¿ question of the day ?

[trisherina]

(have fun on your fam flight, HFoxen!)

[trisherina]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41zh5OiyuiL._AA280_.jpg

Just the plain nickel finish though. Dressmaker's shears that come with their OWN SHEATH. You just know they have to cut things.

[brightpearl]

^nice.

Now that everything's opened, the best thing I got was from my kiddo. It was a huge surprise, and really personally significant, so forgive me for not describing it...but I can't believe he thought of it himself. :o *sniff*

And I want to show Auntie the next best thing...num num nummm.
If only I could eat them.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/2136020585_a9cc897945.jpg

[Frieda]

^ oooh pretty! oh, and if you do, maybe you can have your broken teeth replaced with some of those rocks instead of gold ;)

[Anna]

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[auntie aubrey]

i gots the radiohead disc box thingy (http://www.acquiremag.com/2007/10/01/inrainbows.jpg) from the "in rainbows" release. the one with the nifty vinyl and pic-a-tures and discs and stuff. although i haven't seen it yet because it was delivered while we were out of town. i haven't stopped thinking about it since i was told that i was receiving it.

that one tied with the zoom lens i got for my camera. that's a pretty nifty thing, too.

[trisherina]

Loose Associations Boxing Day-ish ¿ question of the day ?:

Have you ever been in a fistfight (no matter if you were provocateur or défendeur)?

[lukkucairi]

no.

but I've been in a glue fight.

[Frieda]

yes

[T.I.P.]

yes

[zero]

... ever been in a fistfight?

aye afvckken have trisharama - what's it to you?


you want to make something of it?

[brightpearl]

no

but I welcome this opportunity to find out who might have a broken nose.

[T.I.P.]

Mine was broken by a kick to the face.

It basically points to the right, but the bridge itself is intact - so it does not "look like a broken nose". It just looks a bit askew..

[Hyakujo's Fox]

not as an adult

[brightpearl]

Mine was broken by a kick to the face.

It basically points to the right, but the bridge itself is intact - so it does not "look like a broken nose". It just looks a bit askew..

Oh yes, I see how the slight crook in your beak accentuates the graceful curve of your feathered horns.
:p

[auntie aubrey]

i'm a lover, not a fighter.

[Marcus Bales]

Loose Associations Boxing Day-ish ¿ question of the day ?:

Have you ever been in a fistfight (no matter if you were provocateur or défendeur)?

Afraid so, but not in this last decade. Unless you count writing light verse as intellectual fist fighting.

[auntie aubrey]

if you punch mr blobby you will temporarily lose your fist amongst the folds, which is incapacitating at best and crippling at worst. and then your hand will smell like overripe persimmons for the rest of the day. i learned this the hard way and dedicated myself to a life of peace.

[trisherina]

Yes, lost a contact lens back when those things were expensive, the whole thing wasn't my idea anyway.

you want to make something of it?

Who pissed on your cornflakes?

(^^that was the clever retort that won me the sucker punch way back when)

[zero]

we had "who stole your scone?"

[brightpearl]

^seriously?

That's so cute.

[auntie aubrey]

Who pissed on your cornflakes?

(^^that was the clever retort that won me the sucker punch way back when)

i assume you gained the upper hand when your foe paused momentarily to wonder how on earth you'd guessed his/her breakfast.

[zero]

^seriously?

yes - there were stolen scones long before there were pissed-on cornflakes

[trisherina]

i assume you gained the upper hand when your foe paused momentarily to wonder how on earth you'd guessed his/her breakfast.

Hmm, well, she did ask me to "Say that again?" -- I always thought that was to set me up for the sucker punch but maybe y'know come to think of it, she was probably just agape with amazement at my intuition. :D

[brightpearl]

yes - there were stolen scones long before there were pissed-on cornflakes

I love it.

Around here we accuse people of being one taco short of a combination plate.

[craig johnston]

Loose Associations Boxing Day-ish ¿ question of the day ?:

Have you ever been in a fistfight (no matter if you were provocateur or défendeur)?

not as an adult. although i have been assaulted, i always managed to run away or avoid a real fight. as a kid maybe 2 or 3 times a week.

new question 28.12.2007:

what's your favourite position?

me: lying down

[lukkucairi]

half lotus in an office chair.

[brightpearl]

dunno about favorite, but most common is between a rock and a hard place. :D

[auntie aubrey]

right leg tucked up under my half-tilted bottom, as to best display my callipygousness.

[trisherina]

almost lying down

[T.I.P.]

lying down, upper back propped on pillow, legs stretched out and crossed

[Pixie Cherries]

My favorite is on my airbed propped up on pillows reading a book.

(My unfavorite is now. At my computer, sitting on a broken desk chair that slowly goes down and then I stand up pull the lever and it goes back up. This goes on all day. Bad for your disposition. Good for your thighs.)

[Bman]

The first five minutes I spend in any chair is trying to fold my left leg under my right thigh. If the chair doesn't allow this I make a mental note to never sit there again.

[12"razormix]

embrace

[zero]

settee

[craig johnston]

^^
depends on size (of various things).
i'm telling you though, that old kitchen table thing is way over-rated,
and as for in the car...
bed is best, comfy, and lots of room for manouvre (sp?)

;)

[zero]

^^depends on size (of various blah blah)... wink blah blah blah i'm telling you though blah blah ... old kitchen table blah blah over-rated .. and as for in the car...bed is best blah blah, comfy, and lots of blah blah room for manouvre ..blah blah wink


^★ rubbish tiny booklets ★

[Marcus Bales]

http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/opening/queensgambit/qgd3.gif

I've always liked this one, playing black.

[madasacutsnake]

What do you grow?

Pics and growing tips welcome.

I've got fenugreek in a herb pot and a blue bird of paradise.

[auntie aubrey]

What do you grow?

more resentful by the day.

[Jack Flanders]

more resentful by the day.

me too.

[trisherina]

A ficus benjamina I finally found the right place for (note: NO direct sun), a cactus who loves the direct sun, a yucca cane (ditto) and a purplish pink phalaenopsis orchid. Best thing I can tell you about the orchid is stick it in the dark and forget about it for a month after it's done blooming. A month at least.

