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July 25th, 2008
stubbleupdate
 | 11:38 pm - Keep your picture clear
Does anybody here have good photoshop-fu? I've been trying to teach myself, and I have a few basic tricks, but it's not enough for what I want to do right now.
Marvel released this variant cover for Invincible Iron Man and it has a very cool retro feel. I want to learn how to do it so that I can make my own.
How could I replicate it? I've been mucking about with Adobe Photoshop (7) for the last half hour or so, but the closest that I've got is this, which isn't that good, or the same at all. I figure I need to do something with increasing the contrast, reducing the saturation, and then I'm not entirely sure, before slapping on a halftone filter. Anybody with good advice?
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budgie_uk
 | 10:46 pm - Well done, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vix_da_vixen!
Great to get news news on a Friday, like finding out that vix_da_vixen has passed her driving test...
Congratulations, Vix - well done!
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mrpunk2u
 | 01:29 pm - Project Runway lulz
So I watched Project Runway for the first time at a friend's house the other night and was surprised to see someone I knew:
I worked with this guy on the Janet video "Son of a Gun" and Britney's "Slave 4 U." I'm posting Janet cuz you barely see him in Slave (he's like walking down a hallway). What does he know about fashion?
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motdujour
 | 12:42 pm - Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
Carnegie Mellon professor turned "Last Lecture" Internet sensation Randy Pausch has died. He was 47.
Last September, Pausch's "Last Lecture" speech -- which was actually called "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" -- became a viral phenomenon and was even retold in its entirety on Oprah.
Pausch had been battling pancreatic cancer and passed away early this morning. He is survived by his wife and three children.
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mrpunk2u
| 11:52 am - Flashback Friday
The other day I was looking back at my LJ, and was like "What the hell is this shwurdz?" A lot of you are new to my LJ and haven't been subjected to old lolz, so Imma bring back some of my faves...
ym Most Mortifying Moment
Original Posted 8/23/04
we started reminiscing about ym magazine and those awful stories that girls send in for everyone to read and laugh at. Don't make fun, because every girl in high school read those outloud to all the boys. Then these moments got rated on how terrifying they were on a scale of *Glad it didn't happen to me to ****Better Switch School Districts or BSSD!!! I always wanted to be an artist and make cartoons for these, so I finally did it. I went out and bought a recent ym and drew the "Trama of the Month." It goes alittle something like this...
"One day me and my crush were going to go back to his house for some K&K (kissing and kuddling). He was the Captain of the football team and I was head cheerleader. When we got to his house he said he was going to go upstairs to make sure the coast was clear and no parentals were around. I heard the shower turn on so I figured he was washing up for me. I decide to surprise him and get nakkie and join him in the shower. I pulled back the shower curtain to find out it wasn't my crush in the shower but his DAD!!! It scared the shit out of me that his dad saw me naked!!! I mean I really shit on myself and I had corn for lunch. My tampon even fell out! I screamed so loud my crush and his mom ran in and
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motdujour
| 10:31 am - Nation Buys Porn With Stimulus Package
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/nation-buys-porn-with-sti_n_110457.html
President Bush's economic stimulus package, which appears so far to have been ineffective in stroking the economy to life, is giving an unexpected raise to the porn industry.
From an Adult Internet Market Research Company press release:
An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans' mailboxes across the country.
According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, "Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market."
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motdujour
| 09:02 am - hot guy with the faux hawk and straight 'tude at Crunch (YEAH YOU) - m4m
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/167799119.html
best of craigslist - los angeles
hot guy with the faux hawk and straight 'tude at Crunch (YEAH YOU) - m4m
Date: 2006-06-04, 2:25AM PDT
You: hot guy with the faux hawk, camos, and gonch undies with perfect tan line, 4% body fat, american apparel tri-blend track shirt, L7silvr phone, ipod nano on stair climber reading DNA Magazine and drinking a Macchiato with nonfat foam.
