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[09 Sep 2006|10:18pm]
[ music | MF Doom- Cobra Clutch ]

I can't believe I still remember the password to this journal. I'm updating it now just so LJ never gets any ideas of inactivity and deletes it. Anyone reading this who cares, I've moved TWO journals down the road. (hint, dial [info]j_is_for_jihad)

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hurning eegas ninto vluchas [07 Jan 2005|09:55pm]
[ music | K-Tel's Grungin' NDA90s ]

Yes, my room is clean now...but at what cost?

I think we're falling from composure. Now put your hands away.

For king, country, and saltlessness...as I squat atop the throne, processing a tv dinner and reading an old Epic Comics Presents, it occurs to me that the world needs more Cholly and Flytrap. Or to put it more simply: Bob Burden ++

Found Doc Hawking's "Universe in a Nutshell" on cd at McStray's today, I'm a bit pleasantly surprised, therein can be found a description of noncommutative algebra, and why that pops up in string theory.

"I still find myself quite nonrenormalizable."- Tristan Tzara as Luther Blissett

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the red curry of a brownshirt [27 Nov 2004|04:26pm]
The neighborhood Lyn and I live in has, imo, the best Thai restaurant in Chattanooga*. It was better when it was just Thai Food of Chattanooga and located downtown. Now it's Sawasdee Thai Restaurant. Oh well, at least I can walk to it now. Anyways, the woman who runs it is a certifiable Soup Nazi. I think [info]theboyafraid and [info]wrongfrench both used to work there, I'm sure they could tell better stories than mine, which are basically things like (me, the customer) getting chewed out for picking up my takeout 20 minutes after I ordered it and not 15, like she'd said. Oh yeah, you frequently get your own silverware**, she's capricious with her menu, and worse still, the thing she'll most often just randomly not have some nights is the masaman, which is the best thing she does. I don't think she runs out of it because it's a popular item either. Anyhoo, she's in our list of phone numbers as Sawasdee National Socialists Restaurant, but I think I've found a better sobriquet than that: Sawasdika.

Of course, that doesn't mean I'm not still going there in a few minutes to get Lyn's shrimp phrig king and chicken satay.

*Although they've been off the last two times we went, Sweet Basil at dinner may compare, and the staff are the exact opposite of cookbook-burning death camp runners. They definitely have that going for them. The other place, Thai Smile's curry I find too bland and sweet. It achieves a negative chili pepper.

**which, fine, I can do, it's not like I need someone to do it for me, but I do find it amusing how she runs this place on the bare minimum of hospitality. her food's that good. it reminds me of all the egregious punctuation and grammar errors I would leave in my school papers, not really caring all that much since I knew my content was world class.
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its just too painful to compute that right now... [19 Nov 2004|11:15am]
Question 16.8
What do ``Segmentation violation'' and ``Bus error'' mean?

These generally mean that your program tried to access memory it shouldn't have,

Last night just for the hell of it I decided to see what all the hubbub, bub was about the bad old 'scanf'* function in C, so I used it in one of the scripts from my tutorial book. My program compiled, ran the first step correctly, and then I got said error message telling me that the purity of someone's intestinal parasite could be in question. This FAQ I found online makes it sound like the computer is trying to suppress something traumatic. Maybe it was abused as a diode. "Bus error" reminds me of the time my best friend got engrossed in a book on MARTA and ended up in Hapeville, scared out of his little white mind ("P! Help! I don't know where I am and I'm running out money to buy 40s for everyone!")

*for those not in the know, this command seems to have the reliability and reputation of a Ford Pinto.
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[18 Nov 2004|11:11am]
I just changed all the fonts on my desktop, browser, text editor, command line. Everything's in urw-Gothic, so it all looks like it's done in what I like to think of as the font.
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what rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs...? [18 Nov 2004|09:55am]
This thing! It can change shape, too. Ooooohh....

I want one! (via the New Scientist RSS feed. more here)
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sweet black zombie jesus! (x-posted to [info]thesportingfret) [17 Nov 2004|10:26pm]
[ music | Beastie Boys- The Scoop ]

Grant Hill just dropped 32 points, 5 boards, and 5 dimes on possibly the toughest defender in the league, Andrei Kirilenko. The comeback of the EON is happening in Orlando. Grant Hill's comebacks were starting to get the kind of pooh-poohing usually reserved for talk of truly new MBV records. Said comeback involves Cat and Franchise as his running mates. Grrr...this WOULD happen with a slow start from the Rockets. Oh well. I have got to fucking get cable...

