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the timer works perfectly, i reworked some of the page colours, i’m feeling pretty good about myself. [edit: so i have a stack of dvds that i borrowed. i seemed to have consumed all the indy flicks that are worth seeing that they have, so i`ve borrowed commercial drek]

it being july 4, it’s seems to be a slow news day in the us, so…

did ufo’s originate in ancient india?

Miracles You Will See In The Next 50 Years (From Popular Mechanics, February 1950, Page 112.) [guess we missed the boat somewhere]

are you an irritating colleague

my result:

You are the perfect, dream colleague. Your sunny disposition is cheering and you ALWAYS make the tea. Please feel free to drop down Guardian Unlimited’s chimney once the wind changes.

and your early moment of zen

es fini

July 3, 2003 — Leave a comment

i’ve finally finished hp and the order of the pheonix and as with most books i really like, i’m distraught. i’m debating whether the children will we be up to this. it’s not earth shattering literature but i think there are going to be a lot of tears shed by the end.

vic has been anxious for me to finish so we can chat about it. and now i’m just as anxious to talk to her about it. she’s gone for dinner and drinks with the drag queens so i have to sit tight til she returns, which translates into surfing and blogging.

although i did promise to post all day and didn’t. i was caught up in the book. even it’s digital format, i couldn’t walk away. i can’t wait for my print copy to arrive so i can start over.

and now some links:

today’s pride link

i can’t believe i’ve never linked to modernhumourist. it is one of the funniest places online.

and off acquired taste’s journal, i got

Wednesday What-Ifs(i know it’s thursday, but i’m only a day late)

1. What if you had to choose a single color to remain on Earth?

tan

2. What if you had to choose one song to remain on Earth?

”moonlight” sonata

3. What if you had to choose a single book to remain on Earth?

oh dear, i don’t think that’s possible… it would have to be an anthology of some sort, but… no, i’d give up everything else to keep the books.

4. What if you had to choose one electronic device to remain on Earth (cars & planes included)?

30Gb iPod

5. What if you had to choose a single season to remain on Earth?

spring

the thursday thumb twiddler(it’s on time):

1.  If you knew you could double your money, easily and certainly, in two years, by investing in a company whose activities you seriously disapprove of, would you do it?

no.

2.  Should the goal of the penal system be to remove criminals from public, deterring crime by punishment, or rehabilitating wrongdoers?

all of the above

3.  You’ve been given the responsibility of packing away any three items in a time capsule to be opened up in 400 years.  What would you put in there to give folks an idea of what life is like in 2003?

mp3 player (with a variety of music), a site dump of a blog (js, has so many interesting personalities) and (this is a cheat) the front page of every single newspaper on the planet for one day.

and finally your moment of zen (vic you’ll love this)

today was a very long day. i’ve realised that meetings are not my cup of tea. i had a long ass production meeting, then more meetings with my boss on and off all day. i think she’s serious about making me more responsible for the stuff that goes on at the agency. i’ve said this before i don’t think i’m cut for management. but for the next 4 days, i’m in charge. i’m not sure how i feel about it.

moving on to more fun pursuits…

long live the bbc. (an impressive tale about and an impressive news service)

an excerpt from nerve’s em & lo’s – the big bang (nerve’s guide to the new sexual universe) [i’m not sure does this count as the pride link?]

and finally your moment of zen

going to fight up with my digitised hp. i’ll be back later.

can i manage?

July 2, 2003 — Leave a comment

there are 16 more days til vic gets here. the dreams are getting more and more intense, i’m sitting here almost basking in the afterglow. cold showers don’t help, i like water. water of any temperature makes my whole body feels… electric… i’d rather stay home and cavort naked but today is the last day my boss is going to be in the office for the week. she’s off on another junket with a client til next wednesday. and i’m in charge, so it’s a day of hand over notes and organisation for stuff in her abscence. tentatively i want to get my hair neated today, there’s something soothing about someone’s hands in your hair.

mine and all the other virgos, breszney for this week:
A fundamentalist is anyone who thinks his belief system trumps all others. Religious fanatics are the most obvious example, but scientists can be fundamentalists. So can socialists or capitalists, environmentalists or atheists. Every fundamentalist divides the world into two camps, those who agree with him and those who don’t. To him, there is one right way and a million wrong ways to interpret reality. Now here’s the uncomfortable news: Every one of us has the fundamentalist virus. It may not be as virulent in you and me as it is in the bad guys we love to hate. But we’re all infected. Luckily, Virgo, you’re in an astrological phase when you can achieve a partial cure. To begin, take everything less seriously and less personally and less literally.

and scorpio:
You’re like an arrow in flight, Scorpio. You’re a half-cooked feast, the fifth month of pregnancy, the week before a big election. When I turned my psychic vision towards you just now, I saw an image of a worker bee freshly returned to the hive to perform the dance that will tell its companions where to find a patch of blooming snapdragons. Have you ever mastered a second language? Where you are at this moment resembles the time right before you attain fluency.

not sure what it all means.

mefi is back up, so here’s all the news (that i find) fit to blog:

the database of unknown movies

rocklist – a collection of  end of year music polls from a variety of sources (quite interesting to say the least)

and this wonderful tidbit that is definitely not going to make mainstream news in the US, not even the alternative news sources seem to be touching it.

us uses aid threat to block icc (i’m including the first couple of paragraphs for those of you who wont click):

The US yesterday threatened to stop aid to countries which refuse to exempt American soldiers from prosecution by the new international criminal court (ICC).

