(null)Created 22 Apr 2002 at 08:34 UTC by pedro, last modified 22 Apr 2002 at 08:39 UTC by pedro.
URL: that's the point, yesNotes:
Ok, so Wagner said that we should have a spot for posting urls. This is now the official spot.
Here's a quick lesson in html hyperlinks. If you just write the address, like this:
http://tastytronic.net/
it's not going to "light up" for people to click on it. But, if you write them like this:
<a href="http://tastytronic.net/">Tastytronic Industries</a>
The word Tastytronic Industries will show up as the link to the address in side the "a" (for anchor) tag, and be clickable. This is the preferred method, since it's easier for everyone else (except maybe you).
Ponder this mystery, and see if you don't understand, my young grasshoppers.
Rock Star
Hobo.
funny cartooni did it like you said, it better work
This here mulligan stew shore is tasty!
ok so i am bored, and was doing searches for the names of people i know, and i decided to post some of the interesting results. everyone i have searched for has had a bunch of links. but these are the best/most interesting ones for the attention-span deprived...this is somebody with the same name as me but he's in a chicago death metal band called Broken Hope
Whew! Sigh of relief.
THIS IS PHIL KUHL
Keeping an Eye on Big BrotherLet's all do our part...
I don't think mine worked....
YOu wrote html:// instead of http://Try again.
Keeping an Eye on Big Brother
The Hobbit Name Generator
yeah, as if there was a chance they were gonna go R&B or form an ever- so-popular 'boy band'...
FYI
George W. Bush: Ponto Chubb-Baggins.
What's the deal with the Belen, NM thing?
I may move to Belen, NM this summer. Big news to break so nochalantly over the web (only about 6 people know I am considering this, but not anymore obviously...) My folks live out that way, and I may take a teaching position in their school. Big decision.... The site- I was looking for info on the town and came across that page, I thought it was funny.
That's cool! That's a long ways away, but close to family is (hopefully) a good thing, in my book, anyway.
i typed in 'Rosy Cotton' which we all know is an actual hobbit name. the name generator spit out: 'Myrtle Knotwise of Michel Delving'i tricked it. frod baggins comes out frodo baggins.
also, 'Samwise Gamgee' comes out: Podo Danderfluff of Willowbottom. But so does 'Al Gore'. something weird there.
'Bob Dylan' comes out: Mongo Hardbottle
so i was searching mp3.com for a band called veronica. i got a bunch of different returns on my search, and this was one of them. i didn't actually listen to the tracks yet. i might.
I thought "beauty and lyrics" were YOUR special weapons...
you're status is hot and dangerous
you're status is hot and dangerous
she's hot... and she spits heat!! did you see that?id say that's pretty darn hot.
Oprah's Direct-to-Video Erotic Thriller Club
"They will enjoy it instead of Coke," he said.You know, I really don't find the dog-part of this story all that disgusting. I mean, it would be just as much of a bizarre story if it were cow or chicken, really.
But imagine the interaction:
"I'd like a coke please"
"Sure thing... yoink!"
i'd personally rather have a dog burger than a glass of 'dog meat juice' or 'dog meat tonic'. i mean, given the third option of:
C: neither
id go with C. but if i had to choose between a fido sandwich or a nice warm pint o' puppy juice, id go with the burger. i mean, at least its not THAT far away from the meat i normally eat. whereas i don't ever drink anything that comes from animal meat. (at least i hope not...)
Yeah, I mean, the fact that it is "meat juice" in a can is the worst part, but at least like, I'm used to consuming chicken and cow juice, albeit in more modest quantities. I'm familiar with the taste of those things, and I'm not particularly opposed to eating those animals.Which is not to say that I'm philosophically opposed to eating dog, but the idea that this can of fluid was once a dog, running around -- the images that conjures up is what's weird. I mean like, take an animal that no cultures eat, say like, the platypus. If you went to a place, that had both chicken juice and platypus juice on tap, wouldn't you think that platypus juice is a little more bizarre?
I guess what I'm trying to say, is that I acknowledge that the species of the animal is only weird because of cultural familiarity. In general, people from the West don't eat dogmeat. But I'm not afraid to say that since I'm not used to eating dog, it is definitely more bizarre for me to imagine drinking a frosty can of dog juice.
but very funny...a film series that focuses less on complex themes of seduction and betrayal and more on ass-cramming.
See, I'd eat a dog burger, and think nothing of it. I'd try bugs etc, since I don't really see any particular kind of meat as being any more disgusting than any other.I meant to say that I'd find it JUST AS BIZARRE if they had been serving cow juice. Like, I just don't think of animals as drink material.
Serve it hot and in a bowl and it becomes a meal rather than a drink.
Biblical Plague Snow Domes
i thought you'd all enjoy the Evil Plan Generator
Your objective is simple: Destroy the Earth.Your motive is a little bit more complex: Love (Yes, it works)
Stage One To begin your plan, you must first kidnap a rock star. This will cause the world to sit up and take notice, stunned by your arrival. Who is this unholy menace? Where did they come from? And why do they look so good in a robotic exoskeleton?
Stage Two Next, you will destroy the Internet. This will cause countless hordes of mutant race to flock to you, begging to do your every bidding. Your name will become synonymous with metal, as lesser men whisper your name in terror.
Stage Three Finally, you will unleash your armies of destruction, bringing about something that\'s really metal. This will all be done from a Obsidian Citadel, an excellent choice if we might say.
These three deeds will herald the end, and the citizens of this planet will have no choice but to elect you their new god.
Trust us, it'll all come together in the end.
Say It MeanThis one is fun.
take the results from Evil Plan Generator and then cut and paste the results into Say It Mean .
wow...that comes out really really bad
Hopefully this will clear up those extra tags. </b></b> Now that I've tried to fix the extra <b> tags I should offer a link to the stew. I give you the pet shop boys, with a love song for eminem.
Well that doesn't work very well. Stupid XML parser. So here's a another link for the stew: hypercolor cclothing!!
it's all... in... the wrists.
So, there are these guys, The Brothers Chaps, and they have a great website full of cartoons of some characters they invented. Homestarrunner is the protagonist, a good guy (but not the brightest), and there are all kinds of crazy crap there. It's really funny, although it will be a pretty stiff download on a modem, I think. But you should still try to check it out. I'd recommend watching the Halloween Cartoons first, and then maybe the Jumping Jack contest, or the King of Town Special Edition DVDs. And here is the link to Homestarrunner and Friends.DELETED!
Ok, the DELETED! thing was an in joke -- it's not deleted or anything liek that. If you want ot see the reason for the in joke, read the Strong Bad's email thing about "spring cleaning".Hahaha. Hmm, and now, what should I do with this post? I guess I'll sign it,
DELETED!
'who is the guy that wins all the contests... except one of the contests... or more than one of the contests...' great stuff.
Watch the "I am a vampire" one, that one still makes me laugh.
this dude is unemployed and made a bunch of cartoons about it, and a whole website that has grown out of control. or just moved away from the whole unemployment thing to other stuff. check it out.
they are hilarious. i like the one about band names. this website is so freaking funny. i have watched all the stuff except a couple of the kick the can episodes. marzipan's answering machine is pretty funny too. i think when i get $$ i am going to get a strong bad tshirt. cause thats cool.
they send you a reply, and a link to this 'behind the scenes footage' of Strong Bad, Strong Mad and the Cheat in the email processing center.
they aired it on the Leno Show.
Design YOUR Superhero Self
if this story was a rush lyric it would be "shatter the illusion of integrity", which, i'm thinking, is a really not the lyric at all. from tom sawyer maybe? i think it's "integrity" i'm getting wrong...anyhoo, i'm totally crushed.
in case anyone was thinking about trying to sneak a block of weed through customs any time soon, i thought i'd let y'all know that even the bees are against us. and against those nasty terrorists too, which is nice.
sometimes i'd rather not know that the emperor is nekkid. snooty wine connoisseurs beware - red #5 be all up in yo grill.
Shatter the illusion of integrity is a Rush lyric from the song The Spirit of Radio. Take off to the great white north.
i used to dig this stuff quite a bit. now it seems like chess to me, just a little more involved and a lot less fun. still, this here article, at least the first part about probability statistics and resurrection, reminds me of that goofy don-quixotic spirit that seduced me into philosophy in the first place - finding satisfaction in proofs of what you already believe so you can say "so there!" to all the people who scoffed at you before you knew the vocabulary to shut them up, if only they would take the bother to pay attention to you, which of course they won't. and why should they? the big question that no one seems to have much energy for after all the fighting about proofs and givens is, "so what?" stupid philosophers.
sorry, it's a new york times article so you have to sign in to get it, so if you don't want to and are jonesing to know what the probability of jesus' resurrection is according to bayes' theorem, i'll just tell you it's 97%.
lots of poker guys talk abou bayes' theorem. i haven't gotten that rigorous on the math of it all yet...
Bayes' Theorem! I have that in my notes somewhere around here. I'm taking Mama Stats right now.
like something you could post on here? i've always been curious, but i've never actually needed it for poker. now im super curious.
Do your own research
Am I crazy or what? I love spam!
There is someone; a) with waaaay too much time on their hands, b) who is very easily amused, c) who does not have to pay connection charges, file storage charges and cannot have a mailbox size limit, and d) who has a really awful picture.
Notice his profession:
about the writer
Barry Dennis is president of Netweb, an Internet and offline marketing and public relations agency.He's a spammer!
that's a somewhat misleading title, but it's still an interesting article: gummi thumb - the ultimate spyweapon. or: biometrics are for crap
for suggesting i discover the hilarity that is strongbad's emails. i just watched "brianrietta" and "i love you" and i'm crying. but maybe that's just because i'm drunk and alone.
he is the dopeshit.
SPAM quote from that site. "My spam is important to me. In this new age of the Internet, I need the information and opportunities that e-mail marketing provides. " what kind of person needs to be force fed marketing? who can't find the stuff they need by looking for it? what a system-driven android who is programmed to need what is marketed to him. this guy is crazy. i don't want any more adverts for enlarging my penis, a *free* dvd player, or hot anal sex in my email inbox. too bad that won't happen.
moonboots, see "trevor the vampire" and "spring cleaning", also "band name" and uh... I dunno. those ones are the best.
would you like to learn some dope new dance steps? "yersss!"would you like to finally find out what is funny to the middle-class of japan? "yerrrs!"
trust me (if you dare) - you will be satisfied, and you will be educated.
culture!
i haven't downloaded the whole thing yet but, that japan movie is wrong! what the f*&%!!!!
this is pretty funny...
i almost fell off my chair for that japanese one. cracked me up, niggaz!!
get your World Cup scorecard to help combat ugly american syndrome.
Okay, it's about time someone posted a Brunching Shuttlecocks link in this entree... So, it's time for everyone to play Porn Star or My Little Pony? I got 8 of 12 right, see how you do.
i got 3 of 12, and even though that's an ignorance to be proud of, i feel terrible.
can't believe i've forgotten to check out last plane to jakarta for so long. oddly loquatious music reviews from john darnielle, who is the mountain goats (this is a pretty crappy site, but their mp3 page has two live versions of jam eater blues on it, so it's worth a link). he has a thing for death metal (and other metals as well), which he ranted about for months and months. the archive is chock-full of enthusiastic blather that gets me all excited about music i never otherwise would have considered worth my time, and also a fantastic set of delirious fever-dreams obsessing over each song on amnesiac.
i would like to bring to your attention an exceptional piece of writing - i know nothing about metal and will probably never hear the album mentioned, but john darnielle's gorguts review is the best piece of writing i have read in many moons. i promise you've never read a more imaginative or more finely crafted record review.
oldpossumus knows and/or really digs Gorguts. i've never heard their music.
go here
go here to check out the goings on at ravinia.
welcome. . .to zombocom!In other news, I got 4 out of 12. Ruby Lips indeed.
here's a link somebody gave me to an article in Harper's from DFW.
You too can have your very own Digital Angel watching over you... with red beady eyes and a scythe.
The Suburbs are 50 Years Old.
i think we should all email StrongBad until he answers one of our emails...
Steven Seagal was threatened by the mob!.You may have to "register" to read this. I think I made a user, named "zootboot", password, "zootboot".
maybe for his next movie - Witness Protection, or something equally as lame...
These guys are a gang of british poker players who have sort of stepped into the limelight over there. they are making the poker world look glamorous (at least a little bit) and fun. they've also been a huge part in a television show called Late Night Poker which is in its 5th season now. its a show with a bunch of people playing high stakes poker and telling funny gambling stories, and such. i haven't seen it, but it has been a big hit in europe (not sure just which parts of europe...) this site will have some things of interest to you even if you don't play poker.
Sometimes it's good to have a job where you get paid to work on the web... sometimes it can be distracting.I suddenly feel lik an amature. If I knew about this site in high school the area around Plato Center Illinois would have been a lot different.
only Sysadmins and webmasters can really appreciate this one.
This might be a little hard to get. Just click on it and check the address bar.
And last but not least... I know some of you have to be into words.
This is an awesome illusion. Focus on the black dot and move your head towards and away from the screen. This isn't one of those jokes with the screaming face or anything like that -- just a good ol' down home optical illusion, provided by Douglas R. Winslow III.
Drat that clever crow!
What's the different between a crow and a raven?
Learn the fascinating story of the creation of crows.
Uncle "Ant" Milton and his fabulous Ant Farm
Check out this breathtaking road trip journal from 1937!
ExpendituresItem Amount Price
Gas 229 gallons 40.02
Oil 8 qt 2.00
Cabins 9.25
Food-Miscellaneous 19.21
Films 6 @ .30 1.80
Developed 1.50
Cigarettes 1.25
Total 75.03
Neale has a whole bunch of optical illusions in his picture gallery.
a site has been put up as a part of the Oxford Virtual Tour. It's called TolkienTour and it offers loads of information about The Professor, and about his life in Oxford. But the coolest part are the 360 panoramic views of the most important places in Tolkien's life! They are amazing - if you ever wanted to see where he was buried, now you can, but you can see much more, for these interactive pieces are astonishingly detailed. There are also views of all the places Tolkien lived at, or frequented.
