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Friday, July 18th, 2008
2:09 pm	Test iPhone post One of my favorite PA roadsigns...hey it's great to have a lover, but here you only get sex once a night. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
7:06 pm	Gagdet Fever! Got myself the new iPhone 3G today...we're in Vegas for family vacation, and since the Apple Store is in the Fashion Show Mall, it was efficient for me to stand in line for 3 hours while Dee and youngest daughter shopped for clothes. I even managed to outspend them just buying the phone. I figured I save hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour for every hour I'm not at a Blackjack table, so that more than paid for the phone. We're going to see Bite again at the Stratosphere...youngest daughter has a vampire fetish. --Mick and Dee Current Mood: excited Current Music: Rammstein "Du Riechst so Gut" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
9:11 pm	Big day at the ranch... We had our first calf of the season today: click to enlarge Mother is doing fine: click to enlarge This is the year our herd gets large enough to start selling. We should have four more calves within the month. Guess I need to buy the bull a cow treat. Or a box of cigars. --Mick Current Mood: relieved Current Music: Underdog Theme (movie 2007) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 27th, 2008
3:50 pm	Books I've Read, Books to Read Per elorin's meme: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo And where the HELL are: 101 The Fountain Head - Ayn Rand 102 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 103 Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 104 The Story of O - Pauline Reage 105 The Kama Sutra - Vatsayana 106 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein 107 The Art of War - Sun Tzu 108 The Prince - Machiavelli 109 How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 110 The Boy Scout Handbook 111 Future Shock - Alvin Toffler 112 Looking Out for Number One - Robert J. Ringer 113 Das Kapital - Karl Marx 114 The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 115 Mein Kampf - Adolph Hitler 116 The Koran I added these last 16 because to me "Important, Life Changing Book" and "Great Literature" are two overlapping but different collections. And clearly some of my additions come under the heading of "know thine enemy". I would have added "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks and "Software Tools" by Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger, but those are important books for programmers; they are not accessible to the general reading public. I'd love to see other's suggested additions to the list...or reasons I should be intending to read the remainder of the first 100. Thanks for a very thoughtful post, Elorin! --Mick Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: CNBC Closing Bell (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
12:05 pm	Husband meme Per metamistress: 93 As a 1930s husband, I am Very Superior Take the test! Maybe I'd score higher if I smoked and cursed? Current Mood: happy Current Music: NOVA special on the Maya (Comment on this)
Friday, June 6th, 2008
12:57 am	Traveling circus... We're in a Super 8 in Jackson, TN with two cars, one room, two beds, two parents, one 17.975 year old daughter, one labrador retriever, two cats and a ball python. Tomorrow we arrive in Texas! Miles clocked today: 705 --Mick Current Mood: drained Current Music: Jimmy Buffet (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
11:46 pm	Back from ShibariCon We're back from ShibariCon (it was the fifth ShibariCon, but only our fourth, as we missed last year to go to BoundCon). It was great seeing a lot of our friends both new and old. But I gotta put out a request: please help me link up your scene name with your LJ name...for example, I was really looking forward to talking with ralinad, whose photography I really admire. I was actually speaking with him on Sunday, but his badge name wasn't Ralinad, so I never put two and two together. For the first time, Dee and I taught a class (we even made our handout available online: Mick and Dee's guide to Karadas and Rope Dresses). I am really anal about preparing for classes, so it's a good thing we only had one. I spent most of Saturday morning tying rope dresses and karadas on our volunteer models. One dress had been tied years before and had already been worn by Dee at the first ShibariCon. This time, we were very lucky to get roxifox to model it: Click to enlarge We enjoyed the class so much we offered to teach it again next year. Didn't take too many pictures, but I'm hoping that David Lawrence sends me some of his shots of Dee in rope soon, so I can share them. Dee