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gwydion* The devastating effects of the insistence on State level extreme austerity measures in the middle of a demand crisis:
* Unions and the Service Industry:
* The terrible way we treat domestic workers in this country:
* More on that interesting 3000 year old cemetery in Swat: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/02/166253606/in-pakistan-secrets-of-a-3-000-year-old-cemetery
* "History uncovered in Fermanagh crannog:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20540374
* "Researcher points to Sun as likely source of eighth-century 'Charlemagne event':" http://phys.org/news/2012-11-sun-source-eighth-century-charlemagne-event.html
* Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks the supposed "Mayan Apocalypse." http://phys.org/news/2012-11-sun-source-eighth-century-charlemagne-event.html
* "Ugandan Trans Woman's Open Letter To Parliament:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/ugandan-trans-womans-open-letter-to.html
* "World AIDS Day 2012:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/12/world-aids-day-2012.html
* On the murder of Jordan Davis, "The Cheapness Of A Black Life:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-cheapness-of-black-life.html
* Today I collected not only the dead light, but the two supplementals I cycled out when they died. I was guessing odds were one was dead, dead and the other needed a bulb, but it's better to test than trust. Why do I take the lights down to the fish store? 1. I don't with the smaller hoods, as those take aqua growth lights in the 10-20 range. I know which takes which and it's no hassle screwing out the old and in the new. 2. The big lights require a specific length, strength, and plug in style, each different. 3. They can do the testing in the store with store bulbs, thus saving carrying bulbs back and forth if they are wrong or the fixture is blown. 4. They will do installation of things like legs and do the various assembly its with the proper tools. I'm generally doing it makeshift with hands that don't do fine work well and constantly drop something. I'd much rather wander about looking at the coral reef invertebrates and the like while a professional does it properly. It's a free service and one of the many ways my local fish store rocks socks.
Why do I dread lighting issues? It's extremely expensive. Just buying proper aqua grow bulbs is way more expensive. If you have to replace a fixture it gets into serious money. the lights often cost more than the whole rest of a new tank set up put together. It's also seriously time consuming. Admittedly the light specialist dealing with my order had to periodically stop to ring people up, but I was still in the store an hour and a half while he did his thing. It's hard on my legs. (Not as hard as me wasting five hours or so driving back and forth to the store and trying to do it myself, but it's a major commitment). It turns out the big light was caput long with the little supplemental. The larger supplemental just needed a new bulb. I had to replace the big light as it's an important one. Ouch. we're into car repair territory there. I also bought the supplemental bulb as I like having a back up, along with two twenties (one back up, one to replace one that died last week), and I found a cool looking species of pleco that won't grow too big for the long twenty, so I bought it as the otos aren't doing it. Facepalm. Anyway, last I saw it, the new pleco was swiming for cover. I expect not to see it for several days if it survives. (They are shy things.) I can't sex plecos, but she is gorgeous and I am calling zir Cleopatra if she survives transfer. BTW, I've spotted all six otos in the last week. They were the last fish I hadn't completely accounted for after the Con. The tall twenty fish seem to have survived the Butt's assault, including the adolescents, so I'm calling that good.
It's a fish tank maintenance night anyway, so I've been working that in small chunks. I changed a bunch of bio filters and water tonight and did some other small maintenance, leaving some minor puttering for tomorrow.
* Walking Dead: Finally the last of my top five favorite characters from the comic is in the mix, in what looks to be all his kick ass glory. Given that they got Michonne right, but also the way black men are under written and trow away on the show, I am still cautious in my excitement. Fingers crossed for them letting Tyreese be Tyresse. I spent all season two waiting for him to show up and had pretty much given up. Of course they had to kill off Oscar to make room, I guess because there's a black man quota on the show? I mean T-Dog died to make room for Oscar and Oscar died to make room for Tyresse, which is seriously creepy in the meta racial agenda sense, just saying. You see why I'm wary, right? I live the casting though, and I feel better about the show now that they have Michonne and Tyresse both.
