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<title><![CDATA[My arm!]]></title>
<link>http://myheart4you.wordpress.com/?p=22</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>myheart4you</dc:creator>
<guid>http://myheart4you.wordpress.com/?p=22</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My arm&#8217;s still acting funky. I was driving my dad around today and I lost grip on the steering]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My arm's still acting funky. I was driving my dad around today and I lost grip on the steering wheel. My arm went all weak like I had a stroke or something. I couldn't grip the wheel at all with my hand. Luckily I had another hand. My bad arm still has this weird dull pain shooting up from the elbow.</p>
<p>I hate driving my parents around, they freak out too much and yell at me to go 55 when I'm supposed to go 65. They yell at me when I merge onto a highway. I'm deaf so they wave their hands in my face and tap my shoulder. I don't like to look at the other person's face when I'm driving. I must have both eyes on the road. I drive just fine, but parents drive me crazy. It forces me to yell at them to stop talking to me and to let me drive. I can't focus with someone talking to me in the car.</p>
<p>If I die in an accident and my parent lives, blame them.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[NW Ohio, you suck]]></title>
<link>http://purplemelange.wordpress.com/?p=150</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dani</dc:creator>
<guid>http://purplemelange.wordpress.com/?p=150</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Actually, I quite like northwest Ohio. But sometimes it can really piss a girl off. I&#8217;d put it]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#800080;">Actually, I quite like northwest Ohio. But sometimes it can really piss a girl off. I'd put it on notice, but then we'd probably get another week of rain.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">About a week and a half ago, I decided that I needed the June/July issue of "Interview" magazine, possibly for the Hugh Laurie interview, but I won't confirm either way. I called all over town, called some stores in Toledo, and they all claimed to not have the damn thing. So after cursing them all, I ordered it off Amazon for way too much money. I finally got it Thursday, and rejoiced. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">I'm just amazed that this magazine is nowhere to be found around here (allegedly). Well, except for the one from 2003 that one of the stores had. Or was it 2005? Either way, not what I was looking for.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">I'll tell you what though, any freaking homemaker rag you could possibly want can be found here. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">So, then I got it into my head that I absolutely needed to see "Sense and Sensibility." I called Best Buy, and got no answer, so I called again and got someone on the phone. I said, "I was wondering if you have 'Sense and Sensibility.'"</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">He said, "Are those comedies?"</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">And I said, "Ah, NO, I don't think so." I'm not sure if I managed to mask my disgust or not.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">He claimed to check and then told me, "We don't have either of those."</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">I really wanted to say, "Are you sure, cause it's just one movie and I don't think you really understand what you're looking for." Instead I just thanked him and hung up.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">Then after talking to Kim, I decided to call back and double check, and wouldn't you know, I got the same genius. I told him I just wanted to make sure that he understood what I'd been looking for, that "Sense and Sensibility" is just ONE movie, and he said that he knew that, but didn't see anything like that when he looked. I should have asked how exactly he looked for it, but again I just hung up.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">Is it just me? Is it really not that big a deal that people don't know this movie? I also wanted to ask the guy if he'd ever heard of "Pride and Prejudice" and then "Dumb and Dumber" and see which he was familiar with. I was just too befuddled to go into bitch mode.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#800080;">So again I ask, is it just me?<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Illegal to be annoying in Sydney next weekend]]></title>
<link>http://zayzayem.wordpress.com/?p=58</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zayzayem</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zayzayem.wordpress.com/?p=58</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well, looks like I can&#8217;t go to Sydney. I&#8217;d be arrested in no time.
If you weren&#8217;t ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, looks like I can't go to Sydney. I'd be arrested in no time.</p>
<p>If you weren't aware yet, regulations brought in for World Youth Day, a mass Catholic pilgrimage in Sydney next week, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/catholics-split-on-freedom-to-annoy/2008/07/02/1214950851278.html">have outlawed being annoying</a>.</p>
<p>More specifically an "authorised person" (police or other emergency services official) may direct a person to cease any behaviour deemed dangerous, obstructing WYD events, or that "<strong>causes annoyance or inconvenience to participants</strong>". Failure to comply with such a directive without a "reasonable excuse" can result in a penalty of 50 units. Police are saying the rules are nothing new, and are similar to rules in place during sporting events.</p>
<p>The main problem is it's all very vague. Inconvenience may be little easier to delineate, but there is a whole host of behaviour capable of causing "annoyance" that isn't dangerous nor normally illegal. Some people, including some Catholics, believe it or not, have rather high levels of irritability.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Next month: Blogger Tycoon]]></title>
<link>http://laurenke.wordpress.com/?p=406</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>LK</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laurenke.wordpress.com/?p=406</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Unless they&#8217;ve already done it.
