Date: 2011-11-13 19:10 Subject: Fishies Security: Public Mood: fish, aquarium, bettas

Moved the ten gallon planted tank yesterday from the metal rack by the window to my dresser. It's sitting next to my betta breeding tank now. My male breeder has been very bad and refuses to make a bubble nest. I put the female in with him for a few days to try to inspire him, but all that resulted was domestic violence. So, she's back in the ten gallon to heal up. I tossed some extra java ferns into the breeder tank, so hopefully the extra cover will make things easier next time.

Annnd I made an impulse buy the other day, and got a Petsmart betta for my vase. It looks really nice, if I do say so myself. I tried to give him a mini heater, but even the little ones they make for betta tanks over-heated it. No damage done, but good think I was keeping track of it. This one is a light blue 'dragon scale'. I think I'll call him Little Boy Blue. Still not sure what to call the other two.

Moved the last two cardinal tetras to from the shrimp tank to the ten gallon with the others. Took me over a hour, the stinkers are great at hiding. Anyway, they're back with their school, so hopefully they won't be spending all their time hiding.

The endler's livebearers have spawned several times. There's tons of fry in the shrimp tank.

I'll take some pictures eventually. I'm really proud of my tanks. They look a bit messy because I'm not big into aquascaping (my approach to planted aquariums is to throw a bunch of stuff in there and see what survives, which is usually everything), but i don't care. I think they actually look more natural then some of the aquascaped ones, how many stream beds have you seen that look like a landscape?

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Date: 2011-11-07 16:03 Subject: I had too much coffee today :( Security: Public

Fuuuuu!

I feel like I'm going to explode.

At least my teacher called in sick today, so no school. :D

In other news, I fuckin' LOVE my nook. OMG it's the best thing ever. I'm going to get rid of ALL my books and replace them with digital editions probably by downloading illegal content lulz.

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Date: 2011-11-06 12:55 Subject: Three in one review: the Barnes and Nobel Nook and two books by Mercedes Lackey Security: Public

Note: I'm actually pretty horrible at writing book reviews so there will be spoilers. Those not wanting to read them should probably just stick with the Nook review.

Welp, yesterday I broke down and bought a Nook. It's something that I've been wanting to do for awhile, my ultimate plan is to get rid of all my physical library (or as much of it as I can... hah) and replace it with digital copies. This is because I have way too much stuff for my studio apartment, and I think the less stuff I have the easier it would be for me to clean my shit up. Anyway, with the Nook I can now start doing that.

( The nook. )

( Changes: Colligum Chronical Volume 3 )

( Beauty and the Werewolf: 500 Kingdoms Series Book 6 )

Anyway, yeah, that's that book. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to go read about RIDING FUCKING REINDEER instead. Because. REINDEER.

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Date: 2011-10-26 17:37 Subject: Interview tomorrow! Security: Public

With Office Depot. We'll see how this goes.

I'm surprised my application was still active with them, to be honest.

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Date: 2011-10-26 16:02 Subject: panic over Security: Public

the main college disbursment will be here in a day or two, hopefully, meaning I can get my meds and fill up my car and actually get my textbooks in a day or two. Plans for this semester, hire a Chinese tutor, and start taking violin lessons again. I might get a different teacher, nothing against the one I had but there's a violin teacher who also plays the erhu, and I really really want to learn how to play the er-hu as well and I'm hoping he might be willing to teach me in a year or two. I'm not out of the woods yet, but things are looking up!

Also, Nanowrimo starts in 5 days. TIME TO PANIC AGAIN OMG OMG OMG WAT hahaha /dies

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Date: 2011-10-25 10:07 Subject: Nanowrimo Security: Public

JournalFen has a thread! Other journal service users are welcome as well because why not, but I'll be starting a LiveJournal Naruto communit(ies) thread later today if one doesn't exist already. Need to the shower thing and the school thing first, lol.

