This Is The Thread Where We Have An Announcement To Make...

[Hyakujo's Fox]

now you can really get stuck into killing those braincells! :)

[Brynn]

Party at Stephi's!
http://johnthenewsking.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/belushi_toga.jpg

[brightpearl]

Congrats, Stephi. That's a huge accomplishment in the arena of perseverance.

[lukkucairi]

yes, congrats congrats!

it feels a little like giving birth, only through your frontal lobes, no? :D

[T.I.P.]

bravo stephi!

http://www.michaelhyatt.com/fromwhereisit/bookstack.jpg

you can go outside now ;)

[Odbe]

Congrats Stephi! :D


I'd like to announce that I'm back (as of an hour ago) and exhausted and exhilarated and I'd forgotten that I could see so much and do so much and so many things could happen in just one week. It's been just amazing but I am really, really tired and I planned to have everything unpacked by now but my bags can stay on the floor for now. They all smell like city and they are full of dirty washing bright lights loud sounds fast traffic but my room is quiet except for a burbling fishtank and a little happy dog. I want to tell you about all the pretty things I saw but they are too much for one post with a tired mind so I will post in the happy thread another time. :) Hope you all had pretty pieces in your week as well.

[lukkucairi]

hey there odds :)

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2682150634/" title="DSCN1106 by lukku cairi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2682150634_b8fff95f35.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN1106" /></a>

^ I made this thing

[Frieda]

congrats stephi! :)

welcome back odbe! :)

that's one pretty dollar sign lukku.. how big is it? :)

[lukkucairi]

thanks frieds - it's about 7.5 feet tall, 5 feet wide at the bottom :)

I've got fillum to share - will post when I've edited it - but I can't right now because that computer is in the bedroom and I'd wake my husband up

damn insomnia! :mad:

[Odbe]

Whoooaaa! That's one epic dollar sign! :D

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2682150634/" title="DSCN1106 by lukku cairi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2682150634_b8fff95f35.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSCN1106" /></a>


Astounding, lukku! Impressive both by size and look.

[trisherina]

I'd say you've outdone yourself but I have a feeling you're just getting started. :cool:

[Coffee]

Nice job Mrs. Big Bucks!

[T.I.P.]

excellent lukki!

I really wish i had time & money to go to burning man this year and see the rest of your artwork in context. It really seems like so much fun..

[brightpearl]

I remember it's gold leaf stuck on with flour paste or some such, but what's the form made of again? It looks like it took a lot of work.

[Marcus Bales]

styrofoam

[topcat]

ball bearings

[skip intro]

I remember it's gold leaf stuck on with flour paste or some such, but what's the form made of again? It looks like it took a lot of work.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/images/2007/04/16/us_dollar_index.png

the answer is:

nothing

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I remember it's gold leaf stuck on with flour paste or some such, but what's the form made of again? It looks like it took a lot of work.

this:
plywood and paper mache with flour-paste glue - nontoxic tempera size - gilding leaf, not paint :)

[lukkucairi]

^^^^thanks thanks guys :D



the answer is:

nothing
:) I ruffle your hair, skippy, I ruffle your hair.

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come play in my playground sometime - I promise we check all the ropes thoroughly beforehand ;)

[12"razormix]

( fred? is that you..? )

[brightpearl]

^^Fun!! :D :D :D

I'm going to a play tonight. Assuming I can find a place to park.

[skip intro]

^^^^

what? you still drive?

:eek:

[brightpearl]

Only when I'm too drunk to walk.

[skip intro]

what? like now?

;)

[Odbe]

Announcement: Yesterday I went citying again to go to a qualification day for a very special national-student-science-nerd gettogether where they made me do strange things like interviews speeches and 'team building exercises' involving buttons. I find out 'by the end of the week' if I'm in. If I am I'll be so happy I won't know what to do. :)

[lukkucairi]

^good luke! I mean luck! :)

[brightpearl]

I just moved a really big limestone rock, into a gravel path, where it wanted to be.

I'm going to regret it tomorrow, but right now I'm really proud of myself.
:D

[lukkucairi]

I'm proud of you too :)

[Odbe]

^^ That has some wonderful symbolism to it. Congrats :)

[Odbe]

I didn't get in :(

[brightpearl]

^:(
Sorry, Odds.
We love you just the same as yesterday.

[Stephi_B]

^^Oi :( :(

You'll be invited to a cooler, nerdier event -- sure as eggs is eggs :)

[Stephi_B]

Ah, as I'm here: I wanna announce that my thesis is printed and bound in 4 copies,
that I have all things I need to have to submit it, the form is filled, boss has signed it etc. pp.
and on Mon morning I will stand in front of the office of the lady which takes on PhD theses.
I would have stood there today, if this lady would have long opening times on Thursdays
(like normal offices), but she has them on Tuesdays and on Fridays she has closed.
Anyway I wanna announce that I'll praty this weekend (oh, well I also did the last weekends,
although I was not yet near to having all ready and there --> pratying is optimal anti-stress therapy :D).

[Odbe]

Thanks guys :o I'm pretty bummed but you are the bestest. I'll let the rest of my life from now be cooler and nerdier. :)

^ Steph, that's awesome. Is it a whole heavy bunch of paper that still isn't as heavy as the work gone into it?
Enjoy your praty, I'm off to praty too, the third birthday this week :eek: why was everyone so keen on getting born this time of year?

[lukkucairi]

Thanks guys :o I'm pretty bummed but you are the bestest. I'll let the rest of my life from now be cooler and nerdier. :)

^ Steph, that's awesome. Is it a whole heavy bunch of paper that still isn't as heavy as the work gone into it?
Enjoy your praty, I'm off to praty too, the third birthday this week :eek: why was everyone so keen on getting born this time of year?

you're one of the coolest nerds I know, Odds :)

hm - July birthdays? maybe people were trying to stay warm in November?

