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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Nice, huh? I love these socks... I just tried them on, and I sort of wish I'd made them longer, so I could have made a proper knee sock with this fabulous colourway. I certainly don't want any of this yarn to go to waste! But that would have required calf shaping, and math and possibly an abacus...
Since there isn't much going on, I thought we'd take a peek at some pretty neat pictures I stumbled upon recently. These were taken the day I learned to knit.
My parents divorced when I was 3. We lived in Ontario at the time, but when they split, my mother took me back to Quebec, and my Dad stayed in Ontario. Once a month, he'd make the long drive down the dreaded highway of doom, the 401, and pick me up to spend the weekend at my grandparents.
My grandmother was awesome, the kind of grandparent every kid should be blessed with, you know? Whenever we went for a visit, we'd make sure to buy 3 or 4 Mars chocolate bars for her, which she'd stash in her room and polish off during the night. She taught me some of the most important lessons a kid can learn: how to jump on beds without falling off, how to blow bubbles in my gum... and how to knit.
I seem to remember my grandmother knitting most evenings when we stayed over there on weekends. That being said, I don't think I'd venture so far as to call her a Knitter with a capital "K". I think she mostly made the same feather and fan afghan, over and over and over...
I was curious, I guess, and one night she finally taught me to knit. We used her trusty Aero 8's (which I still own and use to this day), some of her tried and true Baycrest Acrylic, God bless and keep her, and wow...it was HARD!!!
All this fidgetting around with friggin' needles that felt as though they were metres long, stitches that kept falling off, yarn that I didn't know what the heck to do with... Tough, tough, tough, and I was absolutely devastated that by the end of that first evening, I didn't have my OWN Baycrest Acrylic feather and fan afghan well on it's way.
Every time we'd go to my grandparents for the weekend, Gramma would pull out the needles, and eventually knitting became our routine in the evenings. After dinner, my Dad and grandfather would chat, and all you'd hear would be their mumblings and the clickety-click-click of my grandmother and my knitting needles, as we silently worked on our masterpieces.
She died in August of 1987, I had just turned 11. Knitting and I went our separate ways for a while after that. I started to fly to my Dad's every month shortly thereafter, so we didn't spend the weekends at my grandparents anymore.
As I said, I don't think of Gramma as a Knitter. But I often wonder what she'd think of how knitting has become such an important part of my life. I like to think she'd get a hoot out of the blog, that she'd admire my accomplishments, that she'd slip some yarn money in my purse when I wasn't looking...
The most important thing, I suppose, is that I think of her. In a way, I guess you could say this blog is her legacy.
Happy Knitting Everyone!
8 comments:
- Alrischa said...
Haha! Look at that bottom lip! Did you ever make your afghan, then?
- February 17, 2009 at 9:00 PM
- Sereknitty said...
Oh my, you were gorgeous already way back when! I loved this post because it reminded me that my grandma taught me how to knit when I was six, but I didn't really get excited about it until after she passed away 4 years ago. Then, it felt like a way to connect with her, even though she was no longer here.
- February 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM
- kate-the-enabler said...
What an absolutely lovely tribute. I'm sure you're right, she'd be proud and amused :)
- February 18, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- birana said...
It's a very nice "story". You grand-ma, even if she was not a great knitter, was certainly a very nice grand-ma and that's exactly what you needed at that time. You were so cute trying to knit and making expressive faces with your needles! I have to my grand-ma needles and some left over yarn that I keep for my self as souvenir.
- February 18, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Dad said...
I can see her running her hands through her short cropped grey hair shaking her head, hear her incredulous "Hah!" followed by the all-too familiar "spit and shit" - her smile said it all - she loved you and was confirmed by the time she spent loving you. And today I miss you both. Love Me.
- February 18, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Sinéad said...
Well what a cutie patootie you were! plus, your Dad's comment brought tears to my eyes.
- February 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
I'd love to see how you use an abacus to calculate calf shaping!
What a beautiful tribute to your grandmother!
p.s. LOVE the nightgown! :) I think I had one similar...only with a kitten on the front.
