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Microsoft has taken its first baby steps on the path to integrating Xbox Live Arcade games and Windows 8 games, according to a post at the Official Xbox Magazine UK site. The post references a page on PlayXBLA which highlights 15 titles that are being called "Xbox games on Windows 8." At least one of these (Microsoft Minesweeper) has been around since the launch of Windows 8, so it isn't clear if this is a new initiative or just a new marketing campaign.
[Keeping up with the Joneses: Playstation finally getting a web store and Surprise! Razer brought a decent Windows 8 gaming tablet to CES]
Anyway there's only one problem; these aren't Xbox games in the way I think of Xbox games. Microsoft calls them Xbox games because you use your Xbox Live account while you play them, and you can earn Achievements and use your Xbox Live Friends list and so on. So they're games that exist in the Xbox Live ecosystem, but they aren't the same games you have on your Xbox. For instance on the actual Xbox is a game called Toy Soldiers: Cold War while on Windows 8 there is Toy Soldiers: Cold War: Touch Edition. While it's certainly understandable that the two games aren't running on the same code base, it'd be nice if they shared a save file stored in the cloud. That kind of functionality is coming, according to Engadget. Their Microsoft contact told them that upcoming title World Series of Poker: Full House Pro will let you start a game on the Xbox, save it and pick it up later on a Windows 8 device. Hopefully that will become a standard feature. The other big disappointment is that there's no indication of a program similar to Sony's 'cross-buy.' More and more often when a game is available on both the Playstation 3 and the Playstation Vita, gamers get both editions for one price. It's going to be hard to justify spending $10 on a game for the Xbox and then spending $10 more for the same game on your Windows 8 device, just so you can play it on the road. And speaking of $10, that's a typical price for these games on Windows 8, and while similar games cost the same amount on the Xbox, the pricing seems a little high on Windows 8, where you have access to such a vast variety of Indie titles and discounted older titles for less than $10. Steam claims to have over 1,200 games under $5 and over 2,200 under $10, for example. Windows RT users, of course, are stuck with whatever Microsoft puts on its store, which is just one more reason why you probably should avoid Windows RT devices. All that grumbling aside, it's a start and I'm looking forward to seeing if Microsoft keeps expanding the system. I love the idea of playing a game on my Xbox in the evening then picking up where I left off on my Microsoft 8 tablet during my lunch break at the office the next day. In the meantime, I've downloaded a couple of trial editions of the Windows 8 Xbox games to my desktop and they (unsurprisingly) play great. Of course I'm playing them the way games are meant to be played: using mouse and keyboard or an Xbox controller rather than tapping and swiping a touch screen!
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Endeavour Energy has realigned its free Electricity & Safety Unit for Years 5 & 6 to meet the requirements of the NSW Board of Studies Science & Technology syllabus for the Australian Curriculum.
Developed in collaboration with the Department of Education and Communities, the resources include a downloadable lesson book and four complementary interactive whiteboard lessons below that will engage your students in learning about electricity and how to be safe around it.
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ONE - The Musical by Insight Out Theatre Collective
Also see David's reviews of Once On This Island and Vincent in Brixton
McCollum's ONE - The Musical is not an ego-trip. The show is an earnest, modern-day take on Siddhartha, and it is an earnest expression of McCollum's own beliefs and ideals. It has received a huge amount of local press and an exuberant response from opening audiences. My personal reaction to it was in part one of awe and admiration for McCollum and his collaborators having gotten the show to the level of production it is receiving, through corporate and individual donations. The other part of me, as an audience member unfamiliar with aspects of Buddhist and Hindu spirituality that are so at the heart of the show, was lost and confused with what I saw on stage.
McCollum plays a rising, spiritual pop musician named Sid Arthur who, along with best friend and musical collaborator Grover, is more concerned with making his own kind of music, attending peace rallies, and keeping the world a fit place to live. When Machiavellian talent and recording folks dangle the lure of stardom and big bucks in front of Sid as a solo act, he sells out his pal and goes for a ride on the fame taxi, only to ultimately reject it all in a nationally televised meltdown on a late-night talk show.
Co-directors Roger DeLaurier and Patricia M. Troxel keep the show moving well enough, but need to work with McCollum to find a solid climax to the first act, and ending to the show. Currently both acts seem to do a sort of to a slow fade to black, which is both curious and frustrating for an audience, no matter how supportive.
Though there are storyline elements that recall elements of everything from Hair to Godspell to Dreamgirls (not to mention the televised breakdown which recalls Merrily We Roll Along), the show's music by McCollum and Eric Nordin (also the production's musical director) is certainly not stock musical theatre stuff, nor is it mainstream pop music. In many instances, it is haunting and beautiful. I can't judge McCollum's lyrics fairly, for, as with many largely ensemble performed scores, the lyrics are very hard to understand, except for solo turns by the warm voiced McCollum himself and veteran musical theatre actress Susannah Mars (quite impressive as Sid's haughty Mother). Other featured performances that stand out are Julian Jaffe's fearless and bold turn as Fatima, Holcombe Waller's sweetly benign characterization and vibrant vocals as Grover, and Andy Lindberg as a trippy Taxi driver. The rest of the 18 member ensemble is tremendously cohesive executing Brynn Harris' often electric choreography.
The show is being performed in a really interesting newly redone Portland theatre space known as The Wonder Ballroom, and certain acoustical issues aside, its quirkiness suits the show well. All other technical elements are in impressive shape, given the demands of such a theatrical spectacle. The show's impressive orchestra featurs internationally known band Brothers of the Balladi, with Portland musician Ben Landsverk on keyboards and viola.
Having enjoyed a few moments to chat with Wade McCollum after the performance, I found him eminently likable and devoted to his show, and to the cause of theatre artists receiving the pay they deserve. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see one of this talented gentleman's efforts reach the Broadway stage (a stated goal for this show), but I would be surprised to see ONE - The Musical get there unless Wade is willing to sell out the same kind of core beliefs that Sid Arthur does in the show.
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The three-day mission is part of Project 921, China's ambitious manned space program, and was expected to include the country's first attempt at a space walk, which would make China only the third country to accomplish the feat, after Russia and the United States.China Launches Space Walk Mission (NYT), and the Wikipedia article for Shenzhou V11 has lots of details. Or, go straight to China's state-run news agency Xinhua's Shenzhou VII coverage. Among the Xinhua articles is one celebrating the spread of the neologism "taikonaut"...
The Chinese government has spent billions of dollars in recent years building up a space program that it hopes will establish a space station by 2020 and eventually put a man on the moon.
The word is a hybrid of the Chinese term "taikong" (space) and the Greek "naut" (traveler), or astronaut, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Another variation on the term is "cosmonaut", coined during the Soviet space era.
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To work at the Navy Yard—even as a subcontractor, as Aaron Alexis was—required a security clearance.
I also buy the argument that the PA often functions as a "subcontractor" of Israeli security.
Since then, this subcontractor has been removed from our supplier list.
We had to carry out the contract, whether the subcontractor carried out his contract with us or not.
Before that time the Government had nothing to do with the subcontractor.
He made them because he supposed the contractor or subcontractor had to make them.
But I defy these gentlemen to find in the law any oath for a subcontractor.
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Customer Success: mobilEcho Enables Higher Productivity for Bedford Industries' Mobile Sales Staff
Today we put out a press release on a customer success story with Bedford Industries and their implementation of mobilEcho. You can read more here. I spoke to Royce back in early September and one of the things that I quickly realized during our conversation was that Royce and Bedford's experience with mobilEcho was exactly how we envisioned the product.
