User:	polyamory (posted by elegantenigma)
	Date:	2008-05-09 20:48
	Subject:	Meet The Family
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	Mood:	curious

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	User:	cowperthwait
	Date:	2008-05-09 16:31
	Subject:	fonts: a dialogue
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From: Jesse Friedman <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Date: May 9, 2008, 4:18 PM
To: "Jonathan E. Cowperthwait" <jec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: current résumé, a thought

As a Mac Is Not A Typewriter graduate, I shudder to say it, but I'd actually recommend sans-serif. Tastefully done, it really does make you look like more of a pro. - Show quoted text -

From: Jonathan E Cowperthwait <jec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Date: May 9, 2008, 4:22 PM
To: Jesse Friedman <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: current résumé, a thought

I have this fear of Helvetica: every time I use it, I feel the impulse to use it minimally, or with some fancy-ass custom kerning, just to make clear to people, I used this font because I am aware of its haute-design legacy, not because it's the default font when composing in ClarisWorks. So: if I set my whole rés in Helvetica, I'd agonize. Will people realize I'm smart, or just think I'm lazy? /jec. - Show quoted text -

From: Jesse Friedman <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Date: May 9, 2008, 4:27 PM
To: "Jonathan E. Cowperthwait" <jec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: current résumé, a thought

There's more to sans serif than Helvetica... - Show quoted text -

From: Jonathan E Cowperthwait <jec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Date: May 9, 2008, 4:30 PM
To: Jesse Friedman <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.com>
Subject: Re: current résumé, a thought

Unpossible! /jec. - Show quoted text -

	User:	anotherthink
	Date:	2008-05-09 16:04
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This is full of LULZ.

I'll still vote for Obama if he turns out to be the smoke monster* or Dennis Kucinich, though.



*i have not seen the most recent episode, no spoilers plz!!!!!

	User:	postqueer (posted by brownstargirl)
	Date:	2008-05-09 12:01
	Subject:	Help bring Mangos With Chili roving QTPOC art apocolypse to your town along la frontera!
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Help bring Mangos With Chili roving QTPOC art apocolypse to your town along la frontera!
Please repost!

Hi everyone,

My name is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. With Ms. Cherry Galette, I'm the artistic co-director of Mangos With Chili. We're an annual tour of queer of color performance artists. Our vision is to be like Sister Spit only all brown and queer/trans. Our first tour hit 8 cities in 10 days in the Northeast last year and sold out every show.

We're currently booking our October 2008 Borderlands Tour through the Southwest and West. Our lineup is a fabu one, including Qwo-Li Driskill, NaR, Zuleikha Mahmood, Ms. Cherry Galette, Chica Boom, Nico Dacumos, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Veronica Combs, with two more folks on the way and special local guests! You can see more about last year's tour at our Myspace, http:/myspace.com/mangoswithchili.

We're on the road from October 14-28, and are traveling from Oakland through central and southern Cali, New Mexico, Arizona and west Texas.

If you want to bring us- if you have a college or university queer, women's center, multicultural center with money- if you have a local queer or POC performance night- if you have any kind of hookup anywhere in there- if you are or know a rich queer who could give us money - email me at brownstargirl@riseup.net ASAP!

I will be posting our tour doc with beautiful pictures and bios of our artists early next week on our Myspace.

LOVE,
Leah Lakshmi

	User:	cowperthwait
	Date:	2008-05-09 08:54
	Subject:	long flights with Barack
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An interesting moment came when an Obama staffer was looking at the word "gap." His clue: a place where gay people shop. Before the word was accurately guessed, other reporters said they heard one staffer shout the store "H&M" and heard Obama say "Abercrombie & Fitch."

	User:	cowperthwait
	Date:	2008-05-09 04:59
	Subject:	Hillary strategy shift
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… 3-year-old tot dreams of seeing first white president elected in his lifetime | Clinton still holding tough | Clinton opens up to alternatives …

	User:	cowperthwait
	Date:	2008-05-08 23:28
	Subject:	know who else's supporters couldn't publicly endorse?...
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According to a senior Democratic aide, Clinton asked some uncommitted superdelegates if they could commit to her privately — without the political risks of a public endorsement — so that she could gauge whether she has the support she feels she needs to remain a viable candidate.

