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- 21:36—There is no such thing as an atheist schism. For something to schism it has to be unified to begin with.
- 07:43 Interviewing some co-op students today... hmm, how the tables have turned! @tdas fails at reading flight schedules apparently. :) #
- 14:06—I still think the Stupak amnd. is distracting from the weak PO. But it's far worse than I previously thought. It's pretty sick, actually
- 14:34—Some kind of heron just landed at one of the ponds near work. All the Canadian geese got riled up; started squawking at it, so it flew off
- 14:35—Ah, it flew to the other side of the pond. Poor lonely heron.
- 20:56—Thankfully, Obama is drawing the line at the atrocious Coathanger Amendment. His willingness to do so has renewed some of my faith in him
- 20:58—Unfortunately, as I've said before, it was clearly *designed* as a weapon against the hcr bill. These fuckers will stop at nothing...
- 23:24—Finally went through the fuckton of unopened mail that's been piling on my desk the last couple months. So much wasted paper...
- 11:53—Urgh...slept almost 12 hours. Feel better for having done so. At least as far as I can tell at this point.
- 20:38—Haha, post about our visit to the teabagger rally yesterday: http://bit.ly/2rNh4f
- 21:02—I wish my credit card company would stop sending me these stupid checks with every statement.
- 21:17—lol, why did Sen. John Cornyn send me a "Republican Strategy Survey"? 'cause I'm registered independent they think I might lean Republican?
- 21:18—"Your first-class stamp will help strengthen our Republican Party by saving us much-needed funds!" I think I'll send it back without a stamp
- 19:40—Fuck fuck fuck, I think I might be getting sick. Not sure yet. Maybe just really tired and stuffy. After all the energy I had yesterday...
- 23:23—Sausage should at least taste good in the end. HR3962 just seems kind of bland and maybe a bit bitter. Some good ingredients were wasted
- 23:32—RT @BarackObama RT @chelliepingree We won!!!! // Everyone who dies due to lack of health insurance between now and 2013 loses.
- 23:45—RT @BarackObama RT @kendrickbmeek We delivered on our promise to the American people. //Yay ins. mandates! Just like you campaigned against!
- 23:49—The Stupak amendment is just a shiny thing for liberals to foam at while they screw us on the public option. Why is no one noticing this?
- 13:26 First snowy geocaching trip was a success! Matt had to climb 20' up a tree to get one of them... #
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | ||
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hyuga |
12:00a | Tweets since Monday, 21:36 |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | ||
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fireheart |
11:49p | NaNoWriMo Story My writing has been slightly delayed by what may or may not be Swine Flu. It was sick enough that I could not focus on a computer screen all weekend. This is what I wrote before I went down for maintenance. I must now do 1937 words per day to stay on target after this slight setback. Remember, comments are always welcome. Even if you just comment to say "hey, I read it, keep on writing," it is good encouragement. Word Count: 9318 Goal: 50,000 ( Next Installment ) |
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aestia |
11:01p | Twitter This is what I've posted to Twitter in the past 24 hours: |
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gummibaehr |
9:48p | Vezere Valley Venture! - Page 14  Click to enlarge. Where did page 13 go? To be honest, I skipped a day in my journal during my trip and I haven’t finished drawing it yet. I wanted to get a page up today so I decided to move along to the pages that are finished. I’ll let you know when page 13 is up! Originally published at friedwontons.com. You can comment here or there. |
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pixel |
8:52p | Normand Picksel, supernatural accountant. "You dare to defy me!?!" Thundered a voice, shaking dust from the bookshelves. "I, Vlad Dracula, who was known and feared before your country even existed! I who can wield power to make all tremble before me! You would dare counter me?" "All I'm saying," replied a nasal tone "is you can't claim your minions as dependents. Even if, and I quote, 'They are completely within my thrall and subordinate to my every whim.' The IRS is very specific on the subject of dependents, and you wouldn't want to get audited again now would you? "Oh, gods no." whispered Vlad "I had never dreamed of such horrific tortures as that which was visited upon me that day. Form 87-327-B-EZ..." He shuddered and drew his cape around him. "See? That's why you pay me the big bucks. Now about this line for coffin rentals?" "Ah! Yes. I was wondering, can I claim that as a business or personal expense..." ( Silliness continues in here ) |
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hyuga |
9:00p | Tweets since Monday, 14:06 |
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saraphina_marie |
7:00p | "Lemme 'splain...no, is too long. Lemme sum up." ( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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ftmichael |
6:20p | Nathaniel's latest visit! It’s been a few days since Nathaniel left and I’m slowly adjusting to not having him here. He posted updates while he was here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), but I had neither the time nor the inclination to do that! I prefer to just do a big info-dump at the end, but I’d have a much harder time remembering everything if he didn’t keep such good notes during the visit, so I’m grateful that he does that. So! Our five-week visit, broken down for your convenience. ( Week 1 ) ( Week 2 ) ( Week 3 ) ( Week 4 ) ( Week 5 ) ( The last three days ) Now we count down until May, when Nathaniel will hopefully be returning! Current Mood:  missing NathanielCurrent Music: Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son (Absolute Classic Rock) |
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wildelven |
