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just thorns without the rose
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| omg hill-arious! |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|12:54 pm] |
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| | Luna / Friendly Advice | ] |
I know how most of y'all feel about Miz Clinton. But I don't think you have to be an ardent supporter, or even a tolerator, of hers to enjoy this. Moreover I feel that if this does not give you teh gleez, you are taking this shit far too seriously.
I think, in terms of lulz, it's giving that FMB song a run for its money.
Since, despite my genius friends sharing their wise and much appreciated opinions, I remain conflicted, we're going to hear Clinton speak tonight (Pier 30, 8pm) and Obama speak tomorrow (Key Arena, 11am).
It looks like I'll be here for Washington's caucus and in Texas by the time they have their primaries on March 4. I wonder if anyone would notice if I voted twice.. ? Just kidding, that would be immoral. And sort of pointless since I don't have strong feelings about the nomination...
Also, damn. For me, that's it in a nutshell:
"Perhaps the decision between these two candidates comes down to how you like to see your political candidate hedge. Do you like the candidate pre-hedged, like Clinton, or post-hedged, like Obama? The virtue of the first approach is that it leaves nothing to hide. The virtue of the second approach is that the candidate may think, if not speak." |
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| happy super tuesday, everybody! |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|11:54 am] |
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| | MC5 / High School | ] |
Obama has already won in Indonesia. :O
Where he used to live. And where it's been Super Tuesday since yesterday. Fascinating!
( wanna go drinkin tonight? )
 Oh, hey, happy Mardi Gras, too!
I had a dream the other night that I was on a field trip and we passed this Catholic museum/monastery. There were these groups of people in elaborate Mardi Gras/masquerade getups wandering through these flat, dead, brown early spring fields. I wish I could have taken pictures. |
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| shameless..... |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|11:33 am] |
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| | Young Fresh Fellows / Can't Get Beside Her | ] |
Dear friend,
I've entered this contest.. If you have a minute or two to spare, would you consider going to the site and voting for me? It would be a great help to me and I would appreciate it. If you've entered the same contest, please let me know so I can return the favor.
Yrs,
iluvrhinestones |
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| two in a row |
[Jan. 30th, 2008|01:56 pm] |
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| | Vengaboys / We like to motherfucking party | ] |
Also. Is anyone using NotchUp? (If you don't wanna click the link, the gist is that you get paid to go to job interviews.) Think it works? Think it's a scam? I think it's a scam, but I think everything's a scam.. |
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happy birthday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nait! |
[Jan. 30th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
I hope this is a good one, since it's the last year of your twenties, and probably your last birthday in Washington. *cough cough*
<3 |
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| henry fool |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|08:16 pm] |
"Ned, have you been drinking?!?"
".. His throat hurt from smoking.." |
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| FRS: AVOID |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|03:40 pm] |
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| | Fear / Let's Have a War | ] |
If any of you are considering buying, trying, or using a product called FRS, which as near as I can figure it is some form of methamphetamine, I would like to urge you to DON'T. This is primarily because the "free trial" offered on their website is a stunning example of using technology in the service of extremely douchey business practices.
If you're truly interested, you can read my full tale of woe here. Otherwise just do me a favor and don't give those assholes any of your money. Thank you. |
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| from the putting my money where my mouth is dept. |
[Jan. 11th, 2008|05:12 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | politics | ] |
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| | Belinda Carlisle / Heaven is a Place On Earth | ] |
For the Democratic presidential nomination, I support Senator Barack Obama. (Out of the Republican contenders, I like McCain, but it's doubtful I'd vote Republican.) My main reason for this is because he seems less slimey than Ms. Clinton or Mr. Edwards and because Mr. Richardson, while he seems like an awfully nice man, strikes me as ineffectual. [ETA: You know, that was a dumb thing to say. I don't mean ineffectual, I mean calm. Not bombastic. He'd actually probably be an amazing president, but I don't think this is a race that can be won by a humble candidate. Sorry I was a dick, Bill Richardson.] In short, Obama seems to me like a Leader.
Anyway, I was glad to hear he's come out against California's retarded mandatory health insurance legislation. For those of you still choosing a horse, I thought I would bring that to your attention. |
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| you kids get off my lawn: some items from recent ALA |
[Jan. 9th, 2008|10:22 am] |
Am I the only one who's kind of underwhelmed by this description of HTML 5? Header and footer elements? And y'all have had a decade to work on this? I hate to tell you, but I've been doing just fine making my own headers and footers out of DIVs. There's no problem with that method that I can see, and there are so many other things you folks could be working on! How about inline-block? Can we focus on inline-block? :|
This is good. Sound to me like the advice is to hide easter eggs for users to prevent them getting bored. That may not be the actual message. But I think it's a good idea..
