walking around lusting after the tasty masses

Re: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1448

Man, I know just what Marten's talking about with that scene where Judge Doom sticks the cartoon shoe in the Dip. I don't burst out in tears, but I want to. Mostly I just can't look. Something about the oh god please no of she shoe's expression always hits me so hard and I have to hide my eyes and try not to listen.

AUGMENTIN PROVIDES AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE FOR THE BACTERIA.

Hey, they should go out and get that themselves if they want it! Not my job straightening out the bread

You'll peck her like crazy

Look, just 'cause you're a cock does't mean you should take it so literally.

some babblings on Iran, semi-courtesy of ontd_political.

The man, who has come from a small town in the eastern province of Khorasan and has never been in Tehran before, says he is being paid 2m rial (£1220) to assault protestors with a heavy wooden stave.

Besides all the D: of the tragedy, this is pretty surreal for me because that's comparable to my salary (slightly less) for cataloging books. I'm not even quite sure what's giving my brain the hiccups; possibly just the huge contrast between our, ah, job duties which are apparently rewarded with similar wages (albeit I'm sure that kind of money buys a lot more in Iran than it does in California). ( Read more... )

Some of you may be interested in this book:

http://www.avaloniabooks.co.uk/catalogue/titles/both_sides_of_heaven.htm

BOTH SIDES OF HEAVEN
A collection of essays exploring the origins, history, magic and nature of divine winged messengers, angels, demons and fallen angels.
Contents:
A Host of Winged Messengers - Sorita d'Este
Fallen Angels and Legends of the Fall - Rufus Harrington
On the Wings of Rebirth - Katherine Sutherland
The Myth of the Fallen Ones - Michael Howard
The Enochians - Aaron Leitch
Madeline Montalban, Elemental and Fallen Angels - Julia Phillips
Azazel & Shemyaza - Diana Allam
Thirteen Unicycles in the Woods - Adele Nozedar
The Salvation of the Sidhe - Emily Carding
The Green Butterfly - Dan Harms
The Fallen Angels and the Goetia - David Rankine
Demons & Devils - Maestro Nestor
Grimoires for Pagans - Jake Stratton-Kent
The Thwarting Angels - Stephen Skinner
Loving Lilith - Melissa Harrington
The Face in the Mirror - Charlotte Rodgers
Between Gods and Men - Kim Huggens
Zoroastrian Angels and Demons - Payam Nabarz

Personally I'm rather drawn to the lovely cover art by Emily Carding.

Stygian says:
and yay infamous! maybe running around healing injured civilians will make me less crazy
elethian says:
lol
usually you want to be made less crazy by killing things
Stygian says:
yeah, but there's enough of that shit going on
elethian says:
INORITE
i'm just saying it's ironic
Stygian says:
seriously, I don't know why this is affecting me so much
elethian says:
you know, my dreaming at the beginning of the month about young iranian otherkin who were here at de anza having some kind of rally now seems a lot less bizarre

fruityphobia: These tweets need to be a book, so that in the future children can read about how important it was. Can you imagine having twitter during the War For Independence?

gothic_oreo:
@KingGeorge: Nothing of any import happened today

@BFrank: LOL wut?

@GWashington: ORLY?

@TJ: KG is a n00b, please RT

( since I'm sure, or I hope, that Iran is already all over your flist today )

(Gods help me, I am actually reading ontd_political some because it is distilling the utter MADNESS that is Twitter #iranelection and whatnot.)

Note to self:

Come on, catalog just two books in a row without stopping to refresh http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/3342819.html. I know you can do it. Grarrgh...

WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

Although my understanding is that even "biodegradable" stuff doesn't decompose all that well in landfills either, because of the way they're packed, but hey, it's something.

from rebel_poet_1030

1. You can ONLY answer Yes or No.

2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks. -- and believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming nothing is exactly as it seems.

( Read more... )

Martini and Shaker Set by ~J-Belfiore on deviantART

OMG want, although not enough to spend $2800 on it!

Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party vendors.

Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.

!(*&^@#! I know I'm, like, the only person who still wants Usenet </sarcasm>, but still. This has been a feature of every ISP I've had since, uh, ever, or less hyperbolically, at least I knew what Usenet was.

BAH!

