Cellphones. They took something that used to be mostly limited to your home or work, and put it out on the street, in restaurants, etc. People still have conversations as if they were in the relative privacy of home or work though. Also, you had to actually *think* about making a call - "Oh, I should call Marcie tonight"; now it's just push a button and disengage brain.

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You scored as Moya (Farscape) You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes. Moya (Farscape) 94% Serenity (Firefly) 81% Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 81% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 81% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 69% SG-1 (Stargate) 56% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 56% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 56% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 50% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 44% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 44% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 38% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 13%

New Imps!!
I know, I know, you are all spending your $$ on the new update...but these are such lonely bottles and imps...I never wear them anymore! I'm open to negotiation if you buy a bunch, I just want these to go to people who will wear them..
So here's the list, look kindly upon it, please!

LE Bottles:
full to neck, tested once:
 $15
-Oborot
-White Moon

At about label top
 $11
-Chaos Theory III Strange Attractors: CMLXXV (only note I get is sort of melon-y?)

GC Bottle:
$6
-Centzon Totochtin -this is an oddly labeled bottle, with an imp tag taped to one side and a
printed picture and name taped to the other.

Next up, 4 imp packs!  They each have 2 LEs and 4 GCs.  They were from a themed sale, so I've gone through and re-christened them : Guys and Dolls, There Ain't Nothing Like a Dame, Man and Beast, and Spice it Up! (which doesn't necessarily mean the scents are spicy, know what I mean? wink-wink, nudge-nudge, and all that rot)
$8 will get you one...how can you resist at that price?

Imps:
Newly added imps will be marked with *

Rare:
$5
Cracked Bell
The Masque
Black Moon
Chaos Theory III DVII
Chaos Theory III CDLXXXIII
Sol Invictus
Monsterbait: Closet*
Jacob's Ladder *

$3
Sugar Skull 2005 (1/2 imp)

LE:
$4
Stardust 2006
Aries
The Brides of Dracula
RM Renfield
Lucy Westenra
Samhain 2006
Shadow *
Pink Phoenix *
Red Lantern (really not sure of the year, and it's not marked, so it might be '06. I didn't buy much last year...but I really don't know.) *

GC:
Full or almost full
$3 or 2 for $5
Brisingamen
Les Infortunes De La Vertu
Ogun
Lampades

At or below label
$2.50 or 3 for $6
Blood
Ochosi x21
Cobra Lily
Sophia
Iambe x2
Osun
Dragon Tears
Catherine
The Jersey Devil
The Scales of Deprivation
Regan
Eve
London
Scherezade
Lear
Phantom Queen x2
Kali *
Mouse's Long and Sad Tale *

Also I have sniffies! 1 per person, first come, first served:

I take Paypal of either flavor, and over $8 I'll pay postage. Under that it will be $1.(and let me know if you like chocolate ;) )
 
Sniffie List:
Antique Lace
The Lion
Dirty
2, 5, and 7
Black Opal
Sin
Gaueko
Saw-Scaled Viper
Harvest Moon 05
Snow White 05
Pink Phoenix
All Saints 04
Miskatonic University (orig.)

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I don't know how many of you knew about Alex, or if this was carried widely enough for people to have heard about it yet, so I post. Alex was an African Grey parrot that helped teach us just how smart these birds are. He worked with Dr. Irene Pepperberg for about 30 years. Being a bird-brain, er, -mom, I know how much he will be missed. CNN has more here
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/09/12/parrot.obit.ap/index.html

Squeeeness!! I opened my mailbox and founf 4 packages of sales and swaps of BPAL imps :)
Now I have 10 new smells to sniff... I am happy happy!!
For those who don't know, BPAL is Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs where wonderful perfume oils are created. seaweasel mentioned it once long ago, and I finally caved...and the oils are better than you could imagine! Actually if  anyone down here (or temporarily down here) wanted to get together for a "sniffing" party, I'd love to addict...er, let you try my oils. Or if anyone else has some, we could do some swapping!  I'm unemployed and out of school right now so mostly free, so, let me know!!
Mary, off to sniff wonderful things...

named Preciousjade? Hey! It wasn't my idea! And she was really tough...took me out in 3 hits!

Dang it! Somebody broke into the storage locker in our carport last night and stole a bunch of our camping gear! They took one of our tents, the duffle that had *all* of our cooking gear...accumulated over 20+ years of camping...our tool bag (hatchets, tri-axes, extra stakes, ropes, etc) air mattresses. The cooking gear bag had stuff we can't replace, Tom's old metal Sierra club cup, cool little Coleman stuff we've picked up here and there...Brand new set of Coleman cookware! You know, that blue speckled with white stuff...my folks had stuff like that.
Oh man, they took our freaking HAMMOCKS!! I am seriously bummed...our camping trip, usually just one big one every year, is my big time to relax, and over the years we've accumulated lots of stuff towards making our tent site comfy and welcoming, and making things easy. Why on earth would someone need to take our stuff? They can't even sell half of it...maybe this weekend we'll go around and look in the neighborhood dumpsters.

