I guess I think I know these people

: dwarf74; July 19th, 10:03

So I figure I should. I don't even read this much anymore, I'm sad to say. I had no idea how much Facebook would pretty much snag all of my social networking stuff.

Anyway, the big news is that Kelly and I are having a baby. :) Due date is 2/26/09, and we're thrilled. We went to the ob/gyn on Friday, and got to see the adorable little blob, with a quickly beating heart. Just seeing the heartbeat was pretty amazing. We also got to take home blob pictures - one of our blob, and another of our blob AND a string AND another little circle, this one being the yolk. :)

So yeah. We broke the news to our families a few weeks ago, and made it public Friday night.

We're pretty thrilled! I can't promise I'll stop neglecting LJ, but I wanted to post something here, too. Just because this is more journal-y I guess. :)

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: tejolote; July 19th, 2:15

I volunteered for Three Dollar Bill in Cal Anderson Park last night. The Movie Playing was Little Darlings, and I had a blast. I sold concessions while the move played, and helped clean up afterward and it was really a lot of fun. This is the lineup for the rest of the free summer movies.

I've been going to gay film festivals for more than ten years, but this is the first time I've volunteered. I'm definitely going to do it again.

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Spatters of Fat

: tejolote; July 19th, 1:59

Chicken breast, rent of its ribs, spattered into hot cast iron on a slick of olive oil and left to crisp while I quartered purple potatoes and carrots and shallots. The vegetables I precooked for five minutes in the microwave, and just as the chicken developed a delectable crust, I picked it up and shoved the vegetables under it. I added a bit more oil and popped it in the oven with salt and pepper, to cook for 15 minutes at 350.

I wiped down the spatters of chicken fat that covered everything in a two foot radius, and then I mixed oil, lemon juice, and fresh thyme from my herb pots along with some salt and pepper flakes, and minced garlic. Then I went and sat and got high on the smell of chicken skin and fat, and vegetables carmelizing, flavor bursting forth in air molecules all over the house. High.

When the chicken was done I poured the oil, herb, and lemon juice mix over all, and ate.

Now, just now I've made three different types of pesto: two are close to the usual, and one is a tomato pesto,. Two hours fiddling in the kitchen, making chicken stock out of the discarded ribs, and older veggies, running the mini food processor at two a.m., whirling from station to station, a bit manic.

In the new apartment I must be quiet. Some below, some above, some on every side. In this burrow I must be still, no food processing at ten or midnight or two a.m. No working the saw, no painting in this new place. My hours are given to me, doled out, I must relearn acceptable behaviour.

Mania pulls at me tonight, begging me to use the house, touch it, live in it in ways I will always miss. I love this house. I wanted to live here forever. Or at least until Seattle. It isn't fair, it was mine. I loved it.

Love is never. Ever. a good idea.

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: ladyofthemasque; July 18th, 22:42

This rant is aimed at EVERYONE and NO ONE. ( Beware, for the path you are traveling may lead to your certain doom...or at least a foaming-mouthed yell at everyone/no one. )

Edit to Add:

After my rant, and my bubble bath (sea salts, calgon, shampoo for bubble bath, and "kamasutra art" perfume), and then watching Mr. & Mrs. Smith (a very good movie, sort of a combination action thriller and romantic comedy, perfect for guys and gals both, particularly when watching it together), I feel a lot better...

~Lotm
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: ladyofthemasque; July 18th, 2:27

The latest ongoing twist in the evilness inflicting my computer...

My computer can't find my G:/

That's the one with the DVD player. I was going to watch a movie tonight (the first in a long time, since I finally felt like watching one)...but no go. No DVD player, no DVD, no movie, no nothin'.

*headdesk*

*whimper*

~Lotm

Disaster Voyeurism

: xkcd_rss; July 17th, 4:00

http://xkcd.com/611/

Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 and 1938, with hastily-tacked-on notes about how it will be tragic if anyone dies and they hope it's a dud.

karst

: wordsmith_daily; July 17th, 18:34

http://wordsmith.org/words/karst.html

An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinks, etc.

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DORK TOWER, Friday, July 17, 2009 - Twit Across The Waters

: dorktowerfeed; July 17th, 9:00

http://www.dorktower.com/2009/07/17/dork-tower-friday-july-17-2009-twit-across-the-waters/

http://www.dorktower.com/?p=3931

Super Happy Robot Cartoon Twitter Britain Fun Hour

DORK ADDENDA: Yes, I realize Matt’s Tweet is longer than 140 characters. Let’s just suspend disbelief and say he doesn’t actually Tweet the ellipses that drives the timing between panels 3 and 4, shall we.

Girl Genius for Friday, July 17, 2009

: girlgenius_feed; July 17th, 4:00

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090717

The Girl Genius comic for Friday, July 17, 2009 has been posted.