- February 21, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Knit and Purl Mama said...
Love the nightgown too...!
I also learned how to knit from my grandmother. I think it's something very special.
Loving your regia socks!
- February 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM


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As the campaign followed its trail, I noticed that Palin bashing became rather a sport. I wrote a response to one such opinion, probably on Huffington Post that called for a cease and desist (to which no one really paid attention). The writing also pointed out that I thought the reason McCain chose Palin was to serve as a human shield for his inanity.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
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By Dave Morgan Today's column comes from China -- Hangzhou, actually -- one of my several stops in a week of meeting with most of the country's top Internet companies. I am here to better understand China's start-up and investment opportunities. I spent time in Hong Kong in the late 1990s, setting up Real Media's Asian serving and ad network business, but I have never before visited mainland China. Back then, China's online ad market was practically tiny, so we serviced it almost entirely out of Hong Kong.
How things have changed. The Internet market in China today is as hot as any market I have ever seen. It certainly measures up to even the most optimistic reports that have been coming out. Without getting into too much detail, here are some of my high-level observations so far:
Ad market. It's quite an experience to spend time in a market where advertising in general is booming. All electronic media are growing fast, from television to digital out-of-home to online. Even print media is growing, though not as fast as electronic. Among the various media types, online is growing the fastest; so fast, that companies are still talking about quarter-over-quarter growth numbers that are better than most U.S. companies see year-over-year. Search and e-commerce growth is off-the-charts, and display -- the laggard -- is still growing at 40% year-over-year. The online market leaders here are companies with revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars (U.S.) and very strong profits, so they are growing on already substantial bases.
General economy issues. I'm traveling with bankers and institutional investors, so you can imagine that the financial services sector meltdown is top-of-mind in every one of our conversations. However, it's not been overly concerning to the management teams that we have met. Rather, they have been most concerned with issues related to the recent Olympics and its impact on ad spend this past quarter. Even with an economy that will grow more slowly this year and next than it did the past several years, all indications are thatmarketers will continue to grow their local marketing and advertising spend at pretty dramatic rates -- the beauty of 8+% GDP growth in a slow-down year!
Online landscape. The Internet landscape in China seems a lot like the U.S. landscape in 1999, but with fewer, wiser companies and real revenues and profits. As in the U.S. at that time, the portals get a lot of attention here. They have lots of traffic and still sell their ads on a fixed price basis. This is not yet a CPM-based market, and there are no real advertiser-driven standards.
Search and search marketing are already taking strong leading roles here, probably similar to the U.S. in 2002 or 2003, but with 2008 technologies and strategies and market capitalizations. The e-commerce and online payment platforms are very well-developed in China and already have a phenomenal number of users, moving goods with values that will soon surpass numbers put up by comparable U.S. companies, offline as well as online. This area really stands out. The Chinese players will sell more goods than eBay or Amazon by 2010.
Casual gaming online is also very, very big here, and the sale of virtual goods is already a big part of the market. Most look to gaming to soon become more important than portals in audience and revenue impact on the market, particularly since entertainment-oriented sites get far less governemtne scrutiny than those that try to carry news.
Management teams. During this past week, I have met some very strong Internet management teams -- as strong as any in the world. They are smart. They are focused. They are driven by strong, clear visions. They know how to lead these companies. They are to a large degree, quite humble. Nothing more to say here. Western world, watch out.
Start-up environment. This is certainly one of the most robust Internet start-up markets in the world. Many of the start-ups in China are growing faster than their U.S. peers, and not just in users and page views, but in revenue and profits as well. Where U.S.-based start-ups might typically raise $3 million to $5 million in their Series A round (first raise of professional investor capital) before they have any revenue. In China, it is quite typical that "Series A" companies already have $10 million of revenue and are profitable. Thus, venture capital can buy more value here, since "bootstrapping" goes much further and scale can be achieved much faster.