Me: buzzed cut, ripped tatted guy with 501's with a flash of ice blue aussie bum undies and wife beater chillin on my nano with some Eminem and texting my bros on my sidekick and drinking Twinlab Extreme Ripped Force Drink.
We checked each other out for a millisecond there but I was too shy to approach you. I definitely felt there was some chemistry heating up and would like to take it to the next level. Hit me up if you wanna grab some coffee or a drink. Or dinner.
Or maybe we could go on an Atlantis Gay Cruise together and they can take photos of us for the brochure with you on my shoulders in matching awning striped speedos looking tan and in love.
Or maybe we could snap up a couple of French Bulldogs and name them Louis and Vuitton and have our portrait done with us in matching khakis and barefoot to send as a Christmas Card.
Or maybe we could do a shit load of Tina and K and E and GHB and feel really hot and go to White Party in outfits made by BCBG and dance shirtless in the glistening sweat of the other manboys around us.
Or maybe something about you can help me fill this desperate loneliness and emptiness that has been devouring me as I frantically chase an image and life of someone I will never be. Maybe I won't have to use words like "hit me up" and "grab coffee" and "bro" to mask the self loathing homophobia I possess, praying they will make me come across as butch and straight and hell, anything but the sad, starving, lonely, judgmental, bitter, cynical, poser, wannabe that I really am.
Seriously Dude. Hit me up, if you are interested.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/biggrin.gif) mischievous
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pendo
 | 04:24 pm - The End of an Era
I'm currently packing all my things. It's so sad. So many memories of the past year. It's like the end of an era. Goodbye freedom!
Current Location: Home (for the last few hours)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/frown.gif) sad
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jamesofdoom
 | 04:11 pm - Being Gay
Gay people fed up with some religious folk who say we're an abomination (with monotonous regularity) would have been keen to watch the first in a new series of science exploration shows on BBC1 last night. The Making of Me starred John Barrowman and set out to answer ...is being gay nature or nurture?
Whilst one side of me watched with interest - keen on gathering scientific factual ammunition to chuck at unpleasant bible types - the other side of me thought... why do we feel the need to justify how or why we're gay - surely it doesn't matter?
Indeed, human rights activist Peter Tatchell makes a good point here..
"Surely we merit human rights because we are human beings? The cause of our homosexuality is irrelevant to our quest for justice. We are entitled to dignity and respect, regardless of whether we are born gay or made gay, and irrespective of whether our homosexuality is something beyond our control or something freely chosen."
He goes on to say that gay people have ..
"a terrible lack of self-confidence and a rather sad, desperate need to justify 'gay' desire. ‘We can’t help being fags and dykes, so please don’t treat us badly.’ This seems to be the pleading, defensive sub-text of much of the pro-gay gene thesis, Tatchell says.."
He's got a point.
Neil Midgley in The Daily Telegraph this morning, puts it even more succinctly...
"Barrowman would have been truer to the gay cause by politely turning down the offer to take part in this film in the first place. Homosexuality, he could have pointed out (thereby saving everyone a lot of time and money), is not something that demands an explanation"
Maybe we do need to be a little less defensive.
Moreover, when you think about it - it's religious people who tend to bother us most - yet ironically, the very nature of these peoples faith is that it cannot be examined (it just is according to them) so why are we so quick to want to find reasons to justify our homosexuality to them - surely we just are - if we want to use the same rules as them.
Tim Teeman's stock answer from this mornings Times is something along them lines...
"Any gay person will at some stage have had to face the question, “What made you gay?” whether it be from a friend, family member, curious straight or homophobe out to “cure” them or beat them up. My answer would be a shrug, and a “the same thing that made you straight”. This lack of curiosity might be deemed a cop out, but to me homosexuality is as natural and mystifying and innate as heterosexuality."