[Jack Flanders]

A ficus benjamina I finally found the right place for (note: NO direct sun), a cactus who loves the direct sun, a yucca cane (ditto) and a purplish pink phalaenopsis orchid. Best thing I can tell you about the orchid is stick it in the dark and forget about it for a month after it's done blooming. A month at least.

Yay!! Orchids are so cool and easier to grow than one thinks.

[Anna]

http://www.donnan.com/images/LilyValley.JPG

[Brynn]

I'm growing despondent because i can't tell anybody what the best thing I got for Christmas anymore.

I also grow an acacia vine inside, from a clipping that my husband got from his grandfather before he died. It blooms with these funky little flowers every year that look plastic. the leaves stays healthy and green-looking, even if you forget to water it for a month. then it lets you know by shrivelling a little, but it bounces right back. Very very easy to propagate - just stick it in water and it will grow roots. It'll be very happy for years just sitting in the water, too. Very easy-going plant.

[Frieda]

erm

inside:

orchids: 2x phalaenopsis, 1x cambria, 1x dendrobium, 1x oncidium, 1x cattleya
3x hippeastrum in several colors
1 cactus
3x smaller kalanchoe that i just got and one bigass kalanchoe that has grown into a big mf in 3 years
1 small fern
1 aloe vera


outside on the balcony:

2 small conifers,
2 big baskets of daffodils
3 flowerpots of muscari
5x hellebore in several colors (not blooming yet)
1x lavender
1x oleander

and some others that i don't know the names of-- most are in winter recess now except for the bulbs.

edited to add: and a christmas tree! :eek:

[zero]

.
... i grow old … i grow old …
i shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

shall i part my hair behind? do i dare to eat a peach?
i shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think that they will sing to me.

i have seen them riding seaward on the waves
combing the white hair of the waves blown back
when the wind blows the water white and black.

we have lingered in the chambers of the sea
by sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
till human voices wake us, and we drown.

t.s. eliot

[zero]

also a little oak tree i dug up as a seedling and am bonsaiing

[Brynn]

perhaps one just shouldn't grow old to start with, unless you have a good set of tools.

[T.I.P.]

there is an onion in my kitchen that has started growing tendrils.

i am going to set him free before i move my stuff out tomorrow.

[Marcus Bales]

I'm growing despondent because i can't tell anybody what the best thing I got for Christmas anymore.

We already know. A new barely used flute you're using to forget the ex-flute. You go, girl!

[Brynn]

Now I can exhale. :)

[Frieda]

question for sunday 30 dec 07

are you going to shoot up some fireworks this year on NYE? why, why not, how much, what did you get, etc? :)

[T.I.P.]

no fireworks this year because of the big move

[Frieda]

aw, i'm sorry.. i promise i will wait till two minutes past midnight tomorrow ;) :D

[T.I.P.]

how 'bout you Frieda ? exploding anything interesting this new year ??

[Frieda]

mm :o

this year i'm blowing up something called the aftershock, the earthquake and the nightlife

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8082/vuurwerkws7.jpg

the aftershock thing was sold out but the guy at the store told me i could come by later to pick the stuff up because he would probably get a new load.. so tonight i went into the dark alley behind the shop, knocked on a window 3 times and picked up my explosives :rolleyes:

edited to add: yes that earthquake thing is just as ridiculously big as it looks on the picture :o

[T.I.P.]

^ put lots of icing on the "earthquake", and you'll have the perfect cake to offer someone you don't like !

way worse than fruitcake :)

[Hyakujo's Fox]

probably not (http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/WorkSafe/Home/Safety+and+Prevention/Health+And+Safety+Topics/Licensing+and+Registrations/How+to+comply/Applying+for+a+licence/Pyrotechnics+&+Fireworks#single) :rolleyes:

[brightpearl]

Prolly not myself, so my munchkin doesn't blow his fingers off, but the neighborhood kids always put on quite a show in the park across the street. Our porch is a great vantage point.

Btw Frieda, I have all new respect for you. :D
(size matters)

[Frieda]

fox, it's illegal?? wow!

and yes, size does matter indeed :D

[madasacutsnake]

And illegal here too.

[lukkucairi]

um, maybe?

we have a firework someone gave us - it's in the basement - it's from wyoming so I believe it's illegal in this state :rolleyes:

if we're ambitious we might set it off down the street. but maybe not.

[auntie aubrey]

fireworks are illegal in michigan, where i blew up, so i wasn't aware until recently that blowing up fireworks on new years is something people do.

which isn't to say we didn't get our hands on illegal fireworks from across the border for the 4th of july. but take the illegal angle and combine it with 7000 feet of lake-effect snow and you're pretty much robbed of that impulse tout suite. which is probably why i never knew new years was celebrated that way.

to answer your question: i'm blowing up nothing.

[craig johnston]

oh man. in berlin it's already started. fireworks, bangers blah blah.
i wanna be somewhere quiet by the sea!

:(

[auntie aubrey]

fireworks are illegal in michigan, where i blew up

O FREUDIAN!!!!!

[trisherina]

^^I thought you was just rappin

I have a good-sized Roman candle that my BIL gave us -- it was apparently just rolling around in his truck somewhere and he thought we might like to aim it at the neighbour's snowboard ramp/hockey rink and let 'er rip at midnight on the 31st.

[Tunesmith]

O FREUDIAN!!!!!

That's one hell of a slip, auntie! :D

No explosions this year, cause there was a bit of an accident in the area last NYE, and let's just say it WASN'T PRETTY.

Plus, the only (non-homemade) explosives a teen can (legally) get his hands on around here are two inches long, shoot confetti, and go "phut". :rolleyes:

[Marcus Bales]

What are your top 3 contenders for your top New Year's resolution?

[Odbe]

1. Never make any more New Year's resolutions.
2. Keep making them, but only ones I want to break.
3. Resolve to put off making resolutions until next year, starting with making this one again.

