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| Date and Time |
- | Mar. 20th, 2008, 10:17 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  blank | |
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- | automatic cat litter machine | |
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| Bean Poll
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| Date and Time |
- | Mar. 19th, 2008, 03:18 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  hungry | |
| Current Music |
- | Joan Baez - Farewell Angelina | |
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Poll #1156972 Bean Poll
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllWhich of the following are you... |
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| Free Will and Lasagna
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| Date and Time |
- | Feb. 15th, 2008, 12:34 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  awake | |
| Current Music |
- | prince henry's repertoire of alarm sounds | |
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I made lasagna last night. I never made lasagna before. I don't generally follow recipes when I cook. When I set out to cook something I've never attempted before, I look up a couple recipes and develop an understanding of how the dish works. From that understanding, I create the dish. I don't do rote, never did. Memorization is for machines. Computers memorize the formulas called programs. They do not deviate from their programming. Even when they are programmed to program themselves, they are still subject to the programs that tell them to write the programs. They do not have free will. Not yet, anyway. Someday perhaps and on that day they can cook lasagna.
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| Throwing Water
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| Date and Time |
- | Dec. 29th, 2007, 10:15 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  surprised | |
| Current Music |
- | sex in the city | |
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I was out back trying to heat up the compost pile so that like a fire it's heat can sustain itself, and... well... oops. I had a gallon tub of hot tap water and I poured it in the old brick barbecue pit that I'm using as a composter, and out the hole in front runs a opossum. I was worried at first that I injured it. Well, at first I laughed very loudly and then I worried. Either way, I'm pretty sure that the water wasn't hot enough to burn the opossum, and even though the opossum only fled and never squealed (like they did when I hit them with a tomatoe), to ease my mind I held my hand under the faucet for half a minute with the hot water and while the heat was uncomfortable I was uninjured. |
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| Swan Hate
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| Date and Time |
- | Dec. 28th, 2007, 03:05 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  pissed off | |
| Current Music |
- | budgies in conference | |
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found via ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rm: | Known for gliding along local waterways with statuesque grace, the mute swan is rarely thought of as an environmental hazard.
Wildlife experts in Connecticut say that mute swans, like these at Holly Pond in Stamford, devour shoreline vegetation, displace waterfowl and other creatures, and can even attack people.
But wildlife experts say that the swan’s elegant facade conceals an ecological menace that devours shoreline vegetation, scares away other waterfowl and can even attack humans. The bird is now a target of a campaign to reduce its numbers in the state’s delicate coastline habitats.
The leaders of the effort are conservationists, including the Connecticut Audubon Society, which in the coming months will intensify a campaign to urge state officials to control the swans’ population, which stands at about 1,100.
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Kathryn Burton, president of SaveOurSwans U.S.A., a nonprofit organization in East Lyme, Conn., said the group would actively oppose the Audubon campaign as well.
“I’m not going to let it go,” Ms. Burton said. “They really don’t care about the birds. It’s just unjust.”
Connecticut’s swan population has more than doubled in the last three decades. Mr. Bull said that one idea for reducing the number of swans was to disrupt the nesting birds’ eggs to limit reproduction, a tactic known as addling. He said the Audubon Society was not suggesting that any of the 1,100 swans in Connecticut be killed — though other states have taken that step.
