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July 17th, 2009
worldofwarcraft
[wesel]
 | 01:51 pm - Guild drama
Ok, i'm in the guild for like a couple of months, and i already managed to become an officer and cause the drama. Wall of text is down the cut.
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dirtnap13
 | 12:02 am - From the Jewish Journal
http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/violinists_disappearance_death_puzzles_police_20090715/
July 15, 2009 | 10:00 pm
Violinist’s disappearance, death puzzles police
Posted by Tom Tugend
Posted by Tom Tugend
A memorial service is being planned for Robert Korda, a longtime violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, whose apparent disappearance puzzled his family, police and most of Los Angeles for four days, until his body was discovered at the coroner’s office.
Korda also played as a guest violinist with the Israel Philharmonic during its 1986 American tour and was the leader of the Monseigneur Strings, a top society dance orchestra that performed for eight presidents and was founded by his late brother, Murray Korda.
According to his son Noah, Robert Korda left his Van Nuys home on July 8 in the afternoon heading for the Gower Studios in Hollywood, where he was scheduled to work that evening.
When the 68-year old Korda did not return home, his frantic family phoned police, hospitals and Korda’s cell phone provider, without success.
The following day, Noah Korda blogged an appeal for help to find his father, which spread rapidly through the Internet and was picked up by the general media.
Four days later, on July 12, officials at the Los Angeles County coroner’s office revealed that Korda’s body had been in their custody all along, but had been overlooked by investigators because his name had been entered into the system as “Robert Norda.”
A coroner’s spokesman said that Korda had been found unresponsive around 7 p.m. on July 8 at a home in Glendale, was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead an hour later.
Apparently Korda died of natural causes, but police officers are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death, police spokeswoman Jane Guzman said Tuesday (7/14).
In a phone interview, Venida Korda, Robert Korda’s former wife, said Tuesday that the violinist had played with the L.A. Philharmonic from 1960 – 1980. Afterwards, he became a freelance musician, playing with various orchestras and chamber music groups.
His longtime friend and colleague, cellist Pete Snyder, described Korda to the Los Angeles Times as a talented and dedicated musician, with a beautiful sound, an exceptional improviser, and possessing a great sense of humor.
Mrs. Korda said that her former husband of 26 years, who did not remarry after their divorce 10 years ago, frequently played his violin in San Fernando synagogues and that the family attended services at Adat Ari El and Temple B’nai Hayim.
The family flew to Israel 25 years ago to celebrate the bar mitzvah of Noah, now 38, in Beersheba. Mrs. Korda recalled that she handmade tallitot for Noah, and for the b’nai mitzvah of his younger siblings, Aaron and Sarah.
Mrs. Korda said that she, like the police, was unable at this time to explain the circumstances of Robert Korda’s death and why the family had not been notified immediately.
As of Tuesday, funeral services are pending in Vermont and a memorial service in Los Angeles.
Korda served on the board of directors of The Music Guild, and the family requests that any donations in his memory be addressed to The Music Guild, 6022 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 203, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
(end)
(7/14/09)
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los_angeles
[vivisectdeath]
 | 11:58 pm - sorry... anyone got an open room?
I am only posting this here because I had a place redy to go and got flaked on, which leaves me in a shitty situation. Sorry if this is not appropriate.
$300 couch or spare room for 26 yr old traveling female. (lax, culver city, hollywood, other)
Date: 2009-07-16, 11:54PM PDT
Reply to: hous-hnsdt-1274211718@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
traveling stripper and dominatrix looking for a couch to crash on for a month or two, moving from Portland... can't stand it here. No drugs, please... 420 okay. Love cats and dogs and reptiles... would prefer a low drama place where my business is mine and yours is yours and I don't have to worry about someone stealing my meager belongings. Heh... have had some bad experiences in LA. Open to a room, open to paying up to $400/mo. I'm kinda punk, kinda goth, low drama... I had a place, but got flaked on at the last minute, which is just irritating. Am arriving in the beginning of August. Note: I am not a prostitute, so don't ask. Not looking for an 'arrangement' just a couch to crash on or a spare room or something. I'm actually a pretty cool person, just a little cautious, so don't take the bitchy thing too seriously. ^_^ - cats are OK - purrr
- dogs are OK - wooof
- Location: lax, culver city, hollywood, other
- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
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worldofwarcraft
[ben_ten]
 | 10:24 pm - wow install
Hey guys, I just reinstalled today :( haha. I had to reinstall twice just bc the first time it didn't seem to install correctly, when I started playing after all the patches I went to storm peaks to do some dailies and wow crashed on me with some error code and I shrugged it off.
