Midweek, already? Not much happened tonight, save for burgers on the grill with the in-laws - hung out, and tv caused bhk to fall asleep - I'll be trotting her off to bedski shortly.

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The monetary density of things...or what substances are worth their weight in gold, including $50 bills, LSD, and antimatter.

People have been saying that the new industrial grade swimsuits like the LZR Racer are worth their weight in gold. As you can see, this is clearly inaccurate. But such a suit is worth its weight in marijuana or industrial diamonds.

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Here's a reason creative folks might not want to use google chrome, at least for the time being -

From the EULA:

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services

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1 year ago - more enchanted forest pics, skipped game convention, new camera (one year old today!), The Host, Godzilla quiz, Nerd Test,

2 years ago - yub nub, Manger scenes with skittles, Godzilla and baby-llama Jesus on the brain, old time radio, silly quizzes,

3 years ago - had to take call, dan and I gabbed, missing kids, color/citizen test, suzy bday, walkabout map plan, wetlands commercial well before hurricane

4 years ago - hurricane frances - evac to Danny's

5 years ago - bad toon rising, international supers, Turkish accidents

6 years ago - flock of seagulls, speed racer custom cars, newt steals sabretooth, Plato, custom clix

7 years ago - location quiz, feelings, dead picture links

8 years ago - Norman and the walnut, old school observational junk

Sick right after lunch today - stomach cramps, vomiting and a bit of shakes afterward. I wish the bathroom at work was less centrally located.. I felt like I was broadcasting my problems to the whole office. Ah well... no helping that.

Watched season opener for Eureka last night and the start of Death at a Funeral. (spoilers on page - don't read, unless you care to know.) Both were pretty standard fare for the genre, but entertaining nonetheless. Product placement in Eureka - interesting... I was surprised that we watched it last night -was rather expecting it to be a "see the whole season prerecorded after it's ended" sort of thing. As for the movie, it's always nice to see Peter Dinklage.

BHK made salad and queso for me, and had some left over chik-fil-a strips in hers... it smelled wonderful, and mine was delicious.

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The Book of Secrets, Back Home Again

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I Used To Believe is a wonderful site where people share things they used to believe as a child. The vast menagerie of monsters that children create (most of which apparently live in the toilet) is simply amazing to me, and that section of the site is a favorite.

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1 year ago - extra-random rough draft entry, health update, food, shirt, trip, unerasable robot pic, helicopters, hate / bait?,

2 years ago - pom, apples and limeade, GP ahooga, close to the edit, burrito/screech butt, god lj, more ernesto a-comin'!

3 years ago - katrina track, toyota safe vs falling knives, brothers grimm, eco footprint, The Outbursts of Everett True , caffeinated death quiz, cat toy, superheroes and goats, office has no juice

4 years ago - on call all weekend, cej packet returned, super hero movies, charities, spectral analysis

5 years ago - begging for freebies, cases, frankie, wifi, paper toys

6 years ago - comic book ads, genetic ID card, lifegems, happy tree friends, Bheesh got a vette, free fonts, and Pynchon paper dolls

7 years ago - sci-fi dorkness (pity enterprise is so bad), red headed wildcat, bacchanalia, ultima Thule, stinky cab driver, lj "post limit hububb"

8 years ago - zoo day, de-compartmentalized some pals, Brown, turtle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BHK!!

Allison's B'day! I buttered her nose while she was distracted by playing audiosurf. (Got it for $5 this last weekend.) I was a little disappointed that my mp3 of Christopher Walken reciting Poe's "The Raven" was so linear.

As a gift / party-favor to all for BHK's day - A GAZILLION Free to print and play games.

Oh BGG, how I thank the Internets you're there.

If you're not into free games, (or even if you are, dear journal) here's a stop-motion zombie movie called Chainsaw Maid. Best zombie film this year. (from the same people who did Bloody Date )

No Lebanese Taverna Tonight - Falafel time must wait - instead we hit Gallo's Deli - food is still pretty good. Not as superior as Selby, but only a block or two from the house. BHK opened the remainder for her loot tonight.

I got her an assortment of little trinket-treats - My faves were earring-studs in the style of mexican sugar skulls and a bottlecap pin with a pirate inside saying ARG in letter beads.... but I'm partial to things skully. I need to take a picture of BHK's loot pile - other items were a lovey charm, a ouija board pin, and a horde of coupons to do / get things, from getting me in a good mood to a movie night with no snarky comments. (2 nights, if neither are Jane Austen-related).