[Odbe]

:D
They must have had some other excuse in November; on this side of the equator it would have been spring. So maybe it was just the spring energy.

Oddly enough the next bunch-up of birthdays comes in November - I have four friends with November birthdays and then my own.

What about everyone else? Are your acquaintances' birthdays spread out evenly or do you have a pile-up in one month? Have you even thought about it before now?

[brightpearl]

I left early.

[trisherina]

:D
They must have had some other excuse in November; on this side of the equator it would have been spring. So maybe it was just the spring energy.

Oddly enough the next bunch-up of birthdays comes in November - I have four friends with November birthdays and then my own.

What about everyone else? Are your acquaintances' birthdays spread out evenly or do you have a pile-up in one month? Have you even thought about it before now?

Birth seasonality is actually an enjoyable little research topic, which is to say that a fair bit of research goes on around it in various specialty areas.

Here's an NYT bit (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DD1F3DF931A35753C1A9669582 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2) on it, and some areas popularly studied (http://www.wako.ac.jp/~nonaka/Summary.html). (Read the preface, with its beautiful red on pale blue very fine font -- mmm.)

[Odbe]

^ Hey, I was on to something!

http://bulletin.zefrank.com/images/icons/icon14.gif Very interesting, thanks for the links!

[trisherina]

You're welcome. :)

I'd like to announce that in a couple of hours it will be Katie's birthday. She will be nine in human years, which by current methods of counting such things (first two years = 20, then five for every one calendar year) means she is 55 in terms of her expected lifespan. I think she looks younger. But I am biased, because I want her to live forever. And as you can see, she is very good at conserving her energy.

http://i33.tinypic.com/x0pnyv.jpg

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATE! LIVE FOREVER, 'K?

[lukkucairi]

^ sweet pooch, and happy birthday to her - many happy returns! :)

[Frieda]

happy birthday dear katie! :)

[Jaime]

I have a new haircut that I am very happy with.

Also, there is a stronger possibility that we may be getting a new computer in the next couple of months. Hooray for that, since it would be nice to have a computer that is compatible with my camera... and everything else, really.

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that my eye-of-providence LED fur coat is almost finished.

[Odbe]

^ Oh you, always with the happy surprises. :D

[Frieda]

BEYATCH!







just in general, you know.

[lukkucairi]

it's stuffy in here.

[Jaime]

Good riddance Windows 98, hello lovely lovely Leopard.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3827/photo11ya3.jpg

Ah Photo Booth. Hours of entertainment.

[lukkucairi]

*ahem*

KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD!

:D

[Hyakujo's Fox]

Good riddance Windows 98, hello lovely lovely Leopard.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3827/photo11ya3.jpg

Ah Photo Booth. Hours of entertainment.

HBJ! ;)

[Frieda]

hey! it's jaime's birthday!

[Odbe]

I'm getting snowed under by work at this rate and procrastinating on the internet isn't helping. From now on I won't be posting before 6pm +10GMT on weekdays and only at lunchtimes on weekends/days off. I don't know if anyone pays that much attention to when people post but if I break my new rule, mentally kick me under the table, okay?

[MoJoRiSin]

Odbe is so smart !!
That opening the newspaper
(or snail mail) of old
8-10am plus
a quick 10 minutes around 10pm
pacific standard time
(GMT-7)
works best for me

shall i make a spreadsheet?

[zero]

shall i make a spreadsheet?

no mo - a piechart

[brightpearl]

Did someone say "pie"?

[Brynn]

*ahem*

KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD!

:D
Hear hear!:D

For your scrapbook:
Thatch:
http://blog.humuhumu.com/wp-images/thatch-portlands-new-tiki-bar.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b150/lorriely/Irvington/THATCH2.jpg

Rimsky KorsaKoffeehouse
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/luciente/100_0215.jpg

Edgefield
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/2272324871_7dabdf0eb5.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2272315127_51c04555a7.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/2538302755_da4f740848.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/370202296_068d6fabdf.jpg?v=0

Montage:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/144902168_96a31bbd86.jpg?v=0
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/71/180526721_9f20b76c02.jpg?v=0

[lukkucairi]

WOO HOO! :D

I love those pufferfish lights, even though they're kinda creepy

:D

[MoJoRiSin]

there used to be a life sized nude mannequin in a tub in the upstairs restroom at rimsky korsa koffeehouse.
weird enough? ; )

[lukkucairi]

there still IS a life-size mannequin in the bathtub in the bathroom upstairs at the rimsky korsakoffeehouse! it's clothed now though. it looks like it's either Korsakoff or Lenin, not sure which

scared the crap out of me when I opened the door, as it was no doubt intended to do :D

I also liked the mermaid holding the TP, and the paddling legs sticking through the ceiling.

[Jaime]

I put this together very quickly. But it shows just how talkative my cat is. All of the footage took place within about 15 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7C7vboWf6U

[brightpearl]

I had pie today. Two kinds.

And also I found a blue heron feather in the yard.
Gotta be some kind of sign, but as yet I have no clue, which is kind of fun.

[lukkucairi]

my friend Chris made this thing (http://vimeo.com/1503811):

I made the video :)

woo!

[Brynn]

Wow! Dat theeng es beeg & currrly!
Didn't get any sound with it, though :confused:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh, look at that! :eek: An article in the New York Times about my town!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/travel/10next.html?em

[brightpearl]

I'm making kolaches.

[brightpearl]

I would like to announce that the kolaches kick ass. Even the poppyseed ones, which I wasn't too sure about.

