tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229364039996421782011-07-31T01:33:59.700-05:00<i>Sing a song of sixpence...</i>Pockafwyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252579862906022117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-722936403999642178.post-37665672465679149522009-10-01T09:22:00.004-05:002009-10-01T09:46:23.227-05:00

It's going to be kind of a busy weekend. Friday evening I'll be having drinks with three women with names that are a variations on the historical name Maryām. I offered to temporarily borrow the name Marion from my grandmother, to minimize confusion.Saturday is more of a mixed bag. At 10 we've got a memorial service to attend, for a dear friend who passed away this week. My heart is breaking

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Arizona has a proposed constitutional amendment (to be voted on in 2010) which would nullify a national health care system from operating in the state. - WikipediaWow. I haven't looked further into the subject of this amendment of Arizona's, but I do have to assume they've got an exception for Medicare and Medicaid.Found out today via Minnesota Public Radio that our (MN's) governor, Tim Pawlenty

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I've got an imaginary soap box, and I'm going to use it.One of the arguments that I hear used as justification for defining marriage as "one man and one woman" is that the whole purpose for marriage is the production of, care of, and setting a good example for offspring. That particular argument gets my fracking goat in a much bigger way than people who argue based on their religious

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Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave ShrewI ordered Nurk sight-unseen, as a fan of Ursula Vernon's art and her blog, and I wasn't disappointed.It's a delightful story about Nurkus Aurelious Alonzo Electron Maximilian Shrew. Most folks just call him Nurk. He is the Bilbo Baggins of this adventure tale, and I fell in love with him immediately.Though paced for children,

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#teapix Blogged A bit of fun news.The Twitter #teapix event triggered by Neil Gaiman was blogged at geeksaresexy.net and my Four Teapots of the Apocalypse was used as an example.I'm still having fun surfing the other entries and seeing what other folks have been submitting. Much creativity to be found among Gaiman fans. Surprised? Not hardly.Take that, Monday!(Typed while humming the tune

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So, I dreamed about one of my oldest friends three times last night.Once in a very surreal, sci-fi-esque setting kind of dream in which he was a prince, a misfit, and also responsible for saving civilization - though nobody knew that last bit. That dream went on for hours. I woke up once in the middle of it, fell back to sleep, and the thing kept on going from where it left off.The second dream

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Going along for the ride I'm spending a big chunk of this weekend dog-sitting while some good friends are out of town for a wedding. Maxine is the easiest dog there is to hang out with, so it's no hardship. But, what's the one thing you expect to find when you arrive at someone's house to dog-sit?A dog, maybe?I know Maxine. So when I walked into the house and she didn't greet me at the door

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All over the US, consumers are throwing away less and reusing or repairing more. Goodwill thrift stores see rise in sales and drop in donations. "Environmentalists applaud the trash slash." Landfills hurting as consumers repair, reuse By JAMES HANNAH, Associated Press Writer James Hannah, Associated Press Writer – Sat Apr 25, 12:21 pm ETDAYTON, Ohio – Thrift-driven Americans are fixing up,

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Wall-e's Instant Fave!Originally uploaded by meddygarnet Yesterday I posted an entry on my blog musing about what the office would be like if it was like flickr... today I found a flickr group called Flickr In The Real World - Instant Fave! They print up little cards that look like the "favorite" icon in flickr, and take photos of things they like with them.I had to join, of course. Now to

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If the office was like flickr, when you walked past that really pretty calendar in your co-worker's cube, you would stick a post-it note near it with a comment saying "Wow! Beautiful image!"Your co-worker with the photo of his kittens on his desktop would have notes left on his desk letting him know just how cute those kitties really are. Some commenters would leave little photos of their own

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Ok, so I'm on this new medicine. I'm transitioning from my old meds, to Cymbalta, for fibromyalgia. In theory, I should start to have some relief in a few weeks.In the mean time, switching off of the old med, onto this new one, is wreaking havoc with my thinker. Thanks fsm for spell check, because concentrating is like navigating through a fog.But soon, hopefully, I'll be seeing some of that

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My Mister and I have been following the news about the now-famous free tail bat who accompanied space shuttle Discovery on its most recent launch. Tragically, NASA reports that Space Bat "likely perished quickly during Discovery’s climb into orbit."You'll find more details and photos at NASA.gov, and a touching tribute to Space Bat on the Space Bat Memorial page.In the words of an unknown forum

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Alice in a pinkified Wonderland goes down a distinctly yoni-esque "rabbit hole" and it just gets stranger from there. Wrong on several levels, but like the proverbial train wreck, I just couldn't stop watching.

