Holy camoly! We decided to take the plunge and get our dang chicks, already… or actually, a friend at church who is also starting a backyard flock and likes similar breeds is picking them up from Linnton Feed Store here in Portland. TODAY.
Now, we don’t have any equipment or a coop or feed or anything. Our friend says they can live at her house until we’re ready, and the kids can even visit. Only the reason we’re getting chicks rather than pullets is because chicks are cute! And missing that is like missing the puppy stage of doghood! Or so said the person leading the Urban Chickens class Thaner took last year. Of course, I’m not much of a dog person, come to think of it.
Oh, and Thane leaves this Sunday for TWO WEEKS in Cupertino, for orientation at Apple (new job! commuting from basement!) and meeting the team. And I was reading, see, that the chicks start transitioning outside in 4-5 weeks, and ummm, Thaner’s not home until 2.5 weeks into that time period, and did I mention that we DON’T HAVE A COOP?
Now coop-wise, I love this pretty little thing I found on the internets, so I sent Thaner the link, and Thane? He LAUGHED at me. Said I married the wrong guy for that there coop. That he’ll build a coop, sure, and that it will look like BUTT. I volunteered that I would help build our coop, and paint it, see? Better, right? So Thane revised his description: it will look like PAINTED butt.
On June 22nd of 2007, 200 individuals armed with crude weapons duked it out at Skidmore Fountain in downtown Portland. You can see the gruesome results yourself.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI abused its power by illegally or improperly obtaining telephone, financial and other secret records in investigations of terrorism or espionage suspects, the U.S. Justice Department’s inspector general said on Friday.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
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Underdog. This is one of the purest, most unsullied image from my childhood. His rhymes, his shoeshines, and Sweet Polly Purebred. There is one episode on YouTube for those of you who were not so blessed. Well, Disney has decided to sully the memory. No rhymes, no polly, a dog who is barely anthropomorphic. Ah well.
I think this is awesome. If any of you think that this is a joke, then shame on you. This is a group of people telling the Christian right “Put your money where your mouth is.” Under this law, people who wait more than 3 yeas to have children, like Johanna and I, would have their marriages annulled. For those who don’t know the background, this is a direct response to this ruling (PDF) written by Justice Barbara Madsen about the states Defense of Marriage Act stating (page 6):
Under this standard, DOMA is constitutional because the legislature was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival of the human race, and furthers the well-being of children by encouraging families where children are reared in homes headed by the children’s biological parents. Allowing same-sex couples to marry does not, in the legislature’s view, further these purposes. Accordingly, there is no violation of the privileges and immunities clause.
Personally, I would have the law define a marriage as the birth of a child, causing the two people who made the child to be married. That is even more absurd, and even more in keeping with the Court’s ruling. I hope this passes.
This week Stuart had his first solid food, bananas. He was
TOTALLY into it. Give him a spoon and he puts it in his mouth, then
starts gnawing on it. You bring another loaded spoon close and he
discards the one he has like yesterdays diaper. Grab! Chomp! This was
followed by some outstanding diaper rash. Not an unusual thing with
Stuart. He can get a rash from Johanna LOOKING at the wrong foods. One
missed poo-job and he is bright red for a week.
In other news, Stu went potty on the potty! Not that he had any idea what was going on, but Joh
plopped him on there at an opportune time (right after a nap with a dry
diaper) and BINGO! We have been unable to reproduce the event, however.
I guess that past performance is no indication of future
returns.
Lastly, Joh and I have FINALLY clued
into what is wrong with Tory. Keeping in mind that this is a child that
has never dealt well with change, over the last few weeks we have:
Had my mother in town for a week.
Flown her to Ohio without her Father.
Brought her Father out to Ohio.
Flown everyone except Gram Ma back to Portland…
Coming home to house guests!
Then school starts again, and they have lost the primary teacher…
and Tory’s favorite teacher…
and totally rearranged the room.
This
series of event has Tory totally off the script. Acting out, accidents,
hitting, etc., etc.. So, Tory went nowhere on Saturday, and only to
Church on Sunday. Over both days there was a parent tasked to make sure
someone was paying attention to her. Sunday was awesome! Toryseemed to
have some idea of how to function. For the rest of this week, however,
she will be going to school and just about nothing else. No trips to
the store, no sudden shopping trips, and no visits to family. Next
weekend we will assess the progress and see if we can do an early
dinner with theMellinger-Tzetos clan.
Todd Shriber
I need to urgently make contact with a hacker that would
be interested in doing a one-time job for me. The pay
would be good. I’m not sure what exactly the job would
entail with respect to computer jargon, but I can go
into rough detail upon making contact with a
candidate. Thanks for your help.
security curmudgeon
So, I need three things to make this happen:
1. A picture of a squirrel or pigeon on your campus. One close-up, one
with background that shows buildings, a sign, or something to indicate you
are standing on the campus.
2. The information I mentioned so I can find the records once I get into
the database.
3. Some idea of what I get for all my trouble.
lyger
todd… no more.. omfg we are SO busted.. fuck fuck fuck FUCK FUCK
everything was PERFECT until their night noc ran a reverse udp traceroute
back to one of the hosts we had set up after that, straight DOWNHILL.
i’ve already been called twice by my isp asking about unusual activity,
some other shit about access attempts to a federally monitored system they
have everything in logs including the rot-26 stuff that finally got me
access all goes back to your login sorry i really fucked up BAD
Too stupid. Way too stupid. I don’t even think that this qualifies for the ‘culture of corruption’ category.
