Gecko Bloggle

I remember a few years back, at a party at the “Bonehouse,” launching into a drunken and a-capella “They Want Efx” by Das EFX at poor Duncan, who started out with this bemused look on his face, which rapidly turned into awe.  After I finished the first verse, he asked “Is that from something, or did you just make that up.”

I’m flattered that anyone would think I could possibly have written the following:

Bum stiggedy bum stiggedy bum, hon, I got the old pa-rum-pum-pum-pum
But I can fe-fi-fo-diddly-fum, here I come
So Peter Piper, I’m hyper than pinoccio’s nose
Im the supercalafragilistic tic-tac pro
I gave my oopsy, daisy, now you’ve got the crazy
Crazy with the books, googley-goo where’s the gravy
So one two, unbuckle my, um shoe
Yabba doo, hippity-hoo, crack a brew
So trick or treat, smell my feet, yup I drippedy-dropped a hit
So books get on your mark and spark that old censorship
Drats and double drats, I smiggedy-smacked some whiz kids
The boogedy-woogedly brooklyn boys about to get his, dig
My waist bone’s connected to my hip bone
My hip bone’s connected to my thigh bone
My thigh bone’s connected to my knee bone
My knee bone’s connected to my hardy-har-har-har
The jibbedy-jabber jaw ja-jabbing at your funny bone, um
Skip the ovaltine, Id rather have a honeycomb
Or preferably the sesame, lets spiggedy-spark the blunts, um
Dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun

I’m going to see DJ Shadow on Tuesday with Duncan, largely ’cause he still hands me craziness of the audio variety once in a while, and ’cause I feel like he knows, y’know?

Via Pharyngula.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Vampyroteuthis infernalis.

Also Known As “I think I just crapped my extreme depth suit.”

Kinda freaky when you look at the images on WikiPedia (that’s the link above), but way more schpookie when you see this video (apologies in advance regarding any offensive popups or anything on the sidebars of the link’s video site or whatever).

Happy nightmaring, kiddies.

Or “How I went from a long-haired zippy geek to a motivational speaker in just Twelve! Short! Months!”

So, for any of you that know me, you’ll not be surprised that I’m the kinda guy who finds Tony Robbins kinda freaky. Same goes for any of those folks carrying around those manpurse (murse?) Day-Timer things with the removable pages and the pen holder on one side, and the PalmPilot pocket on the other. They just give me the willies. Both the people who push the stuff, and the people who use the stuff. I’ve always thought I’m too much of a cowboy to use any of the “How To Organize Your Life Into Three Coffee Cups and an A-Team Lunchbox” sorts of articles. I remember using Lotus Organizer for a while in ’97/’98, and I felt like I could still maintain some sorta street cred because it was LOTUS (not Microsoft) and it was electronic, not paper. Who was I kidding? Just look at that thing.

The only thing missing was the pen holder.

So many years went by, and I kept going back and forth between trying to use my Palm Pilot, and using Outlook, and trying to use various weird programs to keep myself organized, but the main downfall was this:1. Find neat new “organizer” program or plugin.
2. Play with and use/abuse new program or plugin.
3. Get bored/frustrated with new program or plugin.
4. Get disorganized because I didn’t want to deal with #3 any more.
5. Return to pissing on small fires instead of actually organizing myself in any coherent way.I’ve been on step #5 for a while now, and now that my job has changed pretty radically in the last two months, I’m finding myself having to get organized quickly. The main thing is that I need to organize my organization, first, and THEN figure out what I need to organize.

Cute, the rest of this post disappeared.

Yaaaaaay…

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/09/02/the-coolest-video-youll-see-this-year/

Someone crammed 1,000 cars into a physics engine. It’s sorta freaky beautiful, and I wanna know what kinda hardware was running that demo (which looks much smoother in the screen that the above pic may lead you to believe).

So Johnny Vancouver and I sat down once again (after only, what – six/seven/eight months?) and did a show. This one’s longer than our last, at something silly like 1hr 25mins.

Here’s the main link (right-click to download, or hit the little blue arrow to play it via Flash, which will start streaming sooner, but has no search forward/backward capabilities).
Once again, we had a rill rill good time doing this, and hopefully by the next time we do this, we won’t spend an hour+ futzing around with cabling and feedback before we actually put together a playlist of any sort (which we then toss after starting the first song).

I’ll do a proper playlist tomorrow, if I have some time (hah!).

Enjoy, and watch out for the Myspace page, coming soon to a social network near you.