12:45p | Fall Cleaning I cleaned out my car yesterday. It was nice and warm, and seemed like a good day to do it. Especially since I'd been carrying all of this around for months:  That's about ten boffer weapons, two shields, a half-dozen Nerf guns, a bag of Nerf ammo, a sleeping bag, my tent, Settlers of Catan, Betrayal at House on the Hill, props for a Humans vs. Zombies game, and some other assorted stuff. Most of this, I will probably not need over the winter, let alone need in my car. Although I could be wrong... Current Mood:  bored |
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curiositykt |
8:26a | Travel Plans So next weekend I'm going to Doylestown PA to visit the Michener Museum to see the Jim Henson exhibit there. I am going with my mother and we are leaving friday afternoon, driving the 6 hours down and then going to the museum on Saturday, and planning on coming back up on Monday. I'm excited to be going, but I am somewhat concerned about spending 4 days with my mother alone. Does anyone know anything else in this area that should not be missed? |
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supercheesegirl |
8:09a | strike over Transit strike over. It happened overnight, though, so I still got up at 5:30 and caught the 6:46 train. F is a good, good man: if he wakes up early he can't fall back to sleep, and thus he was up at 5:30 with me, but he wasn't even grumpy! He fixed breakfast for us while I was in the shower. There are a lot of people who would've been grumpy, but F was just good-naturedly sleepy. I'm a lucky woman. And tomorrow we get to sleep to our normal time and hopefully get back on jogging schedule! |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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iaaphoto |
8:37p | Elizabeth Heppenstall: Sketchbook and Baby Art
A couple rather fun things on her website: the inclusion of a sketchbook of sorts and a gallery of art made by her as a child. The Baby Art gallery starts with an image predicting Beth’s later career path and continues with a lovable selection of crayon drawings.
The sketchbook is much more varied. I think that it will be done through wordpress later, but for know it’s an insanely packed html page full of scanned drawings, some paintings that weren’t included on other pages for whatever reason, collages, and even a fair amount of notes in the margins. I have the ability to see into her head more often than most, but even with that I’ve found some stuff in here I haven’t seen before.
And with that, we’re wrapping up Elizabeth Heppenstall Week. I’ve got a lot of other stuff I need to post about this upcoming week. Some features, some deadlines. You know, the usual. Hope you’ve enjoyed Beth’s work! Feel free to send her an email letting her know what you think, or subscribe to her blog for updates. I’m sure I won’t be able to resist posting more in the future. Post fed from IAABlog |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | ||
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hyuga |
12:00a | Tweets since Sunday, 23:24 |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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hyuga |
10:00p | Tweets since Sunday, 11:53 |
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saraphina_marie |
7:00p | "Lemme 'splain...no, is too long. Lemme sum up." ( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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supercheesegirl |
5:32p | Flamenco class # 2, yoga # 60.5 Had flamenco class on Thursday night. It was a good class, in that I remembered some things and did some things better than in the first class. I felt like I was improving. It was also a really hard class, because my teacher continues to challenge us and expect a lot from us, and a bad class, because I was really tired and so I got easily upset when I didn't get things right. My teacher said after class that I had been so determined and she congratulated me. Usually I would have been excited to hear that, but I was so tired by that point that I wasn't really mentally there. I went home, wasted half an hour online, and crashed out before 10 PM. Which was a good thing, because I woke up Friday morning feeling refreshed and lively. I got home Friday evening and (after some initial procrastination) managed over an hour of yoga, which felt really good, especially after flamenco (which really tenses me up) and a really stressful week. It was lovely. |
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supercheesegirl |
5:07p | This Week This week was crazy. It was not the best week ever. ( Read more... ) |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | ||
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ftmichael |
12:40p | UK: Born in the wrong body http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/83301 Born in the wrong body By James Fletcher BBC News Doctors in Britain are reviewing guidelines for the treatment of people under 18 with gender dysphoria. This is a condition where someone is born one sex but feels they are really the other. A key issue is the age at which young people can be prescribed drugs which pause puberty.  Around 1 in 4,000 people in the UK are receiving help for gender dysphoria Sitting in her kitchen, 16 year old Nikki (name changed to protect her identity) looks and acts like any other teenage girl. She gossips with her mum, teases her younger brothers, and giggles as she texts her new boyfriend. The only difference is that Nikki was born biologically a boy. "I've always felt like a girl," she says. As a child, she dressed up in girls' clothing, played with girls' toys, and gravitated towards other girls. As she got older, Nikki realised there was a difference between what she felt and her body. "It used to make me feel ill and so horribly down," she remembers. "I'd just wish that I wasn't around. Everything to do with me being male was horrible, I just couldn't stand it." When she was seven Nikki was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Her parents initially tried to steer her towards accepting she was a boy, but by eight she was living as a girl at home, and by nine was going to school as a girl. "I loved it," she says, "people picked on me a lot, but it was amazing in my eyes because I was allowed to show everyone who I was." ( Read more... ) Current Mood: missing Nathaniel Current Music: Absolute Radio |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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saraphina_marie |
