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2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Reagan Akhbar ! What you don’t know when you’re 22 could fill a book. If you write that book when you’re 44, you haven’t learned a thing. My thoughts on James Lileks you ask? Nobody does it better. If his 'Bleat' is not a daily 'must read' for you, your life is that much poorer without your even knowing it. Seriously. An observation from today's Opinion Jounal: Stanley's colleague Adam Nagourney tries to find hope for the Democrats: 'Some Republicans said the images of a forceful Mr. Reagan giving dramatic speeches on television provided a less-than-welcome contrast with Mr. Bush's own appearances these days, and that it was not in Mr. Bush's interest to encourage such comparisons.' Well, maybe. Certainly Bush isn't as eloquent as Reagan was. Then again, neither is John Kerry. When Bush speaks, you often imagine Reagan might have said the same thing better. When Kerry speaks, you imagine Reagan would disagree--assuming he could even figure out what Kerry was saying. Update: Holy shit, I've got urlLink tears in my eyes . |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Spent about 2 hours yesterday trying to fix the elevator in my buddy's house. Apparently someone pulled the door frame out of the wall (just an inch or so) and the elevator got stuck between floors. My initial thoughts were that, since the elevator moves slow as fuck, someone was drunk, got tired of waiting for it, and yanked on the door that closes off the empty shaft a little too hard - thereby tripping a fuse or something. Just got the update, someone stopped it in between floors, urlLink got their fuck on , then couldn't 'un-stop' the elevator, had to kick open the door from the inside, and boogied out of the party. I have my sneaking suspicions. //cough geoff cough// Geoff , you wouldn't happen to know what I'm talking about? Would you Geoff ? Huh, Geoff , about the elevator Geoff , I mean. LOL |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Electric urlLink relaxation . Pic of sunset from a Wednesday night surf session. I've got a great series of about 5 photo's of the sun setting that night, lemme see if I can string it together into one photo. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Looks like one of the distruntled leftward-thinking individuals from the urlLink R6MessageNet got a urlLink little pissed off about urlLink todays news that, no, it wasn't his urlLink house that was startin to flame up; it was the ECONOMY (stupid). Silly communists never learn. For those of you NOT in the know, COSAC stands for: CO lorado S ocialist A ctivities C lub The same group that had me banned from that motorcycle message board a few months ago. Think: EvilHalliburtonBusHitlerKNEWChenyKKKAbuGraibworsethan911 MichaelMooreisGOD - basically a bunch of knee-jerk reaction losers from Colorado, and one Muslim Social Worker from SoCal. Heh. Update : Check out the referrer logs, look at all the traffic comin in from there. Wonder what that's for? Heh. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Sure to break both my legs, my back, my neck, some fingers and my ear... Here's Jesse urlLink catchin some shorebreak yesterday. I think it's worth mentioning (for you poor land-locked souls) that no, that is not a surf board - it's called a 'skimmer'. Flat bottom (waxed up) and a bit of a kicker on the nose - you basically run down the beach, throw the board down in some wet sand then jump on it like a skateboard - in my case, most of the time with disastrous results. And here's some other dude urlLink getting sodomized down at the urlLink Wedge . Note that the water is sheeting over the sand on the beach. That wave might as well be crashing in the sand. Thanks to Jesse for both the pics! |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Team Psycho, Byrn take top honors at Triple-T . Multi-day event where some of my old buddies took out the reigning champs (who include an ex-USAT athlete of the year). Very cool. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink January 7, 1946 LIFE Magazine: Americans Are Losing the Victory in Europe . If we cannot learn the lessons of the past, we are doomed to repeat them. Maybe that should be John Kerry's campaign motto... |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Over here . And for those of you who haven't checked out urlLink T-shirt hell , do. They own you. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Is it just me, or did these things go out of style 2 years ago? If so, why would two supposed 'hipsters' (my gay boss, and our DJ analyst) give me a funny look when I made fun of my boss for wearing one. WTF - lol. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Sudan - Why There Are 'No Villages Left to Burn' . In 1983, 11 years of peace between northern Sudan, dominated by Arab Muslims, and southern Sudan, dominated by black Christians and animists, came to an end. As part of a program to implement Islamic law throughout Sudan, President Ja'far Numayri divided southern Sudan into three provinces. The citizens of the non-Muslim south rebelled. Autonomy for the south was not universally popular in the north. Hasan al-Turabi, the leader of the National Islamic Front (NIF), an Islamic fundamentalist movement with a strong presence throughout northern Sudan's civil society, allied himself with Umar Hasan al-Bashir, a major General in the Sudanese army willing to continue the war. Found via urlLink Instapundit . |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004� Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, writes in the Wall Street Journal (6/2, A14). 'John S. Carroll, the editor of the Los Angeles Times, recently gave a speech at the University of Oregon, in which he attacked Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel and me, the chairman of Fox News. However, Mr. Carroll obviously did not feel particularly restricted by facts, truth or sources. In an effort to use guilt by association, he compared me to Sen. Joseph McCarthy without evidence, sourcing or analysis. An old, cheap trick used by weak writers and thinkers. Mr. Carroll essentially announced that the reason Fox News Channel is the No. 1 cable news network and is gaining viewers is because the American people are stupid and gullible. In addition, he deliberately confused our highly rated news analysis and opinion shows like Bill O'Reilly with our hard news coverage.' Ailes adds, 'Mr. Carroll's pathetic attempt to smear Fox News Channel will only drive his paper's circulation down, as it should. Fox News Channel's audience in Los Angeles is increasing daily. The Los Angeles Times is becoming less relevant in people's lives, so Mr. Carroll is trying to flog health back to a newspaper by attacking television news. ... He owes the fine journalists at the Fox News Channel an apology for his insulting comments. However, we will never see that. He treated Fox News Channel worse in his newspaper than he treated the terrorists who recently beheaded an American. But of course, he sees Fox News as more dangerous.' |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | You know when you post opening lines like in urlLink this article , a suspicious eyebrow has been raised. Classic. Just plain classic. Where's that media bias nobody is talking about again? Heh. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Yes, a re-post, but worth it. urlLink Fuck, it's too big BTW, for those of you from Newps, post up and tell me who the FUCK that girl on the right is. MmmmK? |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | This one's for you Libbo. Kind of. This girl, urlLink Shalane Flanagan , is pretty much one of the top runners in the world right now, 5k, 10k stuff. It just so happens that I grew up swimming with her, which is weird, and cool. It also happens to be that she is hot as hell (which is where you come in Libbo). Enjoy. Also, here's some urlLink linky goodness in case you feel like reading more. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Dirty urlLink Google Search in which my blog shows up. And here's my emphatic 'NO(!!)' I was not searching on this term, friggin showed up in my referrer logs, alright? lol And just 'cause, here's some more ' Fun With Referrer Logs ' urlLink Wahabbism now for America urlLink Fat kid superbowl is gay urlLink Pic of fat chinese kid urlLink Screaming Fat Kid That's all for now. Back to work. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Next time some jerk tells you a urlLink diamond lane violation adds points to your record... urlLink don't believe the hype . I spent two (wasted) hours of my life sitting in line to talk to a judge at the OC Superior Court, only to get up, try and plead guilty so as to request second level traffic school, only to have it tossed back in my face that, traffic school is not an option for this infraction. Apparently, contrary to popular belief, thi is not a 'points earning' offense - bah. Of course, I don't feel as bad as the stoner kid who got busted with a nickel bag, and asked the judge to reduce his $50 fine, only to have the judge make fun of him. Something about the hypocrisy involved in living in OC, being able to afford drugs and a mere $50 fine. Heh. Or the bitch who tried to cry about driving on the toll road without her speedpass, when the judge wasn't havin any of it, and told her (basically) that she was stupid, she got all flippant with him and stormed out of the court - that was fun. Nor do I feel as bad as the kids who were read the riot act for doing something stupid like 50 in a school zone @ 2:30, or how about them no insurance, no license, no registration broke-dick illegals - gotta love them. Scary thing is, they made up the largest percentage of offenders. Net net net, if you're ever bored, and in need of a good laugh, go to traffic court and pull up a seat in the back. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink This would pose a LOT of problems. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Am I the only one who thinks advertising is a bunch of horse-shit, and these guys' sole r'aison d'etre is to see how much money they can urlLink piss away without drawing too much attention to themselves. Just feels like they're always looking for a new scam to justify their budgets. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Will be Lance Armstrong. I've been reading a bunch of political blogs, and a bunch of cycling blogs and I haven't read this anywhere, so you can report you heard it here first. Lance Armstrong: Six time TDF winner, cancer survivor, Texan, all around blue-collar guy. The only thing Bush is going to have to deal with is his recent divorce, but I think Lance is one of those indelible characters that you simple can't bash without looking like a total shitbag. The Dems tried it with Max Cleland, and it blew up in their faces. Lance is no politician, which makes him that much better of a candidate to speak at the convention. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Tentatively planned for late August, if not the first week in September. Looking to take a full week off of work. Do one of the 'leave Saturday AM at 0300' things - get up to urlLink St. Georges (famous MTB spot) get a day, or two, of MTB in - then hit the road for the final 500 or so miles up to the urlLink Grand Teton National Park . Either that, or take the round about way over to Idaho Falls and say hi to Pat, then cruise down through urlLink Yellowstone and Grand Teton, spend a couple days camping, do a day or two in a hostel in urlLink Jackson , then cruise home while hitting up Cedar Rapids or (God help me) Vegas on the way hom. Holy effin FUN batman. Oh yeah, did I mention this 2,000 mile trip will be solo ? urlLink Map here . |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | I hate my Ipod, urlLink Om Malik explains why . This is one of *many* problems I've had with this thing. The bag over the head and punch in the face (as Clark Griswold would say) is that there'e literally NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE on the market. Rio's tank, and don't have the UI of the ipod, and Sony's new gem only plays their proprietary ATRAC format, which I'm very wary of. Sucks being an 'early adopter'. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Remember when the coups in Venezuela were 'big events' as little as a year ago? Chavez (the socialist dictator) pretty much nationalized everything in the country, from media companies to oil production etc. Well, in the process his cronies also murdered a whole bunch of civilians, and the US has been working behind the scenes since then to help prop the democratic leanings of the people. This urlLink referendum, was a source of the most consternation on the part of Chavez - and now, looks like it's going to be carried out in the VERY near future. Neat. Too bad it's being overshadowed by *more pressing* issues like Michael Moore's speeches at the DNC, the hysterics surrounding that event and whatever other urlLink conspiracy theory the hacks over at DU can come up with at the moment. Food for thought, we (as a country) need to stop forgetting that the rest of the world doesn't stop and hold their breath while we pick a Presidential candidate. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | And Donald Trump ushers in the urlLink end of reality TV as we now know it. Wow. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | All in response to urlLink this item , which has been blowing around the blogosphere for the last week or so. Allah, the photoshopping diety, responded with a urlLink few of his own designs which, while funny, aren't nearly as hilarious as some of urlLink the commenters . Damn I wish I could be as funny as I am fat. *pouts* |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Asics Top Seven |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | I question the timing of these arrests. urlLink ABCNEWS.com : U.S. Indicts Muslim Charity in Texas LOL. That's sarcasm folks, it seems like lately all Dem's have been doing is 'questioning the timing' of anything and everything the administration does. Well, here's one more example of something that makes them looks stupid (PC-culture blowing up in their face), and it just so happens that it took place in Texas, where we all know the President is from - the land of The Cowboy . Of course Karl Rove came out with this 'leak' (even though their assets were frozen in 2001) at the same time as the DNC to distract the rest of the country from all the great work those bumblers are doing back in my hometown. Goofs. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Ann Coulter get's bagged , USA Today replaces her column with urlLink something by Jonah Goldberg , only to have Ace urlLink satirize the shit out of it . Hehehehe. I take back my comment from earlier, urlLink American Digest isn't my only new favorite blog, urlLink Ace is right up there too. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Ace once again tears into Sullivan . Oh yeah, btw, Sully just endorsed Kerry. Expect more where this came from. As a sidenote, I hope one day I can pull in $120,000 from this fucking POS blog, and pass it off as 'bandwidth' expense. *raising hand* Glad I didn't donate to *that* shitbag. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink NSFW |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | You gotta click this bitch to 'get it' urlLink UpUpUp! Viva Lance! |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Yes, I know blogging's been light lately, typical work load for a 'team' at work here is 3-5 deals, just found out we have 14 in process. Oof. In any case, wanted to share this with you, stupid and goofy? Yes. Funny also? Yes. +++++++++++ GEORGE W BUSH We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here. COLIN POWELL Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road. HANS BLIX We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road. JOHN KERRY Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! RALPH NADER The chicken's habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrial greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV. PAT BUCHANAN To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American. RUSH LIMBAUGH I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet that somebody out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this?!? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars. And when I say tax dollars, I'm talking about your money, money the government took from you to build a road for chickens to cross. MARTHA STEWART No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information. DR SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told. ERNEST HEMINGWAY To die in the rain. Alone. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. GRANDPA In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough. BARBARA WALTERS Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road. JOHN LENNON Imagine all the chickens in th e world crossing roads together - in peace. ARISTOTLE It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. KARL MARX It was an historic inevitability. RONALD REAGAN What chicken? CAPTAIN KIRK To boldly go where no chicken has ever gone before. SIGMUND FREUD The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. BILL GATES I have just witnessed eChicken2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet explorer is an integral part of eChicken. ALBERT EINSTEIN Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken? BILL CLINTON I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken? AL GORE I invented the chicken! THE BIBLE And God came down from heaven, and he said unto the chicken THOU SHALT CROSS THE ROAD. And the chicken didst cross the road, and there was much rejoicing. COLONEL SANDERS Did I miss one? |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | This guy is urlLink fucking TOAST 'Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks , and also inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio.' Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucked. Oh, and btw, he was Clinton's National Security Advisor, and nevermind this damning quote either: However, some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of Al Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers said. Officials said the missing documents also identified America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to seaports. As urlLink Maynard says, ' urlLink Go back to sleep '. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | The blast doesn't travel at the speed of light, but the light from the blast does. -William Burroughs ht: urlLink American Digest (one of the best new blogs I've found. Period.) ht2: The indubitable urlLink James Lileks |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink FREE RENT FOR A SUBMISSIVE GIRL IN NEED Oh man, this from my buddy Rob back in NYC. What a great find, and props to the guy who wrote it! |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Holy cow ! This guy's pretty shitdiesel, never thought I'd see the day. LOL |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | I can't be the only one thinking urlLink this years Olympics are going to be a monumental disaster/flop. Honestly. After the last two sets of summer games, what were they, Sydney and Atlanta - which were extremely well organized, now we've got this debacle? I mean, I was in Sydney fully 8 months before the games were scheduled to start, and we were swimming in the Olympic pool, with all the get up and go. The transportation infrastructure was complete, they were just putting finishing touches on the venues. These guys are dealing with blackouts, incomplete venues, inadequate security and a whole slew of other bad omens, and we've got one MONTH before the games start? Oh man. This is going to be the one set of Olympic Games in my memory that I can honestly say I'm glad I won't be attending. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | ...makes a urlLink good point . |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Great urlLink photo-blogging going on over at Dogtulosba (Chad's place). Chad's an Army Engineer, and it looks like they got to drive around APC's and blow up mine fields they'd just set up. His weekend sounds like a shitload more fun than mine. I sat home (Thursday through now) with some nasty stomach flu. Only now (3:30 Sunday afternoon) am I finally starting to feel better. Way to kill a weekend, eh? In any case, in some interesting news, I did just go to the shooting range, and fortunately for my fragile ego, I left the targets there, so don't expect me to post any pictures. Let's just say I offically suck. I am, however, going to make an attempt at doing something about it. I took a gentlemans biz card, and I think I'm going to start taking some basic lessons. I need to learn the uber-basic shit like how to hold the god damn thing for one, and how to 'squeeze, not pull' the trigger (though I may have that backwards - lol). In any case, yeah, I can't shoot for shit. Do need to learn though. In other 'good' news, I noted that they have the urlLink GODFORSAKEN S&W 50 cal for RENT. FOR FIVE FRICKIN DOLLARS. They don't immediately mention, however, that the ammunition for the beast costs $40 for 20 rounds. /kickinthenuts I'll save that for when I have friends to share the burden, or at least take pics of me laughing my balls of when I shoot it - the gun that's designed to basically kill any non-armored (metal plates) living thing on the face of this earth. Well, maybe an exaggeration, but it is designed to kill any game animal - including bears and boars, two of the nastier animals I can think of. I wonder what it'd do to a blue whale, not that you'd want to shoot one... but, you know... |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | From urlLink The Guardian no less, and the money quote: ''I think that if you don't know the facts you could be persuaded,'' Read the whole thing. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Here . |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Just like urlLink Al Gore ! Disclaimer: I never claimed to be civil, alright. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | For those of you forced to register under urlLink Megans Law (for one reason or another), here's something urlLink you might enjoy . $5 says the seat is pressure sensitive, sit on it and the glass clears up. Heh. Thanks to Giraffe for the link! |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Cruising along I-5, about to hit my exit, when all of a sudden I see what looks like a lady shaking her fists in anger in front of me. Nothing out of the normal says I, CA drivers suck. Next thing I know, this woman start swerving off the road, mind you this lady *was* 15 ft in front of me, we were moving along at about 40-45 mph in traffic. I back off, thinkin 'WTF is this lady doing' - the very next thing, she goes off the road, takes out a call box, a urlLink 50 ft light pole , continues to swerve across the merging 2 lanes, goes flying off the road, through a ditch and into some bushes!!!! WTF Myself and 4 other cars pull over, this lady is still on the gas. Only reason she's not moving is b/c the wheels are off the ground. Fortunatly her stroke was over by the time we got to her, and she was just kind of hangin out. The front windshield held up, so she wasn't a bloody mess. The rear of the car didn't do so well, as you can see. Sorry for the crappy image quality, they're from my camera phone. I didn't want to take more b/c I felt like I was gawking. Which I hate. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Hope all y'all had a great weekend. Though the weekend had it's ups and downs, overall some very good shit. Spent much of the time hangin with Geoff down at the Laguna House and his beach house. We spent yesterday cruisin the boardwalk on the bikes, and gettin into mischief. Geoff was so kind as to provide me with about 40 sets of beads, which by the end of the day were gone, and I'd seen about 35 pairs of lucious titties. A beautiful thing... In any case, I did want to share with y'all the results of my 'bike fight' with Jesse yesterday. Somewhere along the line I think we decided it would be fun to start hurling bikes at eachother. Attempting to avoid a beach cruiser that was hurtling at my head, I somehow did urlLink this to my urlLink foot . Think it's broken much? The Doc should be able to give the official word, but you tell me where the smart money's playin. ;) Excuse the dirty tape marks, I found a physical trainer last night somewhere along the line and she taped me up with some industrial stuff, and it's a little too tender this morning/afternoon to remove all the tape-shit. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | I've been sayin urlLink this about urlLink The Onion for years. It always bugged the shit out of me the way they portray some things (politics being the main offense). Which, is basically why I haven't read it much for the past couple years. Basically ever since 9/11 - it just seems they've taken the whole thing as urlLink a joke . I mean, you can find at least one article in every single on-line issue like the one I just linked. God forbid we even start to talk about Homeland Security or Ashcroft... *shakes head* Political discourse in this country is swirling down the toilet. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | *shrugs* keeps the snow off the driveway Teeheheheh. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink I need more FUNDING . Giant tsunamis, super volcanoes and earthquakes could pose a greater threat than terrorism, scientists claim. Nothing like exploiting 'terrorism' to further your budgetary outlook for next year, eh 'scientists'. You know who should be focusing their energy on this, as opposed to, say, pursuing nuclear weapons, India. How many of those mofo's die each year b/c of monsoons or tidal waves - I bet high 6 digits, if not 7. All you have to do is go read some of the geo-political strategy reports that have been coming out these last few years - the US is pretty much the best-positioned country in the world to deal with any kind of severe natural catastrophe. All this airport screening shit is doing nothing but helping us prepare for some 'big natural catastrophic event'. For those of you who *haven't* read the reports I'm talking about (I'll try and find links later) - they basically say, in the event of some dramatic global climate change (poles reversing, etc.) it's going to be countries with wealth, land and natural resources that will thrive. The problem will be immigration, little insignificant countries like France, where 10,000 people died last summer b/c it was HOT are going to witness violent street protests and societal upheaval. So long welfare state. Nevermind countries like in sub-saharan Africa, or the middle east. LOL. Let's talk about 'fucked'... every single shithead dirt bag is gonna come runnin for OUR borders - and why? B/c we have our shit together, that's why. All we have to do once they get here, is give them a free ride. 