* "Woe Is Syphilis, and Other Afflictions of the Literati:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/health/woe-is-syphilis-and-other-afflictions-of-famous-writers.html?ref=health
* A joke book from Medieval Baghdad is being published. While I am far from expert on the Medieval Islamic world, I am confused by the article acting as if this isn't well known to be the most civilized and sophisticated culture West of India a thousand years ago. Of course they had jokes, just as they had love poems, gourmet cuisine, graffiti, and dirty jokes! This is pretty common knowledge even for non-experts with even a passing knowledge of the time period in the Middle East and North Africa. The best explanation I can find for the tone of the article is racism, and it pisses me off. (IE: The stereotype that Muslims have no sense of humor.) Anyway, I am glad the book has been translated and is being published even if the person writing the article is being rather an asshole about it. http://news.discovery.com/history/muslim-joke-book-121127.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
* Horrible Groom Cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/11/28/improper-grooming.html
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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Unions and the Service Industry:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* The terrible way we treat domestic workers in this country:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* More on that interesting 3000 year old cemetery in Swat: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/02/166253606/in-pakistan-secrets-of-a-3-000-year-old-cemetery
* "History uncovered in Fermanagh crannog:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20540374
* "Researcher points to Sun as likely source of eighth-century 'Charlemagne event':" http://phys.org/news/2012-11-sun-source-eighth-century-charlemagne-event.html
* Neil deGrasse Tyson debunks the supposed "Mayan Apocalypse." http://phys.org/news/2012-11-sun-source-eighth-century-charlemagne-event.html
* "Ugandan Trans Woman's Open Letter To Parliament:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/ugandan-trans-womans-open-letter-to.html
* "World AIDS Day 2012:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/12/world-aids-day-2012.html
* On the murder of Jordan Davis, "The Cheapness Of A Black Life:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-cheapness-of-black-life.html
* Today I collected not only the dead light, but the two supplementals I cycled out when they died. I was guessing odds were one was dead, dead and the other needed a bulb, but it's better to test than trust. Why do I take the lights down to the fish store? 1. I don't with the smaller hoods, as those take aqua growth lights in the 10-20 range. I know which takes which and it's no hassle screwing out the old and in the new. 2. The big lights require a specific length, strength, and plug in style, each different. 3. They can do the testing in the store with store bulbs, thus saving carrying bulbs back and forth if they are wrong or the fixture is blown. 4. They will do installation of things like legs and do the various assembly its with the proper tools. I'm generally doing it makeshift with hands that don't do fine work well and constantly drop something. I'd much rather wander about looking at the coral reef invertebrates and the like while a professional does it properly. It's a free service and one of the many ways my local fish store rocks socks.
Why do I dread lighting issues? It's extremely expensive. Just buying proper aqua grow bulbs is way more expensive. If you have to replace a fixture it gets into serious money. the lights often cost more than the whole rest of a new tank set up put together. It's also seriously time consuming. Admittedly the light specialist dealing with my order had to periodically stop to ring people up, but I was still in the store an hour and a half while he did his thing. It's hard on my legs. (Not as hard as me wasting five hours or so driving back and forth to the store and trying to do it myself, but it's a major commitment). It turns out the big light was caput long with the little supplemental. The larger supplemental just needed a new bulb. I had to replace the big light as it's an important one. Ouch. we're into car repair territory there. I also bought the supplemental bulb as I like having a back up, along with two twenties (one back up, one to replace one that died last week), and I found a cool looking species of pleco that won't grow too big for the long twenty, so I bought it as the otos aren't doing it. Facepalm. Anyway, last I saw it, the new pleco was swiming for cover. I expect not to see it for several days if it survives. (They are shy things.) I can't sex plecos, but she is gorgeous and I am calling zir Cleopatra if she survives transfer. BTW, I've spotted all six otos in the last week. They were the last fish I hadn't completely accounted for after the Con. The tall twenty fish seem to have survived the Butt's assault, including the adolescents, so I'm calling that good.
It's a fish tank maintenance night anyway, so I've been working that in small chunks. I changed a bunch of bio filters and water tonight and did some other small maintenance, leaving some minor puttering for tomorrow.
* Walking Dead: Finally the last of my top five favorite characters from the comic is in the mix, in what looks to be all his kick ass glory. Given that they got Michonne right, but also the way black men are under written and trow away on the show, I am still cautious in my excitement. Fingers crossed for them letting Tyreese be Tyresse. I spent all season two waiting for him to show up and had pretty much given up. Of course they had to kill off Oscar to make room, I guess because there's a black man quota on the show? I mean T-Dog died to make room for Oscar and Oscar died to make room for Tyresse, which is seriously creepy in the meta racial agenda sense, just saying. You see why I'm wary, right? I live the casting though, and I feel better about the show now that they have Michonne and Tyresse both.
* "Woe Is Syphilis, and Other Afflictions of the Literati:" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/health/woe-is-syphilis-and-other-afflictions-of-famous-writers.html?ref=health
* A joke book from Medieval Baghdad is being published. While I am far from expert on the Medieval Islamic world, I am confused by the article acting as if this isn't well known to be the most civilized and sophisticated culture West of India a thousand years ago. Of course they had jokes, just as they had love poems, gourmet cuisine, graffiti, and dirty jokes! This is pretty common knowledge even for non-experts with even a passing knowledge of the time period in the Middle East and North Africa. The best explanation I can find for the tone of the article is racism, and it pisses me off. (IE: The stereotype that Muslims have no sense of humor.) Anyway, I am glad the book has been translated and is being published even if the person writing the article is being rather an asshole about it. http://news.discovery.com/history/muslim-joke-book-121127.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
* Horrible Groom Cakes: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/11/28/improper-grooming.html
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Date: 2012-12-04 01:20 am (UTC)Marine depot sells retrofit kits for aquarium hoods. The bulbs last in the neighborhood of 20,000 hours, or roughly 7 years.
Here's a link to their site: http://www.marinedepot.com/LED_Retrofit_Kits_Lights-FILTRTLE-ct.html
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