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Went to doctor and had a suture removed. No, I haven't had another surgery since the big one in 2007. It's a long story and probably TMI for most. Making it be gone was not a pleasant thing. Should be feeling better tomorrow. Just glad it's gone now. I've been randomized into the half of the clinical trial that gets to try the Flexitouch therapy, not the control group. That is awesome news.

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more at icanhascheezburgerI really appreciated the first lol I saw at cheezburger this morning, so I'm sharing.My computer was out of commission for much of the weekend. Got it fixed, but due to a broken hinge it still needs to get shipped back to HP. The good news is, the hinge in question is under recall, so I don't have to pay for that.I'm getting some extra snuggle time from the cats this

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Fictional Quilt - Year of the Unicorn block I was kinda soft-tagged for the 6 random things meme by Leslie of Leslie's Blog (which I follow via RSS) by virtue of her modification of the rules:"I am not going to tag anyone to do this meme, but encourage anyone who would like, to do it as an exercise in self silly examination."The rules as posted by the poster who tagged her were:1. Link to the

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A friend sent me a link to Sean Hyde-Moyer's US Democracy Server: Patch Day Version 44.0 on Chrome Cow. The target audience is Democratic gamer geeks, but I don't think you absolutely need to be a hardcore member of that demographic to get a chuckle out of it. I dunno. I'm on the inside guessing out.Some of my favorite lines:President: Drain Treasury: There appears to be a bug that allowed

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A Piece of Celebratory Spam Pie Originally uploaded by Pockafwye Woke up about 5:30 am to find that one of the kitties peed on my clean laundry that had made it upstairs but that I hadn't put away. A trip to the laundry room to put them back in the dryer... what's that sound? Dripping water. Dripping. Brain gears grind in the fog of a brain not yet fully medicated. Dripping water from.

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Catrina is doing much better now. Her new vet says that - aside from her recent illness - Catrina is in fantastic shape for a 14-ish year old cat.The problem seems to have been something she inhaled that irritated her throat. The likely culprit was some drywall dust from the work we just had done on the house. She's taking a steroid to keep the inflammation down, and is back to her usual

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While I was at my lymphedema therapy today, my Mister had to take Catrina to the vet.For whatever reason her larynx swelled up and was making it difficult and painful for her to swallow. The vet has her on steroids to bring the inflammation down. To her joy, it has to be administered in a serving of gooshy food twice a day. Otherwise, Dr. Sid says she's in very good health for a 15 year old

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The cats have discovered the world outside the front window. (Photos coming soon.) Missy Tash has spent the most time of the bunch on sentry duty there. There are more birds by far than at our last house. But best of all are the bunnies in the late evening and early morning. They come right up to the house to nibble on the twigs and bark of the bushes under the window. And if the neighbors

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Two years ago today I went in for the surgery that cured my cancer.A lot has happened since then. Some good. Some not so good. A lot of awesome. Some decidedly not awesome."Normal" is different now than it was then, but assuming one doesn't live in a vacuum, two years passing brings change to everyone. "Normal" is as impermanent as everything else. Two years later, I've got new things to

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Working from home. The electrician is fixing some scary wiring out in our garage. The cats are all sleeping. I'm hoping 2009 is more stable than 2008 was.Took a break from working to view the latest posts at icanhascheezburger.com and found this.Happy almost 2009 folks.

