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Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Some part of me thinks there should be a link to donation intrinsic to that.

Amy tells me 8's going to lose by a wide margin. That would be wonderful. Does anyone have recent polling? Recent polling looks very, very tight.

Would you believe GUD Issue 3 is the nearest thing at hand? ;) It is. :)

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

This is from Matthew Weinman's "Hunt of the I-Don't-Knows"

Bryce the Scribe soundless-screams as they bear down upon him, "They know! They know!"

I hear tortured screaming as they solemn-surround him, "He knows. He knows."

Forest. Closer. Thirty yards. I still hear them chasing me, "He knows. He knows."

Hands begin grasping at muddy ankles.

Unique Things: Has Anyone Done Them?

Seems at least a half dozen people on my friend's list have done this overnight.

* Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
* See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another!(2.b., 2.c., etc...)
* Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1) released a moderately popular add-on for a wildly popular DOOR game (okay, who remembers what DOOR games are?) [[ three, sort of, actually; one for LORD and one for both LORD and LUNATIX ]] nibot not only remembers, but released a moderately+ popular add-on for LORD. The worst part is trying to remember if I'd known that at some point because it seems like it would have come up given other context I remember...

1a) won a radio call-in contest? ((I figure this is a common enough occurrence but still odds are in my favor that nobody else on my friends list has even tried to win something like that)) :) I just happened to be a passenger in a car when something I wanted was offered and ... I don't remember if you had to be caller n or first caller with right answer or something. Tickets to a classical performance in SF. :) Nope nope. zekedragon won tickets to a thing he was so disinterested in he won't even describe it. ;)

1b) Was given a free account to an adult site as part of a job interview (I was doing the interviewing--the adult site in question was relevant work experience by the interviewee; this is probably specific enough that nobody else will get it? It was an interesting experience, anyway).

2) had a site listed as a yahoo site of the day (my really big claim to fame so far. yes, it is a very small really big claim to fame. sadly, poemranker has lost its verve. toying with trying to revive it, some...)

3) dropped my motorcycle on the bay bridge. Barely hurt for sliding from ~ 70mph.

random notes that didn't qualify for top 3:
x. created a role-playing character that others still play ten years later.
y. built a mars colony (umm. right. ;) it was a first or second grade project that I barely remember.
z. officially taught a high school class when I was 18; unofficially taught a high school class half the year when I was 16.

* What was the last story you read?

It's hard to keep track (and we're not counting slush, of course, right?) I read through "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears" last week. I know I'm in the middle of a number of things. I think the last story I read was one of my own, trying to figure out what I should send out for rejection (er, I mean, send out as a submission). The last short story I read... the last story in "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears"--"The Printer's Daughter" by Delia Sherman. Highly recommended. :) I really ought to have read the new Firebox Fiction over at Night Train but haven't gotten there yet...

* What was the last poem you read?

I was skimming MySpace bulletins and there was one guy posting some interesting stream-of-consciousness stuff that might count as poetry. Besides that, probably something on poemranker. The last _published_ piece of poetry I read was something by Neil Gaiman ("The White Road" in "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears").

* What was the last comic you read?

I read twenty+ comics daily-ish. ((some are TTh, some MWF, some just M, some just F, etc...)) I think the last one I read was The Road to God Knows, as the reminder for that went out late (for some reason I haven't added it to my "all comics" bookmarks folder--but he sends out a reminder every Monday so I know I won't forget). That reminds me I also have Murky Depths on my pile to read--lots of comics in there, and I'm looking forward to them. :)

* What was the last movie you watched?

I just watched the first three Indiana Jones movies (my wife had apparently never seen them). They were both better and worse than I remembered. Temple of Doom seriously annoyed me--and I remember The Last Crusade being really annoying, but I enjoyed it this time around (maybe in comparison to Temple of Doom). Amusing thing is we borrowed them on VHS--strange experience.

* What song are you listening to now? Say something about it--what it means to you, who introduced you to it, something like that.

I'm listening to a "genetically refined" radio station via Pandora radio--started it out with some Acid Bath and have trained it with my preferences from there. Right now, "Land of Blood" by Death Angel just started... I don't know anything about them, but odds are I'll like the song. :)

* What's your guilty-reading pleasure?

My daily comics :)

* Say something about the last poem you wrote!

Wuf. I haven't really written poetry in ages, but I've been trying to breathe a little life into poemranker of late--the last poem I wrote was a haiku entitled "Modern Stupidity". If you really want to know, you can find it from that. ;)

* Say something about a story you're writing now!

I haven't really written any fiction in ages, either. The biggest thing I'm "in the middle of" is DFN (stands for Dark Fantasy Novel). I haven't touched it in half a year, maybe a year--I wrote a few chapters then scrapped it, and have been tryign to refine the outline so I'm sure I've got something that I can write to (I don't usually do outlines, but I figure I might as well try as nothing else has worked to get me to finish a novel yet).

