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July 25th, 2008
06:33 pm elizawrites [Link]	stolen from all y'all Where is your cell phone? in the car Your boyfriend/girlfriend husband/wife? still at work Your hair? dye again tomorrow Where is your father? home, I think? Cheesecake? no thank you Your dream last night? i can't remember Your favorite drink? fuzzy navel nom Your dream car? i don't care The room you're in? messy living room George Bush? bye bye bye Nipple rings? i'm too old Who did you hang out with last night? mr hay, cats What you're not good at? lots of things Your best friend? Colleen, since school Student loans? time for more! Where did you grow up? hobbs, new mexico The last thing you did? ran some errands What are you wearing? glasses, tshirt, jeans Tattoo on the lower back? wee blue star Ketchup? ugh, no thanks Your computer? little white macbook Your life? only three words? Your mood?it is freitag! Missing? completely packed luggage What are you thinking about right now? diy home repair Your car? black honda civic Your summer? gone super quickly Your relationship status? married four years Your favorite colour?pink, i guess When is the last time you laughed?early this morning Last time you cried? last week maybe? Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?not fast enough High school? never going back (Leave a comment)
06:52 pm theferrett [Link]	My Wife During Clarion, I have become a choad. All I ever talk about with my wife is my stories, my writing, things that have happened while writing, whether I'm a good enough writer, is this story good enough, and maybe I can write some more. I know I'd want to punch me in the face. And yet she's still there, loving me, supporting me. It feels like a complete blessing, like great wings attached to my back. I know I'm a shallow twit now, the sort of obsessed artist who I normally mock, and I suspect that I'll be doing this for some time afterwards. My writing's suddenly become a lot harder, and a lot more psychodramatical. She's still there. I don't know why she's there, but I love her for that. (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
06:48 pm feste_sylvain [Link]	Spam of the Day I just received the following spam: euphoria recuse conception whet dispense heroism? dawn, whiteface wedge. chester dawn chester crusoe deterring chester, maxima bernstein conformation maxima planar jupiter. oilcloth bernstein. Man, that ol' oilcloth bernstein really knows his poetry. The juxtaposition of "planar jupiter" alone makes "euphoria recuse conception" a work of genius. (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
03:42 pm liralen [Link]	Doom and Color DOOM! One of the coolest things about living out on the high plains is that one can see the weather coming for miles. One of the scariest things about living out on the high plains it that one can really see the weather just coming for miles. Especially when the thunderstorm clouds fill the sky all the way from the mountains to the border of Kansas and I'm just on my way out to ride my bike to the grocery store. And the wind was blowing. There are reasons there's a guy by the road selling bricks attached to link chain labeled "Boulder Wind Chimes" around here. Sadly, I managed to get home before the rains hit. It would have been cooler to ride in the rain, though I probably would not have cared for the thunder and lightning. I painted yesterday and met the doom that is color. I hate color. I suck at color. I still have to try it, though. Silly me. ( Cut for the pictures of the color fails and really fat sparrows and one good set of cherry blossoms. ) Current Mood: accomplished Tags: biking, painting (13 comments \| Leave a comment)
05:22 pm matociquala [Link]	I lived! And, I think, revisions done. After a couple of long stern grovels through the prose, and some making the plot make sense, it's become a story I am actually quite proud of. ...and now I get to have a beer and watch the telly. P.S. still in love with the new computer. I'm reasonably certain it makes me write better. Like new sneakers make you run better, you know? You know! ...YOU DON'T KNOW? Oh, I'm sorry. Current Mood: stick a fork in me (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
05:08 pm goingdriftless [Link]	Heading Home Whew... it's been a crazy day. I was relegated to Siberia again and got a ton of stuff done. I'm still feeling a little in the hole. But it's not for lack of trying! I'm trying to make some decisions about my living space. I've got a coupon for fabric.com that I'm going to use to buy fabric for chair covers and maybe a futon cover. Need to measure and check my swatches against the paint and all... and hope that they're still stocking the colors I have swatches for! But the chairs that go with my dining room table are in not-so-great shape. The table looks good, but the chairs... But I'd really prefer a darker wood set anyway. And I want a buffet/sideboard to go with it. That would entail me getting rid of the little shelves in the dining room (planning on that anyway). And then I'm thinking of taking my current "desk" and moving it into the bedroom as a sewing table... Then getting a new desk for the living room area. I'm going to hang onto the futon for a while longer because couches are really expensive. Plus, I like my