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Leg wrapped like King Tut after his "natron bath".Cats on my lap, sleeping soundly.Working from home and listening to a podcast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me.The kittons are settling into their new home. Catrina has significantly cut down on the number of random times per day that she vanishes into an empty room to start yodeling at the top of her cat-banshee lungs.The rats are enjoying the new

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My top 10 holiday songs in my iTunes playlist right now, in random order. A couple of them are songs I don't usually like, but I really like this version. Others are childhood favorites that I just can't resist. And Chiron Beta Prime and The Holly King are songs I admit to listening to year round.Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan CoultonCarol Of The Bells by Angels Of VeniceThe Christians and the

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Disclaimer: This video is an example of shamelessly Liberal humor. As a brazen Liberal, I enjoyed it. YMMVA star studded mini-musical about California's Proposition 8. My Mister pointed me in its direction and I've since seen it in a few places on the interwebs. Neil Patrick Harris steals the show, IMHO.See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

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Cross posted from flickr.It's official. We'll be signing the closing papers tomorrow. Then we begin the chaos that is moving house. And once we're all moved and a renter is found for our townhouse, we'll be able to really take a deep breath and settle in.We'll have a lawn to mow in the spring and summer, snow to shovel in the winter (and fall and spring) and all the new responsibilities that

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Food for thought. American Thanksgiving is coming up this week. A time to give thanks for the things in our lives that are meaningful to us. To me, it seems like it should also be a time to reflect on what it means to be grateful. And for that matter, what is the other side of thankful? Not the opposite, but the other side of the same positive coin. I think the answer is the ideal of

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I spotted this on Wil Wheaton's site and couldn't resist cross posting it here from YouTube. Star Trek meets Monty Python. Hilarity ensues. Much goodness if, like me - you both recognize every scene in the video, and you're known to blurt out quotes from Python sketches at seemingly random moments.

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forsaken in plymouth 2 Originally uploaded by tearapen One of the things that fascinates me about certain regions of the US is how many falling down houses there are out there being reclaimed by nature, an inch or two at a time. You rarely see something like this where I come from in San Diego, CA. Land is usually just too valuable to let something fall down without quickly replacing it with

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Been a long day. I so needed this. Maybe you had a long day, too. So here it is.My cats would SO never sit calmly through this.

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Phidippus audax at ~7:1-8:1 Full FrameOriginally uploaded by Opo Terser Beauty in the unexpected. Beauty in the bizarre. Beauty can be found in the bits of nature most people overlook, or intentionally look away from.As an example, Opo Terser's flickr photostream is chock full of some of the most truly awesome macros I've seen in ages. They're not safe viewing for true arachnophobes.

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Yeah. What Keith said. Except, unlike Keith, I DO have family members and good friends who are either gay, lesbian, or transgendered; some of whom live in California.

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See more lolcats Who is an everyday hero? Firefighters. Hospice workers. People who devote their lives to saving domestic animals from neglect, or endangered animals from extinction. People who face the uglier side of society to help those most in need. Those brave, anonymous men and women who put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe, bring the lights back on after a storm, and

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I'm hoping Maya Angelou is chosen to speak on January 20th, like she did for Clinton's inauguration.I looked up her poem for that day on the googles yesterday. My friend and I were discussing our memories of where we were when Clinton was inaugurated, and I remembered how moved I was by listening to Angelou as her words bloomed into that cold, bright Washington DC morning. I was in my little

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Ok, I used the prediction tool at NPR.org and this is what I came up with. We'll see how far off the mark I am soon enough.

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6:30 AM: Expanding on a tweet I posted to Twitter. My alarm woke me from a dream that I was moving out of a very unhappy, angry haunted house. It's a house I've had many nightmares about in the past. Dreams about this house can go on for hours, and this was no exception. I woke briefly at 3 something AM, and again around 5, and each time I was working on cleaning up a mess in this miserable

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Ok, I tried to post this to my blog twice a few minutes ago, and it seemed to go nowhere both times. Trying again.Of all the places I've lived, California is "back home" in my heart. I lived there for most of the period from 1977 through 2003. I met my husband there, and I got married in California. I'm proud of my home state.So I've been watching anxiously as election day draws near, and

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Give a cat a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Show him where you left your boat, and you're opening up a whole 'nother can of worms.see more lolcats at icanhascheezburger.com

