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browngirl''s journal.- Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive.
- NO CAPTIONS!!! It must be like we're speaking with images and we have to interpret your visual language just like we have to interpret your words. [I'm going to identify artists where I have the info, though.]
- They must ALREADY be on your hard drive - no googling or flickr! They have to have been saved to your folders sometime in the past. They must be something you've saved there because it resonated with you for some reason.
- You do NOT have to answer any questions about any of your pictures if you don't want to. You can make them as mysterious as you like. Or you can explain them away as much as you like. However, I will answer questions.
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
amused
You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level.
Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?
( Answer below... )
I plan to do some gardening this week and this weekend, so if you want some seedlings for transplant, let me know so I can save a few in plastic pots! I won't be able to transport them anywhere, so you'll have to swing by our place to pick them up. If I can schedule a specific time this weekend for gardening I'll post about it so folks can some over and bring their own pots and soil to collect seedlings.
The amusing thing is, I was going to leave the bed empty this year as I didn't have time to start any seedlings!
- Mood:
busy
Jul 13, 2009 10:27 am US/Eastern
Partial Building Collapse Closes Huntington Ave.
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
Part of Huntington Avenue was shut down Monday morning after concrete from a Northeastern dormitory fell onto the street.
The concrete facade near the roof of 337 Huntington Ave. at Opera Place began falling apart around 8 a.m.
No one was hurt.
There was a construction company working on the roof at the time of the collapse.
Students inside the dorm told WBZ they heard a loud crash moments before they were evacuated.
Both sides of Huntington from Forsyth St. to Gainsborough St. are closed and will likely remain shut down for the rest of the day.
View: Google Map Of Location
It's also causing problems on the T.
Check: MBTA Service Alerts
Green Line service on the Heath St. E line is suspended between Copley Station and Northeastern.
Service is expected to be down in this area for much of the day because authorities are concerned about the effects vibrations from the trains may have on the building.
The MBTA says anyone who needs outbound service to Huntington Ave. must use shuttle buses at Copley or use the Orange Line to Ruggles and Mass. Ave via Back Bay.
Inbound Huntington Ave. passengers must take bus service at Ruggles St. into Boston.
Partial building collapse closes Huntington Ave. and E Green line
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- Mood:
tired
The beer too. He'll have to wait until he's 18 months old though before he gets even a SIP of Mead. ;)
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- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
aggravated
I went through a period in college where I wore nail polish. (Denim blue to be exact). It's a shame I was taken, because it caused an immediate uptick in the number of women interested in me. One woman explained it as evidence I would "get" makeup and fashion headaches and was thus more likely to understand and empathize with women.
My Mother was convinced people would think I was gay. As far as I know no one did. I had a lot of blue in my wardrobe so it matched. The few times I was asked about it I just said I was trying to cure myself of nail biting. Amusingly enough, I was pretty much cured of my nail biting by the time I stopped wearing the polish, but this had not been my actual goal.
What was my actual goal?
I thought it looked nice and I missed the detailed work of painting the car and robot models I built as a kid. Painting my own nails was the closest I could get with the time and space constraints of college life. It was this thin tendril, this memory of how much I enjoyed painting small things that had gotten me so eager to paint beer bottles, instead of just replacing them with brown ones.
- Mood:
nostalgic
Baitcon, 2009
- Mood: amused
He wants to know who sang it, when it was produced, who wrote it, who did the music, basically all the things you normally find in album liners. The person who posted the video to youtube claims Steve Zuckerman sang they lyrics.
Update:
I've unearthed more details:
Steve Zuckerman on the Muppet Wiki:
AVClub article about Capital "I" and lowercase "n"
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
curious
1. The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
2. The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
3. The Hobbit - Tolkien
4. Dream Thief - Stephen Lawhead
5. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
6. All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot
7. Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
8. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
9. The First Men in the Moon - H G Wells
10. War of the Worlds - H G Wells
11. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
12. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - Some idiot who saw genders as 50's stereotypes, and has been divorced twice since writing that steaming slice of fiction.
13. Scientific Studies in Special Creation - Walter E. Lammerts
14. Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
15. In the Name of the Rose - Umberto Echo
- Mood: tired
I'm a gentile, but my wife is Jewish. I love making things for people to enjoy eating or drinking. I also enjoy making alcoholic beverages from scratch. All of these factors combine to forge my interest in making wine for assorted Jewish holidays.
I've spent the last year or so periodically threatening to make a haroset wine. When I looked up a few recipes, I learned that haroset is an amazingly varied dish. Depending on the base recipe I choose I could justifiably make a wine, mead or hard cider.
