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Evil… In a bag…

Now available at my work.

More proof that they’re trying to kill me.

—–Original Message—–
From: RLopez [mailto:rlopez@xxxxx.yyy]
Sent: Mon 11/13/2006 4:50 PM
For the musically hopeless

Article Here…

“”It allows you to jump around and the sound generated is just like an original MP3,” he added, referring to the digital audio file format.”

Yeah, totally.

Seriously, what the fuck is that even supposed to MEAN?

That’s kinda like saying “When I move my fingers around on this piano, it generates music like a radio or something.”

High, I tells ya – they’re all freakin’ HIGH.

And now that the Zune has come out, and people can buy mp3 players without being accused of being a goddam hippy commie (iPod users), suddenly there’ll be a whole new generation of people on CNN and Fox news blathering about their Empeethreeses without having the slightest CLUE what they’re talking about.

I remember someone who actually referred to MP3s as “Napsters,” thinking that’s where music came from, so that’s what they’re called.

Based on that logic, maybe their kids should have been referred to not as “children,” but “Fuckers”…

{Maybe I should change my nicotine patch, I seem to have cranked up the Evil dial over here.}

And on that note: Have a great night!

Today I:
Got up with the kids (why can’t four year olds sleep in on Saturdays?).
Watched some tv (see the above).
Went back to bed for an hour (hooray for French class)
Bumbered around, not really connecting my brain to anything.
Bought some new jeans at The Gap.
Watched the IMAX Galapagos DVD with Ripley
Played a whole bunch of Mario Kart on the Nintendo DS(es) with Ripley (and then with Arwen).
Saw Shitoshi for a few minutes while we walked through Supervalu (sic).
Ate some killer natchos.
Put Tate to bed.
Uploaded Tate scooting around to YouTube.

Surfed around on the following things (a tiny sampling):
My friends on LiveJournal
My friends on Vox
Circuit Bending
Breakdancing
Furby modification
Turntable modification with optical mice
The domain that bears my full name, which has this to say about me:

_{ACCUMULATES cases without pressure build-up (someone tell my work-self)
ELIMINATES “jack-knifing” without dependence on start-stop controls (is it something to do with getting outta bed?)
TURNS CORNERS, rises, descends-with only one motor and drive! (imagine if I had TWO?)
NO GRAVITY HANG-UPS on corners … cases are powered over every foot of travel (Positive Action!)
FOLLOWS virtually any layout – around columns, over aisles, up and down; floor level or overhead – with
off-the-shelf components (I like the mental image I get on “or overhead”)
EASY MAINTENANCE -continuously, automatically lubricated; no belts to stretch or replace; no rollers to maintain; easily adjustable to new cases (Not true – I do have a belt).
CONTROLS pressure of cases infeeding to palletizer or shrink wrap machine (Kinky!)
COSTS LESS due to design simplicity. Saves installation time – modules bolt together (that’s me – design simplicity)}

Things I didn’t do (but keep wanting to have already done):

Make some music.
Write something (Arwen’s doing a NaNoWriMo, but I’m more likely to complete a paragraph in a week, at the rate I’m going).
Reorganize all of my music on my server after really hooping myself with this program that moved everything into folders by GENRE (what the hell was *I* thinking?)

Brainfart Section:
The Retroencabulator site is a fun little read. I dropped off the document on a co-worker’s desk, with a post-it note attached that said simply “We have to install one of these by end of Quarter, please discuss with me.” (See also: The Video).

Been singing/humming a lot of music back and forth with my co-worker, Dr. Device. Between random technical questions (mostly me asking), he and I quote things back and forth. We quickly moved beyond the handshake Monty Python stuff into the slightly more obscure Little Britain, and now we’re mostly into seeing who can stump the other with the shortest impression or snippet of theme song. This one came up the other day, and I think we’re almost the only two in the department who’re the right age/mindset to enjoy it. Something about the vibe of Barney Miller seems to suit our brains when we’re working in Nerf-chucking proximity.

Check out this crazy-looking laptop foldy flippy laptop camera keyboard screen doohicky.

The new Samsung P9000 – with optional nunchucks*

“This new device from Samsung is an abomination before God. Somewhere in Duder-onimy, God said with a fury that a laptop shalt not lie down with a cellphone as a cellphone lies down with a PDA. This is not as God intended, read your Bible. Also, you’ll find no mention of the platypus, likewise an abomination.”
– Crunchgear

All I wanna know is this: Does it make the same noise my Motorola phone does when you close it? I’d like to see that if it makes the same “schwuklackie” noise, only times three.

More pictures and specs available at Engadget

*No, not really. That’ll be in the P9000n.

So I walk into the bedroom, and I’m grabbing some socks (in our place, with the dying hardwood floors, socks are more of a necessary sacrificial object, lest you get a toe or two sliced open, instead of a sock or two), and I look into the crib and see Tate sleeping in pretty much exactly this position.

Minus the crayon, and lying on his back. A-heehee…

Playlist to follow, but here’s #3, from November 06/06.

Ennnnnnnnnjoi!

Here’s the podcast (right-click to download, or hit the blue “play” button if reading this on GeckoBloggle.

TalkyBit Intro….

Remember – Corky and The Juice Pigs

P.I.N. – Rheostatics

Skanky Panky – Kid Koala

Talkybit

I don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters

She Said – Tricky/Dj Muggs/Grease

Red Alert – Basement Jaxx

Talkybit

Superhero Music – Fingathing

Ooh-Wee – Mark Ronson

Electronic Behaviour Control System – EBN

Talkybit

Fire Of Heaven/Altar Of Earth – Matisyahu

Leathal Weapon Shelly Thunder

Whites Only Party – The Dears

Talkybit

Pigeon Camera – Tragically Hip

Inside And Out – Feist

Okay, so maybe the rain is just making me feel hokey today, and to be fair, I did sit through the first 15-30 seconds of this video thinking “well, yeah, no kidding, you look insane,” and then when the…

…and then the colour kicked in…

*squirt*

My eyes actually HURT I started tearing up so suddenly.

http://www.freehugscampaign.org/

For any of the folks out there who use their Blackberry, PalmPilot, Treo, or cel phone (ouch!) to surf Teh Intarwebs, you’ll find that this blog now detects your miniature screenage and adjusts accordingly, throwing out all the pictures and flash-based doohickery.

…and no, it doesn’t look any different from a “real” browser, so don’t ask.  Livejournal readers?  You’re going to be vaguely confused by this post, so just spin on, Holl.
Want your WordPress-Based blog to do this, too?  Tough.  Try this link.

I received a quick little email today from my blog server, telling me that someone had commented on something, but hadn’t commented before, so I dropped in from my Blackberry to check out what the comment was, and had only this from “Lola.”

“You’re an idiot, burn in hell”

{Full points for using an apostrophe correctly.}
And the religious right wonders why I don’t wanna come to their meetings.

This was in regards to a post I made about a re-written “Little Golden Book About God” (Here’s the real one).

Or maybe check out their Wikipedia User Page, where they’ve made a real name for themselves as someone who vandalizes pages that have to be repaired by the ‘bots. Way to go, sparky! You seem to have some non-bot-friendly ideas about Venezuela, Introduced Species, Led Zeppelin, William Shakespeare, and Acid Rain. Grade 12, anyone?