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"You're using the old version of the Friends page - switch to the new one."
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My time as a reputed hitman.
A while back, I used to visit Boston fairly regularly. I found a hotel I really liked (the Residence Inn in Cambridge, due to being near a bunch of things and having rather a lot of room), and would stay there. I'd usually take Friday off from work, sleep a little late, and head up by Amtrak. Get to South Station, get the Red Line (which I often ( Read more... ) -
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Reading through some stuff on the EPU boards, I came across a comment that, with current events and knowledge I have, now slew me, a comment from one of the Brits that show on the forum, describing the Prime Minister of the UK as:
"D(avid) C(ameron), England's leading exporter of shiny forehead"
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[LJ Idol] The Sincerest Form Of Flattery
The old saying goes that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation. I've been known to do some of that in a couple forms ( Read more... ) -
[LJ Idol] Icarus
I have ridden Icarus and seen his rise and fall ( Read more... ) -
[LJ Idol] First World Problems
This was inspired by skylanth and commentary by takhys, so all honor to those worthies.
What makes a problem a 'first world problem'? I submit, as takhys put it in Skylanth's repost, that at the core, a problem is a problem, no matter where it happens. Using that term 'first world' just sets up these mental/conceptual barriers between us. My last LJ Idol post - ( Read more... ) -
[LJ Idol] Brouhaha
I have been, in my day, in the middle of a brouhaha. You can find about it if you click the 'inadvertant shitstorm' link in my tags ( Read more... )