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July 26th, 2008
02:38 pm second_lifers [faerie_h] [Link]	Beanie Loves Japan A quick post to share a new blog I just discovered - Beanie Loves Japan. http://beaniecanning.wordpress.com/ I love the Japanese shops because of the they show a great combination of imagination, quality and value but not speaking Japanese is a real handicap. Beanie Canning does speak it though and this blog is full of bargains from Japanese shops for both sexes. (Leave a comment)
02:33 pm faerie_h [Link]	Beanie loves Japan A quick post to share a new blog I just discovered - Beanie Loves Japan. http://beaniecanning.wordpress.com/ I love the Japanese shops because of the they show a great combination of imagination, quality and value but not speaking Japanese is a real handicap. Beanie Canning does speak it though and this blog is full of bargains from Japanese shops for both sexes. (Leave a comment)
July 25th, 2008
08:13 pm shecountscrows [Link]	I could have used some Substitutiary Locomotion this week. Wednesday: Thanks to Matt (cousin, not husband) I realized I had what rapidly became an ARMY of Squash bugs infesting my poor yellow squash plants. In my dedication to being as organic as possible and my crippling inability to smoosh bugs, I captured them by hand-- an operation which required a large jelly jar and many hours. Whoo. Very good practice for strengthening your patience, I'll say that for it. Then, thunderstorms and gunshots. See previous entry. Yesterday: Incredible, torrential rainstorms. It's fortunate that I like rain, since I had to stand out in quite a bit of it during the van rides. Work was fine, except that (for reasons I can't discuss) new conditions have arisen that may mean more hours for me. Managed to get out with just enough time to grab my sister and run over to Providence's 48 hour film festival to see the New Tribal Films entry for 2008. Very funny! They did a really excellent job, especially considering the tight parameters of the competition. btw, they ran out of willing girls, so I stood in and played a brief, silent role... If seeing yourself on video is uncomfortable, seeing yourself projected onto a theatre screen is just...bizarre, lol. Certianly something to add onto the lifetime list of *Stuff Done* (I believe firmly in keeping a list of such things. It's wonderfully heartening to look at it in those moments when you feel like you've never done anything, and a great reminder to LIVE. It's astonishing how easy it is to forget that the clock is ticking, isn't it?) I think I'll put it right between "been inside a real coffin with the lid down" and "crossed the Bridge of Sighs." Anyway, back to the film festival: I got to see a bunch of my favourite people, watch a dozen short films, and I....think I got hit on... by a charming little... ...gay man. Which was....puzzling. I guess he must be bisexual? Anyway... Afterwards, Rissa came with me to pick up Matt from work. It was nice to have company for a change :) Today: Lovely cranberry and pecan rolls and fresh watermelon, Bedknobs and Broomsticks on TCM (I love that movie. Anyone else, or am I alone?) and, at last, that Wii caketopper is pre-bake complete!!! It's in the oven as I type this, after which I paint on their faces, and then it's DONE! For something so simple looking, you would not believe the amount of work this took! I'm so used to creating organic shapes and textures for food that getting matte surfaces and a more geometric look took some trying. Phew, what a job making a caketopper from scratch is! Though, happily, I think I've finally figured out how to build a sturdy armature for a two-legged figure. (hooray! Fighting with Harry's drunken, Sarah-groping Cthulu added countless hours to that project) Sculpting this bride's dress was particularly fun. I had to reconcile the smooth, simplified style of Mii characters with a replica of her real balloon-skirted gown. It was a nice challenge. Current Mood: experienced, lol Tags: art, movie day, work (Leave a comment)
04:55 pm k_neko [Link]	Meh. Pain continues. It's at its worst around this time of day, after sitting at work with no back support all day long. Ibuprofen helps, but not enough. Argh. (Leave a comment)