The problem for me is, whilst we shouldn't need to justify ourselves to anyone, if people like Iris Robinson, the Northern Ireland Unionist politician, describes homosexuality as an " abomination" and say gays needed psychiatric help to be "turned around", I can't just sit back and take it on the chin. She's a British Member of Parliament and sits in the House of Commons for Christ sake!
And it hurts - especially when she goes on to say things like this......
"There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than sexually abusing innocent children"
Later she claimed she was misquoted, however, the official House of Commons transcript proved otherwise. She really is that awful.
It's not the kind of comment one can really ignore is it?
When people like Iris spews her bile, whilst claiming to have God on her side, it's so bloody hateful that we really do need to rebuff her vigorously, and part of the disarming process is always going to include a discussion on nature vs nurture and that's why I was particularly happy that the programme pretty much concluded we are like we are from birth.
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thefridayfive
[ariestess]
 | 06:07 am - The Friday Five for 25 July 2008
Because I'm getting ready for a haircut and color job, this week's questions are brought to you by destined_dreams, the letter F, and the number5...
Hair!- What type of hair do you have? (Thin, Normal, Thick, Frizzy, etc.)
- What color is your hair currently?
- What colors have you dyed/highlighted your hair?
- If you could dye your hair any color, what would it be?
- What is your hair's length?
(sic)
Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers.
If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/thefridayfive/1466.html
Old sets that were used have been deleted, so please feel free to suggest some more! Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/rotate.gif) artistic
Current Music: Idina Menzel - Over the Moon
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light_the_sky76
 | 01:28 pm - can't brain today
The potential for a snotty, brain crushing Cold of Doom building in my sinus right now.
*Waves a cricket bat at it* Begone! I don't want to be ill over the weekend. I don't want to be ill at all but especially not over the weekend.
I decided to go to the interview on Tuesday. It took a lot of humming and harring and mind changing and angsting and thinking about how if this happens then that happens what would I do then? I hate the way my brain works sometimes.
It's time for a cup of tea I think.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/nerd.gif) blergh
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chiselwright
 | 11:45 am - Send Two
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/laugh.gif) amused
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silentbob9484
 | 10:31 am - It's Friday, I'm bored at work, it's Meme time
Feel free to steal if you are as bored as I am.
Current Location: work
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/switching.gif) bored
Current Music: Now
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chiselwright
| 10:26 am - Yelling Bird
( I can't stop laughing at this )
Current Mood: amused
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phoenixcub
 | 11:01 pm - Yay!
Look what Chris just bought for us! :-D
Sent from my iPhone
Current Location: 7th St & McDowell Rd, Phoenix, AZ
Current Mood: excited
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motdujour
| 10:43 pm
Today is the birthday of Zelda Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama (1900). She was the wife and muse of the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda wrote some fiction too, including the novel Save Me the Waltz (1932), but some of her best writing was in her letters, which were quoted by her husband. He also quoted things that she had said in his writing. And most of his major female characters were based on her, including Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925). Zelda wrote a letter to his family in White Bear, Minnesota after F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940. She wrote: "So many years have passed since summers lost themselves in the green valley of White Bear and time floated immutable and eternal above the blue sleek surface of the lake. ... Always we hoped to some day be able to offer testimonial to the courtesies that were extended us; from so many kind hearts, in so many lonesome places. ... Now that [Scott] won't be coming east again with his pockets full of promises and his notebooks full of schemes and new refurbished hope, life doesn't offer as happy a vista. ... Life has a way of closing its books as soon as one's category is fulfilled; and I suppose the time has come. ... If when things have resolved themselves more tangibly, I want to know how to find my way about the bread-line, I will write you — Don't forget me."
Some of the quotes that I have read of hers that I remember years after reading are:
"I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally."
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
Word of the Day July 24
soupçon
\soop-SAWNG (the final NG is not pronounced, but the vowel is nasalized)\ noun
Meaning
: a little bit : trace
Example Sentence
"The author makes the protagonist seem more human by infusing a bit of vanity, a touch of greed, and a soupçon of self-doubt into his otherwise exceptional character."
