Corrections, and a little blue dot
2007-01-07— Posted by: allegra
Katie DID SO tell me she was spending the night out, I just didn’t see the note until after I blogged. Also, psot is actually post.
http://www.bigskyastroclub.org/pale_blue_dot.htm
The above noted URL will not come as a surprise to any thinking person, but it’s a good reminder, anyway, and ties in very nicely with church this morning.
At church this morning I cut up pineapples and lit a candle for sorrow that Paul and I are breaking up and wished they could run through new songs at least once before those of us who can’t read music had to sing them.
Lawyers say, “Don’t hire lawyers!”
2007-01-07— Posted by: allegra
Two boring paragraphs about marital breakdown removed, thanks be to the blessed Virgin.
Went swimming last night. If I had the courage, I’d take a picture of how my hair looks right now… I went to bed with my hair wet. It’s quite wild, really.
No children in the house. Katie didn’t come home and didn’t call, and Keith is off with the grands in Victoria, having sworn he’d make up the time he missed with the family over Christmas Eve.
Big shout out to the people who have listened to my whining over the last few days. I’ll try to shut up now, and remember I’m not the only person in the world with troubles.
There will be a chocolate fountain at church today. Attendance, while certainly not mandatory, seems advisable.
It’s been Bally Ages since I posted a moose pic
2007-01-07— Posted by: allegra
This is a moose in a blindfold. Her ass is in a sling. She is flying, flying, in a sling, blindfolded. She is being airlifted someplace. See the moose swing. See the moose bawl for Gravol. See moose lose lunch, then breakfast, then that big mistake of a midnight moosesnack.
Poor moose.
Sundry & various
2007-01-06— Posted by: allegra
I was talking to Paul and I said, “So if you and I had had a baby girl who was never going to mature mentally, do you suppose we would have had surgery done on her to keep her small?”
Paul looked disgusted and said no. Both of us figure we might be tempted, and we are trying to be sympathetic to the parents of that young girl in Seattle who’s been modded so extremely, but no. Me neither. Yeesh.
I note from the news that the right wing extremists have been handed a headline so wonderful, so apropos of their deepest fears, that it’s really quite remarkable. The first baby born in New York in 2007 was eligible for loadso dough and then, KACHING, not so much. Because, alas, her parents were ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Yoink! They breed like …. well, really fecund mammals, you know.
Sometimes duct tape doesn’t cut it.
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
More on the BC Place collapse.
Just for fun
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8169479164505906923&q=Brick+HOuse
The roof at BC Place just collapsed
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
This isn’t a great picture, but the weather here kinda sucks right now. You can sorta see that the roof is flat rather than domed.
AWWW……….
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
Marilyn Manson and Dita von Teese are getting a divorce. No word on who gets custody of the dogs and cats.
From Wired, from Fanpop
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
The Tree Climbing Goats of Morocco………
From Wired, from Fanpop
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
The Tree Climbing Goats of Morocco………
Meet Madagascar’s newest critter
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
This is a sucker footed bat Myzopoda schliemanni. Isn’t it adorable? I want one.
recursive blogging thoughts
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/
Gosh, I thought my blogging was self-indulgent claptrap, with a side of funny pictures, and then I read Bruce Sterling’s blog. He specifically references two links which made my breakfast sit funny.
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-01-02-lovink-en.html is the one that made me very very depressed.
From Bill Knott’s New Years Day Blog:
Once they get to a certain age, poets should be put to sleep; I don't mean all poets, not real poets, successful poets: but poets like me, second-raters, third-raters, run of the mill whether SOQ hack like me or superannuated avant, we should get it in the neck.
I know that poetry and depression go together; In my opinion Bill was either asking for an intervention or just expressing his feelings. And feelings come and go. Very few people stay in the same zone of feeling all the time; I suppose yogis and lamas and professional sportscasters have it, but I don’t meet people like that every day. When I run into writers and artists who express feelings like that (words fail, I feel like a failure, I’ve lost my edge), I think about Emily Dickinson. When she couldn’t write poems – for whatever reason – she baked biscuits. Creativity in its rawest form is the refinement of craft. Everything you need is already there, and it’s assembled in a new way, with a new message, pointing at a new star, revealing a new world; expounding new laws; craft just reassembles the old stuff the same old way, with the beauty of individual expression in the mix.
If you can’t write poems, write sermons; children’s doggerel; the autobiography of your cat; the story of the reincarnation of a snowflake into a raindrop, and vice versa, in the space of a single storm; find a musician who can’t write lyrics and collaborate on a song; teach poetry in a school; walk three miles and do ten minutes of blasting onto a page when you’re done; quit treading water and put your foot down. Above all, move. I believe another take on Pound’s dictum; poetry removed from music and dance too far is creaky, corrupt, suspect, inhuman.
I’d have an all singing, all dancing, all Rockettes-at-intermission blog, but I can’t afford it yet. Soon.
I think I will reread Blaise Cendrars. Now there was a poet. Flung into the hell of war, losing an arm, living broke, he rose up singing, and singing again, and he sang the world into being, again, every day that he was alive.
An inch of snow
2007-01-05— Posted by: allegra
Oooh. There’s an inch of fresh snow on the ground; I couldn’t understand why it was so light in my room at four am, but now, with all the reflection, it makes perfect sense.
Lindsay Lohan is having her appendix out, which is scandalous…is there nothing that woman won’t do to maintain her weight?
I brought a bunch of boxes home from work yesterday; hopefully the dejunking will continue this weekend.
Rude? Sexist? Canadian content?