First of all, Bedford has been a long time GroupLogic customer using our ExtremeZ-IP solution to provide seamless integration of Mac clients in Windows server environments. So we had a happy longtime customer that was now facing the prospect of integrating iPads into their enterprise. mobilEcho and its Mobile File Managements (MFM) functionality was a perfect fit for their organization. They wanted to give access to files that sat on corporate servers to their salespeople. The same access that they had in the office they wanted to give to them when they were out of the office and using their iPads. But they wanted to do so in a secure manner and they wanted to have IT remain in control. mobilEcho was the perfect fit. I recall Royce telling me that the iPad was valuable on its own but mobilEcho made it even more valuable. And he cited examples where it's already had an impact on business because now people in the field have access to information from their mobile device that they previously did not have.
We will be publishing more customer success stories over the next few months and I will write about them here as well.
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These whales give birth and breed off the coast of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas before migrating north each year. Many other species vital to East Coast fisheries also travel up and down the Gulf Stream.
"Once they can't hear -- and that's the risk that comes with seismic testing -- they are pretty much done for," said Katie Zimmerman, a spokeswoman for the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League based in Charleston, S.C.
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What characters are allowed in an Internet/HTTP password
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Customers find that when using certain characters as an Internet/HTTP password that they cannot log into Domino via a browser but can log in through their Notes client with the same password.
As an administrator you have set up a policy that synchronise your Users Notes and Internet password but find that while the user's can log into their Notes client with their password they cannot log in via a browser with the same password.
Upon investigation it was found that the user had used local punctuation characters in their password.
While local punctuation characters can work as part of a user's Notes password IBM only supports the use of Alphabetic and Printable US ASCII characters, excluding control characters, in an Internet/HTTP password.
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Real life squeezes the games off the sports pages
What next? What, as real life blows against college sports like a hurricane, could possibly happen next?
This was the week when the victors and losers faded into the background; even the history some of them made. The games are just games, and boy, are we getting a crash course in that subject at the moment. Seldom has the world seemed colder outside the stadium gates. Seldom has bad news — awful news — been so relentless.
Time to dust off that old cliché: Every time you turn around …
MORE: Abuse allegations shock former Syracuse players
BLOG: Son reveals Paterno has treatable form of lung cancer
On Monday, we heard Bob Costas talk to Jerry Sandusky, asking questions that we have never heard addressed to a former football coach, or could have ever imagined hearing. Ever. Ever.
You turned around …
Why was the television showing so many pictures of the assistant coach on the Syracuse bench next to Jim Boeheim?
Oh. Another campus, another renowned program, another sport, and more past sexual abuse allegations with children, vehemently denied. And another round of the same sickening questions: "Did he touch their … ?"
This was the week when little kids had to leave the room when the sportscast came on.
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There was breaking news from Oklahoma State. Something about a plane crash involving people from the athletic department. But that was more than 10 years ago. This must be some sort of remembrance.
Oh, no. No. No. Another crash, four dead, two of them coaches. Kurt Budke had built the women's basketball program into a winner, and he was gone, as suddenly as those 10 people on a winter's night in 2001.
The most poignant words came from a fellow Big 12 school. From Kim Mulkey, coach of No. 1 Baylor: "I feel for the Oklahoma State community. How many more tragedies can they endure?"
You turned around …
Joe Paterno has lung cancer.
Had the walls not caved in on Penn State the past two weeks, had Happy Valley remained at peace, had Jerry Sandusky still been a name that rang few bells nationally, this would be huge, shocking news. Now, it's another development from State College.
Remember those long vigils outside the Paterno home last weekend, the cameras waiting to catch any reaction from the man inside about what was happening to his program, his school, his legacy?
The man inside was being diagnosed with lung cancer. Treatable they say.
Full disclosure: I lost my father to that disease. I have seen its pitiless cruelty. A common theme the past two weeks, as rightful indignation poured upon Penn State, has been that Joe Paterno is not a victim.
Yes, he is. Maybe not in the way so many meant, but in a way that millions of people understand. This does not lessen a whit Penn State's accountability for what allegedly happened to those children. But the anguish, in all corners of this saga, is staggering.
You do not have to excuse Paterno to sympathize with what one human being — and his family — have faced the past fortnight. Scandal, dismissal, blame, possible disgrace. And lung cancer.
This, lest we've forgotten, was the week Mike Krzyzewski passed Bob Knight as the winningest coach in men's Division I basketball history. They hugged after the game in Madison Square Garden.
Oklahoma State's No. 2-ranked football team was upset by four touchdown-underdog Iowa State Friday night. The BCS is suddenly a mess, and the Cowboys' national title hopes are probably over.
Two important stories, but squeezed off the sports page by real life and shadows.
"The plane crash, for the families and people involved, is just tragic, and honestly, I would have said this no matter the outcome of the game," Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy told reporters late Friday night. "It's so much more important than this game."
At Syracuse, Boeheim vigorously defended his assistant and friend, and said he is not Joe Paterno.
On the same day Oklahoma State tried to protect its ranking, the players gathered to mourn those lost.
In Penn State coverage, the new experts being interviewed are oncologists.
And this just in: A woman was struck and killed Saturday while tailgating in the Yale Bowl parking lot before the Harvard-Yale game.
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Due to the shear sensitive nature of its products, a customer is using progressing cavity pumps for chemical transfer and tanker loading duties.
This manufacturer of industrial hygiene cleaning products, has chemicals with a viscosity as high as 2,000 cP and shear sensitive.Incorporating a helical rotor turning within a resilient stator, the helical pumps produce a gentle low shear pumping action which helps to maintain product integrity.This also prevents foaming which can be a problem with centrifugal pumping systems.
To cater for the highly corrosive and acidic nature of the chemicals, Mono supplied the pumps with stainless steel bodies, shafts and rotors, and nitrile rubber stators, to ensure prolonged life with minimum maintenance requirements.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Day 23
We want to visit by far more places today than we actually have time. We decide to check out the red DublinTours buses that stop right in front of our apartment on St. Stephen's Green.
We ask the first driver to stop what we need to do and he tells us to hop on and which stop to get off at so that we can buy our tickets. We can buy one ticket and can get on and off the bus as many times as we want all day long. This seems perfect for us. There is a tour guide on each bus and they hit all the things that we want to see with the tour guide describing interesting things along the way. They are quite humorous actually.
Our first stop is Dublinea at Christ Church. This is a children's play area/museum which takes you on a "hands-on" tour through Dublin's history.
Eamon has a blast, actually we all do. Eamon and I decide to go down into the crypt below the church to see the treasures and the tombs below. It is a little bit dark and Eamon gets somewhat uncomfortable but it is pretty interesting. When we come back up we can explore the church a little more, now that the morning service is over. There are a mummified cat and rat that were found to have died in the pipes of the gigantic organ of the church. They are now on display in a glass case. We end up spending most of the day here before we get really hungry. We don't find any good spots, so we decide to get on the next bus.
Our next stop is the Guinness brewery at St. James Gate. They have converted the old brewery into a museum which is encased in the world's largest pint glass. At the end of the self guided tour you are served a pint of Guinness in the clear lip of glass above the stout's famous tan, foamy head. We head right to the restaurant for lunch and a pint. The food is fine, but the Guinness is tremendous. It is definitely the best we have had on the trip. The museum is fascinating, with lots of tidbits and facts about the beer and the process. Eamon's favorite section is the advertising section which has posters from every campaign, and some really funny old commercials. Other than the restaurant, we spend most of our time here. After lots of trolling, we finally grab some seats at the top of the pint to sit and have our beers. The 360 degree view is stunning but hard to capture with the camera.
