Below are the most recent 18 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
foxgrrl	11:44p	Zombies [Part: 1] Zombies Oh yeah, and also... Brains! D700, D300, photo, August 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, Zombies, Chinatown Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... ) So, I finally went out and got myself one of those modern zoom lens thingies. I was trying it out here on my D300; My beloved 50mm prime lens is still on the D700. This event was also a practice run for Burning Man, as I'm planning on keeping the 50mm on the D700, and the telephoto on the D300 (Where the crop factor actually works toward my benefit), so I'll be lugging two cameras around everywhere. One for portraits and low-light, and the other for hyperfocal stuff far away. (Changing lenses on a DSLR is a bad idea on the playa, I got so much dust in my D200 from that.) Oh yeah, and also... Brains! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. ( Click Here for Photos ) Current Mood: Brains! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
achanchinou	7:48p	What What You Say I was forwarded this today, I thought y'all would love it. Have you ever spoken and wished that you could immediately take the words back.. or that you could crawl into a hole? Here are the Testimonials of a few people who did.... FIRST TESTIMONY: I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, 'How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?' I turned around and walked back out and never went back. My husband didn't say a word... he knew better. SECOND TESTIMONY: I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls. I was unhappy with the women's type I had been using. After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store. He asked if he could help me. Without thinking, I looked at him and said, 'I think I like playing with mens balls' THIRD TESTIMONY: My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of candy and nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I replied, 'No, I'm just looking at your nuts. My sister started to laugh hysterically. The boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away. To this day, my sister has never let me forget. FOURTH TESTIMONY: While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok. I was finally able to grab hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other patrons. I told her that if she did not start behaving 'right now' she would be punished. To my horror, she looked me in the eye and said in a voice just as threatening, 'If you don't let me go right now, I will tell Grandma that I saw you kissing Daddy's pee-pee last night!' The silence was deafening after this enlightening exchange. Even the tellers stopped what they were doing. I mustered up the last of my dignity and walked out of the bank with my daughter in tow. The last thing I heard when the door closed behind me, were screams of laughter. FIFTH TESTIMONY: Have you ever asked your child a question too many times? My three-year-old son had a lot of problems with potty training and I was on him constantly. One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch in between errands It was very busy, with a full dining room. While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course I checked my seven-month-old daughter, and she was clean. Then I realized that Danny had not asked to go potty in a while. I asked him if he needed to go, and he said 'No'. I kept thinking, 'Oh Lord, that child has had an accident, and I don't have any clothes with me. ' Then I said, 'Danny, are you SURE you didn't have an accident?' 'No,' he replied. I just KNEW that he must have had an accident, because the smell was getting worse. Soooooo, I asked one more time, 'Danny did you have an accident? This time he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over, spread his cheeks and yelled 'SEE MOM, IT'S JUST FARTS!!' While 30 people nearly choked to death on their tacos laughing, he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down. An old couple made me feel better, thanking me for the best laugh they'd ever had! LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, TESTIMONY: This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow but don't get any! We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked: 'So Bob, where's that 8 inches you promised me last night?' Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard! (Comment on this)
Monday, August 18th, 2008
foxgrrl	11:11a	Playa Art Project So, to make a long story short, I'm doing some art for Burning Man after all. I don't have a lot of time to go through my photos, so if you, the general LJ reading audience, can point me at some of my photos which meet the following requirement: Black-and-white photographic of art of people in movement or engaged in spiritual activity at some point or dancing.. etc. I can take care of the Black-and-white part, I just have a lot of photos to look though, and not a lot of time. Current Mood: busy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
interdictor	2:28p	Storm Fay I'm not sure if you guys were aware or not, but I no longer live in Florida, so Storm Fay is not an issue for me. Crys, Illy, and I live in Sicily. Instead of worrying about Fay, then, let me share this feel-good story from New Orleans: New Orleans house wrongly torn down NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A New Orleans city contractor apparently never got the word a vacant house had been given a reprieve and demolished it this weekend, the home's owner alleges. Erica DeJan, a pregnant mother-of-three, said miscommunication was the likely culprit for the contracting error that resulted in her New Orleans home being reduced to a pile of rubble, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Sunday. DeJan said while she immediately contacted City Hall officials upon learning of the scheduled demolition of her home Friday, the order to rescind the demolition was never properly executed. "It's just a lack of communication," DeJan said. "It's not being on the same wavelength." DeJan acknowledged the home she and her husband Brian bought in New Orleans had been deemed a public nuisance because of damage from Hurricane Katrina. Yet she told The Times-Picayune they had plans to renovate the house back to its former glory. A city official told the newspaper the case would be investigated fully before any in-depth comments on the matter could be made. Let the good times roll! (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
