- 01:18 @haruca 大丈夫。深夜逆転なのはTwitterで知っとりますw #
- 08:00 RT @digitalbear: Google、7億5千万ドルで携帯広告ネットワークのAdMobを買収 - TechCrunch j.mp/1UoBRY #
- 08:47 @makimoto そのハッカソンはしゃないですか？ #
- 08:49 RT @tomstyle: 未確認だが、googleがvoipの会社であるgizmo5を3000万ドルで購入したそうです #
- 09:42 一ヶ月前に取り忘れたクスリを調達した！明日の検査の準備は万端！ #
- 10:29 会議の合間にカフェでブランチ #
- 10:41 そして、そのインストール記事をネタフルに書くんですよね、分かりますw RT @kogure: MTはどうしたら良いのだろう j.mp/dEdaK #
- 13:17 ここのところ毎日、ランチがお弁当でストレスがたまってきた。でも、今日も食べに行く余裕がない。きー #
- 13:24 とりあえずオフィスを出て深呼吸なう #
- 13:59 ストレスは身体によくないので、なんとか時間を工面してランチ＋散歩。くー #
- 15:04 [delicious] lericson/programming/ - Multitouch on Unibody MacBooks: bit.ly/3rEU4X #
- 20:18 ミーティングが盛り上がって、終わってみたら、もう食事ができない時間になっていた。頑張るぞ⁉ #
- 20:32 のぶは、息のあったペアによる朝昼夜のコンボを食らった。のぶは空腹になってしまった！ #
- 20:33 [TypePad] 画像アップロード機能がパワーアップ（ベータ機能）: こんにちは、TypePad プロダクトチーム hayase です 先日 あなたの... bit.ly/3WEdUu #
- 20:44 のぶは、泡の出る 液体を召喚した！ #
- 20:51 @neohawk よげんの書には、21時を過ぎての食事についての記述はあったものの、飲み物に対する制限はいっさいなかった！ #
- 21:52 タジーすごい！ RT @kengo: うわ。すごい。タジー大会新記録で女子で１位なんだすごいなあ 柏崎マラソンで自己ベスト＆大会新記録達成（まじ？）w (Amino Tajee's Adventure Blog!!あみのタジーの冒険ブログ) bit.ly/EuLDZ #
- 22:20 RT @kansai_takako: ＼ベネッセ！／ RT @yamaji 「ベネッセ！」 RT @akhk: 「ベネッセ！」 RT @zerobase: "ついったーで「ベネッセ！」と叫ぶと、ベネッセ の中の人から速攻でフォローされます。どうやら検索してるらしい" #
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QAは着々と進行しているようです！
But also: yay!!!
ドンペリかき氷は終わり、いまはボルドーフェアをやってます、赤坂サカスのマキシムドゥパリにて。
I don't think I've ever been this early for anything in my entire life.
Apparently #musicmonday is a trending topic on the Twitters - bunch of bloody Johnny Come Latelys. Some of us have been here every Monday morning (for various definitions of 'every', 'monday' and 'morning'), mining the rich vein of at-least-a-decade-old music for nuggets and gems to present you with. Although I'll concede that it may be closer to a family cat, possibly elderly and constantly smelling faintly of urine, 'presenting' you with a the mutilated carcass of a songbird than to a lover presenting you with a platter of the finest silks, gems and perfumes purchasable.
Either way - I forge on, secure in the knowledge that I'll be here long after those young whipper snappers have got tired and moved on to new things.
Anyway - my American friends will be blissfully unaware that for British soap operas are completely unlike their Yankee brethren. For a start there are no impossibly glamorous people or complicated plots involving hitherto unknown twin siblings, murders and lengthy comas. Or vampires. No British soaps, such as "East Enders" are mostly populated by grim, ugly people living grim, ugly lives in grim, ugly surroundings. See this comparison for example:
Anyway, when we want to import a little glamour we instead turned to two Australian soaps - "Neighbours" (24 years old this year) and "Home and Away" (22 years old this year). I mean, when I say glamour it's still no "Stairwells of Time" they're are still set in mundane locations - a Melbourne suburb and small, coastal town near Sydney respectively - after all, and the people them selves are pretty ordinary.
