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Subject:Making Cookies, Making Cookies
Time:04:47 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] full
Dear LiveJournal Friends who cook a lot:

If you own a mixer, how much do you like
it, how often do you use it, and what is
it?

Do you have a dream mixer?
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Current Music:Kix - Blow My Fuse
Subject:One Minute of Nostalgia
Time:02:51 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] nostalgic
Vanilla Ice - Havin A Roni - YTnonvid

This is about the worst song on Vanilla
Ice's debut album.

I think I got the CD by looting some BMG
or Columbia House package from the dead
mail pile back in the mid-90s. jellydonut
and I put it on the stereo and laughed at
it non-stop on repeat for about ten minutes.

Then I think I snapped the CD and threw
it in the trash.
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Current Music:Cesium 137 - Proof of Life
Subject:Hygiaene Hijinks of the Silicon Age
Time:02:17 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] tired


There's a bit of futureshock in not leaving
the house for a few years, and then emerging
into the brave new world from time to time.

The most disturbing thing I've noticed is
that Austin's sky is a lot browner than it
was, and all those shiny new concrete roads
and buildings are similarly tinctured, with
weeds sprouting in the cracks.

There are more people, in stores and on
the roads. Everything approaches NewYork
crowded, but with all that stretched out
Texas space.

At a gas station sometime back, I saw a
machine that let people pick a musical mix,
song by song, and burned the discs *right
there*. In some ways, it's superfuture and
amazing, like a Shadowrun dataterminal. In
others, it's already a relic, made obsoles-
cent by iTunes and Amazon. (Note that wire-
less connectivity made dataterminals a piece
of gaming nostalgia, too!)

The other day, in the grocery store, I saw
a kiosk where one could stand on some illus-
trated footprints, and get shoesole inserts
custom made! While this is amazing, it's
dichotomous, too, because if there's one
thing that health officials have known for
the last several decades, it's that bare
feet are a breeding ground for infections.
So a service that purports to help you with
your feet is also helping spread disease.
I guess that drives foot powder sales *and*
insoles! Genius!

I guess both of these services are really
for poor people, who can't afford credit
cards for Internet purchases, and can't
afford health insurance for a visit to the
podiatrist. Or are the creditcards and
health insurance the institutions that are
becoming obsolete?


Large version of xkcd's recent Movie Timelines - and an actual attempt at a Primer timeline


Cullman Liquidation - real mobile home commercial - (YTvid) behind the scenes here here


The history of birth control


Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters - this article is panoptically ominous beneath the humour


The user sketches a desired scene and labels each part of the scene with keywords, then PhotoSketch searches the web for photos and assembles a photographic version of the sketch
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Current Music:Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle da
Subject:Mainstream Sidestream Stone Age Future
Time:03:53 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] okay


Here I am, windows all open, and the
leafblowers start up, filling the
house with gasoline fumes, and send-
ing me scrambling in my slow turtle
way to shut all the windows.


The other day, I set my newly-found
ancient clock radio, and woke to
what may be the worst song I have
ever heard. At first, I thought it
was one of those lame morning radio
spoofs, but after some Googling, I
realise that it is a real song. It
is called Just Throw It in the Bag,
and I link it here for your horror
and edification.

Hip-hop/R&B/mainstream has gone
ridiculous, as evidenced by this
other song with Yankovickian lyrics,
Jasmine Sullivan's 'Bust Your Windows'.


But all is not lost. There is good
music on the wind.

New albums out by Project Pitchfork
and Assemblage 23. The A23 album is
great. The PP album is good. The new
album by Rammstein is sounding great,
too.

I have yet to acquire the new Claire
Voyant album.

New albums to come by Covenant and
Velvet Acid Christ. New remix album
upcoming from Android Lust.

It's a good Autumn to be a listener.


Grapevine Market in Austin is closing soon


German arm wrestler has one giant-ass crab arm


THE GOLDEN AGE OF VIDEO REDUX! - (vid) Gooble gobble!


Japan's high-tech graveyards - Stone-age beliefs in the silicon age. With robotic arms!


