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| 2009-07-10 00:01 |
| Needz Moar Robotickz |
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| computer, full frontal nerdity, games, gaming, gundam, robotech, robots, video, video games, violence, war, weapons, youtube |
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( Insanity Way Beyond My Budget And Tech Support )
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I'm too old to believe in ideals, especially with regard to how they may apply to me.
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I really like Texas Toast. I hate that the toaster we have isn't big enough to handle Texas Toast-size slices of bread. So I'd been searching for a way to fix Texas Toast with the kitchen hardware we have.
The George Foreman grill can do it, but not particularly efficiently and sometimes is messy.
So there's the oven's broiler setting. But how do I butter BOTH sides of the slice and broil it and not make a mess?
Solution came the other day. We have these nice old sturdy saucers we hardly ever use. The saucers are of a size that when I lay a slice of bread on it, it holds it up by its CORNERS. Set the saucers on a cookie sheet, put the bi-buttered Texas Toast slices on the saucers, broil one side, flip the bread!--broil the other side!
First batch at dinner came out just the way we wanted. So now I'm telling the World.
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The Carbon Motors E7--the first vehicle designed from the wheels up for law enforcement operations. Expected to go into production for the 2012 model year.
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| 2009-07-08 01:01 |
| Old & Young |
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| age, astrology, childhood, horoscope, maturity, the future, time, weirdness, what do you have to say?, who am i, zodiac |
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of July 9, 2009
In the Middle Ages, people became adults when they turned seven years old. These days, the threshold is much later. I'm happy about that. In my view, the longer you can hold on to your playful irreverence and innocent lust for life, the better. Still, there is value in taking on the kinds of responsibilities that help you express yourself with grace and power. So I don't mean to rush you, but it might be time to take a step towards being on the verge of tiptoeing to the brink of preparing to accept more adulthood into your heart. You could make the process less harrowing by hanging out with those rare wise guys and wise girrrls who've survived the transition to greater maturity and a higher degree of professionalism with their youthful flair more or less intact.
And again, the endemic Bierce weirdness in my character shows through, as when I was in childhood, I had relatively little "playful irreverence" and "innocent lust for life" (at least, compared to my sister, my brother and many of my peers) and somewhat loathed my childish side, attempting to cultivate the veneer of seriousness and maturity that allegedly came with my intelligence and introversion. But then when I got to majority age, I was so disenchanted with the adult world (growing up in a retirement community will do that to you very quickly!) that "grow up at your own risk" became my motto. I don't have the "keep up with the Jones" mindset or career. I don't belong to the world of adults or the world of the young as such. Add to that the warpage of generational roles because of that multitude of Baby Boomers who refuse to "act their age" and what have we got?
And Time Won't Give Me Time...
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Yahoo!Local. Their headlines (for my account) include the main Knoxville paper's and all three TV news outlets (CBS, ABC/FOX, and NBC/CW).
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Dad returned to Rather Manor at 3PM. The surgery to reopen his esophagus was successful, tho' he'll be mostly on a liquid diet for a while. He is eating some solid food, however.
Thanks for all your prayers and well-wishes.
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Western Communists Who Went The "Other" Direction Through The Iron Curtain.
I always wondered what happened to Dean Reed, the "Red Elvis". He was an American rock musician who went Communist, moved to East Germany and became a big star--partly by playing villainous CIA agents in propaganda movies. 60 Minutes did a profile on him back in the Seventies or Eighties...
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Luckily I can get this out while it's still fresh and undo its crazy before it gets too far in my mind.
Somebody recorded a funk/novelty song titled "Feed Those Babies". The video tried to be cute and kid-friendly, but came across as pedophilic near-pr0n. It didn't help matters that Oprah Winfrey debuted it on her show before actually watching it herself.
I only saw about twenty or thirty seconds of it before my mind "switched channels" and woke me up.
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( Family Health Problems That May Be TMI )
The crisis isn't as awful as I'd dreaded, but it is still fairly awful. Nobody should spend a holiday Sunday this way.
PS: Mum and I went back to see Dad around quarter to Ten this evening. He went through his surgery well enough, but is staying at the hospital overnight. And Mum and I will go back tomorrow to (if all goes well), pick him up and take him home to convalesce.
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A neighbor gave us an old TV set a couple weeks ago.
Now my brother is taking it back to his place.
I suppose we shall persevere in our efforts to tame the wild VHS/DVD combo unit.
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Yeah, if there are two blokes on my Friends list that are likely to p!mpsmack each other, it would be ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) _eljefe_ and cyclophile. I just hope they'd buy each other beer and sandwiches after the dust settles.
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Two major problems with the VCR/DVD combo Dad bought sight unseen:
1) The DVD tray refuses to open.
2) The VCR unit has no Tracking control whatsoever. It'll play commercial tapes without a problem, but if we try to playback the content we recorded ourselves it comes out all fuzzy and warbly and there's no way to compensate.
Now, recopying old commercial VHS tapes to DVD is not only legally dubious, it's inefficient, problematic and pennywise/pound-foolish.
I'm advising Dad to send it back and get back his money. Dunno if he'll take my advice now.
PS: He somehow got the tray to open, but he never let me figure out if the DVD deck could playback because he very stupidly rigged it to our TV/DVD combo unit, which accepts the same REMOTE CONTROL inputs. Try to tell one to play a disk, you tell BOTH to play. Which means we can't use that TV as a display. I rigged the VCR/DVD combo to another TV, but can't duplicate his result of opening the DVD tray.
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