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InsaneJournal for kdorian.
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
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This... I was playing follow the clicks on youtube, watching sad commercials. I came across this, which is an sad anti-discrimination ad - for the first 50 seconds. After which it abruptly morphs into something... completely different and really fucked up. It's a toothpaste commercial, and one I find really disturbing for reasons that I can't quite explain (which may have something to do with the fact that it's one in the morning). ( Click here to see under the fold. ) |
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| Saturday, September 12th, 2009 |
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This? This is an awesome Michael Jackson tribute remix. |
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| Monday, September 7th, 2009 |
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Flist management time! Anyone who is on DW is being added on DW and dropped here. Anyone who is on LJ and not on DW is being added on LJ and dropped here. If I didn't add you on your alternate account, please let me know! |
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| Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 |
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I'm not in the habit of recommending journals, especially ones in languages that I can't even read, but if you like garden photography or food photography, you might want to take a gander at tanusha.livejournal.com. She has lately started posting garden photos with a clickable music player at the bottom. The art/music combo really works well for me. |
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| Monday, June 15th, 2009 |
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| So how the heck do you kick someone off being VIEWED on your flist on Ijay, without unfriending them? I have people and comms that I bring up on an individual basis - I don't want them on my flist too! And for some reason, I'm coming up blank. | ||||
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| Thursday, May 21st, 2009 |
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It boggles the mind - for me at least - that this is considered news. But I guess some people don't know. The High Cost of Poverty ( For when the link goes bad in a day or two ) |
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| Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 |
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( Spoilers Will Robinson! Spoilers! Spoilers! ) |
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 |
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I was looking around in the back of hard-to-reach places, looking for quart Mason jars. I'd bought half a dozen of them a couple of years back, to make cordials (take vodka, add fruit and sugar, seal, wait 3 months, remove fruit to put on ice cream, filter remaining liquid, and use small quantities for an aperitif or dessert or cooking). Now I want to make brandied peaches - yes, I do have a thing about fruit and alcohol, I've got a dish of gin raisins on the counter right now - and finally located them in the back behind the alcohol on the very bottom. Behind a bunch of stuff that had been there forever. So I start hauling out stuff, and get to the mason jars, and grab it to pull it out... and it's heavy. Seem that someone (probably my sister) got tired of them being where-ever they were, and put them out of the way. Only problem is, I'm an out-of-sight, out-of-mind kind of person. I have my 'memory' systems set up so that something will sound, flash, or at least be in my line of sight before I have a chance to remember it more than a week at best. A day is closer to the mark; sometimes I can't make it past 3 minutes. So now I have two quart jars full of some dark cordial (purple? reddish? Possibly raspberry?), one full of a light colored cordial (maybe the first of the peaches?), and 3 jars full of cordial with peaches, which I must now remove the peaches from, so that I can make my brandied apricots. Goodness. ETA: On tasting, I think this must have been one of my early batches, before I learned that frozen fruit just doesn't work. I may have to wait for peach season and retry. I'll see how it tastes once it settles again. |
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| Friday, April 17th, 2009 |
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For the 3 people in the world who haven't heard of her, she's the surprise phenom of this year's Britain's Got Talent competition. For those of you, like myself, who are mourning the fact that she won't be performing again for weeks... Surprise! Turns out that she sang a song on a small run charity album - only 1000 albums were made. Turns out she's not just limited to Broadway; she can also sing the blues. |
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| Friday, April 3rd, 2009 |
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 see more Political Pictures |
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| Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 |
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So for some insane reason, on the way home from class, my mind was occupied with the idea of turning the Spoon Theory of Chronic Disease (pdf warning) into a board game. At rolled the Spoon Dice to discover how many spoons you had that day, and tried to get through one day of work and enough chores to keep going. You'd pick a card that modified the day for good or bad*. You could borrow against tomorrow's spoons, but had to roll the 3-2-1 die (3 1s, 2 2s, 1 3) to discover the 'exchange rate' - and this happened AFTER you declared how many you were going to borrow. If you had less than 4 spoons for a day you had to take a Sick Day. Too many sick days and you rolled to either be fired or go to part time work; either way you had to apply for benefits, which had its own spoon cost... I don't think it would be an especially FUN game, but I imagine it could be very educational. *Possible cards: Twin spoons - you find a little extra energy and get one extra spoon for today! Broken spoon - everything takes more work than you expected, lose one spoon Good day - two actions of your choice cost 1 spoon less (minimum cost 0 spoons) Unhelpful advice - a family member or government worker tells you that you should "just try harder." Lose half your spoons for today. |
