02/01/05 12:58 - ID#35694
go hybrid and save!
Since everyone's talking about the hybrids and taxes [inlink]jason,74[/inlink] [inlink]dan,65[/inlink] [inlink]uncutsaniflush,2[/inlink] I thought I'd agree and add a handy link to the instructions on how to claim the credit and which cars are eligible.
(provided by your friendly IRS)
$2,000 bucks. That's a big deal. But buy this year since it decreases to $500 next year and who-the-hell-lknows after that. Though I suppose with Georgie at the helm we just might get $5000 if we wait till next year but buy a hybrid-SUV instead. Got my hybrid Escalade with a whopping 25 mpg in the city, instead of the normal 11 baby!! (Anyone remember the "loop" which let owners of the giantest of SUVs get a break for having cars big enough to be eligible for a credit originally intended for farm equipment?) Tax Code length is getting out of hand with all these spendthrift Republicans throwing credits around like candy.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/30/05 10:17 - ID#35693
Thanks to dave
(e:Matthew) should have some pictures before too long, so check his journal.
I took some pictures of the fish tank. They turned out okay considering how small everything is and how poor my photography skill is.
Here are a couple of shots that I stuck all together in a vague approximation of where they are in the tank. Upper-left and right are some mushroom-anemone things with some feather-duster worms. The middle-top shows the "pinkies" as we call them, they're a type of Gorgonia that slowly creeps along and encrusts the rocks with buds that become new polyps. Bottom left is the brain coral which had it's tentacles out, though you can't really tell in the pic. Middle-bottom is a bubble coral that is slowly regaining it's health after nearly dying. Lastly is a blurry pic of the coral-banded shrimp, he's the big boss of the tank, and menaces everything else with his giant claws.
This is a coral thing too. Some kind of tree coral or something. We forgot to look at the name when we bought it and it kinda looks like a couple different varieties. It shrivels to a little-bitty thing every night and slowly becomes erect as the light increases.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/30/05 01:10 - ID#35692
It's just like magic
Just yesterday I was watching Dragonball Z (auf Deutsch) where this guy from the future comes and messes with the present and then comes back later to find that the present (his past) is very different from his experience. Yeah, deep. It made me think of this idea of time as a wheel which keeps spinning, and if you were to backtrack you couldn't do it by reversing, but rather by jumping to the next nearest wheel of possibilities. Thus you could go back in time, but it would never be your time. You could change all you wanted there, but everytime you went back to your own time it would be the same.
I haven't read anything "physical" for awhile so I'll imitate our resident ozone-making genius (e:ajay) and read The Fermi Solution. [inlink]ajay,251[/inlink] I just put in a request to our beleaguered library system and should have it soon. Bis dann leute!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/28/05 12:30 - ID#35691
No more curry goat?
Perhaps I should just cut all "hooved" animals off the food list. Stick to just birds for the meat. And maybe a little bacon here and there. And sea creatures, no problem there. Should just go veggie, but it would never work with my emaciated roomates: they'd just shrivel up and die.
Goodbye, dear goat.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/27/05 01:02 - ID#35690
And I wasn't even drunk
Welcome to new user Spinyuwhatsit.... er, Spinalyakist... um, okay sorry (e:Spinuyashagc) I'm only making a little fun cuz you asked us not to. And I have a couple straight girls I could let you hang out with if you promise not to hit on them. [inlink]spinuyashagc,1[/inlink] Just plain hitting them is fine though. (e:lilho) for example, or (e:tina). They like it nice and rough. K, nuff trouble for the morning.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/27/05 12:17 - ID#35689
I don't have time for you
How I am supposed to do something for you if I don't know what you want?
Why don't you know what I want?
You don't know what you want.
OK, great.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/26/05 02:51 - ID#35688
the car is finally ours
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/25/05 02:51 - ID#35687
No plow
Don't ever see One Hour Photo with Robin Williams, even if it's free from the library. In fact, maybe it's best to never see anything with Robin Williams...
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/22/05 04:57 - ID#35686
28 is my favorite number
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/21/05 10:18 - ID#35685
The day before tommmorrrow!!!
9:13 PM. I met (e:flacidness), but hours ago. He wasn't where expected to be. In the interim I replaced borrowed books and decided to learn a language, another stupid white language. Kennenlernen baby, aber nicht wirklich so. War ebenmals so dissatsifastisch gewroden. But the puppy was cute. Trying to think of now makes me wish for the good old days. Sweeping out the stable, and such.
When you forget to close the door behind you, does your aunt ask you,
"were you born in a barn!?!"
Mine does. I'm trying to resurrect the phenomenon, with heretofore little success.
Only 9:18, plenty of time for fun.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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