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Normally I make sure I have some emergency cans of Starbucks Doubleshots in the fridge, but I was out of those. I had enough filtered water in pitchers to make a pot of coffee, but not enough to wash the coffee maker, which was still full of coffee grounds from yesterday.<br /><br />A bit later, I noticed the running water was once again running as it should.<br /><br />I set out to clean the coffee maker to make some coffee, and then I remembered... <br /><br />I used the last of the coffee yesterday, anyway.<br /><br />Le sigh. <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/tired.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> sleepy</font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295698.html">2 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295698.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295318.html'><b>dissatisfaction</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>23.feb.10</b> [11:53p] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> Recommendations for vegetarian canned chili?<br /><br />Not because I've suddenly stopped eating meat, but because the meat in canned chili generally tastes HORRIBLE and I'd rather add my own. <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/annoyed.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> annoyed</font><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Infected%20Mushroom">Infected Mushroom</a> - <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Infected%20Mushroom/_/Mush%20Mushi">Mush Mushi</a> | Powered by <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a></font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295318.html">9 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295318.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295124.html'><b>How I spent my weekend...</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>22.feb.10</b> [12:07a] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkmoon/4378590272/in/set-72157622485893146/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2687/4378590272_1c0e87f13c.jpg" alt="LEGO Building" border="1"></a></div><br /><br />A weekend building LEGO with <span class='ljuser ljuser-name_metaphorge' lj:user='metaphorge' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://metaphorge.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://metaphorge.livejournal.com/'><b>metaphorge</b></a></span> is a weekend well spent. :D <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/smile.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> content</font><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Pet%20Shop%20Boys">Pet Shop Boys</a> - <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Pet%20Shop%20Boys/_/Suburbia">Suburbia</a> | Powered by <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a></font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295124.html">13 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2295124.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294968.html'><b>Discordian.com Desires Destruction</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>16.feb.10</b> [12:04a] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> <blockquote>In a search for more interesting chaos, <a href="http://www.discordian.com">Discordian.com</a> seeks to invoke a better Destruction. The Sandman Chronicles were channeled, of this we are sure. Endless siblings Death, Dream and Delirium need your help to bring back their brother Destruction who has abandoned his post, allowing entropy and suffering to rule. Participate in an important pop magic(k) ritual like those you have come to expect from Discordian.com. Heal the world with Destruction, as only Discordians can.</blockquote><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quantumbutterfly/4361518600/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4361518600_4b39e2d642.jpg" border="1"></a><br /><small>Delerium, Dream, Death, and Destruction</small></div><br /><br />Yes, I was Delirium. Yes, it was awesome. And it really... the audience seemed to be <i>into</i> it. And that's what mattered. <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/smile.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> content</font><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Red%20Paintings">The Red Paintings</a> - <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The%20Red%20Paintings/_/Mad%20World">Mad World</a> | Powered by <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a></font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294968.html">10 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294968.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294673.html'><b>Tonight....</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>13.feb.10</b> [12:09a] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> ...I shook Steve Jackson's hand. :)<br /><br /><br />And played a couple of quick unreleased games with him, as well.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyrsalvia/4353448398/"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4353448398_73481ae0c0.jpg" border="1"></a></div> <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/smile.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> pleased</font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294673.html">3 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294673.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294486.html'><b>There must be a unicorn in the sky today.</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>02.feb.10</b> [5:38p] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkmoon/4326102735/" title="rainbow by darkmoon, on Flickr" border="1"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4326102735_f53f4a3d8c.jpg" width="500" height="313" alt="rainbow" /></a></div> <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/smile.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> happy</font><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo%20Girls">Indigo Girls</a> - <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo%20Girls/_/Romeo%20and%20Juliet">Romeo and Juliet</a> | Powered by <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a></font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294486.html">1 penny</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2294486.