We manage to catch the very last bus of the night and ride the tour to its end. Unfortunately this means it ends at the main tour location, and does not travel past St. Stephen's Green again. This means a VERY long walk or a cab ride. The driver kindly offers to drop us off at a better location on his way back to the garage. He tells a great story about the Jameson's distillery and makes me wish that I could have fit that in on this trip. Ah, well, we will go there next time! We walk back to the apartment, and we are all exhausted. We make sure to spend the evening packing while Eamon (who has stayed on GREEN the whole day, somehow) watches television.
There is no doubt that this trip with the kids has been tough. We know now that future trips with the kids work best with one or very few home bases from which we can launch multiple day trips. The constant motion of our drive from Connemara to Dublin was the hardest part of the trip. All in all, though, it was well worth it, and, taking some of our newly earned wisdom, we will do more trips like this, planning them a little better next time.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Day 22
1100 GMT - We head out to the Green for a walk which we target to take us, eventually, to the playground. Eamon and Connor both have a blast. We chat with some local parents and watch the kids play.
We then head to look for a pub with music to have some lunch. We find a pub that sounds like it has great music, but the menu is limited and it seems to be lacking room for the family. Across the street is another pub, the music is not as good, but the menu looks good and there is lots of room. The musician is just one man, and he plays mostly 60's/70's folk music. The food is actually pretty good. We have a nice chat with a family that sits next to us, and then decide it is off to the museum which should now be open.
1300 GMT - Well, we get in line at the museum only to learn that we are at the wrong branch. This is the natural history one, which does not have the exhibits that we think Eamon will like. We meet an American woman who is looking for the same museum, and is trying to meet someone there, so we walk over together. The museum is quite interesting, and Eamon does rather well...though he gets a little nervous in some of the more dimly lit sections. The last section we visit is a history of the revolutions in Ireland and the final independence. I realize how little I knew of the more recent history of Ireland after spending some time in this exhibit. We stop in the museum shop so that Eamon can have a treat and we can have some tea. We wrap things up and stroll back to the apartment having had a MUCH better day.
1800 GMT - We are once again exhausted. We decide to order in and do so once more. I am not feeling really well, so I decide not to go out tonight. Tomorrow is our last day, and we work out our plan of attack. We still want to visit Dublinea/Christ's Church and St. James' Gate/Guinness. Eamon managed to stay on GREEN the whole day, though he did end up sitting on the bathroom floor a number of times. The new system seems to be working out.
Day 21
1130 GMT - We are all dressed finally and ready to head outside for the day when a massive storm hits. The winds are VERY fast and it is raining as though this were a hurricane or a monsoon. We take off our coats and decide to do a little more waiting.
1330 GMT - The rain has mostly stopped so we go off in search of lunch. We wander through the shopping district right next to our apartment, but have very little luck. We try a number of places, but none really seem to be what any of us are looking for. Finally we head back to a Chinese restaurant because they have Dim Sum. Once inside, however, we learn that all the food except for a few dishes has MSG. Amy is frustrated by orders some food and overall it is OK. Eamon and I eat the Dim Sum, which really isn't very good, but the other food is not bad. Connor begins to get cranky...it is time for his nap so we head out for a walk so that he can nap in the stroller.
1730 GMT - We are not feeling much like doing anything at the moment, and Amy and I are still talking to each other only as much as is necessary. We order delivery food from a magazine left on the table. It is adequate. We watch some TV and finally get the kids into a warm bath and off to bed.
2030 GMT - Amy wants to get out and hear some music. The real Irish Pub nightlife doesn't begin until after 2100, and we have thus never gotten to experience it. There is a pub listed in her Dublin guide that is very close to our apartment and is supposed have great traditional music. I tell her to go out and she promises to let me go out the next night. I spend my time reading and am still up when she comes back. She has had a FABULOUS time. She got to the pub and was adopted by the locals. The band was a bunch of older traditional musicians. Her new buddy slowly works her closer and closer to the band until she is right up on stage. He has told them that she plays the guitar and one of the players passes her an instrument. She tells them that she plays, but has NO idea how to follow them. They laugh and continue on. One of the younger musicians tells her that he has been trying to learn by playing with them for months and still hasn't got it figured out. She tells me that I have to go out. We use her great mood as a ice breaker to have a VERY long discussion about Eamon and his behavior as well as the way that we are dealing with it. We come up with a new plan similar to what he does in school. He can be on RED or GREEN. When he is on red he loses all privileges. He cannot play with the computer, watch TV or play with a grown up. He will have time outs on the bathroom floor with the door open and the light out. He is very particular about having all the lights on, so this drills the point in. He is not in the dark, he just can't turn on the light in the bathroom itself. We agree to explain the new system to him in the morning. We will use markers on the white board at home, but here we will just place a red or a green object on the television.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Day 20
1000 GMT - Actually, getting out of the city proves quite easy. We hit the road and make great time. Amy drives and I navigate off the map in the Frommer's Ireland book. It is not as detailed as the rental car map that I lost, but it does the job. I have some rudimentary maps of Dublin in both the Ireland book and the Dublin book that Amy bought for me for Christmas. The towns and scenery flies by, and we avoid stopping to ensure that we can make it to Dublin before dark and meet the apartment manager. Amy had called her from the hotel in Cork and let her know what time we were expecting to make it to Dublin. We stop for lunch in a little town whose name I can't remember and choose the little cafe over the pub inside the hotel. Lunch is quiet and curt, Amy and I are still fuming over yesterday, and I seem to have run out of patience with Eamon. After lunch I take Eamon to a little corner grocery to pick up water, snacks, and he chooses to spend his daily money (this is a new thing we are trying as of today) on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comic book. It is more than the 3 euro he is allowed each day, but I chip in the extra 50 cents. We load everyone up in the car, and I take over driving. One more stop for diesel before we hit the city, and the next thing you know we are in Dublin.
1800 GMT - Well, we promised the apartment manager that we would get there by 1800, and we are still navigating traffic when that time rolls around. Despite the map, we struggle to find the way we want to go due to the preponderance of one way streets, and a lack of clear signage. We finally cross the river, but are looping round and round as Amy struggles to read the map, and I struggle with traffic. Finally I pull over into a garage where we are not supposed to be, and switch places. I look at the map, and quickly see where we went wrong. Amy is a much better driver, and I am a much better navigator. This is something we need to remember in the future. Even though Amy argues with me I tell her where to turn and when and next thing you know we are pulled up to the gate in front of the apartment. Amy has the manager open the gate and we park, pledging not to go near the car again until it is time to go home. Amy checks us in and I start unloading the car. I take everything out for the first time in a week, it will all need to be repacked for the trip home. Amy pledges to do the garbage clean up. The apartment manager is very sweet, and shrugs off our apologies for being late when we know she has New Year's plans. She says she still has another tenant who has yet to check in and is several hours late. She gives us a quick tour of the apartment and shows us how to work the appliances. I get directions from her to the grocery and she loans me a sack. The stores charge extra if you don't bring your own sack. I run out to the grocery store to pick up some dinner, choosing some frozen pizzas and some beer. I get back to the apartment to cook the pizza only to find that there is no stove, only a microwave and some electric burners. We get creative and try to cook the pizza in a frying pan.