and I are spending the week loading a fourth POD for our move to Texas. Next Thursday we load the dog and the cats and the one remaining teenager into our two cars and drive off to Texas for good. Well, almost for good; we'll still be back and forth until the Pittsburgh ranch sells, and we probably still have another POD worth of stuff to load after the sale. But we are really looking forward to being in Texas permanently this summer. Sometime in the next month I'll write a longer ShibariCon trip report with our take on the classes we took, the few photos we can scrape together. For now I wanted people to know that the Rope Dress Handout was online. --Mick Current Mood: stressed Current Music: Silence (it's really creepy) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
7:54 pm	Fan Haiku I've been reviewing the web logs from luvbight.com, and since the Bondage Awards we've gotten a lot more traffic. I like to check the refer logs to see who's linking to us, and I had to run Google Translate on this site: http://www.syuuchi-lab.com/link.htm Here's their link to us: 過激な状況の中で見せる笑顔は関係の深さを感じます。 Their translated description of our site sounds like haiku: In extreme conditions show a smile I feel the depth of the relationship. Gives us both a warm, fuzzy feeling all over :-) --Mick Current Mood: busy Current Music: "Gunpowder and Lead", Miranda Lambert (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
7:23 pm	Good Movie: "Deception" (no spoilers) Dee and I just saw "Deception" starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor. We've not seen any publicity for this movie, so I thought I'd recommend it to this list. I won't give many details so as not to spoil anything, but this was a fun, intelligent thriller involving two good actors and a plot that turns on an anonymous sex club. Lots of fun. --Mick and Dee Current Mood: peaceful Current Music: "Family Guy" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 28th, 2008
9:54 pm	How Friendly are We? Your LJ Slut Stats! Out of your 50 friends, percentages you have: met 72% hugged 36% dated 0% kissed 8% seen shirtless 38% seen naked 32% had net sex 0% made out with 6% had oral sex 6% fucked 4% Get your LJ Slut Stats! Note: these stats mean that either Dee or I have done the activity in question. Since a lot of our friends have been in our hot tub, we have a lot of "seen naked" responses. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Deal or No Deal (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
10:21 am	Do you really want to do that [y/n]? I was editing a photo of Dee in rope suspension over a pool, and clicked on the STRAIGHTEN tool. Given that Dee is a highly sought after bisexual, I wasn't sure that straightening her would be an improvement... Current Mood: weird Current Music: "Stop and Stare", OneRepublic (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
10:30 pm	I'm married to the best bondage model :-) It's official...Dee Luvbight won best bondage model in the first annual Bondage Awards. And I'm married to her! I'm such a lucky guy! --Mick Luvbight Current Mood: giddy Current Music: "Firecracker" by Josh Turner (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
11:48 am	Dee Luvbight Trivia Ten Top Trivia Tips about Dee Luvbight! Never store Dee Luvbight at room temperature. The National Heart Foundation recommends eating Dee Luvbight at least three times a week. There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat Dee Luvbight, though it may feel uncomfortable. The Eskimos have over fifty words for Dee Luvbight. Dee Luvbight is picked, sorted and packed entirely in the field! Human beings are the only animals that copulate while facing Dee Luvbight. Some hotels in Las Vegas have Dee Luvbight floating in their swimming pools. Over 2000 people have now climbed Dee Luvbight, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down. Dee Luvbight can drink over 25 gallons of water at a time. Only fifty-five percent of men wash their hands after using Dee Luvbight! I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem Current Mood: silly Current Music: "Three Lock Box", Sammy Hagar (2 Comments |Comment on this)
8:18 am	Luvbight Trivia Ten Top Trivia Tips about Luvbight! Tradition allows women to propose to Luvbight only during leap years! Luvbight will give a higher yield if milked when listening to music. Luvbight orbits Saturn once every 112 Earth days. In a pinch, the skin from a shark can be used as Luvbight! All swans in England belong to Luvbight. Luvbight is worth his weight in gold - literally. Luvbight is actually a mammal, not a fish. In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become Luvbight on New Year's Day! Pacman was originally called Luvbightman. Luvbight can be very poisonous if injected intravenously. I am interested in - do tell me aboutherhimitthem Current Mood: quixotic Current Music: CNBC Squawk Box (1 Comment |Comment on this)
