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I am taking vacation today by sitting at my computer doing work. However, it is worth the hours just to be able to get stuff done in the sanctity of my home and not have to go in to the office.
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It is absolutely worth the 8 hours of vacation time that I lose.
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Good morning
I’m expecting it to be slow today, it being a holiday for most people.
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Stemmer! A very good morning to you. ;-)
Also, I wanted to say, even though the team isn’t doing very well, there’s always time for OTOT. It’s a great place to be regardless how the team is doing, imo.
I take it school is closed today?
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Yup, no school. Practice at 11, so I’m only here a little while. League and state tourneys coming over the next 12 days. Plus my boys are home while my wife is at work, so I have them to entertain. May go see “Chronicle.”
I want to be here more, but my winter schedule prevents it for the most part. You’re probably right though that the lackluster Caps have something to do with it, though maybe subconsciously.
Terrifically juvenile.
Btw, Beaker’s Lab found out at his doctor’s appointment that he is 6’6’’, instead of 6’4’’ like he’s thought all these years.
So many of you tall dudes running around.
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I went home Friday night and had my wife measure me standing against the wall (she used a step ladder) and I was 6’5 in shoes so not quite as much as the woman said but taller than I thought I was.
You paint a fascinating picture. Sounds as if you and your wife have a height difference similar to the 15 inches between me and my wife (insert joke here).
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wow, no not nearly that much. She’s 5’7 so she’s not short but is enough shorter than me that she used the stool to get an accurate reading. We marked all our heights on the wall and seeing the 10" difference was pretty startling. I tend to forget how much taller I am than most people.
It always shocks me when I’m in a crowded place and see someone who’s eye level with me. Inevitably, he walks away and I either think, or say to my wife, “My god, do I look like that?”
Terrifically juvenile.
Ditto for me. If I see someone taller than me I get freaked out. It’s unnerving.
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Me too. It takes a bit to get used to being around women who are taller than me. I’m never made insecure by women who are more beautiful or smarter, I figure it’s a given such people exist, but I could usually be secure in being the tallest woman in most situations. Having a best friend for several years who was an inch taller helped me get over it, in the main, but I still find it momentarily unsettling.
See, now, that’s what we tall girls call a “waste of space.” I’m sure you all are perfectly suited to each other, but it makes us tall girls sad. ;)
My last boyfriend was 6’7". After we broke up, he started dating a woman who is 6’3". I figured she needed him more than I did. (They are now married and producing very tall children. ;) )
Yep, slow day expected on the Rink. On the plus side, my commute this morning was a snap. I wish every day could be like this.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 9:20 AM EST up reply actions
No. He came in a few minutes ago.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 9:23 AM EST up reply actions
Hi WOI. I’m stopping in to say HI…I’m waiting for the Dr. to call back. My daughter came home from college yesterday just to go to the doctor at home, she’s been sick for 3 weeks, ugh
I think we’re down to a bad sinus infection which is not going away by itself. She’s had headaches for days couldn’t get an appt. at school…seems everyone has this.
Schools are plague-ridden cesspools. I thought I would be insulated from it in my office, but no. That’s what happened to me, was it last week?, when I had to go home and be sick for a couple of days with stomach flu.
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That’s been raging through my school. Sinus and stomach. Fingers crossed, I’ve avoided it so far.
We have two sons in elementary school, I teach at a middle school and coach at a high school, and my wife works at a college. We are exposed to every school-based germ that exists. Reminds me of that Simpsons scene where the doc tells Mr Burns he has every germ, but they’re in perfect stasis and can’t do anything bad as a result.
Terrifically juvenile.
On Thursday we started hearing about this big snowstorm that is coming for us this weekend. 5-8" with up to 10" possible. Friday at 6pm news they have modified it to 4-6" with more south of us. cool, no problem, still a lot of snow. Sat. morning it’s at 3-6" and at 6pm Sat. night ( less than 12 hours out from the event) we are at 2-4" of snow. disappointing but still enough to have some fun in. We didn’t even get any flurries here. Utterly disappointing and my daughters were totally distraught by not getting to sled or play in the snow.
We drove back from the Tidewater area to Northern Virginia last night and got SLAMMED by the snow. Lots of spin-outs on I-64, I-295, and I-95. I was really surprised that it was only lightly raining north of all that.