JRR Tolkien's Oxford
ouch!! watch this
this is for erik and wags
very nice. i knew he had an impact, for sure. but there are some very obscure bands and references in that article that just bring to light the vast impact JRRT had over metal as a concept. i think he doesn't have to be just metal though. i've always toyed with the idea of doing an album that was not at all metal, but had a very direct Tolkien influence. the name of the 'Artist' would be something like Nenya (which is the name of Galadriel's ring). and it would have songs about being a woman of power (which i know little about, and would have to recruit some people to help write), being susceptible to the darker powers of middles earth (One Ring, et al), her home, Laurelindorinen (or Lothlorien, as you may recognize better), the passing of the age of Elven influences and the subsequent need to travel to the Gray Havens, her buddy Gandalf, etc. i think it would be a cool concept to immerse oneself in. but, i do not have the time or resources readily available as of late. perhaps someday.
actually, thinking about it now, i realized that Nenya sounds too much like Enya. so maybe scrap that. go with Narya which is the name of Gandalf's ring. then do songs inspired by the character Gandalf (It Ain't Easy Bein a Wizard, Brandywine Blues, Saruman the Blue, Balrog on my Trail, Sweet Home Gondor, Goin Down to Moria, etc.).
Tolkien does have a lot of material that lends itself very easily to metal, though. Terech Ungol would be a cool name for a band, song, or album. (that's the name of Shelob's Lair, though i'm not sure if i spelled it right)
to hear the songs 'Balrog on my Trail' and 'Sweet Home Gondor'. That and hear your song about being "a woman of power". Wags, you are you are!I enjoyed the article, though I was disappointed that it didn't trace the reasons a little more. Metal tends to draw on the elements of LOTR's darkness and its nordic tradition (you're not going to see the band 'Burzum' - which is darkness in Ork tongue, and whose founding member is Count Grishnthlack or whatever - you won't see them dressing up like Tom Bombadil and building stage sets of the Prancing Pony).
Again, Jeremy, please write a song about being a woman of power.
Jeremy, if you write the music, redvinegar will be your backing band and will produce your 4-track album and release it on Tastytronic Records.
that sounds tempting. i will let you know. i do think i will work on that. like i said, i know very little about being a woman of power, so i'd have to recruit help on that one. i think that i will keep that as a project/goal in mind, something to direct my musical output for a while. i'd love to hear the finished product, esp. w/ redvinegar backing it up.
Tastytronic Dinner
dudes, check this site of the awesomest metal ever!!!!its for a band called SATANICIDE
Indie-rock Pete Hits Indie-rock Bottom.
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cheese is definitely what it is.
you'll get a kick out of this
I even sent them an email. here it is:
I want to commend you, first of all, on taking on such an innocuous-yet-controversial, thankless, thought-provoking task of compiling this list. I did agree with many of the entries. And I was impressed with the thought that went into making the list. Pat yourselves on the back. Then fade back to toiling away at tongue-in- cheek altruism in your corner of the internet. You do it well. I seriously dig a lot of what this list had to say.But, I also disagree with a few of the entries:
"U2 - The Joshua Tree Oh, to be earnest, politically correct, Christian, and filthy rich. It's been 15 years since the birth of this critical and popular favorite, and U2-worship still hasn't been eradicated. When will it stop? When you do the right thing and retire this pompous collection of religious rock songs, that's when. "
I disagree with the sentiment behind this choice. Sure, U2 has become a bloated Stones-like Monstrosity, an icon of what they used to be, even though they were too smart to let us believe their big fat wallets were a result of 'selling out'. But, is that a reason to give this album the boot? Also, perhaps you disagree with Christianity. Nothing wrong with that. But, again, when musicians write songs that flow from where their hearts are (wherever that may be), is that so bad? Does the Christianity so inherent on this album offend you? Are the ideals and hopes and dreams that U2 (or Bono anyway) espouse so far removed from the ideals of your enlightened list-makers? I don't think so. I also don't think that nixing this album is justified just because it was overplayed, got way too much adoration, and caused so many to define themselves by the words and music. Sure, the album is SO nostalgic of 'when U2 was really good', but maybe that's a good thing. While I can understand the point you're trying to get at, I would still disagree with this choice. I still listen to the album often. And I don't feel like a loser-cliche U2 fan. To each his own.
"Nirvana - Nevermind Yeah, yeah - I realize that this is the one that broke grunge's doors wide open and made Seattle a place to be reckoned with. Are we sure that's good? At best, Nevermind is an overrated Pixies tribute album that was blasted from every goddamn dorm room I skulked past in college (instead of the Pixies). Not to mention the fact that alt-rawk stations have bled this album of any magic it might have had by overplaying it. Fair to middling at best, but not the Second Coming. And "Smells Like Teen Spirit" IS the "Stairway to Heaven" of our generation, folks. This is the record you will embarrass your children with."
Yeah, Yeah - I realize that some songs from this album got really overplayed. But why throw out the baby with the bathwater? By the same rationale that one or two good songs don't justify buying or keeping an album, one or two overplayed songs don't justify trading this one in for a pack of smokes, either. Later in your list, you make an analogy about INXS, and how after a few big hits, the people in the room will request a disc change. I don't think this is the case with this album. Sure, its not one of those albums that we keep in our CD player for a month at a time. But, the times we do pop it in, we listen to the whole thing, smiling and shouting/singing along the whole time. And we're glad we still own it. I remember about a year ago, I didn't own the album, and a friend had it in the car stereo while driving to the beach. I remember loving every second of that drive, and thinking how much I had forgotten the raw energy and recklessness that Nirvana had, and how much that had an effect on me when the album first came out (I was in 8th grade, and still listening to radio hip-hop. I didn't know any better. I had just started listening to guitar-driven rock music, and was blown away by this album). Maybe its just a personal, sentimental thing. Maybe I'm too young to know the Pixies, or to care about them. Maybe I'm just right and you're wrong on this one. Either way, I disagree.
"Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti The primary inspiration for This Is Spinal Tap, and that's not a compliment. All the years of Quaaludes and teenage groupies culminated in this plodding, faux-blues double LP. The moronic "Kashmir" is ten minutes of pure torture and is symbolic of the entire affair. Albums like this helped usher in the 70s punk explosion, though, so I guess it's not a total disaster. "
OK, I'll admit that Kashmir has lost its initial appeal (especially after Jimmy Page re-recorded the guitar tracks and let Puff Daddy have his way with them for the 'Godzilla' Soundtrack). But Physical Graffiti is still a great album. Maybe I disagree because I'm such a big Zep fan. Maybe if you're not a big Zep fan, this album can be done without. However, I love it. Even though Bob Dylan's version was more raw, In My Time of Dying is still a great song, and Zep gives it a truly grand, unique treatment. Custard Pie, The Rover, Houses of the Holy, In The Light, Bron Yr Aur, Night Flight, Wanton Song, and Black Country Woman are all great songs. They justfiy the album (not to mention the rest of the tracks are pretty dang decent). Anyway, if you're anything of a serious Zep fan, you know in your heart you gotta have this one. So, I guess this entry is excusable if you really don't like Led Zeppelin. Otherwise, it is a must have.
"Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Since you've updated your collection with Marilyn Manson albums, are you really going to pull this one out? And if so, are you also going to put on your sister's old black tights that you ripped full of holes just to wear to the concert back in 1995? Probably not, because by the time the second song is over, you will be ill with memories of Doc Martens and bad dye jobs. "
Well, since I hate Marilyn Manson, am I excused for keeping this one? Sure, Trent Reznor isn't far behind Manson as far as pretense, and bad high-school-angst lyrics, but that was Pretty Hate Machine. Sure, strip clubs now play Closer for their dance numbers. But, again, is one song reason to purge this album from your collection? I submit that Mr. Self Destruct, March of the Pigs, The Becoming, Big Man With a Gun, A Warm Place, Eraser, Reptile, The Downward Spiral, and even the overplayed Hurt justify hanging onto this, despite the lower points contained in the rest of the album. There are a lot of really great sounds on this album. Reznor (and his excellent choice and implementation of guest musicians) really created a lot of musical depth (if not much lyrical depth) with this one. Call soundscapes cliche or overrated, but an album that contains a song created with such a feel as A Warm Place has without verbal suggestion (I would contend that the title of the song does nothing to aid or hinder the feel of the song) definitely deserves to be pulled out with a fair amount of frequency and experienced again. Maybe this is another of those that were significant in shaping the sound of my high school years, and is thus a personal difference. But, I think that The Downward Spiral is worth keeping in your car for a good listen every once in a while.
To end on a high note, the entries that I especially agreed with were: The Prodigy, Violent Femmes, Sublime, Grateful Dead, Wallflowers, Offspring, Counting Crows, Sarah McLachlan, Green Day, Rancid, No Doubt, Arrested Development, Hole, Helmet, Beck, Pearl Jam, Oasis, and The Clash. I'm proud to say I never owned any of these albums. In fact, I only owned a handful of albums from any of the artists on the list besides the aformentioned, and none of them were mentioned in the list.
Thanks for your thoughtful list. Lots of props to you for having the balls to put some of this stuff on here. I'm just so glad you didn't put any Guns N Roses on the list. I mean, sure, the local Record Swap has about 27 copies of The Spaghetti Incident (rightly so). But, you already knew we weren't THAT stupid to still have it if we ever bought it.
Jeremy Wagner
Chicago, Illinois
Any opinions on this email?
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I think you're thinking of "Piggy".But anyway, yeah, I pretty much agree with what you said in your email, and I was personally ticked taht they put Tom Waits' Mule Variations on the list. Sure it's not as groundbreaking as Swordfishtrombones or Rain Dogs, but Waits' fans ought to realize that there was a time (a whole decade called "The Seventies") when Tom was putting out lots of albums that were great but were not a.) all that different from each other or b.) very "groundbreaking" (whatever that's supposed to mean).
Does an album suck if it's not as revolutionary as the most revolutionary thing an artist ever did? No. Is Mule Variations a song-by-song "remake" of those albums?
No!
Ripping up Mule Variations for being a remake of those two albums would be like ripping Train Song for being a remake of Anywhere I Lay My Head or Kentucky Avenue for being a remake of Ruby's Arms, or Step Right Up for being a remake of Diamonds on my Windshield, any song with hobos for being a remake of any other song with hobos, or to hit them specifically where they live, calling Big Black Mariah a remake of Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Aught Six. It's called a style, people. Artists have them!
Lighten up, Nancy!
Geez, Howard!
Wow! I didn't even know that the Beastie Boys had that many albums.
yep, they sure do. in fact, they have more than were mentioned in the list. at least they didn't say License To Ill should be done away with.
and no, im not thinking of 'Piggy'. im actually not a big fan of 'Piggy'. 'March of the Pigs' is track 4 on The Downward Spiral. 'Piggy' is track 2. I've actually been listening to this album a bit lately. my CD player busted in my car (though i do have it on CD), and i was borrowing some tapes from L.Carlson. one of which is TDS. the other 2 are some Nirvana live and rare stuff, and her GNR mix. kick ass!! (on a GNR note, i saw a really dope Appetite for Destruction shirt at the bowling alley tonight. and this dude we bowled with tonight, who i hadn't met before, had a reallllly dope GNFNR BELT BUCKLE!!! HIS DAD GAVE IT TO HIM!!!!!)
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Sorry, I thought you were saying that m.o.t.p. was on pretty hate machine. I really dig the beat and time signatures of m.o.t.p. probably my favorite NIN song for that reason.
I'd put Further Down the Spiral on their list before Pretty Hate Machine. This is not because I have any particular affection for Pretty Hate Machine (I don't own it and really can't remember what it sounds like), but god damn if you pick on Nine Inch Nails without picking on Further Down the Spiral... which I do own.
i knew he rubbed me the wrong way
I think he's got a couple good points, Phil. I think he is ugly and annoying maybe, but not stupid.
He does make good points, even if the anaolgy is a bit inappropriate.
wait, does everyone think that the bush vs. gore presidential election damaged democracy as badly as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks hurt the nation? do you think we had a disaster in democracy?
i guess i don't feel that we did. i'm not saying that i like bush or anything but, to me i think that what happend in florida was more helpfull to prove to the country that every vote counts. i would just assume that that would be good for democracy.
but, then again. i didn't vote, i hate politics, i was kicked out of school for my grades, and don't think of myself as a smart person, so what do i know. i think alec baldwin plays the same part in(other than ) narrating)in all of his movies. and comparing sept. 11th and the florida voting/ballot problems is crazy.
but, thats just me.
...I really don't think that what happened in the election is really that big of a blow for democracy. Even if what happened was staged by the brothers bush, that kind of thing cannot happen on a regular basis without election reform happening. So even if it WAS crooked (regardless of how you feel about the candidates) the election was infinitesimally close -- america will move on. Hopefully we move on in part by doing things to insure that a race that close doesn't happen again, or that our voting equipment is unmistakably clear. But like i said, lots of crazy stuff has happened in american politics in our history. elections are full of crazy stuff like that, but america has survived. so we work to ensure that it doesn't happen again.but to say that it's worse for america than september 11th...? the WORST single attack on american soil (by a foreign enemy), ever? With thousands of civilian casualties and billions of dollars in physical not to mention economical damage? with pushing the country onto the brink of a new war/revenge mindset? with the added heat brought to the situation in the middle east? I personally think that mr. baldwin has his priorities out of order.
not because the election was trivial -- it wasn't, it shouldn't have happened, and we should ensure that it never happens again. but to say or imply that the election was a greater blow to america... to me that sounds like using the disaster of 9-11 to preach to the choir of people who are still bitter about the election. whether that's to motivate them, or solicit their donations, or whatever... i think it's ultimately using 9-11 for propaganda.
why not just say something like, "a disaster ALMOST as great as 9-11" or anything. I mean, whatever. i'm rambling. don't let the length of this make it sound like i'm mad or something. but i definitely think that 9-11 and it's aftermath (which is in part decided by bush, if you want to blame him for something) is a far more serious and historically significant and yes, damaging event in america's history. 9-11 will be remembered forever, whereas 80 years from now, only the nerds in high school civics classes will know about this election. they'll say, "did you know..." and giggle about how crazy it is that that kind of thing could have happened. But people will still be stunned into silence about the destruction and the audacity of 9-11. (Unless other things happen that make 9-11 look small, God please forbid.)
That's my 65 cents, anyway.
I think there is another question that should be asked:"Would Alec Baldwin be saying that it was a tragedy worse than 9-11 if Al Gore had won under similar circumstances?"
