I hate Santino as well,

but I didn't want my Nick to have to go cause Santino is an ass.

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Oh, I totally agree Nick cannot be eliminated!!! I'm very sad that we didn't get to see what he and Chloe could have made together.

I really like the way things went this time -- in terms of my personal ideas of who was first to last -- because it matched.

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Aimée, I actually agreed with BR chick. Their holiday line didn't seem nearly as...costumey (?) to me as the Santino/Nick outfit. That jacket Santino fought for made no sense to me. If I wanted my shoulders to be twice the width of my body, I'd be an NFL linebacker.

And BTW, I HATE that I couldn't wish for Santino to get the boot. My Nicky love. It is too great.

I, like sumi, kind of agreed with the judges tonight. And, in suprise of surprises, found myself liking Zulema. She pulled their asses out of the fire with that dress (even if the jacket blew) and she had my second favorite remark of the evening, "You can cry if you want to, just cry and cut, girl. Cry and cut." Too. Hilarious.

My favorite remark of the evening, of course, is Uncle Nicky's, "Just the fact that you don't see a thousand trims on it? You know I have tamed the beast." Love. Him.

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It brings back wading through BBOvenGuy's stuff

That's who he is, Robert A. Black.

I remember. Believe me. I remember.

Tangentially I just found out that Jason Dohring is going to play Timothy McVeigh.

Eww. I mean, good for Dohring, but I don't want to watch him in that, because I like Dohring, and don't so much like terrorists and mass murderers.

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In a moment of inspiration, I made blueberry muffins last night, so I've had a couple for breakfast. Which fills me with probably unearned optimism for the day ahead, but hey, I'll take what inspiration I can get!

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Anonymity vs. Accountability. I do agree that it's not so much about who you call yourself, but who you are. I don't know if it's a shift in identity, or something that'll stick past the burgeoning of the internet, but I'm comfortable having one name here, three on LJ, my full name on LinkedIn, etc. Each of them is accountable, even though they're all fragmented. Even this ID, now. This isn't all of me.

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Hitchcock was a visionary.

A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds. >[link]

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From the "Things could be worse - at least we're not hunted by birds" department:

Researcher: Early Man Was Hunted by Birds

Researchers had speculated the Taung child was killed by a leopard or saber-toothed feline. But 10 years ago, Berger and fellow researcher Ron Clarke submitted the theory the hunter was a large predatory bird, based on the fact most of the other fossils found at the same site were small monkeys that showed signs of having been killed by a predatory bird.

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Five months ago, Berger read an Ohio State University study of the hunting abilities of modern eagles in West Africa believed similar to predatory birds of the Taung child's era.

The Ohio State study determined that eagles would swoop down, pierce monkey skulls with their thumb-like back talons, then hover while their prey died before returning to tear at the skull. Examination of thousands of monkey remains produced a pattern of damage done by birds, including holes and ragged cuts in the shallow bones behind the eye sockets.

Berger went back to the Taung skull, and found traces of the ragged cuts behind the eye sockets. He said none of the researchers who had for decades been debating how the child died had noticed the eye socket damage before.

Berger concluded man's ancestors had to survive not just being hunted from the ground, but from the air. Such discoveries are "key to understanding why we humans today view the world they way we do," he said.

eta: freaky death-by-birds x-post.

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Anonymity vs. Accountability.

Interesting article. I think the author lost the thread a bit towards the end, but his main points seem pretty solid. (Except I'm pretty sure you can't get a valid photo ID proving your age w/o a legal name on it. Unless he's counting fake IDs as "valid.")

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Ok, that's a pretty funny x-post. Damn. Wonder why we didn't develop some of those bird-fooling eyebrows like the dog. Wonder how that would look. Eh, probably for the best.

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