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[Jul. 4th, 2009|03:13 pm] |
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Ok, here's another one for the "didn't know they could do THAT" file... And can't you just imagine the cry of "Roadhog!" :) |
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| Live action pruney! |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
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Back when I used to contribute to Fidonet echoes, I maintained the acronnym list for the SF echo. Along with acronyms there were various symbols not generally used elsewhere, including the "pruney" which looked like this :* , representing a face with the mouth pursed in disapproval, and was used to convey (usually mock) shock at someone's statement. Wandering around the net looking up pictures of cuttlefish, I came across what has got to be the most prim looking cuttlefish I've seen yet... |
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| Now here's something you don't see every day... |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|09:41 pm] |
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A crossover fanfic involving Buffy the Vampire Slayer and St. Trinians... Pretty decent, too - Marcus Rowland mostly does drabbles, but has committed the odd (sometimes very) longer fic. I think my favorite of his thus far is "Bring Me The Head of Harry Potter", mostly because it involves Buffy tVS, Angel, Highlander, Harry Potter and The Sopranos, and actually makes it all WORK. |
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| Grin... |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|07:24 pm] |
This is cool...
From the Daily News:
Manhattan synagogue makes $10G off of Westboro Baptist Church protest
BY Erin Einhorn and Irving Dejohn
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Monday, June 22nd 2009, 5:01 AM
A Manhattan synagogue turned a visit from hate-spewing demonstrators into a lucrative fund-raiser Sunday.
Leaders of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a West Village synagogue that caters to gays and lesbians, didn't want to ignore a planned visit by members of the rabidly anti-gay and anti-Semitic Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.
Instead, they asked supporters to pledge a dollar or more for every minute that six protesters stood near their synagogue hurling epithets and holding signs that read "God Hates Fags" and "Jews Stole the Land."
The final haul after 50 minutes: $10,000.
"Their very presence will actually raise money for the mission of this community," said Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of the synagogue, which now holds services in rented space. "The synagogue wants a building so we're hoping this will help us get a building."
Click here for the full story. |
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| Kitties!!!!! |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|06:49 pm] |
Got my copy of the Wild Cats of the World card deck; a standard card deck where each card has a drawing of a different cat, done by different artists; people like Mary J. Lau, Diana Harlan-Stein, Terrie Smith, Michelle Light, Roz Gibson, Blotch, Heather Bruton and lots more. These cards are really gorgeous, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) martes tells me she's still got copies available, so check with her if you want one. |
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| Thanks, Google! |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|04:53 pm] |
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Whilst googling my name and finding as usual that it's close enough to unique that it takes 19 or more pages to find an entry that isn't referring to me... and to find that that particular one is a typo... Um, cancel blather. Anyway I came across this thread that I contributed to in 2005, and looked to see if anybody had followed me. OK, silly me - my comment is in the 80s and the current one is in the 400s, and was posted in 2009. If you are at all familiar with Scots/English Border Ballads, their Appalachian kin or similar genres, go read it! |
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| Where I got my cuttlefish |
[Jun. 13th, 2009|02:36 pm] |
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I've recently put up this pic of a Flamboyant Cuttlefish from Tony Wu's Underwater Photography blog as my desktop, for that "what the heck is THAT?" ambiance... :) Anyway, figured I'd share the link with everybody else because the guy is a really good photographer and writes a nice blog. Oh, and while he mostly photos sea critters the land gets attention too, especially on his trip to Japan or in other words flowers gots nailpolish! (These are called "summer snowflakes".) |
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| Writer's Block: Last Meal |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|09:33 pm] |
Don't care that much about the food, but I want to finish it up with a suitably old and excellent brandy laid down in 2050 or so... |
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| Our topic for today is tornadoes! |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|12:25 am] |
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I was over on Yahoo reading mail and noticed this interesting link in the "featured buzz" stack. Includes video of an approaching tornado and, as the thing leans over, we actually see bits of the inside of the column rotating. I then did some Googling on the subject, and found this National Geographic site with another tornado. Storm chasers left several probes in its path, mostly pressure sensors, but one "video" probe with seven cameras in it. Along came the tornado and ran right OVER the video probe. Wheeeeee..... |
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| MORE cuteness... |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|03:04 pm] |
Been reading baaaaabyanimals again... :) Baby horsie this time (and wait'll you see the sire...). Warning, lotsa pictures.
