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| Friday, July 10th, 2009 | ||
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lyonesse |
12:20a | happy new year, nikola tesla! may you all celebrate in appropriate manner :) |
| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | ||
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mamishka |
5:32p | This is why I like getting checks .... I totally don't trust direct deposit. Not because they screw that part up, but because more often than not I find that companies just screw up my paychecks. Sure, when you have direct deposit you get a little slip with the info, but I find I (and most people) are much less likely to check that to make sure that it is right. When you get a check, however, you TOTALLY look it over and check it out and as such catch mistakes. SIFF somehow just 'lost' my last three days of work. Since I didn't get a check this last pay period, I pestered them about it and now, hopefully, the matter will be remedied. This happens ALL the time. Everywhere I work. Guh. What's a girl have to do to get paid these days?? Current Mood:  annoyed |
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mamishka |
11:49a | Monster Mash musing So I keep thinking about the whole Monster Mash thing, keep pondering whether I want to make something more out of it. What more might be I'm not sure. Thinking maybe a class in the Experimental College? Just a silly thing? I did propose an exhibit at Bumbershoot involving Mad Scientists and, in part, monsters, but they didn't go for it this year. And of course I keep wondering if I will have a certain someone on my back if I do anything more 'official'. Need to remind myself to check in with a lawyer the next time they have one of those free 'artist law consultation' thingies that happen every so often to make sure that I can do what I want to do without fear of said person having a legal angle on me. Guh. I don't think said person has a legal leg to stand on, but I don't know that. The Norwescon liason had a lawyer spouse who said that what I do is not copyright infringement, but I'd rather talk to someone one-to-one and hear that for myself. Anyone happen to know of a lawyer who wouldn't mind answering some copyright questions for free? Heh. :-} In that vein, however, I'm wondering if I want to make a website that is dedicated to the Mashing of Monsters. Monstermash.com/org/net/info are all taken. No surprise there. Monster-mash.com/net are taken, but .org is still available. EDIT: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} melsner suggests the following ...Monstermashing - everything but .net is available Monstermashes - everything is available Monstermasher - most are already taken And then of course there is the question of whether or not to just make up some other name for the whole monster mashing thing. But I do like Monster Mash. It's what I've been calling it and it's descriptive. Then again, I'm pretty miserable keeping up with websites and my html skills are anything but 133t. Course, I could just make a Monster Mash LJ or something like that. Hmmmmm. That has a nice existing structure to it and photo album options. Maybe something more hip though? MySpace? Thoughts, suggestions, ideas, etc regarding any of the above is, of course, welcome. That all said, I think I will be Monster Mashing some time this weekend, with or without company. If anyone is interested, let me know when is convenient. This is in no way a 'pity' call - only those actively interested in Mashing Monsters need reply. Current Mood:  contemplative |
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mamishka |
9:08a | Weekend socialness cancelled Due to a decided lack of both interest and availability, there will be no Movie Night or Monster Mash this weekend. Siiiiigh. Maybe I'll make monsters on my own. :/ Current Mood:  blue |
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solarbird |
7:19a | please enjoy this In the wake of the "changing the complexion" racist rampage in Pennsylvania, please enjoy this from Fox News and Washington Monthly: [Fox and Friends host Brian] Kilmeade was reflecting on a study that found married people fare better when it comes to Alzheimer's than divorcees. Fox News is "pro-family," so it might seem like the kind of study Kilmeade would approve of.And now, Current Mood:  sick |
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solarbird |
1:06a | going to disneyland Going to Disneyland. spazzkat made two comics about that. (I like the second one a lot.) Back l8r, try not to destroy the world while I'm gone. Current Mood:  sleepy |
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mamishka |
12:27a | Siiiiiiigh! It's a good thing that Comic Con is sold out. Cause I don't have the money to attend it even though Hayao Miyazaki, my most favorite animation artist/director ever is going to be in attendance despite the fact that he pretty much never comes to the US. Guh. Right, right, though, it's really all moot. I have no money, the con is sold out. This is a good thing, right? Right?? Siiiiiiiigh. I hate being poor. :-( Current Mood:  disappointed |
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annathepiper |
12:06a | Off to see The Mouse! Folks, I am off to Disneyland in the morning! Don’t nobody burn down the Internet while I’m gone. Talk amongst yourselves–and be thinking of what I ought to name the iPhone I will be acquiring most likely on Monday! I may or may not Tweet from the park, but either way, rest assured there will be tales of Mousey goodness upon my return. Mirrored from annathepiper.org. |
| Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | ||
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annathepiper |
8:09p | Since I’ve been asked, a contest addendum!
