Just a quick note

[cleolinda]

Horoscope of DOOM:

Quickie: You've got a good thing going here. Take advantage of this opportunity.

Overview: Monday's romance, wistfulness and nostalgia haven't faded much. They may even double back for a second visit. Prepare yourself. You, too, can suddenly be swept off your feet.

It doesn't take much to talk you into a change of scenery. So if someone suggests a trip to you, you'll have your planner out and your boss on the phone in record time. Oh, and if there's a certain someone out there you'd like to spend some time alone with -- the kind of time that doesn't involve a workplace, a movie theater or a television set -- this would also be the perfect time to plan it.

God, I've been caterwauling about wanting a vacation for so long now.


Important comment from aperrin2: "In the last few days since the 4christina drive restarted, I've been getting PayPal phishing emails at about double the usual rate. I'm starting to wonder if we're being targeted by somebody."

After some discussion, we're pretty sure it's not a sekrit plot omg. Nonetheless, this remains true:

If you ever receive an email from ANYONE purporting to be from PayPal, please ignore or discard it. If you're concerned it might be real and must check your PayPal account, open a new browser window and enter the paypal.com URL manually--do NOT click any link in the email. Generally, if you login to your account and you're not met with any sort of "please update your information" announcement? PayPal doesn't need anything from you. So please, particularly those of you helping Christina out, don't ever interact with PayPal through email this way. Open the site in a different browser and check things out from there. Read more about the scam here.

LiveJournal Haiku!
Your name:	cleolinda
Your haiku:	hours i didn't think to lay it out and express the hope that he's working
Username:
Created by Grahame

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

That is deep.

I refreshed until it gave me a Schindler's List haiku:

buyer if he didn't save
that his stupid pin was worth
two lives his car worth

Hey, wait a second! That's not 5-7-5! The hell?

[majormeg7.livejournal.com]

*Adopts lecture face*
Actually, there are many different ways to write haiku, the popular 5-7-5 beat that the Americans adopted and know most about is simply the most widely used. I had a Japanese culture class with a whole crazy lesson about haiku. :)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Hey, I did you again, and look what I got:

all horoscope of
doom but again we find out
later that he will

Oooooh. It takes text from your entries. That Schindler's List shit was in my latest entry.

[futureperfect.livejournal.com]

paypal offers an email addess "spoof@paypal.com" that you can forward any suspicious emails to if anyone is concerned about them. i think it's also good to let them know what fake paypal emails are getting around out there.

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

i refreshed my haiku until I got

enjoy the simple
things in life and more love quizzes
at your new romance

...i swear its the exact text....(*did some quizzes recently*)

[evilsource.livejournal.com]

I swear on all that is fandom, I got this on the first try.

It's from my 4christina post. *amused*

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

That haiku thing? Is like crack. LOL I've got to quit trying for weirder results. :-D Speaking of weird, here are two I got--

with a clue-by-four
of all the characters whose
backstory we've seen

to dance to your song
at the wedding reception
maybe i could see him

[joyous-trouble.livejournal.com]

Can I assume the clue-by-four was part of a sentence in which you were saying someone needed to be wacked soundly about the head with one? If so can you tell me what entry so I can read, point and laugh. Cause that's just neat. It'll probably turn up in conversations now. Bwa... or maybe baa...

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was. :-) And that was in this entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/allthelivesofme/39389.html#cutid1)-- warning, Lost spoilers.

[joyous-trouble.livejournal.com]

Ooh and it's soundly bout the head and shoulders even. Nice, would you mind terribly if that became part of my vocab?

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Not at all. :-D

[aurora-borialis.livejournal.com]

hehe! I got:

today woot double
woot with jams.also i know
basically all

*sniggersnort*

[aaricia.livejournal.com]

Ok, this has nothing to do with your post but I was wondering if you'd consider posting the following link in your journal:
http://hsus3.org/protectseals/ . The cause in question is stopping 'seal hunts' in Canada by boycotting Canadian sea food (sounds silly :).

I know I'm being all sorts of forward here but I know that there are literally thousand of people reading your journal and at least some of them would take notice if you were to say something.