A Clinton staffer acknowledged Thursday that the campaign was in the process of “counting up” superdelegates because, “at the end of the day, we have to know where our numbers are.”

“We do have some private supporters,” the staffer said. “[But] for their own political purposes, they can’t be on record.”

	User:	ryochiji
	Date:	2008-05-08 22:35
	Subject:	scav
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I was going to scav remotely from California this year with the GASH team, but there are some fun big construction-y items this year (and few programming-y items) so I spontaneously decided to head to Chicago after all. I just finished packing a big box o tools (thrown in with a sleeping bag and some clothes), and I'm hopping on a jet plane tomorrow at 7:30am. Whee! I haven't even been back to Chicago since Scav '06...

	User:	eddieizzard (posted by hellodali)
	Date:	2008-05-09 01:09
	Subject:	The Riches?
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	Mood:	worried

So The Riches just ends after 7 episodes this season? I couldn't figure out why it didn't come on this week and I looked online and it said that because of the writer's strike, they only had seven episodes done this season and instead of picking up and doing the rest, they decided to just leave it at that.

This bothers me, I hope this doesn't mean they want to cancel the show. I freaking LOVE The Riches. Most of the other shows sidelined by the strike just picked up where they left off and are showing new episodes right now. Grrrrr....

	User:	bipolypagangeek (posted by isolde_deely)
	Date:	2008-05-09 01:03
	Subject:	updated surprise for Awfulhorrid
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	Mood:	creative

This is what I have done so far - still no peeking awfulhorrid. I hope you will like this.

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	User:	postqueer (posted by femmegrrlprof)
	Date:	2008-05-08 21:41
	Subject:	Femme 2008 x-posted
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REGISTER NOW!!!!!!!


Femme2008: The Architecture of Femme
August 15-17, 2008
Chicago Wyndham O'Hare

Mission Statement

Femme Collective is committed to creating conferences by Femmes, about Femmes, and for Femmes and their allies. We understand that Femme is more complex than just being a queer person who is feminine; it is a part of how we interact with and shape our world as queer academics, activists, artists, homemakers, parents, professionals, students, teachers, etc.

Our conferences seek to explore, discuss, dissect, and support Queer Femme* as a transgressive, gender-queer, stand-alone, and empowered identity and provide a space for organizing and activism within Queer communities. We hope to attract people of all genders who are interested in a deeper understanding of Femme identity, culture, and history as well as Femmes interested in learning, teaching, connecting, and building community geared towards social change. Recognizing that queer Femme gender can be constructed independent of and/or intimately connected to biological sex, this conference will build coalition among queer Femmes of every stripe. Taking into consideration the various ways in which Femmes across the country and the world construct Femme based on region, class, race, ethnicity, access and ability, the Femme Collective will strive to create a safe place for open dialogue among a plethora of Femme-identified persons and their allies.

We are dedicated to: creating a Femme-positive environment; selecting programming to honor differences in ethnicities, physical abilities and gender expressions; and highlighting the intersection of queer Femme identity with issues of race, class, age, and body. We hope that together we can create a space to explore many of the complexities of Femme identity, including (but not limited to) questions of privilege, invisibility, intersecting identities, class mobility, aging, and the differences between femininity and Femme identity. We hope to contribute to giving voice to queer Femme identity, and to building unity, coalition, and solidarity in and among genderqueer communities.

*We recognize that for many lesbians and same-gender-loving Femmes 'queer' is not a term that works and that it can often feel alienating and unwelcoming. We want to recognize that language is always imperfect, and make it clear that we use the term as an umbrella to include all of us who identify as Femme within LGBTQIA/SGL and genderphile communities. We are using this term to specifically and intentionally include lesbians and same-gender-loving women as well as
genderqueers, transwomen, and folks of every sex and gender who identify as Femme and see themselves as part of LGBTQIA/SGL and genderphile
communities.

	User:	dragonladyflame
	Date:	2008-05-08 21:07
	Subject:	I bet you want a ridiculous project to accomplish over the next few days
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ScavHunt has commenced! I'm not doing too much this year -- more than last year, less than the previous year -- but of course I read the list over and I've put in some hours at my team's HQ. This year I defected from the FIST (which I still love regardless) to the Grad Student/Alumni team (at least partly because I find it so hilarious that I was invited to join notwithstanding the fact that I am neither a grad student nor an alumna).

