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- 10:10 @lucy_anne I always go for the smaltzy "For Women who do too much" sort of calender. #
- 10:11 @lucy_anne Except I've given up on page a day, because I barely pay enough attention to turn the monthly one let alone a daily. #
- 10:17 From Horton to Hex... tinyurl.com/79eppx #
- 10:59 @BeaucoupKevin That's a lot of people filtering into our communities when it folds... #
- 11:25 Why do lightweights thinks its brave to write a paragraph on subjects the deeper feminist blogosphere discusses in greater nuance every day? #
- 11:31 I love this guy for being willing to discuss this. tinyurl.com/82szk4 #
- 11:59 @DivaLea Brings me down to see it, though. All the stuff I've moved and then someone comes in and claims no work's been done. #
- 13:54 @jbacardi tinyurl.com/98pf9e That client has a backup feature. #
- 14:00 And holy cats, that layoff explains why the LJ feeds haven't been fixed. #
- 16:23 @SeekingWillow Sidebar widget that links the most recent post of blogs you follow, shows up on the linkback when someone loads a page. #
- 17:51 Oh, awesome. onetwofiver.com/ #
- 18:02 tinyurl.com/a8e4rh Reasons people don't get followed back. #
- 18:03 For me it's much simpler. Unless someone's a good friend I wait until I've tweeted back and forth with someone to follow them. #
- 18:11 @Digital_Femme I'm placing bets that resolution won't last a month. #
- 18:11 @SpeedForceOrg Some people have something SET to autofollow people. Who can read all those tweets, though? #
- 18:17 @SpeedForceOrg I try to keep mine manageable. I'd be doomed without Tweetdeck's reply search. #
- 18:26 @kenlowery Screw the woodland creatures, Ken. #
- 18:27 @kenlowery Goddess'll get you for that. #
- 18:29 @TheOtherJeff It's not creepy, but the second one sounds pretty damned funny. #
- 18:29 @kenlowery Dude.. She IS the Power of Three. #
- 18:32 @TheOtherJeff I would read X-Men again for that. #
- 18:48 Shit. forgot to call my mother. #
- 19:03 I'll call her tomorrow night. #
- 11:34 Now I now what getting lost on the way to Hell must be like. #
- 11:35 Congratulations, US and German governments. Your collaboration to make a major medical facility impossible to find was successful! #
- 11:35 @Kincsem1874 I wish I could do something to fix that. Have you tried a different browser? #
- 11:41 @Kincsem1874 That one specially bugs me. The "I was alive in the 60s and we didn't mean for you girls to go so far" sort. #
- 11:47 @hermanos That link's a thing of beauty. #
- 11:48 RT @hermanos: Kyle Baker goes in on the Spirit: tinyurl.com/a4b3rp #
- 13:55 Hmm, look what he took into account... tinyurl.com/6w8nxb #
- 14:12 Robot Feminism. tinyurl.com/6vcg69 #
- 14:14 My hat is off to you, @tangognat #
- 16:42 RT @lizhenry: www.ktvu.com/video/18410140/index.html Policeman caught on tape shooting a restrained man in the back. #
- 17:12 This has me giggling. www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/10/09 #
- 18:01 @hermanos Over here in Germany no one has any bags, you have to bring canvas to the stores. #
- 05:06 @johannadc Heilein's RAH, and honestly he didn't hold me enough to get past the social mores in his stories. Howard's much better. #
- 05:27 There is one local station nhere that is ALWAYS playing Shania Twain when I turn it on. It's weird. #
- 05:31 What's weirder is on Sunday morning you can skip through the dials and find only music--no preachers. #
- 06:42 snipr.com/9fz1l Wonder if this guy means us or some other group of mean-spirited twitches.... #
- 06:48 @jbacardi Good morning, Dave... (Sorry) #
- 07:34 And Wordpress error prevents me from posting a response/ #
- 07:35 Screw it, I'll just save the comment for when Newsarama's not being shitty. #
- 07:36 And saving it causes me to lose that first paragraph of my review of Dermod's Bane. DAMN YOU NEWSARAMA!!!! #
- 07:59 @quietprofanity LJ isn't updating my feedreader for some reason, I'll check it out. #
- 08:11 @quietprofanity I like the slash one, but there's not much comics commenter in there. #
