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after borrowing my Dad's truck while mine was in the shop i was struck by just how damn USEFUL it is to have a truck. So I got one. (tax refund money) She's cheap and not too pretty. She's a green '93 FORD f150. She has a name.

I kept calling her a bitch you see....

Heavy bitch, slow bitch, Big Bitch, fat bottomed bitch etc....

So I named her.....

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Umberlee!

well... it amuses ME!

WIKI for those going WTF?!?

Stolen from athene

ROFLAMO

Damn pretty accurate for so few questions....

Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...

The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF)

Quirky Liberal Alpha Female

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1. What is your name : Diane
2. A four Letter Word : Damn
3. A boy's Name : Darius
4. A girl's Name : Deborah
5. An occupation : Designer
6. A color : Dun
7. Something you wear : Damask
8. A food : Dulce de Leche
9. Something found in the bathroom : Drip
10. A place : Denmark
11. A reason for being late : Downpour
12. Something you shout : Don't
13. A movie title : Deliverance
14. Something you (can) drink : Diet Coke
15. A musical group : Depeche Mode
16. An animal : Dingo
17. A street name : Decatur
18. A Book Title: Devil's Dictionary
19. The title of a song : Derelict (real title of "15 men on the dead man's chest")
20. Person who will reply to this : Dunno
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For those of you how don't know who Ada, Countess Lovelace was here's a bio.

http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html

Essentially she was the first woman computer programmer.

So today is a worldwide effort to honor women in technology.

For my part I'd like to honor the many women who are the grunts of technology. My grandmother was a telephone operator in the day when that meant that you actually had to sit in front of a giant board of numbers and plug calls together all day. The telephone was a major advance of it's time and without these thousands of women it would never have happened. It also proved a stable ladder of technological upward movement as many operators went on to improve telecom infrastructure. Even those who did not move up, it was these women that allowed the technology to move forward, that used it and made it accessible to others.

I considered my own work in tech support to be the direct decent of my grandmother. I take technology and translate it to the world. I make the mystical understandable everyday. I and thousands of women like me are interpretors of technology. And women in tech support are growing every year. and that is just as important as women programmers. The changeover from the customer who assumed I had no clue what I was talking about because I was a girl, through the customer who assumed I knew Everything because I was a girl, to finally the customer who did not seem to notice I was girl, I was just the tech who answered.

Stolen From higher and damn I feel OLD

If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning Uphill... barefoot... BOTH ways

Yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it
and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.

You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!

There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone…'cause that's how we rolled dig?

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!

And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You
actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!

And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning.. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!

And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!

Regards,
The over 30 Crowd

A post in reference to a question about gods who can be seen as patrons of a kinky lifestyle.

Dionysos would definitely be appropriate. In His worship we come only to our true selves, though means both ecstatic and violent. I often feel His hand guiding me when I am leading a partner to a place they need to go. There are no Taboos in his worship; only what is right in that moment, and what is not. His gifts lower inhibitions, set our true needs, wants and desires before our eyes without the filters of the shoulds and oughts of society that so often blind us to ourselves. They do not create desires that were not there to begin with, only show us ourselves as we always have been. That is why His worship was frequently outside the city, for He breaks down all the rules that we build to live together. (incidentally this is why we must be very careful when mixing His gifts, there is only so much truth and reality anyone can stand)

damn economics terminology....

How is your knowledge of American civics? It is surprising that for, some very well educated people, the score was not stellar:

“…The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%…”

link: Civics Quiz
(if it doesn't work, then paste - http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

The challenge is “can you do better?”. Good luck!

Drop your scores in a comment to this post, or make the challenge in your own journal!

SInce I think some of you haven't seen this and it is teh Awsome

I want to say something deep and meaningful, but I have no words. His speech was a thing of beauty and this is a Statesman, not just another politician.

see Politcal LOL pictures

A catgirl at work and angle/demon tonight.