[madasacutsnake]

Here's mine for '05:

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=235999&postcount=38

and a lot of other peeps' for '05:

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showthread.php?t=7202&

I managed to keep mine.

Top three contenders for '08:

1. Study something. Anything.

2. Budget a bit better.

3. Create (more) garden.

[Frieda]

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/showpost.php?p=242470&postcount=54

wow, looking at my post from back then, and realising that time i thought i was going to moonwalk again-- how wrong was i?? painfully wrong :(

i still practise dancing and moonwalking almost every day and fail. i really miss dancing. the other stuff for that year worked out pretty well :)

no resolutions for 2008, i'm going to take it easy :) hey, that was one!


edited to add: is this monday's question by the way?

[trisherina]

Three? Goodness, that sounds ambitious.


use proper body mechanics
have a decent family vacation
maintain equanimity

[lukkucairi]

find the middle way!

[T.I.P.]

1. Exercise and eat at home as much as possible.

2. Do absolutely nothing for at least 20 minutes every day.

3. Create one multichannel sound installation.

[lukkucairi]

3. Create one multichannel sound installation.

hey! I need one of those!

[T.I.P.]

you do, eh ? We should talk ;)

The difficulty I will be facing is the fact that i have to leave all my loudspeakers in France because of the voltage issue. I will quickly need to get my hands on at least 6 transducers if I am to achieve my goal.

Another ever so slight detail is that I will need an apartment big enough to fit them all in :rolleyes:


(sry for disrupting the question bread :o. Please carry on.)

[xfox]

1. begin my new life
2. never run out of beer
3. ride a horse again

[lukkucairi]

you do, eh ? We should talk ;)


(sry for disrupting the question bread :o. Please carry on.)

you need to be where I'm going to be at the end of next august :)

wait, was this ny resolutions? feh. carry on.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

to never be unrealistic again

[Marcus Bales]

Monday's question: when are you going to take the Christmas tree down?

[lukkucairi]

to never be unrealistic again

can I switch mine out? I like hfox's better :)

oh, wait, we're on another question already? erm - we bought a little one in a pot but I think it died. probably when mom leaves, like the 4th or so.

[Brynn]

probably not (http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/WorkSafe/Home/Safety+and+Prevention/Health+And+Safety+Topics/Licensing+and+Registrations/How+to+comply/Applying+for+a+licence/Pyrotechnics+&+Fireworks#single) :rolleyes:
Now that's what I call "help for pyromaniacs" :)

I always take it down on Epiphany for my birthday.

[trisherina]

The plan is tomorrow, unless the large and small rat talk me out of it.

[auntie aubrey]

we already took it down. yesterday. the spouse and i just couldn't take one more freakin day of christmas cheer.


also i only have one resolution so far: to talk to my aunt at least once a month. since i lost my mom she's my go-to-gal for mom-esque conversation, but last year we only spoke twice. that's not often enough.

[Earthling]

My Christmas tree is out on my balcony this year. It only has one strand of 50 mini-lights on it, which is only about $2 a month, but actually looks nice and might give some birds a little warth this winter, so i figure I'll keep it glowing for a few months this year.
Yeah, I can hear the neighbors now, "Lazy butt, still has those darn lights up."

[madasacutsnake]

I hat Christmas but by God, that tree does not come down until Epiphany. It's not over until I've made Three King's Cake.

[Marcus Bales]

Question for Thursday, January 3, 2007: what was the most interesting or startling thing you learned between 16 and 19 years of age?

[trisherina]

That I was utterly worthless.

[lukkucairi]

that there really was a santa claus

[auntie aubrey]

that i didn't need anyone.


10 years later the most startling thing i learned was that i was wrong.

[Frieda]

hmm lets see.. 16-17 was the last year of school, 17-19 was university.

i think those are the years in which i learned i can't trust anyone, i am worthless, nobody cares about me, nobody respects my boundaries so i'd better shut up about stuff that matters to me or get my face kicked in, and i'd be better off dead. you know, stuff like that. it wasn't pretty back then.

[Brynn]

That doctors don't know everything, hospitals can't fix just anything, and if my father has a stroke and is in the I.C. unit, then there really isn't all the time in the world to see him like I thought there was, no matter how angry I am at him.

[brightpearl]

that i didn't need anyone.


10 years later the most startling thing i learned was that i was wrong.

Wow, me too.
I was kind of slow on the uptake about the second part.
And I think for me it would be more accurate to say I don't need anyone in particular, but I do need others.

[T.I.P.]

i learned that "reality" is not strictly determined by external inputs to the sensory system - it also hinges on internal top-down processes...reality is just as malleable and illusory as a passing thought.

[auntie aubrey]

And I think for me it would be more accurate to say I don't need anyone in particular, but I do need others.

yeah, that's kind of what i mean, too.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

complex numbers

[madasacutsnake]

German.

[Anna]

Mahler

[seebe]

That at 16, I personally, was better off at home than to be a runaway.

[Marcus Bales]

Question of the day Saturday (and the rest of Friday too): If you could do the Samantha thing with your nose and create and get the perfect job for you right now, what would it be?

[madasacutsnake]

Lawyer.

[Jack Flanders]

Solar/wind power engineering.

[seebe]

P.I.

[12"razormix]

If you could do the Samantha thing with your nose and create and get the perfect job for you right now, what would it be?witch

[craig johnston]

mattress tester

[lukkucairi]

installation artist

[auntie aubrey]

5 star resort reviewer.

[seebe]

crash test dummy

[zero]

i refuse to do a samantha thing with my nose



i have my dignity

[auntie aubrey]

will you do a samantha thing with your pole?

http://theprint.dk/linked/80sfox.jpg

[zero]

http://www.bikemojo.com/speak/images/smilies/eyebrow.gif that would depend on what job's on offer

[trisherina]

bloated and corpulent producer

[12"razormix]

i think he could do that!

[zero]

i didn't become GLOBAL WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFRICA EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST MANAGER of SENIOR BISCUIT DESIGN MANAGEMENT by doing samantha things with my nose you know

[12"razormix]

yes i know honey










there there.

[zero]

thanks.



can you do a samantha thing with yours nose?