- 08:42 @Digital_Femme They could've at least linked the Twitter account so the OP could see the actual complaints, long as they were being anone. #
- 08:42 @quietprofanity I appreciate it :) #
- 08:44 Finally got my Blog@ comment in. Damned moderation queue. #
- 08:45 Commenting used to be the best part of blogging, but every service seems to have put on so much antispam armor you can't actually move #
- 08:55 Oh well, now to search for Dreams of Terror and Death! I KNOW I have a copy somewhere. #
- 09:10 Scientists discover True Love. tinyurl.com/7t9ycm #
- 10:43 Labelling posts on my blog in an attempt to procrastinate against unpacking the last few boxes. #
- 11:56 Okay, labelling old posts is fun because I find stuff like this #
- 11:57 tinyurl.com/83gz8r Tagged Kyle Rayner and Green Lantern but there should be more. #
- 12:25 @LyleMasaki See, I always liked a good fight with a troll. A good troll mind you, not these spammers or guys who just post "you're stupid" #
- 12:48 @witchwillow Just the military looking a new tech and going "Hey, we should know our way around it in case the enemy uses it." No big deal. #
- 13:01 @witchwillow Well, I'm not a blogger who doesn't understand the military but wants to stir up excitement and links to his post. #
- 13:09 I wish I'd started labeling back when I had just ten posts on the blog. #
- 13:33 She thinks that's an attempt to get into a blogwar? snipr.com/9gbcu That makes me sad. #
- 13:45 @quietprofanity I ended up commenting again and making my tone even more neutral. The new crew seems to be pretty thin-skinned. #
- 13:48 @LyleMasaki It's kinda fun going through everything you wrote a long time ago, though. #
- 13:50 How did I not have a Ganthet tag before? #
- 13:58 @LyleMasaki Is that a bad thing? #
- 14:17 Okayt, this tagging thing is too tiring. Back to today's first objective #
- 15:00 More moody posting. tinyurl.com/9m4xxd #
- 15:18 @sinspired Mom'as asking about you #
- 15:20 @sinspired Welcome to the 21st Century. #
- 15:54 Dad and I are playing with the webcam #
- 16:04 @SeekingWillow Smacked me? #
- 16:05 @SeekingWillow Thanks :) #
- 16:14 My god, I am starting to disgust myself. #
- 16:18 Was I ever this whiny while I was in North America? #
- 16:20 Shit... I'm turning NICE. #
- 16:26 @SeekingWillow Is THAT what the appendix does? Maybe its inflamed. #
- 16:44 @stephendann Promise? #
- 16:45 Whatever it is, I need to shake it. Fast. #
- 16:54 There's clearly not enough evil readily available to piss me off. I need to get back to reading comics regularly. #
- 17:41 @dorianwright If bitching is their default state, they might as well have gone with something brave. #
- 17:59 Damn, can't find the notebook with my appt time on it #
- 18:02 @dorianwright That's advice comic companies should learn. #
- 18:28 Damn, can't find it. #
- 18:47 FOUND IT!!! #
- 18:47 My appointment tomorrow is at... I'd better get to bed. #
- 06:32 @kalinara YAY! #
- 06:33 @quietprofanity Mine too. I havne't been able to get up before 11 all vacation #
- 06:36 @theisb If you managed to get @kalinara to make a Twitter account I may be able to forgive you for hating Futurama. #
- 07:52 @quietprofanity Maybe for you, for me its the long nights trying to get myself to write... #
- 08:30 @TheOtherJeff That did wonders for me yesterday. #
- 08:36 @TheOtherJeff I've been technically awake for 3 hours and don't consider the day started yet #
- 08:45 So, rising fuel prices make Americans buy less fuel, resulting in less tax revenue from gas. Government solution? snipr.com/9eq2j #
- 08:46 There's just not enough palm to cover the forehead there. #
- 09:23 Watching Futurama reruns. Can't get over Fry suddenly developing deductive skill in "Leela's Homeworld" and never ever displaying it again. #
- 09:25 @indigoskynet Maybe, he spontaneously display courage and a spine when Leela needs him elsewhere in the series. #
- 09:57 @indigoskynet @kalinara was pointing out that Amy was clearly smart, but just distracted most of the time. Maybe Fry just needs focus, too #
