Nice day with Dan yesterday.. did lunch and hung out for a few hours. We talked about a few ideas for second life designs, and I think some have real potential… not much beats the bee-gun however.

I think Tater tots and sushi are a natural combo. I may be the only person to feel that way.

Got to spend some lovely time on a pirate quest in 2nd L with HP, too. Always a pleasure to hang out with her. We won some awesome snow globe trophies.

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New GROW game

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Three animated lj cat icons –

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Moment of Lyric (quicktime movie here – via)

Twenty-five years
And my life is still
Trying to get up that
Great big hill of hope
For a destination

I realized quickly
When I knew I should
That the world was never
This brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes
When I’m lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What’s in my head
And I, I am feeling
A little peculiar

And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath
And I get real high
And I scream
From the top of my lungs
What’s going on?

And I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on
And I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on

Ooh, ooooh, oooooooh…..

And I try
Oh, my god, do I try
I try all the time
In these institutions

And I pray
Oh, my god, do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution

And so I cry sometimes
When I’m lying bed
Just to get it all out
What’s in my head
And I, I am feeling
A little peculiar

And so I wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath
And I get real high
And I scream from
The top of my lungs
What’s going on

And I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on
And I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on

And I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on
Then I say, hey, yeah, yeah, ah, ah
Hey, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I said, hey, what’s going on

Ooh, ooooh, oooooooh…..

Twenty-five years
And my life is still
Trying to get up
That great big hill of hope
For a destination

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Net Vibes is another great rss / search personal portal freebee. I like the built-in podcast listening functionality. (speaking of which, I’ve added scifripodcast to my lj syn list… NPR’s Science Friday.)

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Power Dressing Man Leaves Trail of Destruction ‘worst super villain ever)

SYDNEY ‘Reuters) – An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.
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Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

“It sounded almost like a firecracker,” Clewer told Australian radio Friday.

“Within about five minutes, the carpet started to erupt.”

Employees, unsure of the cause of the mysterious burning smell, telephoned firefighters who evacuated the building.

“There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise — a bit like a whip — both inside and outside the building,” said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

“We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,” Barton said.

“I’ve been firefighting for over 35 years and I’ve never come across anything like this,” he said.

Firefighters took possession of Clewer’s jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

David Gosden, a senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Sydney University, told Reuters that for a static electricity charge to ignite a carpet, conditions had to be perfect.

“Static electricity is a similar mechanism to lightning, where you have clouds rubbing together and then a spark generated by very dry air above them,” said Gosden.

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1 year ago – 50 first dates, Ghost in the shell 2, King Kong, ape man,

2 years ago – on call wakeup, misc work, talk like a pirate day coming up, MOND – (Modified Newtonian Dynamics)

3 years ago – Isidore, nearby hobby store, swapped a bunch of old MtG for MK, speed of light broken, Carpe Vultus, freeflow work and slack, palm doodles, riaa/piracy hits work (entry 4704)

4 years ago – carby dindin, veggie shepherds pie recipe in comments, boonga boonga, p-funk lj, NIMDA PSA, who would buy that?, FART KNOCKER, mush

5 years ago – fool on the hill, meemee makes a googly eyed icon for me, monday slowpoke, stun-yell, I opt out of papahood, movies with hippies