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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
karlchristian
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hughcasey
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1:50p |
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skunque
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12:32p |
un-fucking-believable
What's the harm in believing in pseudoscience such as dowsing? THIS is the harm, and it's costing lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars. This UK company selling snake oil to the Iraqis ought to be shut down, its executives fines & jailed. This is completely reprehensible. Current Mood:  enraged |
grendelsden
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10:00a |
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kylecassidy
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8:03a |
some things
Got my essay for the Philcon program guide finished. How exciting. Got one photo for the Top Secret Elizabeth Bear collaboration done, also very exciting. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) trillian_stars' play got an excellent review in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning and to celebrate that and various other things, we're going to have a little "Come See The Weir and Then Party at Our Place Because It's Friday the 13th Watching Silent Horror Movies" shin dig this coming Friday. So if you're local and you didn't go to the Weir for the special preview night, get a ticket for Friday and celebrate the spooktacular with us. I recommend you buy a ticket now because the shows have been selling out and worse than missing the show is sitting on the steps out in front of the theatre listening to the screams of everyone being butchered enjoying the play inside. Leisurely breakfasts with Roswell are one of my favorite things, especially while we can enjoy the back porch still. Soon it'll be cold out and the fun will move to the breakfast room which is cosy and wonderful in entirely different ways.   hope your day is swell.
Add me as a friend on LiveJournal, Add me on Facebook, Follow me on Twitter. Current Mood:  accomplishedCurrent Music: tatty purring |
hughcasey
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7:20a |
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fabricdragon
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7:06a |
occasional dragons
you know, these hatchlings should have "gendered" by now.... blink blink wow, gendered to grown up in under 15 minutes......i guess i have room on my scroll for a few more eggs....     my scroll is HEREfor those who dont play, here are the basic rules:( and some random blather ) Current Mood:  depressed |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
kantrip
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8:53p |
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fabricdragon
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10:42p |
Knitting Blog: NaKniSweMo
the sweater is laughing at me.... i can hear it. it knows.... even the beads have been snickering behind my back. sorry.. ahem. long day so, having re knit and ripped back the same section about 5 times before i went Du'Oh! and figured out that i was counting my end of lace pattern marker as the shoulder marker (it isnt) i am a tad cranky at the sweater other than that? its going ok.... ( blah blah sweater, lace patterns, blah blah blah ) |
batty_
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9:16p |
almost there.
i am now about 90% a lakewood resident. IT jay, conner, and D busted some butt for me over the weekend and my stuff is now in the same place i am, save for some clothes, dishes, and wall decor. our "master suite" upstairs is looking pretty cool, i gotta say. spent the day getting boog's room together. i am now just happy that he has enough room to get to his toybox. he now has my bed, so i needed to get him some new bedding. we're repainting the kids rooms, so i'm basing everything off the bedding i bought:  it will be fabulous...and temporary, as we're going to get a one family house sometime next year. i will kinda miss my cave in royalton. it's where i grew up. you'll either get that or you won't. but, my woods understood and they wished me well because it knows i'm off to bigger things and the next chapter of my life. thank you, woods. now that biking is sporadic at best, i've worked back into the strength training. P90X did me just fine last year, but this is me and we all know that i gotta outdo myself. so i've dived into heavy lifting.  i hate gyms, and i dont like to make my own routines up, i prefer to follow programs. so, i grabbed a copy of the new rules of lifting for women, and i am loving it so far. i think i actually read the entire book in one evening. there's a lot of good insight on nutrition - a lot i already knew from frequenting the livestrong forums, but some of the info helped me be a bit less....spazzy about my food intake. also a lot of good stuff about cardio vs. strength training, and how women are usually pigeonholed into thinking all we can do are the little pink weights and the treadmill. F that, i say. one of the truly amazing things it has helped me with is my self doubt. rewind: riding the sweet corn ride over the summer, i got too gung ho up the first climb and i bonked pretty hard and it was pretty fucking scary. that taught me a lesson, but now i think i've gone too far the other way, not wanting to relive that incident. so, i underestimate myself. maybe i'm too scared to fuck up, who knows. but sometimes you need to push yourself to the fucking up point so you know just how far you can take yourself, and 9 times outta 10 how far you can go is a zillion miles father than your mental estimate. this is actually touched on in the book as well. so i'm on week 2 of this. barbell squats are one of the major workouts in stage 1. so i'm thinking to myself "ok, my legs are pretty strong, i can put some weight on there" so i slapped 65 lbs on there, did my reps, and felt nothing. ok, i can put on more. slapped on 10 more lbs for the next bout and felt it a little but the afterburn was not there. then i reminded myself that i need to break free of this restraint - just go for it. so, i slapped on 20 more and proudly exclaimed to facebook "HEY! WOO ME! I SQUATTED 95 LBS!" and facebook was all "pffft, you can do more" [thank you, colleen] so i did. and tonight, i did 15 reps at 120 and yet another set of 15 at 125.  now if you'll excuse me, i totally gotta hydrate. |