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duck tape and klim cans [17 Nov 2004|10:51am]
[ music | something titleless and ambient ryan gave me ]

Last night we watched a Nova about some archeologists who found the tunnels that the movie the Great Escape* was based on. I LOVE stuff like that, not so much prison escapes, but POW escapes. Or even better, all those stories of East Germans ballooning out or tunnelling out during the Cold War. I don't know if its the ingenuity, or the persistence, or just the thrill of watching someone try to push the human spirit in a tighter and tighter box until finally it squirts through their fingers and makes for Czechoslovakia or Gibraltar. It inspired me so much I started writing a new arc for the big story over at [info]manigault. I imagine a prison on something much like a Jovian moon, and maybe the prisoners figure out a way to make ammonium perchlorate** from the standing pools of chlorine and such. The more outlandish and unrealistic, the better. I mean, if there was a German in WW II who was willing to give a POW his identity papers and a camera to help him forge more for the rest of the prisoners, I guess any sort of graft is possible. I think that would be an even better 'burn' shot of a warden than the one in Shawshank Redemption. I envision an entire cell block lifting off...

*Steve McQueen. hell yeah. everytime in my life i've been sent to my room without dinner, put in the corner, detention, study hall, or the one time I was actually in a holding cell, that's who I thought of. him and his baseball.

** #1 ingredient for solid rocket boosters (it's the oxidizer, if you're scoring at home. or just alone)

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formics [15 Nov 2004|11:50am]
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Need List [13 Nov 2004|01:23pm]
[ music | VOTEP- brown AOL box ]

1. for the baby to frickin' light this candle and COME. i don't think i can take many more days of lyn looking like Santa didn't show up again.
2. a band where I play bass, the whole bass, and nothing but bass, so help me higgs. I don't want to double on guitar or keyboards. I don't want to be the only one who records things either. I also don't want to have to teach anyone anything, or wait for them to learn how to play a new, unfamiliar instrument either.
3. a practice space. we've finally got the house nice and liveable, but obviously there will be no more window-shaking dub sessions when the aforementioned replicating assembler arrives. plus, if i could sort of demarcate my creative spheres, i think it couldn't help but be beneficial. Don't get me wrong, I love the mad scientist environment (although having a floor clear of all books and all cds and instruments in their cases would be nice too), but you just don't KNOW how many times I just can't decide between reading some pulp, writing some pulp, trying to learn bracket-y stuff, or working on some music- be that strapping on a lyre of some number of string or mixing something I already recorded. I thrive in the cloistered environment. I couldn't study at my apartment when I was in law skule, I had to go to the library, and the internet alone was too much of a distraction there.
4. Funk-a-Duck. I'm listening to those VOTEP sessions from a couple of months back and I miss that yellow box's ability to make everything sound flatulent and avian.
5. a sound card. of course, like the f.a.d. and the practice space, this will cost money, and right now my budget is so small you have to use quantum physics and not arithmetic to calculate it. i'm not picky, as long as it had a 1/8" in and 1/8" out, and i could listen to mp3s and .wavs i'd be satisfied.

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kill the pun expansion unit [11 Nov 2004|05:46pm]
[ mood | fats waller ]
[ music | King Tubby's Patient Dub ]

Worst. Pun. Ever. Not only is it a horrible pun, it calls a horrible movie. The pun?

[antifret@localhost antifret]$ gcc -o chap1 chap1.c
[antifret@localhost antifret]$ ./chap1
BASH is so money.
[antifret@localhost antifret]$

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kill the bass expansion unit [11 Nov 2004|04:42pm]
[ music | M&S, obviously ]

Parks, that Manual and Syntaks cd is GREAT! I listened to it three times today at work, as well as right now. It does kinda make me wonder why me or Cortez isn't running this blissbeat game though. I guess I sort of got bored with vertical music, but this makes me want to dig in the crates and pull out some of my older, more cyclical, textures and beats.

I have to end this here, because I've been just closing the browser and deleting everything I write lately.
Even now, I feel the urge to just...< grabs mouse hand > STOPPIT! (while somehow typing)...post, dammit, post! Be vapid! Who cares!