I’ve had no formal naming scheme for my personal electronics, across the history of my buying stuff, aside from loose association with one of my fandoms. In my time I’ve owned: Amiga 500: Elvis Overall themes here: musical fandom (i.e., Elvis, Elvis’ middle name, middle name of Elvis’ stillborn twin brother); Elfquest (Newstar and Winnowill), music (musical terms). Our servers here at the Murkworks are all named after objects in Elfquest (Newmoon, Lodestone, Door), and our media server is also named after an Elfquest character (Kimo). I have a thumb drive named after Fallberry, one of the Preservers I used to play on Two Moons MUSH. So anything that invokes any of my fandoms is certainly fair game, and Elfquest is certainly one of my longest-running fandoms. Anything invoking MUSH alts I used to play or characters I’m writing now, also fair game, as are appropriate musical terms. I will further add that anything that refers to an assistant-type character, computer, or AI, especially if it’s connected to any of my fandoms, is a Good Idea. Mirrored from angelakorrati.com. |
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lyonesse |
10:27p | techniques for seminar just a memo really: katatori static to ki test, comi-nage katatori with push, elbow down kokyunage katatekosatori static nikkyo katatetori pull ikkyo tenkan ushiro tekubitori kneeling kokyunage front fall (if time and ukemi) |
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lyonesse |
9:22p | quote without context: on psychodramas "i swear, you just can't leave these people alone for two minutes." "may i repeat, derisively, 'amateurs'?" |
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lyonesse |
8:49p | riding logs & silks, or, what i do between psychodramas RIDING LOGS last couple rides were "i get on to show students gaits" mostly, plus a lesson in which our trot was imho much improved but we couldn't canter for shit. today i went on a proper long trail ride, all by my only and my pony in the drizzly green day, and we're still all about the trot and not so much on the canter (though we got one SPECTACULARLY NICE canter, in which my seat worked properly -- in the old wintec saddle at that -- towards the end). stjarni's feet are too soft, b/c of all the rain we've been having i think, and he ended up coming home with chips on all four feet. i went around and rasped them smooth; hopefully my barefoot trimmer won't hate me. (it was her idea and her rasp....) SILKS: made it back to silks last night (my fourth remedial, fifth of this session -- i missed one). made it up to tap the biner on my secondary leg, go me! still teh suck on flamenco hand, though i can pull it off on one silk when in double footwraps. attempts to change the hip key/arabesque to use hand changes went terribly, with me going the wrong way somehow, so that the key was hard as heck and then the arabesque didn't work at all, and i got tired and frustrated and it was all bad, and then eventually i got turned the right way and it was infinitely easier that time. and there was something called the "rebecca wrap" which was a total freebie, so that was fun :) |
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solarbird |
3:29p | Indefinite detention and torture Mr. Obama's administration has decided that it has the right to imprison people indefinitely even if they've been acquitted of all charges, even by military commission - in other words, to jail the innocent forever, if, in the judgement of the administration they could be dangerous in the future: Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department's chief lawyer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision that officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat.Rep. Nadler (D-NY) pegs the trial part: What bothers me is that they seem to be saying, "Some people we have good enough evidence against, so we'll give them a fair trial. Some people the evidence is not so good, so we'll give them a less fair trial. We'll give them just enough due process to ensure a conviction because we know they're guilty." That's not a fair trial, that's a show trial.Not incidentally, Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald is arguing for the use of torture-derived confessions and evidence in these military commissions as Congress debates all of this brutal lawlessness. Meanwhile, over in the state propaganda front, NPR was caught using the word "torture" to describe the exact same techniques that they refuse to describe as "torture" when Americans and the American government use them. This is their ombudsman explaining why: In that case, these were strictly tactics to torture him, to punish him, versus in the United States, and the way that it’s used, these are tactics used to get information. The Gambian journalist was in jail for his beliefs.If you torture someone for the "right" reasons, it's not torture. So sayeth NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard. Glenn Greenwald was waiting for his turn on NPR to talk about their policy when he heard Ms. Shepard talk about this in advance of him - he'd been led to believe he'd be able to engage her in direct conversation, but that was not the case. Here's his take on both of these topics. Oh, and Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson is suggesting Gitmo will be kept open past January 2010 after all. Or that another such facility will be used elsewhere, as we've already known. Please enjoy your institutionalised bipartisan torture, arbitrary arrest, and indefinite detention regime. I don't know what it's going to look like, but it probably won't be very democratic for very long. They rarely are. Current Mood: sick |