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by Backeez Got Back on Feb 20, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
Sunday
So, I had a really good day. My mom and I and a neighbor of ours went to Bus Boys & Poets for brunch (REALLY good french toast), then went to Arena Stage to watch the play, Red, about the life of Mark Rothko. I had mistakenly thought we were going to a musical, and was sort of set up to be disappointed, but I wasn’t.
It was a brilliant production, with only two actors portraying Rothko and his assistant. It went one hour and thirty minutes with no intermission, but the time just flew by, it was so good. If you ever get a chance to see this Tony award-winning play, do it.
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which Busboys did you go to?
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The one in Hyattsville, and let me just say, I had NO idea how much that place is improving! It’s being revitalized at a furious rate.
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Gorgeous...
http://twistedsifter.com/2011/11/15-mind-blowing-featured-images-by-nasa/
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The coolest thing about curing cancer is that it’s a jump, skip and a hop away from all sorts of breakthroughs — there’s a link between people exposed to radiation and preventing future cancer as well as potential benefits against infections and virus exposure. Then things like preventing aging and other cellular breakdown.
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I’ve never watched that show,but I know a lot of LiveJournal ladies who write a TON of fanfiction for it.
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Oh boy, the potential for that is immense. The show has actually made fun of that in a few meta episodes, where the brothers find out that fans write about them being ’intimate" with each other.
Terrifically juvenile.
Oh, I haven’t gone on LJ in years. I spend my time here now. More diversity.
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That’s my story, as well. I still check in, because I have a huge circle of friends there, but I hardly ever update anymore. Which is a shame, really. It is a great chronicle of my life from 2003-2011.
I never had any success keeping a journal in a book, because it felt ridiculously self-involved and self-serving. LJ provided a community for me to talk to about all sorts of things, so was less navel-gazing.
Yeah. I just got bored with it. Nice folks, truly, but I found there to be a LOT of same stuff/different day. And nearly every single person I knew/met there was female. It was like an estrogen echo chamber.
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Heh. One thing I told a friend of mine (whom I originally met on LJ) after I started hanging out here was how much I enjoyed having regular conversations with straight guys again! My social interactions had shrunk almost exclusively to women and gay men. Mostly as my straight-male friends—of whom I had many—got married.
Apparently, a close female friend is more of a threat than I had expected to many of the women my friends chose to marry.
If anyone has a relationship with the opposite sex, it has to be sexual. Those are the rules that everyone agreed upon in Kindergarten but forgot to update for the adult world.
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I don’t get it. I genuinely don’t think I’d have a problem with a man I knew to be in love with me also having female friends who were important to him. I’m not really the jealous type, though.
Without lobbing too many grenades, I figured it had something to do with co-dependency somehow. It always seems to be something more underlying than jealousy which is just used as a front.
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Really? I missed that. Damn!!
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I think a lot of it is the significant body of work by a-holes who do cheat and the amount of airplay that gets skews the perception. “well if so and so did it then anyone could” type thinking.
Perhaps. But do most guys cheat with women they’ve been friends with for years? I’m thinking, not so much.
Of course. I meant, of the subset of those who do. I very much was not intending to imply that most do. I am a big fan of guys, in general, and don’t believe them to be the dogs popular discourse likes to portray at times. :)
Tool – Wings For Marie (Part 1)
Which will be followed by 10,000 Days (Wings Part 2)
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
Tindersticks – Medicine
Love this song and band. It’s the first single off their upcoming album The Something Rain. I think the video is brilliant — all shot around their studio.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
Holy cow...
A high school girl may have found the key to curing cancer.
http://www.dailygood.org/view.php?qid=4898
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that would be a wonderful breakthrough if it works out
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Happy President’s Day.
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Yours is more 21st century. Ours is more austere.
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A lot of austerity measures being taken these days.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 10:12 AM EST up reply actions
Hi Alice :)
It’s an excuse by the Ontario Liberal Party to garner a few more votes in an election by following the lead of other provinces and putting a provincial stat holiday between January and Easter.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
The first two people I thought of when I watched that were you and Boutros, quickly followed by CapitalCentre, Red Birdie and Alice.