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Humans are far more of a threat to the environment than swans. There are only 1,100 mute swans in Connecticut, if the human population of the state were only 1,100 the humans would still have more of an environmental impact, especially if those humans were typical modern Americans. Environmentalists wanted to kill of the cherry-headed conures in San Francisco, the monk parakeets are always under attack even though they are essentially a replacement species for the extinct Carolina parakeet. Even here in Arlington, the Friends of Spy Pond still hate the geese. The Audubon society wants to get rid of swans, well in this world nothing should surprise me anymore. Sometimes things still do, but they shouldn't. |
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| Kickass Cupcakes
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| Date and Time |
- | Dec. 9th, 2007, 03:07 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- | awake | |
| Current Music |
- | lake humming somewhere over the rainbow | |
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purpleglitter and I went to Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square on our way to Haveli (in Inman Square) last night. purpleglitter had a lucky cupcake (a cupcake with a fortune) and I had a very rummy mojito. All I can say is: delicious! Paddington gobbled up the catnip and cheese cupcake we got for her when we got home — and promptly passed out in a drugged haze. She hopes to find more of those magic cupcakes lying about. Paddington's cupcake even had an unsearchable goldfish cracker on top of hers. |
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| Good Yesterday Times Thirteen
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| Date and Time |
- | Dec. 9th, 2007, 10:13 am | |
| Current Mood |
- |  loved | |
| Current Music |
- | air purifier | |
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Yesterday was purpleglitter's and my 13 th anniversary. We went to Haveli for a romantic dinner, a place we haven't been to in a long time. Afterward, we had a mellow evening watching Torchwood and Doctor Who. It was a simple, but perfect, way to spend the evening together. Berv Love Lake
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| Banning Interest Searches
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| Date and Time |
- | Dec. 7th, 2007, 09:07 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- | pissed off | |
| Current Music |
- | budgies and tiels in conference | |
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So much for hoping things were going to get better under SUP. They've now started censoring what interests can be searched for. What is more, interests such as " spicy food" are no longer searchable simply because they happen to contain a banned string. Forget trying to find a community discussing the Armenian genocide. What the hell?!?! |
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| Vomit Soup
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 27th, 2007, 11:14 am | |
| Current Mood |
- | nauseated | |
| Current Music |
- | air purifier | |
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I had thought of the Building 19 food section as an equivalent to the dented cans section of Stop & Shop. Not any more, that can of tomatoe soup literally tasted like stale old vomit. Absolutely disgusting. I will never buy a food item from Building 19 again.
I dumped it out and made a pot of a good can of tomatoe soup from Stop & Shop, but couldn't get the bad taste out of my mouth. Then I got worried about what might have made the first can taste like vomit and made myself throw up to reduce the amount of whatever bad I just ate. The actual vomit didn't taste nearly as bad as the first can of soup, likely because it was mixed with the good can of soup I ate.
Afterwords, I brushed my teeth and the fowl aftertaste has been greatly reduced. However, I'm still worried I didn't get enough of the bad stuff out.
This experience made me realize one good thing.: my bulimic days are so strongly enough behind me that an episode like this isn't even triggery.
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| Thanksgiving Was
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 23rd, 2007, 12:25 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  content | |
| Current Music |
- | budgies and tiels in conference | |
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I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. merryperseis came over to join purpleglitter and I in the livingroom. She had never seen our new place before and she arrived with perfect timing – just 10 minutes before dinner I cooked portobello and artichoke stuffing, corn on the cob, baked homemade macaroni and cheese, edamame, and a pumpkin and carrot pie that turned out to be more of a pumpkin and carrot pudding — but still quite good, if I do say so myself. We all stuffed ourselves silly and had a good and mellow evening. Good company and too much food is how Thanksgiving is meant to be. |
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| Thanksgiving Poll
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 21st, 2007, 03:21 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  curious | |
| Current Music |
- | budgies and tiels in conference | |
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Poll #1092771
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllFor Thanksgiving, you will be... |
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| Taro Fries
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 14th, 2007, 12:23 pm | |
| Current Mood |
- |  nostalgic | |
| Current Music |
- | budgies in conference | |
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I made taro fries last night and they were good. Simple to make: just cut up a taro root; toss with olive oil, garlic powder, and pepper; place on a cookie sheet; and throw in the oven at 450°F (230°C, 510 K) until crisp. I haven't made them since I moved out of the ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) house_of_clocks, mostly because I don't make it down to the Super 88 very often since I moved here. That probably won't change, as I cook mainly for purpleglitter now and she doesn't like the food from the Super 88 except Pocky, taro and a very few other items. We only ended up getting the taro because we went with invalid_userid to pick up food for her stay. |
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| How to Deal with Cockroaches
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 5th, 2007, 09:57 am | |
| Current Mood |
- | awake | |
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- | air purifier | |
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From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884): | Cockroaches — ways to destroy. — 1. The disagreeable odor which the cockroach emits, and which soon permeates all places that it inhabits, proceeds from a dark colored fluid which it discharges from the mouth. The cockroach loves warmth and moisture, hence its populousness in kitchens where fire and water are almost ever present. It is a night prowler, and swarms out from its secret lairs on the departure of daylight.
