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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of August 8, 2013
You have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It's best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you've certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While you're at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. It's time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare.
I'll leave the playing of saxophones to others. I don't think Scotch Whisky is for me either at this point. Do I have a name when I lose?
You have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It's best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you've certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While you're at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. It's time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare.
I'll leave the playing of saxophones to others. I don't think Scotch Whisky is for me either at this point. Do I have a name when I lose?
Writer's Block: The name game
Jan. 31st, 2011 03:47 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
A) Answered Before, tho' I have to update that I have sat (and taxied) semi-operational aircraft since. Still haven't done any real flying.
B) Also Answered Before.
A) Answered Before, tho' I have to update that I have sat (and taxied) semi-operational aircraft since. Still haven't done any real flying.
B) Also Answered Before.
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Not myself, but at the time, a close buddy was being cyber-bullied and the bully tried to use my identity in his smear campaign. I saw what he was doing and cried foul as loudly as possible. And enough of our other friends were listening to put a stop to the bullying.
Not myself, but at the time, a close buddy was being cyber-bullied and the bully tried to use my identity in his smear campaign. I saw what he was doing and cried foul as loudly as possible. And enough of our other friends were listening to put a stop to the bullying.
Movie Dream
Jun. 28th, 2010 01:41 pmIt's WW2 and the protagonist is a young soldier on the Axis side (haven't figured out his nationality yet). He witnesses an attempt on Hitler's life when Herr Fuhrer "inspects the front"...and finds himself in so much trouble that he deserts and finds himself in a bombed-out village. He takes the identity of a university student killed by the bombing, goes to the school to hide among the other students, and tries to arrange an escape to a neutral country.
One thing he notices in the dead student's papers is the following conundrum: "Four out of five people believe in"--the paper being cut off before the end of the sentance. At the school, he finds the answer--and this spurs him to change his plans and behavior.
I have this weird feeling this movie already exists. Have my European buddies seen anything like it?
One thing he notices in the dead student's papers is the following conundrum: "Four out of five people believe in"--the paper being cut off before the end of the sentance. At the school, he finds the answer--and this spurs him to change his plans and behavior.
I have this weird feeling this movie already exists. Have my European buddies seen anything like it?
Squawk Ident
May. 26th, 2010 12:04 amSagittarius Horoscope for week of May 27, 2010
Sagittarian writer Samuel Clemens was best known under his pen name, Mark Twain. But he tried many others, including Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Trismegistus, and Sergeant Fathom. Since you're in a phase when experiments with your persona would be productive, I suggest you dream up a few aliases of your own. I hope that at least one of them will be as wacky as "Blab" or "Snodgrass." Having a sense of humor about yourself will be helpful. It will ensure that your explorations at the frontiers of your identity will be fertile, fun, and never fear-based.
Enough people have called me "Scott" by mistake that I suppose I could adopt it in some fashion. In previous eras, I've been "Brenten Stair", "The Stem", "Stone Tepid" and "Steverino". I like playing with name generator programs too. But don't expect me to change my handle here anytime soon...sad as it is, it fits me about as well as the name my mother gave me.
Sagittarian writer Samuel Clemens was best known under his pen name, Mark Twain. But he tried many others, including Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab, Trismegistus, and Sergeant Fathom. Since you're in a phase when experiments with your persona would be productive, I suggest you dream up a few aliases of your own. I hope that at least one of them will be as wacky as "Blab" or "Snodgrass." Having a sense of humor about yourself will be helpful. It will ensure that your explorations at the frontiers of your identity will be fertile, fun, and never fear-based.
Enough people have called me "Scott" by mistake that I suppose I could adopt it in some fashion. In previous eras, I've been "Brenten Stair", "The Stem", "Stone Tepid" and "Steverino". I like playing with name generator programs too. But don't expect me to change my handle here anytime soon...sad as it is, it fits me about as well as the name my mother gave me.
Randomnity
Apr. 29th, 2010 03:27 pm*) Had to clear my work out of the guest room because we have an emergency guest that I know next to nothing about and what I do know, I'm not allowed to make public.
*) I'll be at the Bizarre Bazaar at HobbyTown USA at Turkey Creek this Saturday, from 11 AM till I no longer can stand the sitting-around. I'll have a table and will be selling 28mm gaming miniatures and back issues of Knights Of The Dinner Table, and maybe other stuffage.
*) Greene Military & Police Supply in Knoxville did NOT have a peaked hat in my size. I may have to order one from the factory, now that I know a website for them.