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I thought of this when I listened to it
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
My mother works for a library in Eastern Ontario and she wanted to post it up there when I sent her it.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
She’s a pretty awesome woman, no doubt.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
Libraries? Used book stores?
:-D
Let’s go cruise the Library of Congress. Or Second Story.
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Yeah, I worked in a used bookstore for a couple years. Never got a single date out of it.
I haven’t been to the LOC in so long. I helped a friend with a research project there once. So fascinating, the stuff we unearthed, and the whole process. What we were looking for required using all three buildings and all manner of media. My favorite was the periodicals room in the Jefferson Building. Actually, my favorite room at NYPL was the periodicals room, too. I’m just a junkie for historical pop culture!
No idea. God knows I never go to used bookstores.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
But..but..but…I was at Second Story Books two Decembers ago. Fellow RB even led me there, where were you? ;)
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 4:46 PM EST up reply actions
The death of the real most interesting man in the world.
Wow…
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A poem I heard over the weekend, and really liked
Mark Grist – on Girls Who Read
The opening advert is skippable, but until you do, it’s REALLY LOUD, then the poem part of the video is kind of quiet.
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morning, all. Yesterday started out well (brunch at Belga….complete with mimosa and bucket of bacon) and then ended up laid up with headaches again. Another DC Brau party tonight, assuming I don’t end up stuck in bed again.
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:-/ Sorry about the headaches. But…bucket of bacon??? I just had a plate of said wonderment.
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At dinner on Saturday night, Mrs. Spidey and I had macaroni and cheese with bacon. And it wasn’t bacon bits either. This was home-made, greasy, tasty mac n’ cheese with really large, really crispy pieces of bacon.
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it was a small bucket, but it came in a bucket, which I thought was hilarious. Enough for two people to split.
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I really need to pay attention to some things better, like maybe read the paper timely. Bill Maher is appearing at Strathmore on April 1st (how appropriate?). I read this yesterday morning, which was at least two days late, because I was reading Friday’s Weekend section, which said tickets went on sale Friday morning. Not being sure I wanted to pay for what I get for free most Friday nights, I still went online to look for tickets. Duh. Sold out.
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Those buggers weren’t cheap, either. $55 each for the upper tier. I’ve never been there, but I know the place can’t be that large, so I’m not surprised it sold out right away. This is a pretty liberal area.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Yeah, Dr. called…11:15 appt (didn’t know they has Sat. hrs. today for the holiday)! Gotta run…see you guys tonight.
It got awfully quiet here.
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I ran downstairs to check the mail. Also, the universe seems to want to stop by my office and visit today.
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Yeah, those Alpha Centaurians can be a real talkative bunch.
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now we know who all of the people are that just check from work all day and who has the day off.
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
I know, right?
My Boss has yet to make an appearance. I think his kid has no school today. Still, it is unusual for him to not send an email to let me know if he’s working from home.
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Yeah. I’m technically off, which means I get to sit at home and work in pajamas and slippers.
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You lose, but nice guess. Basic plaid flannel bottoms, just like most of the teenage girls wear to the mall these days.
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he’s mixing it up since the traditional Rink look is pantsless
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
Grrrr.
Tshirt and fleece pullover as well. Plus slippers.
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GRRRRRRRRR.
Black basic no frills slippers. Booorrrrrinnnngggg.
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Sounds like you need these.
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/largeImagePopup.jsp?productId=719264
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Those would be awesome.
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I’m here. watching bad daytime TV.
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Did you watch that youtube video I tweeted to you yesterday?
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no, I’ve been off twitter for a couple days.
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Any Dad with a daughter needs this.
It’s an application you make the suitors fill out before any dating takes place.
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That’s great.
I’ve told my wife that I will be getting some big ass bullets and when any boy comes over I will write his name on it in front of him and say “now just remember I hope I never have to use it but there is one with your name on it”
of course I wouldn’t actually do that but it’s fun to watch her reaction to it and I’m sure my daughters will LOVE it when they are old enough to get it.
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
Subtitled – “How to Alienate Your Daughter in One Easy Step”
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I think it would be amusing to tell them you were going to do that but never actually do it. I don’t need a grandson in a dog collar.
