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February 6th, 2008
02:49 pm - Want... need!!!
Expensive  . 14K Yellow Gold Tiger Eye Sea Turtle Pendant
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December 13th, 2007
07:29 pm
No more information will go into my brain.
Seriously.
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February 20th, 2006
09:37 pm - 'Nother quiz janked from Karen
the Romantic
Test finished!
you chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR.
"I am unique"
Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.
How to Get Along with Me
* Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
* Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
* Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
* Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
* Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
What I Like About Being a Four
* my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
* my ability to establish warm connections with people
* admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
* my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
* being unique and being seen as unique by others
* having aesthetic sensibilities
* being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being a Four
* experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
* feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
* feeling guilty when I disappoint people
* feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
* expecting too much from myself and life
* fearing being abandoned
* obsessing over resentments
* longing for what I don't have
Fours as Children Often
* have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
* are very sensitive
* feel that they don't fit in
* believe they are missing something that other people have
* attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
* become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
* feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
Fours as Parents
* help their children become who they really are
* support their children's creativity and originality
* are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
* are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
* are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed
Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele
The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
HarperSanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages
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February 17th, 2006
08:57 pm
 The cutest of the cute, these baby ducks are often spotted in the spring following closely behind their mother. As a duckling you will grow up quickly, becoming one of the adult ducks seen commonly in ponds and streams. Playful and timid, charming and vulnerable, ducklings are nature's very definition of innocence. You were almost a: Bear Cub or a LambYou are least like a: Mouse or a ChipmunkWhat Cute Animal Are You?
Awwww... Janked from Karen.
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January 31st, 2006
09:46 pm
I am officially a genius... I've got 19!
http://intelligence-test.net/part1/
Well, at least according to those people.
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January 9th, 2006
05:22 pm - Computer Help
Okay, Problems already.
My laptop is screwing up because it has decided that only at certain angles sometimes will my laptop acknowledge that the AC power hookup is actually plugged in. As I am typing this, my screen is going from bright to unplugged bright because every second or so it decides to switch from plugged in status to not. As a result, I have consistent low battery and it has me scared that I might actually get to a point where it does not recognize a power supply at all.
My warranty has been up for a long time (I got this computer... a long time ago. Almost 3 years ago?) Me thinks it is time to buy a new laptop, but I don't know.
Computer people, I need help. Does this sound like something that is easily fixable in terms of the hardware? Should I just go buy a new laptop?
Thanks in advance :).
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November 30th, 2005
November 14th, 2005
08:50 pm - Marriage is Illegal in Texas
For now, until they hold an emergency session undoing their law.
But here it is in black and white:
Sec. 32. (a) Marriage in this state shall consist only of
the union of one man and one woman.
(b) This state or a political subdivision of this state may
not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to
marriage.
link: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/tlo/textframe.cmd?LEG=79&SESS=R&CHAMBER=H&BILLTYPE=JR&BILLSUFFIX=00006&VERSION=5&TYPE=B
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October 15th, 2005
08:08 pm - Humph.
I just realized GATTACA the movie is two letters too short, or one letter too many, to encode for amino acids.
This is perturbing.
You may wonder how I thought of it, and it doesn't really matter, other than to say I decided to look up what the letters from the motion picture encode for. Well, evidently, since what is actually the codon is the mRNA, so we have to look at it switched to what the mRNA would so as well as the RNA nucleotides. GATTACA would be: CUAAUGU. Ok, so CUA: is Leucine (Leusine?). and AUG is the stop codon. So Leusine and stop. With an extra U. Which, obviously doesn't make sense.
So then, from the other direction. An extra C, which doesn't make sense, and then ANOTHER stop codon, and Cysteine, which again doesn't make sense. How can you have a stop codon just before an amino acid? Nope, doesn't make sense.
I am perturbed, and disappointed in the GATTACA crew. You only had four letters, and you couldn't at least come up with something that correctly codes for at least part of a protein?
Psh.
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October 13th, 2005
09:20 pm - Phone, TV, DSL
The new SBC commercial, don't know if you've heard it, but it goes "Phone, TV, DSL" in a catchy little way. I can't get it out of my head, although it is dumb.
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October 9th, 2005
10:11 pm - Darwin and Bestiality
Who knew they went together, but here's Darwin's quote:
"Man is liable to recieve from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, syphilis , the ganders, herpes , &c."
- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man p. 23, emphasis mine.
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October 3rd, 2005
September 12th, 2005
08:18 pm
I am lame. I am crawling into bed at 8:15. Not sleeping, but nonetheless, getting into bed.
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September 5th, 2005
12:21 am - The TV
I think I may have stumbled onto one of the most unintentionally funny shows in a long, long time.
Its name: "Battle of the Network Reality Stars"
Its channel: Bravo
Its time: Wednesday at 10, though reruns play a lot.
Imagine: Some random host, Trichelle from the Real World and many RW/RR Challenges fame, Omarosa from the Apprentice, and Bob F'in Guinty commentating. Oh yes, they are only the commentators/interviewers.
