Here is a photo of Erik and his son Jadon.
Deeyam, Jadon is soooo cute!
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My seagros, this weekend a seattle poster put up a post asking for advice on what to do since yo was in an accident without liability insurance. Then when yo got 100 comments of snark, yo deleted the whole thing.

BAD POSTER! BAD DRIVER!

Ok, did we get that out of our system?

The problem is all youz out there that got all moralistic. The minimum liability insurance in this state is 25/50/10. $25k for personal injury, $50k for multiple injuries, and $10k for property damage. This is not morally responsible insurance coverage. This is cover-your-ass don't-give-me-a-ticket coverage.

Since when has a new car cost $10,000? The average used car on the road has a value of $14,000. The average new car, $28,000. Are you prepared to pay the difference between your minimum liability insurance and the cost of totalling a car, out of your pocket?

And the personal injury situation is even worse. It is easy to eat up $25,000 with a trip to the emergency room, a few days off work, and followup care for even minor scrapes and bruises. That's the reality of medical care costs. How morally upright are you going to feel when you hit someone and cripple them for life, they may never work or support themselves again, and the most you can offer is your $25,000? Will you go to the hospital and look them in the eyes and tell them that?

In both situations if you've got other assets - like a house with some equity - you can say goodbye to it carrying minimum liability insurance. Summa y'all are young and driving mommy and daddy's car or piggybacking on their insurance? Then their assets go away too! And you thought you were going to college and they wanted to retire some day.

So, don't get all holy and mighty preaching responsibility to some poor ass when you're not adequately covering your own. Provide a helpful answer or STFU.

BossLady: I guess I just don't get vegetarians
Me: I think it's mostly about boycotting the cruel treatment of animals.
BossLady: Well that just doesn't seem right to me, since they're the same people killing babies.
Me: Well... generalizing, but whatever.


BossLady: I don't think (very gay coworker who just moved in with his boyfriend) is actually gay.
Me: Um. What?
BossLady: I just think he needs to find a good woman and settle down.
Me: Oh, come on.

Of course! All gay men can be cured with vaginas!

Everybody's allowed their own opinion, except when their opinion is dumb.

Ok, so here is weird.
You guys know I'm subcontracting for the Pentagon, right?
Yeah.
AnySecret, one of my jobs is to update some documentation so it matches the current process.
They guy in charge of that documentation was my first boyfriend in High School.
No joke. He had (has?) black hair and green eyes and sorta had this Baldwin thing going on.
He was super pretty, and really nice. Course married now with a young son (will post photo).
We went to Buena High School... man. What a coinkydink.


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somone from upstairs JUST said I wanted all the lights replaced down here in the office space.
WHAT? People, you cannot tell by my dark demeanor and elegant smoking that I'm a goth?
Srsly.

Hey all,

Someone decided break into our office and take all of our filming equipment, including all of the data storage for the videos we were in the process of shooting. So, in an effort (however pointless) to recover the data on these machines, we're posting this ad around. Pass it on, if you could.

Yay for losing intellectual property. Yay.

TIA.

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$5000 reward for return of stolen media from Media Partners. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

Looking for the MEDIA housed on Several electronic devices that were stolen over Mother's Day Weekend, at the 911 Western Ave, Suite 306 in the Maritime building between Marion and Madison.

Media housed on various stolen devices included intellectual property. We're aware that the likelihood of actually retrieving the devices is pretty much nil. We're just hoping that we can recover thedata and media from the respective devices.

$5000 reward for the information on the following devices (No questions asked):

• Apple Power Mac G5
• Western Digital MyBook 1T
• Burly RAID SATA Enclosure (Black)
• 2 OWC Mercury Enclosures (Silver)
• 2 DROBO Units

Feel free to email at the below email address or call 206.267.2781.

I keep forgetting to post about this:

I was at the park 3 weeks ago and I ran into Elvis, who some of you may know, he is the big guy that does pin trading at the park on Sundays. He gave me this pin lanyard that I guess they sold at the park around halloween last year. This item slipped under the radar.

What is really amazing is the pin that comes with it. Yes it Roger Rabbit but look how he is dressed.

I have been told you can still get these on the Disney Store website.

I was looking for something very different, but I found these very cute Oxford-styled chunky platforms that might be fun for the more goth-club/Lolita inclined.

Not trying to get flagged here... just looking to benefit from others research :)

Without going into details, I am looking for an inexpensive motel in the south end (kent, des-moines, etc.) I'm not looking for creature comforts, just looking for a room with bed and door that locks. Looking for a little one-on-one time without the usual distractions of family, etc. Ideally, less than $50/night.

It's not steam powered, but damn, it looks good

Calling all vamps, tramps, flappers, hepcats, swingkids, steampunks, vintage enthusiasts, historical aesthetes, and time travelers:

Tomorrow night will see the debut of a new night recreating the age of flappers and philosophers, decadence and elegance, freedom and rebellion, vision and vice, with the wettest drinks from the age of the Dry Law, and the hottest tunes to loosen up the inhibition during the age of Prohibition.

