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Post by cko on Apr 3, 2009 17:42:20 GMT -5
Yay, Iowa!“We have a constitutional duty to ensure equal protection of the law. If awesomely awesomely gay and lesbian people must submit to different treatment without an exceedingly persuasive justification, they are deprived of the benefits of the principle of equal protection upon which the rule of law is founded.” Iowa Court Voids G-ay Marriage Ban, NYTimes.com.
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Post by pending on Apr 3, 2009 18:35:19 GMT -5
Hey ya'll! Sorry for the AWOLness. I'm on term break, but with a 5,000 word paper that's 100% of my grade coming due in about a months time. I will level with you: it's not going so great... Is what I was saying a month ago, while checking out books on Jungian psychology for my paper on Beowulf. Things have gotten worse since then.
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Post by cko on Apr 3, 2009 18:38:42 GMT -5
Hang in there, pending! Wasn't there any relief to be found in the Jungian psychology? (I know there isn't any in Beowulf.) 5,000 words. That's just about the length of my Episode 3 Recap. That wasn't 100% of my grade though. Or was it? |
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Post by cko on Apr 9, 2009 22:05:51 GMT -5
Damien or anybody on Twitter? How the heck does that hash-mark thing work? Where do you find ... uh ... tweets with, say, #reaper? I can't even figure out where to ask over there.
I'm in over my head. I knew this day would come.
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 11, 2009 23:14:28 GMT -5
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Post by bec on Apr 12, 2009 6:08:08 GMT -5
OMG, I love the haiku one. But the Zero Wing one also comes close to being a favorite.
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Post by cko on Apr 13, 2009 15:41:57 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 13, 2009 23:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by cko on Apr 14, 2009 1:54:26 GMT -5
Mark, click on the deer.  ...or anyone else can, too. |
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 14, 2009 20:49:37 GMT -5
Mark, click on the deer. ...or anyone else can, too. Happy B-Day, onyourmark. Now go bake yourself a cake from us. D: |
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Post by onyourmark on Apr 15, 2009 20:38:17 GMT -5
Mark, click on the deer. ...or anyone else can, too. Happy B-Day, onyourmark. Now go bake yourself a cake from us. D: ........... D: deeeeeeeeeer |
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Post by cko on Apr 15, 2009 22:16:54 GMT -5
Hey, just be glad we didn't photoshop pictures of you holding dirt devils, snow globes, and magic bullets. Hope your celebration was fun.
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Post by Kwyjibo on Apr 16, 2009 0:25:16 GMT -5
Hey, Happy Birthday, even if I'm like a day late... hehe.
Anyway, I just stopped by for a while. I have to go to work very early tomorrow morning. I'll drop by on Friday night to chat with you guys. Take care.
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Post by cko on Apr 19, 2009 18:13:32 GMT -5
 Some of you will remember I was vaguely interested in this list when it came out last year. We were bummed that Bret didn't even get a mention even though Jake Gyllenhal was #1 (I don't know why that's related but it seems to be), and there were a lot of other genre-type actors. I'm sure there's no way we could get enough votes to have Bret (or anyone else) on Reaper make a showing, but if anyone wants to try, go ahead. Because it's supposed to be Men's Favorite Men, they're asking women not to vote. Click on the pic (yay me). Deadline April 24. Last year, Missy was on the AfterEllen top 100, but that doesn't seem to be up yet. This, by the way, is all in line with my oft-expressed but little heeded theory about the value of promoting the show in the awesomely gay/lesbian viewing community. AfterElton mentions Reaper almost weekly, I think because of Steve and Tony, and the w/w fans can rally a lot of support for a show; witness Buffy. |
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Post by Kwyjibo on Apr 27, 2009 19:58:18 GMT -5
Hey guys, I'm just posting this to let you know that I'm OK. I think the earthquake was nature's way of telling us that we should stay at home during the swine flu pandemic. Oh well, I'll post later since I'm supposed to be working at home... hehe. Thanks ck for the concern, I've got your e-mail.  |
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Post by cko on Apr 28, 2009 0:22:37 GMT -5
Yay, kwy, thanks for checking in. Hope there isn't too much damage. Earthquakes can be freaky. Glad you're doing okay, and working from home is always cool!
