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- 11:04 on coaching course. shocked at people's lack of introspection. Bored.
| Sunday, July 6th, 2008 | ||
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frandowdsofa |
9:54p | Musical Meme 1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. 2. List 5 songs you like that start with that letter 3. Post them to your journal with these instructions ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} quasi_hayley gave me ( The Letter C ) |
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flyingsauce |
10:34p | Lives in passing: tomsdischI think that I shall never read A tree of any shape or breed – For all its xylem and its phloem – As fascinating as a poem. Trees must make themselves and so They tend to seem a little slow To those accustomed to the pace Of poems that speed through time and space As fast as thought. We shouldn't blame The trees, of course: we'd be the same If we had roots instead of brains. While trees just grow, a poem explains, By precept and example, how Leaves develop on the bough And new ideas in the mind. A sensibility refined By reading many poems will be More able to admire a tree Than lumberjacks and nesting birds Who lack a poet's way with words And tend to look at any tree In terms of its utility. And so before we give our praise To pines and oaks and laurels and bays, We ought to celebrate the poems That made our human hearts their homes. – Thomas M. Disch, 'Poems', 2000. Current Mood:  saddened |
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hawkida |
8:13p | Damn... I'm bored of tidying up now. However I can barely move on the landing, will need to excavate my bed to sleep in it, and the living room, which is communal space, appears not to have a floor. Suppose I'd better get back to it. Please leave me entertaining stories to visit between trips to and from the bin, the shed, the loft etc. |
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flickgc |
5:14p | Tut! Today, lunch with the gin-raddled hags and then off to see King Tut at the dome. It was quite fun, but really, really laid out as a maximising-footfall thing (eg, item descriptions both in the case front of the item and also above-head-height on all four sides of the cases), and not really worth twenty-odd quid plus another fiver for the audio guide (and audio guides in that kind of space? *Really* annoying, wandering around with this faint babble of voices coming from all sides.... I suspect that if people listened to music through headphones at the same sort of volume, the staff would Have Words). The gift shop was selling VHS tapes! Plus, as Mike pointed out, the tapes were probably also NTSC: can there really have been people buying them in large enough quantities for it to be worth the shelf space? The whole show was very American: labels likening a board game to parcheesi, describing an item of jewellery as "one of a hundred fifty" similar ones. Also one very strange place where the label had a thorn instead of an fi ligature, but I don't *think* we can blame that on the Americans. |
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sneerpout |
2:46p | Every day should be a holiday I'm off to Zurich to see The Dandy Warhols, whoo hoo. I've booked a room and taken tomorrow off, so it should be quite a relaxing experience. I've learned the lessons from my last jaunt to Zurich for a gig, when I saw The Sadies back in April. That was a 14-hour round trip - five and a half hours of trains, four and a half hours of sleep, and all for about 45 minutes of the gig. Everything that could have gone wrong did indeed go wrong. I really should get around to writing the whole thing up at some point. (You may have read the postscript about how this resulted in Visa stopping my credit card because I used it in too many cities in a 24-hour period.) Now, to tonight's show. I've been a fan of the band for (gulp) about 12 years and I have seen them live many times. They are either totally amazing, or appallingly crap. There's never been anything in between. I hope that this will not be one of their off nights. Poll #1218636 Open to: All, results viewable to: All How will the Dandy Warhols play this evening? Current Music: Thunder! Rain! Whoo! |
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lostcarpark |
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swisstone |
1:06a | Journey's End Well, that was utterly ridiculous from start to finish, but somehow brilliant. |
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frandowdsofa |
12:09a | While You're Reading Your Sunday Papers Take 2 minutes to go here and read about a nasty piece of legislation that they want to sneak through the EU TOMORROW and which could cut you off from the Internet forever with no redress, if your ISP says your internet address has been doing naughty things. Then follow the appropriate link to write to your MEP and barrage their inbox for Monday morning. |
| Saturday, July 5th, 2008 | ||
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frandowdsofa |
8:31p | Dr Who |
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jamesb |
