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[Sep. 25th, 2005|09:03 pm] |
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I just bought 100 user icons, and I have been uploading a lot. I need to get more, or make more of my own. The only problem is that I can't figure out how to animate the text. Some would just look better with animated text. I have Photoshop, so if anyone knows how, please share!
Love! |
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[Sep. 10th, 2005|03:15 pm] |
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"I was thinking about going bigger. Really big, like Freak Show big...47 triple F. Sooo big, that smaller breasts will want to orbit them." - Celia, "Weeds" |
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| Someone's got dumb sheep...or not |
[Jul. 8th, 2005|08:40 pm] |
450 Sheep Jump to Their Deaths in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.
In the end, 450 dead animals lay on top of one another in a billowy white pile, the Aksam newspaper said. Those who jumped later were saved as the pile got higher and the fall more cushioned, Aksam reported.
``There's nothing we can do. They're all wasted,'' Nevzat Bayhan, a member of one of 26 families whose sheep were grazing together in the herd, was quoted as saying by Aksam.
The estimated loss to families in the town of Gevas, located in Van province in eastern Turkey, tops $100,000, a significant amount of money in a country where average GDP per head is around $2,700.
``Every family had an average of 20 sheep,'' Aksam quoted another villager, Abdullah Hazar as saying. ``But now only a few families have sheep left. It's going to be hard for us.'' |
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| Baby Wholphin born |
[Apr. 15th, 2005|12:39 pm] |
Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin
By JEANNETTE J. LEE
HONOLULU (AP) - The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park.
The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale.
The calf still depends fully on her mother's milk, but sometimes snatches frozen capelin from the hands of trainers, then toys with the sardine-like fish.
She is jumbo-sized compared to purebred dolphins, and is already the size of a one-year-old bottlenose.
``Mother and calf are doing very well,'' said Dr. Renato Lenzi, general manager of Sea Life Park by Dolphin Discovery. ``We are monitoring them very closely to ensure the best care for them.''
Although false killer whales and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are different species, they are classified within the same family by scientists.
``They are not that far apart in terms of taxonomy,'' said Louis Herman, a leading expert in the study of marine mammals.
There have been reports of wholphins in the wild, he said.
Kekaimalu, whose name means ``from the peaceful ocean,'' was born 19 years ago after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin. The animals were the leads in the park's popular tourist water show, featured in the Adam Sandler movie ``50 First Dates.''
Kekaimalu has given birth to two other calves. One lived for nine years and the other, born when Kekaimalu was very young, died a few days after birth.
Park researchers suspect the wholphin's father is a 15-foot long Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Mikioi.
``He seems to be totally oblivious to this happening,'' Lenzi said.
False killer whales do not closely resemble killer whales. They grow to 20 feet, weigh up to two tons and have a tapering, rounded snout that overhangs their toothed jaw.
Atlantic bottlenose dolphins reach a maximum size of 12 feet and can weigh up to 700 pounds.
Sea Life Park officials said they hope to decide on a name for the baby wholphin soon and move her to a large display tank in a few months.
On the Net:
Sea Life Park Hawaii: http://www.sealifeparkhawaii.com/ |
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[Feb. 18th, 2005|09:22 pm] |
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I just saw the new Britney video, totally sucks. They are playing up her crappy-can't-sing-worth-crap rap. Totally blows. Maybe now she will actually drop out of the spotlight and quit with her i'm-so-wonderful-better-than-you attitude. |
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| Just Goes to Show what our Society is really like |
[Feb. 10th, 2005|12:20 pm] |
Girls Who Had to Pay $900 After Bringing Cookies to a Neighbor Get Donations to Help Them
02-10-2005 11:30 AM
By ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer
DENVER -- The cookie conflict isn't over yet. The spat between two teens from the southwestern Colorado town of Durango and one of their neighbors over a batch of cookies they baked last summer has garnered national publicity over the past week. It has led to donations for the girls.
For Herb and Wanita Young, it has all been a nightmare.
"We have got horrendous phone calls, tons of hate mail, threats to our life," said Herb Young in a telephone interview Thursday.
The saga began in July when Taylor Ostergaard, 17, and Lindsey Jo Zellitti decided to bake chocolate chip and sugar cookies for their neighbors. They placed them outside with large red or pink construction-paper hearts that carried the message, "Have a great night" and were signed with their first initials: "Love, The T and L Club."
Things went sour when they approached the Young home. Wanita Renea Young, 49, said she heard someone banging on the door late in the evening and saw "shadowy figures" who refused to answer when she called out to them. The teens later said they did not answer because they wanted the treats to be a surprise.