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1 year ago - BHK Bday, (buttered via nightstand dollop), lots of bayfest food and heat, parade, spidey lunchbox, tarot test

2 years ago - robo-post while I'm on vaykay with BHK, dragonfly-kitty pic

3 years ago - google talk, web-surfing, Katrina, Robertson apologizes, v05-blueberry, medieval career, book meme, palm doodle, weather, power-out phone post

4 years ago - bag lady update, Twilight Zone: Planet of the Apes

5 years ago - got bro a Ganesh, (but I skipped the digeridoo), law and order coloring book, first day at new gig as good server king of the south, gabbed with mi Hala re: jhumkas and moonstones, and happy thoughts of working with her, Shal'weez.

6 years ago - heroclix improvised weapons, deadly toys, poemtag

7 years ago - pirate joke, selectivity, amor, warning label poll

8 years ago - aliens operate on my body, rhymes, colors, stevie

120 years ago - A plant grows in Mexteca, Mexico, which the natives call the "herb of prophecy." A dose of it produces sleep similar in all respects to the hypnotic state. The subject answers with closed eyes all questions that are put to him, and is completely insensible. The pathologic state brings with it a kind of prophetic gift and doublesight. Furthermore he loses his will and is completely under the control of another. On returning to himself he remembers nothing of what he has done. -Excelsior Cottager, August 25, 1888.

Oh My Goff! -Emmy award winner Angie Goff profiled me, the kitties and Alan & JC's pup Chae on her blog entry today ! (Picture here from the entry... eek and awesome. BHK is going to tease me mercilessly - She'd better watch it, or she'll get She-Ra'ed.) The WUSA9 team all have blogs it seems, and the bulk of them are very entertaining!

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Called Dr. Wolfe - cracked my back tooth, the one with the composite filling. I'm taking antibiotics starting tonight, and I'll be seeing him in a week for a fix-up. It only hurt a wee bit yesterday, but has progressed to headache level annoyance now. I wonder if the tooth will come out of my noggin before thursday... it feels a bit loose.

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recent Pyecam captures of Newton in the "treehouse" - as always, click to embiggen them!

We need to get pye in the light like that, so he doesn't look like the phantom blot !

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A very interesting graph of the estimated ideological positions of US voters, senators, and representatives shows that members of Congress are much more liberal and conservative than are US voters, who fall somewhere in the middle. (via 3qd)

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Maryland Renaissance Fest is coming up. I figure we'll go again, probably for one weekend, this time to just people watch, if nothing else. Scottish Weekend might be fun.

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Got a postcard from the bro. He sounds better when he's sobered up. I'll be writing him sometime between tomorrow night and this weekend. It breaks my heart every time I think of him... I thought I was mostly over it, but I'm really still fairly tender about it at times. If luck enters the picture, maybe he'll get some good, solid treatment, but I won't get my hopes up.

His arraignment was supposed to have been on Monday - I wonder how long before public records will give me follow-up info? He's got a calendar call on 9/2/08 - I guess I'll know more then.

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1 year ago - payday, mas90, chalupacabra, Ultimate Blade Runner set, Amy on her way home, All Star Superman, Harry Potter, Metatron

2 years ago - first pente loss to bhk, newt and squirrel pic, dice wars, proximity, nobility, vista speech off, clip art movie, hotspot hacks, gamelan,

3 years ago - entry loss, sky high good, Danny wins prizes, calls while not on-call, 10k superballs, Newtcam Law and Order, meme stuff, pics of lisas, and autostitch garage

4 years ago - museum pics, slippery, Loveless

5 years ago - tv shows, comic fonts, paper money, sound resource, gay high, starmark, CA2, tunnel walkies pix, Dan visit, toys

6 years ago - random voog glimpse, infrasound, dinner timeline, GRASP, hate group mapping, Jen plans on being wed, FMM steals paid time from me, mach 8 jets

7 years ago - animal traits poll, Museum of Black Superheroes, remonstrate, Pompano info, evil news, mental health day, rainbow newt poll, icq/lj tech trouble

8 years ago - April stress, New everway group review, Babel fish translations, green lantern, Jerry's Birthday bash, Discover marquee, Bev Preggers, Bro working at Amici's, We Like Pie, 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

Veggie-protein meatloaf, green beans from the garden and a simple salad made for a great dinner tonight, compliments of BHK.

