A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Thursday, October 06, 2005
AAAAAYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
SPIDERS!!!!!!!
I rode with Jerry this morning so that I could drop him off and have the car. The passenger door doesn’t work, so anybody not driving sits in the backseat. We were almost there when I realized that there was a…a….[shudder]…SPIDER!!! hanging from his hair by a thin strand of silk. My initial reaction was to lean back away from the 8-legged demon but it was my beloved! In danger! And it was headed towards the seat! Where I was about to be sitting! And it might have gotten away and attacked me when I was driving! Not that I was solely concerned with my own safety, of course. I slowly picked up a video brochure from the video store we go to from the floor (I was moving slowly so that the evil creature wouldn’t notice what I was doing!)
“Huh…huh…um…Honey?”
“What?”
“There’s a spider on your head! And it’s headed for the seat!”
At that point, I risked life and limb and swatted it with the video brochure. I hit the seat, too, because the gigantic monster was trying to escape. Meanwhile, my love, obviously confused, was ducking away from my attempts to save him. He parked and got out of the car and then hugged me when I got out, in gratitude for my fearless defense. Okay, maybe not gratitude…
“You swatted a spider on my head!”
“It was headed towards the seat…”
“You swatted a spider on my head! I have spider innards on my head!”
“…Not that it my own self-interest that was my only concern….”
4:50 PM
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