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Holy shit.

Obama rally in downtown Portland drew 75,000 people.

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My money says he takes it in the Oregon primaries.

I kinda forgot to post a follow-up to the Obama rally. :/

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I was recently contacted by an editor of The Nation, asking if The Nation could use one of my pictures on their website. I agreed (why else would I have all of my pictures licensed under Creative Commons?) and sure enough, they put my picture on their site. Not only that, but it's on the front page and fairly high up.

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Neat. Especially considering I took that particular picture with my cell phone.

See: last entry for more details.

It turns out that the Slovakian news article that used my picture was just a translation of this article which is about a woman wanting a kidney transplant.

Um. Let's take a look at the picture in question:

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That's Liz after getting a tattoo.

Uh.

Not much to do about kidney transplants. I guess it just looked enough like one that they figured "well, good enough."

As some of you know, I have a Flickr account. I put up pictures on there from time to time, and license them so anyone can use them as long as they credit me.

I kind of assumed that no one would ever use my pictures, but I was apparently wrong.

Websites That Use My Pictures

Shared Dreams
A short story by a 60-year-old British man.
An excerpt from the site: Lennox’s eyes wandered straight past her shoulder to her exposed breasts. No matter how many times he’d seen, fondled, kissed, and sucked he could never tire of their exquisiteness.

JOJ.sk
From what I can determine, a Slovakian news site.
An excerpt from the site: Voľba, ktorú rieši štyridsaťročná Austrálčanka Vicki Pascualová, je len ťažko predstaviteľná, píšu austrálske noviny The Sunday Telegraph. Buď môže riskovať smrť a čakať, kým sa pre ňu nájde vhodná ľadvina k transplantácii v Austrálii, alebo môže odletieť na Filipíny, a tam si legálne ľadvinu kúpiť - pravdepodobne od niektorého z miestnych chudobných obyvateľov.

The only catch with that last one is that I don't understand any of that site, and I can't seem to be able to find a translator.

I'm feeling really stressed because I'm having a really difficult time figuring out how to balance all of my friends and family. It's tough when you want to want to spend time with more people than you feel you are able, especially when each of them holds a lot of importance.

I often get easily overwhelmed. A lot of times I get so flustered that I let dozens of e-mails, messages, Facebook wall posts, MySpace comments, voicemails, and even letters pile up because I feel that I can't deal with them. It's even worse that I feel that I have the capability to deal with this balancing act, but don't have the willpower to.

Over Winter Break especially I've been feeling that pressure. Ugh. There really isn't enough time.

IN OTHER NEWS,


From left to right: Super, Awesome

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( In Beaverton )

( Seen in downtown Portland )

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I'm not in the actual picture, but it gives you a pretty good idea of what it was like.

I'll post more videos and pictures as I get 'em.