10:07a | Blog Talk Radio countdown! In less than an hour, I will be featured on Missa Dixon's Urban Home show! Listen in! It'll be a fun talk about fashion, writing, teaching, and who knows what else?? And yes, YOU CAN CALL IN. Please, be gentle, it's my first time! Current Mood:  bouncy |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | ||
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saraphina_marie |
11:56p | What's in a name? Events and discussions of this weekend have spurred a lot of thought and talk about pen names and the uses thereof- mainly how one would handle introducing oneself at a convention or event. I know CE Murphy and Sherrilyn Kenyon are transparent now about their alternate identities but I wonder if there was a time when they weren't? Did Kate Dermody and Kinley MacGregor do their own events? I know Victor Milan signs both his names in his books- with the by-line first and then his own name beneath. When I was signing with my fellow authors in my brief stint as a romance writer, they were all shocked to find I was writing under my real name. And I sat at a table with them for hours and when I left, I realized that one woman (a lawyer) had given me her business card but I never found out the other woman's actual name. And to this day I still don't know. At Dragon*Con, one of my boothmates was upset because D*C had put her real name on the badge and she had to go back to get it changed to her professional name. As a school teacher, she was not comfortable with her convention persona getting back to the parents of the children she taught and being misunderstood. She and I talked a lot about names and personas and it was an interesting chat. We ascribe a lot to names: meanings, numerology, cultural background, emotional baggage. There are names I won't use in my fiction because I knew someone who had that name and didn't like him or her, or I know someone currently with that name and don't want to draw a connection. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} reannon used my name for the main character in The Cold Ones. But that Sara Harvey is nothing like me- except that she may have brown hair...but that's about it. It was an homage, not a character study of the original specimen. Yet, I am attached to that character because she has my name.Names are a strangely powerful thing. They resonate. We get attached to them. They have power. There are so many stories and legends about guarding one's True Name, whatever that is. How would one find out one's True Name? Is it something given or something acquired? And if the latter, what do you do with the old one? And how do you use the True one? I have an acquaintance I knew for about a year. Not long ago, I saw her at a party as it turns out she is friends with a group of my friends separate from the social circle in which I had first met her. Friendgroup A and Friendgroup B called her by two COMPLETELY different names! Evidently one is her first and one is her middle and there were periods of time where she had used both as her name, so which one someone called her depended on when they met. I was never able to pin down which she preferred me to call her because she knew so few people who belonged to both Friendgroups. But I have found it really unsettling to find out- usually through some random third-party method- that the name by which I knew someone, for whatever reason, is inaccurate. It makes me re-evaluate how well I really know that person and people around me in general, or at least re-evaluate what I know about them. And if it matters. A recent NPR story talked about renaming fish because "Orange Roughy" is so much tastier sounding that "Slimehead Fish." And "Marilyn Monroe" sounds so much more glamorous than "Norma Jeane Baker" (or Mortenson, for the purists). So, does it matter? Should I feel slighted that my menu doesn't mention "slimehead" or upset that "Marilyn Monroe" is emblazoned on her tomb even though she never legally assumed that name. In Marilyn's case, that was who she wanted to be, not Norma Jeane. (Of course, it was the weight of being Marilyn that eventually killed her.) These are the things I ponder. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself. Current Mood:  contemplative |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | ||
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hyuga |
12:00a | Tweets since Saturday, 19:40 |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | ||
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darxus |
11:40p | I want a challenging jigsaw puzzle. 2,000 standard shape pieces, all solid white, identical on both sides. Once I finish it, I want to mount it between a couple plates of glass a few inches in front of a mirror. |
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iaaphoto |
11:21p | Elizabeth Heppenstall: Permanent Stick-It-Out-Ed-Ness and Professional Photography
I’ve also got Permanent-Stick-It-Out-Ed-Ness on my page, but Beth posted the headshots from that project as Professional Photography. The intention is to get more pictures made of alternate personas at a later date. I find it enlightening to see how portrait studios react to you when you are not yourself. It’s like punk’d for those interested in social photography. Post fed from IAABlog |
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aestia |
11:02p | Twitter This is what I've posted to Twitter in the past 24 hours: |
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saraphina_marie |
7:00p | "Lemme 'splain...no, is too long. Lemme sum up." ( Have fun storming the castle! ) And I lived happily ever after...at least until tomorrow. ^_^ Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