Middleman was excellent, again. I wonder how long it'll take them to run out of steam? Alien dictators and Boy Bands. So far, so good!

That's about it for me today... Have some cool links du jour from around the web, dear journal!

Om Nom Nom Nom. - pictures badly photoshopped in paint to look like monsters eating things. Ah, simple pleasures.

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1 year ago - karma, John Lovitz pummels Andy Dick, car moving nearly squishes BHK and Amy, new shoes, Hp movie, bhk's 4th grade yearbook and kid goodies, matt's summer mix

2 years ago - movies, writing, housebound, heifer.org, king kong song, monday meeting, planetary mass comparisons, I doubt fate/design, lego jesus, oh don piano!

3 years ago - visited with constance1010 and tarpo, book meme, fanfic folks angry with original Harry Potter Author, zefrank's sing-along, AIM email, bananaman

4 years ago - zombies, urine, veggies, pagerank test

5 years ago - celeb divorce, there-sales, batman movie, witch game, hulk's diary

6 years ago - palm doodle-strip, lost hosted photos, crank yankers 80% sucks. Fortean times, F-ing Mongorians!

7 years ago - important people, ne plus ultra, anile, evil news, more majestic, now defunct Newton ICQ-bot

8 years ago - junky food, prepped April for launch, budgeting, hung out with bro, me no like stinky

BHK and I may go see The Fall tonight... I also I really want to see Son of Rambow before it leaves the theaters, too. We'll see how we feel after dinner.

So.. it's June already! Second day and so far, so good. Maybe we'll buy a bicycle today!

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Walrus man sent me this, to add to the coloring book community



awesome.

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via robin laws -

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1 year ago - I first see psycho rodent, books, Fahrenheit 451 misinterpreted, google gears sql, docmorph, network security tools, readymechs paper toys

2 years ago - mom and wilton project, a year without cable tv, o fortuna, castles, mr rogers rocks, friday 5, susp

3 years ago - June 3 is Free doughnut day, fog of war, one word movie (still fun!), blood, mp, I read to newt, bro telemarketing, book review, sloth defeats gluttony, killed comcast!, poor at philosophy, solar powered recharge backpack, deepest sender works, newt pic

4 years ago - pikachu combat icon, Weather, transit of Venus, GP call, Cult TV, tree, journal remix

5 years ago - First use of Thing as Blackbeard, Character Studio, My first hint of Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, bro gets a new phone after a bike crash, photo-Friday "transportation"

6 years ago - Apartment Shopping, world's smallest website, markers defeatcdprotection, sum of all fears, coming home fumigation, smile creators

7 years ago - SWAT Team visits my apartment, prompting me to move. (No-nose flips out, cam pictures, too)

8 years ago - newt recovers from Fritz's Parasite, and I discover Imood.com

Long weekend is almost upon us. I think we'll be staying close to home and walking a bit in the nice weather that's expected.

Not much to say today - off to work in a few - but have a few links from here or there.

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I forget if I linked to this recently or not - It bears repeating-

Austrian court agrees to hear arguments that a chimpanzee should be considered a legal person.

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Best Bumper sticker seen recently - "I Bet Jesus Would Use His Turn Signal"

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Am I too young to be nostalgic for Johnny Carson? I think not. I can't believe it's been 16 years since he retired.

My favorite swami Carson bit was the gag where gave the answer to questions sealed in envelopes.

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I have no good reason to want a curta calculator, other than it's cool. Curse you for putting the idea in my head, jwz, but thanks for the link to the flash curta emulator!

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1 year ago - museum camera sign picture

2 years ago - puffball collective, mm plans, bro mooching, pilar meme, tarpo scavenger hunt, sedef and weez coming, carmen sandiego, tiny text, coffee bomb

3 years ago - superhero meme ,Wayne Dyer not my thing, alien invasion from the ocean tv themes, vader 20Q, Tofu flavored like human flesh (for the vegetarian cannibal), It only makes me laugh, walkabout graffiti pix, tiny tiny text!

