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Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
Update your journal with the answers to the questions
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
Questions from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tempestsarekind!
( Translations, cage matches and paratroopers, oh my! )
4:55 ETA Resistance is futile, muaha! I will be out for a little bit after work, but I will get your questions to you by this evening! ♥
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Not that I would ever be brave enough to do this, but: How to alter a wool sweater and never have to pass up a rack in a vintage store because the sweaters are too boxy ever again.
Hand-painting art to blow your mind, no joke!
I want this bookshelf like you would not believe. No, really, there are not words for how amazing this would be.
I have kind of a huge girlcrush on Fleur de Guerre's life. (I really have no idea what that guy in uniform is doing in spats, though. Is that a British thing?)
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In the first twenty minutes of being at work, I've already had conversations about the Berlin Wall, Kristallnacht, the coinciding anniversaries thereof, Anne Frank, Neutral Milk Hotel, Everything Is Illuminated, the Holocaust movie genre, the Holocaust itself, the way a thermos uses vacuums to maintain temperature, the balance of anti-matter outside the known universe, the size of the universe and Dan Brown.
What the heck, Tuesday. I think I need some candy.
I did, however, basically get to ride at the front of the train this morning, and I love seeing Chicago from the elevated tracks.
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Wow, this guy is in amazing shape. That links to a video of a WWII vet who still mans the battleship he was first stationed on in 1942. There's a video that follows immediately after (it's on autoplay) of a guy who played trumpet (also in amazing shape), and on D-Day he was alone and knew there was a sniper with his sights on him. He played "Lili Marlene" and the sniper couldn't fire: they met later on the beach when the sniper was taken prisoner.
Wow. As if I didn't want to, you know, go home and watch BoB enough already.
Interesting to see this on a day wherein The New York Times talks about Odysseus as the most famous veteran, and about Veterans Day as our most awkward holiday. (Interesting also that it completely fails to address, in the midst of urging us to listen to our veterans, those who simply cannot or do not want to talk.)
(Side note: NaNo is apparently completely kicking my ass today. And I have no excuses! None! Except for maybe wanting to write about six other stories in different fandoms, and telling myself that there are only two that I'm forcing myself to concentrate on.)
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Dear SPN fandom:
This episode was amazing. I loved every freaking second of it. But as awesome as Sam and Dean were, it was about ( spoilers! )
As far as picspams go, I am, however, pretty damn pleased with this.
Also, the Changing Channels meme is being unbelievably amazing. People seem to like the Lion King ficlet I wrote, and the people who've responded to my cracked-out prompts are geniuses and heer-roes!
The Smurfs!
Gossip Girl!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
I love liking fandom again.
Also, how freaking excited am I that Jensen and Danneel are engaged? A LOT, LET ME TELL YOU.
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Like due South? Like SPN 5.08? Like fandom free-for-alls?
Sam and Dean (and special guest) are trapped in dS. The win, it is epic.
It hit me that a week from right now, I will be at a Heavy Trash concert. Lemme hear you say yeaaaaah!
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...Scott Grimes, you're a big dork and I like you a lot. I never knew we had the same funny-looking feet.
indy_go and I went to a Ghanaian place for lunch today. Good food! But the oddest thing is that they were showing a movie in the background that featured a platinum blonde Donnie Wahlberg, Richard Schiff and possibly Vincent D'Onofrio holding a New York subway car hostage. It was intensely surreal.
I have class in a little over an hour and I should not be this sleepy. NaNo has just reached that point where I'm going, "Crap, I'm really writing this in a month, aren't I." All of a sudden the hardness factor has gone up by about ten. I'm still pretty much on track, but focusing is somehow much harder.
Still, I have no excuse not to use the next... half hour wisely. In theory.
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Things C. Carwood Lipton probably never said to Company E:
You guys- I told you- I'm just getting started! You picked the wrong guy to make fall in love with my soldiers! I spoil my loved ones! :)
#threewordsbeforesex TAKE ME SOLDIERS!
Oh Donnnie. ♥
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Finally watched "Changing Channels."
oh holy wow i love this show.
Dear ( spoiler character ):
I love your face. You're fantastic in every imaginable way. And holy shit, when you go, you go.