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El Tinklenberg is not in our district, but we're happy to see Michele Bachmann (Republican, MN 6th congressional district's Rep.) digging her own political grave with her outrageous comments about Barack Obama being 'anti-American'. Apparently the backlash is giving Tinklenberg an edge he needs in his run for her seat. I heard a fellow interviewed while I was listening to MPR yesterday, who said

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see more hipster robot webcomics and pixel t-shirtsOne of the web comics I follow regularly is Diesel Sweeties. My Mister and I got an extra chuckle out of this particular strip because I've joked about moving to Canada (or Australia for that matter) if the Karl Rove camp stays in power after this election cycle.But heck, we're in the middle of trying to buy a house. We've made a lot of friends

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more at icanhascheezburger

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IRON MAN: A WALK IN THE STARK - "THERE ISN'T MUSHROOM IN THESUPERHERO BIZ FOR A FUNGI !!"Originally uploaded by zero g I'm crashed on the couch with my lymph nodes in my neck swollen up to obnoxious proportions, watching a dog show and wandering around flickr.Ya'll probably already know I'm a fan of Zero G's photography, sculpture, radio show (when I can catch it - dude, podcast already! *wink

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Just picked up this meme from kambrieloktober.* Grab the nearest book.* Open the book to page 56.* Find the fifth sentence.* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.My response -- cross posted from my reply on her LJ post to here:I'd just grabbed my purse to answer my

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I'll call you back laterOriginally uploaded by PockafwyeFriends and family have probably already seen this video.As of today I've been married to this wonderful, playful man for 5 years, and living with him for 8 years and change. I should not have been surprised when he pulled this little stunt in the middle of our wedding ceremony.Yesterday was his birthday, or "bird day" in the family

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Don't look behind you... Originally uploaded by Pockafwye I knitted a dalek for my sister for her birthday. It was a few weeks late getting to her since it took me longer than I had expected. I had to learn a couple of new knitting techniques I hadn't practiced before, which always involves some frogging and re-knitting.I based my design on EXTERMIKNIT! by "Penwiper", with some modifications

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From the BBC News website...50 of your favourite wordsStory about man who read the OED in a yearLots of sesquipedalians out there, judging by the response to our feature on the man who reads dictionaries for fun, Ammon Shea. We asked for your favourite words and were overwhelmed with nominations. Here we list 50 of the best.Read the rest of the article hereI have to admit at being pleased by how

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(insert guilty, uncomfortable laughter)

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Christmas DayOriginally uploaded by harrip Been a long day. Tense about the upcoming elections. One of those days when , if you're me, you spend a few minutes on flickr looking at photos of comfort food.When I was a little girl in Australia, I learned about the simple treat that is fairy bread. White bread (often without crusts), butter, and hundreds-and-thousands (aka rainbow sprinkles).I

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One of many, many funny variations on this meme:Obama = ? Biden = ? McCain = ? Palin = ? You've seen the meme, here's the thread (voting enabled)My Mister and I both thought the 2+2 = chair was too funny not to share.

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Excerpt from Peter Woodward: Straight from the Shoulder, text of a 2002 interview by Alex von Thorn.You have such a diverse body of work that during my research, I had trouble getting a handle on it all. If we could imagine a definitive Peter Woodward magnum opus, what would it look like?I would be stark naked. I would be carrying a very large sword, on a stage, being filmed, and with a History

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small cat on stairs Originally uploaded by studio.nuovo Dad's new kitten. Too much cute in one photo!

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Got a good chuckle out of Wil Wheaton's most recent post, great moments in instant messaging. My spelling-fu has always been pretty strong. Except that instant messengers appear to be my kryptonite.Which geeks among us haven't pondered what superpowers we'd most like to have? For me, it was telekinesis, and the power to converse with animals.Though, honestly. Really. The most welcome super

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This morning...Wake with a sinus cold. Just what I did NOT need right now.Confirmation that the world is watching our presidential campaign with interest. Last line in an email from an Australian friend of mine... [We are] taping the debate. Guess that means we get to yell at the TV tonight.As if Rickrolling wasn't bad enough. This morning my Mister Obamarolled me. Ouch... my brain.I

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My sincerest thanks to a good friend in Australia, who pointed me in the direction of this video on au.youtube.com.It took a LONG time to finish buffering the video (I guess the interwebs were slow from Australia tonight). But for a Peter Woodward junkie like m'self, it was well worth the wait, since it includes a few snippets of his work that I hadn't seen before.GleeeEEeeEEeEEEeeee!!!Pssst...

