So true. Oh so true.

On so many levels.

This looks very promising, don't you agree?

MyLife.com, formally Reunion.com decided that it was perfectly ok to steal my Yahoo e-mail address book and email every freaking person in my address book to subscribe to mylife.com.  Now I have people sending me angry e-mails (mostly from other yahoo groups or people I no longer speak to but completely forgot to remove their info out of my address book) about how they don't like spam.

Guess what?  Neither do I.  I didn't spam you.  MyLife.com decided to spam you in my name.

The result?  I am reporting them to the FTC and then I am removing all of the names they put into my contacts list on that site, then removing all my personal info on there, then removing myself off of there.

I am so f*cking pissed right now.

So for those of you on my friend list or those of you wandering over here because of getting a message to join MyLife.com, I wish to publicly apologize for getting that e-mail in the last 24 hours.

I gotta plug this really cool giveaway that staticwhite is doing! :D




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Even if you don't win the giveaway, you MUST buy something from her! She makes some damn amazing stuff!



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A red fox kit peeks out of its den at Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando on Thursday. Manager Don Price says it’s a first for the cemetery.

Hiding among the headstones are baby foxes

In Print: Monday, April 20, 2009

ORLANDO — Workers at Orlando's Greenwood Cemetery are accustomed to dealing with death. But springtime sometimes throws a curveball, even at the graveyard.

A red fox recently chose the city-owned cemetery to give birth to a litter of babies, known as kits. Workers spotted five kits romping among the headstones for the first time Wednesday. "They were all out on the grass rolling around, biting each other and playing," Greenwood sexton Don Price said.

Greenwood workers knew adult foxes visited the cemetery; automated night-vision cameras installed to watch for vandals had snapped pictures of them. But they didn't know about the kits — the first at Greenwood — until last week.

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Oh brother... the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch has shut down a British pub - no, really!

When the situation was settled, the bomb squad did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats...

Hehe!

Pub is closed by Monty Python grenade
by Tony Bassett
19.03.09

BUILDINGS were evacuated, a street was cordoned off and a bomb disposal team called in after workmen spotted a suspicious object.

But the dangerous-looking weapon turned out to be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, made famous in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

Police and a fire crew were first on the scene in Shoreditch, east London, when water company workers found a copy of the film prop under a fire hydrant cover.

They evacuated a pub and another building in Tabernacle Street, while office staff in another building were stopped from leaving.

But when the bomb squad arrived, they quickly established there was no danger and the street was declared safe. In the film, the grenade was used to slaughter a killer rabbit. Python actor Eric Idle had filmgoers in stitches as he said: "Oh Lord. Bless this hand grenade, that with it thou mayest blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."

Alberto Romanelli, who owns the Windmill pub nearby, said the police action in ordering his pub to be evacuated had been as ridiculous as the film scene. "They evacuated the pub while they were doing X-rays and stuff," he said.

"It all lasted about 45 minutes before they decided it was nothing - which I thought was pretty obvious from the start. I lost a good hour's worth of business."

Emma Eve, a training centre receptionist, said: "It was scary. They wouldn't let us out of the building." Office worker Graham White said: "The situation was nearly as crazy as the film."

Former Python Michael Palin, who appeared in the film, said: "Our Holy Hand Grenade was fictional and there were no plans for creating one. We don't want to add to the armaments of the world."

An Islington police spokeswoman said: "There was no danger to the public. The device is believed to be an object known as a Holy Hand Grenade." Copies of the prop can be bought on the internet for £14 or you can make your own by following the instructions in a five-minute video on YouTube.



In the film, before the grenade is used, Idle says: "And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

"'Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it. Amen.'"

Having no caffeine in my system for over a week makes this video a little funnier then usual. ;P

After reading this article, two thoughts popped into my head. One was the fact that a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks was one of the passengers. There is some strange, twisted irony in there that should have been an Alanis Morissette lyric. The other was that one out of three people in the home did not survive the crash. Had a Donnie Darko moment I suppose.