[trisherina]

Oh, look at that! :eek: An article in the New York Times about my town!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/travel/10next.html?em

Great photos and article about an area I knew shamefully little about, thank you!

[Frieda]

^ same here, sounds like a nice place to live! :)

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that the kolaches kick ass. Even the poppyseed ones, which I wasn't too sure about.

poppyseed ones are the BEST :D

good to meet Kosice, Ysa!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Although I percieve my town in a different way than the visiting tourist who wrote that article, but it makes me feel strangely proud that you liked the description.

[Frieda]

i'd like to announce that i'm freaking out

like totally-- i think i'm going to throw up


so if anybody would like to discuss the origin of handbags with me it'd be sooo nice

[MoJoRiSin]

HANDBAG
Frieda, these "facts"may or may not be true
and i am afraid it may end up being more of a debate than a discussion
but here is my copy and paste :) .........


"If we were to trace the origin of handbags, women would likely be surprised to know that they were first utilized by a group of men some 2000 years ago. Although wholesale handbags were not in the scene at this time, men in biblical times did indeed carry the equivalent of what we consider to be the handbags of today.

This practice came to women’s knowledge and from then on, its handbags became completely indispensable. Handbags, purses, or any other kinds of totes will forever be a part of women’s wardrobes. Although some men continue to don handbags occasionally, women have dominated the scene in the handbag industry."

(tomorrow we could discuss bagels and lox ??? ~"~

[Frieda]

thanks mo, that's so kind of you :)

[jasmina]

I am announcing that I ran the Human Race, and am most proud, despite the terrible conditions + a shockingly bad time

[Odbe]

^^^Wow, I was just about to come and make an announcement about my handbag :D

I got a new bag.
This is a really big thing for me. I need a hand-luggage bag to travel with, and when I travel, I darn well travel, and I've been doing a fair bit lately. I don't want to be forever hitching up a shoulder bag or to have no hands free to find my bus/train/plane ticket. I don't obsess over shoes, or makeup, or my hair style, so I feel I am totally justified in being particular about my bag.

I've had my camping-brand backpack for years, and it's made of tough stuff but it is unbearably awkward in tiny antique curiosity shops with glass shelves. My other bag is a canvas shopping bag but it's no good for long hauls.

So I went and had some retail therapy at the local charity shop, and emerged particularly victorious. We're made for each other. It's the most beautiful patterned black leather, not too big but big enough, and it zips up. Most important, the straps are long enough to cross them over and wear it like a backpack. There's only a main pocket and tiny hidden compartment, so it's not really a handbag, which suits me, but it's not a backpack, either. I dub it my bagpack.
The icing on the cake: it comes with a little matching mini-bag, just the size for a pencilcase for my art supplies.
The cherry on top: it was $3.
Charity shops=my health spa.

[Odbe]

I am announcing that I ran the Human Race, and am most proud, despite the terrible conditions + a shockingly bad time

I looked it up, what a name for a race :) but what an excellent idea.
I'm proud of you too now, such things are a real accomplishment to my thought. Congrats. :)

[Frieda]

WORK SUCKS!

[Stephi_B]

^ditto!!

:mad:

I'm going home now, it's my first work day after all and the sun shines.... oh, and I need milk and such things :)
I'm gonna read s.th work-related on the balcony.... maybe ;)

[lukkucairi]

I'm back :)

[Frieda]

welcome back :)

now spill, dammit! :D

[lukkucairi]

I'm organizing photos and film! The flickr set is building slowly, but they've got new bells and whistles I'm navigating (trying to figure out if it's quicker to rotate in PS, or upload and rotate in this new picnik thingy they've got...)

here's the flickr set link: http://flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/sets/72157607075245751/

will be working on cleaning it up over the next few days but if you can stand the bad exposure and unrotated pictures, feel free to peruse :)

[Frieda]

wowowowowowoowwowow cool :)

[Odbe]

Welcome back!
I'm looking through the photos, I just love this one: http://flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2822142818/in/set-72157607075245751/

[brightpearl]

burn baby burn!
Good to see you back. :)

[lukkucairi]

hey hey thanks - my friend Sallie is a pro photographer and got WAY better pix than I did of the burn (I was busy attending, not so much concentrating on my camera) - I'll post a link to some of those when I get one.

she's still probably on the road back from BRC - the late crew were leaving today and it'll be a 14-16 hour drive.

got my pix up on flickr and sorted (sorry, the nakey pictures of Anthony are now all set to private ;) ) and I've copied all the .mov files over to the mac for consolidation. inbetween all of this I'm spending quality time with a trailer full of camp crap and playa dust we've got parked out on the street. I'm negatively affecting property values, don'tcha know :)

I missed you guys too - it's weird that the board lost 15 days of posts, which is about the amount of time I was gone. it's as if time stood still for me here...

[Odbe]

^Wow, it's like you're so important that if you're not on the board, it doesn't exist. ;)

Playa dust must be like sand when coming back from a beach vacation - like you've taken a little bit of the spirit of the place with you, and you keep finding it trickling off things or stuck in corners.

[LadyCrow]

This month marks my 6th year anniversary here on this board. Happy anniversary to me...

http://thesilverthistle.com/products/happy_anniversary.jpg

:p

[RuneT]

Today I will have to go out drinking beer with students while promoting the company I work for. I hate my job! They will have to pay me overtime for this.

I'm sep 2002 as well so :D

http://thesilverthistle.com/products/happy_anniversary.jpg

[lukkucairi]

^ happy 6th, LC!

