Feet: mine.
Photographer: me
Note: flying saucer pedicure lives on!
- Location:high & dry
- Mood:
geeky
I wandered away from a Very Fun room party, down to the river's edge. Seated on a bench beside the rushing water, alone in the dark, I abruptly decided it would be a Very Good Idea to photograph my own foot. Mia's Arch Nemesis, "The Foot" herself, deserves credit for this flash of inspiration....as well as the copious quantities of Toxic Waste served at aforementioned room party:
EXHIBIT #2: MisCon, May 2009
While dancing barefoot at a room party, I stepped on something sharp. The resulting laceration bled profusely and required my professional skills. Carolyn documented my pressure dressing of toilet paper & duct tape:
EXHIBIT #3: June 2003
1) In bed. 2) scantily clad. 3) restrained.
- Location:still in a chair
- Mood:
giggly - Music:annoying TV program
- Location:still looking at my feet
- Mood:
drained
My Worldcon-Montreal slide show is finally semi-complete:
http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a176/f- Location:in a chair
- Mood: busy
My friend, author Maggie Bonham aka ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
shadowhelm , is acquainted with Vera Nazarian of Norilana Books. Vera is a speculative fiction author, publisher, and founder of Norilana Books, an independent press, with 213 titles in print. I've never had the good fortune to meet Vera, but Maggie posts, "She's a lovely person and I would never wish (such misfortune on) anyone, let alone her."
In summary, Vera is facing foreclosure due to a series of truly unfortunate events (a fradulent lawsuit, mother's illness, father's death and sub-prime mortgage.) It is hoped to raise $11,229.72 to help Vera save her house. Efforts include donations, spreading the word, and/or participating in the charity auction.
READ VERA'S STORY HERE.
I was very touched by this. There is a LJ community, HelpVera. Rose, HelpVera's mod, posts, "Thank you, thank you, and thank you again. Even the smallest donations are a blessing."
- Location:In a chair
- Music:hummm of humidfiier
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Climbed to the summit of Half Dome
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumping
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (well, as far as the public is now allowed to go, which is the top of the base)
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise (does a lake cruise count?)
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkelling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theatre
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (what about Camp Fire Mints?)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Waded in the Atlantic Ocean
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favourite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Read an entire book in one day
- Location:In a chair
- Mood:
sad - Music:Peter Gabriel
- Location:in a chair
- Mood: geeky
- Music:David Byrne
- Location:In a chair
- Mood:
hopeful - Music:the little voices in my head
The Aristocrat: 57% Elegant, 55% Technological, 27% Historical, 40% Adventurous and 34% Playful
You are the Aristocrat, the embodiment of steampunk elegance and poise. For you, dressing steampunk is first and foremost about simply looking good, with accessories and details to follow. However, this does not mean that you ignore the demands of creating a “steampunk look.” Your outfits weave together a balance between technology and style, and between period accuracy and beautiful anachronism.
While your fashion inspiration may come from anywhere across the Victorian social spectrum, you always find a way to make your outfit beautiful. You will probably be found in the clothes of the steam age elite simply because of the greater elegance available to them. Chances are you dress this way because you like it, and you would still dress in this manner even if steampunk was not a popular interest
- Location:in a chair
- Mood:
creative - Music:NPR radio
What is the value of Worldcon?
- Location:In a chair
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:buzzing of dryer timer
Somalia's Runners Provide Olympic Inspiration
By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports
BEIJING – Samia Yusuf Omar headed back to Somalia Sunday, returning to the small two-room house in Mogadishu shared by seven family members. Her mother lives there, selling fruits and vegetables. Her father is buried there, the victim of a wayward artillery shell that hit their home and also killed Samia’s aunt and uncle.
This is the Olympic story we never heard.
It’s about a girl whose Beijing moment lasted a mere 32 seconds – the slowest 200-meter dash time out of the 46 women who competed in the event. Thirty-two seconds that almost nobody saw but that she carries home with her, swelled with joy and wonderment. Back to a decades-long civil war that has flattened much of her city. Back to an Olympic program with few Olympians and no facilities. Back to meals of flat bread, wheat porridge and tap water.
“I have my pride,” she said through a translator before leaving China. “This is the highest thing any athlete can hope for. It has been a very happy experience for me. I am proud to bring the Somali flag to fly with all of these countries, and to stand with the best athletes in the world.”
There are many life stories that collide in each Olympics – many intriguing tales of glory and tragedy. Beijing delivered the electricity of Usain Bolt and the determination of Michael Phelps. It left hearts heavy with the disappointment of Liu Xiang and the heartache of Hugh McCutcheon.