4 years ago - S&W apart, Dawn of the dead, Saw Shrek 2 last night, palm doodle, walkabout pictures, lilo & stitch experiments, pre-inca graveyard found, silly snape / puppetpals, Apeshit, bro

5 years ago - wants, slashdot blocked, best family guy line ever, nig newtie-eyes, book meme, rain

6 years ago - I was compared to Travis Tritt, an image of MyCn18, a broken link or 2,genetic music, Sleestak music, fresca and goldfish crackers, got the complete prisoner TV series on DVD, I restocked some clothes,discovered line-through deleted journals on bio-page.

7 years ago - propitiate, chaplet, sweetheart went out for ice cream, I've got naughty thoughts, brasilein, friends only review of new work arrivals. (all but one of whom still work at FMM.)

8 years ago - April interviewed for Barnies, EMAGE goes downhill, my first 'who I am' post. I was friended by sunusku, meemee & christin, and first thoughts about developing Newtcam

BHK is continuing to make great gastronomic strides with her "meatball" and bean soup. The veggie meatballs got a little crumbly, but they still added excellent texture and flavor to the spicy bean brew. Had more of the salad from yesterday as well, and it was a tasty counterpoint of cold crunchy to the hot and spicy.

Watched the first half of Rataouille (hey! got the spelling in one!) over our supper, and it looks very cute thus far.

Rainy outside... tornado warnings for Calvert and Prince Georges Counties.

Lunch today will be more fajitas and salad - tasty and very healthy.

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CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police.

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Per the always aware flying_blind - "I was surprised to see not only how many Betty Boop cartoons there are in the Internet Archive, but how much other stuff the Film Chest cartoon collection contains. 66 cartoons! That's like eight hours worth!"

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The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container.

The art piece was called “Victimless Leather,” and according to The Art Newspaper:

The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened . . . Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.

Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…That thing was never alive before it was grown.“

Link via seedmagazine.com, original story here.

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1 year ago - Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves - also lasagna, not shown.

2 years ago - allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie

3 years ago - little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factiods/excuses, sweater fashion, work form

4 years ago - MD, Nat'l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare

5 years ago - owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down

6 years ago - cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that's all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost

7 years ago - </b></a>menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)

BHK made stuffed cabbage last night... it was super yummo. I was a bit cranky and creaky watching Enchanted with her and the In-laws... the movie had a couple of cute bits in it, but was pretty cut-and-paste throughout. No real surprises, short of the animal bits, which I liked the most. City-animal summoning was keen... Flies were more disconcerting than roaches, I think.

Today BHK is meeting me at work for a little lunch picnic on the lawn downstairs... It's supposed to be mid-70s and sunny!

Thank you, anonymous commenter for the pancakes video.

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Best quote heard recently - "Trust in God, but tie your camel to the post." (I've heard it before, but not in conversation.)

On religion- recently got a link to a church furniture store via Newtcam. Slogan - Do you know the difference between a good pew and a bad pew?

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Scientists say the Earth gives off a low, constant hum. The origin of the hum is a mystery, but it drives Mars freaking nuts.

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big free abandonware downloads collection

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1 year ago - comcast vs my surfing, sewage eruption in north beach, tons o' work, dual-gendered deer, amy meetup, modok, the cage, pics of pye and squirrel, evil condo guy arrested

2 years ago - yellow + blue = no green?, pancakes, newt pix, easter bunny fight, farm hustle

3 years ago - mzk, dr who, nbc6 video feed

4 years ago - Khaan!, walkabout statue pictures, CoH, tv turnoff week, Jenjen

5 years ago - Passover, Good Friday, House of 1000 corpses, hair registry idea, past life poll

6 years ago - Pig book, Argentine ants, textarc, haiku, exploding private-parts,slug-eating plant, vibration energy, freedom force, Disney rides becoming movies

7 years ago - cartoons, weeping cherry, newt pic, web hits, Tom Green & PMS ruined my night

-via brian @ shoebox blog

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The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

(The comments are handy, too.)

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1 year ago - saw 300 with BHK and TM, supper at chevy's

2 years ago - six comments per entry, dark organic secrets, working rocket boots, no 'e's, hurricane names, ape & kitty,

3 years ago - superhero idea, prvt brokentoy on pavement, bandwidth pull, eclipse, DOJ presentation, Digicam RIP

4 years ago - Bubba Ho-Tep, Bro info, RI annoying

5 years ago - Season poll, spring rains

6 years ago - Newtie Mer, grabby bunny, text-m's, Pirate disfigurement poll, clever robber, outside reading sources online

7 years ago - sql, free pulp novels online

It's Danny's B-day! My internal schedule set in the 90s tells me that Kat and Pam's aren't too far off. I still picture all of them about a decade ago in my mind, even though I've only seen Danny with any frequency. (Kat once in person and in rare photos, Pam - not at all.)

