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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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1:12 am
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Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test... English Genius
You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
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Take The Commonly Confused Words Test at HelloQuizzy
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| Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
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9:44 pm
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I think I'm posting this to see where others have been as much as to show where I've been.
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9:26 am - NYT article, Odysseus and the Eclipse
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Odysseus and the Eclipse:
The two scientists derived a possible chronology from astronomical references in the story, including the stars by which Odysseus navigated, the sighting of Venus just before dawn as he arrives at Ithaca, and the new moon on the night before the massacre of the suitors and the presumed eclipse. On the basis of their analysis, the scientists said, these three “references ‘cohere,’ in the sense that the astronomical phenomena pinpoint the date of 16 April 1178 B.C.,” adding, “The odds that purely fictional references to these phenomena (so hard to satisfy simultaneously) would coincide by accident with the only eclipse of the century are minute.”
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| Monday, June 9th, 2008
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11:34 pm - BSG complaint
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| Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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1:41 am - Query about electronics/physics
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So I have this appliance that's supposed to take milk from me and get it into a bottle, right? Only the power cord stopped working, and it doesn't work well at all on battery. Now, I've got various power cords around the house, and I gamely tried a couple of them out with said appliance, only to realize that not all power cords are created equal: some of these cords made my appliance work faster and harder! This is a good thing, to my mind, but I'm wondering if it's not such a good thing from the appliance's or motor's point of view. Specifically, the output on the new power cord is 12 VDC (volts direct current?) and 1250mA (????), while on the old, it's a lousy 9 VDC and 600 mA.
Can anyone tell me if something awful will happen if I use this cord with the appliance? I don't want to burn out the motor or shock myself, or court any number of other unforeseen-by-me possible bad outcomes.
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| Sunday, June 1st, 2008
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7:29 pm - BSG icon help?
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I really want a picture from the end of this weekend's BSG episode as a userpic: Adama alone in the raptor, reading. (I think that's not any kind of a spoiler.) Can anyone help me make one? I can resize an image, but I don't know how to find/make the image.
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| Saturday, May 31st, 2008
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1:11 am - Meme
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Meme from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) harryflashman, and a happy birthday to him as well.
Go to this site (http://quotationspage.com/random.php3), and keep hitting the random button until you find five quotes that "resonate" with you. Then list them in your journal.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
-Seneca
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
-Paul Hawken
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
-Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-Frank Wilczek
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| Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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11:26 pm
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| Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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6:47 pm - Thanks
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That Elizabeth Mitchell You are my Little Bird CD is awesome.
There's a song in there that's in a combination of 4/4 and 9/4 time. 9/4, not 9/8, as far as I can tell (definitely no triplets). This is heady stuff for adults. I'm glad my kid's getting a taste of it.
Bluebird bluebird
Fly through my window
Bluebird bluebird
Fly through my window
Bluebird bluebird
Fly through my window
Fly molasses candy
Through my window
My sugar lump fly
Through my window
My sugar lump fly
Fly molasses candy
I've been calling Stephen my sugar lump recently. Among other things.
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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12:29 am - Best pun I've seen in while
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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12:09 am
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| Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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11:44 pm - Bleg
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We need to get some kind of digital video camera. Anyone have any recommendations or warnings, or generally know what to look for? Right now, the planned use is standard parental stuff -- short videos of the baby to send to family. In the long run, we may want to take longer video as well.
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| Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
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11:01 pm - Christmas Wish
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1:24 am
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| Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
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10:09 pm
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| Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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12:47 am
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| Friday, December 14th, 2007
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6:38 pm
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A PSA via encyclops, who says that "a lot of people don't realize how serious this disease really is." It's really something you ought to watch.
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| Thursday, December 13th, 2007
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6:32 pm - An Open Letter to the Delta Company, who made my child's crib
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Here's a hint: Don't glue the instructions to a piece that needs to be used in the second of eight assembly steps; it makes your claim to be "the easiest crib to
assemble" ridiculous.
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| Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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4:04 pm
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| Friday, November 30th, 2007
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12:43 pm
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