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| Monday, October 13th, 2008 |
apestyle
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6:21p |
Ego/Random Bits/Introspection Hi. This is a random braindump. Why are there so many personality tests? Its because some of us, a lot of us, want to discover who we are. We're searching for some sort of definition and maybe we don't have enough insight, wisdom or even patience to dig deep and tell everyone who we are. Or maybe we just don't know. Even after patiently digging and sifting for the answers. Isn't this what we're doing a little here though? I mean, I use this to entertain y'all, to ask questions and learn about all of you. I use this forum to reach out, but I don't give you guys a lot of what's going on in my head usually. Why? A combination of things: I don't care to let a lot of people know what's going on in my head, unless I can see them face-to-face. I don't like to be judged. There's almost nothing more interesting and frustrating than other people, in my estimation. I know what a lot of you do, I know what a lot of you believe in, and I have an idea that some of you create art or literature or express yourselves in some other ways. I know a few of you are excellent parents. Today we had an all-staff meeting at work, I dialed in the conference line. I was awfully glad to hear that I still had a job, there were no mentions of cutbacks or economic juju messing up the flow of work. Tomorrow Danny gets his cast off. His dad, David, and I will be there. I bet some people will think we're a couple. Hah. I'm not sure if I'd be the Felix or the Oscar*. (* This is in reference to an old sitcom called "The Odd Couple" which featured a couple of 50 year old men living together. My dad watched the hell out of his show, for the gay subtext that Tony Randall provided. We later watched Bosom Buddies which had a similar premise. Except the two men disguise themselves as women in order to live in the women-only Susan B. Anthony Hotel because of the dirt cheap rent. I don't know if I was super-slow as a child, or was magnificently in denial with dad's queerness). At any rate, I will not be returning to work on Wednesday, nor next week as ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) princessgeek will be in out of the country (its her prerogative to tell y'all why) and it will also be Conference Week, and the kids will only have half-days. Last things: I have 3 costumes for 3 different parties this year. WTF is wrong with me. Current Music: Muse - Meglomania - Origin of Symmetry |
| Sunday, October 12th, 2008 |
tylik
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7:53p |
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tylik
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6:59p |
Potage du Jour
I've been craving... not chicken soup, but something with some of the properties of chicken soup. This is doing it, I think (which is not to say that it will be anything like chicken soup to anyone else). To me something about this says "I am kind and nourishing and will make you well." Fresh bread helps. (Though K is insane - "sour undertones"? Sour that jumps out and hits you in the face more like!)
Soak kidney beans (recently dried kidney beans which I bought at an exorbitant price from one of the Amish families at the market because of their great beauty - a cup or cup and a half of them, I think) for several hours. Simmer them until they are beginning to get tender. Add to leeks, chopped fine, a generous handful of dried porcinni, broken into pieces, celeriac, the root of which should be about the size of a baseball (also chop and add the stems), a few handfuls of wild rice (every time I add wild rice to soup I think of making soup with S.), a daikon radish, chopped, and several ugly but sweet carrots, scrubbed and chopped. Simmer until beans and rice thicken the soup and everything else is nicely cooked. Add a glass of red wine, and a little bit of salt.
I'm putting this under food project even though it's really not quick at all. Oh well.
P.S. Two of the larger daikons are chopped and sitting in rice vinegars with bits of this and that. |
nadine
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4:49p |
Zoe is now 8 months old
Zoe's crawling with a vengeance and trying to stand as much as she can. Alexa has discovered that she has to be very vigilant with anything she doesn't want Zoe to get into. She's learning to take things away gently, not snatching. She's past the stage where everything is Da da da da da now.. I miss it. You really do have to savor every moment because passes so incredibly quickly. |
| Saturday, October 11th, 2008 |
ytterbius
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9:12p |
Two examples of the risk.
1: In Atlanta recently, you could be driving past a gas station, and see the price per gallon quoted on a sign, but "out of gas" signs on the pumps. If a gas station had gas, you had to wait in a long line to fill up.
2: You can look at Bloomberg.com and see a price quoted for Gold, yet if you go to a Gold dealer, they won't have any gold to sell you (I confirmed this yesterday; they didn't have Silver, either).
So, what this is, is a case where the theoretical price of something becomes irrelevant in the face of the fact that there is no physical supply available, of whatever it is that you're talking about. It could be gas, it could be food. Just because the tag at the store says "$3.99" doesn't mean that any food has been trucked in, from who knows where, to fill the rack.
Be careful, folks. Don't freak out, but be prepared to live for a time without access to stuff. Even if it's just for a week, that's better then nothing.
Obama will help, we just need to get there. |
ytterbius
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8:32p |
Now would be a good time...
To discover that I have a rich relative, say, somewhere in Africa, who has recently left me incredible amount of my money.
Of course, with my luck, he'd probably have been from Zimbabwe. |
tylik
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5:05p |
Interesting Ideas for Daikon?
I've been craving daikon a bit recently, and have been meaning to pick up a couple, probably to marinate in some rice vinegar or something like that. However, the people at the farmers market who were selling them insisted on selling me a whole bunch.
Thoughts on interesting things to do with them? I might do daikon in miso later this week... |
| Friday, October 10th, 2008 |
khall
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11:24p |
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jeliza
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6:31p |
My destiny awaits....
It is Hungry Hungry Hippos with the Princesses until bedtime for me, there is no escaping it.
Edit: Well, except of course that when two of the hippos were detached and went to battle, they stopped working, and HHH was exiled to an extended toy time-out. |
apestyle
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3:51p |
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jeliza
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1:58p |
Betty White is Love.
