| Listing of New York Senators On the Fence or Opposed to Marriage Equality |
[Jun. 15th, 2009|06:49 pm] |
20 senators publicly stated their support for equal marriage, 32 are needed to pass the bill. Please check this list and contact your state senator and urge them to support marriage equality for all couples.
Marriage is a civil rights issue, nobody should be denied the 1,800 state and federal benefits that come with marriage, such as the right to visit a loved one in a hospital, file joint tax returns, co-adopt kids, and many other rights and privileges enjoyed by heterosexual couples. |
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| OneNote |
[Jun. 4th, 2009|02:38 pm] |
I *heart* OneNote. I really do. Except when it won't do something I need it to do. Like, print a Section Group as one single document.
I posted to (funny enough in the name) http://www.iheartonenote.com (obligatory personal reference link) inquiring as to a possible solution. The only answer I got was to install a print plugin that provides the exact same printing functionality I already have. I'm not sure how that's going to help.
So, does anyone else out there use ON on a regular basis? Surely you've come to the same problem in trying to print a Section Group (not a section, not a range of pages, not a selection, and not the entire notebook). Short of printing the entire notebook to PDF and deleting the extra pages, or changing the way I organize my documents (which is counter-productive), I think I'm screwed.
Input? |
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| omg |
[May. 31st, 2009|12:46 am] |
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| Moving to Blogger |
[May. 29th, 2009|11:24 pm] |
So the boyfriend I told you about a little while ago? Yeah him.
No no no, we're still together. I know boring right? Well, not really. :) We're starting a joint blog over on blogger-- come check it out!
http://ronnyandtito.blogspot.com
(I'm Tito).
Later! |
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| Come along with us on «Pride Parade» to Israel (from June, 6 till June, 14th)! |
[May. 25th, 2009|01:39 am] |
Friends! We invite guys and girls to take part in «Pride Parade» in Israel. It will take place on June, 12-th in Tel Aviv. If you have a desire to swing during procession by an iridescent flag of LGBT-community, partying on beach, join our company! «Pride Parade» in Tel Aviv is a grandiose and unprecedented gay parade on the originality. This event is accompanied with carnival show and performance of the Israeli superstars. Such as, for example, Dana International!
About 300 thousand gays, lesbians and bisexuals from different countries of the world will take part in parade! Participants will move on a beach disco after procession following on Tel Aviv. It will be a grandiose party on the bank of Mediterranean sea. And at night of gay parade it is planned and at all about 100 various thematic actions.
We have already invited the group of travelers from different countries – boys and girls. We wish to go to Israel the amicable and cheerful company. We will live in the big apartment of my friends. If you have a desire to join our company, write on constantine_23@rambler.ru
I will send all information on a trip – about where we will live as we will have a good time and how many it is necessary to take money. |
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| OSX/Cocoa programming |
[May. 12th, 2009|09:57 am] |
I'm looking for a recommendations on good resources (books, websites) for learning the Cocoa environment as it pertains to programming (IB, APIs, etc).
So far everything I'm finding online (web tutorials) are more akin to programming 101 than just a deep dive in to the Cocoa environment. To wit, I'm looking at IB and creating items, but finding all sorts of parameters on items that aren't immediately intuitive. Sure, I can keep drilling on help for each item I encounter, but it would be more helpful to find a cohesive "here's what, here's why, here's how" for items.
Am I making sense, yet? I'm not sure the coffee has yet kicked in. |
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| Gay Who Study |
[May. 2nd, 2009|03:07 pm] |
Mod: Apologies if this type of posting is not allowed We are currently working on a book chapter on gay fan perspectives on Doctor Who for a collection on the programme that is to be published in the coming months. We are very interested in hearing from gay fans of the series about their thoughts about the programme. Very little has been written about gay fans of the series, and we hope to provide an opportunity to correct that omission and finally make known the important contribution to fandom that gay viewers have made. To achieve this, however, we need your help. Only by hearing the views of gay fans can we accomplish this important goal.
Our discussion community can be found at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) gaywhostudy
Please use this group to discuss your thoughts on any characters, episodes, or anything else you think is important to discuss about the programme. We really appreciate your help with this, and will, of course, seek your full permission before using any posts you make in our work. Feel free to join the community, friend the community, watch the community, or otherwise post freely. We look forward to reading about your perspectives!
Sincerely,
Matt and Christy PS: Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and pansexuals are all more than welcome! If you wouldnt mind telling us how you identify in the introductions thread or by private message we would be really grateful, just so that we don't attribute your ideas incorrectly! |
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| Medicine for the masses |
[May. 1st, 2009|11:03 pm] |
For once, metal contamination of drinking water supply can be a good thing, at least if that metal is lithium. It's observed in Japan that regions with higher lithium content in drinking water have less occurrence of suicide (paper here and BBC coverage).
There needs to be more data, naturally. Right now it's only correlation data, so experimental study on whether the effect is significant is needed, and to measure what's the optimal dose of lithium added to drinking water that will produce mood stabilizing effect in the masses without metal poisoning. Would be nice to have more data on whether this works on other depression and bipolar related psychological disorders. |
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| Hello - SF Bay Area + Tech Support? |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|02:36 am] |
Hello all!