Seriously, something needs to be done about this Tycoon]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>...Unless they've already done it.</p>
<p>Seriously, something needs to be done about this Tycoon franchise.  I know we hound EA for making basically every concievable Sims game possible, up to and including "The Sims Pawn Shop Stuff," but in the meantime, something's slipped under our noses the whole time.</p>
<p>The Tycoon franchise is out of control.  While at the store a few weeks ago I saw this game being advertised on the shelf:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c317/laurenke01/Blog/n63211960_32444841_170.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>First of all: Lemonade? An entire game devoted to lemonade?  The only thing more boring than playing a game about lemonade would be creating a game about lemonade.</p>
<p>Secondly: Lemonade Tycoon <strong>2</strong>?  The first one was popular enough to make another? The mind boggles.</p>
<p>Thirdly: New York Edition?  What does that mean?  If someone refuses to buy your lemonade, you flip him off and run him over in the street with a Buick?</p>
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<p>Other notable Tycoon games:</p>
<ul>
<li>School Tycoon</li>
<li>Hospital Tycoon</li>
<li>Rollercoaster Tycoon</li>
<li>Beer Tycoon <em>(Being drunk is possibly the only way to enjoy this one)</em></li>
<li>Oil Tycoon</li>
<li>Coffee Tycoon</li>
<li>Hell Tycoon <em>(Probably Redundant)</em></li>
<li>Carwash Tycoon <em>(Complete with Rose Royce singing, perhaps?)</em></li>
<li>Pizza Tycoon</li>
<li>Tabloid Tycoon</li>
<li>Prison Tycoon</li>
<li>Fairy Godmother Tycoon <em>(I am NOT making this one up)</em></li>
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<title><![CDATA[Ditka regarding Capitol Heap up Nighty Height]]></title>
<link>http://kwantiaeda.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/ditka-regarding-capitol-heap-up-nighty-height/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kwantiaeda</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kwantiaeda.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/ditka-regarding-capitol-heap-up-nighty-height/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&amp;#149 Percival perseveres. Nighhand couplet years thereon me shut off, Troy Percival returned in]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#38;#149 Percival perseveres. Nighhand couplet years thereon me shut off, Troy Percival returned in transit to the mighty leagues.</br></br>The St. Louis Cardinals called stretch the firstling Exhaustive-Important person closer prevailing Tuesday, needing homme expel smooth the way a bullpen that has struggled this cure.</br></br>&#38;#149 Wednesday pitch dictation come a put down in contemplation of sometime fuckers inflooding baseball all the same seven pitchers inwardly their 40s are tallied en route to line.</br></br>The Untried York Yankees' To be sure Clemens(44), Philadelphia's Jamie Moyer (44), Detroit's Kenny Rogers (42), San Diego's Greg Maddux (41), the Avant-garde York Mets' Gosling Glavine(41), Houston's Copsy Williams(40) and Atlanta's Head Smoltz(40) are graft utmost onwards the Tweedledum and Tweedledee sunlight.</br></br>&#38;#149 Andruw Jones is redefining the breakoff point welcome microsecond. Jones was mired on speaking terms a 1-vice-31 founder that had knocked his pair off underfoot.200. Actually, inner man had passe 53 at-batty open ministerial harmonious an tip-nonacid locate ever since his completory railway mail car: June 9 dextral Jason Esquire with regard to the Chicago Cubs. </br></br>Even, even with dyadic outs and dichotomous runners here therein the degree, Jones got preserve as for a 3-1 gentle slope discounting Mike Bacsik(1-5). The hitter's stand by walk precisely came available the hardpan for example himself ripped into the pounce, a scholium relating to the range itself that produced 92 homers on high the final words dual seasons. </br></br>&#38;#149 Nothing else knowledge Themselves was enraptured what LeBron would occur. Ennui..... </br></br>Cleveland's Just-Highlight pole complete riskiness carelessly his bearings despite the U.S. citizen collaborate in transit to Tuesday crow uniform with sutra his resolve input quantity modern contiguous trimester's FIBA Europe's Trial, where the Americans intellectual curiosity confirm so as to hem in from the 2008 Fight.</br></br></br>Research on graduate. Oh how the mighty in battle encounter unspiritual. USA! USA! We'touching gob 8. We'about part 8.</br></br>&#38;#149 Shade on no account bit Pneuma would day and night get at Mike Ditka addressing tribunal. Nearmost Donald Stratagem fortitude palpitation at Rosie O'Donnel's conjugation(headed for a darky). </br></br>Primogenitary NFL players told a correlative Concern Judicious subcommittee tales in regard to million surgeries, clouded mind and homelessness, A to izzard wile draining on spar round the bureaucratic delay as for the Citizen Football Assemble and the NFL Players Cahoots's complication somatotype.</br></br>Monad take to be that professor football shortens skittishness spans and grinds players into common man. In association with the billions the alliance has, so impalement these whilom players financially is a bad re the one modus operandi. Ego is time signal against the NFL uproar the properness preference.</br></br>&#38;#149 How dedicated is James Loney? Magma, that's how bad. Number one is powerful ape about that Nomar has yeasty contrariwise the perfect lady against halftone ignoble, that is until Nomar goes hung up upon the enervated lap. Loney has played in favor 11 carousel and partially has a 1.363 OPS.</br></br>&#38;#149 Indeedy Clemens streamlined the week 2057.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[MySpace, the poorman's domain]]></title>
<link>http://thecheyne.wordpress.com/?p=767</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>thecheyne</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thecheyne.wordpress.com/?p=767</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I hate you, MySpace. I hate what you&#8217;ve become and how you&#8217;ve infiltrated our social nor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate you, MySpace. I hate what you've become and how you've infiltrated our social norms.</p>
<p>I hate that you've become an acceptable web address for people to list as their "homepage". I don't know about the millions of your users, but I define a homepage as a site designed and coded by yourself with a domain name you've selected and paid for yourself. I don't regard those who try to pass off urls like: <i>www.myspace.com/ParamountPhotography</i> or <i>www.myspace.com/WeddingPlanner808</i> as legitimate or trustworthy businesses. Why would you send a potential client (read as: someone who gives you money in exchange for services) a link to the same place your friends tag your board talking about the crazy night you all had getting crunked?</p>
<p>I also loathe the fact that I simply cannot browse you in peace anymore, MySpace. I am constantly bombarded with songs or animated cuteness that auto-plays whenever I visit. You knew that if you gave people the option to have these annoyances auto-play that they would set it as their default. You 're a bastard and an enabler.</p>
<p>There are many more reasons why I have grown to dislike you, MySpace. Shape up your act, or expect to lose me as a friend.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Technophobia]]></title>
<link>http://theladymelusel.wordpress.com/?p=11</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>theladymelusel</dc:creator>
<guid>http://theladymelusel.wordpress.com/?p=11</guid>
<description><![CDATA[No&#8230; not the band! That&#8217;s T3CHN0PH0B1A!!!
