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О свадьбах, фотографах, интерьерах и фотосъемке
SPINNING_LIGHT
blackcell
я решил, что я не забочусь о свадебной фотосъемке, потому что есть профессионал, которого я действительно люблю, чтобы видеть, находится в другом состоянии. так что да, у меня есть ручки. хорошо. у него есть кое-что, что можно удержать.

плюс, если я потеряю слишком много веса, тогда кто выиграет все модные конкурсы на свадьбе? учтите это.

Я планирую развлечься этим летом, и до сих пор ... в основном это работа, сон и мульчирование. (что означает одну из двух вещей, а не только алкоголь)

это странно сказать, что вы все еще любите процесс фотосъемки свадеб, но что вам нужно какое-то время испытывать другие вещи? omg моя шея просто треснула, как, например, на стекле.


Я пропускаю уроки свадебной фотосъемки в летнее время с открытыми окнами, крича словами «Movin 'Out and Guster» и «Wicked» и тому подобное, собираюсь получить slurpees на 711.

я скучаю по интерьерам фотографа и друга сидя на стоянке на высшей точке ночью, абсолютно ничего, кроме любви, потому что мы в основном жили там и больше нигде не ездили

я скучаю, сидя на крыше Свадебного Фотографа Тилль, куря чаши и бросая палочки, крича "свадьба"!.

я скучаю по фильму о невесте, которую бросил фотограф.

я скучаю по пути к карнавалам и свадебным огонькам.

я скучаю по людям, как caitie p и lauren hamel, и как мы все привыкли быть непостижимыми, но теперь никто из реальных свадебных фотографов больше не говорит. я даже скучаю по katelyn, который полностью закрыл нас из ее жизней.

не стреляй в меня ... но я скучаю по вечерам с мальчиками-фотографами... как в новые годы, помнишь? в trevs house?

я пропустил, когда импровизация была на самом деле FUN с Джастин и Джош и Адам, и это было смешно удивительно, и много людей ушли.

Я скучаю по нему, потому что это было потрясающе.

я скучаю по туру в гавани

я скучаю по курящим гвоздикам и сорнякам с бути

я скучаю по полуночным прогулкам с бутией вокруг полюса свободы и буксира булава из-за отсутствия чего-либо еще, чтобы сделать

я скучаю по качанию на качелях в южной школе / ногами наших ботинок, насколько они могли идти

я скучаю, чтобы быть в состоянии подрочить на моей лужайке с аланой

Я скучаю по друзьям, которые все далеко и теперь занимаются свадебной фотосъемкой в Москве. Я скучаю по людям, с которыми я больше не разговариваю. и я просто хотел поместить это там, что я люблю всех вас и независимо от того, что я здесь для вас, даже если ур не для меня.

я собрал замечательных фотографов в колледже, но мои старые воспоминания о свадьбах все еще заставляют меня вернуться к нескольким годам назад, когда мы все так весело проводили время, независимо от того, что мы делаем, будь то глупо и бегаю по полюсу свободы в сумасшедшем костюмы или съемка моего деда, убегающего ... или что-то еще.

Comcast is for complete sucks. We are chumps.
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blackcell
 HERE IS THE STORY OF COMCAST.


Comcast is for complete sucks. We are chumps.

Our internet has completely licked nads for like 6 months. Ten hundred times
a day for 5-500 minutes our ping times start to beliiiiiiiiiiieve they can
flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy / they believe they can touch the
skyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. When your ping to google is two seconds, to say
you are connected to the internet is akin to saying "I did not have sexual
relations with that woman."

They sent a guy out some number of months ago who updated the firmware on
our router--no small feat when you consider that his head was wedged quite
squarely up his asshole the entire time. He then left to huff spray paint in
his van. His complete failure to make any attempt to figure out what was
actually wrong brought about no discernable improvement in our service,
which is terribly surprising because his heart was in the right place.
Apparently it's not just the thought that counts in cable repair.

A month ago, I became fed up once again with the shit-poor quality of
service we receive and called Comcast. They said, and I quote verbatim,
"lolz we c4nt help u 'less u call wh1le ur service is b4d." They also
mentioned that our modem was reporting a weak upstream signal. I called them
several times over the next 2 days during our ping tornadoes but only
managed on the 4th or 5th try to navigate through their byzantine phone
menus to an actual human being before the service returned to normal. "lolz
prankd ur m0d3m's upZtream is w34k." Thanks.

I scheduled an appointment for the same day, but I guess "appointment" means
"Maybe somebody will show up if they feel like it. Don't wait up or
anything." I called again and they said somebody would call me to
reschedule. It transpired that this, too, was naught but a tale of sound and
fury, signifying nothing.

This Tuesday I called again and scheduled another appointment. The CSR I
spoke with was clearly high off his ass, but he did managed to schedule
something for Wednesday. I was assured that somebody would call me before
arriving. I assumed both the appointment and the promise of a call were
lies, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that only the phone call was a
wild fantasy borne out of the opium den that is Comcast customer service.

