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November 16th, 2006
I’m a worry-wart. I worry about all kinds of things and I can’t turn it off. I worry about whether or not my cats hate me. I worry about whether or not my co-workers are talking about me. I worry about whether or not the world is going to blow up today or if my house is going to burn down or if my headache means I’m getting a brain tumor.
I’m in therapy. At least I’m trying to get a grip, but it turns out that there are a lot of people who worry about
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Tags: Thursday Thirteen, meme, bloghopping, risks, accidents, health, cancer, fear, interesting trivia
November 9th, 2006
I moved to Maine 2 1/2 years ago, leaving my old life behind. Most people up here and most people online don’t know many of these things from the first 33 years of my life…
Thirteen Things about N. Mallory
- I was a Stand-up comic in New Orleans for about 2 years after college. I loved it at first, but it’s very hard to be a clean comic and the guy who booked our shows kept booking us into the sleaziest of places.
- I lost 55 lbs in 2002. I’ve gained it back since moving, but I was
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November 8th, 2006
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Election 2006
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November 3rd, 2006
This Thursday Thirteen from Carmen’s Gone to Plaid blog just begs to be reposted and forwarded via email all across the Internet to everyone everyone knows before Election Day next Tuesday. There are some excellent reminders in there no matter who you’re voting for (and you should be voting for someone).
(note: my own Thursday Thirteen is a few posts down.)
Thirteen Reasons (or Not) You Should Vote for Me if I Ran for OfficeTuesday is Election Day (GO VOTE!).
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PS: You have the right to disagree with me (isn’t America great?), but not to be mean in my comments.
- Being a Democracy isn’t easy. Take free speech. You may not like what I say, and you have the right to disagree. But I still have the right to say it. That includes questioning our leaders without being called “unpatriotic.” Questioning our leaders and speaking your mind is the most patriotic thing you can do. However, these freedoms require responsibility.
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November 2nd, 2006
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My brain is way too scattered and full of anxiety to focus on one particular nifty topic this week. So, now you get to see the really true discombobulated, highly anxious me.
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- What if the sale on the little red house falls through and I don’t get it?
What if the sale on the little red house doesn’t fall through and I do get it and it turns into a money pit?- What if those nice flippers are taking advantage of me because I’m a naive first time buyer and I don’t know what I’m doing?
- What if my dog is depressed? He’s been lethargic and hasn’t been eating at home, but the doggie daycare folks say he’s hyper and playful there. Maybe he just hates me.
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November 1st, 2006
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Tales of the Detainee Kind
- The Case Of Bilal Hussein — Justin Gardner @ Donklephant reports on Bilal Hussein, an AP war photographer, accused by the U.S. military of helping some insurgents kidnap a couple journalists. Only those journalists have been rescued and they say Hussein is a hero. The AP wants to know why he’s been detained since April with no charges having been filed against him while right-wing bloggers call for his head.
Six months is more than enough time to get some facts together and make a case against Hussein. The military hasn’t done that, and they should…or else they should release Hussein without charge.
As Gardner points out, Hussein isn’t the first journalist to be treated as such.
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Tags: detainees, Bilal Hussein, Abdul Rahim Al Ginco, Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, al-Qaeda, Insurrection Act, FEMA, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, liberals, rightwingers, patriotism, pragmatism, American soldiers, Republicans, Democrats, GOP, Georgia, Genital Cutting, abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, TSA, airport security, bomb-making materials, Christopher Soghoian, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University, fake boarding passes, Ed Markey, FBI, Police State
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October 31st, 2006
Travel In America
- Homeland Absurdity – Jill @ Brilliant at Breakfast reports that the difference between life and death is a ziploc bag apparently…
There you have it: Tiny containers of hand sanitizer in zip-lock bags are harmless and approved. Those not in zip-lock bags are dangerous contraband. Meanwhile, the TSA still cannot justify its methods of confiscation: If certain liquids and gels are taken from a passenger, the assumption has to be that those materials are potentially hazardous. If so, why are they tossed unceremoniously into the trash? At every checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with illegal containers. They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are thrown away. In effect, the agency readily admits that it knows these things are harmless. But it’s going to steal them anyway, and either you like it or you don’t fly.
What the Fuck Are They Thinking?