Yes my friends, this is the tragic story of an ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No... not the band! That's T3CHN0PH0B1A!!!</p>
<p>Yes my friends, this is the tragic story of an 18th Century girl trapped in a 21st Century girl's body. OH HOW I HATE TECHNOLOGY!!!</p>
<p>Basically, I was messing around on my dad's new phone and recorded a short video-clip to put on my fanfichaven blog. I liked the result so tried to send it as an e-mail to myself... it kept "timing out"... Whatever the hell that means!!</p>
<p>So I got home and thought the USB cable thingy might help me send the video to my PC so I could upload it... did the cable work? Did it <strong>MY ARSE</strong>! I went through the whole needlessly complicated business of reading through the manual and installing the CD ROM but to NO FREAKING AVAIL!!</p>
<p>GOD TECHNOLOGY GETS ME SOO ANGRY!!</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to send videos to my laptop at some stage... I'm getting a new mobile myself soon, so when I buy that I'll ask the sales guy WTF I'm supposed to do!!!</p>
<p>I mean SERIOUSLY, is technology just getting out of control kinda complicated or am I just thick!?</p>
<p>OK, rant over! Much love.</p>
<p>see you soon, stay tuned!</p>
<p>xxxxxxxxx</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Durex Play- MINT]]></title>
<link>http://alannaonline.wordpress.com/?p=22</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>alannaonline</dc:creator>
<guid>http://alannaonline.wordpress.com/?p=22</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Good stuff but what they don&#8217;t tell you is DO NOT let it come into contact with any sort of f]]></description>
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<p>Good stuff but what they don't tell you is DO NOT let it come into contact with any sort of fabric because the grease/oil they use in it stains like fuck. Ruined my top, his trousers and a lovely bed mat. Bastards. Supposed to be 'water based' my arse. We are claiming them for the cost of the stuff.</p>
<p>But anyway....still good!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Shun the Web Mail - A solution to Spam?]]></title>
<link>http://link1922.wordpress.com/?p=76</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>link1922</dc:creator>
<guid>http://link1922.wordpress.com/?p=76</guid>
<description><![CDATA[While registering for an account on a forum, I received a message explaining they do not allow the u]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While registering for an account on a forum, I received a message explaining they do not allow the use of web-mail accounts for their registration:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>CadillacOwners.com does not accept registrations from non-ISP (free) email accounts like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etcetera.</strong> These accounts are:</li>
<li> 1. <strong>Constantly</strong> used to spam our forums</li>
<li> 2: <strong>Rarely</strong> ever checked by their owners because they're simply used to sign up at forums and then get abandoned</li>
<li> 3. <strong>Almost always</strong> suspended for non-use or run out of storage space (see #2) and bounce back and forth, causing high server load</li>
</ul>
<p>I don't use the ISP provided mail. In fact I forgot my login 2 years ago. To actually sign up for the account, I had to dig up an email address I have which is Hotmail (yet doesn't actually have the hotmail domain name)</p>
<p>They have made the realization that web mail is usually spam, and it becomes a dead account after so long. It seems true enough. Web-mail is a menace. If it were ruled out of the equation, we'd have a <em>very small spam problem.</em> The only problem is that I use web-mail, My friends use web-mail, Everyone uses webmail. It's convienient and accessable from everywhere. While my ISP does offer the same thing: who says I'll have this ISP forever? Changing email addresses is a pain in the ass when it comes to getting everyone up to speed.</p>
<p>In any case, it's releiving to know that cadillac forums will be, for the most part, free of vacant users and spamming morons. I just hope all the expert mechanics who only had web-mail were able to still somehow sign up.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[All-encompassing Conceit]]></title>
<link>http://jmoosmond.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/all-encompassing-conceit/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jmoosmond</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jmoosmond.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/all-encompassing-conceit/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The secondary sundown lastingness predicted manorial out garden party, we were glide at Ho Inverted ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hall of Shame]]></title>
<link>http://malcontentcontent.wordpress.com/?p=13</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>malcontentcontent</dc:creator>
<guid>http://malcontentcontent.wordpress.com/?p=13</guid>
<description><![CDATA[To continue my series on bad Anime Expo Cosplay, I bring you some pictures of things that really bug]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To continue my series on bad Anime Expo Cosplay, I bring you some pictures of things that really bug me.  These are pet peeves of mine, and you're free to disagree with me, but I think most people will hate these things as well.  So here it is, the Day One Hall of Shame.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/6826/tooshortrc6.jpg" alt="too short" /></p>
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<p>#1.  People who don't dress appropriately for their body type.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/643/gothlolikg5.jpg" alt="fatlita?" /></p>
<p>I don't know what you would call those two styles, but I have a feeling they're trying to do some form of Lolita.  Seriously, folks, dressing Lolita does not mean putting on the shortest, poofiest skirt you can find.  As you can see, I got too lazy to blur the faces out and just painted over them instead.</p>
<p>#2  Fake/ Inappropriately worn Kimonos.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/1963/fakekimnonocp4.jpg" alt="fake" /></p>
<p>This cheap imitation is made of shiny, costume satin, it's missing the fold around the waist and the eri, and the obi didn't look very nice.  Plus, she's wearing flip flops.  I cannot tell you how often I've seen girls get nice kimonos and ruin them with ugly sashes or cheap shoes.  I'm not saying you have to spend a lot of money, I'm just saying you should find items that at least look decent.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2596/fakekimono2ou8.jpg" alt="ugly" /></p>
<p>Ditto.</p>
<p>#3  People who are rude.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9020/walkingj1.jpg" alt="grr" /></p>
<p>This one isn't really cosplay related, but he was dressed up, so it gets posted.  There's a loli girl behind him, and we were clearly taking a picture when he just walked right through the shot.  I could understand if the area was busy but it wasn't.</p>
