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09:27 pm
serenejournal
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Chiles rellenos
Bless ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) someotherguy for indulging me today. He took me food shopping, and we got the stuff for me to make chiles rellenos.
In San Diego, where I lived most of my life, making chiles rellenos is like making injera in Oakland, where I live now: you can do it if you want, but most people won't bother, because you can buy them on any street corner.
Today, I bothered. Sadly, I didn't take photos, but oh, my, these were so good. Best I've ever had, and I love the things madly. (They were probably best because (a) we ate them within a few minutes of making them; and (b) they were not drowned in enchilada sauce, so they didn't get soggy.)
I based them on this recipe, omitting the flour, and forgetting the pinch of salt. Used Monterey Jack cheese, and served with a bunch of stuff: shredded chicken in homemade enchilada sauce, rice, avocados, fresh salsa, and sour cream. My, my, my. Very good.
My weekend so far had been chaotic and difficult. I make order in my life by shopping for and preparing food. I feel so much better now.
[posted to ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) serene and serenecooking]
Current Location: 94609
Current Mood: peaceful
Tags: love, retail therapy, someotherguy, stress eating
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07:46 pm
myclaudia
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Tough Day
Well, we found an adopter for Boo. ( cut )
Current Mood:  crushed
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07:42 pm
lupabitch
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New toy! Yay!!!!
Well, not precisely a toy, but rowanyote said she'd go in halves on a new pressure canner, since hers wasn't big enough for the quart-size jars I got, and it's a little old anyway. That put the 23 quart pressure canner I saw at Fred Meyer within our reach, and it's now sitting on the kitchen counter, awaiting applesauce! That'll be one of tonight's projects; I made the applesauce this afternoon, and now it just needs to be heated again and canned.
*happybouncyLupadances!*
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10:20 pm
lonita
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Found
no details yet, but my friend is fine. It looks like he was being lazy all week
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05:00 pm
mr_silvers
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Say what?
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04:56 pm
mmsword
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05:17 pm
circuit_four
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QotD
"I'm not serious, but I am sincere." -- Alan Watts
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03:22 pm
lythande
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Harry Potter: The Half-blood Prince
Saw the movie yesterday with the fambly. Wasn't as bad as I'd feared (they'd left out so many important elements throughout the first five), but there were still some disappointments.
( Spoilers )
In short, I still wonder how they're going to make up for all the shortcomings when it comes to seven.
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01:08 pm
tracerj
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Second Spark.
SECOND SPARK:
A Dramatic Turning Point for Six Below.
by Electric Keet
When I got there, I could hear Basil’s rapid shouting through the bay doors. I pressed an ear to the chilly metal.
“...right before the tour? Are you out of your thick skull?”
“Y’ wanted drama, coach.” Eekay’s response was distorted and highly synthetic. It brought back harsh memories of my own time on a voder. “Got their attention.”
I pushed my way in just in time to see the ferret bang on the regen tank. A bear in scrubs started to get out of her seat. “A half-dead cat is worthless to me! That’s drama I don’t need!” He turned and shot an oily smirk at me. “What’s this? I don’t need a weak quitter returning to me, either.”
Before I could lay into him, Eekay’s assisted voice barked, “Nurse? This tube-rat is agitating me. Remove him, please.”
“You can’t tell me to get out. I’m your manager!” When the nurse approached, however, he stalked out of the room, snarling. “Disgraceful! You’re all disgraceful.”
Once he was out of the room, Eekay said, “Oi... could I get some time wit’ m’ mate?” The bear gave a silent, disapproving look, but Eekay insisted, “If I start twitchin’ Yaz here’ll let y’ know, right, Yaz?”
I ran my claws through my headfur. “S’truth, I will. Thanks.” The nurse seemed satisfied with that, and left the hospital bay to us.
That was my first chance to really see the snow-leopard’s present state. Zie floated in a tube of slightly pinkish fluid, mostly naked and showing zir not-so-enigmatic-after-all body. I’d seen it all previously, but in better condition. Zir right side only looked a little banged up, and a sizable patch of fur had gone missing from her shoulder. Much of zir left side, including face and throat, was tessellated with a thick grid of solid black plastic, variously-sized tubes drawing up from each square to a bundle at the top of the tank. I knew that at least part of the grid encompassed empty space where flesh and bone would soon be.
