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[noahgibbs]

In her book, Simply Sophisticated: What Every Worldly Person Needs to Know, Suzanne Munshower lists the requirements for an elegant home. You should have at least one needlepoint pillow, she says. The thread count of your sheets should be 200 per inch or more. Your bookcases, if visible to guests, must have no paperbacks, and your bathroom accessories should be ceramic. Now that you've heard Munshower's ideas, Gemini, please rebel against them. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you'll put yourself in alignment with current cosmic rhythms if you add elements to your home to make it more playful and less formal, more in tune with what delights you and less concerned with what others think.

Wow. I suppose I *should* think about home decorating more, but I have no idea what to do about it. This one will take some thought.

Comments

[aberrantvirtue.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, how about "the thread count of your sheets is not relevant because they're made of a water repelling substance". And instead of needle point pillows, you can get pillows covered in fake fur.

And a giant stress ball!

And ummm.... Your bathroom needs more devil duckies. Especially if they glow in the dark.

:)

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've currently got satin sheets, but no rubber ones. You're not the first to recommend them, which I find amusing.

I've got pillows covered in fake fur, but you probably remembered. They're nice.

No giant stress ball, but maybe it's time to add one.

And I've got no devil duckies, but I could either add those or just put the vibrating ducky in there...

[aberrantvirtue.livejournal.com]

I did remember, and I was thinking teh comment should be amended to say *more* pillows with fake fur.

And you need devil duckies. Lots of them. In all sizes and colors. And then they can mate with the vibrating ducky!

[queen-elvis.livejournal.com]

I am currently making a needlepoint pillow for someone else with the message "the first draft of anything is shit." I like to think this is a subversion of the usual character of needlepoint pillows.
My horoscope said I need my mind blown, bad. I have no idea how to integrate this into my current existence. Or maybe the point is not to stick with my current habits.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

That seems like the point, yeah.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Are you also an aquarius?

Every August, the temporary city of Burning Man sprouts up in the Nevada desert. Upwards of 30,000 freaks and mutants drop their inhibitions for a week as they interact with entertaining rituals that transpire in hundreds of "theme camps." If you ever go, you'll be able to eat fresh sushi off the naked bellies of clowns posing as supermodels, play a giant game of billiards using bowling balls, and take a joyride on a wheeled version of Captain Hook's schooner as it sways with scores of sweaty dancers dressed like characters from your dreams. Unfortunately, Burning Man won't come around again until August 23, 2004, but you need to have your mind blown and blown and blown now. Find a worthy substitute.

This horoscope doesn't mesh well with my weekend plans, which mostly involved a "staying in bed marathon". Perhaps my mind'll be blown by some incredible revelation about how to make this code work right. In which case Brezny would be correct. I most definitely need that.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Perhaps my mind'll be blown by some incredible revelation about how to make this code work right.

This doesn't really mesh with the whole "burning man" intro he gave though.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Well holy shit, waddya know, it f*ing happened!

I'd been working for months on this approach my boss liked, just completely switched approaches and BAM! it works like magic on the test dataset.

Now, lets see how it works on the whole thing.

THank you Brezny!!!

[blk]

Let's see...

Thread count of my sheets [less than] 200? Check.
Bookcases have no paperbacks? Check.
Bathroom accessories are [not] ceramic? Check.

Looks like I'm in good shape.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Heh. I *do* tend to go for high thread-count sheets, but I have pretty specific priorities when it comes to luxury.

[blk]

Actually, I'm not really sure about that. My sheets are jersey cotton, and I don't really know the thread count on that. Now that I think about it, it's probably more than 200.

[skamille.livejournal.com]

Mmm high thread count sheets, so worth the money. But needlepoint pillows? Gawd, talk about school-marm taste.

[kraydon.livejournal.com]

Have you put anything up on the darn walls since I visited ages ago?!

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Nope. I'll buy those nails for hanging things some day. I actually already have a studfinder, I just haven't used it to figure out where to nail things in.