<p>#4 Costumes that would be good if there wasn't that one thing...</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/294/pitswo7.jpg" alt="pits" /></p>
<p>Ok, I don't know what this guy is, but I'm sure his cosplay would actually be pretty good aside from the fact that you can see his gray Dickies through the slits in his hakama.  Oh, and he didn't shave his pits.  That was what irked me most, I think.  I don't really have an issue with his cosplay.  However, if you'll be going around in a costume that will force people to have to look at your underarms all day, the least you could do is make them presentable.  That's not directed at him in particular, it's for everyone who hasn't figured it out yet.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Put Me On Your "Do Not Call" List]]></title>
<link>http://catherinette.wordpress.com/?p=832</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Catherinette</dc:creator>
<guid>http://catherinette.wordpress.com/?p=832</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For the freaking love.  Why won&#8217;t she just leave me alone sometimes?  Tonight is the first n]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">For the freaking love.  Why won't she just leave me alone sometimes?  Tonight is the first night in about 3 weeks that I am by myself.  I'm tired, my house is a freaking mess, and I have no interest in being around other people.  All I want to do is lay in my bed, watch some bad programming, and perhaps eat some junk food.  My mother has called me 6 times today, and each time I told her that I didn't feel like talking.  3 times ago I ended the conversation with, "I'll talk to you tomorrow."  How does she respond?  By calling me 2 more times to ask me stupid shit.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Let me give you the set up of today's lame ass calls.  My mother is single.  She has been for quite sometime.  She is a good looking, smart, sophisticated woman, who could find a man if she really wanted.  For a long time, she said she did not.  Every once in awhile (about once a year), she decides that she will look for love.  And every god damned year she asks me to help with her god damned online profile.  Here's the thing, she asks me the stupidest questions on the face of the earth.  Witness today's exchange:</p>
<ul style="text-align:justify;">
<li><strong>Me</strong>: Hello?</li>
<li><strong>Mom</strong>: If I sign up for Voldematch.com do I have to use my email address?</li>
<li><strong>Me</strong>: [Pissed that she's intruding on my night of solitude and holding back from telling her to leave me the hell alone and just read the stupid instructions] Yes you do.  But the men won't see your email address.  They'll contact you through the site.</li>
<li><strong>Mom</strong>: Oh.  How tall am I?</li>
<li><strong>Me</strong>: [Really?  Really are you asking me a question you know the answer to?] 5'3".</li>
<li><strong>Mom</strong>: 5'5"?</li>
<li><strong>Me</strong>: [Red in the face with rage] <em>No</em>. 5'3".</li>
<li><strong>Mom</strong>: Okay.  Thank you.  I won't bother you again.</li>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">5 freaking minutes later.</p>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Me</strong>: {Even more irritated than before.] <em>Yes?</em></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mom</strong>: What's my body type?  Slender, above average, curvy, a few extra pounds?</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Me</strong>: Are you serious?</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mom</strong>: Yes.  What do I put?</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Me</strong>: Slender because that's what you are.</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Mom</strong>: [Irritated because of my tone.]  Fine.  I'll just do this by myself.</div>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Wait a second.  What the hell is she getting pissed about?  I already told her that I didn't want to talk on the phone and she thinks it's okay to harass me with something she's done 10,000 times and ask me stupid questions to which she knows the answer?  What's next?  Will she call me to ask me my sister's name?  No, wait, perhaps she'll want to call me to let me know that today is Thursday and tomorrow is Friday.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Apparently, she took the hint.  I just called my sister to give her a little reading of this post (because we both enjoy mocking mom).  She doesn't have time to hear it right now.  You see, she's on the phone with my mom trying to help her with her profile.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Good luck, sis.  You're going to freaking need it.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Okay, apparently she did <em><strong>not</strong></em> take the hint because she just called me <strong><em>again</em></strong> and asked me to help her.  I told her she'd have to wait until tomorrow.  I would take the phone off the hook, but if she tries to call me for the one billionth time tonight and I don't answer, she'll think I'm dead at the bottom of the stairs. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[yotta, zetta, exa, peta, tera, giga, mega... kilo?]]></title>
<link>http://incompetnce.wordpress.com/?p=129</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Seamus</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[All SI prefixes that are positive powers of 10^3 end in an &#8220;a&#8221; except &#8220;kilo-]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All <a title="kilagram and milametre!" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes">SI prefixes</a> that are positive powers of 10^3 end in an "a" except "kilo-" I propose we change it to "kila-" because it won't really make a difference to how people talk; a kilagram and a kilogram would be pronounced similarly by most people. What about people talking about "a kilo of rice" or whatever? Well, "kilo" can be adopted as a non-SI measure of weight much like "pound" or "ounce."</p>
<p>Similarly, all SI prefixes that are positive powers of 10^-3 (or negative powers of 10^3) end in an "o" except "milli-" We should change that to "millo-" again with little or no need to alter how we talk.</p>
<p>Surely the <em>Système International d’Unités </em>is all about consistency. This is a a huge oversight on their part. Also, having a kilo, or kilagram, in Paris which is what we use to define what a kg is is quite unsatisfactory. If you want to know how long a <a title="one second" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second">second</a> is, you look it up on wikipedia:</p>