Zie stared back at me. “At least I didn’t bang up m’ banger, eh?”
“Yeah,” I said, trying hard not to flash back to my own time in the tank. “The rest of you....”
“Half m’ face is jerky. Nearly scraped a tit off. An’ half my arm, and a lot of m’ leg—”
I cringed. “I know, I know. I saw it on the replay vids. Surprised you didn’t catch your tail in it.”
There was a long silence, and I knew that Eekay was trying not to bring up my own accident. I remembered the numb itch that accompanied the regeneration process, but I couldn’t imagine it over that much at once. “How long?”
“Five days... maybe four on good behaviour.” A full transformation would have taken hours, at most a day. Trauma made the body resist outside changes. “An’ that’s me, outta the next race.” Zie paused a little too long.
Don’t even try to ask it, I thought.
“Race for me?”
I exploded. “Oh, you are kidding! You get yourself minced and less than six hours later you’re asking me to fill in for you? Are you sure the ribbon didn’t scrape through to your brain?” I motioned to my left arm, the bracelets around my wrist jangling. “I had a close enough call, thank you. Try to drag me back....”
Zir expression hadn’t changed much. It really couldn’t, with the blockers in place. “One race. If I’m not there, we’re short, an’ any team can fill th’ spot.”
“Get Basil to do it,” I snapped. “He’s your coach.”
“What if you were?”
I narrowed my eyes. “Were... what?”
“Our coach. Our manager. I want you back in Six Below, an’ since y’ won’t race, you’ll manage.” My jaw dropped, but the cat continued undeterred. “Basil’s been pushin’ for show, playin’ us against each other. That’s not managin’, that’s ringleadin’. You’ve done the hotel manager thing. You know how t’ work with people, not just th’ team but everyone. We’ll need that to do the Thirteen.”
“You want me... to quit the Blue Teapot Hotel... to manage a stressed bodyracing team... right before the Thirteen Ribbons.”
“An’ to fill in for this next race so we qualify.”
“You’re insane.” I paced in a circle in front of zir tank. “You’re making this decision without the rest?”
Eekay’s eyes motioned toward the door, then back to me. “Naw, we discussed it before coming to Tvashtar. I was plannin’ t’ ask while we were sharin’ brews at th’ Albedo, but... I’m askin’ now.”
“And Basil’s contract—”
“—is null if the team agrees unanimously.” The voder made zir voice cold, but it sounded even more so then. Something had happened, and I had the feeling that no matter what, he would be out of the picture one way or another. That’s how Eekay was. The cat always got zir way, and it infuriated and intimidated and impassioned me.
“Listen up,” I said. “I left the team for two reasons, and the arm wasn’t either of them. One was that I wanted to know that I was making people happy, directly interacting with them, doing something other than just showing off. I have that at the hotel, and you’re offering it to me as a manager. The other... was that you’re so blinkin’ manipulative, and I knew you’d drag me into trouble every day I was with you.”
Zie only stared.
“I’ll give you my decision after the next event.”
Eekay closed zir eyes a moment, the closest to a nod one could get while immobilised in a regen tank. “But will y’ do this race?”
I shook my head. “I’m out of practice.”
“Two days’ time to brush up, an’ y’ never forget.”
“I don’t have my uniform.”
“Don’t have it, my winkin’ wa—”
“What I mean is,” I interrupted, “I... well, the squid, you know....”
Zie gave a coughing sort of laugh. “Falda has a spare.”
I burned with embarrassment. “Fine. But I’m coasting on this one, no risks. And you owe me.”
(( That's right, this is where things really get underway... and now we have the name of the serial, Thirteen Ribbons. Let me know what you think! ))
Current Music: Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger (DS) - Kaeru no Teema ~ Theme of Glenn
Tags: writing
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04:09 pm
find_a_book
[angelfire142004]
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A Fantasy book about a girl and dragons
Okay, my brother checked this book out of the library once 4-5 yrs ago and I just happened to read it. I don't remember much at all but I do remember that I loved the book and I am pretty sure it has a sequel. At the beginning of the book a girl is going to an Island on a ship that her people don't know much about I think but they are going either for some special trees or their leaves or possibly their fruit. But I think there is a legend about the Island that there are dragons or something else that use to live there. She wanders off meets a man and eventually finds out that he is a dragon. I think he was the dragon (king) leader. I do remember for a fact that the dragons were worried because they were not breeding as much for several hundred years (and yes they live a VERY long time) and their population was down. Anyway the dragons are in trouble and the girl tries to help them and either she or the king dies but they come back, that part is fuzzy but i know it happens. I don't remember if the first book is just on the island or not but I don't think so I think there is a lot more to it. I do know that she eventually goes back to her farm and her father. I think at the end of the book she is at the farm and dragon dude asks her to marry him and she says yes blah blah blah...