^Wow, it's like you're so important that if you're not on the board, it doesn't exist. ;)

Playa dust must be like sand when coming back from a beach vacation - like you've taken a little bit of the spirit of the place with you, and you keep finding it trickling off things or stuck in corners.

hehe, that does wonders for my solipsistic tendencies ;)

playa dust is a little more persistent than sand - finer, and gets into your stuff in greater quantities. I don't think it's possible to get rid of it entirely, no matter how you try.

the final night was the temple burn:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukkucairi/2822130484/" title="DSCN1414 by lukku cairi, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3077/2822130484_350b7cffab.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="DSCN1414" /></a>
the temple is in deep playa, a long way from the main camp area of black rock city - this year, maybe a mile out. I had put some of my father's ashes in it, and my husband had put a picture of his dad in there too (he died a year ago Sep 8) - so we sat and watched this structure burn down for two hours - and while we watched, a dust storm rolled in. a cold front had arrived with winds sustained at probably 40mph, and the dust was incredible.

it's pretty rare to have a full-on whiteout at night, and I was caught without goggles or respirator. luckily our camp was downwind or I don't know how we'd have gotten home. my husband and I both had beacons - lights mounted on poles - so we went in front and the rest of the group followed us until we got back to the main camp area. we met many people who were completely lost and turned around, and when we got back to esplanade (the main road along the front of the camps) a few people came up and thanked us for leading them home with our lights.

it's sometimes hard to get back to your camp after the temple burn in any case, as people have begun to pack up and leave and a lot of the landmarks you used during the week have simply vanished (as well as the street signs being stolen). a lot of the city had come apart around us, but we didn't have any trouble finding our way home. my husband and I arrived at our truck, where we were planning to sleep for the night - we have a shell on the bed, and that's where we'd been sleeping all week.

I turned the truck around so it was pointing into the storm, and we climbed into the back. I turned on the LED bar lights and all the fine dust in the air was illuminated. we had a cardboard box of food and a box of Aussie wine, and we sat there eating our rations and drinking shiraz out of a plastic mug while the truck was buffeted by the winds and little handfuls of rain struck the roof every so often. I looked at my husband and had to laugh - his face and hands were completely white with dust, and he was wearing a full-length thrift-store faux fur coat and an antique fur explorer's hat that were both thick with it. with his wire-rimmed glasses, he could have walked out of a 1905 arctic exploration or a Phillip Pullman novel. I'm sure I looked just as extraordinary.

[Coffee]

Yesterday I saw a bunch of fully loaded playa coated cars and suvs heading into SF bay area from the direction of NV. Made me think of u Lukku...ya, that dust looks tenacious.

[skip intro]

Why do hippies always have to set fire to things?

[lukkucairi]

^hm, I always thought of "hippies" as those people who substitute patchouli essence for good personal hygiene, wear a lot of hemp-based clothing, and pretend to like eating soy nuts...those who enjoy setting fire to stuff I always thought of as "pyromaniacs" :rolleyes:

in seriousness, I burn my art because it's the process, not the product. I guess I lack a religion and putting Dad's ashes in the burn helped me greatly to move on - judge how you will.

and when it comes to fire, I'm a lot like Beavis (http://mosh.nokia.com/content/3837533BADD9B562E040050AEE041F13)

[Odbe]

I have so many plans and ideas and projects, but in the end I forget that people get tired. :o

[MoJoRiSin]

:D :D & double :D
_____________________________________________

infact:
:o :rolleyes: :cool: :p :D :) ;)

[LadyCrow]

Coffee is a wonderful thing.

http://www.cherryflava.com/photos/uncategorized/dunkindonuts_1.jpg

:D

[lukkucairi]

this (http://www.flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/2837868925/) arrived in email yesterday :)

[Stephi_B]

^ so beautiful!!

:)

[lukkucairi]

^thanks! - check out the synchronized swimming guerrilla art:

http://vimeo.com/1690683

:D

[Stephi_B]

^I knew it'd be worth to fiddle around with my Linux till I can see the jellyfish :) :D

[auntie aubrey]

your auntie is 32 weeks pregnant with two vigorously healthy young boys but her health has taken a turn towards preeclampsia. so now your auntie is sitting in a hospital with a laptop on constant monitoring, trying not to become a mommy for at least a few more weeks.

legs crossed first, then fingers and toes.

[MoJoRiSin]

take alfalfa tablets 3 times a day
if 'Nature's Way' brand
take 3 3x per day
I have got my fingers crossed
and toes crossed so
not to worry :)

[Frieda]

your auntie is 32 weeks pregnant with two vigorously healthy young boys but her health has taken a turn towards preeclampsia. so now your auntie is sitting in a hospital with a laptop on constant monitoring, trying not to become a mommy for at least a few more weeks.

legs crossed first, then fingers and toes.

ooh two boys! good luck auntie.. good vibes are on their way! :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

your auntie is 32 weeks pregnant with two vigorously healthy young boys ... legs crossed first, then fingers and toes.

at your service, even eyes crossed... ;)

[T.I.P.]

fingers crossed for you auntie, wishing you all the best! :)

[Stephi_B]

your auntie is 32 weeks pregnant with two vigorously healthy young boys but her health has taken a turn towards preeclampsia. so now your auntie is sitting in a hospital with a laptop on constant monitoring, trying not to become a mommy for at least a few more weeks.

legs crossed first, then fingers and toes.

All the best for you three!!! :) :) :)



& I'd like to announce that it rocks that Ysa et al. have monkey status now and that Ysa's avatar is chic :)

[Anna]

feh kids, always in a hurry. here's a great opportunity to put you're foot down and let them know who's boss.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

... and let them know who's boss.

