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December 25th, 2009
pittsburgh
[journalismgirl]
 | 10:17 pm - Reasonably priced yarn shops?
Are there any reasonably priced yarn shops that *aren't* Michael's or Joann's? I'm looking for something with some decent selection, mainly natural fibers, but also more reasonably priced than Knit One in Squirrel Hill. Maybe no more than $10 a skein?
I'm in the North Hills, but don't mind driving a short distance -- AKA, no further than the airport or similar distance.
(Yes, I know I could just buy online. But I like touching and looking before buying.)
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memestreams
| 01:16 am - The Life Span of Meat | A Noteworthy Decade
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid67860/ http://www.memestreams.net/users/nw/blogid10389121 The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
The idea is to make the goat secrete spider silk into its milk. "They're just goats. [Pause.] Mostly."
We're actually reaching a level where you find yourself imagining questions that a year ago you couldn't even formulate.
According to one who was present, Churchill suddenly blurted out: "Are we animals? Are we taking this too far?"
Science can be effectively regulated, if we possess the political will to do so.
They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?
A health director ... reported this week that a small mouse, which presumably had been watching television, attacked a little girl and her full-grown cat ... Both mouse and cat survived, and the incident is recorded here as a reminder that things seem to be changing.
Damn McDonalds for creating so many fast food nations!
It is tiring and unhealthy to lose your Saturday afternoons: but to have them free because you don't matter, that is much worse.
Fight the cult of process.
Money will keep talking, the public interest will keep walking. The great battles, in short, are still ahead.
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memestreams
| 01:16 am - The Triumph of the Hidebound | A Noteworthy Decade
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid67861/ http://www.memestreams.net/users/nw/blogid10389122 The CIA and the FBI had been amassing increasingly ominous and detailed clues about potential threats in Kenya, but the State Department bureaucracy still dismissed [the ambassador]. She was even seen by some at the State Department as a nuisance who was overly obsessed with security ...
The practice of netwar is well ahead of theory ...
"The gloves are off," one senior official said.
"After 9/11, the gloves come off."
Is more what we really need?
"You can't talk sense to them," Bush said, referring to terrorists. "Nooooo!" the audience roared.
This is the road to despotism. This is the fevered dream of theocracy. This is America.
That which keeps us safe also keeps us free ...
Virginians soon will be able to sport vehicle license plates bearing the words "Fight Terrorism" emblazoned in red letters ...
Empathize with your enemy.
He's going to stay in the can until we're through with al-Qaida.
From a cop on "The Wire": "You can't even call it a war. Wars end."
The most basic way to rob terrorism of its potency is to be unafraid of it.
Do you ever have that experience in life where you can see things coming but you don't know what to do about it? Foreign policy is like that, too.
You don't have to be a cynic to believe that the point of the warnings is not to save lives so much as political hides.
If you can force them to have a liberal democracy you can force them to do all kinds of things.
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seattle
[iamkatia]
 | 10:22 am - Merry Xmas indeed!!
I just want to THANK EVERYONE HERE FROM THE ASTONISHED DEPTHS OF MY HEART for your response to my post from two days ago.
577 comments were left before noon on Xmas eve day.
15 people donated money.
A grand total of $1210.80 raised for homeless street kids.
Nearly half of that coming from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scearley and his dollar-per-comment pledge.
I have never seen anything like this on lj. I have never seen such excitement and Joy
igniting like wild-fire throughout this community. I have never seen so many
uplifting comments and intentions. I stared at my screen with jaw agape and tears
rolling down my cheeks.
I want to personally thank: Sean Cearley, Cathy Compton, Noel Zapata, Jennifer
Keenan, Ann Lamoy, Marcos Duran, Justin Wieging, Marissa Wells, Nina
Forsyth, Shannon Riebman, Chelsea Feig, Matthew Coill, Kristin Carideo, John
Dempsey, and Kathleen Tuite.
Because of your monetary donations, many street kids will have the things they need
to survive this winter in Seattle.
I also want to thank everyone who said they had coats, sweaters, hand-knitted
scarves, etc. that they'd like to donate. Please contact me at: iamkatia@gmail.com to
set up pick up or drop-off times.
Some people gave a lot. Some people gave a little (which was probably a lot for
them). Every time someone gives something from the heart to others, it is a
significant event.
There's a story about when the Buddha went to visit a village to spread his
teachings. Kings and wealthy patrons came and lavished him with gold and the finest
silks. An old tattered woman with nothing to her name came and plucked a blade of
grass and humbly, reverently offered it to the Buddha. It was just as precious to
him as all the mounds of gold that lay at his feet. Any and all giving from the
heart is an amazingly precious thing.
WISHING YOU ALL THE HAPPIEST OF HOLIDAYS AND A PROFOUNDLY FULFILLING 2010.
The way to fulfillment is kindness and generosity.
You are well on your way..