(just between you and me, i tried a minute ago. all that moveded was my mouth. to the left)



your tiny hand is all covered in posterpaint btw. messy girl.

[12"razormix]

can you do a samantha thing with yours nose?nope


your tiny hand is all covered in posterpaint btw. messy girl. i've had too much time. on ma hands..

[zero]

can you do a samantha thing with your nose?

nope..

then in your case you could always do a samantha thing with your arse

[12"razormix]

you could always do a samantha thing with your arseyour new job suits you perfectly!

[zero]

.

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/03/10/images/Harvey_Weinstein_350.jpg

[brightpearl]

If I could get paid to feed the bleedin' cat I'd be all set.
:mad:

[l'azizza]

The one I've got.

[Anna]

philanthropist

[Marcus Bales]

question of the day for Sunday: how many houseplants do you have?

[Frieda]

11

[Stephi_B]

atm only 1 (the fig tree - it's alive'n'kickin, yeah!)

[craig johnston]

including fungus?

[auntie aubrey]

http://code.arc.cmu.edu/home-2020/upload/zero.0.jpg

eff a bunch of houseplants. what are they good for? NOTHING, i say.

[12"razormix]

19

[zero]

too many to count - at least a three thousand! acannie get moving for the fvckken things!

[Frieda]

^ lives in a forest of bonsai oaks




i still have my christmas tree inside-- that makes 12

[Frieda]

i must add-- i suddenly had a vision of mr zero as a discworld nac mac feegle with his red hair, blue tattoos, a big beard and packed with heavy armor-- "plants, BLETHERS! acannie get moving for the fvckken things!"

[zero]

NATURE IS SO AMAZING

[lukkucairi]

too many to count - at least a three thousand! acannie get moving for the fvckken things!

^^ what he said

one of these days I'll have to post a picture of our bathtub...

[12"razormix]

oh yes, please post a picture of the bathtub with you and zero in it! :)

[lukkucairi]

http://www.letterneversent.com/archives/bathtub_quints.jpg

here's me, zero, pearly, trish, and tippy

zormix, we invited you - but you were BUSY that night.

[zero]

help

[xfox]

0

[madasacutsnake]

A single spider plant.

[Earthling]

What a morbid question for me. i'm a house plant nut, so i often have to stop myself from buying more. I have 16, and here's the trick...I only have 2 windows, one in the bedroom, and one in the kitchen, plus a patio door. I've been living in this apt. about 4 years now, and some of my babies are gonna haveta go. My Spanish Yucca, which started out as a 1 foot plant, is now a seven foot tree, bark and all. It's breaking my heart, for it can no longer get enough light in the window its in. It's gotten so large from being on my balcony during the summer. Just what does one do with a plant that has out grown its place?:(

[Tunesmith]

^ lives in a forest of bonsai oaks

:D

Me personally? Two, and one's on its way out. Second bonsai I've killed. :(

My family? 30+. And they have NAMES. I'm not talking "Venus fly trap named Audrey" names, I'm talking "...and here are our Bromeliads - Laverne, Pip, and Susie".

[Tunesmith]

New question of the day: What are your favorite sounds?

[trisherina]

A genuine chortle
The soft lip smacking a contented lying down dog makes
Fabric rustling, esp. chiffon
Puppy grunts
Slow propellers

[Frieda]

birdsong
sound of the wind rustling in trees
cat purring
cows mooing in the morning when they greet each other

[madasacutsnake]

Ommy saying "ow ow".

Kookaburras.

Silence of an empty house.

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

The James River & train whistles at night

[Stephi_B]

heartbeat of a beloved person
noise a tram makes when passing 'my' crossroad
music (which one depends on mood/setting/..) in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, at night

[β cyg]

your name, as i pray it into the night until it's letters are light

[lukkucairi]

the fire dying

[brightpearl]

(best question ever, tunesy :), hard to do it justice)

bells
trains
waves lapping
a key turning in a lock
thelonius-y/coltrane-y/miles-y/mingus-y sounds
a nudibranch sighing contentedly after consuming a meal of bluebottle jellyfish tentacles

[T.I.P.]

truck honking far away in the night
rhythmic crickets
clicks and cuts
50 hertz bass drones
tibetan bowls
cat meowling to say hello

[craig johnston]

the sound of a pin dropping in space when there's no one
around to hear it and so on.......

ooh, and a tiny baby kitten's heartbeat

and something else, very tingly and sweet and slightly esoteric.

and the kop singing 'you'll never walk alone'

[brightpearl]

and something else, very tingly and sweet and slightly esoteric.

that's my voice, dear.
:p

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I don't think Craig Johnston is taking this thread seriously.

[auntie aubrey]

the best sound in the entire world: the sound of feet.

the clip-clop of shoes on pavement. the click-click of dressy heels on linoleum. the slappy-pat of bare feet on hardwood floors. the soft thumpity thump of running in cushy socks. back in the late 90s fell in love with the video game "crash bandicoot" based solely on their attentiveness to feet noises. miyazaki films have great feet noises.

in college i used to go out at night with a small tape recorder at my side, recording my own feet noises. sometimes they're the same from night to night. sometimes for unknown reasons they change. it's an ever-presence, and your perspective on it never changes. you can never walk away from your feet noises. they're as ever-present as the sound of your own breath.



(i tried to explain this to the spouse very early in our relationship. his response was, "you're going to have to marry me." now i love feet noises even more.)

[Tunesmith]

^ gave me a happy, auntie. I'll have to listen for them in Spirited Away next time I watch it :D

camera shutters opening
the crunch of boots on freshly fallen snow
hearing your heartbeat in a pillow
the soft whushing of someone sleeping's breath
the pings and pongs of table tennis
the scratch of fine-tipped pens on paper
a whispered conversation through a wall
distant wind
the momentary silence after an amazing performance (well, that's lack of sound)

[Stephi_B]

New question for Jan 8 2008:

¿ In which jobs have you already worked ?