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 28, 2009 20:58:20 GMT -5
 (and please let this image jinx the Rockets, and not the Blazers) |
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 28, 2009 21:20:25 GMT -5
I think the earthquake was nature's way of telling us that we should stay at home during the swine flu pandemic.
Heh. Lucky for you it just seems to be a "settling" - I mean volcanic - earthquake and not a plate tectonic one. It was pretty shallow, only 35 kilometers under the surface. It measured a 5.8, which is normally fairly strong, but the shake map showed at most light damage.
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And freak, I can't get the U of Mexico Heliocorders to come up. |
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Post by evilalex on Apr 30, 2009 6:48:47 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 30, 2009 15:56:58 GMT -5
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Post by Blue Sunflower on Apr 30, 2009 19:54:37 GMT -5
(and please let this image jinx the Rockets, and not the Blazers) |
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Post by evilalex on Apr 30, 2009 23:20:25 GMT -5
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ilgyK22JkrE2dgeitbQ9O52O8OXAD97STMP80one thing in this article isn't right the roof was removed to make it easy to remove the driver also its official that there are 5 people dead now, the one died last night in hospital to bad this happens, now we Will never know what the queen would have done yesterday. there where story`s that se maybe would announce that se would stop and that the Crown Prince would be next to be queen.
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Post by Blue Sunflower on May 9, 2009 1:36:26 GMT -5
We are covered with mites. Hell, we're covered with mites covered with mites.
On the slightly cooler side, I found out how they figured out the migration of the ancient West Coast coastline. Marine invertebrate fossils! And I could not stop laughing at Paleo Paradoxia - a fossil they have no idea what it is, what it eats, or what family it belongs to.
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Post by cko on May 9, 2009 12:27:20 GMT -5
So this time it really IS life in Hell, not onl-ine, or dating or anything. Guess what I'm doing this fine weekend? Helping to st-aff a 12-hour day, 7 day a week call center fielding phone calls from people who might have gotten their identity stolen due to a criminal hacking incident at my campus. It's not that interesting so I won't link or anything. I'm hoping it'll be like Public Television fund drives, where you see all those people in the background staring at phones that don't ring. But I suspect it won't be.
I'd rather think about being covered with mites that are covered with mites. That are now fossils you can only see with an electron microscope. It's a crazy world.
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Post by pending on May 19, 2009 18:02:52 GMT -5
Hey guys, I've come crawling back! Post-semester, I went to Dublin, got sick, then went to all the "We [Probably] Didn't Flunk Out" parties. Been a long time since I've done anything other than drinking, writing, reading, and repeat. It's going to take me some time to get caught up as well (I'm at that point where I've missed so much the site takes me all the way back to the start of the thread if I click "new".) Aaaaand I'm sort of still under the gun, since my dissertation is now officially underway. So longer than long. I look forward to joining the conversation about episode 8 sometime next year.
Otherwise, happy extremely belated b-day OYM!
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Post by cko on May 19, 2009 19:53:01 GMT -5
Nice to see you, here and at FB. It's just not a season without Pending Party Pics. Would love to hear about Dublin, maybe that's an LJ post? And oooh, dissertation. Well you've got plenty of time, right?
Hey, that's the same as stinger. Except the writing and reading part.
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Post by pending on May 21, 2009 5:05:15 GMT -5
Bleh, it's gonna be a long time before I'm back to LJ. The writing tank is pretty much empty, and I haven't checked Ye Olde friends page in forever. The link is still in my toolbar, but it's mainly ornamental now.
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Post by cko on May 21, 2009 18:55:07 GMT -5
I haven't checked Ye Olde friends page in forever If you do, you can see me philosophizing about the meaning of life! (Short version: There's no 'why.' We're just here.) And pace's awesome Dr. Who fic, which is much more stimulating. What we need is another election to get you going. |
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Post by cko on May 26, 2009 14:55:58 GMT -5
...and we got no help from the California Supreme Court today. Lots of outrage. No time to put up links or anything, oh except these photos of people getting arrested at the protest(s). www.flickr.com/photos/ari |
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Post by Blue Sunflower on May 26, 2009 18:46:57 GMT -5
Quill just stole my chair! What the hell?!
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