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Do you like multiple Lego themes? And if so, in which order? For example, if I were to list mine out, it would be: Bionicle >Ninjago >Chima > HF >Creator >other themes. Go!
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The wind whipped into the compartment. Passengers screamed as papers ripped themselves out of their hands and briefcases and bags and hats tumbled along with the rushing air, joining tumbling books and empty cups and expensive fur stoles in a whirling dance. I shattered the remains of the window and heaved half my body through. An attendant grabbed me by the foot, but I kicked him in the face. The momentum propelled me out the window and I plunged downward through the sky. I slung the parachute over my back, fumbling with the harness while struggling to keep it from flying out of my grip. It worked itself free of one shoulder and I barely caught it before it absconded into the blue yonder. It probably would have been smarter to put this on before I had jumped through the window, but I might not have fit that way. Besides, I like to work on the fly. Or rather, on the fall. I managed to strap on the pack and pull the ripcord. As soon as I was descending at a safe speed and my heart rate had a chance to slow, the view of the city strangling the Seine was actually quite beautiful. I was right on course to land in a lovely little park, but the wind had other ideas and I descended on a church spire instead. I guess it was a spiritually uplifting experience. Apparently I had attracted a lot of attention, because a large crowd of people were pointing and shouting, but I couldn’t be sure because they shouted in French and pointed in French too, of course, and they might just have been admiring the architecture for all I knew. Pretty soon I started hearing sirens. I was surprised the sirens didn’t siren in French, but I guess you can’t have everything. Wait, is siren a verb? After the fire department got me down from the spire, the police started asking me questions. I tried to communicate yo no hablo francés by gesture, but that got us nowhere. I tried to translate his French—something, I thought, about passing harbors or possibly wine, and maybe something about a crazy, stupid derriere—but one year in high school Francais didn’t cut it. I was taken downtown, talked to someone who spoke English, I was asked if I had a passport, I said No, and all said and done I ended up in a cell. And as the French say, voilà! A holiday in Paris without having to pay for reservations. Nuile: Lunatic Wordsmith
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Okay guys, here's something a bit random (then again, I wouldn't be me if I wasn't random ) !!!LINK!!!
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Here's what I had today. Thought I'd share. Mediterranean Spring Feast Ingredients: 2 crunchy tomatoes ½ deep green zucchini 1 good, strong onion half a dozen fresh champignons 1 clove crushed garlic sea salt black pepper thyme olive oil and just a little sprinkle of light balsamico vinegar. Directions: Dice up the vegetables and the mushrooms. Add them to the skillet together with a tablespoon or two of olive oil. Add the salt, spices, garlic, and vinegar. Stir fry for 5-10 minutes. Don't overdo it! You want the vegetables to retain some crunchy freshness and healthy vitamins. Serves one hungry bachelor(ette). Smells like pizza, too. =D Enjoy!
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story Mattel and Hasbro should merge. They could call themselves Has-Mat. B)
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I feel more sympathetic toward the crooks in LEGO Space Police 3 than toward the cops. I feel more sympathetic toward the creatures and fish-men in LEGO Atlantis than toward the explorers. I felt more sympathetic toward Achu than either of the artifact-chasing European factions in LEGO Jungle Adventurers. I feel more sympathetic toward Tren Krom than toward even most of the more likable Toa in BIONICLE. ?
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but den i stolez it back. Man, that was weird. I get an Add Contact permission request from someone named JuanitaSomebodyFourRandomNumbers. Click "Chat First." Say hi. Have a very short convo. Obvious chat bot posing as a sexy young female wanting to webcam. "[Don't use obscene language. -Shine], bye." "Block User." All of a sudden: "Yahoo! Messenger is disconnected." Waaht. "Connect to Yahoo! Messenger." "Unable to connect to Yahoo! Messenger while signed in from another computer." Swear words. "All services are disconnected." More swearing. Whole Internet connection goes *poof*. Can't re-establish. Restart computer. Initiate virus scan of whole computer. Open Yahoo! account in Firefox. CHANGE PASSWORD. Fiddle with settings in TrillianAstra. Yahoo still not working.... Success! Yahoo now working. Lesson learned... never chat with suspicious strangers.
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[acronym=She's a polished quartz crystal with 19 sides. She came into my life just today and she's already changing it. ][/acronym]
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A Couple Of Tentative Ideas And A Third One That Could Be The End Of All Of It
BCii posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_153
1. A BZPower playlist for my megaproject-in-progress, the BIONICLE Rock Concert. 2. Me doing an audio book of one of Greg's serials or some fan fiction. I love reading aloud. 3. Getting rid of all my stuff, dropping all projects, and disappearing for a while to roam Europe and maybe some other places, eventually resurfacing back in BC, Canada. I need to do some serious dowsing and card/rune work to find out whether the third idea is what I should go for, and how fully. -
Avoid exposure to all glowing LCD displays, including computer monitors and cell phones, for two hours before going to bed in the evening. The light from these displays suppresses and disrupts your body's production of melatonin, the "sleep hormone." I wish I'd known this a long time ago. It also explains why it's possible to stay up all night in front of the computer and not feel sleepy, merely sleep-deprived.
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I bake almost all my own bread these days. I use a sourdough method, which gives the bread a deliciously tangy flavour and significantly reduces the need for added yeast. The sourdough method is actually very simple and requires only a minimal amount of effort. The easiest and fastest way to get started is to take a bit of ready sourdough starter from a friend, like I did. You can also take a piece of store-bought sourdough bread, grind it into crumbs, and add water and flour. I've even made my own starter using buttermilk as a base. Your starter, whether it's rye, wheat, barley, or whatever, should have a "goopy" consistency, able to be poured, but not so watery that you get a thick layer of water building up on the surface as it ferments and settles. The starter needs to be refreshed once a week by adding ~100 mL of flour and a proportionate amount of fresh water and keeping it, loosely covered, slightly above room temperature for ~24 hours. (I put mine in the cupboard above the fridge.) The rest of the time you should store it in the fridge, tightly covered. If you're not going to use it for a while, you can freeze it or dry it out. Drying is best done by spreading it out onto a sheet of baking paper, about half a centimetre thick. What I do when I make bread dough is I take 100-150 mL of starter and add a bit of dark syrup, 2 tsp sea salt, a sprinkling of dry yeast, plus half a litre of warm water. If I'm using any whole grains, spices, or seeds, I add those too. Then I stir in the flour, first using a wooden fork, then working it in by hand as the dough thickens. When the consistency of the dough is hard enough, I add a dollop of vegetable oil and finish kneading it into a ball. Then I let the dough rest and rise overnight. In the morning, I heat up the oven and bake some yummy bread! For more handy information on sourdough, check the Wikipedia article. There are many more ways of using it than the way I've described, and it also has a rich cultural history around the world.
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Episode goes online tomorrow. I'm so watching it. And I never watch TV. In other news, BCii's 4srsblag has taken a turn for the deadlier. I dunno what to do about that. It's like it has a life of its own now. Current mood: :fear:
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Ubuntu comes with Pidgin pre-installed. Yus yoo are! =3
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Kinda sounds like a Pokémon, doesn't it?
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You know it's true: you saw it on the Internet.
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I made them myself. Actually, I made the dough, my brother and my cousin rolled it out and cut the cookies, and I decorated them. They really are delicious. Oh, and there's mulled wine, too. Please, help yourselves. *toasts* Merry Christmas! <o> <o>