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
My parents were far more about threatening to embarrass me with naked baby pictures, rather than intimidating my suitors.
As the mother of two daughters I think that is great
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by caps_shutterbug on Feb 20, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
my nephew did that when he was younger too. It’s an awesome trick to watch.
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
Lunch check?
Panini – Ham, salami, mozzarella, parmesan, tomato, red pepper, spinach, roasted garlic balsamic.
Once you take the fisting element out, it's not romantic anymore.
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I had two muffins for lunch. I’’m fine for now thanks.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 12:06 PM EST up reply actions
I meant for breakfast…more like brunch
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
I’ve got some Panera bagels waiting that I didn’t eat at breakfast.
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Subway foot long Steak & Cheese on white w/ provolone, green peppers and onions toasted with the Chipotle SW sauce.
by Beakers Lab on Feb 20, 2012 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
So, Kevin Anderson – smart or an idiot?
Hey, I don’t blame anyone at Maryland for being pissed that Georgetown won’t play them in men’s basketball. But I also think it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face, and I’m fine if GU and MD never play each other in anything ever again. (full disclosure for those who don’t remember, I’m a GU grad)
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
eh. Maryland (and Georgetown) can find other schools to replace those holes in the schedules. If Maryland doesn’t want to accommodate Georgetown because Georgetown still has their panties in a twist about something that happened decades ago, so be it.
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Album title.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
All three.
Once you take the fisting element out, it's not romantic anymore.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Feb 20, 2012 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
I’d say more like a reunion album title. So it’s a ways away from being released.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
Bruised egos are one of the mysteries of life.
But supposedly the schools were in the process of maybe coming to an agreement. That’s not happening, in my opinion, because now both sides will have to somehow say they were wrong about something.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
I don't know why they don't play each other regularly in men's basketball,
but I think it’s about time they start doing so, because the DC area would love to see it.
On that note, Georgetown also needs to start playing GW in men’s basketball as well. When the women’s teams for these three universities play each other regularly, why can’t the men do it? Are they afraid of losing to each other? Wow.
yep, it’s the fear of losing. these money on the line if you start losing regularly to a cross-town (or in GU-GWU, next neighborhood over) school.
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Recently re-discovered “Chap Hop.”
i.e. hip-hop delivered in the style of Victorian English.
It is…wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cCZX106AE&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Q26z-Sc7c
and more. just go on youtube.
it gets even better
I guess it’s too much to hope that they would just cancel each other out of existence.
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The first amendment is what the first amendment is.
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Lunchtime Music Check
Francisco Tarrega – Capricho áRabe, For Guitar
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Martin Carthy – The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Classic British folk from 1965.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
....
after reading Glenn Beck tell me I’m not free unless I’m “serving” his idea of God, I need some cute in my life. This will work:
off to start the pot roast. I feel so domestic.
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Great pic.
Yay on the pot roast.
WTF are you doing watching Glenn Beck?!?
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I wasn’t watching. I was reading. I didn’t look at the byline when I clicked on piece. Sigh. So many brain cells were lost.
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read that it was really good
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by caps_shutterbug on Feb 20, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
what up kids
rough weekend for me all around, everything that could go wrong at work yesterday did go wrong, short of a power outage.
floor hockey week 2 wasn’t as awesome as week 1, as we lost 9-5. The other team put everything on net without hesitation and did a really good job screening me, for a few goals I didn’t see them until they were almost past me. I spent a good deal of the first period fighting the puck and got into a bit of a groove in the 2nd, but then the wheels came off in the third. made a couple of stops on really hard, close shots and the evidence is still on my arms.
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unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case, lots and lots of stuff to do this week
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Get a bruise, add a pad. I just upgraded my hip pads because it looks like someone took a baseball bat to my glutes. I may have to be mindful of which side of the ice I am on so I don’t make it any worse when I dive or slide.
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pads aren’t allowed, and frankly I don’t want them, I like being mobile and I wear my bruises as a badge of honor. Although I did receive a puck sharply to the inner thigh last night. very close.
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I learned to wear a cup when playing net in floor hockey last year.
Also was thankful several times that I had a mask on. Made a few head-saves.
I’ve taken a stick to the face a couple of times, plus when I get hit in the nuts in warmups it usually indicates I’ll have a good game.
