Bloginality
My
Bloginality is
ESTJ!!!
As an ESTJ, your personality is Extrovert, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging.
As an ESTJ, you are Extraverted, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging.
This makes your primary focus on Extraverted Thinking with Introverted Sensing.
This is defined as a SJ personality, which is part of Carl Jung's Guardian (Security Seeking) type, and more specifically the Supervisors
As a weblogger, you may fufill responsiblities as a leader in group weblogs. If you are really interested in blogging, you'll follow it through and post regularly. Because you appreciate social order, you may be likely to take on a responsibility just to keep a project going.
From the WTF files: Scentstories fro Fabreeze
OK, I *just* saw this on TV and had to run in here and check the website to see if it was for real. Yep. They have a SMELL CD player. I shit you not.
"The Scentstories player and disc themes work much like a music CD player. Just insert one of the themed discs and push play. The player then rotates through five scents on each disc, one by one with a new scent every 30 minutes. The player shuts off automatically after all five scents have been played. You can stop the player or skip through the scent tracks at any time. Together, the Scentstories player and disc create a new-to-the-world scent experience."
And somehow,
Shania Twain is involved... and they have
different discs, like music discs. I am so confused why this is necessary (in the hunter-gatherer sense).
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see for yourself]
Re: Blog Brilliance
So, anyway, I went and got the original code back for that so we don't have to worry about that one
Okily dokily.
No response from the Blogger.Techs yet.
re: Blog Issues
In a flash of absolute brilliance (and by brilliance, I mean, of course, a totally "duh" moment), I thought to myself "Hey self?"
"Yeah? What's up?" I answered.
"Why are you getting help with screwed-up JavaScript on your blog?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you got the code off of a free JavaScript site, didn't you?"
"Oh yeah..."
So, anyway, I went and got the original code back for that so we don't have to worry about that one Unless it goes stupid on Monday or something.
Now we only have to worry about why August isn't showing up on the archive links....
A little humor, courtesy of ZNet...
"For those unable to attend the huge August 29 "No to the Bush Agenda" demonstration in New York City, here is a small sampling of some of the posters and banners on display.
My favorite:
Abstinence in 2004: No Bush, No Dick
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Most recent polls
So, I don't mean to be coast-centric, butthis S&^t is rediculous. Look at all the idiots in the middle...
most recent polls
Numbers, Numbers, and more Numbers
So, this is a huge PDF file detailing the poverty levels over the last few administrations, and where we're at now. Honestly, I don't have the time to read it at the moment, but hopefully the link will still stay fresh for a while.
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage: 2003
Just a sample though:
Change, real median household income (2003 adjusted dollars)
Bush II: -$1,535
Clinton: +$5,489
Bush I: -$1,314
Change, number in poverty
Bush II: +4,280,000
Clinton: -6,433,000
Bush I: +6,269,000
Internet Turns 35, Still Work in Progress
Doctor has cloned cells from dead baby
Controversial fertility specialist Panos Zavos today revealed plans to clone a dead baby.
The American doctor, who has been attacked for publicity seeking by British experts in the field, claims already to have carried out three experiments on tissues culled from dead human beings. [
more]
Here's more info on that:
Cloning from the dead claim attacked
Police Catch 80 Revelers with Pants Down
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Around 80 men were caught with their pants down at a men-only nightclub when detectives burst in on a late-night drug raid. [
more]
NASA to Announce New Class of Planets
Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds. [
more]
Amon Tobin Scores Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
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The first Splinter Cell was scored by The Crystal Method, glad to see them pick up another quality electronic gig. The soundtrack will be sold seperatly from the game.
Hey Wendy! I found more quizzes!!!
And finally, before I go drown myself in Sandman: Which Office Moron Are You?
LOL!!!!!!!! Fat chance! Although, playing Unreal Tournament at work would RULE. There's a T3 line, and ...
Which Office Moron Are You?Rum and Monkey: jamming your photocopier one tray at a time.
I'll smoke you a kipper, because you'll be back for breakfast. You're the cult television show quoting, user account deleting, soap loathing IT Manager.
Something in your childhood has made you the way you are. You've been hired to provide a service to everyone else in the office - you make the computers run, and you make them run well. You've streamlined everything; you've removed all the viruses and installed all the firewalls. The only trouble - the only hole in your veneer of digital perfection - is the way you laugh at everyone.
If someone doesn't know UNIX, you laugh at them. If they lose their password, they laugh at them. If they visit a website using Microsoft Internet Explorer and their computer succumbs to an Internet worm, you laugh. Then you take a swig of your Coke, and with another hearty chuckle tell all your friends on IRC about the idiots you have to deal with.
Maybe it makes you feel better about yourself, although let's face it, you don't need help in that department. You're great, you. Fantastic like burning cool. If only those luddite office fools would let you play Unreal Tournament in peace.
The Mormon Name Generator
They're a funny old bunch, those latter day saints. Rather than picking names from their heritage, or the Bible, the Utah Mormons tend to make them up. Sometimes they'll combine the parents' names into one (BenDonna, for example). Other times it's impossible to quite understand what their parents were thinking; names like Zestpool and Zon'tl aren't uncommon.
We can understand why you might be jealous of names like these. After all, they are far more interesting and exciting than your own. Luckily, help is at hand with the Mormon Name Generator; simply indicate your first name, last name and your gender preference below, and we'll Mormonise your moniker.
Mormonize me!
Mine? Brookelle Heavenly Melanie. That's going to be my pen name when I am a famous autor....
Oh, how I do love a good quiz! And this one's a doosey!
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.
You are Charles VI of France, also known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved!
A fine, amiable and dreamy young man, skilled in horsemanship and archery, you were also from a long line of dribbling madmen. King at 12 and quickly married to your sweetheart, Bavarian Princess Isabeau, you enjoyed many happy months together before either of you could speak anything of the other's language. However, after illness you became a tad unstable. When a raving lunatic ran up to your entourage spouting an incoherent prophecy of doom, you were unsettled enough to slaughter four of your best men when a page dropped a lance. Your hair and nails fell out. At a royal masquerade, you and your courtiers dressed as wild men, ending in tragedy when four of them accidentally caught fire and burned to death. You were saved by the timely intervention of the Duchess of Berry's underskirts.
This brought on another bout of sickness, which surgeons countered by drilling holes in your skull. The following months saw you suffer an exorcism, beg your friends to kill you, go into hyperactive fits of gaiety, run through your rooms to the point of exhaustion, hide from imaginary assassins, claim your name was Georges, deny that you were King and fail to recognise your family. You smashed furniture and wet yourself at regular intervals. Passing briefly into erratic genius, you believed yourself to be made of glass and demanded iron rods in your attire to prevent you breaking.
In 1405 you stopped bathing, shaving or changing your clothes. This went on until several men were hired to blacken their faces, hide, jump out and shout "boo!", upon which you resumed basic hygiene. Despite this, your wife continued sleeping with you until 1407, when she hired a young beauty, Odette de Champdivers, to take her place. Isabeau then consoled herself, as it were, with your brother. Her lovers followed thick and fast while you became a pawn of your court, until you had her latest beau strangled and drowned.
A severe fever was fended off with oranges and pomegranates in vast quantities, but you succumbed again in 1422 and died. Your disease was most likely hereditary. Unfortunately, you had anywhere up to eleven children, who variously went on to develop capriciousness, great cruelty, insecurity, paranoia, revulsion towards food and, in one case, a phobia of bridges.
Sweet!
Camera Cinemas website says that Donnie Darko: Director's cut will be coming there this weekend. If you are interested, let me know.
YES!!
OK, I was wrong! The very next blog I hit had this one it!
Jay, if you could be any HTML tag, what tag would you be? I would be this one:
Projekt Rveolution
Sunday Sunday Sunday!
Linkin Park!!!
SNOOP!!!!
Korn!!!
Rock out with your... well, whatever out!
And guess what?? Morgan is going. Who woulda thunk it?