2000 GMT - Bath time was a big failure. There did not seem to be any hot water and we can't seem to get the heater working. Amy places a call to maintenance, but we realize with tomorrow being New Year's Day, we are unlikely to have much help before Monday, which is still two days away. I set up Eamon's bed by pulling out the couch, only to find that this was not the plan. We decide to leave it pulled out, at least for tonight. I read Eamon some Lemony Snickett, and we are all off to bed.
Day 19
1100 GMT - We take the scenic route to Cork, with our first stop north of the city at Blarney Castle. We are inundated with the smell sheep manure from the moment we enter the park. We hike round the castle grounds, exploring the Witch's Kitchen, Druid's Cave, stone circle, fairy glen and sacrificial, stone altar
Finally we hike to the castle itself. Amy picks up a promised piece of the Blarney Castle for Bob's mother, and we head inside. It is quite small, and in rather good shape, though the main hall has large wooden stairs built to provide access to the upper levels. Once we enter the small tower stairs which wind to the top of the castle, Eamon has a panic attack. We handle it quite poorly, Amy is responding to her own claustrophobia and to Eamon's panicked crying, but finally we manage to get out of the tower and back down. Amy returns to the top on her own so that she can have the opportunity to kiss the Blarney Stone itself.
I stay with the kids, and my frustration is so high, that I decide not to bother going to the top myself. We return to the car and head into the city.
1630 GMT- We are unable to find the address for the hotel on the map of Cork that we have. We spend quite a bit of time driving around, and finally get some directions from a lady who doesn't quite seem to know how to get there, and then from one who does, but they are too confusing to follow. At one point we are stuck in traffic and I hop out of the car to run ahead through the main shopping district and look at the end of the road. I can't see the hotel in either direction. We take a guess and head left along the river until we finally see an officer directing traffic. Amy asks him directions and he tells her to pull over. He leans in Amy's window, but will only look at me while he gives directions. He then stops traffic and allows us to do a U-Turn...had we gone right earlier, we would have passed the hotel. There is no place to park and we end up driving around quite a bit before we finally are able to pull up the gate of the parking lot. They tell us however that the lot is full and we need to drive around front, check in, and pay for parking across the river. Amy is quite cranky, since she selected this hotel for its free parking, and was not told that there were only 15 spots available. I wait in the car while she checks in, and argues with them until they agree to let her in the lot to unload. We unload the car and while I bring the kids and the luggage up to the room, Amy manages to get a spot in the lot as someone else pulls out.
1730 GMT - We decide to walk into the shopping district and try to find some food. We pass a breakfast spot along the way, and decide to go there tomorrow. Next we find a Thai restaurant and decide that it would make a lovely break from pub food. Eamon decides that he likes nothing on the menu, but we talk him into Phad Thai, and he asks for no vegetables. I order a satay appetizer to share with Connor, but as I figured, Eamon decides that this is very yummy, too. The food is good, though not great, with the exception of Eamon's noodles. They had to improvise, and they made him a delicious dish that he loves. We split a dessert, and decide to head out for a little walk. Finally we head back to the hotel, where we all crash for a good night's sleep.
Friday, January 21, 2005
Day 18
The circle is not quite what I expect. Certainly quiet, and demanding of respect, but the stones are less "stunning" than the standing stones at Stonehenge. It is still a remarkable place. I jog back, again the long way, taking a little detour to visit a beautiful old church along the way. It is really drizzling, and getting near time for breakfast, so I head back.
0830 GMT - After a nice shower we all head to the dining room. They apparently do not have a high chair, even though we had requested one. The other guests in the dining room are SO quiet that Amy starts to get annoyed, since I feel obligated to keep reminding Eamon to keep his volume down, despite this being a clearly lost cause. Finally, Eamon finishes, so I take him back to the room for a cartoon and rejoin Amy and Connor. Feeding Connor without a high chair for him to have control over his own food proves to be quite the challenge, and he eats little.
1000 GMT - I decide to drive since we are going to do the Ring of Kerry today and it is Amy's other big thing (besides the Aran Islands visit which never happened). I am determined to make sure that she gets the opportunity to enjoy this drive. We drop off our huge load of dirty laundry at the cleaners we pass on the way out of town. For 14 euro they will wash dry and fold all our laundry by 1700. We decide this is a vacation must! The price of a lunch to get our whole day to have fun is definitely worth it.
I plot a path and give the map to Amy. We reach the Ring of Kerry and have to decide to go left or right...Amy can't decide so I just head left. I then take a sudden right to take a "scenic" route I saw on the map.
This ends up being a VERY steep, VERY narrow set of switch backs, and we end at a fork with no signs. The fork is NOT on the map. I make a guess, and we are driving down a one lane road through farmland, with nothing in sight but rocks, greenery and sheep. We begin to fear that we are hopelessly lost when we notice that the sheep around us are rather startled and nervous by the presence of our car. None of the sheep we have encountered anywhere else have even acknowledged our presence.. We spook a sheep that is on the side of the road, on OUR side of the fence, and the poor thing begins a manic race to get away from us. The dim witted creature can't figure out what to do and just keeps running down the road. It tries to get through the fence in a few places but fails and we have to keep slowing down so as to avoid hitting it. We are sure the sheep is going to give itself heart failure if it keeps this up. I have no idea how to do CPR on a sheep. Finally though, it finds a widened spot on the side of the road and tries to hide behind a small rock as we pass it by. Amy decides that we are on the REAL Road to Nowhere but I refuse to turn around. A farmer in his truck comes barreling up the road at about 90mph, and after we swerve to avoid the head on collision, I roll down my window and ask him how to get back on the main road. He tells me we are headed in the right direction, to just keep going. Amy is satisfied and we head on. Soon we see asphalt road ahead. The question now is which way do we go? We decide to go right and end up in town on our map. I was actually on the road I meant to be on, but had no
idea it would take an hour to drive it! Amy is panicky that she is not going to get to see the ring, but we stop in town for a toilet break and to buy some snacks and head back. Rather than drive back up the gap we decide to take the inviting little "scenic" route that cuts right to where we want to start our Ring trip. We drive back and forth past it arguing until finally we decide that this MUST be the road.
1300 GMT - Ok. The drive was quite lovely, but rather short, winding and narrow. We stop at the top of the Ballaghbeama Gap. It is a stunning view with misty fog rolling below and rain whipping in the wind on our faces.
There is a nice map and we pick our route from it, unfortunately none of the roads on that map are on the map we can actually bring with us. We make a guess at another unexpected fork. After driving MUCH longer than we should have, we realize that we took the wrong turn, and are now halfway down the peninsula, far west of where we wanted to start. Amy is in tears, I have pretty much ruined the day for her, and we have no time in our schedule to do this again. We do, at least, know how to get back on the Ring, now. As we are driving we pass an empty pasture with a single large standing stone in it.
We stop to admire it then head on our way. Finally, we are on the Ring! Unfortunately, for quite some time it is rather disappointing. It is very overcast, and most of our trip is through towns. We take a detour and Amy and Eamon explore a beach.
That little speck in the center is Eamon playing in the sand. He gets SO wet and sandy that we have to undress him and pull clean clothes out of the suitcases to dress him in.
1500 GMT- The views get better and better as the drive continues, but we wish that we had a clear sunny day to see them in. We do not have ANY tour buses to avoid on this trip though, and in the summer we have read that they are a numerous menace. We pass the "only" beach cafe in Ireland (according to its sign) and stop to check out their little sandbox.
Amy is mostly satisfied, but she makes it CLEAR to me that I made her miss the best part of the drive through my driving foolishness. I am thoroughly chagrined. By 4:30 PM, we still aren't back, and Connor starts up his dusk tirade and carries it through for the next twenty minutes until we pull him from the car. Before that can happen, we pick up the laundry from the cleaners and then stop at a restaurant nearby for some dinner.
