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* The Syrian government responded to the funeral for a child they murdered, by gunning down the morners at his funeral, this killing most of his family.

* I am broadly sympathetic to the financial protests, but I don't see how closing the ports helps their cause. It just looks like taking money from people who work hard for a living just before expensive holidays to me. My feeling is, that the Unions have been generally supportive of the movement and harming their members against the wishes of the Unions themselves looks rather rude, at least from here. I do not understand why, if they are angry at Goldman-Sachs why they don't just target them directly. I'm not being ingenuous, and I am happy if any of you can explain how it does.

* I did a bunch of small stuff shuffling around early in the evening yesterday, then for late night did some heavy lifting. The issue was that the boxes were piled where I needed to put book shelves. In the moving, I found the box with the missing spices. It's not that I didn't find two other boxes worth of spices, but the garlic remained MIA. Can you picture my cooking without garlic? *shudder* The result is it's nearly impossible to get around, but I'm starting the next phase, wherein I put things on book shelves. The cats "helped" by trying to sit wherever I was trying to move stuff. I was getting ready for my bath when I realized I'd stacked the wrong boxes in my room. *facepalm* I'm terribly sick of this fever. Every time I get to working it reignites.

* "Time to throw out "Controversial": http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/12/time-to-throw-out-controverisal.html

* Web Media: http://dennisupkins.com/2011/12/10/web-media/

* I'm not getting what the fuss is about. Gay penguins in the wild do this all the time: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/07/gay-penguin-pair-adopts-a-baby-chick-in-china/

* Lovely: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/12/04/capturing-history-as-it-was-made-los-angeles-times-celebrates-130th-anniversary/#/0

* I'm not much for lollipops, but the flavors in these gluten free treats look really exciting. If any of you try them, let me know if they are yummy as they look: http://www.etsy.com/listing/62843926/8-spice-rack-lollipops-salted-caramel

* Extremely expensive, but I love everything else about this: http://gofugyourself.com/fug-nations-official-holiday-gift-guide-12-2011/firewoodcandle-2

* Eeeeeew!: http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Bacon-Toothpaste.html

* The peerless Melissa Harris Perry takes on this Lowes anti-Muslim crap: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45648661

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* The Syrian government responded to the funeral for a child they murdered, by gunning down the morners at his funeral, this killing most of his family.

* I am broadly sympathetic to the financial protests, but I don't see how closing the ports helps their cause. It just looks like taking money from people who work hard for a living just before expensive holidays to me. My feeling is, that the Unions have been generally supportive of the movement and harming their members against the wishes of the Unions themselves looks rather rude, at least from here. I do not understand why, if they are angry at Goldman-Sachs why they don't just target them directly. I'm not being ingenuous, and I am happy if any of you can explain how it does.

* I did a bunch of small stuff shuffling around early in the evening yesterday, then for late night did some heavy lifting. The issue was that the boxes were piled where I needed to put book shelves. In the moving, I found the box with the missing spices. It's not that I didn't find two other boxes worth of spices, but the garlic remained MIA. Can you picture my cooking without garlic? *shudder* The result is it's nearly impossible to get around, but I'm starting the next phase, wherein I put things on book shelves. The cats "helped" by trying to sit wherever I was trying to move stuff. I was getting ready for my bath when I realized I'd stacked the wrong boxes in my room. *facepalm* I'm terribly sick of this fever. Every time I get to working it reignites.

* "Time to throw out "Controversial": http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/12/time-to-throw-out-controverisal.html

* Web Media: http://dennisupkins.com/2011/12/10/web-media/

* I'm not getting what the fuss is about. Gay penguins in the wild do this all the time: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/07/gay-penguin-pair-adopts-a-baby-chick-in-china/

* Lovely: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/12/04/capturing-history-as-it-was-made-los-angeles-times-celebrates-130th-anniversary/#/0

* I'm not much for lollipops, but the flavors in these gluten free treats look really exciting. If any of you try them, let me know if they are yummy as they look: http://www.etsy.com/listing/62843926/8-spice-rack-lollipops-salted-caramel

* Extremely expensive, but I love everything else about this: http://gofugyourself.com/fug-nations-official-holiday-gift-guide-12-2011/firewoodcandle-2

* Eeeeeew!: http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Bacon-Toothpaste.html

* The peerless Melissa Harris Perry takes on this Lowes anti-Muslim crap: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45648661

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Things I like about the new apartment:

1. I feel a lot safer, as in, I don't expect a random break in, and if someone did break in, people could hear me scream.

