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May. 13th, 2008
12:48 am - Owie!
I don't get to post often, so I'm delighted to be able to post this- I saw one in a thrift store a while back, and cursed not getting a pic of it... then, lo and behold, an online shop turned out to carry these... making the find all the funnier... since it wasn't a statue that was 'adapted' by a crafter, but one actually manufactured this way!
The small roundish statue is traditionally called "The Weeping Buddha" or "the Weeping Yogi" because it depicts a meditation pose in which the person is soaking up the sorrows of the world...
This one has been made into an "incense burner"... I don't think they thought that out, when they designed it tho...
Here's a link to the place that sells them, for the curious... I dunno as they will sell many of this 'speared' looking yogi incense burners tho! owie! poor little guy...
http://www.bighappybuddha.com/buca.html
12:34 pm - 2nd Checked bag on AA now costs $25
Can't say this was expected. In fact, I'm surprised that AA held off from this as long as they did. $25 for the 2nd, then $100 for 3rd, 4th and 5th bags. This pretty much brings them inline with the other major US airlines. This is only for travel within the US, or between the US and Canada.
All customers may check at least one bag at no charge. A second checked bag may incur a fee of $25 depending on your AAdvantage status and/or the type of ticket purchased. Exceptions may apply. Current policies for free baggage allowance as well as fees for additional checked baggage can be found (below)
Full information on AA's website.
Note that if you're an AAdvantage member at Gold, Platinum or Executive Platinum, or if you are using a mileage award for travel, or you have an upgrade to First/Business class before check-in, then you are not subject to charge on the 2nd bag, but would be on subsequent items.
02:48 pm - Third-Arm Help! (no, really) - My "Secret" Project
Finally, I reveal my special in the works suit. He's a six-limbed otter-like alien. Of course, its the extra limbs where I need help. Can someone please help me with the mechanic design? (I want the extra arms to move without visible string).
Here's a pic of the character:
( More Pictures and Arm Design Under Cut )
Any help or even new designs would be greatly appreciated. ^^;
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Excited
Current Music: Phone Call...
12:12 pm - My Preliminary Baycon Schedule
- 5/23/2008 14:30 Hall Costumes - How To
- 5/23/2008 17:30 Masquerade 101
- 5/24/2008 13:00 EZ Costuming Kids
- 5/25/2008 14:30 Wardrobe Malfunctions
It's going to make prepping the final LoEG party tight, but we're going for fewer decorations (since we don't know the hotel) plus the posters.
The EZ Costuming for Kids is a hands-on-make-silly-things class.
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working
02:20 pm - chipping away
fixed up my website a little more to point to my resume
and blog. after last night i wanted to get the basics up
incase anybody who was there would follow up.
the blog thing is just an art ticker. nothing you wouldn't
see here. i just copy and paste the lj entries actually :D
haha, everything looks good against black. one of my teachers
calls black mats around artwork a "cheap trick" ^_^
01:06 pm - Twitter Update
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LoudTwitter10:56 am - Wholesale Rant Theft - My Title is "Why I am a Feminist, Damn it."
But I am crediting it... I got it via
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jenn_xwho showed it to me at work. Here is who wrote it, where it appeared, etc.
Anti-Feminist Backlash Out in Full Force
By Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Posted on May 9, 2008, Printed on May 12, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/84984/Washington
University is giving Phyllis Schlafly an honorary doctorate. Let me run that by you again. Washington University, the distinguished 155-year-old seat of higher learning in St. Louis, is giving an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly -- archfoe of the Equal Rights Amendment, the United Nations, Darwinism and other newfangled notions, and the promoter of innumerable crackpot far-right conspiracy theories who called the Bomb "a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God." Her eighty-two years haven't mellowed her one bit: last year she blamed the Virginia Tech massacre on the English department; called intellectual men "liberal slobs;" advocated banning women from traditionally male occupations like construction, firefighting and the military; and defended men's property rights over their wives' vaginas ("by getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape"). The campus is in an uproar, and no wonder. After four years of hard work, female seniors get to watch their school honor someone who thinks they should park their diplomas in the kitchen sink. Washington U might as well bring in mad misogynist Chris Matthews as commencement speaker. Oh. You mean...? No! Yes.