I doubt it. I realize that's the oldest non-sequitur in two-party politics, but I seriously question that he would be making the same statements if the tables were turned. That doesn't actually shed any light, logically speaking, on whether it actually was a greater tragedy, but it does illuminate the possible motives for making such a statement.
If Gore won, I doubt that Baldwin would be having a problem with it.But I do feel it was a thwarting of democracy. Partially, this is because I'm a democrat (though you'd be surprised how much I'm leaning towards the middle now that I've had a baby. I may even vote republican someday.) But mostly it is because I see that it was calculated that the votes of many people shouldn't count. I'd have been upset with either outcome. I'm an optimist. I vote. I like to think it's important that voices be heard, be counted, even if the drawbacks of the electoral college system are part of the big problem. Was the election as big a tragedy for democracy as 9-11 was for the American people? Hell no. I don't agree with his statement that it was a bigger tragedy, but I can see where it WAS... gosh. I can't use the word tragedy, that's for cataclysmic events, but it was a thwarting that just shouldn't have happened, and it shouldn't be forgotten until the problems are dealt with and resolved.
Just explaining my viewpoint more fully. With the field I worked in Pre-Anna, politics has become a pet topic of mine. I also get really mad at the redistricting here in VA that lessens the power of democratic districts... but that's another story all together.
Hi Jeremy,Thank you so much for writing back with your comments. It's very nice, and refreshing, to receive feedback on the "100 CD" list which is intelligent, coherent, and even-keeled. I know that the 25 contributors had a fun time working on the list, and that some of the entries were straight-up, while some were simply meant to provoke people to write in and submit their own material to Jaguaro.
You clearly know your shit, and you're exactly the type of person that we hoped to reach by publishing this article. Do you have any interest in contributing something to us (music reviews, essays, ?)?
Thanks again for writing -
Peter
I told them I'd be interested. Think they're serious? I think it'd be cool.
Dex: Yeah. It was a huge thwarting, and clearly a "republican victory" even if they didn't stuff the ballot boxes themselves. If real evidence ever comes out about that, it will be bigger than Watergate ever was -- because it really would have been truly a stolen presidency. And that's totally against the grain of what American Democracy is supposed to be about... so yeah, it is a huge thwarting, or like, a shame. A great shame, that the people we entrust with our nation would take such a great crap on democracy just to hold the job. To twist groucho marx' words: "I'd never elect someone president who was willing to take the job."Baggins: They sound totally serious to me. As the administrator of a few websites, it's pretty easy to tell the people who have worthwhile things to say versus the people who don't, and this guy is clearly not being sarcastic, especially with this:
" You clearly know your shit, and you're exactly the type of person that we hoped to reach by publishing this article. Do you have any interest in contributing something to us (music reviews, essays, ?)? "
That's totally genuine. You should take them up on the offer! That is super r0x0r!
There's just too much in here to keep up with but I'm keeping my Take Five and my Giant Steps and you can kiss off. Also, it's politics season around here with DC Mayor Williams winning the democratic AND the GOP primary! Dex, I thought I heard on the rdaio this morning that the VA redistricting was unconstitutional? Oh wait nevermind, it's going to VA supreme court. And for damage to deomcracy, the AP wire had a story about damages to civil liberties since a year ago. I grabbed it from tapped, and they don't link to the original. Consider this post as a touch of seasoning in the stew. One of these days I'll add some chunks of meat or a tomato or something. Or potatos. Hobo stew definitely needs potatos. Lots and lots of potatos.
but politics should probably pick up over in the apple pie entree.
Oops sorry. Here's a zany link of britney spears found-art to make up for it.
britneyunderground.com
heat vision and jack
dogmanphil, it's been around on #tron so it's well-known to anyone who's been hanging around in there for a while, but I don't think it's very widely known in general. I highly recommend it. Hilarity neverending.
this is thje guy i'm getting my new guitar from: John Covach
CHECK OUT THE MP3S!!
sorry about that! i know, preview is our friend. here is the right link:
John Covach
No credibility whatsoever. If I were you Phil, I'd back out of the deal rather than get a guitar from this guy. It's probably made out of styrofoam and duct tape. By "American" He means SOUTH AMERICAN -- it's an Bolivian-made Fender! Aieeeeeeeeee!
he teaches a class on the beatles and a class on the history of rock. i thought npu's contemporary, american, 20th century, pop class was fun!
Yeah, didn't you have some famous Chicagoan rock star come in and give a talk about songwriting or something? What was his name, Pedro Pedroson?
i'm not for sure i think i skipped that day.
this for all you guys that would come over and watch space ghost. "those brians their out there."
Help Brak
can someone please re-post that lady's photo album site. i don't know the address and i want to look at it again.
thanks
any way we can get that old photo album link back up?
I'm not sure what you're talking about...?
someone put a link up here awhile ago that was some album someone found. a few girls from the 1920-30's road trip.
jesus plays sports!
catholic supply
i like this one.
silly kid you can't tackle jesus.
and this one.
jesus is playing keep away.
This...and more
I don't think your "this" link is what you meant it to be, so I eliminated it. Please be careful about what you link to.
Hmmm... I'm really curious what I linked to in order to have it removed.Bizarro.
more news on the new album by The Fire Theft is up here.
TFT is comprised of members of Sunny Day Real Estate, if you're wondering.
here ake.
here is the trialer for TWO TOWERS!
A good critique of the news coverage the sniper has received:
no new strong bad email makes for a very disgruntled web of netfreaks nationwide... who knows what kind of damage this will cause. of course, there WAS a new 'toon. and its pretty good. with some stinkin hilarious costumes, and a few cool hidden things... angus young's suite was more of a navy blue, usually. though i have seen the brown that homestar was sportin.
'coach z, are you a poseww?'
'nah, man. im down.'
'down with last place. diIIing...'
go to this site.
its pretty funny.
i recommend the foloowing settings:
adam on drum loop 3
tommy on key loop 3
GJBeeJay on dj loop 5
Rachel on bass loop 1
Kristi on key loop 2.
Man, I used to love Night Court.RHEINHOLD? What kind of a person would name their kid RHEINHOLD???
grady told me about
great responses on the email page. shows the depth of stupidity in this world.
Hey, I have a black friend. I should totally be on that website.... (PS- Has anyone even seen my home-boy Jamahl lately?)
Must be a cultural thing, cause one summer I asked a Korean exchange student at North Park's ESL classes what us white people smelled like, and he said 'sour milk'. Course, maybe he meant us Americans.
there is a petition online to change the name of 'The Two Towers', due to its insensitive similarity to the events of 11.09.01.
yet it's ok for letterman and leno to frequently make jokes about death tolls in other countries that dwarf september 11... because that's entertainment!
Haha. It's a joke! Laugh!
[flynn(~)] dict yhbtFrom Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:
YHBT // [Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: You Have Been Trolled (see {troll}, sense 1). Especially used in "YHBT. YHL. HAND.", which is widely understood to expand to "You Have Been Trolled. You Have Lost. Have A Nice Day". You are quite likely to see this if you respond incautiously to a flame-provoking post that was obviously floated as sucker bait.
[flynn(~)]
That said, I'm not calling any of you suckers.
That's okay, Eric S. Raymond and his army of super-monkeys did it for you.
The Rejection Hotlineladies... memorize this one.
Ulimate Flash Faceshow us your mug-shot.
couldnt find a female version... maybe i'm just stupid.
upload mine under the filename "gradydillenger"
ok, the features are adaptable for women and men. the facial hair threw me. i made a portrait of my roomate and saved it as "ohtom"
but some of the people that signed the thing were serious. im sure. they have to be.
Whi ch Trainspotting Character Are You?i'm spud.
MAD's Parody of the Onion.Only some of the jokes don't work very well because the folks at MAD can't use the F-word. Not that I'm complaining.
take the "do you spank your children" quiz. holy smokes thats so funny its scary. or so scary its funny....
Footnotes to History
go here!
I think that that sight is while not the funniest thing I have ever seen, definitely not crap either, I liked the sex part, huh-huh-huh. Who wants to go to the Admiral?
This is a site my roommate got as an assignment for her Humor Seminar. Check out the article first. Article
See "potter's field" or "murder in the red barn"
oh my god oh my god oh my god please say it aint so oh my god.
...we can go to the admiral.
just slide the mouse over the 'quote of the week' part on the top of this page, and you will see a funny pic. (bet it gets changed in a week, though. so act fast...)
I thought that link said ham reduction and I'm thinking, why would anyone want to reduce their ham intake?
Can never get enough ham right lukas?
When Are We Going To Stop The Scientists????
didn't anthony michael hall already do this?
and the new super-organism covered the earth and infected the urethras of all the animals on the planet.
...sorry. im just snickering at the phrase 'apocalyptic nut'. *teehee*
road trip anybody????
nevermind that. i guess i can't post a link to the page for some reason. basically what it is is the bbs at The Fire Theft's page. somebody posted that they have a show at The Troubadour listed on Ticketmaster for Jan. 23. is anybody interested in a road trip then? that would so way cool awesome dope fantastic. seeing Laura and Kelsey, AND TFT!!! who's with me?
show listing
id like a t shirt from this site...
hey wags, that is funny. i myself have a "stolenpicture" colection. whenever i end up at big parties and i dont know the people who live at the house (this is usually in az) i try and steal the funniest picture i can find on the 'fridge. i have quite a collection going. there's some stolen ones from friends as well as ones i find on the street.
hey wags, that is funny. i myself have a "stolenpicture" colection. whenever i end up at big parties and i dont know the people who live at the house (this is usually in az) i try and steal the funniest picture i can find on the 'fridge. i have quite a collection going. there's some stolen ones from friends as well as ones i find on the street.
maybe i will start adding to your collection. i don't go to too many parties though. at least not parties where i would steal from the people. i mean, im not taking a picture off kerry and jack's fridge. come to think of it, i don't think they have pictures on their fridge.
name gameit says i punch like a girl.
JEREMY MICHAEL WAGNER------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- From the Ancient Egyptian root meaning "Licker of Toads" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Characteristics jeremy michael wagner does terrible things to small animals with staplers. Personality jeremy michael wagner should never baby-sit.
Natural jeremy michael wagner collects body-parts.
Emotional jeremy michael wagner detests happy people.
Character jeremy michael wagner isn't fond of thinking.
Physical jeremy michael wagner punches like a little girl.
Mental jeremy michael wagner shouldn't be left alone with animals.
Motivation jeremy michael wagner will do anything for sex
Little Brother?
I met the guy they talk about, Steve Mann, kinda creepy.
ok ok ok i know youv'e probably already watched way too many animated turkey e-cards, but this right here is by far the best thanksgiving flash EVER
its only funny if you hate him as much as some people do. i don't. that's as far as i go re: talking about politics.
wether you hate him or not... the part where the explosions come and the part where he winks are soooo good.
http://charlotte49ers.ocsn.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/mandic_ivana00.htmlok so I'm no good at this spiffy make it a link stuff, but cut and paste this link into your browser for the best damn sports name ever!!
wow
also, go here
If you're not getting Johanna's mass list mailings, you should go here.
I need to get a website set up so I can get a girlfriend. Baggins you should try that. :)
Baggins, when I get my digital camera, we'll set you up with a spoof website like that kids -- and record a little mp3 greeting that will play when people load the site. You should wear your aviators and have a cigarette hanging out of your mouth.
If this doesn't brighten your day, you're dead.
All I got was a puzzle piece :<
It's one of those "Single White Female" files.
You certainly made Anna's day. Sht thinks that's hysterical (and so do I). What the heck IS a swf file anyway?
shockwave flash
No, I am not on the FBI's most wanted list. (not for anything listed there anyway)
I was meaning to call you and tell you to give those kids back, but keep forgeting, it was either that or see if I could get you arrested for a few days.
wow, dude! that was crazy! how the hell did you find michael, baggins?
it was from mulletsgalore.com. holy funny batman. hey, abaddon. when are we gonna get together and jam? i've been playing more recently. just rocked the bass til my carpal tunnel set in.
"If you are going to be my girlfriend please don't dump me after I like you. " -- this quote rules. also, if you click play on the thing on the page, you can get his recording going in like a round fashion... pretty dope.
i cant get into homestar!!! im going crazy. i want ... ok. it works now.
BLARG! BLARG! BLARG!(offensive...? with out a doubt! funny...? sadly, i must admit... yes.)
i am really excited to see my youngest brother this weekend.here is a really cool article my hometown paper did on him and how he is a musical genius. notice the mis-spelling of radiohead as "Radio Head."
Well, Radiohead took its name from the Talking Heads song "Radio Head", so it's not such an unforgiveable mistake.
I find it very amusing that I can rarely link to the posts on here because I only get online at school and they have massive filters. Ulyssess last post was blocked by the "tasteless" wizard.
i am hoping you are referring to www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com and not my hometown newspaper's cute lil' story on my brother....
The Art-o-Mat
i think that this would crack you up tissuesan
Yatta
this is fun. you can crush and recycle your spammail here. potatoland
A review and mp3 download on salon.
Cory Doctorow, writer and publisher of boingboing has released his new novel under the creative commons license. This means you can get it for free in several different formats and read it and print and give it away to your friends. The novel is called Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and I have no idea if it's any good. I did like his story 0wnz0red and he's also got some stuff published on scifi.com.
William Gibson has a blog. It has been linked to by about eight million other sites by now, so I figured, why not one more.
DC, the fake city.
"nipple scarfs"
Online Rubik's CubeUnfortunately you can't peel the stickers off, you'll have to go with the Optimal Rubik's Cube Solver
woot
from the manufacturer if these don't work. I wonder if I can figure out how to diagram my city's exit off I-90?
wags-this weeks strong bad e-mail could quite possibly be the best ever.
someone needs to ger erik anderson's ass in front of a computer post- haste.
An interview with peter jackson et al where he talks about TTT and some of the changes made to the storyline.
Lemonade Stand
Can a computer read your mind?
I used to play Lemonade Stand on an Apple II (lo-res graphics baybee) for HOURS ON END. That and Snack Attack.
