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2017-04-09T01:47:02Z

I aten't dead.

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2015-11-15T17:18:58Z

Vive la France.

12-12-12

2012-12-13T04:44:06Z

Not going to have another date like this for a long time.

Last chance to buy

2012-01-14T05:02:54Z

Last chance at comics collection before it goes to Half-Price. Comment or email to get spreadsheet.

Comics must go

2012-01-08T21:35:19Z

Selling portions of comic book collection. Comment with an e-mail, I'll send you the Excel file

Mississippi Personhood Amendment

2011-10-12T17:35:16Z

Originally posted by james_nicoll at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by soldiergrrrl at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by twbasketcaseat Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by gabrielleabelleat Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting ~~very little~~ no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.

cmattg - Not my article, but reposted and endorsed.

cmattg @ 2011-03-15T12:49:00

2011-03-15T17:49:42Z

Hayabusa

Yami ni kaze fuku
kaerimichi
mou sugu honou

Hexapodia remains the key insight

2010-07-15T06:10:06Z

To anyone from the post-Usenet generation - How do you react to A Fire Upon the Deep?

Angel 1/2

2009-10-10T21:13:18Z

I made the mistake of rewatching "She" and this came out....

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Angel runs down the street, clutching his head.

ANGEL: *Why* is this happening to me!

Kate is following in a police uniform,
with a giant spatula strapped to her back.

KATE: I threw away my femininity for my
father's sake! Won't you help me find it again!?

Jheira is following both of them on a bicycle, wearing
her tight native costume.

JHEIRA: Jheira turn nasty girls into little piles of ash!
Then Angel take Jheira on date, yes?

Drusilla is also following, wearing a leotard and trailing
rose petals.

DRUSILLA: Oh, my Angel! Can't these harridans see we're
meant to be together!? Ooooooooohohohohohohoho!

Buffy is bringing up the rear, carrying her schoolbag and
looking disgusted.

BUFFY: I don't care. I'm not jealous. At all. And if that
idiot forgets who he *really* belongs with, I'll mallet him
into *next* Tuesday!

The End.
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CORDELIA: We haven't made a profit yet this week!

Emotional response

2008-07-19T18:28:12Z

A KFC near my place has a sign that says "Free cake with 12-piece meal or more."

My visceral reaction to this is probably not what the store wants, given that I've just finished Portal.

Being Human

2008-06-29T02:42:30Z

OMG Annie is so cute!

Detailed reactions later.

Meaningless meme

2008-06-22T18:42:49Z

You are in your twenties

You can still hear reasonably well and you can play this without my old fart colleagues hearing it which makes you feel kinda good.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 15.8kHz

Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

It's off by enough that I think I must have mutant ears....

Good Idea, Bad Idea

2008-03-24T00:45:28Z

Good Idea: Watching 12 Monkeys.

Good Idea: Playing through the time-travel section of the Sailor Moon SNES RPG.

Bad Idea: Doing those two things one right after the other.

Just back from a business trip.....

2008-01-29T02:25:09Z

When you're walking back to your car,

and there's no one else in, apparently, the entire parking garage,

and the fog has infiltrated the building and is swirling volumetrically around the lamps,

and your car windows are misted over so you can't really see inside.....

These are the moments when you try really, really hard to remember if you've pissed off anyone at Konami recently.

Train of thought.....

2008-01-11T01:59:27Z

Triggered by reading a discussion of "Southern heritage." To wit:

Do we ride around in carriages pulled by gasoline-powered robot horses? NO.

Will the toilets of 2107 be cleaned by humanoid robots with scrub-brushes and Clorox? DOUBTFUL.

Has horse-handling as a skill-set gone from "common as dirt" to "rare and valuable"? YES.

Will the same thing happen to janitorial skills? UHHHHH......

...which is where the train derailed. But thinking about some of the stuff I've had to do to take care
of the electronics in my office, I suspect "keeping the important stuff clean" will be folded into the
larger set of tech-caretaking skills. Non-important stuff will presumably be made of materials
that can either clean themselves, or shed the dirt in a form that's easily scooped up
by a Roomba-equivalent.

Any thoughts?

Dream stuff

2008-01-10T02:25:57Z

Hmmm. Looking around LJ it seems quite a few people had really freaky dreams last night. I don't usually remember my dreams, but I do remember one from just before I woke up that seems to(barely) qualify for the theme:

I was back in high school - not the school I actually went to but some place I've never seen. And I was getting hassled by the principal because It was my first day, and I'd accidentally started a racing game on one of the school computers and I couldn't break out of it. After he left, I distinctly heard myself think, "How can I be back in high school when I remember graduating college?" So that took the tension level way down. I think that was where I woke up, though.

Weird pairings

2007-12-31T04:19:58Z

I've been messing around with the Random Pairing Generator

and here are some examples and commentary

Anya (BtVS)/Susan (Chronicles of Narnia)
-This seems to have some possibilities, possibly talking about lost glories.
It would probably depend on where each of them was in their personal timelines.

Light Yagami (Death Note)/The Devil (Sinfest)
-I haven't read a lot of Sinfest, but I've got the impression the Devil there is fairly
mild-mannered, which means Light would scare the Hell out of him.

Claude Monet (painter)/Rufus (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure)
-The scary part is, this is entirely possible within Bill and Ted continuity.

Lyra Belacqua (His Dark Materials)/Ashton (Star Ocean 2)
-Good God. Poor Ashton would be even more doomed then usual.

Cleopatra/Hercules (HtLJ)
-Wait, isn't that canon?

Media (American Gods)/Wonder Woman
-.....Y'know, I can see how this could be mind-boggling cool, but only if a writer like Rucka or Gaiman was writing it..

Mamoru (Sailor Moon)/Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls)
-...I dont think he's into girls that young.

Captain James T Kirk/Barbossa (PotC)
-OK, my brain is officially broken. G'night all.</div>

Tis the season.....

2007-12-25T17:07:16Z

To all who read this, now and in the future:
Merry Chistmas and Happy Holidays.

Memesheepery

2007-12-25T04:29:57Z

	I received 71 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds Quiz How much of a Sci-Fi geek are you?
Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz canon s5 is

First!

2007-12-17T01:05:52Z

Hallo, all. Since they say you need to write a million words of crap before you become a decent writer, I hope to get a good chunk of that out here. So some day there will be fannish posts, meta posts, and maybe even fic. But this is not that day.