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On a more poignant and less navel-gaze-y note -
Was looking back through last year's entries, and found this:
I think the worst lie that I started believing after so many years of Japanese children's media is that friendship is something indestructible and eternal. People change, after all. We don't all grow up gorgeous and realize we're still great friends after years apart. Some of us turn ( Read more... ) -
On a lighter note...
Help me decide on a new computer.
This is roughly what I'm looking for in terms of a laptop. Not particularly thrilled about the keyboard flexing that got mentioned; courtesy of our several-years-old keyboards at work, I type hardThere's supposedly a decent netbook on the market by the same company, the 1015E - getting a small machine like that ( Read more... ) -
THIS YEAR IS FIRED.
Leave things you'd like burnt with it in the comments here. -
And now for something completely different.
A lion cub demonstrates a good response to unwanted touches from an old Catholic man.
(And just in case the link doesn't work properly - it's photo number nine.) -
Pendulum.
did anyone ever figure it out
if they've sampled the opening
theme of that cartoon
that meant so much to so many
of us
years ago and now -
Apparently there's a local station that starts a live DJ at five PM, still.
I.
My City has a radio station with a live DJ who actually puts Daft Punk out on the airwaves! And it's "One More Time", not any of their songs that normally get played around here.
Pity this is the radio with a fiddly dial and I can't read what station it actually is. Oh well. -
Commence ragetrance.
The Hamilton County Board of Elections website is down.
More precisely, it's not just down, it's behaving like LJ in the middle of Russian election season.So help me all the nine worlds, if the skeezy motherfuckers behind those robocalls claiming Sandy rescheduled the election have DDOS'd the Board of Elections, I WILL FIND THEM. AND I WILL VOMIT ( Read more... ) -
Music for today -
Can't find an embed because work filters don't like fun.
But.
"Red Alert" by Basement Jaxx.
Look it up, and if you're in FrankenSandy's path, stay safe. -
So.
As I'm already hearing people I like freak out that OMG THAT EARTHQUAKE CASE IN ITALY IS SETTING A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT -
Here is an actual scientist refuting that. Or, at least, agreeing with me and disagreeing with the ITALY IS SO BACKWARDS crowd, and providing facts to back our shared stance up ( Read more... )