I used to play a lot of Taipan on the Apple ][... and Conan, and Skyfox... and DUNG BEETLES. Why isn't there a Free Software implementation of Dung Beetles?
keep on poking the bunny
it looked cool, so i registered.
cool games
duh- he removed all of the cards... easy to win that way. Stupid cheating computer
yeah, amy. did you read all the replies from the morons who said he got it right less than 100%? or thought there was some device that tracked pupil dilation, or something. lol... monitors as input devices... what will the morons hope for next?
the many uses of the word "FUCK." (dont click on it if you're not a fan of the word "FUCK.")
I can't believe this is what passes for the North Korean government's official hompage.You can read more about the site and its maintainer here.
explodingdogThe maintainer takes various "titles" from vistors and draws a picture based on how he interprets it. Some people may think it's stupid; I suppose it depends on whether or not you like the drawing style and sometimes crude humor (which I do).
Some of my favorites:
i want to know you more
sometimes i stay up really late being bored
city could not stop
yesterday it was just a box
it looks like rainCheck it out.
i used to have an explodingdog shirt. but I lost it.Draw me a picture of THAT!
web collageits almost creepy.
from the web collage website:"This is what the Internet looks like.
WebCollage is a program that creates collages out of random images found on the Web. More images are being added to the collage about once a minute, so this page will reload itself periodically. Clicking on one of the images in the collage will take you to the page on which it was found.
It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned."
crrrrrrrrazy.
There's actually a web collage screensaver for linux. It's written by the same guy as that webpage, JWZ (Jamie W. Zawinski).
they look like a fun bunch.
But I can't remember: The Prejudice Against Country People
you may find this distasteful....but the Mammonet is what the internet needs more of.
i honestly have not laughed that hard in months....
oh boy...
when i found HELL.com it used to be the greatest thing in the world, it was a portal to some of the most creative web sites that i had ever seen, now they sell webmail.
this woman is crazy! Probably only interesting to those who love to cook, but still, 536 recipes in 365 days!
Brilliant:
PONG RULES!!
oh my! (shockwave flash required)
baggins, mercurymouth, raskol, oldpossumus, barefootjumper, dangersheep and i cant remember who the hell else and i all had a GRAND OLD TIME one evening at this bizzare little place called DRY GULCH RANCH.
that place was bizarre. but a blast, nonetheless. the poker game was a blast. and the drive home with whoever was least stoned at the wheel... fun party though.
funny t shirts
this site is funny as hell. download Lord of the Rhymes track its too funny, and well done. im listening to it right now and laughing my ass off.
also, look for the profile of waggins on makeoutclub.com (its me)
anyone know a good swedish web text translator?google has spanish, german, french, itallian... no swedish.
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/swe.htmlThis site has some more good links...
http://dictionary.reference.com/others/Translation/S/Swedish/
Also... More proof the people I went to college with are insane.
damn this site
50's coffee shops, which reminds me that I need to do something with greasyspoon.net
that's quite possibly that damndest thing i've ever seen on the internet, like, the email about how microsoft made a new way to take pictures through the monitor, and then it's shows the picture and it's of a monkey.
i've seen that one. i also saw another one which had you staring closely at a picture to find out what's wrong with it, so to speak. after you are good and intensely searching a perfectly normal picture, it does the same as the link above. i fell out of my chair the first time i saw it. i was lucky enough to be visiting my sister at Judson College a day after i sent it to her. she was checking her email, and i suggested she check out the link i sent her. man was it awesome to see her jump out of her chair like that!! good times!!
this story tells about the design plan for the World Trade Center site, created by german designer Daniel Libeskind.
obviously the didn't go to george clooney's school of robbery, i think that if I were to pull something like this, i'd at least get the Ef outta dodge before they come for me.
goddamnit
Silva Rhetoricae -- from gary's NewsBruiser notes...which makes me want to post:
The mockup looks strangely like superman's fortress of solitude.
There is a Mr. Rogers segment in a This American Life broadcast on neighbors.
If you guys haven't checked out NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day, you totally should. It rocks.I especially like this one.
insaniquarium (flash)All the fun of feeding fish and destroying aliens finally together in one online game!
The US Department of Homeland Security has developed new signs to help US citizens in the case of a terrorist attack. Go to http://www.ready.gov/get_informed.html if you want to view these new signs. Then go to http://www.titaniumcounter.com/temp/emergency/ to find out the true meaning behind the sings.
serves me right, i guess, for not reading my previous post all the way through. not all of the humor is "clean". Be forewarned....
reason to own a deep fryer
The best corndog I have ever had was in a roadside foodcourt along a freeway in South Korea. They were so good I had two even though I wasn't hungry.
link to godspeedyoublackemperor.com. in the upper left corner its hard to see, but its a link to download a new song, which i believe they played at their show here, if anybody can confirm that. anyway, its good. check it out.
baggins, not sure which abbey show you were at, but you can see what they played here
if that site is accurate, then they didn't play albanian. however, it sure sounded a lot like the first song they played. but, their songs have a lot in common with each other, so i can always be wrong. but, thanks for the cool link.
they played it on the 2 nights i wasn't there. but not the show i was at.
it could be that the lists are incorrect, i'm not sure how accurate those are.
GET IT!
coolest honda commercial ever
thats so rad!
More automotive humor:
that honda ad is great, that all must have been resting very carefully.
god bless rube goldberg and mad magazine.
you can't be syria
nealpollack.com
im looking for music for a specific song. i cannot seem to find it, though i spent about an hour searching the internet, through various search engines, and various sheet music sites. can anybody help?i suppose i can just figure it out... but its not as fun then...
iforgot
to put in the html tags in that last post for breaks... but it still did it...
testblorp
I meant to hit preview there. It seems that if you separate your paragraphs with a single blank line, virgule assumes you are starting a new paragraph.
this is a funny site.NPU professors can be found here
dateline, duluth MN
that Dave Berry has an account at the diner....
well...sort of
check this place out.
check it..
apparently, the queen of pop, in an attempt to thwart bad, illegal music pirates, flooded P2P servers with files labeled with song titles from her new album. instead of getting the songs, however, they got an audio file of M@d0nn@ herself saying 'What the F*ck do you think you're doing?'. needless to say, she took a lot flack for this, including having her website hacked... some people decided to remix the audio samples of her, and they are documented at this site
It's hard to hate Flash when things like this come around...
ok so I can't do the HTML code thing to make this an active link, I'm just not good at these things, but here's a link to the new self-erasing DVD that Disney is going to use as a rental system, kinda cool.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030516/tc_nm/media_disney_dvds_dc
and I'll say it again. If I can watch a movie or play a song, I can reproduce it. If the recording industry put all the money they're putting into encryption and "security" into lowering the price of cd's I might actually buy one... An act I haven't done (with some rare exceptions to help artists) since the mid 90's.
they never claim that the DVD is copy proof, not by any means. It's just that the disc begins to oxidize as soon as you open the box, and after 2-3 days is rendered unreadable by your DVD player. There's nothing to stop you from opening the box and then immediately copying it onto your hardive and burning it. However, this way they can "sell" rental movies at Best Buy, or the grocery store, for like $3.00 and you can buy the movie for 2-3 days. After three days you own a blackened unreadable DVD.
the oxidation takes place of the coating and not the actual reflective surface. So it seems to me that you just need to find a solvent that will clean the oxidation off and leave the reflective material intact and then your 3 day 'rental' last as long as you want. The engineers who designed this probably thought this through so it's probably not that easy, but I'm sure there will be lots of busy chem labs on college campuses as people try to figure it out.
I think it will be an interesting little endeavor, and will result in me taking stuff to work and trying to chemically alter my oxidized DVD's. Good thing I have a complete chem lab at my disposal.
It's a huge waste of plastic just to make more money. Lame. We rent reuseable things because they are reuseable but we don't want to buy them. Renting things that break themselves in 3 days is just YET ANOTHER example of our throwaway society.Read "Motel of the Mysteries" and substitute "paper" for "eraseable DVDs."
...what I've been thinking for the past week. I guess I was too chicken to yank the conversation away from the tech side.
I never said it was a good idea, just that's it's kind of cool. Oxidation reactions are very powerful and capable of doing some cool things. Take all those hot and cold pack where all you have to do is open them up to the air and then apply them to your skin, now that's nifty!
something "internerd" or whatever, no url included and so he has this list of latin "sayings" or whatever and one of them is:
Vidi Vici Veni
now, does that seem right to you guys? no it doesn't shouldn't it be "Vini vidi vici"? Sombody quick, check your pack or marlboros (marl meaning shit, boro meaning too lazy to write burro)
of course right after this he gives the english translation " I saw, I conquered, I came"
HELLO! internerd! internuthin'. How could he miss that? Now I have to go a check the quote that i took for my email sig. dammit!
i think you missed his joke.
i think i'm catching your drift, and that does makes sense, don't get me wrong but, out of all the others why would this be the only one he changed? I mean, they're all common sayings, but this isn't, he'd totally be blowing his cover as a nerd. I mean, the guy has five different programs on his site to list pi, his mind doesn't function like that, or perhaps it's just that my mind doesn't function like that...
ed. not edited, read at your own risk
ever wonder how come O'Hare is ORD? Well then you should read the airport code ABC's.
I like this clock.
``They, like, don't know anything,'' said Mary, 14, giggling.
[16:50:13] <jeff> side note: If anyone here has any interests that depend on State Farm's IT infrastructure remaining stable... remove those dependencies now.
The key to unlocking the hidden prophecy of 'American Pie, is the Bible.'
there is nothing about the song itself on the whole page! everything is derived from the one little imprint on the original 45 of the song, and proceeds to throw EndTimes Prophecy at us left and right and then just lists verses from Revelation. with no explanation whatsoever. this site isn't even making an attempt. its just mincing words and preaching doom and gloom. i'm ashamed of people like this.
google the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" (with quotes around it) and hit "i'm feeling lucky."
that's hilarious man. how did you find that one? just the way you told us to? or did somebody tip you off?
ah, the joys of those first e-mails from a crush....
if anybody needs to get more obsessed with Homestar Runner, check out homestarrunner.net. i know, kinda obvious, but...
what do you think?
People are almost always more complex on the inside than they appear on the outside. I'm not necessarily what that does say about Strom though.. that he was a hypocrite? Maybe. That he did some foolish things? Definitely. That he appeared to love or at the least take care of his daughter? That's at least respectable. I don't really have much of a positive opinion about Thurmond, because the media's whole shtick about him is all the bad things he is, or was. I recognize all those things as being legitimately troubling (ultraconservative) or at the worst, disgusting (racism), but I also recognize that he's probably not as terrible as they make him out. (I suppose he could be worse.) There I go trying to redeem Thurmond.Anyway, what I really think happened is that one day, on lunch break from the senate, Thurmond and Thomas Jefferson were out for a walk, and Jefferson's situation sounded so good, Strom thought he should give it a try...
Maybe I'm just a simple minded country boy, but I think this is appalling: Baby Ink Tattoo
That totally can't be real. The kid tattoos, I mean. It HAS to be illegal, right? I don't like tattoos to begin with, but putting them on a CHILD who isn't old enough to make such a decision? Really, really sick.And no offense to tattooed people--I think they are cool if you like them, and I like them on other people, but I could never do something that permanent to my body. Let me state a for-instance. I was on vacation with this guy I was dating, and on a whim we decided to get tattoos together (no, not "X loves Y" or anything really stupid, but we each were going to pick out one we liked and just get it at the same time). I decided at the last minute that it was not my thing to mar the landscape of my skin permanently. Thank GOODNESS I didn't, because it would now just serve as a reminder of a defunct relationship. Think long and hard about it is all I have to say. And DON'T do it to kids.
I don't have a prblem with tattoos. In fact, I think I would like to have at least one. I just haven't found anything i want on my body permanently. i've got some ideas, but i haven't thought long and hard about them yet, as i have not been able to afford one, so there's no point in thinking about a tattoo.
but to put one on a kid? that is lame. the site said something about 'you're never too young to express yourself through body art...' and that is something i disagree with. it's why God gave us parents. because for certain periods of our lives we ARE too young to make decisions that are permanent and effect the rest of our lives. It's one thing to turn 18 and finally go and get that tattoo you've always wanted. it's another thing to take your 2year old and make THEM express YOU through THEIR body art. it's cruel, and sick. Think about these poor kids when they hit puberty or so. sure, they were the hit of the playground with that Winnie The Pooh Tat that mom let them pick out. but now, the jokes in the locker room will never end. the years of endless torment from peers for that kinda stuff will make them HATE their parents forever. this is scary.
I looked around and found out that site was an April Fools joke. Oh well. It doesn't make the idea any less appalling though, as I'm sure there are parents who let their kids get tattooed at what I would consider to be far too young an age. Eh. Whatever.
I knew it couldn't be real, but it was really convincing--I wasn't quite sure. I think I am THE most gullible person in the world, for a million reasons, but this one sticks out in my mind b/c it hapenned just a few days ago. A guy called my work and registered for a class. "What is your name?" (let's call him Jon) "Jon," he said. "Last name?" "I don't have one." "REALLY? I've never heard of anyone without a last name!" "Okay, actually I do have a last name. It's Jon. I'm Jon Jon." I had this joker registered as "Jon Jon" for five minutes into the conversation when he told me his real last name. And I fell for it all hook, line, and sinker.I'm not sure what sick pleasure he got out of fooling me, the jacka$$.
Baggins, I agree that tattoos are cool if tasteful and done well, like any art form (you are someone I can totally picture having some bitchin' tattoos). My sister has two very (small) cool tattoos. I don't necessarily adhere to the Leviticus laws against tattoos, but some part of my soul cries out that they are just wrong and unnatural. At least for me. I think of the Holocaust survivors I see at the synagogue with the numbers tattooed into their arms, and it freaks me out. And CERTAINLY not for children who have no choice in the matter. But I guess that site is fake anyway, so whatever.
don't copy that floppy -- Windows media player video -- about 10minutes.
Bush and Blair music video. With suprisingly good editing.
statemedia.netDig it.
totally rad, pedro.
According to research by Australia's Cancer Council Victoria "frequent masturbation may be really good for you."
this is mostly for welcome, but some of y'all might dig it.
download 'bunnies'.
Test your Middle East geography skills.I had some troubles with the *stans and western Africa (except for Morocco, thanks to Casablanca), but other that that I did pretty well.
Fun at the pool
do not read this page unless you are comfortable with crying
bottom left of the page check it out!!
those are some great shots. i like the pic of jen. its got magic in it.
