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#3451 mongo_jones

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 08:40 PM

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"Serious electricity problems in the Los Angeles area have taken our entire network off-line.*
We have no information about when power will be restored or what the status of our servers or network will be when power is restored."

purdah nahin jab koi khuda se, bandon se purdah karna kya?
~shaqeel badayuni

if it takes us seven years to prepare for a madness, how long shall it take us to run naked into the marketplace?
~yoruba proverb

facts are meaningless. you could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
~homer simpson

maybe it wasn't the best wording.
~nathan

#3452 hollywood

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 09:57 PM

"Lucky" for me our office has a backup generator. Lots of street lights out in the downtown area. But King Taco was going strong so I had some food--taco al pastor, quesadilla con carne.

That shit cray.

#3453 GG Mora

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:01 PM

Syd Straw playing a tiny venue up here this weekend and we can't go.

A Cooking Life.

#3454 mongo_jones

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:17 PM

hollywood, on Sep 12 2005, 03:57 PM, said:

"Lucky" for me our office has a backup generator. Lots of street lights out in the downtown area. But King Taco was going strong so I had some food--taco al pastor, quesadilla con carne.

people trapped in elevators will not sympathize but it bugs me that my hosting service's backup power is still not up. almost two hours now.

#3455 mongo_jones

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:20 PM

oh, and paying $34 apiece to frame tiny movie-posters from the 50s which cost me only about $2.50 apiece in bombay.

reason to be cheerful: original movie-posters from the 50s for only $2.50 each in bombay. i bought larger classic hindi film posters for quite a bit more--these are small hard-card posters for cheesy hollywood c-movie fare such as "the white witch doctor", "haji-baba" etc..

#3456 rancho_gordo

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:28 PM

Can you scan some of them and do a "story" on your site?

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#3457 mongo_jones

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Posted 12 September 2005 - 10:43 PM

rancho_gordo, on Sep 12 2005, 04:28 PM, said:

Can you scan some of them and do a "story" on your site?

they're already at the framers.

#3458 omnivorette

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 12:37 AM

The irrelevant, privacy-invading questions one is asked by a doctor's office on the telephone when trying to make an appointment for the first time.

I told a doctor's office today that I would be taking my business elsewhere. The woman on the other end of the phone was quite, er, surprised.

"It seems a positively Quixotic quest to defend food from being used as any kind of social signifier, as if it could avoid the fate of each other component of our everyday lives." -Wilfrid

#3459 The Scream

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 12:59 AM

Driving from Silverlake to the Southwest end of K town with about 75% of the signal lights blinking red. And then back up...

Gone fishing for the summer.

#3460 tanabutler

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 02:19 AM

Our neighbors broke a water pipe that serves all the houses on our property. Why oh why did I just use my hands to rub the London Broil with oil, now that I can't wash them properly? Gah.

I'll just lick them, I guess. Or call the kitties.

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#3461 The Scream

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 02:32 AM

I bought Jowar flour at the Indian market thinking it was barley flour.

Gone fishing for the summer.

#3462 hollywood

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 04:46 AM

The Scream, on Sep 12 2005, 05:59 PM, said:

Driving from Silverlake to the Southwest end of K town with about 75% of the signal lights blinking red. And then back up...

How many times do I have to tell you: cut the blue wire!

That shit cray.

#3463 GG Mora

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 05:44 PM

Paris Hilton on the cover of Vanity Fair.

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#3464 Robert Schonfeld

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 07:59 PM

Annual annoyance: the UN General Assembly. Security gets tighter every year. On the bright side, Louie and the cops love each other.

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#3465 winesonoma

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Posted 13 September 2005 - 08:05 PM

Gassed up the motorhome for the weekend. $67, ouch.

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