[madasacutsnake]

mystery bus tour guide
au pair
checkout chick
personal carer
registered nurse
(antique) shop assistant
second hand dealer

[Stephi_B]

office girl (chained to the copier)
railway construction site worker (tough, but fun)
babysitter (for extraordinary brats)
aide in Hungarian-Bavarian restaurant/pub (day) and Cuban bar (night) (<--same owners)
student assistant at spectroscopy chair

[lukkucairi]

cafeteria salad-bar lackey
live-in house painter
potter
sign painter
bartender
sea-kayak tour guide
tarot reader
reporter
data entry hell
operations management
grant writer/501(c)(3) development assistance
corporate internal communications
finance

[Frieda]

pfft umm...

administrative assistant
folder folder, folder stapler and folder in envelopes putter, also sticker on folder envelope putter
promotion chick
telemarketing interviewer
customer service employee
service desk employee
help desk employee
incident controller
service liaison
escalation manager (can't translate this one properly)
change controller

[lukkucairi]

folder folder, folder stapler and folder in envelopes putter, also sticker on folder envelope putter

didja get worker's compensation for all the papercuts? ;)

[Frieda]

no, no office hazard compensation! :mad:

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Paper boy
Movie Usher
Fry Cook
Video Store Clerk
Costume Store Clerk
Copy shop clerk
Nude Model
Valet/Bellman
Manny (male nanny)
Chef's Apprentice
Waiter
Dishwasher
Draughtsman's' supply salesman
PD & PR for children’s' author
Coffee Roaster
Tea Broker
Computer services bureau manager
Online Broker
IT & AT training specialist

those are just off the top of my head-there are more...

[Jack Flanders]

babysitter
cashier
office filer/typist
camp counselor
hospital food line server
hospital cook (yuk!)
park dept. recreational employee (FUN!!!)
teaching assistant - landscape arch. dept.
campus mechanical eng. dept. draftsperson/designer
landscape architect intern
nursing home cook
nursing home nurse's aide (hard work)
landscape architect city park and rec. dept (absolute heaven :D !!!)
landscape architect - engineering/planning firm (absolute hell :mad: !!)
landscape contractor
master gardener

[Jack Flanders]

babysitter
cashier
office filer/typist
camp counselor
hospital food line server
hospital cook (yuk!)
park dept. recreational employee (FUN!!!)
teaching assistant - landscape arch. dept.
campus mechanical eng. dept. draftsperson/designer
landscape architect intern
nursing home cook
nursing home nurse's aide (hard work)
landscape architect city park and rec. dept (absolute heaven :D !!!)
landscape architect - engineering/planning firm (absolute hell :mad: !!)
landscape contractor
master gardener

parent - the most rewarding but sometimes most difficult of them all.

[auntie aubrey]

babysitter
busgirl
hand-tossed pizza chef
baker's assistant
college dorm night security guard
sex store customer service rep (dildo slinger)
children's museum aide
audio assistant
audio engineer
journalist/writer
marketing/writer/web designer
marketing/writer/web designer/e-commerce & e-content specialist
marketing/web designer/e-commerce & e-content user experience specialist
marketing/e-content & user experience specialist/channel manager/program manger

give me a couple years, there won't be enough pixels on the screen to accommodate my full job function.

[hypnoplasm]

^^ Did you put the sex store job on your resume for the children's museum?

I love seeing the progressions.

Paperboy
Retail clerk
Warehouse worker
Phone psychic
Office temp
Bike messenger
Waiter
Web designer
Programmer
Wine tasting room manager

[brightpearl]

question for Wednesday, January 9, 2008:

How would you define your relationship to clothing?

[Stephi_B]

Well, I wear them, wash them, let them dry, wear them, and so on...

For a woman, quite a loose relationship I guess: clothes should look halfways good on me, be affordable, easy to wash, should not necessarily have to be ironed and should not dare to hide much longer than 20 minutes from me when I search them in a store.

[Coffee]

They are so many times removed, I don't feel relationship to them any more.

[lukkucairi]

^*claps*

utilitarian, occasionally eccentric.

[zero]

crucial

[auntie aubrey]

it's a tense, accusatory relationship. like an unhappy married couple who have grown to hate each other over the years but are too accustomed to depending on that hatred to actually part ways.



^^ Did you put the sex store job on your resume for the children's museum?

...well i may have skewed the description a bit...

[trisherina]

mawkish

[Jack Flanders]

loved - hate - donated

[topcat]

i like clothes

[madasacutsnake]

Hostile, resentful.

[T.I.P.]

about to go from a "casual" to a "business casual" relationship with them

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

What is your most embarrassing moment?

[Stephi_B]

Committing stupidities (usually but not exclusively with someone of the male gender involved) under alcohol influence and remembering everything crystal clear later on (usually the case, damn brain).
I don't care actually if/how much the other party remembers, my embarrassment towards myself (can one say that so?) is the worst embarrassment for me.

[lukkucairi]

7 yrs old, caught stealing two uninflated balloons from the coffee table at karen white's 7th birthday party.

[auntie aubrey]

in short, it involved a phone call and a casual question left on an answering machine that came out all wrong, and in the process of correcting myself i found myself helplessly babbling as i descended rapidly into something between apologizing and groveling. and there was a witness on my end who quite clearly was beyond baffled by my actions.

it was a "let's never speak of this again" moment.

it might not sound bad, but it was bad enough to top my list. that's how bad it was.

[madasacutsnake]

So hard to pick just one............

[Stephi_B]

New q (11.01.08):
¿Favourite country/region/state/city?

[lukkucairi]

that's like asking for my favorite color...can't do it.

I like where I'm living now, though. Salt Lake City. it haz a flavr. salty. with undertones of weird.

[Stephi_B]

^So let's say your favs are the whole of the colour spectrum and planet Earth (being something like a region within the solar system, or not?)!


The Mediterranean and Berlin in summer (when it's quite Mediterranean too).

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

Sweden

New England

Maine

Tie: Rome/Hamburg/Boston

[T.I.P.]

i run the risk of being boring here but: new york city

[Angry Kid Hoyt]

i run the risk of being boring here but: new york city

Not boring at all.
I love New York, kind of like I love my family.
I look forward to visits, but don't ever want to live there again.