What's more, the man who showed up at our door was polite and (most shocking
of all) competent. He knew what the words "ping time" signify. I showed him
a ping time graph and he understood that it represented miserable service.
He immediately agreed that the usual excuses--you use a router so that's
causing all your problems, we can't be sure that all your modem's lights are
flashing when you have a problem so fuck off, and so on--were not the cause
of our problems. He had a gash on his forehead and was asian, so he is
probably a rogue cable ninja who assassinates Comcast techs and takes over
their appointments for the good of mankind.

After an inspection of our wiring and some tests, he determined that our
main cable needed replacement and that running a cable through the heating
system was a really terrible idea. Unfortunately, the cable runs through the
Secret Room. Fari nor Mr. Awesome were home, so I was cold fucked. The ninja
said to call again when we could get in there. "Don't go..." I whispered
hoarsely, tears welling from my eyes, but he had already vanished across the
rooftops.

I arranged for Mr. Awesome to be available and scheduled another appointment
for this morning. I told the CSR I needed a phone call before anybody showed
up so I could call Mr. Awesome and tell him to come over.

"d00d that's how it works. they always call. dumbass."
"But the guy who showed up yesterday didn't call, and I really need a call
so I can tell our landlord to come over."
"i t0ld u f4gg0t they always call. and nobody came to your house yesterday."
"but..."
"stfu"

Dude shows up at our door 15 minutes before the end of the window, having
failed utterly to call. It is not the same guy. I die a little inside. I
call Fari's but nobody picks up. I die a little more.

I explain our situation and tell him the guy who came out on Wednesday said
we need a cable replaced. He tells me no guy came out on Wednesday. He is
very insistent on this point. I am now 100% dead inside. Eventually, I give
up and show him the fucked cable and he agrees that it is pretty much
fucked, so at least there's that.

I call Fari again and she picks up. Maybe I'm only 99% dead inside. She says
Mr. Awesome is here, at the house, right now. I hang up and look for him.
Unless he is invisible or deliberately hiding, he is not here. The dude is
like "I can't stay long. I'm leaving soon." 105% dead inside. I explain that
he should have fucking called me, and he says quite matter-of-factly that
nobody asked to be called. I murder him and bury his body in our compost
pile.. I mean, I call Fari again. She is very confused that Mr. Awesome, who
should have been here long ago, is not here.

Blessedly, he shows up during this phone conversation. I become religious.
He unlocks the Secret Door and leaves. Was that all? Mother fuck. The Secret
Room contains a small amount of furniture, three mattresses, four paint cans
plus a roller and paint tray, and a ladder. It is a very disappointing
Secret Room. I spit on Fari's secrets. Ptew.

The dude is highly surly. He likes very much to tell me how stupidly we have
our cable set up. He says the amplifier is killing our TVs somehow. I ask
him why but he does not answer me, instead walking away to do something
else. He does this every single time I ask him a question. He is possibly
the rudest human being I have ever met in a professional capacity. He
complains that it is impossible for him to reroute the cable, at which point
I tell him how the guy from Wednesday suggested we do it. He reminds me that
nobody came on Wednesday before saying that oh, yeah, that totally works. He
delights in informing me that we will be charged for this service call. Joy.

I play solitaire while he re-cables our house. Every time he walks by me he
says "you lost!" I suppress my urge to kill, securing my eventual sainthood.
At one point I move Keith's DVD rack for him, and the Super Scope falls to
the floor. If it has gone on to the great pile of ET cartridges in the sky,
replacements can be had on eBay several times a day for substantially less
than the original retail price.

I sign a work order and he finally goes away. Our TVs and our internet work.
The TV reception seems to be much better than it was. I remove the amplifier
and unplug the cable that runs through our heating system (now that it is
connected to nothing). The reception is still good on both TVs--yes,
including
the Sci-Fi Channel.

So, that problem with snowy TV reception we started having a week or two ago
is now fixed. Our more general ping time problems that also showed up
recently (erratic pings in the 50-150ms range) are also gone. However, the
real, crippling problem with our internet service--the intermittent 1-2
second ping times--seems to be exactly as bad as it was, since that has
already happened once in the hour since that surly bastard quit our hearth.
This is not terribly surprising, since a marginal cable is a much less
likely explanation than poor QoS protocols on one of Comcast's routers
allowing somebody else on the block to throttle our internet with their own
traffic.

If it's not too much trouble, I would like to die now, please.
 - via the web from someone named Nate

RELAXANDSLEEP!
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blackcell
I cant message you or reply to your message because LJ says:
This message cannot be sent to relaxandsleep because the recipient has enabled the privacy options for their messages.

VOTE DEM BITCHES
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blackcell
The top 11 things you should know about Sarah Palin:

1) She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power

2) She strongly supports big oil (her husband works for oil company BP)

3) She believes creationism should be taught in public schools

4) She is opposed to abortion even in cases of RAEP and WINCEST

5) She has no federal or international experience. Prior to being governor (for less than over 9000 years) she was only the mayor of a small Alaskan town and a beauty queen!