02:09 pm tdj [Link]	Migraines and ion channels Why migraines strike: Identical twins are much more likely to share migraine than fraternal twins are, indicating a strong genetic component. But the disease is clearly not caused by a single genetic mutation; rather a person apparently becomes susceptible by inheriting mutations in a number of genes, each probably making a small contribution. Nongenetic components operate as well, because even identical twins are “discordant” for the disorder: sometimes one twin will suffer from migraine, and the other will not. Investigators do not know which genes increase susceptibility to migraine and its aura in the general population, but studies of people affected by a rare form of the disorder, called familial hemiplegic migraine, indicate that flaws in neuronal ion channels and pumps cause the aura and pain in these patients. Notably, three genes have been shown to carry mutations that individually are potent enough to cause the disease—and all three encode neuronal ion channels and pumps. A good, common example of bioelectric transport phenomena in medicine. Tags: 104, htdyoc, medicine (Leave a comment)
01:54 pm tdj [Link]	Ageless Is aging really a signaling process run amok, and not due to wear and tear? A possible interpretation of the findings, says Kim, is that aging in worms may in part be due to developmental pathways gone awry. In the wild, worms die from predation rather than from old age. So there's little evolutionary pressure to stop damaging genetic mutations from taking root, a concept known as developmental drift. "It's not environmental accumulation; it's a developmental clock," says Kim. To see if they could fix the problem, Kim and his collaborators tried "rebalancing" the regulatory network in middle-aged worms by making their gene-expression pattern resemble that of younger organisms. Those animals lived longer. In other aging news: blood-related genetic mechanisms in Parkinson's and reversing (something like) Alzheimer's in fly brains. Tags: aging, htdyoc, systems biology (Leave a comment)
02:59 pm second_lifers [gallo_nero] [Link]	Dann Russo/ Dann Numbers (in SL) update 7/25 Hey y'all...wanted to let you in on a few things 1. tomorrow's show at the 169 Bar in NYC needs to be rescheduled, so if you want to see Dann this weekend, come to the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA on Monday night (ok, not REALLY the weekend, but...) I hit the stage around 11pm www.lizardloungeclub.com for info and directions 2. For SL residents who are residents of countries all over the world! - Dreaming Without You is currently ranked 138th in the 92.9 citystage contest at Ourstage.com BUT Ruby Red Hair is 12th in the Americana/Alt-Country voting...log on and vote! thank you I need the support http://www.ourstage.com/judge?channel=67-americana 3. /...wait I mean 8/8 at 8pm I will be rocking out at The Knitting Factory in NYC - come on down, bring your friends, this might be a benefit show so the money goes to (another) good cause not just my gas tank - details to follow... as always, peace, Dann www.dannrusso.com www.sonicbids.com/dannrusso (where all the SL shows are listed) www.myspace.com/dannrusso http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dann-Russo/36658671856 (Leave a comment)
02:48 pm second_lifers [brigidashwood] [Link]	website for digital creators - including SLers I realize the last thing the internet needs is another networking site or forum or community LOL. But for a while now there seems to have been a need for a safe space for digital artists in certain genres. So I started a really cool website called www.GlowyBits.com - silly name I know but it fits. The great thing is that it really is organized like a group interactive blog. You can simply go to the site and read posts and watch video or listen to audio etc. Or you can sign up and participate in forums and groups and have your own profile page and your own blog and upload your own video, photos, audio etc. So there is very little up at the moment of course because I just opened the site like yesterday. But every community has to start somewhere. So feel free to pass this post on to anyone you feel might be interested. The hope is people will share their tips - make videos to share (I know I plan to!) and use the forums to interact. Whether you are a novice or seasoned pro or digi-curious I hope that you will find the website a safe space to explore and learn and share. Additionally the theme isn't limited to fairy or fantasy or even fine art really. That just tends to be my focus because it is what I do. Anyone that creates digital content is welcome to join us. This includes people that make content for Second Life and digi-scrappers and tubers etc. If digital art isn't your cup of tea - then obviously neither is GlowyBits.com - but if you wish to laugh, learn and share then hop on over! (Leave a comment)
