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November 8th, 2009
November 7th, 2009
bandicoot
 | 06:34 pm - Bush Visits Ft. Hood, Obama Visits Camp David
The plan was to spend the afternoon reloading, but I got sidetracked and instead spent time researching soundproofing. I'm going to design some soundproofing for the closed end of the rifle house at the range to try to reduce the amount of noise projected across the valley, and I want to get the most bang for the buck and not have to do it over. I got lots of info that I need to digest enough to ask intelligent questions at a soundproofing forum.
Santa Cruz is hosting the annual Cold Water Classic this weekend. There are 20 foot swells, so surfing is really, really good. They're down to 8 surfers for tomorrow.
Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) heypete - Where's My Cell Phone? The website will call the number you input so you can hear your missing cell ring. Neato!
Via I don't remember who - Dial A Human - how to get a human instead of an automated menu at a list of national companies.
And, finally, The Average color of the Universe.
Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Eagles - Busy Being Fabulous
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davmoo
 | 07:10 pm
Damn...its still a month and three quarters away and I'm already getting Commerce Day ads in the papers and they're playing Commerce Day music in the stores.
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suggestions
[kinvore]
 | 04:25 pm - Deleting comments in communities
Title
Deleting comments in communities Short, concise description of the idea
Have the ability to keep members from deleting comments of others in communities. Full description of the idea
As a moderator of a fairly active political discussion community, at times I've had to threaten bans and the like for people deleting the comments of others. Can we (or do we) have a setting that makes it impossible for non-admin members to delete someone else's comments? An ordered list of benefits
- Will keep people from censoring others, leave that to the mods. ;)
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
- If someone trolls a thread then the community would have to wait until an admin addresses the offending comment.
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slawson01
 | 02:44 pm - WOOT!
I just got off the scale. I've lost another 10 pounds so that puts me down 65 pounds since I started in the third week of August.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/punquinheads/blue/hyper.gif) energetic
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rural_ruin
[linda_joyce]
 | 12:53 pm - St. Lukes Church Abercarn(UK)
I know this ruin well as I attended the church as a child. It is on the mountain side above and outside the village of Abercarn, Gwent I had hoped to get closer but the first picture and the close up of the tower were taken from outside a locked and chained high gate. The front view is taken from the main steps up to the church which have been mined out by locals wanting good stone for patios and walls. The windows, all of which were Victorian/Edwardian stained glass were removed and put into a near by less isolated church that had no stained glass.
( Read more... )
Current Mood: sad
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stmachiavelli
 | 04:13 am
We've been looking at getting a new family pet. I've been home just over two months now and I miss Nikitia...a lot...and the lizard my kids found just isn't the same. Now, one of the things we loved about Nikita was her temperament and we'd like to find another Malamute (or Husky if it comes to that) with a similar attitude and personality.
One way of doing that is to find one of similar breeding, preferably from the same line. We however, haven't been able to track the breeders down, it seems their paperwork was misplaced in the move, or is sitting in a file folder at an undisclosed location with the Vice President. To that end, we've been calling breeders in Utah asking if any of them could help us out in tracking another maly with similar linage down.
One of the breeders, let me start off by saying she was very helpful before I continue. She went out of her way, spending throughout the course of the day almost two hours on the phone with me, and another hour or two doing researching. That said, she was one of the most condescending people I've ever had the misfortune of running across. Not to me so much but to the people who bred Nikita. She kept calling them "backyard breeders" with a tone of such disparagement and contempt that I thought the phone was going to dissolve.
Then when she found out they weren't "backyard breeders" (or at least we can infer they weren't), she was positively acidic because they didn't breed show dogs. They bred sled/working dogs, or at least that is what her database told her. Which matches what we remember about the dogs at their place.
Unfortunately, the contact information in her database did not contain contact information for these guys. Her husband believes they may have moved to Australia about five years ago, and according to her this would seem about right because about that time those malys of similar linage disappear from her records (the database she was referring to was a record of all competitions, (including “shows and working dog”) and their results in Utah).
Which is very disappointing.
So now we are looking into local rescues, because there is no sense in dealing with the breeders if we aren't going to show, and I have no desire to get a puppy from a puppy mill just to have a puppy. A younger maly, one that can be trained and brought into the family will work just as well.
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davmoo
| 12:46 am
Just got back from a quick run to Walmart, where besides shopping for dog food and cat food, I looked at a Droid "in the flesh". I'm even more happy now that I did not jump for a Droid. The keyboard, in my opinion, absolutely sucks. No real tactile feel at all. I like the keyboard on my enV2 *much* more.
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November 6th, 2009
bandicoot
 | 07:17 pm - This Journal Now With Certified Lower Emissions!
