harvest time again

Yarrr! It be Talk like a pirate day and Adam West's 78th B'day!

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First Columbo movie was fun...the M.O. of letting the bad guy be lulled into a false sense of security by a bumbler is a solid one. The writing has held up, and the acting is a lot better than other shows of the period. Nice use of Double Indemnity on TV as a story within a story.

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Wow... the menstrualhut has over 2250 members now. When I first started it, I had no idea it'd still be growing and active five years later, pretty much on its own. I'm going to have to swing by the Museum of Menstruation when I'm in Maryland. His site is a goodly part of why the hut got rolling in the first place.

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Washington D.C. (AHN) - A heap of debris taken from quarry trash in Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what researchers believe is the oldest writing ever found in the New World. Researchers say the serpentine block dates back almost 3,000 years and was created by people from Olmec civilization.
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This is what all laws should be like!

"A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal."

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Thingie I stole from somewhere on a random lj

YOU ... C A N ... O N L Y ... T Y P E ... O N E ... W O R D !

N O ... E X P L A N A T I O N S !

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This morning, the world smells of talc, steam, fresh linen and a faint hint of soap. It feels clean.

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The Shire has many flavors of eighteenth century English architecture and landscaping chosen because the style of the period was enchanting, evoking good feelings of a simpler lifestyle than the present.

If they were in true hobbit style, I could really see Danny going to live there.

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from weird al's latest video- "White and Nerdy"



Moment of Lyric -

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First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
MC Escher - that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawking's in my library
My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at Minesweeper - I could play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers' movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well I'm number one
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I got a soldering gun
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

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Via Lore -

I just learned something totally amusing and insane! The "Mahna Mahna" song made famous by the Muppets started out in the soundtrack to Svezia, inferno e paradiso (1968),a softcore pornography film! It was apparently used as the backing music for a scene involving lesbian BDSM! I completely need to see this movie! And yet, it doesn't seem to be on sale anywhere. I've said this before, but something has clearly gone wrong with capitalism.

Sean has alerted Lore to the existence of the trailer on YouTube. Warning: contains boobs and butts. Also warning: Does not contain the Mahna-Mahna song.

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1 year ago - Talk like a pirate day, Adam West is 77, taxi price hike, broke times, snarly thoughts, fiat lux, hurricane rita, list quiz-meme, saw greenelvish

2 years ago - iPatch, out with Danny, walkabout pictures, Clown doll conspiracy

3 years ago - Pirate palindrome, photo-"found", Spectre reads minds... literally, severed heads, Brazil tech (#6101)

4 years ago - mysterious phone call, myth structure of Miami kids, Newt pic, peskyvan, cej figure done, heroclix with Danny pictures, cosmic encounter

5 years ago - museum of online museums, dictum, interesting lj-er poll, inanimate object poll, I love degauss, "the incident", jimmy back on Ben stein,Halloween cookie recipe, Litter box-cookies, Adam West 73

6 years ago - word from Wu!, slackin', food for the poor

Listen to this article

Lovely lazy wakeup morning... slacked and relaxed.

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The crook who grew up to be a shoe

Big Nose George Parrot, the only man in American history to be turned into a pair of shoes.

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After watching the first season of the Shield... weird that they didn't work with Vic getting shot much past the episode where it happened. they seem to get on top of most details like that interlocking.. he sort of just healed up and moved on.

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Light-Emitting Shirts from Philips - very keen... I could see this as being quite entertaining, with the right applications. combine this with some sort of transponder of gps technology, and your clothes or nearby furniture/curtains could give information like arrows directing you to a certain location, or color-coded type reference tabs for people... It'd be kind of neat to have a glowing digital clock or scrolling message/logo on a t-shirt, too. Maybe link it up to wifi and rss to read updated journals each refresh? Pretty handy for cycling at night, too... complete with illuminated turn signals or goodyear blimp type ads, probably.

Press Release

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A strange black cat on your porch brings prosperity. - Scottish superstition

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On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

Conclusion - The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for ''radio location'' (ie,GPS), and other communications with satellites (see, for example,[3]). The2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though not affiliated by government, these bands are at the hands of multinational corporations.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government,possibly with the involvement of the FCC. We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.

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1 year ago - schwag bag, tall scotto shadow pic, finished fdle year, weezle talk, burning life with hp, preference poll,

2 years ago - Bag Lady, EN passes, Diarists more prone to illness, WoW pics, Hurricane Ivan, "because he said so", Puppy shoots man, KSC storm

3 years ago - RPC issue, Badger badger, baboon nose suitcase, RIAA sues a 12 year old, RI's birthday, new opus strip.

