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Monday, February 25th, 2013
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7:06 pm - This journal is locked
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| Monday, June 29th, 2009
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12:18 pm - Two good NYTimes articles today:
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Op-Ed Columnist By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 29, 2009 Climate change poses a clear and present danger to our way of life. How can anyone justify failing to act? Op-Ed Columnist By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: June 28, 2009 The country that endows its people with more tools and basic research to create new goods and services is the one that will not just survive this crisis but thrive down the road.
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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10:25 pm - Need a few more votes for Affirming Faith
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| Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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11:17 pm - Turn off the TV week
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Happy Turn Off The TV Week!
Well, annual turn off the tv week is here again. I had a good experience last year, so I thought I'd try it again. I'm a little late jumping on board, as it started this week, but I figured since I just found out about it, I can observe the seven days as my own tv-free week. Last year I allowed writing in my journal, and I think I did it almost every day... maybe that'll happen again this year.
I looked up my list from last year, and here are the activities I will be endeavoring to engage in besides watching tv or surfing the net:
reading~
spending time with friends and family
writing snail mail letters to friends and family
spending time with God
spending time outside and in nature
working out
writing (journaling, fiction, letters, poetry...)
crafting (knitting, making cards, etc.)
drawing, painting, or making art
talking to loved ones on the phone
swimming
taking a walk
planting a garden
For me, permitted electronic activities will include:
doing homework or studying online (of course)
reading the newspaper online
updating my livejournal (but not reading my friends list)
checking the weather & dictionary.com
making icons (this is one of those things I am always wanting to make time for...and it's a creative pursuit. Definitely worth my time.)
Listening to the radio/audio books
I'll be organizing the icon contest this wekeend, so I'll need to be online for that. I'm glad The Mentalist showing this week is a rerun, though.
I also started reading Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, so I'm really looking forward to getting more time to plug away at that. I might even finish it in the next week.
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| Saturday, April 18th, 2009
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4:24 pm - A couple of my recipes
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| Saturday, February 7th, 2009
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5:38 pm - Free stickers. Thought everyone should know.
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| Thursday, January 8th, 2009
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11:58 am - livejournal backup
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I just heard from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) currydelicious that Livejournal has fired 12 of 28 U.S. employees, including product managers and engineers. I don't know about you, but this looks bad to me... I have been on livejournal since 2002, so I saw a prime opportunity to back up my journal, which, shamefully, I had never done before. Here's what I used. There are even lots of cool plugins, and I can sort my entries so I can find out how many entries I started with the words "So," or "Well," (18 and 25 entries, respectively). The word "research" appears 102 times in my journal.
I don't want to be predicting doomsday, but nothing lasts forever, especially an internet company like livejournal that has been struggling for a while to maintain profitability.
If anything ever happened to livejournal, though, I don't know where I'd go... I don't even know which livejournal knockoffs are around anymore.
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| Friday, December 26th, 2008
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6:31 pm - Christian Icon Community Promotion
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) affirming_faith is a Christian-friendly icontest community. We would love some new members! Please join us in our current contest. BTW, I moderate this community and create the challenges. I would love to see you participate! Also, not all of our challenges have a Christian theme to them; many are completely stock-based.
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3:57 pm - Participants needed for psychology research
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I just spent a few minutes filling out an internet survey for some psychological research. It's legit- a link I got through email from USF. I found it to be very beneficial personally, and although I won't say much more about it, I highly recommend that you take a few minutes aside to complete this survey. Plus, you will be helping some psychologists conduct their research.
Here is what the researchers say:
"We are conducting a short Internet survey that takes less than 10 minutes to complete. All responses are anonymous and confidential, and we are only asking for your opinion on a variety of topics.
After you finish the survey, please forward this e-mail to anyone you think might be interested in helping out our important research project. Thank you in advance.
http://www.niagara.edu/survey/index.php?sid=96147&lang=en"
current mood:  uplifted
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| Saturday, October 25th, 2008
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12:39 am - My day
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Low points of the day
- Going to my grandma's to set up her wireless internet and having her tell me that she was 'sad' I was socially liberal, and that she 'did not want me to vote'. I am not easily offended, but that offended me... I am liberal, but I would never tell anyone that I did not want them to vote...
- Missing Derek whom I will not have seen for two weeks when we next get together on Halloween (one week down, one week to go- and yes, this is someone whom I am dating, gasp, but he is extremely busy right now)
High points of the day
- Voting... for who I think will be the best next president.
