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TAMPA - A young woman was walking back to her car after the Gasparilla parade on Saturday when she says a man dragged her behind a building and raped her near the intersection of Howard and Swann.

She managed to get away and called 911. Police took her to the hospital and began a routine rape investigation.

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first icky cold of death of the year.

feel a bit fucked really, probably gonna be out of it for a couple more days.

Best search engine ever!

I could watch this all night.

This made me very sad

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Only Cath is going to understand the significance of this really, but:

HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin's bestselling fantasy series "A Song of Fire and Ice" into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.

"Fire" is the first TV project for Benioff ("Troy") and Weiss ("Halo") and will ( Read more... )

Sooo... I can't play Oblivion on the laptop because its video card only has 64mb of memory.

I can't play Oblivion on the PC as the graphics card doesn't have the shaders and crap needed.

We have parts incoming for the PC to enable it to play Vanguard (and presumably Oblivion)

I won't be able to play Vanguard on the laptop because the processor isn't ( Read more... )

Oh and, in a slightly contradictory turn of events, my MSN is currently buggered for reasons I can't work out, and I've lost my mobile (you know how it is... you put it on silent, leave it on a pile of coats, then move stuff around looking for a hair tie or your keys, three days later you realise you have no idea where it is, and that the last ( Read more... )

To echo Steve's post a minute or two ago, really, there's no point linking to my livejournal in yours unless I've posted something that you'd like to share.

If you're just referring to me in an "and I saw Monica in sainsburys today" kind of way, then "Monica" tends to get the job done. 
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