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Yes. Yes indeedy. I will be playing Vice Presidential Debate Bingo tonight.There are a couple of bingo cards out there for download. I got one in an email from a friend. Here are a few links to some others I found by checking the googles.Backup BrainNewsweekPalinbingo.comI'll be playing along with VP Debate Bingo card in hand, and I'll post to Twitter when I fill a row, since that seems like

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The cats are zooming around the house like they're in some kind of kitteh relay race. It's 47°F (8°C) outside, the windows are open, and the air smells like Autumn.The Mister is playing World of Warcraft with some guildies. I'd be playing except I'm going to shuffle off to sleep early (as in any minute now), to try to make it to work early tomorrow.So instead of playing I watched Ghost Hunters

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Pasta in the Night by *Jiggsokeken on deviantART

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This story has it all. Human interest. Tension. Kidnapping and maiming of garden gnomes. Internets FTW! Don't steal this family's Obama sign. The world is watching. Literally. Preston Fosback and his mother, Kristine, were shocked when their Obama sign was stolen one night in April from the front yard of their Portland, Ore., home.When they put up another one nine days ago, that, too, was

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Lilys YawnOriginally uploaded by bivoir Getting ready to head out for work... I needed a dose of cute, so I popped over to the photo pool of one of my flickr contacts, bivoir.Need cute? Bivoir's got cute. Bivoir's got eleventymillion mind bogglingly cute photos.Yawning guinea piggies. Kissing piggies. Smiling, eating, posing, and even reading piggies. Not to mention funny piggies, safety

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OMG 111 We're going to have to pick sides between the Empire and the Rebellion now, I think.

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My Mister and I are house hunting, and we're hoping to be in a new home by the end of the year.What I'd like to do is get an original artwork from each of the nieces and nephews who are old enough to participate. The ideal would be something that could be either framed in an 8x10 mat, or in a similar sized shadow box. We'd like to hang their art around the house, a visual daily reminder of our

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I've been playing with the lolcaption tools again...Click on the photo to vote for this one at punditkitchen.com

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Time for a warm hatIt's going to be a cold war...Yeah. That about sums it up. *Shiver*

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Arrrrrrrr ye ready fer Talk Like a Sea Dog Tide?The Official Site for International Talk Like A Pirate Day has great gobs o' goodies, including pirate pickup lines, songs, photos, games and even piratey knitting patterns. Arrrrglye socks anyone?Pop o'er t' their links page t' use some mighty swell translators that'll add some piratical splendor t' yer own words, or translate a web page into

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Gearing up for International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19) by browsing through some of Cap'n Slappy's words of wisdom in the Ask Cap'n Slappy archives.Dear Cap'n Slappy, Do you have to have a Parrot to be a pirate or talk like one?? - Anon Ahoy Parrot-head! It's "Talk Like a Pirate" day, NOT "Talk Like a Parrot" day! The parrot is as much a part of Talk Like a Pirate Day as it would

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Pre-ordered my copy of the new expansion. I've been watching my Mister in the Beta and it looks incredible.

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Beyond the 100% Truth Test? That would make it... um... let me think... Not true?Intentionally telling others that things you know aren't true in hopes that they will believe you. There's a word for that, I think.

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Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton: "I invite the media to grow a pair. And if you can't I'll lend you mine".

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New York City 1985Photo originally uploaded toflickr on September 11, 2006. Thetext of this post expands on what Iwrote that day. This photo was taken on our visit to New York City, 1985. Scanned off of the original, the colors of the photo have changed with age.I was there, I looked out the windows at the top of one of the towers. How can something so apparently permanent be gone? In one

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Well... how about VP? No offense, Biden.