New Blog feature
See over on the right there ---->
I have a "feel" now. Many customizable options. Neat.
Re: Man Drives Home with Headless Friend
Prison or Work?
Just in case you get the two mixed up, this should make things a bit clearer:
IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.
AT WORK....you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.
IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
AT WORK....you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.
IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK....you get more work for good behavior.
IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK....you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.
IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK....you get fired for watching TV and playing games.
IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
AT WORK....you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.
IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK....you can't even speak to your family.
IN PRISON...the taxpayers pay all expenses with no work required.
AT WORK....you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.
IN PRISON...you spend most of your life inside bars wanting to get out.
AT WORK....you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.
IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.
AT WORK....they're called managers
Kevin Smith making CLERKS sequel
Just in time to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his first film, writer/director/star Kevin Smith has announced plans to make a sequel to CLERKS. The movie, titled THE PASSION OF THE CLERKS, is set ten years after the events seen in the first flick. It will star Brian O'Halloran and Jeff Anderson as Dante and Randal, the two slacker buddies who still don't want to serve you while working at their convenience stores. Smith and his pal Jason Mewes will also put in appearances as Silent Bob and Jay. [
more]
115 Mph? You Must Be Joking
LONDON (Reuters) - A British man accused by police of driving at 115 mph in a Fiat Punto thought the accusation so ridiculous he enlisted an expert driver to help prove his new car was incapable of going that fast. [
more]
Mummified Man Goes Unnoticed for Two Years
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A reclusive Canadian man, who neighbors thought may have gone traveling, was found mummified in his bed, almost two years after he died, Manitoba's chief medical examiner says. [
more]
Sexually Frustrated Chimp Takes Up Smoking
BEIJING (Reuters) - Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors, the Xinhua news agency says. [
more]
Man Drives Home with Headless Friend
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia man who drove home with a friend's headless body after a truck accident then went to bed while the remains dangled out the window faces charges including vehicular homicide and drunk driving, police said on Monday. [
more]
More Than 100,000 Protest Bush in NYC
NEW YORK - More than 100,000 demonstrators marched past a heavily fortified Republican convention hall on Sunday, chanting denunciations of the administration and the war in Iraq as delegates flocked to the city to nominate President Bush for four more years in the White House. [
more]
Earth: View from above wherever
re: Blog Issues
Thanks for looking into that Kev!
With regard to #2, I still think something is wrong with the date.
I tookout the +1.
I put Wendy's birthday back to today's date.
It should have envoked code:
else if (days == 0) {
document.write("It's" + description);
}
But it didn't. It envoked code:
else {
document.write(description);
}
And only wrote "Wendy's Birthday" instead of "It's Wendy's Birthday"
Also, this was all working fine, with +1 intact, until fairly recently.
Feel free to test whenever you want if you have any ideas. I think it would have told me that it was Wendy's birthday yesterday with this code, and in fact, it did, even with the +1 (which wasn't applicable if the date was off), which is why I forwarded her Birthday date...
*Sigh* this sucks - thanks for your help - you rock.
Re: Blog Issues
1) It stopped listing the archive for the current month. Go look over to the right. There's no august.
I tried several things, to no avail...
...so I have a support request in to the Blogger folks now.
Re: Blog Issues
Sorry, N; I meant to get to this sooner:
2) The countdown to party script skips "only two days until".
It does that 'cause of the following code in the javascript:
...
if (days > 1) {
document.write(days + 1 + " Days until " + description);
}
else if (days == 1) {
...
Follow the logic: If
days is greater than 1 (i.e. 2+), write out "
days plus one days until
the event," otherwise run the one-day-until-event logic.
Remove the +1 from
days + 1 and I think that'll fix it.
I'm going to hold off on doing that myself until after we're done celebrating Wendy's birthday (
Happy Birthday, Wendy!) and I can enter some test data (to make sure *I* followed the logic okay). :-)
Calif. Revives Marine Sanctuary Proposal
SAN FRANCISCO - State wildlife officials announced plans Friday to revive a program to create marine reserves along California's 1,100-mile coast. [
more]
Blog Issues
OK, I need geek help (not such a nerd girl after all)...
2 problems with the blog. And they both have to do with dates.
1) It stopped listing the archive for the current month. Go look over to the right. There's no august. But if you click on one of the other ones and type in the August part, it shows up. So it is archiving, just not showing it.
See?
I am going to do what all bug reporters do, and say "I didn't change anything that would make it do that". But it's completely possible that I did, by accident and didn't know. Or, I guess, one of the other administrator monkeys could have done it when goofing with things, but they usually don't play in there unless I ask for it.
ok, problems 2) The countdown to party script skips "only two days until". Thursday, it correctly said that it was 3 days until Wendy's birthday, but Friday it said only one day. It counts down totally correctly until it gets to 2. On Friday, I pushed the date of Wendy's birthday back one day to see if that would make it say 2 days, but no, it went from 1 to 3. The following day it claims that it is her birthday so it doesn't even just stay stuck on 1 day for a couple days, it just skips 2 entirely.
No clue.
Anyway, if any of you peeps think you know or can fix said problems (probably in some JavaScript somewhere) lemme know. I can either do it or make you an admin while you fix it, but it's driving me insane.
R.E.M.
Anyone interested in R.E.M. at the Greek in Berkeley on Oct 15? Lawn is $45 so I won't go unless someone else is interested as well. They are very worthwhile in concert....
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Re: Which Famous Homosexual Are You?
I got Eleanor Roosevelt too:
Eleanor Roosevelt! Nice to see you.
A Roosevelt yourself, you married your fifth cousin Franklin; despite the obvious incestuous overtones, your six kids were happy and healthy.
When Franklin got elected, you became perhaps the most controversial first lady ever - you spoke out for the rights of women; for the rights of the poor; for world peace. You were even a member of a union while your husband was in office - and when he died, you were the head of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
All of which is pretty kick ass, but to top things off you had a hot and steamy relationship with the lesbian journalist Lorena Hickok, who was so madly in love with you that she halted her career for you. Unfortunately, you couldn't give up your public life that easily - leaving her heartbroken.
Bitch.
Re: Yeah, you gotta go try this one
Yeah, you gotta go try this one
What's your Iraqi Leadership Name
Love Chess
For those of you stuck trying to figure out whether to play chess or watch porn, I have the Solution! It's like battlechess, but when you "take" another peice, your peice actually... takes... the other one.
Check it out. I recommend the screen shots section if you are curious.
Which Famous Homosexual Are You?
Strange spam subject
photon gypsies behind 2923
Why we enjoy telling people off
People genuinely enjoy telling others off if they have done something wrong, according to scientists. [
more]
Dead Couple to Be Married
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African man who shot his pregnant fiance dead before killing himself will be posthumously married to her at the weekend. [
more]
Greenspan Cautions on Baby Boomer Benefits
JACKSON, Wyo. - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday that the country will face "abrupt and painful" choices if Congress does not move quickly to trim the Social Security and Medicare benefits that have been promised to the baby boom generation. [
more]
Yeah, so if I am not going to get these benifits, I want all the money I have put into the system back.
Paul Hamm Asked to Give Up Gold Medal
ATHENS, Greece - World gymnastics officials asked Paul Hamm to give up his gold medal as the ultimate show of sportsmanship, but the U.S. Olympic Committee told them to take responsibility for their own mistakes and refused even to deliver the request. [
more]
Wendy's Birthday Pics
Are up in the photos section for interested people.
Calif. to Vote on $3B Stem Cell Project
SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley tycoons, Nobel laureates and Hollywood celebrities are backing a measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot to devote $3 billion to human embryonic stem cell experiments in what would be the biggest-ever state-supported scientific research program in the country. [
more]
Re: What movie do you belong in?
But both of them say I'm a swell person... :-( sad now.
And at the rate I am devolving here, I should next be in
Jungle Book or something. "Just look for the... BEAR NECESSITIES, the simple BEAR NECESSITIES..."
Re: What movie do you belong in?
