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| Friday, September 5th, 2008 |
jennylin
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10:09p |
Thoughts for Today
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technomom
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10:25p |
Methinks I Need to Safeword Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
I’m about 3/4 of the way through The Devil’s Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow—3rd of 5 or 6 books in the Dante Valentine series—and I don’t think I can take any more.
I want to know how the story ends. I really like some of the characters. I just can’t stand the main character! She’s a total harridan. I’m starting to think that Saintcrow is incapable of writing a female protagonist who isn’t set to the highest bitch levels at all times, especially with anyone who is nice to her. What are this woman’s personal relationships like, I wonder?
When I was in 10th grade, a new girl moved to my neighborhood. We quickly became close friends. A few months into our friendship, I remember her saying something about me and my friends being “so passive.” What? That is not an adjective I had ever imagined anybody had ever used in reference to me or the people I hung out with. We were all pretty opinionated, intelligent, talented, and most of us were somewhat prickly in one way or another. Not doormats, pushovers, or “passive” people.
We didn’t fight, which, to her, meant passivity. I tried to explain that we could disagree without fighting, and knew the difference between debates and arguments, but we never did see eye to eye on that issue. I’m sure that a major difference in our family backgrounds had a lot to do with her perceptions. In her family, screaming was a daily occurrence, after which the air was cleared and all was well. In mine, raised voices meant physical violence. If someone raised his voice anywhere near me, I expected violence, and the whole fight-or-flight thing started. I never considered wasting energy by yelling back. If she heard yelling, she’d wade right in and yell back fearlessly. (I’m pretty sure that she wasn’t ever hit in anger, probably not ever hit at all by a family member.)
I’m not going to be friends with someone who is constantly picking fights with me or anyone else. I have zero interest in argument for the sake of argument. What’s the point? I value my peace too much for that, so combative, aggressive people quickly get an invitation to the world when I encounter them.
I think that friend might relate to Saintcrow’s female characters. Valentine sure as hell isn’t passive. She can’t manage assertive, either, though—she’s unhealthily aggressive. |
chaoticidealism
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11:59a |
Christian
I'm a Christian. When I say that, some people assume things that aren't true.
It seems like a few radical fundamentalists spoil everybody else's reputation.. Most of us are Christians simply because we want to know God. If they actually read their Bibles without filtering them through bigotry, they would realize that "everybody is a sinner" doesn't mean "let's go out and put people down because they're not perfect"--it means "I'm not perfect, either, and that means I'm no better than they are." Apparently, humility goes right out the window when somebody mentions sin... But that is the point at which humility should be the most in evidence!
There are a lot of things Jesus did that modern fundamentalists would think was simply scandalous--he attacked legalism, he socialized with "sinners" and the unpopular people, he ignored racial boundaries, and he completely pardoned a woman who'd been cheating on her husband--possibly one of the most reprehensible things you can do, short of murder. I was raised as a fundamentalist; and the only reason I got out of it was that I started actually reading my Bible... specifically, the New Testament... and realized that the loud, nasty sermons I heard had nothing to do with what Christianity actually is. Yes, it holds you up to a high standard; perfection, in fact; but that standard includes mercy, kindness, and respect for other people.
Regarding proselytizing: It is impossible to convert someone unwillingly. A true conversion must come from the heart. Thus, badgering or forcing someone is not just rude but ineffective... Your best witness is your life, not your words. |
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
jennylin
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10:09p |
Thoughts for Today
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008 |
museumfreak
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12:02a |
daily meaningless noise These are small mobile blog posts from Twitter. The original function of LJ was to answer the question "What are you doing today?" Twitter answers the question "What are you doing right now?" The former is of course the integrand of the latter. I post these to LJ because I want to archive them better and I want my LJ friends to know what's going on with me even when I don't have time/energy to post. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
technomom
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10:30p |
Blah - Spammers Are Scum Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
Not that it’s news to anyone, I know. But Defensio was down this evening (because of an Amazon server failure), which meant that all of our sites have been slammed with comment spam. They all get hit constantly, but it’s usually a non-issue because Defensio filters almost 100% of the crap before we see it. These outages serve to remind us of how great the service is.
I notice that my older posts are the ones that get the most spam comments. I’ve looked for some sort of plugin to automatically disable comments on posts after a week or so, but I haven’t found one so far. I finally gave in today and started back with the very first post on this blog, disabling comments. It is a tedious process! I’m sure that someone could write a script that would do the same thing in the MySQL database much faster, but I’m not that someone.