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Palin This shirt is made of awesome!Click on the photo to read more about it.And yes, that is Mr. Michael Palin. I haven't gone over to the dark side.

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For Brian Appel—and, maybe, for an energy-hungry world—it's a dream come true, better than turning straw into gold. The thermal conversion process can take material more plentiful and troublesome than straw—slaughterhouse waste, municipal sewage, old tires, mixed plastics, virtually all the wretched detritus of modern life—and make it something the world needs much more than gold: high-quality

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Space Invaders Beer Cozy The space invaders beer cozy is finally finished. I conquered my fear of stranded two color knitting and, while its not perfect, even I think it came out pretty spiffy looking. The bottom is crocheted and the rest is knitted.My Mister is home and on the mend, minus a gallbladder that had passed its warranty. He won't be allowed to actually put the beer cozy to work

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That's my Mister and our rattie, Talia. Click on the photo if you want to see it (and vote on it) on icanhascheezburger.com. Or don't. I'm just sayin' it, just in case :)* * *In to some sad news, I just heard that Don laFontaine has passed away. The quintessential voice of modern movie trailers, laFontaine's name might not be familiar to all, but anyone in the US who watches TV, listens to

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I am not buying into the internet rumors about Sarah Palin's youngest child not being her own baby.Let me start by saying that Sarah Palin gives me the heebiejeebies when you pair her name with the words "Vice President". She seems wayyyy too much like our Minnesota's 6th district congresswoman, Michele Bachmann for my comfort. Bachmann's 2006 campaign for congress just about stood my hair on

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raingardenOriginally uploaded by Andrew Ciscel We're still waiting to hear whether we've got the house. I understand the paperwork is running through the process as normal on a short sale, and that so far things look promising. Fingers and toes are crossed.In the mean time, I've been considering what it will mean to have a house with a real yard for the first time. Mowing. Raking leaves.

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James Eric Benham, convicted of beating an unarmed and innocent US civilian so severely as to require surgical implants to save his victim's face and vision, has still served no time two years after the brutal assault. Benham due for General Discharge from the Navy in Nov '08.read more | digg storyThe author of the blog post that I submitted to Digg.com - James Howard - has been a friend of

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I can has cheezburger delivury? No news on the house yet, except a quick note to let us know that there isn't any news.

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I am really disappointed by the news about John Edwards' 2006 affair.Any politician who wants to become president should know by now that the US public doesn't turn a blind eye to adultery like they used to. So just having HAD an affair shows extremely bad judgment on his part. But having an affair and then lying about it while trying to maintain a squeaky clean image is inexcusable in a

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Free Tibet FlagOriginally uploaded to flickr by Gromit Lad I just "love" China's government telling Bush that one country shouldn't be meddling in the internal affairs of another country. "The Chinese government puts people first, and is dedicated to maintaining and promoting its citizens' basic rights and freedom" "We firmly oppose any words or acts that interfere in other countries' internal

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I've been playing with this gizmo on whereivebeen.com.I've only included places that I have memories of having been, so the cities and countries my folks visited when I was an infant are right out. Places I know I've driven through but never gotten out of the car (or airport) also don't count, unless we're talking about driving across a big chunk of a really big place, such as entire US state.

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From MPR.orgNew Yorker reporter Jane Mayer's new book chronicles the use of torture by the CIA, as witnessed by the Red Cross. She says while the U.S. tried to wrest information from terrorist suspects, Bush administration officials maintained the extreme threat of attack allowed an extreme response.read more | digg storyI heard Jane Mayer interviewed on Midmorning on Minnesota Public Radio

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No accounting for the things that seem exciting these days. I slept a little long last night (my Mister woke me after 10 hours) but for the first time in ages I woke up this morning feeling rested. I remember dreaming, but they were normal dreams that vanished to vague impressions of themselves as soon as I woke. I've become accustomed to waking from dreams that stay with me so thoroughly that

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More house hunting tomorrow. We're planning to see a house not far from the one we liked yesterday. As in just around the corner and down a block or so. After a couple of near hits now on which we've been ready to make an offer just to find out we'd been beaten to it, our fingers are crossed that this one will be both as good as it looks online, and still available.more loldog pictures

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best. costumes. ever.Originally uploaded by sohmer999 Photo taken by sohmer999 at the San Diego Comic Con. He titled the photo "best. costumes. ever."Don't know about best ever. But they're right up there.If they don't look familiar to you, you're obviously not following the webcomic Looking For Group.