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annathepiper |
10:21a | I’m getting an iPhone! And celebrating with a contest! So Survey says, YES. I quite liked the virtual keyboard that came in with the 3.0 version of the iPhone software, especially in landscape mode. This doesn’t leave much screen room, but that’s okay; for my purposes, all I really need is to be able to whip out a few paragraphs here and there (such as when I’m at a con or something), which I can then sync up onto my laptop later. Knowing this, I stopped in the AT&T store this morning and ordered me a shiny new iPhone of my own. I asked for one of the 32G white ones, and the girl who rang me up said those are coming in pretty fast. So I should get the device sometime in the next few days–it may even come in before I get back from Disneyland! And, folks, this is where you come in, because I also need to settle the vital question of what to name this incoming iPhone. Drop your suggestions in the comments! The strongest contenders will then go head to head in a poll. To sweeten the deal, I will heretofore announce my very first author contest. The winner of the poll will get one free e-copy of Faerie Blood in the format of their choice (options: PDF, Mobi, or Microsoft Reader). Or, if you already own a copy of Faerie Blood, I’ll give you a copy of any Drollerie Press book of your choice from the Drollerie bookstore! So spread the word far and wide, people, and start winging those suggestions at me! You have until Monday, when I get back from Disneyland, to submit your nominations for the poll! ETA 4:47pm: A couple of quick addenda to stick in a couple of rules! 1. Multiple nominations will be allowed but I reserve the authorial right to allow only one nomination per person to get into the final actual poll. 2. If you’d like to endorse someone’s nomination, you may do so by dropping a comment in support of it wherever the nomination originally showed up (which is to say, angelakorrati.com, LJ, Dreamwidth, Facebook, or Twitter, since I doubt anybody’s actually reading this post from InsaneJournal or JournalFen). If a nomination receives at least two comments in support, it’ll go into the poll! And again–y’all have until Monday the 13th to either get in your nominations or support somebody else’s! So let me hear from you, folks! Mirrored from angelakorrati.com. |
| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | ||
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lyonesse |
4:46p | i wonder if this should have been pain-filtered... but anyway i keep meaning to mention: i had been having some (non-ptsd-related, some kind of strain injury) pain in my left deltoid or maybe some underlying tendon or ligament. and a couple weeks ago starphire worked on it, and it's been better ever since. i'm still recovering a little strength there, and sometimes i have to make sure to stretch it out a bit extra. but it's still been amazing, to someone with my usual relationship to physical pain, to have some taken care of. Current Mood:  touched |
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lyonesse |
3:35p | AIKIDO SEMINAR UPCOMING!!! Saturday July 11, 2-5PM Littleton Kokikai Aikido, at Flying Squirrel Consortium: Littleton Mill Building at 410 Great Rd, Littleton, Ma cost $20, working scholarships available for financial hardship . Theme: "Harmony and Contact: Grab Attacks" . Ukemi: front and back falls, work on rolling, two attacks (katatori, katatetori: shoulder and wrist grabs) . Ki voice practice (counting, kiai, possibly misogi if there's time) All levels (no experience -> black belt) welcome. To be taught by yours truly, chief instructor, Littleton Kokikai, with my fellow instructors and y'all :) Wear comfy, easy-to-roll-around-in clothes or gi, plan to be barefoot if possible. BRING A WATER BOTTLE OR REFRESHMENT DRINK! RSVP or questions in comments (email to this account @ lj works too :) Current Mood: excited |
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solarbird |
