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Wish you were here - Bliss
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Oct. 8th, 2008 @ 01:40 am
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This song is so absolutely beautiful I can't get over it...
For those who like the Buddah Bar or Cafe Del Mar CD's, you will like this.
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Oct. 8th, 2008 @ 12:34 am
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Part of the conference centre site is under construction, creating diversions around hoardings. The diversions are well sign-posted and curve about as if a product of intentional landscaping. Posters on the hoardings, images of the town itself, three miles distant. You are here. You are not here.
Along the pathways the human components move. Purposeful, encumbered by bags or trundling wheeled cases, alone or in groups. In the morning.
Inside the centre, the rooms, the coffee, the awful coffee. Sessions spawning break-out sessions like raiding parties into subdivided rooms, returning with flipcharts, those bloody flipcharts.
The coffee, indigestion. The flipcharts, enervation. The taxi from the airport, indifferent disorientation.
Lunchtime. Two delegates have strayed from the building and have found their way to the station. They look longingly at the shop, with its newspapers, chocolate, fruit juice, basic stationery and distress purchase items. Then they look at the OV-chipkaart gates, open for now but potentially thwarting their path to or from the shop.
Light rain outside, early dusk, the windows of the main hall indigo. Except for one on his feet, the inmates feel the drowsiness of cats. They fiddle fretfully with personal communication devices.
Then the last handouts. Feedback forms. Autumnal shower of exhausted post-it notes.
Release.
( over literal )
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Hold this...
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 07:31 pm
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I am well aware of the concept of an authorization hold on a credit/debit card, particularly when dealing with online purchases... but for an order from a certain company to be placed, shipped and received in three days time (which, I will admit, is pretty impressive) and for me to then be told by a representative of said company that the double-the-amount-of-my-order hold they have placed on my debit card will not fall off for another seven business days... AND for said representative to be completely fucking rude about it, with a snotty "OMG I like totally can't believe you're making such a BFD about this" tone of voice... it will ensure that I never again do business with your establishment.
Damnit, I REALLY need that $18 right now...
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Coca-Cola dress
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Oct. 8th, 2008 @ 02:54 am
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Debate livechat: tonight!
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
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Okay, so after chatting to a few people the best idea seems to be to use AIM (that's AOL Instant Messenger) for our livechat. We're going to start at 8:30pm Tuesday US Eastern, 5:30pm Tuesday US Pacific, 1.30am Wednesday UK, 2.30am Wednesday Central European. (Other time zones, work it out from US Eastern: just Google "time now in new york" for a handy hint.)
My AIM screen name is folkfolkfolkfolk. If we've IMed recently, just drop me an IM to say you want in. If we haven't, then drop me a comment here so I can add you to my buddy list. I'll take care of setting up the chat room. Questions? I'll be watching my email inbox all night. |
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So they shot him into space
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Oct. 8th, 2008 @ 12:44 am
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Finished part 2. Joseph > Kamina. Come back, Araki-sensei, all is forgiven.
Okay, going into part 5 now, and that's the part that's usually cited as having a fan following and shippy stuff and troupe dynamic and pretty men in silly clothes. I hope the transition won't be too sharp - it'd be pretty organic chronologically, but I don't feel like rereading part 3 and have zero interest in 4 - but more to the point, this seems like the right time to go recruiting.
So. Keeping in mind that this series has rightly earned the "bizarre" in its title by featuring a very unique and distinct art style with fantastic over the top everything, vampires that feed through their hair, soap bubbles used as a weapon against said vampires, epic rope tricks used to defeat gods, a turtle that stores people's souls, a girl whose power involves unravelling herself and a Trenchcoated Hero who goes on to become a marine biologist, and that the last time I really really recommended something it was Sapphire and Steel, how can I convince you to read it?Current Mood:  OMG |
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Chicago: No More Baseball, One More Baseball Story
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 05:25 pm
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While we’re enjoying the friskiness of fans and players alike for the Cubs/White Sox series (and more than our fair share of awkward moments), we’d like to share the story of one man who wins no matter the victor when the Cubs and/or White Sox play. That’s Adam Carter, a beer vendor for both teams. 
Carter’s true passion isn’t baseball; it’s philanthropy. That’s why he spends the baseball off-season traveling across the world, making small donations to needy people without the auspices of major charities. These “microdonations” often make the difference in desperate areas. (You can find Carter’s Web site here and see how donations help.)
