all of the clips so far for the serenity viral marketing can be found here.

no spoilers for serenity. not likely to make much sense if you haven't seen firefly. moderately creepy.

way to go, president chavez.

Reuters AlertNet - Venezuela to seek legal action against Robertson: CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government would take legal action against Pat Robertson and potentially seek his extradition after the U.S. evangelist called for Washington to assassinate the South American leader.

hurricane katrina is going to be bad. quite possibly as bad as camille, the weather forecasters are saying, only larger.

if you'd like to do something to help whatever of the gulf coast is left after camille goes through, go donate blood, go donate money. the red cross wants to talk to you.

i am currently not swimming in money (i can make the mortgage payments, but some months it's an interesting venture in timing...) but i'm going to grab all the
spare change from around the house and bring that down to the store to be donated. (click on the link, and the red cross will tell you how to donate spare change, and there are links explaining donations of other things, as well.)

i am at home today. i stayed home from work because i am tired and i hurt.

(because i am occasionally smart, i just called my doctor's office so i can whine to the nurse there to see if i should just buck up and deal or if i can have drugs, since i've been home a week and still hurt like i just got off the plane.)

(because i am only occasionally smart, it's 345pm and i just made this phone call...)

it has come to my attention that not everyone knows the glory that is The Llama Song.

flash, also, singing.

look! it's arbatskaya!

here are some pictures of it. i have bitter bitter things to say later about the fact that there are two arbatskaya stations, but this is the one that was ours.

i am home from russia!

i am tired and not feeling all that well (jetlag) and dizzy and no longer hungry because my beloved housesitter left chili in the fridge and i nuked it and ate it.

also, my sentence structure sucks.

but i'm home!

before you try and tell me that women have completely caught up and feminism is no longer needed, go read this, and see how strange it is.

ka-ping yee has created a tool that translates english websites into a different sort of english. it switches male pronouns for female ones, male names for female ones. very strange, but eye-opening.

Regendered: Google News

the tool, if you'd like to look at another webpage, is at http://regender.com/index.html.

i would like to interrupt your regularly scheduled blog reading to say


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I LEAVE FOR RUSSIA NEXT WEEK DEAR GOD WHAT IN THE HECK WAS I THINKING I'LL NEVER BE READY


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thank you. you may now return to your regularly scheduled blog reading.