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baby steps to the command line, baby steps to gcc, baby steps to debug [10 Nov 2004|03:46pm]
[ music | Sleep- Jerusalem ]

...but now I can compile and build from the command line without anyone's big ol' GUI to help. I am so proud of myself. Yay me, the greatest MC. Yay you, if you're doing what's true to you.

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as threatened...hanging with the goats (in thrilling Zaprudervision!) [08 Nov 2004|12:37pm]
[ music | Kitchens of Distinction- Blue Pedal ]


One of the Astroengineers Gruff? I think not...

Border Collies Gone Wild! It's all blurry bad craziness at the midwife's from here. )

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good news everybody! [07 Nov 2004|03:27pm]
[ music | Manitoba- Hendrix With K.O. ]

When we return from our visit with the midwife in a few hours, we will probably have pictures of Zhana getting her fondest wish in life: which, being (mostly) a border collie, is (naturally), to herd something. Namely, the goats and the pig. Stay tuned.

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time for another "Separated at Birth?" [05 Nov 2004|09:27pm]
The newly blond Jason Williams:


and Rutger Hauer as understandably peeved , yet undeniably psycho, replicant Roy Baty:


edit: now that I think of it, Pau Gasol (#16) sort of looks like [info]nhennies
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i'm just one big goosebump right now [30 Oct 2004|04:15pm]
[ music | Bark Psychosis- From What Is Said To What Is Read ]

I say godBOMB that new Bark Psychosis is good! I don't know if that's Graham through a vocoder or a guest female singing on the first track, but I want to marry it either way. I don't think I've ever had a artist do this on me, come back from a long absence even better than ever, that is. Everyone has always let me down with a big left turn or just seemed to stagnate. Not so here. The last time I felt this sense of slackjawed awe and green eyed envy, it was when the Annie guys did Sci-Fi Canon Blues, or when they and I first got our hands on boots of the early mixes for Prayer Chain's "Mercury" or "Kid A".

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i know what i meant to ask you [28 Oct 2004|04:12pm]
If you were a closer (or other high profile, end-of-situation specialist), what would your 'theme' song be?
Keith Foulke and Danzig's "Mother" is just hilarious, probably the best since the stone-simple, but apt, "wild thing" for Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams (of whom Bobby Valentine once said "that guy's more dangerous to your health than cigarrettes").
I'd keep it simple and bad ass obvious: "Shut 'Em Down", by Public Enemy. (this is assuming I had any business playing a ball sport without three-pointers). Lyn's was really good and classic too, as in LL's "Momma Said Knock You Out"
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the game was in St. Louis, he went to Atlanta [27 Oct 2004|05:58am]
Last night I heard a sportscaster utter this near-statement,
"His changeup is so good it can turn major league hitters into... (incredibly awkward pause)...not"
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from the Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, MSN Is From Dimension X Dept: [26 Oct 2004|11:15am]
[ music | Manitoba ]

So I was looking at my Hotmail, when I notice something funny on the little MSN crap sidebar.
"Women Be Better Listeners". I snickered at the seemingly cavemanesque tone, but then I noticed there was a colon between Women and Be, (much like the one between the mouth and ass), and that saved it as far as syntax.
This link made me laugh twice though, because when I first clicked, it initially said "document contains no data", which as it turned out, was very appropriate. Here's the article.
Quoth Dr. Lillian Glass of Beverly Hills, (spelling errors* hers)
“You only respond to the people when you can relate to the last thing they said or ask a question to learn more about them. It’s a learning process; it’s learning to see what commonalties you have.”

Women can tell a lot about a man by really listening to him, says Dr. Glass.

“A lot of times women want to get married; they’re looking for that husband on the internet,” she says. “And men can feel this. On the other hand, there are men out there who are just looking for sexual satisfaction or a quick interaction and not a relationship. And you can tell which is which when you listen and really communicate.”

See, it's all about listening. It's not about pimpin hoes/slammin cadillac does, or who's got the most male jelly/largest clutch of eggs. It's not about the cosmic background radiation, it's not about the benjamins, it's not about Ashlee, it's about listening. Lennon got it wrong, all you need is not love, but ears. Don't look at his credit report, don't check his IE cache file, don't bug his broom closet, just listen to him.

*EDIT: ok, so there really is a "commonalties", but I seriously doubt she is talking about "The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons."

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