Who, indeed? :rolleyes:

[topcat]

take care of yourself auntie

[Coffee]

Best wishes to your and yours Aunti.

[lukkucairi]

good luck, good vibes, and best wishes Aubs!

[trisherina]

In honour of your upcoming blessed event, a Twin Otter.

http://www.stolaf.edu/other/cegsic/itase/images/traverse_2000/twin_otter.jpg

[Odbe]

Ooh, good to hear from you Auntie! Best wishes to all of you. :)

[brightpearl]

I can has study break?
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/ModernMechanix/1-1937/med_study_enforcer.jpg

[Jack Flanders]

aunt/ma-to-be - all will be well!!! enjoy your (sort of) alone time!!! life is going to get very crazy!!

[Frieda]

i'm wearing my highest heels to work, and i've laced them with fluo green shoelaces. it's going to be one of those days.

[topcat]

^^freida that needs a pic

[Frieda]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/967/imgp2550kph2.jpg http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9291/imgp2559kry2.jpg

yup, i know. :D

[topcat]

that looks cool

[lukkucairi]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/967/imgp2550kph2.jpg http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9291/imgp2559kry2.jpg

yup, i know. :D

WOW!

I was going to announce something but I'm so blown away I forgot what it was.

[auntie aubrey]

legs crossed first, then fingers and toes.

turns out crossing your legs isn't a technique that yeilds results. but hey, healthy is healthy and 3 weeks early is fine by me:

jacob:
http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/Jacob_04.jpg

owen:
http://www.gofalldown.com/cacophony/myimages/Owen_02.jpg


they're both breathing fine, but owen needs a little positive air pressure right now to get him used to the practice of breathing. their apgar scores were great. anything over a 7 is considered healthy. jacob scored an 8.9 and owen scored an 8.8.

[Stephi_B]

^ :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[zero]

congratulations & well done!

[Stephi_B]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/967/imgp2550kph2.jpg http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9291/imgp2559kry2.jpg

yup, i know. :D

Is there a cool thread somewhere?

:D

[MoJoRiSin]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/preview.HD47kFYzvrrhi5B5_400.jpg
CONGRATULATIONS AUNTIE !!
Your boys are gorgeous!
since it is technically their birthday
here is a picture of some celebratory monkeys ;)
ps last night I looked at the most beautiful moon
I have ever seen in my life here in Portland
and thought of you and your boys.....
HOORAY! :)

[Frieda]

happy happy lots of happies auntie aubrey!

congratulations, woo hoooo!

how are you feeling, everything ok?

:):):)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Oh, the cutest two little brothers I've ever seen! :)
Congratulations <S>Auntie</S> Mommy Aubrey!

[lukkucairi]

gratz aubs!

:D

[topcat]

happy birthday jacob and owen. congraduations auntie.

[brightpearl]

Oooooooh, Auntie! I've seen a lot of babies, but yours are two of the very very cutest!!! I'm SO proud of you; you obviously did a wonderful job growing them. I was a little worried..twins and boys are both more likely to have problems, especially when early, but it sounds like things are great!!!

Betcha can't stop staring at them!! And smelling their little heads!

Aaaaaah.
I feel very happy for you.
The world is different today, isn't it?

[brightpearl]

And Frieda, those shoes rock my socks!

[seebe]

Congratulations Auntie.

[Coffee]

Awwwwwww....Congratz Aunti on your new baby and your new scuba diver. They look precious.

[T.I.P.]

i'm so glad it went well auntie!

May you all be happy for many many years to come :)

[Jack Flanders]

http://www.cakedot.com/2008/Baby680ShowerTwinBoys1-19-08.jpg

Jacob and Owen - Happy Birthday!!!!

And Mom and Dad - congrats and blessings!!!

[Odbe]

Whoo! Rock on Aubrey! :D Congrats!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

oh wow! congratulations auntie, they look terrific! I hope everyone's doing well!

[trisherina]

So cute! Congrats to you and their dad! Hope you're all home soon.

[xfox]

Hey there Auntie A, Congratulations on your two little boppers. I second Trisherina's sentiments!

[brightpearl]

Oh my god, it's Sept. 19 and I haven't got a thing to wear!! I can't believe I let it sneak up on me again!!

[brightpearl]

Oh, wait.
This'll do.
http://erssieknits.com/images/Cotton%20Silk%20Pirate%20Girl%20Hat%20front.jpg

[T.I.P.]

Aaarrrrggghhhh ! :)

[Odbe]

I have decided that next weekend I shall have An Adventure. I don't know what it is yet but it will be An Adventure. There will be no photos as I won't have a camera but there may be a haiku.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ :) *holds her breath in eager anticipation of haiku-news*

[Peregrine]

I have insomnia again.
My throat is parched. I'm finishing off a cough drop before I try to go to sleep again.

[MoJoRiSin]

a lot of people have insomnia around the harvest full moon due to.... well you know--- what we should be doing
harvesting food to make it through the winter.
Don't worry only three more days or so and you will be over this bought.
TRUSY ME! ;)

[MoJoRiSin]

a lot of people have insomnia around the harvest full moon due to.... well you know--- what we should be doing
harvesting food to make it through the winter.
Don't worry only three more days or so and you will be over this bought.
TRUSY ME! ;)

[lukkucairi]

^ the full moon is when a significant percentage of fertile human females ovulate.

[MoJoRiSin]

Alright maybe that is true
so
when you come in after a long day harvesting in the field
perfect timing to remember to create
helpers so in a few years when your back gives out
you won't starve ;)

should that read "little helpers" ?? :) :) :)

[lukkucairi]

the $hrine is featured in last week's NYTimes caption contest:

http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/wheely-surreal-man/

:)

the captions are less than inspired though :p

[brightpearl]

I'm trying to study and the person across from me is humming tunelessly and intermittently.

