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http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/12/billie-2/
http://www.dailykitten.com/?p=3956
Location: UK
Hello, my name is Billie and I am a VERY smart ginger and white tabby moogy. I am nearly 14 weeks old! I have my own facebook AND flickr page because being with people makes me happy. All in all, I am a very happy kitten who purrs in my sleep – apparently. My favourite toy is the dangly purple lion, but that is probably going to change. I love to explore and my people let me out sometimes, but I meow to go out. My humans are so stupid, they fall for a sad “meow”! Now, my special human takes me out the front to the big world on a cat lead and I love it. I love salmon, ham and chicken (also cream!) and I LOVE Felix food. I hope you have a puuuuurrrrish day, Billie xxx.
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afuna : Blah blah BLAH blah
The thing I hate most about drinking is that I can hear my heartbeat, but I can't hear my breathing. That freaks me out!
Anyway, company christmas party today. Theme party so I put on my best (worst) 80s attire. Bad hair, bad clothes, and (briefly) an awkward rubik's cube costume. Wheeeee. OH, and I danced. Whatever.
I asked for water, I got vodka sprite -- twice x_x
I think I am tipsy. TIPSY. Tipsy.
Zzz.
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timscience : Dancing about architecture
Space Heroes are BACK
OK, so we have a gig on Sat 19th, part of the winter warmer. At the Jericho. We're on at 3. This will be our first gig without Lizz. We will most likely be playing not 1, not 2 but 3 new songs, 2 of which are about modern architecture. The Westgate car park gets a mention.
Q: You say you're back. Were you ever away?
A: Not really, although we have spent the last 3 months trying out stuff to see what still works.
Q: Speaking of which, how does it sound without Lizz?
A: About half the old material doesn't work, which is why I've written so much new stuff. We'll have to see how it all goes down. Think of it as being daringly experimental.
Q: 3.00. That's a bit early isn't it?
A: Yes it is. We asked for the early slot for two reasons:
1) In order to try to make my end of things more visually entertaining, I am using a bit of new kit (wiimote, drum pads). The possibility for things to go tits up is therefore exponentially increased. I would rather this didn't happen in front of a packed evening crowd.
but mainly
2) Because Jo has to get back to Wales for Christmas that day.
Q: The Westgate car park??!!!???
A: Yes. I have decided to out myself as a fan of the Westgate car park and its decaying Mayan temple chic, even though as a car park per se it's clearly a bit rubbish*.
The Westgate centre itself remains a tedious box with no redeeming features.
*Oxford council, if you insist on taking it out of action as a car park, put a speaker on each corner and turn it it a giant postapocalyptic night club or something. It would immediately be 100 times as good as the O2.
elyssa : Hockey fans
This is the view next to the tv while we watch hockey. Ridiculously cute.
mendel : 30 is totes the new 20
What are your 30s like?
A bunch of Metafilter users give advice on what to do with your 30s.
cleanskies : moments between posts
This also happened today:
jinty : Out and About
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cleanskies : panel by panel (this week's strip)
I've been experimenting for the last couple of weeks with drawing the strips in a little moleskine-a-like, one panel a page. Astonishingly, most of the panels are actually the same size, and (given that most of the drawing happened on a bus) surprisingly unscribbly. However, there are kitten related issues; every time I fire up the scanner she wants to know what's alive in there! ... and then I'm having to stop her jumping on the buttons and treading on the touch screen and excitedly shoving her little paw deep into the rollers. For a regular strip, once. For the moleskine-a-like strip, FIVE times. What an exciting evening she's had. And me too. This week's strip, anyway. As you can see, my new, open plan, office is a little different from the old one.
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compressions - detail
I should probably have coloured this, oh well. |
Gatorade drops Tiger Woods drink
drops like a cough drop
rho : I'd never even considered that this could be possible
I swear, I never injure myself in normal or sensible ways.
I was just taking a shower, when I slipped and the little toe of my left foot somehow managed to insinuate itself down the plug hole, getting caught between two of the metal bars thereof, and staying lodged there even as I slipped and it started to be put in a less than comfortable angle.
Fortunately, I did manage to retain my balance and didn't fall over completely, because if I had done, I'm fairly sure I'd be looking at a broken toe right now, and being too busy screaming in pain to write this update. Even so, ow.
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celestialweasel : What could possibly go wrong?
A colleague says:
'I've got a Siamese tea-bag'
[FX: demonstrates the conjoined nature of 2 pyramid tea bags]
'I'm going to look up 'Siamese tea-bag' on Google.'
http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/12/duke-3/
http://www.dailykitten.com/?p=3951
Location: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
I am Duke, and this is when I was two and a half months old. I am now a grown up boy, at least I believe so. Mommy still thinks I am a little boy! I love to sleep, sleep and sleep, there couldn’t be a better sport. I eat whatever mommy gives me, except for boiled chicken… eew… how can she even think I will like that. I love to play with my toys and also love to play chase with mommy especially when she is least expecting it; and not to forget the small insects and flies that keep crossing my way. I love people coming home, as long as they act polite and let me assess them completely, before they start acting comfortable like it’s their home. The only thing I hate is mommy closing doors on me, like the kitchen door when she’s making my dinner.
afuna : Google Chrome Volume on Mac OSX?
