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[active_apathy]

Dear obnoxious fellow passenger,

my MP3 player was set to a volume that I use to drown out my vaccum cleaner, because, contrary to your opinion, I didn't want to hear you talking to your supposed friend, sitting not two feet from you. Honestly, you're not that interesting.

For argument's sake, we'll call the volume produced by the earphones approximately 80dB(SPL), which is roughly four times the loudness and one hundred times the sound pressure of normal conversation. Let me repeat that: one hundred times the sound pressure. SO WHY COULD I STILL HEAR YOU?

With something that can be safely assumed to be the exact opposite of love,
active_apathy




Dear Candida stationery company,

you may wish to consider changing your corporate logo to something a little less capable of being misread by busy passers-by.

The idea of Candirú stationery is somewhat discomforting.

With hope for the new logo,
active_apathy




Dear random person in library,

I'm no stranger at all to the idea of noise in libraries. Discussion, conversation, mirth, merriment, and many things else are perfectly welcome, so far as I care, in such a place of knowledge and learning.

Let me assure you, however, that the sound of repeated, intense orgasms from the vicinity of a computer roughly ten feet behind me don't really count under the previously mentioned policy.

While I'm happy your research is working out for you, I don't particularly want to start associating journal articles on information literacy with sex.

With suggestions of places less public,
active_apathy




Dear flist,

apparently, LJ has added a new feature to polls which will - when you click on the 'view answers' link - insert the poll answers into the page you're currently viewing without the need to be linked to a new page. I'll put a poll here so you can see.

[Poll #940231]

So far, I think I like the answer-insert-thingy. And with that comes the end of the entry.

With varying degrees of love,
active_apathy

Comments

[peebs1701.livejournal.com]

I would be a bit disturbed by Candida stationery, personally. Isn't that the name for a type of yeast in Australia?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It's the name for a genus of yeasts, yes, and if leila82 happens by this comment thread, I'm sure she could tell you everything you could ever possibly want to know about C. albicans. Or, failing that, that she'd know where to look it up in great detail.

But, that doesn't make the idea of candirú stationery any better. (Except that, at the very least, neither is cordyceps stationery)