Quick, go to www.jedimaster.net and download the Star Wars Kid videos, you will laugh until you realize that it could be you!
http://quizilla.com/users/anglepoiselamp/quizzes/Which%20Cool%20Evil%20Guy%20Are%20You%3F/. I'm Severous Snape.
I'm Mr. Teatime, but have no idea who that is, maybe I should have chosen to be sephiroth instead, I pretty much new most of the others from the clues, good times though.
houseinprogress.net
He is a villain from the infamous Discworld."You only had to look into Teatime's mismatched eyes to know one thing, which was this: if Teatime wanted to find you he would not look everywhere. He'd look in only one place, which would be the place where you were hiding."
i was Grima Wormtongue.
I was going to take the cool evil guy test, but was frustrated out of the endeavor by the obvious "male" orientation of all of the questions (complete absence of gender inclusion makes me a little sad sometimes). I guess my cool evil guy identity will remain hidden forever.
it is the cool evil guy test. perhaps there is a cool evil girl test somewhere? probably not. but you could always make one.
there aren't that many evil girls. I mean, "Alotta Fagina, Xenia Onatopp" to name a few from the movies, and they're only eye candy. Search google, for "evil women" and you get titles like "the evil that women do" and further down the list you get evil women comic book characters, i'm sure, which is just more eye candy. I mean, there's Aids Mary and stuff, but i don't think that would make it.
...but not for the reasons you'd expect.
i'm glad i'm not a stripper...
what's crazy is the $2500 hospital bill for some scratches...and why a CAT scan?
it was probably the beer bottle upside the head...maybe
i found this cool site.
I got this as an e-mail attachment, and posted this on my site, but I didn't create it. Pretty cool.
It takes about 30 seconds to load on a fast pipe.
ascii movies
Doomsday postponed
I'm glad they decided to hold off.
I love the language in steps 8, 9, & 10. Destruction becomes Devastation becomes Catastrophe.... I think I should get that in poster size and hang it on my classroom wall.
I haven't read these yet, and I'm sure that some of them will be inflammatory, but anyway, it should be interesting. Too bad none of us have a full time job surfing the net. Here's the list.
...for doing this to you:
We don't need no steenkin' badgers.
hilarious harvard commencement speech by conan o'brien
that had been my commencement address, that would have kicked ass!
MSN's article on Johnny
wstibee
Reminds me of that 3D artwork that was famous in the mid '90s. I worked so hard to get my eyes to go out of focus to be able to see the images that eventually my eyes would go out of focus when I didn't want them to. I stopped looking at the art after that. Also reminds me of a Schizophrenia workshop a friend of mine went to (he worked at Thresholds in Chicago). They had them listen to walkmans with recordings of progressively more pervasive negative comments. Things like "you can't do anything right" and "what's wrong with you" etc. Anyhow, after 45 minutes they all had a better understanding of what it was like to have the condition. Especially since the voices were actually only recorded on the first 10 minutes of the tapes and they all reported hearing them for the full 45 minutes.
And you thought your job was bad.
worst jobs in science
that article was good, and I love that the symbol they use for psychological torture is Barney.
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
If I'd known earlier, my students would have had a good laugh....
A humorous correction appearing in Slate:Correction, Sept. 17, 2003: This article originally stated that Mark's Gospel was written around 70 B.C.E. It was written around A.D. 70.
that it was BCE first, but then they changed it to AD... why not CE?
From the Washington Post this time:A Sept. 21 item in the Metro in Brief column about a woman fatally shot in Prince George's County and a child who was wounded incorrectly reported the woman's age, the child's sex, the child's location at the time of the shooting, and the street on which the shooting occurred.
But other than that, the story was accurate.
Man Steals ID of Registered Sex Offender
Amateur snaps pic of meteor fireball.
4ke Larson to do!
those are some damn funny pictures
Quicktime
The Skittlebrau project
Mad Props to M.C. Escher here
it's all greek to me.
is right here, verily.
This is nothing but a matter relevant to gangsters
links
the most dangerous intersections in illinois
It's National Novel Writing Month!!
minikiss
That's funny. I drive through the most dangerous intersection in IL twice a day.
What is the Meatrix?
Chester and I think that's pretty clever. In the Meatrix Reloaded, Moopheus and his friends release a warehouse of lab animals into the wild.
that's pretty clever.
i found this cool site the other day. man i have a record buyin jones that's bigger than my poker playin jones.
this site has some cool record reviews and interviews. most notably, the interview with Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate/The Fire Theft notoriety.
a relink for those who have forgotten: www.homestarrunner.comthe strong bad email today is really good. be sure to click on the little muscle-arm at the end, and keep clicking the thing that pops up...
Tastytronic Industries
OK, that link was for a genius Jon Stewart clip, not Tastytronic. Sorry, I'm learning!
i take no responsibility for what is herein
That *ruled.* It's so clever and amusing, while telling the stories at the same time. Really cool link, Pedro - wherever did you find it???
I would have to say that the part in the Law section about false prophets is among the best.
on irc posted it.
Relive your childhood ant-burning days
fascinating.
reminds me of Infinite Jest...
catfish as big as a bear
I caught a catfish twice that size once, but I was doing catch and release and the photo developers lost my film somehow.
french
funny
wtf did you get this?
(from some friends online)
those are so funny I almost wet myself! Are they real or just someone writing silly stuff and pretending it's from a student or something?
I think they're probably real.
it adds to the funny, but also makes the person really dumb, but I'm guessing they were done tongue in cheek, even for him.
those essays, despite their incoherence, received a "10" from the teacher. both of them. the essays. what does this mean? are they a "10" out of "10"? we may never know. but if they are, they we know this, the teacher must have liked them too. because they're funny. the essays.
Jeremy Lavine is the next great literary genuis....You heard it here first. He will be the destructive power, a power powerful enough to kill people, and knock down burning trees that people stand next to so they can be killed!
Jeremy, his genius, is overwhelming. In this work-a-day world where genius rains down like cats and dogs, his stands head and shoulders above all others. Even above El Niño's. Or above the scientists who invented the iconoclastic buoys.
this is really really cool
i believe i have posted a link to this online comic strip before. but it's pretty funny. you techies and gamers should appreciate it.this one in particular is pretty funny. it's actually an ongoing plotline, so click forward after reading and go to the next day's strip.
Hours and hours of diversion
No comment.
While yahoo-ing it up, looking for paris hilton's home videos, i accidently pressed "d-dial" in search. I was putzing around a few links for a while when i came to www.bbsmates.com
ALL of the old bbs'es and ddials that i used to call were listed. I even found out my favorite one was still alive. (Omega BBS: Amiga-based CNET software with files/message boards/chatrooms). This is a great day. Good for nostalgia as well.
What to do in the event of a terrorist attack. Or...I can share this link now that I have stopped laughing.
That's one of the funniest things I've seen in awhile! I sent the link to some friends and here are the responses: "They all made me laugh. I had some big wig in front of my desk when I was reading them and I could barely control my laughter." "Dude, I had to shut it off because I was laughing so hard. I got to the one with the guy with the deformed hand and lost it. I'm not kidding. I started writing this like 5 minutes ago, but kept cracking up just thinking about it. My neighbors thought I was crying." "Holy sh_t!!! This is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I can't stop laughing. Thanks!"
i am crying. literally, tears of laughter have been shed. thank you dex.
Tears of laughter. Glad to spread joy today. I'm cracking up just thinking about it. Jay hasn't seen it yet - he just got home from work and I can't wait to share it with him.
Singer BObby Brown Charged With Battery
This may be the most bizarre site I've ever seen.
...and frank chu should sit down to coffee.
application for minionhood
but who are zodon and von fogg?
it came from a website for an online comic strip called PS238. It's about a secret school for the children of SuperHeroes who have super powers. I guess it's not that far off from Professor Xavier's school for gifted children in X-Men. but its kinda funny. I'm not sure if Zodon and Von Fogg are characters they intend to present in that strip (its a new strip...) or just something funny they came up with to add to the whole website...
This may be the most amazing piece of writing I've ever seen. It is simultaneously lyrical, literary and mathematical. It is written according to a precise constraint, which I won't reveal here, but the author provides the answer if you follow the link at the bottom of the page.
that is astonishing.
though i didn't read the whole thing. i will when i have the time...
Couple charged in possible exorcism death
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mickey mouse... still in the clink(from crummy of a year ago)
Take your aggressions out here
I got him to skid. That's a fun little link!
I coulodn't get him to go past 540 pretty funny though
http://www.savethehubble.com/
Why Should I Save the Hubble?
That NASA is still planning on putting a bigger, better 'scope at the L2 point called the James Webb SOmeething Telescope? I'm sad that the Hubble will probably not be in the Smithsonian -- but spacecraft really only have a finite lifespan (see Columbia).I'd still like to see money come from somewhere and save the Hubble, but I think it's probably a lower priority than other NASA missions right now.
I am old enough to remember Skylab.
senetors from Maryland are rallying support to hav them not scrap the hubble, and it is being reconsidered by NASA.
I mean, it would be so sad... to just crash it into the ocean.
The Hubble photos are some of the most beautiful ones I've ever seen... Unfortunately, its my understanding that the nifty new telescope that they are making doesn't photograph using regular light- so the pictures will not be in color.
most of the hubble images you see are colorized or shifted into the visible spectrum. Some of the fantastic Hubble images you see were actually captured by the near infrared camera onboard the telescope. The images that are captured with the ACS camera are color composites generated by passing the light through different polarizartion filters and renderign the resulting "channels" in rgb. The really far away stuff is so redshifted that it looks nothing like those published images.
that makes me sad lukas.
entrapment
I still think the best part of that is that the attractiveness of the undercover officer is now a matter of public record.
This sounds like the debate that ensued after the Dinosaur Comic strip generated so much of a buzz.The counrt officially finds nutella a pedantic killjoy...
http://www.lilgnr.com/
that's the coolest thing ever. thanks Nate.
i'm sure Cin will remember this place. Cliff divers, caves, arcade games, mexican food...how could you go wrong. We used to stop at casa bonita coming back from gymnastics meets in the denver area. and sometimes coming back from youth group activites. what great memories... official site
just watch %20&f_id=681">this with your volume on.
sorry, something about the link won't let me post it right, and i have no idea how to fix it. here is the link - cut and paste it.http://www.hugi.is/hahradi/bigboxes.php?box_id=51208&f_id=681>%20&f_id=681
The Faith-filled Skies?
my coworkers comment was, now that's a dude with too much time on his hands.
...on that American Airlines pilot:"A religious zealot at the controls of an airplane? What could go wrong?"
Honestly, does anyone NOT look at this stuff?
Clickey
Live China Meal. Food and drink. Today special from Tsinghua University, Department of IT and Medicine.One scream come from baby mouse you pick up and squeeze with chopstick. Second scream come when dip in baby mouse sauce. Last scream come when you bite down on little head.
Very nice to drink with wine made from genital of ox, snake, sheep, deer and dog. Taste like chicken. Keep your yang up.
Why you think I lying? You going to look on Google and searching for "three screams, Chinese delicacy". You even can link here or here. Call me liar. I get you.
Play 20 questions against a computer
that thing is very fun, it guessed I was thinking of an ocelot in like 14 quetions, it's very logical and methodic, I bet it can get about 80% of the items guessed correct.
i was thinking of a potato eye, and it gave up after 26 questions. i won!
When bored, the group of students I shared a house with used to play a version where there was no limit on the number of questions but no constraints upon the target, e.g. "Are you an elementary particle". We were very persistent. James was the first to beat us all with "the reflection of the moon in a werewolf's eye". Bastard.
"The mason-dixon line."
several times. it couldn't get 'a fret'. i also played 5 times with the object being 'a guitar capo'. it went 30 questions in each of the first 4 tries before giving up. it learned as it went along and got it on the 5th try.it guessed 'shoe' in like 15 tries.
I can't believe I missed your Casa Bonita post last week. Awesome! For those who don't know, it is like a Mexican Chuck E. Cheese, but 1000x cooler. I grew up/my dad still lives literally two blocks from there--you can see the pink tower from my front yard (I'm from Lakewood, but I say "Denver" because more people know what that means). It was a regular weekend outing for us. We were there just over Christmas, with my little brother. Hernando ordered the "Gringo plate"--which NO ONE orders there, it's like chicken and some old green beans--which I thought particularly humorous, given that he is Latino. He also refused to eat the sopapillas, which are the ONLY edible thing there (they are delicious, warm & with some honey--yum). An urban legend while we were growing up is that dog food cans were found in their dumpster. I actually believe that...Anyway, Jacob is 7 and for the first time was not afraid of the cave. It made me kind of sad. He is growing up so quickly. We skee-balled our nargas off and got about 200 tickets (which means $20 spent on 50 cents worth of cheap plastic toys).
"Erik in Emerging Technology has just informed me of an e-mail scam involving E-cards which has not yet hit the press.Do not open any E-Cards from someone at 123greetings.com. The file contains a number of very interesting strings, which make it quite obvious that this program attempts to hijack the user's personal login information as they log in to various popular Internet banking services.
Erik has relayed this info to management, but wanted me to give everyone a heads up."
Thanks again for the suh-weet memories of House Pretty, Lukas. I love that damn place.
and it worked fine. no problems.
This really isn't like a "forward this e-mail to 10 people, and Bill G@tes will pay you $500!" I know NOTHING about computers, but just wanted to put it out there. I assume these guys know what they're talking about.
Do you think this guy is for real? I think he might be...
Aieee, I had no idea that lomography was such a proprietary, locked-in, unfree form of photography. No wonder crackmonkey approves.
I think he is serious.
Some of my strengths are -Have never had a cavity, Am in good condition, and Am healthy.
what a weirdo.
what is the big deal about those cameras? why are they so special?
crackmonkey would definitely be the better person to ask about LOMOs (and I was only jesting about a preference for a proprietary format). He has some very nice examples of pictures taken with the camera. The description in his online gallery reads;
The LOMO LC-A is a compact iron camera from St. Petersburg. LOMO stands for "Leningradskoje Optiko Mechanitscheskoje Objedinienie". The LC-A has a little 1" minitar lens, shoots with the aperture wide open, and has a nice auto-exposure light meter. You just focus roughly and hold down the shutter until the camera decides it got enough light and clicks shut again. It's got a pretty bad vignetting problem, but in many ways that's part of its soft-focus charm (no, I don't make excuses for the camera's faults, but I do enjoy learning about photography by working around them). I usually use fuji 100 fillum, so I get rather long exposures with really rich color. There's a bit of a cult surrounding this camera, which is a bit silly, but it makes purdy pikchurz.