Only a month until my own Birthday. I'm not feeling too bummed about it being the last year I start with a 3. (at least until I turn 300, I guess!) 39 seems a lot older to me than it feels. Maybe it's due to me being creaky and having back problems going back decades... but I'm not really feeling my age. I see lines around my eyes here and there... I look in the mirror when I brush my teeth and shave, but I don't see an old guy looking back at me. However... I don't see a kid, either. I certainly look a lot older now than when I started this journal in 2000. (and certainly more than in 1996, about 11 years ago here and my face squished against a scanner in '96, too, for that matter. ) Heck, if I have to rewind much more, I may as well link to a non-bearded pic of me from circa 1994, for that matter. Added bonus, Doug Wu and a clean-shaven Danny. Speaking of which - I've started growing a full beard out again, and it stuns me how much salt and pepper is in what was once a brownish-red jaw. I kind of dig it, not from a vanity perspective, but it feels right at this time of year to be a bit more furry.

When is a mid-life crisis supposed to hit? Ah, got it. 46, or thereabouts. Things are really quite good for me these days... Hopefully I won't suffer the same sort of psychological shakeup that some folks have at that time. On the agenda for this year is a more serious focus on health.

Of course, Newton has aged the most since I've started my LJ - First day I had him, back in the day... October of '99 , and About the same time in 07. He's still terribly dapper, and can put on a kitten-face easily when he wants.

BHK and Pye both are babyfaces across the board. I think BHK will be carded for booze when she turns 73.

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I would love to make or just have this Beast (Henry McCoy) Sock Monkey. Very Keen!

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Of the millions of webcomics out there, I've really only found about 3 that are funny, interesting, or well-drawn. Short of some clever stick figures and more well-rounded stick figures, not much about them thrill me.

I'm wondering when that cottage industry will have a culling period? I suspect never, and that's pretty great. Something for everyone, even if it's just the creator. Something that many critics forget is that they can choose not to read something that they find to be distasteful - or worse, boring. Same goes for podcasts, videos and journals, for that matter.

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I didn't do the polar bear swim this year... just didn't seem like much of an event, given how unseasonably warm it was. Of course, today, it's snow weather... Perversely, I'd have done it if the weather was like this yesterday.

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Time for a Meme, already? sure, why not? I got 23 out of 37 possible.

The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.

According to the creators, this is an activity "designed to help the participants gain awareness of the vast range of social class that exists within themselves and others". It was originally done with college students but I think it makes for a very interesting tool that helps me put my own experiences into perspective.

If you post this in your journal, please leave a comment on this post. To participate in this blog game, copy and paste the above list into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your responses in the comments.

When you were in college:

If your father went to college, take a step forward.
If your father finished college
If your mother went to college
If your mother finished college
If you have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
If you were the same or higher class than your high school teachers
If you had a computer at home
If you had your own computer at home
If you had more than 50 books at home
If you had more than 500 books at home
If were read children's books by a parent
If you ever had lessons of any kind
If you had more than two kinds of lessons
If the people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively
If you had a credit card with your name on it
If you have less than $5000 in student loans
If you have no student loans
If you went to a private high school
If you went to summer camp
If you had a private tutor
If you have been to Europe
If your family vacations involved staying at hotels
If all of your clothing has been new and bought at the mall
If your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them
If there was original art in your house
If you had a phone in your room
If you lived in a single family house
If your parent own their own house or apartment
If you had your own room
If you participated in an SAT/ACT prep course
If you had your own cell phone in High School
If you had your own TV in your room in High School
If you opened a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College
If you have ever flown anywhere on a commercial airline
If you ever went on a cruise with your family
If your parents took you to museums and art galleries
If you were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family.

Here is what folks did in a live version, stepping forward for each bolded item :

Now everyone recognize that you are at the same place academically.
Everyone turn around.
Everyone has permission to talk.
No one has permission to accuse any one or any group of anything.
Everyone must use “I” statements.
Note that the people on one end of the room had to work harder to be here today than the people at the other end of the room. Some of you had lives of more privilege than others. There is no one to blame, it is just the way it is. Some have privilege and some don’t.
(this can be said now or later, I don’t know where it will be appropriate)

Discussion:
What were the feelings that you had during this experience? Who was angry?
(Anger will be a primary emotion at this point.)
What, specifically, makes you angry?
Who are you angry at?

