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August 28th, 2008
markbark
 | 12:29 pm - This was JUST so wrong....
I HAD to post it {grin}
--MAB
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mohnkern
 | 12:32 pm - I love freecycle --- I really do
( but freecycled ice? )
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fantasygoat
 | 11:25 am - Cheers
Perhaps the greatest portrait ever.
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bigblackmimesis
 | 11:04 am - "The Virtues of Promiscuity"
"'Slutty' behavior is good for the species. That is the conclusion of a new wave of research on the evolutionary drives behind sexuality and parenting.
Women everywhere have been selflessly engaging in trysts outside of matrimony. And they have been doing it for a good long time and for excellent reasons. Anthropologists say female promiscuity binds communities closer together and improves the gene pool."
Full article here
Make love not patriarchy.
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kinzel
 | 07:40 am - And so
We're on the road early --
have to get the car-stuff done, including new headlight and oil-change and etc... and I have to go to two Post Offices, ship some stuff out, and try to stay in touch with some folks online, too, because my 40th reunion is coming up and (despite short notice, why do I always get short notice) I'm going to get there.
So, over at http://www.cafepress.com/srmpublisher we've added a few Fledgling items, expanded the korval logo things, and added some SRM Publisher logo things... and did a slight expansion of the Catwhisker.net logo items. What a *ka-yute* teddy bear!
Yes, we do want to get some quotes from the books on things ... I just need to get my templates in order.
More, later... I ought to be back by noon.
Oh yeah...
No lily, no tomato.
Current Location: On the road again
Current Music: Footfan Double Up
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August 27th, 2008
merovingian
 | 11:37 pm
Overheard in yoga class today:
"If you perform mathematics in this position, relativity will make sense."
And then:
"And in this position, quantum mechanics will make sense."
And then, several pretzel-twists later:
"And if you do the math in this position, introductory string theory will make sense."
And lastly:
"But if you do the mathematics in this position, the works of H.P. Lovecraft will make sense."
I don't remember what happened after that. It's probably for the best, though, really.
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leemoyer
 | 07:33 pm - Yesterday's Quote of the Day:
"I'm not insensitive to your bingos" - Thelma.
Current Music: Doug Gets Married - Uncle Bonsai
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servingdonuts
 | 08:06 pm - Small Steps, Giant Leaps
This evening, just now, with the weather turned beautiful after the rains, I went outside for a brisk stroll. But I didn't stroll for long.
I ran. I jumped. I leaped. I vaulted. I climbed. I perched. I balanced. I landed and I kept moving.
I missed, I stumbled, I fell, and I kept moving.
I moved all over and I kept moving.
It wasn't spectacular. I ran around the front of the high school and the parking lot. I leaped from one parking lot stripe to the next, with a step in the middle. I jumped onto and off of a two-foot-high wall. I climbed and perched on a fire plug. I balanced on curbs. And I vaulted mostly around a railing, rather than over it.
But still.
I worked up a good hard sweat, and I did things I honestly wouldn't have thought I could have done. I ran home instead of walking. And when I got home, with a running start and three tries I jumped halfway up our big brick mailbox, then pulled myself to the top and stood up. And then I just stood there for a minute, looking out at the world from four feet up. And then I jumped down.
As of tonight, nothing is impossible. I am bounded by no more than my own willingness to overcome my boundaries. As of tonight, I run, and I am free.
As of tonight, I am a traceur.
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wylddelirium
 | 06:59 pm - Broken Heart
It breaks my heart to know that Del Martin, one of the reasons I took the name I did, has passed away.
Del was a pioneer in the early gay and lesbian movement, and a real hero of mine.
I never got a chance to meet her in person, which is something I very much wanted.
My heart weeps for her loss, but I release her to her destiny in the beyond. Someone has to make sure we have plenty of lesbian-friendly places in the afterlife, after all.
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rolanni
 | 05:25 pm - Eyes, Please!
If, in your travels up and down the internets, and in the Real World, you find a review of Duainfey, would you please let the authors know, and provide either a link or the name and issue date of the magazine?
Also! If you see Duainfey on the shelves of an actual bookstore, could you please let us know which store, where, and when?
Thanks!
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aurachad
 | 05:02 pm - Tweet This!
Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
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media_junkie
 | 04:20 pm - The Leningrad Cowboys
Hubby popped birthday DVD #2 in the player last night. Imagine a Finnish rock and roll band performing with the Red Army Choir and Band with some Russian dancers thrown in. And I don't mean serially, I mean WITH. No, no, you can't really imagine the horror. I thought my head would explode. Several times hubby had to remind me to breathe. Good God, there should be a law against blending Gimmie All Your Lovin' and the Hallelujah Chorus. This was dogs and cats sleeping together - real end of days stuff. Hubby loved it of course.
This reminds me of something that happened on the trip home from Gencon. Werewulf played the soundtrack to Evil Dead the Musical and she and I sang all the songs together while Bruce sat in stunned silence. Or maybe he was just asleep - hard to tell from the back seat. He sure got quiet anyway.
One day I'll get the mess of Gencon straight in my head - I hope ;-)
Books: Brimstone - almost done!
Movies: The Leningrad Cowboys Total Balalaika Show
Soundtrack: So Happy Together - sung by the lead Leningrad Cowboy and the lead Red Army singer, both men, with their arms around each other...
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/smile.gif) shocked
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larpers
[wednesdayjones]
 | 08:15 pm - Announcing Aetherica 2009 - A Fantasy Convention
Announcing Aetherica 2009 – A Fantasy Convention
We are proud to announce Aetherica, a new fantasy convention to take place in Chester, England on the weekend of June 19th – 21st, 2009.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in the centre of Chester will play host to a weekend of diverse fantasy-themed programming, ranging from presentations and panels to LARP workshops and team building activities. Just as fantasy ranges from fairy tales to complex epics, So Aetherica will offer everything from in-depth literary analysis to whimsical games.
Guests of honour include Peter Beagle, a superb author best known for his novel, The Last Unicorn who has been described as “America’s greatest living fantasist,” and Joe Abercrombie, a critically acclaimed new talent whose books have been labelled as “edgy”, “humorous” and “compelling, with a gritty, real-life feel.”
Join us at midsummer 2009, and spend a weekend celebrating all that is magical.
Current membership rates are:
Adults: £35 (until November 16th 2008)
Juniors (5-18): £25
Infants (under 5): £5
Please see our website (Aetherica FAQ) for more details on the rates and price rises.
For more information about the convention, to join or to book a hotel room, see Aetherica.org
Media Enquires: Wednesday Jones
Publicity@aetherica.org
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the_tall_man
 | 12:05 pm
Heavy Gear is coming back. From Steve Jackson Games. It'll be a while, but it's coming.
This makes me pretty damn happy, as it happens. If you fused everything cool FATE does onto the core of Silhouette (the HG system), you might get My Perfect Game (TM); I was aiming in that general direction with Metasystem.
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kinzel
 | 01:14 pm - Minor busyness
So ...
today's "get *Something done, somehow, Steve* has resulted in a (mostly behind the scenes) upgrade of the srmpublisher shop at cafe press,which can be found at: http://www.cafepress.com/srmpublisher ...
and so I ask, since a boardwalk shop is all about stuff, talk to me about what other kinds or varities of stuff we should have there....
No day lily, count is zero. Might be a chance for our first tomato sometime this week, though ... summer comes late in Maine!
Current Location: basement redoubt
Current Music: grey on gray
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markbark
 | 09:36 am - No Terror Attacks Since 9/11? BULLSH*T!!
A recent online discussion had me shaking my head at the wholesale historical revisionism the GOP is putting forth.
Why do Republicans keep saying we haven't had a terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11?
What was that whole anthrax thing? Just a dusty love letter?
Just because the attacker is an American doesn't mean he's not a terrorist.
(Americans can't be terrorists! Just those weird brown people with the tea towels on their heads, right?) <sarcasm>
Aren't snipers picking people off at gas stations considered an act of terror?
Shooting up schools and churches also seems to fall into that category in my book.
There have been PLENTY of terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11.
Obama/Biden should bring this up REPEATEDLY whenever the "Democrats are soft on terror" BS is slung about.
--MAB
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markbark
 | 09:33 am - So You Think You Can Budget?
Minnesota Public Radio has a new "game" on their site that allows you to try to balance the Federal Budget (or at least try to stem the flow of red ink....)
Hop on over to here and have a go.
--MAB
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August 26th, 2008
leemoyer
 | 10:31 pm - 1. Scrabble.
Dang. A couple great weeks in a row for me.
405 vs Peggy's 297
+ 528 vs Thelma's 294
=
933
PERCENT (unplayable bingos: EGOTISM, and EGOTIST)
HINGERS
AVIATOR
TRANSIT (unplayable: CLARINET)
Current Music: Spy - They Might Be Giants
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