SHAMELESSLY COPIED FROM MULTIPLE PEOPLE ON MY F-LIST ( Read more... )

OK, market research people. I know you have a job to do, and that job sometimes involves surveying people to find out what they think or feel about various topics. I'd like to help you--no, really I would. But if you ever want me to help you with a telephone survey again, you're going to have to adhere to a few ground rules.

1) Keep telephone ( Read more... )

It's like word association; you know, when you hear a word and say the first thing you think of:
dog...cat...lion...Simba

Cat links with both dog and lion, but dog has nothing directly to do with cat or anything that follows.

( So last night I played the game with ingredients as I made dinner. )

I remembered to wear my Coming Out Day! button today! But I had to wear it on my purse instead of my shirt. (My class full of preschoolers would rip it off my shirt.)

You may not be able to access this video (it's on Comcast), but if you can, it's worth watching. Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report eulogizes Steve Jobs as only he can.

Update:That video is no longer available, but here is part of it on YouTube.

One of the communities in the LJ spotlight this week is ringer_tv, a community of fans for the new tv series, Ringer. The show has only aired one? episode so far, so I find it hard to believe it's such a thriving community that it caught the attention of the powers that be at LJ. I'd almost find it hard to believe that it already has such an active fandom ( Read more... )

OK, I've been putting off this post for a while because (A) Children's Hospital blocks my access to LJ (And DW) so I couldn't post "live", (B) you're probably getting sick of "My daughter is sick" posts, and (C) I had to gather my thoughts. But I couldn't avoid it forever. After a hospitalization, I always feel like I can't post anything else ( Read more... )