Some dedicated people on my team managed to rent one of the unused storefronts on 55th Street for our HQ. Location, location, location! We're right near the dollar store, some Thai restaurants, and the hookah lounge.

If you should happen to review the list and be interested in helping us out, I'd love to hook you up to our awesome site and encourage you to go crazy ....

Some of my favourite items this year (I highly encourage that you Google references you don't recognize):

14. Dammit if Scav Hunt doesn't have the hardest time getting up those impossible hills in Hyde Park. If only we had a funicular to ease our ascent ....

21. Remember when you were in elementary school and you had to make a model of a volcano out of papier-mache and baking soda? Well, do that again. Only really big. There is a limit on the number of points you can win, but there's no limit on how big your volcano can be.

33. Have a potato break the sound barrier.

40. A bust of Abraham Lincoln made out of pennies.

46. I just love puppet shows. Make ready your miniature temple and chinampas because we're reliving Tenochtitlan's former glory as well as its precarious downfall. Of course the show would not be complete without puppet Cortez, puppet Montezuma, and ritual human -- err, puppet -- sacrifice. Catch is, the city has to float.

56. A zeusaphone.

71. Fix the CTA! Duct tape together two different stations of the El.

76. Spend a night at a major Chicago museum, a la From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

79. The prank call of Cthulhu.

89. Greetings, Aperture Science Test Subject #3252613. You need a friend, one that cannot speak, and thus will never threaten to stab you. Please construct a fully-functional weighted companion cube. For the best one, there will be cake.

110. A recreation of Michelangelo's "Birth of Man" or Picasso's "Guernica". In tooth marks. On your back.

124. A computer virus that does little to my computer's ability to function but scares the living hell out of me. [Windows 9.5 points]

135. A robot programmed to love. [3 points per tear that your robot's cuteness draws from my eye. -300 points if 'love' involves a vibrator]

136. The Blues Brothers set future Chicagoans up for a major disappointment: since moving here, I have never once seen enormous groups of strangers moved, as if part of a flash mob, to spontaneously burst in elaborately choreographed song-and-dance numbers in iconic locations. Fix that.

157. Exit, pursued by a bear.

176. Present an appropriate mom with a bumper sticker that says, "My Child is a Nobel Laureate." I think you know what font it needs to be in.

179. A genuine copy of The Pleasure Prison of the B'thuvian Demon Whore. Bring evidence that you have survived it and displayed a level of sophistication that is beyond the ken of the mere hobbyist gamer. [1d20 points] (Yeah, I'm on this one. I may dress up like Krunk, the barbarian from the frozen wastes.)

181. Egon Spengler, painted in the style of Egon Schiele.

184. Wearing a black and white striped shirt, a black toque, and a burlap sack full of money with a big dollar sign on the front, go into that bank. And buy a savings bond. [15 to Life points]

194. Pocket rockets. Pockets made of rockets. Pockets® made of rockets. Rockets made of Pockets®. Rockets made of rockets. Pockets made of Pockets®. Pockets® made of Pockets®.

205. You gotta taste this! This is... oh, it's got a kind of... mmm, it's burny, it's melty... it's not really a smoky taste. It's kind of like a certain... Psh-ah! It's got like this "Ba-boom! Zap!" kind of taste. Don't you think? What would you call that flavor? Lightningy? Yeah! It's lightningy!

215. A blank check with a 19___ pre-printed in the year field. (Do you have one? If so, you should totally send it to me!)

257. A pipe that can both blow bubbles and smoke tobacco. [3 points, 7 bonus points if it can do both at the same time. Double bonus points if it can blow bubbles filled with smoke. As a University of Chicago scholar, you can accomplish this]

258. A tar gun. A feather gun.

260. Build a working lightbulb from scratch.

1008. (ScavOlympics) Life size Battleship®. We'll need six human boat pieces from you, to be divvied up and placed as you wish. You'll need a goodly supply of water balloons.

	User:	polyamory (posted by saebbe)
	Date:	2008-05-08 16:55
	Subject:	Being poly with a child....and changing citys(Phoenix to Atlanta)
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User:	uchicago (posted by philmajor)
Date:	2008-05-08 19:32
Subject:	Apartment Suggestions
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I am looking to move into a 1 bedroom apartment in the general vacinity of campus - perhaps up in the area of the grocery store. I need a place that permits dogs as I'm not keen on giving mine away. Does any one have any suggestions - any places I should stay far away from? Thanks!

