If you're on my friends list I know you, I ... trust you even (unless you're drunk, then I know you're probably up to no good) that's why I go to you for my needs, my request, my recommendations.
Needs like.. recommend me some excellent vegetarian cookbooks. Anticlimatic you say? Perhaps.
Fearful of a potential about turn where I've decide to renege on my meat-eating...
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Needs like.. recommend me some excellent vegetarian cookbooks. Anticlimatic you say? Perhaps.
Fearful of a potential about turn where I've decide to renege on my meat-eating...
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malloreigh:
i hate surprises.
maike:
When the moon covers the sun, we cry out in fear. Will the light ever return? I bribed the priest so we won't have to sacrifice any virgins, if that's acceptable to The LK.
This entry has been brought to you by point form and the letter Gee, whiz!
- back in Argentinian tango classes- this time, finally, with a partner, an extremely cute Chinese girl with excellent taste in film
- had an amazing Syrian dinner with my ex-gf followed by a mediocre vernissage (no free booze?!?) but still had an amazing time because we always have an...
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- back in Argentinian tango classes- this time, finally, with a partner, an extremely cute Chinese girl with excellent taste in film
- had an amazing Syrian dinner with my ex-gf followed by a mediocre vernissage (no free booze?!?) but still had an amazing time because we always have an...
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kaffeine:
Wednesday?
charley:
That's like the mid range, you should see some of them. Dang, Gypsies know how to do bling!
This is a minor experiment in perception and inspiration.
Some of you know me, some of you know me very well, others just through my delicious online persona, but you all have a certain perception of me in varying degrees based on personal meetings, photos, blog entries, et cetera.
So if you were to take my personality and what you know of it, from extremely...
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Some of you know me, some of you know me very well, others just through my delicious online persona, but you all have a certain perception of me in varying degrees based on personal meetings, photos, blog entries, et cetera.
So if you were to take my personality and what you know of it, from extremely...
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kaffeine:
So... I just bought my Nick Cave ticket.
As for tea, I will call you when I'm feeling a little less... prone to moping. Give me a few days. What's your schedule like, anyway?
As for tea, I will call you when I'm feeling a little less... prone to moping. Give me a few days. What's your schedule like, anyway?
malloreigh:
i'm going to kill you. dead.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
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pygmy:
also:
< / random >
< / random >
obd:
where does the scotch go in that again?
Haven't been up to too much that's exciting.
Played some poker, read some books, paid off a loan, yadda yadda yadda.
Nothing to see here.
Played some poker, read some books, paid off a loan, yadda yadda yadda.
Nothing to see here.
zak:
thanks dude. now leave a nice comment on my set, damn you.
Well my birthday was a fairly successful venture.
I woke up next to a pretty girl, made myself some black coffee and oatmeal (my new default breakfast), taught one of my roommates rummy and had discussions about hormones, psychotherapy and horse cock with my other roommate.
The girl woke up and we got another friend and had a fine lunch at M sur Masson. I...
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I woke up next to a pretty girl, made myself some black coffee and oatmeal (my new default breakfast), taught one of my roommates rummy and had discussions about hormones, psychotherapy and horse cock with my other roommate.
The girl woke up and we got another friend and had a fine lunch at M sur Masson. I...
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badronald:
I would recommend Les Bossus (on St-Joseph St. I believe). It's a nice modern French bistro with really funny old waiters. Their homemade chocolate truffles are great.
Close to that restaurant there was a cool venue called La Scne (I think that's the name) where you can hang out and listen to local bands.
I would also recommend Le Hobbit on St-Jean mostly because their pasta with merguez was just incredible and the service is mahvellous!
I also enjoyed the Zonorange but I can't remember where it was.
There are also several good record stores on St-Jean that have a decent selection
Close to that restaurant there was a cool venue called La Scne (I think that's the name) where you can hang out and listen to local bands.
I would also recommend Le Hobbit on St-Jean mostly because their pasta with merguez was just incredible and the service is mahvellous!
I also enjoyed the Zonorange but I can't remember where it was.
There are also several good record stores on St-Jean that have a decent selection
zak:
i wanna live in a giant loft space... let me know if you hear of any gems opening up in the next few months, yeah?
I've just finished reading Luke Rhinehart's "the Dice Man" which in the vein of "Illuminatus!" is an intellectually stimulating (but still filled with tons of sex, humor and ontological revolution) novel of the 70s.
The primary two focuses of the book, which happen to be intense interests of mine as well, are chance and psychotherapy. The protagonist is a disaffected psychotherapist who realizes that he's...
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The primary two focuses of the book, which happen to be intense interests of mine as well, are chance and psychotherapy. The protagonist is a disaffected psychotherapist who realizes that he's...
