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silveradeptToday was spent doing what most of my Sundays are spent doing - shopping and cooking. I did find some very nice boots for my feet for when the rains come with a vengeance, but no hat, sadly. And nice gloves... but a bit expensive. Perhaps I will get a pair for the VEWPRF. Also, I find clothes shopping reprehensible, in that I can spend almost ninety dollars on three pairs of pants. They’d better last me a very long time for the money I’ve paid for them.
And I bought some books, too. With the books I already have, that should help bring my Ozy and Millie collection up to speed. But that’s pretty much it for this paycheck in terms of wanting to actually buy things for myself. I’ll have to put off my collection-restoring manga mania for another time. After all, my loans are now coming due. Which is also not good.
And there’s the dentist visits now, too. So money’s definitely going out. Sigh. I think I’m going to be staring wistfully at my bank account status for the next ten years...
Anyway, also tried out Compiz Fusion, the new window decoration and effects stuff, and it’s pretty whiz-bangy. Only problem is, it doesn’t really like my multiple-desktops thing. So we’ll see whether we stay with it or not. I think a solution can be found, though.
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droewyn is seeking opinions on how much to potentially charge for an unused bridal mask. Those who are crafty or have the jeweler’s eye, go comment with your opinion on how much the mask is worth.
The Boston Red Sox won the Major League Baseball championship. After the first one in several years, easy to do again, I guess.
If one is innundated with mail that one does not wish to receive, services like The Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service or Catalog Choice may help to reduce your junk amounts.
Onward to the news.
We’ll start in Bizarro World, rather than just getting there eventually with a strange exchange of e-mail between a Salon Columnist and a Colonel in the United States Army, the first being an unsolicited diatribe supposedly from the Colonel to the columnist, questioning his research and ability. While seeking confirmation from the colonel that it is indeed a fake, there have been no definitive replies or analysis that indicates that this is the case. Perhaps a momentary fit of pique?
With slightly more armor on than the Colonel, lobsters made an escape en masse from a supermarket, to end up at an animal home. Where they may be taken care of, as opposed to getting lucky like the squirrel that gorged itself too much, becoming too fat to escape the feeder it was raiding. Said squirrel escaped when the owner of the feeder made a gap wide enough for the squirrel to make an exit with.
Staying in a bizarre would, evangelical voters continue to show cracks and fissures in their once-united front.
Diplomatic staff may have to fill posts in Iraq or be dismissed. Because people willingly volunteer for diplomatic relations and engagements in a zone where the chance of dying on any given day is pretty high.
Missile defense system's second test is successful. Waiting to see when and whether they do decide to go live with the system.
Bill Clinton gives a 9/11 theorist an earful, denying that the attacks were an inside job and taking offense even at the suggestion that they were. That someone is willing to interrupt a past President with material that is theoretically unrelated to his Presidency is in very poor taste. Plus, if it turns out to have been an inside job, we’ll only find out about it long after whatever effect was intended from it has come to pass. Kindly be silent and let the man speak.
If you’re one of the people who is under suspicion for starting fires that developed into the blazes that have been raging across California, you may want to take your chances with the Governator, who will probably only put you in jail, than with the people, who may decide that they’re not going to turn you in until after you’ve been cremated.
The winner for tonight’s SSRC quiche, while being sensible legally, is really stupid to do from any other standpoint, is Apple's legal department, sending back an "we don't accept unsolicited ideas" letter to a third grader sending in suggestions. As I said, makes sense legally, so that there aren’t any chances for suit later on, but really, Apple. I don’t think a third grader needs to be subjected tot he full legalese. Or at the very least, you could write a thank you for the letter, even if it was burnt the moment it contained unsolicited ideas.
Driftglass offers another neologism for the English lexicon - rashomonotheism, the realization that while you and another person start out with similar goals in mind, the way you each understand those goals is so different as to be alien. Kind of like how one decides whether to support Michigan or Ohio State, having family that rabidly supports one or the other.
Almost taking the winning entry of best thing seen today is a parody of "We Didn't Start the Fire" that neatly summarizes Internet fads from the last few years. Some of them I recognize, others not, some I have no intention of finding out about.
And our winner for tonight is Dragon Girl, a story on making sure that you get what you want, not what someone thinks you want, or tells you you want. Plus, it’s just got a really cool ending. Read it all the way through and enjoy it, please.
