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nebris

10:44 pm - I Love Underground Bases

( Under the cut of course..lol )

Current Mood: devious

nebris

10:24 pm - Her Prophet Rambles On A Bit....

~I wrote this in a fevered rush a few days ago at around one in the morning. It's 'semi' Stream of Consciousness in that I did start off with an agenda of related items I wanted to address. I do veer all over the map, but I touched all the bases I wished to. I suppose I should re-title it "Her Prophet Rambles On A Hell Of A Lot". lol

( ~Ever successful guru I've ever encountered was a con artist and a hustler... )

Current Mood: loquacious

magyar_saman

06:15 pm - Schmarts

Your IQ Is 115

Your Logical Intelligence is Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional

Current Mood: amused

nebris

01:18 pm - MAGPUL Masada / Bushmaster ACR - Adaptive Combat Rifle (USA)

Buy Yours Now!

Current Mood: cheerful

nebris

01:17 pm - Sun Tzu's Six Principles

Win All Without Fighting [how to achieve the objective without destroying it]

Avoid Strength, Attack Weakness [strike only where the enemy is most vulnerable]

Deception and Foreknowledge [how to win the information war]

Speed and Preparation [moving swiftly to overcome resistance decisively]

Shaping the Enemy [selecting and preparing the battlefield to your advantage]

Character-based Leadership [leading by example]

[The basic text of Sun Tzu on the Art of War]

Current Mood: contemplative

nebris

12:06 pm - "Prelude on The Evening of a Harlequin" [unfinished]

~This is a novella I started a few years ago that has since stalled. It is only in the last few weeks that I realized why it did so.

Like almost everyone in this culture, I am an Individual, First and Foremost.

E pointed out that as I am functionally an Only Child [ten and half years older than the nearest sibling], largely grew up among adults, and lived in books and fantasy worlds for most of my childhood, I am even more an Individual than most.

But the society of these women is based upon The Trikona, the 'bond group' of three Sisters first made in childhood and replicated throughout all important relationships.

That is my challenge as a writer, to reset my mind and feelings toward the Trikona, to show how it permeates everything in their lives. And also how they are each still individuals while being so deeply bonded to their Sisters.

I finally realized that “Prelude” is based upon an Individualistic view of the world and therefore fails to truly represent this society, so I am setting it aside.

However, it does have a lot of good material to work with and, while it is now 'on the shelf', it has been an important laboratory in experimenting with this universe. ( So, here is what I had done with it so far... )

Current Mood: contemplative

nebris

10:25 am - Out-of-state Mormons pouring millions to defeat gays in California. And they're succeeding.

From America Blog

"Please join our campaign to raise money to defeat Prop 8 in California. It's a religious right/Mormon initiative that would repeal the marriages of thousands of gay couples in that state. The latest news reports show that, while we were winning, we're now losing. Folks working on the battle tell us that it's all a matter of money. The bad guys have $10 million more than us (thanks to the Mormons). If we can only raise enough on our side, we can win."

Go there to read the rest and to donate!