Love you all,
Katia
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pittsburgh
[jaz853]
 | 11:59 am - Movers
Anyone have any recommendations for a moving company? I'm moving to Oakland from Washington County, but have to do it in two days (the 28th and the 29th), and I just don't have the manpower right now.
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pittsburgh
[dreamslesssweet]
 | 07:09 am - Mechanic (tomorrow)
First, merry christmas to those of you celebrating!
I live in Michigan now, but am visiting friends for the holidays (yay!). On 279, the exhaust system on my 88 Corolla started making angry noises at me. (I'm just thankful it didn't happen in Bumfuck, OH). Does anyone have any mechanic recommendations? I did search the archives, but I was hoping someone knew of someone in (or close to) the North Side.
Thank you!!!
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December 24th, 2009
seattle
[counterfeitfake]
 | 03:28 pm
Are there any good restaurants in the area open tomorrow?
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seattle
[jazzlvr16]
 | 02:04 pm - "Xmas Time for Jews"
For all you Seattle Jews out there who are overdosing on Christmas music and Christmas decorations and all the rest, I present a new single from a local Jewish artist, Mai Li Pittard...
"Xmas Time for Jews"
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pittsburgh
[aliseana]
 | 03:48 pm - Xmas day cocktails?
Where's open Xmas day for food and drinks? In the East End, Shadyside, Sq Hill, Regent Square preferably......
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memestreams
| 06:08 pm - Do You Hear What I Hear? | A Noteworthy Decade
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid67801/ http://www.memestreams.net/users/nw/blogid10388965 I'm 41 now so I've decided I need to develop my grumpy side. So here's a rant about the sorry state of pop music.
Pablo Picasso: "Mediocre artists borrow; great artists steal."
Any time you skip a commercial ... you're actually stealing the programming.
"It is a case of bootleggers bootlegging bootlegs."
Maybe people aren't buying the latest crap because it sounds just like the crap they bought ten years ago.
Music is just background noise for whatever it is that you're really doing.
Music used to be an event, not a product. For the iPod generation, music as Art is being increasingly devalued, even as it becomes pervasive to the point of ubiquity.
... a deal for licensing of music online ...
Audiences scale, communities don't.
What am I going to use it for?
The steady stream of celebrity death should ensure plenty of free promotion -- elaborate outside advertising isn't necessary when the passing of even culturally marginal figures receives extensive what-does-it-all-mean metareporting in the nation's newsweeklies.
The Internet may be a mould-breaking new medium but, like all the media that came before it, someone has to pay for it, and that usually means, one way or another, users.
Needless to say, blogs are addictive. They are not, however, the most economical use of your time.
The live audience cheers for Krusty as the show comes to an end and Krusty exits the stage. Off stage, the Fox producer approaches Krusty, smiling and holding a piece of paper. In a soft, serious voice, he says, "Krusty, the ratings were good -- Raymond re-run good."
There will be some things that people will see.
There will be some things that people won't see.
And life goes on.
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memestreams
| 06:08 pm - Power Tools, Power Lunches, And Power | A Noteworthy Decade
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid67802/ http://www.memestreams.net/users/nw/blogid10388966 Stop looking over your shoulder and invent something!
Great, world-changing things always start small. The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch.
"The whole idea of bigger being better, I just don't think that's the case anymore."
The hardest part isn't inventing the solution but figuring out how to get people to adopt it.
I like to focus on banal, boring issues like standards, protocols, and IPR because I delight in showing how supposedly arcane technical problems actually turn out to be political.
People who have better tools win.
Never underestimate the value of a good tool properly employed. But don't expect it to solve everything, especially over the long term. Your enemy is watching you, he has read his Claude Shannon, and he has some good tools of his own.
People will do stuff today that they would not do even a year ago.
Everything seems to devolve into Friendster, sooner or later.
Technology has made it easier than ever to count your friends -- but that doesn't mean you should.
Teens need a sense of being able to get away. Really away.
I have two questions. 1) What's so wrong with the real world that makes everyone want to get away from it? 2) If everyone is so eager to "escape", who will ever fix the problems?
I try to work on things that won't happen unless I do them.
It's ironic that entrepreneurism preaches chaos, while staunch corporate management theory preaches control. The typical organization is constantly vacillating between those states. It's never one or the other, and the tension is constantly changing on a daily basis. It's that tension, muscle pushing against bone, that gets things done.
You can't change the fact that it is human nature for people to carve up a problem and try to own things, for the complexity to accrete in corners, and for the vocabulary of the project not to make it all the way across.
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seattle
[revenantcupcake]
 | 11:15 pm - Chestnuts. Peeled ones.
I have called or gone into all the big grocery stores close to me (Fred Meyer, QFC, Safeway, Albertson's), and none of them have peeled/shelled chestnuts, either frozen OR jarred. Have any of you seen them anywhere recently? Am I just SOL because I didn't get a head start on shopping for Christmas dinner? I really don't want to have to shell 2lbs of chestnuts tomorrow.