And I bought some books, too. With the books I already have, that should help bring my Ozy and Millie collection up to speed. But that’s pretty much it for this paycheck in terms of wanting to actually buy things for myself. I’ll have to put off my collection-restoring manga mania for another time. After all, my loans are now coming due. Which is also not good.
And there’s the dentist visits now, too. So money’s definitely going out. Sigh. I think I’m going to be staring wistfully at my bank account status for the next ten years...
Anyway, also tried out Compiz Fusion, the new window decoration and effects stuff, and it’s pretty whiz-bangy. Only problem is, it doesn’t really like my multiple-desktops thing. So we’ll see whether we stay with it or not. I think a solution can be found, though.
droewyn is seeking opinions on how much to potentially charge for an unused bridal mask. Those who are crafty or have the jeweler’s eye, go comment with your opinion on how much the mask is worth.The Boston Red Sox won the Major League Baseball championship. After the first one in several years, easy to do again, I guess.
If one is innundated with mail that one does not wish to receive, services like The Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service or Catalog Choice may help to reduce your junk amounts.
Onward to the news.
We’ll start in Bizarro World, rather than just getting there eventually with a strange exchange of e-mail between a Salon Columnist and a Colonel in the United States Army, the first being an unsolicited diatribe supposedly from the Colonel to the columnist, questioning his research and ability. While seeking confirmation from the colonel that it is indeed a fake, there have been no definitive replies or analysis that indicates that this is the case. Perhaps a momentary fit of pique?
With slightly more armor on than the Colonel, lobsters made an escape en masse from a supermarket, to end up at an animal home. Where they may be taken care of, as opposed to getting lucky like the squirrel that gorged itself too much, becoming too fat to escape the feeder it was raiding. Said squirrel escaped when the owner of the feeder made a gap wide enough for the squirrel to make an exit with.
Staying in a bizarre would, evangelical voters continue to show cracks and fissures in their once-united front.
Diplomatic staff may have to fill posts in Iraq or be dismissed. Because people willingly volunteer for diplomatic relations and engagements in a zone where the chance of dying on any given day is pretty high.
Missile defense system's second test is successful. Waiting to see when and whether they do decide to go live with the system.
Bill Clinton gives a 9/11 theorist an earful, denying that the attacks were an inside job and taking offense even at the suggestion that they were. That someone is willing to interrupt a past President with material that is theoretically unrelated to his Presidency is in very poor taste. Plus, if it turns out to have been an inside job, we’ll only find out about it long after whatever effect was intended from it has come to pass. Kindly be silent and let the man speak.
If you’re one of the people who is under suspicion for starting fires that developed into the blazes that have been raging across California, you may want to take your chances with the Governator, who will probably only put you in jail, than with the people, who may decide that they’re not going to turn you in until after you’ve been cremated.
The winner for tonight’s SSRC quiche, while being sensible legally, is really stupid to do from any other standpoint, is Apple's legal department, sending back an "we don't accept unsolicited ideas" letter to a third grader sending in suggestions. As I said, makes sense legally, so that there aren’t any chances for suit later on, but really, Apple. I don’t think a third grader needs to be subjected tot he full legalese. Or at the very least, you could write a thank you for the letter, even if it was burnt the moment it contained unsolicited ideas.
Driftglass offers another neologism for the English lexicon - rashomonotheism, the realization that while you and another person start out with similar goals in mind, the way you each understand those goals is so different as to be alien. Kind of like how one decides whether to support Michigan or Ohio State, having family that rabidly supports one or the other.
Almost taking the winning entry of best thing seen today is a parody of "We Didn't Start the Fire" that neatly summarizes Internet fads from the last few years. Some of them I recognize, others not, some I have no intention of finding out about.
And our winner for tonight is Dragon Girl, a story on making sure that you get what you want, not what someone thinks you want, or tells you you want. Plus, it’s just got a really cool ending. Read it all the way through and enjoy it, please.
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Date: 2007-10-29 06:56 pm (UTC)http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=42301&sc1=Search&feat=sr
It's $19, but it looks like it would really do the job you want, and it's a style of cap you'd probably wear.
I don't know if you might be able to find a similar style for less at a sporting goods store or camping store?