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Movie review: Eagle Eye
I'm not going to write a synopsis of Eagle Eye, just post some thoughts inspired by the movie.
Firstly, Shia LaBeouf (whose name is hard to spell) is playing the same type of character as he did in the Transformers franchise, just a little older. While he does it well, it was kind of odd - I don't usually strongly associate characters and actors (to ( Read more... ) -
New diet musings
I've been wondering what to do with this journal for a while, considering I'm not very good at consistently posting, and pretty much everyone's on FB now. But, on FB I don't want to blather on about myself too much, so I think I shall use my LJ for stream-of-consciousness navel-gazing. XD
My thought to the world today is that I never would have ( Read more... ) -
Aquarium knowledge
When your room temperature is usually somewhere around 68*F in the winter, cover your open-topped tanks. Otherwise your heater won't be able to keep up! (As in, there's a FIVE DEGREE DIFFERENCE between open and covered! Be careful not to cook the fish when you cover the tank!)
Ps. socolofi are territoral bastard fish. They want real estate. And a ( Read more... ) -
Oh hey, I should post?
It's probably a bad sign that the only reason I come to LJ anymore is to add comments to private entries detailing the water chemistry in my aquaria. That is bad, right ( Read more... ) -
Ooops
File this under "You really should have figured it out a lot sooner than you did" - see how bright the light is in the aquarium pic on yesterday's aquascaping post? Really bright. So bright, in fact, that it was actually really difficult to get close-up photos of the fish when they were swimming up top, because the intensity of the light washed ( Read more... ) -
New aquascape!
I would post before and after photos, but it turns out no before photos actually exist. This is probably a really good thing, because the tank decorations before reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally sucked. Now it sucks much less, and is even kind of passable!
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Garden "deals" and my front yard
Garden mail-order ads amuse me. They're essentially all, "Hmm, we have a bunch of random plants left over, let's bundle it all together and sell it as a 'collection'!" At least the latest from Spring Hill was honest about it and called it a "grab-bag" instead. Unfortunately, even if I did have a yard large enough to just go in and turn major areas ( Read more... ) -
Communication FAIL
This post inspired by: this Althouse post and its comments. Especially commenters "DADvocate" and "wuzzagrunt ( Read more... ) -
Why targeted advertising is made of win
So I was reading an article, about innovation in technology (and how our Industrial Age education system needs to change to reflect that those kids aren't being trained to be factory workers anymore) that mentioned, as an aside, a blurb about matching DVR data with store membership cards so that companies can see how effective their advertising is ( Read more... )
