- Wore my shirt wrong side outwards for the entire time I was at work, discovering only after I'd clocked out and gone to the bathroom that the tag was not merely sticking up, but was on the outside of the shirt.
- Was really sleepy this morning and overslept without actually being very late. I think my blood sugar was wonky and didn't get better until I ate lunch.
- Signed up for the gym and worked out. The bike isn't totally free (you have to pay shipping and handling) but is worth about $400 so that's not too bad. It's still less than I would pay for a bike myself.
- I have thought all day that it was Wednesday and that it was the 5th, rather than the 6-6-06 so many people are going on about. Although given the weirdness today, maybe there's something to it.
- I stepped into my dog's water bowl.
- I really wanted to swim at the gym or at the apartment pool, but I'm bleeding heavily so no dice.
- I had quite a nice nap and now I've eaten, and I'm going to work some for distance learning.
- I am so glad I got the computer working again. Now if I could just find a driver for the sound card....
Born, like other comic book characters, out of an otherwise trivial but life-changing animal bite, the Rabid Librarian seeks out strange, useless facts, raves about real and perceived injustices, and seeks to meet her greatest challenge of all--her own life.
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Today I:
Tell them what really matters to you
Dear Friend,
I just signed this petition to stop the divisive "Federal Marriage Amendment."
It's an election year, and Republicans are in deep trouble. Instead of addressing the things Americans really care about, they're trying to change the subject and use wedge issues in hopes of distracting from their failures and dividing Americans to win elections.
This time, LGBT families are the pawns in their political game. And this time, the American Constitution is their political playing field. They want to amend the Constitution to deprive gay people of equal rights under the law.
With your help, we can a powerful message to Republicans that legislating discrimination defames good people. Please join me by signing
this petition:
http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/lgbtdiscrmntn/fqqxof
Thanks!
I just signed this petition to stop the divisive "Federal Marriage Amendment."
It's an election year, and Republicans are in deep trouble. Instead of addressing the things Americans really care about, they're trying to change the subject and use wedge issues in hopes of distracting from their failures and dividing Americans to win elections.
This time, LGBT families are the pawns in their political game. And this time, the American Constitution is their political playing field. They want to amend the Constitution to deprive gay people of equal rights under the law.
With your help, we can a powerful message to Republicans that legislating discrimination defames good people. Please join me by signing
this petition:
http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/lgbtdiscrmntn/fqqxof
Thanks!
Monday, June 05, 2006
Oh, this is so cool
I missed the gym promotion last month where they were giving away free mountain bikes with a membership, but...
I talked to a guy, Mike, at the gym, and he still has some bikes left over and has signed up a couple people who didn't want one, so he's having me come in tomorrow to reactivate my membership, set up payment for the second payday of the month, but be able to work out immediately, and he's going to try to get me one of the bikes. Yay! Wish me luck.
It has gone up some since they've built a fourth gym, but it'll probably go up again soon with the tennis courts and other improvements, so it's better to lock in a deal now. Plus, it's still cheaper than sitting on my butt watching cable. :)
I talked to a guy, Mike, at the gym, and he still has some bikes left over and has signed up a couple people who didn't want one, so he's having me come in tomorrow to reactivate my membership, set up payment for the second payday of the month, but be able to work out immediately, and he's going to try to get me one of the bikes. Yay! Wish me luck.
It has gone up some since they've built a fourth gym, but it'll probably go up again soon with the tennis courts and other improvements, so it's better to lock in a deal now. Plus, it's still cheaper than sitting on my butt watching cable. :)
We had the game after all, which I enjoyed
The highlight:
One of my characters was grabbed by a mafia boss and jerked from her chair to standing. She slipped out of her silk shirt as he held her as a shield, then crouched down and elbowed him hard in the gonads, causing a very high-pitched yelp and instantly dropping him, very nearly killing him.
She may be a self-centred dilletante with too much money and not enough sense, but she doesn't like to be manhandled, and after all, she is taught in self-defence and martial arts. Go, Celeste!
