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| | Tags: | junk, things | | Subject: | Poll for you poll-cats. | | Time: | 10:33 am |
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| A friend of mine in Chicago is going to be on a panel at "WisCon" soon and is doing a little online poll as part of a discussion, and she's interested in getting a wider audience for this poll than just other attendees at this conference. From what I can tell, people reading my LJ are of a similar level of freakiness, so maybe this isn't really widening the audience, but it's fun to click buttons, right? Click some buttons:
http://lcohen.livejournal.com/429751.html | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| | Tags: | junk | | Subject: | Twit. | | Time: | 01:41 pm |
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| # 13:41 I'm pretending to use twitter in a plain text LJ post. #
# 13:42 I never ever read twitter posts. #
# 13:42 I wonder if anyone else does. # | | comments: 22 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | stuff | | Subject: | Fixing it. | | Time: | 08:55 pm |
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| I've had a thought brewing for a couple weeks now. Tuesday or Wednesday night, I had a dream that really helped gel it for me, and should make it easier to explain, because it's an idea I'd like to share. ( Read more... )
The whole point of the dream is "The details of how the destructive device are not nearly as important as what must be done to disable it."
This is especially true in interpersonal situations. I've had a few parallels recently at work, at home, with friends. I keep focusing on "How did we get here?" instead of "How do we get somewhere better?" Sometimes, a little knowledge of how it happened is helpful, but the details aren't worth obsessing over. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | crap, junk | | Subject: | Bad Meme | | Time: | 10:50 am | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/devious.gif) cruel |
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| The first three people who reply to this post, and who re-post this challenge: YOU LOSE!!!
As your punishment, I will steal something from you.
It might be something you've made, or something cool from your hidden stash of fabulousity. It might be a mix CD, or a rubber duck, or a book you might enjoy. A love letter, a useful object, or something else that is awesome or maybe just taking up room in your house.
Whatever it is, I promise I will swipe it from you in 3650 days of your posted comment or less. | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | things | | Subject: | Stop saying that. | | Time: | 10:35 am |
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| I was driving to work this morning, thoughts wandering, having some imaginary conversation between myself and some hypothetical other person. Suddenly, a loud internal voice jumped into the discussion, in the middle, out of nowhere, and shouted "I want you to stop saying ________." The blank was some word that I had just used in my imaginary conversation. Like a lot of my internal dialogue, the word was a little bit fancy, maybe a bit pretentious. Though it wasn't an extremely rare, arrogant word. It wasn't anything that special, as far as I can remember.
Of course, now I can't remember what word it was. More strikingly, I forgot the word as soon as the loud voice said it. I turned from my imaginary conversation partner, to the loud voice, and said "What's wrong with the word .... uh .... wow. It's gone." The voice was gone and took the word with it.
No idea what it was. I think it was three or four syllables, beginning with an S or maybe a T. Something like that. | | comments: 16 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | junk | | Subject: | Best horoscope ever. | | Time: | 10:33 am |
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| SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This would be a good week for you to compete in a flamethrower competition. You'd probably win. Why? Because according to my analysis of the astrological omens, you currently have an unprecedented knack for playing with fire. You would most likely also be victorious in a marshmallow-roasting contest or a jump-over-the-bonfire tournament. And you would probably do surprisingly well in any activity that might be described as "sitting in the hot seat."
I'm sitting there right now, though I think this conference call will turn into the flamethrower competition soon. My team's going to win. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | cheese, stuff | | Subject: | Thoughts on inclusivity. | | Time: | 10:41 am |
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| Burning Man lists "Radical Inclusion" as one of their 10 Principles. I've been trying to formulate a better set of similar Principles. I drop the word "Radical", but still include Inclusion.
I go back and forth on "inclusivity" versus "inclusion". My spellchecker says inclusivity isn't a word, but it also says spellchecker isn't a word. Inclusion always sounds like a medical term, like we're talking about a "bolus" or something, that's stuck somewhere under your skin that isn't really part of you. It doesn't sound like an abstract noun, a "mass noun" grammatically. Like we could talk about multiple inclusions in some tissue.
Anyway, in my own formulation of principles, I feel like it all goes back to "Genuine Self-Expression". And I feel like the main forces behind non-inclusive behavior is a lack of genuineness about our own preferences.
( Cheese ) | | comments: 21 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Tags: | junk, things | | Subject: | Always wear safety goggles. | | Time: | 12:41 pm |
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| Last week, I was at our old house, reattaching the mailbox to it's pole. One piece of wood had basically rotted away, and I was using a hammer to try to pry up the nails rusted around it, so I could replace that piece of wood. I pulled real hard on one nail, and the hammer broke. The wooden handle snapped right up near the metal head. It was odd.
The hammer said Always wear safety goggles on it. I guess that's to protect yourself when the head comes off. In this case, though, the head was firmly wedged under the nail, and the handle just came off in my hand. It was actually pretty funny. I stood there staring at this broken hammer-handle in disbelief for several seconds.
I ended up just drilling holes in the new piece of wood so that the old nails wouldn't prevent it from matching up. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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