- 10:07 Okay, write dammit. Got 92 words down. #
- 10:17 Hmm... do I have enough Euro for a pizza? #
- 11:02 @_brainfreeze_ That's how I start EVERY day! #
- 11:20 @mizzelle Seriously? Jeeze, they're this stressed out over the ELEVENTH GUY? #
- 11:20 @mizzelle It's not like he's not replaceable if he sucks. #
- 11:40 I think the reanimated corpse of James Dean was a very brave choice for the eleventh Doctor Who. #
- 11:51 I think Robert Downey Jr. was a very brave choice for the eleventh Doctor Who. #
- 11:59 I think all of the actors we've listed are more interesting than the guy who's name is trending on Twitscoop. #
- 12:02 I think the son of Frankenstein was a very brave choice for the eleventh Doctor Who. No, wait.. that's a pic of the actual actor? #
- 12:03 @daveexmachina I'd call it slow. Comics fans start bitching before the actual announcement. #
- 12:08 @kenlowery That would mean digging through the archived rantings of Dr. Who fans. You may as well just save these links for the next time. #
- 12:25 @daveexmachina My god... what have we done?! #
- 12:25 (And the word "suck" is trending on Twitscoop) #
- 12:32 @witchwillow Notice its being pushed by a libertarian think tank. #
- 12:46 @BeaucoupKevin @BenjaminBirdie I saw a couple on SciFi channel.. Not really something I go out of my way to watch, though. #
- 13:51 These little breathstrips feel weird #
- 13:57 I'm offering this one without comment: tinyurl.com/8hsdfv #
- 14:02 @kenlowery Here's the thing, she's answering complaints like the criticism was "it's inspid." No, the criticism was "He's a creepy stalker" #
- 14:05 @kenlowery Which is precisely the argument people who try to shoot down my complaints about superhero comics use. #
- 14:09 @kenlowery Twitter sucks for clarity at times. You're calling her argument lazy, right? #
- 14:11 @kenlowery That's okay. I'm weighing the pros and cons of bitching about it on my blog #
- 14:24 Judging by the keywords on TwitScoop, there was an earthquake in indonesia that woke up a bunch of... tsunami demons. #
- 14:25 @quietprofanity I have a very Us-vs-Them oriented brain (it's a strength in the military), and I'm trying hard not to file her under "them" #
- 14:26 @quietprofanity See, and I don't wanna do it because I haven't read Twilight. I have read the complaints, though, and those are them. #
- 14:26 @quietprofanity Err, AREN'T them. #
- 14:29 @quietprofanity The feminist complaints tend to be a bit specific. And she is SPECIFICALLY attributing this stuff to feminists. #
- 14:33 @quietprofanity Yeah, but she's not helping. Esp as the "women's issues blogger" at a major comic book newssite. #
- 14:36 @quietprofanity We shouldn't be wasting our time with criticizing such fluff, yet.. we're the elitists. #
- 15:22 @CantonDem Oh but Feminism has EVERYTHING to do with it. Twilight is the result of natural femininity, and only wicked feminists hate on it #
- 15:26 @CantonDem It's what nature intended, and rolling your eyes is a dismissal of the nature of teenaged girls! #
- 15:31 Okay, the progresso chilcken broth sucks compared to the swanson broth. #
- 15:32 @CantonDem Why are you subjecting yourself to it? #
- 15:35 @CantonDem Ahh. Same reason I read 90s back issues. #
- 16:32 More REH blogging! Here snipr.com/9f7ry and here snipr.com/9f7sf #
- 16:34 @indigoskynet I think Edward Cullen was a very brave choice for the eleventh doctor. #
- 16:47 And I just realized I'm jumping around the DVDs watching all the Fry loves Leela and Leela loves Fry episodes. #
- 16:52 Damn. This means I have a 'sh... a shiii... a couple. #
- 17:14 @jbacardi You're absolutely right, one of the reasons I keep rewatching it. :) #
- 17:16 @jbacardi *nod* I think my favorite might be "The Sting", though. #
- 17:17 @jbacardi Though the one where Bender dates the ship has a great Fry+Leela end. #
- 17:18 @jbacardi Right :) #
- 17:22 @jbacardi Of course, the best Lrrr episode is where he eats the hippie. #