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/bigsmile.gif) hopeful
Current Music: X-Lacquer-Overloaded
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chiselwright
| 06:33 am - Recent Twitterings
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July 24th, 2008
spiked_n_bloody
 | 11:32 pm - Writer's Block: Phobias
Needles and drips. So in the last month or so, a HUGE impact.
Also hate hospitals at the best of times, as a patient they terrify me.
Hate stitches too. So I've pulled most of them out.
The past month has been Hell. Seriously.
I just want to get healed, get back to work, get over the burning, seething desire to rattle the lying bitch who made me have an unnecessary triple blood test that scarred me physically for a month.
Never EVER going back.
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friendly_otter
 | 10:03 pm
I currently feel very ugly.
To be honest, I have felt ugly for most of my life, but it's worse right now.
(Don't know why)
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silentbob9484
| 08:47 pm - A holiday review....
So after tying up all the loose ends at work and hoping the fort would be held sufficiently, I took the Friday off even though the ferry was not until 12:45am on Saturday.
The rest of the photos are on Facebook as you well know...
Now I'm off to watch tv as I started writing this entry at 2pm and the laptop has melted my lap! A holiday review
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/hot.gif) hot
Current Music: Q.I
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light_the_sky76
 | 08:39 pm - Dilema, not the song by Nelly and the one from Destiny's Child who isn't Beyonce
I've been offered an interview for a job with the finance department next week. The job looks okay, nothing I haven't done before - admin support, maintaining databases blah blah. The reason I applied for it was so that I can leave the job I'm doing now - when the reception team is eventually organised my job is going to turn into one I don't really want, and I haven't forgotten that they mentioned a uniform when the originally told us about the new, shiny reception team. The people on the main reception at City Campus wear blue blazers and cravats that look like they'd be at home on an air hostess. This worries me.
I'm about to send off an application for another job with the Student & Academic Support department that looks more interesting.
They're both the same wage, which is the same one I'm on now.
I don't know if I should go to the interview next week even though I'm not that bothered about it to be sensible, or decline and not use up time and energy no a job that I don't really want and hope that I get an interview for the SAS one. (I'm usually good at getting interviews; working in an HR department for 8 months was really useful)
I can't be bothered with the hassle - I'll have to wear smart shoes and answer questions about how I prioritise - but I'm not sure if that's whiny and adolescent.
I'll really have to let them know if I'm attending or not tomorrow because if I do I'll have to arrange for cover for while I'm away from the desk.
Should I go to the interview or not?
I hate having to make adult decision sometimes.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/ibrad/lonely.gif) lethargic
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jamesofdoom
| 08:30 pm - Today
Today I went to the gym nice and early, 6.30am, and had the whole pool to myself.
After breakfast I drove to the hospital because I had an appointment with a Neurologist in Outpatients.
I've had a dodgy leg since Christmas and we've got this health plan which gets us fast appointments at a private place so I got my GP to refer me.
How do you take a urine sample? I thought maybe a Tupperware dish or a contact lens pot? What else could you use? I opted for the contact lens pot but it flipping leaked in my bag.
Typical.
The Doctor played around with my legs for a bit and did some reflex tests and put pins in my toes and tickled my feet (OMG that turns me on).
I just have a feisty trapped nerve. Probably, he said, from either wearing trousers which are too tight or from a sports injury. It should clear itself in time but he said lots of exercise would be cool. I told him I go the the gym every day of the week and I do multiple classes and swim fit club and bodyjam club, and he was impressed I do enough already.
From there I drove straight to Dad's to cut his grass but on the way I saw one of them vans at the side of the road selling sausage sandwiches and burgers and stuff like that. I just felt the urge so I stopped and had a bacon roll and a mug of tea with lots of builders sitting in the sun.
