| Wow. |
[May. 23rd, 2008|07:31 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | headlines, weather, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  worried | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead [Billion Dollar Babies - 1973] | ] |
Cyclone in Myanmar, leaving who knows how many dead, and hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hungry and vulnerable to the spread of disease.
Earthquake in China, killing tens of thousands, leaving thousands more homeless, leaving parents childless and children parentless. Now there's a very real threat of flooding from damaged dams giving way.
Wildfires in Florida. A week ago, some ten thousand acres had burned. With all the other big news, detailed information on these fires is hard to find right now. Arrests have been made, however, as it's suspected arson.
Tornados across the US, when tornado season hasn't even "officially" begun. Yesterday, a tornado believed to have been a mile wide flattened half a town in Colorado.
Wildfires consuming thousands of acres in California. Some 500+ firefighters battle to control it while hundreds (thousands?) evacuate ahead of it. Mudslides have also become a threat thanks to downpours in the same state.
Is it just me, or has the last month or so just been one enormous natural disaster? |
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| Evidently it is now rude to leave the computer to take a shower. |
[May. 22nd, 2008|09:06 am] |
[08:28 AM] 9715592: hi ;)
[08:28 AM] *** Auto-response sent to 9715592: Where am I? Who knows?
[08:28 AM] 9715592: :-D
[08:28 AM] 9715592: eou
[08:28 AM] 9715592: íùã
[08:28 AM] 9715592: you
[08:28 AM] 9715592: HamatoKameko
[08:28 AM] 9715592: Hamato Kameko
[08:29 AM] 9715592: Kameko
[08:29 AM] 9715592: Hamato
[08:30 AM] 9715592: bitch
...*snicker* |
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| ...mother... |
[May. 18th, 2008|07:45 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | aaaaaaaaugh, omg, wtf | ] |
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| |  sore | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Good Morning America | ] |
O_O;;;;;
Holy GOD that hurt. I popped a cheez-it in my mouth and went to close my mouth, and it got stuck sideways and stabbed the roof of my mouth. Hard. I couldn't even move for a minute, just sat there with my mouth wide open, reeling in pain. It hurt so badly it actually made me nauseous. |
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| *crawls* |
[May. 6th, 2008|04:17 am] |
Holy smokes, I'm doing good this week in the dragon department! I got a two-color hatchling, my second and third dino egg, and two silvers! Whoohoo! *does an extremely nerdy dance*
In other news, I've managed to hurt my back. Lower back, to be specific. Pulled it, I think. Evidently I somehow did it in my sleep, because I went to sleep at one point and was just fine (though I'd slept funny on my neck so that was stiff), and woke up to my back being all seized up. I think it's the same spot I pulled a couple years ago while moving into the new apartment. Hurts like hell, and makes walking a bitch. Guess it's a good thing I don't have any very pressing errands to run in the next couple of days. Sheesh. |
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| Muh. |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|12:30 pm] |
Yay, nice big super attack with lots of shakes, spasms, uncontrollable muscle contractions, funny vision, had to remind myself to breathe much of the time... Not sure how long it lasted, but it was a while.
Oh, and I've still got my cold, or allergies or whatever it is. Majorly congested. Fun.
I need to run a couple errands, but I don't think I'm going anywhere today.
Sigh. |
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| Piercing woe. |
[Apr. 26th, 2008|02:43 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | piercings, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  relieved | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Jun Senoue - MAD MATRIX | ] |
So Wednesday I snagged my cartilage earring, right, gave it a good yank (hurt like hell). But it's not like that hasn't happened before, so I cursed and mostly forgot about it.
Then Thursday while shopping with Mom, it started hurting again basically out of the blue. I guess I bumped it or something. I started feeling at it with my fingers and commented to Mom, who suggested I take out my earring. At first I didn't, because it wasn't the first time I'd irritated a piercing and I figured it was no big deal, but a few minutes later it was bothering me so much that I took out the earring anyway. My ear was all swollen and my earring was way tight, and when I got the earring out, well, ew. So I pocketed my earring and, with the immediate pain relieved, went about my day. When I got home, I cleaned it up with my piercing cleaner stuff, noting the area around the hole was particularly swollen, but still not really thinking much of it.
So finally this (Friday) morning, I get up, go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and note how red my ear is. Further investigation revealed a huge, hard knot bulging out from the back of my ear. It hurt, too. What the hell, I thought, has my cartilage deformed or something? oO
Anyway, wanting it to heal but not close up, I cleaned it again, and sterilized my earring, and gently--because it still hurt like a sunuvabitch--pushed my earring into the hole (not forcing it), from both the front and the back.
