Most Pearl Crescents I have seen don't have markings that white on their forewings. Most are more orange.
- John (bird whisperer)
Oh boo! I just realized that today was the last day of the Pavilion of Wings at the museum. It won't be open again until April. I've learned so much from them on maintaining and helping the butterflies along in my garden. Turned out that 4 of the weeds I was pulling were what the butterflies either pupated on or ate after emergence. Now, my garden is full of all kinds of varieties.
- Anika
Too bad. That sounds like an interesting exhibit. A lot of the nature orgs here try to spread the word about important food plants for butterflies. It gets tricky when the adults and larvae have different needs.
- John (bird whisperer)
"It is 122 degrees, the heat so profound and air so parched that you only know you sweat if you lean against a railing, or hold something for a few seconds in your hand. This is the lowest and driest point in North America and one of the hottest in the world. Badwater Pool, it is called, but the suggestion of a pool, however bad, does nothing to prepare you for this scaly, scalding, green-brown liquid. It may have begun as pristine ice water in the central Nevada mountains and journeyed underground through limestone bedrock, but it emerges from a fault line here as if it were the earth’s primal secretion. A century ago even mules wouldn’t drink here, which is how Badwater got its name. One 19th-century visitor, hearing perhaps the cracking of salt crystals over this expanse, swore he could discern the condemned of Hades, gibbering under the brittle, sharp protrusions of minerals. That field of pockmarked earth spreading out in the distance has become mischievously known as the Devil’s...
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- edythe
from Bookmarklet
"No mere history, this. The National Park Service literature tells the story of one foolhardy visitor who decided to take a two-hour hike in this valley’s landscape one recent June day. He carried only a liter of water; after five hours he was found dead in Gower Gulch. How many hundreds of such corpses have been transmuted into mineral deposits here before rangers started keeping count?"
- edythe
OK, we have seen the altered version of this MS page for Poland and now we see MS was up to the same tricks for their version of this page for planet Kashyyyk.
- Louis Trapani
When I was a kid, the music of KISS was so extreme it was to lead to the end of civilization. Listening to it now is like listening to the Archies. It's adorable. Hard to believe anyone was ever threatened by it.
what do you have ? are you working with a naturopath ? my husband is beating bladder cancer , i will be glad to help you with what i have learned .
- Lisa zahara Hopkins
Lisa, I have stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (adenocarcinoma to be exact). John, I've been working my way through it and I am really enjoying it! Thanks again!
- Michael McKean
Michael, what type of test did they do on your cancer cells? I am trying to set up a chemotherapy testing company using cancer cells from the primary tumor or from metastases. What chemo are you getting?
- Stefan Gruenwald
Stefan, it was an EDR Assay. I'm getting Carbo/Taxol.
- Michael McKean
MoonPie + RC = a many decades long tradition. I'll let you in on a li'l secret though: I don't particularly like MoonPies. People here blame it on the fact that my parents grew up in Detroit ;-)
- FFing Enigma
I don't get how folks can eat marshmallows right out of the bag. Squicks me out.
- Yolanda
The dusty, matte exterior is the best part. There's just something really pleasing about that texture. The internal gooey bit isn't nearly as good but I'll suffer it for that initial touch.
- Akiva
We had moon pies at our swimming pool when I was a kid. Always had enough money to buy a moon pie for afternoon snack, also most likely reason I had to go to the chubby section for school clothing.
- Janet
a moonpie store opened in charleston a few weeks ago. stopped in there for the first time a couple of days ago. didn't get to try a moonpie, but they did have a cool looking soda/ice cream counter.
- Imabug
Oh, I understand it. It's still gross.
- Steven Perez
You're absolutely right. I don't really drink soda and don't eat many sweets. Consequently...I need one of those with a pic of a latte and a cigarette. lol
- Christian (Simply X)
A MoonPie, heated for 20 seconds in a microwave with two scoops of homemade vanilla ice cream on top and a cold RC cola ( or Diet Rite if that's too much sugar) THAT'S a wonderful memory and makes me hungry. BTW, I have Mini MoonPies in the pantry right now :)
- Andy Glover
LOVE the combo... and the proper pronunciation is "Moom-pie and AR-cie coluh"
- MoTO Poppet
Karim, that's one GIGANTIC moonpie!
- FFing Enigma
tina - you grew up in detroit? wow. that explains a lot. (i tease because i love)
- Morgan
No dear, I grew up in SC. My parents both lived in Detroit until they were teenagers, and then both their families moved to TN (which is where they met).
