Archive for September, 2006
Suspicious Looking Device
“The only function of the Suspicious Looking Device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.
“The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and motors.”
How to dismantle an atomic bomb?
Holyfuckingshit! 7am, Holly vomits. Blood sugar way low. Run around getting shit to test & raise her blood sugar.
Minutes, and i mean mere minutes later, the dog starts puking up what smells like really nauseating, pungent poo, with pieces of dog food and plastic and things I never saw him ate and cannot identify. And [...]
Evolution
Most Americans Agree with Evolution - that’s a bit of a surprise, given the current climate in this country. Still, assuming you can still find a knuckledragging specimen of evolutionary failure, you can use this Scientific American article to knock them down a rung or fifteen.
Posies live on CJLO radio
The Posies performing live on CJLO in Canada. Includes audio and video clips. Jon and Ken rule.
Global Warming Heats Up
Earth’s Temperatures Near Million-Year High
I know at least one moron who says that global warming isn’t real, and another who claims that humans bear no blame and therefore have no responsibility to fix the problem.
People who turn a blind eye to the coming age of fire will find themselves in hot water soon enough. If [...]
Good Times, Bad Times
These past several days have been good and bad. Holly’s blood sugar is getting more stable lately. That’s terrific, and a huge relief. However, her last couple of paychecks have been in the double-digit range, and rent is right around the corner. My dad, being a complete fucking saint, lent us some tiding-over cash and [...]
Richard Dawkins versus God
Guess who wins?
Clinton blasts Fox’s Chris Wallace
Priceless: Clinton blasts Fox host: ‘Nice little conservative hit job… You think you’re so clever’
Time/spent
Some things i’ve been doing lately:
Reading Jackie Corley’s fabulous manuscript for At the Slaughter
Listening to some cool new music for a new gig as a reviewer for The ChickenFish Speaks, and composing my first batch of reviews
Writing and recording a new song
Working 40 hours at a dreadful service-industry night job, hoping like mad that working [...]
A note on web syndication
Syndication is a really cool way to not ever have to actually come here to know what’s going on at this site. Think of it as “set it and forget it” web surfing. Let me explain.
You can use a news reader or other application (such as web-based apps like My Yahoo!) to read content from [...]
Downside, an upside
Finally, after three or four days of nearly agonizingly languishing meditation on the fate of my latest song, comes the breakthrough I’ve been lusting after…
sick and tired
Doggy: sick.
Mommy: sick.
Daddy: tired.
So You Wanna Be a Drummer… Really?
So You Wanna Be a Drummer… Really?
(A Cynical Glimpse into What Challenges Await All the Would-be Drummers in the World)
By my friend, the exceptionally gifted Michael Christmas.
Downside
Lately i’ve been working, taking as much care of Holly as I can humanly manage (and managing to piss her off once in a while, too - oops), trying, frankly desperately, to keep my head above water financially, and trying - my god, I’m trying - to manage my creative life. Primarily at the moment [...]
I had no idea: Iggy Pop vs. Rev. Cool’s Peanut Butter
I had no idea: the famous Iggy Pop peanut butter incident was provoked by Dayton’s own Rev. Cool (from WYSO)!