:rolleyes:

[Frieda]

i'd like to announce that i've just been insulted to the core, twice, as if the first time didn't suffice-- and the first one that talks to me now gets his skull kicked in.

thank you for your attention.

[zero]

hi friedo! :D

[Frieda]

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4392/bruce1xw5.jpg


you're safe. you're the 2nd.

[Klynne]

I am excited to announce, I paid down my credit card debt to under $500. I owed over $8,000. Now, I have next to nothing owed. It took me over two years to accomplish, but it is done. I have made a budget, and only use my debit card. Hard to do, but I did it. Yeah!

[Jack Flanders]

YES!!! Good for you!! Everyone needs to do this. :D

[Coffee]

Gratz Klynne! It gets better, now you get to watch your savings grow.

I did it too last year. Am now in the black for the first time in 8 years.

[Odbe]

Congrats, Klynne! :)

I'd like to announce, and I promise I won't tear up, a bit of a break from our dear 'boards. Having weathered out some hectic mayhem in the last little bit, and seeing no less work in the months ahead, I've been reshuffling my schedule and priorities. In the interest of kicking the asses of all the goals I'm going for, internet time is one of the things getting cut down. I've done this before for a shorter time and survived the withdrawal symptoms, so it looks like goodbye until at least November. :) Have fun, I will miss you all.

PS: I will, however, be back to post the haiku, YsaPur.

[grumpybumpas]

Homosexuality for all of it's faults does not produce unwanted ,unloved,or abused children.

These crimes against children are rampant in the conventual christion world.

[Brynn]

Sorry, Odbe. I know what you mean :o

[madasacutsnake]

Congrats, Klynne! :)

I'd like to announce, and I promise I won't tear up, a bit of a break from our dear 'boards. Having weathered out some hectic mayhem in the last little bit, and seeing no less work in the months ahead, I've been reshuffling my schedule and priorities. In the interest of kicking the asses of all the goals I'm going for, internet time is one of the things getting cut down. I've done this before for a shorter time and survived the withdrawal symptoms, so it looks like goodbye until at least November. :) Have fun, I will miss you all.

PS: I will, however, be back to post the haiku, YsaPur.

Cheer up. They were never going to win two in a row.

[xfox]

What's happen' here today

http://carrboromusicfestival.com/2008Schedule.html

[lukkucairi]

jf12k mini-doc (http://vimeo.com/1836383)

[Odbe]

^Hhwhoaa! Oh-h wow! :eek:


Oh, and as promised, the haiku:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/Odbe/haiku-sept08_0001.jpg

[Coffee]

I have switched to wireless cell broadband internet. I found out yesterday that just opening zepages costs me on average 6mb per 4-5 pages if they are full of images :(

I'll not be viewing your pretty pictures any longer...sigh.

*turns off* "Display images in webpages" :(

p.s I cant even see ur smileys. :( Or mine.

[RuneT]

I am excited to announce, I paid down my credit card debt to under $500. I owed over $8,000. Now, I have next to nothing owed. It took me over two years to accomplish, but it is done. I have made a budget, and only use my debit card. Hard to do, but I did it. Yeah!

Well done klynne! Mmmm shrug. i was 10.000$ now about 6.000$. I'm on the same route. The Debit card is way better. But the problem is all the work expenses I charge on the credit card and then I kind of get paid for them and then I don't pay off the credit card. Yes it's stupid. oh well. One day I will be rich having a nice buffer on the debit card. Umm right.
So the announcement is that i cannot blame the americans for fwking up the lending economy. I take a small share in that ;)

[brightpearl]

Everything is just really effing funny right now.

[brightpearl]

I would like to announce that I would really like to be dating a chiropractor right now.

[lukkucairi]

I would like to announce that I lost my phone somewhere between Cafe Cocomo and the Black Rock Roller Disco yesterday.

:(

[brightpearl]

There are little feathers all over my living room.

[lukkucairi]

^from a bird directly, or from a bird via a pillow?

[Frieda]

or did you finally manage to groom yourself properly? :p

[brightpearl]

^:D
That made me laugh.

Real bird, cat brought it in the house. It's now been nursed successfully through mild shock and released. It seemed intent on flying really far away from this bizarre house full of cats.

[magdalen]

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[Stephi_B]

I am magna-cum-laude-doctored :) :) :) :)

hangovered like hell :D

(having already had two parties yesterday.... more to follow.... zero sleep since 30h sharp)

and I got the biggest compliments physicists can make a chemist like me :o

(All kinda like "Why the fukk ain't you one of us?!!" and "What you do rocks!!")

and am rather pissed off at experimentalist, hardcore chemists.... ya well, that's nothing new actually :rolleyes:

[lukkucairi]

hooray hooray hooray! ^ :D :D

http://flyboyz.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/what-cocktail-are-you.jpg

have a hair of the dog - it'll make you feel better :)

[Jack Flanders]

Congrats!! ^^

http://www.nk.psu.edu/images/graduation_cap.jpg
http://mirror-us-ga1.gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/food/_more2005/_more05/champagne-cork-popping-flying-water-liquid-drops-on-blue-AJHD.jpg

[Jack Flanders]

and congrats to the Phillies.http://all4fantasysports.com/phillies.gif

I'm really a Cubs fan but tired of holding my breath.

[lukkucairi]

the fraggle fur cape is DONE!

[Coffee]

Just saw Steph's announcement...gratz DR. Stephinstien!!!!

[zero]

I am magna-cum-laude-doctored :) :) :) :)

great achievement stephi, congratulations!

