scendan just posted the following: Thanks, State of California Well, we just lost one of our biggest State contracts.  Not just us.  Everybody did.  Domestic Violence funding in the State of California just got the plug pulled. Wish us all luck, everybody.  This is going to be really bad, no matter how it shakes out. Anybody feel like donating to a worthy cause, our website is...

Last night we met up with scendan     and a couple of her friends (very nice people who I hope I get to see the, I suspect very loud, Sherlock Holmes movie) and saw The Half Blood Prince .   So, that mean, you all get to read my Harry Potter (spoiler free) movie review.   First, let’s get all the negative crap out of the way. I thought the beginning of the film (like the first...

From la_marquise_de : My LiveJournal Sitcom Living With smallship1 ( TBS, 10:30 ): smallship1 (Laura Dern) finds a coat in scendan (Emma Thompson)'s sock drawer. That weekend, tigerbright (Samuel L. Jackson) makes lots of money playing guitar on the street and makes billroper (Jennifer Connelly) jealous. That same day, braider (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) gets lost on the way...

Well, one link and one post. kateorman linked to some guy peddling the usual "language is a living thing, correcting people's mistakes is snobbish and nasty" line, and scendan , following howeird , posted about how grammatical errors are really annoying. So here, the Nyrond line on language, and apologies to those who've seen it before. (And please note that I am not criticising...

scendan and I are having a friendly spat about wasted talent. I started it by dinging her for wasting her artistic talent on creating absolutely gorgeous avatars on Second Life. She dinged me back for wasting my writing talent on the little ditties I do on LJ. I think we're both right, but... I don't think writing is anywhere near as rare a talent as drawing.

Uh I have really bad news, I don't think I should be getting ANY points for giving anyone one of my kidneys. I mean really here, I usually tell people, "I love you so much I would never give you one of my kidneys". Mine make boulders...6 mm to be exact! Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Monday I stole scendan 's purse (-30 points) . In January I gave ...

Turns out, there's clearly a leader in this pack. Witness my utter lack of surprise. =P Top Commenters on bettybaker 's LiveJournal (Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings) 1 kailara 356 2 angstzeit 185 3 phantomminuet 160 4 bateleur 143 5 a_kosmos 126 ...

Just some more photos from the rally and march.  The current estimate has attendance at the march at 7,500, although I am guessing more were at the rally itself.  The march went on for something like 5 hours, stopped traffic in multiple locations, including along the Embarcadero, and was very upbeat.  I saw very few people with thumbs-down or expressing dissent.  Of course, in SF, this is kinda preaching...