( If you're easily queasy, you may want to skip the detail here. )
But WOW what a difference it made. Doesn't hurt nearly as much with all that pressure relieved, and I was able to put my earring back in. It's no damned wonder it was bothering me! The knot is gone, now, and so is the pain. |
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| Did you get a second opinion on this name? |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|01:38 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | lol, wtf | ] |
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| |  amused | ] |
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| | the movie "Blank Check" | ] |
"Aciphex."
That is a terrible, terrible name for a medicine.
You know what that sounds like spoken aloud?
"Ass Effects." |
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| No wonder I have a headache. |
[Apr. 18th, 2008|09:23 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | alice cooper, awesome, doctor who, dreams, harry potter, lazytown, mighty ducks, music, scientology, sonic, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  weird | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Alice Cooper - Clones (We're All) | ] |
The dream was primarily Mighty Ducks. At one point I was even my own (male) character. I like him, and I haven't thought of the Ducks much lately, so this was pretty awesome.
But then it got weird. Okay, my dreams are always weird. But this was weird.
The Mighty Ducks were fighting Dragaunus' robotic minions. Nothing strange there. Pretty much a day in the life, really. Much of the actual battle was in my own, real neighborhood, only with a lot of insanely tall trees. Okay, still not that unusual.
Except that one of the main robot types they were battling were Daleks. No sign of Doctor Who.
More of the robots were badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog.
There was a scene where I was frantically choosing from among an array of wooden sticks to try and figure out which one was my wand. The name "Harry Potter" was spoken distinctly at this time.
Was that Hulk Hogan shushing me as we snuck down a darkened hotel hallway?
A rather epic fight took place directly across the street from the little church of Scientology a couple blocks away.
At one point I (as my character) collapsed, exhausted, on... the sales counter from the job I quit a few weeks ago.
For some reason, the Ducks' headquarters floated overhead. Coming and going involved a rope ladder. Never saw Sportacus, though.
Still trying to figure out where the trolls I had to chase off came from.
I woke up with Alice Cooper's (We're All) Clones stuck in my head. |
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| o_O |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|09:24 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | chat, wtf | ] |
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| | weird | ] |
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| | some educational thing on tv. | ] |
[08:10] [WaddzatNewJersey] Hello
[08:10] [Inke] Do I... know you?
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] No
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] But i know you
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] lol
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] jk
[08:11] [Inke] From where?
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] Do you rp?
[08:11] [Inke] ...Yes.
[08:11] [WaddzatNewJersey] do you like naruto
[08:11] [Inke] No.
[08:12] [WaddzatNewJersey] why?
[08:12] [WaddzatNewJersey] well
[08:12] [WaddzatNewJersey] do you like the jutsu from naruto
[08:12] [Inke] ...I don't even know what that is.
[08:12] [Inke] I don't like Naruto.
[08:12] [WaddzatNewJersey] cause I know this site that you can make your own char.
[08:12] [WaddzatNewJersey] Dude......... your gay
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| ...Wow. |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|11:04 am] |
Session Start (285609224:423283385): Fri Apr 11 10:34:00 2008
[10:34 AM] 423283385: ïðèâåò
[10:34 AM] *** Auto-response sent to 423283385: Dreaming of monsters...
[10:35 AM] 423283385: in the sense of what?
[10:35 AM] *** Auto-response sent to 423283385: Dreaming of monsters...
[10:35 AM] HamatoKameko: ...what are you talking about?
[10:36 AM] 423283385: I not monster:-\
[10:36 AM] HamatoKameko: That's called an away message. -_-
[10:38 AM] 423283385: pancake I russian and some word bad understand
[10:38 AM] *** Auto-response sent to 423283385: Dreaming of monsters...
[10:39 AM] HamatoKameko: Stop using a bad translator, idiot. "Dreaming of monsters" is my away message. It means I don't want to talk to you. Go away.
[10:40 AM] 423283385: on horseradish of the gnarl
[10:41 AM] HamatoKameko: ...Okay now you're just screwing with me. |
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| Not my tree! ;_; |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|05:29 am] |
Pardon my language. I was in a bit of a state. ^^;
[02:07 AM] HamatoKameko: Holy. Fucking. Shit. DUDE.
[02:07 AM] HamatoKameko: That... that wasn't my cabinet falling over.
[02:08 AM] HamatoKameko: That... That was the ENTIRE GODDAMNED TREE ON MY SIDE OF THE HOUSE BREAKING OFF AND FALLING OVER MY SIDEWALK. THE ENTIRE FUCKING THING FROM ROOF LEVEL DOWN. THE WHOLE FUCKING TREE IS LYING IN FRONT OF MY DOOR.