*) I bought a Season 1 DVD set of ExoSquad for myself and one for a friend. Which friend?--Haven't decided.
*) Dissected Cow's motherboard is too big for inside the case of Mum's computer Maeflower, so we may end up rebuilding Maeflower inside Dissected Cow's case. It will have to wait for funding.
*) Mum got an automated e-mail that had an attached .PDF file that looked very suspect. There may have been an embedded virus as part of the .PDF, but Maeflower's software seemed to recognize it as such and refused to run it. So watch out for e-mails that claim to be from your ISP with attached .PDFs.
*) I'll be at the Bizarre Bazaar at HobbyTown USA at Turkey Creek this Saturday, from 11 AM till I no longer can stand the sitting-around. I'll have a table and will be selling 28mm gaming miniatures and back issues of Knights Of The Dinner Table, and maybe other stuffage.
*) Greene Military & Police Supply in Knoxville did NOT have a peaked hat in my size. I may have to order one from the factory, now that I know a website for them.
*) I bought a Season 1 DVD set of ExoSquad for myself and one for a friend. Which friend?--Haven't decided.
*) Dissected Cow's motherboard is too big for inside the case of Mum's computer Maeflower, so we may end up rebuilding Maeflower inside Dissected Cow's case. It will have to wait for funding.
*) Mum got an automated e-mail that had an attached .PDF file that looked very suspect. There may have been an embedded virus as part of the .PDF, but Maeflower's software seemed to recognize it as such and refused to run it. So watch out for e-mails that claim to be from your ISP with attached .PDFs.
Frickin' loopholes again.
Tennessee just changed the immunization requirements for secondary education this year, and all of a sudden they need proof that I got my MMR shots. My problem is that I got those so long ago that my pediatrician is dead, buried and had a public library named for him. I'm not sure my records have even survived the decades and moves that have happened since. But I have to have a doctor sign off on me so I can re-submit my enrollment papers to Tech School. Can a doctor just do a look-up on me just from my name and SSN? Or am I going to have to go to some state health department office somewhere?
Tennessee just changed the immunization requirements for secondary education this year, and all of a sudden they need proof that I got my MMR shots. My problem is that I got those so long ago that my pediatrician is dead, buried and had a public library named for him. I'm not sure my records have even survived the decades and moves that have happened since. But I have to have a doctor sign off on me so I can re-submit my enrollment papers to Tech School. Can a doctor just do a look-up on me just from my name and SSN? Or am I going to have to go to some state health department office somewhere?
Writer's Block: Googling Myself
Apr. 6th, 2010 12:02 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I Google myself on a regular basis. I have been surprised sometimes, like with my namesake Civil War soldier, and a horror parody story with a namesake character, and another namesake supposedly in Mongolia, but there is very little about me on the 'Net that I haven't initiated.
I Google myself on a regular basis. I have been surprised sometimes, like with my namesake Civil War soldier, and a horror parody story with a namesake character, and another namesake supposedly in Mongolia, but there is very little about me on the 'Net that I haven't initiated.
We Now Know Their REAL Name
Nov. 27th, 2009 08:17 pmGot my umpteenhundredth con-job e-mail today.
The user's name: JOE PWN. I am not kidding. He uses Yahoo! out of Hong Kong.
The user's name: JOE PWN. I am not kidding. He uses Yahoo! out of Hong Kong.
Writer's Block: Same Name
May. 18th, 2009 12:15 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
While Bierce is pretty rare, Stephen is very common. I've encountered a couple first-and-last namesakes over the web. But Steves, Stevens and Stephens are proliferating in my life. *shrug* I've gotta be me.
While Bierce is pretty rare, Stephen is very common. I've encountered a couple first-and-last namesakes over the web. But Steves, Stevens and Stephens are proliferating in my life. *shrug* I've gotta be me.
I'm WHERE?
Oct. 7th, 2008 03:03 pmI Googled myself and saw that somehow there is a "Stephen Bierce" registered with a website all the way in Mongolia. Been there since last year. I don't remember signing up for it...or for yet another Yahoo! identity I found that may or may not be attributed to me.
Is there a racket for cloning peoples' online identities in order to establish authenticity and then doing something nefarious? This is just very weird.
FP
PS: Somehow one of my userpics was changed and I didn't do it. I was not amused.
Is there a racket for cloning peoples' online identities in order to establish authenticity and then doing something nefarious? This is just very weird.
FP
PS: Somehow one of my userpics was changed and I didn't do it. I was not amused.
