 - Last login: 16 months agoSacratomato
- sacratomato is a 39 year old married woman from Sacramento, California, USA.
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- Member since Jan 23, 2006
Jane-of-all-trades: collector of sewing patterns, hoarder of yarn, grower of veggies, lover of books. No good at telling jokes, but haven't given up yet. Live with my husband and our two teenaged sons, two cats, and two chickens.
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About my avatar:
I get a lot of questions about my avatar. No, she's not me, although she looks like my image of myself.
I didn't know who she was until I'd been using her image for a while. Someone told me that she looked like the 1960s model Colleen Corby. I did a websearch, and sure enough, that's who she is.
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The Authoritarians
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Jan 29, 2007 12:01pm
13 reviews
politics, psychology
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
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Have you ever wondered why you just can't seem to get through to someone, generally on the extreme side of ideology? Dr. Robert Altermeyer's book, The Authoritarians, available at the above link in installment PDF chapters, helps explain why. Altermeyer's earlier work on authoritarianism helped John Dean write Conservatives Without a Conscience. Highly readable, very accessible, and definitely recommended.
As a bonus, Dr. A. is also very funny!
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BuzzFeed - Find Your New Favorite Thing
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Dec 8, 2006 8:27am
19 reviews
cyberculture
http://www.buzzfeed.com/
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Pretty cool, more accessible than Digg.
From the page: "We help you find movies, music, fashion, ideas, and technology that are on the rise and worth your time. Our approach combines buzz detection with editorial commentary. "
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Alternative spellings of &the& - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nov 13, 2006 4:15pm
4 reviews
cyberculture, linguistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh
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So I was wondering today, what is this "teh" that all the cool kidz keep using? Wikipedia offers teh answer:
Sometimes users make up abbreviations on the spot, therefore many of them can seem confusing, obscure, whimsical, or even nonsensical. Another feature common to Internet communication involves the truncation and morphing of words to forms that users can type more readily.
The form "teh" offers a special case of this transformation. This originated as a corruption of "the", and often pops up spontaneously when typing fast. So common has it become, in fact, that it has made the jump to deliberate usage particularly when satirising newbies; a common example is referring to the internet as "teh internet" or "teh internets".
"Teh" is also now used a lot more commonly, in sentences such as "That was teh pwnage!" or, a more common one used to indicate if someone is hot or not, "He is teh sex."
"Teh" is also used to denote a specific or immediately present article, for example, "dude, hurry up and get in teh car." teh can also, depending on where you are, mean a good thing, or something that is slightly bad-ass or awesome."
There you go!
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MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action
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Nov 10, 2006 11:19am
127 reviews
activism, liberal-politics
http://www.moveon.org/
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You can blame MoveOn for my absence from pretty much everything for the last month and a half. Started out with phonecalling as part of their Call4Change campaign, and ended up on their volunteer technical support staff, taking calls from other MoveOn volunteers needing advice and encouragement to use the phonecalling system or to host phonecalling parties.
Exhausting and exhilarating, all at once. I only just stopped dreaming about talking to support line phonecallers. My house is a wreck and I've come down with a cold, but it was worth every single second. I'm proud and honored to have been part of it all, and I'm so happy that we made a difference in the election.
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Rachael Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oct 1, 2006 2:32pm
1 review
cooking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ray
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Since I'm on a culinary kick, I've been browsing the food/cookbook sections of my favorite bookstores. One thing I've noticed: Rachel Ray.
She's got like umpteen different books, a whole magazine, and some televisions shows. Yet somehow she's managed to completely evade my zeitgeist radar until now.
Who the heck IS this woman, and how has she built an entire media empire, based on food?
I thought it was hilarious that Anthony Bourdain called her a bobblehead.
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City Farmer:Worm Harvesting
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Sep 24, 2006 11:22am
4 reviews
gardening, vermiculture
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormharv80.html
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A clever way to harvest your finished worm castings compost. It's titled "New Worm Bin Harvest Method", and though it's dated 1996, it's a new one to me.
I keep worms for composting food scraps and harvested a nice bunch of finished compost this summer, but it was a time-consuming, tiring, dirty job. The compost was so good (you should see my tomatoes!) that it made the effort worthwhile. However, I would LOVE to make that job easier. I'm going to try this "new" method soon.
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Matthias Endler & Howto switch from Linux to Windows - a users experience
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Sep 23, 2006 5:04pm
17 reviews
humor, linux
http://matthias-endler.de/?p=41
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Really cute:
I've read articles like "Switching for Windows to Linux in five easy steps" or "How changing your operating system can make fun with Linux" or "Why you should give Linux a chance" for five years now but there are always people who say Linux is difficult to learn and Windows has much easier install routines and so on. But what if the first OS you've ever used wasn't MS Dos or Win95 but some kind of Unix-based free system like BSD or Linux?
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Hydrogen Peroxide
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Sep 23, 2006 11:16am
5 reviews
chemistry, homemaking
http://www.hvchemical.com/hydrogen-peroxide.htm
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The many wonders of hydrogen peroxide!
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HBO: The Wire
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Sep 22, 2006 10:30pm
12 reviews
tv, television-series
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/
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A couple of months ago our family finally acquired a TiVo (I got a cellphone, too -- for ubergeeks we've been remarkably resistant to adding gadgets to our lives). Mostly we got it because we were so tired of having to sit through the long commercial breaks towards the end of Countdown.
We went through the usual too-much-TiVo phase for a few weeks, of course. Lately, though, we've found some really terrific television. I'm partial to Project Runway -- actually, the boys would say "addicted" -- FX's 30 Days, Signe Chanel on Sundance, and West Wing, which I missed entirely during its actual primetime run.
Tonight our older son and I caught a recent episode of The Wire. At first we were both a bit cringey about the language -- whole lotta cussin'! -- but the show is astonishingly good. Watch it if you haven't.
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