Current Mood: aggravated

connie

12:13 pm - manga

i dreamt i was writing a book ~ a girl who gets a note saying "sakusha, i want to meet you." it was from a stranger named tayana, which was the last name of mamoru in my dream. i had a comic drawn on almost every page of the notebook. i drew sakusha happily skipping to tayana's house/apartment (very cute). but then when they finally met, all they did was sit next to each other at a table and barely said anything to each other. he was indifferent and had an evil aura about him. he was kinda like satan. sakusha was disappointed. the dream shifted in and out between me writing about sakusha and me being sakusha.
then in the next chapter, sakusha went to school. she noticed that tayana was in her 1st period p.e. class, along with kyle, who she also had a crush on. but she liked tayana more even tho he wasn't very friendly when they met in the last chapter. she compared the two guys to each other. they were both tall and had SM supplies. haha. there were some other similarities, but i forgot 'em. one difference was that kyle had brown hair, and tayana had black hair with red highlights like robin. when i wrote the next chapter, i wanted it to be second period p.e. class, but then i remembered that the first period i had already written was a p.e. class.
in a chapter after that one, sakusha and tayana met again. they didn't know they were going to meet there again, but they did. even tho twas tayana's house/apartment, it had other ppl there, and the place was more like a classroom os than a place to live. sakusha and he sat at the same table they sat at b4, but in opposite seats. sakusha asked why he wanted to meet her if he didn't seem interested at all. he said that when he found out she was a japanese girl, he was no longer interested. he said something like, "how could i marry a japanese woman?" os like he was either racist or it wouldn't be allowed by someone else--family or gov. sakusha told him, "you should've known that i was japanese because my name is japanese." (and ironically, so is his! i didn't think of that in the dream tho.) sakusha learned that he was an editor for a magazine she sent one of her poems to. he was an arrogant one; he said that whoever wrote that benicia poem left out an important sentence, so he didn't approve it. i also somehow knew that he typed in proper capitalization. sakusha told him that she was the one who wrote the poem. he was surprised since the author wasn't sakusha. but sakusha said, "i have multiple pen names. i also have over 400 aim sns." :-P but first she accidentally said "over 200" and then corrected herself and said "over 400." he made kinda a big deal about it and said something like, "i thought u said over 200?" and she said, "i did, but the truth is that i actually have over 400." i guess he thought that the first one was the truth and the second was a lie. i'm not sure if sakusha still liked the guy or not, but i definitely found him irritating by this point!

Current Mood: rushed

nebris

11:24 am - "In Other News..."

Dusty Foggo and Porter Goss' CIA

Current Mood: cynical

nebris

10:39 am - Quote of The Day

"I sit there and I look back and I'm like, 'I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?'" ~Britney Spears

Current Mood: really

nebris

10:38 am - Even Political Whore Gergen Is Worried

David Gergen: McCain/Palin rallies "whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence"

Current Mood: cynical

nebris

10:37 am - Spam Name of The Day

Cullen Clutterment

Current Mood: calm

nebris

10:36 am - Five From McClatchy This Morning

American heartland is suffering from Wall Street's woes
While all eyes are on Wall Street's plunge, the snowballing financial crisis is sending an already weak Main Street economy into decline. Dispatches from McClatchy newspapers in 30 U.S. cities make it clear that Main Street America is suffering from the deteriorating health of Wall Street. Banks are unable or unwilling to lend amid the growing crisis, and that's deepening the downturn.[Read All]

China's sitting on piles of money. Why won't it help?
China sits on a huge pile of money, and its policymakers crave global assets. So why doesn't China spend a little and save the world from global financial meltdown? Economists give a number of reasons why China prefers to sit on the sidelines of the global turmoil, focusing instead on protecting its economy and maintaining growth powered by consumers at home.[Read All]

For legions of lawyers, bad markets are good business
As the corporate victims continue to pile up in Wall Street's great financial collapse, that flapping noise coming from the skies over Manhattan isn't the pigeons circling, it's the vultures. With personal fortunes, retirement savings and institutional assets evaporating each day, swarms of attorneys from some of the nation's most prestigious firms are positioning themselves to cash in on the escalating misery.[Read All]

Struggling KC area food pantries issue plea for help
If hard times have found you, you're likely to find they've hit area food pantries too. An Excelsior Springs pantry is completely out of cereal. A midtown Kansas City pantry no longer gives out snacks or juice. Another has no hygiene products. Many pantries are in a double bind: More people are coming for help, but donations are down.[Read All]

Sacramento voters displaced by foreclosure can still vote
After the bank took Amanda Moore-Stevens' Sacramento home last year and her husband died of a heart attack, changing her voter registration to her new address was not a priority. "It wasn't something I was thinking about," said Moore-Stevens.[Read All]

Current Mood: quiet

nebris

01:07 am - Now We're Getting Down To Brass Tacks

[Spread The Love*]



*some Deep South shithole of course

Current Mood: U Tel, 'em, Rufus!

nebris

04:47 pm - Writer Specific Article @ io9

Robert Heinlein Explains How to Write for Money

Current Mood: contemplative

nebris

04:46 pm - No On 8!