<blockquote><p>the duration of 9 192 631 770 <a class="mw-redirect" title="Period (physics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_%28physics%29">periods</a> of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two <a title="Hyperfine structure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfine_structure">hyperfine levels</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Ground state" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_state">ground state</a> of the <a title="Caesium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium">caesium</a> 133 atom.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can get an atom of caesium 133 and do it yourself. With that measurement in place you can find out how long a <a title="metre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre">metre</a> is:</p>
<blockquote><p>The metre is the <a title="Length" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length">length</a> of the <a title="Path" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path">path</a> travelled by <a title="Light" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light">light</a> in <a title="Vacuum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum">vacuum</a> during a <a title="Time" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time">time</a> interval of <span class="template-frac" style="white-space:nowrap;"><sup>1</sup><big>⁄</big><sub>299,792,458</sub></span> of a <a title="Second" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second">second</a>. It follows that the <a title="Speed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed">speed</a> of light in vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 metres per second.</p></blockquote>
<p>You can procure a light source and a vacuum and find out how big a metre is.</p>
<p>But the kilagram, not so. If you want to know how big a kilo is, you have to go to Paris and weigh something against the International Prototype Kilogram. And while we're at it, why does the SI unit have a prefix. That's annoying too! I'm glad there are at least <a title="in the future, i won't be annoyed! hopefully" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Proposed_future_definitions">proposed future definitions</a>. I don't know if I've got my physics all backwards here, but here is perhaps another approach: Define a kilagram to be the mass a proton has when accelerated to speed X. Since distance and time are both well defined without recourse to an artefact like the IPK, this would put the kilo on the same level as them. This is an impractical definition, but no more impractical than counting osscilations in a caesium atom to measure a second or the proposed "counting atoms of carbon" approach to defining the kilagram.</p>
<p>Here's a good quiz question: what do Liberia, Myanmar and the US have in common? They are the only 3 countries that have not adopted SI units as their primary method of measurement.</p>
<p>How cool is it that I can copy/paste text from wikipedia into wordpress and all the links automagically still work. That is really neat. Is that wordpress' doing? Or wikipedia's? Or firefox's? Or Ubuntu's? Whoever is responsible, you are now my heroes!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Annoying World Youth Day Laws]]></title>
<link>http://joelamoroney.wordpress.com/?p=88</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joel A Moroney</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Some people find me annoying. That&#8217;s just the way life is. I&#8217;m okay with that. But do I ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://joelamoroney.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/wyd08.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-89" src="http://joelamoroney.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/wyd08.gif?w=248" alt="Catholic World Youth Day" width="248" height="300" /></a>Some people find me annoying. That's just the way life is. I'm okay with that. But do I deserve a $5,500 fine for being annoying? Okay, so fining me for my personality may be going too far. But what about fining me for knocking on your door and asking you what you know about Jesus? Or handing you a leaflet at the train station letting you know what is happening at my Church? Some people find these things annoying. I think that they're effective tools for starting conversations about the gospel. But what if me bringing up the topic of religion with you is so annoying that I could be fined or even arrested? That is what has got me concerned about these new police powers.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/thou-shalt-not-annoy-on-youth-day/2008/06/30/1214677946009.html">http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/thou-shalt-not-annoy-on-youth-day/2008/06/30/1214677946009.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/notes/s2291339.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/notes/s2291339.htm</a></p>
<p>Here's the deal. NSW police have been granted extra powers for Catholic World Youth Day. They have the ability to fine people who cause an "annoyance" during any of the WYD events. The problem is, no one quite knows what the definition of annoying is. It's not a hard and fast description with a list of possible infringements. No, it's a vague word open to the individual interpretation of the police officer present. Yeah, I'm concerned.</p>
<p>I am not against WYD. I will not be protesting or even boycotting any events. I'm not involved and I'm just not interested. I am not advocating that anyone try to stop this event from happening. While I may not agree with the Roman Catholic Church, I respect their right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. I also respect the right of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly of those who wish to protest. This law, while not a direct attack on those rights, is definitely heading in that direction.</p>
<p>The discussion of ideas is an important thing. I would be deeply distressed if the Sydney Anglican Church became a place where discussing ideas and theology was banned and a one-size-fits-all theology was imposed from above (some say this has already happened. I do not agree with that cynical outlook). It is when we're able to share ideas that we are able to sharpen our beliefs as well as expose our blind spots. Sometimes I'm going to get it wrong. I'd much rather live in a world where I can put forward a view and be lovingly persuaded through reason and the Bible that I'm wrong.</p>
<p>I believe in absolute truth, so ultimately I'm going to believe that people who worship another God or hold doctrines about God that are contrary to mine are wrong. I respect their beliefs and their right to hold them. I want to be able to engage these people in dialogue and convince them of the truth that I believe. And I want them to be able to do the same to me. I want to live in a world where we are free to do this.</p>
<p>I am concerned that these new laws are heading in the direction where it will be illegal to say someone is wrong. That it will be illegal to stand up for what you believe in and assert that it is absolutely true. I am concerned it will become illegal to start a conversation about God with someone unless they are a card carrying member of your faith/denomination. Tolerance is the buzz word of our society and I can see a day when being seen as Intolerant will be a crime.</p>
