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07:49 pm
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Hm...
Anyone else having trouble getting to Facebook?
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06:41 pm
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i'm posting!
Because ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) quickly_9 told me to! :D
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04:33 pm
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TOO TRUE.
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02:32 am
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Writer's Block: How'd You Get Here?
My older sister (and only sibling), spasmsproject, had a Livejournal which was quite popular - she wrote a very short story each day for a full year (and succeeded, too!). I had been checking in from time to time, and finally created a name to use for commenting.
I chose the name rufushonkerivbecause my mother had mentioned it to me a year or so before when she had been playing with anagrams. I was bummed I couldn't put in spaces.
I bounced from user icon to user icon, until one day when I was watching School House Rock on a DVD compilation I had bought for the kids. (I've always been a huge SHR fan!) Rufus Xavier Sasparilla came on and I let loose with an interjection in my head: "Hey! I'm Rufus!" So later that day I put the DVD in the computer, screencapped around 10 seconds in, and did some photoshopping of the text from throughout the video. Ta-da! I had a personal default icon.
So there you have it. Though I may not post as often as I used to, I stil chek my friends list every day to see your entires and all the communities I'm involved in.
Tags: lj birthday, writer's block
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05:13 pm
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This will be dumb, but that doesn't mean I'm not intrigued.
Looks like the Old West meets Tremors.
"Don't jump until I say so" Talk about trying for dramatics....
Ah, these aliens are slower than molasses in January and need eyeglasses.
Aliens with special footsteps so loud you can only hear them AFTER they pass the window.
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07:09 am
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Strange
I had to disable commenting on this January 2007 post about the comic For Better or For Worse, because for some reason spammers LOVE posting ads on that and ONLY that post.
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08:05 pm
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Writer's Block: Musical Affliction
Poker Face by Lady Gaga. (link is to the video - can't embed it)
I first heard it on the radio on the way home from work. I asked Amber about it when I got home because she's usually on top of things - but she not only hadn't heard of it, but gave me a confused look when I quoted "pah-pah-pah poker face".
She caught it a week or so later. Now it's stuck in my head. Get it out!!!!!
Lyrics:
( Lyrics )
Tags: earworm, multimedia, writer's block
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10:04 pm
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Writer's Block: Gamer's Choice
Robot Odyssey and Adventure Construction Set.
Tags: games, video games, writer's block
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08:30 am
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About time!
The Air Force has finally comes clean on Area 51!!!!!!
No joke. the article seems pretty solid.
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04:59 pm
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Best. Video. Ever.
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04:35 pm
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Where the Wild Things Are
The Trailer for Where the Wild Things Are is out.
I'm unimpressed. All we know is that the costumes look good and lots of things seem seem to explode or fall.
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10:05 pm
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Writer's Block: Grab and Go
UFOs. I'm not really expecting to find anything, but sometimes they do seem a little secretive on the subject. I'd just like to know a solid yes/no or "we have this evidence we're having trouble figuring out".
Tags: conspiracies, cover-ups, writer's block
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08:51 pm
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Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?
| You Passed the US Citizenship Test |  Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct! |
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07:21 pm
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What a load of...
This feller right here spends two minutes quoting the Bible about how God promised not to destroy the earth with a flood, and only he will decide when the end comes. Then he basically says that man cannot destroy the earth through climate change because that's in God's hands. He then says he believes God's word is infallible.
*sigh*
I'm not getting started on where I stand on the validity of the Bible as God's complete word. Or I will in that it gives subjective, personal direction to your own life - but it is NOT a code to be deciphered, nor something to rally dimwits to your own cause using carefully chosen verses.
If we can destroy the earth or not, we are capable of LARGE SCALE DESTRUCTION upon it. The way this guy is putting it, we can do what we want - we're not going to destroy it. However history has proven that when people are permitted to pollute freely it's the poor and destitute who suffer, not the wealthy nor the senators.