- FFing Enigma
"Entertainment Weekly (http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatc...) has unveiled the cover for its upcoming issue, and it has the first look at a certain spy of the Marvel Universe: That’s right, Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow. Granted, she’s mostly obscured by Tony’s armor, but you now know hair style, and you can see that the leather jumpsuit is making a transition to the screen."
- RAPatton
No, Zach, but I come from a long line of red headed women, my mother, grandmother and on and on, which means I come from a long line of men who pursued and married ladies with scarlet locks
- RAPatton
from iPod
I know it probably won't change how a lot of men feel about her, but apparently Gwenyth Paltrow complained that Scarlett was a real bitch to work with on the set.
- George S.
not a fan of Scarlett but the special effects should make up for that.
- jbrotherlove
Jbrother, I've liked her since Ghost World
- RAPatton
from iPhone
You know what? I'm tired of apologizing for and/or defending the things that make me who I am, both the good things and the bad (or the things that go either way depending on your perspective).
I curse when I shouldn't. I laugh a lot, often at the wrong times. I live in the south. I cry when I get mad. I'm silly and goofy. I'm strong-willed and independent. I procrastinate. I truly suck at follow-through. I'm healthy as a horse and eat like one. My house is a disheveled mess 90% of the time. I'm too big, too small, too smart, too obvlivious, too caring, and too self-centered all at the same time, depending on who you ask. The list goes on and on and on, and you know what? It's who I am. I can't control the fact that someone, somewhere is going to take it personally whether I want them to or not.
- FFing Enigma
Not really even apologizing, at least not always. Sometimes it's the feeling bad or guilty for things I can't control, things that are me because of circumstances of birth and genetics. They're part of who I am but I can't really take credit for them, so why feel bad about them?
- FFing Enigma
it took me a long time to come to that conclusion. Be yourself, fuck the rest. No use worrying about something. If you can change it, CHANGE IT if it bugs you. If you can't control it, move on, forget about it. Control what you can control. If you're happy, that's all that matters.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
i think you should apologize for saying such crazy things....well? I'm waiting.....
- Morgan
*GASP* You have entirely too much self esteem young lady! How dare you be happy with yourself! Fix it now! ;)
- Soup in a TARDIS
still waiting...*hums quietly - dum dee dum dum....dee dee dum dum dah*
- Morgan
a little bit of self confidence can be a very dangerous thing! :-)
- Morgan
I wasted way too many years apologizing (or feeling like I *had* to) for who I am. The really stupid part was that the people who would try the hardest to make me feel guilty about some aspect of my personality, *loved* that aspect about me, as long as it suited their interests.
- vicster
The first comment sorta reminded me of the lyrics to a song. Threads like this and the other sorta make me wonder whether people had thicker skin years ago or people were just generally less offensive. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle? Maybe nothing's changed? Or maybe it's because they had to ask themselves "If I say this, will I get stabbed?" D=
- Jered Hofker
Jered, I think 100 years ago our worlds were small enough that almost all the people you would come in contact with were going to be like you in almost every way. You didn't have to think about how you (or the people around you) were different and take it into account, so it was a non-issue. I came into contact with more nationalities on my way to lunch today than people in my area...
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- FFing Enigma
Congratulations... you are a human! :) Welcome to the club
- The Catz Meow
MVB, just buy me a (decent) beer when we see each other in Vegas =D
- FFing Enigma
i agree that you should be proud of you. I am proud to even be affiliated with you this tiny bit here on friendfeed. i agree with Mike's comment of 'if you can change something and it bugs you,change it'. As long as people aren't hiding self doubt behind the "I am Proud of Me" cloak.. I am a big fan of you being proud of you!
- Cody Heitschmidt
Wait, twinkies can get tough? I thought that was a chemical impossibility...
- FFing Enigma
Amen! I have been saying the same thing a *lot* lately. :-/
- David Cook
That's kinda what I was getting at, Tina. "You didn't have to think about how you (or the people around you) were different and take it into account." I think you're right to an extent, but there have always been cliques, teasing and bigotry and, whether it's "Those Bratty Hofker Boys" or "Those Crazy Catholics" or anything more inflammatory, it seems like people managed to get past it...
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- Jered Hofker
@Tina, They go stale (although not always hard assuming they keep their wrappers) after 7 years. Hence the mostly-American tradition of passing out twinkies to PhD candidates following the completion of their comprehensive examinations. Most programs allow for a maximum of 7 years between completing the exams and completing the dissertation. If your twinkie goes stale so do you (and then you have to retake all the classes usually, oof!)