'Hey, you're new here, have some gov't programs to support you and your free-loading family for the next 20 years. All you gotta do is VOTE DEMOCRAT in the coming election, those Republicans are heartless bastards!'. And people wonder why Americans are so selfish. When the shit hits the fan, there's only one place people come running. urlLink It ain't France (btw, I consider Israel, 'little America') |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink MY WAR - Fear And Loathing In Iraq h/t: urlLink EHOWA This one's good for any of you who'd like to read first hand knowledge about what's really going down in Iraq - from a soldiers perspective. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | OMG. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Plain and simple and Ace explains why. I agree. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | If I don't get some poonanny soon, I'm going to go crazy. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | urlLink Interesting . Oh, and btw, this is my 600th post bitches. Heh. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | So, last night went down to Carlsbad to Keri's little BBQ thing - had a great time, got really shitfaced and ended up talking politics with a few Navy dudes, and Keri's liberal best friend. Oops. Turns out the Navy dudes felt the same way about JFK as I do - we'd like to give him a urlLink cleveland steamer . Well, little miss liberal had a differing opinion - I don't remember much of the argument, but I think it ended in raised voices, me feeling like an asshole and everyone else deathly quiet. Or something. Heh. In any case I did meet some totally cute chick, Julia, who had the raddest ink on her stomach I've ever seen. Not sure that I remember what it is, but it sure was cool. It probably helped that she was fucking hot. So, around 2 I decide that it would be a great idea if I drove home, after having a bottle of wine and damn close to a six pack of Sierra Nevada. It goes without saying it was a pretty hairy 45 mile drive home. A stunt I won't soon be repeating, believe you me. Given that it's already a late night, I got home around 2 or so, I decide to haul off and check my myspace account to see whats up. Got a few messages from some cuties, so I log into AIM/Yahoo to see if anyone's on - b/c I'm feelin frisky. Turns out two are on. Woop, here comes the webcam. Next thing I knew it's 0400, I'm starin down the barrel of a mean fucking hangover, a long day at the office, inability to form a coherent thought (look no further than this post), a case of the shits and no clothes to wear for work in a couple hours. Fuck. Me. Not good prospects. In any case, go listen to Slipknot 'Before I forget' - it owns you. |
2,821,801 | female | 27 | indUnk | Taurus | 09,June,2004 | Drug my roommate away from his incessant studying for about an hour this morning, to go shoot urlLink this beast . Well, feel free to call me a pussy, but my wrist is friggin sore from shooting 10 ROUNDS . With a box of 20 rounds costing $40, I wasn't about to haul off and buy too much ammo - no friggin need, and I have bills to pay. Regardless, this thing is out of control - urlLink it makes shooting my .45 feel like plinking , however the gun is totally controllable. I was expecting the thing to buck back and hit me in the face on recoil - no such thing. The gun recoils almost straight back, and as you can see in the vids, the upward kick is limited to maybe 30 degrees. Very cool. Below are two vids of me and my roommate shooting this supreme American piece of ingenuity. Forgive the quality/resolution of the vids, they were taken from my POS cell phone, as my cam battery is dead. After you've DL'd them, you can always just make them bigger through quick time. urlLink Me, acting the fool ( rt. click > save as ) I was actually hoping P would take a vid of everyone's responses as I took my first shot. Apparently the 10 other people at the range stopped what they were doing, looked at eachother and quizzically announced a collective 'WTF was that?!?'. A couple dudes walked over, and indicated with their best 'it was THAT big' pose that I was shooting something that was clearly larger than my penis... moving on... Here's a urlLink close up vid of Pat ( rt. click > save as ) putting a few holes through the target at 15 or so yards. And yes, that's me giggling like a bitch at his first shot - this gun is comical, like something out of an old comic book. It actually took me about 5 minutes to contain myself before firing the first round - I couldn't stop laughing at this 5 lb+ gun, with ammunition I can almost fit my pinkie finger in, which can fire a 1 oz slug at sixteen hundred and fucking sixty five feet per fucking second - which is approximately two times the speed of sound, which is approximately twice as fast as the rounds chambered in my HK .45. Oof. |
4,181,494 | male | 23 | Education | Cancer | 10,August,2004 | just got offered a full time position up in Sharon as an ABA teacher and I am now working in my field, full time and within an environment where everyday is a reward. 4 years of college and a year of subbing has paid off. |
4,181,494 | male | 23 | Education | Cancer | 09,August,2004 | You know those 'billboards' that you sometimes see in front of restaurants and businesses that offer a quote or something catchy to draw you in? Well, on a trip through Dighton to get to Somerset, I came across such a 'billboard' in front of a church that stated 'The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.' This got my mind working, however, not in the sense the church probably wished it would. The closer to God, the smaller things seem to be...hmmmm... Let's assume God in this statement is the imaginary guy in the sky with the gray beard and white dress. What follows is my quirky sense of humor and semi-biting satire on religion: The real reason priests take up the vow of celibacy. Why Jerry Falwell called Tinky Winky gay. ('Antenna' envy) Why agnostics, pagans, etc. have great sex. Why Churches have phallic towers. (Pointing up to God, my ass!) Why castration isn't much of a problem for religious fanatics. (hello...is this thing on?) and onto another bunch of idiots: the GOP for those who think the same, please check out this article on Excite: urlLink http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040808/D84B3AH80.html |
4,181,494 | male | 23 | Education | Cancer | 09,August,2004 | well let's start the blog with a rundown of what happened this past weekend. For all those who weren't there here's what happened. I was invited to a beach themed party at joe's place in new bedford. I find out around midnight or so that my car was picked up and moved into the street by 7 teenage guys and towed thereafter. After talking with a few officers at the station, the tow company, I had to shell out $95 yesterday for the tow just to get my car back. As it turns out, I have a relative who has AAA and it looks like I can get a refund for the tow. I'd like to give my thanks for all those who were there and helped: Maura (taking the time and trying like hell with AAA and such), Joe (providing the couch and pullout bed), and Amanda (for being sweet, putting up with me being goofy and for the excellent shoulder massage). Even with the shit that went down with the car, the night turned out pretty decent. I got to spend some time with Amanda, which was cool, even if we stayed up until 6 am. Anyways, I had a full weekend with a nice surprise, some fun and except for the car thing, would live through it again in a heartbeat. Thanks everyone for reading this and if I'm not lazy, there may be a couple more entries this week. |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 29,July,2004 | Aiya... Very tired... Nearly sleep everyday in class... Todaygot HMT RR... it was so hard... i dunno lots of questions... Aiya only RR so i dun reali care.... Saturday is preim oral.... a bit nervous.. sometimes stuck and dunno wad to say.... wateva just try my best... |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 24,July,2004 | Overall, I think my NAPFA was horrid...I can have a chance to get gold or silver but everything was spoiled by the stupid inclined pull-up.... haiz....