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Date: 2011-10-24 21:17 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Finally linked my FB account to my LJ because I am starting to use it more often. With Segmagic and livejournal's Facebook linking I'm now able to update everything in one go, which will simplify my life online considerably.

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Date: 2011-10-24 20:48 Subject: Semagic looks good to go. Security: Public

Testing InsaneJournal as well, removed the thingie that caused the duplicate entry on IJ and LJ, testing to see if that worked properly. Blogger updated correctly. Thinking about linking that... or something to Facebook because I have given up trying to keep my online and offline life separate. I'm still going to use platedlizard online, however, my real name would look weird.

So yay?

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Date: 2011-10-24 20:37 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

test post for Semagic multi-journal posting. sorry about your friends page

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Date: 2011-10-24 20:35 Subject: test post is testing Security: Public

checking to see if this post will be posted to all my journals and blogger simultaneously, and if there are any double posts. I am using Semagic, and I think I finally got it figured out.

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Date: 2011-10-04 21:28 Subject: I'm drunk as HELL Security: Public

this used to happen more often but I got on anti-depresants and it stopped because I felt better about myself. But tonight I wanted a bit of a buzz. but there was no beer! I <3 beer. So I had to drink rum. And now I am listening to ep 153 of The History of Rome and listening to how the Emperor Valience died and its horrrible and I am making no sense at all wtf.

the alcohol doesn't even hurt anymore. this is, um, obviously going to result in me puking in the toilet latter on. The Romain Empire is about it fucking die and it's fucjing awesome, I love the History of Rome. it is the best podcast ever.

The Goths (real Goths, not the wearing black lipstick kind) are about to fucking invaade and it's so cool I can't stand it. I really love this fucking podcast wtf

anywa y that was totally incoherant.

so yeah. I'm studying CHinese this semestor. why the fuck did I think that was a good idea?

So, phonetics. The Chinese had this BRILLIANT idea wwhere they split their characters into two sections. The first is the radical, which holds the fucjing meaning of the word (ie 'call' is realted to 'mouth' becaule ' you call from your motuh. BRILLIANT) and the second is the pheonetic which tellsyou how the worx is pronounced. Live I said. BRILLANT god i am durnk.

rum is second to vodaka in horribleness

anyway I think I'm going to have to barf tonight wfit why didI do this

like rite now

bby

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Date: 2011-08-13 21:11 Subject: Update one Amelia Security: Public Tags: fossils

She is an ichthyosaur.

I am very happy.

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Date: 2011-07-29 17:01 Subject: Can I haz a pet Triassic Period aquatic reptile? Security: Public Tags: fish, fossils

Y yes, yes I can haz.

And her name is Amelia.

Me and Dad found her last weekend in Eastern Oregon. We are working with a professor at Oregon State University to get her excavated, hopefully this September. She might be a fairly complete skeleton... it depends on how much of her is in the talus slope and how much got shoved under the road when they made the roadcut we found her in.

Pictures of my new baby under the cut.

( Isn't she the most adorable thing ever???? )


We also went to a gravel quarry. This paticular quarry was the first place Sabertooth Salmon had been discovered. My dad found one about a month ago and had already arrainged to have another paleontologist come out with his grad students in August to get it. Well, apparently finding a Mysterious Aquatic Reptile from the Triassic Period wasn't enough for me, because I found a second salmon!

( Mmmm, salmon steaks from a 400lb salmon... *drools* )

Me and dad are going to try for a Mastodon next.

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Date: 2011-06-23 19:45 Subject: So fucking relieved. Security: Public Tags: school

I got my financial aid back. Not just that, they gave me "Good Standing" status. I had been expecting to get "Warning". Actually I had been expecting to be declined totally and then be up shit creek.

I'm sooo happy/relieved I might cry. I might actually get a college degree sometime this century.

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Date: 2011-06-13 11:58 Subject: Freakout lol Security: Public

Me: "It's the week after finals, I better check my grade! I bet I got a C, no, a D, no an F! WAAAH!" *weeps, starts shaking and freaking out* *covers eyes and checks grade online*

Grade: A lol

Me: oh.