1830 GMT - Dinner was nice, though Eamon was a wee bit difficult. We head back to the B&B for baths (ok, not really). Since there is only a shower, Connor decides to make the whole bathroom a tub through his wild splashing. It is time to rest up for our trip to Cork in the morning.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Day 17
0830 GMT - We head down to breakfast, which is again very nice. Eamon selects a "special" French style pancake, very thin and more like a crepe, while Amy and I go with the traditional Irish breakfast. The fruit, bread and cereal selection here is not as broad as Drum Creehy, but it is adequate. Eamon LOVES his pancake, but suddenly he gets some food caught, gags, and says that he is going to puke. I grab napkins and a bowl and start moving him upstairs to our room, but he begins vomiting along the way. I keep it all in the napkins and bowl and get him upstairs successfully. I give him some water and he feels better, so we return to finish breakfast. Ah, the TRUE joys of parenthood. Eamon and I watch the end of "The Never Ending Story" whille Amy heads to find an ATM machine, since this B&B only accepts cash.
1130 GMT - We hit the road, trying to get to Kenmare before dark, we have been told that it is about two hours away. We go back to Buratty castle, this time to check out the attached historical park which has replicas of life in 1800's - early 1900's Ireland. I am very disappointed. The park is nice, and the animals are out and about, but because of the holidays there are no people present in the shops or the houses to portray the people of the time.
I wish they had told us when we bought the tickets that it was not a full experience this week. We check out the empty dwellings, including the house that the makers of HB ice cream lived in, Eamon plays in a little castle playground, and then we hit the pub for lunch.
We chat with a Californian woman who has been living in Belfast, Northern Ireland (part of the UK) for a year whose husband and son are visiting. The people who sit at their table after they leave are also Americans, and after a short chat we learn that they are the family who moved into the Connemara Country Cottages house that we were staying in after we left. We laugh and joke about the absurdity of 200 TV channels and no phone and ask if we left any toys. They say no. We decide that it is time to hit the road.
1540 GMT - It is still light out, but we have only made it as far as killarny.
We try to pull off the main road to find a phone and call the B&B for tonight once I read the notes and realize that if we won't make it by 1600, we are supposed to call. We find a phone booth in the middle of a residential neighborhood. While Amy is on the phone, a dog walks up to check us out and he begins to bark visciously, not at us but at a teenager walking by. I usher Eamon back into the car, and suddenly I find a VERY hard chunk in the gum I am chewing. I take it out to find a small piece of what looks like a tooth. I feel around with my tongue only to find that the porcelain part of my crown has fractured and exposed the metal beneath. Amy returns to say that she spoke to the owner of the B&B and he tells us that it will be another two hours, and to avoid the "scenic" route and stick to the main highway or it will take 3-4 hours. I tell her about my tooth, but because it seems to be causing me no pain, I decide to wait until we get home to deal with it. If it starts to hurt, we can try to deal with it in Dublin. The drive seems to take forever, and when we finally take the exit to head towards Kenmare, it is already dark and Connor has awakened and begun to scream. We can tell that the scenery must be stunning, but we cannot see any of it, and Connor is still screaming which would make it impossible to enjoy anyway. 1630 has been his limit, beyond that he cannot bear to be in the car.
1730 GMT - The very curvy roads in the dark have slowed us down, and many people passed us throughout the drive. Connor screamed the entire way. We follow the directions Amy got from the B&B owner and arrive at the house.
It is quite cute, up on a hill above the road and surrounded by Christmas lights.
It is a little roomier and nicer than last night's B&B, but still not as nice as Drum Creehy. It will be our last B&B, two nights and then we are off to Cork and Dublin. We pack up in our rain gear and hike down to town, in the dark over a little bridge shortcut our host told us how to find. We come out on a street with a sign pointing the way to the Druid Stone Circle that we have read about and take note of that. We pick a restaurant, after much rigamarole, eat some food and hike back to the B&B for a good nights sleep.
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Day 16
0800 GMT - We wake up with Connor's call to action. Eamon starts of the morning with some early BBC kids shows, while we get our bags packed and ready to go. We don't have a clock in the room, and the only watch I have is my formal watch for work and, frankly, I don't even remember where I last left it, but somewhere at home in Seattle. It is a somewhat overcast day, so that does not help too much, but since it is no longer dark out, we figure that it must be close to 9am. We requested breakfast at 0900, so we decide to head over to the main house. Once inside, though, our host tells us that it is only 0840 and they are not quite ready. We head back to the cottage and I load the car. When I get back to the room, the phone rings and they tell us that they are ready for us. Breakfast is lovely. They have a full buffet of fresh and dried fruits, some breads, butter, jams, preserves, juices, milk, and cereals set out. They then serve us a full traditional Irish breakfast with back bacon, sausages, eggs and black and white puddings. I try the puddings, since they have gone to such efforts to put together this gorgeous breakfast. Neither one is to my liking, but Eamon really likes the white pudding so I give mine to him. Eamon also tries both dried and fresh dates, but decides that the fresh ones are not good, and the dried ones are delicious. Amy has tea with her breakfast, but I stick with my coffee. After breakfast, we settle our bill and hit the road to Buratty.
1130 GMT - We want to visit the Cliffs of Mohr. We head southwest, and arrive at a little seaside town, where we can see the Aran Islands off in the distance. On our way out of the town, we see a very cool ruin.
We get to the cliffs, and do a little shopping beofre braving the walk to the viewing area. The wind is so strong here that it will actually physically move me if I don't resist it. Amy loses her hat and I have to chase after it. The cliffs are quite stunning, but once it starts to rain, we decide to return to the car and hit the road.
1330 GMT - Both kids fall asleep after a few hours on the road, but we realize that it is almost lunch time, and we are entering the last major town on our route. We stop in Ennis and find a parking lot. We wake up the kids, and since St. Stephen's Day fell on a Sunday, today is a bank holiday. The stores are open, but the parking is free. We decide to try a Pub/Restaurant right on the lot, but once inside decide that it is not family friendly and head back out to the street. We end up at the first Pub we saw driving into the town and take a seat in the back all on our own. We find a big newspaper clipping about Ireland's former Prime Minister named Eamon De Valera. Eamon is excited at first to see his name on a newspaper headline, but that quickly passes and the mysterious, empty pint glass perched on top of the stall in the Gents toilet becomes the real interesting object. We have a nice lunch, and I have a chat with the bartender about the change in the smoking policy in Ireland. There is no smoking indoors in public buildings in the whole country. I ask if it has impacted business much, and he says that business is down a little, but not that much. He says that every worker in the bar was sick with bad colds for a month after the ban went into effect, and no one has been sick since. He is very happy about the health benefits the new law has brought for a non-smoker like himself. It is a torrential downpour, and we run back to the car as quickly as we can. We decide to hit the road. We, again, have no idea where our next B&B is actually located, but we do have an address. Once on the road, we get caught in absolutely ridiculous traffic which barely moves for 15 or more minutes. We decide that it must be airport traffic, and the airport is halfway between where we are and where we are going. I analyze the map and pick a "back" way that routes around the airport and takes us through more scenic areas.