He raises funds informally and delivers them in much the same fashion. He pays his own expenses to travel the world as an angel of mercy. Then, when spring comes around, he straps on his gear and slings suds for those ever-polite Chicago sports fans. Larger charities see people like Carter (and there are more than a few) as self-serving; after all, only the person handing the cash to those in need get the tearful hug. Also, they remove any economy of scale by delivering small sums with large relative expenses (absorbed by the traveler, but still). People like Carter see the larger charities as bureaucratic, stifling, and occasionally misguided. While he can’t do as much as them, he believes can do what he does better. And now we look forward to a hundred more stories just like this, thanks to newspaper groupthink. Still, it could be worse: they could fail to find a hundred more people that care like Adam Carter.
(Sports by Brooks article)
Adam's blog: http://www.adrockcarter.blogspot.com/
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 06:28 pm
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10 days of one photo per day! |
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Ganked from Airstrip
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 06:06 pm
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Let's get a full list going here, the one I got from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) airstrip had glaring omissions.
Bold the establishments you've been to. Underline your favorites. Strike your least favorites
1. Applebee's
2. Arby's
3. Arthur Ttreacher's Fish & Chips
4. A&W
5. Beefeater
6. Benihana
7. Bennigan's
8. Black Angus
9. Blimpie's
10. Bob Evans
11. Buffalo Grill
12. Burger King
13. California Pizza Kitchen
14. Carl's Jr.
15. Chick-fil-A
16. Checkers (or Rally's)
17. Cheesecake Factory
18. Chipotle
19. Chuck E. Cheese's
20. Church's Chicken
21. Claim Jumper
22. Cluck-U-Chicken
23. Coney Island Hot Dogs
24. Cracker Barrel
25. Del Taco
26. Denny's
27. Dunkin Donuts
28. Einstein Brother's
29. El Pollo Loco
30. Fatburger
31. Firehouse Subs
32. Hard Rock Cafe
33. Hardee's
34. Harvey's
35. Hickory House BBQ
36. HomeTown Buffet
37. Hooters
38. Huddle House
39. In-n-Out
40. International House of Pancakes
41. Jack in the Box
42. Jerry's Subs
43. Jersey Mike's Subs
44. Jimmy John's
45. Johnny Rocket's
46. Kelsey's
47. KFC
48. Krispy Kreme
49. Krystals
50. Long John Silver's
51. McDonald's
52. Moe's Burritos
53. Mrs. Winner's
54. Oporto
55. Panda Express
56. Outback Steakhouse
57. Perkin's
58. Panera Bread
59. P.F Chang's
60. Picadilly Cafeteria
61. Pizza Hut
62. Planet Hollywood
63. Qdoba
64. Quizno's
65. Rainforest Café
66. Red Lobster
67. Red Robin
68. Red Rooster
69. Señor Frog's
70. Skyline Chili
71. Sonic
72. S&S Cafeteria
73. Steak and Shake
74. Stewart's
75. Subway
76. Sweet Tomatoes
77. T.G.I.Friday's
78. Taco Bell
79. TCBY
80. The Old Spaghetti Factory
81. Tim Horton's
82. Waffle House
83. Wendy's
84. Whataburger
85. White Castle
86. Togo's
87. Zesto's
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Barack O'lantern
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
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I absolutely, positively want to do this for Halloween. I just wish I had, you know, neighbours to see it.
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Dirt
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 06:20 pm
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In addition to hating America, Sarah Palin also hearts Iran. |
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The Reissues.
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 03:07 pm
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Dark City, motion picture, 1998. Alex Proyas's new director's cut of "Dark City" makes up the ground between a good movie and a great one. Proyas added a handful of dialog scenes, made subtle changes to the running order of existing scenes, toned down the effects shots and the score, and removed that awful narration at the beginning of the movie that outlines the entire plot. The new cut is several minutes longer but moves faster and more smoothly. The film's German expressionist parentage -- Lang's "Metropolis," Murnau's "Nosferatu," Wiene's "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" -- is more readily apparent, and the expanded running time gives Richard O'Brien several more plum chances to be creepy as fuck.
Don't Tell a Soul and All Shook Down, audio recordings, 1989/1990. Rhino hired Peter Jesperson to remaster and re-produce the entire Replacements catalog, and I will almost certainly buy all of his hard work. But I started with the band's two last critically- and popularly-maligned albums because I've long suspected that there were good songs buried in all that late-1980s college radio dross... and I was right. Jesperson has stripped away all the treated drum sounds and superfluous synth tracks and assorted bullshit, and what remains is a collection of great Westerberg songs.