6) She believes global warming is a farce and is opposed to listing the polar bear as an endangered species

7) She stands for everything that Hillary Clinton stood against

8) She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and anywhere else big oil wants

9) She supports Pebble Mine which will destroy the richest salmon run in the world

10) She supports aerial shooting of bears and wolves in Alaska

11) She is pro-war

P.S. - We are year-round residents of Alaska

THE 27 McCAIN FLIP-FLOPS
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blackcell
1) Was against the Bush tax cuts; now is for making them permanent and even bigger.

2) Was against the GI Bill; now is for the GI Bill.

3) Was for immigration reform; now is against immigration reform - and repudiated his own prior position on immigration reform.

4) Opposed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill - which had his name on it.

5) Was for gay marriage, and then opposed gay marriage.

6) Was for Roe v. Wade, then was against Roe v. Wade; then for it, sort of; then against it, sort of.

7) Was for storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; then was against it.

8) In 2000 was for military action against rogue states; now is against it, EXCEPT for Iran….which he sings about bombing and says it's good to sell them cigarettes so we can kill them.

9) Negotiating with North Korea; was against it; then for it, especially when Bush did it.

10) Negotiating with Castro's Cuba - in 2000 was for it, now against it.

11) No negotiating with terrorists except when Colin Powell went to Syria in 2002 and when, in 2006, said we'd eventually have to deal with Hamas.

12) Unilateral military action against terrorists in Pakistan - against it when Obama said it was good; for it when Bush did it in the spring of 2008.

13) Warrantless wiretaps - against them 6 months ago; for them now.

14) Torturing detainees - always against it; since he was tortured he should know. Now, in favor of torturing detainees.

15) Perpetual detention of detainees - bad a few years ago, good now.

16) Iraq - the right course in 2004; stay the course in 2005 and now he was always against the flawed strategy - especially when Rumsfeld was there.

17) Estate tax - for it in 2006; against it now.

18) 2004 - for privatizing Social Security; 2008 against privatizing Social Security.

19) February 2008 promised a balanced budget in 4 years. April 2008 said it will take 8 years. June 2008…..back to 4 years. [And, since he is now for the Bush tax cuts, balancing the budget EVER will be impossible.]

20) In 2008 - first glad to look at oil windfall profits tax; then it's a bad idea - Jimmy Carter's bad idea.

21) In 2000 - no new offshore oil drilling; now, just very recently, it's a great idea.

22) In 2000 - attacked Bush fundraising leaders; in 2006 had some of the same people co-chair his own fundraisers.

23) In 2000 - Jerry Falwell was an "agent of intolerance"; in 2006 McCain delivered the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University and in 2008 McCain was big buddies with Rev. Hagee and Pastor Parsley.

24) Opposed and voted against the Martin Luther King holiday; now says he was for it.

25) 1986 - opposed South African divestment to attack apartheid; June 2008, praised it.

26) In 2000 - defended South Carolina's Confederate flag as a symbol of heritage; in 2002 said it should come down and it was an "act of political cowardice to not take it down."

27) 2000 - against teaching creationism in schools; 2005 - alternatives to evolution should be taught.

AND HE'S ATTACKING OBAMA AS A FLIP-FLOPPER??!!?? Those living in glass houses……

Idiots on parade (funny!!)
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blackcell
Idiot #1

I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology
at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants.

I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there
would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down, and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants.

I told her that she better bring her daughter into the Emergency room right away.

Idiot #2

Seems that a year ago, some Boeing employees on the airfield
decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home. When they took it for a float on the river, they were surprised by a Coast Guard helicopter coming towards them. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator that is activated when the raft is inflated. They are no longer employed at Boeing.

Idiot #3

A true story out of San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a
downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote "this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller
window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller.

She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he
wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said "OK" and left. He was arrested few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.

Idiot #4

A motorist was unknowingly caught in an automated speed trap that measured his speed using radar and photographed his car. He later received in the mail a ticket for $40 and a photo of his car. Instead of payment, he sent the police department a photograph of $40. Several days later, he received a letter from the police that contained another picture of handcuffs.

Idiot #5

A guy walked into a little corner store with a shotgun and
demanded all the cash from the cash drawer. After the cashier put the cash in a bag, the robber saw a bottle of scotch that he wanted behind the counter on the shelf. He told the cashier to put it in the bag as well, but he refused and said, "I don't believe you are over 21." The robber said he was, but the clerk still refused to give it to him because he didn't believe him.

At this point the robber took his driver's license out of his wallet and gave it to the clerk. The clerk looked it over, and agreed that the man was in fact over 21 and he put the scotch in the bag. The robber then ran from the store with his loot. The cashier promptly called the police and gave the name and address of the robber that he got off the license. They arrested the robber two hours later.

Idiot #6

A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously
waving revolvers. The first one shouted, "Nobody move!" When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

Idiot #7

Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He
decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window.

The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. Seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape.

From: Bill Gates
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blackcell
From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Updale again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Plead the 5th. Youll thank me later.
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blackcell
Question: "The police are here. They want to talk to me. What should I do?"
Answer: "Make no statement to the police under any circumstances."
- Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/342.html

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blackcell

Tim Russert died
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blackcell
See ya later, you can ask us all questions in the afterlife.

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