4 years ago - Newt Play, vote day, traded some magic cards for heroclix/mage knight, lem-doodles, wobbly

5 years ago - got a lovely poem, found old family letters, cadmean victory, stayed home, assorted news, Anne Heche's wacky interview, 'mat event, observations

6 years ago - embarrassing fight club reference, everway, Chat 'toon review

If you haven't yet, please install this security fix.

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The Dan-man and I went out to an all-you-dare-eat buffet for Sushi/Thai/Chinese, and it was actually quite good. Afterward, we swung by Crabby Jacks to solve his caffeine needs and Miranda got a pretty awesome tip ($5 after a bill for $0.69 - the coffee was free and I had a draft) - after we hung out a bit and chitty-chatted. I told him a bit about my beliefs regarding meeting someone for a lifelong commitment at this point (I suspect odds of meeting someone that I have chemistry with, a minimum of emotional baggage, and a mutual appreciation of one another to be very, very, very slim.) Explained to him why Magda wasn't a viable option, though she and I did have a nice time together. I honestly don't know if there are any wedding bells in my future, but If I were a betting man, I know that I'd opt for "not likely." I know good couples are out there... Dave & Cathi / GrayPumpkin & Katt are two of the best examples of two pairings as well-suited for one another for life that I can think of.

In the last decade, I've had the following serious relationships:

Lees - 6 months
Eryn - 3 months
April - 4 months
Rachel - 6 months
CEJ - 2ish years, Almost 3 if you count on and off time
D - A bit over a year
Mel - 3 months
Magda - 5 months (9 minus the months where she was in Columbia)

Come to think of it, I don't have any trouble getting dates... it's the longevity that needs work. Breakups are fairly even, an assortment of reasons, from a lack of trust to a lack of interest.

Hair-wise, we've got a Blond x2, Brown x3, Black x2, and a Redhead
Tattoo-wise - 6 had ink.. some got it while I was with 'em.
Politics/Attitudes - Leftx2, Modx4, Rightx2
Readers - 4 yes, 4 no
eye color - Brown - 5 Hazel -1 Blue - 2
all were fairly chesty

I've been proposed to on two different occasions, and I honestly thought I'd end up with CEJ for life... she was the last one that gave me those sorts of feelings.

Looking back, I do pretty well, for a serial monogamist with no vehicle of his own.

Dan got me a few very nice gifts for Christmas.... No Software this year. A used book on dinosaurs, a new copy of Pratchett's Last Hero, a t-shirt and a zip-up shirt (both too small, unfortunately), a carrying case for a digital camera/palmtop, and some jalepeno peanuts. We tried out the Peking House restauant, but it had a bad vibe, so we went to the one we're more fond of dining at.

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Moment of Lyric - mp3 / flash video (Here's his LJ, by the way - trapezzoid)

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This is boring... Yes, I'm falling,
but it's taking quite a while.
My destination is impending.
Might as well go out in style.
I put my arms out to the skies,
whistle a tune and close my eyes,
trying to briefly realize perpetual motion.
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Big Hole Simulator

Uses the Google Maps API to tell you where you'd end up if you started digging a hole through the Earth at a certain geographic point. (thanks, qdot!)

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1 year ago - Started using my paypal to go to charity, carnivore pigeons, Video-time with Mel, newt pics, prosperity gospel

2 years ago - outing review, saw Val & Rhonnie, google specific search, Bollywhat, missing the big mob poll answerers

3 years ago - linky linky, one word, communications breakdown begins, nifty flying guy, Belgians link to me, Dave's clutch breaks, cold mountain movie being mad

4 years ago - rumors, comparing haunted house stories, smudge sticks (note to self, get more stuff to make more), defleshing (another news article gone...inspires me to put all my news articles behind lj-cuts for future ref) and naptime (naptime pix overwritten by other archive images)

5 years ago - dead phone, feeling love grow, Viet beer at the mall, lj & IM trouble

http://www.nipguards.com/

All silly pictures aside, this isn't a joke. NipGuards, LLC manufactures and sells a patented product that prevents nipple chafing and abrasion.

a testimonial - Recently when I ran a road race, I too became a victim. A victim of nipple abrasion. It was about half way through the race that I noticed my nipples becoming tender. When I checked them out at the end of the race, I saw that they had been rubbed raw. So raw that they were bleeding. Can you imagine the embarrassment and ridicule I endured? It was horrible. Now that I have my Nipguards, I can now concentrate on my running, not my bleading nips, and give 100% everytime. It is because of Nipguards that I can now stay in shape and keep on runnin'. Thanks Nipguards!