It was sweltering hot and I had to mow the whole of Dad's flipping lawn and trim the hedge with this big chain saw which scared me. This was a pain because...
a) I hate gardening
b) there was dog crap everywhere so I just mowed over it
c) Dad kept moaning that I wasn't doing it right and if I wasn't careful I'd run the mower over the electric cable - gah!
d) the battery on my Ipod went flat
e) they had their washing out and it's not just a normal rotary line - it was one of them old fashioned 100 foot long ropes propped up with a pole and every time the wind blows everything moves, consequently I kept getting petticoats and old lady panties in my face.
At 2.30 I hurried to meet a mate for dinner at the Toby carvery. It's only £7 each and it's very nice ( if you can get in!). Would you believe it....the hottest Thursday in a million years...middle of the afternoon....right in the backwoods.... and the place was full of old people and there was a 45 minute wait! Absolutely infuriating. It's like that when you go to the Post Office and you've only got a short break but you have to queue up because it's full of pensioners. We concluded that pensioners should only be given a one-hour window between 9am and 10am to use the Toby carvery (and the Post Office).
We ended up having lunch in a garden centre but because it had gone 2 0 clock they were only serving jacket potatoes.
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mrpunk2u
| 09:45 am - Bank Lulz
Bank Lulz
Originally uploaded by MrPunk2u Baby.
Don't chu worry, Chin Lee. Those marks will stop at 5'5"
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pendo
 | 05:08 pm - Why So Serious?
Its been a long time since I last went to the cinema, but I've been quite a bit this week:
Tuesday night - Mamma Mia!
Wednesday night - Wall-E
Tonight - The Dark Knight
I thought Mamma Mia! was hilarious! I really enjoyed it, even though Pierce Brosnan CANNOT sing. I loved every second of it. I also really enjoyed Wall-E, he was so cute. I'm so excited for The Dark Knight tonight! I'm watching Batman Begins now to get me in the mood.
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: excited
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motdujour
| 09:04 am
Aquarius - This is an extra-lucky day for you. Follow your heart and inner truth.
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budgie_uk
| 04:43 pm - It never fails...
Like buses, none for ages, and then two at once.
This one from regie
200 question "what have you done?" Meme.
Copy and paste into your LJ.
Bold the things you've done. (my comments are in italics)
( I'll be surprised if there are that many bolds... )
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silentbob9484
| 02:52 pm - Read this...
...back from France, you are all due a full review very soon but in the meantime have a jolly chortle at Giles Coren getting very irate at some shit sub-editing of his column in the Times
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/mediamonkey/2008/07/indefinite_article_definite_an.html
Current Location: Work
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The whirr of a million fans
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jamesofdoom
| 08:59 am - Prom Season end
My junior prom season is now officially over.
In the last two weeks I've helped 21 schools in London and Kent arrange their proms and they've all gone fantastically well.
One of the nicest things I enjoy about school balls is they normally do a few snippets from their school plays. This season we've had lots of Bugsy Malone and Joseph.
I've also seen hundreds of eleven year olds crying their eyes out. All my fault of course. I always play an end of ball weepie song to induce tears and I give a commentary throughout in a very sombre voice saying how they're never gonna see each other again. It always does the trick.
I have been using Breaking Free from High School Musical - but I changed that to Close to You by the Carpenters and it has them absolutely wailing out loud (kids know that song because it was Marge and Homer's wedding song in Simpsons the Movie).
In July I always get this thing inside me which says I want to be a primary teacher. Indeed, I get really nice affirming comments from head teachers wherever I work, and several have said I'd make a perfect teacher for that age which is lovely to hear. Apparently the government are keen to recruit more male teaching staff for this younger age group, but even though prom season really tugs at my heartstrings and makes me thing wow - I'd so love to work with you guys for more than an afternoon - I always come back to the the fact that I've been self-employed forever and I don't think I could ever work for someone else. There's just something so nice about being a freelancer.
