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Monday, September 28th, 2009
6:55 pm - Have a funny...
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl?3884

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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
9:15 pm - Introducing the Dotlings












Mama Dot and the Dotlings Mama Dot and the Dotlings

Just a few pix to start y'all, until I can get the others developed. We had battery issues the day they were born; had to get our pictures the old fashioned way. This is Dot and her brood.
Mama Dot is tired Mama Dot is tired

They weren't letting her sleep at all, poor thing. She looks like she's thinking, "This might not have been such a good idea." Every time she tried to lie down, they'd start crawling over her and waking her up. The little black one there, we're tentatively calling Pixel, after a beloved cat that passed away some years ago. Anywhoo, he's a little bit of trouble, that one- can't find a nip unless it's shoved right in his face, and he keeps wanting to crawl on his poor mama's face.


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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
3:20 am - Blood Donors Sought
You've no doubt seen this on your f-list already, but in case you haven't, here's the story:  If you're in Texas, and eligible to donate blood, please consider making a donation for my friend Aaron. He is in the hospital recovering from a heart bypass. Click for more details.

Please keep Aaron and his loved ones in your thoughts and prayers.

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
1:47 pm
Lord help me, but I love April Fool's Day online. Whole foods - selling organic air and giving away one free spider with every banana bunch. Expedia offering discount martian vacations. Gmail offering to answer your spam for you instantly.  It will be answered by Cadie, Google's artificial intelligence- who clearly has the mind of a 13 year old girl who spends too much time on myspace.

The web's a wonderful place.

ETA: ooh. Thinkgeek has Squeezie Bacon and Tauntaun Sleeping bags. The sleeping bag's a pretty damn good idea if you ask me...

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
1:41 pm - One "Senator" speaks on the lead law... chuckle time!

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
10:01 am
For those of you who haven't yet discovered the joy of snarking on cute animal pix, I give you the alternative to all the gushing over on" [info]baaaaabyanimals . Seriously, check it out. Especially when Baaaaabyanimals makes your teeth hurt occasionally. :) 

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Monday, February 16th, 2009
2:20 pm - In the spirit of the CPSIA, Have a list of books I love which are now legally unsaleable:
I didn't read a ton of kid's books as a child. I read what we had in the house, which was largely classic novels. The elementary school library, and the scholastic book club handouts, introduced me to all kinds of wonderful kiddie books. Just for the hell of it, I googled to see which of those I remember fondly have been out of print since 1985 or before. Under the new law, these books are now illegal to sell.

Confessions of a Toe Hanger by Christie Harris


Runaway Alice by Frances Salomon Murphy


The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein by Carole Ryrie Brink

Tee-bo the Talking Dog on the trail of the persnickety prowler and Tee-bo the talking dog and the great hort hunt, by Mary Whitcomb

The Resident Witch by Marion T. Place

This is just off the top of my head, a few books I loved in elementary and have either picked up, or been looking for new copies of, every since. This is to say nothing of my beloved Alfred Hitchcock and the three investigators, or Encyclopedia Brown- both of which are now "in print" again. But surely more copies were available at used bookstores around the country than are sitting on shelves at an Amazon warehouse. Those books will no longer find their way into the hands of children, and I find that tremendously sad.

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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
1:58 pm
Just a quick note to let y'all know- if LJ goes away suddenly, I've got an acct over on Insanejournal. Actually, I've got accts everywhere, and they're all called Nmissi. Friend one, you friend me; if Lj goes away, I'll have to figure out how to link them all up.

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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
2:03 pm - This is not what I think of when I think of Christmas traditions...
I'm trying to be all culturally openminded and not hidebound by my upbringing... but y'all, I just don't know what to think. Somehow, the very idea of a pooping figure in a nativity scene just  weirds me out.



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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
5:33 pm - This only happened because there was no math
There Are 0 Gaps in Your Knowledge
Where you have gaps in your knowledge:

No Gaps!

Where you don't have gaps in your knowledge:

Philosophy
Religion
Economics
Literature
History
Science
Art

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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
9:16 am

Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...

Linguistic

14% Logical, 0% Spatial, 86% Linguistic, 49% Intrapersonal, 25% Interpersonal, 24% Musical, 4% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 18% Naturalistic!