The government. The "government" issue hangs over everything in the market. Without question, nothing happens in China that the government doesn't want to happen. At the moment, it appears that the government very much wants a robust Internet and technology industry - ultimately, with a global focus - and is doing everything that it can to promote it. This has been a big boost on the market's development. Of course, all of the successful players must have strong government relations, and non-Chinese companies will never be able to be on the same footing -- just time the load times for Google in the U.S. versus China. But aside from that issue, the government is giving Internet companies much more latitude than may ever thought that they would, and the Internet is certainly helping liberalize the society.
As the ongoing crisis in financial services companies demonstrates, we live in a global economy whether we want to or not. I happen to think that it is a very good thing. I also happen to think that it will be impossible to truly participate in the growth of the online ad economy without participating in the Chinese market in some way. Like it or not, within 10 years, it will likely be the most important online ad and commerce market in the world. If you want to play in that game then, you'd better find your way to China now.
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There is a great distinction between reasonable standards and unrealistic expectations. While I don't believe the notion that most gay men are walking around with ten-page "Things You Need in Order to Date Me" lists, I know how easy it is to cut off some great possibilities by being a bit too rigid with one's demands. While never forgetting that you are worth someone fantastic, be mindful of the fact that this man is not being created for you in a laboratory.
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1. Re: Flex Module updatedNewsgroup_User May 3, 2007 6:18 AM (in response to Ivascu Cristian)So it works with FB 2? Awesome! Will check it out after 10:00 meeting.
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"Ivascu Cristian" <email@example.com> wrote in message
> Hi everyone,
> Today we've just released an update to the Flex Module for Apache and IIS
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> labs. This update fixes the bugs you guys found on the forum and adds
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> support for Windows Vista and Apache 1.3.7 on Windows. You can see the
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> http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_Module_for_Apache_and_IIS#Release_note
> s page.
> One of the most visible enhancements though will be the increased
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2. Re: Flex Module updatedNewsgroup_User May 4, 2007 1:12 PM (in response to Ivascu Cristian)Hey .. the samples work with the new build (Flex and Flex Builder 2.01).
All except the photo viewer. I get these results:
Compilation results
Errors, warnings or exceptions were found while compiling
/samples/photoviewer/PhotoViewer.mxml.swf.Visit the online Flex
documentation or API reference for further information.
4 errors found
ERROR : Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: strings.
ERROR : Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: strings.
ERROR : Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: strings.
ERROR : Unable to resolve a class for ResourceBundle: strings.
3. Re: Flex Module updatedclshrock May 4, 2007 10:58 PM (in response to Ivascu Cristian)I had the same problem. It is because the locale directory isn't bound during compilation. In Flex Builder, in the project settings under Build Path, add the source directory "locale/{locale}" and make sure you are passing a -locale parameter to the compiler.


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What would you do if one day you opened up your bank account and you had $4.6 million sitting there? The majority of us would probably freak the F out (then proceed to faint, scream and book a one way flight to the Caribbean). Or perhaps that's just me.
Of course, this is merely just a dream; sadly the probability of it becoming a reality is pretty much nonexistent. You are not going to one day see your available balance jump up a few million overnight. Well, unless you're this girl.
Many of us spend our days dreaming that one day the money fairies will turn up and give us a tonne of cash. It's never happened to me, but it happened to Chrsitine Jiaxin Lee. Upon a trip to the ATM, the medical student found out that she had suddenly become filthy rich.
Clearly there had been a mixup at her bank, Westbank. But instead of informing them that she had wrongly received the humongous lump sum, she went on a pretty epic spending spree instead. Then she got a knock on her door…
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Rowling "Christian," Dumbledore "Gay": SWNID Catches Up
That sounds about right. Rowling wasn't writing Christian allegory, which was obvious. And she probably couldn't if she tried, which is fine. And she's on a pilgrimage, which is at worst honest and at best an honestly more accurate self-assessment for anyone than the kind that claims to have it all together.
So the books are what they have always appeared to be: an imaginary tour de force that explores the longings of humanity for justice, redemption and love and incorporates elements drawn from That Which Answers those longings, however imperfectly the author grasps those answers (for further reflection on this issue, we recommend reading, in addition to Greene, books at left by Dostoyevski, Endo, Updike, and O'Connor).