If you have not read this yet, go! Princess Bride meets LotR. What more do I need to say!

http://mollyringwraith.livejournal.com/44608.html

Wikipedia, I think, has something going called the Katrina Peoplefinder Project - linky http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer
They are taking all the postings they can find from various boards and such, and compiling them into a searchable database (when the server recovers from its meltdown). You go claim a chunk of data and enter it into the forms... This I can do! Pass it along, there's a lot of into to get typed in.

Those of you who are in the Bay area and have seen the news today have probably seen the story about the San Leandro police officer, Dan Niemi, killed last night. He was my niece (in law)s husband... It's so unreal to keep seeing Dan's picture, that little clip of Dionne, my niece, to hear "friends and family are mourning the loss..." and know that's our family. Dan was a he** of a nice guy and there's going to be a huge hole in the family for a long time to come. I'm just going to be hoping that that slime who did this doesn't get off somehow...

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In other news, only 2 weeks of school to go and I think I can hold off collapsing til then! My internship will end at the Humane Society and hopefully I can find a paying job - I interviewed at an avian vet clinic weds, but I haven't heard back yet...wish me luck!
And we were supposed to keep journals of our internship experiences....I kept it about as well as I keep this one up. Oops.
-Mary

C'mon, you know this is going to be on hundreds - nay, thousands! - of techie desks within weeks of its release! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you - Darth Tater!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/01/19/tater.doll.ap/index.html

We had to put her to sleep early this morning...
Pixel cat is confused.

we miss her so much.

If I Were a Trek Captain... by Green_Jewel
Username
My species	Borg
My first officer	yuki_onna
My science officer	grandmoffdavid
My chief engineer	obsessivewoman
My head of security	deirdremoon
My random alien crewmember of diversity	emberleo
My worthy nemesis	silverstreak
My pastel-colored alien love interest	jemstone
My misson	To go back in time for nuclear-wessels.
The name of my ship	The Good Ship Lollypop
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But I dont want to be a Borg!!!

Get your own spectral analysis from Area 23®

It's supposed to be my spectral analysis, but it wasn't working right when I tried. Somehow, "Temporarily out of order" seems appropriate :)
I wonder what the colors will be?

I thought a few of my friends would find this amusing....

Don't agree with the alcohol part, but I like the rest!

Just went camping last week...well, since I'm in summer classes at Foothill, I went a few days, and commuted another (I love how close we are to camping places from here!!). Anyway, we've been camping at Memorial Park, near Pescadero, for close to 20 years now, and I've never seen a deer...until this trip. I went up Thurs. by myself (first time!) to get our site and set up, and Tom and Ry came on Fri. I had to leave Sunday, but that afternoon, as I was walking down the hill to the bathroom, I spotted 2 deer calmly grazing in a vacant campsite. I was stunned and delighted! Here I was all bummed because I had to go do algebra and chemistry the next day, and these beautiful does were like a gift. I stood and watched them, and when they looked away I'd move a little closer...eventually they moved into the bushes on the hill between the campsite loops. I thought that was pretty cool, BUT.

Tuesday I left Foothill and drove back up to spend the night and just before I reached the park, fortunately on a stretch of pretty straight road I found 2 more deer! They were standing smack in the middle of the road - Mom, and Junior, who had decided that it was lunchtime *right now*! I stopped my car and just watched them for a while, but the middle of the road is not a safe place for a milk break so I tried to shoo them back into the woods. Tried is the operative word. Honked the horn, mom jumped a little and looked around. Didn't phase Jr a bit. Moved the car closer, She just looked at it as though she had no idea what it was, but it certainly wasn't scary. Finally I hit the horn for a long beep, and that got Jr's attention and he started to scamper towards the side of the road...but not into the woods, so I rolled down my window and yelled at him too, and that did the trick. For baby anyway. Mom stopped when I yelled, turned around, and looked at me like she expected treats. Definitely park deer! :)

Just a minute after I watched them go off into the bushes another car came along from the other direction, not too fast but who knows if they would have spotted them soon enough to stop safely.
Anyway, Deer. wow!
-Mary

I was thinking that Faire was gonna be in Gilroy again this year, and now I'm being told there will be one in Novato! Anyone know if this is "instead of" or "also"? I've promised a friend who's never gone because she didn't know what to expect, what to do, etc that I'd go with her. Since she lives in Santa Cruz, Gilroy wasn't going to be too hard for her (she has back problems) but Novato might be too far:(
Faire folk? Help?