Nothing to see here if you’re not into Animal Crossing: Wild World!
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You can't do that right now…
It’s really dry around here lately, They™ say there’s a high fire danger. I saw an electronic sign along the freeway today, the kind that tells of traffic problems, etc. – it said “Arson/Burn Ban in effect”. …. Um, isn’t arson always banned? I’m so confused.
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Polonius: What do you read, my lord?Hamlet: Words. Words. Words.Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii Happiness is an unlimited supply of good books.I cannot live without books. – Thomas JeffersonThe man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. – Mark TwainWhenever books are burned, men also are burned. – Robert A. HeinleinUpset the politically correct – read banned books. This entry kept in memories; updated as necessary. 2004 – 2005 – 2006 001. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 002. Red Hot Santa by Cherry Adair 003. Company by Max Barry 004.…
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Year in Review meme (ganked from geodyne)
This is a neat meme – it’s a review of the year, as seen by your LJ. Take the first sentence of the first entry of each month of 2005. There’s your year in review. Now, I cheated somewhat in that if it was a meme, I took the next entry. :) January: Fireworks have been going off since 7 pm. February: I’m not dead yet! March: So this morning, as usual, I have eggos for breakfast. April: I was going to post this huge entry about how Rob and I were pregnant, but then I realised I’d never be…
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The in-laws sent us some pictures of sqlrob when he was but a lad. This prompted me to see if my scanner still works. <chuckles evilly> It does, however Mac OSX doesn’t like it. Apparently, HP doesn’t have drivers for my model – guess it’s too old. It works just fine on my Win98 box – haven’t turned that poor thing on in months! So here’s sqlrob now… … and here he is in college…
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Five hours 'till Linucon…
You are a Social Liberal (70% permissive) and an… Economic Conservative (65% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online DatingAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test
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There's a bad moon on the rise
You know, this was a hurricane. A violent bit of weather that we saw coming ahead of time. An event that was predicted, planned for (at least, They Knew that the levees could be breached and what would happen). Our so-called “Homeland Security” failed miserably. FEMA is a joke. Is this the response when there is advance notice? So what’s it going to be like when CA gets hit with the Big One? Or a nice little suitcase nuke gets set off somewhere? Yeah. BTW – there’s incredible coverage at http://www.wwltv.com Also, you really should read the Times-Picayune – you…
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You're fucking kidding me.
Read the caption on this picture. Then read the caption on this one. Now the punchline. Read the caption here. I have no words. FUCK the media. Fuck ’em hard. With spikes. Edit: I’ve mostly stopped sputtering. It’s the same thing as how “kidnapped” blond blue-eyed children get buttloads of media attention when the perfectly cute hispanic child does not. I pdf’d the picture/captions in case they go away.
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I'll make a journal for my cat…
I just saw a banner ad that at first made me say “yuck”, but then it made me think. It was an ad for tripod’s webpages – it said “Build your baby’s journal now” or something like that. Of course, we’ve all seen LJ’s for babies, dogs, cats, and various fictional characters. Why does it have to be the “baby’s journal”? If I see another journal written in the POV of an infant (or cat, for that matter) I think I’ll gag. (“Meowmy says I can’t eat the plant – but why??” – <insert puking noises here>) Will an online…
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That's Ms. Fixit, to you…
So our toilet in the master bedroom has been flushing weirdly. You’d turn the handle and it was like it couldn’t lift up the flapper thing in the bottom of the tank. This morning I got fed up with it, and took a look. The arm that is raised by the handle to lift the flapper thing (in the toilet in the bathroom in the house that Jack built) was in the process of disintegrating. In fact, it snapped right off when I poked at it. The silly thing was plastic, so I can’t say I’m surprised. Then I noticed…