Lauren's Journal

09/28/2008 01:14 #45817

Wooohooo

So we went out. (e:heidi), (e:drew), (e:fellyconnelly) and myself had a nice gathering of food and beer at Gabriel's Gate and then went to Battle @ Buffalo (minus (e:drew) unfortunately :( I am probably too intoxicated to be posting, but I will say that it was fun and you all should have been there.

09/27/2008 11:49 #45804

Bad Kitty

So last night after watching the debates, Felly and I were having a fascinating conversation about identity and negation when suddenly a large unidentified flying object flew into our apartment. holy hell what a ruckus. The bird, which I thought was a giant month and felly thought was a bat, was flying around, flying into things and going crazy. Needless to say that cats went instantly into attack mode. Maxx, our hunter, caught the damn thing in his mouth and tried to take it under the bed. Meanwhile, I grabbed the other cat and threw him in the bathroom and closed the door behind me. Felly got ahold of Maxx and somehow the bird got away, but it lost all of its tail feathers in the process. It landed on our fridge and just sat there, scared shitless I'm assuming. I picked it up in a towel and brought it outside and it sat there long enough for us to take pictures:

Eventually it flew away. We are not sure if it will be ok cause it lost so many feathers, but we got a good look at it and it seemed like the legs and wings were in ok shape. Poor little birdy. Bad Bad kitty.

hodown - 10/06/08 12:14
I second Matt's comment. What a cute bird. And it was sitting on your hand, aww.

tinypliny - 10/01/08 21:14
Somewhat unrelated but I saw this little wild hare crouched on Summer street while traffic was passing by at high speed. I tried to get it to go back on the grass but it was as if it was too scared to move. In the end I had to lift it up and put it on the sidewalk grass. I was hurrying to catch the 20 on Elmwood but I wish I had the time to put it further inside. I shudder to think of what might have happened to the little hare. I hope its okay.

Felly looks so cool in that pic! ;-)

libertad - 09/27/08 19:31
That poor little thing! How traumatic.

paul - 09/27/08 13:41
It looks so weird without tail feathers.

matthew - 09/27/08 12:42
What a cutie bird!

09/25/2008 20:51 #45795

BATTLE @ BUFFALO

Ok ok I am never on here. forgive me. but, I want to remind everyone that its that time again!!

WHO: YOU, ME, THEM, US
WHAT:Breakdancing/funkstyles Battle
WHERE: 910 Main St. (just south of Allen...door is located between Hyatt's art store)
WHEN: SAT Sept 26, 7-11pm
WHY: CAuse its fun, different, and super awesome.

I also might be interested in getting a drink before/after whatevs.

Also, a shout out to (e:heidi) i hope you can come!!!

drew - 09/27/08 18:12
is there a cover?

heidi - 09/26/08 11:20
Sounds like lots of fun! Give me a call when you're in the neighborhood? Drinks before/after are good too. :-)

09/12/2008 11:38 #45657

Search engine Hijack?

So on our main computer we suddenly have this problem where when we go to google or yahoo the whole site is different looking and whatever search results show up are actually fake advertisements or whathave you. we have run spybot and some other shit and can't get it to go away...
anyone have any suggestions? im clueless and felly, although somewhat less clueless can't fix it either. grumble grumble. danke.

mrdt - 09/13/08 01:27
Sounds like you got a trojan horse and a pretty stubborn one. I've had a few over the past 10 years and they are a pain in the ass. Make sure your anti-virus is up to date and run it. Ad Aware may help also. Use your school terminal and do some research with the very specific things its doing. You may have to go into the registry and manually delete it.

Sorry I'm not much help. I had my firewall down a few months ago and I wasn't paying much attention to what I was doing and I got a really bad trojan. I just reformatted my operating system drive (all My Documents and such are on a slave drive and were not effected) and re-installed all my software.

It totally sucks but I'm sure with some solid research and a wasted day or two your computer will be close to where you had it - I hear they never really vanish

heidi - 09/12/08 12:01
Yes, I can help, but not remotely... I'll mail privately.

08/29/2008 13:58 #45499

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Category: school

well, its back again. its amazing how something so simple as sitting in a classroom can light a fire under my ass everytime. my mind is already going into overdrive...and sometimes its very frustrating because the truth be told, i don't think in real world terms when i get going like this. i am a highly theoretical person and despite my generally negative attitude toward stuck up academics who can't talk like real human beings, i am equally at fault. i have been doing a lot of thinking about this major issue must be included into my thesis...somehow.

anyways, this is basically a warning post. i have already been doing a little commenting here and there and might i just say to not take them as attacks, just thought provokers or critiques or what have you. friendly intelligent conversation if you will. also, you all know how i love to procrastinate :)