I know that isn't much help or much to go on but any help is very welcome. I have been searching for this book for years and could probably go straight to it in the library but it is two states away now.
The book is a fantasy book and set in an original world and set in sometime like the middle ages. It is not some girl from NY.
Please Please Please help me this has been driving me crazy for 5 years now! Thank You!!
ETA: Book is _Song In the Silence_ by Elizabeth Kerner.
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08:53 pm
r_caton
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Writer's Block: Not So Genius
The Web, possibly. It has made the English speaking world a village and joined in instantaneous communication all men and women regardless of faith or cultural heritage.
Who, of course, argue.
Just think, we could be like Ole Garge of yore, living out thoi peaceful days never goin' more than 15 moile away from whare 'e was born, loike, and where 'e 'ud doi, respected gaffer of the village (at the age of 50-odd like as not)
Without the Web we wouldn't give a monkeys about World Terrorism because we wouldn't hear of it. And the you-know-whats could vegetate and rot in their mountains and/or deserts.
Current Mood:  Stupido
Tags: writer's block
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08:26 pm
r_caton
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I've found a bit of paper
A very old piece of paper.
I think it may have been from m'lady... over 25 years ago, the first time we knew each other....
But for all that, there's no attribution, and I think I'll share it with you....
THE GAME OF LIFE
Fortune with a pack of cards
Once hurried through the land
And dealt to everyone alive
A single playing hand
"So play the game of life" she said
"Whichever way you choose".
"Take your chance and win" she said
"Or play your best and lose".
So what's the use of grumbling
Because your Queen has gone,
And though your Ace and King are trumped
The game must still go on.
Should your cards be good or bad,
The rules are just the same,
And nothing matters in the end
If you've enjoyed the game.
And if the cards you have are not
As brilliant as the best -
"He sometimes wins who plays a bad hand
Better than the rest".
I don't know where that has come from or who was the author... I shall Google of course.
But in that scrap of paper from an old spiral bound pad (spring at top)
I've found "an Ace that I can keep".
Current Mood:  thoughtful
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02:49 pm
rosefox
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"Can't we all just get along?"
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Current Mood: fussy
Tags: experiences.annoyances, ideas.genre, ideas.politics, ideas.politics.genre, livejournal.polls, words
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11:54 am
dragondazd
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What I learned in one year of unemployment
It would have been better to have spent that year employed, but I have still learned a lot in that time. Things that would be helpful in the job I finally got, and for the rest of my career.
Observations:- Take lessons where you can. Observe. Test. Discuss. Generalize. Apply. Even in the most trivial roles, there is a lot to learn about how people and organizations function. A lot of situations suck less if you embrace it as a learning opportunity.
- You can learn a lot about a company through their hiring practices.
- Treating people with respect can leave a lasting impression and is worth the investment.
- A shady practice could be the tip of a rotten iceberg.
- When you have two OK candidates for one position, it is tough to make the call between them, especially if you know them personally.
- You should do your best to make sure someone succeeds, but if they don't, it is not your fault. Making it so someone unsuitable passes will hurt the organization in the long run.
- It really does suck to let someone go.
- Even if someone deserves your rage, it is against your best interests to damage human resources (morale, desire to work, etc.).
- The sooner you learn to work with what you have, the faster you become more productive.
- Explaining what is really happening behind the scenes to someone is a gamble for the person may not have much discretion or may not believe or understand. Some people seem more receptive to receiving it, and some are more willing to share.
- Not everyone has the ability to make connections and create new things. You cannot ask this of everyone.
- Treating constraints as a challenge rather than a hindrance is also a rare ability.
- Some people will try to encroach upon your space. You can be on the defense every time or give them a bloody nose so they'll remember not to try again.