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apestyle
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12:48p |
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jeliza
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9:10a |
The fabulous bakery next door to the studio sometimes brings us their extras/oopses (which is more than adequate repayment for having to work with these amazing smells wafting through the walls.) Their delivery guy just brought a fresh from the oven warm lemon scone. Life is suddenly better. |
| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 |
craigp
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7:19p |
hail
impressive hailstorm today in the University District (~2:30-3pm).
in other news, "troopergate" report comes out tomorrow, where we'll learn that palin is a liar (and a very bad liar at that - consistent, however, both in her stories and regularity). since mccain nominated her, i predicted she'd just drag his ticket down. however, i didn't know just how bad she was. truly, mccain has lost his brain (heard how he referred to his audience as "my fellow prisoners" and didn't even blink?).
[update] in further news, "palin is a liar" is a yahoo shortcut (from my mail). cool. and palinisaliar.com is 3rd on the list. |
khall
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4:38p |
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khall
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4:20p |
Cure for death, subliminal messages and frat boy hijinks 105 year old virgin says no sex the key to long life Interestingly enough I was watching The West Wing last night and they were talking about quitting smoking. Martin Sheen quoted George Bernard Shaw by saying, "You don't really live longer, it just seems longer." The Ukraine makes fake Euro bills with pictures of prostitutes hidden in them to discourage young, poor Ukrainian women from a life of prostitution. I think the best way to discourage someone from wanting cocaine, for instance, is to give them a straw, a baggie filled with white powder and a mirror, don't you? I just think if I were a poor person who was handed a large denomination fake bill, I might wonder what assets I had to sell that could gain me a real one. (Plus, who drew these prostitutes? Who dresses like that anymore? Also, I've met real prostitutes? None of them are nearly as sexy as the women on those bills. Just saying. Glamorizing prostitution by putting them in turn-of-the-century French lingerie and giving them great figures, while taunting poor women with money they can't have doesn't seem like the most effective way to discourage this behavior to me.) Those crazy frat boys, what will they think of next? 5 wounded in frat war attack What happened to homoerotic hazing mingled with juvenile, drink-fueled stunts? I'm not normally what would be mistaken for a conventional feminist, I prefer to think of myself as an equalist. I support the rights of men, women, children and purple people. Because these kinds of statements always involve some stupid shit about purple or yellow people. But this is the best article I've ever read about the real problem of prostitution.K. |
jeliza
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12:56p |
Breaking Through
I have liked the idea of having hours to myself with nothing to do but think, but locked in the laundry room without food, water, notebooks, shoes, tools, etc. was not how I planned to do it. I think I maintained a zen attitude about it for about 5 minutes, which is when I remembered that Sean is working late tonight and Rachael will be at the University until late as well. (This was at about 11:40 am)
I never liked that door anyway.
On the downside, my arm hurts like hell, there is a small hole in the front and a huge hole in the back of said door, a big mess on the carpet, and the little metal tubes (curtain rods from a kids curtain set) are probably no longer useful for their original purpose.
On the upside, I now have a much more thorough and visceral understanding of topics such as leverage, how hard I can hit, the utility of little metal tubes when used to strike, just how crap my aim really is, the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the credit card on locked doors trick, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of typical paneled hollow-core doors. |
apestyle
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9:56a |
I'm all about the pictures right now   This is what a 3 million dollar "overhead projector" looks like. The Universarium Model IX, a $3.5 million dollar astronomical projection unit is capable of accurately representing a night sky in full color and motion. |
ytterbius
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12:37a |
The New Party. NEW PARTY - This leftist party advocates a "democratic revolution" to advance the cause of "social, economic, & political progress" in America. Their agenda is much in the style of the Western European socialist and labor movement -- and somewhat similar to that of the late-1990s formed Labor Party (but the NP has more of a controlled growth outlook on environmental issues). Rather than fielding their own national slate or local candidates, the New Party has taken to largely endorsing like-minded candidates from other parties (mainly pro-labor Democrats like Chicago Congressman Danny K. Davis and candidates from the like-minded Working Families Party) and focusing on grassroots organizing. The New Party, to date, has endorsed candidates in hundreds of local races around the country, and has active affiliate chapters in some communities. The NP site details the party's long-term strategy. http://www.politics1.com/parties.htmThere's some crazy shit going on about this party. Sounds pretty cool to me. The Republicans are twisting it as some hard core Marxist group. I just wiped a big uncited chunk of shit from Wikipedia. I'm no expert on Wikipedia, so I don't know if it will stick. Oh well. |
| Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 |
ytterbius
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10:24p |
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| Thursday, October 9th, 2008 |
nadine
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11:58a |
Zoe crawls She is just shy of 8 months old. The last 2 weeks she's been practising getting to a seated position and moving from sitting to all fours. For a while, as soon as she got to all fours she'd lie down on her belly. Lots of belly scooting and seat scooting to try to get at whatever she was reaching for. Two days ago, she figured out crawling. By today she's doing pretty darned well - going across the living room at a reasonable pace, though by the end of it she's complaining - probably that she's not getting there fast enough and wants a pick up thank you very much. She's not a cautious kid and very curious so I see a lot of face plants and head bonks in our future. Time to seriously childproof. She's also a very vocal and conversational kid - ranging from loud hoots and grunts to cute birdlike coos and trills - and yes - the occasional shriek. Quite entertaining and pretty tiring to keep up with.  |
| Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 |
apestyle
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6:06p |
HatSe  |
tylik
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3:22p |
It was pointed out to me that my posts have been pretty random recently, with that much explanatory context. (And scattered over several filters, to boot.) So, what's up with me: ( state of the tylik ) |
| Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 |
tylik
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7:14p |
Want to be healthy? Exercise two hours a week!*laughs hysterically* (I'm over that for the day, thanks. In fact, my weekly average is over that per day. No wonder I never seem to have any time...) |
det3
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4:07p |
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