dmose's Friends
[Most Recent Entries]
[Calendar View]
[Friends View]
Below are the most recent 25 friends' journal entries.
[ << Previous 25 ]
| Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
jorm
|
1:02p |
Bah.
My plans for the evening just got canceled. |
jorm
|
12:17p |
|
exoskeleton
|
12:15a |
|
exoskeleton
|
12:12a |
|
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
jorm
|
11:23p |
Goddammit.
I have to read Watchmen again.
And I just re-read it like, last month. |
g_na
|
7:29p |
Help me Lazyweb, you're my only hope Something strange has happened with my Canon 5D. Yesterday I was using it and it was fine, and took several RAW+jpg shots. Today I used it and it took only jpg shots. I looked at the menu, and it only offers me choices for different levels of jpg resolution; the whole 2nd side of the menu, the RAW+jpg side, is missing. Everything is the same: same lens, same battery (I took it out & replaced it, just in case), same CF card (I took it out, replaced it, and then reformatted it - no change). Has anyone heard of this before? Any idea how to fix it, short of sending it to Canon? Current Mood:  annoyed |
jorm
|
5:40p |
Respect.
|
jorm
|
2:59p |
Sanity Blasting Chaos Hee.  |
mandy_moon
|
1:41p |
Oh wow, what a nice week for celebrating life! Happy birthday to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) shaxxon and starflow! Wheee! You both need to have a cookout so I can bring my sparklers. I have all these boxes of them but rarely get an occasion to use them! And for anyone reading who doesn't know these fine ladies and needs something else nice to look at, here's this news article that I enjoyed. Wiccan woman was casting a circle and stabbed herself in the foot with her spell-casting dagger. She was casting a spell thanking the Goddess for good luck. I think it means that Jesus hates her. So does Krishna and Isis and Tiamet and Spirit of the Great Bear and the Lords of the Zodiac. And the powers that be times three. Maybe it wasn't her fault- I guess Mercury was in retrograde that evening and that affected her coordination. |
g_na
|
7:23a |
Zzzzz Sleeping used to be one of my favourite activities. As a kid, I never wanted to get out of bed; on Christmas my mom would have to make me get up to open presents. Especially in my clubbing heyday, sleeping until noon was sheer luxury. Eventually that changed. I blame it on the time when we had a very uncomfortable (for me) bed - it hurt my back and I couldn't wait to get out of it in the morning. After a year or two of that I started to get used to the idea of mornings, and eventually came to love the fact that I basically had an entire day ahead of me! I could actually get a bunch of stuff done by the time I used to be getting up. Today I consider it "sleeping in" if I sleep past 8am, and I'm often up earlier than that, like it or not. Much of my travelling takes me to the sub-tropics and tropics, where the nights are almost as long as the days. The sun rises at 5:30 or 6am, and sets by 6:30pm or so. Because our vacation activities are mostly linked to daylight you tend to wake up with the sun. And it's then you begin to realize that the numbers on the clock are arbitrary; without a clock you tend to wake up not long after sunrise, and get tired and ready for bed a couple of hours after sunset. It feels very natural, and if you don't look at the clock, then you don't even realize you got up early. This message brought to you by the fact I woke up at six this morning, and much to my dismay, couldn't get back to sleep. Current Mood:  awake |
| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
exoskeleton
|
10:43p |
|
exoskeleton
|
10:38p |
|
bigbaldguy
|
8:13p |
4.5 True Statements, or: How Not To Blog I now believe that I have resolved conflict into a form with which I can safely engage. The film Batman Begins is the clearest possible snapshot of the state of my mind at a particular moment in my (multidimensional) timeline. I'm glad I don't have to have that experience again. I may watch the movie again sometime, though. If you ask me questions while I'm watching that movie, I might say something truly unpredictable. Read the following two lines as if they were Sufi poetry (interchangeable personas/identities). Unfortunately, a lot of what I see in the next two lines is very subjective, so you have to really get to know me if you want to appreciate this poem a little better.
i am safe and protected in many ways that you will never understand.
i cannot explain them all even to myself. help me find the way there.
To test the validity of what I've written above, I thought I'd have the following conversation this afternoon with a co-worker who also happens to be a really good friend. Try to go to a poetic space in your head when you read this.
[Me]: wanted to check if i had spilled the apple
cart on [dangerous fleabag server] this morning
[Co-worker]: sorry; didn't see this till now.
I keep switching btw my desktop and laptop
[Me]: i assumed no, and continued.
[Co-worker]: ah - I wasn't really involved in that
(other than running [random software]
for [Another co-worker])
[Co-worker]: but I seriously doubt it
[Me]: oh, ok. i don't worry about pushing
[Another co-worker]'s buttons, because [he/she/it]
so excellently pushes mine.
[Me]: but i was worried for your stability right then
[Me]: as you're leaving tomorrow and all
[Co-worker]: oh, no worries
[Me]: my gift to you and [forthcoming bride]:
[Co-worker]: I develop on
[more comfy and stable machine
that no one has yet noticed :-)] :)
[Me]: "you are both protected in ways that
i cannot possibly explain."