- It is so important to be good on your word to your employees about your expectations.
- It is in everyone's best interest not to hire me for a call center. I wouldn't.
- It is MUCH easier to start with restrictions and be able to say 'yes' later than to be open and have to add restrictions.
- Some jobs exist solely to compensate for an inefficiency.
- The right company is the one that's hiring.
- They don't pay you to like what you're doing.
- They don't pay you to like who you're working with.
- They don't pay you to like the tools you are using.
- I don't like foie gras or chicken feet.
- I undeniably suffer from 'altitude sickness' even climbing the tiniest mountains.
- I'm a gin fan.
- Martinis are better served at home.
- It's not that skirts are uncomfortable; I'm uncomfortable.
- Trench blazers are in.
- It's really hard to find a decent coat during half the year.
Skills:- Ability to read from a script given enough practice and not thinking twice about the contents.
- Cold calling: I can do it, with a cheesy grin.
- SQL is pretty straightforward.
- Intro Java
- Intro Real Analysis
- small programs in LensC
- Latex is fugly.
- Computers hate null values and mixed datatypes.
Experiences:- Being stuck in the snow in June counts.
- Summited Mt. Defiance and found having an emergency light is a good idea.
- Failed to summit South Sister but the little kid saying 'good job' made my day.
Current Mood:  reflective dazey is reflective
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11:55 am
baphnedia
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Daily Grind
So far, with updates to come:
Workout: Only lasted 17-18 minutes, machine says I got rid of 327 calories. Time to go to thisiswhyyourfat.com and find a recipe for dinner.
Violin: G C F Bb Eb Ab Db
Composing:
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11:32 am
mactavish
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07:16 pm
r_caton
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Sunday. I've spent a week
Sunday, Jul 19th, 2009 -- Your key planet Mercury conveys less certainty today as he is chastised by sobering Saturn. You could become a bit depressed having to deal with the practical side of life, but your friends support you and you know you are loved. Keep in mind that you might not be able to put the big picture together in a way that makes complete sense, so just stay focused on what you know.
I've been shunting stuff about, now at Farragos, the records are in place. What next? what next to shift over there and what do I NEED to do next?
Decisions decisions decisions
Current Mood:  confused
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10:31 am
athelind
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Writer's Block: Not So Genius
Fast food.
Tags: food, writer's block
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06:20 pm
r_caton
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Writer's Block: Not So Genius
Hard to say. There's very few inventione that despite the potential for good can't be subverted to evil.... atomic power? what if Oppenheimer had NOT become Death the destroyer of worlds? Granted even with peaceful use atomics are dirty... but so are fossil fuels. And think how much longer and bloodier the overthrow of Japan would have been. Inventions seem to occur when their time has come; technological advance tends to be swifter however when there is a war to be won. Even man's rush to the moon was fuelled in part by the desire of the US to beat the USSR.
Tags: writer's block
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10:10 am
athelind
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Understanding Athelind's Argot: "The Scottish Restaurant"/"That Scottish Place"
H.G. Wells: This is delicious, far superior to that Scottish place I breakfasted.
Amy Robbins: Scottish?
H.G. Wells: MacDougall's.
-- Time After Time (1979)
Current Mood:  hungry
Tags: argot, food
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10:10 am
serenejournal
[Link] | The kid is home with my mom. He: apologized; agreed to get help and to respect the boundaries; gave the dog a bath; called me; let the police know he is safe and sound.
Now he's playing with his dog, my mom's cooking them breakfast, and I get to sit here and dislodge my heart from my throat.
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08:45 am
dragonpearl
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-18
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11:13 am
sinboy
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Feeling a bit better
Didn't have time for company on Thursday, but still, I'm feeling better. I think it's that there's no current difficulties to deal with, and I'm at peace for a while. I should eat something.
If anyone wants to visit today, feel free to ping me. If I'm not online, call, or if you don't have my number text me through the LJ text message interface
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07:00 am
serenejournal
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08:11 am
xiphias
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Mendel Riba, 1920(?)-2009,
Lis and I went down to Florida for the funeral of her grandfather, who died on Tuesday. The funeral was Thursday; Lis is staying through tomorrow, but I got back yesterday.
Zayde's four grandchildren each delivered eulogies -- Lis, then her brother Josh, then her cousins Zach and Barry delivered a third one together.