Anyhoo, feel free to boot my ass outta here if you want :)

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Hey! Canada! Clubbing baby seals is supposed to be a joke.

That is no fun at all.

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

Some earth logic: the seal hunt doesn't "club baby seals," any more than the beef industry "clubs baby cows."
And now I will shut up, because Cleo's journal? Not the place for this.

(And I realize the person I'm replying to was joking, but so many people think the "clubbing baby seals" thing is factual that I thought it was worth saying).

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I really don't know how factual it is or not, but on the page that was linked, it sure looks like there is a picture of a man about to literally club a baby seal. It's a pretty horrible image. And that is the image of the seal hunt the movement is projecting.

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

And that is the image of the seal hunt the movement is projecting.


Exactly. Because showing them being shot (the norm for non-Inuit hunters) (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/seal-phoque/facts-faits/facts-faits2004_e.htm) would make it just like any other kind of hunting-with-rifle: not sensational enough.

[aaricia.livejournal.com]

Heh. And word :)

[oilygrrl.livejournal.com]

Another good reason (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/06/shmoo_group_exploit_.html) to type in the url for paypal and not click on a link.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

"Sounds immodest I
have lasanga and garlic
bread in the white house."

[edda.livejournal.com]

It is immodest, if you're going to kiss someone after all that garlic.

I still squee every single time I see your icon.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

I have GOT to find out where I got this icon from, so I can credit whoever made it. I'll put up flyers or something.

"DO YOU KNOW THIS PANDA?"

[fidyldoun.livejournal.com]

I just did a bunch of those a few days ago! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/fidyldoun/19825.html#cutid1)

I do a lot of whining on my lj... Just try to ignore that.

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

Haiku:

me i'm dying to get
rid of them although i think
this may prove fruitless

In-ter-esting. (After refreshing through ten trillion stupid-ass excuses for a haiku, it was glaringly obvious that it just takes text from your entries, but.. still v. cool.)

[skyblade.livejournal.com]

Considering my entries don't make much sense in their original incarnation, you can just imagine the cryptic poetry I've. been getting.

[elbales]

Cleo, I found this unbelievable bit in an op-ed piece in the paper, and I thought you might like to see it. It relates to the current bill on bankruptcy.

A key sponsor of the bill, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), actively opposes abortion and same-sex marriage on biblical grounds yet believes the Good Book's clear definition and condemnation of usury is irrelevant. The Old Testament, revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, mandates debt forgiveness after seven years, as was pointed out earlier this month by an organization of Christian lawyers in a letter to Grassley.

"I can't listen to Christian lawyers," said the senator, "because I would be imposing the Bible on a diverse population."

Won't clutter your LJ with more; if you want a link, it's in my journal.

[elbales]

p.s. I thought you'd like to see it because you've done *headdesk*s on weird behavior from right-wing Christian government officers before.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! STAB! STAB! STAB!

[elbales]

♥

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I second the stabnation!!

But mostly I comment b/c...

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

&*hearts*;

But without the asteriks. :o)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

SCORE! Now I am going to have to use it all the time...

thanks!

[elbales]

the fun bit is formatting it.

♥

(this one is made:
h1> center> font color="FF0000">hearts; /font> /center> /h1>
but you'll need to restore the six open brackets and the & in front of hearts)

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

PRETTY

Thanks :)

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I hate being an Iowan. I've actually met that guy before. I think I should *headdesk* myself until I black out.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

Nah, you shouldn't hurt yourself. You should try to meet him again, and have a big handy 2x4 with you at that time (practice swinging beforehand for optimal results).

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind.

[chickieleighc.livejournal.com]

And I have fun posting raw html. *geek*

If you want to type out html codes for people, just post and for the 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. Tis very fun. :D

[edda.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up on PayPal. And your haiku is better than mine.

[duncanatrix.livejournal.com]

I totally got a Guster lyric.

[thespianlizling.livejournal.com]

no rose without a
thorn um actually yeah there
are a couple cool

Yeah. Totally deep. Except for the "Um, yeah, cool." Oh, Liz.