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pygmy:
happy birthday, my most favored of citrus children!
amadio:
Happy Birthday
My experiment taking smart drugs for one month begins...
now.
now.
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sydni:
See....that's like 5 things! 
pygmy:
yeah? i just looked some up in TN, they're about $40/person, the most expensive one i saw was $90.
there's even a boat tour in a cave (subterranean river)... not whitewater, though.
or if you come in fall, i can give you a pumpkin boat tour...
there's even a boat tour in a cave (subterranean river)... not whitewater, though.
or if you come in fall, i can give you a pumpkin boat tour...
All the best things that have happened to me lately I'm unable to include here without them coming off like total bragging, so I will abstain.
Lately my mind has been on how I'm going to spend my vacation.. I know I definitely am taking some time off towards the end of May for Shibaricon in Chicago, and I was planning on following it up...
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Lately my mind has been on how I'm going to spend my vacation.. I know I definitely am taking some time off towards the end of May for Shibaricon in Chicago, and I was planning on following it up...
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shazzy:
Are you going to the Gala in Toronto? It's on June 7th.
I realized amidst the delightful haze of Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" on the metro that I hadn't mentioned my sugar shackin' adventures.
For those of you who aren't from Quebec, the sugar shack or "la cabane a sucre" is a giant log cabin type place near a grove of maple trees out in the middle of nowhere.
So you drive out there and...
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For those of you who aren't from Quebec, the sugar shack or "la cabane a sucre" is a giant log cabin type place near a grove of maple trees out in the middle of nowhere.
So you drive out there and...
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damionw:
1. Swordfight, check the differences in my reaction times over a series of fights, It's like very physical chess and if it you mess up, you get hit/die. Some things do give me a very definite boost during it. Failing that, cube folding and logic puzzles, maybe some crazy kakuro or sudoku.
2. All books worth mentioning change your life in small but subtle ways. Some books can provide a strong push either towards or away from a though process. Here are some of the books which have influenced me one way or the other:
Non-fiction: Kant's critique of pure reason & Logick, Works of Karl Raimund Popper, and Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and the Black Swan, The Sabaki Method, Works of Henri Poincare, the Sword and the Mind, The Tao of Jeet kune do.
Fiction:Ender's Game, Dune, Elric of Melnibone, Illuminati trilogy, The Fountainhead, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, Fahrenheit 451, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, James and the Giant peach, The new and old testaments, x-Men comics.
There is nothing there I wouldn't recommend reading, at least to some extent(you are probably familiar with some of it already), you could prolly leave off the last 4 fiction books without any concern.
2. All books worth mentioning change your life in small but subtle ways. Some books can provide a strong push either towards or away from a though process. Here are some of the books which have influenced me one way or the other:
Non-fiction: Kant's critique of pure reason & Logick, Works of Karl Raimund Popper, and Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and the Black Swan, The Sabaki Method, Works of Henri Poincare, the Sword and the Mind, The Tao of Jeet kune do.
Fiction:Ender's Game, Dune, Elric of Melnibone, Illuminati trilogy, The Fountainhead, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, Fahrenheit 451, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, James and the Giant peach, The new and old testaments, x-Men comics.
There is nothing there I wouldn't recommend reading, at least to some extent(you are probably familiar with some of it already), you could prolly leave off the last 4 fiction books without any concern.
damionw:
heh. I didn't miss it. I don't avoid mentioning things under physical threat (though, i must admit, it's a bit less than physical at this distance. hehe)
No Problem. Enjoy. Let me know if you have any interesting thoughts from them.
No Problem. Enjoy. Let me know if you have any interesting thoughts from them.
"Planktonic sea creatures rarely swim," said Craigor. "Like cuttlefish, they go with the flow. Until something nearby catches their attention. And then--dart! Another meal, another lover, another masterpiece."
- Rudy Rucker, Singularity
- Rudy Rucker, Singularity
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charley:
My concept of what is 'weird' and what isn't is probably going to get me into trouble.
schmooziesan:
You told me I looked desperate in the pic So maybe I was. Desperate about being sick, or not having summer :p
How are you?
So maybe I was. Desperate about being sick, or not having summer :p
How are you?
So I just crushed my old record for "most money ever spent on a concert ticket."
Goodbye 8 hours worth of pay, hello 1 concert ticket to see Leonard Cohen.
Goodbye 8 hours worth of pay, hello 1 concert ticket to see Leonard Cohen.
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helly:
Its worth 8 hours to see him. Thats for sure. Is your idea top secret??? Or can you tell me?
schmooziesan:
Maybe I was kinda desperate 