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Monthly Archives: July 2008

August Blogging Courses

July 31, 2008 – 10:14 am

Blogging for Beginners: four hours, start from scratch and learn to post text, video, audio, and images. Basic copyright and blog etiquette, intro to sidebar widgets, categories, custom headers and design, and what on Earth to put IN the blog. Also where to find technical help.
This one is running August 2nd, ie this Saturday, 10-2, [...]

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Disaster!

July 31, 2008 – 9:32 am

Perhaps I may be ever so slightly melodramatic, but I blame California (doesn’t everyone blame California, no matter what we’re talking about? It’s your choice of California, Tories, or Global Warming where I come from). After all, they started it. How is anyone else supposed to make the news when they’re all, like, “Earthquake! Earthquake!”
I [...]

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The Earth Moved for MissRFTC

July 30, 2008 – 10:28 am

So, today on Twitter:
Okay, now someone please explain to me why, in the absence of specific Twitted information to that effect, everyone in the world, from Gawker to Valleywag to (briefly) the HuffPo, has concluded that she was having a pelvic exam.
All she actually said was, the doctor was in her vagina.
I’m thinking those people [...]

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Blogger Blogging Block

July 29, 2008 – 1:24 am

Did I mention I’m rather overloaded at the moment? I believe I may have made a passing reference to that situation in the recent past. And overload is antithetical to blogging. Antithetical? That so totally can’t be right.
Stupid spelchekar!
Well, add to that the fact that my bank card apparently won’t work, even though for once [...]

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quiz: what is your punk band name

July 26, 2008 – 2:28 pm

The Sister always liked Chocolate Bunnies from Hell, not for the music but for the name. But this one is almost psychic. The only way it could be closer is “The Borderline Homicidal Spaceship” and all we’d play would be punk versions of Ennio Morriccone tunes.

Your Punk Band Name Is…

The Grumpy Spaceship

What’s Your Punk Band [...]

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quiz: the sunglass personality test

July 26, 2008 – 2:23 am

Well, at least my sunglasses have personality. In fact, they have more than many of the people I’ve dealt with this week. This one is dead-on. It’s scary.

What Your Sunglasses Say About You

You are chic, bold, and mysterious.
You are larger than life and very sexy.
You need to be shaded from people who are dull and [...]

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Toxic Love Shack

July 26, 2008 – 2:15 am

Hey, it’s summer and there’s a Gawker commenter meetup tomorrow and I have to get presentable and meet someone I’ve never seen before for drinks at Connor Butler in three hours and I still have to get this apartment ready for a houseguest or at least throw the sheets in the washing machine and take [...]

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Blogging by Faith

July 25, 2008 – 12:08 am

Jeebus it would be nice if I had a keyboard with the letters printed right on it and a computer that didn’t crash when I tried to blog. Or a wireless router. Gee, would be swell.

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Elvis is the Emperor!

July 24, 2008 – 10:39 pm

I should explain.
I should explain, specifically, about the fangirl gene. I got the fangirl gene (I think The Sister escaped that particular fate, and much time and cash it has saved her, too, even though the first concert I went to was a Shawn Cassidy concert because my mother was damned if SHE was taking [...]

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Beakerven’s Ode to Meep

July 24, 2008 – 9:39 pm

I know, I’ve been heavy on the YouTubes lately (and even have a couple of Atenes up my sleeve) but I cannot NOT post this: my second-favorite Sesame Street character performing my third-favorite piece of music:

Everybody meep along!

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