2007-01-04— Posted by: allegra
Rude? Sexist? Canadian content? Big check on that.
http://www.break.com/index/effect_of_drugs_and_alcohol_on_spider_webs.html
As soon as I heard the music I was back in my childhood, but I got over that really fast.
Homeless in Vancouver? Now there’s a game!
2007-01-03— Posted by: allegra
http://www.wetcoast.org/games/homeless/homeless.swf
Illegal, immoral or —- you guessed it!
2007-01-03— Posted by: allegra
http://www.cspinet.org/nah/10foods_bad.html
Jaron Lanier, opinionated dude
2007-01-03— Posted by: allegra
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
Oooh! The internet fairies came during the night
2007-01-03— Posted by: allegra
I have FINALLY, FINALLY, listened to one of my reader’s entreaties and I’m rolling from newest to oldest psots. Also, another reader has been begging me to remember that some people in this universe have dialup, and would I kindly not load every page and every picture, every day and every month. I can already hear Jim in Kanata squealing about the yellow, I will deal with that at some point soon………
Big big shout out to Glenn who hath much magic and is owed much by many.
cure for cancer
2007-01-03— Posted by: allegra
I wiped the sleep out of my eyes and discovered that somebody invented a cure for cancer. It’s amazing what happens on the Interwebs when you’re asleep! Oh, darn. There’s the fine print, it hasn’t been tested in humans. Okay, I can go back to sleep now. The reference is on Bruce Sterling’s weblog, in case you have any interest.
Today will be more like a full and proper day at work, with a full complement of staff, which means I should have my lunch bunch back in one fine ensemble of photography afiocionados.
Irina in the caf is quitting wah! To get more education and higher pay, yay! (2019 says I worked with her again at Aramark at Royal Columbian) Honest to God, everytime I hear her say, “Biscotti” in that heavy heavy Russian accent, I shiver in pleasure. I’ve given her the recipe twice now – she was frantic when she misplaced it during her move – and I was commiserating with her about how the results are even better in a gas stove but you have to watch it like a hawk because it burns so much more readily. I know that a girl’s supposed to have a signature recipe that she possessively clings to, but I’ve always given the recipe to anybody who asked for it, and dang, I’ve posted it to my blog twice…
I finished mailing out the co-op applications; now let’s see who wants somebody with a fair amount of non-profit experience… who won’t need a subsidy.
My to do list magically got bigger during the night. Has this ever happened to you???
I actually memorized this song
2007-01-02— Posted by: allegra
It’s one of my “I will sing this in public if given any encouragement at all” songs.
http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
Scorpio horoscope
2007-01-02— Posted by: allegra
Excuuuuse me while I roll around larfing. Herewith my horrorscope <*?>Scorpio: Overall, the forecast for today is fairly good. Planetary aspects favor figuring out the meaning of all that has transpired over the past several weeks. It is an opportunity for you to take a leisurely look at the distance you have covered as you move forward toward your goals. Since it is an auspicious day for social activities, why not get together with friends and discuss the latest events with them?
My god, I’ve had a phone glued to my ear for hours every day for the last two weeks. Nice to know my astrologer finally caught up with me….
Back to work
2007-01-02— Posted by: allegra
It is very wet and windy here. Quite disgusting, eckshully.
Happy sigh
2007-01-02— Posted by: allegra
In the face of overwhelming odds, I maintained my sanity; I performed laundering and cleaning of dishes and emptying of cat litter (whoo-wee), I mailed off about twenty application requests to co-ops, I walked around downtown in the rain with Keith a lot, visited Doug and L.E., heard cuts off Odditorium, watered some plants (after trying to open the wrong fricking door, thank God the tenants weren’t home), I called a bunch of people to wish them a happy new year (and only people I really felt like talking to, and mostly got voicemail) and talked to Maggie and cleared up a misunderstanding. Gosh I’m dense sometimes. I’m okay with that.
Picture is of a headline from a local newspaper. I would like to be subtle about this, but there are a couple of other laughs on this front page, so I implore you to examine the entire image for chuckles.
an island is born
2007-01-01— Posted by: allegra
Check out the pix of a yacht cruising through a sea of stones – pumice stones – as an island is born in the Pacific. http://yacht-maiken.blogspot.com/2006/08/stone-sea-and-volcano.html
Dr. Filk’s 2007
2007-01-01— Posted by: allegra
Here’s a pic of Dr. Filk’s 2007, brought to you by Finnish stannomancy.
enough sleep
2007-01-01— Posted by: allegra
Here’s my lump of lead from the New Years’ divining we did last night. This divinatory tradition is apparently thousands of years old. Keith’s was very long and thin, with a knob at one end and a ninety degree bend at the other, by which he interpreted that he was going to have some heavy sledding before he finishes up his schoolwork. Paul’s was very complex; I’d show a pic but I don’t know what he did with it.
The next pic will show Dr. Filk’s; Dr. Filk is normally quite dismissive of all this irrational stuff, but he admits that he enjoys the ‘Finnishing touches’ and the last one he participated in showed money coming in two thirds of the way through the year, which actually turned out to be true.
I find echoes of Stabat Mater, a parrot on a perch and an abalone. You can say it’s all baloney if you like!
Second last blast of links for 2006
2006-12-31— Posted by: allegra
http://map-o-net.com/ A Map of the internet.
A hobbit hole in Wales? http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
Combat hand signals…useful in modern urban combat. http://www.lefande.com/hands.html
About time! an on line mando tuner….http://www.mandozine.com/resources/mandotuner.php