(sigh...)I did the others quite well except for the pull-up....Wednesday was Racial Harmony day... It was pretty boring.... wearing those enthic costumes was a bit extra....wateva, i don't really care.... today got 1.6km run... well its not bad, dun really feel tired.... but run halfway suddenly rain... all the water wet my specs... very hard to see.... but its SO fun running in the rain.... very cooling... then i took a public bus home, wet myself even more... no umbrella... I was drench frm head to toe by the time I reach home... Then i go IMM to shop.... aiya, still got home work must do.... gtg must give comments, bye!!! |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 18,July,2004 | Oh No!!! tomorrow is NAPFA test.... wateva, i just want to get a silver badge because that is what i have been getting in the last 2 years... for sit-up i just do 25.... incline pull-up, i will do maybe 8.... shuttle run 11-12 secs.... sit and reach, i will just do 38cm... standing broad jump i will just do 147cm... ok gtg bye! |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 17,July,2004 | AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Exams coming!!! I haven really study yet... Aiya, the results so-so can liao...aniwae,todae go 'n wash photos... the photos came out not bad, quite nice... todae go jing jia 's house again... we do homework... I got fed up in the end... thinking y must we DO homework....wateva,just do lor... won't die.... I'm going to play until siao after exams..... (',) |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 10,July,2004 | Today I went Jing Jia's house... We did our Maths HW... Its a total of 50 questions... most of them were problem sums... I broke my record by finishing it in 2 hours... Well its very good for a slowpoke like me... After that we went to play and watch TV... In the end, we ended up playing hide & seek(hiding things).... It was fun... I'm happy to day because I both work and play... Can't wait for PSLE to be over... I will play until siao .... aiya.. I got nothing to write any more so I'll end here... BYE!!! |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 06,July,2004 | Now the teachers are giving more and more homework.... and I'm sleeping around midnight everyday... The onli thing i'm scared of is that i will fall asleep in lessons the nxt day... So i got an idea... so I drank a cup of coffee before going to sch everyday... and TRUE! It works! I dun even need to take naps anymore... I dun even feel tired.... Today Mrs Chia gave us the prelimary dates.... haiz... I'm tired of exams.... alot of ppl who failed their exams also become successful ppl in future.. |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 05,July,2004 | Haiz... Dun feel like doing my homework so I decided to play the computer lor....There are no nice shows on TV except Wheel of Fortune Singapore... I tired of all those VCDs... haiz... Why so boring? My making this blog is quite fun and I enjoyed doing it.... Haha... very wu liao right? I waiting for time to past so that I can grow up... Being a grown up is SO fun! Dun need to study can work play and relax everyday... How nice! |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 04,July,2004 | Today was a happy and bored day... there is tuition and I sat there for 4 hours listening to the teacher's talking.... but the teacher there very funny make me laugh alot... After tuition at abt 6.15, I went to my ah ma house for dinner... steamboat! Then i played with my pet rabbit, Charcoal... Oh No! still got alot of homework must do! But never mind tomorrow is youth day... no school... haha..we are not 'youths' why must celebrate youth day... ok la not much left to write... so I'll end here bye! |
3,837,231 | female | 13 | indUnk | Libra | 07,August,2004 | Aiya, just got back maths and Hmt rr results... quite happy abt it.... friday celebrate national day in sch....then, got dragged by man xuan and cliantha to compass point.... ferlycia and melanie also got go..... we eat and shop.... I bought a pair of earrings.... but drop one of them while I was bathing...haiz, tml tuition buy one more... haha... think i'm getting hopeless because no mood to study in this exam period.... now watching a basketball show 'Dear Boys'.. hehe... on of the guys inside very handsome.... my mum says i'm mad because they r just figures being drawn out by other people...On friday sleep frm 2.30---6pm very tired... didn't sleep well that week, need to charge my energy... got 2 test paper 4 hw.. don't feel like doing but haf to..... ok la dun haf much to write.... |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 20,August,2004 | Another blog to see. the next blog button is good for when your on a vacation and board. ive seen a lot of blogs and they belong to kids and men that are right out of state colleges. but this one is good. this woman is happy about her life. i think shes a single parent but she keeps busy with her daughter and writes provoking ideas. i wanted to comment like ive been doing to all the other blogs i went to but theres no room for one. read her post about being a bitch. for the three or four of you who read my blog Gio made a new blog for diferent users so we can all write in it. im going back to work next week so Sanne and Gio can write something for me to read not the other way around. ill send the link in email. heres the link to the blog i told you about urlLink becoming ex |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 18,August,2004 | Our last day before we headed back to finish out my vacation at home. we played on the ps2 for almost 3 hours and ate out for dinner. the kids were acting out at the restraunt and got in trouble. my sister in law overeacted to it though and caused a scene and was mad at the kids during the whole time. past all that we had a good time and we started for home later that evening. so now were back. Gio thinks I should delete the post about teenagers. the girl i had written about started spamming me. Gio is making a blog too so i'll let the rest of you know |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 14,August,2004 | We saw open water. it sucked and was a waste. we went back and thought about renting goodfellas but the special edition didnt come out until tuesday and we wanted to wait for it. Gio didnt want to watch it he hates those movies that portray italian americans as violent and bad. we had a fight over it and we rented 13 going on 30 instead. it was a cute movie it was kind of like big. so the rest of you skip seeing open water and go rent 13 going on 30. |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 14,August,2004 | Were back. we drove down to lawrenceville in nj. its a town a little north of trenton where some of my relatives live. we made it to my brothers house and i was so tired from the trip i fell asleep on the couch for 2 hours untill my sister in law woke me up for dinner. i have three neices april karen and christina and a nephew aaron. aaron likes Gio so he talked his ear off most of the evening untill he had to go to bed. we ate a lot and talked about going to see open water. |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 14,August,2004 | We're getting ready for jersey. i got my two weeks vacation so i'm going to go visit some people and maybe go to the shore. |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 13,August,2004 | Gio got hit on by a female cabbie! lol |
4,228,369 | female | 24 | indUnk | Aries | 12,August,2004 | After reading other people's blogs for a month, I finally decided to get one for myself. the four of us tried to get tickets for chicago. Its playing at the ambassador theatre on west 49th if you're in the area. We didn't get them so we went out instead. Gio got the great idea to cross the bridge and go around little italy where he used to live before his x kicked him out just for some albachiara. for those of you that dont know it's a pizzeria and its real good &s but the rest of us didn't want to be out there so far but we went anyway. |
3,839,759 | female | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 21,July,2004 | I'm finally done with those damn weeds. Okay, I had to do 1/3 of an acre, solid weeds, for our garden. You don't realize how hellish that can be. My legs ached like hell, so occasionally I would sit down to do them. I have ant bites EVERYWHERE! I thought I had it pretty bad. I went psycho because the ants were biting me, and I had one on the inside of my thigh, kinda high up there (not really high, just pretty). Well, one, I thought? Try SIX! There are six bites, and they are huge, pink bumps and they itch and sting. I HATE ANTS! People act like they are so great because they work together and act like the community everyone wishes we were. Screw that! The bastards bite and they have no mind of their own! So what if they can tunnel and lift like 6 times their own weight? I'll admit it, I can't do that. I CAN step on them though. Show me an ant that can do THAT! I'm better than them. I hate ants. |