I've been told not to use IE conditional comments. I would like to point out: come the fuck off it. Frequently it's the cleanest, most effective way to get shit done.
Back at Geocities I repeatedly explained to people why the fonts in their site designs weren't coming across on other computers. The situation that caused this confusion has not changed. Until it does change, is there really any point in talking about how great it's gonna be? And sry, my activism budget is going toward inline-block before web fonts.
Oh hello. I love you. I've done this before, but I had no idea there was a way to make it work in IE. (Plz refer to above about IE conditional comments.)
Also, if you hadn't heard, don't use Network Solutions to check domain name availability. Those dirtbags! :o |
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| yes, they certainly are. |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|11:58 am] |
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| | Bishop Allen / Things Are What You Make of Them, Johnny Cash / I'm a Drifter | ] |
By 10am this morning I'd received three calls from Austin, TX. Tomorrow I have a phone interview with a company there. This is happening, and really quickly. It's no longer if I find a job or if I'll be able to afford to move. It's when.
It's going to be a sloppy move, for sure. Nothing is packed right now. Shit, the dishes aren't even done. What will probably happen is that I will find a job and go down there to live in a motel room, trying to find a place to rent. The housing situation in Austin is supposed to be similar to Seattle's, so this should be a quick process. When I find a place, it'll be a matter of signing a lease and writing a check immediately, from what I've been led to believe. When I've found a domicile, I'll send for the family, all pioneer-like. Except probably I will be flying back to help, cause I don't think I can convince Nait to do the entire move himself.
I didn't think anything would happen this quickly. We've been talking about making to-do lists of things we want to do before leaving Seattle. I guess if not now, when?
- Go to the ocean, preferably Oregon.
- Go to Aberdeen. Take pictures.
- Clean my old room at my dad's and take a lot of shit I've been storing there for a decade to Goodwill.
- Sell a lot of clothes, some furniture, and some electronics.
- Go to Vancouver, ideally on a boat or the train.
- Dancing. I haven't been to the Baltic Room in over two years.
- Drinking. I'd love to crawl whatever Capitol Hill bars are left, including Linda's, the Redwood, the Comet, maybe the new Cha Cha.
- Archie McPhee's, Pioneer Square, Cal Anderson, Bruce Lee's grave, The Ave, Twilight karaoke.
- Sorry Charlie's, Jade Pagoda, The Camlin.
- Chuckwagon, Larrabee Park, downtown Mount Vernon.
- Otto's, Meconi's, The Brotherhood.
- Smith Tower.
- Shit I would love to play street golf.
Adding to this as I think of shit.
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| greezy |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|10:53 am] |
I feel fucking nasty. Our bathroom pipes are jammed, so that the bathtub won't drain and when the sink is filled, the tub backs up. If you're having trouble imagining that: it's gross. I haven't had a shower since Friday. Yesterday I had a quick sink-bath with hand soap.
Anyway the point is that my hair's really freaking long now (which I guess could have something to do with the stopped drain), too long to wash in the sink. So it's greasy and nasty and I cannot remember the last time I felt so disgusting and unclean. Current estimates have our plumbing being fixed in about 70 hours, since our landlord is legally supposed to take care of it in 58.
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| oh dear |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|09:20 pm] |
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| | Joseph Arthur / Let's Embrace | ] |
I dyed my hair black a while ago. Some of you have seen it. I like the way it looks and stuff, but I have a problem. It's supposed to be semi-permanent, yet it's not really fading. In the meantime my roots are coming in, gving me that tacky bald-spot-in-the-middle-of-my-head effect since my hair is actually not black.
So what do you do with black grow-out? Can you dye over it? That seems unlikely.. Do you have to chop it off or resign yourself to having black hair until you're sick of the length?
What really sucks about this situation is that last time I was at Walgreen's they were closing out all sorts of hair dyes, so I have every color of the rainbow sitting in my cabinet waiting for me to try it. But I'm a little scared to. I don't want my hair to turn green.
Unrelated.. I posted something at oui oui, bebe! that I was originally going to put here. Stemming from a question about who people's personal icons are. It turned into style icons and this whole silly (but fun) thing with Polyvore. Anyway if you're bored you should try it and post the results, cause I'm dying to see what other people might come up with. |
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| relocation assistance |
[Dec. 28th, 2007|02:22 pm] |
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| | Boyz 2 Men / It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday** | ] |
Question for anyone working in the tech industry:
Is relocation assistance real? Are you more likely to get it moving to an area with lots of tech (Seattle), or an area where the tech industry is still coming into its own (Austin)? Do you only get it if the organization actively headhunts you? Is it only likely if you have a masters degree or are the new CEO or something?