Now when I try to add addons, I have no wow interface folder. I typically manually installer, go to c drive, program files, wow, then click interface (w/e) but I get to the wow folder and nothing is inside of it!
Any idea of what could be up and my trend micro internet security pro just ran out, any recommendations on a solid anti virus/internet security along with someone that could clean it up and make it more efficient?
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kumimonster
 | 07:56 pm - bday bday bday
it's the 17th over in Europe
hah
happy bday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mirja !!
dendermonde, BE
mirja n me
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kumimonster
 | 07:52 pm - communities
i've been lax with updating my communties
so i had better make an effort
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) vex_clothing
latexhoods
fetish_monster
bondage_monster
fetishparty
i kick my own butt for not keeping them going
so, now to go post in there!
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worldofwarcraft
[donnyman]
 | 10:42 pm - Am I the jerk?
Guild drama rant, cut for those of you who do not care.
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worldofwarcraft
[amplifiedmouse]
 | 07:08 pm
This is incredibly old, but I listen to it from time to time to laugh really hard. It's semi NSFW if I remember correctly.
http://pvpisserious.ytmnd.com/
Enjoy :D
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alun_clewe
 | 05:01 pm - Double Spaced
So, a couple years ago now, I guess it was, I first took some classes at Ultimate Improv. Since then, I haven't really done much improv-related, but I've kept in touch with the people at Ultimate Improv. Well, Ultimate Improv is undergoing a change of ownership, and with it, a change of name. The new name? The Space.
My roommate, Allen, is the owner of a theater near LACC. The theater's name? The Space.
So Ultimate Improv's new name sounded a little familiar...
When Allen found out that another theater was calling itself the Space, he was, to say the least, not happy. He was concerned about the possibility for confusion with two theaters in Los Angeles with the same name, and wondered, of all possible names, why they'd chosen that one. He talked about trying to contact the owners of the theater about the matter, but I told him I happened to know the owners and I'd try to bring it up sometime.
Which I did, a week or two ago, but to little effect. I did speak to one of the new owners, but he was already aware of the existence of the other theater with the same name, and said it was no problem. The possibility of confusion was dismissed on the grounds that, he said, neither theater was well known enough for it to be an issue. I didn't press the matter; I don't think it would have accomplished anything.
For now, Allen seems to have forgotten about the other Space--he's had other things to deal with, the acquisition of a new cat and his grandmother's death among them--, and I've seen little reason to remind him. However, if he ever remembers, or sees another reference to the other Space somewhere... well, I'm not sure exactly what will happen. I don't think there's anything he can do legally to force the other theater not to use the name--it isn't as if it's trademarked, or anything--, but I'm pretty sure there will be some unpleasantness involved. Perhaps everything will blow over without incident... but I'm not counting on it. Sooner or later, this is likely to lead to trouble. I am not looking forward to it...
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murmur
 | 04:50 pm
i rarely seem to write in this thing anymore...i blame facebook, sort of.
in list form, here's my life lately:
1. getting a new cell phone after work today...EXCITING.
2. need a vacation, bad.
3. jesse evans is playing next week at the eagle. i kind of want to go, but not sure anyone i know is going.
4. my hair is so fucking long.
5. life is up and down and in and out, like life usually is.
6. i painted the other night and really like what's done so far, but i am at my usual confused middle-point with this piece where, i just don't know what to do next.
yeah i don't know. i keep wanting to write something here but words keep failing me. i guess if some big life event happened or i had a really amazing experience lately, i could write about it, but it's not really happening. it isn't bad, just not all that thrilling. and the one really lovely but small thing that happened to me this week is all for me and i'm not sharing.
today i found this funny website about goth stereotypes with cute little icons to click on: http://www.blackwaterfall.com/viewall.php
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sikboy
 | 06:54 pm - angel perdido
history.
have you learned from your previous mistakes?
been so burned that scar lives with you still?
hunger is finally setting in.
i used to fancy myself a writer. so much feeling, passion, lust, love and life inside of me. It all just stopped. I remember when it was. I remember why it happened.