Tell me again, why was I freaking out?

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Date: 2011-06-12 19:55 Subject: My wank senses are tingling! Security: Public Tags: wank

This will end in tears, one way or another.

1. This community is for making fun of people who overuse social justice jargon, make dicks of themselves, bully people in the name of righteousness, and also the people who go up against them.

HAHAHAHA!



/grabs the popcorn

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Date: 2011-06-08 21:18 Subject: I'm dyin'. DYING Security: Public Tags: fark, funny

Funniest thing I've read today.

HOQUIAM, Wash. (AP) - Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state.

The victim asked, "Why are you carrying a weasel?" Police said the attacker answered, "It's not a weasel, it's a marten," then punched him in the nose and fled.

The attacker was apparently looking for his girlfriend and had gone to her former boyfriend's apartment Monday where the victim was a guest.

KXRO reports he left the carcass behind.

Police later found the 33-year-old Hoquiam man arguing with his girlfriend at another location and arrested him after a fight.

He said he had found the marten dead near Hoquiam, but police don't know why he carried it with him.

A marten is a member of the weasel family.


Hoquiam. Of course it happened in Hoquiam. Where else would you have random weasel-bearing maniacs running around punching people in the nose?

I can only imagine the reaction of the cops who took that call.

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Date: 2011-06-05 17:28 Subject: oh 4chan Security: Public

/b/'s white knighting for Stephan Hawking.

I don't know what to think anymore.

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Date: 2011-06-02 18:08 Subject: In memorandum. Security: Public Tags: asian rock, music

I found this awesome compilation of Cambodian psychedelic rock from the 60's. It's probably about as good as anything that was produced in the US or UK at the time, I swear. It wasn't until I'd finished downloading everything that I read the rest of the page.

Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea, and Pan Ron were big stars in Cambodia before 1975, and all three "disappeared" under the Khmer Rouge, most probably killed like millions of others.

D:

I reeaaly hope that's not the case. But somehow I doubt they made it. At least their music lives on.

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Date: 2011-05-26 22:55 Subject: Purgation Security: Public Tags: fark

aaand apparently Sunday was Night of the Long Knives on Fark, when the userbase rose up in protest over Freep Impact's disappearance, and promptly had their posts baleeted. But, there were so many people bitching about it that even though their posts disappeared down the memory hole their protests still registered On High. FI is still gone (and will remain gone, she seems happy with her blog), but many of Fark's more notorious trolls have gone kaput as well. No more phil herup or AnimalBlack (ie, GatoNegro, CanisNoir, or Bocanegro*) I haven't seen bevets or Linux_Yes in action yet, either, but they tend to be attracted to only certain topics (evolution and creationism for bevets, Linux and Microsoft for Linux_Yes) GaryPDX is still there, somehow, but I don't think he's actually a troll. Just really crazy and paranoid (think Going Galt, "got mai survival bunker all ready" type crazy). randomjusa is still there as well, probably because it** saw what was going down and kept quiet.

It's a bit odd, without phil there are fewer Internet Dentist or GED in Law jokes. However, never fear, there appear to be a new crop popping up. Currently they're being Ignored and/or given quick, humiliating smackdowns, but soon enough Fark's Troll Brigade will be back in action, just like rain and sunshine. Good times.


*yes, I realize that probably translated as black lips or something like that, not [Animal]Black, and as you may expect of the three it was the worst. CanisNoir occasionally made sense, and GatoNegro was occasionally amusing in its trolling, Bocanegro deserved to be burned in a trashpile.

**many of the trolls and other personalities of fark are alts, that is sockpuppets created in order to either troll or amuse the userbase without attracting attention to the main account. Not just trolls use alts, Freep Impact was an alt. With alts I don't usually use he/she unless they ID themselves, there is little point as they are often just fake personas.

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