11:35a | Major banks to California: DIAF Good morning. Several large banks have told California they will not accept California's IOUs past Friday, despite earlier statements saying they would. Whether this is related to Fitch downgrading California to BBB and leaving them on Credit Watch Negative I don't know. A secondary market has appeared pretty much instantly, mostly on Craigslist and eBay. (The IOUs bear interest, making them theoretically more than face value.) Mish Shedlock at Global Economic Trend Analysis, no friend of California's fiscal (mis)management, is incensed: Big banks are cutting their throats by not accepting IOUs, unless of course they have an inside information that the IOUs will go worthless, something I highly doubt Obama would let happen. ...This is all happening pretty quickly, so keep an eye on this - if you can make it past the Michael Jackson wall-to-wall media coverage. eta: Here, have a partial table of those who get cash and those get IOUs. For those not feeling clickie, here's the contents; getting IOUs: Grants to aged, blind or disabled persons, People needing temporary assistance for basic family needs, People in drug prevention, treatment, and recovery services, Persons with developmental disabilities, People in mental health treatment, Small Business Vendors. Getting cash: University of California, Public Employees’ Retirement System, Legislators, legislative employees, and appointees, Judges, Department of Corrections, Health Care Services payments to Institutional Providers. Current Mood:  busy |
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annathepiper |
9:45a | Mobi-format Lament of the Dove So if you happened to be thinking, “Hey Anna, I’d love to beta read Lament of the Dove for you, only I don’t have it on my Kindle/Sony Reader/iPhone running Stanza or some other appropriate Mobi-friendly reader app”, worry no more. She’s kindly converted my RTF file for Lament into Mobi format and informs me that it can be “just drag-and-dropped into a Kindle’s ‘documents’ directory, or sync’d onto a Sony Reader, or used with Stanza on the Mac or on an iPhone, etc.” All props to Mirrored from angelakorrati.com. |
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mamishka |
9:37a | Movie Night? Monster Mash? Due to SIFF and lots of crazy stuff (4th of July, Fremont Parade, birthday party, Pride Parade) on the following weekends, I haven't been able to do either one of these. This coming weekend, however, I have pretty much nothing on my plate and I'm thinking of doing one or both of these. So I'm polling for interest! Who would be interested in/free for a Movie Night on Saturday night? Who would be interested in/free for a Monster Mash on Sunday afternoon? Bring out yer dead! Er! I mean, weigh in with your votes! Current Mood:  curious |
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annathepiper |
7:34a | Y’all like chocolate, right? Chocolate. It’s a good thing. So are contests! Drollerie Press is having a contest in honor of Celebrating Chocolate Day! Cindy Lynn Speer’s The Chocolatier’s Wife is on sale for 20% off, and if y’all go drop a comment saying where you’ve linked to the post about the sale and contest, you’ll be put into a drawing for a $25 gift certificate for tasty, tasty chocolate. Go for it. Buy the book! Enter the contest. Because, dude, CHOCOLATE. Mirrored from angelakorrati.com. |
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lyonesse |
12:32a | reposted from someone who locked it because everyone needs to know this: Unit of Measure All can be measured by the standard of the capybara. Everyone is lesser than or greater than the capybara. Everything is taller or shorter than the capybara. Everything is mistaken for a Brazilian dance craze more or less frequently than the capybara. Everyone eats greater or fewer watermelons than the capybara. Everyone eats more or less bark. Everyone barks more than or less than the capybara, who also whistles, clicks, grunts, and emits what is known as his alarm squeal. Everyone is more or less alarmed than a capybara, who—because his back legs are longer than his front legs—feels like he is going downhill at all times. Everyone is more or less a master of grasses than the capybara. Or going by the scientific name, more or less Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris— or, going by the Greek translation, more or less water hog. Everyone is more or less of a fish than the capybara, defined as the outermost realm of fishdom by the 16th-century Catholic Church. Everyone is eaten more or less often for Lent than the capybara. Shredded, spiced, and served over plantains, everything tastes more or less like pork than the capybara. Before you decide that you are greater than or lesser than a capybara, consider that while the Brazilian capybara breeds only once a year, the Venezuelan variety mates continuously. Consider the last time you mated continuously. Consider the year of your childhood when you had exactly as many teeth as the capybara— twenty—and all yours fell out, and all his kept growing. Consider how his skin stretches in only one direction. Accept that you are stretchier than the capybara. Accept that you have foolishly distributed your eyes, ears, and nostrils all over your face. Accept that now you will never be able to sleep underwater. Accept that the fish will never gather to your capybara body offering their soft, finned love. One of us, they say, one of us, but they will not say it to you. Sandra Beasley Poetry July 2009 |