10:27a | fanzine stuff I am still looking for donations of books - did you know that? To promote SF at an LX Table. meanwhile, I wrote about one day in our honeymoon for File 770 and you can see why 3 weeks was amazing. Its about sports though. I also discuss the Fanzine Hugo's with editor MIke Gleyer. http://efanzines.com/File770/File770-15 London still excites me and here in Drink Tank I write about a busy pair of saturdays. http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTan While heading down to Bristol seems very worthwhile, especially if a comic expo is on. http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTan I wrote about tanith lee for JOhn Coxans procrastinations, but the rest of the zine is very good. http://efanzines.com/Procrastinations/p Reveiws to beat the band appeared in prism, the zine of the BFS and I have written some things for the BSFA, so I await the magic that is DTP and HTTP. was interested to see that an article went from that, to a letter to a discussion at conrunner, seems like Novacon may be about to look at another hotel. J |
| Friday, July 4th, 2008 | ||
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moominmuppet |
9:45p | Utterly. Fucked. Bi Personals Site Boots Trans Member as reported in Bay Windows by Ethan Jacobs staff reporter Wednesday July 2nd 2008 and UPDATED July 3 2008 When Nick Teich created a free account on the online personals site BisexualDatingNow.com last week, he decided to disclose that he is transgender. Perhaps he shouldn't have. "They say, tell us about yourself in your own words. And I stated, 'I'm a 25-year old trans guy living in Boston.' . . . I didn't want to mislead anyone looking at my profile, so that's why I put that," said Teich. Within a day he had received three "smiles," which members send to express their interest in getting to know each other. Teich thought little of his decision until he wrote to the site's customer service staff about a problem he was having using the site. He exchanged e-mails with a customer service representative named Kiar Dupuis, and after reading his profile Dupuis informed him that the site does not allow transgender users. "I am sorry, as a transgender, our site would not meet your needs. I am afraid we have to remove your profile," wrote Dupuis, according to an e-mail provided to Bay Windows by Teich. His profile was deleted shortly after he received the e-mail. ----- Please follow this link to read the full article and find how you can contact BisexualDatingNow.com and it's parent company TangoWire: http://bialogue.livejournal.com/22588.h and tell them the and let them know that discrimination against transgender people is NOT, never has been and never will be a part of the Bisexual & Pansexual Community and PS TangoWire is a Gay owned and operated company!!!!! Current Mood:  angry |
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flickgc |
11:50p | Grr Ok, have now officially Had Enough. For about the last eighteen months (since I had a conversation with Woman Who Lives Downstairs about how worried she was that her estranged husband was trying, with the connivance of her incidentally-muslim family, to get into her flat, including 'someone's been trying to get in through the balcony'), we've had various people popping up and saying 'can I leave a key with you, my brother / sister will be here in about an hour' or just ringing our buzzer and saying 'can you let me in, I haven't got a key'. The former, fair enough. The latter has always made me unhappy, because of the husband thing and because hello, if you have a key to her door, why don't you have a key to the main front door...? I have now had enough: someone just buzzed and asked to be let in, at gone eleven thirty. A minute of so later, I heard our not-our-door (there's a little sort of lobby area between the stairwell and our actual, locking door; the door to that makes a distinctive noise, which is how I often surprise the cleaner and postman) and went to look only to see the same woman: she doesn't even know which bloody flat she's trying to get into. "Oh, we just got off a flight, I haven't been here since it was redecorated" and this stops you remembering which *floor* it's on...? (One flat per floor. It's not hard.) So. Have written a nice but firm note to Woman Downstairs: "will hold keys, if you come and ask me, but am no longer going to let people in randomly, both for your safety (see: husband) and mine". Went to slip it under the door, and didn't need to go that far: another four people coming up stairs with suitcases. WTF? [sigh] No more. This post also serves as a notice to Mike, who is, you know, in bloody bed and I hope not woken by all this: we're not doing it any more. Not even if she does keep buying us Christmas chocolates to say thank you. (I see her quite often, on the way home from picking her little boy up from school, so I will speak to her as well, if only to make sure she gets the note. But really. Enough.) |
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frandowdsofa |
