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October 31st, 2009
10:30 am - Crowded Music
Humans are so bloody cool! And full of amazing!
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01:24 am - Dancing
Originally uploaded by Noah Kalina
Dancing is a fabulous thing. Expansive movement, taking up space. I love to dance, to seize the joy in the world. Dancing is a form of joy, after all.
This picture encapsulates this feeling of freedom. Of giving in to inner desires, and dancing with whatever is available. I'm not sure what the silver thing is, other than another piece of the world.
Everything is shiny when you're dancing.
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October 29th, 2009
10:59 pm - Musical World
I've posted the dancing in Antwerp station video before, and spread it as far and wide as I can. It remains my favorite youtube video, and it represents the best thing of the internet.
( The video is here, for those who can't get enough of it. Like me. )
These guys did something similar in New Zealand, inspired by the above. Yay for wackiness.
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October 23rd, 2009
10:19 am - 'Space'
While I was thinking about this application of the architectural terms of negative and positive space, and simultaneously reading JT’s blog about the clutter of the online media and the expectations of what we have to do to create a writing career and maintain it, along with marketing it, I had an abrupt-but-fine appreciation for the connotations of positive and negative spaces and how they impact our lives. With regard to the social media/marketing aspect, I think the online world—particularly Twitter and Facebook—create the illusion of positive space, a space to dwell. Only, there is no “space” there, there is no permanent peace or interaction with tangible walls and windows, living areas and social areas. It’s all hallways and moving, traffic and business with the veneer of being social, and at its most fundamental sociological construct, it’s in disharmony with our need to dwell, because in social media, we’re always moving through. Targeting something—more interaction, more movement, more recognition, more awareness (both of each other, of marketing needs and trends, of products, not necessarily just of our own products).
-- Toni McGee Causey, Positive and Negative Spaces
(The original article is mostly on writing, but this paragraph popped out at me.)
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October 11th, 2009
09:14 pm - Google Wave, Update
I now have a Wave account. It is awesome.
However, I have no invites. Apparently, you only get invites if you were invited by Google (rather than by friends). I'm certain this will change, and as I said, once it does I will announce it. (To twitter and to LJ.)
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August 24th, 2009
08:21 am - Snapshot
A small boy, perhaps ten or eleven, stood at the edge of the street peering back and forth along the street as if something might jump out and gobble him up. His cheeks were smeared with dirt from days, or weeks of accumulation. He scratched the back of his leg with a shoe that once was quite nice but now falling apart around his feet. They didn't provide much protection from either the rain-swept streets or the bitter cold nights. His jacket hung loose off his shoulders to nearly his knees, one of his hands completely lost in the sleeve. The other sleeve bunched up at his hand, where he held a small plastic container now devoid of peanut butter. A leather satchel hung over his shoulder held up well to the abuse the boy had put it through, obviously well crafted and dependable even through use. It held only two items: '<li> </li>' and '<li> </li>', distributed among the two pouches in the satchel.
He was one of a thousand small boys in the City, all lost, all clutching the last vestiges of their memories lest they, too, are stolen away.
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June 30th, 2009
12:42 am - The world is a fabulous place.
Share a story filled with the awesomeness of the world.
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June 22nd, 2009
June 14th, 2009
01:07 pm - Textbooks are worthless?
I read this blogpost the other day about how textbooks are a massive ripoff.
He's a marketer, so maybe that makes sense for him. But I still have many of my textbooks, and I still collect ones I like. And I do use them for reference (at the oddest times).
So, LJ world, what do you think? Do you use your textbooks? Are they a massive rip-off?
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May 31st, 2009
02:01 pm - Cake #007: Mexican Chocolate Cake
cake_007.jpg
Originally uploaded by Konomaigo
( Tasty and spicy. )
It worked pretty well. I was pleased with it. And I'm getting reasonably good at the basic chocolate layer cake.
(though I haven't posted as much, I've been using the same recipe for cupcakes. Yummy, yummy cupcakes.)
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May 15th, 2009
11:44 am - Cake 006: German Chocolate Cake
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Originally uploaded by Konomaigo
This is the cake I baked for my birthday. It was bloody tasty, it was. It isn't my prettiest cake, though. Also, I forgot the cherries. ;_;
( More cake! )
My next project will be a Mexican Chocolate cake, as per request. There will be a party centered around this.
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April 16th, 2009
08:31 pm - Yee haw!
Proof copy of The Gods of Reed is in the mail.
*Dance Dance Dance*
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April 4th, 2009
September 19th, 2008
02:56 pm - Cake #4: Chocolate Strawberry
( Another layer cake; it's getting about time to expand my repertoire a bit. )
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wendolen has given me a couple of recipes I need to try, which look pretty tasty. I'd also like to try a cheesecake (see earlier note about equipment).
Cake-as-art is still a bit beyond me, possibly because of the art part. But some things I'd like to try at some point include a Beatles theme, turtle/space theme or something appropriately themed.
At some point, I may start throwing 'Eat My Cake' parties. This sounds like a brilliant idea, and requires follow-up at some later date.
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September 10th, 2008
11:12 am - Airport Security Addendum
I went through airport security with my laptop inside a zippered neoprene sleeve. No comment, which is the best one can expect from security.
Myth confirmed.
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September 7th, 2008
11:13 am - Airport Security Question
I recently heard that laptops can be left in certain cases when going through airport security; specifically the sort of cases that are designed to hold only a laptop (essentially a protective sleeve). Has anyone out there had the opportunity to test this?
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September 2nd, 2008
03:38 pm - Update
So, for people keeping track:
- I received one (1) tin in response to my previous post. The tin was filled with brownies and returned.
- I received many (more than two) verbal promises of tins. Verbal promises of tins will not hold baked goods, in case anyone was suffering from that misapprehension.
- Given my desire to gain some skill points in Baking (Cake), tins may be filled with cake experiments.
- misshepeshu was correct: bullet points are fun.
Since I have many verbal promises of tins, I thought I might assure those out there that the previous offer is still in effect. Tins -> baked goodies for you.
And, on a completely different note, I think I need a cake-based LJ icon. Any thoughts or suggestions along those lines?
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July 16th, 2008
09:35 pm - General Information
Those wishing baked goods to be delivered to them should follow these steps:
1. Acquire tin.
2. Put name somewhere on or in tin.
3. Deliver tin to me in some manner (in person, via mail, dragon post, whatever).
At some point in the future, the tin will be returned with baked goods in it.
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