Conglomoration of Stuff
Oct. 29th, 2008 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiHaven't posted since we left for Disney last week. MEEP! Sigh, I really like the iphone 90% of the time but I hate that safari crashes far too often, whether I am on LJ or somewhere else, and the lack of a cache makes it impossible to "hold" pages for me to read offline. The browser on my sidekick never crashed so even though I am loving the iPhone, I am considering getting rid of it - my dad would buy it off me to replace his 1G iphone - and getting the new Android. Anyone have one? Anyone know someone who does? Would love to see some reviews of it before I make the leap back to tmobile.
Disney was fantastic - we went with another family and managed to make it to all four parks in three days - saw Nemo, rode on the new and fantastic Toy Story ride, took the girls on Soarin' because they were finally tall enough to go and the expression on their faces when we took off was absolutely magical - a perfect "O" of the mouth and the eyes and a squeek of glee! We did the lunch at Norway where the girls got to meet a slew of princesses, and my friend and I went back Saturday night for the fantastic Festival of the Senses. One negative - last year there were cocktails and not just wine, and ths year there was only wine, beer and scotch. The rest was entirely positive. We sampled about 15 different restaurants and my favourite was probably a tamarind-infused pork made by the exec chef from the Sci Fi Dine In - the truffles were wonderful and randomly, we ended up sharing our table with one of hte chefs from the California Grill and his extremely adorably supportive wife - and for a few minutes, the exec chef for all of Disney came and joined us and we talked about the variety this year and some things they may try to do next year. We will be back!
Partly Bouncy (remember her?) has created a new bot-scraping thing for the fanhistory wiki (no, I will not link to it because I don't want people going directly from my LJ to hers but you can google your way there) that pulls information from livejournal. Click here to learn how to block the bot. If you're new here and don't know about my history with Partly Bouncy and her wiki, ask and I will give you links to the backstory.
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nekkio27 has a well-written summary of why taxes exist and what they mean for our economy here. I still remember the first day of tax law back in my 3rd year of law school, when we discussed how taxes can be used to set social policy. Wish I still had my notes from back then, but they're lost on some floppy disk in a box in the back a closet that is otherwise filled with Husband's comic books.
Forgiandujakiss - 23/6 gives you eight ways to survive the next eight six days without losing your mind. Top of the list? "There's a reason it's not called 'Every Five Minutes Kos'" Admission: I have a constant refresh too! And I don't feel guilty about it!
Did Jensen really say something about sexual favours in the context of his roommate in an interview? I've seen mention of this in fic summaries but since I wasn't reading any communities this weekend while traveling I must've missed the initial post(s). They're just teasing everyone now, aren't they?
deirdre_c, I have vid bunnies! I am, yes, working on the one for last week's SPN episode but I want to do a political vid to One Week but I wanted it to be finished yesterday and I need a lot of political footage to do it and I don't know where to get any! Does anyone know where one can download avis from the conventions and of speeches and ads and stuff? Or will I just storyboard this from stills and have it exist mostly in my mind? DAMNED BUNNY!
Speaking of bunnies, this last ep of Heroes finally gave me some fantastic vidding footage to work with! I may try to get something done before the next ep, but part of me *really* wants to wait for the flashbacks we'll get in (OMG do we have to wait?) two weeks...
MoveOn sent me a slew of Obama pins, finally, but most of my friends and family locally already have at least one, so I want to send some of these into the wild. The first 10 - 15 responses will get one:
[Poll #1287282]
Off to doctor for the Annual. More catch-up stuff later...
Disney was fantastic - we went with another family and managed to make it to all four parks in three days - saw Nemo, rode on the new and fantastic Toy Story ride, took the girls on Soarin' because they were finally tall enough to go and the expression on their faces when we took off was absolutely magical - a perfect "O" of the mouth and the eyes and a squeek of glee! We did the lunch at Norway where the girls got to meet a slew of princesses, and my friend and I went back Saturday night for the fantastic Festival of the Senses. One negative - last year there were cocktails and not just wine, and ths year there was only wine, beer and scotch. The rest was entirely positive. We sampled about 15 different restaurants and my favourite was probably a tamarind-infused pork made by the exec chef from the Sci Fi Dine In - the truffles were wonderful and randomly, we ended up sharing our table with one of hte chefs from the California Grill and his extremely adorably supportive wife - and for a few minutes, the exec chef for all of Disney came and joined us and we talked about the variety this year and some things they may try to do next year. We will be back!
Partly Bouncy (remember her?) has created a new bot-scraping thing for the fanhistory wiki (no, I will not link to it because I don't want people going directly from my LJ to hers but you can google your way there) that pulls information from livejournal. Click here to learn how to block the bot. If you're new here and don't know about my history with Partly Bouncy and her wiki, ask and I will give you links to the backstory.
nekkio27 has a well-written summary of why taxes exist and what they mean for our economy here. I still remember the first day of tax law back in my 3rd year of law school, when we discussed how taxes can be used to set social policy. Wish I still had my notes from back then, but they're lost on some floppy disk in a box in the back a closet that is otherwise filled with Husband's comic books. For
giandujakiss - 23/6 gives you eight ways to survive the next Did Jensen really say something about sexual favours in the context of his roommate in an interview? I've seen mention of this in fic summaries but since I wasn't reading any communities this weekend while traveling I must've missed the initial post(s). They're just teasing everyone now, aren't they?
deirdre_c, I have vid bunnies! I am, yes, working on the one for last week's SPN episode but I want to do a political vid to One Week but I wanted it to be finished yesterday and I need a lot of political footage to do it and I don't know where to get any! Does anyone know where one can download avis from the conventions and of speeches and ads and stuff? Or will I just storyboard this from stills and have it exist mostly in my mind? DAMNED BUNNY!Speaking of bunnies, this last ep of Heroes finally gave me some fantastic vidding footage to work with! I may try to get something done before the next ep, but part of me *really* wants to wait for the flashbacks we'll get in (OMG do we have to wait?) two weeks...
MoveOn sent me a slew of Obama pins, finally, but most of my friends and family locally already have at least one, so I want to send some of these into the wild. The first 10 - 15 responses will get one:
[Poll #1287282]
Off to doctor for the Annual. More catch-up stuff later...
