 | CALIBRATION | Sep 5, 2005 |
 | blahg | Oct 30, '06 7:28 PM
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So I've decided to sell my soul to Google instead. Area Control music is now located here. Current workflow: Gmail, Yahoo Chat, Firefox, del.icio.us, Google ig homepage, Google Pages, Google Calendar, ACDSee Classic, 3 ring .75" binder with DIY Planner. Under review: 5.5x9" metal ring bound notebook, Picasa, Flickr, Google Notebook, Google Reader.
 Link stolen from Fazed.
"One is only micrometers wide. The other is billions of light-years
cross. One shows neurons in a mouse brain. The other is a simulated
image of the universe. Together they suggest the surprisingly similar
patterns found in vastly different natural phenomena."
Looks like the Simpsons Intro was right.
 Ahh, the comics, and the animation industry. One of the few things in life that I actually feel real passion about. Rant! Rant!
A quote from the Washington post regarding Aaron MacGruder's refusal to
answer questions about the return of Boondocks (No link is provided to
the Washington Post article as I can't support news sites that make you
log in):
Some of them also took sabbaticals
when at the top of their game -- Garry Trudeau after 12 years penning
"Doonesbury" and Bill Watterson after six years with "Calvin and
Hobbes"; Gary Larson walked away from "The Far Side" for several years.
When they returned, so did their readers.
Dummies... Watterson and Larson never returned. One of the biggest
tragedies of the comics page ever. No mention of Bloom County, either,
which returned eventually as Opus, but did NOT pull in the old
audience. I noticed that Boondocks had lately been running reruns from
when the boys first came to suburbia, but I didn't know he was actually
bailing on the strip. Too bad, it's well drawn and very funny stuff.
Unlike, say, The Lockhorns or Howard Huge, or the ghastly (a pox on all
who laugh at) Dennis the Menace.
Animation is a tough mistress, and I can see why he might not have time
for the daily strip. Can you imagine if The Far Side had ever made it
to animation? Wow, that would have been something. Did you ever see the
Muslim version? The Far Sayd? No? Well it was mostly car bomb jokes, it
wasn't really that funny.
I think the tone of this Washington Post article is odd, as if this man
owes the world an explanation of why he won't do a daily strip anymore,
as if he's a bad person for not laying it out... If he doesn't want to
do it, he really doesn’t owe anybody any explanations. Watterson and
Larson didn't give much on that issue, either. I think cartoonists are
a tough bunch, motivated by deep dark things that should never see the
light of day. The strip was a gift, and we should be happy with what we
got. I admire him for taking a stand and refusing to give an answer,
Syd Barrett Style. The work stands on its own. "It is what is was, now
leave me alone."
Larson quote:
Years
ago I was having lunch one day with the cartoonist Richard Guindon, and
the subject came up how neither one of us ever solicited or accepted
ideas from others. But, until Richard summed it up quite neatly, I
never really understood my own aversions to doing this: "It's like
having someone else write in your diary," he said. And how true that
statement rang with me. In effect, we drew cartoons that we hoped would
be entertaining or, at the very least, not boring; but regardless, they
would always come from an intensely personal, and therefore original
perspective.
Comics fans should visit http://www.comicscurmudgeon.com/ daily. This
is the site that actually got me to pay attention to Mary Worth.
Aldomania is still in full swing.
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Yikes! "I can relate the results of virtual-reality simulations, where swarms
of Creativity Machine-based robots have deliberatively sacrificed one
of their kind to distract a human guard, enabling the remainder to
infiltrate a mock facility," he said.
| Category: | | Appetizers & Snacks | | Style: | | American | | Servings: | | 1 |
Description:
Just like regular cereal, only without seconds.
Ingredients:
the rest of the whole milk
water
cereal
Directions:
Put the milk in first and add a little bit of water. Stir.
Note: does not work with 2%, 1% or skim.
Add cereal and enjoy.
This is from The Perry Bible Fellowship. I love this comic. There's a lot of material here. Dang those Schlorbians! Schlorbians Again More hilarious Schlorbian exploits here. And here, the Admiral shows his true colors.
Visualize North America. I really like when the swarm from Europe comes in. Very cool, a lot like the FedEx one, but better. Caution: not safe for dial-up. Link: Flight Patterns
| Category: | Movies | | Genre: | Horror |
I just realized I can do this.
Here is all of Nosferatu, tiny style.
Our buildings are noisy. There are three of them. We once held a contest to name them. The winning names were Building One, Building Two, and Building Three.
Building Three is the oldest. It has old industrial creaking noises, plus weird military vibes from the Seventies and at least one ghost. Building Three goes clang in the night, just because it can. You get used to it if you work late there.
Building Two is the middle child, both in location and age, and is vast and high, with colossal ductwork, transoms, elegant banks of conduits, and a state of the art receiving dock. There are no ghosts here, just a large echo chamber space. Any small sounds can be heard throughout the area.
Building One is the fanciest, and houses the executive set as well as several small cube farms and conference rooms. Building one knows how to make one noise: air. B1 is all about moving air around. Cold in the summer, warm in the winter.
All of these buildings are noisier on the outside than they are on the inside. Air conditioning units, lab gear, compression pumps (we move gas around), material storage areas, trucks, parking lots, and environmental testing all happen out here.
I know I work in a factory because it sounds that way.