The threat includes close allies such as Colombia, where a US delegation is trying to cajole President Alvaro Uribe to issue a waiver.  

Colombia, which signed the the 1998 Rome Treaty establishing the ICC, could lose nearly $1bn (£600m) a year for its battle against guerrillas and drug warlords. It is the third biggest recipient of US military aid, after Israel and Egypt. Similar threats have been issued to eastern European countries.  

Under a US law passed last year, military aid will be cut off from any state which failed to exempt American soldiers from ICC prosecution by yesterday. The White House opposes the new UN institution because it could try US personnel.

i’ll leave you to mull on that for a while, i need to get ready and get to work, particularly if i want to leave early today.

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July 1, 2003 — Leave a comment

my pride link for the day and while you’re there don’t be afraid to take the 2003 nerve sex survey (unlike most of the quizzes, there is no result at the end)

adieu.

are quite refreshing. i think i may take one on everyday now. i’m slogging through hp on the palm, i think it’s just bad mind now, i refuse to wait til after vic leaves to read a copy.
since i’ve been up, i’ve been surfing, it is tuesday so the village voice is all new (c’mon, the link is my favourites, go click on it) and metafilter is still down, so i have to find the news by hand, or by blog.

thank you laura for this great link – zadie on katherine (how cool is that)

there are also a whole bunch of cool links on the group blog – the junk drawer (yes, it’s a plug, i contribute, so sue me…
oh wait,  you can’t sue me [thanks jadedgrrl])

and my wife has arrived online, so i bid you all a good night.

when it rains…

June 30, 2003 — Leave a comment

…it pours.

today was kind of stressful, aside from the moron client. the power adaptor on my laptop, finally gave out, had to find a replacement at least until the new one arrives. then i couldn’t get my regular connection to dialup. i’m using a borrowed connection to get some info for a quotation that was due on friday, but all i want to do right now is go to bed. vic has a headache and i’m not sure who’s feeding back from whom.

i’m want to call it a night, but i have to wait on a call back from the server people, my client is  on my ass, rightfully so as to why her server or at least the mail portion isn’t up yet.

i’ll regal you with some links in the mean time:

Are you hypocritical about God? (a very interesting quiz – vic sent me this a while ago)
my results:
You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.
The fact that you progressed through this activity being hit only once and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are well thought out and almost entirely internally consistent.
The direct hit you suffered occurred because one set of your answers implied a logical contradiction. The bitten bullets occurred because you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. At the bottom of this page, we have reproduced the analyses of your direct hit and bitten bullets.
Because you only suffered one direct hit and bit very few bullets, you qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

this week i promise to bring you at least one pride link a day. here is the stranger’s 2003 queer issue

going to get some sleep, have a good night.

…and counting

June 30, 2003 — Leave a comment

there are 18 days til vic gets here.

if the dreams get any more intense i’m going to spontaneously combust. today is the halfway point, since we’ve gotten all the tickets and this trip has become our talisman, our holy grail. there is a small voice in the back of my head trying to tell me calm down, there are a million things that could go wrong between, now and then. i know it’s the voice of reason, but i don’t want to conceive spending another month apart from vic.

even as we gear up for this trip, i’m looking at long weekends later in the year, where we can get away to see each other. my mind is a jumble right now, my heart is racing, i have this whimsical smile on my face, so many thoughts are racing through my head right now. i’ll come back this, i can’t concentrate, put what i’m thinking into words, maybe it’s not so much my brain, as my heart. i’m happy and i’m in love.

after all that joy, i have a couple pieces of distressing news.

first, one of the grand dames of film, kathrine hepburn, died,

secondly, a us constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage?

and finally, why is it people (it’s not just americans) feel that someone else is responsible for their children (it’s a two part article) and their behaviour (thanks laura), this kind of thing always distresses me to read. it’s always some external factor, no one wants to admit, they’ve not done the best they can for their children. this is a whole other post, i’m going to stop here.

HAPPY PRIDE WEEK!

tonight in trinidad:

Movie Night featuring Phillip Pike’s “Songs of Freedom” a film documenting the GLBT Community of Jamaica, with an original score composed by Toronto musician Quammie. Hosted by DENI.

Time: 07.00 pm till | ADMISSION: FREE | All events are held at Bohemia

i’m off to work, i’ll be back later.

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the rain stopped while i was eating, so i’m sitting here in front of the fan, catching up on the links i missed over the last couple of days.

foodie porn (for vic)

questions about the safety of soy. brainshrinking tofu? and a counter argument (what me worry? i’m  a carnivore baby.)

the key art award winners (keyart are the awards for movie hype designs – trialers, standees, posters, the stuff that makes you think about spending your cash.)

the first worker-owned co-operative strip club

and your moment of zen

nap time, i’m crashing.

for vic

June 28, 2003 — Leave a comment

came across this today and thought you’d like it

leaving the office now, the last print is coming out of the printer. going home, take a nap, then off to the old school party tonight. evelyn ‘champagne’ king. woo hoo.