- Spending time running errands with my youngest sister
- Buying good vegetarian food at the grocery store
- Making black bean & sweet potato stew
- Chatting with my sister and her new husband who came into town
current music: "Let the River Flow" worship music
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| Friday, September 5th, 2008
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3:29 pm - Palin and the "Vice Presidency" - NYTimes article
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| Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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12:25 am - Food Meme
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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6:18 pm - NYTimes article
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| Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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10:28 pm - Turn off the TV week!
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Guess what? It is turn off the TV week! It's an annual event, and this year it's from April 21-27. I've been looking forward to it for several months!
So what is it? If you participate, you are simply choosing leisure pursuits during this week that do not include television or the computer.
Why? TV, and a large portion of internet use, is inherently a passive activity. Abstaining from these may make you more aware of just how much time you spend in front of the TV or computer. Time spent in front of the TV or computer is time not spent with friends and family, or doing all those things you've been meaning to "get around to". I think it will help us reengage with others around us or activities that have been crowded out of our schedules in favor of something more passive.
So what can you do instead of tv or those fruitless internet activities? The list is extensive. Here is what I'm doing:
reading~
spending time with friends and family
writing snail mail letters to friends and family
spending time with God
spending time outside and in nature
working out
writing (journaling, fiction, letters, poetry...)
crafting (knitting, making cards, etc.)
drawing, painting, or making art
talking to loved ones on the phone
swimming (at least if you live in Florida :) )
taking a walk
planting a garden
For me, permitted electronic activities will include:
doing homework or studying online (of course)
reading the newspaper online
updating my livejournal (but not reading my friends list)
checking the weather & dictionary.com
making icons (I am still debating this one... but for me it is a form of art. I think this one will be okay as long as I use the photos I've already collected)
Listening to the radio (no ipod)
I haven't actually participated in "turn off the tv week" since high school. As a kid, my sister Katie and I were both enthusiastic about video and computer games. We'd fight over who would get to use the game system and for how long- and when my parents got fed up with it, once in a while, they would decide that it would be better to go without tv or computer for a week. Although I hated these weeks as a kid, I now know that they were one of the best things my parents did. I have fond memories of sitting and reading after I got home from school, or on the weekends, and playing board games and card games with my family in the evenings.
I wonder what this week will hold... probably nothing more than very efficient worktime! And maybe I'll finish a book. I'll try to journal about it, at least a little bit. Maybe it'll sound boring, or maybe it won't.
Thanks to everyone who rated the images!! I had a great response from friends, and I was able to collect ratings for 400 images at about 25 ratings per image. And...it's alive!!! My learning algorithm is working. It's great. Basically what this program can do is predict how 'pleasantly' someone will rate a landscape picture- with about a 2% error rate. The photo I used in the above banner was the most positively rated image, with an average rating of 8.4 out of 9.
current mood:  happy
current music: electronica music off youtube
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| Friday, April 18th, 2008
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4:50 pm - Message to LJ friends (or anyone else)! Survey responses needed!
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Guess what- I'm working on a project for school for which I need to know how pleasant or unpleasant a set of landscape images is. Can you help me out by rating some of these images? The survey is on the web, and it won't take more than 10 minutes. Some of the images are quite beautiful, in my opinion! There is a paragraph telling you exactly what I'm doing at the end. I think it's neat!
Here's the URL: http://rgrider2.myweb.usf.edu/imagenorms/norms.html
I am looking to get ratings from as many women as possible, so if you have (female) friends who you think would happen to like to help, it would be great if you'd send them the url!
Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback about the whole thing. Muchos gracias!!
P.S. Even if you have done this before (I sent it to people on facebook), you can do it again! They are different pictures!
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| Monday, April 14th, 2008
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1:16 am
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I have been keeping a record of my every gasoline purchase, including price per gallon, since fall 2006. Like every time, today I sat in the driver's seat and filled in the log immediately after filling the tank. This afternoon, as I realized that $3.31 per gallon was more than I had ever paid for gas in my life, the van in front of me blasted blues music from too-old speakers. I wondered for the first time what it would be like to live through a depression.
current mood:  solemn
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| Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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10:36 pm
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| Friday, February 15th, 2008
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12:28 pm
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| Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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5:52 pm
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It is almost 6pm and it is still light outside...I love february. It was wonderfully cool today, too, in the high 60's. This weather is welcome to stay for as long as it will!
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| Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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6:47 pm - NYtimes, I love you
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"The good of people’s bodies and the good of the planet are more or less perfectly aligned." -Gidon Eshel
The following article succinctly enumerates my environmental and ethical reasons for going vegetarian. If you're concerned about reducing your impact on the environment, fighting world hunger, or choosing a diet that inflicts as little pain as possible, I strongly recommend this article. Notably, it's written by someone who is not a vegetarian.
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
current mood:  satisfied
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