- UK retailer to little girls:”Let’s have a lap dance over here, luv!” — Twisty @ I Blame The Patriarchy has a commentary on Tesco’s plans to market a striptease toy to five-year-olds for Christmas this year. Kid you not. How sick is that. I thought thongs for four-year-olds was bad enough, but you’ll be able to buy a toy sexy chrome pole, a CD with sexy music, and ”Peekaboo Dance Dollars” to stuff in a toy “sexy dance garter” to “Unleash the sex kitten inside” (quoth the Tesco website). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: WAL-Mart, Ziploc, TSA, Tesco, airport security, U.K. striptease, Voting Irregularities, Texas, Florida, Virginia, James Webb, Democrats, Republicans, Missouri, Arkansas, censorship, bloggers, Iran, Tunisia, China, Vietnam, Amnesty International, human rights
October 27th, 2006
Here we go again.
- There was no way in hell she was going to the opera.
- Three hundred years had passed since the banishment of the War God and now the cracks in the world were truly starting to show.
- Shaina had made up her mind; she was definitely, probably going with decaf this morning.
- Bill was going to kill his brother.
- Taylor watched in horror as the crack slowly crawled across her windshield, forking in the middle and branching out like two great arms in some desperate plea.
Now it’s your turn…
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October 26th, 2006
This week’s post obviously is the result of my recent house hunt wanderings. Clearly I have my own opinions and sense of style. None of my comments are meant to insult so please take this post in the spirit of the Thursday Thirteen meme — an opportunity to get to know each other…here’s me. Feel free to comment and opinion right back. I’d like to get to know you too. 
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- Seriously. $500K is a bit too much to be asking if you have the pinkest bathroom ever and a Space Shuttle mural in the living room.
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October 25th, 2006
Call me paranoid but I’ve suddenly been getting a huge number of subscriptions to the site lately using the email notification plugin for Wordpress. That always makes me wonder if the little hacker-types think they’ve figured out how to use the function to do something nasty, though I have no idea what. All of the emails look similar and are yahoo-types.
So, I apologize for the inconvenience for those of you who legitimately had previously subscribed but I have deactivated that plugin, which was old and hadn’t been updated in over a year, and replaced it with Subscribe2. To
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October 25th, 2006
- Why do the evil usually triumph? — Omni @ Every Topic in the Universe(s?) has some interesting insights into the whole good vs. evil thing. Of course, she starts off correctly pointing out that there are very few good people in the world. For the most part, people are generally neutral. To be good, you have to be willing to actually take action against evil and few people are willing to do so.
10) Evil is persistent: They’ll gleefully do an infinite # of evil deeds, and will literally NEVER grow tired of it, because they LOVE what they’re doing; if there’s a goal other than just causing trouble forever, they’ve got what it takes to see it through. On the other hand, if you can get good or neutral people to make ONE decisive move, they act as if they’ve just climbed Everest and are all done in… and just plain DONE, because, no matter how obvious it is that the evil have NOT been stopped yet, their attitude will be that they did their best and that’s it. Even if they’re being personally attacked, even if they stand to lose a great deal if the attack “destroys” them, they’ll rarely put forth more than a token effort before giving it up as hopeless.
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Tags: good vs. evil, voting, no-fly list, Terrorists, GAO
October 24th, 2006
Here’s some interesting statistics about my real name too:
- Statistically the 21st most popular first name. (tied with 2 other first names)
- Statistically the 3183rd most popular last name. (tied with 11 other last names)
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October 20th, 2006
got this from kay who borrowed from Teena who borrowed from Izzy who stole it from Holly
- Dated outside your race? Guilty
- Singing in the shower? Guilty
- Spit in someone’s drink? Not Guilty
- Played with Barbies? Guilty
- Made someone cry? Guilty
- Opened your Christmas presents early? Guilty but only after I moved out on my own
- Lied to a friend? Guilty but only to spare their feelings
- Watched and cried while watching a soap opera? Not Guilty…I’ve never cried
- Played a computer game for more than 5 hours? Guilty
- Ran through the sprinklers naked? Not Guilty…I’ve always been a prude.
- Ate food that fell on the floor? Guilty … Three second rule
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October 18th, 2006
This week’s list(posted early due to my medical stay) is stuff I’ve found that I think is really cool but I just can’t justify buying for myself (and I don’t play the lotto), but seeing as I’m single and live alone, there’s not really anyone around here but the animals to hint at that I want it other than my parents and, well, let’s just not go into the whole online-wishlist-ordering-online-fiasco thing…
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Birding Company Maine Bay Window feeder — Can you imagine what fun my cats and my dog would have with this little beauty? I just think it would be better than television.