SWNID, who believes that evocation and provocation are often more powerful than indoctrination, is happy with this outcome.
Meanwhile, others are enraged that Rowling reveals that Dumbledore was gay. His relationship with Grindelwald, it seems, involved a powerful attachment of the future headmaster with the powerful, charismatic wizard. For whatever reason, the relationship was unconsummated.
Some Christians are incensed. We're not.*
Here's the deal, brothers and sisters. Every character in Potter's world is flawed. And as the background story develops in Deathly Hallows, we realize Dumbledore's youthful attachment to Grindlewald, whatever its nature, is his undoing.
Further, per Rowling, Dumbledore never acts sexually on his attraction and, per our own observation, in the story world never makes another such attachment. In other words, he experiences same-sex attraction but doesn't act on the urge.
That's the point, and to make the point, we'll oversimplify. In itself experiencing same-sex attraction is not sin, any more than in itself experiencing the urge to have sex with a member of the opposite sex to whom one is not married is sin, or experiencing a desire to slap someone's face is a sin. It's a temptation. The sin is in what one does with the urge.
Part of the fascinating power of Rowling's books is the Dickensian richness of her palette of characterization, which is to say that every character is a full-bodied, unique, believable person. Dumbledore is but one of many, and his experience is but one of many that evokes the fallenness of all.
The hysterical Potter critic linked above worries about Christians exposing their children to a gay character. She needs to realize that her children are in contact with real "gay" characters all the time. But let's be precise and stop saying "gay." Many people experience same-sex attraction, some more commonly and more powerfully than others. Some act on it, and some don't. As a Christian, I want to support those who don't, just as I myself need support to resist the urges that lead me to sin when I give in to them. As a parent and educator, I want people to understand that there's a big difference between affirming the presence and worth of people who experience same-sex attraction and treating homosexual acts as the moral equivalent of sex in permanent, monogamous, heterosexual marriage.
Dumbledore's experience is so much in the background of the Potter narrative that Christians hardly need to worry that their children will be corrupted by reading the books, any more than they should worry that the theme from Mr. Ed if played backwards sounds like "someone sang this song for Satan."
In fact, let's say the obvious: parents who think that this element of the narrative will corrupt young readers reveal thereby that they don't trust their children over time to develop critical thinking skills and don't trust the power of the gospel to overcome evil. For them, the message of God is so weak that it doesn't work in people's lives even if they hear it every day, and the message of Satan is so strong that it will overwhelm even when it is buried deep behind a fantasy narrative, so deep that the author has to tell us what was in her mind as she wrote.
Or to be blunt: Jesus wins; Satan loses. We are not called to retreat to a fortress. We are called to charge into enemy territory. It's God's world and he's taking it back. As in, "Take heart, for I have overcome the world."
*Those ready to accuse SWNID of being a relativist on homosexuality ought to read these posts as a reminder.
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One wonders if Rowling's eagerness to keep interest in the franchise alive got the best of her in an off-the-cuff moment. She herself has admitted that she's had trouble letting go of the story, letting it rest now that it is complete. What better way to keep people interested in the franchise than to start revealing juicy bits of information about characters to loyal readers who hang on Rowling's every word?
- October 26, 2007 12:11 PM
I'm intrigued by the notion of authorial intent in interpreting Rowling's work (or anyone else's). Since, in fact, she did not choose to make explicit in the canon of HP that Dumbledore was gay, isn't her revelation that she always considered him to be gay, merely her interpretation of the story, and not necessarily "fact," if you will? I agree with SWIND that "gay" isn't actually the best term to use for Dumbledore. By choosing to apply that particular term to him, Rowling does seem to be inviting a flattening, not enriching, of Dumbledore as a character--that for those both pleased and dismayed by his outing, his sexual orientation becomes a label and not merely a facet of his rich character.
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Even though I mostly spent my 4 day weekend painting at Jay and Mike's new house, I did manage to watch a few movies.