- Soup in a TARDIS
i am thinking about the heated debates, unpleasant scenes with opinionated women who blame me for being negative, since they are always convincing themselves of positive, winning, uplifting mantras, and they just cannot stand it when people are not seeing the wonderful potential there is for miracles, wishful thinking, etc.. they just don't want to see that we are stumbling into a...
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- daveeza
Personally, I love the drama of talking about the drama and how people don't want to be part of said drama anymore. Or don't care about the drama. ;)
- caj
Luckily Curtis, this post wasn't about drama, FF or otherwise. It was just me figuring out something about myself and sharing it. Maybe someone read it and decided they'd get a little more comfortable in their skin too.
- FFing Enigma
Years ago my first husband used to tell me all the time that I "laughed too much and too loud" I remember how good it felt to dump him and how much I laughed and how loud! Go Tina :D
- comix aka martha
And that was exactly my point!! I love that you feel this way!! People are way too wrapped up on stereotypes or what they are "suppose to be" instead of what they are. I usually just tell people, I'm just me, no more, no less, and frankly I don't really need to be anything else.
- Nimabeckie
Tina, my comment was a groggy attempt at humor. :/ I wholeheartedly agree with what you're saying. Often times we (and I really mean I, in this case) have been trained to be "PC", or our interpretation of it. We become afraid to say or do the very things that make us...well, us. I'm really picking up what your putting down and appreciate you including us on your journey. :)
- caj
No worries, Curtis: that was my groggy attempt at a terse yet polite response and it may or may not have been so. I think we've both learned a valuable lesson about groggy FFing </silliness>
- FFing Enigma
This is kind of the "live out loud" mantra. Enjoy life, stop being self-conscious, and all that. Not that I'm telling you what to do, of course.
- anna sauce
Tina - your description sounds like a mirror image of me...but I'd add one more. No - I don't want your self-help book so I can change my faults! Without "faults" how would we recognize our strengths?
- Robyn Hawk
Totally agree. Be you. Be you, better - when you can. But always be you.
- Anthony Citrano
Can't believe I missed this. GO TINA!
- Josh Haley
Blasphemy? More like the BEST THING EVAR! =D
- FFing Enigma
Now I want one too but unfortunately I don't think I deserve it - maybe tomorrow :(
- adf
Ethan, I'm about to make my second, so you and I will eat our English muffins in tandem.
- FFing Enigma
YES!!! Ethan, while I'm sorry that you now suffer my affliction, I am happy that you have experienced the nom that is English muffin + butter + honey. IT IS LOVE AND JOY.
- FFing Enigma
The man is just a poet! ..I may or may not own a VHS tape with that music video (and others) on it. But I'll never confirm that!
- Joe "The Enforcer" Pierce
QUESTION: You have the oppotunity to take a trip in space and explore a far-away world. Money is no object, and you have a reasonably good chance of surviving the trip. But there is also a chance that you will be gone for many years from earth. Do you stay, or do you go?
One thing at a time, Sally Sparrow. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'd go, not much keeping me here and I like travelling. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Fuggit I'll go. Wait, do they have fish in this other world?
- Rodfather
*honks from the ship* 'Come ON! Let's get going people! and by the way.....SHOTGUN!"
- Morgan
my bag is packed, can the last person left on earth please turn out the lights
- tony bland
First no room for kitten then it is a big ship. What if I grow strawberries -hydroponic like (can I take kitten now?)
- Janet
Well, I had to redesign the ship to accommodate more pets, which meant more room for parks, which meant more room for food and crops. So, yeah, lots of kittehs. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
How many years? Up to five, absolutely. More than that, I'll think about it. But having the internet and kittehs certainly ups my tolerance. :-)
- Deborah Fitchett
Hmmm, tough. I'd rather spend those years traveling Earth, I think, though.
- Jandy
Only if there was some way for me to have internet access on a regular basis. After all, who is going to check my email while I am gone? And I'll probably want to blog about the adventure, as it unfolds.
- April
I have one that sat in a snow drift for months. Miraculously, it almost sort of boots up now. I really should just recycle it, but I can't help but think there is some kind of use for it.
- Tinfoil 2.0
OMG this is going to give me a nightmare! That sucks big time April.
- BEX
on the bright side... you get to get a new 3GS :)
- Bindu Reddy
if only the touchscreen is cracked...$60 gets you a replacement. if the display was damaged as well, then the replacement is approx $150-175. (DIY)
- Carlos Ayala
It's grotesquely beautiful, in a way.
