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Augustine (Brr) Blows!

August 23, 2008 – 5:28 am

Oh god. I’m so, so sorry for that one. But I had to: it was there. I’ve been hanging around FFE and Archie too much, obviously.
Here is a pretty and unaltered photo of Alaskan volcano Mount Augustine erupting on March 27, 2006.
By Cyrus Read on behalf of the AVO/USGS the via Paul LeBlanc on Twitter.
Didn’t [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Weird, environment, photography | Comments (21)

quiz: Which Font Are You? and bonus Which Tea Are You?

August 16, 2008 – 8:55 am

Yep, these ones are pretty good I must say. Why, that’s the font with which I learned to type! And the tea I’d be drinking right now if I didn’t have to go to sleep in fifteen minutes!

You Are Courier New

You have a deep appreciation for tradition and history.
You don’t eschew modernity, but you do [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Lush Life, Quizzes and tests, cocktails, food, meme | Comments (28)

Every Day I Write the Blog Post

August 12, 2008 – 12:04 am

and every night someone complains about it.
Nonetheless, every time someone clicks Play on this YouTube, a new blogger gets her keyboard.
It’s true. It’s a fact.
If you haven’t looked out at a crowd of your friends and family and thought, Ah, material! you’re not really a writer.

Every Day I Write the Book, [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in 80's, Allegory, Blogging, Books, Generation X, Humour, YouTube, flamewar, geek, humor, music, philosophy, writing | Comments (12)

Welcome to the Blogroll, George Orwell

August 10, 2008 – 7:48 am

Do I need to explain why?
Seriously, though, I’d have thought he’d have been a little snappier. If he’d had to compete with all the famewhores out there stuffing their blogs with memes, he’d have stepped up his game a bit.
Check out the August 10th entry:
Drizzly. Dense mist in evening. Yellow moon.
Yeah, ACTUAL diaries are never [...]

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Operation Global Media Domination: the Lolebrity Situation

August 6, 2008 – 10:41 am

Yay! My baby took her first unassisted steps today.
Well, okay, I may have had an assist in there, but she got the goal all by her own self. I didn’t even notice till the second Gawker thread had 84 comments on it.
Previously, she’d been held up by my daily links from Ayyyy and the [...]

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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.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Blogging, Work, computers, technology, writing | Comments (11)

Cephalokini: buy it now!

July 24, 2008 – 8:15 pm

The Cephalokini® new for Summer ‘08!

Wireless, translucent suction-cantilevered top
shown with side-fastened bottom
Thrilled with tentacles? Crave calamari? Our unique, organic halter provides cleavage enhancement without the wire in a wide variety of mutable colors and patterns depending on backdrop. Pick your top and bottom sizes separately from our fresh tank.
• Removable push-up padding/sashimi
• Dozens of suction [...]

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The Deadbeat Club

July 21, 2008 – 3:57 pm

Well, I’ve never been one to dip a toe in when I could plunge over the cliff taking an entire bus with me instead.
So…Facebook.
MistressCowfish suggested I start a group, because after Friending people, Grouping is teh hawtness on Facebook, which sounds to my elderly ears like a rave gotten completely out of control, but whatever.
I [...]

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How I Roll

July 16, 2008 – 7:14 am

He’s my homey.

stolen from The Rut

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Olive Riley, World’s Oldest Blogger, Goes Home

July 15, 2008 – 5:00 am

RIP Olive Riley. You found your way home.

Olive Riley, unofficially, but probably, the world’s oldest blogger, died on Saturday at the age of 108.
Olive videoblogged and blogged from her hostel home and recently updated everyone on her move both from her self-hosted site to Blogspot and her move from more independent [...]

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