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293905.html'><b>See my lopsided face and unkempt hair!</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>01.feb.10</b> [3:31p] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> <div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkmoon/4322575741/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4322575741_018803a201_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkmoon/4322575741/">See my lopsided face and unkempt hair!</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/darkmoon/">darkmoon</a></span></div><b>Friday:</b> Got Wisdom teeth extracted.<br /><b>Today:</b> Swelling on the left side of my face has only <i>just</i> started going down a bit. Swelling on the right side of my face has not, and it's a lovely yellow-brown color from the healing bruise that was there.<br /><br />i've had to ask for a refill of my Vicodin prescription, as there are only 2 left in the bottle and I discovered on waking up this morning how it feels if I miss a dose (though go me for actually managing to sleep 6 hours in a row). Fortunately the dentist's office says they can call that in for me, and hopefully they have actually done so, and I won't have to kill things once done working (from home) and can go pick it up.<br /><br />I have been tempted to post pictures of the teeth that were extracted. You are grateful that I haven't, as it is human nature to click on such things even (or perhaps especially) if you're warned about how gross it will be.<br /><br />Many thanks to <span class='ljuser ljuser-name_metaphorge' lj:user='metaphorge' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://metaphorge.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://metaphorge.livejournal.com/'><b>metaphorge</b></a></span> who took wonderful care of me on Friday when I was still bleeding profusely from the face. Also for being the sort of partner with whom I can have this sort of conversation after I show him where I drooled blood onto my pillow:<br /><b>Fox:</b> I'm sorry, baby.<br /><b>Me:</b> Why? It's not your fault I was bleeding profusely from the face.<br clear="all" /> <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dead%20Can%20Dance">Dead Can Dance</a> - <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dead%20Can%20Dance/_/The%20Spider%27s%20Stratagem">The Spider's Stratagem</a> | Powered by <a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm</a></font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293905.html">2 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293905.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293708.html'><b>On the iPad</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>27.jan.10</b> [5:38p] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> I'm going to do a rare thing, and talk about things that relate to my job, something I haven't done in... well, several years now. Long enough that some of you may not realize what it is that I do for a living: high-level support for Apple.<br /><br />Specifically, I support Apple's consumer application suites, iLife and iWork, which means no I can't help you with your iPod, no I have nothing to do with how well iTunes functions in Windows, and no, I am not "in the know" about the iPad. I know exactly what the public knows about it. Hell, I haven't even seen the iPad version of iWork yet, which is a product I certainly will be supporting two months from now.<br /><br />I've been seeing a lot of people bitch about the iPad today, from two camps of people: Apple Fans, and Apple Anti-Fans. For those of you who have vowed to never buy an Apple product, this post is not for you. I am not attempting to sway your opinion of Apple products. Skip it, and go on your merry way. We are going to have to agree to disagree, and hopefully you'll at least have the courtesy to bitch about my employer a little bit less around me, since that's a little bit awkward in the making blonde jokes around a blonde kind of way.<br /><br />To the Apple Fans bitching about what the iPad doesn't do: Stop it.<br /><br />When iWeb first came out, I had a flock of people coming to me, asking me how to make it do this, that, or the other thing. Usually tables. When I said it can't, the question was, "Why not?" Because it's not designed to do that, that's why not. iWeb was designed as a way to create web content for people who knew nothing about creating web content. It wasn't targeted at people who already knew what they were doing. It wasn't targeted at people who had been using Dreamweaver, or people who knew how to code entire sites in a text editor, or even people who created entire sites with WordPress. It was targeted at people who <i>didn't know any better.</i> Now that we have iWeb 3, we can do some of the things that people wanted to do, and there's always HTML snippets for the stuff that isn't built into the app. It's still targeted at people who don't know any better, but with time, more features get added on.<br /><br />The big folly of Apple fans seems to be that they forget about how limited the 1.0 release always is. By the time we get to version 4 or 5, our products seem to kick everything else out of the water. See Keynote, for example. Do you remember when Keynote first came out? I do. People bitched a lot about what it couldn't do. Now it can do most of those things. Do you remember when iPhoto first came out? iMovie? iTunes? Man, the 1.0 release of iTunes was so limited I kept using the software Apple had purchased to turn <i>into</i> iTunes even though the version I had was discontinued, because they'd taken some of my favorite features out to make iTunes. Look at it now; not only did we get those features back, it does a hell of a lot more.