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| Saturday, March 28th, 2009 |
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| ...the vast majority of human herbivores I've met are perfectly normal people who do not feel the need to preach at others about their diet, themselves having bigger okra in life to fry, and this is as it should be. (The division here is not actually between vegetarians and carnivores, I think, it's between "people who feel the need to justify their lifestyle as superior to others" and "people who have hobbies.") - UrsulaV on LJ | ||||||
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009 |
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"I also realized a while back that 1) white people, as a rule and as a group, kind of suck and 2) I don't have to take that personally because 3) I often reap the benefits of white privelege so I can handle having my poor wittle white girl ego bruised every now and again by being reminded that non-white people might think I suck sometimes even though I haven't done anything racist that day that I am aware of." No link, as I don't know how to contact the OP to get an OK for that (it was in a comment to a blog post). |
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| Thursday, March 19th, 2009 |
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| Because everyone should witness Extreme Shepherding! | ||||
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| Monday, March 9th, 2009 |
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Which feels like I'm just skimming the surface - I missed the original exchanges entirely, and I've barely read a handful of the reaction posts. Every time I feel I'm ready to say something (for me, a long and slow procedure - I process big thoughts, but I do it slowly), I end up reading something else that gives me pause. By the time I'm done examining that thought, something else pops up. So, just a few mostly-incoherent thoughts that have been running through my head: I'm privileged, in ways I don't even realize. I'm working on figuring out my own unexamined privileges (to quote Bayleaf on LJ, "Holy shit, this means me" ). I don't think I will ever be done with this. I don't expect or deserve cookies for realizing this and trying to fix it. I've not been contributing (as I don't to almost any argument, online or off) not because I don't have a position, but because A) I can't cope with conflict - I freeze up (and yes, isn't it nice for me that I have the option of not being involved if I don't want to), and B) as I said above, I'm a slow thinker on things - by the time I know what I want to say, the conversation's been over for two days. What I have seen has made me furious and heartsick. It also makes me feel painfully powerless, because there doesn't seem to be anything I can DO. At the same time, I know this is not true. I've done some small things, both now and in the past. I will try to do them in the future. I know I don't do as much as I could. There's this fucking mountain and this big-assed rock to roll up it, and while mine is by no means the strongest shoulder, I am trying to push. I don't expect or deserve cookies for that, either. And on that subject: if you see me fuck up, whether it be real life or fiction or whatever, please tell me. I do have the tendency to come to the conclusion that my shit don't stink, and look at how wonderful and sparkly I am, wonderful enlightened person that I am. I'm trying to become automatically suspicious of myself if I get to pleased with myself on the subject, but I'll take what help I can get. I want to read more stories that make/allow me to see from different cultures and histories, instead of stories where all the Important Characters come from some white enclave in the stars. (In the event someone doesn't know what I'm talking about here, see this post by popelizbet on LJ, and start following links.) |
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| Thursday, February 19th, 2009 |
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"There are people who say they are vampires. And they are upset at other people who say they are vampires. Because the other people are faking it." From here. |
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| Monday, February 16th, 2009 |
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...all of a sudden the net starts working again. Go computer! I'm glad I didn't buy a new one yet. Also: I'm restarting my writing challenge, starting Wednesday. |
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| Friday, February 13th, 2009 |
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Anyone have any suggestions for a 'new' PC (which will probably be a refurbished, or a used off ebay)? How much disk space? What speed processor? How much RAM? Note: I use my computer for internet, word processing, small games, and spreadsheets. I don't need anything fancy - just general home use by someone who tends to have 15 Firefox tabs, 1 game, and 3 IM programs open at the same time. Anyone have experience with Open Office? Are documents and spreadsheets convertable back and forth with MS Office? Is someone used to MS Office going to have a lot of trouble converting? |
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My computer is no longer able to get online. Repair would cost as much as a new comp, so that's what we're doing. Does anyone know if there are any computers for sale that still have XP? I do NOT want Vista! |
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 |
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| Class yesterday, class tomorrow, and computer problems tonight. No writing done, and I wanted to. | ||||||
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peaceful.
amused.
aggravated.