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Knitting and listening to an audiobook in my hammock. #undermytree #bliss
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I like how you party.
- Running Slow
I think Sarah G might be jealous.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I checked the temp here myself because I was cold with the cat window open. It's 64, which is warmer than I thought. I'm in Polartec.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
My hammock was just delivered! Now if it would only stop sleeting...
Headless Gnad Kicker, Bren, Mary B: #TeamMonique and LB: #TeamMonique liked this
Caved and turned on heat. It was 60 degrees in here. Memorial Day BBQ at my house! Pack your long johns!
Catherine Pellegrino, Hieronymous Boosh, lris and 5 other people liked this
Midwest Spring is COLD! Heat on here, too.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
RT @savvyfatty: After a long 12-hour day, there's no better feeling than to come home to the loving, welcoming arms of...my snacks.
Jennifer Dittrich, Lisa | #TeamMonique and LB: #TeamMonique liked this
I miss Sarah V. I know she's still on the twitters, but her friendfeed slipped quietly into the ether. And that's okay. But still.
SteVe C, Rodfather, Monique the crochet freak and 10 other people liked this
What? Why she do that? I love that woman.
- Laura Norvig
Damn.
- Jim #TeamMonique
I'm about to run a virtual Ubuntu machine inside my virtual Windows 7 machine on my Mac. If the Internet explodes, please accept my apologies.
Victor Ganata, Tinfoil 2.0, Hieronymous Boosh and 2 other people liked this
HOLY CRAP IT WORKED.
- teleken
It would be interesting to know just how much of the raw CPU power is left for the Ubuntu applications, given two levels of virtuality (both fairly hefty OSes at that)--but hey, with today's CPUs, it probably doesn't matter.
- Walt Crawford
The host is a quad core i7 with 16GB RAM. Windows 7 was the resource pig I expected it to be, but the Ubuntu VM was happy. The purpose of this experiment was to see if I could bring the Ubuntu VM to work with me on a thumb drive and sandbox some of the work I do. it also means I have a ready built system when I need to work from home without needing to back out of what I'm doing on the Mac.
- teleken
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Teleken: I'd bet that OSX isn't exactly trivial in its use of resources either, but those are probably well-hidden from your view. In any case, since an i7 is a supercomputer by the standards of 15 years ago (and maybe 10 years ago), I'm not surprised you had plenty of power. [I run a 5-year-old 1.7GHz Core 2 Duo in a notebook with 3GB RAM: I suspect I'll never come close to using its obsolescent level of power. Even with Windows 7's resource demands.]
- Walt Crawford
As OS X is more or less the Mach kernel with BSD utilities bolted on, I can pop open a terminal and run the standard top, free, df and du commands like any other sysadmin if I'm curious. Those things aren't THAT well hidden if you've been driving *nix consoles for 20 years. :)
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
I regularly run OS X VMs inside OS X. I tried a couple of years ago to do three levels, but VMWare didn't support it. I should try again with current versions of VMWare and Parallels.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I switched the other way with a deal since VMWare (at the time, at least) wouldn't properly VM OS X inside OS X. I was irked at Parallels not having cut-and-paste sharing with the host in earlier versions (no excuse for that really), but it does what I need now.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I finished eating my lunch, and I'm still just as hungry as I was before my lunch. Did I hallucinate lunch?
LB: #TeamMonique, Jennifer Dittrich, Kirsten and VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS liked this
Was your lunch an air sandwich, a bag of empty, and a glass of nothing?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Maybe so? It wasn't my impression, but I may have been mistaken at the time.
- lris
Your lunch was a lie.
- Catherine Pellegrino
ahhhh. THen maybe I won't try the cake.
- lris
Good plan. *wise nod*
- Catherine Pellegrino
sometimes my computer squeaks and I remember that I have the kitten cam open in a tab
Marianne, Kirsten, Rebecca Hedreen and 6 other people liked this
I'm doing a list of Quick Reads for adult summer reading. Please name your favorite books that are either 1) UNDER 200 pages or 2) have VERY SHORT chapters. Fiction and nonfiction are fine.
Greg GuitarBuster, LB: #TeamMonique, Guy and 3 other people liked this
Girl With a Pearl Earring may skate in just over 200 pages, but I recall blasting through it much faster than most novels when I read it.
- Catherine Pellegrino
All my friends are superheroes by Andrew Kaufman; The chairs are where the people go by Sheila Heti; The Clock of the Long Now by Steward Brand are three that come to mind...
- copystar
Well, this will spoil the surprise I had for you, because I'm mailing it as soon as I get my ass down to the post office (and I am going to imperiously and ineffectually demand you not read it until you get that copy), but I'm utterly in love with Maggie Nelson's Bluets (http://www.wavepoetry.com/collect...). It's 112 pages long and the chapters are paragraphs. (It's not *actually* poetry either, although it is sometimes poetry-like - it's fiction and/or memoir.)