Robot pancake stackers are "the Final Solution" - (vid) It disturbs me that the human pancake checkers aren't wearing gloves.
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Current Music:Red Elvises
Subject:Mega Challah vs. Giant Hummus
Time:03:23 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] sore


I had tequila lastnight, and nobody cried.
How is that possible?

I knew Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus would
be bad, but I had *no idea* how bad it would
be. I can't believe it ever saw the light of
release. Gibson was terrible, the CGI was
awful, the acting was horrid, the script and
storyline were nonsensical, and the whole
thing was just a steaming pile of shit.

Thank goodness I had moral support. And
tequila.


I have choliday challah.

The raisins make it festive.

(Yet still no challah blanket.)


Halloweeny foods


Tim Burton's Halloween photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar - I couldn't get there in Avant, but Firefox worked


Dungeons & Dragons flavoured Jones Soda line


Stormtroopers' 9/11 - vid


Triceracopter - thanks [info]shanmonster
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Current Music:Red Elvises
Subject:A Sickness in Society
Time:02:19 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] lethargic


Newlodger says his coworker's 5 year
old died of the swine flu (complica-
tions).

Texas is apparently the epidemic epi-
centre
.

I've been feeling quite sore all over
my body, and quite useless and lethar-
gic the last few days (which is saying
something), and zombiena got hoarse for
a day. I'm not sure if I'm fighting
illness, or just a victim of the vacil-
lating weather.

I think this image from the Spring's
pandemic panic really sums up the
human condition. It was captioned:

"Tourists sunbathe wearing surgical masks in the popular Mexican resort of Acapulco."


Leafy greens are the most dangerous food - kind of nixes one reason I stopped eating meat


States that repeal mandatory helmet laws experience a rise in organ donations from motor vehicle fatalities


Manzanar, American concentration camp for Japanese-Americans in WWII


L’Inconnue de la Seine - the death masque that influenced fashion and art for decades


Lost Australian girls updated Facebook status instead of calling emergency services
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Current Music:Lullaby For The Moon : Japanese Music For Koto And Shakuhachi
Subject:Meat! Sandwich!
Time:12:51 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] discontent


Mmm, tomatoey faux meatball sub and The
Passion of the Christ
in HD! It's about
as appetising as watching Mechanized
Death
over and over again in Defensive
Driving class while eating breadsticks
in marinara sauce.

HDvideo: See more pores and hair than ever
before!


The Other Boleyn Girl was just like a
short version of The Tudors, except
you know Portman and Johannson aren't
going to get naked. It was pretty, but
slow and soulless. In fact, I was a bit
astounded to realise that Natalie Dormer
is a much more charismatic and convincing
actress than Natalie Portman, even while
I find Dormer's asymmetrical eyes and
sleazy portrayal less appealing.


A mosquito got into the house yesterday,
and bit me something like 7 times in
less than an hour, until I wrapped my-
self entirely in a sheet and sweated for
the rest of the day. Today, the mosquito
has so far scored one, sending me fleeing
to the bedroom.


Deuteronomy 23:1 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD. - God doesn't want me.


Obama bans clove cigarettes -- once again, for the sake of the children - Why does he hate my <1 a year habit? (thanks [info]towith)


Totally NSFW new Rammstein video for the new Liebe ist für alle da album - thanks [info]jher


Statistical analysis of OKCupid reveals the keywords to use and avoid in first contact messages


Lakeland Florida Police caught playing Wii Bowling during search & seizure - YTvid
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Current Music:Neuroactive - Transients
Subject:Dreamtime Covers
Time:09:16 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] tired


Yesterday, I drank half a cup of coffee, and,
as happens about 1/3 of the time, had to nap
immediately, even as my heart was racing. I
woke with my mouth tasting like someone had
pissed in it, and with my balls feeling like
skinned knees. Even more lame, I had been
dreaming that I was on chat.

Ten Canoes is a fictional tale within a tale
that utilises real Australian Aborigines as
the stars. It's really quite something, es-
pecially when you consider that most of the
subjects had never done any acting before.
(In fact, judging from the bonus material,
most of them hadn't even considered the con-
cept of "acting" before!) Ten Canoes is slow
and wandering, in the spirit of the Dreamtime,
but I found it quite entertaining, poignant,
and amusing. Highly recommended as a look
at tribal life before the white man came.