I made a most excellent pizza tonight. I think it turned out so well because this time I actually remembered to preheat the oven first. Yum!
But before I did that, I had to replace the float valve on the toilet. Thanks to my very hard water, everything that sits in water for any length of time gets coated with calcium deposits. Like the inside of the water heater. The float valve is plastic, which helps, but the float was starting to stick and the actuating lever wasn't doing much better. I couldn't get the top off so I could take it apart and clean it, which is all it needed. Since I had a spare on hand, I just replaced it. Even out of the toilet tank, it was really hard to get the top off, but when I did, it cleaned up pretty easily. The guts are nicely self-cleaning, but everything outside gets plated with calcium until the working parts don't want to work anymore. With a new rubber washer, it'll be good to use again.
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Richard Thompson - Tear Stained Letter
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slawson01
| 10:16 pm - WOOT!
The Pixies are on Conan O'Brien tonight.
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davmoo
| 07:42 pm
I looked seriously at buying a Verizon (Motorola) Droid today.
I'm not eligible for a subsidized upgrade until June. The full retail price of the Droid handset is $599. I've bought perfectly functional cars for less than that. So not gonna pay that.
I then looked at the idea of upgrading my current plan from a single plan to a family plan and then add a line for $10. That would get me the Droid (as the added line) for $199 just like a new customer. It would also get me yet another cellphone number that I won't really use (keep in mind I already have one that only my mother calls, and then only maybe two or three times a month, and then only to say "I need to talk to you, its important enough that I woke you up, call me back from your regular phone"). And going from the single plan to a family plan would increase my bill $20 a month, then add another $10 a month to put on the second line. Plus I'd have to add on a data and email plan for another $30 a month (I currently get those for free because I'm on a grandfathered plan that is no longer offered new...if I sign a new contract, I lose that). And don't forget this would start that two-year clock ticking again. In the end I'd be paying an additional $60 a month for the next 24 months over what I pay now all to get a phone I really don't need in the first place for $199.
So after thinking about this while eating dinner, thankfully I came to my fucking senses and decided to pass, realizing that the above paragraph is something only an Apple fanboi would do to get an iPhone.. June is only 7 months and some away. That gives time for the bugs to shake out and for everyone else to be the guinea pigs. Plus Verizon has a very long and very rich history of crippling their handsets...just ask anyone who bought a Razr through Verizon and thought they were going to transfer photos to their computer without having to use Verizon's service for what was then 25 cents a photo. We already know that multi-touch isn't turned on although the phone is multi-touch capable, and teathering won't be allowed until "sometime next year". Waiting lets me find out what else was crippled, and how hard it is to hack it to uncripple it.
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bandicoot
| 01:33 pm - Situational Awareness
When I'm walking down a sidewalk where cars are exiting, I never walk in front of one unless I have eye contact with the driver so I can be sure they know I'm there. Even then, I don't walk in front of them unless they're still coming up to the sidewalk - otherwise, I just go around the back so they aren't impeded from entering traffic.
A few years ago in Santa Cruz by the Cooper House, I was already in the crosswalk when a car whose driver wasn't even looking was about to run me down. I deliberately rolled across his hood as if he'd hit me, which amused me greatly and horrified him. I'm not sure I'm that limber anymore, though.
Today I was heading for the bank when a car came out of their driveway. I couldn't get eye contact with the driver, because she was looking at the cell phone in her lap and TEXTING! So I stopped before she could run me over, and when she finally did stop - completely across the sidewalk, and still completely unaware of me - I whapped her passenger side door very hard with the back of my hand. She jumped and was a veritable whirl of apologetic and sheepish hand motions. I refrained from whapping her trunk lid as I walked around the back. Barely ;p
I have this theory that any cell phone that's on should automatically self-destruct whenever it enters the interior of a vehicle, or a movie theater, or a restaurant, or if some irritated passerby just pushes a button ;p
There was just enough on and off very, very light misty rain today for me to be able to do some nice (and very well controlled) 4 wheel drifts going up the hill. Sometimes I miss driving on snow and ice. Not very often, but sometimes ;)
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Austin Lounge Lizards - Too Big To Fail
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abandonedplaces
[myxa666]
 | 08:27 pm - Заброшки Питера и Лен.Области
Поскольку иногда в поездки по заброшкам мы берём с собой видеокамеру, то у нас помимо фотографий сохраняются и видеоматериалы. Представляю вашему вниманию небольшой видеоролик, в котором использованы фрагменты наших поездок по заброшенным местам Питера и Лен.Области. Называть объекты не буду, но здесь их достаточно много.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/charitycam/blackbox/artistic.gif) creative
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