futon. And it's in good shape. I think my blonde bookcase in the living room would move into the bedroom, then. And I'd like a filing cabinet to match the desk in the living room... and also probably a printer stand. Then there's the issue of pianos. I'm thinking it might be nearing the time to purchase a second electric piano. I'd love an acoustic, and I might look... but I'm not sure it's entirely practical yet. But it's on my mind. I need to check prices. I'm not sure what I can afford. Plus I need to check out my guitar this weekend and make sure the sound system is all happy before Chicago. If not, I need to get it in for repairs ASAP. The kitchen floor will get done soon... basically as soon as I have the energy. I know which tiles I want. I'm wondering, though... if I should wait... and do the cabinet painting first... and then replace the countertops. I wish I knew how much new laminate counterotps would be... if we're talking hundreds or thousands... OK, I know it's not thousands for my little bit of counter. But is it $300 or $500... And really, should I even think about those things before I replace the washer/dryer? And finish paying off the stove/dishwasher? Yi, yi, yi... it all just snowballs. Foyer painting first, because I already have the paint! Then living room painting followed by living room furniture and sewing (curtains, futon/chair covers). Then I guess we'll evaluate what's next. It's so exciting! Anyway... not sure what tonight holds. I hope JtB gets home OK. I didn't get to talk to him all week! I'm sure it was because by the time his conference-day was winding down in Portland, I was already in bed... I went ahead and have plans for tomorrow, so I won't see him, likely, till Sunday. That means I need to be productive this evening. Anyway... I'm gonna take off now. Weekend ahoy! (Leave a comment)
02:07 pm firni [Link]	Man what ... "There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past." http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121694247343482821.html Edit: Yeah, I must have dozed off during the part where Batman revealed Super Man's alter-ego, used his connections to place Harvey Dent as district attorney, and silenced the board of directors at Wayne Industries to maintain his position as head of the company so he could spend huge sums of investor funds to fight a war on crime that didn't work instead of looking out for shareholder interests. Okay. I think I saw that last part. Maybe. Current Mood: confused Tags: lame linkage, movie industry, news sucks, parlor tricks, politics, what (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
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03:41 pm ohsochewy [Link]	I switched. Hmph. So based on froggy_dear's rec, I finally switched over from Bloglines to Google Reader. I don't think I like it. 1) It doesn't stop after the new ones. It just keeps going. I think, "Hey, there were only supposed to be four new ones!" and suddenly I'm into the More Than 60 area and ooooh nooooes! 2) It doesn't organize them. I have my folders, but within the folders it just lists all of the posts in time order. Which is annoying when I, like, don't really care about the 58 angst-ridden Ask Metafilter posts surrounding the interesting Waxing America thing about something scintillating like trollies and inclusionary zoning n shit. Can I change these settings somewhere in a preference list or something? The one thing I do like, though I haven't gotten it together yet, is the shared section. I was not yet a user of del.icio.us, but I was almost there. Now I can see all of mrcomfypants's favorite LOLcats at once :) (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
01:40 pm maarten [Link]	Searching the search When you search Google for the word search, the top hit is AltaVista. Then DogPile, Live Search, Yahoo Search... and in 9th place, Google itself shows up. Hunh. Tags: tech (Leave a comment)
04:03 pm judecorp [Link]	No sleep til Brooklyn Punk has woken up from each of her naps today after 45 minutes or less and was crying both times - big, real tears, not the "I want you to come get me NOW" yell. She also woke up in the middle of the night sobbing unconsolably, even though I was sleeping with her. This afternoon when it happened I /knew/ she was still tired so I tried to snuggle up with her on the bed and she was snuggly, but still crying. So I did what I never do and took her to the couch with me and let her watch a little bit of PBS so she would stay calm until she got composure. Her face was all blotchy from crying, poor thing. She has no fever, and does have some teeth coming in, but has a bit of a runny nose today so I called the pedi's office just to see what they thought. Since she has a recent history of ear infections that we don't find out about until they are huge, they suggested bringing her in. Gosh I hope it's not another ear infection, because then they'll want to talk tubes. ~//~ Recent Punk cuteness: 1. Pretending to brush her hair. 2. Pretending to talk on the phone, but with her shoe. 3. Showing two body parts: belly and foot. 4. Trying to put on her shoe. 5. Saying 'bye bye' and 'ball' (baba and ba respectively), but not consistently. 6. Pushing a toy car on the floor, sometimes with a vroom-vroom noise. 