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I just heard the most bizarre radio commercial. The short version was "Have you seen all these ads for male enlargement pills, who believes these? There is no way a pill is going to make you bigger. So you should use Maximus topical cream, if used for the full 8-week course it'll make your member thicker and larger."

It was like some sort of bizarre meta spam.

Just to make it weirder the phrase "Use it or lose it" was repeated at least four times in the spot, but didn't seem to have any real connection to what was being said/sold.

   Today's Card


  Owl - Owl teaches us to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Owl uses the "disadvantage" of twilight to swoop down on unsuspecting prey. Twlight has been called owl-light. Quiet walks in the woods are an excellent way to develop your other sight and you may feel drawn to explore some sort of clairvoyancy.



as always thought provoking.

Last week miashell asked for movie suggestions to raise her geek points. A few people threw their suggestions into a hat and then dasade was nice enough to put them all into a neat little list for us to use.

So Bold the ones you have seen, underline the ones you own and put quotation marks around the ones you can quote lines from


2001
2010
12 Monkeys
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
A Boy And His Dog
A Clockwork Orange
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Aliens 3
Aliens 4
Altered States
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda Strain
Anything by Ray Harrihausen
Army of Darkness
Babylon 5 (The TV Series)
Barberella
Big Trouble In Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Blood Beach
Brazil
BSG 1985 (The TV Series)
BSG New Series (The TV Series)
BSG TOS (The TV Series)
Buck Rogers
Buckaroo Banzai
Carrie
Children Of The Corn
City of Lost Children
Close Encounters
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Dark City
Dawn of the Dead
Deathrace 2000
Def Con 4
Delicatessen
"Doctor Strangelove"
"Donnie Darko"
"Dr. Who - Post 2005 (The TV Series)"
"Dr. Who - Pre 2005 (The TV Series)"
Dreamscape
Dune
Earth Girls Are Easy
Earthquake
Ed Wood
Enemy Mine
Escape from LA
Escape from New York
Fahrenheit 451
Farscape (The TV Series)
Firefly
Forbidden Planet
Frankenstien
Galaxy quest
Gamera
Gattica
Ghost in the Shell (specifically the original movie - then maybe the rest)
Ghostbusters
Godzilla
Hercules (The TV Series)
Highlander (the movie)
Highlander (the tv series)
Indiana Jones trilogy
Innerspace
Interstella 5555
Invaders from Mars
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the orignal)
It
It Came From Outer Space
Jason and the Argonauts
Johnny Mneumonic
Journey to the Center of the Earth or any original version of a Jules Vern book
Jurrasic Park
just about any Mystery Science Theater 3000
kaiju (Japanese rubbersuit monster movies - Godzilla, Gamera, et al)
Last Man on Earth
Lexx (The TV Series)
"Logan's Run"
Lone Gunman (The TV Series)
Lost in Space (TV)
"Matrix"
Maximum Overdrive
Men In Black
Metropolis (the anime version)
Metropolis (the original)
Minority Report
Night of the Comet
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu (the silent version)
Odessy 5
Outland
Panic In The Year Zero
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Planet of the Apes - ALL - not the new version
Re-animator
Red Dwarf (The TV Series)
Repo Man
Robocop
Rollerball (the original)
Salem's Lot
Santa Claus vs. the Martians
Screamers
"Serenity (The TV Series)"
Signs
Sleeper
Solaris (Russian Version)
Soylent Green
Space 1999
Spirited Away
Star Trek - DS9 (The TV Series)
Star Trek TOS (The TV Series)
Star Wars (original trilogy)
StarGate (the movie)
StarGate (the tv series)
Starman
Superman (original)
Terminator
The Abyss
The Big Lebowski
The Black Hole
The Bride of Frankenstien
The China Syndrome
The Cube
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Flight of The Navigator
The Fly
The Invisible Man
The Last Starfighter
The Lost Boys
Mad Max
The Road Warrior (Mad Max Movie)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Marix
The Omega Man
The Poseidon Adventure
The Running Man
The Shining
The Thing (The Original)
The Wraith
Them
Time Bandits
Torchwood (The TV Series)
Towering Inferno
Tron
Twilight Zone TOS (The TV Series)
V (The TV Series)
Valley of the Gwangi
Videodrone
War of the Worlds (the original)
Westworld
When Worlds Collide
X Men
Xena (The TV Series)
Xfiles (The TV Series)
Young Frankenstien
Zardoz

It's a good thing I have only had one cup of coffee today or I might be IRRITABLE!!!

Power was on. The breakers were all switched off, which the very nice lady told me they'd called to tell me yesterday. See previous post for phone's not terribly useful location. But all is well- we have ceiling fans! and soon, an air conditioner. Also, our power is made by COWS. (Also wind, solar and hydro... but none of those are as amusing as COWS.) Basement is ubercreepy, with a dirt floor and motion detector lighting.

Also, we are resolved that the next time we move, it will not be until we can afford to pay strapping young men to do all of it for us. Because omg ow.

(I should retitle this icon to the Frozen Fuckin' North... or make a new one.)

Entire truck's worth of crap has been schlepped to the third floor with the assistance of my aunt Lizard. (Not her real name. Duh.)