Who was happy?

Summary Statement
This experience was about creating awareness of privilege. What it is, what it does, and what it means. Having privilege does not mean that you worked less hard. All it means is that you had a head start, so maybe it does mean you didn’t have to work as hard . . . .

Homework
During the next week notice how your high school years helped or didn’t help your experience in school/at work . . . .

Explanations and Notes:
All of the step taking was about things not requiring effort on the students’ part, that were things done by others.

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1 year ago - polar bear swim review, polar bears in general

2 years ago - prisoner commentary on my lack of things to say, linkies to cams, mugshots, thumbs up, tiny & affordable computers, ultimate showdown, windows security hole psa

3 years ago - Mel's Gram moves in, Dan doesn't meet her, on call, A&E, smallware, a resolution I fairly succeeded at, curry on the brain

4 years ago - dropload, shoot around corners, I first hear about how capital punishment is a far more expensive system than one whose maximum penalty is life in prison, Urban Exploration Florida

5 years ago - bro/taxi trouble, conquer the world, smoking gun mug shots

6 years ago - Random Name Generator, gunplay dream, family channel, Scotto's head,2001 review, Japanese space shuttle, Afghan sports, pee color

7 years ago - words within words, I disagree with Georgia O'Keeffe, LJ bumpy

Tannenbaum cam is up... depending where there's movement, either an image will post from the Living room (under the tree, by the train) or the Office (By the couch)

Image of the moment.



Pardon the tree-cam's quality... it's the original newtcam, over a decade old and well worn from being dropped, whacked around, and otherwise abused.

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Some cool-looking movies headed our way next year. Give me indiana jones 4, and don't make it stink!

I'm disappointed that someone stole my magnetized brain idea, and put it in a Jack Black vehicle... but it looks cute. Plus, Wall-E looks like a lot of fun.

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A kindly stranger has pointed me in the direction of Doug Wu, via friendster! I look forward to hearing from him. I'd like for him to meet BHK.

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Some Tentacled decor that I'd love to get Eryx or any Cthuloid / 'pod fan for Xmas.

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1 year ago - acim / td interaction, newt and pye begin to blend

2 years ago - new chinese, florida snowman, day 44 of compusa drama, shadowrun, weird food, uncle joe's monkey-man army

3 years ago - I lift mel w/one hand, video hits, anagram santas workshop, john dee's crystal ball stolen, christmas meme, baby theft

4 years ago - considering an upgrade, Nigerian magic is weak vs bullets

5 years ago - Ft. Laud facts, Antarctic Life, Muslim Roundup, Bro at his worst finds a stray cat, make a supervillian desktop

6 years ago - Bodyboarding on lava, McMummies, xp patch

7 years ago - Restless, Special Olympics cheaters, wondering about where my parts were pre-me, palm reading

come visit my little city! I'd like to see other folks' cities, too!

http://scottobearia.myminicity.com/

It started with a foggy Monday morning. (sakes, that's even weaker than "It was a dark and stormy night.") Sleepy start, but a little nap on the train into work gave me a little jump start. Warmer lately... upper 40s, with very little wind.

Work progressed evenly, though there is plenty to do. The holiday cookie competition was launched in the break room - 4 entries this year. A white chocolate / cranberry drop, pecan bar with milk chocolate, an oatmeal-type square, and a rum ball sort of cookie.... I'm torn, because they're all good stuff. I think that I'll end up voting for #2 or #3... another sampling tomorrow will help me to decide. ;)

Lunch was leftover ziti and veggies from last night's din-din... it was yummy - garlic is a wonderful thing.

Heading home was a bit pokey, due to a delay on the green line... a person was hit by a train at Fort Meade, home of the NSA. My imagination makes me wonder if it's a spy or dark ops guy running away from the men in black. Some mastermind making off with the keyword list from ECHELON, no doubt. We have a couple of those radomes in North Beach/Chesapeake Beach, come to think of it.

Why yes, I did run a little program on the above for wiki-links. That's sort of distracting... I doubt that I'll do that as regularly again. I'm a little goggle-eyed just looking at all of the possible snap link-bubbles there.