[Me]: i wish you a safe journey to and from
[Scary Place On Other Side Of Globe]
[Co-worker]: I'd like to get that printed
on an insurance card :)
[Me]: just say it if you feel threatened.
[Me]: remem{,e}ber that much for [Me]. :-)
[Co-worker]: you got it, and thanks :)
Current Mood:  George[tm]Current Music: DJ Olive Vs JP Dessy & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Walking Slowly from Scories |
skachick_101
|
3:07p |
nice lazy day with the boYs today has a been a fantastic day of chilling at home. Hanging on teh interwebz and chatting with peeps. Listening to music I discovered my new theme song: Just finished warping my newly repaired loom, and it seems to be holding up quite nicely. Wove while watching The Nightmare Before Christmas with my other Josh, who had never seen it before. I loves me that movie I do. A little later we will go look at paint colors to figure out what color we are painting our bedroom this weekend. That conversation will definitely be... interesting :P Current Mood:  happyCurrent Music: AC/DC - Touch Too Much |
skachick_101
|
9:40a |
super kitteh!  Current Mood:  sleepyCurrent Music: Juliette & The Licks - Death Of A Whore |
jwz
|
1:59a |
|
vsbooklady
|
1:30a |
job & stuff
I haven't been on my feet and moving this much at work since I was a waitress. That's okay, though, since I'd rather be on my feet and moving than on my feet and standing still, which is harder, and what I was doing at the pharmacy. Looks like I'll be working 4-5 days a week. Looks to me like the owner's specifically keeping people under 8 hrs a day & under 40 hrs a week to avoid some legally mandated stuff like breaks & overtime. Oh, well. It does all make me feel good about the kind of employer *I* was...
Haven't heard from Books Inc, even though the guy at the main office told me the manager of the Chestnut Street store was going to call me, so I'm going to email the main office interviewer. Also haven't heard from Wright Institute, going to email them too. Not holding out much hope for either, but don't worry, I won't let them know that.
Grumble has gotten to 6.2 without being syringe fed. If she stays this way then the next step is to try to lower the protein level in her diet.
Currently reading To the Lighthouse, which for some reason I never have read even though it's been sitting on my shelf since college. What annoying characters. They seem to be incapable of having an honest conversation or even being honest with themselves. I know that's probably the point, but it's starting to bore me. |
vsbooklady
|
1:15a |
digg me/looking for journalist brokensoldier is a frequent and intelligent commenter on Pharyngula. His story: Disabled veterans are being treated as if they are a burden on the government's checkbook, and the government is getting away with it, mainly because the situation is so far out of the public's collective eye that the military can quite effectively sweep it under the rug. read more | digg story |
| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
jwz
|
11:39p |
Fortune Seriously? That's the weak-assed shit you bring to the fortune cookie game? Seriously? 
|
exoskeleton
|
11:36p |
|
exoskeleton
|
11:34p |
|
dethtonge
|
2:46p |
Times have changed, and times are strange Wow, sure has been a long time since I posted something here! Current Mood:  calmCurrent Music: Ozzy Osbourne |
exoskeleton
|
12:13a |
|
exoskeleton
|
12:12a |
|
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 |
mandy_moon
|
6:09p |
Hi! Jon does such a better job organizing thoughts and putting a positive spin on them and making me feel better that there's not much reason for me talk about wedding-stuff. It really is overwhelming and for now I prefer to write a few posts that don't force me to have to think very hard. That is, I can just post a picture I like and that feels better. The other day I was injecting mice for this investigator and she casually started a conversation about the wedding. I think lots of people think brides like to talk about their wedding all the time, but I don't. She said "So, what does your dress look like?" I recognized that she was trying to choose a topic that I would be interested in, but it turned out that I blanked out on her question. I said- "Well...um, it's white and...it's white and it...it looks like a wedding dress." I realized what a ridiculously feeble answer this was, so I tried to continue the conversation by adding "I think just about all wedding dresses look alike anyway, more or less. They all have the same basic look." I tried to say this in an enthusiastic tone, but this conversation wasn't really going anywhere. After that we talked about what kind of cells we were injecting into the mice. I guess wedding dresses are like newborn babies- everyone knows they all look more or less alike, but to the person who owns them, it's the most incredibly gorgeous thing in the world. It's nice that way, though- it means everyone's happy with their outcome. And even if your baby has a harelip or you accidentally dragged the train of your dress through some dog shit right before the wedding, it's still a pretty ace baby or dress, right? Just needs a clean-up. Anyway, my dress really does look like a wedding dress, but it looks quite good on me. And here's a new picture for my collection of funny ads and icons I find in the lab. I love this one:  It's not entirely accurate, though. The most common inhalation anesthesia for animals is isoflurane, and that doesn't make you happy-high. All it does is give you a splitting headache. The mice don't act like they enjoy induction or recovery after iso, either. |
[ << Previous 25 ]
|
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small}
