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NOT a friendslocked rant this time
Because my rare posts involve friendslocked rants ... or breznybabbles ... and I've been missing in action for a while ... I want to start slow before I break tradition and really post important things (if I ever do), so I don't scare people
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To quote someone vastly cooler than me ...
No boom today.
Boom tomorrow.
There's ALWAYS a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom.
Sooner or later.
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(Quotes) An observation on contemporary politics
Years ago, when I first became politically active, I liked to speak of reformists in general and the Democrats in particular as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It was a nice, vivid metaphor, and I was young and a sucker for anything that sounded clever. Alas, I can no longer use that metaphor, because I’m older now, and unwilling to ( Read more... ) -
Ok, THIS read improves my day just a little bit
Yoinked from kitarra, who got it from snobahr ... a librarian intelligently and compassionately presents the idea that books in a library address the needs of many and are not designed to support one particular view.
"Our whole system of government was based on the idea that the purpose of the state was to preserve individual liberties, not to dictate them" -
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Grabbed from deathpixie
When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ.
Doctor: "There, on the floor" ... (with a group, telekinetically picking up a wrench) ... "Now, follow my movements. Macrovectoid particle analyzer ... omnimodularthermocro--THERE! Megaphoton discharge link!"
Pralix: "What do we do?"
Doctor: "HIT IT!!" -
I know what I want for my birthday...
... or christmakwanzyule ... or maybe when I find a benefactor willing to pay me to breathe.
A pulse-jet powered bicycle
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Well, THAT was anticlimactic ...
... Thirteen plus years of working for a company that was incorporated on "Most People Aren't That Funny" day ... and I FINALLY get called to someone's office because they just can't understand why their windows desktop is suddenly and mysteriously upside down.
COME ON PEOPLE! Do a little research. Google is your frieeeeeend. -
ESPECIALLY for almost_lindsey and neko_angua
Take the Beatles, filter through the inspired madness of caprine and ebenbrooks, add some LOLcattage, stir vigorously in a bukkit ... and duck thrown objects from the music purists ...
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The announcement you've been waiting for!!
Assuming you know erisian_fields ... and unless you happen to be friended to almost_lindsey or tiggrl-- then you already know this ...
There's a new Bartlett in the world!
Zachary Isaac Bartlett
born 7:08am February 27th, 2008
8lbs, 15oz.; 20 1/4 inches
Zack-zack and parents are doing fine. Exhausted, all, but fine. -
erisian_fields Status Check - we're ready for launch!
(5:20ish pm 2/26/08)
Just got the call. Water broke. Novo Bubsis is (slowly) on the way.
And of course, The Menagerie has no web access -- updates will come through different channels.
More later.
(7:30 p.m ( Read more... )
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