Alfa-Matrix Re:Covered - A Tribute to Depeche
Mode
is really quite surprisingly good. While
many tribute albums are throwaway crap, es-
pecially the gothicindustrial ones, this is
a good album with a lot of good music. Most
of the songs are different enough to be new
and pleasing, while still close enough to the
original source that they instill a sense of
nostalgic familiarity.


Austin Proceeds with (second) Light Rail Project Even as Commuter Line Stalls


Texas schools now have mandatory elective Bible classes - thanks [info]blessure


"The nine-story expansion would make the [Sunset Farms] landfill the tallest 'natural' structure in Austin."


Swine flu infected those who went to PAX


The Repuglican carnival of nastiness continues during Obama's address
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Current Music:LA Guns
Subject:Re-Ply
Time:06:00 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] exhausted


Pat the gold molly of indeterminate gender
is so fat s/he looks like a goldfish. With
no more females in the tank, poor Frankie
the Fuckfish and scarred Zombiefish keep
nuzzling at poor Pat's cloaca.


I watched 5 episodes of Jericho. It was so
utterly lame. They kept acting like some-
thing dangerous was happening/coming, and
then...nothing would happen. No fallout,
no radioactive mutant raiders. And why the
fuck did the firemen spend time rescuing
wet books from the library when they knew
there was another blaze on the edge of
town? Also, who the fuck has time to cheat
on his wife when he's busy deputy-running
a town that has no electricity? And who
wastes gasoline on keeping the generator
at a bar going, while they let the super-
market food spoil?

It makes no sense. It felt a lot like 24,
without the action-adventure.


I have sent three emails in the last week
to which I have gotten no replies. I am
re-sending them. If you get one, you are
a lucky one.


If you could get one of those newfangled
flatscreen televisions, which brand and
model would you get?


Bat for Lashes is a pretty darned good
folksy female musician. And in a rare
twist for the music I like, she seems
immensely popular, too.


New Texas laws in effect


Make the Girl Dance: Baby Baby Baby - (YouTube) barely SFW music video of nude women walking a street in Paris


The five reasons Resident Evil 5 isn't very good - I am sad to say that I pretty much agree with this, and made many of the same complaints.


Twisted Princesses - very cool evil takes on Disney characters - thanks [info]sterlingspider


A fascinating New Yorker article about itching, perception, phantom limbs, and mirror therapy, that starts with a story about a woman who scratched through her skull and into her brain
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Current Music:Switchblade Symphony
Subject:"Ruth! Ruth! Baby! Ruth!"
Time:02:43 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] tired


None of the various Angel of Death
names ever really caught on for the
betta. I have officially dubbed him
Belphegor, after the Demon of Sloth,
since he a) never ate any mollies,
and b) spends all his time lazing
around in plant leaves or sulking
on the bottom of the tank beneath
the plants. Sometimes he just sits
in the leaves and eats food as it
rains past his mouth.

To be fair, I think he was sick of
all the mollies running into his
fins, and things are still a bit
dangerous, what with the quick-
darting rainbowfish and skunk botia.
His fins look fine and vibrant and
healthy, though, so I don't think
anyone's picking on him. He *does*
seem to have some recurring prob-
lems with Hole-in-the-Head, though.
Also, I think perhaps the current
in the tank is a bit strong for
all his pretty, lacey finnage.


Poodles 'creatively groomed' to look like pandas, horses, and even snails


Footprints on the moon, so many years later


New shake-and-bake method of making meth is cheap, easy, and explosive!


A bit about the Flappers - mentalfloss article


Spanish fish farm works with nature
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Current Music:Switchblade Symphony - Sinister Nostalgia
Subject:Declension
Time:02:20 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] groggy



Looks like they'll have to "recalibrate"
the SATs yet again. Maybe this time they
will let kids bring an Internet connexion
to the testing.

