"Spam King" kills family, self

This was after he escaped from prison. Most of the articles about the topic are remarkably unclear, but apparently, there was a teenage girl and a one year old infant somehow involved. I'm not sure if they're also his kids or not.

Perhaps those people who suggested that Obama was unmanly because he wasn't a good bowler will shut the heck up

3 point shot, suckers!

Stop showing ads for American Apparel on feminist blogs.

thank you.

In contrast to last week, there were a TON of great numbers last night.

Foolish Catherine! You shouldn't go to Nara sick. :)

I did, and so we lasted as long as Daibutsu before we parted company with amabaku and oyarsa_elentari. But we have some lovely pictures of Daibutsu, the world's largest interior Buddha, and also some of the many deer in the park.

More Nara here: http://pics.livejournal.com/awelkin/gallery/0003ryh0

On the way home, Bryon and I visited the best katsu restaurant we've ever been at. Katsu, usually fried chicken and pork, are served with a special sauce. Here, we grinded our own sesame and mixed it with sauce. We also had cabbage salads and rice. Delicious! In spite of our fancy restaurant in Osaka, it may well have been the very best meal I had in Japan, because I was ill and it was comforting.

Then I slept and slept and slept...and Bryon did laundry and ran around....and I slept. Aric was kind enough to let me try the best octopus balls in Kyoto that night. We left Aoi-So early in the morning, and headed to Tokyo.

Our first day in Tokyo was pretty low key, finding our hostel, and just chilling. The next day was another road trip for Bryon and myself, to see a teaching buddy in a 'burb, and then off to a friend's house for dinner. So, tomorrow, Tokyo!

Catherine

	Daibutsu's House
	Side View 'Butsu
	Sickie and Friend

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I was wrestling crocodiles in my dream to keep them from eating my friends. For some reason I remembered a (possibly totally false) bit of data about crocs - they have enormous strength to close their jaws, but can't open them as easily, so you can keep the jaws shut with human-type strength.

Feel free to ignore this post. Actually I figure I'll delete it soon. I'm trying to help my poor sick GIF of an egg.

I should not care this much about a pixelized egg...

ETA: It's healthy now!!!

Lookit my babies:











Aren't they so cute?! :-)

I received a very nice e-mail from mroctober with an apology and reassurance that the spelling of my name will be fixed on the cover of the Spicy Slipstream Stories anthology, which was nice to hear, even though I was wholly unaware that my name was even ON the cover...

But here 'tis. And it's available for pre-order already!



(Just a side-note, our internet is down and I'm on sporadic dial-up, so apologies for any delay in getting back on e-mails and comments.)
 

For her 21st birthday I sent my sister, among other things, a giant (like, as big as my torso) inflatable redback spider.

Her email today:

got your present today. love it. thank you so much. ive put the spider on the wall in my flatmates room and she's just walked through the door so im just waiting for her to go to her room. im very excited.

Can you tell we're related?

Screw it, I'm not riding the train for 45 minutes to wander around by myself looking for events that don't seem to have scheduled times at all. I'll go to the main event tomorrow because it has a time and because I can't handle two days of dateless-friendless-wonderhood (and I have neglected to ask acquaintances if they are going and attempt to impose my company on them).

And if the parade starts at 4 and the fireworks are after dark, the fireworks are gonna be at like 8. That's like 4 hours. (Well, it is getting a little sunsetty so maybe it will be dark by 7.) I am not seeing a movie in the same day. The movie will still be there next week.

I hate doing things.

Clearing out photos so I can make space on my memory card for festival stuff.

Look at the nice, nice kitty. I am sure he would never bite or ARGH WHY DOES IT HURT?!



And here he is on his cat tree with a raccoon toy.

The excellent damned_colonial has launched the Geek Feminism Wiki

... to discuss issues facing women in a range of geek communities including computing, open source, science fiction fandom, online gaming, and so forth.

I set this up in response to the Open Source Boob Project stuff a couple of months back, because I saw people talking about common experiences shared by women at SF cons which sounded a lot like some of the things I'd experienced on geeky IRC channels, and, well, I figure we all have a lot in common and might benefit from getting our experiences down in one place and having something we can refer to next time something comes up.

If you're a woman in a geek community, or someone who'd like to support women in geek communities, please come and contribute. And please also feel free to spread the word.

She is hoping for a substantial section on Wiscon and on SF fandom in general, and therefore I mention the matter here.

I feel like one of the real gamers should be posting this, but I live with three, two girls and one guy, and this came to my attention. If you aren't yet familiar, PS3 is putting out this game called Fat Princess, which is basically a game of capture the fattie flag with cute little sprites that splatter blood everywhere trying to get to the princess. But there's a catch! The people of these kingdoms are into noncon stuffing and feed the princess until she's morbidly obese and the little sprite warriors can't lift her.

Outside of a fetish porn site, it's a little creepy.

( CAKES! FORTY OF THEM! )

Today there is some part of the Tenjin (was it?) festival and I should totally go. But that would involve going somewhere, and also figuring out where that place is, and deciding when I should go there, even though I totally cannot find a schedule. I think there are fireworks so maybe I should go when it starts getting dark. But maybe the fireworks are tomorrow along with the boat thing? I don't know. I would rather lie around here and read comics, but then I would regret not going, and if I do go I will probably at least have a non-cat video to upload to YouTube. But in the meantime, mrrrgh! Why don't they post a schedule in a prominent place so I know when to go?

Plus I will just have to go again tomorrow for the main festival (probably 4-ish) and I also need to go to Umeda, which means I should probably go ahead and see the pokemon movie, even though it would be early afternoon and there would be tons of kids. Argh.

It turns out the fireworks are tomorrow but there is a lion parade today, sometime in "the evening." When does that start? 6? The official website is so fancy and not informative. Maybe there is an information link somewhere that I am just completely incapable of noticing at all.

In the last 24 hours:

• 16:42 @solestria Yay jobbiness, indeed! #
• 22:02 @cunningminx I vote firemen, Firefly, or both - invite fireman to watch Firefly. Something involving fire, in any case! #
• 22:02 Escape from work! w00t! #

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