- 07:15 Finally got Mom's package. Postdated Dec 20th. Damned MPS. #
- 07:17 ....Did she actually get me a world band radio? #
- 07:26 Can't be.. that would be something I actually wanted. #
- 08:51 What do you know, a change of scenery works wonders for the writing. #
- 09:30 Holy cow! A radio that actually receives in my house! #
- 09:31 @indigoskynet It's only bad when you're surrounded by extroverts who want to know how you spent the weekend and consider "writing" a waste. #
- 09:34 @indigoskynet Maybe "annoying" is a better word? #
- 09:36 @indigoskynet *nod* I'm enjoying my leave but dreading my first day back at work for those reasons. #
- 10:07 I don't like this new comment setup. Is it just my blog or has all of Blogger gone over to that thing? #
- 10:22 @indigoskynet If you do, pass it on please. #
- 10:31 @mizzelle That's considerably better. #
- 10:32 @BenjaminBirdie I need to print that one out and show it to a few people. #
- 10:33 Okay, predictably now that I'm home I've stopped writing. Damn. #
- 11:02 @_brainfreeze_ Probably a spambot who got deleted. #
- 11:10 RT @Robot6: Whatever happened to the Blog of Tomorrow? or, How I spent the holidays: tinyurl.com/9polzf #
- 11:18 @jkparkin It's supposed to be "We're back, baby!" Didn't you see Bender's Big Score? :) #
- 11:47 @jkparkin Ack! Now it's in my head! #
- 12:08 @sinspired Young man... #
- 13:25 Holy cats... 2015 tweets in my profile #
- 13:37 Kalinara needs to come to Twitter. Now. Help me get her over here, guys! #
- 13:44 @indigoskynet Oh, awesome. Thank you! #
- 13:47 @indigoskynet Wow. I need to go back to OKC and beat a certain psychologist over the head with a printout of that article. #
- 14:03 Okay, I need to recapture that writing frenzy I had last week. #
- 14:18 Damn, I had a DVR around here somewhere #
- 14:24 Oh, cool, found my headset! #
- 14:41 And found the DVR! 'Twas atop the fridge the whole time! #
- 15:04 Well, now she's ignoring me. #
- 05:50 Noon has passed. So its approaching time for New Year's Day breakfast. #
- 09:39 First stupid person of the year! tinyurl.com/8lt4zw #
- 10:06 @mizzelle Sounds like Marvel's set the tone for the year already. #
- 13:21 I just took a nice relaxing refreshing bath, and had a bunch of writing ideas... which all drained from my head when I sat at the computer. #
- 13:29 *Puts up Dresden Files Calender* And so the year officially begins! #
- 14:43 @quietprofanity Try this lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html #
- 14:47 @_brainfreeze_ Pick up the GL Chronicles instead. There's an artist who can do butt shots without detracting from the story. #
- 15:02 @_brainfreeze_ Well, your money. Just make sure you blog any disappointment, grief, or outrage. #
- 15:06 @_brainfreeze_ I want the Robinson one too. #
- 16:00 Screencap from one of the Futurama movies. Is that Pauly Shore in the corner? snipr.com/9cg0z #
- 16:27 Okay, gotta write SOMETHING before the end of the day. #
- 16:58 Since I have no LJ anymore, if anyone's curious as to what books I read in 2008: snipr.com/9chup #
- 05:22 I've already lost the chance to make this a productive errand day, but perhaps a productive writing day... #
- 07:40 Should I end the year with a rant or just keep trying to concentrate on other projects? #
- 07:40 Partying is out, I'm sure I'll cough up a lung soon and I don't feel particularly well-disposed towards human company today. #
- 08:27 @BeaucoupKevin Aww, it's raining here. #
- 08:47 @Digital_Femme Are you gonna post that on your blog? #
- 08:54 @Digital_Femme Oh, well, then can I? And also the point a few days ago about Val not doing her job as FoL President? #
- 09:00 @Digital_Femme You're probably right, but it'll feel better to get it out there and yell at people so #
- 09:00 @Digital_Femme I'll take that bet. #
- 09:02 @Digital_Femme And at the very least, byt trashign Val a bit I might be able to get the topic on certain people's radars... #
- 09:10 @Digital_Femme Damn, you win. I cna't even get two paragraphs into my own post without getting derailed. #