6:23 am	West Texas in the News Dee and I were in Midland over the weekend for a wedding. One of my in-laws is a SWAT officer in Midland, and being the closest SWAT team to Eldorado, he was one of the guys who broke the door on the temple. We didn't get too much time to chat about it (weddings are kinda busy). Dee was at a hotel in San Angelo the day before, and said the hotel was so full of FBI and police that the internet wouldn't work. Having grown up in Midland, it is weird to see San Angelo in the news. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Penguins Hockey (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
1:01 pm	Canadian Court to decide if BDSM is protected as "sexual orientation" According to a Reuters report on Yahoo News ( http://tinyurl.com/6a5z7z ), a Canadian Court will hear a case from a man who was denied a permit to work as a chauffeur because of his BDSM Lifestyle. The police tried to get the case thrown out claiming that the protection designed to protect gays and lesbians did not apply to BDSM, but the court rejected the police attempt to block the hearing. Does protected status make BDSM less fun? --Mick Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: "Cleaning this gun", Rodney Atkins (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
2:16 pm	I'm vibrating My caffeine level score: Created by OnePlusYou That's on a quart and a half of "Texas Sweet Tea". We all know caffeine without sugar is like nitrous oxide without the octane. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
5:42 pm	Astro-Knot I've always wanted to be an astronaut, since the Mercury program. I gave up my dream in the last 60's when I learned that I had severe Myopia (-4 to -5 diopters), and therefore neither the Air Force nor the Navy would want me as a pilot. After watching the launch of Shuttle Endeavour yesterday, I put my family on an airplane back to Pittsburgh, and stayed in Florida for a behind the scenes tour of the Kennedy Space Center. A friend of mine works there, and was able to wrangle an invitation for me to give a talk at the Space Center in return for an inside tour of several parts of the launch complex. Since the real astronauts are all busy in outer space, they let me use one of their parking spots: After a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building, I got to see the Shuttle Discovery in the Orbiter Processing Facility, being readied for its launch on May 24th. NASA uses highly certified riggers to rig access scaffolding around the shuttle, and here's a photo of an "astro-knot": ( more photos behind the cut ) All-in-all it was a fantasy come true, and I will be grinning ear-to-ear for several more days just thinking about it. --Mick Current Mood: thankful Current Music: Alan Parsons Project (5 Comments |Comment on this)
7:35 am	Night launch I am still in Florida after yesterday's launch of Endeavour for STS-123. I was lucky enough to obtain causeway tickets for my family, so Dee and I and one of our daughters were able to watch the night launch. The weather was good for launch, but far too cloudy for good night visibility. Instead of the long arcing trail of light for the whole 8 minutes of powered flight, we got to see the shuttle for only 26 seconds before it vanished into the cloud deck. Still, it makes for a powerful image: ( I'll hide the other two photos behind the cut for bandwidth (work safe) ) Veterans told me this was a very "disappointing" launch to watch because of the low clouds impeding the launch view, but it was only my second launch, and I was very impressed with the power of the machine. I was also glad it went off on schedule the first time, because I dragged the family down to Florida to watch it. One things I did notice is that the crowds were bigger. The last launch was poorly attended because most of the people with causeway passes had traveled from Europe in December for the first launch attempt, and were unable to travel back in February for the second attempt. This time there were more Japanese in the crowd (since the shuttle is carrying the Japanese-built Kibo module for the ISS), and the crowd was 10 deep behind me. Last month we were only 2 deep. Current Mood: geeky Current Music: The Who (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
10:35 am	Remember the Alamo! Dee at the Alamo, 1991 Today is the 172nd anniversary of The Fall of the Alamo. William B. Travis' final dispatch read: I shall never surrender or retreat! Current Mood: thoughtful Current Music: Zeig Mir Dein Gesicht, by Megaherz (Comment on this)