Re: Biggest bets in the universe unveiled
Gravitational Waves, totally.
I'd bet $20 bucks on that 500-1.
That's $10,000!
Re: What movie do you belong in?
Re: What movie do you belong in?
What movie Do you Belong in?
First 'super Earth' planet found
A new kind of planet has been discovered in a star system 50 light years away. It is the smallest world to be found outside our Solar System, and probably the first rocky planet found so far, astronomers revealed on Wednesday. [
more]
California resolves e-voting flap
SAN FRANCISCO - California will allow voting at electronic voting machines in November at all but four counties, after an improvement in security measures, the state’s top election official says. [
more]
Biggest bets in the universe unveiled
Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking. From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010.
For two weeks, British-based bookmaker Ladbrokes is opening a book on five separate discoveries: life on Titan, gravitational waves, the Higgs boson, cosmic ray origins and nuclear fusion. [
more]
Judge Stops Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
NEW YORK - In a highly anticipated ruling, a federal judge found the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional Thursday because it does not include a health exception. [
more]
Instead, we could have hired 2,466,132 additional public school teachers for one year.
We could have paid for 18,305,106 children to attend a year of Head Start.
We could have insured 55,495,951 children for one year.
We could have provided 3,284,009 students four-year scholarships at public universities.
We could have built 1,849,601 additional housing units.
We could have fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 5 years.
We could have fully funded world-wide AIDS programs for 12 years.
Or, we could have ensured that every child in the world was given basic immunizations for 43 years.
Our priorities are all fucked up.
Australian inventor makes engine that runs off air
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) - An Australian inventor claims to have made the world's first commercially-viable motor vehicle powered by compressed air. [
more]
'Sorcerer' Kills 10, Sells Bodies for Cremation
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained a "sorcerer" who killed 10 people and sold their bodies to bereaved families to cremate in the place of loved ones who were secretly buried, police and a state-run newspaper reported Thursday. [
more]
Ever seen so many cameras?
AWOL The alcohol infuser
So, apparently,
this thing puts alcohol into your system through your lungs without you actually having to drink...
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Space technology could give comfy Antarctic homes
Space age technology is being used to design living quarters for Earth’s most alien environment – Antarctica, the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed. And the highly-engineered, eco-friendly structures could also be the future of European city housing, say ESA researchers. [
more]
Nervous sheep are pleased to see ewe
Looking at a photograph of a sheep from the same breed calms stressed sheep, a UK study shows. The findings point to a simple way of reducing separation anxiety in animals and human children, the researchers say.
Sheep placed in a stressful situation, by being isolated from their companions, find the pictures of a familiar sheep face more comforting than other similar images, Cambridge University scientists found. [
more]
*sigh*
Simple Telescopes Discover New Planet
Astronomers using telescopes not much larger than the spyglass Galileo wielded 400 years ago have discovered a new Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a bright, distant star. [
more]
Mirrormask photos
Are up on
Neil's blog, if you want to get a feel for what the movie will look like...
Re: Sorry ladies, you've just been replaced...
And, as Carl aptly pointed out: "Men making women for men. kind of sick and twisted."
Sorry ladies, you've just been replaced...
La Fondue
People who are going to La Fondue tomorrow should be advised to be there at 7:45 and to allow time for parking.
Directions here.
Then we shall gorge ourselves.
Ah, sweet Gluttony....
Over 100 Arrested in U.S. Spam Crackdown
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department (news - web sites) has made a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam" as part of a nationwide crackdown against Internet scam artists, a marketing group said Wednesday. [
more]
Japan Plans to Launch Spy Satellites
TOKYO - A Japanese government panel has approved plans to send two spy satellites into Earth's orbit beginning next year, a media report said Wednesday. [
more]
Ummm, isn't the point of a "spy" satelite that it's "sec-ret"? Shouldn't they at least try and cover that up with some B.S. about it being a geological survey satelite or something?
Phooey...
Carpenter Rules Out Angel
Former
Angel star Charisma Carpenter told
TV Guide Online that she's not interested in reprising the role of Cordelia Chase in any proposed
Angel TV movies or feature films. [
more]
From the "Things I learned on the radio this morning while *NOT* listening to music" files
You can actually make stamps, real, actual postage stamps, with any picture you want. It's like twice as much, but very cool, if anyone notices.
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PhotoStamps]
‹span style="Keanu"› Whoa... ‹/span›
Which member of the JLA are you?
| Which member of the JLA are you? Green Lantern With the Green Lantern corps destroyed the last Oa power ring made it's way to Earth to the unsupecting artist Kyle Rayner. Able to create anything his mind imagines the ring lacks the weakness to the color yellow and the 24 hour time limit which makes Kyle the one true Green Lantern. 
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Cigarettes more polluting than diesel exhaust
The air pollution emitted by cigarettes is 10 times greater than diesel car exhaust, a small Italian study finds.
Researchers compared the particulate matter in the exhaust fumes from a modern car engine, fuelled with low-sulphur diesel, and in cigarette smoke. Three smouldering cigarettes produced a 10-fold increase in air particles compared to those produced by the idling vehicle. [
more]
A Note for Wendy
I can't send mail through Yahoo from my present location (firewall stupidity) so I wanted to tell you that your plan is A-ok with me and I'll see ya tonight!
Hugs, N
Re: Purple Pens
Yes, but apparently it's less traumatic for them if it comes in purple.
Screw that. I want them feeling a bit o' trauma when I whip out the Red Pen of Editorial Ass-Kicking.
It will be a happy day when I wield the pen but make no marks...
Re: Purple Pens
Yes, but apparently it's less traumatic for them if it comes in purple.
Personally, I think they need as much trauma as possible. Bah. Kids these days are too soft! (I'm not grampa!)
Re: Purple Pens
Red pens don't fail kids and their papers: dreadful English skills do that.
Re: So appropriate...
Gah!
Mine: "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand
I say again:
Gah!
Purple Pens
So I heard on the radio this morning that the office supply places are trying to convince teachers that red pens are too scary and harsh for grading papers, so they encourage teachers to use purple pens instead...
LAME.
Dead Teenager Kept in Home 36 Years
HANOI (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old Vietnamese boy who died 36 years ago kept his body in their home after a fortune teller told relatives they had buried the teenager alive by mistake.
The boy's family thought he had died in 1968 of illness, but a herbal medicine man said told the father his son was still alive after the burial, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper said on Tuesday.
Stricken with remorse, the father dug up the body and displayed it in a glass-covered coffin, keeping it in the family home in southern An Giang until he recently confessed the macabre secret to a police news reporter.
The newspaper ran a photo of the dead boy's brother posing with his arms folded next to the coffin of his sibling. The body of the boy had not decomposed, the report said.
Re: So Appropriate...
Mine (9/27/70) is Ain't No Mountain High Enough, by Diana Ross. Bleh. I am glad I don't remember a lot of the music of the 70s.
Disturbing Bunny of the month Club
Yes, you can join, and yes, I am serious.
See?
*thinks about this for a moment* Hm, this seems the perfect gift for Coalee for Christmas...
Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
Head over to
Kevin's blog for a link to this very oddd website that will make you laugh.
See post titled: “Keep out, or this angry amoeba will force you to breakdance”
Seriously - go take 5 minutes and go through them... I'm still giggling.
I'll be mostly out tomorrow
I have an advanced Excel class to take. MMMMMMMM mmmmmmmmmmmm Macros!
Hope you all have a great Tuesday!
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's Crack Man
Would You Like Some Pot With That?
AMBLER, Pa. - The secret at one McDonald's wasn't just in the sauce. The manager at a McDonald's in Montgomery County, Pa., has pleaded guilty to selling pot along with Big Macs.
Authorities say word about Denise Stilwagon's $10 bags got out and she sold some of the illegal weed to an undercover detective.
Stilwagon was sentenced to time already served plus four years of probation.
Her boyfriend and supplier, James Harry, has also pleaded guilty and was ordered to serve 90 days in jail.
