Isolated Blurt Thread

[TheeGoatPig]

I don't know, but I get the feeling he isn't as interested in me as I am in him. *sigh*

He's a fool than. *hugs*

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Woohoohoo!!!

I came in third at my poker tournament today! National tournament in Atlantic City here I come. Top 8 there get a $2000 entry into the World Series of Poker.

I also won $13 in a 25c cash game at a friend's house after the tournament

 

[damppanties]

Bah. I spent so much time making my template and can't figure out how to get rid of that one house.

 

[carsonshepherd]

You are not going to fail. That's not an option.
You're going to find a way, like you always do.
You have no choice, so suck it up. No fear.

 

[AphroditeReborn]

The only problem with going to a lifestyle club and not getting laid is.....









not getting laid

 

[crvygirl]

I was unable to satisfactorily answer this question from an old friend: why do you continually sacrifice your own dreams to care for everyone else?

I think I'll be thinking about this for a long while. I truly do not know the answer - why can't I ever see middle ground, where I can protect my ability to follow my own dreams AND help those I love?

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Mmmmmmmmm Gypsy 'Nique.....


Curse you Tatsuya CURSE YOU!!!!

 

[JagFarlane]

48hrs from now...will be at work and thinking about how I go on leave in a few hours

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My plaque from coming in third yesterday:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c65/theegoatpig/DSCF0454.jpg

And a pic of myself out on the back deck a few minutes ago:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c65/theegoatpig/DSCF0455.jpg

 

[cloudy]

I'm leaving for Tennessee in the morning! Yay!

 

[Belegon]

My plaque from coming in third yesterday:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c65/theegoatpig/DSCF0454.jpg

Congratulations Thee! That is wonderful!

 

[Belegon]

Since not everybody looks at the Sunday Morning Thread and this issue is really holding my attention...

I'm taking up a new cause I just became aware of via Neil Gaiman.

Excuse me? My Shel Silverstein, Where The Wild Things Are and copy of The Phantom Tollbooth are illegal? WHAT?

See my blog for explanation: http://willbelegon.blogspot.com/ New post this morning, Another Case of Extremes In Idiocy: CPSIA

 

[Chantilyvamp]

Since not everybody looks at the Sunday Morning Thread and this issue is really holding my attention...

I'm taking up a new cause I just became aware of via Neil Gaiman.

Excuse me? My Shel Silverstein, Where The Wild Things Are and copy of The Phantom Tollbooth are illegal? WHAT?

See my blog for explanation: http://willbelegon.blogspot.com/ New post this morning, Another Case of Extremes In Idiocy: CPSIA

You cant even put them in the yard sale or give them away or you break that stupid law. *shakes head*

 

[Belegon]

You cant even put them in the yard sale or give them away or you break that stupid law. *shakes head*

It was written with good intentions. That doesn't make it a good law. *sigh*

A poorly written law just invites witch-hunt hungry people like Ken Starr and his ilk. It needs amended. Badly!

 

[Chantilyvamp]

It was written with good intentions. That doesn't make it a good law. *sigh*

A poorly written law just invites witch-hunt hungry people like Ken Starr and his ilk. It needs amended. Badly!

*noddles* I know. A friend emailed me to tell me the library i went to in Ohio took all the old books out and burned them and caused quite an angry situation. I cringed at the thought of all the books burning. But they didn't know what to do with them.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!!!!!

The power connector on my laptop died. No the easily replaced power adapter! Nooooo no, the connector, the part inside that is integrated the mother fucking goddamn mother board! SON OF A BITCH!

I don't have the patience to cobble together a laptop and no money for a new one.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!

 

[oggbashan]

*noddles* I know. A friend emailed me to tell me the library i went to in Ohio took all the old books out and burned them and caused quite an angry situation. I cringed at the thought of all the books burning. But they didn't know what to do with them.

Extracts from my trade association blog (secondhand bookdealers)

