How nice this journal looks...

Hey, so I found the light switch cover!

2007-01-15T16:17:14Z

I knew it had to be on my hard drive somewhere. There's no way I'd get rid of it.

alpheratz @ 2006-11-22T18:16:00

2006-11-22T23:27:30Z

Daily Kos is wanking about the draft and whether it is the solution to all of America's problems. There is thousand comments with false dichotomies, willful misunderstanding, and accusations of just about anything from sounding conservative to sucking at history. Normally I'd just go ahead and post it, but 1) it kind of is serious business, and 2) otf_wank doesn't need this sort of encouragement. So I'll just look at it sadly and shake my head.

But not too sadly, because I have a tasty pizza, wine, a Twitch City DVD set and about twelve hours to go until my flight, so there!

alpheratz @ 2004-12-14T10:04:00

2004-12-14T15:06:50Z

Birthday wishes to cleolinda!

*throws sparkles everywhere*

alpheratz @ 2004-11-27T20:58:00

2004-11-28T02:00:32Z

I <3 all these anonymice who can't tell deleterius and f_w apart. One would think that the journalfen.net in the address bar would tip them off that these are two different communities, but they must all be over 35.

alpheratz @ 2004-10-31T13:54:00

2004-10-31T18:56:25Z

WTF is wrong with LJ? I need my daily dose of crack, dammit!

*reads f_w desperately*

GIP

2004-07-12T19:48:11Z

I have a new default icon. *sniffle* It's a little sad to replace my lovely Addams Family icon with this one, but all things change, and so must my default icon.

So, I don't know.

2004-06-25T15:56:00Z

I found the deletion slightly amusing, if incredibly mind-boggling, at first, before we knew what really happened. I mean, drama! Conspiracy theories! Who is Brad? Yeah.

But now, I find the explanation mildly insulting at best. I mean, seriously. Number one, decide if you wanted it to be funny or if you wanted to teach "us", whoever "us" is, a lesson, and number two, stop fucking whining about feeling alienated after posting those innocent boggly-eyed posts in your journals about how you didn't know what happened, even though you did. Okay, JFs I understand. But Aja - I know you aren't reading this, but whatever - why in the world did you think it necessary to post about it in your LOCKED LIVEJOURNAL?

And the funniest thing about it - really, see me laugh - are the moans about how "the community has gone to shit in the past two months." Um, NO. What I noticed were a lot of people - oldbies, mind you - running around and flailing, starting up secret metawank communities - the *oldbies*, mind you - poking trolls (and there have *always* been trolls in f_w) - abusing i_wank - really! It is so hypocritical to do all this and complain about newbies who allegedly "don't know how the community is supposed to run."

Who was supposed to benefit from this lesson, again? About taking things too seriously? The newbies? Riiight.

I am a little disappointed. Which is stupid, and oops, I should have learned not to take f_w too seriously. Or Aja.

GIP!

2004-05-18T16:30:06Z

I have a new pretty icon! *dances* Want/take/have, btw.

alpheratz @ 2004-04-07T12:37:00

2004-04-07T17:41:24Z

So I thought I'd do this here, like in my livejournal.

This is from Wikipedia.
The word "Jew" is a tribal name which predates recorded history. There are competing views as to the name's origin. The most common view is that the Middle English word Jew is from the Old French qiu, earlier juieu, from the Latin iudeus from the Greek corresponding to the Hebrew y'hudi, ultimately from Judah, an ancient Hebrew patriarch, the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob according to Genesis, and the tribe descended from him. The Old English equivalent was Iudeas.

Genesis chapter 29 verse 35 says that Judah's mother, the matriarch Leah, named him Judah because she wanted to praise God for giving birth to so many sons: "She said, 'This time let me praise (odeh) God,' and named the child Judah (Yehudah)." In Hebrew , the name "Judah" contains the four-letter Tetragrammaton , the special holy ineffable name of God according to Judaism.

An alternative and much less common view is that Jew is from Jewry from the greek evrei meaning "Hebrew," which some speculate comes from the ancient Egyptian 'hiberu,' which meant "stranger." Under the latter view, Abraham, Israel and other patriarchs are regarded as Jews while under the former only the descendants (ethnically or physically) of the Judaeans would be Jews, strictly speaking.

In one place in the Talmud, the word Israelite refers to somebody who is Jewish but does not necessarily practice Judaism as a religion: "An Israelite even though he has sinned is still an Israelite." In this usage, the distinction is not made between "Jew" and "Israelite" and they are both called Jew. In modern English, this terminology is not used; one can refer to "religious Jews" or "secular Jews."

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