- Marianne
Blockade Billy, by Stephen King.
- Julian
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (it's less than 100)
- Katy S
Animal Farm
- Hedgehog
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury (technically a collection of connected short stories, if that's okay). Also, I'd love to see your list when you're done. :)
- Katy S
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Kathy
Broetry by Brian McGackin
- Katie
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell (very short chapters)
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Someone at Fiction-L has been collecting these, too, for a quick turn-around book club. http://www3.mgpl.org/maillis...
- barbara fister
Ordinary Love and Good Will, Smiley
- maʀtha
Annie John, Kincaid
- maʀtha
I think most Jane Austen novels are a little over 200 pages, and I think they also have fairly short chapters. Pride & Prejudice comes in at about 256, and has 61 chapters. My other favorite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion.
- Laura H.
ooh, a lot of kincaid is short. My Brother is my favorite (nonfiction) and it's 208 pp... it read very quickly.
- Marianne
Second on 84 Charing Cross Road! I also adore Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, which skates in at 234 pgs. Paletas by Fany Gerson, Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? Classic short stories like the Yellow Wallpaper, ....I do not read many book under 200 pages. This is hard!
- MontglaneChess
House on Mango Street, Cisneros
- maʀtha
also a lot of Diana Athill is very short. Somewhere Towards the End is seriously wonderful (and again, 208 pages; what's with me and 208 page books?).
- Marianne
I was surprised to see that The Martian Chronicles was as long as 250 pages. A college acquaintance of mine wrote a wonderful short book called Treasure Island!!! http://www.amazon.com/Treasur...
- Steele Lawman
Room with a View, Forster
- maʀtha
Could alo include some flash fiction collections
- maʀtha
Various Steinbeck
- maʀtha
To the lighthouse, Woolf
- maʀtha
Night
- maʀtha
Is the goal to come up with books that are fun and not intimidating?
- Steele Lawman
I just read Tale of the Unknown Island by Saramago on Sunday, VERY short
- maʀtha
In honor of DJF, Three Men in a Boat
- maʀtha
P. G. Wodehouse
- maʀtha
Teaching a stone to Talk, Dillard
- maʀtha
Stewart O'Nan's The Odds (179 pp). Iain Pears' The Portrait (224 pp but it's effectively double-spaced).
- Marianne
All The Days & Nights - William Maxwell; Kindred - Octavia Butler; The Writing Life - Annie Dillard; On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Pines- Blake Crouch (before M. Night Shameyalan ruins it)
- Guy
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamed
- Heleninstitches
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's shorter books
- Heleninstitches
Paul Torday's might come in under 200 pages. Always intriguing... tho perhaps a bit British!
- Heleninstitches
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston, just under 200p, flies by
- Julie Kane
@Steele: Yeah, I've refrained from listing a bunch of titles because they might be less accessible: The Bluest Eye, Henry James short novels, Faith & the Good Thing, and the book I'm reading now, Beasts of No Nation (Iweala), which is definitely not light summer reading and is stunningly good.
- maʀtha
On Bullshit, Frankfurt. Less than 100 pages, but written by a real philosopher.
- Steele Lawman
The Little Prince.
- Deborah Fitchett
Where'd you go, Bernadette?
- Elizabeth Brown
Any of Tove Jansson's non-Moomin stuff. Novels are short, others are short story collections.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Just read Buddha in the Attic. Not my favourite per se, but it's very good, quick, and unusual.
- Megan loves summer
Thank you all! The goal is to have a variety of short books and/or quick to read books. Some will be fun and some will be more intimidating, but I figure an intimidating 180 page book is much less intimidating than, say, an intimidating 680 page book.
- laura x
we would like to see the finished list, please :)
- maʀtha
My student worker and night manager just spontaneously thought I said "fish shaking" instead of "fist shaking". I of course had to tell them all about y'all and the Cod of Ethics. I may be getting a rubber fish for Christmas...
Rachel Walden, Lisa | #TeamMonique, Victor Ganata and 23 other people liked this
I demand video of fish shaking.
- Catherine Pellegrino
"And, let me tell you another thing..." *shakes fish*
- maʀtha
Shake that salmon!
- Julian
Is the Fish Slapping Dance the "Official Dance of the LSW"?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
shake n bake!
- Galadriel C.