In 1994, they "recalibrated" the test, and
allowed calculators, because scores had been
dropping steadily for years. My first aware-
ness of this came when talking to people
younger than I, who were all reporting scores
far, far higher than I made back in 1991.


Government study: Mercury contamination in fish widespread, with a quarter contaminated past safe levels - (thanks [info]jblaque)


Great explanation of the health care discussion - and the depressing news about what's going to happen (thanks [info]mraustin)


Florida county trying (now)native plecos as alternative pool cleaners for all the foreclosed homes


Crazy man who shot a neighbour and kept his dead mother in a freezer now staying in solitary confinement as much as possible - fairly illustrative of how the mentally ill don't fit well with the "justice" system


Artificial Owl: amazing pictures of abandoned man-made creations - pretty disgusting, really, to see how much humans are littering the planet, even if the Maunsell Sea Forts are really cool looking (thanks [info]mraustin)
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Current Music:Switchblade Symphony - Sweet, Little Witches
Subject:Goat Balls
Time:01:50 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] curious



A short while back, after mraustin had discovered
my gay cache of Dead or Alive albums, he asked if
I had seen the picture of Pete Burns's balls. I
said I had not. Not content to leave it at that,
mraustin brought his laptop into the livingroom
and Googled it for me.

He showed me this picture:

NSFW image... )
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Current Music:Tré Lux - A Strange Gathering
Subject:On Ballsmell
Time:01:49 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] okay


Balls sometimes have a musky odour,
sometimes a B.O.ey, buttsmelly odour.
If they get really messy, they can
get that fishy, day-after, rotten-
crotch reek. But sometimes, and es-
pecially since all my ballproblems
(but before that, too), my balls
smell like semen. They get that
chloriney, grits-like smell to them.
It's like all those pent up gametes
are just ooooooozing through the
skin.

Is this a common smell? How would you
describe the smell of balls?


I am 80 posts behind.


"A Dutch park near Amsterdam has installed a series of signs which point out the areas where gay men regularly have sex. Bosses in Slotervaart say it was easier to warn people where the gay sex takes place in the park, than try to stop it."


Despite a threat from Islamists, two Pakistani brothers stealthily manufacture fetish and bondage wear, earning more than $1 million a year from their Western customers. - (video) Two Pakistani brothers stealthily manufacture fetish and bondage wear, earning more than $1 million a year from their Western customers. (thanks [info]explodingbat)


Ella: fetish model and BME enthusiast with burn scars over 1/3 of her body


Worst job in the world: orally stimulating a cow's genitals so she lactates - (maybe nsfw vid) thanks [info]shanmonster


Women with large chins are more likely to cheat
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Current Music:RSA
Subject:Tasty Poo Treat
Time:02:38 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] sleepy


Sometimes, zombiena cleans the litter-
boxen late at night, and, since even a
closed ziploc bag still reeks like a
skunk died, puts the bag on the porch
overnight, instead of going outside and
putting the bag in the big rubbish bin
in the semi-detached garage.

I've argued strongly against this,
saying it might cause other cats to
spray the porch. Yet it still happens
from time to time.

Lastnight, something stole the gallon
bag of nasty, reeking catlitter.

Tonight, we heard a big thump outside,
and saw a big, fat, raccoon crawling
on the back deck.

I guess it makes sense: we use a wheat-
based litter...mmm, yummy!


Vibrator Use Common, Linked To Sexual Health


The Russian 'Night Witches' of the Eastern Front


What did Jesus NOT do? - (YouTube) thanks [info]imautobot


Female leather dragon armour - from http://princearmory.com/, in Texas


"Recreational water illnesses have been on the rise for the past two decades, according to the CDC." - with all *kinds* of tasty factoids
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Current Music:RSA
Subject:Realisation
Time:02:20 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] drained


Amazon.com is the Sears, Roebuck & Co.
of the 21st Century. Except you can't
hang the webpages in the outhouse.


The crater Victoria on Mars, as seen by the Mars Orbiter - this just became my desktop background


TIME poll results: Jon Stewart is USAia's most trusted newscaster


Gun found on obese inmate after 5 searches - in Houston, TX!


