Burma!

Google has failed, maybe Livejournal can help.

I want a filter for gmail such that Rx-Medications, Rx Medication, Rx'Medication, etc all get deleted. Rx*Medic doesn't seem to work, the * doesn't seem to work as a wildcard. Is there a way to use wildcards in Gmail filters?

While playing World of Warcraft, someone mentioned a fish they fished up that could be used as a fairly spiffy weapon, called the Dark Herring. The tagline on the description was "herring seeks your life". I've got to assume that's some sort of pop reference, but googling just comes up with WoW references; I can't find the original source. ( Read more... )

I added one filter to my gmail, automatically deleting everything with the phrase "A Great Canadian Pharmacy is here", and I'm now getting about 5% of the spam I used to. Woohoo!

If anyone I know has really been trying to tell be about some great pharmacy in Canada, try resending. :)

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

(or have been or will be in a heterosexual marriage)

Impromptu self-portrait meme

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Pic ( behind the cut )

I was doing a bit of gardening yesterday, and apparently ran into a patch of poison ivy or the equivalent. And I must have scratched and/or touched myself in quite a few places while I still had the oil on me, because I now have a rash on my wrists, belly button, face, and crotch. Guess which is the worst ( Read more... )

Happy Leap Day, everybody!

Happy New Year!

There are a few movies that have scenes which always get to me, no matter how many times I see them. They're guaranteed to make me tear up. In Apollo 13, when the rocket takes off. Casablanca, when Laslo leads the cafe in singing the French anthem. The Natural, when the ball crashes into the lights ( Read more... )