<br /><br />So the iPad won't run Photoshop. I couldn't use it for a recording studio. Right tools for the right job, people. It's not meant for people who want to run Photoshop or a recording studio. It doesn't have the power for those things. It's meant for people who want a lightweight device to browse the web, watch movies, and read books. And those things? Those things it does really well. And as time goes on, Apple will learn what people are <i>actually</i> using it for, rather than what we <i>expect</i> them to use it for, and it will get modified, added to, and improved, and each version will be a little bit better. In the meantime, there are people for whom such a device is perfect... in addition to those who would rather have the iPad than a netbook, it's perfect for someone who doesn't want to do anything but read books, watch movies, and browse the web. </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293708.html">21 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293708.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293322.html'><b>33 Conspiracy Theories that Turned Out to be True</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>08.jan.10</b> [12:47a] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> <a href="http://www.newworldorderreport.com/Articles/tabid/266/ID/980/33-Conspiracy-Theories-That-Turned-Out-To-Be-True-Why-Do-So-Many-People-Not-Know-These.aspx">This article</a> makes for a very interesting read.<br /><br />Even before getting to the confirmed conspiracies in question, we have this line, which explains a lot about how cultural psychology and propaganda works:<br /><br /><blockquote>In fact, it is common for "hit pieces" or "debunking articles" to pick extremely fringe and not very populated conspiracy theories. This in turn makes all conspiracies on a subject matter look crazy. Skeptics magazine and Popular Mechanics, among many others, did this with 9/11. They referred to less than 10% of the many different conspiracy theories about 9/11 and picked the less popular ones, in fact, they picked the fringe, highly improbable points that only a few people make. This was used as the "final investigation" for looking into the conspiracy theories. Convenient, huh?</blockquote><br /><br />Yes, there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there that are wildly out of control and highly implausible. There are others, however, that are much more plausible, and even likely. All of the events outlined in the article are things that people suspected might be happening before they were investigated and then proved. Some of them are quite famous, like the Watergate scandal and the Manhattan Project. Others are things that really <i>should</i> be higher up on the public radar, like the 1933 plot to overthrow the US government and replace it with a fascist regime (Protip: when picking your point man for your conspiracy, make sure he's actually on your side). And then there's the JFK assassination... everyone pretty much agrees that there <i>was</i> a conspiracy, but no one seems to know what it was, except a bunch of people who are now dead. And just why <i>are</i> Oswald's tax returns still Classified documents, anyway?<br /><br />Yes, conspiracies exist. Any time a group of people get together and plot to do something in secret, it's a conspiracy. A lot of them never see the light of day, and many more do but are never found out. People are not always up-front about their motives, especially not when it comes to obtaining money and/or power. No, the sinister answer is not always the correct one... but sometimes it is. <br><br><font size="-1"><b>current mood:</b> <img src="http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/smileys/thoughtful.gif" align='absmiddle' width='15' height='15'vspace='1' alt='' /> thoughtful</font><br><font size="-1"><b>current music:</b> glitch.fm</font> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293322.html">6 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2293322.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td align="left" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <a href='http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2292807.html'><b>Top 50 dystopian movies of all time</b></a> </font></td> <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> <b>25.dec.09</b> [2:19p] </font></td></tr> <tr><td valign="TOP" align="justify" colspan="2"><font size="2"> For Christmas I found a list of the <a href="http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/">Top 50 dystopian movies of all time</a> via Roger Ebert's twitter stream. I intend to use this list as a checklist of things to watch, though on a quick count have discovered I've seen just shy of half already.<br /><br /><b>( <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2292807.html#cutid1">the list...</a> )</b> </font></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" colspan="2"><font size="1"> <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2292807.html">6 pennies</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/2292807.html?mode=reply">spare change?</a> </font></td></tr>  <tr bgcolor="#222222" background="http://www.lunamorena.net/journal/pipebar.gif" height="20"><td colspan="2" align="center"><font size="2"> want more? <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/?skip=10" class="bottom">last 10</a> · <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/darkmoon/1914502.html" class="bottom">suggestion box</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/friends" class="bottom">friends</a> · <a href="http://darkmoon.livejournal.com/calendar" class="bottom">calendar</a> · <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/darkmoon/rss/" class="bottom">rss feed</a> · <a href="http://www.livejournal.com" class="bottom">livejournal</a> </font></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>...little pool of Randomness...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css" type="text/css"> <base href="http://www.lunamorena.net/" target="content"> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#CCCCCC" link="#00BB99" vlink="#7700FF" alink="#FFFFFF"> <p align="center"><font size="1"> Tuesday, 9 March 2010 · 18:55:33 up 26 days, 21:14, 2 users, load average: 5.41, 4.75, 4.58 <br> All text, images, and layout contained herein are Copyright © 1996 - 2008 Sierra Kempster unless otherwise indicated. 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