Tell me the backlash against feminism isn't crackling up a storm. I try to keep my eye on the big picture and the bottom line: education, employment, autonomy, power. Surely, I tell myself, the fact that half of all new med students are female is more important than Paris Hilton's omnipresent visage; that a woman has made the first viable run for the presidency says more about the United States than that media clowns like Matthews basically call her a crazy castrating bitch on a daily basis; or that Caitlin Flanagan, smarmy enemy of working mothers (and another big believer in compulsory sex for wives), won a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
But sometimes I think we're truly going backward, as Republican hegemony, conservative Christianity and anti-feminist media propaganda take their cumulative toll. All those judges, all that money, all that shock jockery, all those magazines obsessively following stars' weight and baby bumps: it would be strange if they had no effect. As far as concrete setbacks go, look no further than the case of Lilly Ledbetter, whose right to sue for pay discrimination was denied by the Supreme Court last May. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Justices overturned the standard interpretation of existing law to declare that Ledbetter was twenty years too late: the victim of pay discrimination must sue within six months of the initial discriminatory act -- never mind whether she knew about it (many employers, including Ledbetter's, forbid workers from discussing their salaries; she found out she was paid less than any man at her level from an anonymous tip). Given the realities of life, the Court has given employers the nod to pay women less, as long as they can keep the women in the dark for 180 days. In April a bill to restore women's right to sue failed in the Senate, 56-to-42, because for some reason everything now needs sixty votes to become law. John McCain said the bill would lead to too many lawsuits (hello? all it would have done was restore the law we'd lived with for forty-four years); what women needed was more "education and training." Because right now, women are just too dumb to merit equal pay. As Dahlia Lithwick wrote in a coruscating piece in Slate, if women take this sitting down, maybe they really are dumb.
The suspicion that women are dim would explain why Oklahoma has just passed a law requiring not only that women seeking abortions be forced to view sonograms of their fetuses but that the picture be taken in the way most likely to reveal the clearest picture--often up their vaginas. In other antichoice news, an abortion ban will be on the ballot again in
South Dakota, this time with narrow exceptions for rape and incest. And mark June 7 on your calendar -- it's Protest the Pill day, brought to you by the American Life League and other antichoice groups, which claim, despite the evidence, that "the Pill kills babies" by preventing implantation of fertilized eggs. Maybe it's good that the antichoice movement is outing itself as opposed to contraception, as prochoicers have long maintained and not many pundits have noted -- but it also shows that they believe they can come out of the closet and not be dismissed as lunatics. Look for more struggles over government birth-control funding -- already way down, thanks to budget cuts and inflation--as the antichoicers move the goal posts of how "life" is defined.
Yes, women are still making gains in education and -- slowly -- in politics and other areas. But longstanding feminist gains are eroding: battered women's shelters, for example, are closing for lack of funds. And the advances haven't made the difference once hoped for. There are more powerful female Hollywood executives than ever, but as Manohla Dargis pointed out in a splendid rant (her word) in York Times, the movies are relentlessly male-focused: the conventional
Hollywood wisdom is "Women can't direct. Women can't open movies. Women are a niche." Culturally, there's misogyny wherever you look: Grand Theft Auto IV, which offers players the opportunity to have sex with prostitutes and kill them, got rave reviews and is expected to have $500 million in sales its first week out. If there's a pro-woman cultural event with that kind of reach and impact, I'd like to hear about it. It certainly wouldn't be Vanity Fair's photo of tween icon Miley Cyrus, clad in nothing but a bedsheet at all of 15 years old -- or the daily media onslaught urging women to focus on their babies like a Zen master contemplating a rock -- when not taking pole-dancing lessons, getting Botoxed or catching up on the latest "studies" purporting to prove that they lack the drive and brains to do anything better with their brief time on earth. Feminism, please call home!