1530 GMT - We manage to follow the map and the signs to Bunratty and drive right by the castle where we have our dinner reservations for the evening. When we pass the castle, I see a road sign, but don't pay too much attention to it. After driving a little way past the castle, Amy says we have gone too far, since she was told that the B&B was close to the castle. I check the address, and see that it is on the road that we drove in on, the "back" way. We turn around and drive all the way to the end of that road without seeing the sign for the B&B. Amy calls them from the castle parking lot pay phone, but can only leave a message. The gas station at the other end of the road says that they know where it is, and we must have missed the sign. They say that it is after the Carriage Park (or trailer park to we Americans) but before the winery. We drive back again, and slow down at every B&B sign, much to the chagrin of those people behind us along the way. We finally find it, when we realize that the name we have for it is in small print under the larger print of the owner's name. Silly us. We pull in and Maread is pleased to see us since she was late to the phone, and had no way to call us back with directions. She sets us up in our room upstairs, and I haul up the luggage.
1645 GMT - It is time for the big dinner. Due to the rain we have to drive to the castle. We enter and pick up our tickets and run through the rain...quite a long way to the castle entrance. Amy gets routed off with the stroller at the entrance so she can place it in the room where we will have dinner, and we won't have to carry it. I am carrying Connor, and Eamon has a minor panic on the narrow, spiral, stone staircase. I manage to talk him through it, with the help of some kind folk behind him. We reach the top where they hand him a mug of fruit punch and me a mug of mead, or honey wine. It was the traditional drink for the bride and groom for the first month after the wedding, with reputed powers for fertility and virility. Mead's honey base, and the month length led that period tradition required for its consumption led to this period being titled the "honeymoon." We are in the great hall, and we take the opportunity to look at the castle structure itself, as well as the art throughout the room. We meet a woman from Bellingham who is visiting her daughter who is going to school in Dublin. We also meet an Irishman named Eamonn, and again Eamon is pleased to meet someone with his name, even if it is spelled with the traditional second "n." A Lord and His Lady are selected from the crowd and bestowed with their new titles, and a harpist plays some music. Suddenly, the women who have been serving the mead and punch form a choir right next to us and begin to sing quite nicely. At the first vocal note, Connor, who I am holding, whips his head around to watch them, and he does not move or make a sound until they are done. He really loves music. We are herded back downstairs, and with the kids in tow, we wait until the end of the line to make the journey. Eamon has and even harder time going down, but he makes it.
1730 GMT - We are seated at the end of a long wooden table with long wooden benches. Connor is provided a high chair at the end of the table. We are served soup which must be drunk directly from the bowl, and some bread and butter. It is quite tasty. We meet a couple from Belgium who take our photo, and seem intent on keeping my wine glass full at all times.
They are very sweet and we have nice conversation with them throughout the meal. We have a few more courses, including chicken and spare ribs. All food is eaten with the hands, and you are provided a bib and a bowl of water for your fingers. Connor is snuck some serviettes by the women who are serving dinner, as they have become VERY fond of him. Dinner is great, and after dessert, they start up the music, with the servers as performers. They are quite good, and Connor's favorite also plays the Bodhran. The women fawn over Connor the whole time, and give him a plastic, red, ball ornament from the tree, since he keeps reaching for them while they are holding him.
They try to get Eamon up on the stage for the finale, but he won't budge. He does visit the dungeon after the meal with one of them, and she tells him that he needs to come back to Ireland in a "few" years to have a pint, and they will marry him off to a good Irish girl.
Both Eamon and Connor have had a BLAST, loving every minute of the visit. Kudos to my brilliant mother for the recommendation to bring them. We head back to the B&B, and it is time for us ALL to go to sleep.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Day 15
0800 GMT - We get up and head down to the restaurant for breakfast.
Eamon wants to know all about blood sausage, and we realize we don't know anything about it. It is essentially the same as white pudding, but with pigs blood added for color. It contains pig liver, pigs blood, bread crumbs, unrendered lard, oatmeal and spices. I don't find either of them interesting enough to try. We all avoid them. We have to check out by 11am. We pack and reload the car. This is much easier as we are bringing only one large bag and some smaller backpacks each night as we start on our heavy travel period. Today we head out to the coast and our first Bed & Breakfast.
1100 GMT - We make the trip much faster than Amy had anticipate. We find the Burren which means "great rock." Amy wants to do some hiking here, but we get lost trying to find the visitor's center. We pass some great ruins on the way to Ballyvaughan, and also pass our B&B for the night, the Drum Creehy House. We can't check in yet, since the owners have been away on holiday and won't be ready until 4pm. We head into town and park down on the water in front of Monk's which is a Pub our landlord in Connemara recommended. We decide to take a short hike on a path through the Burren that starts here in town, but are unable to figure out where it is despite a map and signs. Despite being clear and really quite lovely, it is absolutely FRIGID, and I realize that I don't have my hat or gloves, and have no idea where they are. I add a few layers, and we bundle the kids.
Apparently we have chosen a perilous place to park as this sign warns us...
Everything is closed today, which is St. Stephen's Day in Ireland and Boxing Day in the UK. It is the Feast of St. Stephen, who was the first Christian martyr. He was stoned to death by the Jewish Sanhedrin who he reportedly forgave as they continued to throw stones at his dying body. No one has a definitive answer as to why it is called boxing day...though their are many legends and folk tales regarding the naming of the day. Most include the reference to the opening of the church's poor boxes for the poor on that day, and the tradition of gift giving among equals on Christmas Day, followed by gift giving to those lower in status on Boxing Day. Whatever the reason,nothing is open other than the pub.
1230 GMT - We have lunch at Monk's and it is not particularly special. We meet a sweet family on holiday from the UK, and they are all goo-goo over Connor and Eamon as well. The kids are both older teenagers. After lunch, we go back out to the map of the trail, and realize we walked the wrong direction for the hike. We hop in the car and follow the signs for the trail along the road and then up into the hills and finally all the way up a one lane dirt road where we discover the ACTUAL trail into the big rock hills of the Burren. Both kids are asleep, so I stay with the car while Amy hikes up. Eamon wakes up and eventually awakens Connor with his noise, which leads Connor into a screaming fit. I offer Eamon the choice to stay in the car or get out and hike up the steep hill to Amy with me. He whines about not going up the hill and I get out. He has kicked off his shoes, and when he realizes that I am putting Connor in the backpack and serious about leaving him in the car alone, he begins to have a hysterical fit. I come back to him and put his shoes on and get him bundled. He proceeds to whine the WHOLE way up about how he hates hiking and then begins to cry after around ten steps that it is too hard, and he is NOT going to go up the hill. I ignore him and continue to hike up, which starts a chorus of "Wait for me, Dad! You are going too fast, my legs aren't as long as yours." I walk with him until he starts to whine, and then pick up speed and head up hill again, all the while trying to dodge the wet cow manure that is pervasive along the trail which is marked by two stone walls heading up through the middle of cow pasture. Finally, Amy comes back down and meets us 3/4 of the way up so that we walk back together. We hop in the car and head to the B&B.
1630 GMT - We arrive at the house, and the host steps out to meet us. He has us in one half of the cottage adjacent to the main house. It is a lovely room, and we all noticeably relax once we are in it.
We arrange to have afternoon tea. Eamon asks to meet their 2 year old daughter, and they go off with the hosts to see some of the new toys she got for Christmas. After tea, we all head back to the room where I take a long, hot bath to try and ease the horrid pain in my mid back. I start my new Peter Straub book, "lost girl, lost boy," and quickly get lost myself in the story. Eamon watches Shrek on the TV, and Amy picks up a bottle of wine from the main house's wine list. It is a German white, and not too bad. We sit and play cribbage while Eamon watches his movie. After his bath we all play King's Corners together, and then it is some more Lemony Snicket and off to bed. We are almost done with book two, and will soon be starting on book three which Amy bought us for Christmas.