Bed: assembled.
Power: not on.
ursamajorra: bleeding ever so slightly.
Dinner: delivery!
Cell phone: gone missing somewhere in Coventry. (See power: not on.)

We can has home. :)

Stolen from damn near everywhere:

Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.

See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.

1) Found over 700 geocaches.

2) Played a pick-up game of basketball on the parquet floor of the old Boston Garden.

3) Worked for a summer in a plywood manufacturing factory.

Just got home from the movie theater where we saw Wall-E. Pixar has hit another home run with this one. If you haven't already seen it, bump Wall-E to the top of your must-see list.

My card today

Butterfly (NA) Butterfly today is telling you there is transformation coming. Take a look at where you are in the cycle to determine where you need to go. As a creature of air Butterfly is here to help you by bringing mental clarity to your journey.
ask yourself -

Is this the egg stage? - a thought or idea?
Is it the larva stage? - Do I need to make a decision?
Is it the cocoon stage? - What are you doing to make your decision a reality?
Is it the birth stage? - Is it a compete idea?

When you know where you are you can decide where to go.



This coupled with last week's Hare makes me think I need to get off my ass about something. Now I just need to figure out what....so many choices.

In the past two months, pinksbrat and I have visited NYC twice. The first trip is well documented here in her journal. I was incredibly lazy (from a journaling perspective) and failed to make my own post. That will be rectified here.

In my typical style for a post about a trip, we'll do this bullet-style: ( Cut because I love... )

Confidential to elfbride-

You have a little red wagon that goes and stops, and even talks to the computer. It took the resident paper wasps and your brother out for a drive around the block just now. Needs some assorted* parts, a radio, and a lit match some Srs Cleanings. We saved you the engine mount bolts to tighten down. :D





*Throttle body, a power steering pump within the next month, an oxygen sensor relay, and crankcase breather. Retail value, $1000, but this fabulous showcase can be yours for several months of combing swap meets.

We had a lovely ceremony: an air conditioned high school auditorium (what is this crap? in my day we had to sweat on the bleachers, by god) and no student speakers. ;) The boys approved of the ultimate hair choice- green tips on very light blonde- after conceding that perhaps a rose dress, pink shoes, and a faint sunburn topped off with pink hair might be a leeeeeetle much. I also found a green crocheted cardigan last minute, because why wear strapless if you're not going to turn around and cover your shoulders anyway, right?

I also won the department award, a Very Big Certificate and a set of nut drivers in useful sizes. I'm not sure if the prize was selected before or after they knew who won it, but I've borrowed them from every teacher we've had since the set we got in the student boxes is the 4 sizes nobody ever needs. I laughed when I opened it. Poor Electronics Dude, who confessed to a fear of public speaking first mod, drew the short straw and had to introduce the staff and award the prize, but he didn't pass out.

Did not get the Director's Award despite the boys all being convinced I had it in the bag. I'm not surprised by that, as I might get good grades and know how to hang onto a job, but I am not a model student by Baran standards. Might have something to do with the hour I spent trying to find the blue I was told I couldn't have in my hair way back in first mod. Maybe.

Now I just go back for 4 days and pick the brains of the HVAC guy that is our new new teacher. Other than the one test we have to take, it's more or less going to be a "show up and be the last one standing to leave" kind of week as far as school is concerned. Too bad the afternoons will be filled with moving.

Some of you may remember the Geohashing XKCD strip from last month. The whole point was randomly generating a set of latitude & longitude co-ordinates for any given day. The saturdcay locations are supposed to be the location of a meetup at 4pm.

Well I've decided to try tomorrow to hit four different sets of co-ordinates in one day, western CT, central CT, central MA and ending up at the Boston co-ordinates hopefully just in time for the 4pm meetup.

I'm going to have to start out pretty early, as I'll have about 7hours & 300miles of driving to accomplish it. But if nothing else it should be entertaining to try.

Best part? I don't even have a GPS, I'm finding these based on google maps alone.

Lust!

I just want to buy that old Buick, and drive it the way it looks, it is beautiful just as it sits.

So this morning on the Today show Kathy Lee made a major mistake. She managed to make a blanket statement of "Those nasty bad Pagans" when she was was doing a question show segment. Now, I'm not that offended really because she said it in a joking manner, but I do think that she should have more then just a slap on the wrist. If she had said "Those nasty bad Jews" or "Those nasty bad Muslims" she would be in a hell of a lot more trouble then she is in now I guarantee it. I certainly hope the producers of the Today show read every single email, listen to every single call, and take this matter seriously. The fact is that in this day in age a simple tongue-in-cheek comment like that just isn't appropriate.

Things that would be useful right now:
Showercap
Misting water bottle

Things I have:

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You would think after 20 years of doing it, I'd think to gather all the supplies I need for a hair project. Ah well. Here's your chance to vote!

Poll #1211034 bleach baby
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What color should I dye my hair for graduation?

Feel free to elaborate on "some subset thereof" in comments- green bangs, pink hair? Faint tinges of lime green over white blonde? A pink mohawk? You know I'll try anything twice. ;)