Lunchtime Life Collection

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Happy Birthday to thatvoiceguy
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Revealed at last! What Killed the Dinosaurs (and you don't look so good yourself)! Too Much TV shortens lifespan. Does this mean I get to live forever?
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For those who are job hunting: Interview Myths that keep you from getting the job.
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If you're eligible for the subsidized health coverage, check this: Some married couples will pay up to $2000 more than if they were single
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Ahhh Twilight. Now an escape for women in unhappy marriages...to vampires
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Someday, technology will be too small for humans to use. Behold The Computer Bracelet
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The remains of an Australian ship sunk during WWII have been filmed.
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Petri dish cookies
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Miep Gies who preserved Anne Frank's diary, has died at the age of 100.
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Archaeology is Cool, part 1: 8000 year old ruins found at Tel Aviv
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Archaeology is Cool, part 2: New tombs suggest free men built the pyramids
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Useless Entertainment News, part 1: Simon Cowell in an act of complete self-indulgenct rubbish, is leaving American Idol.
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Useless Entertainment News, part 2: Noted moose murderer and abdicated former governer, Sarah Palin gets her own Fox News show. Good, maybe she can cut down on the fangirling of the famous, since she is "on TV" herself now.
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Our Technology is Scary Department presents us with this gem: The True Companion Sexbot. Comes with, and swear to Frig I am NOT making this up, personality types: Frigid Farrah, Wild Wendy, Mature Martha, and S&M Susan.

All together now:
I've got a sex droid, ordered it from Amazon,
On the secret pages that they tell you don't exist.
She is amazing, programmed to do anything,
ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, and I have got a list.
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Shameless Promotion:
Pauline has a contest going to Title her Steampunk novella
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Music of the Day:

Danced all night to these guys at Hypericon 3.
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Writing, nothing so far today.

Comments

[mckennl.livejournal.com]

I want that bracelet. That's what I would wear when I go to the nightclub where Neo met Trinity for the first time.

[jess-faraday.livejournal.com]

Will the True Companion Sexbot do the dishes and laundry?

Not yet, but she won't bitch about them *not* being done, which is probably the bigger selling point.

[firefly67.livejournal.com]

Had to giggle at the sexbot song, but a gal my age remembers a far earlier version: Marty Balin singing 'Plastic Fantastic Lover' on "Surrealistic Pillow" (I think) by the Jefferson Airplane!! Obviously Marty was way ahead of his time--or technology!