But they boast a startlingly accomplished and wide spread alumni amongst the cast. Probably the most famous, is of course, Ms Kylie Minogue, now so famous that her surname has withered and dropped off with disuse, like an unused appendix. Kylie played tomboyish greasemonkey Charlene Ramsey in Neighbours
Which is, to say, you probably didn't realise it but there are Australians everywhere. Do you really know your friends and neighbours? Do they ever casually "chuck" a "shrimp" on the "barbie"? Do you ever see them with faint traces on zinc on their noses? These and more may be an indication that you have an Australian infestation. You have been warned.
Anyway - so on to the main point of this increasingly rambling and incoherent post. 90s music. And Australians. Who were in soap operas.
Oh, look it's adorable elfin faced pixie Natalie Imbrugliagaliagala looking all quirky and alternative
Christ, bet you'd never thought you'd find a musical blog which mentioned Natalie Imbruglalalaiglia and Wolfsheim in the same post.
Anyway, somewhat little known fact - Ms Imbruglaglaglala didn't write (and by 'write' I mean, 'was given the song by one of the 5 pop composer supremos who secretely write about 90% of stuff that's in the charts these days') "Torn" it was originally a 1991 track by a Swedish band called Ednaswap
which was then covered by Danish singer Lis Sørensen as "Burnt" in 1993 (in Danish - listen to it, it will mildly freak you out!)
Of course the best version ever done was Johann Lippowitz's mime version
Like most of the country, I have sat by horrified and deeply saddened by the incident that took place at Ft. Hood last week. I have been further saddened by how Major Hasan has been portrayed as some fundamentalist Muslim on a religious mission of some sorts and the ensuing death threats against Muslims in the Ft. Hood area. Whatever the reasons motivating Maj. Hasan, of which I am sure there were many, none of them justify further killing or threats of any kind. Hate begets hate. If we all, or even a few of us, respond to this incident by targeting Muslims because one of them made a horrendous decision not in line with their faith, the chasm will grow and more horrible incidents will ensue. As Ghandi said, an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
So, I am writing to propose a way to refocus those energies and to respond to the situation with love. Show our troops some love and get yourself educated on S.1963 - the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009. The goal of the bill is to increase mental health services to veterans. Our veterans are suffering tremendously and the VA, and the rest of the country for that matter, are woefully ill-equipped to manage the severity of the problem. We are sending these people out on multiple deployments in a war zone unlike any other before. Whatever your political take on the wars, I think we can all agree that we need to take care of our veterans. I support this bill, but encourage everyone to do their own homework on it.
If you discover you support it, please call Senator Coburn's office and ask him to remove the hold from the bill. He alone is preventing the bill from leaving committee and reaching the Senate floor for a vote. The Committee on Veterans' Affairs has a statement about it here. Senator Coburn has his rebuttal here. If you believe the bill should be supported, please call your senators and ask them to support it. If you don't know how to contact your senators, go here.
I have hesitated for some time to post this because too often well-intentioned posts about how to offer support to our troops get thread-jacked by those wanting to debate the validity of the wars. I am the daughter of a veteran who served in two wars and I am proud of my dad's service. I am also a flaming liberal who vehemently opposes the wars. If I can separate the soldier from the action, then you can, too, and I respectfully ask you to do so here. If you want to say anything hateful, discriminatory, or negative, please make your own post. I don't post publicly very often because it's easier to deal with my small community. But, our troops are part of the larger community and we ALL need to come together to support them. It isn't enough to put a ribbon on the back of your car and wear an American flag pin. The heart of our country is action and I am asking you to take some positive action today to help support our troops and turn the events at Ft. Hood into a forceful, positive response from the country in support of our combat veterans. Many thanks.