[02:08 AM] BamBamAgentPink: xDDDDDDDDD
[02:08 AM] HamatoKameko: It... It isn't FUNNY.
[02:08 AM] BamBamAgentPink: WELCOME TO MY WORLD
[02:09 AM] HamatoKameko: This was my favorite tree. and an OLD tree that has been here nearly as long as this house has (and the house is like 100 years old)
[02:09 AM] HamatoKameko: And it offered like ALL of the shade on this side of the house.
[02:09 AM] BamBamAgentPink: Awww, you has sun now
[02:09 AM] HamatoKameko: THE WHOLE FUCKING TREE, DUDE. THE WHOLE ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING TREE IS SITTING IN FRONT OF MY FUCKING GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING DOOR!!!!
[02:10 AM] HamatoKameko: IT'S AN ENTIRE TREE, DUDE!!! LIKE A FIFTY+ YEAR OLD OAK IN FRONT OF MY DOORWAY!!!!!!
[02:11 AM] HamatoKameko: *flails helpless to explain the immensity of the situation*
[02:11 AM] HamatoKameko: I guess I better call my landlord. o_o;;;
[02:11 AM] BamBamAgentPink: Yeah xD
[02:12 AM] HamatoKameko: Jesus Christ. THE WHOLE TREE. Nvr, you don't understand, it's THE ENTIRE FUCKING TREE!!!!
[02:12 AM] HamatoKameko: *flails some more*
[02:12 AM] BamBamAgentPink: MEKO
[02:12 AM] BamBamAgentPink: It happened here
[02:12 AM] BamBamAgentPink: Jeebus
[02:12 AM] BamBamAgentPink: They fell left and right
[02:12 AM] HamatoKameko: AN ENTIRE TREE!!!!!
[02:13 AM] HamatoKameko: AN ENTIRE TREE, DUDE!!!
[02:13 AM] BamBamAgentPink: MEKO
[02:13 AM] BamBamAgentPink: CALL YOUR LANDLORD
[02:13 AM] BamBamAgentPink: JEEBUS
[02:13 AM] HamatoKameko: I've lived in tornado alley all my life and never had anything like this happen in MY yard before. o_o;;;;
[02:14 AM] HamatoKameko: I liked that tree. ;o;
[02:14 AM] HamatoKameko: It wasn't even dead! It was perfectly healthy! It's almost always the dead/dying trees that break and fall, not the healthy ones!
[02:14 AM] HamatoKameko: *flailfaint*
More photos on my Flickr account. |
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| Coulda sworn existing basic counts were supposed to be unaffected... |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|12:46 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | lj fails, strikethrough, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  pissed off | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Alice Cooper- Enough's Enough [Da Da, 1983] | ] |
Hey LJ.
What the fuck is this?
And more importantly, how the FUCK do I get rid of it? It's in my goddamned way--and worse, the so-called "close" button doesn't do anything!
Assholes. |
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| Stupid bugs. |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|12:26 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | aaaaaaaaugh, bugs, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | irritated | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Alice Cooper - Fresh Blood [Da Da, 1983] | ] |
*grumble*
It is too early in the year to have to put up with noisy cicadas. |
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| An irrational fear confirmed: Construction crane crushes NYC building, 4 dead, 3 missing |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|07:15 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | fears, omg, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | completely freakin' terrified!! | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | NBC Today coverage of the "Midtown Horror." | ] |
My irrational fear of construction cranes has just become a very concrete fear. No, really, look at this.
Yeah, you see that pile of rubble between those two buildings? A few minutes ago that was a four-story townhouse. It was completely obliterated by this falling 19-story behemoth.
Crane falls and crushes building in NYC, four dead
Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:38am EDT
By Chip East and Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A giant crane fell and crushed a residential building in Manhattan on Saturday, killing four construction workers and injuring more than 10 other people, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
He said the crane "basically just flattened" a four-story townhouse with a bar on the lower level and damaged three other buildings. The bar was closed at the time.
Greta Welkhammer, a witness who was passing by on her bicycle, told local TV station NY1 that she looked up and saw the crane "literally split in half."
"I saw the crane crashing, splitting in half," she said, adding that she saw the building it hit "falling like a house of cards."
"Everybody was running, running; it was devastating," she said.
Bloomberg said the crane broke during a routine operation to extend its height by inserting a section and raising the top part of the crane. The bottom part of the crane fell and hit a 19-story building but nobody was injured there.
The top part of the crane, which witnesses said was at least 15 or 20 stories high before the accident, fell and flipped over, hitting and damaging three buildings as it fell and landing on the townhouse that was completely crushed.
Bloomberg said authorities were investigating the cause of the accident and emergency workers were still searching in the rubble for anyone who might be trapped.
