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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Author: jae
jae lethe (he/she/they) is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and gadabout. Also, something he calls a "behavioral artist." (Not sure.) She has plans. BIG plans.
Among the things that he has done for a laugh are minor fractures, cuts, scrapes, and various scabs. Though she's quick to point out that they're no imbecile, we're fairly certain that he thinks the word means some kind of medieval pharmacist.
This is her latest home on teh internets - where jae stores their swear words, when they're not hurling them at the sun in vain.
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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.
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Good Times, Bad Times
These past several days have been good and bad. Holly’s blood sugar is getting more stable lately. That’s terrific, and a huge relief. However, her last couple of paychecks have been in the double-digit range, and rent is right around the corner. My dad, being a complete fucking saint, lent us some tiding-over cash and even brought Hol a much-needed printer cartridge so she can print out her school texts (potentially saving her eyesight!) – an act which singlehandedly saved us from literally starving in the final couple of days leading up to Pay Day.
However, I ended up calling out of work a couple of weeks ago, ostensibly to help care for Holly during a particularly crappy day, but also because I’ve just been completely exhausted lately. What I might have done differently is worked some serious overtime, but now it’s too late for that. Rent is around the corner. Which will leave us both with nearly $200 total to last two weeks (that’s forgoing paying a bill or two).
I hate to beg, but these coming days are going to be in pretty stark contrast to the relatively minor poverty of this last week. Sugar-free, or at least diabetic-friendly, foodstuff is expensiver than your garden variety. And laundry needs to get done or we’ll be working in the coal pits in the buff. If you can, throw a couple of bones our way. I can’t promise anything at this stage, but I’ll sure try my best to make it worthwhile somehow. Assuming Holly’s well enough to return to work soon, we should be doing a bit better in a few weeks.
Thanks for reading this.
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Clinton blasts Fox’s Chris Wallace
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Time/spent
Some things i’ve been doing lately:
- Reading Jackie Corley‘s fabulous manuscript for At the Slaughter
- Listening to some cool new music for a new gig as a reviewer for The ChickenFish Speaks, and composing my first batch of reviews
- Writing and recording a new song
- Working 40 hours at a dreadful service-industry night job, hoping like mad that working in the internet department might somehow lead to Better Things
- Making slight tweaks to this site, as time permits
- Listening to a slew of great podcasts
- Reading lots and lots of syndicated news feeds
- Reading a few great books (fiction, science) and magazines (tech, culture/music)
- Struggling to stay afloat
- Not sleeping much
- Spending as much of the remaining free time as I can with my girlfriend Holly and Speck, our dog
Syndication is a really cool way to not ever have to actually come here to know what’s going on at this site. Think of it as “set it and forget it” web surfing. Let me explain.
You can use a news reader or other application (such as web-based apps like My Yahoo!) to read content from this and other sites without having to actually go there. The advantage is that you can see what’s going on in the world around you without ever having the leave the application (or site) that you’re looking at. New articles are delivered to you (instead of the other way around), so you don’t ever have to remember to check in.
For instance, I’ve got my Thunderbird set up with a whole slew of news feeds. Instead of actually checking in with BoingBoing, Huffington Post, Ze Frank, and Pitchfork every day, I let them come to me. I get all of the content I want, delivered to me almost as if it were an e-mail.
You can find all sorts of applications out there that will read news feeds for you and put them all in one place for you to check out.
To add a feed, look for the icon, which may vary from site to site, or a link, usually saying something like “RSS”, “XML Feed”, or some suchlike. Copy the link and add it to your client application (follow their instructions).
You can get feed links for this site toward the bottom of the page, in the sidebar (under “syndicate”). There are links to add this site in a variety of ways.
Special tip: you can append “/feed/” to the end of the URL for any category or page on this site. For example, to keep track of updates on the “podcasts » songs” category, you would use: https://transmothra.com/category/podcasts/songs/feed/
Extra special tip: There’s also a comments feed at jeremyjarratt.com/comments/feed/
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