The Bunny Bacchus

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Absolutely beautiful little simulation - what would the Earth be like if it had rings?

Because the internet is made out of people: this was The Friday Telescreen 2009. These are the readers of warrenellis.com.

Thanks to all who sent in photos, and especial thanks to the three hundred people whose photos I just couldn’t fit in. Sorry. Next year I’ll do a weeklong thing again, and get everybody in.

Have a good weekend.

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Oops, I meant to post about this a couple of weeks ago. I did invite various people that I thought would be interested on facebook, so some of you know and some of you are coming.

Tomorrow, Saturday, a bookcrossing friend is hosting a craft day in Damer Hall (under the Unitarian Church, I believe) on Stephen's Green. It's a fiver in, which includes tea & coffee. There'll also be slices of home made cake for sale.

Bring whatever crafts you're working on. Or just chat and eat cake. Also there'll be taster workshops for a small additional fee. I'm going to do a silk painting one. Other people will be doing crochet, cross stitch, various paper crafts.

The charity is Semonkong Mohair in Lesotho. There's bit more info here: http://sheknitupthatball.blogspot.com/2009/11/jill-and-african-mohair.html

It's from 11 till 4. I'll be there most of the day.

Tweets of the day:

• 04:26 Almost 4:30 on a Friday morning. And I'm not at work. Yet still awake. I blame Captain Shark. Maybe I should sleep. #
• 11:50 Why am I awake? It's still morning! Damn you random sleep habits! #
• 13:02 We had 2 tasty choc chip muffins. Mum has eaten the top half of both of them, leaving the bottoms to go stale! She does this all the time! #
• 13:52 @gojiro Thus proving my sleep schedule is thoroughly screwed up. #
• 14:29 Aww. RIP Buster. #
• 19:17 @StudioDraven Now
  I'm hungry. Enjoy! #
• 19:27 @bigste78 Go home already! #

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• 07:09 Congratulations to @mrtonylee for being the recipient of a #neilwebfail, the Twitterverse's highest honour! #
• 07:12 #neilwebfail = being linked to by that one man denial of service attack @neilhimself (aka Neil Gaiman). :) #
• 07:14 Forgot to plug the laptop in to charge last night. Oh well, may as well crack open the lid and see how much juice is left... #
• 07:15 47%! That'll do nicely! #
• 09:02 "Do yourself a favor and pick up the book. It's a fast read and very funny." Rodney Thompson, WotC R&D #gamenight bit.ly/3H9tFD #
• 15:07 RT @mdlachlan: Hey hey, I'm going to #Dragonmeet. Doing a panel on the influence of RPGs on fantasy novels. Should be good fun. // As is me! #
• 16:28 Huh? According to Oracle, Sunday's 1st day of week in the US, but 7th in the UK. Tell that to the 7th Day Adventists! Or God, come to that. #

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I really have to borrow a camera one of these days and take some pictures of my knitting projects, for posterity. I'm currently working on Project #4 and Project #5. #1 was a garter stitch scarf in chunky pink and purple wool for myself, which has stood me in good stead as the weather gets colder; #2 (a gift for sabayone) was also a garter stitch scarf, but because I used very fine mohair and 10mm needles, it has a beautiful lacy open texture and looks kind of gauzy and fine, like a spiderweb. #3 was a shawl with an eyelet pattern, a good deal more complicated but not as difficult as I feared it might be; it was a gift for my mother, so I had to make it with pure cotton yarn, since she's allergic to wool. #4 is a blue scarf with thin red stripes for my dad, knitted in Aran tweed doubleknit; he wanted a scarf that would be seven feet long. I'm getting there. #5 is hopefully going to be a cowl in fluffy self-striping New Zealand wool. I say "hopefully" because it's the first thing I've ever made on circular needles and I have no idea if it's going to be big enough. If it doesn't work, I'll have to rip it up and start again. But that's all part of the learning process.

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What's the big stink with this movie "Precious?" The book (Push, by Sapphire) sucked and was really freakin' lame, but the extended trailer for the movie made me cry. WTF? Creative license anyone?
That is all.
Will make real update when I resurface from under my rock.

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From Mary Lauby of Jane Doe:

Hello everyone!