- Location:in a chair
- Mood: touched
- Music:Olympics: closing ceremonies
Several short weeks ago active discussion about sexual harassment at cons seemed to burst upon the scene*, triggered by several incidents at San Diego's ComicCon.
Two examples:
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the_resa linked to a very articulate blog outraged about said incidents, and OryCon's Yahoo e-list had a spirited discussion about ConCom responsibilities in this arena. New: the Con Anti-Harrassment Project --
"a grass-roots campaign designed to help make conventions safer for everyone. Our aims are to encourage fandom, geek community and other non-business conventions to establish, articulate and act upon anti-harassment policies, especially sexual harassment policies, and to encourage mutual respect among con-goers, guests and staff. "
Thoughtful and articulate, the multi-pronged site documents examples, encourages discussion, and promotes taking a stand. The organizer realistically admits CAHP won't be able to stop all boorishness, and I agree. After all, many of the worst offenders are unlikely to read such a site -- or may not recall details of their alcohol-hazed exploits. But I absolutely applaud CAHP's organized effort: serious conversations and positive actions are certain to result.
I well-recall when it was socially acceptable to drink while driving, and the juvenile braggadocio accompanying it. Con anti-harassment may well follow to some degree the path blazed by such efforts as MADD** -- significant social change originating at the grassroots.
Check it.
*well, at least my scene
**Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- Location:in a chair
- Mood: contemplative
- Music:thumps of Sk8erGuy digging a backyard hole
Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, unveiled are the results of my LJ Personality Test, with "The Blogalyzer" thrown in for good measure. Now you too can learn your "Overall Weirdness"!
(with thanks to
avt_tor for technical assistance, as well as the meme.) So, felicitoussk8er, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 9% unique (blame, for example, your interest in cosmic rayguns) and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual.
Your overall weirdness is: 20
(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 45% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
The Blogalyser reveals...
Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 19.
This suggests that your writing style is intellectual
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).Your blog has 13 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by complexity
(writing for the web should be concise).
CHARACTER MATRIX
| male |   | female |
| self |    | world |
| past |    | future |
Your text shows characteristics which are 60% male and 40% female
(for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about yourself, then the world in general and finally your social circle. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the present, next the past and lastly the future.
Find out what your blogging style is like!
- Location:in a chair
- Mood: chipper
- Music:Olympics: botched track relay
May a Stsho find your Natal Day chaotic and the Kif find it boring -- and may it be all you wished it to be.
(I tried & tried to upload a pic for you, but LJ isn't behaving! It also wouldn't let me link your name. kkkkk)
- Location:15 time zones behind Beiijing
- Mood: happy
- Music:splash of Olympic swimmers
It is Olympic City at our house, with the TV on almost 24 hours a day. Not much else is getting done, or will get done, for the next 2 weeks. Reading VANISHED! EXPLORERS FOREVER LOST by Evan Balkan, an Early Reviewers book scored from LibraryThing.com. Fascinating and well-written, but the Olympics are significantly cutting into my reading time!
(BTW, I don't smoke in RL, but love the pic!)
- Location:15 time zones behind Beiijing
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:tear-jerker Olympic commercials
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. (my count = 28 read)
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ
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
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible-
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (started in high school; never finished)
8 1984 - 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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (hated it)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I may have read this but can't recall)
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (hated it)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (hated it)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (read so long ago I can't recall the story!)
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 Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (hated it, but never forgot it)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Location:north of Mead International Airport
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:whirrrrr of fans & rumble of thunder
"Brass" goggles
Cosmic ray gun, prior to steaming
Cosmic ray gun, after steaming
Cosmic ray gun, steamy detail
Pull the trigger. Guaranteed alien-busting whirling sounds -- while red LED lights spiral down the barrel. Gotcha!
- Location:home
- Mood: creative
- Music:tinkling, cat drinking fountain
Steampunk.
A week ago, prior to OryCon, the term had never really registered on my consciousness. Now it's everywhere. The odd thing is, I've loved this era & look for years -- but just never had a name for it. I've long been smitten with Spokane's Steamplant Grill.
Now: gotta get some brass goggles. Some gears. And of course, a cosmic ray gun.
Back to the future
Learn how to get steamed up here
Check out this iPod skin.
More Steamy Goodness
"Brass" goggles for the penurious steampunker
- Mood: artistic
- Location:Spokane
- Mood: contemplative
- Music:"How To Save A Life" (The Fray)
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