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Android phones

I've heard it came a looong way from there.

Android phones

i paid for MM but i don't like it. it could be better now, but back in the day, if a skin changed something you couldn't change it to something else unless the new skin you loaded also changed it. one of the genius skins i had made the bars black with black text. i couldnt get another theme that skinned that which didn't also use black.. so i had to restore my phone lol.

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i always have the latest greatest version regardless of if i use it even once a month or not.

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You are the hog of junk.

And if you think you are writing a Finnegan's wake-esque masterpiece then you can forg....actually, I'd have no idea. That was junk to me too.

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r0cDoG #5 @Wed, 07-28-10, 09:33PM

I would give my first born son to have my Pro version of Adobe Photoshop back.

It's a good trade off. My first born was a major pain in the ass. ;)

Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Children.

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Trials ouv dirt y grime

pour dum fester fakes his rhyme

stunk laime duck squack beggs

bide mi latent lucky friend

hello! four i am him

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I would give my first born son to have my Pro version of Adobe Photoshop back.

It's a good trade off. My first born was a major pain in the ass. ;)

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Yea man, what value is here. At all. Are you secretly Sean?

Android phones

I haven't moved off Kangerade 5.0.9 since I loaded it...I'm thinking about going Cyanogen so I can MetaMorph everything to an orange theme.

BTW, "Pure" calendar, messaging, grid calendar are nice but eat your battery.

obama is commin to town

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urbanpirate #5 @Tue, 07-27-10, 03:15PM

pretty sure it is real, alot of billboards are covered over with these wraps now kinda like tarps for walls. I wonder how long till one blows off into traffic

Yea, my fathers car dealership, where I spent many years just sitting in the front office, has a billboard across the street. It's like the self-adhesive shit for windows. They just giant window cleaner looking tools to press the material up on the board. Usually in 3 or 6 sections. Takes them less than 30 minutes if they are any good, including taking the old one down. It's not a busy dealership.

Android phones

Cyanogen 6 RC 2 is pretty much exactly like RC 1 as far as i can tell.. seems to run just fine. still haven't tried out JRummy at all..

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pfffttt no photoshop has ever been a turd! if you're gonna hate adobe for anything.. hate them for acrobat. i hate that program!

obama is commin to town

i hate billboards, though. i was a huge fan of the legislation they passed in Spokane that prohibited new billboards and i believe, repair of old ones, requiring them to be taken down. i can't remember. all i know is i hate billboards.

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Well, fuck it!

Junkhog, if this is all you have to do, you really need to get a life.

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Rick #39 @Mon, 07-26-10, 06:59PM

Made a couple gallons of porch pickles today. One for me and one for work.

They'll be ready next weekend.

need to get on that here, going to hafta wait till after mare faire

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dave #1 @Mon, 07-26-10, 08:58AM

Flash is like, kinda, sorta, open source.

But really, isn't that taking the whole open source thing pretty far? Adobe has been a great supporter of the open source dev community, and vice versa.

probably, i am still a little bitter about photoshop 5.5 being a turd.

alright then I will keep adobe and move on to other things

obama is commin to town

pretty sure it is real, alot of billboards are covered over with these wraps now kinda like tarps for walls. I wonder how long till one blows off into traffic

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for we forget get these times in where a callouss bare sack is tried in trials of nightmares. we soak in sweet indifferenc to why charade smust further anew our conscience effort to sea… each view is spared a dulled mull of taint furor. the all encompassion sigh wei poor puillet, por weis ole pray fore a sight unseen, a triscuit four task ouf a colour bright. our conscious dirge plain ist plays its final tune. you drag its depths four a familiar remedy, a tale too clouse four reality. yet its steem is true, and further its legend gains teeth. facade ouw bitter maisske in flake of shudder, you should cry, naught fore tis future, this in raise ouf seighs, admiration nay, exhalation, for this to possess such a figurine, without joy.. share its dispossessed temper. cry to belong tou its fare rankes. a membered secreat shaired between few is thus, the learned leasson wile became a beast tou tame, you cane fell it's re splendit paree four you it's sip sais it's wait holds true. naught four wea bus let this fire hould long. awlways hold tour this…. run. because you choose tou fear. nought this, no we thoughte ouf such plaimations to be false. kill this person. they weighed oun mi persons so. which world could this scream be a heard. a definitive death. why do wea ponder it's mention. you fille this cupe with life to waste it's contents among it's spilled bland stance. fille this your bragger filter. why fail further lest wea yawn ate its spilt brood. you are mine, we further falte este this is a truthe wea love the death of things gone. a night mare oaf sentence spilled this is four us.