Lime (Linden) trees

: fivestep wrote in denmark; July 17th, 9:46

Current Location:: Kolding, DK-6000, Denmark

Current Mood:: curious

Summer in Kolding, f11, 1/90, ISO100, 35mm

Hvordan er dette træ kaldes på dansk? Det minder mig om min barndom. De er også fælles i midten af Rusland.

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Tags: billeder / pictures, natur / nature

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: billazilla; July 16th, 20:17

Current Mood:: full

Tonight's dinner was: Welsh Rarebit with spinach & chicken salad! YAAAAY!!

Pretty good, actually, but I was expecting the rarebit to be spicier. I suppose I can throw a little more hot sauce into it next time.

Tags: food

Why women don't like Unix

: perial; July 16th, 15:04

$ man women
No manual entry for women

Tags: joke, manpage, sex, unix, women

Release #51

: marta wrote in lj_releases; July 15th, 17:59

Current Mood:: indescribable

New Features:

Added optional location identification when creating a new entry or editing an old one. The user can push the “detect” button and it will automatically fill in general location based on IP. For more detailed location Google Gears, Wi2Geo, or a Wi-Fi connection is required.
Paid users can now create a nickname or "Note" which only they will see when viewing the "lj user" tag or when viewing the other user's profile.
Pingbacks will now be enabled for Basic and Plus accounts. Pingbacks are currently only available for use for LiveJournal entries and links; external pingbacks have been disabled until they're able to be used correctly (we're waiting for other pingback-enabled sites to upgrade to the newest version).

Bug fixes:

Cyrillic MSN interstitial disabled for Opera users
Improved performance of admin/schools/pending.bml so that it should no longer time out when called with arguments (LJSV-653)
Made all content on create.bml https instead of mixed secure/insecure content
Fixed bug that prevents some users from accessing their message center inbox (LJSV-351)
Fixed bug that incorrectly routes http requests with a trailing period after livejournal.com
Updated http://www.livejournal.com/bots to point to the current atom stream at http://atom.services.livejournal.com/atom-stream.xml
Corrected typo on sponsor.bml page (LJSV-632)
Made change to handling of javascript/html cleaner

Enhancements:

Embedded videos now show up correctly when viewing entries in a moderated community queue (LJSV-363)
A community maintainer can now see if an entry is marked explicit while it is still in the moderation queue (LJSV-617)
Changed the MSN icon and alt-text in user's profile
Video placeholders now have an alt tag for accessibility

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: fairgoldberry; July 15th, 13:27

When I was in college, I took a class on Advanced Topics in Human Sexuality (this was around 1993 or 1994). It was through the Honors College and the psych department, and it was a small class (less than 15 students) with the same professor I'd had for my Intro to Human Sexuality course. We met once a week and talked a lot about the sociology and psychology of sex. It was, for the most part, incredibly interesting.

( Long post about cyber-stalking, sexual assault, bullying, and facebook...(may trigger) )
I love you all, real or not.

DORK TOWER, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Twitter Spamwich

: dorktowerfeed; July 15th, 9:00

http://www.dorktower.com/2009/07/15/dork-tower-wednesday-july-15-2009-twitter-spamwich/

http://www.dorktower.com/?p=3929

Super Happy Robot Cartoon Twitter Spam Fun Hour

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: tejolote; July 15th, 1:51

Oh my GOD. Gentrified beyond compare. The 2nd to last place I lived before I left Dallas is this place. I won't even tell you how ludicrously cheap it was. God, those were good times.

There were a bunch of crazy ladies in their forties and fifties in those condos who would get together and swim, and one of them used to chase the dogs down and throw them in the pool. The poor mutts would run like crazy when they saw her coming. I was friends with a couple of cool women in the complex, and on at least one occasion staggered home across from someone else's house without my shoes, insensible to the fact that I was barefoot. My roommate went and ruined some of that camaraderie when he hit on one of my friends. Ah, crazy times. I drove an old Celica and almost gave myself heatstroke a few times, waxing it in Dallas midsummer.

You notice that it's gated? It was then too. I ripped my shirt off one night and waved it just outside the gate to get an acquaintance's attention when they were trying to find it after a party one night.

Sweet Holly Hill. Skylights and far more trees than most places in Dallas.

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Dallas

: tejolote; July 15th, 1:38

For the record, almost ten years ago I was paying $525 for a one bedroom with gated parking and w/d hookups in a six-apartment building. That was an increase over what I had been paying because I had chosen to move to small building with a brand new interior in a newly gentrifying part of town to be closer to work and within walking distance of where the gay & lesbian film festival was held every year.

This is a sample of what's available now.