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Gobsmacked

loyster — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:07:47 +0000

Tweedle dee and tweedle dumb dumb really pissed me off today. You would think that 2 years working like a real ass and sacrificing many things would count for something. Amidst the tears and farewells, there has to be something that toyally yanks my chain.

The first time I heard about it, I was already more than a little upset. Is it so hard to be happy for me? Is it so necessary to be so negative; spewing your fascist crap on everybody - all the while hoping that someone else will do your dirty work for you, as always.

Urgh!!

And then today was the last straw. Can pretend to be all smiley-smiley, happy-happy in front of me sammo ... not knowing that karma's a real bitch - and I'm on her speed dial, baby. Not a half hour after those hurtful comments were uttered, they came a full circle into my ears.

* * *

You can screw around with me but PLEASE do not fug around with my family!! Grr.

Goodbye to the machine

takaita — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:32:19 +0000

After I write my previous message, I got a bit into nostalgia. It is always hard for me to throw things away. Sometimes things can no longer pile up, something has to happen. So earlier this year I had to say goodbye to an old PC. I had assembled it myself in 1996. It had functioned for a couple of years before I got a newer one. Occasionally I used the old one for some things, but its use reduced in time. Last year I assembled a third one, faster, bigger, better - and the use for #1 was lost. It did not run anything newer then Windows 95, it was hopelessly slow. I did try Linux on it, but that did not turn it into a racing monster. In short: I had to get rid of it, because it was only taking up valuable space in my house.

As I said, it's hard to say goodbye to things that have served me well. For memory's sake, I took some last photos.

Award BIOS

Soundblaster 16

Motherboard with mainly ISA slots

Others Have To Earn It

David Gross — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:08:07 +0000

I didn't have a brother gowing up and I always wished that I had. Don't get me wrong-I wouldn't trade my sister for anyone in the world, but it sure would have been nice to have a brother. Being involved in sports and things of that nature growing up somewhat instilled a sense of comradery inside of me, but I never have had a friend close enough that I would consider him a brother....at least not until recently.

I guess that being in the internship at IHOP has forever changed me in several ways. I think that the change that is the most obvious to me right now is the fact that I am able to feel pain and embrace it with open arms. I think that I have lived in such a colloused state for so long that I have forgotten what it is like to truly feel genuine emotion. I am finding that embracing emotional pain is a gift from God. I think that maybe over the past 4 or 5 days or so I have allowed mysef to journey into the deep, beautiful meloncholly of everything that has happened to me, and my eyes have been opened up to another realm of my person.

It may be that the reason that I am wrestling with this issue is because I took my friend Caleb to the airport on Friday. Caleb has been in my life for the past six months. We have literally spent 24 hours a day together during the internship. We have taken the same classes, slept in the same apartment, and eaten the same food. We have linked arms together and had one common purpose..... To see God. In a way, looking back, I feel as if Caleb and I were like soldiers who have fought together in the trenches of a spiritual war. We have shared victories, laughed together, cried together, argued with one another, and at times we have even despised one another....but at the end of the day I have had his back - and he has had mine.

When I took Caleb to the airport on Friday to fly back to Kentucky, and I helped him get his bags out of the trunk of the car and he hugged me goodbye, it felt like my heart was breaking inside of my chest. At first I was kind of angry at myself for allowing my heart to get so attached to him. After the initial shock of it all, the fact that nobody laughs at my stupid little jokes anymore, and the processing of what was going on inside of me, I have come to grips with an internal feeling of satisfaction and joy. I have realized that watching him walk away was not the end but the beginning of a beautiful, lifelong friendship.

I guess I had pretty much lived my life up until coming into the internship as a man alienated from the deepest and most nourishing rhythms and values of human fellowship. I have always had casual aquaintances, but have never really allowed them to become intimate friends. This situation is all the more remarkable when I reflect on the self-concienceness that has for so long accompanied my loneliness. In the face of that painful loneliness, friendship had emerged as something both highly valued and intensly desired....... Some men were born brothers. Others have to earn it.

November 11, 1993

takaita — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:49:50 +0000

While cleaning out some old boxes, I found this printed on a paper. I'll throw the paper away, but leave the text here just for old times sake.

page 1
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM E:\STACVOL.000 D:\STACVOL.001
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM D: G:
DOS=HIGH, UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.SYS 1024
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
COUNTRY=031,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
STACKS=9,256

page 2
LH C:\MOUSE.COM
LH C:\F-PROT\VIRSTOP
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH = C:\NORTON;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS;C:\STACKER
MIRROR C: D: E:
LOADHIGH C:\DOS\DOSKEY

Breakout - Miley Cyrus (2008)

naosounovela — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:15:52 +0000

Se tem um assunto que eu não domino é a carreira de Miley Cyrus, nascida Destiny Hope, e conhecida como Hannah Montana, graças a série da Disney. Ela ainda tem só 15 anos, mas é daqueles produto-Disney-exportação que já vendeu milhões de CDs, DVDs, emplacou filme e programa de Tv. Com certeza, também tá com os milhões no bolso.