So, into August I go. August is mostly parks and recreations work. For example I'm doing Picnic in the Park in Thamesmead South London so if any of my London bloggers wanna pop down and see me.
August
Picnic In Your Park 6, 14, 20 and 28 August
Join Gallions Residents' Board at one of this year's fantastic Picnic In Your Park events. The free family events are especially for local people with children under 12 years old. All the events will be held at Birchmere Park between 12 noon and 3pm. Visitors should bring their own picnic but all the activities are free.
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chiselwright
| 06:36 am - Recent Twitterings
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mrpunk2u
| 09:06 pm - This is...the REMIX
When I grow up, I wanna have moobies? The original is OK, the video breakdown is better, but I like this rap remix, probably cuz PCD is hardly on it except sanging hooks like Patti Labelle or somebody!
LISTEN HERE (the download link is under the player, middle button)
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July 23rd, 2008
budgie_uk
| 09:38 pm - "Just answer the question, sir..."
Haven't done a Q&A meme for a bit.
This one I got from apiphile.
( Feel free to read... or not. )
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mrpunk2u
| 09:59 am - Look at the Good I Do
When I was walikng into the gym the other day this lady ON HER CELL PHONE was trying to parallel park and hit the car behind her not one time, but 5 times. The car behind her kept bouncing after each hit. She finally gave up and drove to a spot 5 cars up. So, i did what anyone would do: followed her, wrote down her license plate and left a note on the car that had been hit. The guy called me the next day thanking me as his front bumper was left hanging on one side.
This shit pisses me off to no end. i see it all the time and my bumpers are fucked up cuz of BAD L.A. drivers/street parking. i hope this bitch gets a hit-n-run
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July 22nd, 2008
motdujour
| 10:58 am - Estelle Getty of 'Golden Girls' dies at 84
Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84. ( Read more... )
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mrpunk2u
| 10:39 am - God, I could use some trouser gravy
LOL so i just discovered these videos a few months ago, but this shit never gets old.
Well done, Kudos me.
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motdujour
| 09:20 am - The controversial JCPenny Commercial.
This is the commercial everyone has been talking about. Did you also know that this spot was awarded a Cannes Lions 2008 Film Bronze award..? Interesting..!
This is what we call in the biz a spec spot or spec commercial. Spec commercials are usually done by creatives from an ad agency in cooperation with a director from a separate production company to help everyone gain a great piece for their demo reel. Usually spec commercials are not never even shown to the client they are being made for. Basically its a fake commercial but its a great way to showcase ones talents in their respective art form. Ad Agency Creatives, Editors, Directors, Colonists and DPs all benefit from the practice of spec commercials. In this case JC Penny probably never even heard of this commercial until we all did.
This commercial was directed by Mike Long of Epoch films. Mike did an excellent job on this spot. I found myself totally drawn in. I’m not sure if it was the controversy surrounding the commercial or that it is just that good.
Controversial JCPenny Comercial SPEED DRESSING - video powered by Metacafe
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fabulist
 | 12:04 pm - 12 Minute Travelogues - podcast update
I had to update and revise the podcast feed, which means there may be a hiccup or two down the line, with the most predictable result being that iTunes or your favorite non-Applish RSS reader might re-download either podcast 01 or 02 (or both). The format that should stay for the rest of the series has a date appended onto the description of the downloaded file, so you can delete the previous files, and sorry for the little bit of chaos. It's tricky writing and editing these dang RSS files, and the result always seems to be that the various readers just re-download until you've got multiples of everything.
If you like what you're hearing, please take a mo' to review the series on iTunes or the podcast directory of your choice, or just give a little "I enjoyed this podcast…" blurb and a rating. Thanks most kindly for listening!
THE FEED AND THE FILES
Click here for a direct iTunes link.