Current Mood: militant

nebris

03:48 pm - I'm Thinking About It

Current Mood: amused

nebris

03:47 pm - Gordon Brown considers legal action against Iceland

PM says he is freezing assets of Icelandic companies in the UK in response to 'illegal action they have taken'

Current Mood: harder, deeper, faster

nebris

03:46 pm - Wall Street woes were a Crash course for biz

From Variety.com
By ELIZABETH GUIDER, Sun., May 1, 2005, 6:00am PT

If you thought the financial bubbles of 1987 and 2000 were a bummer for showbiz, they were nothing compared to the crash of 1929.

The paper's arguably most famous headline -- "Wall Street Lays an Egg" -- was blazoned across the Oct. 30 issue that year. ( It was succinctly irreverent and colorful, a tone the 25-year-old paper was just beginning to practice. )

Current Mood: Ah, the Good Old Days...

connie

03:45 pm - games, internet, family, friends, old school, anime

i dreamt i was hacking in tibia. i went to the hardest boss in the game, which was like a bunch of little snakes making up one big blob that almost filled the enitre room. the boss was asking some religious riddle. mr. kakashka from hey arnold was there w/ me, trying to answer the riddle, but since he wasn't a moral man, he failed. i killed the boss in one hit. ryan then wanted the hack too, so i tried to get it set up in his account. but then when i played him, he was getting pked and had to run from a mob.

i dreamt i was on vacation w/ my family and aunt debbie. it was debbie's 1st time coming alone to visit us. grandma called her on the phone to tell her how proud she was that debbie was driving around in that big van all by herself. grandma and debbie were younger in the dream, but not too young. debbie was like in her 30s or 40s. we just got back from some excursion, and now we returned to the bare walled room which we were all sleeping in. it was going to be our new house. debbie said that if we needed help persuading dad ~ interior decorating, just call her. she added, "btw, i like your speckled [faux finish?] walls." at the old house, i guess. she prolly said that cuz she was afraid her 1st line was offensive; i thought it was. i asked debbie if she'd like to do community service w/ us. she said yeah. i looked thru a packet to show her info ~ the one we were gonna do. it turned into a yearbook for that town. i said to ryan, "look at these stupid senior pix. it has pix of a room. and you can hardly see the senior's face." the room the senior girl was in was fancy, complete w/ a chandelier. ryan took 3 pix of me against the bare wall for no reason. i posed anyway. i was wearing my tie-dye shirt. then we all went to some gardens inside a building. ryan turned into a little girl. i held his/her hand. we had to do a partner activity with a metal batton. ryan wanted to be my partner. but then this other girl came over, whom i knew. maybe she was christine. she was taller than ryan of course, and so i thought twould be more appropriate for me to do the activity w/ someone my own height. so i paired up w/ her, and ryan paired up w/ another little kid.

i dreamt colleen and i were at tile harbor. we were both facing tile river, but there was some guy and his friends over there, and he kept looking at me and seeing that i was looking at him. so i turned to face colleen and told her about it. then i saw the guy coming over from the corner of my eye, so i started talking about stuff like anime. the guy told colleen, "you don't watch enough anime." colleen asked, "how do u know?" the guy must've been a stalker. he wasn't colin tho. might've been some1 like chris rotten.

then the dream shifted to watching an anime dvd at colleen's house. she was worried it was gonna be subtitled tho. i played it. it had sabrina in it. she said "do itashimashite" as she got out of the car. i think it should've been "arigato" cuz someone opened the door for her to get out. i think the rest of the dialogue was in jap too and not even subtitled. so i restarted it and selected english. this time, sabrina still said "do itashimashite," but then she started speaking english after that.

my last dream was being in someone's house. this family was poor. the mother told her child that she needed a minute alone os. the mother went into the kitchen and wiped down the stove furiously to let out her anger. there was some man there w/ me, and we were observing the scene. i told him that i'd rather kill someone than take out my anger on an inanimate object. then i thought of who i'd kill. alyssa came to mind first.

Current Mood: cold