. Demento into National Radio Hall of Fame
Dr. Demento is nominated for addition to the National Radio Hall of Fame in the NATIONAL – PIONEER category.
Balloting ends at midnight on August 1st. You can register to vote at www.radiohof.org/2009_nominees.html.
Profiles of the nominees are at www.radiohof.org/2009_nominees.html.
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11:18 pm
filk
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Vote Dr. Demento into National Radio Hall of Fame
Dr. Demento is nominated for addition to the National Radio Hall of Fame in the NATIONAL – PIONEER category.
Balloting ends at midnight on August 1st. You can register to vote at www.radiohof.org/2009_nominees.html.
Profiles of the nominees are at www.radiohof.org/2009_nominees.html.
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10:04 pm
polyfrog
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Laurel & Hardy Moving Co.
I have this evening seen the stupidest thing I have ever seen anyone try to do with my own eyes.
As I got out of my car to eat dinner, I saw that across the street, some people had a sofa on the sidewalk; they had clearly just removed it from a truck that was nearby. Then from the third floor balcony, they threw down a rope. A stout rope, like one might use for rock climbing. They tied the rope to one end of the sofa. "They can't really be thinking to...."
They were. Up top, two burly Russian-looking dudes start pulling on the rope. The sofa starts to lift up. The end with the rope lifts up. The other end starts to scrape along the sidewalk as the sofa goes from horizontal to vertical. Finally the sofa is completely free of the ground. I see now that it is a sleeper sofa. It starts to swing a little...against the plate-glass window of the store on the ground floor. BONG! Bong! It continues to rise until the legs of the sofa get hung up on the framing for that plate-glass window.
So let's review:
We have the sofa. Hanging suspended against a plate-glass window, 6 feet off the ground. It's stuck.
We have the two Russian-looking burly men with the other end of the rope. The rope is just in their hands, I must specify. Not belayed around anything even, and forget about things like jackpoles and pulleys.
We have the guy who came down to stand under the sofa to try and jostle it free.
Luckily, they were able to get it unstuck. Apparently at this point they started rethinking the merits of their plan, because they put the sofa back on the sidewalk and threw the rope down. Then they came down and carried the sofa inside.
I was really looking forward to seeing how they got the sofa the last of the way onto the balcony....
Current Mood: enthralled
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09:38 pm
exapno
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BB/Etc - more plant advice
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09:41 pm
poltr1
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Alcohol poisoning is very glamorous....
I'm long past the age of getting drunk to the point of getting sick. But there are a couple of incidents from my college days that I should mention at this time. Names are being withheld to protect the guilty.
Back before the days of the FIPG, one of the guys in my fraternity indulged a little too much and went out back to take care of himself. Lo and behold, someone took a picture of him being sick, went to Kinko's, and had the picture blown up to poster size. I think it should have been captioned "Alcohol poisoning is very glamorous." Kind of like the smoking posters from the 1970s.
Another went to a local bar and had a little too much to drink. He got sick on the way home. Someone wrote a rap song about it, and several titles were bestowed unto him. Titles like Titan of Toss. Viceroy of Vomit. Baron of Barf. Earl of Hurl. Duke of Puke. Champion of Chunder. And the Maharaji of Regurgitation.
Needless to say, these two guys cleaned up their act quickly, and never got sick from drinking again.
And the moral of this story is: Learn from the mistakes of others so you don't have to make them yourself.
Current Mood:  devious
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09:34 pm
filkertom
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They're Baaaaaaack
Who? Guybrush, Elaine, and LeChuck, of course. In Tales of Monkey Island. The first chapter, "Launch of the Screaming Narwal", is available now. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go here or here, and then go here.)
Tags: arrr, games
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07:30 pm
beamjockey
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Nicoll's Aphorism Spotted at Fermilab
This thread reminded me that I should post these pictures of a bumper sticker I sighted near the Fermilab Auditorium, back of Wilson Hall.
You may be familiar with James Nicoll's celebrated remark:The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. The paraphrased bumper sticker is from Pegasus Publishing, which, alas, does not attribute the quote to Mr. Nicoll.
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05:35 pm
seanan_mcguire
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The periodic welcome post.
Hello, and welcome to my journal! I'm pretty sure you know who I am, my name being in the URL and all, but just in case, I'm Seanan McGuire, and you're probably not on Candid Camera. This post exists to answer a few of the questions that I get asked on a semi-hemi-demi-regular basis. It may look familiar; that's because it gets re-posted roughly every two months, to let new people know how we roll around here. (I will make no more Clueless references in this post, I promise.) Also, sometimes I change the questions. Because I can.
If you've read this before, feel free to skip, although there may be interesting new things to discover and know beyond the cut.
Anyway, here you go:
( This way lies a lot of information you may or may not need about the person whose LJ you may or may not be reading right at this moment. Also, I may or may not be the King of Rain, which may or may not explain why it's drizzling right now. Essentially, this is Schrodinger's cut-tag. )
Current Mood:  apathetic
Current Music: The Nields, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."
Tags: welcome post
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05:35 pm
billroper
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To Concertino and Back Again (Part Four)
It's been a while since the last entry in this series, so let's see what my work-fogged brain remembers at this point. :) As you may recall, we'd just gone to bed on Saturday night, so next up must be Sunday morning.
( Another Concertino Sunday... )
Tags: cons, filk, musings, report
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11:35 pm
telynor
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Is this why I married an engineer?
telynor: "This drive always seems shorter on the way back than the way there."
filceolaire: "It's downhill."
Tags: giant robot man
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10:58 am
vixyish
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Where to find us
( Quick rundown on upcoming Vixy & Tony gigs: )
Tags: concerts, conventions, filk, music
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12:21 pm
ohiblather
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Revenge is a dish best served with country accompaniment
Apparently Dave Carroll wrote the song with his band, Sons of Maxwell, after his 35-hundred-dollar, custom-made guitar was severely damaged during a United Airlines flight, with little sympathy or help from United. Here’s the story on the LAtimes site.
As one of the readers posted in response to the story:
“Revenge is a dish best served with country accompaniment.”
Post/read Wordpress comments | Blatherings homepage
Tags: music/filk
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10:17 am
almeda
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Children's clothing industry rant
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Tags: firstling, if i ran the world
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10:23 am
starstraf
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Job Scams
Though some folks might be amused at the spam email I've gotten from putting out my resumes
( Lion Heart Assurance )
( Cameron group )
( AFAS Careers )
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07:58 am
ntrlstgrl
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3x3x3
3 by Margaret Frazer...The Sempster's Tale, The Widow's Tale, The Bastard's Tale...worthy additions to the series starring Dame Frevisse. Frazer does a good job sorting the story out from several perspectives, and weaves the mysteries into the events of the time much as Ellis Peters did with Brother Cadfael (and other historical series).
3 by Sammi Carter...Goody Goody Gunshots, Candy Apple Dead, Chocolate Dipped Death...fluffy/cozy mysteries but entertaining (and they always make me want chocolate).
3 by Karen MacInerney...Murder Most Maine, Dead and Berried, Murder on the Rocks...MacInerney finished Barbara Burnett Smith's last mystery after Smith died and I wanted to get better acquainted with her writing. I'm glad I did. Her mysteries are set at a bed & breakfast/inn on an island in Maine...and there are recipes! She frequently has several story lines going on at once/threading through the books as a whole, such as conflict between local lobstermen and the mainlanders (cutting gear, etc.), and what seems as if it will be an ongoing issue of development on the island (her innkeeper, Natalie, is mostly against it). Very enjoyable stuff.
Tags: books
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08:20 am
filkertom
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Changing Topics Completely....
This one's for lukeski:
What do you think would be cool when said by a giant robot?
Tags: movies, toys, video
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06:58 am
bammba_m
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Fox "news" ... Well, it's Fox. Are we surprised?
Thanks to ktp1 for pointing this out...
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/08/qotd/index.html?source=video&aim=/politics/war_room
(I can't get the embedding code to work. You'll have to follow the link.)
I love the look on the female host's face. That's right, folks, we're marrying other species and somehow procreating. The gay movement really needs to get on the ball here, because I thought the slippery slope was gay marriage and THEN inter-species marriage.
Current Mood: appalled
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07:53 am
filkertom
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"Other Species... Other Ethnics"
See, this kinda thing is why I find it very hard to take these morons seriously, or show them the respect they somehow fancy is their due.
Tags: news, politics, wtf
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06:30 am
filkertom
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Google Chrome OS
This should be interesting.
Tags: software
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04:04 am
wyld_dandelyon
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Early Morning Interlude
So, I woke up early this morning to the sound of the garbage truck, and remembered we had not taken the bin from it's usual spot in the yard to the alley. Remembering the "wonderful" odor as I walked by it yesterday, I got up, threw a dress on, and took it to the nice trash collectors. Yay--stinky stuff gone.
It was a pretty morning, with the sun behind clouds, so I went back into the house, gave the kitties kibble, and grabbed my camera to take pictures.
Here is another purple flower that I'd like to know the name of. And no, "weed" doesn't count! You can see the spiky stems pretty well in this picture; the leaves are a lot like dandelion leaves.
 