3,839,759 | female | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 08,July,2004 | Well, my concert was GREAT! It was a little hard getting to the ampitheatre, but it was worth it. Red rocks is amazing! We had a really tough time finding a good spot. Fianlly though, we found a place in the 6th row from the stage. We could actually see the features on their faces! It was truly great. Almost everyone there was really preppy, the sort who obviously has a lot of money. Hell, with a lot of those people, their parents probably paid for it. I'm completely in debt to my parents. I'll be doing a lot of babysitting and ironing for this concert. But man, ws it worth it. Adam Levine is sooooooooo hot, and Maroon 5 KICKED ASS. Of course, I knew all the words to all the songs. My god, I listen to that cd enough. at least once a day... since june 1st... 2003. I'm obsessed... so? john mayer was really sexy too, but he tried eating the microphone. I love the man to death, but he's so weird when he sings, and has no rhythm. People seemed to like our saying. while everyone else shouted 'you're hot' or 'marry me' or 'john mayer rules', we were yelling 'john mayer, be my squeegee bitch!'. We saw this article where he was talking about his first job, and he talked about how he was the best squeegee in the land, and how he could make the gas pump stop at exactly $15. So, we made a poster that said 'John mayer- the best squeegee in the land'. They wouldn't let us take it in, but they let someone else take their poster. =(. But everyone loved us for having an original saying. It was a great concert, overall. |
3,839,759 | female | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 06,July,2004 | well, had my first day of driving today. It was kinda scary. Man, it's weird to have somene else playing with the brakes. The handling and brakes were different from my car, so I had a little dificulty at first. After the first turn i eas okay though. I-25 was a little scary. We lived. |
3,839,759 | female | 16 | Student | Capricorn | 04,July,2004 | Hey, just made this TODAY!! .... ummmmm... okay, today is the 4th of July, and I am bored. I was planning to go to some weird celebration at the museum, but you know how it is without transportation. Can't wait til' I get a driver's license. I went to a party yesterday with Kallie. That was fun. We rode ATVs. It was the first time I ever did that. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 31,May,2004 | I am fundamentally not wired to believe that men would want to pursue me. I am in a situation where I must not pursue a particular man. I refuse to accept that he does not want to pursue me. I automatically assume that he would not want to pursue me. Nobody is pursuing anybody. Not that anyone would want to. Particularly. (I knew the quote but not its origin. I didn't realize this was an Orwellian situation although now that I know I'm not surprised.) |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 30,May,2004 | I'm listening to Les Miserable, the London cast with Colm Wilkinson and France Ruffle. I first heard this album when I was at Otterbein. It was the start of a broadway revival of sorts and I was studying theater at the time. I remember listening to One Day More while laying on my stomach ... coloring or sketching I think .. in Cheryl's room with Caroline and a few others. Shannon and Missy were there. It was Shannon's album. Listening to the promise in this story at the start of my own artistic career. I failed as an actor. Failed for most of the same reasons that make writing a blog so natural for me. As an actor I can never extinguish that part of me - the observing ego my therapist called it (but that was much later and in another context.) I wanted to be an artist but I can't achieve that lack of self-consciousness that is the hallmark of self-expression. In order to express the artistic intention an actor must suppress his or her conscious intent. I'm too self-aware to be self-negating. Disappointing for an actor but it's been my saving grace as a person. The promise I hear in Les Mis these days is that of love and mercy for souls who dream and try and fail. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 28,May,2004 | Dammit my new Diablo character expired! It's so aggravating since I made a big deal about getting her special set of armor. It's especially frustrating because I know I played her for more than two hours but for some reason stupid Blizzard kept setting the clock back. I can't believe I forgot to check it. And the most maddening part is that I've been deliberately avoiding D2 because I've felt shy and I knew I was being avoidant and I didn't try to stop it! Damn Damn Damn. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 27,May,2004 | I just took my remeron. That's an antidepressant that functions as a sleeping aid when you take small doses. Sleeping is probably the key to everything for me. Or lack of sleep, rather. I've been an insomniac since I was an infant. Talking to my mom about it recently, she told me that when I was little I used to hold my eyelashes open to stay awake. I asked her why I did this and she replied, 'how should I know? You couldn't talk!' She's still bitter about the fact that neither of us slept for years when I was a baby. In fairness, I was a beastly difficult infant. Anyway, last year my therapist suggested that getting my sleep disorders under control would make a huge difference in my mental health. I wasn't sure. I'd spent my entire life getting too little sleep and I didn't think it was a problem. I thought I was used to it. In retrospect I guess I was used to it but it was a lousy feeling. I'm much happier now that I try to sleep regularly. Healthier too. I'm not crazy about the remeron. I take the soltabs which just dissolve on my tongue. This is terrific because I medicine tears up my stomach and with the soltabs I don't need to eat or drink milk or anything. But I don't like how much sleep I need to feel rested in the morning - 10 hours or more most nights. And I'd like to learn to sleep without it but no luck there at all. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 26,May,2004 | Aarrgghh - I missed a day. I'm still trying to find my range here. It's all in my voice of course because I can't speak in any voice of my own but I haven't decide yet if I want to try specializing in a sort of notes or just continue with random thoughts that occupy me before bedtime. The point of this is that I've been feeling self-conscious about writing. I also have started to build it up into something dreadful. That's absurd of course - my only real talent is for words and writing. I enjoy writing in its way. Or more precisely, I enjoy playing with my large vocabulary. I'm not a writer in the sense that I feel compelled to espress things. My expressions are essentially effortless. This is how I sound when I talk, folks. :) I started a blog because I want to exercise my writing and skills and, I confess, I want to see where I can go with a public proclamation. Alright, so far the public is me and the stuffed bears on my monitor but still. Baby Steps. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 24,May,2004 | I've been staring all evening at Stardock's WinCustomize site. urlLink http://www.wincustomize.com/ WinCustomize is the home of a useless but fascinating set of programs that lets you change the way your desktop looks. You can change icons, windows, toolbars and so on. Ok, ok - not useless. With Desktop X you can easily (honest - it's really easy) create gadgets and make your desktop into an actual place to do things instead of a big empty place to stick icons. Also, WinCustomize has terrific WinAMP skins too. But the bits I like are aimed for aesthetics - pretty not useful - and more to the point pricey given my current state of employment. The good news is that Stardock offers a variety of deal and generous upgrade pricing! The one I've got my eye on is WindowBlinds. This is the main one that governs how you can make your windows look, via WinXP's Visual Styles. I own WB 3 and I was thinking I'd have to put off upgrading until I find some more moola. But as I was looking around the site, I realized that as a prior customer, I could upgrade for just $10! Huzzah! WinCustomize has been running what they call the GUI Olympics where they invite different artist to prepare graphics in categories like 'Most Creative' and 'Most Usable.' I've been salivating over this skin called Opulence (click on the picture to see it up close.) urlLink http://www.guiolympics.com/skins2004.asp?skinid=172 I promised myself a reward for doing good today (more on that later) so watch me bust out that credit card! |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 23,May,2004 | If I were to do a list of birds, it would look like this: 1. Gold Finches, so bright and tiny, such pretty songs. 