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try this to break a solemn vou to wait longer for a listening ear. bring et in you cry against the brow. for another wail carried along a far way to the end. another farce it will be. the passing motion mentioned your glancing blow not engrained deep but skimmed along your neck. and whear did you fallt, of course in to mi lap. it went a tear shead en vean. what and why because youre lies in pretense. fate spies a lewd figure great in smallnest pity. could this bea nite a sleaping hair froum anew rise up the descent of the sun. pant and lag past the new untitled space. kindle lighte envent kaned by pineing hosts for the wait contends where else whites fade ites shade fightes ware. another yet it tried! yes we sit intreas held by traces of that sune reise wile it pined for lorn the mumbled 'red' lips went lowly to tips ov such kindred blise, a smiyule gurgle alouf, that it waas agian. say yes, those sway of hight. knew ew saide entice a figlet snore. famous pretender, why let her padded cheak bea wet? freash fears are to be had. set plaice at lasteing climb prepaired sweeat pulse im passioned krist! oh bright few, line of morals. sigh too the sound of a shattering start frech' and telt bent view through portals, a fire swim. teame fright louder until in comleat quiet.. children, stay alive. whose sight seas past a leaden melt far aweay fade. nothing grows, a lone pyre for one fire of every faint memory. recurse shone acrous felt brine, a living wave. peals stripe a lower tone. tainted lily fare pith is stained, your lump quivers. your rose stump laughed. when it echoes its vibe steals thickly throat. this choise i vise, a voise i wry, craiked speak curld a glowing ear, learnd a loving splendor of feathers hide this girl blushe feet, me, stifle for shame. more for her i bought wiches two for a cause marked the celebration begins it went like this, all i wanted was waiting...

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endless optimism, will it be taken over by blinding darkness. pray four the meeting ouf envloupink reant swurls chasted taint en toatal um ad infinitum... tobe one and only of many. the following caste a comfourting notion that the patient is under care of doting mothers orphaned by another lost cause, clung to a fadet proumisset our fraint to stray along familiar dirty vaken t and taken far from the childhood infatuation, curse ouf meamories, passe overtly froume four, cou bea your tute whistle.. taught tou trampe, no motion waisted. in like this, for no reason, onli lingert hope against hell of taken virgin whore, trapt en servitude of sloven grease cats. tales of twitching dead, blankets plain above commen upon piles upon bed sores, and bruised of abuse. learn to enjoy youre fateless purpose untilll your children growe to taste the same despair. what happiness found in wonder! four these little angels, a smile froum blankly painted brow, pure vigor accomplish a set le ferociout four. swallou lead and purge your instinct of intrinsic tenuous passioune held frimme for its exstream value refined in a burnt house of vagrence. this contrary striaght line suspence strung out pittance for your worthless hide. this lie is believed. this leasson is false. this vulgosity is an all consuming monster fathered by a pen of pig. do another trick you trained prick tease. fall deep into a trance of repe et tit ion, broke moan in mind les en differenc. bide your time in spilt sweat and tear your forgotten conscience from its limbs, to many to count. thus promise me, zealous sinner, and your favors will never go unfufilled.

