[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends View]
Below are the most recent 25 friends' journal entries.
| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | ||||||
|
rubygloomrox |
1:09p | ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood:  apatheticCurrent Music: jane's addiction-pigs in zen | ||||
|
vintage_ads [ myvintagevogue ] |
11:05a | |||||
|
vintage_ads [ carabaas ] |
9:06p | |||||
|
vintage_ads [ myvintagevogue ] |
11:03a | |||||
|
vintage_ads [ wrascalbc ] |
10:54a | |||||
|
vintage_ads [ carabaas ] |
8:49p | |||||
|
sci |
6:39p | Making something Over the past few days I've made a number of financially ill-advised purchases on the credit card and my overdraft. But they're making me happier in doing something for ME. Pair 180Watt 12v motors (geared output ~180rpm) Wiichuck controller Stub battery terminals Fusebox LM3914 IC Pair 10" pneumatic trolley wheels I've also hauled home a few of the metal boxes that hold the bricks in old electrical storage heaters, and need to go scavenge another one of those cheapo mini scooters that hopefully has an intact set of steering bearings. A few folk already know roughly what I'm up to. I've also noticed my hair's getting bigger at the front without me trying. Reminds me of something appropriate. Gotta get practised with the MIG welder again. Current Mood:  okayCurrent Music: Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain | ||||
|
thrifthorror [ danneeness ] |
10:21a | The Last and Best of Victorian Thrift Horroring, Quadra SA edition: Clothes You get to see my girlfriend model some of these. Don't be fooled by how she can rock any piece of clothing put on her; these were truly horrific. (Honestly, I know clothes sounds boring, but click the link!  Monch... hi... chi? You know what our first thoughts were when seeing this? "This looks like a mystery for the internet!" Help us, internet! ( 23 more clothing horrors under the cut, including epic sequin outfit ) | ||||
|
sci |
6:23p | Phone accessories 2.5mm to 3.5mm adaptor arrived yesterday. Figured it'd be cheaper to buy new regular headphones than more hands-free kits for just using my phone as an mp3-player. Just tried it though. The problem isn't the hands-free kit, it's the socket. From the feel of it, probably a broken solder joint. I have the correct star-drivers to open it up, but will wait until I've finished the workbench before I attempt the repair. I also ordered a microSD card to max out the internal sotrage, and a usb charger cable to mutilate. The Nokia 6300 charges off a 5v 350mA adaptor, and has a USB plug right next to the charging socket, but it does not charge from USB. Bad design Nokia, bad. Going to take a mould of the plug on my extending USB cable for it, cut the plug open, solder on the charging cable plug in paralell, then cast a sheath around it again with the mould and a little PU elastomer. Well, I will if I don't kill the phone trying to fix the headphone socket. Good thing I have that crappy replacement phone on backup duty. All as hoped, will then crimp some nylon-coated steel cable around the lanyard fixing of a retractable lanyard holder, and afix that to a strong belt-loop. Should be just long enough to use as normal, but also mean it's tethered to my person at all times. Plus doubles as a garotte for assasination attempts. Current Mood: hot | ||||
|
award |
6:00p | New Base of Operations One or two folk have asked so...   Next on the list is some shelving / storage on the walls and I will aslo be getting my pitures out of storage. Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: George Moustaki - Zorba The Greek | ||||
|
axiomaxiom |
12:18p | Cat advice? Okay, cats are animals, and as clean and domestic as we like to think them, they're still animals, as are we. Today, our cat did something terribly foul, and I want to know from others familiar with cats if this was normal. Julia hopped up on the kitchen counter as she often does. Reaching out, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cargoweasel gave her tail base a scritch-squeeze. Nothing abnormal, really. I happened to be standing on the other side of the counter.Suddenly, a cloudy fluid shot out of Julia's vagina. It smelled HORRIBLE. Five or six fat drops of it. Julia promptly turned around and started licking it up. I had to seriously scrub down the countertop and my fingers to get the smell off. It wasn't urine and didn't smell of urine. But the smell was strong and particularly nauseating. Okay, what the hell was that? Catgasm? Some kind of glandular thing? Is it normal? Will it happen again? Does Cargo just *excite* the lady cats that much? She's been spayed for nearly a year now, I didn't think stuff like that would happen. Help! --Axiom EDIT: Okay, anal glands. But should we be concerned, perhaps of infection? | ||||
|
vintage_ads [ mschaos ] |
9:06a | |||||
|
callmemadam |
4:36p | Alchemilla Rampant I’ve spent an hour this afternoon doing nothing but slash Alchemilla mollis to the ground and barrow it off to the compost heap. And I’ve only finished one bed. In one of Graham Stuart Thomas’s books, probably Plants for Ground Cover, there’s a photograph captioned ‘Alchemilla mollis in complete control.’ That’s pretty much the idea the wretched plant has got here: it’s everywhere. In late spring and early summer the pleated leaves hold moisture magically.  The acid yellow flowers set off spring blooms and are very useful in a vase; one rose can look a picture with a frill of Lady's Mantle. By this time of year though, the flowers are turning brown, wind and rain have made the long stems flop and it’s starting to look a mess. It still looks a mess when cut down but new foliage will soon put that right. Heigh ho, at least two more sessions to finish the job. ( Then there’s this ) Current Mood:  tired | ||||
| thunderbolt_b | 2:47p | [OOC] RIAT Rollcall I'm heading there. I was upset that last year was cancled :( | ||||
|