[MoJoRiSin]

WOW! AMAZING!
Congratulations Stephi !!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[Stephi_B]

Aww, thanks so much you my ZePeople!
Without you and my other cheerup + distraction + soul-petting hotspots I would have never ever survived it!! Much more thanks to you than I can put in words!!!!

:):):):)

I will be rare a bit longer, cos stuff is a bit different than expected (I have to search a new job very soon) and all is a bit wild at the moment: My granny got a circulatory collaps on Thursday evening :( -- she's halfways OK again though and then there's other minor stuff.... Well, life stays as complicated as before (or get's even more complicated as you are 'free' in all senses of the word), but I look upon the mess now as Dr. S and no longer lil-student-girlie S, aye :p (Though I still feel like absolutely in no way or any sense grownup and I decided that this stays exactly so :D)

[xfox]

Congratulations!

I always knew you were too awesome to address directly! Now I know why!!! Commence to succeed, Stephi_B.

(you know what PhD means, right? -Piled higher and Deeper). :p

[Hyakujo's Fox]

congratulations Steph. ya did good. :)

[monkeyknifightz]

I turned 18 and still lack inspiration to buy cigarettes or go to strip clubs.

[Peregrine]

^ Meh... You're not missing much.

[Stephi_B]

Thanks again to all you foxes!! :):):):)

And nay, nay, nay, I'm not, never were and never will be too awesome for anything :o
(except for working as help-teacher-on-demand-for-a-starving-income that one has been cancelled from my list!!!!).

Piled higher and deeper - that's the very correct description of how things on my desk at work and in my flat looks like atm :D (and it's not really all chemistry and physics books and scripts but all sorts of things I've just let drop and left alone then the last 6, 8 weeks or so.... ha, maybe I CAN apply at the chaos theory chair as well! :D)

[Jack Flanders]

Ding Dong the Bush is Gone.

[Odbe]

I'm baa-ack! Just when you thought it was safe to come out and play again. :D Don't give me that look, ezro, put that cat back where you got it, and Lukku, is that your giant lava lamp? And what's that bra doing on the chandelier? I take it we haven't had a schism while I was gone?

^^Wowow, we have a Dr among us! Way to go, Stephi :D

Well I have had the most amazing couple-a-months, been citying thrice and damn I am glad to be back among the trees, but the scary thing is that I'm no longer completely clueless about public transport - I'm losing my country bumpkin, very slowly.
Some of the escapades I had you'dve had to see to believe! I saw some pretty things too and I missed having you guys to ramble at. I've filled up a whole sketchbook and spent more money than I realised I had, then spent some more. I've eaten barbeque beef jerky, cuttlefish flavoured crisps, 'lobster & scallop soup' and 'abalone soup' flavoured u-don noodles, oyster mushroom crisps, dried cured white mango that looks like rats' tongues, juniper berries, black sesame crackers that looked surprisingly like dead ant bits and after all that I wasn't game to try the whole anchovy crisps.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I've filled up a whole sketchbook...
Will we have the pleasure to look at some of them?

dried cured white mango that looks like rats' tongues...

:eek: I wonder if there's an unusual icecream flavour being born...

[zero]

... missed having you guys to ramble at.


good to see you - looking forward to being rambled at by you again soon

[lukkucairi]

heya odds, wait til you see the latest blinky lights :)

welcome back welcome back welcome back!

[MoJoRiSin]

Hey Odbe!

where do you live exactly?
is it North Carolina
or am I dreaming...
******************************
oh! that is xfox, right?

[Odbe]

Will we have the pleasure to look at some of them?
Ah, I'd let you thumb through the whole book if I could :o but I never take the time to scan my sketchbook pages since there are so many. This one doesn't have so many artsy looking pencil drawings, it's mostly abstract scribbles and collected parephenalia. But if you're interested I could take some photos the next time I <s>steal</s> borrow a camera.

:eek: I wonder if there's an unusual icecream flavour being born...
Most certainly!!
Actually all of the exotic foods I sampled were pretty good (or very good) but the 'rats' tongues' alone I couldn't eat. I try new exotic things on the premise that if a culture calls it food, it must be edible, no matter how strange I think it is. But they were so astoundingly disgusting I could not force myself to eat a whole one and even the smell makes me gag, and no one I gave them to finished a whole one. I did manage to convince most of the people who tried one that they were in fact 'genuine rats' tongues from Chinatown', and only told the truth afterwards.

good to see you - looking forward to being rambled at by you again soon
Thankyou :)

heya odds, wait til you see the latest blinky lights :)

welcome back welcome back welcome back!
Thanks too :D You may have noticed I have a weakness for blacklight and LEDs.

Hey Odbe!

where do you live exactly?
is it North Carolina
or am I dreaming...

You're dreaming, I'm a country bumpkin from good ol' Aus-traaya.

[Brynn]

Hi Odbe :)


Okay, here's my announcement.
You've put your name on the new and improved National do Not Call List which does not expire (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx). You have caller ID. You have Security Screening. You even have a little announcement that comes on before your phone rings that informs the caller that you do not accept solicitation calls. You've done everything you can think of.
But you're still getting robo-calls at ungodly hours of the morning.
:mad:

If telemarketers/phone scammers are making you crazy (in the U.S., anyway), and you've tried to get a call-back number by pushing *69 to no avail, run a trace on the number by pressing *57 and notify the state attorney general by email that you've done that. Your uncooperative phone company must give the information to law enforcement officials. Plus, with this information, you may then file for full damages allowed in small claims court (a bargain at around five bucks) and win an award of $500.
Sigh.

[lukkucairi]

this is my 3,333rd post

[Odbe]

^ :D Con3ratulations!