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You are a prime candidate to find yourself a top of the line female dominatrix.
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So, Boss is officially not coming in today.
I wish I could head out, but I can’t.
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my reaction to the Virginia law requiring invasive ultrasounds to terminate pregnancy
Intended for my friends who lean left on the social issues spectrum, a bit of biting satire.
http://amateurwashingtonian.blogspot.com/2012/02/modest-proposal-for-protection-of-our.html
a worthy read, if I do say so myself.
Nice.
On a serious note, I’ve had that sort of ultrasound procedure done because, at one time, I was too overweight for them to manually check my ovaries during my well woman check up.
Two thoughts.
It was humiliating because of the reason why they had to do it.
It hurt like you would not believe as well as making it feel very much like someone is stirring your guts with a straw.
To force pregnant women to do this is appalling.
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Good work! I remember my days of writing humorous and inflammatory rants in college. Of course, this was before the Internet, so we had to publish little newsletters and distribute them all over campus, but, same idea. :)
Also, I had thought Virginia was turning the corner into enlightenment and political open-mindedness. Clearly, I was mistaken.
there was a slate article the other day detailing just how sickening this legislation is.
i mean, this is arguably rape, and they’re not giving either doctors or patients much of any choice in the matter. I really hope a court issues an injuction
Your daily dose of "whoa"
The Scale of the Universe Part 2
Starts at human size, zooms as far in as the quantum level, zooms back out to human size, then zooms all the way to universe stuff.
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I am going out of my mind. The boy has been on Mindcraft basically every waking moment for the last four days. He’s on his headset talking to about four other people, I think. I’ve banned him from talking though. How can someone sit there for so long doing the same thing. I don’t get it.
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I don’t get it in regards to video games, but I definitely get the “being so absorbed in something, you do nothing else for hours.”
Some video games have some pretty fantastic writing and can be incredibly absorbing. I’ve found myself saying “Oh, I’ll just play for an hour or two” and getting sucked in for most of an evening.
Also, with some of the games I’ve played, the timing of whatever you’re doing eats up large chunks of time (I’m thinking specifically about racing and driving simulator games where some races are endurance races that can last for a couple/few hours).
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
Four day fucking weekend. Goddamn teachers unions.
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you think that’s bad I just had my disgusting roommate walk into my room in his underwear, flex, leave and say “you’re welcome”
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comes back in “I’m still not wearing any clothes but I can’t open my new shampoo bottle can you do it for me?”
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Indeed, but this particular roommate of Wisco’s seems to be determined to bark up the wrong tree.
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well this particular guy is straight but he doesn’t need to parade himself all over the place
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if you need a laugh, check out the feb. 16 episode of the DC Politics Hour, and jump to the 38:00 mark and start listening. he has a very interesting pronunciation of “poutine”!!!
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I’m watching one of those house hunting shows…..and do they go out of their way to find unlikeable people?! Right now, I’m watching this couple that has a very small budget drive their realtor up the wall because they want 4 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, high-end appliances, granite countertops, hardwood floors, and a huge yard. Reality, they’re not living in it!
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I LOVE house hunters. and yeah sometimes the people can be total asses. I do enjoy when there is obvious marital tension amongst the couple buying the house.
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as best I can tell, this couple is in Florida….they’ve got subprime disaster written all over them! lucky for them they can’t ruin their lives like that any more.
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and the episode on now is someone trying to buy a condo in DC! ha ha ha, this should be a train wreck. Too bad I’ve got to go wash the dye out of my hair.
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sigh. “work at home” Friday has been cancelled :(
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Oh no! :( Are they not doing the painting or whatever it was? Did you get to work at home last Friday?
painting cancelled. Which, last week, worked out. A project I had took waaaaaaaaaaay longer than expected to do, which bumped most of the stuff I planned to do on Thursday to Friday. I was happy to not have to drag it all home.
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building management has been stringing us along for months on the painting. really irritating.
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Is that the communication director from Senator McCaskill?
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no. works for the city government.
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seems these condos are all in my neighborhood. I’ve actually toured a couple of them.
