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[Feb. 10th, 2006|10:20 am]
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If there is someone on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal. |
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| Literary Help |
[Sep. 29th, 2005|08:24 pm]
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Ok, our household is having a dilema. While cleaning up from dinner, I had a flash of memory about a book that I had read and although all of us have read it, none of us can remember what the heck it is.
All we can remember is the concept of a " _______ Witness" who wears white, is specially trained, and whose memory cannot be tampered with. In the book the specific witness is a female, but we can't remember any plot. It's a science fiction book, at least we think it's a book. Who knows.
Do you any of you out there in LJ-land have any idea what the heck I am talking about? |
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| Read this |
[Jan. 24th, 2005|08:58 pm]
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Go read this http://www.livejournal.com/users/amaltheae/34635.html
Warning: it's very long, but worth a look see if you are at all interested in one person's take on how the following are related:
brain chemistry, neurotransmitters, toxins
diet, vegetarianism, protein
ADD, OCD, autism, asperger's, Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, etc
evolution, carnivores vs herbivores
Sorry I can't provide a better description.
If you read it, leave me a comment and let know what you think. Is she full of shit or on to something? |
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| Political Bohemian Rhapsody |
[Nov. 2nd, 2004|09:15 pm]
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| [ | Current Mood |
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http://www.flowgo.com/funpages/view.cfm/6019
apologies to Queen |
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| mmmmm..... |
[Sep. 27th, 2004|10:05 pm]
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Just took several loaves of banana bread out of the oven. What a delicious smell. Too bad they are too hot to slice or I'd eat a piece right now with a big glass of cold milk.
Remember kids, alwyas check the reject produce area of your grocery store. You never know when you'll find enough over ripe bananas to make 5 huge loaves of banana bread for only 99 cents. :) |
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| BOOM! |
[Dec. 29th, 2003|10:40 pm]
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Nothing like a house shaking BOOM (impact sort of boom, not explosive sort of boom) before bed to get you in the right frame of mind for restful sleep.
It sounded like something BIG fell on the roof or something, but there are no trees overhanging our house and looking around the yard and on the roof with flashlights found nothing. Nothing of note in the attic. Boiler intact in the basement.
We looked all around inside and out and could not find anything that could have caused the noise. Very annoying. |
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| To all those who have spent time on mailing lists... |
[Nov. 22nd, 2002|10:54 am]
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THE QUESTION:
How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
ANSWER:
1,331
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light bulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.
53 to flame the spell checkers
156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list.
41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames.
109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb
203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped.
111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we are all use light bulbs and therefore the posts **are** relevant to this mail list.
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are faulty.
27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs
14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected URLs.
3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list.
33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add "Me Too."
12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.
19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three."
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup.
47 to say this is just what alt.physics.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it here.
143 votes for alt.lite.bulb. |
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| Ride notes... |
[Sep. 3rd, 2002|11:48 am]
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[I wrote this up yesterday afternoon to post to a motorcycling list that I'm on]
Just got back from my first long ride in the rain.
Sitting with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm computer on my lap. :)
I rode the longest/farthest [1] I've ever ridden this weekend to central NH (yesterday afternoon) and back (today) with S**** on local numbered routes [2]. It was fun. :) :)
What I learned this weekend...
- bumpy roads/dirt roads are more fun when you are starting out than after 3.5 hours of riding.
- having a yummy warm meal waiting for you when you arrive at your destination is a wonderful thing.
- 65 in the rain is a hell of a lot colder that 60 in clouds/sun.
- standard blue jeans with thermals underneath keep you plenty warm when dry, but get kinda cold after a couple of hours in the rain.
- water wicking down your socks and into your nice dry boots sucks.[3]
- my gloves do not keep my hands dry in heavy rain, but they do keep them reasonably warm even when wet.
- nothing cures your fear of riding in the rain like 3 hours of riding in the rain.
- I like the sound of rain on my helmet. :)
- do not look down to see how soaked the crotch of your jeans are at 55 mph in heavy rain. You will not find out how wet your jeans are and the formally dry back of your neck will get very wet. [4]
- turning your head to the side at speeds above 40 mph does a good job of getting the large water droplets off the front of your face shield.
- rt 149 in NH looks like it'd be a lot of fun with dry pavement, but was sort of nerve wracking for me in the rain. [5]
- my jacket is quite waterproof, but I need riding pants.
- if you memorize the route numbers you don't need a tank bag/map holder.
All in all it was fun trip. I can't wait to do it again. :)
Can anybody give me any pointers about what I should or should not be doing when riding in the rain? For the most part I rode
slower and tried to take it easy on the corners. I also avoided obvious puddles in the road.
What's the common wisdom wrt tire pressure in rain vs. on dry pavement? I'm not sure what appropriate tire pressures are.
-L, cold, but still smiling. :)
[1] not very far, 100+ miles each way
[2] (in case anyone cares to know the route) 2a -> 2 -> 119 -> 202 -> 9 -> 31 -> local roads on the way out then local roads -> 31 -> 9 -> 149 -> 77 -> 13 -> 119 -> 2 -> 2a on the way back
[3] thank god for wool socks
[4] you will regret this for the rest of the ride
[5] but still fun in an odd way |
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