Knit Lite Knitting Needles — Knitting needles that light up in the dark. How cool is that? I mean, I have a problem with lighting because it tends to trigger headaches with me — something that not all doctors get (it’s like my face gets flushed on the side that the light is coming from and then if I stay that way to long, a headache with develop and if I don’t treat it, a migraine, etc.). If I had these, I could keep knitting even after I’ve had to turn the lamp off maybe. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 18th, 2006
Since several of us on the blogosphere were just discussing the use of iPods/MP3 players in public and their effect on society, I found this article to timely…considering it’s another more permenant effect and all.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Listening to loud music with earphones on a digital music player for more than 90 minutes a day can damage your hearing, according to a new study.
The study of 100 doctoral students concluded that people who listened to music at 80 percent of volume capacity, at which point the sound is considered loud, should keep it to under 90 minutes a day.
“If a person exceeds that on one particular day and happens not to use their headphones for the rest of the week, they’re at no higher risk,” study author Brian Fligor told Reuters. “I’m talking about someone who’s exceeding 80 percent for 90 minutes day after day, month after month, for years.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: iPod, MP3, hearing loss, music, earphones
October 18th, 2006
I’ve been trying to figure out how to get the people who come here to comment more often on posts — you know, have more open dialogs, etc. So, when I come across this sort of post on one of my regular reads, I’m intrigued. However, for me, she was preaching to the choir, but I thought I’d like to pass along her tips edited with my own opinions. I’m hoping you fellow readers and passerby will add your own suggestions and thoughts to the comment section. (ah-ha!) Mind you, I’m basically going by
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October 17th, 2006
- A Proposed Small Step For Womenkind — Buttercup @ Buttercup & Bean writes about the problem of unwanted attention from men and how the real problem is not that women are putting themselves in situations where they could become targets but that men feel that they are entitled to any “piece of female ass that shows up in their vicinity.” Excellent post.
- To iPod or not to iPod (or, See the Person!) — Colleen @ For All the World to See wonders if technology isn’t creating a society of isolation and anti-social individuals.
We pass people in the grocery, on the street, at school, at work, in the car and they’re just people. The plural, the generic, the masses.
But they aren’t. Each person is a person.
And what a difference we would make if we saw each one of those people as a person , not as one of a mass.
As an individual, who maybe had a bad day, woke up on the wrong side of the bed, their coffee maker didn’t work this morning, they got in a fight with their kid, they got some unexpected money, they passed a test, they finished a big project, have a headache, found out their mom has cancer, found out their wife was pregnant….
You get the idea.
What if we each did that, maybe not to every person we came in contact with, but made an effort to really see the person we pass on the grocery aisle or who serves us our coffee, or who takes the parking place we had our eye on? What if?
What if we didn’t wear our iPods so as to be lost in our own little world, but instead had the earphones out of our ears, so we heard the little old lady behind us in the grocery ask for help getting something down…or we actually talked to the server who takes our order, instead of talking to them in short, one-word comments while our cell phone is pressed to our face?
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Tags: Women's Rights, iPod, technology, anti-social, outsourcing, India, IT, AIDS, JonBenet Ramsey, Bob Herbert, violence against women
October 16th, 2006
You know what I was wondering the other day? How come you always hear about Ben Afleck’s girl friends/ fiances/ etc, but you never hear about Matt Damon’s?
I mean, they’re in almost every movie the other has made, even in tiny roles. They grew up together. It’s plain odd that we always hear about Ben’s women and never Matt’s escpecially since it’s clear that he’s the one that’s more attractive and more talented.
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October 16th, 2006
- If you could have a view of anything you wanted from your bedroom window, what would you choose? I was a true city girl before I moved to Maine, but now I really like seeing trees outside my window; I like knowing what season it is by studying their branches. This week there’s been this soft natural orange glow filling my room from the changing leaves outside. That’s something I didn’t get with the view of the canal in New Orleans.
- Have you ever tried Red Bull? Did you like it? I’ve never tried it.
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Tags: Monday's a Bitch, meme, bloghopping, friendship
October 15th, 2006
I’m stilling looking for Maine Bloggers to join my Maine Bloggers webring. 
I’d love to read blogs from other folks in the area!
Here’s the webring code and how it looks:
Hopefully, I’ll see some fellow Mainers joining up so I won’t be all lonesome.
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