User:	officialgaiman
Date:	2008-05-08 01:27
Subject:	Leaving Downunder
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http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/05/leaving-downunder.html

	User:	polyamory (posted by apensivevixen)
	Date:	2008-05-08 16:21
	Subject:	IMAGO
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	User:	polyamory (posted by lqc)
	Date:	2008-05-08 13:04
	Subject:	Interesting sorta poly movie idea
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	Mood:	curious

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	User:	discord_society (posted by tyrsalvia)
	Date:	2008-05-08 13:04
	Subject:	KallistiCon 2008!
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From a secure location beneath New Alamut,
Left Coast, Turtle Island, Earth
Fool's Day 2008

Discordians, Dysnomians, Erisians, and others of much ilk...

Get up! (Get on up!)

KallistiCon 2008 is coming - June 20-22!

Every year this millennium, we've gotten together in the Bay Area in California. We're not just rehashing gags from the Principia - we're moving forward, practicing chaos in the world.

For the last seven years, we've eaten and drank together, we've made friends with strangers in traffic, we've had rituals and blessings, we've been weird in public, and we've been human with each other. We’ve found the freaks who thought they were the only ones, and taught them - and ourselves - what tribe is supposed to mean.

Some of you will say: "But Discordians are supposed to be disorganized."

Didn't you know that's just a put-on?

Some of you will say we’re doing it wrong, and only you know the right way to follow Eris.

That's OK. Just quit talking about it and start doing it.

Some will no doubt repeat the tired cliche: "We Discordians tend to stick apart."

Of course we do, but sticking apart is more fun when we do it together.

Throw out your old memes. Greg and Kerry are gone, Bob Wilson is gone, Camden Benares and the other old-timers are gone. Let's honor and respect them. Let's learn from their lives and their teachings. But let's stop trying to be them.

The Principia is your grandma's Discordia. Being an inside joke on the net is your daddy's. What's yours? And who are you doing it with?

gabba gabba
we accept you
we accept you
one of us

http://www.kallisticon.com
June 20-22, 2008
Redwood City, California
RSVP by June 15!
Contact: email stmae@discordian.com

	User:	_sacred_chao_ (posted by tyrsalvia)
	Date:	2008-05-08 13:02
	Subject:	KallistiCon 2008!
	Security:	Public

From a secure location beneath New Alamut,
Left Coast, Turtle Island, Earth
Fool's Day 2008

Discordians, Dysnomians, Erisians, and others of much ilk...

Get up! (Get on up!)

KallistiCon 2008 is coming - June 20-22!

Every year this millennium, we've gotten together in the Bay Area in California. We're not just rehashing gags from the Principia - we're moving forward, practicing chaos in the world.

For the last seven years, we've eaten and drank together, we've made friends with strangers in traffic, we've had rituals and blessings, we've been weird in public, and we've been human with each other. We’ve found the freaks who thought they were the only ones, and taught them - and ourselves - what tribe is supposed to mean.

Some of you will say: "But Discordians are supposed to be disorganized."

Didn't you know that's just a put-on?

Some of you will say we’re doing it wrong, and only you know the right way to follow Eris.

That's OK. Just quit talking about it and start doing it.

Some will no doubt repeat the tired cliche: "We Discordians tend to stick apart."

Of course we do, but sticking apart is more fun when we do it together.

Throw out your old memes. Greg and Kerry are gone, Bob Wilson is gone, Camden Benares and the other old-timers are gone. Let's honor and respect them. Let's learn from their lives and their teachings. But let's stop trying to be them.

The Principia is your grandma's Discordia. Being an inside joke on the net is your daddy's. What's yours? And who are you doing it with?

gabba gabba
we accept you
we accept you
one of us

http://www.kallisticon.com
June 20-22, 2008
Redwood City, California
RSVP by June 15!
Contact: email stmae@discordian.com

	User:	hydrobromic
	Date:	2008-05-08 13:12
	Subject:	personal scavenger hunt
	Security:	Public

[140 points] Peugeot Mixte (completed)
[315000 points] Condo at 54th and Everett (in progress)
[160000 points] bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago (in progress)