Your thoughts, based on personal experience, anecdotal evidence, or pure supposition, would be very helpful to me in attempting to either 1) set or 2) ignore realistic expectations.
** I don't know. |
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| twistedsyx, where is your show tomorrow? |
[Dec. 27th, 2007|08:24 pm] |
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| | Ok Go / Oh Lately It's So Quiet | ] |
EOMKTHXBYE. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 23rd, 2007|05:55 pm] |
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| | Harvey Danger / Sometimes You Have To Work on Christmas | ] |
This story about exactly what it's like to be a whore on Christmas may be the best thing I've ever read in The Stranger. It's not just the Grinch in me saying that - it's genuinely interesting and funny.
I think everyone on the planet has heard my Christmas at Chevron story, which plays out a lot like the whore on Christmas story, only with a lot less money changing hands. So I'll shut up. Come drink with us tomorrow! I'm bringing cookies*! :D
* My mom's supervising this. They should be edible. |
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| my very interesting opinions on internet and television |
[Dec. 20th, 2007|11:29 am] |
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| | Pretty Girls Make Graves / All Medicated Geniuses | ] |
Dear Amazon*:
* Corporation and policy-makers, not very nice employees I happen to know
I ordered a very goddamned expensive pasta maker from you a full goddamned week ago. Because this was a very expensive item offered through your own Seattle-based company instead of a drop shipper, you alerted me that I was qualified for free shipping. Of course I took advantage of this, because, as mentioned, I was ordering well in advance of the holiday for which I needed it. You estimate that my pasta maker will reach me on December 24th.
It may interest you to know that most services, including shipping, take a holiday on December 25th. It may further interest you to know that I live in an apartment managed by fucking morons who will not change the phone number the front door buzzer forwards to from my husband's to my own. And yet further to note that my husband will be at work answering phones on December 24th and may not be able to answer his personal cell phone should someone (say, United Parcel Service) want to get in the front door. Historically, when UPS can't get in the front door, they take our packages back to SoDo and make us come to retrieve them. (FedEx, on the other hand, leaves our packages in care of the GODDAMNED UPS STORE NOT THREE BLOCKS AWAY.)
I've ordered other items from other online retailers and recieved free shipping, so I sincerely hope it is not your feeling that your benevolence has entitled you to take forever and a fucking day shipping my package. I ordered some items two days ago, for instance. I paid for them using a discount code I found using Google. The shipping was still free, and the motherfucking package will be here Friday.
FRIDAY, ASSHOLES. FROM NEVADA. That's a THREE DAY turnaround.
It is with deep regret that I make the decision, as a long-time customer, to never order fuck-all from you ever again. Merry fucking Christmas.
( have you the appetite for further vitriol? ) |
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| disgusting |
[Dec. 18th, 2007|11:39 am] |
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| | Air / Cherry Blossom Girl | ] |
Do you want to read a heart-warming xmas story about how Wal-Mart sued a permanently disabled former employee for the medical expenses they'd paid? It's really great. She gets enough money to pay for the round-the-clock care she requires, pays the legal fees she incurred getting it, and then Wal-mart takes the rest of what she was awarded by the court. The best part is that, if you're lucky enough to have health insurance, your insurance company probably has a provision allowing them to do the same.
It's ok, don't be mad. Insurance companies do this to keep costs down for everyone! It may seem like heartless opportunism, but it's not. If I'm understanding correctly, not paying legitimate medical claims that subscribers have been paying premiums for is part of the business model that allows them to make health insurance so affordable.
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| aw |
[Dec. 17th, 2007|12:35 pm] |
So The Crocodile is closed for reals. Things I did at the Crocodile that I will probably not get to do again anywhere:
1. \m\, Saw Guitar Wolf ,/m/
2. Sang with Beth Ditto during a Gossip show when they do that wander through the crowd thing. I wonder if they still do that? I didn't know she had become a big celebrity until recently. I'm not trying to name-drop, but they were in Olympia when I was and I liked their shows back in the day, and the one I saw at the Crocodile was probably my favorite. That's all.
3. Saw my first show as a genuine Seattlite! (Awwwwww..)
I like this blog post/article about 10 Reasons you Should Never Get a Job. I admit I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I am pretty much sold after point 1, wherein it is better to get paid when you're not working than to only get paid when you are working (or sitting at a desk waiting to go home trying to look busy). Found once again via the always interesting galadarling.com.
Changed my mind. Too much bullshit about "oh you're dumb if you do this and you don't want to be dumb, do you??" to wade through. The points get buried.. |
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