A frightened Young said she spent the night at her sister's home, then went to the hospital the next morning because she was still shaking and had an upset stomach.
The Youngs said they tried to settle the dispute, even enlisting their clergy. The teens say they offered to pay the medical bills, but Young insisted on going to small claims court where a judge awarded about $900 in medical costs.
As they story spread, Denver radio station KOA raised more than enough money to pay the court award. The girls, who did not immediately return messages, were expected to be in Denver later Thursday to accept a check from the station. They have already been invited on national television shows and a cookie company has created a "Kindness Cookie" in their honor.
Things have not gone as well for the Youngs.
"It's horrible, nobody has heard our side," said Herb Young, adding the couple has had to hire a lawyer. "I don't believe the girls meant for this to happen. But they could have prevented it from happening if they had just shut their mouths when they came out of (small claims) court. Now they are caught in something they can't control."
The parents of one of the teens asked for a restraining order against Herb Young, accusing him of making harassing phone calls. He admitted calling the Ostergaards once after hearing the teens were talking to a newspaper and at one point said "the gloves were off," which apparently was taken as a threat.
"My home isn't a home any more," Young said. "We are all on pins and needles." |
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[Feb. 2nd, 2005|12:46 pm] |
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Dear Abby,
My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit card
bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts at
me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum and let our kids
worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the interest.
Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors that most of
them no longer speak to us. The few that do are an odd bunch, to whom he has
been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills even more. Also,
he has gotten religious in a big way, although I don't quite understand it.
One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with people who say the
Pope is the Anti-Christ. And now he has been going to the gym an awful lot
and is into wearing uniforms and cowboy outfits, and I hate to think what
that means. Finally, the last straw. He's demanding that before anyone can
be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty oath. It's just so
horribly creepy! Can you help?
Signed, Lost in DC
Dear Lost:
Stop whining, Laura. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The rest
of us are stuck with him for four more years |
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| Pretty Damn Funny...who leaves their baby? |
[Jan. 25th, 2005|07:23 pm] |
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You Won't Believe What Is Left in Cabs!
We are busy and distracted people. Here's the proof: An estimated 11,300 laptop
computers, 31,400 handheld computers, and 200,000 mobile telephones have been
left in taxis around the world during the last six months, reports Reuters of a
survey of 1,000 taxi drivers in nine cities around the globe.
Leaving behind a laptop or cell phone is one thing, but forgetting to take your
baby or your artificial limb is quite another. Taxi drivers reported they also
found these items left behind by preoccupied passengers: a baby (fortunately,
there was only one), a harp, 37 milk bottles, dentures, and artificial limbs.
The survey by security software company Pointsec showed that passengers lost
three times the number of handheld computers in the second half of 2004 than in
2001. Reuters notes that most of the items were returned to their owners,
including four out of five mobile phones and 19 out of every 20 computers. One
also assumes the baby made it home.
Here's an even bigger threat to your cell phone: theft. Just ask the recent
victim who reported being billed $14,000 for calls made by the person who stole
his daughter's cell phone.
No. 1 item left in taxis by city:
Laptop computers: London
Cell phones: Copenhagen
Handheld computers: Chicago |
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| I'm not |
[Jan. 19th, 2005|01:19 pm] |
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I am not exactly sure what to say. I am not exactly sure how I feel.
Everything is rolling forward
I am slowing sinking lower
running and trying
all is plotted
none for prying
slowly sinking
eyes blinking
disbelief |
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[Jan. 19th, 2005|11:15 am] |
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AND THEN THE DAY GOES TO SHIT! |
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| Borrowed from Ali |
[Jan. 6th, 2005|08:19 pm] |
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| | Wouldn't you like to know! | ] |
1. Put your playlist on random.
2. Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play.
3. Post and let people guess what song the lines come from.
4. Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly. No Googling.
1. As soon as you’re born, you start dying, so you might as well have a good time.
2. Last week I had the strangest dream, where everything was exactly how it seemed,
where there was never any mystery on who shot John F. Kennedy.
It was just a man with something to prove, slightly bored and severely confused.
3. Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth,
only, I don’t know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that I was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
4. even rode my motorcycle in the rain
and you told me not to drive, but I made it home alive
you said that only proved that I'm insane.
5. I was feeling insecure
you might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside.
6. The dirty pictures, religious objects
these are my private things
come and get them out of here.
7. I tried my best to leave this all on your machine
but the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening
That frankly will not fly
you will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows
with the windows down when this is guiding you home.
8. And if you think I'm worth it.
And you think its not too late.
we might start falling
if we don't try too hard
we might start falling in love.
9. all my senses warn me, your clever eyes,
could easily disguise, some backwards purpose
its enough to make me nervous.
