Helping Out Enjoli
My roommate and your Internet buddy Enjoli has been hospitalized since Wednesday the 25th with a combination pneumonia/infection from an abscess (I’ll let her share the gnarly details with you). As of last night she’s doing better, regaining her strength, having opinions about everything but she’s not at 100%. We’re hoping they’ll discharge her Tuesday, but it will be awhile before she’s fully recovered.
I set up a fundraising site because this is what we do for our weird Internet family. We help each other out when times get tough. To have Enjoli worry about medical bills after 5+ days in the hospital without insurance, and not working- when she should be concentrating on recovery just sucks. It’s stressful and it’s not fair.
So if you’re able, please donate what you can. Let people know who might like to help. Send her well wishes and let her know you’re thinking about her. Lets help Enjoli because you know she would do what she could for any of us in less than a heartbeat.
Thanks everyone.
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The thing that sucks about those shows is that millions of black people look at them and can relate on so many levels to Hannah Horvath and Charlotte York and George Costanza, and yet those characters never look like us. The guys begging for money look like us. The mad black chicks telling white ladies to stay away from our families look like us. Always a gangster, never a rich kid whose parents are both college professors. After a while, the disparity between our affinity for these shows and their affinity towards us puts reality into stark relief: When we look at Lena Dunham and Jerry Seinfeld, we see people with whom we have a lot in common. When they look at us, they see strangers.
loup charmant, typically known as a spring/summer/resort-focused line, is launching its first collection for colder weather for 2012. fall 2012 is a small collection, with pieces that work well together for lounge and day wear, including silk blouses and tops ideal for layering and great wool items, such as leggings, a thick wool wrap and a lightweight wool gauze scarf. since being introduced to the line last season, i’ve been drooling over her soft fabrics—this knitwear is only increasing that lust.
You call it resort, I call it comfort wear porn. I would wear all of this (ok, maybe not that black dress on the right).
Can’t decide what I like better: the grey drapey cape/poncho thing, or those sweats with the elasticised bottom hem.
In Brazil’s Beach Park stands The Insano. It is the highest water slide in the world at 41 meters high, a record listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Its height is equivalent to that of a 14-storey building.
As a consequence of its height and slope, this water slide provides an extremely rapid descent - taking between four and five seconds - at a speed of 105 km/h. Because of these characteristics, the Insano is considered the most extreme of this type of equipment on the planet. At the end of the track, the Insano provides you with a relaxing dive into the swimming pool.
Warnings
- People with special needs, pregnant women and children under 1.40 m tall cannot go on this slide.
- Overweight people or those with spinal problems or osteoporosis must be warned about this activity.
- There is only one position for going down this equipment.And keep your cheeks tight, unless you want a surprise enema.
I wish I could understand people who think rides like this are fun. I hate rollercoasters, hate extreme anything, don’t “get” skydiving. That adrenaline rush isn’t fun - to me it’s a panic attack. Maybe because I have an anxiety disorder so get anxious and hyped up and adrenaline-d out about pretty much anything when it’s not managed? The people I know who love this kind of thing rarely, if ever, have issues with anxiety. They’re always super mellow.
I love water slides like this, but only because I really can’t do most amusement park rides due to severe motion sickness issues.
They do cause a bit of anxiety, but that’s mitigated by the fact that I can at least enjoy them without passing out and/or vomiting all over myself in the process.
This is basically the extreme version of Mont Cascades’ Kamikaze that I used to hurl myself down every summer as a kid.
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Wait wait wait what. Brussels sprouts AND avocado?
for all the fuss about the Alberta election
It really doesn’t look like much is changing at all.
- The Conservatives are virtually guaranteed another majority - a reduced one, but probably robust to the five or ten defections they can expect between elections.
- The Wildrose Alliance is in second or third in plenty of ridings but ultimately they’re stuck in opposition unless late returns are very different from early ones.
- The NDP and the Liberals are going to keep a couple seats in the urban cores of Calgary and Edmonton. Neither is getting wiped out. The Alberta Party is a total non-starter as expected.
The media has been kind of enthralled with Wildrose because they are overtly bigoted libertarians becoming competitive in Canada - but ultimately the’re not winning the votes they need in the big cities where everyone actually lives. Barring a big surprise tonight, Alberta stays Conservative and basically stays the course.
For people who feel the need to pore over the results themselves, Mack always goes above and beyond with the government’s open data initiative.
Kinda saddened by the result, but it’s Alberta, and PC is marginally better than Wildrose — they’re indistinguishable when it comes to awful pull quotes.
I was expecting the AB Party to fare better, I think they actually lost the two seats they had.
The NDP seemed to have a really lacklustre crop of candidates this go around.
