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There aren't any real shortcuts when you're caring for animals.

A tablet is not a substitute for plants.

If it's "removing the ammonia," it has to be adding *something* to the water to do so, right? What's it leaving behind?

Okay, yeah, it's "safe". But even safe things, overused (and once or twice a *week* is overuse) can be detrimental.

Isn't testing every other day more costly and tedious than simply setting up the aquarium properly in the first place?

a day full of advice.

"well, the situation just never presented itself." please. you have to present yourself to the situation, oftentimes. stop ending sentences with "someday." look at a calendar. decide. i can use myself as a tool to mold this place to somewhere i want to be.

- Bobby.

"Why are you always giving in to her [mom]? it's like you never get pissed, like you never just say to hell with it, it's mine and I'm going to keep it." - my kid sister. (I'll have the bad language discussion with her later.)

"frankly, when somebody else has to speak up for you, the impression I get is that you're a coward. [...] cowards disgust me."

... where did I go wrong?

( Seriously. )

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poetry? bits 'n' pieces from the LJ analyser thing.

Forget the morning tears
somewhere I can find the tears
every other day is the womb
every other day is the darkness
you can use myself as you
your eyes are limitless
like the consciousness of the tide

( the source )

I think I like it. ... it's surreal enough to suit, with flashes of lucidity, like a peripheral-vision glimpse of something that would be familiar, if it weren't reflected in a bit of broken mirror.

Anyone else wanna give it a try?
http://www.antispin.net/~martine/cgi-bin/insanity.cgi?paid_username.

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Hrm... I have an idea, if you all will humour me. A poetry contest, of sorts. ;) Everybody go make poetry out of the analyser results, and post it here. In, say, 48 hours, I'll give everyone a chance to vote for their favourite three, and the winner will get the chance to collaborate (read, semi-dictate) on my next fractal. You'll get to keep it, too... I'll turn over the source file and all rights to you. In the case of two winners, it'll be my next two fractals, etc... just so each person gets one that's theirs.

Anybody can turn in an entry, it doesn't have to be your journal's analysis - to keep it fair to free users. But the lines have to come from *one* analysis - and if it isn't your own, then post the link back to the paid user with the full analysis in your entry. Everybody post the full analysis, in fact. :)