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Weekend

This has been a great, relaxing weekend. We accomplished sooooo much this weekend!

– Laundry. Most of it is even put away.
– Watched Episode I
– Watched Episode II
– Watched a metric buttload of second season Babylon 5. Can someone please explain to me why I never watched this incredibly awesome series?
played a bunch of .hack infection and Zelda, Minish Cap

– I played a bunch of Animal Crossing and played around with my computer.
– We both read a bunch of Pratchett.
– Tried to explain to the dog that thunderstorms won't hurt him.
– Went out and hugged the XTerra after discovering that the huge hailstones didn't do any damage.
– Grilled a yummy steak tonight
– Other Things Inappropriate For Public Discussion. <nudge nudge> <wink wink>

All in all, a typical, boring, wonderful weekend at Our House.

LJ Anniversary

I've been posting in this online journal/blog for four years now – sometimes frequently, sometimes sporadically.

It's been a lot of fun. I'm grateful for the friends I've made, and for the brief glimpses you've given me into your lives.

I'm not going anywhere. :)

Date created: 2001-05-30 21:45:04
Date updated: 2005-05-30 17:24:53, 6 seconds ago
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Scanner Tag!

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I'm told that you must write something — anything — and send to five people or you will die of boredom.

Well, this was an.. interesting meme. First time I've tried to hook up the scanner on my PowerBook, and apparently the first time I've tried to edit a picture! Neither one of which worked properly. Bah.

Gaz detected the scanner fine; at least, it showed up properly in system profiler. However, it no worky at all. The scanner never even tried to light up, even when I pushed the “scan” button on the scanner itself. As for Gaz – image capture refused to believe there was a device attached.

So I cheated – I used the digital camera. :)

And that's when I realized I hadn't played with any images since I got this thing!!! Graphic converter is a little stinky, at least for this purpose. I don't know about iPhoto – near as I can tell, it works on the originals – I didn't find any place to save the results separately. I sure don't want my originals messed with!

So it looks like I'm either going to have to learn more about iPhoto (well, I should anyway) or I need to install (and learn to use, dammit) Gimp.

Ah well. The image is up, and sorta readable. I hope.

PS – The above image is PROOF as to why I take 98% of all notes in notepad or somesuch equivalent. Sheesh.

Gah.

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” – GWB

–http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html

Food for thought

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. – H. L. Mencken

Time on my hands… (meme)

Here's an interesting meme, stolen from

I'm a late night poster. Go figure. :)

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Books are cool.

1) Total number of books owned?

At an extremely rough guesstimate, it's probably over 1500. One of these days, they will get cataloged, and some maybe even appraised.

I love books, could you tell?

2) The last book I bought?

OK, so this past weekend we made a trip to the Evil Store™ – a 75% off book store where, in fact, no book is over $5.00. This is a very Bad Place if your bookshelves are already overflowing.

Two of the books I bought are: The Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus J. Ranum and Pain Management by Andrew Vachss.

3) The last book I read?

Jingo by Terry Pratchett. I've finally managed to get into the Discworld books; now I like them a lot. I'm currently reading Soul Music by Terry Pratchett, Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, and The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel by Docia Schultz Williams.

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?

This is harder than it sounds. OK, in no particular order:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Told in flashbacks, the steady erosion of women's rights and the march toward theocracy. I've yet to read anything by Atwood that I haven't liked.

The Family Treasury of Children's Stories, edited by Pauline Rush Evans, published in 1956. I adored this two volume (I had the thicker, red books) set with all my heart. I probably learned to read with these books. From Mother Goose, Grimm, and Aesop to Greek myths to Jack London to mini biographies (Joan of Arc, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone) to Dickens, to Twain, to Jonathan Swift, to Jules Verne, to…. wonderful stuff to teach a child to love books. Alas, mine are falling apart – I need to find another copy.

Expanded Universe by Robert Heinlein. Ok, picking this book is kind of cheating; it's a collection of short stories and articles by Heinlein. On the other hand, I'm on my second copy – I wore out the first one. Exposure to Heinlein probably helped create my cynical and libertarian leanings. Other favorites are Citizen of the Galaxy and Friday.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. One of my all time favorites. I get more out of it every time I read it.

Animal Farm by George Orwell. Here's another one that probably warped my little mind. I first read this book when I was pretty young, probably about third grade. I'm quite sure that most of it whoooshed over my head, but it still stayed with me. I read it again in Jr. High and learned all sorts of things that I'd previously missed. I still read this one (and of course, 1984) once a year or so.

HAHAHAHAHAHA (meme)


Star Wars Horoscope for Aquarius

You can be cruel and torment people who disagree with you.
Deep down, there is a peace-loving, friendly side to you.
You have a knack for inflicting pain on people and use your intellect during battle.

Star wars character you are most like: Darth Vader

Nice kitty…

Mouse is fixed, and I think even my palm is fixed. And oooooh the dashboard is nifty. I'm using the LJ widget now!

I think has beaten Samba into submission, but I'm not sure.

Tyger, Tyger, burning bright…

Hrmph. It's pretty, and perhaps peppier (dunno as I've been using it for about 7 and a half minutes now) but it broke my mouse. And my palm. The jury's still out about Mail, also.

Judging from the swearing going on across the room, the Samba share is not cooperating, either.

NetNewsWire, Firefox, Xjournal, Adium all seem fine. Widgets are nifty.

I dunno, I think I'll go watch more Babylon 5 and play with this later.

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