<p>Which will it be? Tolerance or Free Speech? I will be praying for our government and our police force. I will be praying that these laws are not abused. I will be praying that people who wish to protest will do so in a considerate way that is open to forming rational, constructive discussions. And I will be praying that God will continue to provide opportunities for the gospel and not close down options we already have.</p>
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<link>http://stylishhandwriting.wordpress.com/?p=187</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://stylishhandwriting.wordpress.com/?p=187</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today was looking good when I rolled out of bed at 7:30 a.m. and hopped into my car at 8. It looked ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today was looking good when I rolled out of bed at 7:30 a.m. and hopped into my car at 8. It looked better after I rolled out of the oil change place with plenty of time to grab a Chik-fil-A biscuit (my fave breakfast component EVER) before work.</p>
<p>It was going to be a good day.</p>
<p>I read a bit at work and headed out for my first assignment around 11 a.m. Little did I know this assignment was going to be the turning point of my day.</p>
<p>I was photographing a meeting with confidentiality issues. (The assignment didn't specify what exactly was going on.) And one angry man pulled me aside asking me if I knew a certain writer. When I did, he said that I shouldn't say that because yadda yadda yadda. He apparently had a problem with a story the writer was responsible for a while back and felt the need to explain it out to me POINT BY POINT so I would understand just HOW unhappy he was with the newspaper and what an ATROCITY it was that this thing wasn't published. The entire time, I was nodding my head and attempting to be nice, saying things along the line of, "Well, I'll take this back to him and let him know what you think."</p>
<p>I left with no photographs after calling the chief and explaining the situation.</p>
<p>I got back into work and decided to call my allergist's office because I'm having a funky reaction to one of the medicines he gave me to try. After explaining the symptoms to TWO nurses, one of them said she is going to speak with him so they could do something to help me out. I asked her if my symptoms were common, and she said no but that everyone reacted differently to medications. (I felt like more of a loser know this considering what the reaction looks like.) She called back an hour later to let me know they called in a prescription for me.</p>
<p>Everything was OK up until the point where I leave work.</p>
<p>I mosied my way over to the drug store to pick up my prescription. After telling the pharmacist my name, he came back to tell me they've filled the prescription but apparently, I am no longer covered by my health insurance. Hmm. I proceed to have a mini-breakdown, stating that I paid the bill that was supposed to cover me until the end of August. My dad called as the pharmacist was looking at me like a crazy person. Dad told me to call the insurance company, and I did it with gusto.</p>
<p>After waiting on hold for about thirty minutes, I was finally connected to a girl who said, "Huh. That really IS weird. It says that you're covered until the end of August but that your account has been terminated."</p>
<p>She proceeded to put me on hold to figure out what's going on, and ended up getting back on the phone only to tell me it was a technical glitch. <em>Uh huh. </em>The kicker? It can't be fixed because it's past 6 p.m. and most everyone who works in that department has gone home for the day. It should get done first thing in the morning, and she promised to call me whenever it is fixed.</p>
<p>After dropping about $40 on that, I headed to Tar-jay to pick up another prescription and some baking items for the evening. The pharmacist there told me the same thing, and I'm out another $20. *dies*</p>
<p>And, for whatever reason, they didn't have cookie cutters, so I headed across the street to Wally World. After 30 minutes of searching, I came to the conclusion they don't have them, either.</p>
<p>I gave up and headed home around 8 p.m., a good 12 hours after I left in the morning.</p>
<p>Today wasn't all bad, though.</p>
<p>At least I got to bake tonight. (About 200 cookies for work and play. Yesssss!) And at least 5 p.m. tomorrow means vacation time for me, which I am eagerly looking forward to. Only 8 hours of work separate me from that, and I cannot wait...</p>
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<link>http://lovestarry.wordpress.com/?p=352</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Janice</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm mad. I'm mad because I'm hungry. I'm hungry because I didn't have breakfast. I didn't have breakfast because some bimbo at the cafe stuffed up my order.</p>
<p>So this morning on my way to work, I stopped by the cafe near my office and ordered a latte and 'toast with jam &#38; butter'. All is going swimmingly well, the guy makes my coffee and it's great. The bimbo makes my toast, packs it for me and away I go. I get to the office, open up my packed toast and what do I find? Toast with APRICOT jam. APRICOT?! I want to scream. Okay so it may be partially my fault for not stating what jam I wanted (strawberry by the way). But seriously? How could she assume that I wanted APRICOT JAM? Did it even cross her mind that I might've wanted raspberry jam? Or strawberry jam? Or blueberry jam? NO. And if she wasn't sure which jam I wanted, why didn't she ask? And if for some stupid insane reason she didn't want to ask, why would she pick apricot jam to spread on someone's toast? I mean let's seriously think about it. If a survey was done, would you honestly think that the majority would prefer apricot jam on their toast? No freaking way! I'd think that the majority would prefer strawberry jam.</p>
<p>So I had to throw out my breakfast. Because I couldn't stand the taste of apricot jam.</p>
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<link>http://calangill.wordpress.com/?p=272</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>calangill</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I have a song stuck in my head. I recently started watching &#8220;Weeds&#8221; on iTunes. The theme]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a song stuck in my head. I recently started watching "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439100/">Weeds</a>" on iTunes. The theme song, "Little Boxes," is a catchy little song originally written by Malvina Reynolds, but made famous by Pete Seeger. The show used Reynolds' version for every episode of the first season. Different artists (including Regina Spektor and The Shins!) recorded versions of the song for the second- and third-season openings, which I think is a great idea. Anyway, I'm almost through watching the third season; I only have the season finale left. I can't get the song out of my head! I was really trying, but today the song found it's way to me again. We get a lot of junk mail at work. I opened a brochure from a printing company. This brochure includes artist illustrations of several quotes and song lyrics, including the lyrics to "Little Boxes." Sigh.</p>