7. Yelling, "MA MA!!!" when she wants something and I'm in another room. 8. Toys she will go and get if you tell her to: car, ball, shapes, blocks, books, bucket. 9. Saying, "RAAAAR!" whenever she sees any kind of animal. Even fish. Current Mood: blah Tags: gus, gus milestones, sick (10 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:37 pm lovelyangel [Link]	AngelVortex #11 I’ve been getting home late (i.e., around 10 pm) from work on those workdays I don’t have physical therapy. PT sessions are twice a week at 5:30pm, and I have exercises to do several times a day. Sometimes it’s tough to find time between meetings. I’ve had days where I failed completely. My therapist says I'm making good progress overall, though. This weekend my entire family is in town, visiting from California. We’re having dinner tonight at a Chinese restaurant on the eastside. Tomorrow I don’t yet know what the plans are other than a large memorial service and meal in the afternoon. (EDIT: This is a general memorial service for all those in my family who have passed on, not a service for a recent individual loss.) Sunday all my relatives in the Portland area are having an annual picnic. However, I’ll see if I can bug out, as I have project work due Monday, and it’s not ready, so I’ll need to work Sunday. Monday my close relatives are gathering for the afternoon and evening on the eastside. I have some project meetings I can’t get out of so won’t be able to attend until late in the afternoon. The project I’m on is pretty demanding. I’ve been spending time on other job-related stuff also. I haven’t had any free time to take pictures with any camera, so my carrying a film and a digital camera everywhere I go is an exercise in, well, exercise. I have been asked to bring all my gear on Saturday for family photos. The Phottix wireless remote is going to come in very handy. The house is incrementally better – but still trashed. I haven’t been home enough to do any more sorting and cleaning. My chances don’t look good for this weekend, either. I’m not sleeping enough. Finances are a bit spotty. And, in general, I’m just in a grumpy mood, although friends at work and around the city have been very helpful in moderating the darkness. I’m very lucky in that regard. Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: Here (Maaya Sakamoto) Tags: family, living, photography, work (Leave a comment)
09:11 pm knitting [luvnbeng] [Link]	lang opal yarn... For my next project, I'm thinking of knitting the Magic Halter in More Big Girl Knits. The pattern calls for Lang Opal yarn. Have any of you ever knit with Lang Opal? If so, what did you think of it? Thanks in advance :) Current Mood: mellow (Leave a comment)
09:50 am knitting [itsjustaphase] [Link]	A friend of mine is asking for my help in knitting up some afghans to donate to Someplace Safe, a shelter for victims of domestic violence. What are your favorite patterns that are pretty quick to knit? I would like to try to get these done as soon as I can as they probably go through them quickly. They sometimes let the women and children keep them so I would like to do as many as I can. (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:39 pm knitting [louise_the_spy] [Link]	Searching for Yarn! Hello fellow knitters! This is my first post in this group, but I love seeing everybody's FOs. I'm posting because I'm having a serious dilemma. I just finished knitting three shawls for my bridesmaids (I'm getting married a week from this Monday), and I'm dying to dive into ANY other knitting projects. I've decided to try a top-down raglan sweater. I have a hank of Cherry Tree Hill Lamb's Pride Worsted in Old Rose that I've had for nearly a year, taunting me with its gorgeousness. I decided that it would be perfect for my sweater, however, when I tried to find more of it online, I came up with nothing. Is this yarn discontinued? Does anyone out there have a hot tip about where I could get 5-6 hanks of it? And, if it is discontinued and gone forever (sob), does anyone have any suggestions of a pattern I could make with one hank? Thanks!!! Current Mood: distressed (9 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:32 am solarbird [Link]	No, it hasn't bottomed out yet Fitch Ratings has updated its ratings model, and now predicts housing prices will fall another 25% from current prices nationally. That'll hurt. Meanwhile, Lee County, Florida - one of the centres of the bubble - had 20% declines in June alone. That's not year-to-year; that's in one month. The IHT is asking, Is America too big to fail, mocking the (supposedly) abrupt switch away from laissez-faire economics. Brad Setser asks is this too big to fail, or too large to save? noting that a lot of necessary adjustments continue not to be made. And the Asia Times is very unhappy with the repeated injections of money, saying of course you have dollar devaluation, what did you expect? When Dr. Roubini at RGE Monitor talks about nationalisation of the banking system, he's talking about things like this story, showing that US banks primary borrowings from the Fed are at their highest point in history. (Not to mention all the H.3 reserves data I keep pointing to every few weeks.) Mish talks about several ways you know the banking system is unsound, so I'm worried that it's too late to prevent a banking system nationalisation anyway. Brad Setser goes