[auntie aubrey]

the rocky mountains.


all of them.

[zero]

ªs°k°

[12"razormix]

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[madasacutsnake]

Favourite country: Scotland

region: Barossa Valley

state: mercan - alaska, canadian - alberta of course, australian - tasmania

city: London, Melbourne, Singapore, Hobart, Vancouver, Seattle, Geneva, Rome.........too hard

[brightpearl]

oooooh, I don't think I can pick.
The things I like about one spot depend on the things I like about other spots.

I tend to like spots with a lot of time behind them...Tonina, Chiapas, the Grand Canyon.

Some other spots I like are lost to time...the Vietnamese neighborhood in my old hometown, most of New Orleans...

One spot I really like is the Mexican freetailed bat colony in Mason, TX. You have to walk out there, no road. You cross creeks and sand and prairie grass. And then there's this cave down in a hollow, and at dusk 6 million bats swirl out like a fanged tornado, a million at a time.

[lukkucairi]

OK, I can't do a favorite, but here's an unfavorite or five:

Alpharetta, GA. I could entirely do without ever setting foot in that burg again. Cul-de-sac suburban hell.

You can also keep Schaumburg, IL. Even an Ikea can't save that town.

Charlotte, NC. I have a personal grudge against that city and its fvcked-up unnavigable non-system of a road grid.

Provo, UT. Just...no. No.

Foxdale, Isle of Man. The only village I never liked when I lived there. It had a dead heart.

so, new ¿ question of the day ?

what towns have you been glad to leave forever?

when cursing a former residence, which dirt felt best to shake from your shoes?

[zero]

cowdenbeath

tulsa, oklahoma

[zero]

new pitsligo

[zero]

freuchie

[auntie aubrey]

OK, I can't do a favorite, but here's an unfavorite or five:Alpharetta, GA. I could entirely do without ever setting foot in that burg again. Cul-de-sac suburban hell.

um.


yeah.


i live in alpharetta. http://www.pbreview.com/forums/images/smilies/stuckin.gif

while i can see many reasons for hating many places, and i can see many reasons to regard this area as a suburban idealist's wet dream, i hardly would consider it horrible enough to rank on a list of least favorite places in the world. i don't want to be THAT person who gets all defensive about their home geography, but this question strikes me as fairly mean-spirited.

there, i said it.

[GodlessPinko]

what is red?

[GodlessPinko]

what is red?

its a town i never went to.


one i have been too...

Golmud, China

On the Tibetan plateau, moonscape, meets industrial waste and chinese colonialism. destroyed lives, a "peaceful war" has torn the town, like there is a war going on, constantly, but without the physical destruction, no bombs, but the emotional one. people slaving in factories.

else where in tibet seemed fine, but this one town looked ripped. i later found out the way that i entered the town was banned to foreigners.

[12"razormix]

what towns have you been glad to leave forever?
i have not experienced the feeling that anything is forever yet.

[xfox]

^^ Yes. I would love to live on a big sail boat in the Carribean (again) but my very own home sweet home, now just had a week without hot water, so where ever it's warm and one can do with a hot shower once a week just to get the salt off.

[12"razormix]

that's a very becoming new avy ms. fox, where did you get it? ;)

[xfox]

Thanks! zero came up with it. In my next life I plan to be a graphic artist.
much as i'd like to, i don't own the colour blue. however during my morning rounds just now i happened upon this arresting image.. well it arrested me anyway and maybe it'll arrest you too. (dinnae worry - in the tiny wee version the lady's mahoosive lugs & that thing on hers chin are barely noticeable)

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii293/htpiglet/bscap0000-2.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2150824995_69fc9e1122_t.jpg
professor kong

I like yours, too.

[madasacutsnake]

Hawker aka Dorker. It's where they filmed Wolf Creek. Nough said.

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/w/images/wolf-creek-poster-0.jpg

[lukkucairi]

um.


yeah.


i live in alpharetta. http://www.pbreview.com/forums/images/smilies/stuckin.gif

while i can see many reasons for hating many places, and i can see many reasons to regard this area as a suburban idealist's wet dream, i hardly would consider it horrible enough to rank on a list of least favorite places in the world. i don't want to be THAT person who gets all defensive about their home geography, but this question strikes me as fairly mean-spirited.

there, i said it.

my apologies - twas not meant to be mean-spirited, but I am a jackass at times.

I'm removing alpharetta from the list because your presence means I have a reason to like it. it's the people who make the place for me.

ok, who lives in foxdale?

[12"razormix]

if we want to start to apologize for our likes and dislikes, we're in real trouble here..

[Earthling]

Now isn't this strange?
I have the same answer for the last two questions. 'Lynhurst, New York'
As a child growing up, Lynhurst was a paradise. It's an island off long island surrounded on 3 sides by canals, and the ocean on the other. We would swim, fish, go clamming, hunt crabs, etc. all summer long. And even though the canals were salt water, they would freeze coz of lack of water movement, so we could skate all winter. And there were empty sandlots atleast every other house, which were great for forts, baseball, digging, hide-n-seek, etc.
Now that I'm grown, i returned there several years ago.
No sandlots left, all homes now. The canals are all polluted from boat gases, and the saline in that part of the ocean has increased, so even the canals no longer freeze in winter. It was the destruction of my childhood paradise. I hope to never go there again.

[Earthling]

Now isn't this strange?
I have the same answer for the last two questions. 'Lynhurst, New York'
As a child growing up, Lynhurst was a paradise. It's an island off long island surrounded on 3 sides by canals, and the ocean on the other. We would swim, fish, go clamming, hunt crabs, etc. all summer long. And even though the canals were salt water, they would freeze coz of lack of water movement, so we could skate all winter. And there were empty sandlots atleast every other house, which were great for forts, baseball, digging, hide-n-seek, etc.
Now that I'm grown, i returned there several years ago.
No sandlots left, all homes now. The canals are all polluted from boat gases, and the saline in that part of the ocean has increased, so even the canals no longer freeze in winter. It was the destruction of my childhood paradise. I hope to never go there again.

