Ben and Leah, aka Loop and Lil

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My cousin has 700 people in her family tree on Ancestry.com.
So I can add her to mine, and then I have that set of info in my tree, right?
No, I have her, alone, unconnected to anyone.
Sometimes when I add someone, it will let me add other people that are connected to them. Sometimes not.
Sometimes there are duplicates. If I click on 700 profiles via many more than 700 navigation steps, I can manually merge all of these people, and have it be out of date as soon as she updates something.
And when I get tired after 53 people and connect the wrong people to each other, suddenly I have corrupted data, which may or may not be caught someday.

This is really the genealogy site that everyone uses?

And they send massive spam if you let them, and apparently have uncouth billing practices.

I would expect a wikipedia-like site specific to genealogy to exist by now, with the goal being a listing for everyone ever, getting heavy traffic.

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Bootsy_Collins is on twitter. Talk about original twangstas!

i read marjorie liu's taste of crimson and really liked it. i couldnt make it through the first few chapters of 'soul song' so i was pleasantly surprised.

marinating pork chops.

about to try to start some shenanigans via phone with casa maerhys.

otherwise? laying around drinking lemonade, and napping, and thoroughly enjoying it.

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After a run, the s.o. and I walked two blocks from his house, and for $5 caught a bus & trolley, and one hour later, we were at the San Ysidro border. For $52US a piece, we did the following and each walked home with a 750-mL bottle of good tequila.

I was actually surprised at the labyrinthian complexity of the pedestrian bridges and general clusterfuck of roads that converged at the San Ysidro. While trying not to appear like tourists walking around with a map of the city in our hands, we did get pretty confused a few times throughout the day and *gasp* had to ask random people for directions! In Spanish! And folks were nice and helpful! And hardly anyone spoke English and it was OK! The goal was to get to the 6th Annual Street Opera Festival on the north side of the Tijuana River from "downtown" and maybe check out the Centro Cultural Tijuna (la bola).





I forgot to eat lunch so I made the s.o. help me find a sit-down restaurant on the way over to the street fair. We came across La Casa del Mole on Aquiles Serdan and I got some enchilades de mole and the s.o. accidentally ordered a giant hock of meat bigger than his head succulently covered in mole. Our fix prixe meal came with a soup and a postre, uno tamal dulce. I added pechuga and pierna to my vast Spanish vocabulary of Mexican food stuffs.









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Hey Guys, ((Nice to meet you))

Well, This is a start of a lot of things for me, One: I decided to come back into the blog world (Yay me) and Two, More important: I'm moving to Burlington, VT from Plymouth, MA,  because of school, and im pretty excited about it. I have my apartment, and im being transfered to the American Eagle there, and I am also starting my first year at CCV, ((Just so I can get out of MA the cheapest and most productive way possible, then I will transfer into UVM next year)) so things seem to be comming to order..  However, I 'm a bit nervous. Going to a new place.. especially one thats four hours away from where you have lived all your life, by yourself, is a bit nerveracking.

So, if you dont mind, could you maybe help me out and give me a little advice, maybe an idea of some things to do up there in vermont, maybe I could meet some new people, whatever you guys can do to make this climb an easy one.


Thanks Guys,

--Joe

"pay attention" and "ranch dressing"

We do have only so much of the former, to spend, variously, at a given moment, or stretch of moments.

The latter--- it's funny we have these stock salad dressings, these shorthand names/types of liquidy stuff we pour on food or dip food in.

From wikipedia:

History

In 1954, Steve and Gayle Henson opened a dude ranch near Santa Barbara, California, and named it "Hidden Valley Ranch". As a side business, they sold to guests a special dressing that Steve had developed in Alaska. The dressing was popular, and they began selling bottles that guests could take home, and later opened a factory to sell packets of ranch seasoning that had to be mixed with mayonnaise and buttermilk (packets that are still available to this day). In 1972 the brand was bought by Clorox for $8 million.

Clorox reformulated the dressing several times to try to make it more convenient. The first change was to include buttermilk flavoring in the seasoning so that home chefs only had to add milk rather than buttermilk. In 1983, Clorox developed a non-refrigerated bottled formulation, making it even more popular.
Ranch became a common snack food flavor, starting with Cool Ranch Doritos in 1987, and Hidden Valley Ranch Wavy Lay's in 1994.