Here's the one that Lis gave.( Eulogy for Lis's Zayde. )
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12:29 pm
terrana
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My Problem With Many Games
I've run across a quote that nicely sums up the reason I have for disliking most computer games that I do. For this I credit Kieron Gillen in his Darkfall review for Eurogamer:
"Dying due to a tactical error is worthwhile. Dying due to control system confusion is worthless."
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03:01 am
otherkin_news
[waywind]
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Geocities closing in October; how to download sites [internet]
Last April, Geocities announced that it would shut down its website hosting service, but it gave no date.1 The deadline has now been given: Geocites will shut down on October 26, 2009.2 You don’t have long to archive your favorite sites on Geocities. How can this be done most efficiently? What sites might you want to save? If Firefox3 is the web browser that you use, you can quickly find Geocities sites in your bookmarks (favorites) with an add-on such as Enhanced Bookmark Search4. If you usually browse the web with Internet Exporer instead, you could import Explorer’s bookmarks into Firefox, in this way: in Firefox’s menu, go to Bookmarks, Organize Bookmarks, File, Import. This isn’t the quickest way, but you could download the sites manually, by hitting the “Save” button on each page within a site. (In most browsers, “Save” will be in the menu on the upper left, under “File.” The drawbacks to this method: it’s tedious, and it doesn’t capture web page elements made with Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is included in downloads made by a Firefox add-on called Save Complete.5) It would be faster to download sites automatically using a program to do the work for you, such as an offline browser. I tried HTTrack Website Copier6, and I was sufficiently satisfied with its results that I didn’t try out some of the other free offline browsers I’d noticed in a Google search. (The others were Webreaper, Wget, and PageNest.7) HTTrack is a GPL offline browser for the operating systems Windows and Linux. HTTrack is easy to use: you give it an url (website address), or even a whole list of urls in a text file. (I’ll provide such a list at the end of this article. This method is the fastest because it requires less of your involvement, but it can cause problems with sites that don’t have an index page.) Then, all by itself, the program downloads the entire site, including the sub-pages, pictures, and anything else it finds in there. After you download a back-up of a site, make sure you skim through it to make sure it’s all there. Sometimes Geocities says “Service temporarily unavailable,” and so those pages will fail to download. There are a couple of reasons why this problem is happening: maybe Geocities is getting overloaded with traffic because everyone is rushing for their last chance to download their favorite sites… or maybe Geocities’ service has always been unstable. If your own website was hosted by Geocities, I hope you’re planning to move to another web host. Free web hosts are more common these days, so you can choose among them for the traits that suit you the best. The daily-updated website http://www.free-webhosts.com8 is a good way to compare free web hosts. You can use Google to comb Geocities for web sites on specific topics. Type in your search terms, and then include the words “site:geocities.com” in that search (without the quotes). I spent more time trying out keywords that could bring up sites on therianthropes and otherkin,9 animal-people and persons who consider themselves to be other than human, often in spirit. I discovered many more sites in addition to those that I described in my previous article. I have archived all the following Geocities sites, so if you miss out on this, you can ask me for a copy of the ones that you need. ( Read more... )
Tags: internet
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12:08 am
panzerwalt
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/39641915/336544) [Link] | tomorrow is going to be a tough day. we are taking boudicca to an adoption fair and there is a good chance she might not come home with us. it will be hard to see her go but it is why we brought her into our home in the first place and we can't keep every cat we foster. she has come far from the scared little kitten we first had.
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01:57 am
rosefox
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"At first I was afraid, I was petrified"
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Current Mood: sleepy
Tags: events.cons, events.cons.rwa, events.cons.rwa.2009, ideas.feminism, ideas.politics, ideas.politics.gender, ideas.politics.queer, ideas.politics.race
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08:40 pm
summer_jackel
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Chewin On My Puppy Fish
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Current Mood:  silly, bitey and sad
Current Music: PP&M, The Cuckoo
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08:31 pm
athelind
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Film at 11: CBS News Reports
Tags: celebrity, cronkite, far call, film at 11, television
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07:59 pm
paka
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/15533141/348164) [Link] | It so happens that Denny's advertises little fried pancake-batter things with the slogan The doughnut is now obsolete, and also has big screen tvs blaring ads for various things, including the latest Star Wars themed stuff on Cartoon Network. Hm.