I just joined here, and was thinking "Why not kill two birds with one stone?" A little about myself, eh?
-Rabbit
-18
-Alien
-San Francisco Bay Area
I am a musician, and am recently just got a tone port, but am having difficulties with it. It would be great to have the
chance to meet guys who actually know about these types of things, and hopefully make a few friends~ You can refer
to my livejournal for a photo of me if you are all that curious~ Details on tone port help can be elaborated on if someone
believes they can help, haha~
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| The Amazon Hack |
[Apr. 13th, 2009|09:06 pm] |
So what's everyone's take/understanding of the Amazon hack? I haven't been following this too closely, but it looks like the person who used this code used a bash scripts. WTF, Amazon? (It looks like Amazon is on full damage control).
Anyhow, does anyone have any opinion regarding this? Apparently, some skript kiddy/troll, "Weev", is taking credit for the hack: "So I decided to get them back, and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage."
Does anyone see any legal ramifications arising out of this?
*curious*
( Update on the Amazon Fail ) |
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| AIDS Walk 2009 |
[Mar. 24th, 2009|10:40 pm] |
 Well, it is that time of year again. Very soon AIDS Walk will be on us. I’ve already put in for a vacation day so I can do my yearly walk. This will be my third year.
Thank you all who have been supporting me in past years. You’ve helped me raise $2,190! Is that amazing, or what? How incredible.
I was a teenager in the late 70’s. Experts and researchers believe that HIV entered the United States and North America in general about 1976. But the virus takes time to start doing damage. I “came out” about 1981 or so, and was sexually active during a very bad time -- only no one knew it. Gay and bisexual men were spreading the virus, and didn’t know.
I was raised Southern Baptist and was carrying around a lot of self hatred, and at that time in my life I believed I was most probably going to hell for being gay (rest assured I don’t think that anymore). Ironically, that self-hatred probable may have saved my life. I met a woman who thought she could make me straight and I packed lock, stock and barrel and moved from Chicago to Kansas City and was faithful to her during the six years of our relationship. Also during that time, there began the rumors of a new “gay” disease.
At first they were calling it GRID, or gay-related immunodeficiency disease. They didn’t know what it was and figured it was caused by a combination of promiscuity, many doses of STDs breaking down immunity, and poppers (of all things – thank goodness I never liked them anyway!). As those years went by, this acronym was changed to AIDS and the HIV virus was discovered. I remember when my lady discovered she was pregnant, there was an early HIV test and she had it done to make sure our baby was healthy. After all, a gay man was the father.
Thank God and the fact that while I was a gay man in years were promiscuity was secretly deadly, and that I was a little wild, I wasn’t promiscuous “enough.” Apparently. I guess being taken out of the sex game during those dangerous years saved my life.
Fear of AIDS (and how little was known about the disease) was one more thing that made it hard to come out the second and final time. But once I realized that it was religion that said I was “bad” and not God, I was finally able to accept myself and come out as to who I really am.
And by coming out, I had to face something else. AIDS related death. I lost many close friends. Watching big bears turn into concentration camp-like victims was horrifying. Watching gorgeous young hot men turn into skeletons before my eyes was agonizing. Watching friends no matter their age, size or looks, fade away was incredibly tough. Many went FAST in those days.
Now we have drugs that make AIDS at least a somewhat more manageable disease. Unfortunately, some people misunderstand what that means and have thrown condoms to the wind, and HIV is on the rise again. I can’t tell you how many young gay men I know who haven’t even been tested because they believe the rhetoric that AIDS/HIV is now as “manageable” as diabetes.
Then why am I still then loosing friends?
Through miracle upon miracle, I am HIV negative. Considering some of my brushes, and not-so-only-brushes, it really IS a miracle.
So, I am doing what little I can do to help. I walk.
If you can, please do the same. Every dollar helps.
What’s great is that you don’t sponsor by the mile, you just pick an amount. You don’t have to worry that your walker will walk twenty miles or something.
And if you can’t, will you sponsor me? It is so darned easy and I know it is safe. The website is famous for how safe it is.
Just go here and help me out? http://www.firstgiving.com/cslkc
I, and so many others, will appreciate it beyond words.
We WILL end this disease!!!!
Namasté,
Ben |
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| Gay Couple Featured in Peak Oil Movie |
[Mar. 24th, 2009|07:05 pm] |
Hi,
The movie "Escape From Suburbia" features about 17 minutes of footage of a gay couple "Tom" and "Phil" in NYC dealing with Peak Oil and Transition Movement issues.
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| lookin for friends... |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|03:10 am] |
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x. 21 years old.
x. gay male.
x. in a relationship with my partner.
x. college student.
x. openly gay in a rural community.
x. gay rights activist in eastern kentucky.
x. LJ addict.
x. recovering drug addict.
( my pic is here... )
Add me if you like. comment here or on my FO entry. |
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