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i'd like to be a part form your lif. in effort full life. it is like just a different person that who is waiting. to begin a watching persons from an angle from a point she couldn't see, so i told her, there's one thing to learn how to become your wife. how could it possible be true. it's not the time to ask all she could think gov was a llicking over the lips in the manner of a little brit that had her laughing in the wort possible voice her amusing retraction was one of bitter loss. all i wanted was to be a writer, perhaps we must settle on reading. i can't wait i cant' wait i can't wait. it's becoming an attraction that i won't have anymore. i can't enjoy the bitter things in life. vida such an improutant thing vessicule. from the end all we look back to see is an infant monkey flailting hit's trails hov insides not lacking sight hor light ov within it bacame nothing from itself do not open until this age of darkenss..... even whence we let hours become nights we hounli breathied deap sight upom our shoulders it sank like a drop doun furthest we sight kould it bea warm as a n noutumn hearth, nou, much let her dream longer i lld her i'm all that i love in myself , mi deep fears were maskied by insainity, mi vainity was maisked bi in finite worries wilt and failings wail and criers ounli think of what it is to bea soumone else. i lifted hear veil and there she is. she blinked, in a color, a pause held in finately. i heaved a great blow and away god took her cares away to a a lounsime room doomed tou liv alone only words to comefort. i always think of you i told her. imagine our life together she was told directly. waiste hand fetters wind your kindred though tilt versk. a lost pain wreanchet from kist wrist hell a scream 'we live' in lust. dark romm lit up in fire ruse oflarks, squack we all saw in fount of a nemie cried her lit le creis ouf lov et weap en it wous a poudle. kin wea stai. she always asks beafour an y lit le thing. a nod, look down , to himself, she asked and i reaplied to a nouther look at yourself, yeas itis crasi i nou, but, hey, i can't tell if you love me our nout. write then and now i sceant in a secreat love letter. everything i love about her. how deap dou we love you, the ocean. tutti know yeas youve done braive things.. i live for you, i know. well, you make it worth it. in simp le terms. shea thinks this. sit aloung side me, mi hand familear with your sighs, with every day hi waite, the next isn't true, denial out right of laws governing the functions of the hearafter. less and less we slip a dent ouf gushing praise to an idol withhoulding our love from internal frusteration. a lie of a degrea we hould hand cling wit blatant realise us with our sin. i am inside hours ov daurk soun it will soar soon a live up the sour taiste o f an aura ov bitter disgust. visible from afar.. harmless and bright with a wave of saind too large and swaloued the time cam enough has pase t. spit, a sliume vent, i used up forgotten hour. this take withe you, this we hould on to your love your fierce passion burne and devotion. you hav be an makred for love. truth and for it will bea a love for all time and for ever will all people be jealous of our deep and astounding love take that with you.

she asked me how i know i love her. written en a scrible in ink pleading with my burning wants.. this, is a sent thought, you understant yea it is pacing fourthe anh after a time and agin. has it been the time yet! i rage a fult lung shrink, a raped breathe ouv laughter. passed down scar ov shame we fealed a stare of thousands, ja'cuuse teame this a fight my motive vest of zeal. you? used up my inheritance. this, on the day that never came. your previous life the was to be meant of a fore bear lent of our race. dawn brings one day to bea savoured, untlil you learn to hate love wilt and shine like my beloved.

do you know what story we have on this day, the day our children met their fate. written on their face was worries and expectantly waching the center of the room all taulked and a referance leered a wide eyd wonder. foreigner "other people, you.. do this?" the blind shame creadule grew up in meters, because of awareness, and back to a hunched over squeak wea toured withe the reverant mule.

too much time speending on free things. a lived in commanality useless except to those who find it so, and in that we tell ourselves how it happened. have you lost our minds to the devil, in chanse a cent of wourthe fount in our deap emotion it wasn't spent en vein. gasp for the air, and live for death. i've found the dribbles we spread in purpose. not another day.