Post Grad - Alexis Bledel is one of those straight-A, everything comes easily for her kind of girls right up until she graduates from college - she doesn't get the dream job, or any job; she has to move back in with her crazy parents; she is constantly humiliated by or in front of her college rival.
Do you feel sorry for her yet? Well stop because she also has the world's most awesome best friend who takes the form of Zach Gilford. Zach is smart, funny, kind, attractive, and while deeply in love with her, is perfectly content to be just friends. She also has a hot Brazilian neighbor who totally wants her. Poor Alexis.
Fortunately Alexis is a likable actress because otherwise, you'd kind of want to smack her throughout the movie. There's just a lot of pouting and self pitying.
It wasn't a bad movie, to be honest, I couldn't care enough about it to dislike it. It was just a forgettable movie. If you like one of the actors in it, you might want to go out of your way to watch it, but more likely, you'll be content to wait for this to fall in your lap some day when you can contentedly wile away 90 minutes and then go about your business not remembering a thing about it except that Alexis's pants were entirely too long for her.
Perfect Getaway - The premise here is that there is a murderous couple on the loose in Hawaii. They've killed a honeymooning couple on Oahu and now the authorities believe they've moved to Kauai. Meanwhile, three separate couples - Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez, and Chris Hemsworth and Marley Shelton - are all hanging on the remote hiking trails and beaches of Kauai and their paths continue to cross.
In the end, one of those three couples are the murderers, one couple is framed for the killings, and one couple is nearly killed but ultimately takes the crazies down.
Most of the elements are there for a decent thriller but somehow the movie manages to suck anyway. The "twist" is ok but the flashback explanation of the twist is stupid and poorly incorporated. The movie tries so hard to trick you that it actually goes against it's own plot in a couple of places which cheapens the twist completely.
What I will say is that the casting was fantastic. There is some VERY good eye candy happening in this picture. Both Chris Hemsworth and Tim Olyphant are as dreamy as can be, though I actually thought Hemsworth should have had more screen time.
For the visual appeal alone, I'd say this is worth watching on cable. If you're in the market for a good thriller, skip this altogether.
17 Again - Holy crap was this movie good! I'm as shocked as anyone to find out that I actually loved this movie because I really didn't expect to. Zac Efron people! How could it really be good when it rests on the shoulders of the kid from High School Musical? But it was, I swear.
Ok so here's the story - Matthew Perry is that guy who blames everything that he wants but doesn't have in his life on the fact that he got married to his high school sweetheart and had kids right after high school instead of going to college. He dwells on what he considers the short-comings of his life instead of focusing on what is good in his life, like his wife and his kids. So naturally his wife kicks his ungrateful ass out and files for divorce and his kids really want nothing to do with him. Because people know when you blame them for what you perceive to be a crappy life and they do not appreciate it.
That's when he runs into a strange old man who works some magical mojo and turns him back into the 17-year-old version of himself, which is Zac Efron. Zach attends high school and takes this opportunity to get to know his kids and help them the way he should have helped them when he was their dad as opposed to their classmate. He also manages to be incredibly inappropriately flirty with their mom which is vaguely disturbing because he is only 17 but at the same time he is her husband and, as she acknowledges, he looks just like her husband did when they met and fell in love.
The movie is funny and charming and sweet and ridiculous and silly in the best way. I rented this but I think I will go out and buy the DVD very soon because it was a ton of fun and I can't wait to watch it again.


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Monet Class Letter
Dear Parents/Carers,
Today (Friday 30th September 2016), at 2:30pm we have a meeting for parents in the classroom to go over the curriculum and other activities in year 5. I will include the main points in next week's newsletter if you can't make the session today.
Continuing on with their autobiographical studies, this week year 5 had the chance to write their own autobiographies which looked at four areas; birth, earliest childhood memories, hobbies and future plans/dreams. After reviewing their work, it is clear Monet have a great ability to write with interesting language skills!
Monet this week investigated, identified and drew 3D shapes from 2D representations including: cubes and other cuboids. Work was of a high standard and the class should be proud of their efforts.
