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[Dec. 12th, 2009|11:14 am] |
Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother lay her otter
With a manger for his bed. Once In Royal David's City
from the Christmas Song Generator. |
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| I confess |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|04:49 pm] |
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I've been spending far too much time on Second Life since this summer. Dancing and jousting and playing primtionary and frootcake ("It's intense!") and getting involved with the Tinies of Raglan Shire. Where I am, of course, an otter - initially a two-legged 'normal' Tiny otter, and now, since they're been released, a quad. I even got dragooned into being a test-otter. Okay, it was fun between the crashes. And even during, for some values of fun. ("Who's driving this thing?" "You are!" "I am?!")
Waffle! |
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| When a story is killed..... |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|06:18 pm] |
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# When a story is killed it is worth 45 experience points and drops one item from Treasure Table B.
5:02 AM Nov 20th from HootSuite
More at: Fake AP Stylebook (Twitter thread). |
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| Plan aheard |
[Sep. 3rd, 2009|12:54 pm] |
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Note to self: If one has a plan for painting the front steps, such that one will do them from door down to walk in one pass and then safely go in the side door - BE SURE TO UNLOCK THE SIDE DOOR BEFORE COMMENCING.
*facepalm*
Fortunately, it's a hot day and I only had to wait about 10 minutes of dodging the Giant Enormous Bee That Thought the Steps Were HER Territory before the paint had dried to a tackiness sufficient to tip-toe over. |
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| I. Can. SEE!!!! |
[Aug. 8th, 2009|10:37 am] |
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A bit less than two full days after cataract surgery on my left eye, and the blurriness is mostly cleared.
It's AMAZING.
Okay, for those of you who could see all your lives, it's probably pretty ho-hum. But for me, who has worn glasses since two years old, who got to the point of being told "we can't correct your vision any more through glasses" (so your view of the world will continue to slowly deteriorate), who has always seen the world more than two inches from her eyes as a blurred mess - It. Is. Amazing.
Oh, it's not removing the cataract that did the trick (though I hadn't realized how much the little bugger was shading my view of things), but when cataract surgery is done, it involves taking your natural lens completely out and replacing it with an artificial one. And if you have vision problems, the artificial lens can be shaped to correct for much of that. I will need reading glasses in the future, even after the blurriness is fully cleared (it take the eye a couple days to full clear from the drugs they drop in pre-surgery), but that's fine with me. Just fine. Compared to the incredible nearsightedness the artificial lens is correcting for (-18, for those of you who speak eyesight), reading glasses to correct for my middle-aged far-sightedness is nothing.
The surgery on my right eye takes place in a little less than two more weeks. I can't wait. :-) |
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| UP |
[Jun. 7th, 2009|04:59 pm] |
Go see it. Zeppelins, dogs, Pixar's usual level of animation skill, and a really fine story. Be sure to bring some kleenex with - there are some sad parts, esp. at the beginning.
Shoo! What are you waiting for?! |
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| insta-filk for shedding season |
[May. 15th, 2009|04:38 pm] |
Dog hair on my shoulders
looks so funny,
Dog hair in my eyes
can make me cry.
Dog hair in a bird's nest
looks so lovely,
Dog hair almost always
makes me sigh. |
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| Dreamwidth Invites |
[May. 1st, 2009|09:01 pm] |
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I haz them. Post reply if interested. |
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| RP: springheel_jack: well, holy crap |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|03:00 pm] |
From a post by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) springheel_jack:
Wow. OK. A few people I know have been hit by the expired-hotmail hack - hackers re-activate a deactivated hotmail account, and use it to gain control of your LJ. (Hotmail has been the prime vector, because it allows old usernames to be recycled after six months, but may not be the only one.)
If they get control of your journal, they generally delete every post. I'm not aware that there is any recovery. Especially if you've had robots.txt set to "Minimize search engine inclusion" - you won't be on wayback machine or similar, because they respect robots.txt. I don't think LJ keeps any kind of backup for you.
Check this page: it's LJ's tool for seeing what old email addresses may still be associated with your account. You should delete all of them but the current one.
(Continued here.) |
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| Robo-what? |
[Apr. 21st, 2009|05:17 pm] |
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*sigh* The headline was so much more interesting the first time I glanced at it and read it as "robo-spider".
(Army Tests Flying Robo-Sniper) |
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| QOTD |
[Jan. 29th, 2009|05:43 pm] |
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You don't really appreciate living near a creek until you are on fire
-- who else but James Nicoll |
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| Cut it out, Australia! |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|09:35 pm] |
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Sea squirts or ascidians are lovely little marine filter feeders. They have a larval tadpole stage, where the little guys disperse by swimming, and then they settle down, metamorphose, and spend the rest of their lives quietly sucking in sea water and filtering out small particles for food. They are soft, gooey little blobs that filter feed.
Except in Australia.
Everything seems to be toxic or dangerous in Australia. Newly discovered off the South Australian coast: carnivorous sea squirts.
Continued, with extensive commentary, at PZ Myers' (Pharyngula) blog post: OK, Aussies, this is going too far. |
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| Bad Dog chorus, part I |
[Jan. 9th, 2009|04:43 pm] |
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Bad dog! Bad dog!
Bad dog! Bad dog!
She slinks around the household,
And hides from kith and kin;
She knows her recent action was an awful sin -
She ate up all the garbage
within the rubbish bin...
Her belly bloats;
Her breath is odd,
Her farts fill all the room - OH GOD. |
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| Okay, just because |
[Jan. 7th, 2009|12:34 pm] |
I do have an Insane Journal account, under username "deor".
I don't use it much, except to read those already there who migrated from here that I could find. But if all goes as the doomsayers are predicting, we could gather there instead. The interface is comfortably LJ-like, at least. |
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| AKICILJ: motherboards and hard drives |
[Dec. 30th, 2008|03:53 pm] |
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I have an Intel D915GAG motherboard. I want to add a second, larger hard drive to the computer. I have searched the manual and googled a score of sites, but cannot find an answer to the question: "what is the largest hard drive size compatible with my system". Anyone know where I can find the answer? |
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