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por ly minus past. schouleparnertes..
ho, malentable ciceros. four what, reasons didyou liv? east west and downer. apoloogise twou me for la sintas ov la years. police. yous custard in saint louie. pie on your pace lou funken lastard! liv ow nour fe mill ate lit coo. jest wemax, tu lilly keaster. kan your menberance ov th things se long over. no. shlobi ness lobster. who? i'm tinkering about. subjuct.. verb. to lack. mi moter. i an shentieo cut il malittle afraide ive th eo quencioceouse. too many limes i lought me press agnst, flendies. and so i coulght up mi, tim. two clouni os. master master, bait and mitch, shoo loud ou one to meat an fix.

misha laster y quid youe leve?

oh im sorry hat this in no the ast mutter lin la alphazet. cee? i sxpect so.

i laid mi down her peep. i alredy didious not! louries. twou times i sed. cee me once. lame no me. lov ou again. well.. i love you. no! be cause why... lov isnt al redy natural.

i acn no t ere ouys. listen. i sed sorry. butt. i ave mani weeprelets. live mi for to mov tou lour lace. wecan mak elongateted wolbks movether.. no! sorry.

i have un oler maky imagination.

ride on mi, labies. dont have cyruieses. joo hover nam.

liv me a una thing 2 giv. umm.. lecond hater.. que was, ho mess.. the aciment!

i was letting here. you.. fur mere., thrigonometries. i wike youse... well.. pamble/,
i hav mani come over soflen.. bow me. i gess. i plactllese coughten.

jou, sexi. im not et al sorri.

tuchme here. an tere. too late. i al redy lov oyu.

wane ov tought. wil tu fount me, kizs a lily no it's lips. i feer not. amuse me remebance ov ur tim wegether? oh.. eys. os easibulifful. lov ohso puroe. kin wit him. lobsessor of hatred. dine con mi late et nite so noone es matching.. quiklie we make our skape into showing.. bad things were sed en konfusion he livd.. ow.. i pay poll an sckracht tou ghback. mi, home isnt lear. fling was over afoer lit egaden! i haight shouldlies, but i'm koveting jo more each en leveray may, ib lrian. do kplurnk.

mum? merlapse,, lo houud sho lou heap. time?,, koomarrows,,

an befor a la storie.. stay now.. well for the shlobler.

band of courses. le weighe rin. nonono. tus tall, rong! blam ateurs. i stalk tour fall strong in face ov tu wmile lov chariactures lelyning nat cheal mother. i do not thin kat wall why de hav a layer of th beass. rong again. singe er of suck.. well.. i am sorry about wour marmonies. soo good, ov a limpal groustion.

welember me por la bienitou fling ov lashion off.. well.. crazy, i waz.. sorry.

more to come.

piec in your stru ly...

-Eric.

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lipin fi rhide Celeste su plen icht m light soon waeght hest ain jouti stretchx coo..

que? lay kit ghost Leaushimus fiesk ju ti such, le cueste meloriouse lagin laep tech Kasthera..

twell a no te. r swin hanla.

lourn kin Pluto.. kuesk tish fin le irkcle fend? nor sever.

pry Khem shout, how ji staike lun tame. fere kunt luaist eni eni Eshboli.

child, chreak tou mi kin fila hanguale low portentsre.

uncertain ties, know! went ti limber, kaulfter? since ten through last. verb,

le sane, quit trimmer. grin teight not ov pane lace.

quea si, shouffer, burp limp ni la bou sen kame.

ride. skant corset; fur mint jour licket?

reply. qui no, oh woods hou mim lifter laex shour lep ni ni mii..went.

should fore choo?

pimiento.

slime ties houn tought, fee lel whey face on sue dare.

loux re keys for lill pist cough ryz. t

fix jell tor est le mintrustions.

iVg orf id hsmal. tu Le sus Kin pel in we voLaire!

kmack. fast sho we till kwhile lonnger. Staci..

hole. frown die me two here ligh key.

in with an numb. Krist ol vox me!

Cou olin tiese reel in place.

Kite she fuse me loff ov cur mintir..

lound an shound, kis mi fettum.

.klivioum.

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lef certure quin le zourloutful cand.

deur lou chol, sui canter lif limper.

hup a teu kup lie watfter a glince.