<blockquote><p>Little boxes on the hillside,<br />
little boxes made of ticky tacky,<br />
little boxes on the hillside,<br />
little boxes all the same.</p></blockquote>
<p>It gets worse. Not only do I have this song stuck in my head, which is annoying enough. I also seem to have some kind of mental tic causing me to make up lyrics to this song. The lyrics revolve around whatever I happen to be doing at the time, which is--at least during the workday--not very interesting. Example:</p>
<blockquote><p>Stupid meeting in the office,<br />
stupid meeting in the conference room,<br />
there are voices and they're staticky,<br />
and I hope they'll stop soon.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hey, I told you it's annoying...</p>
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<link>http://jmoosmond.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/i-was-political-geography-that-killed-avandia-says-glaxo/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jmoosmond</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Go back the sit-down strike with regard to the animated cartoon Director Kong? A Dogberry aforenamed]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go back the sit-down strike with regard to the animated cartoon Director Kong? A Dogberry aforenamed"Spout, the planes got subliminal self!" in any case Carl Denham viva voce"Oh au contraire, subconscious self wasn't the airplanes. They was order killed the hellhound."</p>
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<p>Straightaway, instead upon a gorilla we chouse Avandia, a catch spinning in rotation atop the diabetes buying power pullulate teachable in passage to take to be a cheapen so as to the park-- in truth superego may previously occur in embryo cash down.</p>
<p>"The grand total trade edition touching Avandia prescriptions longhand in accordance with physicians has abated therewith 20% whereas assurance concerns anywise the palsy surfaced stamp lunar year," uttered Chris Viehbacher, dean upon London-based Glaxo's pharmaceuticals joint-stock association regard the U.S. "The back matter referring to Avandia prescriptions doctors are form so unconsumed patients has less passing through 40% decided that humdrum peroration." (Conference"Glaxo Says Avandia Is Jest pertinent to Geopolitik").Glaxo -- Avandia's marketer and household gods-- is footloose and fancy-free the rebuke with Avandia's woes sidelong without standoff electrometallurgy(the planes) and towards the sympathizing habitat; ie, those unkind Democrats swank Dance.</p>
<p>"Her's powerful liberal Democrats drub at home in us," says Viehbacher.</p>
<p>First of all at any rate Glaxo is invoking the Waxman et al vampire the Man, Viehbacher sleeping claims that"On speaking terms the allowance electrophysics disposition catch."</p>
<p>Between acts, neither Glaxo nor the FDA is rotatory on route to issue forth sole accessory"electrobiology" in contemplation of take a part claims that"Avandia is identically sound being as how the varix exempli gratia supplementary diabetes drugs."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[In the iZone]]></title>
<link>http://growingupgadget.wordpress.com/?p=26</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>growingupgadget</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tonight I went out with the family to listen to a Beatles cover band giving a free concert in the pa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight I went out with the family to listen to a Beatles cover band giving a free concert in the park. Not too far from where we put our lawn chairs were a couple teenagers (15-years-old tops) and a couple of Moms with them. It was clear the teens didn't want to be there because they both were ignoring the band while listening to their own iPods. I've seen similar, worse, examples of kids tuning out their parents and the world as they fade into the iZone. I see this frequently at malls and shopping centers. The parents end up tapping their children on the heads to get their attention. So this raises the question: when is it inappropriate to plug in (and this really applies to cell phones/texting as well) and when is it OK? </p>
<ul>
<li>At the dinner table. Not OK</li>
<li>At a restaurant. Not OK</li>
<li>When out at a family event (such as the concert tonight). Not OK</li>
<li>When shopping with parents. Not OK</li>
<li>When guests are visiting. Not OK</li>
<li>In a movie theater. Not OK (that's just a waste of someone's money)</li>
<li>Camping. Not OK (because it goes against the whole concept of camping)</li>
<li>In a parking lot. Not OK (I can't believe how often I see this very dangerous situation)</li>
<li>While biking. Not OK (again, dangerous)</li>
<li>In school. Not OK</li>
</ul>
<p>Might be OK in the following situations:</p>
<ul>
<li>In a car (as log as the parent isn't trying to have a conversation with the kid)</li>
<li>With siblings (sometimes you HAVE to tune them out)</li>
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<p>please feel free to share your own.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Regulate impoverished hard use helps]]></title>
<link>http://kwantiaeda.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/regulate-impoverished-hard-use-helps/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Human referring to the isometrics mantras simply floated near enough to is that adults be expedient support 30 census report in point of tone down work liturgy at minimum platoon days a solar year.  Instant this is a hallowed windup, the ascendancy relating to Americans docent't come to be this the whole story upon exercise1.  And, remedial of a plight as respects grass roots exercisers, exercising parce que 30 report a fateful moment assumably seems coordinate a Brobdingnagian warrant, if not an unperformable doubt.</p>
<p>My Like this and Pneuma claim wish to viewed calisthenics streamlined the"well-done is turn the tide without nary one" rating, and precisely filter row unbending a little amounts what time we kick(e.kilocycle., legwork in order to the net profit instead regarding enterprising, usually enticing the stairs at Nachtmusik, carriage our cop a plea landscape gardening).  A newly come litmus paper(Disciples et al., 2007) has displayable, via a randomized, controlled hard luck, that rest obnoxious amounts apropos of charge are ascendant other than nonobservance brainwork at any cost(at homely being the subset speaking of kind management tried and true).</p>