Ukrainian sand artist proves that reality TV's got talent - with YouTube vid


Redheads feel more pain
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Current Music:RSA
Subject:"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
Time:11:22 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] awake


Dollhouse, after the first few episodes --
which have a bit of a more mainstream, 24y
feeling -- is pretty good. It's got a lot
to say, very subtly, about identity and
potential abuse of tech. Even stranger,
the 13th episode, available only on DVD,
is set 10 years in the future, and feels
a lot like Firefly, compleat with Brown-
coats and Reavers. With all the body and
identity swapping happening, the actors
don't always hit their marks, but when
they do, they're fantastic. And some of
the storylines are just poignant. I am
looking forward to the second season, es-
pecially after watching the apocalyptic
13th episode. Apparently there was a lot
of trouble with the original pilot, and
the direction Fox wanted Whedon to take,
but in this case, after watching the un-
aired pilot, I like the new direction
and pace the show took.

I find myself wondering, with a snicker,
what the woman who wrote about Joss
Whedon's Universe of Rape would make of
Dollhouse. And then I think about how
Whedon is a lot like an abused spouse,
always crawling back to Fox and expec-
ting different treatment, while appar-
ently being unable to find anywhere else
to go.


The Colour of Magic was not as good
as Hogfather, but it still preserved
the heart of Terry Pratchett's Disc-
world books.

Tim Curry plays himself chewing the
scenery.

David Jason does a remarkable job of
channeling Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder,
and does a fair job of portraying
Rincewind, too, but he's a bit too
sedate, and about 20 years too old for
the part of a middle-aged ne'erdowizard.
To be fair, though, he apparently an-
nounced some 15 years ago that the role
he most desired was that of Rincewind.

Sean Astin reprises his role as Samwise
Gamgee, even saying "po-ta-toes" at one
point, and I didn't feel too comfortable
with him in the role. Also, I really was
not too comfortable with the wardrobe
choice.

Brian Cox plays himself reading a bed-
time story as the Narrator, and he's
a bit too poncy for the part, as well
as short on breath.

Jeremy Irons does a fair job as the
Patrician, but with a strange speech
impediment.

David Bradley, who plays Cohen the Bar-
barian, is *excellent*, and pretty much
singlehandedly saves the entire three
hour show, illuminating the biggest prob-
lem of the movie, which is that he is not
in the first half of it.

I only hope they make the other tales
of Rincewind and Cohen the Barbarian
quickly, before these guys die!


Until very recently, I had no idea that Jane's
Addiction had released a new album, Strays, in
2003. It's pretty good, although decidedly
more mainstream than their previous works.
A lot of the songs have a more...rock n' roll,
or modern alternative, feel to them than the
90s style alternative that made them famous,
but I'm okay with that. It's a little crunch-
ier and funkier than the previous albums,
but in a way that mirrors some of my favourite
parts of Nothing's Shocking. It's not as noisy
and clanky as Ritual de lo Habitual, which I
consider a plus. That album always made my
ears ring.


US woman kills elephant with bow for a bet in Zimbabwe


Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive - thanks [info]prolixe


Air Pollution Endangering Lives Of 6 In 10 Americans - State of the Air site, search by ZIP code here


Swedish man attacked, molested by tattooed girl gang


Rodney Orpheus: Copying is not stealing, mmmkay? - thanks [info]mraustin
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Subject:Water, Water Everywhere
Time:02:56 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] sore


I've been offline the past few days, because
I detected a small surge of current running
through the new waterbed, noticeable whether
the heater was running or not. If I were
lying on the bed, and zombiena were standing,
or vice-versa, I could detect a weird ripple
feeling if I ran my fingers along her skin.
After checking the outlets, and doing a little
bit of research, I'm under the impression that
this is not that uncommon, and is safe enough.
Tesla would've said it is safe, surely.

He also thought x-rays were really safe and
good for one's health, too.


Frankie the Fuckfish has begun to dance
again.