2. I much prefer this neighborhood just generally, even though itis full of college students.

3. The leaves smell "right" in fall. Just trust me on this, the mix of trees make smells I find pleasing and comforting.

4. Landlords are johnny on the spot with plumbing and kitchen appliance issues. No letting us go a week without a flush toilet or making us fight for 6 months to two years over leaky plumbing.

5. Upstairs neighbors are very quiet. I can live with the rhythmic creak of fucking and the occasional dropped thing or loud footfall.

6. New carpeting and weirdly clean and good looking grouting in the bathroom.

7. Reasonable visual privacy.

8. No spores suffocating me in my sleep, and no bugs squeezing through the huge cracks around doors and windows.

Neutral things:
There is hardly any natural light in the apartment, except, I think Squirrel's room. I'm used to this from the last place I lived up until that guy ran over the bush. In my room, it is always either twilight dark or night dark, except for one random hour when it's like a kleig light. It's disorienting. I generally like my room dark, so it's not a problem per se, just an adjustment. I can get some natural light in the afternoon in the living room, if I open the blinds. I am disinclined to do this while we are still in chaos.

Negative things:
* The walls are painfully thin, as in, from my bedroom, I can hear everyone walking up and down the staircase, and/or talking with my window closed. I can not only here Squirrel bathing, but the Zachary Quinto clone upstairs bathing. This is not as sexy as you would imagine as the plumbing frequently wakes me up and I am unwilling to be woken for actual sex with actual cute guys, let alone just for the imagining.

* The security light is badly timed for northern winter nights so that one is fumbling for the key in the dark at 5 PM.

* Our parking spot is bumpy and full of puddles.

* The stairs. Way too many stairs. I nearly fell trying to get the forage inside Friday.

* It's really small. The bathroom and kitchen are tiny, and this is the smallest bedroom I've had since college dorms.

* Not enough counter, cabinet, drawer, and closet space.

* I still can't get use the main computer and the laptop at the same time, which is a pain in the ass.

* I can not have the phone in my room, which means careening wildly on legs that aren't really working, mostly blind through a dark room without my glasses and half asleep throgh a box maze with four cats trying to trip me.

The positives out weigh the negatives, trust me.

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Things I like about the new apartment:

1. I feel a lot safer, as in, I don't expect a random break in, and if someone did break in, people could hear me scream.

2. I much prefer this neighborhood just generally, even though itis full of college students.

3. The leaves smell "right" in fall. Just trust me on this, the mix of trees make smells I find pleasing and comforting.

4. Landlords are johnny on the spot with plumbing and kitchen appliance issues. No letting us go a week without a flush toilet or making us fight for 6 months to two years over leaky plumbing.

5. Upstairs neighbors are very quiet. I can live with the rhythmic creak of fucking and the occasional dropped thing or loud footfall.

6. New carpeting and weirdly clean and good looking grouting in the bathroom.

7. Reasonable visual privacy.

8. No spores suffocating me in my sleep, and no bugs squeezing through the huge cracks around doors and windows.

Neutral things:
There is hardly any natural light in the apartment, except, I think Squirrel's room. I'm used to this from the last place I lived up until that guy ran over the bush. In my room, it is always either twilight dark or night dark, except for one random hour when it's like a kleig light. It's disorienting. I generally like my room dark, so it's not a problem per se, just an adjustment. I can get some natural light in the afternoon in the living room, if I open the blinds. I am disinclined to do this while we are still in chaos.

Negative things:
* The walls are painfully thin, as in, from my bedroom, I can hear everyone walking up and down the staircase, and/or talking with my window closed. I can not only here Squirrel bathing, but the Zachary Quinto clone upstairs bathing. This is not as sexy as you would imagine as the plumbing frequently wakes me up and I am unwilling to be woken for actual sex with actual cute guys, let alone just for the imagining.

* The security light is badly timed for northern winter nights so that one is fumbling for the key in the dark at 5 PM.

* Our parking spot is bumpy and full of puddles.

* The stairs. Way too many stairs. I nearly fell trying to get the forage inside Friday.

* It's really small. The bathroom and kitchen are tiny, and this is the smallest bedroom I've had since college dorms.

* Not enough counter, cabinet, drawer, and closet space.

* I still can't get use the main computer and the laptop at the same time, which is a pain in the ass.

* I can not have the phone in my room, which means careening wildly on legs that aren't really working, mostly blind through a dark room without my glasses and half asleep throgh a box maze with four cats trying to trip me.

The positives out weigh the negatives, trust me.