Esses sucessos repentinos a primeira coisa que despertam em mim é resistência. Quanto mais eu a via bombando, mais distância eu queria, sabe? Até que eu me rendi e fui ouvir o Breakout, álbum que ela lançou esse ano, para ver qual era a de Miley-Destiny-Hannah.

O CD tem 12 músicas, incluindo um remix de See You Again, que parece ser um dos sucessos dela como Hannah Montana, e um cover de Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, único sucesso de Cindy Lauper. Dessas duas, não gostei.

Eu esperava mais uma daquelas cantoras de pop adolescente cujo timbre de voz é irreconhecível, por todos serem exatamente iguais. Mas não. Miley tem uma voz diferente, reconhecível, que, a princípio, não me agradou justamente por ser diferente demais (assustou!). Ouvi o CD todo querendo dar stop no Windows Media Player. Não gostei, comentei com uma amiga, mas não deletei do computador. Odeio deletar coisas que levam tempo pra baixar. Minha internet era discada até outro dia, então valorizo isso.

Foi aí que eu me dei a oportunidade de ouvir de novo uma música ou outra e, quando vi, já havia me acostumado com o som dela. Do CD, apenas três correspondem ao tipo de música que gosto: These Four Walls, Simple Song e Goodbye. Destaque pra essa última, que descobri ser o tema da minha vida. Resultado: ouvi incessantemente e Miley ficou entre as mais ouvidas do meu Last.fm, o que é algo triste pra quem já tem na bagagem Sandy & Junior e RBD.

Mas é assim mesmo. Só não me peçam pra ver Hannah Montana e achar bacana aquela peruca loira! Aí, sim, já é demais...

Saying Goodbye

beauty80 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:01:26 +0000

How do I say goodbye to someone I badly want in my life? Can you just imagine how hard it's going to be for me? Should I literally say it or just abruptly banish in the blue? No matter how many times I've thought about it, can I really let him go?

While watching DVD last night but as usual, my mind was wandering... thinking of him. In a sentimental mood, I thought about how things would be if I never get to chat with him, talk to him, and see him again (even if it's only through my mind). To my surprise, tears rolled down my face. Omigod, why am I crying? I immediately went to the bathroom and splashed water on my face then went back to watch the movie. I was watching cartoon by the way, and it's supposed to be a light and funny.

For chrissakes, where did those tears come from?!!!? I know he is not serious about me. I know for him everything is just for fun and I am not expecting nor asking him to love me either, and as much as possible, I try not to think about how I really feel because I don't want to find out I'm already falling in love with him. I don't like it when he mentions the word love which for me is a sacred word and feeling - not to be said just for the sake of saying it. Funny thing is, even if I know his true intentions, I still let him into my life. I know I'm making a fool out of myself yet I allow this madness to happen.

Going back, if I didn't reply to the very first message I got from him, none of this would have happened...I'd still be a good girl living a perfectly normal life. Prior to that, I have already received a number of messages like his from other guys(best described as pick-up lines)- and I ignored them all. As in ALL, except him. Why??? And if we were destined to meet and be close, why just now?

Oh, this is not good at all. I myself was even surprised on how emotional I got at the thought of getting him out of my life. If this is the case, then I should really say goodbye before it's too late.

But how? and when?

Deal?

lifeaccordningtome — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:39:55 +0000

A few weeks ago, a friend (S) and me, we struck a deal , and today we renewed it, it feels good! It's about our lifestyles, but more I cannot say. After that we were so inspired by our progress that we started to talk about what we eat, and girly stuff like that. A joined and we came to a decition; we're making a list of things we can and can't eat, and see how long we can stick to it. A few of the things we can't eat are pizza, candy, chocolate, bacon, cookies and so on! It's gonna be hard, cause all of us are kind of addicted to these things, but it's worth a try, I think.

But, lazy as we are, we decided that we're starting next monday, so this week is kind of a "goodbye" to all the fat in our lives, and then we're doing this, for real! So, wish me luck?!

۞۩ وداعاً رمضان ... وأهلاً بالعيد ۩۞

tag2000sa — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:47:53 +0000

كل عام وانتم بخير

R a M a D a N - 2 0 0 8

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تم التقاطها مع غروب شمس اليوم الخامس والعشرون من رمضان

His Graduation

lavonte — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:06:23 +0000

Akhirnya...

Ini hari terakhir bisa ngeliat orang itu dari balik jendela di depan meja kerjaku.

Yup ... dateng, lunch, then dia pulang.

Dari balik jendela ini juga aku pernah ngeliat dia ngobrol sama Brother Pungky, and aku inget banget waktu itu aku sempat ambil foto mereka. Wakakakakakak… :D Candid…

Sebagai rekan kerja yang baik aku cuman bisa bilang, “Good Luck, Pak :) ”

Then I’ll look for others way to get you in my days. ^_^

When all is said and done

cewejimmy — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:55:51 +0000

When you've nothing good to say
When all you do is criticise
and the words upon your lips
are laced with cyanide

then Its time to say goodbye
Its past time to say goodbye

When there's nothing good to see
and its only fault you find
Its time to turn away
and leave it all behind