- Josh Haley
Oh dear, quite the opposite. It's time to upgrade to a non iphone glass slab. Get a real phone, where they can afford buttons and functions for when you're not online :-)
- Richard A.
I had this happen to me less than two weeks after I got my first one (about a year ago) and had to go buy a new one. I wish I had known about the $60 touchscreen replacement option Carlos mentions above. Not one told me that then. It is all the more reason to get a good case.
- Ragani Harris
Oh, no! My phone looked like that earlier this year. I eventually found a place that replaced the screen for about $140 in 5 minutes. Cheaper than going to Apple!
- Bryan Person
I've seen a couple of those in person. It's one reason I used to disparage the iPhone so much; my HTC phones bounced quite a bit before they lost functionality. The iPhone wins in that the cracked/shattered screen still knows where you're pressing, whereas all of my non-phone touchscreen devices were useless with even a small crack in the corner. I bought a case for my second-hand iPhone right away, and it's bounced just fine several times.
- a runcible MiniMage
I saw it but personally I found it boring. To me there is nothing worse than if your film is boring. There were many people who liked it though. It seems as though there is no middle of the road for this film, it's love/hate.
- Aaron Macom
I hated it, I know that's a strong word, but i really did. Frank Miller really Blew his whole whole franchise with this DUD. hopefully he's leaned his lesson to leave Hollywood to the professionals.
- Tate
I found it awful, and really too long. Photography, as in Sin city, is good but everything else is boring.
- DAL
I tried to watch it last night. It was horrible. At least, the first 20 minutes or so were, I turned it off.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Didn't like it (except for the bare butt of Eva Mendes).
- Graham English
Netflix-ed it and fell asleep during what was supposed to be the climax of the story.
- Brian Chang
"Three judges are currently reviewing the judge that handled the Pirate Bay trial to discover if he was biased or not. No decision has yet been made but the New York Times and several other publications report inaccuracies and plain wrongs that claim otherwise. Time to get the facts straight."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"Bob Dylan has just announced an ambitious line-up for this year’s summer concert tour. Along with fellow troubadour Willie Nelson, this summer The Bob Dylan Show will also feature John Mellencamp, marking just the second time in the past 24 years that these three performers have shared the concert stage."
- FFing Enigma
from Bookmarklet
I'd think Satan would be more of a netbook guy. I just don't see him kicking around with his old Smith Corona. Furthermore, typewriters are terrible for looking up porn.
- Marty
'typewriters are terrible for looking up porn' -- classic!
- docrivs
I thought it was healthy... apparently it helps to stave off prostate cancer and it ensures the freshest batch of swimmers is at your disposal! Also, the story christians base their hate on mans favourite hobby has been totally misread and doesn't condemn those that participate in a little solo olympics.
- alphaxion
Wanna see more from the Trinity Church, they are really good!
- Jacob
Also, if Satan is involved, then it isn't really masturbation.
- Kevin Fox
thing is, Onan wasn't punished for masturbating, he was punished for not impregnating the woman with it as he promised to, breaking his promise to the couple and his god. If anything, people should get "do not make promises you can't keep" from that parable!
- alphaxion
Hasn't Satan upgraded to MS Word yet?
- Steven Perez
Now the church-going innocent children will ask their parents, "Mom, what is masturbation?"
- Hiro Asari
@hiro and the sad thing is, their answer will be littered with lies, other peoples hangups and dogma instead of real education. There's nothing wrong with teaching the kid the reality of biology, after all they're gonna find out one way or another, why not give them the truth.
- alphaxion
Isn't satan afraid of some sensitive part of the anatomy getting caught in the keys. I think i'll start a donation fund to get Satan a Mac.
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
3000 WPM - Not One Mistake! Yeah baby. You know how daddy likes it. Because, well, you are daddy's right hand...eww...I think i just creeped myself out...
- Morgan
Free food is the secret to life. You go squirrely cookie bandit, aim for sodas or juices next for future consumption in the winter months.
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
RAP, I bring my lunch on most days. Otherwise I partake in free food from meetings and stuff. I'm always on the lookout for free snacks.
- James Ferguson
After seeing too many conference room meals get tossed in the trash, there's no reason not to be a scavenger. Another guy in my group is a scavenger and my boss was looking at the both of us funny when we were debating the scavenging merits of the new building vs. old building.
- Wirehead
I think you should call yourself either a cookie ninja or a cookie pirate.
- Wirehead
Normally this stuff gets sent upstairs to the rest of the TV department instead of hanging out here where I can snag it at my leisure. I make sure to stock up. I got another batch of cookies before the meeting ended.
- James Ferguson