If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. I will probably be calling or visiting Whole Foods, PCC, and Trader Joe's tomorrow, but if anyone can save me some time it would be a Christmas Miracle :D!!!!!!!!1!!
Thanks~
Wonderful people of Seattle, I thank you. I have successfully completed my quest for chestnuts. Happy Holidays, everyone!
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dinosaurcomics
| 08:31 am - ah, hyper-advanced futures, always MESSING WITH THE FABRIC OF OUR VERY REALITY
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1623  | archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about–  |  | | | ← previous | December 24th, 2009 | next | December 24th, 2009: It's true, Dinosaur Comics got personified last night and wished everyone an awesome new year. I do too!
This is where I take my MINI CHRISTMAS VACATION: there'll be no new comic Christmas Day, and I'll be running Klassik Komicks until January 1st, 2010 (next Friday!) So it's really just four Klasik Komix. I keep spelling "Klassick Kowmics" differently each time because they're that classic!
Have fun, everyone, and thank you for making 2009 one of my best years ever. It's still amazing that I get to do this comic instead of having a real job, and it's all thanks to you guys. – Ryan |
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pittsburgh
[upstagenation]
 | 06:12 am - Last-minute gift idea for women
Sorry, but a friend of mine thought this should be spread around
Last-minute gift idea: Rejuvenation Celebration (Event for Women) @ Fitness with a Twist.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
3:00pm - 6:00pm
70 S. 21st Street
Relax and enjoy yoga, bellydance, aromatherapy, meditation, massage therapy, healthy refreshments, and sisterhood! Event by Amethyst, Diabla and Amber Baker.Gift certificates now available.Makes a great holiday gift for the women you love. $30 includes refreshments and most services (except massage therapy, available for an additional $1/minute)"
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197294726150&index=1
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f_secure
| 10:34 am - Merry CHRISTMA EXEC
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001845.html Once again, we'd like to wish our readers Merry Christmas with a reference to the 1986 CHRISTMA EXEC worm
Here's a link to January 1987 Risks Digest, discussing the worm.
And here's a link to the original source code for this worm. Normally we wouldn't link to malware code, but hey, it's 23 years old. On 24/12/09 At 08:29 AM
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snopes_dot_com
| 03:00 pm - Hail Mary
http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/tarkenton.asp Football rumor: A bad officiating call killed the father of Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton.
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seattle
[emeraldkity]
 | 09:17 pm - Need help @ Xmas?
I am looking for a volunteer opportunity on Christmas- as close to Ballard as possible since I will not have transportation.
I do volunteer work in the community- but not with anything that will have a project on that day.
My kids are in PDX,( one is working and can't get off) my husband is going to see them on the 25th, and I am staying home with our dog who is too old to board, since we decided it isn't a good idea for her to travel ( 15 & 1/2 yr old labrador).
Sadly, my mother died suddenly a week ago, and I don't think it is good to just sit home, so I was thinking of perhaps helping with a dinner?
Any ideas?
Snark welcome as well.
Current Location: Phinney RIdge
Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: the dishwasher
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seattle
[syukton]
 | 08:26 pm - Giant robots, anyone?
Do any of you remember the Battletech pods they had at the Wizards of the Coast game center?
Wish you could get a chance to play again? You're in luck. A friend of mine acquired eight of them and has opened an arcade in Kirkland.
The Airlock
12093 124th Ave NE
Kirkland, WA 98034
Between Laughs Comedy Spot and the Bead Hut.
4PM to 1AM every day (even Christmas).
( flyer behind the cut )
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memestreams
| 12:51 am - The Volokh Conspiracy - Supreme Court of Ohio Rejects Search of Cell Phone Incident to Arrest
http://www.memestreams.net/thread/bid67760/ http://volokh.com/2009/12/15/supreme-court-of-ohio-rejects-search-of-cell-phone-incident-to-arrest/ This is a messy decision but I think its important in that it recognizes the idea that a cellphone can contain a lot of valuable information and allowing the police full access to it incident to arrest has significant privacy implications. The decision in State v. Smith is here, and the vote was 4â3. The majorityâs reasoning is that while you can search a âclosed containerâ found on a person incident to arrest, a cell phone is not a âclosed container.â
My cellphone has a large email archive. Allowing the police to go through all of that email in the course of arresting me for, say, DUI, would be a fishing expedition - pure and simple. Its not necessary. There is an "evidence preservation" argument the state of the cellphone at the moment of arrest might change over time while waiting for a warrant - but this gets you to a "probable cause required but warrant is not required" position, rather than a "search incident to arrest, no standard of suspicion required" position - the police would need to retrospectively establish probable cause to justify a search of the phone. Incidentally, I think in this case the police possibly had probably cause to look at the call log but I haven't read it carefully. This result is tangentally relevant to the issue of border searches of laptops in that it acknowledges that the volume of private information held in these devices puts them in a unique category that is different from traditional "containers" that are subject to search in these contexts.
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