| Where's the Kaboom? |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|10:22 pm] |
So "The Great Recession" is over already? That was a profound disappointment . I had naive hopes that a financial cataclysm would force us to reexamine our priorities. That the douchebagopoly would finally collapse under it's own weight, and the rest of us would join together and create something beautiful from the wreckage. Some kind of Leonardo DaVinci meets Henri Rousseau meets Rube Goldberg meets Grandma Moses organic masterpiece where the currency is kindness and generosity rather than nothing.
I think what hit me the hardest during all this was the realization that all of the fear and anxiety and pain was for no reason at all. Nothing fundamentally changed in the world between August 2008 and October 2008 except that a handful of binge drinking, date rapist douchebags decided that they weren't going to give some pieces of paper with imaginary value to another handful of binge drinking, date rapist douchbags in exchange for some other pieces of paper with imaginary value.
We didn't come together, though. If anything, we pulled further apart. Things just got meaner and shittier. Once again, the douchebags blackmailed us into pulling their nuts out of the fire, and in the process, we all became a little more like them. |
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| Advice for those attending SXSW |
[Mar. 13th, 2009|02:25 pm] |
I'm seeing a lot of bad advice about what people should be bringing to SXSW this year. Otherwise respectable bloggers such as Derek Powazek and Tantek Çelik would have you believe that you need to bring such folderoy and poppycock as "underware" and "socks". As a public service, I shall provide a list of the minimum number of items required for a successful SXSW experience.
- Sawed-off shotgun & shells
- Glass dildo
- Speculum
- 3 or 4 medium-sized squid
- Samurai sword
You're welcome. |
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| Writer's Block: AKA |
[Feb. 27th, 2009|12:55 pm] |
Many years ago, someone thought I resembled a Tolkienesque elf. I was tall and thin and had light brown, shoulder-length hair, a little before that was quite so commonplace as it is today. She also thought I had the mannerisms of a surfer, or perhaps I dressed like one at the time... I can't really remember. At any rate, she nicknamed me "Surfer Elf Dude" because of this. Fast forward a few years later and I am setting up my first personal email account through Hotmail on a 286 Toshiba laptop dialed into the public library's "BBS", which offered a lynx-only web experience. All of the various combinations of my name and initials had already been used, even at this early stage in the game. So it pops into my head that perhaps I should try this nickname, because it would be very unlikely that anyone else would come up with that particular juxtaposition. Turns out I was right. |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|04:50 pm] |
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The dishes got done, despite extended air guitar breaks. I just goes to show that with the power of soul everything is possible. |
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[Apr. 5th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
I find it extremely difficult to do the dishes while listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan. |
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| Hell is other people |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|06:33 am] |
As the effects of peak oil are increasingly felt in our economy, more of us will choose to live in high-density, walkable communities, due to the fact that the convenience of driving a car to accomplish our daily tasks will become prohibitively expensive. Once we do, we will be confronted with the reason our ancestors moved to the suburbs in the first place: our neighbors are assholes.
I'm fairly certain that strangling someone to death for blasting faux-metal angst pop at 4:30 a.m. is not, in fact, justifiable homicide. Although, at the moment, I cannot fathom why.
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| Computer Todos |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
In no particular order:
- Find electronic document management software for Linux, so we can scan the piles of paper all over the house and recycle them.
- Get Gutsy AMD64 to play a friggin' DVD, like a normal operating system.
- Figure out how Avahi can get my computers so see each other on my home network, so I can do stuff like share printers and sync my palm to my notebook, like people with normal operating systems can do.
- Figure out why gdm is crapping out on wife's computer so that she doesn't have to restart X (sometimes repeatedly) in order to log in after booting.
- Figure out why the flash browser plugin randomly decides to stop working.
- Skype on Gutsy AMD64 because I hate myself.
- Get the camera working on my notebook, so that if job falls through I can make a living as a camgirl.
- Upload all pictures since July to Flickr.
- Figure out how to install hplip-gui without screwing up the hplip driver I had to compile because the version that comes with the distro is a pile of crap.
- Find a-hole who invented SELinux and strangle him. (I guess this is unfair. Nobody forced me install it. On the other hand, it is such a PITA. I think I'll just slash his tires.)
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| Leap Day! |
[Feb. 29th, 2008|11:09 pm] |
Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) llahearn for reminding me that you don't often get a chance to post on leap day. Whee!
I've been distracted because I recently found half of my lost CD collection! I've been ripping every spare moment I've had since then, in case I lose it again. I'm also watching Stop Making Sense for the first time and I'm really enjoying it. I don't know how I could have waited this long to see it and still felt I could call myself a Talking Heads fan.
I bought it last weekend from the Hollywood Video going out of business sale along with a copy of the Matrix. I guess I should be worried about the fact that Hollywood was the last place in town where I could rent a video, but I think it's just a sign of the times. Hmm, which is the name of another concert movie I enjoyed.
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| Wisdom from dreams |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|10:18 am] |
If you find yourself in possession of a sport bike, and want to return it to it's owner, don't seek help from Senator Biden's underachieving twin brother. He will offer you nothing but his scorn.
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| My Favorite Moustaches - Part the First |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|04:38 pm] |
Charles I
Charles I was not what could reasonably be considered a successful monarch. Because he was somewhat short in stature (made significantly shorter by Oliver Cromwell in 1649), he tried to compensate by wearing tall hats with high heeled boots, being a belligerent prick, and this amazing moustache.
I'm especially fond of this triple portrait by, appropriately enough, Van Dyke, because it best demonstrates the miraculousness of this moustache. Could any subject look upon this moustache, apparently held up by the very hand--or at least the very thumb and forefinger--of God and doubt that he had been chosen to rule? Well, yes. I guess they could.
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| Things I think about. |
[Feb. 9th, 2008|10:11 pm] |
If a Gibson is a gin martini with cocktail onions instead of olives, what would a William Gibson be?
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