He said the four people killed were construction workers, and that several more workers were injured. An additional 10 people were injured, three of them critically, Bloomberg said.
"Fortunately the bar was not open so there was either one or two people in that bar," he said. One person was rescued alive from the bar and workers were searching to check if the second person was in fact in the bar at the time.
"We are still looking for other victims potentially trapped in the rubble," Bloomberg said.
Cars on the street were buried in rubble, with one car flipped over on its side on 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan between 1st and 2nd Avenues.
Local TV station NY1 broadcast an amateur video taken shortly after the collapse that showed the building completely enveloped in what appeared to be a cloud of brownish dust.
(Writing by Claudia Parsons; Editing by Eric Walsh)
They're still looking from one construction worker, as well as two women on the ground that are unaccounted for.
I'd say I'm pretty well justified in my fear, now, yeah? |
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| Spit = Painkiller? |
[Feb. 10th, 2008|10:57 pm] |
I'm now convinced that human saliva has healing and/or pain-reducing qualities.
How else could jamming my pinky in my mouth after dropping a two-pound glass bottle of spaghetti sauce on it actually bring the pain down to bearable levels? |
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| Numbers. |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|08:12 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | weather, wtf | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  hot | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | the morning news on tv. | ] |
It is February 4th.
It is 8:10 in the morning.
It is 70 degrees outside.
It is forecast to be a high of 82 degrees today.
WHY ;_; |
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| Wheeee! |
[Feb. 2nd, 2008|03:25 am] |
SIX DAYS UNTIL
DARK FLOORS
IS RELEASED IN
FINLAND!!!!!!!!!
Fangirl? Me? Nah.
>_> |
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| ...What the hell just happened? |
[Jan. 25th, 2008|10:05 pm] |
So one of my neighbors has this like, chronic cough, right? So much so that, even with music on, I can generally hear him hacking away, three or four coughs in a row, in his apartment. It can really get to be obnoxious at times, but I can't complain much, because really, there's only so much a person can do about a cough, right?
So this evening, I'm laying half-asleep in my bed, around eight-thirty nine o'clock or so, having slept much of the afternoon in a largely nerve-induced haze. In pajamas and not really dressed to go anywhere more than the drive through for a soda (something I'll be doing as soon as I post this, in fact). The lights are off, the only illumination being from my computer monitor, and there's no music or any other sound coming from the apartment to indicate I'm awake or even home, it's too late in the evening for deliveries, and family members would have at least called before turning up, especially this late. I'm pretty secure in the fact that there's no one around to bug me aside from a phone call. It's cozy and quiet, and I'm half-considering crawling out of bed for a while, but only half.
Then I hear a cough from the sidewalk outside my apartment (my apartment faces the side of the next house; the narrow, private sidewalk runs in between the buildings). No big deal, I assume it's a neighbor and don't think too much of it. Just because the other neighbors don't usually use the back walk since they have other entrances, doesn't mean they aren't entitled to if they choose to.
But then there's a knock on my door. I open my eyes, staring at the windowshades. No one ever knocks on my door, other than the postman and the usual delivery services. And occasionally my mom, though knowing me, she calls ahead of time. I'm not remotely a big fan of unnanounced visitors, because if I'm at home and not at work, I'm more than likely just not making an effort for my appearance. It's my day off or after work and I'm entitled to be lazy. So I ask the obvious question.
(personal information changed to protect the stupid.)
"Who is it?"
"It's Jason. Your neighbor. I live in Apartment 2." That is, the apartment from whence the Coughing From Hell originates.
I groan and roll out of bed... "Just a minute." ...and start looking for a sweatshirt and a headband so I can open the door without giving the guy a heart attack. But he pipes up again.
"It's okay, I just wanted to ask if you have a cigarrette?"
"... No. I don't smoke."
"All right, sorry to bug you."
...what. |
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| Cloverfield, Ruined. |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|05:30 pm] |
Hey Gary. Yeah, you, Gary Cogill, film critic for WFAA Channel 8 (Dallas area ABC affiliate).
Thanks. A lot.
No, really, I'm impressed. You've clearly got balls of steel.
You must, since you just completely destroyed all the hype and mystery and curiousity the unique marketing campaign for Cloverfield has built up over the past months.
I was really looking forward to getting to see this film, impressed as I was by the unusual cinematography style and absolutely crazy marketing, let alone the incredible ability of those involved to keep leaks from getting out, something that, in the Internet age, is a near impossibility.
But since you've just spoiled the surprise and fun of discovering for oneself what actually happens in the film, I can't say I have much motivation to bother seeing it, now.
Way to thank me for trusting your opinions for the last sixteen years. |
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