Tou mi gaver sake nigh tly faouls rye she fake.

nou ti lain, for love a quake rift under.

boils and felts, kwen sho wake a list sin mournster.

nigh le te keppas late shoulder off whim.

lour ghet she not ov min pastard fie last.

noue twahis lift cup fore the coffertyl ko wound.

tong beats my lest kure th ment tov shine milie.

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wain thi night, yours truly..

pins ache, noues giv, not iv list stand you?

ho, neuway, mor fun please?

yes, you sate.. ha pouligise.

kind words i said. not forsook. no!

letntli seive reat klih le sount kuurts, i fear.

no jour he zues. lye sour ti!

hanguage, cement stick, drip le fount pour mor water.

hem fix land tougether.. stook too laet.

leach me min teacher ov obscurty; bright.

simple, ikes.. no less, nli more..

ooh, but. ha mitle chivilrous pay?

why fate, ick thi slace.

my is ter she, ere go? a should cask, whine..

hilly land.. traverse ere you go, stoppy beas had?

whike kacouto.. liv me NOW.

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hexipounte

lefect/ xioungfui,a/ shan Lastre/ karknild/ ha choo,

maHai Kame timis deu Now! pushe cates list eaux.

Same lie till, waite noelits, havtouri maleivsik sah leap cho?

Switle mavics stake mh crakli, kilst hatem fears note hall.

Ho yeas? tie le nost ige nour.. sha Kauer, sand grains.

Neu litlle one, not yel gilwe? ere i pay kilte shove ere sing.

Le grea, stare hi lay... hight kull mak her pad lei.

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flower sand master, sell she lore.

Novzent. kai le tsshist pafTjers chi kon^ hanger swelts lin kold lark nitquwere. Laaaathentium!

sad. prous die huige chil pax suilienfrea ti,*

slowe frou mi ken shou, scope bring con caucus shov lapi vida enstruel kuifi luanghe rilimist kli, wher cel tance bohrouuugrri tou.

smelt, se kross, ky fi lay he, cueole shin elerote. faulint kemburst, skar elhead. stoken lyre, por qua, first loufere ni tou amapes, jout now kar. ti mus? kliov.

lo hem, syritcs lov mi kowl kut shin half.

leech in higher, lie, whift brought in.. hatchoo! spread the twinkle mise. pl.

ho on. linguere, et scouri lin folours bright, dot groulouw, mor bowels lise.^_>

naughti spience! where jour music dost lain? sarete, lack meare. tri loeture.

quinhosti, gladnest wlidesen en to fuel shieks? aelientos.

Mars lake ov tamnable societi, farsicle ignoramusi. lape wi Venaes heire swore teau la venche.

haha ling panities. no? jew lant fie min shard, breaks ov style back teu more livid anlaitioun. ko Lourde, shoo fake me.

miss you ih dine fear.

straped kon faight, you jest crasi? le gist wine so louthe town, leavi cape parouse..

nigh go, care lever, wist me wind. fair russet tain lowing bea twixt sea!

went wea againe.. won no vida shout pour leau...t

do naught fui temper mi, cour aise four past.. cahl she, mist lieys musa liv. ah!

too many. swirls, so neau vou mi, lester jous try siou, pilfer queles shan sake pourr mia skant whistle fuie hurt clamour.

gloud ov wine, lourd foal tis matters. welent Hakim?.. just ice frain force tov pence sa week.. fie me tray un petal, tears float lupoun stillnest shove oil.

ere et glisten, placat jinx alou selt lazy dream, hou sear et?

kound lace she. again et built around The House ov Saxons steis pul lex.. slower mish frouwn.

frog, pou lump, en leaux head. cest onli un sheaplis guile.

hi lot et again, fro sump fil jou louse, sea prance ha lig a croun da lop sidesed mine hed.

not et all? mI cask pour mor.

clouser teu sah bright! my minds me. bon swords ov slange. one lov cantards, trunk ali kist er, skermish.. no Min Lin.

fright! the light sings ser enit ly. coo le serves.

