Should I skip practice and go see Motley Crue in San Antonio with Derringer, for Free.

It is a non skating circuit training practice and I did work out today already....

oh dear... i'm craving french fries like nobody's business. or mashed potatoes. or both!
why oh why is it that carbohydrates are my prozac?

and why oh why is it that i can't convince anyone to name their baby Alloy? their second child could be Amalgam. it'd be perfect. a cow-orker had a baby this morning and nope, they didn't name him what i said. the name they did choose was ok, but you know... it wouldn't look half as awesome embroidered in a bowling shirt.

i'm still trying to track down my phone. i'd kind of like to have it 3 weeks ago.

i got nothin' else right now.

"My brother is a firefighter, and informed me that most 'door close' buttons in elevators are inoperable. You just feel better when you press it. The door was about to close anyway, and now you get to feel proactive.

'That button’s for me,' he said. 'I shut down your elevator, put my firefighter’s key into the elevator, and I use the door-close button. You don’t use the door-close button.'

I just thought you all should know."

I dedicate this link to my hockey loving friends...

I suggest reading the 3 paragraphs before the video. Sound required.

Google XML Pages aka GXP just went open source.

GXP is a reasonable way to do really fast, standards-compliant, internationalizable, sort-of-MVC web pages in a compiled language like Java, without killing yourself.

If you actually need the sort of speed, scalability, and reliability that Google does (you probably don't), and your web programmers can deal with writing very strict XML (again, might not be reasonable for everyone) it's worth checking out. It's also pretty good at internationalization, but I hear that the rest of the Java/JSP world more or less caught up with GXP around 2005-6 or so. harryh has more on why you might want to choose GXP versus JSP -- he points out that one of the big wins is the automatic escaping of content, which protects against numerous potential security problems.*

I'm not sure exactly what they released -- most of this stuff is familiar to me, but I've heard that the latest version of GXP was quite different, so I think they haven't released the bleeding edge version.

* Yahoo has no technical solution to this problem. The recommended solution is to store content already escaped for HTML, so if someone accidentally dumps it to the browser without escaping, everything is okay. As you can imagine, this makes web programming sort of safer, at the cost of a) occasionally double-encoding b) every non-web manipulation of data just became a lot harder. Frankly, to me, this solution is like admitting failure.

every night since we built the dome we've set up the projector and a movie screen and stayed up 'til 2am or later. the yard inside the dome is filled with tents and futons and blankets and pillows and beer and snacks. it's extremely awesome. it also means that i haven't been sleeping much and am currently exhausted. we joke that some of the homeless crackheads in the neighborhood are going to start sleeping in it. i wonder how much longer it will be 'til that's the case. we already have come home to random people milling around the yard looking for somewhere quiet to smoke crack. i get spanged on my way in the door/outside the nextdoor convenience store pretty regularly. we aren't going to be leaving the dome up much longer 'cause dominic doesn't want to kill the grass. i think it's already dead. but we're also having a big fundraiser for obama in our backyard on august 9 so we'd need to have it down by then anyway.

for awhile i've been explaining that everyone in our camp should OBVIOUSLY have fleece footie pajamas. it gets really cold at night on the playa. even in seattle it's chilly enough at night for most of the year that fleece pajamas are practical. i successfully convinced luke and last night he ordered camouflage jumpin' jammerz. i feel accomplished.

Faster Than the S.L.U.T. Guerilla (Run or Bike) Race or Ride

Thursday, July 24th
7:15pm START

Who can keep up with the S.L.U.T.?

A 2.6 mile race from Pacific Place Hub (start) to Fred Hutchinson (finish).
Or, join along the route at Whole Foods/ Westlake and Denny stop.

Why wouldn’t you beat the S.L.U.T.? And you’re going to DRESS LIKE a S.L.U.T. (interpret at your will). We want to see SLUTty!

$1.75 entrance fee (if you RIDE the S.L.U.T.)
Free if you RACE the S.L.U.T.

Make Seattle proud people!!
Spread the word, bring your friends.

After Party at HOOTERS on South Lake Union (Mmm... hot wings!)

Anyone know of a place on or around Cap Hill that sells yarn for well, less than an arm and a leg? Thanks in advance.

Last night was FUN!
I did the "weight loss" routein on the eliptical and I rocked it so hard. Music makes ALL The difference in my cardio routines. How odd is it that I think racing the elliptical is fun? WAY, I know. But I do. Then I did pilates. I still do not feel mastery but I can do the whole thing.

Then I met bleachedred for session 2 of Bingo. As I do. No winning for us but I did get a really pretty color of new dauber.

Then she came to my house and helped me compile the diaper cakes I volunteered to make for Loose Tooth Lulu's Shower on Saturday. I needed extra hands and brains as I had no idea what I was doing. I picked up the stuff to make it with on my lunch hour.

The "ingredients" are, 40 Seventh Generation Eco Friendly Disposable diapers(big cake size 2, little cake newborn), 6 organic cotton cloth diapers, Seventh Generation Eco Friendly baby wipes, The icing is receiving blankets, the roses are bibs from her registry, and the butterfly is a rattle.

( Awesome cell phone photos of Diaper Cakes! )

So now that I have finished my task, I have been assigned another. And that is to come up with SHOWER GAMES. They can be twisted, they can incorporate the pool. The party is CO ED, at the Elk's Lodge and at night. We wanted a baby birthing game... but I might to the Girl's Next Door taste the diaper poo candy...ideas? anyone...Bueller?

I feel like I’ve been posting to seattle far too many times this week! Sorry if you’re getting tired of me, and thank you all for your wealth of information!

I have friends visiting from Atlanta in August. They’ve never been to Seattle, and we only have a day or two to cram in as much touristy sightseeing as possible. They’re also on a budget. Top of the list for them is the Space Needle, and we might try to do the underground tour, ride the ducks, visit Pike Place or Safeco Field, or all of the above.

Where can I get a touristy coupon book that has discounts on things like this? I know they’re out there, I’m just not sure where to look. I’m thinking about just hitting up a concierge desk downtown or the chamber or something. Any other suggestions? Thanks!

(I did find this, but none of that is really what we’re looking for.)

heehee this article is rad. "McDonald's sort of cared, just enough to write up a nice letter of response to Wildmon stating, in essence, that the AFA is a bunch of troglodytic knuckle-draggers with the sociosexual awareness of a fungal spore, and they should crawl away right now before God spanks them even harder with the 2x4."

hey i love fungal spores, don't hate!

Which zoo is better: Woodland Park or Point Defiance?

Is anyone "in the know" of any good campgrounds near Vancouver, WA or near the ocean? And by good, I mean a place that has secluded campsites with fire pits, is meant for pitching tents, has restrooms, but doesn't have any facilities for RVs. I've been internetting for hours trying to find something but someone told me that word of mouth is the best way to find out about campgrounds. If you don't want other people to know about a good place you know, then feel free to send me a livejournal email, I will not tell a soul.

Thank you in advance!

p.s. It may have to be a place that is first-come first-serve : X