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Electric car in the wildOriginally uploaded by Pockafwye First 100% electric car I've seen on the streets (or public parking lots) in the US outside of California. It's a Zenn, and this one was so new it still had it's dealership spec sheet stuck to the window in the back seat. I think if I had one of these I'd leave that up for a while, too, so nosy people like me can see what the car is

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I had to clean up a messy dihydrogen monoxide spill this morning before leaving for work. I admit, I was being careless when I left a tippy container of it uncovered and unattended, but I'll be careful not to repeat that mistake when there are curious rodents around.Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding DHMO, I continue to use it as a cleaning agent around my pets, and even around food.

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My hero for today is a guy named Mitch.We lost our air conditioning yesterday while we were out watching Dark Knight. It's been in the mid 80's F in the house since we got home. I made some calls last night and then more this morning, looking for someone to come defend us from the Heat Miser.Yeah, I'm a wimp.I have in-laws in Arizona who would laugh at me like we do when they tell us it's

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The Mister and I had tickets today for the noon showing of The Dark Knight at the Imax theater at the Minnesota Zoo. We arrived about an hour and 20 minutes early to pick up our tickets from will call, where the the cashier told us that the folks ahead of us had bought tickets for the show before The Dark Knight as well (a documentary called African Adventure 3D). This meant they would already

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I'm a little late in tuning in to Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Act 3 was released today, so I saw the full series in one shot. I gather it will be on the web for just a short time, and then will be distributed via a web download for a small fee*. The Mister and I both loved it - no surprise given some of the blog posts I'd already seen floating around about it. We couldn't

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I spent the evening watching The Patriot on DVD. I guess it was the whole Mel Gibson film, caricature of good and pure heroes vs. sadists and buffoons impression I got of the story that put me off since it's in a pseudo-historical context. I dislike historical fiction that wanders so far off into the "fiction" department that it comes off like a skewed propaganda film. So I'd avoided it until

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I was scheduled to fly to Boston in two days to attend the Jumpcon convention. I have been looking forward to it for months, especially because I'd paid extra to have a ticket to be seated at Peter Woodward's dinner table (as one of 12 guests). And on my birthday no-less.I just got an email from Jumpcon announcing they were issuing refunds due to the cancellation of the event. They posted to

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Return of the Mummy Leg up and wrapped from foot to thigh to bring down the swelling from being up and around at work yesterday. Three inches of swelling around my knee and thigh goes beyond uncomfortable and crosses into painful as it puts pressure on my knee and makes it hurt to walk.I brought it down a bunch overnight, then if the wrapping works it gets looser as the swelling goes down. So

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Storm - July 11, 2008taken by Pockafwye With apologies to Han Solo...Uh, we had a slight weather malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? Another storm came through last Friday night, bringing an amazing light show and a frenzy of media coverage. The one confirmed tornado the storm generated that I know of (an

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Excerpt of a chat conversation between me and a friend who was working at the other end of town. Obviously my spelling/grammar goes down the tubes when on IM with a good friend.There's a short video of the storm we're discussing on my flickr page.( Edit: Here's a local news channel's report on this storm. )[ ] indicates text changed later for clarity/name removal.Me: you there? 12:20:30

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Disappointed.Angry.Frustrated.Disgusted.All good words for how I feel about Obama's vote for the FISA telecom amnesty bill.

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Please, World. Can we have more of this?The video is Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) by Matt Harding (sponsored by Stride gum.) For more info on Harding, try the article about him on Wikipedia if his own site wherethehellismatt.com is bogged down by traffic and won't load.Click the video once to play. If you click it again it will take you to youtube where you can watch it in high quality (

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