10. JoJo was a man who thought he was a loner
but he knew it wouldn't last
JoJo left his home in Tuscon Arizona
Bought some California grass.
11. Loiter the whole day through
and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.
12. Isn't this fun
Isn't this what life's all about
Isn't this a dream come true
Isn't this a nightmare too.
13. Its been a year or two since I was out on the floor
Shaking booty, making sweet love all the night.
14. Where have you been hiding out lately honey?
You can dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.
15. You'll change your mind come Monday
and turn your back on me.
16. Walk the cramps off, go meander in the cold.
17. If you took all the girls I knew when I was single
brought'em all together for one night
I know they'd never match my sweet imagination
everything looks better in black and white
18. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
19. Three thousand miles north east
I left all my friends at the morning bus stop shaking their heads
"What kind of life you dream of? You're allergic to love."
20. Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile.
21. Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're gonna crucify me.
22. When I call you up, you're lines engaged
I've had enough, so act your age.
23. Are you filled with air, swallowed oxygen
that makes you float up? Is it dropsy?
Will your lungs swell? Its depressing me
to see you struggle
24. Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures.
25. I want so badly to believe that "there is truth, that love is real"
And I want life in every word to the extent that its absurd. |
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| The best thing ever!!! |
[Dec. 16th, 2004|04:33 pm] |
When I call you up your line’s engaged.
I have had enough, so act your age,
We have lost the time that was so hard to find,
And I will lose my mind,
If you won’t see me, you won’t see me.
I don’t know why you should want to hide,
But I can’t get through my hands are tied,
I won’t want to stay I don’t have much to say,
But I can turn away.
And you won’t see me, you won’t see me.
Time after time you refuse to even listen,
I wouldn’t mind if I knew what I was missing.
Though the days are few they’re filled with tears,
And since I lost you it feels like years,
Yes it seems so long girl since you’ve been gone,
I just can’t go on,
If you won’t see me, you won’t see me.
Time after time you refuse to even listen,
I wouldn’t mind if I knew what I was missing.
Though the days are few they’re filled with tears,
And since I lost you it feels like years,
Yes it seems so long girl since you’ve been gone,
I just can’t go on,
If you won’t see me, you won’t see me.
I’m looking through you, where did you go?
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
You don’t look different, but you have changed,
I’m looking through you, you’re not the same.
Your lips are moving, I cannot hear,
Your voice is soothing but the words aren’t clear.
You don’t sound different, I’ve learnt the game,
I’m looking through you, you’re not the same.
Why, tell me why did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight,
You’re thinking of me the same old way,
You were above me, but not today.
The only difference is you’re down there.
I’m looking through you and you’re nowhere.
Why tell me why did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight,
I’m looking through you, where did you go?
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
You don’t look different, but you have changed,
I’m looking through you, you’re not the same.
Yeh, I tell you you’ve changed.
Christ! You know it ain’t easy,
You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going,
They’re going to crucify me.
Baby you’re a rich man
Baby you’re a rich man
Baby you’re a rich man too |
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[Dec. 15th, 2004|01:48 pm] |
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I am sooo tired. Gotta stop staying up late to finish watching old episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on USA. I taped the last half of last night's episode so that i could go to bed, and still finish the episode. It was a good one. But not as twisty as the new episode that aired at 10 on NBC last night.
So, one more final to go. I still need to prepare for it, ugh.
How is everyone else? |
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[Dec. 14th, 2004|12:58 pm] |
I was gonna post about some shit that hase been going on, how I feel, etc...but then stupid LJ has to stop working and in the middle of a long post, decides to make the update page unavailable and delete what I had written.
Eh, fuck it. Just seems to be matching the way the day has been going.
Doesn't LJ always seem to do that whenever you are emotional or really need to write something out? |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|09:46 pm] |
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I am sad. I had an amazing dream the other night. So awesome, I was sooo happy. Then I woke up and realized it would never happen.
I hooked up with this guy and we were dating, and I got this feeling of happiness and that I had a boyfriend and was gonna get laid! But then I woke up and knew it was never gonna happen.
NEVER
of course I am okay with it, after all Robert Goren does not exist and the actor is two years younger than my dad.
Ah, well. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 13th, 2004|09:22 pm] |
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So I have been texting the guy I like, almost all afternoon. It seems to be going well...
I hate that you can never read people. Like you think that you are getting a signal, but still not sure.
Grrr. Boys suck.
Anyway, on a happier, more materialistic note: We have an awesome 42" Plasma TV!!!
I want soooo many things for christmas, but I can never remember to tell anyone.
Love to all. |
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