I'm a slimy little mucus factory at the moment. Everyone at work has the same cold and Bonnie stayed home with it today too. She's got a performance tonight so I hope she feels better soon. She's watching all the Lord of the Rings back-to-back so I occasionally hear an orc dying in the background. She's going to beat Jared at Trival Pursuit LotR edition yet.
Anyway, so here I am this little snot rag of a person and without a call or any warning Jared comes knocking at the door looking all hot in his rugby shirt holding a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of Sprite, and a box of lotiony Kleenex.
Just when you think you can't love someone any more than you do they go and surprise you.
I just wanted to let you all know that I have finally set a firm move-date: Saturday, September 16, 2006. I'd really like to be able to see you all before I leave either this weekend or next - or maybe for dinner or coffee some week night :)
At some point I'm planning on having a going-away get-together for friends in the area. Some of you are living far away already, so I'll just continue to keep in touch with you via email - as always :) I may be used to missing you, but I always wish I could see you!
I'll visit home as often as possible - and you're always welcome to visit me if you're going to be in the Denver area!
Dinner In America (Bulletin my friends all reposted)
Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand.
Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
So, that's what they decided to do.
The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20."Dinner for the ten now cost just $80.
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free but, what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?'
They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to eat their meal.
So, the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings)!!
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20,"declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got $10!"
"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than me!"
"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.
The next night the tenth man didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
You know why batman is my favorite of all the super heroes? Because he didn't just get dipped in a vat of radioactive sludge or anything, he's rich, determined, and intelligent. All of his enemies are deviously insane and extremely intelligent. They don't do anything that couldn't technically be done in real life if someone put their mind and money to it. Well, maybe a few things. But mostly, it's a lot of martial arts and gadets. He just kind of seems like more of a real person than the rest of them could ever be.
The Natural You scored 58 on Straight-Forward to Complex, 50 on Tame/Adventure toAction/Violent, 61 on Slow/User speed to Real-Time, and 61 Solo toWorld Scope.
Anything I can do, you can dobetter. All of your moves seem smoother than others. What you do iswhat should have been done a long time ago.
Games you might like: World of Warcraft Rome: Total War Stronghold Commandos
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
Contrary to the results of this quiz, I am not a natural. I hate FPS games. I'm not terribly good at games like Mortal Combat (I smash all the buttons together until I win). I actually only like these types of games: RPGs (Fable), MMORPGs (World of Warcraft), army-builder (Age of Empires) and The Sims. And like...tetris and stuff.
Currently
listening
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One Minute Science
By
Sunna
Release date: 15 August, 2000
bloodninja: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight? BritneySpears14: Aight. bloodninja: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah. BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, bloodninja. bloodninja: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat. BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up. bloodninja: Me too baby. BritneySpears14: I kiss you softly on your chest. bloodninja: I cast Lvl. 3 Eroticism. You turn into a real beautiful woman. BritneySpears14: Hey... bloodninja: I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite. BritneySpears14: Funny I still don't see it. bloodninja: I spend my mana reserves to cast Mighty F*ck of the Beyondness. BritneySpears14: You are the worst cyber partner ever. This is ridiculous. bloodninja: Don't f*ck with me bitch, I'm the mightiest sorcerer of the lands. bloodninja: I steal yo soul and cast Lightning Lvl. 1,000,000 Your body explodes into a fine bloody mist, because you are only a Lvl. 2 Druid. BritneySpears14: Don't ever message me again you piece of ****. bloodninja: Robots are trying to drill my brain but my lightning shield inflicts DOA attack, leaving the robots as flaming piles of metal. bloodninja: King Arthur congratulates me for destroying Dr. Robotnik's evil army of Robot Socialist Republics. The cold war ends. Reagan steals my accomplishments and makes like it was cause of him. bloodninja: You still there baby? I think it's getting hard now. bloodninja: Baby? And after laughing hysterically and telling Jared about Something Awful - Epic Mounts: Love in Warcraft (part 1), he told me about BloodNinja - It's just too awesome not to share!
So, a friend sent me this a little while ago and it's terribly interesting!
I used to get a ton of credit card applications before I took my name off the list of people they send mailings to. I only get a few a year now. They all go in a bad in the corner of my room because I've been really paranoid about people just doing things in my name ever since the IRS wrote me saying that I owed thousands of dollars in taxes. Someone is using my social security number to dodge taxes...I've never worked in Northern California so I can prove it's not me!
I have to go to sleep earlier! Oh my goodness…wow, I really don't care right now. But how I wish I did. I'll be paying for it on Saturday.