[brightpearl]

Camelot.
It is a silly place.

[auntie aubrey]

if we want to start to apologize for our likes and dislikes, we're in real trouble here..

no apology was requested or required. likes and dislikes are purely subjective and of course everyone has a right to their opinion.

in my opinion, the way in which folks choose to express their opinions can sometimes be objectionable, and there's nothing wrong with objecting when something is objectionable. whether or not folks feel the need to apologize for their expression is purely up to them.

no need to add an apology clause to ye olde forum rules.

[Stephi_B]

Ingolstadt (Bavaria, straight in the middle between Nuremberg and Munich)
Lived there 11 years ('86-'97), we moved several times within the city but always managed to live only a stonethrow away from both the highway (A9, THE North-South traffic axis in Germany) and some oil refinery (look quite spacey at night, but cover everything outside and even inside if you leave open the window with black grease). Except from the tiny middle-age Old Town (nothing remarkable either), some historic highlights (Illuminati were (re?)founded there, the beer purity law was released there, owned once a famous university, had some eccentric dukes) and Mary Shelley setting her Frankenstein there it consists of triste industry areas, lots of social housing (without any subculture except a criminal one, heard there were for example 200-something burglaries within the last 3 months of the year 2007, not bad for a city with 120,000 inhabitants) and some suburbian hell hoods. The density of assholes is remarkable high (even if we leave aside my mother and stepfathers #1 and #2), nightlife underdeveloped for a Bavarian city of that size, just outside the city limits the Danube swampland begins, they used to send criminals to live there once (poor fellas!), my mother bought a fugly, askew house outta there... :rolleyes:

Munich
Yuppie stronghold, soaked with arrogance, smugness and this BS, Upper Bavarians (unfortunately quite successful) sell to the world as Bavarian culture, yeah and then they are fanatic about security (well, that why richer-than-Kroesus oil sheiks love the city for shopping vacations, yearly medical check-ups), fear that will become worse now after the recent attacks in the subway, dunno if that is still true but in the 90s Munich was the million+ city with the highest police density WORLDWIDE. Out of my own experience I know that it can happen that you sit peaceful, with a travelling bag at a bus stop, just one, two blocks away from the train mainstation and a police van stops and they check your data (even calling police in your home city) and whereabouts as if, dunno, just crazy. Only thing I can say positive about Munich: good film productions, quite some art/creative scene (though both can be a bit arrogant, overly self-conscious at times, see above).

Oh, if I think closely, Upper Bavaria sucks even outside the two urban centres I described above... so if you are touristically interested in Bavaria, please, stay away from that Oktoberfest-Lederhosen-Gamsbart-Neuschwanstein-yodelling-shite and visit Franconia (Nuremberg, Würzburg, Bamberg), Upper Palatinate (Regensburg, Donaustauff/Wallhalla close by) and Lower Bavaria (Straubing with the Gäubodenfest which got 1000x style than Oktoberfest and is the 2nd biggest fair of that kind in Germany after all, Landshut, Passau, the national park Bayrischer Wald, Czech and Austrian borders close by)

[Frieda]

none, i've lived in many places but all in the same area of the NLs. i wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the NL's but here in the Amsterdam area. well, maybe in Haarlem or even closer to the sea and dunes one day when i'm making enough money.

[Stephi_B]

New Q for today 15.01.2008:

¿ What is (are) the main source(s) of inspiration for you ?

[Stephi_B]

night: my time of the day, hard to explain, but then I can think best, feel clearest, ...
interacting with people, watching people/life outside
music(clips)
geometric forms, numbers

Although I read a lot (even the ingredient list of toothpaste and shampoo ;), the written word does not inspire me that much somehow)

[trisherina]

children

[zero]

datta. dayadhvam. damyata.
shantih shantih shantih

[Brynn]

music of all kinds - listening to it, improvising on an instrument, singing.
everything - everything - is better with it.
life would not be so good without it.
beautiful music, angry music, hopeful and despairing,
finding the music in art, music in a conversation or a personality, music in a movie, music in poetry - music in motion, in nature - all good things have music.

[lukkucairi]

about 2 in the morning, usually.

[zero]

the ¿ question of the day ? for wednesday january 16th is





how tired are you? http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/sleepinganddreaming/tiredness/index.html)

[Stephi_B]

too tired to find a degree for that now

[lukkucairi]

320 average

very tired

4 hrs sleep last night!

bah.

[brightpearl]

I missed one :eek:, and it says, "WAKE UP SLEEPYHEAD."

So I guess I am wavering between fatigued and dead. :rolleyes:

[Earthling]

259
Says I'm prettier than a clothes line. Already knew it !:rolleyes:

[Frieda]

239 milliseconds

and that for almost 1 am

[Hyakujo's Fox]

228

[Avalon]

192

"You've been getting your beauty sleep, but DON'T LET THE BED BUGS BITE."

Pfft. I sure don't feel that awake.

[auntie aubrey]

"you seem pretty alert so you won't be able to SLEEP ON A CLOTHES LINE."

i don't get that phrase or the emphasis.


average 282. i don't feel that awake. i want to go to bed but it's only 9:50.

[trisherina]

Too tired to take the full test, but averaging 276 milliseconds.

[madasacutsnake]

Too tired to notice the link.

[seebe]

266. Pretty good for only 3 hours sleep. Yawn

[brightpearl]

Awright, I tried again and did worse after sleeping. :mad:
I have even had half a cup of coffee.

Perhaps I should try sleeping well. :D

[brightpearl]

query fer Thursday the 17:

Think about a relatively minor turning point in your life. How might things be different if it had gone another way?

Extra points for outright fantasizing.

eta: Be sure to let this question go when you're done answering it. Long term exposure may cause rash, irritation of the mucus membranes, blurred vision, chest pains, and spontaneous combustion.

