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Sol setting on a martian landscape
I had to post this wonderfully strange yet odly familiar sight. In the picture below, you can see our star Sol, setting on a martian landscape thanks to NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
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Updated: Mac software I use
2008/05/23 update
Products I've paid for:
AppZapper - Deletes an application and its associated files.
TextMate - A rather decent programmers editor. I use it daily for work.
iWork '08 - Apples office suite. Word editing, spread sheet, presentation.
Parallels Desktop - Virtualization. Hate to say it, but I do have to test my stuff on IE.
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Country vs City
After living in well, I dunno if I would call it 'country'... but pretty BFN as far as things go... and now living in the middle of a city... I really start to appreciate the differences between the two.
In the country, every now and then the person who owned the farm near me would fly his helicopter... for whatever farmers fly helicopters for.
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piercings
A friend of mine wanted to get her first piercings ever... so I ended up taking her to a shop I know of in Huntington Beach today ( Read more... ) -
Privilege
I saw this post on class privilege:
http://feministgal.blogspot.com/2008/02/privilege.html
And figured I would post.
Anything in bold makes me privileged:
If your father went to college
If your father finished college
If your mother went to college
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Omg...
"Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in the bedroom of their home."I just couldn't help but to post this link ( Read more... ) -
thoughts on polyamory...
Just now, for whatever reason, I found myself needing to do a google search. I noticed that google thought I was logged in, which is kinda odd considering that I generally never use gmail or anything. After looking up into the top right corner, I noticed that Cara had in fact left herself logged into her email account on my computer ( Read more... ) -
Back from the surgery
This was my first ever surgery, and I had no idea that when you get surgery they want you to remove all metal before the operation when they plan to be using a cauterizing device ( Read more... ) -
How well do you know your siblings?
You know... I've known my little brother a damn long time, and it just amazes me just how many things I didn't know about him.
He has recently informed me that since the age of about 14 or so, he has been bulimic and a heavy cutter.
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Why body modifications?
Someone recently asked me why I am into the whole idea of body modifications. Although I had a general idea about what I wanted to say, I did have to think a while about my answer. I wish it was a simple answer, but its quite a bit deeper then I thought it was going to be ( Read more... )