Probably the weirdest, coolest thing ever posted on YouTube: Album Cover War
Year: 2006
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Big Urgent Wish
Still working on the new theme. Actually, the theme’s done, it’s the subthemes that are killing me. I’ve got the first one about 90% done, and almost as much on the second. The main thing is separating the stylesheets into usable, selectable chunks.
Boy, is this gonna be purty!
I’m also gearing up for some podcasting for the nearish future. Should be interesting. More details to come….
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OregonDistrict.com
Goddammit. I was so totally going to do this very thing! OregonDistrict.com – a social networking site for the Gem City! Has a ton of potential. Register and find me.
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Fantastic manuscript
I just got done reading my friend Jackie Corley‘s manuscript. Devastated. Trust me, this will blow you away. When it gets out there onto the shelves, finally, you will need to take a deep breath and plunge right into the raging torrent of a story this is. It’s tragic, moving, and crazy good.
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Milky Way packed with planets*
We may be getting closer to ‘solving’ the [in]famous Drake equation. The only worrying variable is L, the lifespan of an intelligent civilization. Although, if other civilizations are as keen on self-destruction as are we, then that might also explain Fermi’s Paradox.
* However, the Nougat Quotient remains, sadly, unknown :(
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Lightning Strikes
I had my network card fried by lightning earlier tonight. Right when we’re about to enter the brokest week evar, I had to run out and spend $16 on a new card. At least I’m back online now.
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Teleportation
CNN reports that scientists in Denmark were able to successfully teleport a macroscopic object with billions of atoms. Forbløffende! What this means for the future of computing: Quantum computers will be able to transmit data absolutely securely. Let’s hope the government Big Brother allows us common people have privacy like that, and not just keep it all to themselves.
Don’t get your hopes up just yet, though. We still have a long, long way to go before we can teleport living matter without ending up with a pile of sticky goo at the other end.
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Mark Foley (R-Fla) is a… Democrat?
Fox News is now pretending that disgraced Republican congressman Mark Foley is a Democrat! Simply incredible. The lies and bullshit that they spew on the unsuspecting and curiously unbefuddled masses just continue to grow in scope and effect. How this may affect the elections is anybody’s guess, but if enough people who get their news exclusively from Fox are duped that easily, it may turn ugly.
Let’s Paint, Exercise, & Blend Drinks TV! – apparently a cable access show from California. This guy is fearlessly weird, and I love that. He even takes live calls, which usually turn out to be hood rats making fun of him and screaming profanities!
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Pomes, Pomes, Pomes!
For all the weird-ass searches that lead people to briefly look at the endless bytes of useless information here (“asshole jam“? “extinct dog breads“? “tied up aardvark“? “death trajectory“? “nucular powered ufo“? What’s wrong with people? If anyone can shed light on these pressing issues, please contact me.), the one that gets me is the search for pomes something or something pomes.
A pome is a fleshy fruit, like an apple. A poem is a work of poetry. There’s a reason I spell it pomes: Jack Kerouac did it. It’s just an unpretentious way of being pretentious (or a pretentious way of being unpretentious). It’s redundantly poetic. It’s word jazz.
Now, if you’re actually looking for a fruit, then we’re cool. We’re more than cool. I respect you, because you actually know what a pome is.
But if you’re spelling the word poem wrong for no other reason than you’re an idiot, you’re an idiot. Just take a gander at the image above. See that? Of course! You had to see that. Google asks you if you really meant what you typed in. You may report to the gas chamber now pls k thx.
I should also mention that The ChickenFish Speaks has a forum. Register and post! The ChickenFish could easily be the beacon, at least locally, for cultural/A&E news and views, rivalling the Dayton City Paper for absolute, total control over the hearts and minds of hipsters and wannabes in the Miami Valley.
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trip tape
Here is a trip tape from 1991, which circulated among the Dayton hacker community for a while. I never saw it until now. Apparently pretty legendary stuff. Reminds me of the music cassettes i used to make around the same time, exclusively for turning on. ~33 minutes.
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Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson, extraordinary thinker and writer of such classics as the Illuminatus! Trilogy and Cosmic Trigger, is not doing so well these days. He’s currently under hospice care at home with his family. Unfortunately, he is not as well off as you or I would like to believe. You can PayPal his account at [email protected] to help with his financial burden.
I think I’m getting carpal tunnel syndrome. Nevertheless, I’ve been doing a lot of typing lately. I just submitted my first batch of CD reviews for the Chickenfish Speaks, a terrific local entertainment zine run by Grog, the former bass player for local rock legends the ¡Oxymorons!.
Also, I’m still hard at work on Big Urgent Wish 3.0, my first real WordPress theme. (My current theme is based largely on the Ice theme.) It’s coming along nicely. I’ve completed the first of three subthemes. But first, a To Do: separate stylesheets into color/layout (possibly separating these further), font size, and font type (serif or sans-serif). Then I need to clean up what I’ve got and then I can finally start to work on the other two subthemes.
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Big Urgent Wish 3.0
Haven’t been feeling 100%, so I’m working on making my own WordPress theme from scratch (though I’ll admit to scraping a little code from other themes). My current theme is called “Big Urgent Wish 2.0”, and it’s based on another theme, but i’ve decided to reuse the name and call it 3.0. This one will be a three column layout.
It’s coming along flamingly so far. It looks beautiful and has tons of really tasty hover effects. Works very well in Firefox, Opera, and IE. It’s a plush, spacey theme, with burnt oranges, ambery peaches, and velvety browns.
I’m also planning on having it support style switching, Widgets, and all of the plugins I currently use. AJAX is under consideration as well.
This will most likely end up being my first public WordPress theme.
“The only function of the Suspicious Looking Device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscrimately in public places.
“The SLD contains LEDs, a LED array, a character display, an optical distance sensor, capacitive touch sensor, buzzer, and motors.”
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How to dismantle an atomic bomb?
Holyfuckingshit! 7am, Holly vomits. Blood sugar way low. Run around getting shit to test & raise her blood sugar.
Minutes, and i mean mere minutes later, the dog starts puking up what smells like really nauseating, pungent poo, with pieces of dog food and plastic and things I never saw him ate and cannot identify. And again. And again. And again. Lather, rinse repeat. Ad, no pun intended, nauseum. And diarrhea. And more and more vomiting.
I feel like a fucking atom bomb was dropped on my head. Battle stations! Brace for impact! Emergency power!
My fingers are sore and my stomache is hurting, I’m exhausted and I’m stressed out and I’m sure my blood pressure’s high; I feel like i’m falling apart. And I’m the only one here who’s in good shape these days!
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Evolution
Most Americans Agree with Evolution – that’s a bit of a surprise, given the current climate in this country. Still, assuming you can still find a knuckledragging specimen of evolutionary failure, you can use this Scientific American article to knock them down a rung or fifteen.
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Posies live on CJLO radio
The Posies performing live on CJLO in Canada. Includes audio and video clips. Jon and Ken rule.
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Global Warming Heats Up
Earth’s Temperatures Near Million-Year High
I know at least one moron who says that global warming isn’t real, and another who claims that humans bear no blame and therefore have no responsibility to fix the problem.
People who turn a blind eye to the coming age of fire will find themselves in hot water soon enough. If we don’t reduce carbon emissions drastically and quickly, we won’t have the opportunity to live to see what we humans could have accomplished as a civilization. We will fail and we will die out and humanity (and other forms of walking, flying, crawling, and swimming meat) will be extinct if action is not taken. This is a looming catastrophe, and history shows that catastrophies do not magically fix themselves.