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I love games of all kinds, board, card, video (particularly RPGs and anything with a good story). If you wanna play, say hi! I'm an unabashed fan of Pokemon. Currently loving Breath of the Wild.
I'm a very political person, though not as involved as I used to be. I've found myself here in Hereford after living in Cardiff most of my life, so I am adjusting to living in a much smaller and less accessible place! Also, sadly, a more conservative place. I joined the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn, and have high hopes for him.
I am married. My wife is here too, @_Delarie. I met her on this site a few years ago, which shows that this sort of thing works. I've also made some good friends here, and am eager to make more connections of any and all kinds. Well, positive kinds at least; I'm not in the market for a nemesis. That position is already filled.
As a polyamorous person I would like to stress that just because I speak to you, does not necessarily mean that I am hitting on you. I'm genuinely looking for friendship here.
A word on gender; Okcupid has recently introduced many new options for inputting one's gender. While this is undeniably a good thing, I am postgenderist and I don't subscribe to any gender labels (including the traditional ones). 'Masculine' and 'Feminine' are arbitrary labels and although I tend more towards the female I believe that gender politics is best off discarding these concepts entirely. It says above that I'm male. That's a biological truth, but entirely meaningless as far as I am concerned. You can call me whatever you want, as long as you're nice. Or at least creative.
Of course, I'm a feminist. It's not at all incompatible with postgenderism; as I always say, feminism isn't a gender issue; it's an issue with other people's gender issues.
Pomosexual, I guess, to match!
Working on writing children's books. My dream is to be published as an author, so I am persevering as strongly as possible. I study using distance learning from universities when I can afford to, as I love to learn, and it helps to fuel my own ideas. Hoping to do a philosophy masters in 2017. I originally studied physics at university, and worked as an astronomer briefly, but philosophy suits me far better.
⦁ Passing the time with whimsy and nostalgia.
⦁ Making friends with animals.
⦁ I am notoriously difficult to annoy, despite suffering from Misophonia.
Pixar, Christopher Nolan, Studio Ghibli.
Anime - Excel Saga, Ouran High School Host Club, and I'm not averse to a bit of Ecchi comedy..!
Music... this section has been significantly cut for the sake of saving you reading time! I love folk-rock, folk, rock, but lots of other things too. I tend towards lyrically driven stuff, and unusual voices. My favourite bands are The Hold Steady, Counting Crows, The Waterboys, Levellers, R.E.M, Talking Heads, The Cranberries, NQ Arbuckle. Solo artists; Missy Higgins, Alanis Morissette, Jonathan Coulton... Ah, that's enough. Lets talk about music instead of just reading lists.
I really enjoy children's literature. I wish someone was writing naive, optimistic, imaginative fiction for adults, but for now there's nothing better than Tove Jansson's Moomin series and Le Petit Prince.
I love Terry Pratchett's work, and am devastated to lose him. I enjoy comic fantasy and the like in general; Tom Holt, for example.
The Manga Maison Ikkoku. It's great fun and high literature as far as I'm concerned!
When my concentration levels are high, I read philosophy.
Food... I like almost all of it. Just no raw tomatoes please.
I don't think I should leave out stand-up comedy, since that is also a great love of mine. My favourites are Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, Paul Foot, Simon Amstell, Josie Long, Susan Calman and Eddie Izzard.
I'm also quite a fan of Channel Awesome, Cinemassacre, SpoonyExperiment, Jimquisition and similar.
A camera. I take a lot of pictures, as a kind of visual journal. This is because whenever I try to keep a diary, I forget.
Distractions from the inevitable.
Body Positivity... there's far too little of it around.
Surreal and/or intelligent comedy.
Why it's considered an extreme view that we should all be fair to one another.
Oh, and walking my tiny dog. He's a German Spitz, and a totally ridiculous creature.
I am secretly a fairy princess baby hamster controlling a lumbering beardie from within.
I'm disproportionately attracted to midriffs, for which I blame my having grown up in the 90's. Obviously, physicality is but a tiny part of attraction, but that's a guilty pleasure I'm willing to admit to!
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⦁ You're attracted to me. It happens, unlikely as it may seem!
⦁ You want to play a board game.
⦁ You have theories about The Hold Steady lyrics that you want to gabble to a fellow enthusiast
⦁ You want to exchange Nintendo friend codes, Steam names, etc. I have lots of games to trade or gift to nice people.
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⦁ You want to squee over pictures of one another's cats or snakes. I recently adopted a couple of mistreated corn snakes and they are super cute!
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⦁ You use the term 'sjw' unironically
⦁ You're a conservative, in any sense of the word
⦁ You dislike animals
⦁ You're anti-feminist, racist, sexualist, or any type of bigot...
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US OPEN champion Michael Campbell will headline the Johnnie Walker Classic when it returns to Australia next year.
But tournament organisers are impatiently waiting for the release of the US PGA Tour schedule so they can lure more high-profile players.
Campbell, six-time major winner Nick Faldo, Scotland's Colin Montgomerie and Denmark's Thomas Bjorn were announced yesterday as the first four entrants in the $3 million event to be held at the Vines Resort in Perth.
The Classic, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian tours, returns to Australia for the first time since 2002.
Organisers hope defending champion Adam Scott, who won the event when it was held in China last year, and a host of other Australian players will compete. But little progress has been made negotiating with any players based predominantly in the US.
The US PGA is yet to finalise its 2006 schedule, so organisers are unsure which tour event will clash with the Perth tournament. The Classic will run from February 9-12, dates which this year would have clashed with the Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
"Until we know what the schedule is, none of them will say anything to us," tournament director Steve Foxcroft said. "The four guys we've announced today play a lot on the European Tour and their schedule has been announced, so they know what they're doing. We're quite a few months away yet. I just wish the US Tour would get their finger out and let us know what's going on."
■ World No. 6 Sergio Garcia has been fined by the European Tour following an incident at last week's European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre in Switzerland.
The 25-year-old Spaniard, who went on to win the title by a shot, was punished after being reported for kicking an advertising board after he three-putted the 17th during the third round.
Although the level of the fine was not disclosed, it is believed to be in the region of £5000 ($A12,050).
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Once again, go my theme hard rejected
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What does this message mean? Theme is coded properly, got options panel, widgets, custom built stuff, etc. I guess that's not the code quality they're talking about..
This is the theme: http://dekciw.lt/dev/freshskeleton/
Any improvements you can think of? Any suggestions?
Fun fact: was looking at the real-time analytics, it got.. 1 pageview from the reviewers!
Added some stuff, played around with a theme a bit, resubmitted and still got rejected, good thing, that this time reviewer was kind enough to gimme some feedback and share his thoughts
1. As we have high standards, you will need to make some additional improvements in overall aesthetics and aspects such as typography, graphics, and spacing.
2. Overall, it has a good starting concept and it seems you've aimed for simplicity which isn't bad, but the overall design lacks details in its design that would help it stand out as more unique. At this point, you'll need to improve the design and make it more unique before it will be ready for ThemeForest
Bad thing, is that I wanted the theme to be as it is now and don't know what to change atm. Maybe I should leave it alone for some time and give myself a rest working on another one Or maybe I should spread this theme as a free premium WP theme..
Suggestions are welcome!
Hello Dekciw,
I find your theme nice, excellent effort you've put..
Personally, I don't like the header and footer. I think it could had been better designed. also the bold blue icons etc..
take some rest…put the files in a 'rejected' folder..
come back again on the files and consider the advice of the reviewer…
you can do it!
all the best..