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the episode that’s on now? Oh, high-powered bitchy DC people in action! She’s a high-maintenance southern belle who dreams of moving to a brand new house in Virginia (and constantly making snide remarks like “That’s not how we do things in the South.”). He’s an equally stubborn guy determined to live in the city. They need a “wedding gift room.” They’re constantly at odds and completely perfect for each other.
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watching the same one, however the one that played before that had to be the funniest. The OCD guy from Florida moving to Cali with there dog Boo Boo. He just creeped me out
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by caps_shutterbug on Feb 20, 2012 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
I missed the end of it! Man, that couple was nucking futs! did they end up finding a place, or did their relator throw them into the Pacific?
The two that are on now make me want to scream “you are such DC stereotypes! Stop giving the rest of us a bad name!”
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The took the Tuscon style and gutted it, they even showed a pic of the toilet with tape all over it saying do not use!
I am only listening to the DC couple
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by caps_shutterbug on Feb 20, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
the materialism of these two is making me twitch.
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I’ve got headphones in my ear for a conference call, for which someone is now 18 minutes late.
Nice guys finish first, but sometimes the season is awfully long.
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Nothing right now. I don’t have anything to edit at the moment, so I’m burning DVD backups of older magazines that have already been sent on their merry way.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Oops...
Target Target Pregnancy Prediction System of the Day: Target now tracks customers’ shopping habits so closely that the company knows when women are pregnant — sometimes before their parents do.
The New York Times reports that while other companies rely on public birth announcements to tell them when to start sending out ads and coupons for diapers and formula, Target uses customers’ shopping habits and demographic information to predict pregnancies as early as the second trimester.
At first, the predictions led to some awkward situations, like the time a Minneapolis man came into Target to complain about a baby-themed coupon mailer sent to his teenage daughter.
"She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?"
When the manager called to apologize, the dad said he’d had a talk with his daughter, and it turned out Target was right: she was already pregnant.
Target changed its mailers — mixing the baby stuff in with seemingly-random other products — to avoid making people uncomfortable, but it still tracks every customer who uses a credit card or visits the Target website with a unique Guest ID number
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yeah, I was reading about Target’s tracking over the weekend. It’s a bit disturbing.
If you haven’t read the NY Times article you really should
that creeps me out. I really don’t want anyone tracking my shopping habits that closely.
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It is. And it makes me never want to shop at Target again.
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if there was ever a reason to support your local independent retailers
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Creepy! Glad I don’t work there any more. But most retail places probably do it.
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Jeff Schultz is my spirit animal!
I just made this, just thought I''d leave this here
I'm on the twitters! Currently Watching: Catching up on Walking Dead
Jeff Schultz is my spirit animal!
Jeff Skinner after a disallowed goal?
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn:
Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn
It’s that girl from toddlers and tiaras. The honey boo boo child girl. I hate the show, but I thought her dancing was funny.
I'm on the twitters! Currently Watching: Catching up on Walking Dead
Jeff Schultz is my spirit animal!
A dad buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie.
He decides to test it at dinner.
“Son, where were you today?”
The son says, “At school, Dad.”
Robot slaps the son.
“Okay, I watched a DVD at my friend’s house!” the son says.
“Which DVD?” asks the dad.
“Toy Story.”
Robot slaps the son again!
“Okay, it was a porno!” cries the son.
“What? ! When I was your age, I didn’t know what porn was,” says the dad.
Robot slaps the dad.
Mom laughs, “Hahaha! He certainly is your son!”
Robot slaps the mom.
Awkward silence…
Moms
I set up a petition on the white house website dealing with an environmental issue. I sent the link to my mother.
Her reply – “Oh my, now there’s probably a file on you somewhere.”
I feel like forwarding her the Target article.
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She will reply “That’s why I am getting all these baby-themed coupon mailers in your name from the time you were housesitting for me.”
by Rather Bengt on Feb 20, 2012 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
Just Knuble being Knuble
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In the top picture, his mouth is moving to the beat of the song I have on right now. It’s kinda spooky.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 20, 2012 4:47 PM EST up reply actions
at the library, table next to me are a couple of bimbos who I suspect aren’t actually doing any work they’re just on facebook. also if you’re an hour late to a 75 minute lecture why show up at all?
"I was so drunk I thought a tube of toothpaste was astronaut food"
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