His saying "I see we have members of the clergy here to open up the theological discourse" might sound innocuous, but to me it sounds like "So go ahead, give me your best shot! I brought an army!"
Sorry, I'm ranting. *steps off soapbox*
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07:38 am
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As if their silly sappiness isn't enough...
..the Family Circus is recycling whole cartoons!!!
Left is from the early 1970's, right from last week. The Comics Curmudgeon had a reader send in the scanned comic from a 1970's compilation.
By the way, if you want a funny but sometimes fairly disturbing take on the Family Circus, check out the Dysfunctional Family Circus - now closed, but still lists the comics plus the user submitted captions.
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04:37 pm
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Writer's Block: Change for the Better over a Decade
Marriage either makes or breaks a person.
Our ten year anniversary is on June 5th.
It made us. And I'm damn happy. :)
Tags: better person, nature made, nm3, personal greatness, writer's block
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06:44 pm
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Some thoughts on the changing state of news.
Things are changing.
When I first started using the Internet as my primary news source back in 1999, things were great. I could hit several different news sources and get several different takes on a story. Still, it felt odd not to have a newspaper coming to the house - there’s something about holding it in your hands! So I started a newspaper subscription, which I had to drop because someone kept stealing my paper. In January of 2001 I took on my current job at the apartment building I work at, and each morning I buzzed six different newspaper delivery people into the building.
Now here we are ten years later and there are great, sweeping changes happening to the news.
I only buzz two newspaper delivery people into my building every morning now. USA Today, the Post-Gazette, and The Tribune Review no longer maintain kiosks in my building - no one buys papers from them. The Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and the Tribune Review are all delivered by the same carrier guy now, and he says they’re in talks to deliver the New York Times, too. The scary thing is ONE carrier could indeed carry every single paper to be delivered to my almost full 240 unit building… tucked under his arm.
This past December it seemed like every other long-standing reporter at several of the papers I read (I get free copies at the front desk), was retiring. They had been offered retirement bonuses for dropping out a little early. In the past month I’ve read articles about two major US newspapers either going online-only or closing altogether.
My local grocery store, Kuhns, doesn’t stock any news magazines anymore. It’s all gossip stuff which I’ve privately dubbed “magazines for people who don't want to operate a computer”. Outside of chain stores, it’s sometimes hard to find a news or science magazine - their biggest target audience tends to use the Internet a lot.
Amidst all this you would think that the quality of news online would be going up - and to some degree it has. But… on the other hand with the droves of reporters leaving the news field the different news sites are all posting the same Associated Press articles, removing my desire to surf to multiple sites. CNN.com no longer differentiates between US and international news headlines on its main page - the headline “Bus crash kills three” could well be either New Jersey or Pakistan these days, you have to click it to find out.
The news is changing. Is it for the better, or for the worse? Well… probably for the same. But its means and systems are definitely changing.
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12:47 am
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My take on stem cell research.
RESEARCH IT! Find out EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT IT!!!!!! For crying in the night, somebody has to find it out!
Science is about learning. All of our lives have been greatly improved by doing edgy research like this. Understand that there have been times in history where a doctors had to pay people to steal bodies just so they could autopsy and learn - because the religious establishment wanted to keep the bodies intact for when the dead would rise at judgement. But those examinations have brought us life.
If we can figure out how to grow new organs - or to be able to repair nerve tissue (there's a holy grail for you - stem cells might be the way to do that), then by God we should do it.
Some may say "we can't do that, we'd be playing God!" but I disagree. No one can play God. Ever. Trust me, if there were a way to "play God" God wouldn't put it anywhere NEAR our grasp. We're only using the tools and possiblities that God has laid out already.
Tags: government funding, stem cell research, writer's block
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06:34 pm
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Life without ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) randompictures, 50 minutes in...
( Clicky for moar. )
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05:44 pm
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Randompictures suspended!
Hey,_urination_burn and benchilada! One of our favorite communities has been suspended! :(
( Not kidding, -random pic- under cut. )
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