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July 25th, 2008
 | 07:12 pm - Photography Feature, July 25th
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The Colors of Nature
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 | 12:19 am - About 19 minutes late, but...
Only 98 years left until our 100th anniversary! :D
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July 24th, 2008
 | 09:43 pm - Character survey!
I was tagged for this by someone on deviantART! It was pretty fun.
1. Choose a few of your own characters.
2. Make them answer the following questions.
3. Feel free to go ahead and add some questions yourself!!
4. Then tag three people.
I choose:
Kengara
Liigus
Kirki
Jeranga
Dark Nova
Oh no all guys :O Sorta.
( Behind a cut cos it's kinda long! )
Now tell me, who do you think is your favorite? :)
I already tagged people over there; this is here just for fun. Anyone who wants to do it!
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| 07:02 pm - Photography Feature, July 24th
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Velvety Probes
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July 23rd, 2008
| 10:03 pm - Photography Feature, July 23rd
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Ghosts
Check out the description. Cool stuff!
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July 22nd, 2008
| 08:27 pm - Photography Feature, July 22nd
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Glowy Tendrils
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| 12:56 am - Project Update
Finished the Gene Stratton-Porter books. They were good. Now I'm onto Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad. Not sure what I think yet. JC seems almost worse than Dickens for rambling o.O It got better when Marlow started narrating though, and hopefully, like Dickens, it'll improve even more when the author runs out of excessive description of everything and gets into the action stuff.
Also, look, an interesting plant! http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2002.html
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July 21st, 2008
| 10:57 pm - Photography Feature, July 21st
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Pick Up Sticks
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| 01:10 am - Heck yeah.
If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
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July 20th, 2008
| 08:31 am - Photography Feature, July 20th
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Flying Cow
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July 19th, 2008
| 03:11 pm - Photography Feature, July 19th
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Green Leaf Border
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July 18th, 2008
| 01:48 pm - I'm back! + July 18th Feature
We're back from camping! It was pretty fun; we climbed a couple of mountains, walked to a stream with waterfalls, and ate some chanterelles we found. They were tasty. Also experimented with vegan marshmallowness. I got so many cool pictures of everything that I'm nearly bursting to share, but I'm going to restrain myself to one a day for the artsy ones, except for some which are pretty similar to each other, but I think for the snapshot memory ones I'll do a separate camping feature. But first to get through old new pictures :/ Here's one from before the trip.
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Swim in the Sky
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July 14th, 2008
| 10:36 am - Photography Feature, July 14th
Don't expect me around until the weekend. Even though the campground apparently has free wifi XD "Get away from everything... except the internet!"
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Two Used to Fly
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July 13th, 2008
| 08:02 pm - Another gas post
Oh, another thing y'all should know about: www.mygallons.com. For an annual fee of $30-40, you can buy virtual gallons of gas at the current average price in your area and redeem them for actual gallons anytime in the future, even if the prices have climbed.
For example: Buy 100 gallons at $4.23 (the current common price around me) and a year from now, when gas is $5.23 or $10 or anything, you can use those gallons you bought without paying any extra. Save $100! It's like investing in oil! Or more like stockpiling.
I haven't decided whether to do it myself yet, but you might see it as more of an advantage.
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| 11:30 am - "Cheapest gas in town: 99 cent bean burritoes!"
Does everyone know about www.gasbuddy.com? It's a cool website wherein people post gas prices they observe in their area, and you can search and find the lowest prices around you. If you join you can post prices yourself and earn points which you can enter into contests for free gas and such. Neat stuff!
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| 10:42 am - Photography Feature, July 13th
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Source of New Life
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July 12th, 2008
| 08:14 pm - Photography Feature, July 12th
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Wings of the Evening
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July 11th, 2008
| 05:59 pm - Photography Feature, July 11th
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Stairway to the Cloud City
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July 10th, 2008
| 10:58 pm - Photography Feature, July 10th
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The Clouds Are Stained Awesome
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July 9th, 2008
| 11:45 pm - Project Update
Well, I gave up on the Divine Comedy. It's just not something to be listened to as an audiobook. At least that translation isn't. I couldn't focus, I couldn't picture it, I couldn't follow. So too bad. I'll read it someday.
So, I went on to A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter. Pretty good story. I plan to follow it up with the book that came before it, Freckles. The description of homemade foods herein are very tasty-sounding! Or it could be that I was just hungry at the time.
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| 08:27 pm - Photography Feature, July 9th
My internet finally revived! After I had to call someone in to fix it. Oh well.
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Multi-Level
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July 6th, 2008
| 11:15 pm - Photography Feature, July 6th
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Remaining Fireworks
( And the rest! )
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July 5th, 2008
| 08:47 pm - Photography Feature, July 5th
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Patriotic
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July 4th, 2008
| 02:45 pm - Photography Feature, July 4th
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Underwater, While on Dry Land
Happy holiday! Hopefully tomorrow I will have some appropriate pictures for it :D
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| 10:07 am - No need for microgenocide!