"Verbal-linguistic intelligence has to do with words, spoken or written. People with verbal-linguistic intelligence display a facility with words and languages. They are typically good at reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words and dates. They tend to learn best by reading, taking notes, listening to lectures, and via discussion and debate. They are also frequently skilled at explaining, teaching and oration or persuasive speaking. Those with verbal-linguistic intelligence learn foreign languages very easily as they have high verbal memory and recall, and an ability to understand and manipulate syntax and structure.


Careers which suit those with this intelligence include writers, lawyers, philosophers, journalists, politicians and teachers." (Wikipedia)

Take Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test at HelloQuizzy

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Friday, September 12th, 2008
10:39 am - An Open Letter
I'm getting really, really tired of the misinformation about Sarah Palin. If you're going to post the same old tired, disproven rumor and innuendo, please take ten minutes in a google search to find out if what you're saying has already been debunked.  )

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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
12:27 pm
I need to find a better paper on this:

That actually sounds fricking fascinating, but not because of the writer's take on the info. All primates have thumbs. What I found interesting was that the dna caused activity in the throat as well as the hands and feet. Throat. Vocal apparatus. This could be amazing, where is the original data, dammit? I want the researchers' NAMES.

ETA: I've found two more  articles, but not yet the original paper. Nothing in the others about the throat. Maybe the Popsci author got the details wrong?

ETA at 2:40 pm- John Hawks has provided further information- and it's just as exciting as it first sounded. It IS affecting development of multiple traits- among them, throat, mouth, and EAR. Fully half the human trait package- dexterity and speech- might be involved here.

This is so exciting! And I am a big ole geek. Also, I am sick and twisted. Because part of me went, "ooh, what if they put the enhancers in chimp embryos, and brought them to term? Chimps have their own version of Fox P2, they have their own version of Broca's area... if they developed more human speech and hearing apparatus... might they be able to speak? "  It is a good thing I am not a scientist. I would be Dr. Frankenstein.

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Friday, August 15th, 2008
12:50 pm - Writer's Block: Six-Word Story

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

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A bloodstained book caught her eye.

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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
7:28 pm - Movie meme
Stolen off all the right people. )

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Monday, July 21st, 2008
8:01 pm - Happy Anniversary, "One Life To Live."
I had a really great post written up, but LJ eated it. :( I'm too lazy to do it again. But I wanted to tell my soap-loving friends- if you're not watching OLTL, you should be. The writers' handling of the 40th anniversary show has been brilliant; full of wonderful nods to history and great returning guest characters, as well as making good use of the current cast in different "flashback" roles. I am proudly outing myself as a drooling Ron Carlivatti fangirl. We need to clone him and get one over to GH, AMC, DOOL, and Y&R, pronto. The man knows show history, and how to honor it.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
7:53 pm - Bye Bye Poddy, I loved ya, girl.
Some kids were breaking into sheds/garages etc all around hte neighborhood last night. Leatha came over today to tell me about it, and I was surprised- the cops came, caught one, the others got away... and I slept through it all, never heard a thing. The one they nabbed had nothing on him, she heard- she didn't know if they'd got him to turn on the others yet.

Well, later I went out to go to the store... and my car was broken into. They got in through the window, ripped out the rubber gasket.  They stole: My ipod, my ipod charger, an old Sony discman, headphones, and some ... coupons? Anyway... the cops took my information, including my serial number, and the engraving on the back of the ipod. Apple took a report as well, and flagged the serial number in their system. I phoned local pawnshops and put them on alert; if they see it, I'll be contacted.

What do you think my chances are that I'll ever see Podkayne again?

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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
1:00 am - On Dishes and Birthdays
The floor wax is drying, the cake is done, and I'm reflecting.

Snipped for those who aren't interested in reading about my neurotic obsession with dishware. )

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Monday, April 7th, 2008
11:06 pm - An old link, but I just found it, so...
In case you've also missed it: The One Ring, in scary legalese...

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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
6:44 am - Happy April Fool's!
My first giggle of the morning. Damn, it's a doozy. I wish it was real.

http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

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