Man in space, act of human endeavor, 1961. NASA won't have anything new until 2015, but thankfully, the Chinese, the Russians, and the guy who invented PayPal aren't waiting for the agency to pull its head out. This is the age we've been waiting for, when anybody can go into space and anybody can send us there.
Geoff Carter's body, human organism, 1967. I scarcely recognize it anymore. I'd become so accustomed to having a fat ass and a booze gut that my newly-won lack of same takes me aback sometimes. Where else am I supposed to rest that beer? Or sit away the best years of my life?
Taking pictures just to take pictures, act of capriciousness, 1980-something. I'm looking back over my for-fun photographic output this year and it's fucking atrocious, both in quantity and quality. I think I feel a shooting spree coming on. I'd like nothing more than to round up 4hour_ramona and curious_cynic and goldfischegirl and savonarola and ntisocl and the rest of the awesome photographers I know and just go fucking go out there, shutters a-blazin', a bunch of heavy glass-slinging lunatics in a world gone mad. And maybe, afterward, we could have beers.
This LJ post, bl-g entry, 2008. I posted this last night and you fucking ignored it, so I added bonus tracks and remastered the whole shebang. Pow! |
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 03:15 pm
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 MESSENGER captured this photo of Mercury. The bright Kuiper crater is visible just south of the planet's center. |
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and a 100% good review.
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 05:14 pm
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That's nice.
( Read more... )Current Mood:  pleased |
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The Audacity of UNICORN POWER
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 06:10 pm
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( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )Current Mood:  aggravated Current Music: AC/DC - Rock N' Roll Train |
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Tweets for Today
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 06:02 pm
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Twitter update
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
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A 95% good review.
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 04:59 pm
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Not bad. Not great, but not bad.
It's unfortunate he saw it on the opening Sunday matinee... energy was pretty tapped out.
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WAY Overdue - Quotes from last week's munch
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 02:55 pm
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Glazed Donut (sexual reference) - soggy biscuit game (WTF?)
"It's always a monkey fuck until the last minute."
"Hey....Grand Californian." |
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monkeys are like nature's humans
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 02:29 pm
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i have some lingering questions about last night's heroes.
first off: when will the season stop sucking?
secondly: when will i tire of watching?
no matter how badly the show plummets, i'll watch it's habit. i'm used to the monday night cheese and crackers and all that goodness. but i think we may have to start religiously watching always sunny immediately after as a chaser.
but anyway... questions for answering. show your work.
- how does fixing the watch give peter sylar's power? sylar has his power, and he never fixed the watch. we know this because the watch is broken. asplain, please.
- why is mohinder still sticky? does his new power resist cleansers?
- when exactly did maya a)learn to speak english? b)grow a backbone (comparatively, i mean)? and c) start wearing hoochie-cootchie miniskirts?
- am i supposed to care that nikki2 wears big jackie-oh sunglasses? and who's barb? why so many characters, it makes my head spinny.
- linderman: ghost or hallucination? provide proof.
- isn't there some sort of widely-held sci-fi nerd paradox that says you can't go back in time and meet yourself? but futurepeter has done just that. does he have to pay a nerdfine now?
- back when nowpeter was missing, why didn't anyone use molly to find him?
- is it wrong to think that claire is hot now? and by now, i mean in the future?
- why the hell is sylar living in claire's old house? and who's his babymomma?
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How HAIR works
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Oct. 7th, 2008 @ 01:54 pm
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"Hair grows in stages.
At any given moment, about 90% of the terminal hairs on your scalp are presently growing at a rate of about a half-inch per month. These hairs are in the anagen stage, a period which commonly lasts from 2 to 7 years.
The remaining 10% are in a dormant state called telogen, which normally lasts for about 3 months. During this resting phase the papilla stops producing Keratin and the hair shaft detaches from the gland, eventually falling away from the scalp. A new hair will take its place when the papilla returns to the anagan stage.
When the growth cycles from anagen to telogen to anagen again are functioning properly, most people should lose an average of 80-100 hairs per day. Anything more than that indicates that something is awry."
From:
"GROW HAIR FAST - 7 Steps to a New Head of Hair in 90 Days" by Riquette Hofstein, Egyptian-born hair expert with more than 30 years experience who now lives and works in Beverly Hills, California.
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