An article from Nature Reviews Microbiology:
"Triclosan-containing 'antibacterial' soaps are no more effective at removing bacteria from hands than plain soaps, according to a recent study. Moreover, the use of such soaps could potentially lead to the emergence of cross-resistance to antibiotics. Alison Aiello and Stuart Levy carried out a systematic literature review of studies that had examined the effectiveness of commercially available antibacterial soaps and those that looked at the resistance outcomes of triclosan use. Commercially available antibacterial soaps typically contain triclosan, a phenoxyphenol, at between 0.1% and 0.45% weight per volume. Aiello and Levy found that, from the four available studies, there is no evidence to suggest that 'handwashing' for a normal duration with a soap that contains triclosan at these concentrations is any more effective at reducing the level of bacteria that are on hands, or preventing common infections, than washing with plain soap. In vitro studies have indicated that exposure to sub-lethal concentrations of triclosan can lead to antibiotic resistance in some bacterial species, but further research is required to assess whether this extends to the community use of triclosan-containing soaps. Clin. Infect. Dis.
So think twice before getting the stuff!
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July 3rd, 2008
| 05:43 pm - Photography Feature, July 3rd
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Tiny Elder Gods
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July 2nd, 2008
| 10:08 pm - Stowe Away?
Finished Uncle Tom's Cabin today. Such a good story! Almost makes me want to be a slave, so I can endure under hardship and get closer to God. Though I probably wouldn't appreciate it so much as I think. Heh.
Next project: Some various short stories, and then probably the Divine Comedy.
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| 10:06 pm - Photography Feature, July 2nd
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The BasidioCastle
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July 1st, 2008
| 08:32 pm - Freeeedom?
I'm pretty sure that a lot of the free songs iTunes gives me on Tuesdays have dirty spanish lyrics, but since they're in spanish, and because I don't understand spanish well enough to understand the lyrics, I can't tell, so I keep them because I like the music. I'll just have to remember not to play them in the presence of anyone who knows spanish. And not to learn spanish too well myself.
Instead I'll have to play songs like "Vitamins Are Good."
Current Music: Kompressor - Vitamins Are Good
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| 07:59 pm - Photography Feature, July 1st
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Early Daylight Firework
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June 30th, 2008
| 06:13 pm - Photography Feature, June 30th
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Can You See the Portal?
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June 29th, 2008
| 01:25 pm - Photography Feature, June 29th
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What Is the Time, Mr. Moon?
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June 28th, 2008
| 03:24 pm - Photography Feature, June 28th
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Cherished Memory
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June 27th, 2008
| 05:40 pm - Extra special cool
Woot! Firefox 3! It's two to four (read: 3) times faster than before! Hopefully all the good extensions will get updated to work with it... -.-
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| 03:54 pm - Photography Feature, June 27th
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The Ancient Battle
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June 26th, 2008
| 10:38 pm - Hands are superfluous
As cell phones are now my main type of phone, I wished to improve the quality of conversation (the sound of it, anyway), so I decided to get one of those hands-free headsets. After shopping around a bit, I discovered freeheadset.org! A free headset, you only need to pay shipping! Seems like a good deal, if anyone needs one.
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| 05:49 pm - Photography Feature, June 26th
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My Heavenly
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June 25th, 2008
| 10:21 pm - 100 Books meme
1. Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2. Italicise those you intend to read.
3. Underline the books you LOVE.
4. Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
( Listening is considered 'reading,' right? Also, I don't remember all that I intend to read. )
There ought to be more Mark Twain on this list!
Current experience: Uncle Tom's Cabin!
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| 10:03 pm - Photography Feature, June 25th
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Roiling Sky
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June 24th, 2008
| 10:27 pm - Photography Feature, June 24th
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Those Funky Microbes
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June 23rd, 2008
| 10:42 pm - Photography Feature, June 23rd
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De-Wheeled
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June 22nd, 2008
| 11:34 pm - Photography Feature, June 22nd
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Sibling Rivalry
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June 21st, 2008
| 05:42 pm - Photography Feature, June 21st
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Little Bear
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June 20th, 2008
| 07:01 pm - Photography Feature, June 20th
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Kitten Tug-of-War
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June 19th, 2008
| 08:23 pm - Photography Feature, June 19th
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Unfavorable Wavelengths
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| 08:19 pm - I am revived!
I finally got internet at my new apartment. It's so fast too! So now I can actually reply, instead of just reading. Also, the features will start again. Hopefully with a bang.
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May 28th, 2008
 | 11:22 pm - Moving is dangerous o.O
Even from just packing, I have wounds on no fewer than 30% of my upper digits! Though one was from pulling a sliver of glass out of my foot. Foot's fine, but my finger has a nice bloody hole in it :/ I can't even fathom how broken glass GOT on my floor.
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| 10:29 pm - Photography Feature, May 28th
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Defiant Attraction
Moving day begins tomorrow, weee!
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May 27th, 2008
| 10:34 pm - Photography Feature, May 27th
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Rows and Rays
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May 22nd, 2008
| 05:41 pm - Photography Feature, May 22nd
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Layered Sunset
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