Is this the answer to God, the universe and all that?
They call it the God particle: a mysterious sub-atomic fragment that permeates the entire universe and explains how everything is the way it is. Nobody has ever seen the God particle; some say it doesn't exist but, in the ultimate leap of faith, physicists across the world are preparing to build one of the most ambitious and expensive science experiments the world has ever seen to try to find it. [
more]
Calif. Plan Aims to Add Solar Energy to Homes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California should try to add solar energy systems to 1 million homes by 2017 to save electricity and cut pollution from power plants, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Friday. [
more]
Hm, I still don;t trust him as the gubinator, but this was a good move...
ELEKTRA First Look
Up
here for interested parties - it's just some of the action sequences and Jennifer Garner talking about stuff while they show behind the scenes stuff. Pretty cool.
Lots of good clips and trilers and inteviews up
on this site BTW...
Re: Weird links with words and colours in the mind
Hm, ok
Well, the year looks like a circle in my head, and it is sort of a full color wheel. Months have colors, like October is this beautiful firey burnt orange color and January is a beautiful light blue...
Places have colors - like Paris is pink, and aweful shade of blazing pink. London is a soft brown that is really comforting. San Fran is a light purple color most of the time. New York tends to be yellow.
Full peices of music often have a color association as well, but I don't see every note as a color as some people do; although that would certainly save me some money on recreational endeavors.
People change sometimes. Some people are pretty constant.
You, Kevin, are always a dark blue.
Coalee is the most beautiful forrest green and Sean is a deep Ocean blue.
Carl is a light Tan.
Esther is cargo green.
Wendy is gold with sparkles, like the cool little things you light up and wave around on New Years make.
Dave is a blue black.
Jon is a burnt red most of the time - although he fluctuates a lot.
Steph also changes colors a lot, but she's usually some shade of purple.
Chris is generally some shade of green, usually light green.
Does that answer the question?
Re: Weird links with words and colours in the mind
I actually associate people with distinct colors, as well as a few other things.
Any particulars you'd care to share? I'm curious. :-)
Weird links with words and colours in the mind
Synaesthesia, a condition in which people make weird sensory associations, may rely more on the plasticity of the brain than on any genetic predisposition. This might mean that all of us are capable of having a synaesthetic experience.
People with synaesthesia often say that letters, words and numbers have innate colours. Even when tested years later, their associations remain consistent. But no one really knows why or how these odd associations form. [
more]
huh, I actually have this condition - didn't know what the name of it was. I actually associate people with distinct colors, as well as a few other things. Nice to know I'm not alone out there...
Rare Komodo Dragon Dies in Zoo Love Plunge
LONDON (Reuters) - Love could not conquer all for a rare, 10-year-old Komodo Dragon who plunged to her death at London Zoo after she scaled a dividing wall to reach her mate.
Six-foot-long Nina died from internal bleeding after she fell trying to reach Raja, who is still in good health and on display, a zoo spokesman said on Saturday. [
more]
Parachutist Survives 11,500-Foot Plunge
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African skydiver survived a 11,500-foot plunge after her parachute failed to open and lines broke on her reserve chute, a local skydiving club said on Monday.
Christy McKenzie was hurtling toward the ground at more than 120 miles per hour on Sunday when her parachute failed to deploy, Johan Mulder, the chief instructor at the Johannesburg Skydiving Club, told Reuters. [
more]
Al and Ji Party Pics
Up in the photos section and man, am I kicking myself for not bringing a camera to Art415... There were all sorts of performers doing tricks on fabric hung from the ceiling, spinning fire, dancing with one another, etc... it was beautiful. And the art on the walls was inspiring. Very cool. More parties should be like that.
Jolts of Electricity Reviving Coral Reef
The wires are part of highly original and ambitious underwater experiment: the use of low-voltage electrical current to stimulate regrowth in a badly damaged coral reef. [
more]
Senate Republicans Weigh Dismantling CIA
WASHINGTON - Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them directly under a new national intelligence director. [
more]
Deja vu
Munch Paintings Stolen From Norway Museum
OSLO, Norway - Armed, masked thieves burst into a lightly guarded Oslo museum Sunday and snatched the Edvard Munch masterpiece "The Scream" and a second Munch painting from the walls as stunned visitors watched in shock. [
more]
I read that and went "Didn't this already happen? Like, way back when I was in high school?" Yep. Turns out this is not a glitch in the Matrix... It just has happened again.
Re: Good Debt News!
Yay! You're doing a great job chipping away at those credit cards, Noelle! I'm proud of you.
Bye Al and Ji!
Went to Al and Ji's goodbye party as they are heading off to So Cal because Al got a really great offer to work at PDI South for a while. It was good to see everyone! Pics coming soon!
Tonight I am off to
ART415 in the city - which should proove to be crazy!
Hope you all are having a good weekend!
Good Debt News!
Well, between many *really* great offers like 2.99% for the life of the balance transfer, I have managed to get rid of nearly all of my high interest debt. I think my highest interest rate is only 7.99% at the moment, which is great news. I'll have all the high interest stuff paid off withing 2 months I think and then I can breathe a little easier.
Just thought I'd share the good news!
Stunt pilots to hook falling stardust sample
A piece of the Sun is set to fall to Earth and be captured by Hollywood stunt pilots in a tricky mid-air manoeuvre, NASA announced on Thursday.
A capsule filled with stardust will be dropped into the atmosphere from NASA's Genesis spacecraft on 8 September.
Genesis has collected charged particles from the Sun's outermost layer for about 27 months since its launch in 2001. Scientists believe its quarry will reveal the chemical composition of the cloud from which the Sun and planets condensed 4.5 billion years ago. [
more]
Google 'Sold Out', man...
Computer Experts Vie in Hacking Contest
SINGAPORE - Armed with laptops, modems, hard disk drives and sandwiches, 12 computer experts hunkered down Friday for a seven-hour contest to find the best hacker in tech-savvy Singapore. [
more]
The Dog Ate My Euros
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman thought she had been robbed by sedative-toting thieves when she returned to her car to find 380 euros ($470) missing and her dog vomiting, only to discover the pet had eaten the cash, police said on Thursday. [
more]
Religion Experts Ask How Jesus Would Vote
AUSTIN, Texas - Just a few miles from George W. Bush's former office at the state Capitol, a panel of religious experts weighed a question with relevance to many people of faith: How would Jesus vote?
It's a complex topic that can't be boiled down to simple political terms, said religious leaders who attended a Texas Faith Network conference in Austin on Tuesday. Many at the conference voiced concerns that the religious right dominates discussions of faith and morality in politics. They complained that issues such as abortion and gay marriage seem to take priority over hunger, corporate crime and even the war in Iraq. [
more]
LOL! Dick Cheney Publishes Children's Book to Soften Image
Embattled vice president Dick Cheney has released a children’s book in an apparent bid to soften his public image.
"So far, the public has seen the vice president as a strong compassionate leader," said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. "However, we think it’s important for people to see that he has a compassionate side as well. That’s half of being a compassionate conservative, after all."
The book, "SS" is for Super Secure! describes the heartwrenching travails of little David who, after much soul-searching, secretly informs on his lawbreaking family to the police. [
more]
Donnie Darko as Superman?
Stars Again Vie For Superman?
Actor Nathan Marlow (TV's Big Brother) told the Inland Empire Strikes Back Web site that he auditioned for the role of Superman under new director Bryan Singer, along with Josh Hartnett and Jake Gyllenhaal. If true, it means that Hartnett, who both previously turned down the part when McG was in charge, is again interested in the role, possibly because it no longer involves a three-picture deal, the site speculated. [
more]
Filoli pics up in photos section
From the Feild trip that we took there - just a few from the gardens....
this morning was the 19th time that I have been fed by Stanford since 6/7 when I started...
Suppress the Vote?
The big story out of Florida over the weekend was the tragic devastation caused by Hurricane Charley. But there's another story from Florida that deserves our attention.