Any suggestions? I don't want to have to rely on Google Groups, even for the few newsgroups I read.

rialian, you totally need one of these.

WTH weather? I was confused enough when it splattered rain on and off and there was a lightning stroke as I was driving enotsola home from the airport tonight, but it's apparently forecast to be similar weather for several days?

Trust me, this is not normal for us. This is not a time of year we get four days of rain predicted; June through October or November are generally dry and it's rare even to have a late straggler of a light shower this late in the year. And thunderstorms are unusual period, because usually when it's wet here, it's too cold to also foster thunder conditions. Occasionally we will get one in a severe winter storm, but it's rare. We don't have four days in a row thought likely to have thunderstorms. We just don't, especially not in early summer.

Climate change, wot?

Pretty much all I can say about this is "...lolwut?"



NB, although it was only $7 I did not purchase it and drink it, so I can't tell you how it was. Given its shelf neighbours, it stood a good chance of being basically blue-tinted Corona, and while I like Corona okay with spicy food on a hot day, in this case it seemed silly to bother.

Hanging around ontd_startrek is totally MELTENG MAH BRAINZ. Note to self: No matter how much the idea is making you giggle at ~1:30 AM, it's almost certain that no one will appreciate it if you post this gif as a review on any of that Harry Potter pr0n you see on your flist every day occasionally happen to come across:



(well... maybe hp_wankfest.)

I am currently sipping Douglas Fir eau de vie* mixed with elderflower liqueur (St. Germain), thinned with a little water. The eau de vie is green (naturally green, that is) and the liqueur is pale gold; the water made the mixture "louche" a little, so the overall visual effect is like a weak absinthe. It tastes, well, sort of like you might think: herbal, sweet, and flowery. All things considered, I feel kind of like I am having a more-fey-than-thou moment.

The eau de vie was a pricey gamble which fortunately turned out not to be basically upscale PineSol, as I feared it might. It does have that piney-fresh sort of evergreen flavour, but it's subtle and it doesn't assault your eyes and sinuses like the vaguely similiar flavours in gin. (Not that I dislike gin, but it doesn't play well with many others.)


* Most elvish-sounding distilled spirit evar or what?

I have a National Geographic picture of the day widget on my iGoogle page, and this one from a couple days ago just seemed to invite this comment...

Bum Reviews: Star Trek (video)

I died and am dead. I recommend that you go die as well. But, uh, not in the way that Spock meant for the Vulcan Science Academy guy to go die. I mean, like, metaphorically and comedically and stuff. Fatal hilarity. Or something.

I've been perusing PDF's I made of my old high school zine Lucida 10 as I combine them into one-PDF-per-issue rather than one-per-page (and the scans are kind of bad, too; I can only assume I must have saved them as PDF from Photoshop at a time years ago when I didn't also have Acrobat and didn't know about PDF stitching software), and came across this perplexing little dedication in the masthead of issue 3:

This issue of Lucida 10 is dedicated to the memory of Lisa (Wh. Wiz) and Mike (Bl. Wiz), who turned themselves to stone, and Miranda and Morrey, who got fried by Nyarlathotep.

The part about Miranda and Morrey, although I don't remember this specific instance, is almost certainly a reference to a game of Call of Cthulhu, which we played a lot of in high school. (Miranda, I think, was Sarah's character's name. Morrey was probably one of the guys, Mike, Aaron, or Ehren most likely since Jeff was the gamemaster -- what do they call it in CoC -- "Keeper"?)

The first part is what is confusing me. On one level it is obviously (at least, nowadays I think it is obvious; at the time I wasn't into console RPGs in the slightest) referring to Final Fantasy IV where the twin kids Palom and Porom (black mage and white mage) do this to save the rest of the party's asses. I think it might still be referring to a Cthulhu game, in which I suppose my character and Mike's character got petrified for some reason (probably shortly before Nyarlathotep did his frying), and either at the time or after the fact someone made a Final Fantasy reference out of it. Or it might be the case that someone had an FFIV game going and had either renamed the characters thusly (can you do that in IV? I forget) or they were getting so referred to (why?) among the group of people watching the playing (which probably included me, although the game apparently made no impression on my brain).

In short, I really no longer know what's going on there. It's a part of my history simply lost to memory. Nor can I fathom why I would choose to write it into the masthead (aside from the major crush I had on Michael).