[Stephi_B]

If, late in 2001, I hadn't by mere coincidence started to visit the 4th floor of our institute (well it wasn't pure coincidence, but 1/3 curiousity about these black-magic-theory thingies these people - today my work group - up there did, 1/3 interest in this hot Russian - today my buddy Vanya - and 1/3 cos after most of my cafeteria-smokers'-corner mates had broken off their studies this was a neat place to hang out with fellow smokers):

I wouldn't have gone (in 2004) to live and work in Berlin, city of my passion, but would have stayed in the East Bavarian pampas, I would have shared office at the spectroscopy chair with my ex {1st/2nd semester bf - he's single since then :eek: my informers told me}, who would have talked me after some months into getting together again and marrying him, bearing for him the 4 children he wishes for and staying home - like is tradition in his family - in the house he built for us only 100m away from his parents' house {up to here we still are into his ideal vision for his future life he had told me once - AFTER we had split already - scary eh?}. In 2006, my fourth son had just turned one, I decided this life thoroughly sucks, I divorce my husband, take my kids and move to Brazil. At a beach near Fortaleza I bump into a group of hippies living there, they take us in and I can convince them to open up a bar {hey, there had to be a beach bar in it somewhere!!}, later an art shop, a little backpacker hostel and some basic infrastructure join. Turns out that our little commune becomes a hot tip in the Lonely Planet, we earn quite some money, but somehow this isn't my thing anymore, I take my share and go to live in Berlin (in Friedrichshain cos there's plenty child care facilities) and check whether I shouldn't start at an uni again. I find a nice theory group, turns out that they were in Regensburg once too, only for 2 years, but during my time there, a pity I missed them then...

[Brynn]

At college, I break up with Mark with no explanation whatsoever.

I save myself two years of tears. I end up joining a choir or an intramural kickball team instead of taking that existentialism class, and I make lots of fun friends that I end up traveling all over the world with. We are still friends today, and we all meet to sing songs and drink at least once a year. I buy a little black pony with a silver saddle and give kids rides on it all day long on the ranch I buy from the proceeds of the travel books I end up writing.

[lukkucairi]

in 2002 I had the chicken instead of the steak.

I didn't almost choke to death, my life wasn't saved by my present husband, and I am now a topiary artist at the Lincoln Park conservatory in Chicago. On the weekends I'm learning to speed skate.

[trisherina]

I bought the Marine Drive place with my ex in the fall of 1986. By winter he started drinking again, and I spent more and more time at the fish and chip shop marveling at the quality of light on the tablecloths and in the trees, smoking Marlies and drinking tea after work. Twice I wake up on the beach not sure how I got there before the day comes that the glassed in breakfast terrace off the bottle-strewn bedroom is streaked with gore and the signs of a struggle, and I am found crumpled in a lifeless heap next to the tiled fountain in the courtyard. He crosses the border at Port Roberts and is never seen or heard from again.

[Jack Flanders]

query fer Thursday the 17:

Think about a relatively minor turning point in your life. How might things be different if it had gone another way?

Extra points for outright fantasizing.



ok!! a relatively MINOR turning point in my life!!! I turned right and went to Burger King to get lunch. the drive-up window line was bumper-to-bumper (mostly with SUV's.) fvck that I said very loudly and swerved around the idjits.

I drove to the exit and turned left. mcfries!!!! here I come!!! :)

[trisherina]

You're the best, Jack! :D

[Tunesmith]

Question for Saturday the 19th:

Did you ever run away from home?

edit: Thanks Trish, I'll change the question! :)

[trisherina]

No. It seemed to make more sense as an adult, though.

[craig johnston]

yes, one year ago

[auntie aubrey]

i have a vague memory of attempting to run away once when i was maybe 4, if that. i was a thumb-sucker at that point and my parents had left my sister and i in the care of a teenager who thought she knew best how to raise kids. so she kept putting me on "punishment" whenever she saw me with my thumb in my mouth. and each time she would threaten worse and worse punishment if she saw me doing it again. i finally couldn't take it and decided if my parents weren't there to protect me, i would have no choice but to leave.

i very vividly remember getting this little tiny "suitcase" that was more like a makeup bag to an adult, and packing dusting cloths into it. why dusting cloths? because i wasn't strong enough to pull open the drawers on my dresser to get my clothing. but i could get to the bottom shelf of the linen closet, where we stored dusting cloths made from ripped-up cloth diapers.

it's not an in-motion memory. it's more like i remember amorphous feelings and snapshots of actions. i remember that i wasn't angry, i was just so terribly sad to the point of grief that i had no choice but to leave home. i didn't WANT to leave home, but once packing began it wasn't like i was choosing to go of my own accord anymore. the memory is a smudgy snapshot of grief and remorse over having to go, when all i wanted to do was put my thumb in my mouth for comfort.

the babysitter and my sister came and talked me out of it and i sobbed big, heartbreaking tears over it. in fact, to this day when i think of the heartbreaking moments in my life, that one stands out as the very first one i can recall. and also one of the most intense.

[Stephi_B]

Yes, twice, with 9 and 17 1/2.

The first time was long and well planned (in such a well & thoughtful way that amazes me today as a grown-up) and had a definite goal (my grandparents place ~80km away), but I came back after some hours, I had scarcely reached the next town, when I grew to afraid out alone in the night (that I had not planned, could not have, I think). The second time was a spontaneous thing that happened in the heat of the moment like, 'planned' & executed in about 10min. Had no goal whatsoever, just thinking "outta here, at once!". I didn't go back. (And had more luck while on the road, than one can imagine, met some precious people!)

Almost exactly 3 years ago I felt like running away again - but where to? - cos it was not exactly running away from home this time, but running away from myself. Something hard to accomplish... So I decided to stay, in the end, was tough then, today I'm glad about it.

[Earthling]

My attempts to run away were more of run-n-hide. I'd run off and hide. sometimes for hours, a few times for days. The neighbors would often spot me, and inform my mom. and mom would unlock the cars doors so I'd have a place to sleep. I never planned to go away, just to hide.
Now I had two older sisters that I often wished would run away....

[lukkucairi]

all the time when I was 4. I'd go hide behind the wall at the end of the driveway - never got much farther than that.

I sure wanted to by the time I was 16, but we lived on a small island and there was nowhere much to go...

[xfox]

Yes, first I was old enough, and second it turned out out to be a good choice of action.