Sam has to go back to work tomorrow. Pout. I’ve really enjoyed having him home. |
| Friday, September 5th, 2008 |
monpere
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1:39a |
i always feel like i have so many demons and so much wrong with my life. i feel so sorry for myself all the time; it's gross and embarassing. i've just had a moment of reassurance for some reason, that things aren't as bad as i think they are. like, when you just feel everything lift? for no reason, it just happens? it's like the fog just lifts and you feel connected to something again; but you don't know what it is. i think this is what drugs do; they cover everything up so that you really can't feel any natural joys anymore. you constantly think you have to find it in something else. nothing is good enough. nothing is good enough. well, actually; i'm having one of those times when everything is good enough. it wont last, i know that. i wish i knew how to make it.
in other news; my fucking body is OUT
of controliotion
and it's annoying as shit.
consequently; i'm still going to get absolutely fucked up tomorrow night (tonight?)
i'm so excited.
is that even the right way to use the word consequently?
it sounds good, though. don't it? 'consequentlehhhh'
sometimes i really just do feel like going nuts. though. and over-doing it on purpose. i think tomorrow will be one of those nights where i push it. my dad is so angry that i'm buying a ticket for shine; if he had it his way i wouldn't leave my bedroom, though. oh my fuck, i should really be over this wreckless teenage rebellion thing i have going here. but i'm not. not at all. my head hurts, i think i have HAYFEVER (what?) and my muscles are completely fucked. my hips hurt all the time and i'm walking like a robot, is the only way i can describe it. infact. the last time i was out, some boy immitated a robot as he walked past me, laughing. but he was only fucking aroumd, because he hugged me as he walked past as well. so that makes it okay. but i can just feel my entire body shutting down. i don't know why. i have no idea what's really wrong with me. i just feel like shit. but it's shine tomorrow. laurent garnier is playing. oh jesus. i feel like taking so many drugs that i die. because i don't really care anymore. i don't feel bad and i don't feel good. i just don't care.
to be perfectly honest.
i have fuck all to care about. why would it even matter? |
| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
technomom
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11:50p |
TotD: Ray Kurzweil on Change Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Centuries ago people didn’t think that the world was changing at all. Their grandparents had the same lives that they did, and they expected their grandchildren would do the same, and that expectation was largely fulfilled.
Today it’s an axiom that life is changing and that technology is affecting the nature of society. What’s not fully understood is that the pace of change is itself accelerating, and the last 20 years are not a good guide to the next 20 years. We’re doubling the paradigm shift rate, the rate of progress, every decade.
The whole 20th century was like 25 years of change at today’s rate of change. In the next 25 years we’ll make four times the progress you saw in the 20th century. And we’ll make 20,000 years of progress in the 21st century, which is almost a thousand times more technical change than we saw in the 20th century.
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jennylin
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10:09p |
Thoughts for Today
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| Thursday, September 4th, 2008 |
museumfreak
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12:11a |
daily meaningless noise These are small mobile blog posts from Twitter. The original function of LJ was to answer the question "What are you doing today?" Twitter answers the question "What are you doing right now?" The former is of course the integrand of the latter. I post these to LJ because I want to archive them better and I want my LJ friends to know what's going on with me even when I don't have time/energy to post. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
| Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 |
jennylin
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10:09p |
Thoughts for Today
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 |
museumfreak
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12:13a |
daily meaningless noise These are small mobile blog posts from Twitter. The original function of LJ was to answer the question "What are you doing today?" Twitter answers the question "What are you doing right now?" The former is of course the integrand of the latter. I post these to LJ because I want to archive them better and I want my LJ friends to know what's going on with me even when I don't have time/energy to post. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
| Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 |
technomom
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10:39p |
Review: Spectre by Phaedra Weldon Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
 Spectre by Phaedra Weldon
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hmm. Spectre feels less like a sequel to Wraith than a chapter two, if that makes any sense. Both books are full-sized novels, but they’re so closely related that book two wouldn’t make any sense without having read book 1 (and the novella in between). Unfortunately, Spectre ends on a cliff-hanger. I hate that.
At least I know (from her blog) that Weldon is working on the third book. I can only hope that it comes out soon and wraps up all the loose threads without introducing new ones that aren’t left hanging again.