stinkygoat |
3:30p | |||||
|
thrifthorror [ danneeness ] |
7:15a | Victorian Thrift Horrors, the Toys  Robot baby can sense your fear... ( 23 more horrors under the cut ) | ||||
|
huskyteer |
2:55p | Loot! Yesterday lunchtime, one of my colleagues sent an all-staff email from his Blackberry to announce that the Oxford Street Borders is closing down and all stock is half price. I swung by an hour ago and found a state of January sale-level mayhem, albeit polite, quiet, bookish mayhem (no frantic tugs of war with the Taschens). I'd gone in determined not to lose my head, and to allow myself only things I'd been meaning to purchase anyway. I picked up The Philosopher and the Wolf and Vroom by the Sea, and the DVD of Bolt. Then I wandered through the Music section on the off-chance they had that book on the folk-rock movement that's been on my Amazon wishlist for the past four years, or perhaps The Three Chord Eagles Songbook, and then I saw it. Paul Simon: Lyrics 1964-2008. A huge, glossy, utterly unnecessary hardback that I hadn't known existed until that second, priced at £20. Mine. Feeling slightly giddy, I joined the queue - which ran the length of the ground floor, twice - behind shoppers carrying loaded baskets or stacks of books half a metre high. At the till, I demanded and received the free stuffed hamster to go with my DVD. Don't let me go back tomorrow! Current Mood:  giddy | ||||
|
ukfursuit [ lexxinator ] |
3:01p | Faux Fur Hi, I've been trying to find some dark green faux fur and it's proving quite difficult. I'd like some high quality, dense fake fur with a longish pile 3/4" - 2". I'm in the UK, but overseas is fine. I'm also looking for some cream fur of the same length and quality, as well as any tips on making skunk tails. Thanks n.n x Current Mood:  curious | ||||
|
barberio |
2:59p | Another incident of right wing, white supremisist terrorisim on the rise. This time from here in the UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8152159.s | ||||
| cakewrecks | 1:30p | "Baby" Showers Some cakes make you wonder what species of baby is being welcomed into the world:  "Extra, extra! Read all about it! Swamp Thing procreates!Becomes spokesperson for cloth diapers!"  I think this is a monkey.[German accent] "Wouldst you like to touch my monkey? Touch him! LOVE HIM!!" And finally, we have our mutant flippered pig-child of perpetual worry:  Or maybe that's pain; it probably hurts to be skewered through the hand with a rose stem.Kimberly L, Erin G., & Justin E., now is the time on Sprockets when we dance. - Related Wreckage: Fetal Bites  | ||||
| dailycoyote | 12:00p | |||||
|
gerald_duck |
12:52p | Appalachian twilight Who here remembers View-Master? Those viewers that took circular discs and gave you a stereoscopic image of something or other. I haven't used one in years, but I clearly remember being fascinated by them as a young child. One of the discs was of the Appalachian mountains. The Appalachian mountains are beautiful. They extend as a band 1,500 miles long and several hundred miles wide down almost the entire eastern flank of North America. I've only ever visited the southern end of the range, where Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama meet, but I'd like to see more. There's something about them. Yes, the Rockies are the more obvious mountain range, but the Appalachians seem more ingrained in the soul of America. They keep cropping up in music: Copland's Appalachian Spring, Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads even Laurel and Hardy singing In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In Bill Bryson's excellent A Walk in the Woods he discovers the Appalachian Trail on his doorstep up in New Hampshire and sees where it might take him. The Appalachians span the original Thirteen States. They're the home of the hillbillies, of moonshine, of Country Music. For all these reasons, and quite apart from completely obvious environmental considerations, I would submit that mountaintop removal mining is self-evidently an appalling idea. The name is uncharacteristically literal and uneuphemistic: using high explosives, they blow the top off a mountain, reducing its height by 300 metres, dump the granulated beauty-spot in the leafy valley next door and scrape out the coal. It's like licking the centre out of a Cadbury's Creme Egg, except that (a) we can easily make more of those once you've eaten them all and (b) nobody minds much when you get the chocolate all over your fingers and the tabletop. They've already dismantled the equivalent of two Lake Districts. Current Mood: Unhappy | ||||
| irregular_comic | 10:48a | Irregular Webcomic! #2362 Today's theme: Steve and Terry | ||||
|
gerald_duck |
10:27a | Bloody asides A farmer's just been banned for doing 108mph on the A141. Sentencing, the magistrate said "The roads might be different in Devon but our Fen roads are lethal. The speed you were travelling at made them even more so." Er… right.
For a Range Rover, 108mph is basically flat-out top speed, and the high centre of gravity would play extremely badly with the heavy camber on the A141. The guy was clearly going far, far too fast. But while 108mph might be ill-advised in a Range Rover on the A141, anywhere in Devon except the A30 or A38 it'd be well nigh impossible. Current Mood: Boggled | ||||
| speakyourebrane | 8:20a | Millions of Tiny Propellors Thanks to Nathan and Liam for this comment on a terrifying vision of wind-powered Britain. I like it, it makes me think of World of Goo.
It’s fine. We’ve got a pact with Australia. We build one, they build one, sorted. Better still, by 2035 we hope to have a system in place whereby they shut two or three of theirs off in July to give us a hotter summer, and we do the same in December and have a white Christmas. It’ll be great. | ||||
![[File0011.jpg]](http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3613/myg2001.d9/0_2a2ea_9ffd903f_L.jpg "[File0011.jpg]")