Okay, so you know those songs that you listen to that make your brain go away into the corner of the room and just watch what you're doing? And your eyes narrow, your stomach tightens, and your ass clenches? No? You do, you just don't realize that your ass clenches and that's throwing you off. Well, it does. Asses do that.
(Okay fine. If you don't feel that way ever…go Google "Jesus" and "unicorns". In a non-pornographic way.)
Anyway, it's like I'm detached but intensely aware of everything going on around me…and it's songs like those that make me think that I could kill someone if I wanted to. Just stab them and watch them die. But like, right as their blood is seeping out of the hole that I just put in their throat so that they'd stop screaming, the song ends. And then everything comes rushing back to me and I panic. And just stand there and stare. And cry.
Weird.
Why do I think about these things? I guess I'm okay. I always wonder if maybe I'm assuming everyone is like me and they all have these thoughts. Maybe I'm just giving them too much credit.
Oh man…I love Johnny Cash. I could write a movie based on his songs. It'd be raw and scandalous and you'd love every minute of it.
You know, I'm not so weird. Even if that's one of the tamer things that come out of my adorable little mind lately, there are still way weirder people out there than me. And somehow, that doesn't make me feel better. I know what resides in this scrumptious psyche and it's full of horror and madness and depravity…and puppies. It scares me that there are people without puppies to balance out the perversity. And even worse: there are people who don't keep puppies and depravity in separate mind-compartments. That makes me sick.
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So, instead of swing dancing on Friday as planned (I don't want to swing dance without my favorite partner), we're going to grab food in LA before we hit Das Bunker.
See, at least with Das Bunker I know we'll have a good time. Dressing up in a black and doing rain dances and The Pogo in an industrial club is just fun! And food beforehand allows us to actually talk to each other at a table instead of shouting at each other in a club. I know it's pretty much what we do every Friday - but this time it'll be in celebration too :)
Confirmed so far: Dalia, Anthony, Josh, David, Brad, and possibly Tom.
As Dalia pointed out, the Coachella line-up seems like it'll be pretty awesome!
So, here's some info for you if you'd like to join us:
Night 1 (April 29th)
Depeche Mode Franz Ferdinand Sigur Ros Common Damian Marley Atmosphere Carl Cox My Morning Jacket Ladytron Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Tosca Cat Power Animal Collective HARD-fi Derrick Carter Devendra Banhart She Wants Revenge The Walkmen The Juan Maclean Audio Bullys Lady Sovereign Deerhoof The Duke Spirit Editors stellastarr Lyrics Born Matt Costa The New Amsterdams The Zutons Platinum Piped Pipers White Rose Movement Chris Liberator Colette Imogen Heap Joey Beltram Hybrid Wolfmother The Like Living Things Nine Black Alps The Section Quartet Infadels Youth Group Shy FX & T Power Infusion
Night 2 (April 30)
Tool Yeah Yeah Yeahs Bloc Party Paul Oakenfold Scissor Sisters Matisyahu TV on the Radio Sleater-Kinne Mogwai Coheed and Cambria Gnarls Barkley Coldcut Phoenix Digable Planets Amadou & Mariam Little Louie Vega Mylo (DJ Set) Seu Jorge Wolf Parade The Go! Team Kaskade Metric Art Brut Dungen The Dears Jamie Lidell The Magic Numbers Los Amigos Invisibles Jazzanova Michael Mayer Mates of State Gilles Peterson Gabriel & Dresden The Subways Minus the Bear Be Your Own Pet Giant Drag Kristina Sky The Octopus Project
Tickets for 2006 Coachella will go on sale Saturday, February 4th at Noon (pst) through ticketmaster. Links will be posted on coachella.com
SAT April 29th (1 day pass) $85 (+ $1 to charity + applicable service charges)
SUN April 30th (1 day pass) $85 (+ $1 to charity + applicable service charges)
BOTH SAT April 29th & SUN April 30th (limited 2-day pass) $165 (+ $2 to charity + applicable service charges)
Onsite Camping Tickets (18 + over only) $35
*PRE-ORDER the Coachella" documentary DVD + 2-day pass for $190 (+ $2 to charity + applicable service charges). DVDs shipped out separately approximately 2-3 weeks prior to the festival
Onsite camping tickets are sold separately through Ticketmaster or at the campsite on show days if tickets are available. Please visit our onsite camping page for complete details and to purchase your ticket. 2006 Camping tickets will go on sale Saturday, February 4th at noon (pacific standard time)
All ages welcome. Parking is free. Children under 5 free.
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