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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Blinking... Saturday, May 03, 2008 Blinking... I have a clock in my bedroom and another in my living room that, when the power goes out, reset to 12:00. They keep time from that point, but they display it blinking, under the theory that you want to know just how long it's been since the power went out, and you want that discovery to induce epilepsy. The odd part is that power must have gone out here around 11:55 today, since when I noticed the clocks later, both were blinking, and 5 minutes fast. If not for the blinking, I could have just left them both like that. Of course the method to stop the blinking is to reset the time, and since both clocks only go forward on that, I had to either leave them 6-7 minutes fast, or else hold down the button through an entire hour. I received an overdue envelope full of unwanted news from a major educational institution yesterday, and apparently they slipped a little something extra in for me, since last night around the time I laid down to sleep my throat started to itch and tickle. It felt like my nose was dripping slightly, but it hadn't been running at all during the day. I dozed fitfully, waking up and clearing my throat constantly, and now today I've got very little voice, I feel shitty from non-rest, and my throat is sore. I haven't been sick in memory, at least not since I moved into this apt last January, and I'm not sure I am now, but my throat is definitely troubling me. I blame the envelope since I didn't engage in any face to face human interactions yesterday. I stayed inside and worked all day, only venturing forth to ride my bike. I did talk to the IG for an hour in the evening, but I'm pretty sure she did not send us up the plague via Verizon's cell phone network. And I was fine the day before, after running various errands and speaking to a cashier or two. I saw this linked to as "the dumbest lawsuit ever" and it just might be. Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the term "lesbian". The islanders say that if they are successful they may then start to fight the word lesbian internationally. The issue boils down to who has the right to call themselves Lesbians. ... The term lesbian originated from the poet Sappho, who was a native of Lesbos. Sappho expressed her love of other women in poetry written during the 7th Century BC. But according to Mr Lambrou, new historical research has discovered that Sappho had a family, and committed suicide for the love of a man. I'm not even sure how to react to this. I mean, okay, I guess they've got kind of a point, but they can't seriously hope to change the use of a term that originated centuries ago, and has become universal common parlance? On the other hand, the various worldwide Olympics™ committees are copyright Nazis about this issue, and have successfully sued hundreds of small, harmless, vermin-infested, amateur organizations who tried to run any kind of event with the term "Olympics" in it, even though everyone uses that term as a vernacular, non-proper noun to describe any sort of athletic competition. So with that precedent set, who knows if the Lesbos'ians will gain some traction with their efforts? That doesn't make it any less ridiculous, though. What's next, landlocked African nations filing suit against every living gangsta rap artist? Labels: misc Posted by: Flux # 5:27 PM Comments: The lesbosians should go after the porn industry instead of (typically) non-profit gay rights organisations. I think it'd be a much easier case - the porn industry has demonstrably profitted from their illegal use of the term, but what have the gay rights activists done? #: 7:02 PM posted by Anonymous No, people filing lawsuits for being raped on the phone http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/04/27/was_woman_raped_on_telephone/5602/ #: 1:36 PM posted by Anonymous "I received an overdue envelope full of unwanted news from a major educational institution yesterday" Sorry you didn't get accepted. I hope you didn't put all your eggs in one basket by applying to only one school. What are you going to do now? #: 8:19 AM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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