These flowers had a small bee on them, with a bright metallic-green back. The close-up shows the little green bee busy collecting and spreading its pollen. I find it interesting that I don't see these bees later in the day. This was about 8 in the morning by the time I was taking pictures. I'm used to the larger, black and yellow bumble bees that I see in the afternoons. I didn't realize that some bees were "early birds" and others were late sleepers, like me!
There was another purple flower blooming; someone walking by identified it as "indigo" but I don't know if that's accurate:
I suppose that's what I get for planting multiple "wildflower" packets and waiting to see what likes the soil and sun conditions--I don't know what everything is. One day I'll get fed up and research it; today I've been working on the next installment in Fireborn, so identifying my wildflowers will have to wait. Unless, of course, someone here identifies some of them for me!
My coneflowers are just starting to bloom; the process is quite different from roses, where you have a fully-formed bud that gets bigger until it unfurls; in coneflowers the center of the flower forms, with little vertical spikes all around it. Then, as the flower matures, they get bigger, and paler, and stick up more, and suddenly one day they start to look like petals:
  
We also had another swallowtail butterfly visit, this one with most of it's right lower wing missing. It was having no time flying around, however, and I chased it all over the yard until it paused long enough for me to get a picture. Here it is by my thyme. The last picture is from a few days ago, in the afternoon--the bumblebee on the spirea flowers, so you can compare it to the green-backed bee above.
 
And then, after taking pictures, I went back to bed to finish my night's sleep!
More of the ongoing story tomorrow, after my "exciting" trip to the dentist for the new crown and a filling. They are nice people, but I'll be pleased not to see them for a while!
Look at the time! I'd better head to bed. Apologies if there's typos, I'm not going to stay up to proofread.
Time flies while you're writing!
Current Mood:  cheerful
Tags: chores, gardening, health, wildlife, writing
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