Social Issues 'n' Stuff with Skawiński

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There is an interesting site infamous for paranormal activity called The Doorway of Aramu Muru.

From what I can tell, it's said to be a natural stone cliff face that looks artificial. There is a natural formation of a roughly human size in the cliff. And apparently aliens or gods can come in or out of this solid cliff because it's an interdimensional doorway.

How awesome is that nonsense?

Though it sounds like a peyote trip, I wouldn't mind checking it out for one evening...

This postcard is coming a little sooner, because tomorrow's vacation requires a little more travel time to reach the intended destination...

Today, Hunter was in Hell. That's right, Hell. He spent most of the day looking for jobs he didn't get interviews for, fell asleep reading only to be woken up by a stupid question, and spent the remainder of the night trying to block out the sounds of sirens. Also, he couldn't find a damn can opener to open his canned food.



Wish you were here. ;)

Soo, my grandpa wanted to spend time with me. The way we spend time is wandering around stores. My grandpa took me to IKEA, he wanted to just see what the stores have because he wants to buy me a TV stand for a TV I don't even want or have. He is something... every so often he's just says "Damn.. I wish I could hit the lotto.." and trails off on how he what he would do with his money. He wants to start a small business, give people that really need jobs a job, buy a home, a car, money for college and just all that stuff. A dream of his, and this happens all the time whenever I see him and it's the thought that counts you know? I really appreciate his thoughts like that. At the same time it worries me, I don't want to see him leave this world feeling unhappy or sad that he couldn't get me these things, I hope one day he sees that.

So, shifting from being sappy to more silliness, I saw this. ( IKEA has... ) ( Mah spooon is to big. Video deemed NSFW for disturbing content? )

Well, the con is over and Post Con Depression is deep set, I want to be back among the company of all my wonderful furiends. It was a whirlwind experience, but omg so much fun. I didnt get to do everything I wanted to but who can in such a huge con, theres so much to do, especially with suiting, you find yourself entertaining everyone else and you kinda get caught up in it all, but theres always others cons and next years AC to do more. Just wish sometimes that these things could last longer, once you get there and get going, its time to go.

Thursday we pull in about 11am, there were already several in suit hanging about the lobby, i grabbed the camera while my mate and rev went back to the airport to pick up another fur. The hotel wouldnt let anyone in rooms until 3pm, so it was mostly hang around and take pics, talk with the other furs I know, and then I got in the registration line, waiting for them to open. I went in as a sponsor this year and I highly recommend it for anyone considering going. I would have pre-reg'd but my bank had some issues from a bogus transaction. I got in touch with Media about my suit and he was en route atm, finishing a few things. After we get in the room we pile in and chill a while, then roam around some more, my mate went out suiting, and it was a lot of fun and very relaxed. We went to the rave for a little while, then hit the sack.

Friday rolls around and the real craziness begins. I spent most of my time roaming around with my mate while he was in suit, messing with people and just seeing what all was going on. Media finally had my suit ready so I went to pick it up and got suited, went up and knocked a friends door, he was so ecstatic to see me in suit, I about got tackled into the hallway lol. After we hung out a while I went back to my room and grabbed my mate, we chilled a minute then went to the fursuit dance. OMG what awesome fun that was.

Saturday I went to the dealers den and picked up a few things, then had to get ready for the parade. We suited up and went to get staged at 1pm, AnthroCon once again claims the largest furry convention world record, with 453 suiters in the parade, 3390 registrations, us furries brought 3 million dollars to the city of Pittsburgh! The official picture for the suiters was really cool. I got to go up on the roof, the suiters with less mobility stayed on the same floor to the balcony there, the photographer was shooting from across the river, and they got a riverboat to pass by which all of us waved at, and they snapped the pic. It was kind of disorganized because we didnt really know when the pic was being taken, and that resulted in the suiters on the lower balcony to be caught off gaurd, they apparently were not waving at the boat. I think though that it will still be an ace photo. After we got back down we went to the room and desuited. We grabbed some food and relaxed some I hung out with some friends then later suited back up and went to the fursuit dance and later the rave, I went back and forth from dancing and cooling down for 4 hours, then returned to desuit and hang a while. My mate kinda got drunk and missed the dances, but we caught up later and hung out, walked 9 blocks to grab food at 3 am with some other friends. We were all soooo beat when we got back and crashed hard.

When we finally got up and out Sunday, a lot of the day had passed, but we still got out to suit some, and browsed the dealers and artists again, then caught the closing ceremonies, which was a really awesome time, even tho we knew it meant the con was ending. I went in suit, as did many others. The guest of honor, Disney artistic legend Floyd Norman, got a standing O when called up and his words were very heartfelt and emotion filled. He truly is an amazing person. I got to shake his hand in suit hehe while in the elevator. just an amazing experience. We also raised 4000$ for the charity, the Pittsburgh Parrot Rescue, AC matched and went above with another 5000$ donated to the rescue. These kind of moments are priceless. Afterwards we grabbed foods and suited back up to roam around, I realized I was lacking on picture taking, as suiting was kinda taking over, so I combined the two! Yep, I finally found my groove and a way to shoot a DSLR in suit, so I went around grabbing pics of ppl and other suits which got a lot of attention. I then headed to the dead dog dance, grabbed some pics, then danced til it was over. Last I grabbed pics of and participated in the furpile in the lobby, we became a big furry rug in the middle of the hotel lobby floor haha. After that I got out of suit and hung out with some friends more, grabbed some drinks and talked a while before calling it a night.