I took this in August of 2005, in Saratoga springs, at the horse track. It was the last picture I took that day. The chances are very good that I took this because of the pretty girl. The chances are also good that I took other pictures of pretty girls that day. I look at it now, and I see she's got a real bad ass camera on her hip, and she'd pointing right back at me. Busted.
| Category: | | Beverages | | Style: | | American | | Special Consideration: | | Quick and Easy | | Servings: | | 1 |
Description:
An excellent refreshing and envigorating drink for people who love drinking lots of different kind of things.
Ingredients:
1 Bottle Reeds Extra Ginger Brew all natural Jamaican style Ginger Beer (no substitutions) - Yes I'm using this again, and no they don't pay me, and yes they should because I really believe in the product. I just like it. There are three levels of Ginger, Extra is the highest. Apparently, they also make a grapefruit version, but I've never seen in for sale in the north east.
Fresh orange juice, not from concentrate. This can be in the carton. I think Tropicana offers the most believable flavor, and I prefer to make this recipe with the pulpy version. I sometimes use orange-pineapple-banana, which is also quite good. It's possible that this drink could be made with other juices and sodas. But those drinks would need their own names.
No Ice! Ice disturbs the stirring process (mentioned later). Ice also creates flavor strata as it melts, which is not the goal of this drink. In my opinion, a fizz should be relatively uniform. Don't get me wrong, some separation is going to occur, even without ice, as this largely portioned drink settles. But this can easily be repaird with a swirl, as it does not happen until the glass is at least 1/3 empty. Plenty of buffer space for an effective swirl. And no annoying clanky sounds from the ice.
Directions:
1) Empty chilled ginger brew into 16 oz glass.
2) Top off with orange juice, no stirring. This drink is stirred only by the carbonation. Don't reverse steps one and two, either, or a bubble dome will form on the top that could overflow as well as eclipse the stirring properties of the bubbles themselves. This is especially important when using high pulp juices. You're shooting for a nice clean pour that will leave a zoomy froth on top, like a well pressed cup of coffee.
| Category: | | Other | | Style: | | Soulfood | | Servings: | | none |
Description:
Like popcorn, but with mice!
Ingredients:
3 or more medium size deer mice
Directions:
1) Capture deer mice, imprison in 10 gallon aquarium.
2) At about 11:15 PM, watch them jump as they try to get out.. Boing boing boing.
3) When mice learn that jumping doesn't work, discard.
* Do not eat!
 I have tags in del.icio.us, I have various undocumented bookmarks scattered in three or four pc's across this land, I have contact lists at work, in my phone, on my fridge, in my wallet, I have accounts, profiles, passwords & user names beyond what is reasonable. I have bulletin boards, open source social networking, private digital networking, voice mail, land line, broadband, cell, snail, cam chat, internal combustion. I have archives, and formats, and codecs, and file transfer protocol, and directory structures, and storage arrays, and vast libraries. I have 24/7 high resolution uncompressed data streaming in from internet tubes, cameras, microphones, synthesizers, friends, contacts, games, televisions, radios. I had three juvenile deer mice in a cage, but I let them go.
It was cool seeing the deer mice impersonate popcorn. There's a lot of joy in a little mouse brain whose biggest concerns are run- ok stop! and try jumping! Don't get me wrong, they weren't stupid, and pretty soon they understood how glass works and moved on to other strategies. The large eyes make this kind of mouse look innocent, but I could tell they were scheming something. Maybe I should post the recipe for Deer Mouse Popcorn.
Pictured here is a pet store white mouse I had for a pet once. I don't plan on having any more rodent pets, they don't live long enough. That's all I have to say about mice for now.
| Category: | | Appetizers & Snacks | | Style: | | Other | | Special Consideration: | | Quick and Easy | | Servings: | | infinite |
Description:
Whole salted cashews that I eat every day because they're delicious.
Ingredients:
Whole salted cashews from a can. Don't be afraid to shop around and try different brands. There is a long quality and flavor curve when it comes to cashews, not to mention the all important salt quotient.
Directions:
1) Open can (if not already open).
2) Eat with fingers (do not share).
3) Replace lid when finished but leave can on table.
4) Eat another handful 15 seconds later.
5) Repeat steps 1-4 as necessary, but then jump to step 6 so you don't get stuck in a repeating time loop.
6) Relax and drink a big gulp of sweet bubbly soda.
| | Trying to see if my skills are improving with this camera. |
A strange thing has happened. Last night I decided late that the mice really had to go. Right then. So I picked up the whole aquarium and crossed through the cat zone, across the stream, to the place just beyond where the crows hang out. I took off the top of the aquarium and left it as a mouse ramp, thus giving them the option. Remain in my custody, or go it on their own.
During the day today, while I was at work, someone mowed the field with a tractor, but did not damage the aquarium. I could tell that they had stopped and moved it out of the way. Do they think I'm crazy for leaving an aquarium in a field, or do they think someone else left it there? Did the mice get mowed? What kind of person leaves an aquarium in a field anyway? And what kind of person mows another person's field, for free, anonymously, all summer, for 6 years in a row? Maybe sometimes it's better to have questions than answers.
I may never know whether the mice would have returned from a night's cavorting to their personalized aquarium nest. But now I know that aquarium placement is very important. Science is fun!
 
| mice | Aug 13, '06 10:30 PM
for everyone |
 Mice are bad pets. For one thing, they keep opposite schedules. I had a thought tonight "Oh yeah, gotta feed the mice." And that's the end of it. They're neat looking, but it's not going to be a new job. Plus they're dirty rotten scoundrels. So good luck mice, I gave you a head start, now stay the heck outta my house.
A plan was hatched to relocate the mice. Watch here for more updates.
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