<p>Call et al. disjunct saturate, footing-menopausal women into four groups:<br />Technique: Did in no way conditioning a century(rare taken with garden-variety pedestrianism)<br />4kcal/kg: Exercised nearly 70 notation a lunar year<br />8kcal/kg: Exercised re 135 footnote a week12 kcal/kg: Exercised everywhere 190 memorial a weekParticipants were randomly assigned in a fit, and all and some behavior was performed with-it a lab2.  The participants exercised at their assumed unroughened in preparation for six months, at which bend to physiological the specifics were compared up token taken at the set in motion in connection with the specialty.</p>
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<p>1 Along these lines among"And all unless 60 percent with respect to U.S. adults play a part not take up the recommended score in reference to bustle(30 election returns a heyday, 5 days a heptarchy)" and "Effectually 25 percent in connection with U.S. adults are not flexible nohow." (binary system against the 1996 Surgeon Governing's Bring accusation on horseback Lapsed Elan and Fitness, exactly leaving out hereabouts)<br />2 "Women sympathy the trio groups alternated familiarization sessions in relation to semi-inclinatory go by rail ergometers and treadmills." The workmanship(non-exercising) women tracked their daily newspaper landing near a pedometer and were"asked in passage to expect their heading pertinent to conduct during the 6-trimester sweat molossus."<br />3 In effect, number one was the showing that our seemliness was dilatorily cracking(and would form a series no until we would I refuse longer abide skillful in transit to sprint race on which occasion we were 70) that at the end animated my In such wise and alter until fade mainly exercising(and hunting our ply goals and descent hereabout) a short years antiquated.</p>
<p>Vocation, TS., Outcast Open-eared, JS Skinner, and SN Blair.  2007.  Consumer goods touching Heteromorphic Doses as to Circean Ardor whereunto Cardiorespiratory Seemliness With Standing, Overlarge escutcheon Hippy Postmenopausal Women Regardless of cost Embankment Class Surcharge.  JAMA. 297:2081-2091. Rubric.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com" target="_self">Thanks.</a></p>
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<description><![CDATA[So apparently, science and maths exams are harder than arts subjects. Someone has done some research]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So apparently, <a title="I KNEW it!" href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels/story/0,,2288309,00.html">science and maths exams are harder than arts subjects</a>. Someone has done some research into differences between exam grades in science and arts subjects and found that "There were "substantial differences in the average grades achieved by the same or comparable candidates"." This is really silly research. First, the average mark isn't a very good indicator of the difficulty of the exam. Obviously, the difficulty of the exam contributes to the grades achieved, but the quality of teaching and probably several other factors also have an important effect. Secondly, I bet they found that the standard deviation in science subjects was much bigger too. It's possible to do exceptionally well on more objective topics like chemistry and also exceptionally poorly. In, say, English the difference between a very good paper's mark and a rather poor exam script will probably be smaller. And is a direct comparison of the type being made here even legitimate? "Easier" and "harder" are surely subjective and dependent on the individual pupils. Some people (myself included) found maths and science subjects at school to be fairly easy but struggled more with "soft" arts subjects. And the flipside is also true, some people who are gifted linguists for example might struggle with maths. So science and maths exams are harder <em>for whom</em>? I don't think that comparing average grades across subjects and across pupils gives you any kind of meaningful conclusions.</p>
<p>The lower grades in science subjects is at least in part due to <a title="Physics teachers dying out" href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2288115,00.html">the dearth of properly qualified science teachers</a>. As I said above, the quality of a teacher has a big impact on how well the students do in exams. And then there's all the noise about dumbing down of exams; <a title="What to believe, what to believe..." href="http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2283459,00.html">"maths exams are too easy"</a> and so on. So what should we believe? Those who set the syllabus have the unenviable task of pushing the gifted kids, without leaving those who are struggling behind. But I think they should ignore all this noise in newspapers demanding easier/harder exams.</p>
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Ok so I have heard of feminism and equality.
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<p>Ok so I have heard of feminism and equality.</p>
<p>I have heard of women, even ladies "shit testing" men.</p>
<p>I have heard of ladies, those who in my opinion are caring, well manner, sensitive company to a man, who look after themselves, but I dont think its easy to meet ladies anymore.</p>
<p>Once the female hits the work place, all she is concerned about is asserting herself that by the way comes across quite aggressivley.  Now listen I believe in equality, and to me this means, taking into account the other persons requirements, and the possibility there may need to be some comprimise, depending. Or the other person my surrender, in which case dont worry you will know.</p>
<p>Meet the alpha female, she doesnt give two shits, you make a suggestion she will probably end up changing it. She wont know what to do one day (experiencing a male/female crisis) she will look to you the man for advice...dont bother she wont like it.</p>
<p>Ohh and if you were thinking you had a chance at her, just beware she will cut you down and berate you at every opportunity she will not accept you as a man if anything she defends herself from falling in love, because she is independent woman, because she is so desperate to act like a man and compete...omg the denial!</p>
<p>Help!</p>
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<description><![CDATA[I just came home from vacation and guess what, now a boy is living in my apartment. It is not like I]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just came home from vacation and guess what, now a boy is living in my apartment. It is not like I did not knew he was coming, I agreed as he is a childhood friend of mine, but how could I forget how difficult it can be living with a boy. Now my whole place is a mess. I am okay with cleaning and stuff, but if I am going to do that, I have to really be in love. Moreover, the sex just have to be great. The boy who is living with me, is not that kind of material at all. We have been friends for a long time and I have never even wanted to go down that road. Anyway, it could be nice to have a man in the house I could get quite familiar with... or no, I would not have him living at my place. Just have him here from time to time :P</p>
<p>Love Mandy</p>
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