[xfox]

Odbe you are too pure to be anything but right human.

May I announce that I am so proud of my brother who has just completed a 5 day trip in a Mooney Mite (http://www.mooneymite.com) from Porterville CA to Brookhaven LI NY after 20 years of being earthbound. Yeah, he's old, too.

[brightpearl]

I just removed a cactus spine from the seat of my jeans. Close call!
:eek:

[topcat]

i would have helped

[brightpearl]

^Thanks, you're all heart. :rolleyes:

[Frieda]

i HAT putting the lights into the xmas tree!

[lukkucairi]

http://photos-g.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v1816/63/104/511972413/n511972413_1639998_3195.jpg

[brightpearl]

^:eek:

Whose toe?!?!

[lukkucairi]

mine :(

[Coffee]

u have bonney toes, cept for the ouchie bits.

[Jack Flanders]

your five toes are gorgeous. what are you hiding? oh yah the other foot. :confused:

[Frieda]

bit of tape and it'll be fixed in 6 weeks :)

heal well! *hugs*

[lukkucairi]

thanks guys, this is the first time I've ever broken a bone, so I don't have much to complain about :p

[Frieda]

tell me if you ever feel really depressed about it, i'll show you the images of my own foot horror and you'll be extremely relieved about only having a broken toe :p

[Hyakujo's Fox]

ALL NERDS COUNTING IN THE UTC NEW YEAR ARE HEREBY ADVISED TO INCLUDE AN EXTRA "1" IN THEIR COUNTDOWNS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LATEST BULLETIN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEM SERVICE.

THANK YOU.

http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat

[Hyakujo's Fox]

POSTERS, TO AVOID MISSING IMPORTANT CHRISTMAS MESSAGES, PLEASE, TAKE A MINUTE AND KEEP YOUR BOX CLEAN!

[lukkucairi]

Tim DeChristopher rocks (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/posing_as_a_bidder_utah_student)

[Frieda]

THE BOX IS CLEAN! I REPEAT, THE BOX IS CLEAN!

over

[MoJoRiSin]

^ wow that one takes top prize !!
Merry Christmas Frieda
Hope your day is wonder ful

Peace on Earth
now and forever,
amen :)

[Frieda]

^oh, thanks mo, it was, hope you had a wonderful xmas too :)


i'd like to announce the fact that i HAT my job and that i would really like to do something creative instead.

[Frieda]

i bought a broom with an engine

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/yatzer/vacum_big.jpg

it's the orange one.



--> not for transportation purposes, obviously. it's way too cold outside right now.

[brightpearl]

I finished the last of it in a latte this morning, so nog season is officially over. :(

[lukkucairi]

I'm going to a bonfire tonight to howl at the moon.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I'm going to a bonfire tonight to howl at the moon.

I assumed as much.

[brightpearl]

I think I am about to get some news of a very disappointing nature.

[Marcus Bales]

Brightpearl will not get news of a very disappointing nature.

[lukkucairi]

Marcus is a prophet :)

[brightpearl]

Well he's a bloody rotten one.

:(
Dammit.

*sigh*
Those grapes were probably sour anyway...

Thanks for trying to reverse the wheels of the universe for me, Marcus. ;)

[Marcus Bales]

Maybe next time.

[Peregrine]

Meh. Law of averages....

[trisherina]

Taste the random.

[brightpearl]

I got some news that reversed the other news. So now I can start worrying about the universe turning in the other direction, hahaha.

Thanks Marcus. :D

[Stephi_B]

^:):):):)

& good to know that Marcus Bales can re-write destiny if really needed!

Universes turning and all, that rocks :D

[Peregrine]

Hey Marcus, think you could land me a sweet job offer? You know, as long as it doesn't implode the space/time continuum too much.

[Marcus Bales]

A week from Tuesday. Readiness is all.

[lukkucairi]

hey, and I don't lie ;)

[Peregrine]

Great! Thanks. I'll recommend you to all my friends and family.

[MoJoRiSin]

i love you too!

[brightpearl]

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[Jack Flanders]

Sorry to announce that www.posti.pl/mahjong_gra.htm is now done. or at least being worked on (hope-hope-hope).

[Odbe]

I'm in the city but I took my laptop and it's weird to be in a strange place but see the same old desktop background and bookmarks and websites.

[lukkucairi]

I'm back

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Sorry to announce that www.posti.pl/mahjong_gra.htm is now done. or at least being worked on (hope-hope-hope).

However, http://www.mah-jongg.ch/ is still on.

[Brynn]

Hi :) I'm going to bed now.:(

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

There was a blackout for 45 minutes! And I greatly feared I would miss Midsomer Murders. And then the electricity came on and then off again. :eek: I hope it'll be all right during the film...

Whoa! All mails disappeared from my mailbox, inbox and outbox... everything is gone. Bloody blackout. :mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I've just woken from a really bad dream.

[lukkucairi]

I've just woken from a really bad dream.

sorry to hear that.

where's the writeup? ;)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ I'm not going to preserve it. No writeup, no memory. I hope. :(

[Frieda]

buh-bye, off to Isengard again

[lukkucairi]

^ hola to the hobbits for me

[lukkucairi]

this is mega (http://thedockingstation.ca/audio/2008-11/Cocktail_Queen.mp3)

[Odbe]

AND THE WINNERS ARE:
http://www.noantri.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/fire_girl_lg.jpg

http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/upload/2007/04/weird.jpg

http://melodyross.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/fork_in_road.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/124659356_bbe1e5b661.jpg

Thankyou everyone who knowingly and unknowingly suggested :)

[Peregrine]

We are officially homeowners. :) All done and legal. We have the keys and everything.