State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation" that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November.
[full article]
People keep emailing me about this
So, apparently, it's interesting enough to blog!
Bear Passes Out After Only 36 Beers
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. [
more]
More Lyrics: Do What You Have To Do
by Sarah
What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage
created you a monster
broken by the rules of love
and fate has lead you through it
you do what you have to do
and fate has led you through it
you do what you have to do ...
and I have the sense to recognize that
I don't know how to let you go
every moment marked
with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
but I have the sense to recognize
that I don't know how
to let you go
I don't know how
to let you go
a glowing ember
burning hot
burning slow
deep within I'm shaken by the violence
of existing for only you
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
I know I can't be with you
I do what I have to do
and I have sense to recognize but
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
I don't know how to let you go
New Foamy
There's
new Foamy for interested people.... not that exciting...
Lyrics Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
By Sarah McLachlan
All the fear has left me now
I'm not frightened anymore.
It's my heart that pounds beneath my flesh.
it's my mouth that pushes out this breath
and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.
Companion to our demons
they will dance and we will play.
With chairs candles and clothes
making darkness in the day.
It will be easy to look in or out
upstream or down
without a thought
and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it.
I won't fear love.
Peace in the struggle to find peace.
Comfort on the way to comfort
and if I shed a tear I won't cage it.
I won't fear love
and if I feel a rage I won't deny it
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love.
I won't fear love...
Nav Bar
So this is what blogger says about "that thing" at the top, which I can customize the color for...
"The Blogger NavBar is a navigation bar and toolbar with a form that allows people to search just your weblog using Google's SiteSearch and gives you the ability to check out what's happening on other recently published blogs with one click. This bar replaces the advertisements that used to be displayed at the top of some blogs."
So, the search is for my blog only, which is kinda cool I suppose...
Leukaemia risk for kids living near petrol stops
Children who live next to a petrol station are four times more likely to develop acute leukaemia than other children in the same area, suggests new research. [
more]
Now that takes balls: Judge Accused of Masturbating Resigns
LAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge facing removal over charges that he masturbated and used a device for enhancing erections under his robes during trials said on Wednesday he would retire from the bench. [
more]
McMahon Up For 007?
E! Online reported a rumor that Julian McMahon, the Australian-born star of FX's Nip/Tuck, has had talks with producers about taking on the coveted role of James Bond, played in recent years by Pierce Brosnan. Citing a "reliable source," the site's Watch With Kristin column reported that McMahon met with producer Barbara Broccoli this week to discuss the role.
"He's under contract with Nip/Tuck, so, from what I understand, it would have to be filmed during his hiatus," the site reported. "And that should be fairly easy, because Nip/Tuck does only a dozen or so episodes, not the usual 22."
Smith Backs Off Hornet
Writer-director Kevin Smith told SCI FI Wire that he may withdraw from directing the upcoming Green Hornet movie because his last film, Jersey Girl, failed at the box office and shook his confidence in his ability to handle a major movie. "Right after Jersey Girl came out and kind of underperformed, I was just like, 'I got no business making large-budget movies,'" [
more]
Access Class
Was very cool - hope to take advanced next month. I can do some very cool things now. I will have to learn more SQL and Visual Basic to do some really hard core stuff, but it all seems pretty straightforward.
Then, I got to go to Apple and have a Chai with Wendy, who I haven;t seen in like 2 weeks so that was cool.
Tonight I am going to see the supervisor of Shrek 3 and Ants from PDI talk at Brooks college where I am thinking of attending. YAY Stanford for paying for me to go to school whenever I want!
Food beckons...
At Access Class Today
Sorry, but you will have to entertain yourselves today....
At least until I get home!
They're Everywhere!
Well, now everyone I know who has a blogger account has the silly search field that doesn't do very much and the mysterious "Next Blog" button. Feh.
They love tequila and strippers
Farscape
So I just watched the last 2 episodes of Farscape.
When I went into this show, it was just because Steph wanted to watch it. I thought it was horrible. I couldn't believe that people loved this show so much. But I stuck with it.
Now I know why.
Now, I can't belive that they would cancel a show that is this good. And I can't believe that they would cancel it with a cliffhanger like that.
My relief is that soon, I will be able to watch the 4 hour mini-series that they made, 2 years later, privatley funded, thanks to people going totally ape-shit crazy when they cancelled it.
The Peacekeeper Wars is definetly appointment TV for me.
Still, the last episode was so upsetting for me that I ave to go watch some Sargate to make myself feel better.
Yep..nerd girl.
Yeah, I probably think these are cooler than everyone else does...
re: I am a nerd girl
Another proof: As I sit here, waiting to go home, I thought to myself "hm, the very last disc of Farscape should be at my house when I get there." This made me both very excited, and very sad, as I will no longer have Farscape to watch before bed....
Wait till the Stargate runs out... I may cry.
Why does this just never cease to end?
Bushisms...
The page is hard to look at but the words on it are so very frightening...
Costco Test Markets Sale of Caskets
CHICAGO - Whether you're in the market for a good night's sleep or the eternal kind, there's now a discount store somewhere that has you covered.
On Monday, Costco Wholesale Corp., better known for bulk chicken and cases of soda, started test marketing caskets along side mattresses at a North Side Chicago store. They're also being sold at a suburban Oak Brook store. [
more]
That's What I Call a Traffic Jam!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German truck driver lost control of his vehicle while trying to swat a wasp and spilled his 15-ton load of jam jars on the motorway, police said on Tuesday.
"He was trying so hard to kill the wasp that he smashed the truck against the barrier," a spokesman for the motorway police in the western town of Greven said.
"That's when he really started attracting wasps. There was jam all over the motorway."
Police had to close the A1 motorway for two hours while they cleaned up the mess, causing a long traffic jam.
FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH = everyone wins
The rumors about FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH are true. Today's Hollywood Reporter confirms that New Line Cinema has entered discussions with director Sam Raimi, the fellow who helmed the three EVIL DEAD pictures and who owns the copyright to Ash, the sarcastic hero of the DEAD trilogy. If a deal can be reached, Ash will go up against the two horror slasher icons in the sequel to last summer's FREDDY VS. JASON. In that case, it's expected that Bruce Campbell will strike a deal to play Ash for the fourth time. It's unlikely that Raimi would direct the film; he's got plans to helm SPIDER-MAN 3 (set for release in May 2007), but Raimi would likely take a producing credit on the VERSUS film. [
I am not making this up]
Re: YAY! No Brain Tumors for me! Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
There's nothing in there that says that there is a difference between the THC you get from the extract and the THC you get from doing it the old fashion way. I would imagine that eating it, in say, a brownie, would have absolutley no difference except for concentration levels...
Re: Masking insanity?
Why do you think it is that people think you are nuts because you talk to yourself? We have other reasons. :-) I wouldn't say I am "listening" per se, (except when I listen your SotD), it's more of a visual experience, but I do follow your antics regularly. Yeah, what is that thing, anyway? It just seems to go to random other blogs. And what's up with that Search field? I never seem to get more than four hits on it no matter what I type in. I am pretty sure that "Neil" deserves more hits than that.
Re: YAY! No Brain Tumors for me! Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
What I think you meant to post was: Yay! I can now avoid brain tumors by using cannabis extracts, which I have never, ever done before!
Wouldn't want to give people the wrong idea. :-) Anyway, if you get your cannabis extracts the old fashioned way, I think it would increase your chances of getting lung tumors.
Masking insanity?
It has just occurred to me that posting to the blog all day is my own private way of talking to myself without people thinking I'm nuts.
Well, at least I can feign that people are listening, I got put on this silly Blog webring (look up) which I can't quite figure out what the requirements for are. One minute it was a banner, the next it was that. But no one else I know has that toolbar...
Cassini Spies Two Little Saturn Moons
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA (news - web sites)'s Cassini spacecraft has spied two new little moons around satellite-rich Saturn, the space agency said Monday.