After the removal of all the mature female
mollies about a month ago, Frankie's giant
sailfin drooped, and he contented himself
with listlessly chasing his reflection,
occasionaly nuzzling at the cloacae of his
daughters and granddaughters and nieces to
see if any of them were ripe enough yet.

And finally, One-Eyed Wilhelmina was old
enough. Frankie started dancing again last
week, jigging and jiggling in front of her,
his giant fin upthrust. He'd dart and cut
in front of her, blocking the sight of
her one eye, while she tried to veer away,
but only to her right, where her good eye
is, and he'd be there at her side, rolling
her over in the water and shoving that
gonadopodium of his into her ladybits.
She's pregnant now. So are a couple of the
other 47 or so mollies in the tank.

This has to end.

Hopefully we can sell all of them this
week, maybe today. If we can get a fishbuck
per fish, we'll be lucky, as many of them
are very tiny. But they have to go. They
won't stop breeding! And they start
breeding before they're of a decent size
for selling.

On another note, one of the tiny mollies
was picking at an ichy rainbowfish. I
have a strict no-cannibalism rule, es-
pecially when you're a fish that's not
worth a dollar, and you're eating the
skin of a fourteen dollar fish. Said
cannibalistic tiny mollie is now float-
ing in a glass vase on a pedestal in the
spare bedroom, awaiting Transportation.


Chicago PD considering major policy change that would allow police officers to shoot at fleeing vehicles if the driver or passengers are suspected of committing a felony


UK budgets £400million to put 20,000 "problem families" under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes, to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals


SINless in China - promising people have had their futures sold for as little as $1500 (thanks [info]mraustin)


Nubrella: the umbrella of the future!


Divorced or widowed people have 23 percent more mobility limitations, 20 percent more chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or cancer than married people
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Current Music:David Gahan - Hourglass
Subject:Week of Whoah
Time:01:06 am
Current Mood:[mood icon] exhausted


The last week and more has been crazy ass.
Birthdays, doctors, food, furniture, in-
sects, and socialising. I'm so tired and
sore.


I've had trouble with my ears being blocked
by wax for the past couple of weeks. I pour-
ed a solution of hydrogen peroxide and water
into it several times, to no avail. Monday,
I went to the doctor, and a medtech squirted
lukewarm water into my ears with a syringe,
and suddenly everything sounded all crisp
and crackly on my left side.

The PA said my blood pressure is actually
better than it was two years ago. 126/95
is still not great, though.


After nearly a year of toothpain, I went
back to the original dentist from last year,
and not the one from this year who stabbed
me in the lip and told me I almost certainly
needed a crown. So the dentist I saw this
week said he thinks one of my fillings is
touching my lower teeth, and that's prob-
ably the source of the pain. He shaved down
the filling a bit, and the tooth is already
giving me less trouble. He said to give it
a couple of weeks, and the pain should go
away.

I am hopeful. Because a crown would cost me
$1000.


Last week, I got some mango pistachio rose
ice cream from Amy's Ice Cream. It's pretty
awesome. It's kind of like eating a very
good, very cold Indian mango lassi with a
spoon.


The beginning of Star Wars: The Force Un-
leashed is pretty awesome. I think I could
be happy if the whole game were about walk-
ing around as Darth Vader, killing Wookies.
The rest of the game is pretty neat, too,
and very beautiful. It gets a bit diffi-
cult near the end, though. I also think
the storyline is fairly decent.


I am interested in the game Assassin's
Creed. However, there is a Platinum Hits
edition for Xbox 360, and a Director's
Cut edition for PC? What's the difference?
Wikipedia tells me nothing.


US Marshals seize Clarcon sanitizer for bacteria problems - thanks [info]originalkitsune


Ten incidents of cannibalism - many of them on a large scale or by sects


The American Psychological Association concluded that there is little evidence that efforts to change a person's sexual orientation from gay or lesbian to heterosexual are effective - CNN article on the same topic here


Repuglican Birthers gonzo interviewed on Capitol Hill - YouTube vid


Bluetooth headset as jewelry
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Current Music:Chopin
Subject:Things That (Don't) Suck
Time:02:14 pm
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In preparation for Season 5 of Angel, I
*finally* watched Season 7 of Buffy. Over-
all, I enjoyed Season 7 *much* more than
Season 6, and also much more than Seasons
3 & 4 of Angel (which went from dramedy to
soap opera). However, I had some issues
with the last episode, wherein Buffy leads
the Fellowship into the spawning pits of
Isengard, and Willow turns into Gandalf
the White for a bit.