further, and thinks it really has already happened. By the way, Dr. Roubini thinks that the bear market is no more than halfway over, but even so, it's not armageddon. Which is true. But he does note that it'll take more than US$1 trillion to resolve the housing-related crisis (Bill Gross agrees), even as he explains why he thinks backstopping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is cheaper than letting them fail - the decline must be kept orderly, rather than disorderly. He's also anticipating the collapse of Bretton Woods 2, the unofficial set of currency-exchange linkages that took over from the previous gold-based arrangements of Bretton Woods. Over in is-that-even-legal news, Treasury Secretary Paulson has been urging for the issuance of covered bonds without waiting for Congress to act, which they of course say they have the right to do, but with this crowd? Who knows. Bloomberg quotes a few cheerleaders of the end-run around the legislature, but also quotes people saying this won't take off without legal definition from Congress. I don't know enough about it to really know either way. Dealing with more specific banks - and this week's rumoured target of FDIC action - Washington Mutual is in trouble as Gimme Credit LLC says unsecured creditors are "pulling funds" from the bank. (I love the name "Gimmie Credit." Well, I guess I just did. Hee.) Mish says if you're over FDIC limits at WaMu, you're crazy - fix that now. Also, there's a difference between "doesn't need to raise capital" and can't raise capital as corporate bond sales plummet. He further notes WaMu's stock trading action is strikingly similar to that of Bear Stearns shortly before they went under, and lists some of the other banks in similar trouble, particularly Corus Bank (CORS), Bank United (BKUNA), and National City Corporation (NCC). Also, Bank of America says it won't guarantee Countrywide's debt. Well, that'll be a nice lot of lawsuits. Have fun with that, guys. Fortune magazine wants to know why there's no outrage at the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which are, after all, private companies. I know a lot of people who are outraged at the lack of outrage of all sorts of vileness, criminality, and corruption over the last several years; why should this be different? And finally, the FDIC Chair is blaming bloggers for banking system instability, in an effort to punish the innocent, and Congress is talking about new laws to curb oil trading, with a goal of cutting oil to $80/barrel; good luck with that; and the SEC wants to expand its shorting-limits to the entire stock market. Some argue that shorting actually slows the rate of market declines, as shorters must eventually buy the stocks to cover their short positions, and true naked shorts (where that doesn't happen) are already illegal. More misplaced blame? I'm sure we'll see. ETA: There's something called the Baltic Dry Index. It's not an investable index, you can't speculate on it; it's a measurement of products shipping. It's been falling all month, and particularly over the last few days. Think of it as an indicator of trade. Current Mood: busy Tags: economics (8 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:28 am loree [Link]	Some of you will get a kick out of this. From McSweeney's, Short Imagined Monologues: Mom, Dad, I'm Into Steampunk (6 comments \| Leave a comment)
01:38 pm knitting [sleepsong] [Link]	FO: A Knitted Veil (not) in Pyrenees Wool I have a wonderful, wonderful client at my yarn store who loves shawls, but doesn't have the time or patience to make them herself. So she asks me to make them for her. The most recent shawl she requested was "A Knitted Veil in Pyrenees Wool" from VTL, which I finished on Tuesday evening of this week. Pattern: "A Knitted Veil in Pyrenees Wool" from Victorian Lace Today by Jane Sowerby Needles: Size 4 (US) Addi lace needles. I've mentioned before and I'll say it again - I love these needles. Yarn: Almost an entire skein (1250 yards) of Lorna's Laces Helen's Lace in a beautiful chocolate brown. The colour actually started to bleed a bit while I was soaking it pre-blocking, so I treated it with clean vinegar and now everything is back to normal. Dimensions: Per my client's request, I added two extra repeats in length to the pattern. I forgot to actually measure the final dimensions, but as you'll see from the pictures, it stretches a tiny little bit further than the diagonal of my queen-size bed. Started: December 2007 Finished: June 23, 2008 (I took a three-month pause to make a baby blanket in the middle of this project.) Blocking: Blocking wires are awesome. I just stuck them through the points of the edging, pinned everything out, and then spun on my spinning wheel for about three hours while everything dried. Simple as pie. While working on the project I actually didn't like it, as it was mindlessly boring and repetitive once I memorized the (simple) pattern repeat. But then I blocked it and took one good look at it and fell completely in love. Would I do it again? Probably not for myself (althoug possibly as a commission). Would I recommend it to someone else? Hell yes. (This is the first project I've done from that book where I didn't either find something or the errata page or email the publisher with an error I'd found myself. Yay!) ( Possibly too many photos behind the cut. ) I hope you enjoyed my photos! ((Oh, and if you leave a question and I don't respond right away, please don't take it personally. My internet connection at home has been flakey recently and I'm not sure if they've fixed it yet.)) Current Mood: pleased Tags: finished object, lace (54 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:28 am solarbird [Link]	Okay if you haven't been looking at this... You really, really need to check out the Best of China Landscape photography pool on Flickr. Take your time, keep the window open a few days as you go through them. It's amazing stuff. Current Mood: pleased Tags: photography (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