- 09:26 Wow... this is a hateful venomous self-righteous post. #
- 09:30 @Digital_Femme Yeah, I actually thought that electing Val meant they were looking at mainstream again, but nothing's come of it. #
- 09:44 @Digital_Femme Okay, if you want the references to you deleted they're gone but I wanted to credit. snipr.com/9az38 #
- 09:44 @Digital_Femme And now you've distracted me with that dirty dancing thing... #
- 09:52 Edited for extra self-righteousness. :) #
- 10:06 Now to bake New Year's bread #
- 11:13 @sinspired Tell him I said Happy New Year. #
- 13:22 Last WFA of the year. tinyurl.com/7fcr3w #
- 13:32 @kenlowery Weird, I cut and paste the titles usually. #
- 14:19 @kenlowery @digital_femme won the within 5 comments bet. #
- 14:23 @kenlowery She bet me that within the five 5 comments the topic would be again derailed. The first comment was on birch beer. #
- 14:24 Pretty impressive, in a horrifying way. #
- 15:04 @_brainfreeze_ I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. #
- 15:09 @TheOtherJeff They're saving that for a LSH reboot. #
- 16:07 Ouch. tinyurl.com/8lfaxa #
- 16:28 @sinspired Not long at all over here. #
- 16:45 @kenlowery Well, I think the impression of the poster is that Comedian, Punisher, and Wolverine AREN'T psychotic characters... #
- 17:01 Happy New Year, Twitter #
- 12:13 @daveexmachina Weird Tales #
- 12:14 Today's car errand took 4 hours. 4 hours ON BASE during my LEAVE. I don't wanna leave the house tomorrow, even to go drink. #
- 12:16 Maybe the guys downstairs will have a party... #
- 12:30 @witchwillow Sorry. I couldn't fit "THIS HAR BE VAL" in the tweet, though. #
- 13:45 I'd just like to say for the record: FUCK the so-called Pro-Life movement and their sneaky ass attempts to take over health services. #
- 13:45 So pissed off. #
- 13:47 And this seems inappropriate right now: The Twitter Happiness score for Ragnell is: 511. happytweets.com #
- 13:52 @kenlowery Ha ha! I'm happier than YOU are! #
- 13:56 @kenlowery Well.. I can't twitter from work... #
- 14:07 Aww... Poor Frank. tinyurl.com/84d3w4 #
- 14:11 @kenlowery Yeah. I'm holding my pen, man, I'm holding my pen. #
- 14:11 @kenlowery But it's funny how all of the crazy fan criticism is fair and even funny until its about a friend of yours, huh? #
- 14:50 Okay, internet play time is over. I need to write something. #
- 15:02 @Mainframe Ridiculously? Damn, you beat me. I'm just Pretty. #
- 16:01 *watching Futurama reruns* I totally would've taken the Escher apartment. #
- 16:37 Okay, no writing tonight. I think I may have to dedicate tomorrow to it, though. #
- 16:56 I like the term "Frankified" for the difference btw the Spirit movie and the source material. Who's for making that the official word? #
- 16:59 @quietprofanity Yeah, but frankified takes the Miller factor into account. #
- 17:06 @quietprofanity Well, I would venture that Frankifying certain properties would be awesome. #
- 17:06 @quietprofanity Like, Frank Miller's Little House on the Prairie... or Frank Miller's Highway to Heaven... Frank Miller's Twilight! #
- 17:08 @quietprofanity But nothing in art is a constant, and Frankifying properties that are good to begin with... #
- 17:08 @quietprofanity ...such as the Spirit, would very well be bad. #
- 17:11 @davidwynne For stark, living terror what other thought could compare? #
- 17:13 @davidwynne Would he get his own crew or be re-envisioning one of the already done crews? #
- 17:14 @quietprofanity Someone needs to get him on the sequel. #
- 17:25 @davidwynne Ah, see I like Star Trek. #
- 17:25 @quietprofanity I can fly with that thought, thank you. #
- 17:30 @davidwynne You at least like Star Wars, right? You have to like one or the other #
- 17:32 @davidwynne Okay, then you're still acceptable. #
- 17:35 @davidwynne My work here is done. #
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petronelle:- What's Black Jewels?
- brown_betty:
- It's this totally cracked out fantasy land where uh.
- petronelle:
- uh?
- brown_betty:
