I will friend people who I can determine to be genuine. But if I can not read your language and you do not drop me a note and we do not have any friends or interests in common, then I am sorry but I will not friend you. I need some reason to think you are genuine and you are not just trying to increase your readership.

Just a freaking moment! What AUTOMATIC re-bill ( Read more... )

Check this google maps link. The sandy colored building on the corner collapsed on Wednesday night.

See the BBC News for details.

Weird, I didn't know the AA did home repairs. In the US the AAA will do two things, jump start or tow. Oh, I suppose they will sell you gas too? While checking on UK adverts, to see if they have followed the US line of portraying all men as idiots, I came across this.
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While this goes against dogma it doesn't really necessarily tell us anything definitive. Pain is a personal and internal thing, nobody can tell you what you are experiencing or how that compares to some standard.

See the article here.

Oddly when I think about how I want to tell the story of yesterday the conclusion I am heading to is that I need to replace my car with something that will allow is to go anywhere we are interested. What I still don't know is what to replace it with ( Read more... )

I am driving a 328hp car today, so of course I see the latest police tech up close. But not personal. I am too careful for that, today at least. I expect cops on the Dunbarton Bridge when the traffic is thinning out and it is daylight, so I was doing 62 in a 55 like everyone else including buses and big rigs. As we crested the top I was looking ( Read more... )

Well, the sun was setting behind us and this was the almost full moon over the bay in the other direction. It made the city of SF an interesting color. This is from Twin Peaks.


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We were at Yosemite today. The first thing we noticed on the way in was that the Merced river was almost empty. In places it is almost entirely under the rocks in its bed. Last time we were there it was a raging torrent. That happens when it is frozen, but it wasn't frozen, at 8,000 feet the temperature was 50F.


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If you wonder what all the fuss is about, or don't know that there is any fuss, you can read all about it here.

Basically the new CEO of LJ is making a lot of changes and could not give a crap what anyone else thinks about it, or how it affects them and the communities they run. He has been deleting some comments, the only ones I see are in Russian ( Read more... )