kantrip
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6:41p |
Sci=Fi run down post
Quick post about some Sci-Fi I've enjoyed: - V: ABC's rebirth of this series. So far I've enjoyed it. I think ABC could have done better with a 2 hour launch rather than a 1 hour launch. Morena Baccarin was AWESOME as the V Leader, but Alan Tyduk's once off appearance was sad. THey could have pushed that one character sooo much farther. The only thing I do not like is the fact that some political minded types have affixed a rather Anti-Obama feel to the show. Yeah it does have some parallels, and I feel the constant harping about Peace, Change, and Universal Health Care, may have been overdone by the writers but I can see why. Doing a show about Nazi Space Lizards from the 80's may have been recieved as cliche'd. V's intention was to unsettle its viewers/readers. I may not like how they are doing it but they got the spirit of it right. - BSG: The Plan: It was okay. It cast a lot of light on the personalities of the other Cylons we didn't get too much development on. The 5's and 4's in particular. And a lot of seeing 1's. Seriously. I had a few gripes with it. One being the pointless nudity. Granted there was penis to go with boobage, however it made no sense in the overall point of the program. They could have gone into more character development with the other characters as well but I guess there's only so much you could do in 2 hours. Good alternate perspective from the cylon side but really why all the T&P? - Doll House: Not see this week's episode but this season is shaping up very very well. Fox is nerfing some of the eps from what I've heard, but when haven't they tried to screw over Whedon. - Sanctuary: I started watching this one about a 157 year old immortal scientist that has created a place for monsters to be stored and kept safe from the outside world. Its a SyFy series so its a bit hit or miss on the special effects and they WAY overuse the greenscreen, but its got a good premise and is fun to watch. Making Tesla an electricity using vampire was a bit too silly however. - Doctor Who: Not on yet, but only days away now. *bounce bounce* Calhoun Current Mood:  hungryCurrent Music: IAMX "Kingdom of Welcome Addictions" |
geekers
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1:52p |
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karlchristian
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kylecassidy
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1:05p |
In which I do lots of stuff
Those of you who have been following me on twitter have been watching me procrastinate for the last day over the Big Essay which is finally coming along for but is, I'm happy to say, at the moment being set aside to work on the Top Secret Project with Elizabeth Freaking Bear and the house is all a tizzy (whatever that means -- there are people running about in strange getups anyway), I hope to have both finished by this evening. I was poking around Kambriel's website a couple of days ago and remembered these two Amanda Palmer promo photos that nothing ever happened with, it's sad to see something nice just get sent to the closet, so I post them here.   I've got two new secret projects clunking along. I should have made some progress on them by tomorrow, one may be ready for prime time by next week.
Add me as a friend on LiveJournal, Add me on Facebook, Follow me on Twitter. Current Mood: accomplished |
theonebob
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9:49a |
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carriemonster
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10:02a |
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grendelsden
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10:00a |
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
fabricdragon
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9:23p |
whose stupid idea was this?
ok, i know i started my paticipation in National Knit a Sweater in the Month of November a bit late (November 5th. Guy Fawkes day) and i know i decided to use up the yarn in my stash as a challenge....... and call it "gunpowder" in honor of Guy Fawkes Day.... and then i chose a LACE "V" pattern (you know, V for Vendetta?) to accentuate the design... which was dumb.. yes but whose @#$%^& idea was it to ADD BEADS as itty accent bits on every other row on each side of the lace motif? i mean i am on a TIME crunch here... and i am adding beads to the #$%^&*& thing? oh, right.. the entire pattern, including beads, is MY IDEA god am i stupid and obsessive did i mention stupid? and i had to tink back half a row and drop some stitches because i forgot some of the beads.... sigh next time? bulky yarn. stockinette. pullover. one color |
skunque
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8:10p |
Dr. Who animated special dates
We now have dates for the next animated Dr. Who webcast, Dreamland. It will be one of the last David Tennant appearances, and will show in 6 parts between 21-26 November. Also, in case I haven't mentioned it earlier, the next Tennant special, The Waters of Mars, airs Sunday 15 November. November should be a (relatively) good month for Who! Current Mood:  optimistic |
skunque
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5:15p |
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hellsop
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11:52a |
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karlchristian
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etcet
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1:17p |
Laptops
Why do folks like 'em, have 'em, or want 'em? I'm curious, but it's a directed curiosity. |
z0mbarella
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10:33a |
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hughcasey
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9:23a |
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