a flow her, no mi moter, the Nord teaks, a run throu mi past. quisck sick ly lover.

mour poultice! pase? jew lucki kast. when it jets over, ki'll shove you.. what? wait. pore stater ov lione, shit manger, kie leu aux laughter. hi didnt, laugh, payne lamer.

defferint lones. tov mi lingering choice. wuv meek tis hi lay ere con mis suenos, of museic. play Purple sighs, where am i today?"

pen la shadow, Cower sage ere mi fate under laid withe me, glean.. state of love. and longing.. .my.. lyre lais youre you. we dove linder the waurm xo uel *hueh* past sense.. cou liu wings flown sartes lin unisun sight.. lyne crease ty a felt lick.

komplex toure you facer looking min tou shine.

de la leup, snug a twinkle sure nose. hew. alest wee pale kine difference.. we like your laugh, i wount stare.

no moure lie stay.^

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Made a couple gallons of porch pickles today. One for me and one for work.

They'll be ready next weekend.

obama is commin to town

Looks photoshopped.

Look at the upper left corner. the blue rises above the billboard frame.

I am so glad billboards are banned in Maine.

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correct

open source flash

Flash is like, kinda, sorta, open source.

But really, isn't that taking the whole open source thing pretty far? Adobe has been a great supporter of the open source dev community, and vice versa.

obama is commin to town

I love the irony of folks who very likely voted for GWB complaining about our civil liberties being infringed upon.

obama is commin to town

awesome caricatures, but waste of talent.

obama is commin to town

pretty ridiculous use of funds if you ask me.

obama is commin to town

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it seems some people are unhappy about this

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Getting the first of the tomatoes and peppers...... digging carrots and potatoes..... Greens, beans, summersquash and cukes up the wazoo. Corn next week.

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cucumbers by the dozen, lettuce still coming, watermelon edible now but i am gonna hold off and see how much this crazy rain plumps em up . peas are all but done. kale and collards out the ears. eggplant and tomatoes any day now. produce is running wild round here.

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salad dressing

tried this one for the non creamy cole slaw variant last night
2 part scider vinegar
2 parts oil ( used safflower and canola mixed cuz we ran outta the safflower)
1 part water
pinch of sugar
salt, pepper, oreggano, basil and thyme to taste

all in all not bad. probably b better with out the sugar.

open source flash

so i had to swap my open source flash player for adobe. now i can use youtube and the like.
problem is i wanna go open source. is there an open source flash player that works with ubuntu and youtube?

switching operating systems

wireless connection problem was twofold.

1 the damn thing was too far from the router with too much stuff (plaster walls and 2 sets of old wooden stairs in between the router and wireless card.
2 there is some odd thing in ubuntu that looks for a rare but allegedly better connetion protocol first. if it is not there this causes the connection to run slower than a thought thu the head of a republican president. had to change one line of code and it is faster than this computer ever was.

New Wheels

<.<

New Wheels

Sheldon weighing in from the department of redundancy department.

New Wheels

Pics here

replicounts????

this seems interesting. even if the concept is never actualy created, i think these guys are on the right track rethinking money and economy in general

salad dressing

home made dressing beeeotch!!!

what ya got?

i am looking to work up a few oil and vinegar variations. aside from the mulberry vinegarette i posted here a few years ago. it's time for some low temp kitchen madness. who's got what it takes to mix up the mad salad sauce?

web browser add ons

anyone use them? which ones? looking thru the firefox list 99% of them look like consumer culture horse shit. It is amazing how many people have downloaded add-ons to look for prices around the web, help them buy shit on ebay or tell them what the status of their favorite wow server is.

I mean seriously with most of the knowledge mankind has ever possessed literaly at the finger tips of millions of people would we really rather be a bunch of ass-wipes who sit behind monitors and look up the price of ass-wipes at walmart compared to cvs?

But they can't all be crap. I am sure someone has found at least one useful addition to firefox somewhere,right?

Android phones

Do you have one?

Are you rooted?