The "special" question is largely answered by the "bit of a cult" comment.
i'll have to research it when i have more time, now that im interested.
JEF is now on a webpage. My better half decided to try to do a webpage of some sort, though she knows nothing about computer-related stuff. Right now, you can go to this page to view 1 1/2ish images worth of my son. She got the stills from her digital camera, and i have no idea what format they're in. Whatever they are, Im going to convert them to something less space-consuming so it doesnt take 5 million years for the page to load in the future. James in happier poses will appear sooner or later
James Eliot (Iha) Fook = 1 cool kid!
responding to the man with the (family) plan...again, WTF???Dude. My favorite part is that he thinks that photo is "flattering." There are some stuh-RANGE people in the world, and the Internet gives them a forum on which to publicize their strangeness.
The Rumsfeld Fighting TechniqueThe Viper Fang is coming out in a meeting this afternoon. I can feel it. :)
http://www.honey.com/
Honey fanatics, anyone? I like honey in my tea, and my late great Uncle Bill kept bees up in Oregon. Anyone who keeps bees is insane in my opinion. Bees are the devil, even if they make nice honey.It seems to me someone on the Diner is a beekeeper, so no offence. It's a cool hobby, but not for me.
I STILL can't stop thinking about that man...the one Warrgle posted the link to. I don't know why he is so fascinating to me--is anyone else intrigued by this (but no worries, despite my recent posts bemoaning wedding planning--I have no intention of running off to join his "plan").
the family proposal is going away... poor bill.
He really thinks that his ideas are/were going to have an impact on society; thereby, making it disfunctional? Good thing he has a strong sense of social responsibility, and I can sleep easy at night knowing that monogomy is still safe.
... I smell a REALITY TV SHOW!
"I went into this so focused upon my dreams that I neglected to take a significant portion of reality into consideration."no shit.
Pedro, good thinking! This would be the PERFECT reality show. However, due to his many ``phobias,'' I imagine appearing on TV would not be within the realm of possibility for this guy. Also, I'd probably be glued to it. I don't even like TV, but as I said, this guy fascinates me for some reason...I'm sad his website is going away. It was the entertainment highlight of my day. I need to send the link to my dad's girlfriend while we can still access it. This is the sort of thing which will intrigue her, too."Initially, I wanted to bring this site to the attention of females at universities - primarily single faculty and graduate students - and one or two other audiences. I sort of vaguely, yet seriously, thought I could target these by way of the internet.
In my mind's eye were certain scenarios. For instance, I saw female faculty and graduate students learning of my site, going to the site, and reading through it; then sedately considering it and discussing it with friends and colleagues, carefully weighing its pros and cons. A few would like my ideas. For the most part however, they would disagree with these ideas, but would acknowledge that there were points here and there that were of interest. The site would would receive widespread attention within the targeted audiences, with knowledge of it remaining largely within these groups.
Imaginings and actualities do not necessarily coincide."
What sort of well-educated, sensible college "faculty or graduate student" would go along with this???
Enough weirdos to go around for everybody. But yeah, the population of Spaceship Earth probably isn't big enough right now for this one to work too well.
Ok. So, I didn't really give Bill much of a chance. But, going back and reading the plan with new eyes....
you read it right the first time, Amy. the guy's wacked out. his ideas may sound like he really has an academic, altruistic approach to child-rearing and mating issues. but, really, he's just looking to have sex with a lot of women.
straight from the male horse's mouth. NOT AT ALL saying that that's something you would be into, or any normal male, but I think it took a male perspective to figure that out. That part never crossed my mind.Honestly, when I read the things he has written, I don't think of him as an affectionate or sexual being. I think the very reason I am so fascinated with him is due to the robotic, inhuman vibe he puts forth when writing about this whole thing. I feel like I'm reading something an android wrote. Anyway, I did forward the link to my dad's girlfriend, and this is what she wrote back (I tried to send it to her last week but didn't have her e-mail address correct, but apparently my dad forwarded to it to her, bless him): ``Your dad sent that to me last week and I am totally fascinated with that guy. Almost to obsession. I think it is the most interesting sociological phenomenon. I don't know why I find that kind of thing so interesting. For such a boring, conventional person, I have always been fascinated by aberrations. So I wonder if he's had any responses. I forwarded it to Cheryl (one of her best friends). I talked to her last night for the first time in weeks. She has a ton going on in her life, but I didn't care--that's all I wanted to talk about.''
Obviously, this has occupied WAY too much of both of our brains' space, but I just can't help it! It is too much! I'm not going to write about it anymore, though, because I don't want you guys to think I'm a bigger freak than him.
I'd like to point out that due to 3/4 of my student workers being ill, I have not had lunch breaks for the past wo days. So the time I've spent on the Diner (and marvelling over Bill Miller) has been justified. Really!
yeah. personally, I don't think I could handle a sustained sexual relationship with more than one woman. and i certainly am not into one-night stands. if i'm into somebody, I'm into them all the way -- emotionally, psychologically, spiritually... monogamy is really the only way my brain and my heart could handle that kinda thing. but some guys, well, they wouldn't mind having a justified sexual relationship with several women who were all in on the arrangement. some guys would be into it, but only if they felt like they were getting away with something. in any case, a common male fantasy involves sex with multiple partners (consecutive or simultaneous). not every guy is into it, but it seems to me that this guy has spent way too much time on this whole project as really a way to defend and justify this fantasy. plus, I suspect that the only way this guy is going to have that sort of relationship at this point in his life is by soliciting women to be part of a sociological experiment. kinky, but it seems to be the case.anyway, i think the guy is just a creepy dude. i would mock any woman who decided to go along with this guy's plans...
he does say he has 15 interested responses at this point.I agree; I can't even fathom dating two people at once, let alone being intimately involved with more than one. In addition to being (in my line of thinking) wrong, it would also be just be plain exhausting.
I really think a large part of his plan is wanting to propogate and have future geenrations of his offsrping running around. He really does seem concerned with that. I'm not sure if it's all a ploy for sex.
Okay, shut up, Heidi. I said I'd stop talking about this...
I agree with you and Jeremy. I don't think it's just about sex, because I think he really is concerned about intimacy and having kids. He's clearly concnerned about both. So why he needs multiple partners I don't exactly get... maybe because he doesn't want to be completely committed to just one person? I also agree with Jeremy -- I think the multiple partners thing is also definitely tied into his desire to just get a lot of action, and I think he's right, it's a common fantasy (not one of mine)... I guess I think though that for him the multiple partners thing is less about living out some fantasy and more about rejecting (for some reason) monogamous intimacy. Would he turn down one super-compatible lady because there wasn't a second one for their little party? I don't know, obviously, but it almost sounds like he would.
he may have been burned by a woman in the past, and is leery to commit himself to any one person. Maybe he thinks that by having 2+ partners, there's always someone there & he's never alone. If that's the case, I feel sorry for him.
I have the answer right here--(no, this is not from memory, I cut & pasted, but it IS scary how well I know this website). Given that his top preference is 2-5 females I think he does want to get a lot of action. But you see monogamous partner is also high on the list. Superfreak, he's super-freaky. (And I feel this adds to my theory that he is an android--just the tone he takes when discussing these things). can you imagine having Bill for an "uncle?"LIKING FOR CERTAIN SITUATIONS
How Much I Would Like Various Situations
Here, I rate how much I'd like certain situations, with 10 being most liked and 1 being least liked.
A. Closely associated with 2 to 5 females of my special type - highly compatible with me and with one another - 10 B. A monogamous marriage with someone highly compatible - 9 C. Being a bachelor - 7 D. A monogamous marriage with someone not completely compatible - 3 E. Association with 2 to 5 females not completely compatible with me and not very compatible with one another - 1
Another Situation I Would Like
Another situation I would like, given certain conditions, would be one in which I would father one or more children with a married woman whose husband were infertile. This situation would be approved by the husband and desired by the wife and would be carried out in a positive, thoughtful manner.
I would want a couple I were involved with in this to be responsible, healthy professionals, who would give the child or children a solid, loving home. I would also want them to be people I liked and with whom I got along well.
The children would be completely theirs, but I would ask to have a role in the lives of the children as an 'uncle'. The children might be told that I were their biological father, but not much of an issue would be made of this. I would want them to see their rearing father as their real father.
This would be an excellent situation if I were a bachelor or were in situation A. It would be a win-win situation for everyone that could be handled with complete discretion. The couple would have children, I would have biological descendants, and the children would have a fine home.
I hate to even say this, but some might ask if I would expect to be paid for this. The answer: Of course not.
He specifically wants multiple partners more than one partner. That's a little fishy to me... why specifically multiple partners... i agree with baggs, I don't think I could love more than one person the wya they deserve to be loved. Heck, I probably can't love one person the way they deserve to be loved. It's like bands -- nobody really pulls off being in two bands full time -- one is always a side-project. And nobody wants to be the travelling wilburys.
He is trying so hard to separate emotion from what clearly are emotional issues and his vocabulary & style are so pseudo-intellectual- he drives me nuts!
My favorite line from his whole website is:"Closely associated with 2 to 5 females of my special type..."
"my special type" ... I mean, we are all beautiful and unique snowflakes... but that just makes me boggle.
i agree, Amy. his style comes off as emotionally distant. and his vocabulary concerning the whole thing is verypseudo-intellectual. which makes him come off like he's trying to sound like his approach to the whole thing is intellectual, but really, he hasn't thought it out as well as he'd like you to think, and is masking the whole 'project' in flowery speech (which fails miserably on both levels).I do agree with pedro, his plan is probably not just about sex. I'm sure he truly desires intimacy and a social relationship and the opportunity to raise his children. but it's just weird.
you guys ever read about the weird religious cults that spring up? a lot of them come from one father-figure guy leading a group of people who all believe in some wacked out version of how society should work, and the leader-dude usually ends up sleeping with half the women and fathering a buttload of children by them. i get the same feeling hearing about cults like this as i get from reading this guy's website.
I never thought about the cult aspect, but it actually makes a lot of sense. He mentions things like how they will enlarge their farm where their children and then grandchildren (or "descendants") will stay...it's like some sort of cult-commune. And he also mentioned that he's working on a science fiction novel. OO-wee-OO...Things go from bad to worse. So my dad's girlfriend finally convinced her friend to check this out. The friend feels after reading it all that he's being "persecuted" (I guess by society, since he's such a weirdo), and she wrote him an e-mail encouraging him to keep his dream alive and keep his site up! The woman is single and lives in Colorado (though Bill is in the Southwest part of the state and she's in Denver) so one never knows...although I know my dad's girlfriend really well and she'd never hang out with someone who'd do such a crazy thing. Plus she's past his ideal optimal child-bearing age, so I doubt she'd make the cut.
but this is a really funny commercial. watch it.
the conversation needed broken up long ago. i'm sorry i'm so obsessed with it. but unfortunately my computer won't let me watch the commercial.
funny, it just loads a screen with no image in the center of the background.
i had to wait a second. i wonder why?
Silly question: Does anyone know how to search Hotmail's directory?
Well, Infospace.com picked up some good results. The Hotmail directory seems to include MSN members. I remember that a year ago, Hotmail did have a directory search which enabled users to mail eachother without their addresses being displayed for privacy. Seems that they got rid of that feature.
these guys are AWESOME:
Funyuns are what got me here, Jenkins, and I'm not going to turn my back on them, numbers be damned!
trib
"POST-FUNYUN FUNK" I've enjoyed Funyuns on many occasions...I don't think they're that bad of product...just horribly misunderstood. Great article.I remember that Frito Lay used to make a product called "Deli-Lays" or "Lays Deli Style" which were a slightly thicker, less salty, and not as greasy version of original Lays potato chips. In the summer of 1998, every sandwich I ate was accompanied by these wonders. They are now discontinued or they don't sell them in my area. Either way, I haven't had them since. They probably didn't do to well market-wise in our locale.
I also talked to guy who had never heard of "Taco" Doritos. Hmmm.
munchos! greasy, salty, mouth-shredding goodness
Nicolet article...
http://www.elpc.org/forest/ChequamegonNicoletsummary.htm
Thanks for posting that article. It has me worked up and frustrated, but at least I feel informed.....
roller coaster kitEver since I was a wee lad I wanted a marble roller coaster. They used to sell the part sin the Edmund Scientific catalog that I would pore over every month. But this Dragon kit looks amazing! Way too expensive but I feel like a littel kid again lusting after the ultimate toy.
This is really cool, especially if you like Kubrick. You might need QuickTime for it, but I don't think it's required....
Very cool roller coaster indeed! Reminds me a bit of the Iron Wolf at Great America, only the Iron Wolf is of the stand-up type.
I found this short film haunting.
I wanted to say, first of all: I LOVE Funyuns. That article was hilarious--thanks for sharing. I don't know why, because they are sort of nasty. But in a good way. If I buy the 99 cent bag I'll sometimes end up eating them all in a sitting or two, which is plain gluttony. They are oddly addictive.Also, thanks for the article on beer. My dad always gets irritated if we buy cold beer and then put just put a few in the fridge at a time. "You can't let cold beer get warm or it'll taste skunky!" I always thought it was an urban legend he grew with in that wacky Nebraska, but maybe it is in fact true.
Are the best.
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Maybe some of you have forgotten about this guy, but I'm still way too interested:http://www.fypl.info/blinddate.html
http://www.fypl.info/disappointments.html
That "blind date" story is awesome!
He is just too bizarre for words, the phrases he uses and such. But I still feel bad for him. He seems like a nice (albeit rather crazy) guy. I'm glad he could have a sense of humor over the whole thing.
That story makes me like him a whole lot more. He seemed like a nutter to me before, but... you know... it's a damn admirable quality to be able to laugh at ones self, and see the humor in a situation like that.
He seems level headed to me after skimming through his bio. But every other link on his site catches me a little off guard.
If he found our discussion of him here.... I found those stories rather sad.