We've been trying to decode if a show we watch has jumped the shark. Some nights we say it's definitely gone flippity-flop.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
DO THE HALIBUT SHAKE
- Andy
so many ways this could go wrong, I mean, right
- maʀtha
KB's daughter is getting married tomorrow. You wouldn't believe how many times (and how many people) I've promised to be "good"
Jennifer Dittrich, WoH: Professor MOTHRA, Steven Perez and 11 other people liked this
Oh, we would
- Pete #TeamMonique
Your reputation precedes you. :P
- c.a.j.
Thank you, my "friends". Your confidence inspires me so.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
ME and KB are planning on getting our drank on. Him because he's footing the bill. Me because REASONS.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Cogent and compelling reasons, I am sure.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Like "it's a wedding"
- Pete #TeamMonique
But it's baby girl's day.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Indeed, Squire. I'm not much on ceremony, especially weddings. But I know my place on this one.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
The metro awaits you with bated breath. :-)
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
If they have cocktail shrimp, would that be baited breath?
- c.a.j.
Curtis
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Yes? *giggles*
- c.a.j.
I have no idea why anyone would think that you might misbehave, Barry: http://friendfeed.com/barrywy... :)
- Steven Perez
Guilty as charged, bunneh. But you didn't have to, you know.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
That doesn't look like misbehaving. I see no lampshades.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Cheers, lovelies.
SAM, Kelli H., JA Castillo and 27 other people liked this
What's in the mug?
- c.a.j.
coffee. cream and sugar.
- t-ra: not givin up
bump for the lunch crowd
- t-ra: not givin up
Nice mug. ;) #seewhatididthere?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
"mugging" for the camera?
- Brian Johns
What's up, lovely?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
You have awesome hair and a lovely smile *steals coffee*
- Janet:#TeamMonique
thanks, Janet... and you can have some of my coffee anytime.
- t-ra: not givin up
Is that a perspective trick or just a really big mug? And by "mug" I mean what's in your hand. :)
- c.a.j.
hooray! I wondered what you looked like!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from YouFeed
You've probably noticed that I've been more annoying than usual with 'hey look what's in the shop' posts. My apologies ... I've set a goal to raise funds for the convention this year - travel and lodging are done, just raising food and fun money now. It will stop soon, promise :-)
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I've not been at all annoyed with your shop posts, lately or ever.
- t-ra: not givin up
Keep going - I love to see what you are up to, and you are never annoying.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I dont worry about the 'hey look what I made!' that's just sharing stuff I think is cool. The 'look what's in the shop' posts though, seem a little ... I don't know ... pushy? FF is free of ads for the most part so I try not to add to many of my own :-)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Personally, I'm glad you do those posts because then I know it's time to go "ooh" and "ah" over the pretty things and possibly pick up a new piece. I love my bracelet! I think it's one of the most awesome pieces of jewelry I own. I'd probably be more loose beads, but I'm really not creative in thinking of how to make them into something I could wear.
- Running Slow
Then you'll be happy to know I'm working on 'ready to wear' earrings for posting next week :-)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
YAY!!!!!!!!
- Running Slow
Product idea. What do you guys think about glass topped stakes for small house plants? I'm thinking to decorate a desk plant or terrarium.
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Thinking: birds, gnomes, butterflies etc.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I'm also trying to think of what I could make that might work in a doll house (I need customers more areas than just jewelry)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Can you make little confections like cupcakes, donuts, etc. for the dollhouse? I'd buy something pretty for a plant stake sort of thing.
- Running Slow
Great idea!
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
Two words: Flying Pig!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
why I think a flying pig over a little plant would be funny I dont know, but I do. Since this is more hobby than art I get to make the things that make me giggle and not just what I think will sell :-)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I would probably buy a flying pig for my houseplant :) But they also already have a reclining gnome, a turtle, a girl reading a book and three metal flowers in them :) OH! And a pink flamingo.
- ~Courtney F
LOL ... animated house plants. These would be little, like beads. Probably work best with a 4 - 6" pot. I saw someone online yesterday that is making really tiny things on sticks to use as deco for fairy gardens. Crazy cute things!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
More brainstorming. Tiny, seated gnome for the edge of the pot?
- Shannon - GlassMistress
OMG! I would totally buy a flying pig!
- Running Slow
i would definitely buy these for my mom and sister! and maybe for myself, if i'm feeling generous. :)
- Christa
Noah just ran into the lounge room carrying the loofah from the bathtub. #fb
Kirsten, Sir Shuping is just sir, Steven Perez and 6 other people liked this
I <3 Noah. So does Dick, whose ff account lies more dormant than a stump in a fire-ravaged forest.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
He was a complete and total PITA earlier, but I love him fiercely :oD
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Sure hope this red eye works. Sectors are not booting up this morning http://t.co/5fxP0d3Acc
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Steven Perez, Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart, Mary B: #TeamMonique and 2 other people liked this
There's always Plan B: sugar.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
In response to Iris' "racialism" post, our archives lecturer recently told me of a conversation where she informed the other party that "digitalisation" is the injection of digitalis into the heart - thus not really an appropriate subject for us to teach here at library school :) :)
RepoRat, Marie, Chelle Chelle Ro Ro and 8 other people liked this
heee
- lris
My husband is the best person I know.