Do you run a custom rom?

dragonfly

anyone know where to find dragonfly larvae or egg clusters for sale?

Green thumbs

Who, besides Firefox and myself have a vegetable garden this season?

Mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero

What do you think?

I really don't think that there is any way to be opposed to this that doesn't come down to, at it's root, bigotry and fear. There is no argument against that doesn't boil down to the belief that all Muslims are terrorists.

smothered in awesome

can't make this shit up

We solved the immigration issue the other day....

So yeah, over beers the other day a friend, my wife, and I solved immigration. Suck it.

So here's how it goes, keeping in mind no god damned demagoguery, here's the REALISTIC way to solve it.

We, as a country make this proclamation....

"In five years time three things will occur.

1. If you are caught in this country without papers you GO TO JAIL, and are DEPORTED, no question.

2. If you are caught hiring an illegal, YOU GO TO JAIL FOR TWO YEARS per offense, NO QUESTION.

3. We will accelerate the path to LEGITIMATE citizenship over those five years for anyone interested.

That's it."

As we drank our many beers, what my friend (a devout libertarian god love his childish soul) and I (a devout liberal) came to an agreement on with the aid of my wife (a more reasonable individual) was the basic facts on the ground.

It is economically unsound to try to "shut the border", though I understand that.

Instead, if we announce a five year goal of legitimizing illegal immigrants,and make it clear that if you are an illegal, or you hire an illegal (and truly are the cause of costing Americans a job to save on your bottom line) in five years time there will not be a finacial penalty, but rather an automatic jail time for anyone involved in illegal hiring, THAT will help squash illegal immigration more than any plain old "amnesty" or "border" solution.

This five year time frame will also be the basis for allowing ANY legitimate employer or illegal employee time to rectify their illegal circumstances without penalty.

But AFTER that five year period, NO leeway allowed.

"Amnesty" solved. Won't get hired if your come here illegally after five years so why come here illegally. "Border issue". Solved.

NO it's not perfect, but I think it's at least better (and more realistic) than the horseshit everyone else is coming up with so far.

What say you?

A Prophet

A prophet is a movie that would have never been made in AmeriKa.
No way no how.
You can't fill a movie with that big of a story and blood mix in symbolism with raw angst and it would half the movie coming out of hollywood.

The movie takes place around a prison and the day to day dealing with that life. One "Arab" and some Italians vs the rest. It would be nice to say it is that simple. It is not.
It is about Change.
There is a subtext of Radical change in culture. The old is out and the new blood is in.
There is stark images of brutal violence awash with this message of change.
It may be a hard movie to watch. But you will get the sense you are witnessing one of the greatest Crime Prison movies of all time.
You will be reminded that Hollywood doesn't always win...Foreign Films have a niche and a place in the awards ceremony/

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A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

liquor control boards

In michigan we have a government department called the liqour control board. It is their job to regulate prices, liscence party stores and bars,collect a bunch of taxes and tell the people of MI which booze is not allowed into our state.

It is my opinion that they should be defunded and shut down. It seems to me that they are little more than the result of a pathological clinging to the old prohibition era desire to regulate people's private lives. their existence drives up the cost of havin' a beer. limits who can open bars and party stores, weakens the ability of restraunts to compete with established chains, wastes tax dollars, and as part of the nanny state structure generaly pisses me off.

How many of you have a similar government branch? what is the best way to go about eliminating them? Is it even possible?

so long Ernie

We lost the best baseball broadcaster the world has ever seen this week. Ernie Harwell died of cancer. In an unusualy thoughtful speech our senator summed up his greatness

New joints!

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holy what the fuk fell out of his mouth?

Illinois congressman says what he means

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Youth in Revolt

Cera and his uncanny ability to play the teenage goof.
This film although leading Cera on a predictable path has all the fixings for great folly and wonderment. Both of which Cera takes on in his hopeless in-love stammering.

Situations in the film allow you to laugh at Cera and with him. Directing this film was Miguel Arteta who did a great job allowing the movie to move along and not take too many turns.

