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| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 | | 1:23 pm |
boots for sale
4 pairs of boots. All size 10 women's (two of them say size 11 but they lie). All used. Left to right: Black Pleather platform heel side zipper well worn, Black leather and fur platform side zipper worn but still fabulous, red vinyl spike heel lace up with side zipper some black smudges, white vinyl spike heel side zipper some black smudges. The black smudges on the vinyl are totally cleanable (I used a rubber eraser) but it's a PITA. I just gave up after wearing them a few times. The black fur boots are my babies. I paid $200 and they've been to 5 countries and earned me compliments from farm boys to strippers and everyone inbetween. I might not even be with my current g/f of 6 years if it wasn't for these boots. Please give them a good home. Asking: $10, $80, $20, $20 OBO  I have to get rid of a bunch of my stuff in preparation for probably moving in 6 months and I'm a little tight on money right now. Plz forward as appropriate. | | Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 3:08 pm |
adventures in landlording
Got this jewel of an inquiry here. The name is changed: ----- HI my name is Debora I seen your add on craigs list. I was wondering what kind of person were you looking for. A student are a family, are many roommates? I am 26 a MA and I have two children. If you are renting to families can you please e mail me at deborarain @ msn.com ---- What is an "MA"? If you don't know just make something up. | | Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | | 11:45 am |
teens are fat because they eat too much
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091110/hl _time/08599193677700;_ylt=AtxTxjHYfS7W0m Wog4xoka6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTMyMnVucDVjBGFz c2V0A3RpbWUvMjAwOTExMTAvMDg1OTkxOTM2Nzc3 MDAEY3BvcwM5BHBvcwM2BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRz ZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDdGVlbm9i ZXNpdHls Teens are exercising about as much as ever, but they are getting fatter. The article says this is a surprise result but it's actually been reported at least once before that I know of using a different method to measure it (by accounting for calories purchased and relating that to obesity and inferring how much exercise is going on). ( more ) | | 10:27 am |
so all you postive-thinkers can EAT ME
Science says my bad attitude makes me more capable of judging you weeny-minded positive thinkers. So there :P http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5A10ZP20091102Now watch me filter only positive statements about negative thinking: ...being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory. ...people in a negative mood were more critical of, and paid more attention to, their surroundings than happier people... ... positive mood seems to promote... cooperation, and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking paying greater attention to the external world Our research suggests that sadness ... promotes information processing strategies best suited to dealing with more demanding situations. People in a bad mood were also less likely to make snap decisions based on racial or religious prejudices, and they were less likely to make mistakes when asked to recall an event that they witnessed. ...sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments ...a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style." | | Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 5:40 pm |
what is the sate of Planned Parenthood of Washington?
They've been doing fund raising campaigns like crazy to fight legislation, and I gave them some $ and actually pay for my appointments with them now, but I just got this note with my appointment confirmation of which I will share some excerpts. Check out the bold parts. ------------------- *If you have medical insurance or a Medicaid coupon please bring your insurance card or medical coupon with you along with your photo ID. * Payment is due at time of service. The cost estimate for STD screening ranges from $205 to $445 depending on your age, whether you are an established patient with us and the specific tests that are done. STD screening does not qualify for discounts on our sliding fee scale. * Income verification is necessary to qualify for any available discounts using our sliding fee scale for any eligible services. Please bring your last months pay stubs. If you are married please bring your spouses pay stubs also.Please note that “Take Charge” and some other Medicaid programs do not cover the cost of STD testing and --->treatment<----. You will be responsible for the cost at the time of your visit. ----------- I used to get this for free when I was younger and poorer just for showing up and saying I was so. No other questions asked about my identity or financial situation. Maybe they should have been a little more strict but this is going way too far. Photo ID just to prevent people from defrauding insurance or for everyone? So much for encouraging my younger friends to hop over to PP to be responsible and get tested regularly I guess. Show up with health insurance and ~$50 and pay another ~$50 later when your insurance applies it to your deductible or show up with $300 cash upfront or just don't come appears to be their policy. Tough luck for married women who's husbands don't care for them to go to Planned Parenthood for STD screening. Teens who's parents would kick them out for getting an STD screening? Screw 'em. No insurance, no money? Just don't have sex with anyone plz. More STDs and unwanted babies for everyone. Yay! Or maybe they just want to scare away all the people who don't figure they can just go in with a sob story and get the service anyway because mooches who may or may not be making up a story just to save $250 when they could afford it totally deserve service more than honest people who have perfectly legit reasons for not being able to meet these criteria. How in the hell is *treatment* not covered? WTH *does* Medicaid it cover? http://www.stdtestexpress.com/std-test-p anel/ $250 for the 8 most popular tests. This might be the way to go for uninsured people to get STD screening. Any of you used them before? | | Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | | 2:17 pm |
what is the best black gemstone?