Meanwhile, I'm back from Califur. Didn't get many pictures, alas, but as soon as I can figure out how to display video from a camera I was holding sideways (to get maximum height), I'll see about posting the video I took of the Fursuit Parade if it's sufficiently viewable (I was inside and it was backlit so who knows....) Meanwhile, judging by the links turning up on the socalfurs mailing list, I suspect there are plenty of good pics up.
That was fun - didn't work the con this year so I could see how the other half lives; found it's probably more fun when I DO work the con, but getting to go see the art show three times before the auction was cool. fabula_umbrae led a couple of panels and did quite well, and I even got a chance to watch some of the film track. I gather there was the usual drama here and there (which I did not have to do or even KNOW anything about, heh heh...) but nothing drastic. There seems to have been quite a bit of fun there. 700 or so members this year! Things are looking up (and the hotel appears to have been a delight to work with).
And I'd better stop this and get off to Angie's List find a pool guy - the pump broke, the former service guy doesn't seem to have done anything about it and it's amazing how fast a pool can go green in the non-positive sense... |
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| Whew.... |
[May. 25th, 2009|10:46 pm] |
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hakeber mentioned ScotiaCon, and when I went to add it to my furry convention list, I found I'd not updated the thing since January. It is NOW up to date, right here... Warning, lotsa banners so it's relatively slow loading.
Now to go deal with the filk con list...
quick edit just to add a note: the Filk Convention list is now also updated. Have fun! I go sleep now. |
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| OK.... |
[May. 17th, 2009|08:51 pm] |
Just to show that everything happens at once, just as I finally get into the ending portion of a Beetle Bomp screen I've been fighting with for days, we get this earthquake. We KEEP getting this earthquake. Won the screen anyway, whilst holding onto the laptop with the hand not using the trackball. Meanwhile, on TV the History Channel is telling us about Bruce Lee. Snicker....
Don't see any sign of the quake on line yet; USGS Earthquake hazards hasn't picked it up yet. With luck it was local - it was long enough that I'm a mite concerned about any place closer to it if it was not. But it kept rolling for quite awhile, and I'm downstairs so it's not the wood frame undulating after the fact. Ah well, off to check CalTech...
OK, CalTech had it in their media info section, and USGS has it now, so I just filled out their "did you feel it" form. Comments section: Wheeee! :)
Oh - current estimate is a 5.0 in the Hawthorne area, followed by a 3.1 elsewhere in the Hawthorne area. Right down the road a piece. |
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| Star Trek.... |
[May. 16th, 2009|11:07 pm] |
Way back when Alien premiered, a group of us went to see it. Between cosplay and roleplaying gaming, I'd portrayed several space explorers by then, and described my experience as trying to watch a dumb horror movie with three starship captains in my head making wry comments. This time, they were laughing themselves silly...
Yes, I finally got around to seeing Star Trek. The plot performs contortions that would strain a bellydancing python, and logic is honored almost entirely in the breech, but for all that I rather enjoyed it. As Vicky pointed out, the idea is to observe our old favorite characters being young and silly.
( mild spoilers behind the cut )
As the old saying goes, belief must be not so much suspended as hanged, drawn and quartered... but it's still amusing if you don't take it seriously. |
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| Therapsids, Dinosaurs and Arthropods, oh my! |
[May. 15th, 2009|08:51 pm] |
Ok, once upon a time I got my BS degree in Biology (no comments from the peanut gallery), before fleeing the snakepit of academe mostly because I was dumb enough not to realize that since the USC bio undergrad course was mostly pre-med and my interests were mostly animal behaviour that I probably just wanted to go elsewhere and... anyway before I took up computers which are certainly fun to play with. I was also interested in paleontology up to a point, that point being going on digs out where it is hot, dry, and not at all designed for this kittycat to not die of dehydration, sunstroke and sunburn (now if I really WAS a caracal...) anyway I read a lot about it but over the years mostly got distracted. Well, thanks to a batch of links thrown up in this james_nichol post I stumbled upon all sorts of truly cool posts on paleontology, mass extinctions, silly dinosaur names (Pantydraco?) and stuff like that there. My word, the things that have happened since I was last involved in this stuff! You should also go look at the monthly linkfest, The Boneyard for links to all sorts of stuff, with links to all sorts of other stuff with links.... Once again, proof positive that the internet is like a really good encyclopedia - look up one thing and you may never come out again. Oh yes, be sure to check out The Dragon's Tales blog.
Ah well, see ya later - back to the Carboniferous! |
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