Year 5 is highly interested in the historical study of the Viking civilisations. This week, using their ICT skills, in pairs students have created engaging PowerPoint presentations. Areas of Viking life that have been examined included: food, clothing and warfare to name a few. They are soon to be Viking experts!
Next week
English – Year 5 will be focusing on improving their autobiographical skills by focusing on a key moment in their life and trying to expand this story (much like Roald Dahl's "Boy") into more descriptive and engaging language.
Maths – Students will be multiplying and dividing numbers mentally, drawing upon known facts.
Science/ICT – We will be looking into an investigation in regards to air resistance to improve our knowledge of forces.
Topic – Following on from their Viking's PowerPoint presentation, students will be presenting their slides to their peers. Speech work and presentation skills will be the key focus.
To prepare the class for their key moment during English this week, students will be writing a chapter based on "The naughtiest thing I've ever done". Students are to draw pictures of key moments of their story, from: beginning, middle, end and aftermath. Only key words are to written down, NOT full sentences, as this is just a plan.
Due date: Monday 3rd October 2016
Students are to complete the "Points of view" worksheet. The 1cm square dot paper is not required, students can completed the sheet using the dots provided. Rulers and coloured pencils are required to complete the sheet.
Due date: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Guided Reading
|Reading Group
|Pages to be read for homework
|Simone's Diary
|The Clumsie's
|The Rope and Other Stories
|Beyond The Beanstalk
|War At Home
Spellings' will now be tested every Friday. Students will be expected to learn and study these words throughout the week.
Week 2
- Aggressive
- Aggressively
- Amateur
- Ancient
- Apparent
- Apparently
- Appreciate
- Appreciative
- Appreciated
- Unappreciated
P.E / Swimming
Please ensure your child has the correct swimming kit (towel, swimming trunks and hat) for Monday's lesson. If these are not brought to school, your child will not be allowed to swim and will instead stay at Weston Park Primary School for the afternoon instead of swimming.
Have a brilliant weekend,


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Back it Up!
October 29, 2008
Seriously, I write about this every year, and I write from experience. Last night I was working late (again) and suddenly from my computer I hear a "click, click, click" sound. That's never good. Next thing I know I get a big bad shut down message, I restart and when the computer is back up one of my five hard drives is not there.
It died.
That hard drive just happened to be the one that contains everyone's wedding photos.
Oh no!
So after cursing a bit and taking account of how many hours this will set me back I casually took my back up drive from the other computer, take a new hard drive off the shelf and after six hours of copying data we're back where we were.
All of our stuff is backed up a ridiculous number of times in different locations. That's one reason why I roll my eyes when people make the comment that digital must be a lot less expensive than having to buy all that film. (goobers)
If you're like most people you have photos and music and other important stuff on your computer. Don't be like my brother-in-law who heard the clicking noise in his laptop and had nothing backed up. He lost college papers, music he had purchased and his patience. If you have a mac I would highly recommend getting something called a Time Capsule (google it). It's a wireless hard drive that can back up your entire computer and it's quite effortless. If you're on a PC, then go see the Geek Squad or someone else who can hook you up with the best solution.
Just be sure to do it soon before you hear a click, clikck of your own!
3 Responses to "Back it Up!"
October 30, 2008 at 10:08 am
I am doing it right now! Thanks for the reminder. : )
November 19, 2008 at 4:45 am
I have a mac and have not backed anything up and I have a dotMac account that is easy to back things up on and I have not done it yet. I guess I better! Thanks for the wake up call.
November 19, 2008 at 4:46 am
Also I am going to google time capsule, I have not heard of this for Mac.


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Happy Pride! Today, I walked with my synagogue's entry in the Pride Parade and had a blast. The decorations we made (giant menorah with pride candles) turned out wonderfully, the rain cleared off and everyone seemed to have a fun time.
(I hung back near the float for a sec and took this picture. How could I not? Doesn't it look so fantastic?)