Black AND Shiney. The black gemstone is the best of both worlds. Also very gothy. Black Diamonds (irradiated) and Black Spinel (natural) seem to be at the top of the list. If there is such a thing as a Black Sapphire it would probably fall into 2nd place. Although I don't doubt there is plenty of corundum out there with enough impurities and inclusions to turn it black I was unable to find any information about what would produce gem-quality corundum that is black. I don't think they exist. I think they are mis-marketed Black Spinel if not outright fake gemstones. Please correct me if I am wrong. ( My notes on various gemstones that come in black are below: ) | | Friday, October 9th, 2009 | | 4:25 pm |
I'm still hot; seattle sux; LED candles?
Three things: 1. I went to costco on my lunch break and a random teenage girl hit on me after repeatedly looking me over and making eye contact with me. It's been over a year since something like that happened to me at which time my admirer was amazingly hideous (I try not to put too much weight on asthetics, in all things really, but it does sap the self-esteme when only fugly people hit on you)... I can't even remember the last time a stranger of at least minimal attractiveness hit on me in public without immediately expressing disappointment upon realizing I don't have a vagina . Maybe I won't cut my hair and throw all my clothes away this year afterall... 2. Seattle is a has-been city. The writing has been on the wall for years and this ship is sinking faster than ever. Flee rats, flee. 20years too late implementing light rail and I bet they'll be 20 years late finishing the currently proposed projects, the roads are crap, no metro planning, losing Boeing little-by-little, excessive gridlock, excessive taxes, artistically spent, flooded with Californians and other transplants looking to make Seattle fit some fuzzy idea of what they thought it was without bothering to understand the history or politics of the NW or that you can't just pretend one city is completely disconnected from and unaffected by the rest of the region, yuppies/hippies and other politically/ideologically apathetic (but oh boy will they show up for a PROTEST!) fools everywhere, oh and the rampant racism that no one wants to talk about because they moved here from somewhere else and haven't bothered to live in any of the several racially supressed neighborhoods in Seattle metro area or the rest of the state: these things you already knew. People are pissed, and rightly so. So what are they doing? Oh, they're blaming the politicians for being corrupt and replacing them with morons who will undoubtedly be even better puppets for behind-the-scenese scheming and ill-planned changes: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/410910_countyexec08.html?source=rss Oh, and gutting our taxes under the naive plan that putting some squeeze ont he politician's budgets will force them to cut their pet projects and important projects will remain fully funded. Any hope you had that Seattle would return to being as cool as it was +20years ago are DEAD. 3. I need to buy or borrow some LED candles. The only ones I found at costco were scented (yes, scented LED wax candles). Oh, and I need them by Tuesday night. Anyone have good leads? | | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 2:37 pm |
what is the point of this phish?
I keep getting these kind of spambot replies to my posts for rooms for rent but I don't get the point. Do you know what's up with them? Oh, btw, I have a room for rent in shoreline. Tell people and stuff because I am more awesome than the other 92 people in shoreline trying to rent rooms.