Got home, and snacked on Cheese crackers while watching Gossip Girl with BHK. I'm not sure when the episode was made, but it sure has a writer's strike feel to it... Dixie from Brisco County has aged a lot better than Bruce Campbell. Then again, he's ten years older than her. Speaking of which... I really dug Burn Notice - Fresher to me than House... presses all the right buttons for me.

After a snack, we finally got to see Transformers, despite all the warnings against it. I tend to agree, that it was really cornball and kind of dumb, but it had a couple of fun bits. I wouldn't have walked out of the theater, but I might have complained about paying $10 to see it. Good for a no-brainer netflix night. Not worth seeing more than once. Speaking of flicks, I'm looking forward to seeing Machine Girl (note, blood-spray violence in the trailer - flying guillotine, drill bra, machine gun arm, and tempura / sushi trauma.)

BHK brought home two more game rentals... tried out one, Geometry Wars. Fun, but tough... very retro feel due to the vector graphics and asteroids / omega race vibe. Not a lot to it, but the controls are pretty nifty, and multi-player has some real bite to it.

Overall, we had a relaxing night - still no lights on the tree, but that's where we were last year, too. Tomorrow, I think that there's a strong possibility of putting a few more items up... our little outdoor teak tree has some all-weather lights on, and it looks terribly cute. Photos are going to have to follow soon.

As it is, I'm up too late! A quick link, and I'm off to bedski.

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via flying_blind - (also responsible for pointing me to this keen transit site back a bit ago)

"Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. It's goatloads of old Edison cylinder recordings, some downloadable, plus a selection of them can be streamed while your browse. And yes, they have "Yes We Have No Bananas", as recorded in 1923 by the Green Bros. Novelty Band. What more could one ask of any website?"

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1 year ago - Tony vs Paul (still pretty dang awesome), newtcam, Annapolis cam, Xmas tree up, but undecorated.

2 years ago - complex life, sex roles, Narnia, big brain repair issues

3 years ago - Newt stretch, Mels' place, grumpy workers, lost good, many random Scotto factoids, best chitty-chitty bang bang line

4 years ago - movie clapper poll, hakarl, RI not nice, Rudolph: Behind the scenes.

5 years ago - Rubber monsters, the four humors, feculence, Jane Goodall believes in Bigfoot, prezzies

6 years ago - autochthonous, Nobel prize, Cetus, BEAR WINS; SUIT LOSES

7 years ago - nifty links, Fidel Castro's John Lennon statue, and life's perfectly swell, KMFDM

Discovered winamp remote works on the wii! Nice to be able to stream my audio or video to other machines, but super nice to do it with the wii - now I can view any saved tv shows or movies on the tv without burning a dvd and moving it over. You can send to phones and pda devices, too... I'll have to see if my palmtop is able to view streaming video - that'd make for some spiffy lunchtime viewing. (If not, no worries - I still have episodes of the 4400, Eureka, Rome, and Brass Eye to check out on my PSP.)

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John Dies at the End. Nicely done... you can read a bit online - he's the same guy from pointlesswasteoftime.com, way back when. I'm glad he got a gig... gives me hope for both myself and for GP. Speaking of which, I've got to get back to writing, preferably on the subway trips home from work. (Into work might be interesting too... more surreal, I'd wager.)

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First Day back to work after the long weekend... I'm pretty please with how things are gearing up for the rest of the year! Warming up for my annual review next month... building a list of accomplishments / stuff that needs work for later.

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1 year ago - lunch with danny, packing to move to md. dealing with memories of dad and bro

2 years ago - dan helped me move to condo, blueberry muffins, big brain errors begin, Newt Settled quickly, lennon lyrics

3 years ago - ivr down, TAG, muffin tree, bradbury quote (I prefer to listen to my head, heart, and gut), 7 sins, ramayana, torrents of tv, pumpkin soup, beachcam, palmtop pics of riverwalk

4 years ago - Gollum sings, wacky food, Out and about, parasites, statistics

5 years ago - palm doodle, dreams, henna, free chex mix, straight dope on Thanksgiving

6 years ago - Procrustean, news, wicker man, code troubles, naughty/nice poll, HP Lovecraft library

7 years ago - @, plantain recipe, ground zero after the presidential wars, squatch, Spanish potty mouf, sugar magnolia, Twinkie poem