( And another thing. )
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...ohmygod, they're playing the muzak version of either the 10th Kingdom theme song or "This Used to Be My Playground" by Madonna. Bless you, Panera Bread Company!
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I have not seen last night's SPN. I most likely will not get that chance until later tonight.
Anyone spoils me, I will cut you. I am too excited about this puppy not to make the threat.
In less aggressive news, oh my gosh, sew a newspaper dress!
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...ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod how did I not know that there is A Girl's Guide to Skinny Sisk in existence?
Stoic Skinny is stoic. OH PUPPY.
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Experiment with beverage additives begins today! Milk goes bad quickly, you see: Coffee Mate, I believe, does not. Disclaimer: I'm an International Delight girl through and through. Anyone who knew me in college knows how my eyes light up whenever we'd have the little blue creamer cups in the dining hall. Walgreen's, alas, does not stock the lovely blue bottle, so we'll see how the competition shapes up.
This is what's keeping me distracted from the fact that my depth perception and center of balance are totally on vacation today. I have to get to Lens Crafters and get my normal prescription back. This is moronic.
I know there were elections yesterday. I am heartbroken about Maine, but I know that one day our children will look back on this time and wonder why this happened at all. America won't be full of frightened or hateful voters forever: Bill from Portland put it this way — Final numbers are in from [University of Maine]-Orono campus- 81% No, 19% Yes. A 'No' vote was a vote to keep the same-sex marriage law in place. Look at that: 81 percent No, 19 percent Yes. That's the future of gay rights in America. I want it now. God, I want it yesterday, literally and in the big picture. But we know that this isn't done. And in a way, the other side does. So: onward, onward. ...ETA: Sorry for ruining the entry's grace note, but I just read the greatest description of the current GOP strategy. From the comments: Calvinist politics, Calvinball rules. Ohmygoodnessgosh. <3
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I've never done this meme, but I've always kind of wanted to do a DVD commentary, so -- Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track. Master post of BoB, SPN and some assorted fandoms, plus all that and much, much more. Great stories from Significant Objects: Felt Mouse and Jar of MarblesShakespeare Created the World in Seven Days" by Marin SorescuStory about a string orchestra in a women's prison and the redemptive power of music.
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If anyone is interested on an update about the ACLU gene patenting case (which I've discussed here and here; the short version is that a company in Utah owns the patent on the genes that can increase a woman's lifetime risk of getting aggressive breast and/or ovarian cancer at a young age to something like 87% percent, and charges $3,500 for the test no one else can offer that tells you if you have the mutation), there's been an update.
Court upholds right of scientists and patients to challenge gene patents The lawsuit, Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al., was originally filed on May 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of breast cancer and women's health groups, individual women, geneticists and scientific associations representing approximately 150,000 researchers, pathologists and laboratory professionals. The lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as well as Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold the patents on the BRCA genes. The defendants asked the court to dismiss the case but today's ruling allows the lawsuit to proceed.
Because the ACLU's lawsuit challenges the whole notion of gene patenting, its outcome could have far-reaching effects beyond the patents on the BRCA genes. Approximately 20 percent of all human genes are patented, including genes associated with Alzheimer's disease, muscular dystrophy, colon cancer, asthma and many other illnesses. Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene PatentsThe judge noted that the plaintiffs contended that patents grant Myriad ownership rights over products of nature, laws of nature, natural phenomena, abstract ideas and basic human knowledge and thought in violation of the First Amendment’s protections over freedom of thought.
“The facts alleged in the complaint are plausible, specific and form a sufficient basis for plaintiffs’ legal arguments,” the judge wrote.
Judge Sweet cautioned, however, that his ruling was at a preliminary stage of litigation, when one side seeks to dismiss a case before more-intense litigation –- and the possible sharing of confidential information –- begins. “The question before the court is not whether a plaintiff will ultimately prevail but whether claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support the claims,” Sweet wrote. The ACLU has more here.
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...what the heck?
I ordered a book from Borders, and it comes with FedEx tracking. Tomorrow is the expected delivery date. First it shipped from a warehouse in Indianapolis... and now it's in New Berlin, Wisconsin, which is significantly southwest of Milwaukee. How very... intuitive?
I saw It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia for the first time last night. Wow, and also HEE. Bad people are amazing.
Dear Maine: Please do the right thing today.
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