( Read more... ) My name is Jenifer Walcot a pediatric nurse and a make up artist as part time,i was opportuned to see and i read through your posting on craigslist.com concerning the advert you posted, i am expressing my sheer interest in taking up the room, what are the modalities in taking up the place, please have the requirements sent in these form
*Total rent Required before moving in
* Utility Bills
I will be anxiously waiting for your email ,I want you to know that i really need the room now and i am the serious type paying rent ,when emailing me please tell me more about the place and more pics if you have...I am open to any type of lease..
Kind Regards
jenifer
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Clearly it's spam as it is written in the style of the Nigerian banker and all the info it asks for is in my advertisement already and I've gotten very similar emails several times now. But what's the catch? I've actually tried to reply just to find out what the catch is but I get no response. Seems like an awful lot of effort to go through to try and harvest my email address (which is already posted everywhere anyway)... Looks like they just emailed a random smattering of rental offers off seattle.craigslist.org Is there more to it than that?
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| | 10:33 am |
your project needs testers
Flasher702: I have replicated the scenario and the error did not occur... Engineer: Excellent! I rule. Close the bug. Flasher702: ...however, I noticed that product behavior is has changed and... Engineer: Behavior is as designed. Close the bug. Flasher702: ...and I need to know if you actually fixed the problem or if you just masked it for this scenario. Engineer: Fixed? Masked? What's the difference? The error is gone. Close the bug. Flasher702: DIE ENGINEER DIE DIE! | | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | | 2:43 pm |
| | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | | 3:28 pm |
ACLU attacks Facebook
Below is the letter I received from ACLU about facebook's privacy practices, or rather the near complete lack thereof. They're trying to get Facebook to sit down, do some proper coding, and make a system where users can protect themselves. Considering the completely shoddy design of the Facebook UI I find it unlikely that Facebook will comply. I don't think they even have the skillz to do it much less the motivation. My solution: just don't use facebook. Or at least don't put any actual private information on there. WTH happened to the sound advice to not use your real name when doing random socializing online?
Dear ACLU Supporter,
If you are on Facebook, you've undoubtedly seen the quizzes that are so popular on the site. Perhaps you or your friends have even taken some.
These quizzes might be fun. But it’s shocking just how much of your information quizzes can access and how little Facebook does to safeguard that information.
That's why we've created our own Facebook quiz that demonstrates what could be revealed when you, or your friends, take any other quiz on Facebook.
Take our Facebook quiz and find out: What do quizzes really reveal about you?
We know it's a little weird to warn you about Facebook quizzes by asking you to take a Facebook quiz -- but at least you know who we are and that we have a real privacy policy that we're committed to upholding. Can you say the same for every unknown developer of every quiz you or your friends take?
Chances are you can't. Our quiz shows you firsthand how Facebook allows any quiz developer to access your personal information—including religious and political views, sexual orientation, pictures, groups, and posts. And how most of your personal information can be exposed even if it's your friend, and not you, who takes one of these quizzes.
If details about your personal life are collected by a quiz developer, who knows where they could end up or how they could be used. Shared? Sold? Turned over to the government?
It's time for Facebook to upgrade its privacy controls to give you control of your personal information. Take our Facebook quiz and take action to protect yourself now.
Start by taking the quiz and changing your own Facebook privacy settings—and then sign our online petition and demand that Facebook give you real control over your own information by default! Sincerely,
Eric, Gerri, Lisa, Shannon, Suzanne and Jeremy
ACLU Online Team P.S. Even if you’re not on Facebook, you can sign our online petition to demand better privacy protections.
© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004
| | Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 | | 10:16 am |
Brewing and distillation successful!