The sunlight of Monday heralded the real end and we had to pack up and go. We got on the road about 2 and home around 9. PCD is very real I assure you. I cant wait to suit up and see smiles once again.

Pics that I did get available at http://www.fuzzifotos.com/gallery/

Heres a pic for starters. Its of me and one of my British friends, FoxB

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Got my mark back (finally) from CMNS 345, Instructional Skills for Professionals. My final project earned a 32/35 and was just enough to bring me to a straight A, instead of an A-. (I know I don't usually post open marks, but since this is just a partial for the term... Please don't be depressed!)

Looks like I'm marking my seventh year of relatively safe driving in August. I can take a guess at this because my annual insurance discount from ICBC has risen to 35%, and the discount rises by 5% every year without any at-fault incidents (at least until it hits a 43% discount). The last two years of discounts have just barely managed to bring my insurance payments back down to the nominal (budgeted) monthly payment, when the newer car was taken into account. It also helps significantly that I'm not using the beast to drive to and from school any more. That causes at least an extra 15 or 20 dollars a month in payments. Maybe next year I'll be able to leverage the increased discount to finally get that comprehensive coverage I've had on my radar for some time. I would have really come in handy for that time when thieves shattered my steering column.

It's finally cool and cloudy today. Thundered some last night, which was very nice. I miss that about Ontario--sure, it was hot and humid as all get out, but at least you'd get thunderstorms or thundershows to help wash the humidity out of the air. More thundershowers forecast for this afternoon. And really a temperature of 28C inside is feeling very damn nice at the moment. As it falls to 26C, it's even starting to feel a little chilly--and that's with boxers on. And to think that, just a few weeks ago, 27C was the very borderline of what heat I could withstand.

On the bright side, I now have a baseline for how many machines I can run in my server farm without my landlord having an issue with the power bill. That number is eleven. Still, I've reduced the number of operating machine to six (and it will be going down to five in another couple weeks) for the rest of the summer. I need to reduce the speed of heat buildup in here, just in case we go through another one of those heat spells.

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It's raining outside. I therefore use my "rain" icon.

If I should ever give up caring what others think of me, I will change my unofficial job title -- that which I give to others when they ask what I do within my company -- from "minor functionary" to "the pro from Dover". Gotta sell oneself, ya ken?

You like? It's not that difficult. All I needed was a nice photo of the beach with stuff in the background, and then I just needed to photoshop it!

On Wednesday, Hunter took a European tour! He ate Belgian chocolate and Italian pastas, drank French wine, and wrestled naked like a Greek. ;)



Wish you were here.

For those of you who really enjoy creepy stories, I have two for you.

One is a tale of a caver named Ted who finds a bit more than he was expecting while exploring.

The other is about what happens when a man starts to investigate the strange events surrounding the unlikely demise of an old friend. The Dionaea House contains several links and sidetracks, like a much simpler and tighter version of House of Leaves.

Enjoy!

Pokemon trainers, open up your gym badge case right now. Notice anything about your badges? They're tarnished and they're filthy! You went through all that work earning those badges just to let them rust!

If you don't want to be on Poke-Latrine duty for the rest of your life, I suggest you take your stylus out and polish your gym badges until they sparkle!

(No, really! I mean it! I didn't know this happened, but I noticed my gym badges were getting fugly. On a whim, I started "polishing" them with my stylus, and after a LOT of polishing they got shinier than they were when I first got them. Trust me, you'll feel proud of your shiny gym badges!)

(and then you can tap the badges to play a happy little tune)

If only you guys knew what Trife is capable of doing with his hands, you'd fall in love with him, too!

- The Great Wilden (Leon)

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Yeeeeeeee >___>

So the good news: I -did- get a call from codemasters saying "Wanna job?" just now.
More good news: I'm schedualed for an interview for the library page position
The troublesome news: I gotta choose one job or the other. FUCK

They've both got their perks and crapshoots, I wanna do both.. AIEE.

Cause work is rather slow today XD

Haha, the power went out at work just as I was about to post it so I finished it up at home, weeee

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02. Leave plain what's false.
03. Add one of your own at the end.

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U2 - [Where the Streets have no name]



I would have loved to watched that! Even if they did get in trouble with the police.

First, click here to see a slide show of supernova remnants! Oooh, pretty!

Second: Earth's Cries Recorded in Space:

Earth emits a near-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered.

The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.

The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.

Full article here.

Yes, you can click the link in the article to watch a mini-documentary about the chirping noise (assuming it works)...

One thing that I wonder, though... If this ionosphere blocks out the radio frequencies that are being broadcast right outside that ionosphere, then how does SETI work? I mean, if that close of a signal can't get through to us, how is a signal from another galaxy going to breach the ionosphere to reach our radio receivers? Now I really wonder...