I do have to agree with another GR reviewer who mentioned that the main character carries on more like a 13-year-old kid than a 28-year-old woman. I have to agree. I understand that losing one parent early might, for some people, lead to a closer relationship with the surviving parent—but give me a break! Zoë apparently needs to move across the country to learn to live without Mommy. Or maybe Mommy should move?
View all my reviews. |
ronaround74
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8:10p |
All good long weekends must come to an end I took today off as a vacation day to extend my Labor Day weekend. I'm not too jazzed about going back to work tomorrow after four days off, but I suppose I've gotta be able to pay the bills. :P The weekend activities started off Friday night, when I attended the wake for Jaclyn's uncle Manuel. ( More about the service ) After the wake, I joined Lori, my parents, Tita Marie, and Uncle Mark for drinks and appetizers at The Ram. I tried the Taster Curl, six 3-oz samples of their in-house beers. I managed to knock over one of the little glasses before I could drink it, but not because I was drunk; I'm just clumsy like that. :) The rest of my weekend was fairly low-key. Saturday I mostly just hung around at home and did chores, and worked out at the condo gym. Sunday I went to church and lunch with the parental units, then accompanied my mom to IKEA to help her pick out a new kitchen table; I also got a new floor lamp to replace the one in my living room that stopped working. Yesterday I met up with my friends Pat and Matt for lunch at Cozy Noodle in Lakeview (mmm, chicken pad thai), and today I headed downtown to pick up my new DePaul Alumni ID card. I also went for another workout this afternoon. (Yes, two workouts in the span of four days; I'm not sure what got into me, heh.) In other news, the start of the NFL season is fast approaching and I still need to make some tweaks to my ESPN fantasy team. After the draft I ended up with a surplus of QBs and no backup running backs or wide receivers. :( I've proposed a trade with another team but the owner hasn't gotten back to me yet. Hopefully I can solidify my roster before Thursday! BTW, has anyone tried the beta of the new Google Chrome web browser? I installed it today, and I don't know if I like it enough yet for it to be my primary browser, but it has some interesting features. Current Mood:  contentCurrent Music: "Chasing Pavements" by Adele |
nolly
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2:14p |
tech rant: mysql
I would like to give a serious clue-by-four beating to whoever thought it was a good idea to implement last_insert_id() many versions before adding transactions to MySQL. In a transactional context, it's a possibly useful function, though I prefer specifying what I want the last ID from, a la PG's currval. Outside of one? Dangerously unreliable, a concept one or more of my predecessors completely failed to grasp.
[end rant] |
monpere
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8:38p |
I need your help. ! Anyone here know how to completely crack Photoshop for the Mac? If nat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqV3rWM4iQI used to always be able to do it when I had a pc..but now with this CS2 version i downloaded on the macbook it has a thing which Ive never seen before saying I need to Activate my Adobe product..fuck if I'm gonna pay for something I know I can d/l; in the readmefile it says to use the keygen that was in the torrent..and there's a file with 'keygen' at the beginning but it ends in .exe - and is it not only PCs that can open them? Anyway it just opens as a big fucked up textfile. Rly sorry if nobody understands what the fuck I'm on about..eez hings are hard 4me til explain sometimes, but I really want Photoshop. It's piles endless fun. OF* lol piles. KNOW what that makes me think of? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSqV3rWM4iQpiles the beaver. i wish i could find a picture of him. anyway help me uguyzzzz PS SHINE ON FRIDAY I AM SO in two minds about going. Hus going?!?????!!! (HahahaHaha I posted this to the shine forum first. I'm probably going to be totally ignored there.) |
| Monday, September 1st, 2008 |
jennylin
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5:55p |
Our New Herb Garden We were finally settled enough on Saturday morning to go to the local farmer's market (a short walk away). It was huge amounts of fun! We split a huge waffle with fresh berries for breakfast, then looked at breads and baked goods, eggs, meats, honey, plants, fruits and veggies galore. It was like a food snob's heaven and we were SO in our element. We talked about priorities beforehand, and actually ran out of cash before acquiring all we discussed. We did, however, get the three herb plants we wanted! We both literally wanted to set down roots at our new place. We got a rosemary creeper, a "double curled" (italian) parsley, and two little basil plants (our most commonly used fresh herbs). After we got our little burgeoning herb garden home we realized we had no tools to actually plant them with. D'oh. So we ran to the store to ogle the new gardening implements, got what we needed and head back home again. We picked this little planter box by our front porch for it's mixed sun and shade, plus it's proximity to the kitchen. The soil was so dry it took quite a bit of water and mixing to get it moist (as you can see by the slip-of-the-hand mud splatter on the wall). Thankfully the box has a built-in drainage system so its hard to get overly wet. After a bit of work, our herb garden was finally born! It even survived the freak thunderstorm on Sunday and the slightly pekkid basil starters perked up. We plan on adding a lot more to it, as well edibles all over the property, as time goes on. Roots! We hasz them! |
jennylin
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5:04p |
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technomom
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4:57p |
SBQ: Overdyed Floss or Hand-dyed Fabric? Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there.