My heart goes out to all of their families and friends for their lost loved ones.


Fiery plane crash in upstate NY kills 50

By JOHN WAWROW, Associated Press Writer - 8 mins ago

CLARENCE, N.Y. – A Continental commuter plane coming in for a landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, sparking a fiery explosion that killed all 49 people aboard and a person in the home. It was the nation's first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2 years.

Witnesses heard the twin turboprop aircraft sputtering before it went down in light snow and fog around 10:20 p.m. Thursday about five miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J., came in squarely through the roof of the house, its tail section visible through flames shooting at least 50 feet high.

"The whole sky was lit up orange," said Bob Dworak, who lives less than a mile away. "All the sudden, there was a big bang, and the house shook."

Two others in the house escaped with minor injuries. The plane was carrying a four-member crew and an off-duty pilot. Among the 44 passengers killed was a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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I discovered today that my daughter really loves this song. I was playing a few Bleach Soundtrack songs in the car while we enjoyed a cruise around the area after story time. When this song came on, I could see her shadow in my rear view mirror as she was grooving. She enjoyed it soo much that she had me play it three more times. ^_^

After reading the lyrics, I thought a couple of people may enjoy this song as well. :)



Voice
by Rie Fu

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*ROFLMAO!!!!!!!*

Got far too many lines from this song stuck in my head today. Gee, I wonder why. *winks*

All Star Lyrics
by Smash Mouth

( That's the way I like it and I never get bored.. )

Man, I haven't laughed this damn hard in quite a while.

It's all armchair theory. *winks*



( The other three parts behind cut. )

I'm off to go see what other Japanese Tradition vids I can find. ^_^

So far, the one on Hashi (chopsticks) Shazai& Dogeza (apologizing), and Sushi are damn funny too.

Tee hee!

So can't wait for this.

Ok so I am a week late on this. I got it from klgaffney.

I am not sure what I am more amazed at but it is very well done. *smirk*

(back dated. shush.)

Have you ever tried to sing the entire lyrics to Auld Lang Syne? Do you even know there are more lyrics then that first verse? Well, now you will. ;P

"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song, Roud # 6294. It is often sung to ring in the new year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

The modern day definition of "Auld Lang Syne" -- after being translated from Scottish -- is "for old times sake" or "to the good old days!" I know they speak English in Scotland, but the dialect is different! Although if you drink enough on New Year's Eve, I am sure your dialect may sound strangely similar. *winks*

Here are the lyrics:

"Auld Lang Syne"

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old times since?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

And surely you'll buy your pint cup!
And surely I'll buy mine!
And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine;
But we've wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there's a hand my trusty friend!
And give us a hand o' thine!
And we'll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

I've been meaning to do this for a while.

For the past several weeks, I have been taking the time to read the local paper. There have been many occasions where an article just makes me stop and rip it out to save. I now have a small pile of them next to my computer. I am hoping to find these news articles on-line so that I can post them here in my journal to share, to discuss, and to keep. Me thinks I will need to find a good newsy icon for this sort of thing. ;)

Stem cells cured AIDS, doctors say
By New York Times
In print: Friday, November 14, 2008

Doctors in Berlin are reporting that they cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to the virus.

( but it isn't that easy... )

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How damn awesome is it that there has been a found cure. Yes there are hurtles that one would have to go through, but damn, the urge to try would overpower the risks involved, wouldn't it?

At least it is a great start. :)

I enjoyed this one so much, I had to watch it twice before posting it. :)

Blatantly stolen from batty_.



I damn well know several of you will enjoy this. Yeah... I am talking about you nentikobe and emperor_fett and you in the back there, I see you....

If only I could talk Methuss into wearing one. *mroar* Hehe. *winks*

Sorry, it's the Scot in me that loves men in kilts. *purr*



At least he wouldn't have to use the excuse that there are no places to hold is geek gear. *lol*