Saturn's tally of known moons now stands at 33. [
more]
YAY! No Brain Tumors for me! Cannabis extract shrinks brain tumours
Cannabis extracts may shrink brain tumours and other cancers by blocking the growth of the blood vessels which feed them, suggests a new study. [
more]
Hating Dick Cheney
The new national pastime is as puzzling and unsatisfying as watching baseball [
more]
Google is getting Funny with their Olympic theme
Limbless Woman Sues Air France Over 'Torso' Snub
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A wheelchair-bound woman with no limbs sued Air France for discrimination on Friday, alleging she was kept off a flight by a gate agent who told her a "torso cannot possibly fly on its own." [
more]
Group Discovers John the Baptist Cave
UTZ TZUBA, Israel - Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples — a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water. [
more]
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In honor a good show and a song that they will never play
WHISTLING IN THE DARK
TMBG
A woman came up to me and said
I’d like to poison your mind
With wrong ideas that appeal to you
Though I am not unkind
She looked at me, I looked at something
Written across her scalp
And these are the words that it faintly said
As I tried to call for help:
There’s only one thing that I know how to do well
And I’ve often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that’s be you,
Be what you’re like,
Be like yourself,
And so I’m having a wonderful time
But I’d rather be whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
There’s only one thing that I like
And that is whistling in the dark
A man came up to me and said
I’d like to change your mind
By hitting it with a rock, he said,
Though I am not unkind.
We laughed at his little joke
And then I happily walked away
And hit my head on the wall of the jail
Where the two of us live today.
There’s only one thing that I know how to do well
And I’ve often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that’s be you,
Be what you’re like,
Be like yourself,
And so I’m having a wonderful time
But I’d rather be whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
There’s only one thing that I like
And that is whistling in the dark
There’s only one thing that I know how to do well
And I’ve often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that’s be you,
Be what you’re like,
Be like yourself,
And so I’m having a wonderful time
But I’d rather be whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling in the dark
Whistling, whistling
Whistling in the dark
Whistling (whistling), whistling (whistling)
Dark (dark), dark (dark)
Whistling (whistling), whistling (whistling)
Dark (dark), dark (dark)
Whistling (whistling), whistling (whistling)
Dark (dark), dark (dark)
Whistling (whistling), whistling (whistling)
Dark (dark), dark (dark)
Rowling teases fans on Potter plot
Some spoilers but very vague and nothing someone with logic shouldn't have known. [
read]
No game night tonight
Too many people are busy this week....
YAY!!!!!
I got into the
lampworking class that I wanted to take! I have always been interested in learning how to do this!
Thanks to Carl for the early birthday present!
Kevin Update
For those of you who don't know, Kevin (of the
Soul Cookie variety) is moving up here on that day that we get off next month for some reason... *goes to look* Ah! Labor Day. (which is kind of odd, because we don't have to labor on that day...). Anyway, he'll be moving into a flat in the city so we should see more of him.
And, yes, there are plans to have a running D'n'D campaign for interested, and actually comitted, parties.
Speaking of the city, I'm off to a
TMBG show now. Hope you all are having a great weekend.
AVP
Yeah, I needed more Aliens Vs Predator in my Aliens Vs Predator movie...
Escaped Early
At home if anyone needs me...
This is why I will see Blade Trinity
I saw this, on a big screen at Comic Con and it looked really great.
Inmate Loses Court Bid to Grow Hair
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Californian prison officials can cut the hair of an inmate despite his objection that to do so would violate his Native American religious beliefs, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Philip Henderson had maintained that cutting his hair, except under extraordinary circumstances, would defile the creator.
But the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals backed a lower court ruling that said the California Department of Corrections' reasons for requiring short hair -- such as making inmates easier to detect if they try to escape -- were justified.
"We therefore affirm the district court's judgment and its conclusion that the CDC's hair length regulation is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests," the three-judge panel ruled.
A Vacation for Folks Who've Done Everything Else...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Former political prisoners voiced outrage on Thursday at a German company's scheme to sell tourists an authentic jail experience in what was former Communist East Germany's biggest women's prison. [more]
Well *that's* messed up.
TV Cooking Show Host Julia Child Dies
NEW YORK - Julia Child, whose warbling, encouraging voice and able hands brought the intricacies of French cuisine to American home cooks through her television series and books, died in her sleep three days before what would have been her 92nd birthday. [
more]
Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV Make-Up
ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmenistan's authoritarian president, whose recent decrees have included banning gold teeth, has told television presenters to stop wearing make-up because he had difficulty telling the men from the women. [
more]
Long-Awaited Google Auction Begins Friday
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. brushed aside a series of missteps and concerns over tough market conditions on Thursday, declaring it would push ahead with a highly anticipated auction for its $3.3 billion IPO beginning Friday. [
more]
From the X Files: Russian Alien Spaceship Claims Raise Eyebrows, Skepticism
An expedition of Russian researchers claims to have found evidence that an alien spaceship had something to do with a huge explosion over Siberia in 1908. Experts in asteroids and comets have long said the massive blast was caused by a space rock. [
more]
This caused me to find The
Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science which is a perfect way to waste away the afternoon gaining useless knowledge...
I scored a 44
on
Kevin's little personality test.
41 TO 50 POINTS:
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, practical and always interesting; someone who’s constantly in the center of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to their head.
They also see you as kind, considerate, and understanding; someone who’ll always cheer them up and help them out.
re: I am a nerd girl
Yeah.
This is sad.
I just caught myself seriously considering going to a Star Trek / Stargate SG1 convention in Sacramento to see the SG1 people.
I still may go...
Calif. Top Court Annuls San Francisco Gay Marriages
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Supreme Court annulled more than 4,000 gay marriages in San Francisco on Thursday, finding the city acted improperly in granting marriage licenses earlier this year in defiance of state law. [
more]
I wish people cared more about the things that matter, and less about hurting other people's happiness.
Study: Gene blocker turns monkeys into workaholics
USA - Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
Blocking cells from receiving dopamine made the monkeys work harder at a task -- and they were better at it, too, the U.S. government researchers found. [
more]
Pleasing names make faces sexier
Whether people find you “hot or not” could depend on the sound of your name, suggests a new study.
Linguist Amy Perfors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, US, placed photos with fake names on a website called “Hot or Not”, which allows viewers to rank strangers’ photos for attractiveness.
She found that men labelled with names including “front vowels,” such as the “aaa” sound in Matt were rated as more attractive by website viewers than photos labelled with “back vowel” names, such as the “aw” sound in Paul. The opposite was true for women’s names. [
more]
Man Detained for Tossing Hamsters Off Terrace
ROME (Reuters) - A retired Italian man could face up to a year and a half in prison if found guilty of killing his six pet hamsters and one guinea-pig by throwing them off his terrace into passing traffic. [
more]
That so messed up...
I am a nerd girl
*looks over at the side bar about what I am watching, and reading, etc..*
*looks through old posts about things I find interesting and exciting*
Yeah. Nerd.
*sigh*
New Foamy!!!
You peeps who have been to Comic Con will get a kick out of this one:
A-KON SPECIAL: RULES FOR THE MASSES
I especially agree with his thoughts that they should give out little picachu shaped soaps. "It's like being stuck IN A FUNK SANDWICH!" "Bathe!"
Germaine does incredible things with her boobs in this one too.
Bead Shop Pajama Sale
That's right, if you head down to the
Bead Shop in Palo Alto anytime today between 10 am and 10 pm in your pajamas, you get 25% off all merchandise and 10% extra off all sale stuff.
Yep, I'll be heading down there later if anyone wants a ride. Looks like those feetie pajamas may come in handy after all...
Re: It's sooooooo hot out...
It's
110 here.
I'll note that it's hot there
before I've moved: No fair blaming me and saying I imported the heat from Hell Centro...
Re: It's sooooooo hot out...
Bush insists his administration seeking 'new ways to harm our country'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush offered up a new entry for his catalogue of "Bushisms" on Thursday, declaring that his administration will "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people."
Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417-billion defence spending bill.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
No one in Bush's audience of military brass or Pentagon chiefs reacted.
I am not making this up.
Why can't we fire him?
Sex Attacker Wins Lottery on Weekend Out of Jail
LONDON (Reuters) - A convicted rapist serving a lengthy jail sentence has won $13 million on Britain's national lottery, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Iorworth Hoare was on weekend release from a low-security prison when he bought his winning ticket for last Saturday's Lotto Extra draw, the Sun said. [
more]
Britain OKs Cloning License for Research
LONDON - Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, more than three years after becoming the first nation to authorize the technique to produce stem cells for medical research. [
more]
Re: Ripley's Believe it or not Odditorium
I hope he enjoys cancer of the tear duct....
Balldroppings
Oh wow.
This is very cool.
Download it and execute
when your screen goes black, use your mouse to draw lines on the screen.
I could zen out for days on this.
Ripley's Believe it or not Odditorium
NASA Tells Hubble Team to Work on Repairs
NASA's chief is urging his Hubble Space Telescope team to press ahead with plans for a robotic repair mission to the aging observatory, saying, "Let's go save the Hubble." [
more]
Department retreat tomorrow
I love this place.
We are going on a department retreat to
Filoli house tomorrow. I'll be in until 11:00 and then to the retreat and then home for the rest of the afternoon!
Neat.
Re: Man Trips Over Woman; Her Family Eats Him?
I know it's wrong to think this, but I can't help but ponder what a meeting between these folks and
the guy from Rabat would be like.
Stomach-turning, probably.
Man Trips Over Woman; Her Family Eats Him?
MANILA (Reuters) - A man and his two sons have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a neighbor and then eating parts of his body after he tripped over a woman relative at a dance, Philippine police said on Tuesday.
The three men are suspected of stabbing neighbor Benjie Ganoy to death last month in a remote village in the southwestern island of Palawan. They ate his ears, tongue and arms after roasting the body over a fire, provincial police chief Michael Garraez said. [
more]
Buffy Cleared By FCC
The Federal Communications Commission rejected an indecency complaint lodged against UPN's Buffy the Vampire Slayer by a conservative watchdog group, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The complaint filed by the Parent Television Council against an episode of Buffy was dismissed in a 5-0 vote because the commission found the show didn't violate its indecency regulations, the trade paper reported.
The PTC, run by L. Brent Bozell, complained to the commission about the April 22, 2003, episode of Buffy, in which the characters Spike and Buffy fight before having sex, according to the order. "The commission noted that there was no nudity and there was no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon or was used to pander, titillate or shock the audience," the commission said in a release.
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Another reason to become a vegitarian
Bush-meat trade breeds new HIV
The HIV virus has jumped from primates to people on at least seven separate occasions in recent history, not twice as is commonly thought.
And people in Cameroon are showing up with symptoms of HIV, but are testing negative for both the virus and its primate equivalent SIV, the virus from which HIV is thought to have evolved. That suggests that new strains of an HIV-like virus are circulating in wild animals and infecting people who eat them, sparking fears that such strains could fuel an already disastrous global HIV pandemic. [
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Lesson: do not drink the water in south america and do not eat the meat in Africa...
Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing
A pioneer of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has warned that for any intelligent aliens trying to search for us, "the Earth is going to disappear" very soon.
Frank Drake's point, made at a SETI workshop at Harvard University on Friday, is that television services are increasingly being delivered by technologies that do not leak radio frequencies into space. [
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If the aliens are here to colonize though, this could be a good thing...
A Simple Two-Step Process To Make Your Own Holy Water At Home
Put 1 quart of regular tap water in a pot on the stove.
Boil the Hell out of it.
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A tall order
It's painful and slow, but can make you five inches taller. Jonathan Watts on the surgical trend sweeping China - leg-lengthening
"Kong Jing-wen has paid 5,700 to have both of her legs broken and stretched on a rack. The pretty college graduate is now lying in bed, clearly still in considerable pain three days after a doctor sawed through the flesh and bone below her knee to insert what looks an awful lot like knitting needles through the length of her tibiae. " [
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How F&^%ed up in the head do you have to be to do this?
Stereotypes
This is a fun way to kill a cuple minutes...
It's kind of sad when a T-shirt says it all
I want to wear this every day (thanks for the link Kev!)
Ordered to just walk away
"But in a move that frustrated and infuriated the guardsmen, Hendrickson's superior officers told him to return the prisoners to their abusers and immediately withdraw. It was June 29 -- Iraq's first official day as a sovereign country since the U.S.-led invasion." [
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People have time to sit around and create a website about this....
Patriot Act Suppresses News Of Challenge to Patriot Act
"'It is remarkable that a gag provision in the Patriot Act kept the public in the dark about the mere fact that a constitutional challenge had been filed in court," Ann Beeson, the ACLU's associate legal director, said in a statement. "President Bush can talk about extending the life of the Patriot Act, but the ACLU is still gagged from discussing details of our challenge to it.'
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the case. " [
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England Gets First National Jester for 350 Years
STONELEIGH, England (Reuters) - Nigel Roder beat six rivals by public acclaim on Saturday to become England's first official jester for more than 350 years, succeeding Muckle John who lost his job when King Charles 1 was beheaded in 1649.
"This is a real job. He will have to amuse and provoke -- although failure to do so will no longer risk beheading," Tracy Borman, events director of English Heritage, told Reuters. [
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Rejected by His Wife, He Cuts Off His Penis
RABAT (Reuters) - A 70-year-old Moroccan cut off his penis in protest at his wife's long refusal to have sex with him, hospital sources said on Saturday.
The unidentified man severed his organ on Monday in the southern town of Ait Ourir and was taken to a hospital in the nearby city of Marrakesh for treatment.
"He didn't bring his penis with him. He has left the hospital well, but without his penis," a doctor from the Ibn Toufail hospital told Reuters.
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Calif. Issues Final Greenhouse Gas Plan for Cars
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California released its final plan on Friday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks by about 30 percent by requiring hundreds of dollars in technology to control air pollution in new cars.
The plan is the first of its kind among U.S. states. It has been closely tracked by car makers as California accounts for nearly 13 percent of the U.S. auto market and because other states may adopt similar rules.
Auto makers have said they may sue to block the plan.
The California Air Resources Board said that in the initial phase from 2009 through 2012, the plan calls for regulation requiring technology to reduce emissions by about 25 percent for cars and light trucks, and by about 18 percent for larger trucks and sport-utility vehicles. [
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Sorry for all of you who have smog passing concenrs out there but: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Less asmog and the incentive to buy smaller, pollution reducing vehicles makes me happy!
Kerry Calls for More Stem-Cell Funding
LA JUNTA, Colo. - John Kerry said Saturday the restriction on stem cell research imposed by President Bush was a triumph of ideology over science and "only adds to the loss and pain" of millions suffering from potentially curable diseases. [
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Report: Prozac Found in Britain's Drinking Water
LONDON (Reuters) - Traces of the anti-depressant Prozac have been found in Britain's drinking water supply, setting off alarm bells with environmentalists concerned about potentially toxic effects. [
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No wonder I always feel so much more mellow when I visit London...
Weekend of Nothing
This weekend I did absolutely nothing. Well... Nothing for me. I cleaned the house, got a new garbage disposal installed, went for a walk at Crystal Springs, had an arrival adventure with Paduan, and just finished cleaning all the carpets in the living room.
I started Deep Space 9, and also figured out how to easily knit one of those shawl things that everyone is wearing.
Side story: I was thinking about making one of those for a while because they look pretty cool and I thought it would be pretty simple, and then I went shopping in San Fran with Satan and Co. and learned that everyone and their mother, literally, are wearing those things.
Part of me was like "cool, I am fashionable for once." and the other part was immediately repulsed by the concept of wearing one. However, I did establish that people will pay oodles of money for these things, which makes me wish I had a venue to sell some... Maybe eBay, we'll see.
anyway, off to take a shower, then to the store to get foodstuff for lunches this week. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm Picata!