2. Hovering Hummingbirds like little jeweled toys. 3. Snowy Owls with golden eyes and wings as silent and enveloping as clouds. 4. Burrowing Owls always look so grumpy - verry cute! 5. Peregrines - we have these in the city where I live. Heartstopping black and white. The differnece between my list and the original is that Sei lived in Heian Kyoto - a city of rice paper houses in the cradle of unspoiled mountains. She knew her birds as fellow citizens; I know them from zoos and nature shows. Oh I have to tell you all about the zoo some day and all the animals which by which I've been bitten. For birds, I've been attacked by 1. A Duck (I was trying to feed him!!!) 2. Great Horned Owl. (I was just looking at him!!!) 3. An Emu. Emus are stupid birds - all the ugliness of ostriches without their elegant height and coloring. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 22,May,2004 | Today's lesson - always write your post in Notepad and then post it into the update window. Since I'm here, let me recommend Notepad Pro from Fookes Software. urlLink Http://www.notetab.com This has a tabbed multiple document interface, a terrific system called the clipbook that works for writing html, a tremendous user support group and more options than I can explain. I use it in place of the plain old windows notepad and for light html editing as well. I altered my blog template using this software. There's a freeware version as well as two shareware options. I have the Notepad Pro version since I like to support shareware. nbsp& --> |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 21,May,2004 | Here I am writing my first blog entry. I am uncertain where I am going. I am eager to begin. I could begin with a list of hateful things or maybe a memory of an elegant event. I have assumed a weighty persona and I am mindful that I must not disappoint. I am mindful that I just made three typos in that last sentance and Sei would not be forgiving. Is this real? But yes - this is really a blog. Is this true? But no - I am not Sei Shonagon and this is not Sei's Pillow Book. Is this honest? But of course - why would I lie to you? Here I am publishing my first blog entry. Wish you could be here. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 30,June,2004 | urlLink Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ? I'm checking out a feature of Blogger that I haven't tried before. It's the Blog This Button! Basically, if you're surfing the net and find something you want to add you hit your Blog This button and little javascript window pops up with the link in place and some basic tools. It's got options to spell check, save the blog as a draft or publish it, with a drop down box where you can select your blog if you have multiples. That's a nice touch, I think. I thought this was purely a Google Toolbar feature but I was mistaken. It is built right into the Goolge Bar, if you use that. As an Opera lover of course, I don't need the Google Bar since it's redundant (in Opera, just type your search into the address bar with a letter prefix. for example, 'g collies' searches google for collies. 'z collies' searches Amazon, 'e collies' searches ebay - pretty cool but that's Opera!) ANYWAY - I found that for most modern browsers, there's also a bookmarklet that you just drag-n-drop to your links bar that supports Blog This! Dynamite! Let's try the spell check ... |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 28,June,2004 | So did we just do a dine & dash in Iraq? I mean, is there some way to look at this without seeing the Provisional Government folding up it's tents and stealing away? Is there some possible way to describe the hand over of power in Iraq without using phrases like 'thief in the night' or 'cut and run' or heaven help us, 'hightail'. Yes, I know the cover-story is that we're doing this two days early to foil the dastardly terrorist. Honestly, running away because we can't stop terrorists from attacking us is galling. We've gone from 'Bring it on!' to 'Run away!' And it's not amusing. And of course, they know where we live and they have our credit card on file so it's not like the dirty little coward routine is going to save us. Nor should it. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 25,June,2004 | Wow, I finally got a decent night's sleep. I've been sleep deprived for ages. My normal sleep machine got broken a few weeks back. It was a homedics version. And then I was house sitting and had to get up at odd hours to get my Dad up for work (this is the condensed version, you recall.) Anyway I bought a different brand of sleep machine - this one's from Relaxor and also has soothing lights and aromatherapy. I think it took me a few days to get used to the different rhythm of the sound. I've been calling it a sleep machine - what it is really is a white noise machine that plays sounds like ocean waves or rainfall and masks things like traffic noise and housemates and stuff. I really like this new machine. Hopefully I've adjusted now. Or maybe I've been too sleep deprived. I managed to give myself a migraine Wednesday that I'm sure was from lack of sleep. So the name of this blog is 'Pillow Notes' and I'd intended it to be a few random jottings before I went to bed. The thing is I keep thinking of stuff to write about at other hours of the day. I like the concept of Pillow Notes but in practice I need to keep my bedtime less fraught with incident and I need to write when the inspiration hits me. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 23,June,2004 | so far so good |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 22,June,2004 | Hey there - I've been a ZA user for years. I had pro for a while but didn't use the ocokie features since I prefered Cookie Pal. So I switched from ZA Pro to ZA Plus. I know, I know the free one is good but I like to support companies whose products I like. However. Since then I've fallen in love with Opera which doesn't work with Cookie Pal. Opera's only flaw is its primitive cookie handling. So now I'm trying out ZA Pro again. I've heard that it doesn't work with Opera but it seems to be doing fine here. And why the hell has knittingdragon.com tried to put a cookie on my system? Look I know cookies are not malevolent little traitors. Usually. But it's my system dammit and I want to decide what gets stored here. So far, Blogger seems to be running slowly. I suspect that's because I have Google ads disabled at the moment. We'll see how this goes. Oh - some links for your enjoyment: urlLink Opera - the World's Greatest Web App urlLink Zone Labs - Internet Security |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 22,June,2004 | Today I bought two pair of shoes: Chunky black slides with a wide elastic band, square-ish toes and a semi platform heel & sole. And I bought a pair of sandals - thongs, black with a miniature little heel and beaded instep. Also a pair of slippers, micro-suede mules - no heels, pink soles, white and blue bands across the instep with a fabric flower in yellow on them. And I bought taupe leather gardening gloves and garden shears. And a new work out top and capris, grey & pink. And a foot massager of clear plastic with beads that you roll your feet across. I bought groceries, and diet coke and salmon burgers and grapefruit. And I bought a Starbucks medium latte since cappucino doesn't travel as well. And a brownie. And I bought a magazine, Computer Gaming World. And new gel pens. I like new pens. Oh and socks - 9 pairs, cotton, crew, assrt color. This is mostly from Target. And I bought a chair and ottoman from Pier One - their St. Simeon Style. It's roomy enough that I could sit in it with a puppy. I didn't buy a puppy today. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 18,June,2004 | I'd like to write about myself. That is to say, this is all about myself and I don't actually want to write any of it. But the object of this exercise to face the problems I have with shyness and avoiding closeness with others. We'll just stipulate that there are 'others' somewhere out there and, if they so chose, they could in fact notice my writings. That's no the point really. I'm doing this in search of a major audience. An audience of one would be sufficiently scary. The point, and I'd like to reiterate it since I'm rather proud of it really, is that I'm doing it. So let's talk about me. I worked in a library when I was a student. God I was an obnoxious little know-it-all. But I do in fact know a lot about books and writing. I worked in the Children's Room which was terrific. Kid's books are still the best I think and I read them with pleasure. I like the pure inventiveness that is allowed to reign in kid's books. The stories don't have to be externally realistic - they work as long as the internal logic holds true. They can be a form of fantasy that needs not pay homage to D&D and before that, the Professor. I'm not sure why I was resistant to becoming a librarian. I've considered libraries to be my natural and private game preserve. I suspect that I didn't embrace librarianship due to a combination of my reluctance to claim worldly goals and my lack of confidence in my ability to achieve them. If you're looking for sites abotu kids' books, by the way, you've got to check out Jan Brett's page - urlLink http://www.janbrett.com Brett's work is outstanding of course but her website holds an incredibly generous and lovely amount of crafts and toys and pages for children. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 17,June,2004 | I am drinking a Balto Heroic Beer. It's good stuff. Very Very Good. I say this of course but I should tell you that I don't actually like beer. I really like Bass but I don't like beer. That might change though. I might like Bass and Balto. B beers. Balto is a golden lager - very honey sweet. No bitterness. The opposite of Bass really, which is a dry bitter English pale ale. I'm not sure why I like Bass since what I hate about Beer is the dryness and the bitterness. I think I like Bass because Peter Wimsey does. I don't drink very much. When I went off to college for the first time I made a bad habit of drinking to help me cover up my shyness. I stopped drinking when I got kicked out after my freshman year and I really didn't drink for years aftwards. In someways this was good since I learned to move beyond my shyness. I fell back brazeness and I've always had a strong supply of that. I'm glad sort of that I didn't drink because in my stronger episodes of depression and avoidance I worry that I would have turned to that for a little help. I drank far too much at my sister's wedding reception. Maybe 6-7 gin and tonics. That's always been my favorite. I can drink that stuff like it's 7-Up. I was pleased though that I didn't fall apart. I fell asleep immediately in the car though and then developed an intense craving for cheeseburgers. Beer makes me feel a bit flushed and sleepy. I'd like to learn to enjoy feeling sleepy, come to think of it. But really, I'd like to learn to drink so I can enjoy the process occasionally. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 15,June,2004 | Today's update is brought to you by the letter O. And the letter P. Why O & P? I have no idea ... I can't say that phrase without hearing Eddie Izzard's Chiropractor with his fingers up your nostrils and his foot in your back. Speaking of nostrils, urlLink check this out ... I found this while searching for Sleep Aids. As a life long insomniac I can't imagaine anything that would be worse than having funnels shoved up my nostrils whether they were called Nasal Pillows or The Fingers of Dr. Manchu. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 14,June,2004 | My gosh it's been two weeks. No wonder my nerves here are shot. I feel electricity in my ribs - ripple up my sternum. I keep hearing 'it's too hard.' It's too hard. It's too hard. Why does that come out of me? Where did that come into. I have no grace but words I have words like a song about spun from light and air that seeps through the glowing of my ribcage and illuminates my thoughts. I cannot claim to find enlightenment I can barely see where I'm going by the light of my voice. I can hardly feel my fear I can hardly breathe my fear and when the fear moves through me do my ribs tremble as they give song? |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 31,July,2004 | I'm typing this in a new planning system. urlLink FranklinCovey > PlanPlus for Windows XP Ok, I've mentioned before how I'm crazy about the Franklin Planners. I've been a fan of their paper planner for years but lately I've been thinking I could improve it. So I cleared a space and really started working up a system but it's still too easy for me to ignore it sometimes. It gets covered with notes or I forget to look and really, it's still a pain because I've got vaules over here and goals over thee and I have to keep copying things back and forth ... Anyway, I've decided to check out Franklin Covey's software. I have Outlook but being an Opera Fanatic - and specifically an M2 Fanatic, I'm not eager to haul the bloated beast that is Outlook. So FC is releasing a new set of tools for people who don't use Outlook. There's a 30 day trial and I'm already in love! This here is an attempt to use the PlanPlus Note taking system to back up my blogging. Hmmm - I note that there's no spell check .... The beautiful part is that the goals tasks and missions are drag & droppable, they're right here! There's a whole section for planning your week and it starts at the Mision statement. Then it takes you to your goals - this is terrific - you can look over the steps of a goal and drag it into your week! It's so much easier to keep my priorites straight when the planning sessions automatically begins with the things I value most. I'm dying to use this! I'm still going to check out the Outlook version but Franklin Covey has made a bigger fan out of me! |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 26,July,2004 | It's eating my ribcage out to write this. I can feel that pull in lungs. It's like glue dripping off my fingers. I don't want to write. This is pointless and boring and stupid. Why would I bother posting this. History! It's fascinating to see an artist struggle and of course I use artist in the 'stupid wanker whining about his feelings' sense. Is there value in doing this? Value in forcing myself to do it. It gets easier. I can remember when it was easy. Maybe I should set myself a word count. I've gone off the stream a bit. That's ok. It's easier to write maybe it's easier if I just type what I'm thinking and not try to write. I talk to myself constantly. Writing could just be typing down what I'm saying. So what would I say about myself, in response to a question of why do you want to study here? Well first of course is that I love to study. I really miss being away from school. I still look forward to that first day when everything's new. So really I want to come and study here for the sake of studying. |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 17,July,2004 | well it's been a disappointing week, all around. I managed to make myself ill worrying about the driving stuff. See I don't drive and I've developed a complex about it. I've tried learning but I always manage to ruin a car in the process. Last time I left the hand brake on while driving on the highway. I've been looking into the blogging process. In truth, I'm rather ridiculously obsessed with it. I love TypePad but realistically, I'm going to aggravated by their wizard interface, I think. I'd like to try Word Press down the road, or perhaps b2evolution. I'm excited at finding websites with such competitive pricing. Also, I've been looking into CSS. I need to hone my skillz in that area in any event. I really couldn't switch to a personal site until I have better control over that. In the meantime, I'm sticking with Blogger. I like it here. :) |
3,416,559 | female | 36 | Internet | Aries | 12,July,2004 | I'm not sure what's derailed my day more. My Mom's computer or my stupid sleeping schedule or the news that Bethesda Softworks is gig to develop Fallout 3. My Mom's computer is just a vicious beast that taunts me to and snickers at the effect. I'm supposed to be the computer professional! I'm supposed to know what the fuck I'm doing. So why the fucking fuck does the game run THIS time that I clicked on the icons but ti didn't run the previous times? WHY? WHY!!! WHAT'S DIFFERENT???? Drive me right up the fucking wall. Bethesda - I have mixed feelings. I think Fallout was one of the all time best games ever. Not as good Torment, mind you bet very very good indeed. Now Bethesda has made two of my personal favorite games of all times - Daggerfall and Morrowind. I love both of these games deeply and I think they have the most elaborate and detailed history and cosmology of any game ever made. Just leaves the Ultima games in the dust. But, I must admit, they aren't great games - not in the way that Fallout and Torment just grabbed the brass ring in their bloody teeth. Also, Beth has never made a turn based game, to my knowledge, and I really do think a real-time Fallout will suck out loud. The combat in DF & MW is really quite lame - a random wild clickfest. The tactical game in Fallout would go right out the window in a turn based scenario. OTOH, I can completely see Beth making a game that relies on charm and luck and intelligence to see it through. FO1 had a path that was completely non-combat. I can see Beth making a game like that and I think it would be dynamite. Alright - lets see what else I can accomplish here. |
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