I, in a new alias DJ Dubonnet, will spin the hottest plates from the coolest gators to have ever waxed a disc, with jazz, blues, rags, barrelhouse, hokum, jugbands, dancebands, and much more from the 1920-30's.

And my dear friend William will be slinging the drinks from the Prohibition-era to keep you loose and limber all night long.

Drape yourself in the sharpest threads and come on down and party like it's 1929!

One side effect of the rise in retail prices is an increase in the amount of sales tax collected. While this may be offset by a decline in spending overall, one cannot ignore the fact that the price increase, this weekend of 22 cents on a number-ten breakfast at McDonald's means that King County is now getting an extra 2 cents out of me when I choose to get the fast food morning treat.

I wonder if there is, indeed, a windfall in terms of increased sales tax revenue based on increasing retail prices...

Anyone know?

(PS: number-ten is the two mini breakfast burritos and an orange juice)

(not pictured: Tesla coils...it was hard to get a good photo of those)

since most of what i took photos of was old tech, i decided to cross post here...i know there have been other maker faire posts, so i hope there are not too many duplicates, or at least, i hope i can offer a new perspective.



( two headed animals, sword dancing, fire, and lots of gears... )

It's funny how fast things can change.  At this point, I seriously doubt I'll be staying on the President's List at the end of this quarter.  I mean, hey, I'd love to, but I'm not going to base my entire sense of self-worth on it.  (I'll still be on the Dean's List, and that's okay.  LOL.)  Working full time outside of school combined with this courseload is kind of... retarded.  In retrospect, I really should have gotten all the math out of the way before starting Physics, and then I could have done what I'm going to do this fall: pair difficult classes with something easy.

Thanks to early registration for continuing students, I'm already registered and paid up for summer and fall now-- some Environmental Science, Psychology, [last quarter of] Physics, and Japanese.  I'll need to see an advisor before winter quarter to get my final class list worked out.  I would really like to be done with this AS by winter '09.

My Physics instructor wanted me to sign up for his electrical engineering class this summer, even just to audit if I didn't want extra exam stress, and I was pretty tempted (it's all hands-on fun stuff)... but I just can't be leaving work in the middle of the day every day on top of going to the gym, running, and all that crap.

Maybe if I have some spare time towards the end of my AS... I might even take it for credit.

Hmm.

Best Review of Duran Duran evar.
By chromeangel

( Cougar prey migration, generates massive�interest. )

In other news... well. I decided that breaking up with Ryan was about the dumbest idea I've had in a long time. And that is saying something. So after a minor bit of groveling, my world once again turns in the right direction.

Meanwhile back in Vegas...
What a blast. DD and then Ultraviolet Sound, good stuff! chromeangel and victorianrose23 are rock stars. And so easy to be around. I think they are keepers.
I think I can say... going out on a limb here... that this was the best DD show I've ever seen.
And I've seen more than one. Or six.


Vegas baby. Vegas.

A discreet linkage here for those who want to find out more.


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Al Gore won the Nobel Peace prize for his activism on Global Warming, Climate Change, Anthropogenic Climate Change in 2007. One of the other nominees for the prize at that juncture was Irena Sendler. Another activist, though in a far more esteemed class if you ask me. She was in the Polish Underground and Zegota, the polish anti-holocaust resistance in Warsaw. She helped save 2,500 jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing false documents. She was arrested in 1943 by the Gestapo. She was tortured and later sentenced to death. Some how she managed to not get executed by bribing a guard.

Irena Sendler died yesterday (12th of may) in Warsaw Poland.

That Al Gore won over her is absolutely pathetic. Alfred Nobel is probably spinning his grave.

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In the Spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Well, love and mash-ups.

“Shut Up On A Blue Monday” was mashed-up by ComaR. You can find it and other mash-ups at www.myspace.com/comarbootlegs

“Closer To Business Time” was mashed-up by Dan Dickinson. You can download it and other mash-ups at vjarmy.com

“Nelly Furtado’s Crazy” was mashed-up by A plus D. You can download it and other mash-ups at aplusd.net

The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net.

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The first assumption is that you can procure a whole, fully-dressed child. In some parts of the country this might be easier than in others. Figure on about 1.25 to 2 lbs per person of dressed child. For the wedding we had a 160 lb child (husky fella, that one)to feed about 100 people. This was supplemented with thighs, (a trackstar, naturally) and many other dishes. At another event, the child weighed 60 lbs and fed about 30 people.

Another assumption is that you have a safe environment for storing the child from the time you abduct it to the time you begin cooking it. It doesn’t matter how good something tastes or what sensations a food item gives you, if it isn’t safe to eat, you’re going to be in serious trouble. Fortunately, the FDA provides some simple guidelines you can follow to help ensure safe storage….

Special thanks to Richard Kalwaic for reading this episode.

The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net

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It’s Feedback Friday once again, and once again I respond to your emails.  In the wake of The Great Deletion (I explain it in the episode) feedback of this sort is wonderful to read.

Discussed this episode:

• The tattoos Panda may or may not have
• How awesome JR and my lives are (again)
• The London subway bombings
• The Great Deletion
• “Tea In Bags”
• The nature of internet relationships
• The Sartorialist, at thesartorialist.blogspot.com

The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net