For the destruction of the cockroach we recommend a mixture containing a tablespoonful of red lead, the same amount of indian meal, with molasses enough to make a thick batter. Set this on a plate at night in places frequented by the insects and all that eat of it will be poisoned. Another preparation is composed of one teaspoonful of powdered arsenic, with a tablespoonful of mashed potato. Crumble this every night at bed-time where the insects will find it, and it is said to be an effectual poison. Great care should be exercised in the use of such dangerous agents. An innocent method of destroying cockroaches is to place a bowl or basin containing a little molasses on the floor at night. A bit of wood, resting one end on the floor and the other on the edge of the vessel, serves as a bridge to conduct the insects to the sweet deposit. Once in the trap its slippery sides prevent retreat, and thus cockroaches may be caught by the thousands.
2. The following i said to be effectual: these vermin are easily destroyed, simply by cutting up green cucumbers at night, and placing them about where roaches commit depredations. What is cut from the cucumbers in preparing them for the table answers the purpose as well, and three applications will destroy all the roaches in the house. Remove the peelings in the morning and renew them at night.
3. Common red wafers, to be found at any stationers, will answer the purpose. The cockroaches eat them and die. Also, sprinkle powdered borax plentifully around where "they most do congregate," and renew it occasionally; in a short time not a roach will be seen. This is a safe and most effectual exterminator.
4. Borax is a very good cockroach exterminator. Take some pieces of board, spread them over with molasses, only sufficient to make the borax when sprinkled upon it stick, and place the boards in their haunts. Gum camphor is a speedy remedy to clear the house of cockroaches. | |
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| Project Three Meals - Attempt 17, Final
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 5th, 2007, 09:17 am | |
| Current Mood |
- |  groggy | |
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- | budgies gurgling | |
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I've given up on this attempt of Project Three Meals, but plan to start it up again later in the week. Bad start timing.
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| Project Three Meals
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 3rd, 2007, 02:01 am | |
| Current Mood |
- | awake | |
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- | air purifier | |
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Project Three Meals went completely off today. I got no healthy snack, got no exercise, and went on a junk food binge. Don't worry, I am not following that binge up with a purge, those days are very long gone and I'm not going back.
I did get in my three meals, though, if that matters. For breakfast I had egg and swiss on an everything bagel, for lunch I had linguine in a tomatoed alfredo sauce, for dinner I had pizza. Oh well, tomorrow's another day.
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| Project Three Meals - Attempt 17, Day 3
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| Date and Time |
- | Nov. 2nd, 2007, 04:13 am | |
| Current Mood |
- | awake | |
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- | air purifier | |
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Success! For breakfast I had macaroni and cheese laced with broccoli bits, for lunch I had samosa chole chat; for dinner I had linguine in a tomatoed alfredo sauce; for my healthy snack I had 3 mandarins. I got plenty of exercise walking home from merryperseis's place. No junk food. |
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| Project Three Meals - Attempt 17, Day 1
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| Date and Time |
- | Oct. 31st, 2007, 04:20 am | |
| Current Mood |
- | tired | |
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- | air purifier | |
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For breakfast I had creamy parmesan noodles, for lunch I had eggs and hashbrowns, for my healthy snack I had a mandarin and a sugar-free popsicle. I got in well over an hour of exercise walking from my place to merryperseis's place and back. I would have made, except that my dinner wasn't exactly reasonable. I went to Rudy's with purpleglitter, zarthon, and Jeff. I ended up eating chili con queso, a jalapeño poppers, and a bean & cheese burrito. The popper and burrito would have been fine &ndash but the chips and chili con queso were not only too much, it's hard not to categorize them as junk food. |
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