life is weord.

www.alanamrush.com

Site might not be propogated yet.

:-)

I've seen stupid dramas erupt in diverse and unrelated communities. Calm down everyone, take a fuckin breather, is it really worth getting all worked up about? Sun conjunct Uranus, what? Moon's in Gemini, which makes me happy but I guess makes other people nutso.

Minor accomplishments recently: we bought a sofa. Connected with C about visiting this summer. Completed postcard for The Killjoys, effectively pushing my design agenda ;-) A bought a laptop today, finally. beecee drew killer portraits of Team XP.

Think I'll go buy us some cream cheese.

I just ran across a cool company:

http://www.caebuttons.com/about.php

Stardust@Home: A distributed search by volunteers for interstellar dust in the Stardust interstellar dust collector

In January 2004, the Stardust spacecraft flew through the coma of comet Wild2 and captured thousands of cometary dust grains in special aerogel collectors. Two years later, in January 2006, Stardust will return these dust grains --- the first sample return from a solid solar-system body beyond the Moon --- to Earth. But Stardust carries an equally important payload on the opposite side of the cometary collector: the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collected. As well as being the first mission to return samples from a comet, Stardust is the first sample return mission from the Galaxy. But finding the incredibly tiny interstellar dust impacts in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector (SIDC) will be extremely difficult.

We are seeking volunteers to help us to search for these tiny samples of matter from the galaxy. Volunteers are critical to the success of this project. Please help us find the first samples of contemporary Stardust ever collected.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/background.html


cool!

it's been a while since i've read any financial news

but check this out

this guy's tone is comical but...

Perhaps this huge use of dollars is what has everyone worried about the new Iran oil bourse (trading center) that is scheduled to crank up in March, and probably rightfully so. Instead of an American-controlled oil market and American friends and insiders getting rich making their slimy little backroom deals, now it will be an Iran-controlled oil market and Iranian friends and Iranian insiders making their little deals.

It’s all mox nix to me, as oil is going to rise mightily in price anyway, but all of those American oil-business scumbags have families to care for, bills to pay and these big, fancy cars that speed by me as I sit with my "Will work for food" sign around my neck, and so you can bet that they are all crapping in their pants at the thought of the end of a very long, very cozy and very profitable deal. Ergo, you can certainly make a case that George Bush and the Congress will okay a plan to invade Iran and take over the place, because that is the kind of treacherous, thieving, murdering scumbag that my beloved America has become in its increasing desperation.

from http://www.kitco.com/ind/Daughty/jan112006.html
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Have been out to Sunrise Mountain twice in the past two days, for hiking and photography. Entering from the west side, we got stopped by a security dude who vaguely told us there were some roadblocks "up that way" and that we weren't supposed to be "up there." We tried to find out exactly where but the guy said he hadn't even been out that far. Well okay. So we figured we'd drive until we found a roadblock and we didn't see any, but we did see a lot of improvements they made to the road (Rainbow Gardens). That side of Sunrise is quite dramatic and I could spend many days hiking around there. We parked and hiked about a mile and a half south towards and up a dramatic red ridge. Now I am a conservative hiker but I was ready to climb to the top of it, I found it so safe. Before we got to the top, my bf who was about 20 feet above and 40 feet to my right, said that he saw the security guy's truck hanging out by ours, and that maybe we should turn around and go back. This was disappointing. I've only once been hassled by a ranger in all my travels, and of course we were doing nothing wrong, hadn't crossed any posted "don't be here" signs. The sun had already dropped behind a ridge so we ambled our way back to the truck, stopping for more photos along the way. ( Read more... )