Lately I've been seeing Growl Notifications of a Google Chrome being mounted on my Mac, while I'm not running Chrome, and without my having done any action on my part. (I have been keeping Chrome around out of curiosity because I want to try the beta, but I haven't run it in a while).
I do not know what's been going on, but I can't find any way to turn it off -- I can't even figure out where to start looking. ps aux | grep -i google (look for "google" in all running processes) just shows me a GoogleTalkPlugin... and I don't know what that is for either, or where it is from.
I suspect there's something that's just trying to be helpful, but since I don't know what it is, and I don't recall giving anything permission to do this, I don't like it :p And not remembering whether I gave it permission or not, may be my memory being faulty, but whether I gave it permission before or not, I can't find any way to turn it off now.
So now I'm trying to figure out how to purge Google Talk Plugin and Google Chrome from my system. Anyone run into any of this behavior before? Any idea how to stop it?
ETA: Mrrrr, found it. Google Software Update was installed automatically on my computer, probably when I installed Gears, or checked out Google Earth or Google Chrome. I don't mind being asked for permission to check for updates when I start a program, but having something automatically update without notification or permission makes me twitchy, so I've removed all the google software I don't need, leaving only gears.
I'll also do this as well: http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=100386 and hope that doesn't kill gears.
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The Broadland Archives at Southampton University include Mountbatten papers, Palmerston's travel diaries and other papers, including letters from Queen Victoria, and a lot of other material. The Trustees of the Archives are selling them, and the university are trying to raise £2.85 million to keep them. More details here.
And here's a picture of Little Itchy, who has found a new place to hide in the study which we can't work out, but who is very friendly and purry whenever she does deign to appear:
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cleanskies : paranoid cartoonist pursued by big black birds
Oh, I'm lagging on the scanning, and everything is ending up out of order. Not that that's any sort of excuse for posting a strip that was written sometime in mid 2006, and it obviously hasn't been waiting in the scan-me pile all that time. It's been languishing pencilled bar the first panel where the ink (long since thrown away for being shit) had spread, while I couldn't decide if that irritatingly ruined first panel meant that I should redraw the lot. No, of course not, it's fine, just shove a wash on it. Hence, this week's strip from over three years ago. Ink washes are lots of fun when a kitten is helping! I ended up having to wipe ink off her nose.
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I've had enough of the bad dreams thank you
An old strip from a few years ago. |
celestialweasel : They should do more of this on the BBC News Channel
I refer you to this post of jwz.
If they did more of this on the BBC News Channel I would pay my licence fee instead of pretending to be a 85 year old blind nun.
Sister Frances Dunstan
(EDIT: GRR got the wrong link, now fixed, though that one mentioned WEASELS!!!)
rho : In most train stations, you don't have to cross a motorway junction to change platforms
Today was going to be a productive day. I figured out last night all the things I was going to do and was feeling motivated and everything.
Then this morning, I woke up after a nightmare (involving trains, Staffordshire, and interviews). I then went back to sleep, only to wake up not all that long after from another nightmare (this one had tigers, witches, and what I think may have been Oxford Street).
This has left me feeling tired and cranky and turned today from a happy fun productive day into a slob around moping and order pizza day. Bah.
On the plus side, at least neither nightmare involved secondary school or changing rooms, which are my standard nightmare fodder. Variety is a good thing, right?
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http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/12/jasmine-2/
http://www.dailykitten.com/?p=3946
Location: Levittown, New York, USA
Jasmine is two months old now. We adopted her from the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh when she was barely six weeks old. She is a bundle of energy and brings a great deal of joy to our house.
luminairex : One hell of a storm
Every tree on campus is damaged somehow. Maybe 1 in 4 is uprooted.
http://start-to-finish.dreamwidth.org/24209.html
Am very tempted to take
this children's literature course next year - my philosophy course will be finished by then. I haven't done any English Lit degree level work but I should be able to wing it with my essay writing experience, right? On the other hand, perhaps I'd better try some of the preparatory work :) School have kindly agreed to give me time off to actually sit exams if I pick things with exams too, which means I can do the History course on Empire I wanted.
Billboard has named Daniel Powter, whose song "Bad Day" topped the Billboard charts for five weeks in 2006, the one-hit wonder of the decade. The magazine defined a one-hit wonder as any act whose second song didn't reach the top 25. To be fair, it only considered the years 2000-2007, because last year's hit-makers might still have another one up their sleeves. (via)
afuna : Loose ends
I'm in a massive clean-up mood right now, and I'm fighting the urge to tie up some loose ends that have been bothering me, mostly because they probably aren't as loose or ended as I feel they are.