No game night this week as people seem to have had busy weekends already.
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Re: Internet Connection Speedometer
At work I get 2.459 Mbps
BTW, that zipcode finder was cool.
My life is sad
So I have been tediously cleaning up the website, which at final count is actually more like 800 pages, which I can't believe. I have finished round 1 today and am going through for round 2 starting Monday. What's really sad is that after all that, I am doing some metrics reporting (detailed statistical reporting for people who don't know) today and I am kind of like "Wow. This is pretty relaxing..."
That's just sad. Metrics suck to deal with.
Sigh.
I love where I work, I love where I work, I love where I work....
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Cingular Wireless Can Now Help You 'Escape-A-Date'
New service gives daters the perfect alibi if things go sour [
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That is a *RAD* Service...
Deep-Sea Vessel Puts Ocean Floor in Reach
WASHINGTON - A new deep-sea research vessel will be able to carry people to 99 percent of the ocean floor, diving deeper than the famed Alvin that pioneered the study of seafloor vents, plate tectonics and deep ocean creatures over the past 40 years. [
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PUTTING ON THE "MIRRORMASK": EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MICHAEL POLIS ON THE FILM
I can't decide if this is creepy or really cool
Needed: a Ban on Unsolicited Toe-Licking?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Labour party wants to pass a law making unsolicited toe-licking an offence after police were unable to prosecute a would-be Casanova with a taste for female toes because he had committed no crime.
A police spokesman said on Friday a man had been detained after women sunning themselves in Rotterdam's parks and beaches claimed he would sneak up on them and begin to lick their toes. [
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Ok, that's just silly.
Red Letter Day for Red-Heads at London Zoo
LONDON (Reuters) - They say blondes have more fun, but redheads will have the edge on Sunday when they get into London Zoo for free to view a rare new-born ginger-colored monkey. [
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Jebus, where do they get the money for this kind of research???
"Britain has one of the highest concentrations of redheads in the world, but a recent survey showed that 9 out of ten were teased at school about their hair color."
Ireland Is Lost Island of Atlantis, Says Scientist
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Atlantis, the legendary island nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.
Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed some 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a cataclysmic natural disaster and sank beneath the waves.
Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements, geography, and landscape of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly. [
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Viewer's Guide: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11-12
Every August, when many people are vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor shower makes its appearance. The annual Perseid meteor shower, as it is called, promised to put on an above average display this year.
The event is also known as "The Tears of St. Lawrence." [
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I'll porobably go out to watch these...
Cassini Spacecraft Sees Saturn Lightning
LOS ANGELES - The Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn has revealed a new radiation belt around the ringed planet and found that lightning in its atmosphere is occurring in different patterns than it did when NASA's Voyagers flew by in the early 1980s, scientists said. [
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iRobot
A few of us went to see iRobot last night. Surprisingly, it was one of the better movies that I have seen in quite a while. The CG was incredible - possibly the best I have ever seen, the plot was not lacking much, Will Smith was not too over the top, but still silly, and there was enough to keep you going through the whole movie.
Given, I have not read the book that it is based on, but all in all, I would recommend it, and I would say, go see it while it's in the theaters so you can truly appreciate the graphics...
Random news
The family of late Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams will appear as extras in the upcoming movie version of the beloved series, the Zap2it Web site reported. Douglas' mother, sisters, brother and daughter will appear in the scene in which Earth learns of its impending destruction.
Gas Mileage vs. Speed Chart
Carl's Top 10 Ways to Save Gasoline
- Drive the Speed limit. I've seen 20%-30% improvement in gas mileage by driving 65 rather than 80. The EPA only tests up to 60 mph (48 mph average speed) to determine the mpg rating for highway driving on cars. Therefore the car manufacturers try to optimize gas mileage at that speed to get a better rating. The optimum speed is probably 55 mph.
- Accelerate slowly. Your gas mileage is directly related to how far you push down with your right foot.
- Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Low tire pressure hurts gas mileage. Most tires should be around 30-35 psi. It will say somewhere on the outside of the tire what it should be inflated to or at least the maximum recommended pressure. Also on the inside end of the driver's side door should have a sticker that shows the recommended tire pressure from the factory.
- Avoid using the air conditioning. Your air conditioning system runs off a pump driven off the engine. It takes energy to pump the Freon through the system. Unless it's hot out just use 'Vent'.
- Give your car regular tune ups. New spark plugs, spark plug wires, air filter, etc can all improve gas mileage.
- Remove excess weight from your car. The more your car weighs the more energy it takes to get it moving.
- Use cruise control on long trips. Using the cruise control keeps your car at a constant speed which improves gas mileage.
- Use the lowest octane gas that is recommended for your car. Higher octane gas does not contain more energy (in fact it probably contains less). Higher octane gas is only needed in cars that are designed for it, such as high compression engines usually only found in sports cars. If your car needs high octane gas it will say "Premium Fuel Required" below the gas gauge and next to the gas cap. [If your car doesn't require premium fuel but detonates when using regular gas (makes a slight popping or pinging noise when accelerating), there's something wrong with your engine. Have it checked out.]
- Gasoline that contains ethanol. This is a catch 22. Gas with ethanol (E10) has less energy content and therefore yields slightly less miles per gallon than gas that uses non-alcohol based additives. But since it is essentially 90% gasoline 10% ethanol, less gasoline and therefore oil is used to create it. Ethanol is created from fermentation of grain. (Valero does not use ethanol, 76 and Chevron use ethanol)
- Try fuel injector cleaner. If you have a high mileage car your fuel injectors could be slightly plugged which affects fuel atomization and therefore gas mileage. A symptom of this is a rough idle. If you have a new car or your injectors aren't plugged, injector cleaner won't do anything.
Sorcerers Nabbed with 50 Bodies, 20 Skulls
LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 30 witch-doctors in a raid on fetish shrines in southeast Anambra state where over 50 decomposing bodies and 20 human skulls were discovered, a police spokesman said Thursday.
The heads, genitals and other vital parts of some of the bodies, found in a teak forest in Okija village, had been severed, a sign they may have been killed for ritual. [
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Job Opening: Surely You Jest...
LONDON (Reuters) - WANTED - A court jester to fill a post vacant for 350 years since England executed its king.
English Heritage said in an advertisement in the Times on Thursday applicants for the competition at the weekend should bring their own costumes with bells, but said it would provide a bladder on a stick -- a traditional jester's prop. [
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Bush Signs Bill With $25B More for Wars
WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) signed a $417.5 billion wartime defense bill Thursday providing an additional $25 billion for Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites), body armor for troops and reinforced Humvee vehicles.
"With this legislation America's military will know that their country stands behind them as they fight for our freedom and as they spread the peace," Bush said.
"No enemy or friend can doubt that America has the resources to prevail," he said. "And we will." [
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IGN Exclusive: The Portal to Narnia
The first in a series of set reports from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. [
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Theory links dark energy and neutrinos
Is the mysterious dark energy that drives the expansion of the cosmos subtly sabotaging physics experiments right here on Earth? A new theory suggests there might be an intriguing link between dark energy and tiny particles called neutrinos, and this could account for puzzling results from various neutrino experiments around the world. [
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Acid rain limits global warming
Acid rain restricts global warming by reducing methane emissions from natural wetland areas, suggests a global climate study. [
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Re: They messed up my toy
I would have thought that, too, except there's a story behind it. If my understanding is correct, this is the prequel to the batman series. The batmobile actually starts out as a military machine that Bruce Wayne's company is mass-producing. Bruce takes one, maybe modifies it slightly, and uses it for his own purposes. I think, with that background, it's kinda neat.
Women who believe in long life bear sons
Women who think they will live to a ripe old age are more likely to give birth to sons than daughters, reveals a study of UK women.
The new research suggests that even in affluent western countries, a woman’s health and living conditions influence the sex of her babies - a link that until now has only been found conclusively in developing nations. [
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Huh. Actually makes some sense...