Hazzard County
like a parody of Bilbo or maybe one of the elves talking of the Grey Havens...
wow
LIMBAUGH AND THE ACLU -- IN BED TOGETHER!
Do It Yourself Surgery
And I humbly apologize for posting the same link Pedro did. I'm still wondering how I didn't notice that.
kanji tattoos (l/p: anonymous/anonymous)
If I'm ever arrested I hope it involves something like this. Take a look at the rest of the site.
anatomy
Order this chicken aroundJumping jacks was the funniest.
they have everything there. I asked it to play air guitar, and it did. It's actually sort of freaky to me.
there used to be some censored moves that somebody reverse engineered and posted links too. They caught on pretty quickly so now he just waggles his finger at you when you tell it do anything dirty.
he wouldn't. he did bang his head against the wall though.
This is some of the most bizarre photography I've seen in a while. I've also found my match for offensive t-shirts. I do find solace in the knowledge that my shirts inspire more thought.
Early Demise
and it doesn't surprise me. Tortured artists indeed.
The Kingdom Of Loathing...as if you didn't need another way on the Internet to waste your time.
Beastie Boys - 1998-07-08 Libro Hall - Vienna, AustriaThat link has new music every so often, mostly decent or better.
Thank you Mr. President, I had forgotten how crushingly dull these ceremonies are.
mysterious plane crash
Hey folks, check out www.davidspjut.com
BBC story of Nick Drake hosted by Brad Pitt
This was the club top 5 too much fun link of the day. And it's hysterical and so incredibly true! Linkey
"A batch of chocolate chip cookies will let him know that you love him. You do have to monitor your geek for weight gain; however, remember that most of their days are spent sitting and staring at a monitor."
Welcome to Blondestar
This is awesome.
I don't understand why you'd do this. But it's a well put together site, and kinda nice in a strange way.
But I was excited to see the same brand of maple syrup that I buy.
Obsessive consumption, a project this girl did where she documented EVERY purchase for a period of time. I may have posted this here before because she randomly had her little display set up at the kansas city hotel I stayed at in May. She would snap a polaroid of every purchase and save the receipt and stick them in a vellum envelope and date stamp the envelope. the stamp also had lines for price, location purchased, payment, and rating.
not a polaroid--she used a digital camera and a photo printer.
I used to live in semi-squalor in college, but nothing like this....
That site is crazy. I know two people who live like that. And "know of" a few more. The weird thing is that one of them doesn't seem to have any depression issues. I'm not a neat freak by any means but my first reaction is to want to open a business that caters to folks like this and just empties out their houses. I guess they'd just fill them up again though if the underlying problems weren't addressed.
Imagine <your_handle>@DaddysBeenABadGirl
Team America
In the sequel to the original Badger Badger Badger video, the badgers have moved to Europe to play Soccer.
In case you have a hard time reading the map, there's a still of it here.
i want this shirt.
this is pretty funny.
Craigslist posting... posted last weekend while the air and water show was going on.
what was the group with the banner? do you know?
...but i think that just makes it funnier.
Oops
of this: "The bag filled with discarded paper and cardboard was [...] to demonstrate the 'finite existence' of art."
Funny ha ha, and funny strange.
nice link jack.
On the plus side, I found out about space.com's captioning system is rather silly. They apparently have the disk space for articles and pictures, but not captions.
These people have entirely too much time on their hands.
don't try this at home
I LOVE TOXIC WASTE
an open letter
Slap Bush
note: this other one is better, but its not working on my laptop right now, so i dont know if its down or not. a couple of days ago, kerry was in the lead (in a bad way), which is unacceptable.
Bi-Partisan Slap
Maybe I just like the idea of a news source that has no human interaction, at least on it's final level.10x10 is interesting if only because of it's design and implimentation.
That's one of the neatest sites I've been to in a long while... What a fascinating idea! Associating one word with one image....
There are really only like 75 images, but it's interesting in it's own right to see how multiple headlines and words associate themselves with images.
Aurora pictures. Check out his digital photography - he's got some AMAZING shots of weather.
i've already posted the link before, but nstorm has put out a couple of new highly addictive games which are all available in a 60 minute shareware test-drive-type download. Among the highly, highly addictive games are feeding frenzy and wordcraft, but Ive never been disappointed by -any- of their little games. I ended up buying wordcraft after playing it for an hour straight.
GameHouse has a web version to which I am hopelessly addicted.
some of you SW geeks might like this one
in google style pict-o-type which read "i am not your search engine" i thought it was funny, and everytime someone asks me online about where they can get some bit of info i think about it, too bad though, i can't remember where...
i want this one.
link
soon, your own private google will be telling you what to wear in the morning
but i've been waiting years for nextel to go away. it might finally happen
this is funny. worst album covers of all time
laugh out loud funny.
Listen to Google...
Buy BlueI'm going to route my business to blue companies. This is a really interesting site!
What do you believe that you can't prove?
I believe that Charles Simonyi is on to something with his thoughts on generative programming.
phony degrees in government
Guess who's getting a phd on his next beer run to Wyoming!
That is truly frightening pedro.
under the GS-# pay schedule you are moved up a pay grade or two for having a masters and even more for a doctorate so for those without any scruples it's an easy way to earn a quick pay raise. Still, you'd think OPM would have a list of diploma mills to check against.
That article makes me a little sad...sad because I wasn't/I'm not surprised.
The background check arm of the government, for ordinary mundane level investigations, is seriously behind like a year or two. they prioritize according to the level of clearance needed for the job= secret service, nuclear physics, etc get a higher scrutiny than Joe the postal carrier or Bess the Park Ranger....plus, if I'm correct, it's the immediate supervisor's job to confirm the degree if I remember the paperwork correctly--I'll ask my sister when she makes her yearly phone call to me.
hit song science
"But the secret is out: the record biz, once that bastion of wayward creative flair, is succumbing to the plain old-fashioned science of statistical analysis.""the record biz, once that bastion of wayward creative flair"
since when?
I think that record companies will use this, instead of their own black hearts, to divine whether something is going to be a pop hit or not. As the article acknowledges, true trendsetters and path... uh... bucklers still have to be discovered... the old fashioned way. So Norah Jones was helped with this thing. That's great, because she's talented (and I like her music). But there are a *lot* of people who are just as good as she is and many who are more creative that will still never be discovered, robotic music overlords or no. So I don't really think it's going to be that devastating to music. Marginalized music (no matter how good) is still going to be marginalized. Pop will be pop, and indie will be indie. Sharp producers and A&R reps will still go out on a limb for new artists. Hopefully the internet will help to disperse "non-establishment" music, but that will really only happen if people find it compelling -- which the HitMachine-9000 in orbit around Jupiter can't change. And if the machine can really figure out what kind of music makes humans tick, won't that be interesting? Not everyone will fall into that category anyway.Still, I do agree with the above and it *is* depressing. But I agree with Wagz -- I don't really think it's that much different. If anything it makes the Industry more pathetic -- they need a machine to do their jobs because it's that automatic. Pffft.
i mean, i wasn't surprised. secretly we all suspected such a device existed and was being used. however, to openly admit it just spells more drivel for the pop music market.but i think we all secretly kinda need that machine of formulaic pop to keep steamrolling on. there needs to be a machine to rage against, so to speak. kinda like saying 'Hitler beat his wife.' yeah. who cares at this point? we all know he/it sucks. but it just serves as a yardstick to measure stuff by.
i hope that made sense.
Not one damn dime day
there's another day like this, called "buy nothing day", it's the day after thanksgiving. My question about all of these is: what about utilities?
but i think that's ridiculous.not spending money for a 24-hour period doesn't do anything. so what if you buy your groceries on the 19th or the 21st? the grocery store still gets your money either way. same goes with the gas stations and the supermarkets and the retail chains and everything else. if you are going to buy something, it doesn't matter when you buy it. our econoomy operates on such a massive scale that nobody buying on the 20th, but everybody buying 2x as much on the 21st has no effect at all. except for maybe a blip on some chart somewhere.
if you really want to make an economic effect, stop buying altogether. or direct your buying habits differently.
if I refuse to eat McDonalds today, but eat there yesterday and tomorrow, and continue to make it a habit to eat there, then my refusal today does nothing - for my health or MCD's bottom line.
also, from that same site: "to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people"
what do our religious leaders have to do with the moral responsibility to end war, or giving America back to the people? the Religious leaders have no control over sending troops to war, nor calling them home. they also don't have America, and cannot then 'give America back to the people'.
lots of nice activism sentiment, but it's really a bunch of sentimental pap.
buyblue
countmeblue, count me rich dammit!
I should make rubber armbands that are all swirly with all the colors of the rainbow -- so you can wear one and cover all the bases and all future bases. That goes for magnetic ribbons too.
it could be effective. Like you said about mcdonalds, but different. If someone eats at mcdonald's every day, and all those people decide not to eat there one day, it's still a day of profits that they lose. Especially if the store is a franchise. But yes, you're right. If i'm going to spend a few grand on a tele, but i put it off a day, who cares. i file this under "boycott in the most liberal sense"
Thanks for that site. Regardless of one's political leanings, it's very interesting to see which stores fall where on the spectrum. Though at first thought I'd think the big companies would mostly support Republican causes since that used to be better for their bottom line financials. Not sure that's the case anymore with this administration though.
Ten reasons to go to McDonald's... nope, not kidding. Check out the unhappy-meal part.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider crawled up the...
kayaking in death valley
The Goliath Expedition.One man, two feet, ten years. You know, this sounds like it'd rather be fun - but won't he be missing out on lots of, you know, life? Love, friends, births, deaths, movies, music, etc?
"The Goliath Expedition is like no other world record breaking attempt. It will take over TEN years to complete and will cover over 36,000 Miles across four continents, 25 countries, crossing a frozen sea, six deserts, seven mountain ranges in one non-stop journey."
thanks for the link.
but sometimes we get a little to serious around here.
the gizoogle translation. i can't get it to work after the front page, but still, tis a wee bit funny.
the translation of northpark page is hilarioius Axelson Motherfucka fo' Nonprofit Managizzle
Superheros & TPS reports
Some good points, but what is this really doing?
Who knew whos Cordazer Calvin Broadus is?
This could be useful...
i saw that tps video a few days ago but i couldn't find that site, thanks a lot...
i like the one about hummers and playing soldier
deeooh double gee
Amusing timewaster.
It is possible to solve this in 25 clicks.Warning: this game does not work properly with Foxfire. I had to use IE.
From now on, I will be known as Cinnamizzle, please.Thanks, Tom. That was AWESOME.
that is frustrating.i haven't had any success at all. just keep killing people. i have figured out how to make the guy walk out and up the hill. but he blows up. i don't know how to stop that. and i can avoid sending a mine down to the guy on the bottom. but then when he gets free from his imprisonment, the dog comes. how do you stop that? it's crazy.
the bridge can be used as a bat.the launcher can also launch people.
the bad i didn't think about. the launcher i know.
you can use the bell to catapult something...
everything dies. i can't launch anything.
make sure you launch one of the rocks to the top platform. launch the bombs at a low angle and hit them striaght up in the air with the bridge. Then launch the launcher dude up there moving the spike at the right time so it misses him. now you can use the bell and the rock on the top platform to get rid of the pesky land mine.
...of the Infocom "Hitchhiker's Guide" game where you had to get a fish out of a vending machine?
Yes, yes it does.You can relive those frustrating times here
Defend your castle
Tom Waits' 20 most cherished albums
a commentary on the schiavo circus
that was biting
i guess there's a reason gradester didn't tell us about his side job...
brawnyman.com click on "innocent escapes" i swear it's him.
link
google maps new satellite photos are awesome. fun for hours!
but in a good way. my dad told me about that recently and it was fun to get a sky view of my house in lakewood, colorado. it made me feel lonely somehow. weird.
link
I love asparagus, and eat a lot of it. But this always vaguely disturbed me/left me wondering if I was crazy. Thanks for the fascinating info!
The Death of dynamic range
Notepad Invaders
but i'm going to. normally, i would never post a link to this website, but tonight, for this specially horrible video clip, i'm going to. this is a link to a video of a work party, where one girl has had a bit much to drink, and is in front of the video camera, and her boss, is right behind her...
that's funny. poor guy.
and promtply erased her history... she said that the company she works for has these little get togethers, usually for the salespeople, and every time they have one, a few people lose their jobs because they or their sig. others get out of hand. The video is really funny i think, but i'd hate to be him, and i'd certainly hate to be her.
hilariousAnd true.
Do something about it.
kids in the hall...brain candy...mmmmmmm
this is so unbelievably uncle pedro.
we thought of it first!Hey, inkblot, btw, how'reya doin?
Be sure to read about the Turing test
this is my all-time favorite headline, ever:
Whoopsi Gras - make sure you can hear it because the audio makes a world of differenceIf you come to it late, find "whoopsi Gras" in the past cartoons archive. It's a political cartoon.
prints from film found in really old cameras
i know a lot of us used to smoke, some of us may still appreciate the fine art of blowing smoke rings. that being said, i wouldn't link to this site if it wasn't worthwhile, I don't suggest looking at anything else there. underwater "smoke" rings
odds of dying
Check this out!
Super Mario Marimbas
clear paththese people have been arrested, but not convicted, for soliciting a prostitute. in so many words, daley doesn't really give a shit that these guys might not actually be guilty.
whatever you think, the site provides a serious case for not becoming a prostitute, in case anyone here was tempted. let's just say, these potential johns are no richard geres.
I like the idea of the website, but I think you are innocent until proven guilty...interesting...
But good point pedro. Maybe it would be more just to post photos after they're convicted.
Imagine if one of those people is not convicted, but is still marked as a "john" because of the website. Now that may not be a big deal to some, but to someone of any standing in the community that could demolish their life.
If you think about the statistics of it, if there are a relatively static level of "accused johns" getting arrested and prosecuted, then there would be a similar static "convicted johns" and they'd just be not as fresh... but still a major deterrent I would think.