Of course, the fact that this pleased me so well is probably some sick inner lesbian feminazi man-hating thing buried deep in my psyche. But it is also tempered with the knowledge that if the goons can figure out who our characters are, we are so going to be targeted by the mob, especially darling Celeste.
Oh well. This adventure has petty criminals, Yog Sothoth, Deep Ones, earthquake-causing cthonians, an immortal Chinese man, disappearing women, strange 'black madness', grizzly bear shamans, and an outfit called New World Industries all nestled in the hills of San Francisco. What's a mob boss to the mix?
It's so going to be a smoking crater by the time we finish with it. Thank goodness this is just a game.
One of my characters was grabbed by a mafia boss and jerked from her chair to standing. She slipped out of her silk shirt as he held her as a shield, then crouched down and elbowed him hard in the gonads, causing a very high-pitched yelp and instantly dropping him, very nearly killing him.
She may be a self-centred dilletante with too much money and not enough sense, but she doesn't like to be manhandled, and after all, she is taught in self-defence and martial arts. Go, Celeste!
Of course, the fact that this pleased me so well is probably some sick inner lesbian feminazi man-hating thing buried deep in my psyche. But it is also tempered with the knowledge that if the goons can figure out who our characters are, we are so going to be targeted by the mob, especially darling Celeste.
Oh well. This adventure has petty criminals, Yog Sothoth, Deep Ones, earthquake-causing cthonians, an immortal Chinese man, disappearing women, strange 'black madness', grizzly bear shamans, and an outfit called New World Industries all nestled in the hills of San Francisco. What's a mob boss to the mix?
It's so going to be a smoking crater by the time we finish with it. Thank goodness this is just a game.
Some interesting proposals
The problem is, of course, implentation, especially promoting widespread circumscision and building a society where prostitution is not necessary to eat and men do not commit dometic violence and rape. I like this quote by a Harvard specialist, Dr. Jim Yong Kim: 'Treatment is relatively easy, but prevention is rocket science.' Unfortunately prevention must be the key in Afria and elsewhere, because although we do have a complex coctktail of drugs that work, the body can build a resistance to drugs, and eventually the virus may do so as well. It's frightening to think that young people both in our own society and elsewhere think of AIDS as a nuisance rather than the deadly disease it can be, and don't necessarily take precautions as a result.
Ten steps Africans can take to curb AIDS epidemic - The Boston Globe
Ten steps Africans can take to curb AIDS epidemic - The Boston Globe
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Speaking of Charlize Theron
I've always rather liked her; she had an abusive father whom her mother shot in self defence in front of her, not a usual background for a glamourous actress, and of course she's probably the best known South African actress, but a comment in the Wikipedia article on Charlize Theron caught my eye. She said she wouldn't marry her long-term boyfriend Stuart Townsend until same-sex marriages were recognised. Way to go!
Æon Flux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I never watched the original animated series, but I remember looking through the graphic novel back when I worked at the comic store, and I really enjoyed Æon Flux the movie, which is loosely based on its antecedent but in a nice coherent way. The physical moves are similar to what characters in our game can do, so it was nice to see a demonstration of things like rolling with impact, jump kicks, and leaps. If you like science fiction and unarmed combat (and armed for that matter, as quite a bit of gunfire happens as well), it's well worth a look. Charlize Theron does an excellent job as Æon.
Can you imagine the explosion and subsequent changes
in wake of a meteor the size of Sydney hitting what is now Antartica, explaining how Australia was born, killing off 95% of Earth's species, setting up the rise of the dinosaurs? That's a lot bigger impact than the meteor that supposedly led to their decline.
It's amazing we're even here to contemplate it.
And of course, Australia being severed from the greater land mass helped set up the marsupial continent's strange fauna, such as the platypus. :)
It's amazing we're even here to contemplate it.
And of course, Australia being severed from the greater land mass helped set up the marsupial continent's strange fauna, such as the platypus. :)
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