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In case anyone who may be interested missed them on FB, I have internetted some of my pictures from India and Thailand
aveleh : Requesting some help in answering web requests.
(This was going to get posted to a community, but my laptop is at 10 minutes until no battery, and I can't figure out if there's an appropriate comm to post to, so I'm putting it here.)
Hey guys. I opened up all the web requests in tabs to go through and answer as many as I can. But I need help, so here's a list of all the requests I didn't put an answer on, that I think can be reasonably easily picked up. They range from "explain the IC to the user" to "test something and see if you can reproduce" as far as difficulty, so any interim should find many of them approachable. If you find one too overwhelming, look at another. Or go check out another category.
Edit Friends Page:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1008070
User is having problems with editing their friends - most likely has to do with a weird character in a friend's display name. Can someone try to reproduce this and either IC or jira it and then respond to the user?
[msn] error: 'There's a problem with the site you are trying to share your information with. Please try again later. (Internal server error)'
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1014969
I don't know? Can anyone see if they can break this? Maybe it's not working for users with non-alphanumeric passwords or something?
[msn] error
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1016603
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1018108
... I do not trust my ideas.
(not) getting notifications they (don't) want
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1024342
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1026434
Can someone test to see if the gunky hacky workaround works for turning off these notifications, and then tell the user how to do that? And even if not, tell the user that we know, we're sorry, and to watch lj_releases.
User can't create new custom group
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1024757
No idea. Someone else try? Ask the user questions?
User doesn't like that they get millions of cookies
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1024874
I think? Send them to suggestions maybe, but first lets establish what the user is actually doing.
User is having problems creating an account
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1026115
Says there are no errors. Please either try to troubleshoot on your own, or ask for more information. Could also be weird caching or something?
Ooh, this user - http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1026902 - says that they're not getting the expected error when a username is taken. Troubleshoot around that issue <3
coffeechica : Writer's Block: Top ten playlist, then and now
Oh seriously Sue, you expect me to pick ten? :-p
These are not in order. There's no way I could do that. You're lucky I'm not repeating artists.
1) Barenaked Ladies - When I Fall
2) Ben Folds - Silver Street
3) Aqualung - Brighter than Sunshine
4) Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!
5) Ben Folds Five - Evaporated
6) Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
7) John Mayer - Dreaming With a Broken Heart
8) The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)
9) Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
10) Train - Drops of Jupiter
It'll change before the end of the day. (Where is the Matt Nathanson track, for example? It's caught up in "AUGH HOW CAN I CHOOSE".)
I listened to a lot of records that were rather childish, so here's the stuff I can think of, most of which I still like. (The first two are actually on my playlist for if I ever do my little concert thing.) We listened to a lot of country music when I was a kid. I wasn't yet allowed to listen to Top 40 radio, but my older cousins Amy & Hanna would always bring the most awesome tapes along when we went up to see Grandma in Michigan.*
1) B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
2) Sylvia - Nobody
3) Amy Grant - Stay For Awhile
4) Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control (oh man, my cousins & I would wail on this song)
5) Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All (see! children are important!!)
6) The Little Mermaid - Part of Your World
7) Care Bears II - Forever Young (I AM NOT ASHAMED; IT'S A GOOD SONG.)
8) Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream
9) Ronnie Milsap - I Wouldn't Have Missed It For the World
10) ....okay it can't all be shameless. Some Oak Ridge Boys song goes here.
rue842 can probably remind me.
Again, I'll certainly think of more as the day goes on.
* (My cousin Rebecca & I took special joy in Amy & Hanna's music collection because my dad and her mom were both very strict on secular music. I remember staying at her house and secretly watching
Dirty Dancing when her mom was out on errands, knowing we'd both get in real trouble if we got caught.) >_>
Okay time to throw a shirt on, some boots, and go out and feed Amie.
...Given the context of thinking about trips to Northern Michigan, this makes her sound like one of Grandpa's Angus cows. Haayyy.
http://www.dailykitten.com/2009/12/blu/
Location: Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
Blu is six months old now. We saved her from death. Before, we did not know what it was like to live with a cat. Now we know only too well – Blu has brought so much joy and warmth to our house. She makes every day a beautiful day.
Forgot to unload my backpack this weekend. Oops!
We sold our tickets to the Brett Favre show to see TSO. Don't regret a thing
:)
synecdochic : what the fuck, it's fucking monday again
Mondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.
(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)
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stevieg found us some amazing seats for Trans Siberian
Orchestra. I think these are some of the best seats I've ever had at a
show!
the_kitty_kat : Yay for Legolas the Christmas elf!