Spoiling questions... )

Also, Xander is Samwise Gamgee.

I am really, really enjoying the first sev-
eral episodes of Angel Season 5, too. I laugh,
I cheer, I am *entertained*. I think the
writers really got a refreshing break when
they shifted the show's format from detective
agency to magic company.

This all makes me want to read the comics,
wherein Dawn turns into a giant (I've seen
it) and a centaur.

Compare this to True Blood, which went from
shitty to barely tolerable by the end of
the season.


Speaking of revisiting vampire-themed enter-
tainment, I am replaying Vampire: Bloodlines,
thanks to a Steamy gift from [info]explodingbat.
This is really the last of the true RPGs,
with multiple paths and solutions. It's def-
initely the descendant of Fallout, with its
talking heads and dependent dialogue options.
True, it's got a dearth of polygons, and a
few bugs, and it can be a tiny bit cheesey,
but I really enjoy it. You can be a stealthy
Nosferatu, a fast-talking Toreador, or a
ripping and tearing Gangrel. It's got re-
play value, even, and a plot worthy of The
Masquerade.


I think my re-patration to silverchat has
really reduced my tendencies to post on LJ.
I can drivel inanely there all day long,
instead of having to step through the LJ
interface and proofread myself. What a loss
to the world.


I have finally worked my way through 15 discs,
or 1.5 gigs, of Chopin. He's really kind of
tinkly, and I don't find a lot of his work to
really be noticeable, although I do enjoy his
orchestral stuff and his nocturnes.


Earlier this year, defiant Illinois state governors declared that Pluto had been unfairly demoted by the International Astronomical Union


Scale image of Jupiter, Earth, and the impact crater


19 Arrested In Canary-Fighting Investigation, 150 birds seized


Bill Maher: Democrats are the New Republicans - (vid) bonus New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit (text) - thanks [info]jblaque


Austin PD entraps good Samaritans by parking bait car near their house - austincommunity commentary here
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Current Music:Chopin - Complete Piano Music- by Idil Biret (15 CD Box Set)
Subject:Transition
Time:03:39 pm
Current Mood:[mood icon] discontent


Since Avant Browser has gotten slowly less
and less manageable, and my browser tabs
have gotten slowly more and more unman-
ageable, I'm attempting to switch to
Safari, at mraustin's suggestion.

This means copying and pasting something
like 150 tabs -- mostly LiveJournal posts
to which I hope to someday post a valid
comment -- from Avant to Safari. So if
some of you notice me replying to posts of
yours from, say, half a year ago, that
means I'm finally getting around to clear-
ing out my tabs. I'm slow, but I try to
give a lot of thought to everything I
post. And SOME OF YOU go and close off
entries before I can ever get around to
replying to them. Shame! Shame!

Avant was consistently using about 1
gig of RAM to keep all those tabs open,
and was even starting to give me trouble
when I tried to close the browser; it
was failing to end the process after
half an hour. Safari seems to hog a lot
fewer resources, although it's a lot less
user friendly than Avant. Tab manage-
ment kind of sucks, UI customisation is
pretty nonexistent, and I miss my mouse
gestures. :(


Also, all those people who are moving to
Facebook suck ass. But apparently that's
the only way to know these days what some
of my RealLife friends are doing. I was
told the other night that one of my friends
only reads LJ now for communities, RSS
feeds, and me.


This waterbed and my computer are not
compatible.


Police hunting two drag queens after midget wrestlers murdered


Man who doused self with gasoline TASERed, bursts into flames - and this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened!


Mystery impact leaves Earth-sized mark on Jupiter


Some cat and dog flea collars leave chemicals on fur that are hazardous to the pets and their owners - Good ol' Hartz


Charles Stross on the UK's new paedophile prevention process
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