~ 32 Reality Show "stars" playing games from the old Network Reality Stars Battle. Flashbacks to what happened on the first, 30 years ago. I can't take my eyes off of it.
The self-importance of some of these reality stars are ridiculous.
Some of them are actually treating this as an actual sports competition! Doing interviews with the "team" a la cheerleading competitions and such. Not to mention adding in the drama that always surrounds these, as I previously mentioned, self-important people.
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August 13th, 2005
09:00 pm - The Aristocrats
Saw it tonight, and it was hilarious. A bit slow at points, but it was only for a moment and then something else made the slowness go away.
But let me say, this movie is not for the faint of heart. When I bought my ticket the girl at the ticket window had to warn me that they only give refunds if you walk out within 30 minutes of seeing the movie; anything longer they would not give a refund. Evidently they have been giving alot of refunds out, and in fact, two people walked out within 30 minutes in a theatre with, at max, 30 people in it.
A little breakdown of the movie:
It is all based off this one joke, a man goes into a talent agency and describes an act to an agent. Now fill in the most disgusting, revolting thing the guy can do with his family (i.e. incest, beastiality on the dog, feces, urine, vomit). The agent is so disgusted, that he/she is curious what they CALL this obscene act. The guy answers "The Aristocrats."
My favorites were the ones by South Park, the Mime, and Gilbert Gottfreids version during the Roast of Hugh Hefner.
Other than that, the movie was actually quite a nice insight into the culture of comedians. This isn't a joke that any comedian would actually tell to an audience, so they all sharpen their skills with other comedians by telling this joke to each other. Very Geertzian in terms of using one incident (at least I think it was Geertz) to expound on the culture of comedians. I had more examples of the anthropology of this movie while I was driving home, but I forget a lot of them now.
Anyhoo... if you are offended easily don't go see it. But I thought it was great.
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July 2nd, 2005
11:28 am - Wow
I watched the Tom Brokaw special on Aron Ralston last night. All I have to say is... wow. I wish this guy had taken an anatomy class though. But I will save my reasoning for later on in the journal entry.
The symbolism within his true life journey is astounding. It was always amazing, knowing he cut off his arm to save his life, but the symbology within his experience was something new to me.
He was in that cave, with nothing but himself, his tools, and a small window to the outside world. Every morning, like clockwork a raven would fly by at 8:15 in the morning. Whether it was an actual raven, or a figment of his imagination (considering the use of the raven as a death symbol, it is plausible his mind created it). What was astounding was the morning of his 6th day... the raven did not come.
His tapes to his family were moving. He didn't allow the video to show; only the audio, and I cannot blame him. It would be incredibly traumatic for friends and family. Though, if he was one of the people I care deeply about, I would have forced myself to watch the reel. Perhaps I would have had to wait a number of months before doing so, to prepare myself, but I know I would have want to be able to understand as much as possible what happened to my loved one what happened. I cannot imagine being the family member or friend of someone who this happened to, much less being that person.
He literally thought he was going to die. No, he knew he was going to die. The tapes made that abundantly clear. Having only two burritos to eat, a bottle of water, for six days, it would be expected that he could not survive. But something inside him didn't allow him to give up. Only after he had nothing left, did he try the worst option, cutting off his arm. When he made the decision to cut off his arm, it probably had something to do with the fact that when he accidentally hit his thumb with the blade of his pocketknife (again trying to cut through the boulder), he heard a rush of air come out. His hand was decomposing while still attached to his body.
In order to cut off his arm, he had to break the radius and ulna. His blade, worn down from use trying to chip the boulder, would not cut through the bone. I was yelling in my head to him, if only he had taken an anatomy class, he would have known to cut through the joint. Though, I have to selfishly and awfully admit, that part of me is proud that I know so much about human anatomy, and that it is incredibly patronizing that I would have wished he had taken an anatomy class. Instead, he fell back on his engineering training, and realized that using torque, he could snap the bones, leaning as far as he could from the boulder in order to do so. Then he cut the tissues, and the worst part, his nerve off.
Then he was free. But just free from the boulder, not his potential death. He had to make his way out of the canyon, but not the way he had come from.
--I have to get ready for work, I will finish the rest later, but let me say, he is more badass than "just" cutting off his arm--
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April 23rd, 2005
01:35 pm
Oh good lord.
You Are 32 Years Old |
32
Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.
30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.
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April 20th, 2005
07:51 am
I am an Otter. http://www.animalinyou.com/Otter.htm . I don't know how to do the fancy just put the link in as the word links, so ya'll will just have to deal. I am so clearly an otter, it is kind of sad.
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April 13th, 2005
10:00 am
How did that English Genius test work?
I mean really- I did better on the HARDER stuff than the easy stuff.
Geesh.
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09:58 am
English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 93% Expert! | You did so extremely well, even I
can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon
intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You
have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 33% on Beginner | | You scored higher than 70% on Intermediate | | You scored higher than 58% on Advanced | | You scored higher than 98% on Expert |
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