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I've been ignoring my LJ for four days.

I just hit a URL that ends in "?skip=850" just to catch up on my Friends list.

I suspect there will be a pruning. Prune! Prune! Prooooooooone!

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And now it's time for Before And After!

Before:


After:

A reminder:

Spam kills. Protect yourself. Protect your family. Protect your CHILDREN. Kill a spammer today.

actually, fuck the children. Protect the NETWORK. But whatever your reason, kill a spammer. It's good for the soul, AND tax-deductible.

I'm conflicted.

One one hand, I think mindless reverence for nonreal, nonfactual, nonrelevant things is bad, and should be pointed out, confronted, and questioned at every opportunity.

On the other, I can see the appeal of respecting tradition, to more properly understand what the people who came up to it were thinking. I think this can lead to a *mindful* reverence of the nonreal, nonfactual, and nonrelevant.

So this simultaneously makes me say "So?" and also "Dude. Tasteless."

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I want one.

Wherein I pass along a job posting.

Would anyone like to be a primary-school teacher in Belgrade?

No, really. First and Third Graders. In English. Job starts in September. Belgrade. Yes, THAT Belgrade. ~400km from Budapest, ~1100km from Athens, on pretty much a straight line between the two.

(~500km from Brasov. I'm just sayin', it's in Yurp.)

EDIT: Pay is apparently ~1.5K GBP/mo, as well as free room and board, airfare, etc. And cost of living in Belgrade is teeny. Click the link and email for details.

A Slice Of Life

From an IM conversation:

(6:25:13 PM) John: My music playlist is confused.
(6:25:48 PM) John: It's gone from Hopeless and Drink Myself To Sleep and The Suicider to The Story Ain't Over and Hey Stoopid in one jump.
(6:26:01 PM) John: Apparently it can't decide if I should kill myself of if life really isn't that bad after all.
(6:26:04 PM) John: Clever playlist.
(6:26:53 PM) John: I suspect the CPU knows who pays the electric bills, but the sound card is still mad at me for The Compleat Journey.
(6:27:47 PM) John: ... and, immediately after I said all this, I got "You're So Vain (I bet you think this song is about you)"
(6:28:27 PM) John: If it goes into RE: Your Brains or Still Alive, I may disconnect on you suddenly. For the record.

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There needs to be a heavy metal cover of Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine".

It's That Time Of Year Again!

You have three boxes. Each box has two drawers. You and your spouse both want to go on vacation, together, to a Disney theme park, and you'd like to get free admission.

In the first box, there is a single admission coupon for Disneyworld in both drawers.
In the second box, there is a single admission coupon for DisneyLAND in both drawers.
In the third box, one drawer has a single admission coupon for Disneyland and the other has a single admission coupon for Disneyworld.

You open one drawer at random. You get a Disney coupon! You're going to one park, or the other!

What is the possibility that the second admission coupon in the other drawer of the same box is *also* for the same park as the first one?

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Because antipope didn't know about it until recently, it has been brought to my attention that The Dykes To Watch Out For Movie Test is not as well known as it should be.

The DTWOF Movie Test is simple. In order to pass, a movie must have:
1) two female characters
2) who talk to each other
3) about something besides a man.

The extended version adds "or marriage or babies" to #3.

How often do *you* see any piece of fiction, movies or otherwise, that passes even the simple version?

That's what I thought.