I wish I could do it again.
how do we do it?
people.
happiness.
whats the key and the secret?
i mean. we all know it takes work right?
nothing worth anything ever comes easy.
don't read too much into this.
any of you.
if any of you even read this actually.
ever just have a moment of realization?
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fridgemagnet
 | 12:09 am - The Good War
I am finding the amount of pro-war propaganda on Radio 4 quite hard to deal with at the moment.
Example: just now on the midnight news bulletin, we had several reverential minutes on the funeral of that officer who was killed recently, with music and readings, and the announcer talking about how he was a brave hero who believed in the cause he fought for. (Apparently a bunch of the royal family attended too.) Other news commentary regarding the Afghan Invasion That's Going To Work This Time Oh Yes is basically limited to "should they have more helicopters or do they have enough?"
Actual proper programmes with, say, old-school BBC foreign correspondents in them, or with relatively unscripted contributions e.g. Any Questions, are utterly full of criticism, of course. But let's not have it in the news or anything.
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July 16th, 2009
theda
 | 03:08 pm - Alamo car rentals will rip you off
I booked a car with Alamo to visit my family in Minnesota. Thanks to their hidden charges I am pay two and half times the rate that I was quoted when I booked via travelocity. The price went from $189 to $523
And yes I remember being asked if I wanted addition services and saying no.
I will be contacting Travelocity, and The Better Business Bureau.
But my recommendation is by no means do business with them, or if you do, read every single piece of the paperwork and have no faith with the price you were originally quoted.
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fourcorners
 | 02:05 pm
Today's a crummy day so far. Too hot, too much work, not enough sleep, and I ate something revolting. I had to go to the courthouse to file some paperwork, and after I got out, I was craving pizza, so I walked over to the plaza. The only thing pizza-related over there was Sbarro, and I was left with a dilemma; somewhat satisfy my cravings with a mediocre slice, or ignore my cravings entirely. I chose the former and bought a stuffed pizza, sausage and pepperoni. After the first bite, all the memories rushed back into me why I never patronize this franchise. Sbarros is sbad. It's pretty much greasy lard shaped into a slice. While waiting in line to pay for it, I could feel the hot grease start to penetrate through the bottom of the cardboard box like an unstoppable heart-clogging army of yuck. Yet despite their commitment to indigestion you'd think that at least they were focused on the taste rather than the health benefits, but it just tastes shitty too. My cravings took one bite and was like, yeah, ok, maybe I was a bit hasty. At $5.15, I was then faced with a second dilemma: get my money's worth and eat more of this Italian abortion, or cut my losses and mind my health and toss it in the trash. Again, I went with the former. I was eating it out of obligation rather than pleasure and was waiting for my shuttle to pick me up, counting down the minutes. Eventually, it showed up and I shoved the remainder into the trash without fanfare. Now I feel kind of lousy for the experience. I'm such a pizza fiend that despite this shitty lesson, I'll probably end up patronizing that establishment again if I'm craving pizza in the future and nothing else is available.
How did Sbarro become such an outlet juggernaut? In malls and plazas of all shapes and sizes, Sbarro is usually the ONLY pizza joint around. Who did the owner have to blow to get that bestowment? You'll never find Dominos or Little Caesar or anything else. Does anyone else really enjoy their food? It's puzzling to say the least.
I'll be taking 2 classes at the local community college in the next month. I use the term 'class' loosely, for one of the them is a one-day advanced excel class (which will take place in a classroom), and the other will be swimming lessons. Yeah, I can't swim, but hey, maybe it's time I learned, being in California for my whole life. It should be embarrassing; a grown man struggling to do the basic maneuvers that little kids take for granted. It'll be a group class, so maybe I can take refuge and solace in the company of other weirdos who have no business in water.
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deathslittlesis
 | 01:37 pm
Whee. Furloughs kick in September 1. Happy birthday to me.
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