Select a destination then hold down shift and type pbj Instantly a scene from the Family Guy will appear on Jet Blues website.
i think this is pretty cool. i also like the Best Buy one.
salary.com has the answers!
lasers
I read about that awhile ago, they thought there was only going to be demand from universities and libraries, but there's been much more. I think they only thought they'd sell a thousand or so. Other than the dirt issues, they can't read anything but black records...there go my hopes of playing the KISS tribute album on it...
at the sox game yesterday, the chronicles of narnia rap was briefly discussed. Big J is one of the only people in the world who has not seen it, so:
Lazy Sunday
Actually I will probably be the last person. The last movie I saw was walk the line with blvd. Before that, sith. I don't get out to movies that often.
is not a movie, but a short music video clip that's been circling the internet. i believe it comes from SNL. it's pretty awesome, though.
I'm so out of it I don't even know what is a movie and what is not anymore. Jeeze.And just so this post isn't only proving I'm a dork... A great idea from Yahama. I wonder if I can retrofit one of these on my bike?
Ok, maybe that didn't help the dork arguement.
If you're sitting too far forward on the scooter I bet it'd throw you like 30 feet!
so I just took the time to watch Lazy sunday and it was fricken hysterical!
"you can call us aaron burr from the way we droppin' hamiltons"Genius
I just love "Pibb plus red vines equals crazy delicious"That's too funny
DOUBLE TRUE!!!!
red vines (HAH, i just wrote red vinegar) are like some kind of food substance the government will invent once nuclear winter sterilizes the worlds soil. Only then they will have a vague meat flavor. Oh wait, I guess that's already true.(haha, just kidding. but i still don't like red vines)
I really like red vines...
eyesore of the month(for the resident curmudgeons)
i went all the way back to october 2001. interesting site. i like it.
You can't make up stuff like this? Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain covering smells like teen spirit. Complete with head banging... kinda.
the guy next to the guy singing looks like Jerry Cantrell.
looks like jerry cantrell too, if he cut off his hair.that ovation ukulele is bad @ss
oddly enough, the coolest ovations are the mandolins and the ukes.
Stephen Colbert asks Congressman, the one who sponsored the bill to display the 10 commandments in Congress, to name the 10 commandments. He can't. Personally I like the idea of the 10 commandments in congress. Actually I like the idea of congress following the 10 commandments, displayed or not. Heck, I'd settle for 5.
silly congressman
Everyone loves cute statues and figures in parks.
some of those were almost pornographic, why weren't there any like that in the park by my house growing up?!? I love the one of the little boy helping the little girl get a drink, what was going through the artist's head when he made that?
Do you know what the 4th amendment is? The deputy director of the NSA doesn't.
in the year of our Lord, 1932
Fook has measles
thought i see this one more often.
Further proof that sculptors are crazy.
I don't know which one I like better, the upside-down horse or the upside-down man...
An adventurer is you! Are we! Or something!You know. I forgot that we have a clan there. And I am part of it. And I logged in and I have like, 300 some thousand meat, and am a level 14 whale boxer. Pretty freakin sweet. I forgot how much I liked that game. I did also forget who everyone is there... my friend frogrut *aka jon, who plays there too, applied to our clan. He's played for over a year. Weirdness. I stopped playing when I was almost ready to ascend. I guess I'll do that and start over and re-learn what there is to know! But if anyone hasn't played it. You totally should. Because it rules.
I ascended a few times, and then it was just boring doing the same things over and over. I'm not really into the whole who's got the biggest pile of meat thing.
I guess it's not old for me because I forgot I was there, so I've not ascended yet. I've not even finished all the quests. But I will, oh si, si....
reverse diabetes now!
Welcome back, Dex. Long time no type...
Yeah. I've been. Things have been. It's been. Well... stufflike. I keep up more with my livejournal, but that's more randomness of in progress poetry and private entries about things good and bad. Anyway, thanks!
Hi Dex, I don't think you know me, but I followed your link. Is Car0lyn F0rche at GM? What are your workshops like there? Do you get a lot out of them? Are you teaching at the same time? If so, what do they give you to teach?Sorry if I sound too curious. I did an MFA in poetry before I moved to Baltimore, am a fan of F0rche's, and wonder what other programs are like.
Mason's writing program is wonderful. It's like family. Car0lyn F0rche is at GM technically, on faculty, but she's not teaching anything this semester. I've never gotten to take a class with her.The workshops are really incredible. I've taken a translation workshop - one of my pet projects of the moment is translating Neruda's Residencia en la Tierra, and the way that workshop worked is anyone could translate from any language so long as you provided a detailed pony because it was dealing with the theories behind translation, which are universal. It was amazing, Jen!fer Atk!nson taught it and she's my mentor and an amazing teacher, an amazing human being really. Er!c P@nkey teaches there as well, and he's phenomenal. He teaches workshops, which are very open, very unstructured, but extremely helpful, if a bit loud at times. nobody tries to change your intrinsic work from what it is, but the feedback you're given always helps you to be a better poet for what you are - generally suggestions of other poets you can read who are experimenting with similar styles or similar themes, things that you can explore. very collaborative in that manner. Pet3r Kl@pp3rt is the hardass in the program. And when I took forms with him as an undergraduate, I learned more in those months than I ever learned in my entire LIFE about writing. It was incredible. He started GM's program, and really, he's amazing. We've got a couple of new writers on staff this year too, and I'm not sure who our visiting writers will be this year. Sus@n T!chy is fantastic, and Kiyok0 M0ri is teaching, and I don't recall the new girls...
As to teaching, I won't be doing it until next year. This year I'm taking it easy, cause Julia's only in preschool 2 days a week. Next year I will be, and the first year you do it one on one in the writing center. You're also preparing for the Exam of Doom. So that's good. (the MFA exam - read all the work by 20 poets in different categories. Memorize it. Read all the criticism about them. Be able to write long essays about it because they lock you in a room for 4 hours and make you write some insane amount about the poets). Then you teach lower level courses, plus the intro to creative writing courses. Then workshop courses. So you're really teaching the kinds of courses you're going to be teaching as a professor, by the third year (though as I said, I'm taking four years to do the 3 year program). The way GM does it is as a 3 year program, a full masters + thesis year. Is that the way it's done everywhere? Where did you go? I'm always happy to talk to fellow poets. Yay poets.
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Your program sounds good and like it teaches you a lot. I liked mine, but it was very unstructured. I went to U C 1rvine, and it was pretty much what we made it in workshop. The people who came in the same year I did were all wonderful and we really helped each other. I got more from them than I did from the professors. If I had been part of the previous or the following class I don't think I would have learned half as much. We all worked hard to help each other figure out what we each wanted to do and how to do it. I also took a translation workshop but again it wasn't very structured. Ngug1 wa Th10ng taught it and he was mostly interested in autotranslation and translating his own novels into English. He also brought some interesting things to campus like Shakespeare in Ma0ri. But he missed a lot of classes and the other people in the class were mostly from Comp Lit and weren't writers. Since we had a two year program we taught both years. We had to teach freshman composition the first year but got to teach beginning poetry writing the second. While applying for programs I thought of writing as compatible with the other things I wanted to do. During the program I realized I couldn't use or wasn't willing to use it in some of the ways I had intended. By the end of the program I needed a break. I was sick the whole time I was in school from the pollution in S.CA. and decided I wanted to work in a lab and not have any homework anymore and figure out what to do next. I'm leaving my lab job of a year and a half now for law school (which I guess you know) because it seems most likely to launch me towards my long-term goals. My relationship to my writing is ambiguous now. I still write poems, but I don't work on them as hard. While I was writing my thesis I realized that I am probably not ever going to be as good of a poet as I want to be. I can be as good of a translator as I want to be and have ambitions there, but I hit a wall with my own poetry, at least for now. I am grateful that UC1 never pressured us to publish. Our teachers cared about making us better writers not about our "success." While this might not be helpful for everyone--if you are a person motivated by your work being seen, by communication, maybe it would be better to know more about publishing--it was good for me. I am happier about the few translations I had published than I am about my poems. Also I want to change the world, but I'm unwilling to submit poetry to political/moral/social ends and I'm unwilling to not work for political/moral/social ends. Some people are good enough to write poetry that both accomplishes these ends and is good art, but I am not one of them, though I might be able to translate what they write.
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E. Goodwith, Inc. the official licensee of otter pops clothing and otter pop accessories.Blvdfriend- I hadn't heard of these popsicles. Do they really have juice in them? smax and I get in trouble with mom for eating things of no nutritional value. That's why we don't drink light beer.
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The link I tried to insert had people modeling the t-shirts. They were going all out to be retro sexy. I don't think that I can get that link to work. At least I don't need a soft cornered monitor anymore. Try this one?:
Cross your fingers
Fruit juice is listed third among the ingredients, but the phrasing isn't reassuring... "Contains one or more of the following: apple, grape, or pear juice from concentrate." So, if you plan to include otter pops in your diet, I wouldn't cut back on the flintstone vitamins.
Oh bother
its good to have you here.
Our mom had these popsicle making type thingies, that really, I wish I had these days. They were kind like these. I can't believe the fancy ones they have these days. I bet they have chrome ones at ikea.
From a friend's company... I bet some of your other npo's could use it."GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results.
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I get to be the featured photo photographer tomorrow (8/31) on <ahref="http://newwest.net/index.php">this site</a>. It a picture of my friend Will climbing. Pretty rocks and clouds and stuff.
This site.
Golden Book
make tj drink!
some of you might be interested in these: t-shirts for charity
some videos, like this one, you just have to watch over and over.
on sesame street singing with big bird that link will go to utoob.
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Teens Using MySpace to Lure Bands to Los Angeles
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i love that one. especially the part where they advise that if the exec seems nice and the deal seems fair, this is probably a teenager because record execs are known assholes and record deals are never fair.
steepandcheap.comGo there, it's like woot.com except that instead of one item a day it's one item at a time and then when it sells out a new on gets placed on it. And it's all outdoor gear for all you granola types out there. :)
Steep and cheap are local Park City folks, backcountry.com. Funny I met up with a couple people that work there last night at a TGR film benefit. Their customer service is really good and shipping is usually same day. I recommend their RSS feed.
i pity the fool
Um, I don't know if someone already put this up a long time ago but this entree is too long for me to skim to find out. And I also don't know how to make a link. I'd like to share the L0rd of the Peeps website, which has diaramas (a word I apparently can't spell) of LOTR done with marshmallow bunnies and is at least as worth your time as anything else here! So g0O6le it!
get your christmas shopping done!
elf yourself
thanks wags
from these 2 videos, and i guess other observations i don't have links to, and other information i've overheard, i have a strong feeling that Buckethead my just be Paul Gilbert. what do you think?hint: watch the fingers.
hint2: check out other (electric guitar performance) paul gilbert videos on yewtoob and perhaps you may see closer similarities.
buckethead -- see "identity"
make a power loader costume out of styrofoam.
that looks really neat, though I must admit that really bulky costumes bother me...but it's only one day a year. That's really super creative though!
British launch skynet5ok, so, skynet has been around since 1969, but there's always room for a terminator joke...
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I don't think the word ludicrous is even strong enough for that.
That's just one more thing on my record. I think i bought my copy with a credit card too. I may as well just turn myself in....gitmo here i come.
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I think I may make business cards and use one of these ideas as a job title.
straight outta compton... sort of
It isn't right to have an April Fools joke released before April 1.
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Overheard in NY
What's That on Your Shirt? A Maple Leaf?Mother: Honey, what is wrong with your eyes? Teen daughter: I am stoned. Mother: You look like you have allergies. Teen daughter: I am stoned. Mother: Maybe it's pink eye.
--Central Park
Stephen Hawking in 0 gravity makes me really happy. Look at that smile!
Wow, that's a great picture. Stephen Hawking looks so happy... doesn't he look so YOUNG? Thanks for posting that pic! It made my day.
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i've been racking my brain on and off on this progression of puzzles for the last couple of days.i'm on level 44 right now. and i'm stuck.
so there's this cartoon on Adult Swim called Metalocalypse, and it's absolutely brilliant. it's about a metal band that is so brutal and punishing their record sales effect the dow jones. anyway, if you haven't seen it, you can check out episodes here. it's really great.
not sure what to do with this.
danzig
Robert Plant sings with Pearl Jam (in chicago?)
For the dog lovers of the world. Many friends are working on this site: www.fetchdog.comAlso, I'm in the catalog. If you believe in spoiling your dog, you probably think you need some of this stuff. I do like the sling-shot tennis ball launcher.
christian theologians turning to scientology
...because real emergency responders want civilians driving into peril!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13089-giant-rat-and-new-possum-found-in-indonesia.html
whistling in the dark
if you've ever wondered just WHY the beatles are so damned good.
Really, this is the funniest headline I've read in a while.CIA Monitors YouTube For Intelligence
Good luck. I can tell you right now there isn't any. I mean really, we're paying the government to watch youtube? I don't know what drugs they've confiscated at the CIA and then taken, but it must be really good stuff.
at work last semester. I checked for hate videos directed at minorities. We thought it was important to keep track of which people, or places of worship were the foci of threats.
bob dylan tries to sneak onto tapings of american idol in disguise
If you like low-impact online MMORPGs, check out Urban Dead, a zombie/horror/survival MMO.
I'm "Talladega Amherst" and I'm currently in the Dulston suburb.
My old college roommate is kinda a strange guy. But at least his heart is in the right place. His cause:
Watch this in high quality.
... for this throwback. Enjoy.
Are you still on Urban Dead? I tried it this morning, it's kind of odd.
but i am definitely "on hiatus". give it a few days, you'll get used to it. It's pretty cool.
I can't imagine why. You seem to have so much free time on your hands! :)
Is Dueling Banjos Considered Blue Grbutt? (From the "Find and Replace Considered Harmful" Department.)
It's nice to be able to watch the only things I care about on TV whenever I want, The Simpsons and The Daily show. Hulu.com
But there are a lot of Asian websites that let me watch American tv--so long as I don't mind the subtitles, which I don't...
that is only going to hasten my disconnection from cable.
I don't know if Alf is a plus or minus for Hulu... tough call. I agree Neo, I have no use for TV anymore. I never really liked it, but now I just see it as stupid.
Excellent video for Dylan's Masters of war.
smax used to love tv, but mostly when he was much younger. The ATeam, Magnum PI and Buck Rogers especially. I think that he would still watch those. Then they (you know who you are) graduated to kungfu movies with related costumes and I think at one point chess and coffee table pool.(It's my family job to take him and our dad down a notch.)
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... but these are pretty funny.http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
http://twitter.com/hellobigfoot/
