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I'm looking on behalf of a friend who is going to be forced to live out of her truck for the summer to save up money for damage deposit, first month's rent, and general reserve. Through no fault of hers, the apartment she was at got severely smoke damaged by a fire in the unit across the hall from hers. The apartment she had was barely tolerable ( Read more... )

....I'm fairly sure there's something wrong with me here ( Read more... )

My parents are both fairly perceptive about politics in general and specific ploys politicians use to mislead and manipulate in particular. I remember when I was studying Nazi Germany in World War II history class and somehow Mom noted this "one of the cleverest things Hitler did was to quickly identify himself as the driving force behind national ( Read more... )

okay, there's this moderately amusing webcomic, http://www.egscomics.com It's kind of like Buffy crossed with Parker Lewis Can't Lose and a bit of the Tuck saga. I just had one of the only times I've felt good about the world around me in recent years. There's this silly bit in the gaming ( Read more... )

Back in the late seventies, when Punk Rock was the dominant form of rebellious music, a bunch of musicians came to a realisation that led to the creation of a new genre. The conversation went a bit like this ( Read more... )

I've had a few stories that have had a huge impact on my life in non religious literature (the nature of the impact of religious stories differs because the wrestling with the unanswerable and unspeakable dominates the narrative more because religion is focused and pointed toward that struggle. Not to say that regular stories don't do that too ( Read more... )

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I just upgraded to yim 11 tonight and I was rather nonplussed at something. You cannot save your conversation history on just the local machine anymore. that is NOT an option. If you want to log you conversations, you MUST store it online with yahoo. Moreover the EULA sounds like they can rummage through your conversations too. Now, I know in ( Read more... )

in Mage the Ascension the proagonists normally are ultra-powerful mages from "the Nine Traditions", mystical paths of philosophy and power seeking to reunify the sundered One that predates the universe. Their outlooks vary wildly. When I first heard of it, I was drawn predominantly to Euthanatos (bring ascension by forcing champions through ( Read more... )