achanchinou	5:54p	Chippewa Lullabye Here's the lullabye I couldn't remember the other day: Otter, go to your home by the river, and Deer, to lie in the woods. Wolf, run back to your den, and Eagle, fly to your perch. Rabbit, crawl into your hole, and Serpent, slide into your nest. Wildcat, lay your head on your paws, and Bear, crawl into your cave. Owl and Moon, watch over them all, And Child, close your eyes and sleep with the world. (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
achanchinou	3:48a	Ze Ears Because 3 looked bare, and I want more on the one side than on the other (I think.... I dunno. I might have to go for 8 on each total, maybe) (Comment on this)
Friday, August 15th, 2008
deepestsender [ captspastic ]	1:48p	Reset Would it be possible to add a button to clear or reset the window? I have found on several occasions, that such a button would be very useful and helpful. Current Music: Get Your SpasticRadio Tunage (6 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	12:51a	Great Quotes from the last week: Flew: So you learned to drive from the Death Star trench scene in Star Wars? Aggressive J is Aggressive! Some people have a song, you guys have a playlist. I admire your lack of costume! Gelatinous Cubes! I defeated one and gained XP. J: I advise you not to stand here. You might die. Oh shit! We're on the wrong interstate! Oh shit! We're on the wrong side of the STATE! You snore like a chainsaw factory. I slept like a pogo stick. Both: I fucking hate this city! We should nuke it from orbit. Random: Flew cracks back, exclaims "ooooooh!" Random Chick: "... did that guy just cum all over himself?" Waitress: Hey I just saw 7 people run by dressed as ninjas! Other Waitress: Yeah, you get used to that. ----- So, it's been a nice long week of trippage, starting out last Thursday with me picking up the flewellyn from the airport of doom in Atlanta, and heading north. Our first night was pretty uneventful except that we were both pretty exhausted (he had been up 36 hours, I kept getting woken up by "oh so caring" family members being dimwits and calling me going "uh, you haven't left yet?" while I was trying to get more sleep before leaving. So we stopped relatively early, which kind bit us in the ass the next day, but whatever. Things happen. The hotel was an unfortunate choice, to be honest, although it looked great until we got in the lobby. For future hotel references, if they have a weekly rate on the sign, don't stay there. I keep forgetting this rule, one night in a weekly place is not such a great idea for the most part. I slept like a pogo stick, awake 20 minutes, asleep 20 minutes, awake 20 minutes, asleep 20 minutes.... it went on and on like that. Very annoying. Despite the Flew seeming to have no problem with his bed, my bed felt like it was made of brick, mortar, and cardboard and left me with a very exceptionally sore back the next morning. The shower, however, made up for a lot of it, in the typical nomadic rule of hotels style. "Good bed, shitty shower; shitty bed, good shower." It had a massaging shower head and lots of really hot water which helped a lot. So we continued, and wound up in the worst ever DC traffic. I think we sat for something around 3 hours total, maybe close to 4. I kinda stopped keeping track about the time I became annoyed and bitchy. I got more annoyed and bitchy about the time the road deposited us not in the 'burb south of Baltimore where my map said it would go, but halfway across Baltimore metro smack in the east edge of downtown B'more. W. T. F.? After some confusion, circling of the wagons, and an attempt at making reality match up to the non-realistic map I had, we figured out a route, and wound up at the convention center, partially on accident, made our way in, got our badges, and wandered around to find limpingpigeon and stuntviolist and Chaskiel, which required lots more getting lost, dropped and lost phone calls, and eventually meeting up with them. I had to, at some point in there, "step" outside on the balcony and chill for a minute. I was unprepared for the overwhelming crush of people, and wound up a bit overwhelmed. I had to collect myself so that I could deal. Dealing was done, roaming was done, zippage was done, and then the pigeon and her clan was collected and we went off in search of food and the hotel that rejected our attempt at locating it, ate, slept, showered, and returned to the convention by way of a shuttle driver that was very friendly and helpful. More con going happened... sometime in there we went for food, where I had the epic cheeseburger of bacony sex (Called a Juicy Lucy, two charred patties sandwiched around bacon and cheese, and wrapped in lettuce. I forgot to ask for tomato and onion, but it was still the awesome bacony burger of bacony sex. This is the point where I'd be posting pictures that I took, but for some reason I can't get them off of my moms camera (borrowed because mine is a) large b) failing due to age, I think, and c) large) so I shall have to do a second post some time and put those up. Also, I'm tired of writing, my knee hurts, and I hunger, so I shall leave you with this lovely womans wings made of awesomeness and win, go eat and watch something on dvd and go to bed. Maybe not in that order. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	12:17a	Well Travelled? A reference for a later conversation: This application is created by interactive maps. You can also have your visited states map on your site. If you see this message, you need to upgrade your flash player. Make your visited states map Flash stock charts Visited States! +7 Caribbean islands (one of which I never got off the plane in, one of which I got off the plane, but didn't leave the airport) and Germany. (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