"The doughnut is now obsolete. This maple bar is now the ultimate power in the galaxy. I suggest we use it."
"Don't be so proud of this maple-frosted terror you've created. The power to go perfectly with nice, crispy bacon is nothing compared to the power of the Black Coffee."
"Don't try to frighten us with your morning person ways, Lord Vader. Black Coffee has not given you enough clairvoyance to discover the location of the secret Rebel diner, or... hkkkk... ggkkk..."
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Current Music: "Chewbacca," Supernova
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07:28 pm
athelind
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Film at 11: And that's the way it is, July 17, 2009.
The man they called The Most Trusted Man in America -- and really, has anyone else come along worthy of the title come along since he retired? -- died today, in the middle of the the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that he covered so memorably.
He was a journalist, by God, and there are damned few of them left today, in the mainstream media or on the net.
The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed. -- Walter Cronkite, 1996
Good night, Uncle Walter.
Current Mood:  ...
Tags: celebrity, cronkite, far call, film at 11, television
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07:28 pm
changelingjane
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/80534696/7307805) [Link] | 8th Quarter! Things just keep getting better, both with my condition and with school stuff. Also, I feel a glimmer of self-employability. Now that I'm getting more and more functional, I just might have the energy to pull it off.
Current Mood:  excited
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09:25 pm
mmsword
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Game review: Indie game blitz
A three set of Indie games, like the last time.
Fathom
Starts as an homage to Cave Story and promptly goes in a vastly different direction. Lots of really neat details. A few problems though: There's a known bug that seems to occur at random that can make a mandatory plot event not work correctly, making it so you have to restart the game to actually finish it. Two: Odds are you're going to spend a lot of time getting used to the control shift. Three: This game is in desperate need of some sort of mapping feature.
Don't Look Back
Minimalist design that reminds me more of a Atari 2600 than a NES game that I really enjoyed. There's certainly some tricky platforming to be done and even though there's no dialog in the game, it tells quite the story, even if it is a familiar one.
Eversion
Sure, it looks like a game full of sunshine and lollipops from the screen shot. Then it opens with a Lovecraft quote and a warning that the game isn't for children or nervous people. And ... honestly they aren't kidding. This is probably the best implementation of a "world shifting" mechanic I've seen in a platformer. My biggest problem with the game was that the hit detection on the game is kinda blocky and going up or down in tight spaces is an exercise in frustration. Particularly with the autoscrolling portions.
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06:58 pm
krinndnz
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Getting My Hands Dirty
Since the move, I've been spending a fair bit of time in the garden. It's one of the things that I'm fairly enthusiastic about, but not actually good at. It's satisfying, though, to be out there working on it. The dang thing's upkeep expands to fill time, and would take even more if I knew what I was doing. Right now, I can weed, water, and prune, and I've been doing all of those diligently.
I need to get ahold of a camera: I'm pretty sure that there's a point-and-shoot one around here, and that's got to be better than my phone.
( Here are some pictures anyhow. )
Current Music: Goolancer - Vanilla Extract
Tags: personal
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06:52 pm
thoughtsdriftby
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Sad News
Overheard on the Radio:
Walter Chronkite has died. For us oldsters the one you trusted to deliver the honest news. Delivering the evening news with a singular integrity and the original new anchor. The Chronkite is actually the term for a TV news anchor in many countries.
I was also a 2001 junkie. His show on technology and the future. Curious timing as his voice and image made a part the lunar landing all the more memorable.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: sad
Tags: news
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06:21 pm
comingin2day
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What Herb Are You?
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
Tags: meme's
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05:50 pm
firestrike
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Sadly, that's the way it is...
Walter Cronkite 1916-2009
Current Mood: indescribable
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08:27 pm
momentrabbit
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Oh, fine. You want memes? I'll give you one.
Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence and these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book.
Ahem. "It is not necessary to use a great deal of torque to tighten the collet closer, especially with the smaller diameters." The Taig Lathe, Tony Jeffree.
You're all lucky. That book was only closest by an inch; I haven't put it away yet. The second closest is the Aye-Aye book. "hidden (hid) | nohidden" Tony can, at the least, put a pleasantly-constructed sentence together.
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