Popularity

Ranch dressing is a common dipping sauce for vegetables such as broccoli and carrots, as well as "bar foods" such as french fries and chicken wings. It is also a common dipping sauce for fried foods such as fried mushrooms, fried zucchini, onion rings, and hush puppies. Additionally, ranch dressing is used on pizza, baked potatoes, wrap sandwiches, tacos, and hamburgers. It is especially popular in the South as a garnish for nearly all these foods.

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(i seriously doubt this recipe needs TWO cups of buttermilk, though. Just fyi....)

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We saw Ben's sets at Station North (Northscape). It was hot out on the sunny blacktop pavement, but there were breezes blowing and temps only in the low 80º's--so all in all it was very pleasant.

My feet held up pretty well. I walked down Charles street to the bridge leading to Mt.Royal Ave., then walked back up to North Ave. without much foot pain. So that was a good sign. The crowds of people made me nauseous, however (as they always do). All that movement within a sea of humans-- heads moving up and down, people all in motion around me as I move-- it gives me vertigo. So I split from Jon and headed back to the Station North area.

Stayed for Ben's full NERFTONE set, then walked to the car and went home. I'm glad I had the car, as the Light Rail was really mobbed and the station parking was all overflowing.

BTW, I've got a home visit with a dog rescue person scheduled for Tues. morning, so things are moving along on the Boo front.

HAVING A BLAST.

WISH YOU WERE HERE.




(Unless you are here in which case, "YAY!")

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willow at seeking avalon has made an interesting post about the continuing avatar/racebender fail. she points out that a big part, for some folks, of not getting why so many poc are upset about the casting is that they dont get the e asian/ndn influences in the show *at all*, and think that what poc are recognizing as clothing, fighting styles, etc attributable to particular regions or ethnic groups is fictional.

which... is nearly inconceivable to me but at the same time explains a lot.

(i totally didn't realize when i first saw this that she was quoting glockgal, but yay. glockgal!)

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i had a whole list of errands i was thinking of doing today. realized i dont even want to be bothered, so about to kick back with a pork bun and read.

also, holzman gave me much needed reality check today. thanks, bb.

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BeeeYOUtiful day for Artscape!

Ben will be playing at the Station North stage at North Ave and Charles St. TODAY at 3:30pm in a 15 min. acoustic set on guitar with Leah Gage. Then at five, same place, he'll be blowing the sax with the NERFTONES.

Y'all come out now, ya hear?

I will be trying to videotape the acoustic set and maybe a song with the NERFTONES, if my battery lasts.

I'm hoping my foot holds up under the prolonged walking and standing.

We'll have to take the Light Rail down so I don't feel like schlepping a chair with everything else. But maybe I should.

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antihonkeyshinestablishmentarianism
Seriously, what is there to say to this? LOL!

NDN
Layers on layers. So much hidden in plain sight.
I'm learning. I've also had fabulous teachers.


cooking
i love it and hate it. my life would be a lot simpler if I could keep tater tots and the like in the freezer or make a cake with a cake mix without knowing i would hate the taste. if people think my kitchen sounds exotic they should see the one I was raised in. i've had a lot to live up to.

manflesh
not just a job, its an adventure. i dont even remember when i started posting pics of hot menz on lj. at this point, its safe to say I've been doing it for many years. i think examining male beauty raises a lot of issues for men and for women. i had a brief involvement with a Black professional male model once and seeing how the simple fact of his existence sent so many people into the twilight zone with entitlement and resentment and general stupid changed a lot of my opinions about attractiveness.

womanism
so much of feminism is of no use to women of color and has no plans to be. womanism is a useful alternative. i actually dont really use the term 'womanist' to describe myself but I'm all for the folks that do.

Please do not do this when you are near a drink that can spill over you or have something important to go to do. This will make you waste considerable time, but nearly all of it laughing.

Someone at work mentioned an amazing prank that involved a porta-potty in a park being reconfigured so that it then eventually opened into into a meeting in progress. That lead to a whole series of pranks that this Japanese TV show carries out.

None of these I suspect would be possible anywhere in the US. Even then, someone suing for a considerable amount of money is a given.

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