We were number 100 of 237, so we stood around for over an hour beforehand. I was chatting with another member (who wore the greatest t-shirt of the day: "Nice Jewish Girl Seeks Same"), when a guy approached and began to tell us this bizarre story-- his wife is terminally ill and they decided it would be best for him to get a customized Real Doll to replace her, at least sexually. He began this in response to her shirt, telling her that if she didn't have luck finding this nice Jewish girl, she could look into purchasing one of these dolls.
Um, does he know how sisterly love works? I'm guessing not.
Anyway, he goes on and on about this doll, even opening his wallet to reveal an up-close portrait, not of his wife, but of his Real Doll. (Yes, I'll wait while you re-read that last sentence.) Oh, but that wasn't all! He also produced a credit card which he somehow got her (the doll) listed on! Seriously.
So, we marched! I particularly enjoyed responses like, "Yeah! I'm Gay and Jewish! Woooo!" and "Mazel Tov!" and "Shalom, Gay Jews!" and "Shabbat Shalom to YOU!"... ah, good times. A few people whipped out various Hebrew tattoos, which I'm always in favor of doing, a group of young and shirtless men tried to do a drunked kickline to "Hava Nagila" and one group of women started singing "V'Shamru" as we passed. Two women shrieked, "I'm fucking Jewish! Yeah!" as we passed and drunkenly marched with us for a while. I don't know what happened to them, only that they were suddenly not marching. I can onl assume they passed out someplace safe...? Yeah.
There were very few representatives from the Right, which is fine by me. Maybe only about four or five people with "G-d Hates You" crap, blah blah blah. I skipped and danced in front of them, because I could. Why fight them and rile them up when I can just rub it in their faces that I can celebrate and goof around in the middle of a Pride Parade? Ha.
I saw more than a few ladies with only x's of electric tape on their nipples, some gorgeous drag queens, some hideous drag queens, some hairy drag queens, many dick dancers in cowboy hats, many, many punk rock grrls, and one old friend. Not a bad day, I'd say.
Jun 25, 2006
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Um, instead of a fuckdoll, couldn't this dude use the seven thousand dollars to, say, KEEP HIS WIFE ALIVE?!?!?
I bet his wife is heartened to know that instead of spending the last moments of her life at the hospital by the side, that he is home shagging a doll.
You know, I think it would distress me more to think that if I died my husband would be fucking a doll that looked creepily like me than it would to think that he would grieve appropriately and then move on in a healthy manner to a new, alive partner. Seriously. The replica wife approaches the border of necrophelia in my view.
I saw you there! You looked fabu!
- thea said...
I can't believe I missed you. I was outside Las Mananitas the whole time. I think I was braving the port-o-fuck it fuckin stinks in here gonna swipe some TP in case I come back-potty at that time. Then we hung with old gay men at Bucks and waited in more bathroom lines.
We're here, we're queer, we piss out all our beer!


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Books so far have included Toni Morrison's Beloved and Mary Doris Russell's The Sparrow, and Mary Oliver's Thirst.
Each month the book is announced at least three weeks in advance and the conversation is open to everyone and their friends.
Looking ahead, here are the books that will be discussed:
|Wednesday, June 13
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
Young Reuben Land has little doubt that miracles happen all around us, suspecting that his own father is touched by God. When his older brother flees a controversial murder charge, Reuben, along with his older sister and father, set off on a journey that will take them to the Badlands and through a landscape more extraordinary than they could have anticipated. Enger's novel is at once a heroic quest and a haunting meditation on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.
|Wednesday, July 11
A Place on Earth
by Wendell Berry
Published in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, the preacher, as well as Mat Feltner, his wife Margaret, and his daughter-in-law Hannah, whose son will be born after news comes that Hannah's husband Virgil is missing.
|Wednesday, August 8
by Yaa Gyasi
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Award; Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard Award; Shortlisted for the British Book Award – Debut of the Year; A New York Times Notable Book; A Washington Post Notable Book.
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper's Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Esquire, Elle, Paste, Entertainment Weekly, the Skimm, PopSugar, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Financial Times.
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
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