mad_jamison	7:04p	My Story It has been about 5 months since my last post (sounds like confession doesn't it?). One morning about a month ago I woke up with a severly painful twinge in my left shoulder blade. I could hardly turn my head and my arm was tingly and weak. I went to see a chiropractor because it seemed like that kind of thing. He had me get some x-rays of my spine and they showed a lot of disk degeneration and actual compression of the spinal cord. I don't know why the pain just showed up suddenly like that, because the underlying problem had to have been there for a long time. Anyway, I saw the guy for another couple of weeks for some muscle work and other other not too dramatic stuff. He wouldn't do any manipulations but the pain did improve some. I knew that nothing he was doing would get to the root of the problem so I made an appointment with my regular doctor. My little Indian doctor told me she wanted me to get an MRI and to quit seeing the chiropractor further evaluations could be done. She also told me to see a neurosurgeon after getting the MRI. So that's where I am now. My appointment with the neuro isn't until Sept. 4. I don't feel too bad and everyone is offering me their leftover pain meds...which I'm mostly not touching. I'll keep you posted. Hope this finds you all a heck of a lot healthier than I am. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	5:45p	Miscellany 1) I am ze homezors. 2) Some paperwork that was promised me "by the time you get home" still isn't here, even with the delay of my homecoming by several days. Pardon me while I go have a heart attack and die of not-surprise. 3) I has gf-brownie cookies! And by brownie-cookies I mean what appears to be brownie mix dropped and baked like cookies. It's very very flakey and very very yummy. Whole Foods is the good, and I shall have to go up to Atlanta to visit them on occasion. 4) My knee is yellow, green, and light shades of purple. Falling in a parking lot is not of the good. (16 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	3:39p	Posted using TxtLJ Omg driving with my knee messed ur is quite painful maybe i should have wrapped it (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
foxgrrl	9:46a	DEFCON 16 [Part 1] DEFCON16 A few photos from this weekend. The ones of the clouds are part of a panorama I shot on top of a mountain, at sunset, with a large thunderstorm on the side opposite the sun. It should be awesome looking -- it certainly was in person. D700, photo, August 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, DEFCON, Hacker, Convention Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... ) A few photos from this weekend. The ones of the clouds are part of a panorama I shot on top of a mountain, at sunset, with a large thunderstorm on the side opposite the sun. It should be awesome looking — it certainly was in person. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. ( Click Here for 26 Photos ) Current Mood: good (29 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
foxgrrl	9:59p	Zombie Mob Friends and countrymen, it is with a heavy heart that I report on the state of Zombie Activity in our fair city of San Francisco. The time has come to once again activate the radio-attraktor towers to funnel hundreds of zombies through downtown to a secure location. This is a risky maneuver, as evidenced by carnage enshrouding last year’s event. Rest assured, we have made improvements to the technology. We will turn on the radio-attraktor towers at 2:05pm on Saturday, August 16th. All zombies in the area will be telepathically compelled to march down a route which we will disclose in a future email. The radio waves will also cause undead to crave duct tape instead of human flesh. If you are unfortunate enough to be standing along the route with a duct tape “X” on your torso, you will be attacked and consumed by the horde, after which you will be one of them. Don’t wear your favorite shirt. P.S. Back from Las Vegas. Current Mood: good (6 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	4:14p	Hey Baby So my sister-in-law got jury duty at the most convienent time possible. Yesterday, today and tomorrow! Since I had already planned to spend last night here in Atlanta at their house as sort of a "hey, I don't see y'all nearly often enough" and a "I'm too damned tired to drive home after coming all the way back from Baltimore and spending all day in Atlanta with people I know" TheBrother asked me if I could hang out for a couple of days and help him out. He has a project he's working on for work, and needs to be able to work from home. I can't *quite* handle full baby care by myself, that's a good thing. He's here to do the stuff I can't (like carry the baby up the stairs...) and I'm here to do all the stuff he really shouldn't be devoting time to (playing with, watching him chase the dog around, keeping him shinyobjectified for the most part while he spends an hour on the phone with 13 differet people, etc). All in all a fair exchange of duties. I need to learn a lullabye though, because I feel stupid trying to sing to him to put him down for a nap and getting about 10 words out of 32 right. I'm sure he doesn't care, and since he went right to sleep with no problem at all, I seriously doubt he does at all, but still. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	11:00a	zomg! (link: http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/gluten-for-punishment ) Who wants to buy me a t-shirt? :D Will trade! Art for t-shirt! :D (7 Comments |Comment on this)
achanchinou	8:42a	Posted using TxtLJ Bacon and cheese sticks breakfast of champions (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
achanchinou	12:59p	Posted using TxtLJ so im sitting in the airport waiting 4 flew and a bunch of troops walk through. The whole airport breaks into applause. That was kinda cool (4 Comments |Comment on this)