I have a cassette interview of my grandmother (who died in 2004) and her two living sisters where they talk about their childhood and sing together that I really need to get digitalized. I haven't been able to listen to it since she died (not because I don't have a tape player just it would be too sad for me).

I should get that done and give it to my family for xmas.

I am rather confused why , as an atheist , I would need a symbol. Esp since I don't like the whole concept of symbols. ( and I don't really ID as athiest- partly because I don't really want to be group )

I am rather confused why , as an atheist , I would need a symbol.

Lots of atheists are.

They have their reasons. I just forget what they are. Or maybe I dismissed the idea as silly and never read their reasons.

Am tempted to ask atheist-but-culturally-Jewish roommate to buy me an atheist shibboleth for Christmas.

I have a cassette interview of my grandmother (who died in 2004) and her two living sisters where they talk about their childhood and sing together that I really need to get digitalized. I haven't been able to listen to it since she died (not because I don't have a tape player just it would be too sad for me).

At my Sister's wedding last year, one of my Uncles surprised the family with a forty year old recording of my Grandfather singing Sunrise Sunset that had been found in a box at the church they'd attended as children.

Since none of us had heard his voice in a decade... well, you can imagine the reaction.

I am so cranky. I just spent way too long dealing with an annoying person who doesn't seem to know anything and wants me to do her job for her, I hate the new Yahoo mail thingie, I don't know what else, but I'm CRANKY!

Maybe I'll cut out early.

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Last week, we had the distinct pleasure of a visit by rock legend Neil Young. Neil is touring the country in a soon-to-be converted 1959 Lincoln Continental Mark IV named Linc-Volt, spreading the word about plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and vehicle-to-grid technology. As part of the trip, Neil and his crew are filming a documentary of their travels and the folks they meet along the way.

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Regarding his vision for the Linc-Volt and its unique potential to draw attention to sustainable transportation solutions to combat climate change, Neil summed it up this way: "Classic Americana from then meeting the Americana of now."

From Mountain View, the journey continues to Wichita, Kansas, where the Mark IV will be converted from a carbureted gas guzzler to a bio-diesel series PHEV. After Neil's fall tour and annual Bridge School Benefit Concert, the Linc-Volt will undergo interior restoration. Then the bio-diesel-electro-cruiser will power on to Detroit; back to its factory in Wixom, Michigan; and then to the east coast.

Huh. No photos of Neil's '59 Lincoln, so you have to google image search to see photos: [link]

Like Neil Young, I have a '59 Lincoln Continental Mark IV, except mine's a black convertible....

Today has been nuts. Crazy busy broken.

However, I was not the one who accidentally deleted half the contents of /user/local/bin so I think I'm going to call myself lucky.

And Devi's thyroid levels came back within a normal range. Mystery illness, volume II? Sigh.

Great girl geek T-shirt.

I'm having a really hard time not buying this for a friend. I only promised to not buy me clothes for the next little while...and he does need new T-shirts.

No. Not my job.

Great girl geek T-shirt.

From the link:

Whether this is referring to a server, an Xbox, or, err...a man's package, I'm not quite sure, but surely it should be 'pwnd your box'?!

'Box' can refer to male genitalia?