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04:52 pm
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Holy cats!!!
I got BoingBoinged!
Current Mood:  bouncy
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09:31 pm
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Carhartt corset
Look what I made for the fabulous Nifer! It's a carpenter's work corset, based on the Carhartt line of work clothing.
Special note for those of you in Florida: I will be in town the week of Sept. 14 - 22, and I am available to do fittings. If you are interested in having a corset or other specialty item made, contact me as soon as possible, and I will see about putting together a muslin. Custom corsets are really only possible with a personal fitting; that's how I can achieve those lovely curves and make them comfortable!
Current Mood:  pleased
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09:02 am
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Another reason to love YouTube
Several of my favorite things, wrapped up in one shiny little package:
There's Halloweeny goodness
and animation geekery
and CAB CALLOWAY
and OINGO BOINGO.
It is SO SO GOOD.
Current Mood: bouncy
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08:49 am
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Ow.
My left jaw hinge has been hurting for the past few days, and my occlusion is off. I can bite down on my right side, but I can't close at all on the left side. It's very strange and painful. It feels like my whole jaw has been shifted to the right.
I hope this goes away soon.
Current Mood:  blah
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04:18 pm
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5-6-7-8
OhmygodIneedtodomorelindyhopping.
Current Mood: energetic
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11:42 pm
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Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker.
Cutest. Fish. Ever.
I should mention that it's about the size of a quarter and perfectly spherical.
Current Mood: amused
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01:22 pm
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Coraline
is a worthy successor to Nightmare Before Christmas. You all should go see it as soon as possible. Multiple times.
Current Mood:  satisfied
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01:43 pm
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The Constitution: Ur Doin It Wrong
California's Attorney General Jerry Brown is being a hero and fighting Proposition 8. Kenneth Starr (yes, THAT Ken Starr) filed a response to Brown's legal brief, and wow are his arguments ludicrous. Here's one argument:
"If the attorney general's argument [that marriage is an inalienable right] prevailed, it would be virtually impossible for voters to amend the state Constitution whenever the courts determined that inalienable rights were involved."
Um, YES.
That's what "inalienable" MEANS.
O hai, Ken Starr, you fail!
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09:25 am
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Edwardian Ball
I think I am going on Saturday. However, I have not yet bought tickets, so anyone who wants to make a convincing argument for Friday should speak up now.
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03:06 pm
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Protest on 8, tonight at 5:30
http://laughingsquid.com/san-francisco-protest-march-against-prop-8/
Who's with me?
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04:14 pm
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Phone banking against prop 8
Tonight is the final night for phone banking against proposition 8 in Hayward. It starts at 6:30. If any local folks want to come with me, I will be happy to provide rides to and from. I know it's late notice, but this is a very important issue.
Let me know!!
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06:34 pm
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Two things that were awesome this week
First, my awesome boyfriend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) starchy posted this awesome rant on disingenuous racist fucks.
Second, this episode from "This Week in Blackness" on white privilege. Go watch it. No really, you've got time, and it's short and worth it.
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05:48 pm
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Target: Women
If any of you haven't seen Sarah Haskins's brilliant commentaries on advertising, go watch them now. It's fucking funny feminist stuff, yo.
There are six (I think): Botox, birth control, suffrage, yogurt, weddings, and feeding your fucking family. I think I like "Yogurt" best, but they're all great. I love Sarah Haskins a lot.
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11:17 pm
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Just when you thought he couldn't get more despicable...
...he goes and does it anyway.
Bush, in his classic frat-boy, smirking style, decides it's appropriate to make light of the US's abysmal record on pollution under his regime.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-%27Goodbye-from-the-world%27s-biggest-polluter%27.html
God, I miss having a smart president. I cannot wait until our long national nightmare is over.
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01:34 pm
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Aye-aye born in San Francisco!!
I didn't know the San Francisco Zoo still had these beautiful, enchanting lemurs, but apparently they do:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/02/BAC411HJGT.DTL
Tiny nocturnal lemur! It will be a while before it's out of the nursery, of course, but as soon as it is, I am SO THERE.
Current Mood:  excited
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02:43 pm
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RIP Wakko
I thought she would come home again.
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11:28 pm
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Well, hmm.
Up until last year, when I missed it to graduate, I'd attended every BayCon since 1993. I'd lost steam the past couple of years anyway; it was the same old same old, and as madmanatw pointed out, we've won all the Masquerade awards we wanted anyway, so I don't have that motivation, either. The panels are pretty much never interesting (or if they are, they're double-scheduled or I'm doing something else or it's too early), so that's not a draw, and I haven't seen anything I wanted (either for me or for someone else) in the dealer's room in years. The art show hasn't changed much, either, and I'm always frustrated with the dances. Regency puts me to sleep, and the swing dance is always sadly underpopulated, which means unless I bring my own partner I don't dance much.
Anyway, the point is that I just looked at the BayCon website for this year, and maybe I'm interested again. The writer GoH is actually someone whose books I've read and quite liked (Tim Powers), but that's not really a big draw - sorry, Tim. I do notice, however, that they're trolling for panelists. So I thought, well, attending a panel is boring, but maybe being on a panel would be interesting. I'm not totally sure what kind of panels to suggest, though, (well, costuming is the obvious choice, but more specifically) and it does feel a bit odd submitting on behalf of myself.
And I'm sure the hotel is booked up by now anyway, and I don't know if I want to spend the money. Which I haven't got anyway. :P
In other news: OMG KITTENS.
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02:08 pm
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"Loki" is short for "Little Orange Fucker"
He tried to kill us this morning.
He managed to turn on the gas stove without igniting it, so we woke up to a house full of gas. And of course today was a LOVELY day to have all the doors and windows open! Good job, kitten!
Current Mood:  cold
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11:57 am
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Apparently only men both play World of Warcraft and can program
So I was noodling around on thottbot today (thottbot is a website with a wealth of information about World of Warcraft, like where you can find a particular creature or what any given quest needs. That kind of thing. Very useful.) and noticed Yet Another Example of Casual, Everyday Sexism. It seems that thottbot is hiring - but they're only hiring the kind of people who wear ties. No, really: it says so right in the job listing.
"Thottbot is hiring!
The Thottbot team consists of me (Thott) and some moderators. Thottbot is a huge site, with millions of users, handling over ten million page views per day. It needs a team.
Positions are available both full time and part time. Work hours are available from noon to midnight PST.
All work is done from home. A tie is required at meetings. All other clothing is optional.
I'm looking for at least one layout specialist and at least two programmers. How many of each depends on how many part time people are hired.
Requirements:
* Must love Thottbot
* Must love Blizzard
* Must love World of Warcraft
* Must love to wear a tie "
I sent them a note.
Current Mood:  annoyed
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11:57 am
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I get results!
A few months ago, after receiving too many prerecorded telephone solicitations, I filed a complaint with the FCC. That's harder to do than it sounds; it's very difficult to find out which company actually called you. They're very reluctant to give any information at all, so you either have to succeed in convincing the agent to tell you, or you have to catch exactly what the prerecorded spiel says. (Filing the complaint is easy; there's a form on the FCC's website. It's getting enough basic information that's hard. Sometimes you can't even tell which company called you.)
Yesterday I got mail from the Federal Communications Commission. They sent me a copy of a citation they issued against Healthcare One, LLC, per my complaint. Hurray!
I won't copy the whole citation here as it's lengthy, but here's the juicy bit:
If, after receipt of this citation, you or your company violate the Communications Act or the Commission's rules in any manner described herein, the Commission may impose monetary forfeitures not to exceed $11,000 for each such violation or each day of a continuing violation.
W00t!
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