I’m quite late with the current Stitching Blogger’s Question, which is:
If you had to choose, would you rather spend money on overdyed floss
or hand-dyed fabric?
Overdyed floss, certainly. I’ve only purchased one piece of hand-dyed fabric, and nobody is likely to go, “Oh, wow!” about the effect in the finished piece (although I’m happy, because I couldn’t find any other fabric that was exactly right). I seriously doubt that anyone but another devoted stitcher would ever know that the fabric is hand-dyed.
The overdyed flosses I’ve used, though, frequently lead to incredible effects that are apparent to anyone who views the pieces. They’re usually a joy to work with, as well. |
museumfreak
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12:14a |
daily meaningless noise These are small mobile blog posts from Twitter. The original function of LJ was to answer the question "What are you doing today?" Twitter answers the question "What are you doing right now?" The former is of course the integrand of the latter. I post these to LJ because I want to archive them better and I want my LJ friends to know what's going on with me even when I don't have time/energy to post. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
| Sunday, August 31st, 2008 |
technomom
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10:29p |
Scattered Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there. Anybody else using LiveMocha? Especially to learn French? I just joined (as TechnoMom, of course) and would like to have “friends” there. I started with the beginner level, lesson one, and actually learned a few new vocabulary words. (My wee bit of foreign language instruction in high school sucked, to put it mildly.) You’re supposed to ask your “friends” for feedback on your lessons, but I don’t have any and don’t really want to ask total strangers about how badly I did.
Sam and Katie have been at Dragon*Con for the past few days. We had a house guest, David, but I didn’t really “meet” him because of the late con hours and having a really bad pain flare. Sorry David! He went home this afternoon. I’m glad Sam has the day off tomorrow to recover. I’m glad Hope got to come to D*C, but pouting because I won’t get to see her while she’s in town. I know that she has brightened Sam’s weekend.
I finished reading The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross last night, and started Phaedra Weldon’s Wraith. I liked Morgue, but it wasn’t quite as strong as The Atrocity Archives. The short story at the end of the book, “Pimpf,” didn’t do too much for me, but I’m not a video gamer so that probably has a lot to do with it.
I’m really liking Wraith. A lot. The fact that it’s set in Atlanta is nice, because I can follow along the geography as the characters move around. (Usually, such things go right past me, even if there’s a map.) Thanks to Good Reads</i>, I know that there’s a novella, “Out of the Dark,” on Weldon’s site that takes place between this book and Spectre.
I’ve also been browsing through the archives at Two Lumps, thanks to a link from ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) skitten. I had a pair of Russian Blues who were entirely too much like Ebenezer and Snooch! If you’re a veteran of cat cohabitation, be careful when reading. I recommend not having a drink in hand (or in mouth) and being careful to empty your bladder before you start reading.
Kyoshi is busy telling me that he still doesn’t want to cuddle with anybody but Katie, but he wants her home NOW! RIGHT NOW! And that we really have to stop letting the kitten out of the house without his personal supervision. |
jennylin
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5:04p |
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museumfreak
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12:03a |
daily meaningless noise These are small mobile blog posts from Twitter. The original function of LJ was to answer the question "What are you doing today?" Twitter answers the question "What are you doing right now?" The former is of course the integrand of the latter. I post these to LJ because I want to archive them better and I want my LJ friends to know what's going on with me even when I don't have time/energy to post. Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
| Saturday, August 30th, 2008 |
mad_jamison
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8:07p |
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jennylin
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5:04p |
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