I have two 700ml bottles of 146-proof smooth spirits. I am most pleased. Double distilled and filtered was all I had to do. About $40 worth of booze for $15 worth of ingredients (+an unknown amount of electricity). And I ended up throwing away a bunch of alcohol that I could have saved with a better system (and/or better Still. Seems that it needs at least 1gallon that is at least 10% alcohol to be able to produce anything decent and once it goes below that it starts distilling a bunch of crap so I have to check it often to stop it before that point). So next time I'm going to get several jugs on hand, label them, and get a timer to better manage my distill cycles. The first distill had me worried. I was getting about 700ml / gallon and it was only 90proof and it smelled AWFUL. I had to move the operation outside even though I had the door open for ventalation. Like really bad mixture of wine, vinegar, and baby poo. And it was a PITA to try and keep track of it to catch the heads and tails and try to put them into different jugs so I ended up just stopping as soon as I saw significant amounts of water dripping into the jug and throwing the rest away. So I did 4 batches of that and then dumped all of that in and did one more batch and then filtered it. I could still use more food grade buckets. 2-3gallon and +5gallon. Anyone? Plz??? For my next trick I'm going to try and restart the yeast in the ~1gallon of mash left in the bottom of my mash bucket. It might be all contaminated and/or dead though :/ It sucked a lot of air in while I was draining it and it's been sitting for weeks. There are all kind of directions about maintaining yeast banks in petri dishes and such but that sounds like too much work. I should be able to just keep brewing non-stop and not have my yeast die, right? And if I screw up a few times a year and have to buy new yeast it's still cheaper and easier than making a yeast bank. This yeast is supposed to be good up to 20% alcohol and my mash was only 12% (it ran out of sugar) which should mean the yeast just goes to sleep... right? We'll see. | | Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | | 11:42 am |
American consumers are stupid; don't understand credit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090901/t s_usnews/takeadvantageofthenewcreditcard rewards The headline says "Take Advantage of the New Credit Card Rewards"And so the shell game of tricking gullible American consumers into making poor money choices continues. However, if you actually read the article it explains how you're an idiot if you actually get one of these programs. "The challenge for companies, he says, is to balance the profitability of consumers who maintain a balance, and therefore pay interest fees each month, against the increased risk that those cardholders pose because they are more likely to default on their debt. Rewards programs that encourage customers to maintain a balance while paying on time, such as the Motiva card, may help them strike that balance." "According to consumer advocates and credit card experts, consumers who carry a balance may be better off selecting a card with the lowest interest rate rather than participating in one of these (encourage you to carry a balance) rewards programs..." "Customers who only occasionally carry a balance, on the other hand, would be better off finding a card with a more appealing rewards program..." So if you carry a balance you should get a different card with a lower rate. And if you pay in full each month you should get a different rewards program. The program's entire purpose is to encourage people to pay MORE finance fees while properly managing their debt despite the program being promoted as a way to save money on finance fees. So who should use this program? No one. More ranting (and some useful advice) below the cut: ( Read more... )( Read more... )New "rewards programs" that "reward" you for paying on time and paying down your balance are just plain dumb. ALL credit cards "reward" you for paying on time and paying down your balance: you avoid late fees and reduce the amount of interest you pay. This news article, a "Top US" news headline off the front page of news.yahoo.com is a basically a sales pitch for a new type of CC rewards program where instead of actually giving you something they just charge you less interest if you meet certain criteria (after charging you more interest up front). News articles should not be sales pitches and definitely shouldn't be sales pitches where the actual information telling you not to take the pitch is minced up and buried in the article. Traditional CC "rewards programs" are essentially bad for business, bad for consumers, and bad for the economy for reasons I won't go into here (I'll just encourage you to abuse them more to try and get them to stop) but this one is particularly bad due to it's misleading, patronizing, exploitative nature.</div> | | Thursday, August 27th, 2009 | | 1:00 pm |