The USA ban on pre 1985 children's books
Dear Sir
Typically I am not alarmist, but as a bookseller, I am quite aghast after having read the article appended to this e-mail. I learned of these circumstances just this morning from the lovely young lady who weighs my book parcels at the local post office -- she being a bookish sort who buys quaint and curious old children's books for her one-year-old daughter. Perhaps I am simply under-informed, but this story appears to have escaped the attention of many mainstream media, so I bring it to your attention in the hope that other booksellers and collectors may benefit by (or at least be as incredulous as I in) this knowledge.
For the moment, the new law discussed below would affect only books sold, collected, and/or distributed in the United States, but the potential for thousands, if not millions, of vintage children's books being destroyed seems very real, indeed. If, upon review, you feel, as I do, that this news is worth sharing, please pass along to your... readers.
To be sure, important clarifications of the article's content may be found at: www.snopes.com/inboxer/pending/cpsia.asp. However, as misinformation and disinformation result in drastic actions such as already witnessed on the part of certain booksellers who have eliminated some or all of their pre-1985 children's books from inventory, the actual contours of the law are almost beside the point. Books are seemingly being destroyed in significant numbers daily here in the states, perhaps for no valid reason at all. Best regards, Brendan D. Strasser, Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Dear Sir
I read the article on pre-1985 children's books and lead content, and was nearly panic stricken, but instead of dumping our collection, wrote my congressman, who is on the Commerce committee, first. He wrote back in detail, including:
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency charged with regulating CPSIA, Sellers of used children's products, such as thrift stores, are not required to certify that those products meet the new lead limits. In addition, the law requires that testing be performed by manufacturers, and not by retailers. For up to date information, please visit http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/cpsia.html.
Sounds like groundless hysteria again. Truman Price, Columbia Basin Books, Monmouth OR 97361.

It seems that some US retailers are actually interpreting the legislation as a total ban on pre-1985 childrens books and junking them. Save a book now!

Og

PS. I started a thread earlier: Book Burning but it died.

 

[oggbashan]

*noddles* I know. A friend emailed me to tell me the library i went to in Ohio took all the old books out and burned them and caused quite an angry situation. I cringed at the thought of all the books burning. But they didn't know what to do with them.

Oops! That put the lead into the air. Not a good move.

Og

 

[JagFarlane]

Argh! Why is it so hard to move an IPod from one laptop to the other!?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Congratulations Thee! That is wonderful!

Thank you

And I have another shot at winning my way into the next national tournament on April 18th. I could with a free hotel room at the Taj

 

[JagFarlane]

Thank you

And I have another shot at winning my way into the next national tournament on April 18th. I could with a free hotel room at the Taj

Very cool. If you won that will we get to see you on WSOP?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Very cool. If you won that will we get to see you on WSOP?

I have to place in the top eight at the National tournament in May to get a $2000 seat in the World Series of Poker. The main game costs $10000. So I would either have to make the final table of the $2000 buy in and hope that they televise some of it, or parlay that $2000 into a $10000 seat at the WSoP somehow.

Winning in April will just give me another shot at winning the $2000 seat at the WSoP, or if I place in the top eight in both, I got two $2000 seats, or something... I'm not exactly sure about that one...

 

[Katyusha]

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!!!!!

The power connector on my laptop died. No the easily replaced power adapter! Nooooo no, the connector, the part inside that is integrated the mother fucking goddamn mother board! SON OF A BITCH!

I don't have the patience to cobble together a laptop and no money for a new one.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!!!

Oh noooooooo...how many things will you not be able to do now?

 

[rgraham666]

Book two is almost done!

 

[Katyusha]

Since not everybody looks at the Sunday Morning Thread and this issue is really holding my attention...

I'm taking up a new cause I just became aware of via Neil Gaiman.

Excuse me? My Shel Silverstein, Where The Wild Things Are and copy of The Phantom Tollbooth are illegal? WHAT?

See my blog for explanation: http://willbelegon.blogspot.com/ New post this morning, Another Case of Extremes In Idiocy: CPSIA

Um, what the fuck? I'm getting really fucking sick of this; it's as bad as wanting to outlaw the sale of nutmeg because it's a hallucinogen, except nobody's deemed nutmeg illegal. Yet. You have to eat so much nutmeg that you'll get deathly ill before you'll hallucinate from it, but I'm sure someone out there will lead a charge against it once they find out it's a hallucinogen.

And as for getting lead poisoning from a book, why don't we demolish every single house and building that still has lead paint in it? Children are far more likely to get lead poisoning from a paint chip than they are from the pages of a damn book.

 

[JagFarlane]

Um, what the fuck? I'm getting really fucking sick of this; it's as bad as wanting to outlaw the sale of nutmeg because it's a hallucinogen, except nobody's deemed nutmeg illegal. Yet. You have to eat so much nutmeg that you'll get deathly ill before you'll hallucinate from it, but I'm sure someone out there will lead a charge against it once they find out it's a hallucinogen.

And as for getting lead poisoning from a book, why don't we demolish every single house and building that still has lead paint in it? Children are far more likely to get lead poisoning from a paint chip than they are from the pages of a damn book.

Welcome to the modern world...its not only our country, but many others, where they do these things to "protect" us, but only further succumb us to a cocoon where soon we'll be afraid to do anything. If you wish a further example of this world...watch Demolition Man