If you're using a podcast reader/RSS feed dealio other than iTunes, here's the RSS link:
http://sonacast.com/12mt/12mt.xml
If you prefer not to subscribe, you can alt-click (control-click on Mac) this link to download files directly:
12 Minute Travelogues - 02
12 Minute Travelogues - 01
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phoenixcub
 | 08:33 am - Gay Men's Geography
Have any of you ever noticed that whenever most gay men tell you where something is, they usually use a gay bar or bathhouse as a point of reference? They don't usually say "That restaurant is at Camelback & 15th Ave." It's usually "It's right near Charlie's." or something like that. Or they're moving "About two blocks from the adult boutique." :-P
Current Location: 7th St & McDowell Rd, Phoenix, AZ
Current Mood: giggly
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budgie_uk
| 03:17 pm - "How many...?"
Reading the recent post by jonnynexus about the fun of trying to get aircon into his offices, I was reminded of the following, an absolutely true story from my past...
About fifteen years ago, I worked for a firm of accountants in central London whose offices were in Wigmore Street. Now Wigmore Street had (and still has, I presume) shedloads of old buildings that used to be (a hundred years ago) grand houses that had since been converted into office space.
The building smelled (not literally) of history and it was great to work there. The electrics were fine except that we lost light bulbs at an incredible rate. It was rare a day went past without one or more light bulbs in the main office going out.
Who replaced them? Buggin's Turn. And with high ceilings (old house, remember) it wasn't an easy job.
One time, I'd gotten fed up of having lost three in one day and I told my team that I'd do them. This meant getting out the stepladder and climbing not to the top step of the ladder, but even higher, standing with both feet on the metal loop at the top of the ladder, and balancing by placing one hand on the ceiling, and using the other to change the bulb. While doing this, of course, someone else had to hold the ladder steady. and a third person passed up the bulb(s) to me.
So there I am, a group audit manager balancing unsteadily on the stepladder, a junior holding the ladder as steady as possible, my bookkeeper handing me the bulbs and another member of staff standing by the light switch, with a second junior by a door near the ladder, so no one came in and bumped the ladder.
Just as I'm putting in one bulb, the other door to the room opens and the senior partner looks in. He sees us doing... well, doing what we're doing, and rhetorically asks "How many accountants does it take to change a light bulb?" before leaving.
I daren't look at the rest of them, simply because if I do, I'll crack up laughing...
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light_the_sky76
 | 02:29 pm - Meh
I don't feel very well. I think I'm getting a cold :(
It's only because I have tomorow off. I'll probably feel fine by Thursday.
It's a hard knock life.
I like to wallow in self pity for a while when I'm ill, it passes the time.
Current Mood: sorry for myself
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chiselwright
| 02:18 pm - Bloodstock festival
I've been asked if I know anyone who's going to this year's Bloodstock festival.
I reckon there are a couple of potentials in my flist ... here's the plea (of sorts):
Quick question - do you know anyone who is going to the Bloodstock festival this year? I'm not going in my pregnant state (!) but one of my friends from work really wants to go and she has no one to go with... BOO! She's Australian and has been in the country for like a month and is very very cool! She is contemplating just going on her own as I'm sure she'll meet some people there, but I thought I'd ask you anyway.
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myself
 | 09:03 pm - Occupied...
Well, i have been kept occupied because of the job.
Because of convocation in the university, yesterday, i work from 7.30am to 11pm!
i got to see famous VIPs in close proximity....however, i don't feel like they are any special or different then me and you. Ok, granted that they are Clever and Smart people... Rich.. but, cut their hand, they still bleed RED BLOOD... Human... Why worship them?
I got much to do.. but i am so sleepy..
I have a Korean gay movie "No Regret" in my Mac.. but i don't have the mood for sad gay story now. haha i need sleep.
Goodnight.
Current Music: Kushee Maanao-Aural Mix (PREVIEW: buy it at www.magnatune.com) - Solace (PREVIEW: buy it at www.magn
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budgie_uk
| 09:52 am - URGENT: anyone on O2 who's just got an iPhone
Not kidding - this is important.