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Hello Dekciw,
I find your theme nice, excellent effort you've put..
Personally, I don't like the header and footer. I think it could had been better designed. also the bold blue icons etc..
take some rest…put the files in a 'rejected' folder..
come back again on the files and consider the advice of the reviewer…
you can do it!all the best..
Thanks for your suggestions!
Topic is two days old already, and the header / footer areas are already redesigned. They were more minimalistic before. So now, I've redesigned them and resubmitted my theme. Waiting for reviewers opinion
Bold blue icons – that's just a demo content, I've just wanted to show that the theme has option to have any color icons. Passing a parameter within [icon] shortcode, you can create any color icons
If this time I'll get rejected – I'm sure gonna put it into 'rejected' folder, or might even consider giving away this theme for free, haven't decided yet. But don't really have much time to waste atm, already got few other themes coming along.
Thanks again!
This is design, it's not something exact, your theme looks good to me, but not excellent. With you or someone like you, it may look excellent, unfortunately it looks not good enough to the reviewer. Good luck, I like your programming skills, may we work together if you're ready ? I'm designer but not coder
I would personally add a subtle drop shadow to the images using CSS3 , make the images "pop" a little more.
@BinIdea, sorry, I'm not looking for any collaborations at the moment.
@itsmattadams, thanks for your suggestion, but I don't really wanna add any extras to this particular theme.
It's still rejected, citing uniqueness and genericness, so I'm done with it. I guess, it will be easier to do a new theme from start.


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I totally love Engl amps. But I think the Powerball is a bit over the top for "bedroom". At home, I have a Gigmaster 15 and the powersoak is doing pretty well for bedroom volumes.
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San Francisco, CA -- Napa County residents and business owners who were affected by the earthquake of September 3 and who have not yet registered for federal and state disaster assistance have only three more days to call the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) teleregistration number. November 30, 2000 is the deadline to register for Individual Assistance disaster programs, according to federal and state disaster recovery officials.
"As the registration deadline approaches, we encourage homeowners, renters and business owners, who believe they sustained damage from the earthquake, to register for assistance," said Dallas Jones, director of the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES). "It is important that applicants leave determination of eligibility to state and federal program experts and not automatically disqualify themselves."
The number to call is the FEMA toll-free number 1-800-462-9029 or TTY 1-800-462-7585 for the hearing or speech impaired." The telephone lines are in operation seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).
"Even after the deadline, if a person has questions about their registration or the assistance available, FEMA is just a telephone call away," Mark Ghilarducci, federal coordinating officer said. "Representatives are available to answer questions Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (PST)." The FEMA Helpline numbers are 1-800-525-0321 or TTY 1-800-462-7585.
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- To date, 4,795 people from Napa County have registered for disaster assistance.
- 3,883 people have received $5,059,911 in FEMA temporary housing grants.
- 336 people have received $289,917 under the Individual and Family Grant (IFG).
- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), under its disaster loan program, has assisted 976 people with $16,722,600.
- 4,708 people have visited the Local Assistance Center in Napa City.


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Fauchard Award Presented to Dental Students Daniel Hardy and Jason Rogers
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UCSF Dentistry student Daniel Kenneth Hardy was selected as the 2010 recipient of the award, and Jason Michael Rogers was selected in 2011.
The Pierre Fauchard Academy also gives an award to a senior dental student, which will be presented at the 2011 Recognition Banquet on June 1st, co-hosted by the UCSF School of Dentistry and the UCSF Dental Alumni Association. The recipients the awards are selected by UCSF School of Dentistry Scholarship Committee.
Pictured: Dean John D.B. Featherstone (right) with Daniel Hardy (above) and Jason Rogers. Photos by Student Records Coordinator Burton Ober.


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THREE Pilkingtons workers are preparing for a gruelling physical challenge, as they ready themselves to take on the Ironman UK event.
The trio will take on the formidable three-event test taking place round parts of Lancashire on Sunday, July 20.
It includes a 2.4 mile swim, a 112-mile cycle and culminates in a marathon run that finishes in old, historic Bolton.
Forty-five-year-old senior technologist Mark Glynn is undertaking the challenge for the first time, having taken part in marathons in recent years.
Joining him will be colleague Mike Fairclough, 49, from Rainford, and John Moran, 46, who is employed at the Greengate works.
"I have been a runner for a few years and did a marathon each year, finally breaking my target of three hours after seven years," said Mark, from Eccleston.
"Last year I went to watch Ironman UK, and it's a bigger challenge than the marathon.
"We're getting there with our preparation – so long as we don't break anything between now and then!"
As well as taking on the gruelling physical challenge, the colleagues will also be helping to raise funds for Scope, a partner charity of the event, which works to help give disabled people the same opportunities as everyone else.
It is a cause that Mark relates to, as his 17-year-old daughter Ellie suffers from learning difficulties.
"It's the partner charity for the event, but my oldest daughter Ellie has learning difficulties.
"She relies on other people and needs help and support each day. But there are so many other people that don't get that support, so any donations would be greatly appreciated" he added.
Between them, the three aim to raise £3,000 for the charity.
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The time has come for us to part ways, young one, as the application of your lessons takes you back to whom that sent you to me. Mathrengyl Bearwalker walks truly in balance with nature, even as he dwells precariously close to where the balance has faltered. Listen to his instructions, and you will soon complete your first lessons into your role as a protector of balance.
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Hi there ! Just wondering ! Did you run out of fuel ?
no, fuel is fine, the light for the heating grid on the dash doesn't come on when you turn the key.
the "code" on the dash says " no Eng" and then ICU 140. It turns over but doesn't start.
what model of truck ?
Sterling Acterra, 5 ton, last six numbers of the vin, Y54025, mercedes diesel, year 2007.
Sounds like there is no pwer to ECM! Have you checked all fuses in panel and at battery box ?
Ok, I will check that right now and get back to you.
I have to leave shortly to go to work but will try and check in a few times
If there are fuses in the battery box , they will likely be for the ECM . Make sure fuses are tight in the holders !
When turning on the key, on the dash it reads: "2_1.3", then "no eng" then ICU 140
hey Andy, i did manage to get it started, i unhooked the cables from the ecm and hooked them back up. it ran for about 3 minutes and then stopped. now it is back to the same as before.
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sounds like a power problem to the engine ecm
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"Polar Bear Hunting" Comes To Delaware? What The Hell Was The Bus Driver Doing?
This is just sickening. Don't know much about the background, but this is a total failure of everyone on that bus, especially the driver.
"The bus driver failed to intervene AT ALL," Guessford continued. "She didn't stop the bus while the beating occurred. She didn't call the police and file a report. She didn't inform the administration that the beating occurred. Apparently, the bus driver called the school and stated that Alec left the bus early for no reason, according to the administrator that called my brother yesterday."
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People wear purple for Spirit Day to support LGBT youth
HUMBOLDT COUNTY - Humboldt County joined people across the nation, wearing purple to support the LGBT community Thursday.
October 16 is known as "Spirit Day" to honor and support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth who have been bullied.
People wear purple in solidarity with youth and to raise awareness. Individuals, corporations, politicians and even baseball teams wore their purple Thursday.
The effort is also prevalent on social media with people turning their profile pictures purple and a trending #spiritday.
The color purple represents the spirit of the rainbow flag.
"It's important to show support and to band together. We are a small community within the LGBT community at large and we need to educate the public and help show that it is a community that is going to stand up to bullying. That we're done. We've had enough. And it's about time," Stephanie Allen, secretary for Humboldt Pride and a board member, said.


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