10:09 am wintersweet [Link]	Groan. A relapse of my stupid cold, I has it. Really, I was OK yesterday except for fatigue, so I ran errands and worked and stuff, but last night I developed a really sore throat, and...boo. I had better cancel today's client too. Argh. Here I was planning to exercise and stuff today! I hate being sick...and I wish viruses would give me a timetable when they move in. Current Mood: sick (Leave a comment)
01:06 pm wyrding_studios [kythryne] [Link]	Super-Sneaky LJ-Only Special - photos and payment info Photos! Each one is labeled with the LJ username of the person who requested it, so you can poke through the set until you find yours. Once you've found your photo, if you like the piece, you can send payment by going to http://wyrdingstudios.com/custompayment.html and filling in the form. Please put LJ Custom For Username as the description (replacing "username" with your LJ username, of couse). Please see the list below for the prices and whether or not you'll need boxed shipping for your item. Once you fill out the form, you can add the item to your cart and check out normally, which in turn gets everything tidily into our shipping queue. Please do NOT paypal the money directly, as doing so will significantly delay shipping. Trust me on that one. Also, it annoys the lemurs. If we arranged a barter, please email your mailing address to answers@wyrdingstudios.com, with your LJ username in the subject line of the email. If you know what you're sending me, you can mail it to Wyrding Studios, P.O. Box 3522, Concord NH 03302. If we're still figuring out the exact details of the swap, we can sort things out in email. If you have any questions about this, please email answers@wyrdingstudios.com and we'll get you sorted out! I'm sure I've forgotten something important, what with this being the first time I've done this sort of thing. If you don't like the piece, just let me know and I will drop it into the pile of Things For A Future Update. crossbonesdj - $50, needs boxed shipping evilbearhunter - $20 tsarina - $20 snowcakegirl - $50, needs boxed shipping artschoollove - trade mangofandango - trade pencat - trade xyzeff, $55 calephetos - trade kablooey - $25 starfishchick - $25 or we can work out a partial trade, but I think only one of your imps would work on me emmacrew - $60 eiriene - $15 plus trade ragonmoss - trade, TBD sofiaviolet - $27 katestamps - trade akandrews - $90 theobscureone - $45 as shown, or I can add the firepolished glass that was on the original and it would be $50 chimeraesque - trade (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:59 am kightp [Link]	Happy birthdays ... ... to two of my (relative) "neighbors", vanillamoon and gimp_mom! I hope you both have a great birthday weekend! (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
12:37 pm matociquala [Link]	I've avoided it for as long as I can. I have the revision notes, both mine and John's, for "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood," and today is devoted to making it not suck. Well, what's left of today, anyway. I successfully frittered the morning away on exercise and making a pot of supa improvisata (no, that's not supposed to be real Italian). Now I have to fix this story. And the first thing I have to do is find a first line that would not get it rejected by every self-respecting magazine editor in North America. Current Mood: groggy Current Music: Fresh Air (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
09:10 am kightp [Link]	Big bad fun Last night's concert in the park was a ton of fun, and I managed to get some pretty good photos, both of the ever-entertaining band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the crowd. (Warning, music plays at that link. But it's really good music.) ( I'll stick a few behind the cut for your amusement ) Great music, good friends, a warm summer evening that gradually cooled down - hard to ask for more. I'm working from home today so I can finish laundry and packing for my train trip to Seattle later this afternoon. So I should probably get some actual work done. Hope you all have a great weekend! (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
11:33 am nihilistic_kid [Link]	Apropos the other day ambe_indikaze notes that anti-elitist countersnobbery tends to push others toward elitism, and vice-versa. That would explain why discussions of the same always end up with 100+ comments of canned arguments from people who are absolutely sure they aren't making canned arguments. (24 comments \| Leave a comment)

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