11:08 am tdj [Link]	With apologies to the dancers out there Stephen Fry's Bored of the Dance: I hate dancing more than I can possibly explain. I hate doing it myself, which I can’t anyway, but I loathe and resent the necessity to try. I hate watching other people do it. I hate the way it breaks up conversation. I hate the slovenly mixture of sexual exhibitionism, strutting contempt and repellent narcissism that it involves. I hate it when it is formless, meaningless bopping and I hate it (if anything even more) when it is formal and choreographed into genres like ballroom or schooled disco. Those cavortings are so embarrassing and dreadful as to force my hand to my mouth. If I listen to music, I like either to do it completely alone, so that if I am taken by the desire to move my feet and body (which is inevitable with so much music) I can do it unwitnessed, or I like to LISTEN to it, to hear the line of it, to follow the lyrics and to allow it work inside me. I do not want to use it as an exercise track for a farcical, meaningless, disgusting, brainless physical public exhibition of windmilling, gyrating and thrashing in a hot, loud room or hall. I do not want to use music as the medium for a mating or courting ritual. No one would ever select me as a sexual partner on the basis of my ability to froth, frolic and gibber in time to music anyway, and nor would I ever choose a partner by such desperate and useless criteria. I have a similar reaction to dancing (under certain circumstances), but mostly I detest crowds and loud noise. To me a club is a place where you pay to have your personal space invaded by badly-lit inebriates whilst assaulted by bass. Tags: dance (11 comments \| Leave a comment)
10:54 am keikotakamura [Link]	I beat Super Princess Peach Now what am I supposed to do? :( (Leave a comment)
09:23 am cmdr_zoom [Link]	Another anniversary Five years ago today, I washed up on the shores of Guava Island, in the Azure Ocean. Soon after that, I signed on with a fine crew, the Mad Mutineers. I've seen and done a lot since then; there have been new oceans, new mates, and good times and bad. But I still enjoy this silly little Lego Pirate game. raises a glass of rum in the Ringers' honor Current Mood: nostalgic (Leave a comment)
06:15 pm loopychew [Link]	Things IT and Helpdesk People Really Should Know Things IT and Helpdesk People Really Should Know, #152: You cannot have apostrophes in e-mail addresses. So we had a call regarding a user (whose name has an apostrophe in it) who hasn't been receiving e-mail reports from one of the systems we use. Posting this call to the third-party help-desk, we get the following call. Condensed to reduce dialogue ("Them" being the third-party help-desk, "Us" being, at separate times, my co-worker and myself), translated from French, all the stupidity retained: Them: "We looked into it, and the problem's with your mail server. When we send out the e-mail, it gets rejected." Us: "Really? He's had this e-mail address for a while now, and nobody else has a problem with it." Them: "I personally tried sending him an e-mail, and it doesn't work." Us: "What address are you sending it to?" Them: "Your policy tends to be 'lastname@[company],' so I tried that ten minutes. It gives us a Deliverance Failure." Us: "Could you spell it out for us?" Them: "[starts spelling out name letter by letter, including]-apostrophe-[continues spelling out name]--" Us: "You can't put an apostrophe in an e-mail address." Them: "...there's one there." Us: "In the e-mail?" Them: "In the e-mail." Us: "And so all the reports are being sent to the address with an apostrophe?" Them: "Yes." Us: "You can't have an apostrophe in an e-mail." Them: "I thought that was weird." Leading us to Things IT and Helpdesk People Really Should Know, #153: Learn basic logic. Us: "So, can you change the address?" Them: "No, you need to do that." Us: "What processes do we need to modify the e-mail address?" Them: "I don't know. Ask your IT department." Us: "We ARE the IT department." Them: "Well, you need to reconfigure the e-mail address on the server." Us: "...I don't think you understand. We want to change the destination address on the e-mails YOUR system is sending out." Them: "Okay, okay, we'll look into it and call you back." Hours later, they call back: Them: "Look, you need to change your e-mail address to one that doesn't have an apostrophe in it." Us: HEAD. DESK. FLOOR. "No, we are not asking you to administrate our e-mail servers. Lemme spell it out for you. YOU are sending US e-mails, but YOUR e-mails are being addressed incorrectly. Is there a place where WE can change the e-mails that YOU are sending them?" Them: "Okay, I think we get it now." Did it ever occur to them that if the problem is that they're trying to send an e-mail to an address that not only doesn't exist, but CANNOT exist, that the solution isn't for us to change an impossible e-mail account? Normally these people are on the ball and are pretty good to deal with, but I think they woke up with their "I'm with stupid" shirts pointing upward today. Tags: work (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