| Monday, July 6th, 2009 | ||
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mamishka |
10:53a | I is amused .... 9 Reasons to Celebrate America, according to one British reporter. Yeah, yeah, it's two days late, so sue me. I'm particularly charmed by reason #2 which says, "Ice cubes, too, reflect the same happy knack for making light of the hostility of circumstance. Every floor of every motel building in the country has an ice machine; every convenience store sells it by the sackful, and every drink you are served contains lumps of ice big enough to sink a battleship. All cold drinks in America are served at a temperature which could cryogenically freeze human tissue. I know you find ice cubes elsewhere, too, but in Europe bar staff hoard them as though they were precious stones. In America, they flow in rattling abundance." Hee! Current Mood:  amused |
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lyonesse |
1:36p | upcoming music -- invite!! me & roommates going -- paraphrased from e -- rsvp if you wanna come too!! **** Holy [cow]. coraline and I (and 8 other people we know) are getting tickets to go see the Warsaw Village Band. "...brings a modern vitality to Polish village music, creating a self-coined 'hardcore folk'. Yelping vocals [...] float above fiddles, cello, frame drum, trumpet, Polish hammered dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, [...] the plosk fiddle, and the suka, a 16th century fiddle played with the fingernails." I'd never heard of them. I just listened to excerpts from their latest album (Infinity) on iTunes, and I'm more than sold. The show is 8pm November 6, at the Somerville Theater; tickets are $25. Who's in? Invite your friends! I'm happy to buy a giant block of seats for divvying up; if we get get a discount. =) Current Mood: excited |
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mamishka |
10:10a | Go me The 4th of July was a very busy and good day. I did my stuffed animal run, Farmer's Market and then had lunch with my father and his girlfriend. The original plan had been to just take them to some place close by and easy for lunch, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to rethink that idea. They only had one day in Seattle, and he had never been, and he's pretty much wheelchair bound, so the question became "Where could I take them such that they could 'see' Seattle?" The answer, of course, was the Space Needle. Much to my surprise I found that they still had open reservations for lunch on the 4th. So off I went to downtown, announced that our plans had changed, and off we went to the Space Needle! We took a cab there (they were running later than we planned - got to meet a very nice hotel employee named Earl though while I was waiting, who recognized me from somewhere, we're guessing Scarecrow, and who likes anime a lot) and up we went and voila! Instant Seattle! My father is a very slow eater and I did so much talking I didn't eat too much faster. Normally a meal is done in about one turn of the Needle. We got in three turns. Much to my surprise the whole thing was quite pleasant and easy. There was plenty to talk about and I found it easy to be at ease and entertaining. I'd only met his girlfriend once before, but I found her perfectly pleasant for the most part and easy to get along with, despite some of the things my family has said about her over the years. Whew! The food was also very good. :-) Took them for a quick look at the fountain then onto the monorail and back to their hotel. Much to my surprise I got a call from my mom telling me that I really made his day and that he told her it had been "one of the highlights of my life". Ehhh? I find that a little hard to believe, but I'm glad that it was both a wonderful experience for him and a nice one for myself. Spent the evening hanging out with my friends at MurkNorth, many of whom I haven't seen in many, many months, which was delightful! The plan had been for BBQ and games and then fireworks, but we were having such a good time socializing that it pretty much just ended up being food and fireworks. Woot! Many thanks to the grillmaster spazzkat for organizing and grilling and all that good stuff. :-) We also got to see two firework shows in close proximity for the price of one location. Sweet! I loves me some fireworks. :-)All in all, an excellent day that won me big points with the 'rents. Yay! Course Sunday was a complete bust, but the less said about that, the better, eh? Current Mood:  mellow |
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lyonesse |
10:55a | back in dodge that was a FANTASTIC escape. dodge is much the same as i remember, and the kitten is still home and doing well :) |
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