Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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7:33 pm - Supernatural Yay!
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
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12:42 pm - Writer's Block: Memo to Myself
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Get your library degree immediately after graduating college. Yes, even though you went for 5 years working full time and going nights. Just get it over with, then you will be on your way to a better job much earlier in your life
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
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1:22 pm - Writer's Block: LiveJournal Book Club
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Good Omens. It's smart and funny and really presents a complex look and good and evil, angels and demons and free will vs. destiny. This is a great book that I have reread so many times
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
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8:04 pm - AmazonFail
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I just got this email from Amazon.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Amazon.com.
This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that prides itself on offering complete selection.
It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search.
Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures to make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.
Thanks for contacting us. We hope to see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Customer Service Department
Amazon.com
Note: this e-mail was sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message.
I guess they have finally settled on a PR strategy.
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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9:49 pm - Tell me about yourself
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
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7:53 pm - Writer's Block: Ten for the Tenth
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1) Bat out of Hell- Meatloaf
2) Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
3) Bridge of Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
4) Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
5) Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel (yes, there is a theme)
6) Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
7) Mason Williams Earshow - Mason Williams
9) Mask and the Mirror - Loreena McKennitt
10) Little Earthquakes- Tori Amos
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
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9:35 pm
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As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.
I'm actually doing two. Technically Sarah Palin had to name one decision that she disagreed with. Using that criteria, I choose Plessy v. Ferguson. This was the case that institutionalized segregation by upholding the Jim Crow laws that were enacted after the Civil War. This contributed to the continuing racial divide in our country.
OTOH, I completely support Griswold v. Connecticut which established the right to reproductive privacy. Griswold overturned the Connecticut law that prohibited the sale of contraceptives to anybody even married people.Although Griswold only reversed the law for married couples, it laid down the right of privacy and lead to Eisenstadt v. Baird and eventually to Roe v. Wade.
current mood:  satisfied
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
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8:48 am - Firefox 3 update warning
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Warning to anyone running FF3 AND Tab Mix Plus. Do NOT download the new update to FF3. I use Tab Mix Plus constantly, it is one of my favorite extensions. When I loaded FF3, TMP did not have an official update, but it did have a development version that worked with FF3. Now FF3 has issued an update and the dev version of TMP does not work with it. I had 43 tabs open to be read, and they are all gone, simply not recoverable as far as I can see and all my neat TMP options are gone too. I may try to go back to the previous version, but I did want to warn anyone else who is using both FF3 and TMP to be careful.
Plus, the update still did not fix my one gripe with FF3, it still wont warn you if you are about to close multiple tabs, even if you have checked the option.
current mood:  sad
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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4:55 am - The book meme
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) * If you started but didn't finish
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling * only through book 5
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible *
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare * (I've read some, but certainly not all.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery in the original French for class in high school
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
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12:25 pm - Thinky thoughts Supernatural
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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6:34 pm - Is Bela on Supernatural a sociopath?
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Yes, I am shocking everybody (including myself) by actually posting something in my live journal. I was thinking about the character of Bela on Supernatural and then i ran into a description of what constitutes being a sociopath. Since I have considered her to be sociopathic since she was introduced, I decided to compare what I see as her behavior, with the description.
current mood:  accomplished
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
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9:37 pm
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
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6:11 pm
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Gakked from everybody
1. Copy and paste this: [font color=yourusername][b]yourusername[/b][/font] into your journal.
2. Replace [] with <>
percysowner
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Friday, May 14th, 2004
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8:28 pm - I'm so proud!
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Friday, February 13th, 2004
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10:34 pm
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2003
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9:41 pm - Let's get this show on the road
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I can't believe I actually did this. I am really the world's most boring person and I haven't written anything in years. In fact, I really got this account so that I could comment on other people's journals without having to do it anonymously. So don't feel you have to comment or pay attention to anything I say here, because it may well be unimportant ramblings
current mood:  scared
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