07:38 am indexedblog [Link]	Here's your $20, and we're glad you didn't cut off your feet. http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/07/heres-your-20-and-were-glad-you-didnt.html www.indexed.blogspot.com (Leave a comment)
12:51 am jenni_the_odd [Link]	The Cake Is Not A Lie: How Bunchies Was Formed From Pastry Or, how + = ???? In short, I made a Bunchies cake, y'all. BEHOLD MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR. (Link goes to my cooking/recipes journal) (7 comments \| Leave a comment)
02:54 pm endlesscostumes [emiri_x] [Link]	Death cosplay Hey everyone~! I've been reading lots of Sandman lately and decided to give Death a go, so here it is. ( More here! ) xoxemi Current Mood: awake (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
July 24th, 2008
10:46 pm k_neko [Link]	Latist Oberlinoth, Carpenter cancels Drink: Rolled up by katamari. Current Mood: silly (Leave a comment)
11:10 pm splodefromcute [aradiashadows] [Link]	New Baby I love chimps and I can't wait to see the movie Space Chimps, it looks hilarious. (Leave a comment)
07:03 pm shadrad [Link]	A HA HA HAHAHAH!!! From a heads up from domlandbubbles, NEW PLAY-ARTS FIGURES!!!! THERE IS A ZACK HE IS OVER THERE TO THE RIGHT OMG! OOOOOOOOMG!! MUST HAVE!! And so like a tard I call up ayakasan right away to see if she could get better photos for me-- -- she already did, this morning, knowing I'd want them XD XD;;; I AM SO PREDICTABLE ;___; So there's Zack and BeensyCloud and and DISSIDIA FIGURES TOO!!! So yeah scheduled to come out this winter GUESS WHAT I AM PRE-ORDERING FOR MYSELF GUESS COME ON GUESS (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
04:37 pm naamah_darling [Link]	Brilliant Moments In Naamah's Life Yeah, okay, not the best idea ever. Just now, bat_cheva arrived to pick up some artwork for the convention. I opened the door and she presented me with the day's mail. "You can has box!" "I can has box!" I said. "I wonder what's in it! I don't remember buying anything!" Because my brain is like a sieve that way. So I ripped into the package, pulled out a mess of newsprint and a plastic bag, and scowled. "What is this?" Being me, instead of just opening it, I stuck my nose into the middle of it and inhaled. When the mail regularly brings you dead things, this is a bad idea. Bones that are clean but still fairly new often have a noticeable smell, especially if they've been sitting in the Oklahoma heat for hours on end. That was the smell that whacked me in the sinuses. Silly me, I'd forgotten that my shipment of deformed coyote bones was due to come in this week! The smell is . . . pretty indescribable. Not a foul, rotting reek like flyblown meat, but a musty, throaty, yet high-pitched smell. Imagine . . . imagine the hot, chemical burn of hydrogen peroxide as it breaks down the proteins in blood. Layer that with a good dose of mineral dust, a touch of the bleachy twang of semen, a hint of gummy old rawhide, and just a little something extra, an indescribable je ne sais quois that says dead thing. And it's a clinging, persistent smell, too. I wonder if any of the great European ossuaries smell like that. If one of you has been to someplace like Sedlec or Santa Maria della Concezione et cetera, or any of the great catacombs like the ones in Paris, Rome, could you indulge me and tell me what they smelled like? And can someone with a better understanding of chemistry than I explain to me why certain smells linger in the back of your nose and mouth, even if you are well removed from the source of the smell itself? I once handled a very dead crow, and the stench lingered in my throat well into the next day, even though I had showered twice and the smell was not coming from my clothes or anything I had touched. It was definitely up in my sinuses, because I could smell it even on the exhale. So I've now taken out six bags of garbage, including the snake room trash and cat litter scoop bin, both of which I forgot to take out this morning and were revolting in their own right, and I've overdosed myself with the most potent BPAL blend I've yet found (The Devil, which I suspect contains civet and black musk, both incrdeibly persistent odors). I can still smell the bones, faintly, if I try. They are outside in a closed bin now, and I will shortly go out and put them in the side yard where they can lay in the sun, the greatest of all deodorizers. I am never sniffing my mail again. Current Location: Morningstar Hall Current Mood: still a little revolted Tags: bones (88 comments \| Leave a comment)