As you know, the Legislature voted to partially restore the SANE (sexual assault nurse examiner - ed.) line item by including $400K in the supplemental budget adopted yesterday. This now goes to the Governor who can either sign or veto the funding. Before 5 pm TODAY, we need you to send an email to the Governor (see how below) and Secretary Bigby (or call them) with the subject line: "PLEASE RESTORE SANE!"

In order to keep the momentum moving and to make sure all of our voices are heard, please continue to advocate for full restoration of the cuts. You don't need to speak to anyone, but if you want to the phone numbers are below for the governor's office and Secretary Bigby's office as well. If you call, simply say that you are calling to ask that the Governor will support the funding for SANE in the supplemental budget...same message to Secretary Bigby. You can say more if you want to....tell a story, tell them why it matters to you...if you want to, but it is not necessary.

Then, please also take time to thank people who made this happen...see Step 3, below

STEP 1:

Email or call Governor Deval Patrick. Ask him to support the Legislature's restoration of $400K to the SANE line and to match it with funds of $600K from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services so that the line can be fully restored.

By email: click here for a form and use PLEASE RESTORE SANE! as the subject line.

By phone: 617.725.4005


STEP 2:

Email or call Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

By email: Judyann.Bigby@state.ma.us . Use subject line: PLEASE RESTORE SANE

By phone: 617-573-1600



STEP 3:
Please send thank you notes to the three people who were instrumental in the funding restoration in the Supp Budget:

Representative Peter Koutoujian: (Rep.PeterKoutoujian@Hou.State.MA.US or 617-722-2220)

Senate President Therese Murray (Therese.Murray@state.ma.us or 617-722-1500)

Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo (Robert.DeLeo@state.ma.us or 617-722-2500)

Your advocacy really matters so please keep up the efforts to get SANE funding restored!! We will keep you posted on any updates or new advocacy opportunities.

thanks so very much!!!!

Mary R. Lauby
Executive Director
Jane Doe, Inc.

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Note from 'song: the budget cut for SANE services was huge and devastating. This line item also covers BARCC's medical advocacy program - the people who meet the survivor at the hospital and stay with them through evidence collection and help them navigate the procedure and work through their shock.

The story of my evidence collection is here (TRIGGER WARNING). I provide it so you can see why it's so necessary to have a trained and sensitive professional performing the exam, instead of just whoever happens to be on staff in the ER that day.

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Registered. Am officially a Senior Sophister. At bloody last. Have been without Library access (real, with books in, not ones and zeroes) for nearly three weeks. Gotta say, I think the break did me good. Will be back in the Lecky after finals, until then it's back up to my nice quiet midwifery section. Yay!

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Ariana got the shouting out of her system in re: whining about how making stuff and showing it to people is too hard.

Now she’s moved on to: how to start thinking about making a project.

…if the feedback I’m getting is any indication (and I’ve got comments disabled here because they don’t suit me, but I do pay attention to Twitter and I read everything on Whitechapel) — there are a LOT of you right. on. that. cusp. of taking the first step. So look, I know I’ve been giving you lot a hard time about “just getting it done,” but before I get into my list of Stuff What I Learned Working With POD sometime tomorrow, I wanna back up a step and talk to you.

Here’s what you need to do, right now, tonight. No, NOT tomorrow morning, or this weekend, or once your work rush has let off a little, or after the holidays, or sometime in the New Year: Right. Fucking. Now….

And from there to book-specific notes and observations about working with a POD system:

…how you go about putting your book together is completely up to you, and what you’re comfortable with. The Lulu templates will give you a bit less control over what the finished product looks like, but it’s a really good place for the people that are just starting out. Do you already understand why your inside margins need to be a titch wider than your outside? If that question just kinda terrified you: that’s all right, but you probably want to start with the templates. Trust me, your book is still going to be lovely, the important thing for you is just getting your content into a pretty and readable format.

And, today, the begininngs of how we run FREAKANGELS the way we do.

Wil’s been all over Ariana’s THIS IS HOW WE FIX SHIT WITH WRENCHES posts during this week, and has a distillation of what he’s taken from them at this link here:

This is incredibly inspiring to me, and I hope that it’s just as inspiring to indie artists everywhere. Why not take a creative risk and see if it works out? Unlike the old days, when we had to purchase a lot of stock ahead of time and hope we could sell it, we can just Get Excited and Make Things, knowing that the very worst that can happen is that nobody likes that thing we made as much as we thought they would…

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