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I was going to delete my account
... on account of FUCK those new terms of service that deem the existence of LGBTQ people to be controversial/adult/whatever. I hear that not playing by their rules will get the account closed.
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Photo meme
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable.)
Post these instructions with your picture.
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The Food Meme
Raina posted hers, and it intrigued me. Copy the list, bold anything you've eaten, cross out anything you'd never consider eating. Looks like 61/100 for me, with just one outright rejection.
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Click It
Audio only:
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3087019
Multimedia:
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/intranet/20040704.me.declaration2004.ram
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What's Happening With Me This Week
First off, got a nice surprise from my buddy Alvin today. Apparently I'm not only a published author, I'm a published author in two entirely different character setshttp://www.china-pub.com/computers/common/info.asp?id=18280Read more... ) -
Startin' To Look Like A House
Unpacking has hit the 90% mark or so (actually away from home for about 24 hours now).
The computer is set up with the best job of cable-wrangling I've ever done. DSL back on soon.
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For Those Of You Who May Be Curious
Books appear to be making up approximately half of our move's gross tonnage. Just my comic books and trade collections took six boxes. On the off chance you were wondering, each box:
- has dimensions of 12x12x16 inches
- has a panel crush test rating of 32 lbs
- measures no more than 75 linear inches for the purposes of common-carrier shipping
- has a ( Read more... )
- has dimensions of 12x12x16 inches
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One Of Those Major Life Events You Hear About
By this time tomorrow, Helen and I will be nearing the end of the final walkthrough of the new house. Need to make sure the present owners didn't torch the basement or sacrifice a goat in the kitchen and neglect to clean up.
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Evolution In Action
It appears that cicadas really are deadly killers after all, at least in a passive-aggressive kind of way. A quick search of the news reveals numerous reports of children that have variously- stabbed
- run over
- set on fire
- smacked face-first into large immobile objects
- stabbed
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The Hell?
There is something going on in the Universe that sees Memorial Day weekend as significant. Attend:
1. We will be closing on the purchase of our new home.
2. We had to break the news to Chris, our dog-walker, that we'd be moving away and wouldn't need his services any longer. Turns out he'd been wondering how to tell us that he's moving his ( Read more... )