04:14 pm blogofstench [Link]	Doll notes Doll stuff to get ( Read more... ) Tags: 1:6, dolls, love has fangs (Leave a comment)
03:27 pm blogofstench [Link]	More vampire books to read As suggested on this recommendation thread on Amazon. Tags: books, to read, vamp books, vampires (Leave a comment)
02:06 pm second_lifers [amberwolf] [Link]	Furrymas in July! Toys galore Scattered on the floor There's no room for more And it's all because of... Koterie?! Yep! This Saturday, Koterie is bringing Furrymas to Rocket City, because everyone knows Christmas is just as fun in July as December! Romp through Koterie's Christmas Trivia and go home happy -- all manner of prizes have been donated by our vendors! We'll see you at 7 PM PDT this Saturday! Current Mood: excited (Leave a comment)
01:53 pm blogofstench [Link]	Rocky Horror Picture Show remake? Continuing in a long tradition of mediocre remakes of classic films [Psycho, Wicker Man, War of the Worlds, King Kong, et hoc genus omne], MTV and 20th Century Fox are apparently retreading The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie. Like most remakes, it will be weak, pointless, dull and did I mention POINTLESS? Useless, pathetic remakes always make me roll my eyes in disgust; my eyes are revolving especially hard in their sockets now because Fox and MTV are messing around with a movie that I like. Blech. WHY??? Tags: movies (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
08:37 am indexedblog [Link]	Time to hide in the basement. http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/07/time-to-hide-in-basement.html www.indexed.blogspot.com (Leave a comment)
08:48 am twoflower [Link]	Better, Higher, Faster, Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn Saw this article on Yahoo: Digital revolution could be Olympics' salvation. I'll say up front I'm a fan of the olympics as a concept. An international gathering of good-spirited competition between nations, sharing our cultures and taking on a variety of head to head challenges, is the ideal spirit of pure gaming. As a video gamer, that's what I want to see more of, honest and generous people who struggle against each other and with each other. Although there's only one gold medal, just participating in something greater than yourself is wonderous. The problem comes in when you take that platonic ideal and try to make it work. Political bitterness between nations spoils the soup. Pathetic media airplay which is 60% rah-rah USA human interest stories and 10% actual games, and 30% commercials gets on my nerves. And now, you've got the above. As much as the title suggests the Olympics are moving into the information age, there are quotes in here that suggest they don't quite get it. For instance, they're watermarking the video so it can't go on YouTube -- which is the obvious answer to the terrible television coverage, which omits most non-USA runs, which omits most GAMES in favor of their lousy montages of personal tearjerker stories. I'd rather watch a series of short runs on YouTube, or heck, on the official olympic site than watch that crap. Finally, there's this: "You will never achieve in a video game," Rogge told The Times newspaper in May. "It is not really success." Buddy, don't claim you're taking steps to modernize the games and attract youths with one side of your mouth and then spit on something they enjoy with the other. Success in a game may not involve the same skillset as success at track and field, but to play at the highest levels still takes practice, hard work, and ridiculous manual dexterity. There's nothing wrong with encouraging kids to get outside and exercise, but don't bitchslap an entire hobby in the process and tell the people who enjoy it that they're pathetic. As much as I adore the CONCEPT of the olympics, I probably won't be watching much of it this year. China's eye-rolling supervillainy combined with lackluster media work combined with attitudes like this? Yeah. I'll stick to scouring those naughty underground video sites for clips that leak through, from the REAL journos of the olympics, the folks with cellphone cameras and a love of the game. They're the only ones who get it. Show us the games and check your ego at the door. (10 comments \| Leave a comment)

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