Today I completed all of my Christmas shopping for people at work. Next up is family shopping. I feel like I'm already behind.
Also, I'm getting ready to send out holiday (NOT specifically Christmas) greeting cards. If you'd like one, please PM or e-mail me your address, or comment with a link to your filtered contact info post, etc. Comments are NOT screened, so please don't post your whole address there unless you want god and everyone to see it. I have many of your addresses already, so if you know I have it, don't worry about it (although you can say "MEMEMEMEME, I want a card!"). Some of you are getting a card whether you want one or not. ;o)
Now I am going to wash some laundry so I will have some clothes to wear this week. This was a good weekend, but too short. Always too short.
synecdochic : 101 Times JD Nielson Hitched A Ride
People seem to be taking me up on this in comments, so I shall track it here!
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ivorygates posted the aforementioned JD-and-Jason-Gideon story, Driver Picks the Music, and it is SO AWESOME)
1. Dr. Who, the Doctor (giglet)
2. Torchwood, Jack Harkness (circadienne)
3. (to name it would be to give it away) (zarhooie)
4. Sarah Connor Chronicles, John Connor (abyssinia)
5. Supernatural, Dean Winchester (me, the beginning thereof)
6. Dr. Who, the Doctor (rho)
7. Desperate Housewives (archersangel)
8. NCIS, Tim McGee (ladyyueh)
9. Star Trek: Voyager (quinfirefrorefiddle)
10. The Sentinel, Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison (sid)
11. Dark Angel (goldjadeocean)
12. Gateverse, quantum mirror (slybrarian
13. Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow (alyndra)
14. Sanctuary, Ashley Magnus (abyssinia
15. due South, Fraser/Ray V. (synecdochic)
16. Twilight, Bella (tiferet)
17. Farscape, John Crichton (kazbaby)
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz (jadelennox)
19. La Femme Nikita (twistedchick)
20. Heinlein's World-as-Myth (melannen)
21. Dinosaur Train (circadienne)
22. SG-1, Jack O'Neill (archersangel)
23. Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway (merrycaepa)
24. The Pretender, Jarod (jamoche)
25. Georgette Heyer, Dominic Alastair (cesy)
26. Leverage, team (lisabounce)
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janinedog : Me and Camille :)
- [when | 6th December 2009]
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okay] - [music | Lorelei-Cocteau Twins-Treasure]
Yet another one has now been and gone - the 6th one, and the fifth in the same house in Wickwar. It was lots of fun and this time I got a bit more drawing done than in previous years, although so much time passes between occasions upon which I draw these days that I feel I must have regressed.
Thank you to everyone who came, and especially thank you to Jenni, Selina and Jason for lots of help in the kitchen - Jason also did a great job on pudding duty, Richard for doing the frustrating job of untangling the fairy lights and also for hunting down retro pop culture reference material, and Jay for organising the comic arrangement.
synecdochic : 101 Times JD Nielson Hitched A Ride ...
So, here at the stitch & bitch, I mentioned that sarah and I had been discussing the old 101 Uses for a Canadian Shack fandom project, and that we both think that "101 times JD Nielson hitched a ride" would work out, because I have JD and Dean Winchester in progress, and ivorygates has made noise about JD and Jason Gideon ...
melannen immediately piped up and said, "If you do that, I will write JD Nielson and Tony Stark."
(I got up immediately and sat down at the keyboard to make this post. After I stopped laughing.)
So, here's the challenge: Write JD Nielson hitching a ride with somebody. Doesn't matter when, doesn't matter how, doesn't matter crossed over with what, just JD, a vehicle, and someone giving him a ride. Have at it, and I will finish that story with Dean Winchester.
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coughingbear : books do furnish a room
Just shelved a Billy (double of course), with some of my adult fiction. Was amused to find Hemingway had got mixed up with Heyer...
The dining room looks considerably more like a room than it did, but the front room is still full of book boxes. In other news, Christmas shopping with my sisters was lovely (to see them) and horrible (negotiating Oxford Street and trying to find presents and think of things I would like myself. No one seems prepared to give me an unpacked house for Christmas). We also now have a plumbed-in dishwasher and a huge fridge, which are both good.
And two bests of all: rosathome came to visit this weekend and was the first person to stay in the spare room, and it was lovely to see her, and on Saturday hano and I went for a gorgeous lunch with nicnac and J, and came home with a ginger kitten. She is a little scared of everything still, and hides behind hano's desk a lot, but she has been eating and drinking and earlier this evening she was playing with me and getting me to stroke her head, and purring. So I think she will be fine. Fox and Wosk appear to have realised that the study door is closed, and that there might possibly be food on the other side, but not as yet that there might be another cat in their house. They are both on diets, on vet's orders, and their only thought is where the next meal is coming from. Admittedly that's what they've always mostly thought about, but now it's Serious.
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