If you've upgraded to an iPhone 3G and you were previously not on an iPhone, it takes a couple of days for O2's systems to catch up with your new tariff. So any data you've downloaded in the first couple of days you've had the phone could initially be charged to your bill at the old non-inclusive rates.
I just checked my online bill out of curiosity: in those two days (16th and 17th July) between when I got the iPhone and when the system caught up with it, I'd clocked up almost £50 on the bill purely in data download charges because the system didn't realise I was on the new tariff yet.
Now in some ways it sounds worse than it is, because it's not £25 a day for 30 days or anything, and as soon as the system caught up, there were no further charges; no charge for the data downloads on the 18th or 19th, for example. But still... £50 on the bill that shouldn't have been there.
A quick call to O2 customer services and they put a credit on my account to void the charges... but otherwise, I'd have had a very nasty surprise when the bill came.
Feel free to pass on; suspect O2 will be getting several calls about it...
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July 21st, 2008
mrpunk2u
| 08:33 pm - Rihanna - Disturbia
I'm about sick of Ri-Ri and her non-performing ass, but she sure can stand around and look purdee (and purdee wee todd did). Take some NIN Closer, throw in a little Madonna Re-Invention Tour Opening, some white contacts, a few Top Model shoots- and u gots a cute video, ho.
If you want, you can buy it on iTunes (fail) or just download it here FO FREE
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fabulist
| 11:30 pm - 12 Minute Travelogues - 02
The second installment of my 12 Minute Travelogues is up and running. If you've subscribed to the feed (see below for information), it ought to show up soon, depending on how your podcast software is configured.
If you prefer not to subscribe, you can alt-click (control-click on Mac) this link to download it directly:
12 Minute Travelogues - 02
Thanks for listening!
Click here for a direct iTunes link.
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http://sonacast.com/12mt/12mt.xml
If you enjoy these little ambient pieces, please take the time to review me on iTunes.
Thanks!
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budgie_uk
| 11:13 pm - "Oh, come on, now you're just taking the the piss." "Well, yes..."
From Sky NewsRocket Makers Ask For Daily Urine
It is not the substance you would expect spaceship builders to be demanding.
 But nonetheless, a space capsule constructor in the US is asking for 30 litres a day of urine to help test out its next spaceship.
Space program contractor Hamilton Sundstrand is seeking urine from workers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
And the need is voluminous: 30 litres a day, which translates into nearly 8 gallons - or around 30 people's contribution a day.
 The urine will go towards test for the new Orion space capsule that will park in space for six months while astronauts work on the moon.
Designers of the Orion have to solve a pressing issue of getting rid of stored urine, said NASA's head of life support systems John Lewis.
He said: "Urine is a mess because urine is full of solids."
It is these solids which clog the dumping system for urine in space, so designing full-proof toilets is one of NASA's top priorities.
Lewis added: "You can't make fake urine."
The Connecticut-based company building the Orion toilet needs the large volume of urine to work on urine acidity problems, said spokesman Leo Makowski.
The memo seeking daily contributions from July 21 to July 31 was not meant to go public, he said. Isn't science wonderful?
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pendo
| 10:57 pm - Moving Home
I'm no longer a student. This means I no longer have the luxury of a student loan. Without a full time job or a student loan I can no longer afford to live here in the City Centre. My contract here runs out on Friday and I will be forced to move out and back to my mother's. When I moved out of my mum's last September it was supposed to be for good, but back then I wasn't planning on delaying getting a full time job for another year. I don't know if I could cope living back at my mum's, she'll meither the living daylights out of me! I wont be able to have friends back all the time. I wont be able to have random Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights out in town. Taxis home will cost me £20+ so I wont be able to venture out as often as I do now. I wont be able to bring guys home. ARGH I'M DREADING IT!!!
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: sad
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