A little more research revealed that mead is actually a traditional Passover drink, or at least, according to Adventures in Jewish Cooking, it was 20 years ago. I was amused to learn that a hopped mead fermented in an oak barrel was the recipe recommended by the author of Adventures in Jewish Cooking.
This brings me to my questions:
1. What's your favorite haroset recipe?
2. If you don't have a favorite recipe, what are some of the ingredients you believe really SHOULD be in a good haroset?
3. Do you have a recipe you think would make a good alcoholic beverage?
The plan
I'm going to try making a few batches of haroset for Passover in 2010. Since my brewing schedule is already full for this year, I probably won't actually start any potential haroset beverages until after the 2010 passover. I'm also expecting to age the beverage for 6 to 12 months. In the end, this is a beverage that won't be cracked open until April 18, 2011, but I'll need to start it in the Spring of 2010.
- Mood:
thirsty
Sadly, the garden this year has so far amounted to replanting two basil plants I brought in for the winter and a single, sad strawberry that survived the winter outdoors. I put the hop vine from hoo in a spot where it's getting no real sun. It'll survive, but not flourish. I need to transplant it next season.
My Bonsai Ginko even died! :~(
The last few years I've started heirloom tomato seedlings and always ended up with more than I need. It's too late to start any this season, but hopefully I'll have the chance to do more gardening next year. My plan, such as it is, is to let the garden area lie wild this year. The raised bed needs more soil, and the composter won't have a contribution for a few months yet.
Then there's the Kumquat issue. I'd never had Kumquats before last year. Quezz encouraged me to make a gallon of Kumquat mead, which is currently bottled and maturing in the basement. Last night, I picked up a package of Kumquats as part of my contribution to food at gaming. I was reminded at just how deliciously tart and sweet they are.
I did a little googling and found out they're one of the more tolerant citrus species in terms of cold weather hardiness. While they can't handle a New England weather, they'd be perfectly happy outdoors for the Spring, Summer and Fall. They;re a bush, and a mature plant can produce 50 to 100 Kumquats a season. I was reminded of the orange tree Whuffle and I used to have.
At the moment I have four little Kumquat seeds sitting on the edge of my desk, salvaged from the remaining Kumquats I had at lunch. I don;t know if they're even viable, but it couldn't hurt to pop them into some peat moss with a little soil and water to find out. If they don't sprout, I might keep my eyes open for a potted Kumquat bush.
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
satisfied
Oh, my head. Preppy is back, complete with his 9 pound cell phone.
I have not tasted said ice cream, but I will say this:
She has, for the foreseeable future, lost all right to question my mind's tendency to rework various food products into beer flavors. I was on the fence about making this proclamation, but I'm told last night she added blueberries to the ice cream, and if you knew the base flavor for the ice cream, you'd know how very, very wrong this is.
All I'll say is this: If I ever decide to try making the award winning Oyster Beer recipe I learned about last year, she will have NO grounds to challenge me on it, save, possibly, for the cost of raw ingredients.
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
distressed
That is all.
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood: thirsty
"kids can see a moral coming a mile off" - Theodor Seuss Geisel
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood: amused
At one point I said in frustration, "Will you stop wiggling and go to sleep?!?!"
Caleb's eyes lit up. He stood, on my stomach mind you, threw his arms in the air and said, with a soft "g," "Wiggle!" then laughed and flopped over onto his stomach. Once on his tummy he wiggled and thrashed around, rolled over onto my neck and wiggled his way back onto the bed beside me. During this performance, he said "wiggle" two more times.
He then sat up, laughed at me and started clapping his hands.
What could I do? I applauded him. He had, after all, just used a new word in exactly the right context and demonstrated just how well he understood it. After he stopped laughing I said "So, will you stop wiggling now?"
He then demonstrated just how well he understands the concept of "teasing." He rolled over and snuggled up with his back to me, stuck his thumb in his mouth and started making all the sounds he normally makes when he's getting ready to fall asleep. He even grabbed my hand and put it in just the right position so he could hold one of my fingers.
After a little more than a minute he quickly pushed away, stood up and toddled towards the edge of the bed. Once there he sat down, scooted off the bed and onto the floor and ran for the bunny room calling out "Ack! Ack!" This is his pronunciation of the name "Jack," which is the name of his grandparents' rabbit and thus, the name of all rabbits.
- Mood: amused
For bonus points, the artists are OBSESSED with the use of the auto-tuner. I'll be generous and assume they're just covering up a general lack of singing ability, as opposed to actually thinking this is entertaining.
And of course there's an over the top intro trying to make a frigging techno concert into a battle to "reclaim" something from the Devil.
- Location:Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
- Mood:
nauseated
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