Laura Norvig, VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS, Kelli H. and 26 other people liked this
O_o, no really I'm an asshole, don't honestly know how she puts up with me.
- Scott. Cat Herder.
(pish-posh to that, Scott)
- holly #ravingfangirl
Scott is the complete opposite of asshole.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
You sir (Mr. Mack) are biased.
- Scott. Cat Herder.
I am biased because I know you!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Bath time is great! Sucking my fists is better! https://vine.co/v/b99tw6bIQO9
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Came home to a power outage. So, engaged Emergency Pizza Protocol.
Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Andrew C (✓), LB: #TeamMonique and 5 other people liked this
I'm down with EPP.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Cat beard attempt. http://instagram.com/p...
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*lures pandas* ;P
- Anika
*throws bamboo in the opposite direction*
- Headless Gnad Kicker
*sets wolf spider traps*
- Anika
turn that frown upside down, Princess Puddytat!
- Hieronymous Boosh
Your kitty-kat is saying "Let go of my ear you maniac!"
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
And I said, "What about Weekend at Bernie's?" She said, "I think I remember the film, and as I recall, I think we both freakin' hated it" and I said, "Well then, that's one thing we got."
Betsy #TeamMonique, Micah, Jennifer Dittrich and 6 other people liked this
Step mom is on the phone in the next office telling a story about a friend who made a pit stop in a port-o-potty on a golfcourse. While 'resting' he felt something stike his butt. Thinking splashback he was a bit freaked and hurried to wipe but when he did he discovered it was a frog that had leapt from the pit. I'm afraid I'd have been standing
Headless Gnad Kicker, LB: #TeamMonique, John (bird whisperer) and 3 other people liked this
in the middle of the fareway with my pants around my ankles.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
*dead*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I imagine that it was no picnic for the frog, either.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
PT Round 2. Today's word is "ouch."
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:(
- Janet:#TeamMonique
The question I ask every spring: where the heck are my sandals?
Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and LB: #TeamMonique liked this
Found them. Now, where's my bathing suit?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I last used it a year ago. I suspect there's a new bathing suit in my near future.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Found it. Can barely squeeze into it. Damn.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I always know where my sandals are, but that's because I use them as slippers all year long. Speaking of that, it's probably about time to go buy myself a new pair of sandals (since I use them so much, they tend to only last about a year)
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Hokay. When I discovered the bathing suit didn't fit, it was too late to go to LLBean to get one. Here, I tried JCPenney's: no no no. They had one I liked (but too small), everything else was what I call mother-in-law-sit-by-the-pool bathing suits in very flowery patterns. Macy's had actual swimsuits, lots that I liked, so I bought a Reebok one on 25% off sale.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I know you found one, but for others: I found a swimsuit I really like at http://www.swimsuitsforall.com/ standard shipping was fairly quick, too.(I bought this one http://www.swimsuitsforall.com/Beach-B... )
- ellbeecee
My problem was timing. I discovered the problem 48 hours and 300 miles from when I needed it (and 30 minutes fromwhen I was hitting the road).
- Betsy #TeamMonique
What's worse...being told by credit card company that suspicious charge was at a Walmart instead something exciting or that charge was mine?
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No no...some meth addled hillbilly didn't steal my card and go on a miracle whip and velveeta binge....that was me, ma'am.
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Hong Kong hails the return of the duck - Yahoo!7 - http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest...
Iván Abrego, Private Sanjeev, VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS and 20 other people liked this
"Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The southern Chinese city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"Duck mania has gripped the city ever since, with locals and tourists packing the streets near where it is moored to catch a glimpse of it. Stalls and shops throughout the city sold replicas and restaurants created special duck dishes."
- Jessie
"So many were disconsolate when the cheerful giant-sized bath toy was transformed into a deflated disc resembling a floating fried egg last Wednesday. "It went for a body check and for maintenance, now all the work is finished and it will see everybody again," Andrew Yeung, advertising and promotions manager of shopping mall Harbour City which is organising the exhibit, told AFP."
- Jessie
Yay! :)
- Anne Bouey
I told you. You gotta put down that ducky if you wanna play the saxophone. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I'd like to see some metropolitan area with a large bay (or harbor) deploy a duck in "tip-up" position. Then all you would see is the ass-end of a duck pointed toward the sky as it floats to-and-fro. #ButThatsJustMe
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I dropped a blueberry on my office floor and now I can't find it. NOBODY MOVE
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