* If you were a fictional character, who would be writing you?

At a guess, I'd say Vonnegut.

* Last story you recommended to someone?

See above ;)

* And a link to your favorite magazine, because they probably need your help. ;)

Ooh! Ooh! http://www.gudmagazine.com/

* Lastly, link to a friend's copy of this quiz!

buffysquirrel :)

ROUND 1

1. Heating, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration Tech
2. Race Car Mechanic
3. Heavy Equipment Mechanic
4. Automobile Mechanic
5. Diesel Mechanic
6. Motorcycle Mechanic
7. Aircraft Mechanic
8. Small Engine Mechanic
9. Computer Engineer
10. Millwright( and then 11 through 40.. and then round 2... and then round 3... and then I really have to stop because it's actually managing to frustrate me. :) )

I feel loved when...

The Five Love Languages

My Primary Love Language is Physical Touch

<th colspan="2">My Detailed Results:</th>

Physical Touch:	12
Acts of Service:	6
Words of Affirmation:	6
Quality Time:	4
Receiving Gifts:	2

About this quiz

Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak.

Tag 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

Take the Quiz!
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My christmas stocking, apparently.

( this is cute, really )

You can only type one color term. No explanations. And you can't re-use colors, so prepare to get creative!

1. Yourself? -- purple
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend? -- yellow
3. Your hair? -- brown
4. Your mother? -- parchment
5. Your father? -- sienna
6. Your Favorite Item: -- silver
7. Your dream last night: -- smoke
8. Your Favorite drink: -- chocolate
9. Your Dream Car: -- gunmetal
10. The room you are in? -- ivory
11. Your Ex: -- green
12. Your fear: -- black
13. What you want to be in 10 years: -- mahogany
14. Who you hung out with last night? -- steel
15. What You're Not? – fuchsia
16. Muffins: -- tan
17: One of Your Wish List Items: -- mercury
18. Time: -- white
19. The Last Thing You Did: -- sand
20. What You Are Wearing: -- cyan
21. Your Favorite Weather: -- teal
22. Favorite book?: -- indigo
23. The Last Thing You Ate: -- beige
24. Your Life: -- gold
25. Your Mood: -- blue
26. Your best friend: -- clear
27. What are you thinking about right now? -- pink
28. Your car: -- cream
29. What are you doing at the moment? -- fluorescent green
30. Your summer: -- red
31. Your relationship status: -- violet
32. What is on your tv? -- slate
33. What is the weather like? -- goldenrod
34. When is the last time you laughed? -- orchid

Draw yourself as a superhero

Kaolin as Nightcrawler Superhero meme; traced over a suitable photo of myself in photoshop. Colored in photoshop. Hand-lettered. Crashed photoshop twice, so I started to lose my enthusiasm... but ... eh. Not sure if I learned anything, but I like how it turned out, still. :)

brobee Take two on yo gabba gabba meme, with a little more patience, and a more organic shape.

I'm going to blame the quality of this on being too excited.  That's keeping me from working on it more than ten minutes, at least.  The rest is the fact that I've not drawn a thing in over a month.  Umm.  And stuff.

yellow robot Meme: http://himynameisjamie.livejournal.com/423339.html

Meme: If you have over 40, you are spoiled.

Pushing it with 35? I do consider myself to have an easy life.

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Go to wikipedia; Enter your birth day/month. List three events/births/deaths that "speak to you".

EVENTS

1895 - At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1924 - In New York City the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

...

BIRTHS

1907 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
1940 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1942 - Jimi Hendrix, American singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 1970)

...

DEATHS

8 BC - Horace, Roman poet and satirist (b. 65 BC)
1852 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1895 - Alexandre Dumas fils, French author (b. 1824)

Happy Pi day!! :-)

From kari_marie, from mmeblue. :)

What items do you have in your Quick Launch toolbar? (or whatever the hotbar is for your particular windows manager, eh? OS X has the Dock, etc)

Meme from, er, kaolinfire

Show Desktop
My Computer
Windows Explorer
cmd
Internet Explorer (for testing, eh)
Windows Media Player
Photoshop
Starcraft
Quicken
lcc-win32 (I really should get rid of that)
VNC
Wings (Never really picked this up, I'm happier to be embedded in blender)
foobar2000
WinSCP
Trillian
Thunderbird
Firefox
PuTTY
PRG Traphic Grapher (Geeze, I forgot all about that!)
QuickTime Player (This certainly isn't necessary here)
iTunes
FileZilla
GlobeAlive chat client (Hmm, yeah)
Remote Desktop Connection
Blender3d
WinEdt (Double Geeze, I neever clean this thing up?)
Password Safe
VirtualDub