Katha Pollitt is a columnist for The Nation.
12:51 pm
Internet out again, updating from phone. Thanks comcast!
10:33 am - Ecoli meet Jellyfish
Today finally my experiment was complete. Taking a gene from Aequorea victoria(a type of bioluminescent jellyfish) call GFP(Green Fluorescent Protein) and splicing it into some E. coli
In the end we have some sexy bright green glowing E.coli (oh yeah and they are immune to anti-bacterial substances as well!)
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10:33 am - 500 from epicenter and this STILL gets rocked!
Wow, this is amazing video... this is what we could have felt with a 8.9 earthquake hit Los Angeles, and I am near San Francisco:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-21467
*shivers* I remember our 6.9-7.1 earthquake in 1989.. I could NOT imagine something as big as a 8.9 O.o
Also they showed this first video on the news lastnight. GAWD, how frightening
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7397838.stm
-J
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amazed
01:33 pm - Comcast
Does anybody out there work, or know somebody who works, in the Comcast fraud department? If so I would like to speak to you on a personal 1 to 1 basis.
I have a user on Fur Affinity (www.furaffinity.net) who has constantly been attempting to steal user identities and fraud people out of money via commissions, going so far as to pose as famed artists as Nene Thomas.
Her name appears to be Stacey "Paine" English, current IP 69.138.203.191, 69.143.84.114 via md.comcast.net. Her reputation is that bad on other art galleries as well that an entire website has been dedicated to her identity theft.
Thus far I have tried filing two Comcast complaint reports, but as you can guess, that did jack shit. She is IP banned from Fur Affinity, but manages to continually coming back when the IP bans expire, and she always uses one of the same few IP addresses.
She needs to be taken down.
UPDATE: Sandy from Comcast Corporate just called me to discuss the issue. She's looking into it right now. So, here's hoping.
10:22 am
Entry in Sean Reynold's LJ reminded me of this weird idea I'd had about fantasy worlds/fantasy games.
In a world full of magic, pretty much everyone knows some magic. It's not big stuff. Nearly everyone can clear up their own boils, or vaguely dim minor pains, or keep the dye on their clothes colorfast for a little longer, or keep the edge on their knife for half a year as opposed to a month, slightly reduce their chances of getting food poisoning or increase their luck fishing, etc. The same way pretty much all GURPS characters have 5 points of quirks, this might be all D&D characters get 3 cantrips or something.
When you get up to higher "levels" - and higher means something like a 1st or 2nd level spell - you get more effectatious stuff, preventing ergotism or proof against food poisoning, or making sure the corn is more fertile, or that your horses don't die while foaling, and so on, but PCs don't really want any of that stuff. In D&D this is usually spell function provided by members of the "Adept" NPC class.
01:26 pm - Haaaaay you guuuuise!
Is anyone else out there going to Morphicon in Columbus Ohio, this weekend?
It will be my first fur convention, and I hope to see some of you there!!
(Oh, and as a side note, if you remember some girl in a fursuit being attacked by an RA on campus, yes that was me, and yes, I did report him.
Sadly, he didn't get fired, but he was made to apologize. I just thought you guys would like to know.)
Cheers!!!
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amused
01:00 pm - Vacation thrifting 2/2
As promised: DOLLS! (and a few misc. pieces.)
11:39 am - Horse Shoes
Oh hai!
So not too long ago, joecifur did a pair of "hoof boots" and I was instantly intrigued. No idea why. It's not like I have a horse character that I plan on making a suit of or anything, but I REALLY wanted to try and make a pair. So the other day I was at the local resale shop and found a perfect pair of shoes for $5...sooo, yeah.
( Questions and more under cut! )
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amused
11:57 am - Apologies
Sorry about the baby post. In my sleep deprived state, I misread the moderators latest post as: "This community is about 'real' animals, and people." and not "This community is about 'real' animals, people." (Note the omission of the "and" between animals and people.)
So, sorry about that. Won't happen again.
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