9:38p | The Other Scary Lady This is my second cousin, Denise, from New Zealand. She and her husband came to see us on Wednesday. Her Dad and my Dad were cousins, but she was his child by a first marriage and has only just got back in touch with the family. I've always thought I belonged genetically more to my maternal grandmother's side of the family, but the similarities between me and Denise are scary scary. We have the same filthy snigger, for a start, rhythm, tone and volume. And the same jaw line. Do Not Mess with the Smith Gurlz. There's a few more pictures in the same set, just click on the link. |
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dougs |
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dougs |
1:30p | Five sets of answers Further to this poll, here are the first five sets of answers. 1: ( Read more... ) 2: ( Read more... ) 3: ( Read more... ) 4: ( Read more... ) 5: ( Read more... ) |
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frandowdsofa |
10:29a | I Learned Last Time If you have physiotherapy first thing in the morning: - do not plan anything else for the day - do not go on somewhere else, especially if it includes exercising - walk slowly home - wait for the new and exciting spasms, cramps, and twitches - think longingly of Victorian corsets and backboards - get that heatpad in the microwave |
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dougs |
9:49a | Three Questions Who approaches the Bridge of Death must ask me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see. Poll #1217561 Ask me your questions, bridgemaster! Open to: All, results viewable to: None WHAT... is your first question WHAT... is your second question WHAT... is your third question Seen in various places. Style of delivery thanks to Alex's comment to Max. |
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kevinrtaylor |
6:47a | This day This day is is one to celebrate. It is the day of someone great! A star that shines within my heart, whose score is really off the chart. There is no doubt she is the best. There is no other, East or West, who could compare in any way. So thus I clelebrate her day. To my friend, my wife, my inspiration: peaceful_foxA very happy birthday! |
| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 | ||
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hawkida |
10:09p | Twitter updates |
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moominmuppet |
3:29p | Damn. Spot on. Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in 1. non-monogamy score: 14 2. wombat score: 11 3. alt.polyamory score: 9 4. fat!so? score: 9 5. fat activism score: 9 6. bicon score: 9 7. bi pride score: 8 8. fat girls score: 7 9. bisexual community score: 7 10. science fiction fandom score: 7 11. queer activism score: 7 12. disability rights score: 7 13. biphoria score: 6 14. transmen score: 6 15. bi activism score: 6 16. sex positive score: 6 17. fat chicks score: 6 18. soc.bi score: 6 19. fanzines score: 5 20. nomy lamm score: 5 changed by ouwiyaru based on code by ixwinFind out more The only interest that I'm not familiar with, and, indeed, interested in, is Nomy Lamm. And now that I've familiarized myself, I am quite interested! (and especially amusingly, I just finished [finally] reading Fat!So? this morning) Current Mood:  amused |
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moominmuppet |
3:28p | Worst possible idea RTA considers raising fares, cutting routes and jobs Increasing fares, yes. Cutting routes and jobs -- horrible idea. Exactly the opposite of what we desperately need in an economic tailspin with a huge increase in gas costs. *sigh* We'll see what happens. I'm concerned. Current Mood:  worried |
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frandowdsofa |
5:39p | You Know You're Old When You start appreciating the bit in the Two Ronnies with the little one in a golfing jumper sitting on the naffly upholstered chair. |
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dougs |
5:30p | Is there something in the water at the moment? Two weeks ago, at Client F:
Today, at Client B:
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moominmuppet |
11:29a | Links Bwah! Our famously anti-porn president's stimulus package has been a direct windfall to the adult entertainment industry Some potentially exciting news in research on herpes One of the issues I feel most strongly about: "Why We Need to Put Science Back in Government". I highly recommend his book, "The Republican War on Science"; it's horrifying and edifying. Morgentaler among those named to Order of Canada (more about him, and exactly why he is immensely deserving of this honor) Edit: Oh, WOW! Key scenes from Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” have been rediscovered, film is now complete! |
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moominmuppet |
5:17a | All Packed... grf and I leave after I get off work for Baltimore. I woke up at 3:30 or so, and have been packing, burning CDs, clearing out the DVR, and all the other trivia before I head out. Really should go back to sleep, but I'm all bouncy and excited. Current Mood:  excited |
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