Financial dinosaur running the treasury
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_re_us/us_bernanke_identity_theft;_ylt=AnrUzA.cYNAMqIYkPEh1Z92s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNjb212YjI1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwODI3L3VzX2Jlcm5hbmtlX2lkZW50aXR5X3RoZWZ0BGNwb3MDNgRwb3MDMwRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX2hlYWRsaW5lX2xpc3QEc2xrA2Jlcm5hbmtlcGVycw-- I don't think having your checkbook stolen counts as "ID Theft" (although that is a hot buzzword that is generally used to make the victim seem faultless and helpless). That's just regular theft. No reports that the thief took out any new loans or signed up for services using their identity. They just forged a signature on a *REAL* check that was stolen. But more to my point: His wife carries a checkbook to a joint account? And after loosing it they let someone forge *multiple* checks? Carrying around checkbooks to joint accounts to go to starbucks? Srsly? I realize they are old but they are also the household of one of the most important financial leaders in the world: they should understand and be using modern personal finance instruments. There is no reason to be using joint cash accounts for day-to-day purchasing; only additional risk. And no reason to carry around a checkbook on a daily basis; only additional risk. Use a personal debit card or joint credit card... I've had my credit cards used fraudulently multiple times. In the absolute worst case it took me 5 days to realize what had happened (a clone of my card appeared to have been swiped at a Quebec gas pump), 15minute phone call to get the account frozen and the charge reversed, and 4 business days to get a new card. It was easy, no money was ever taken from any of my accounts, none of my bills had "bounced" payments, and life went on with me having no fear of my payment instruments being forged again in the future. | | Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | | 10:43 am |
making alchohol
Got my first batch of mash brewing. Turns out a 5galllon bucket is a great size for fermenting 10lbs of sugar. Yay. Got a free 5gallon pickle bucket from the deli, put a spigot in it and a 1-way valve on the top. Here's the spreadsheet I made to help me figure out what to put into a 5 gallon bucket (instead of a 6.5gallon bucket) and while I was at it I made it so I could easily find how to mix your batch based on any given amount of sugar or or bucket size. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tzb3qJVB0EgOBoq84pNDf8g&output=htmlHere is the actual spreadsheet (google doc's UI for sharing is a jumbled mess of inconsistent crap): http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlnrjE7R4cYEdHpiM3FKVkIwRWdPQm9xODRwTkRmOGc&hl=en You can't edit it but you can copy it and make your own. Do you have food grade buckets with lids I could have? I am especially interested in 6.5gallon, >10gallon, and ~2gallon buckets. | | Friday, July 31st, 2009 | | 4:37 pm |
patents pending
I now have TWO patent applications pending with the US Patent & Trademark office. TBH: one of them is crap but I get bonuses for submitting them and making crap look patentable is bragable in itself, no? The other one is actually quite good. Both are related to storage networking. | | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 9:59 am |
| | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 3:07 pm |
Party June 6th 4pm
New tenant, Wes, is having a house warming party so I'm having a party too. 4pm to whenever. Not sure what all is going on but there will be BBQ for sure. Probably have another weightlifting competition since the last one was fun and painless. Play some video games, probably DOTA, or M:tG if anyone is up for it. I just got a proper screen for my projector and we'll probably watch a movie in the evening. Come check out my renovated basement rooms, rooftop photovoltaic, gravity powered rainwater reclamation system (IE a rain barrel up on a deck), and our (me+bobbie) little garden. If you desire you could consider bringing: food stuff to share a volley ball a favorite movie (on CD or USB drive preferably as my laptop w/ DVD died on me. Trying to find a replacement.) a computer to game on (with working WiFi!!!) a M:tG deck please RSVP for directions | | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | | 2:09 pm |
Jim Corbett "Hope for Humanists" May 31st
Sponsored by Seattle Atheists- speaker Jim Corbett presents "Hope for Humanists" How does the concept of hope fit into the life of a person that doesn't believe in the afterlife? Religious believers make a claim that they have a corner on the "hope market" and Jim has set out to prove otherwise in this provocative speech.( Read more... )Please join us at-Sunday May 31st- 2pmCapitol Hill Public Library425 Harvard Ave. E.
Seattle, WA 98102206-684-4715 | | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 9:52 am |
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