- It's a magical cock-ring AU
- petronelle:
- ...UH.
- brown_betty:
- Yes, see, a bit hard to concisely summarize. ( And then I try, anyway, but fail at concise )
- 05:57 Approaching 1 on my first day of leave. Haven't written a word today. #
- 06:20 Oh Caleb, what have ye done? Look at those comments. tinyurl.com/96xdw4 #
- 09:29 Goodbye first 6 paragraphs. You tried your best but I just couldn't make it work out. I wish you well in the future. #
- 09:43 @kenlowery If you say you're Russian, I think you have until January 6th. #
- 10:17 @TheOtherJeff Jeff, if she sees the Spirit she can write a review like the rest of us. #
- 10:20 @TheOtherJeff I was gonna see it if it came to base. Mainly for lack of choice in movies out here... #
- 10:26 @TheOtherJeff Yeah, but that was one of the few ways to get me to leave the computer. #
- 11:07 So it's come to this.. blogging about writing. *sigh* tinyurl.com/7t8e6x #
- 11:28 Man, it sucks that I can pound out a blogpost in ten minutes but I'm staring at an ALREADY WRITTEN story and can't flesh it out properly. #
- 11:50 @sinspired I must make use of this lack of activity on your part #
- 12:33 For the first time in a month, every dish is washed dried and put away. I'm going to savor this before eating anything else. #
- 12:34 (And file that last tweet under "Writing, Things I Do to Avoid") #
- 13:18 Oh I give up. To hell with first person perspective. Total rewrite. #
- 14:54 Third revision, added a shit-ton of description and changed the POV and I'm down from 1931 words to 1486. Did not expect that. #
- 15:27 The Dictionary as a rhetorical tool: tinyurl.com/83t7nq #
- 15:28 @mikesterling People defending the harassment. #
- 17:29 Okay, am I fucking insane or does the style of this blogpost seem a bit familiar to anyone else? snipr.com/98n5c #
- 17:29 It's okay if I'm insane. #
- 17:30 I mean, I've spent several hours staring at this evil short story and trying to fix it so I may indeed have lost it... #
- 17:42 @Kincsem1874 Beginning? #
- 17:47 Okay, Kalinara affirms that I am nuts. Go on about your business. #
- 18:04 @Kincsem1874 Which sadly doesn't change her talent for distracting us from productive discussion while we try to yell some sense into her. #
| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | ||
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ragnell |
5:15a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | ||
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arionhunter |
11:19a | Your Daily Dose of Adorable 2.1-Meter-Tall Pine-Cone Totoro Unveiled in Japan. If only that had been in the Rose Bowl Parade, I might have watched. |
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ragnell |
5:05a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Monday, January 5th, 2009 | ||
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arionhunter |
6:28p | Yes, I took this picture on the same day I ate fried green tomatoes.  (Crappy quality due to time of day and rain.) Only in Alabama. |
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brownbetty |
12:41p | It's cold, and there are wolves If you, like me, have a computer manufactured during the period when hamsterdance was new and annoying, rather than old and annoying, you may have problems with firefox getting slow and/or slowing your entire machine, if it's left open too long. The advice often given for this is to disable your extensions (which take up memory), or open fewer tabs (which take up memory). However, if, like me, you think the entire point of firefox is tabs and extensions, you may find this advice unhelpful and annoying. If you have less than a GB of RAM1 the following may be useful to you. ( let's muck about in firefox's intestines! ) |
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ragnell |
5:08a | Tweet Tweet! |
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das_dingsi |
5:05a | Movie Log / Filmliste 2009 Note: movies in english will also get commentaries in english. ( Read more... ) |
| Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | ||
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brownbetty |
1:06p | Also, there is a video of a seeing-eye pony. You know how some TV is just very... soothing, because it consists entirely of a very simple morality tale that we want to believe in. Like Law and Order: it begins with an upset in the moral order of the universe, but by the end, bad people are punished, and good people win out. For me, the epitome of this is dog-training videos: there is a person and a dog who like each other, and the dog is good, and then the dog gets rewarded! Lots of things will do this for me, sheep dog trials, agility trials*, search and rescue training, guide dog training... Sorry, got lost in youtube dog videos for a moment there. Anyway, so last night I was watching videos of clicker training. It's very Skinnerian, which doesn't actually bother me too much, although the one video of the lady conditioning a fish to react to a flashing light did remind me of a creepy story I came across when I was young, of children trapped in a maze and conditioned to a flashing light (anyone know what I'm talking about?) but all in all I'm not too bothered by the fact that my brain is easily hacked since I'm the one doing most of the hacking. But, what is totally creepy is that clicker trainers don't refer to it as "training" or "conditioning" or "behaviour modification" or any kind of honest if antiseptic terminology. They call it "shaping." Like topiary. There is something totally creepifying about "shaping," the sheer euphemism of it, like something out of 1984, or some other science fiction dystopia. Eeeurgh. *You'll notice a lot of Border Collies. This is because if you don't give a Border Collie something to do, it will find something to do. That will end badly. |
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ragnell |
5:05a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 | ||
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ragnell |
5:03a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Friday, January 2nd, 2009 | ||
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thete1 |
6:06p | Jack is a genius, or NOM NOM SALAD NOM. This dressing is designed for a salad of kale, tomato, and cubanelle pepper, but you could easily substitute other greens and/or other accompanying vegetables. (You might also have to make other substitutions if you don't have these ingredients... but we highly recommend all of them.) ( *homerdrool* ) Current Mood:  satisfiedCurrent Music: The Awkward Stage: "The Morons Are Winning" |
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ragnell |
5:03a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | ||
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
11:25p | Gugu Mbatha-Raw  |
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
8:59p | icons: Bai Ling (5)      |
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ragnell |
5:04a | Tweet Tweet! |
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das_dingsi |
12:51a | Books/Bücher [2009] Lost of "leftovers" from 2008 this time (not to mention the ones I gave up on). Also, I guess I'll spare us the mention of book reviews, as I haven't written any in months. (But who knows, 2009 could be different...) ( Table/Tabelle ) |
| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | ||
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
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ragnell |
5:06a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | ||
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brownbetty |
9:38p | What did we used to make fun of before Twilight? Oh right, I remember. |
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ragnell |
5:02a | Tweet Tweet! |
| Monday, December 29th, 2008 | ||
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poc_daily [ skywardprodigal ] |
6:06p | Eddie Steeples  ( 4 ) Eddie Steeples @ Inked When Is Tomorrow Current Music: pata pata song - miriam makeba |