I give this movie a "will buy it on DVD"

College Basketball

i dont"t watch pro basketball because it'S always tit for tat (watch what u say rockdog :). i love college basketball bec they make errors. makes it more exciting. go kentucky but rooting for xavier, too.

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Judgement day for Phelps

On last Monday the Supreme Court made the decision to hear what will be a very interesting decision, with potentially very large ramifications.

Soon, the Supreme court is to finally hear a case involving Rev. Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church(you know, God hates fags) and their right of religious free speech vs. the right of the father of a fallen serviceman to assemble and pay last respects in peace.

Short article here.

We've discussed this here before, but it's FINALLY coming before the court, and I will find it fascinating to see how they decide.

That aside, and going to the other extreme of freedom of religion and freedom from religion, I found the below essay about a different case, and the man brings up some pretty good points.

Here is an essay I found by John W. Whitehead (attourney and author) about a potential Supreme Court case related to religious free speech vs. seperation of church and state.

(From everything I can tell, he has no relation to the Whitehead in this case, just a coincidence)

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When a public school purports to allow students to express themselves, it must respect the students' free speech rights. School administrators may not behave like puppet masters who create the illusion that students are engaging in personal expression when in fact the school administration is pulling the strings."--Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, dissenting from the Court's refusal to hear Nurre v. Whitehead
The First Amendment right to free speech is on life support. And with its recent refusal to review the case of Nurre v. Whitehead, the Supreme Court may have pulled the plug.

Traditionally, the senior members of the woodwind ensemble, the top-performing instrumental group at Henry M. Jackson High School in Snohomish County, Wash., select a piece each year to perform during graduation ceremonies. Having performed Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria" at a public concert in 2004, the seniors in the wind ensemble unanimously chose to perform it again at their graduation ceremony on June 17, 2006, because they felt its aesthetic beauty and peacefulness would be appropriate for the tone of the ceremony.

The student musicians proposed to perform Biebl's piece instrumentally: no lyrics or words would be sung or said, nor did the senior members intend that any lyrics would be printed in ceremony programs or otherwise distributed to members of the audience. However, despite the absence of lyrics, the school superintendent, Carol Whitehead, refused to allow the ensemble to perform "Ave Maria" at their graduation ceremony because she believed the piece to be religious in nature.

Ironically, the superintendent reportedly didn't even know that the words "Ave Maria" are Latin for "Hail Mary." Nevertheless, determined to avoid offense, she banned it, despite the fact that this Biebl version of "Ave Maria" is not one that most people would even recognize

Believing that school authorities had violated her right of free speech, Kathryn Nurre, a student member of the ensemble, turned to the Rutherford Institute, which filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the school in federal district court in June 2006. A year later, a federal district court ruled that the school's actions were "reasonable" in trying to avoid offending anyone.

In a 2-1 ruling that was handed down in September 2009, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concurred. According to the court, school authorities can deny students' rights to free speech just to keep some of those attending graduation from being offended.

However, in a dissent that is notable for its lucidity, Judge Milan D. Smith insisted that Nurre's right to free speech had been unreasonably violated. "[I]n prohibiting Nurre and her classmates from playing their selected piece of music, the School District misjudged the Establishment Clause's requirements and, in so doing, violated Nurre's First Amendment rights," observed Smith. He continued:

I am concerned that, if the majority's reasoning on this issue becomes widely adopted, the practical effect will be for public school administrators to chill -- or even kill -- musical and artistic presentations by their students in school-sponsored limited public fora where those presentations contain any trace of religious inspiration, for fear of criticism by a member of the public, however extreme that person's views may be. The First Amendment neither requires nor condones such a result. The taking of such unnecessary measures by school administrators will only foster the increasingly sterile and hypersensitive way in which students may express themselves in such fora, and hasten the retrogression of our young into a nation of Philistines, who have little or no understanding of our civic and cultural heritage.
In an attempt to avoid offending anyone, America's public schools have increasingly adopted a zero tolerance attitude towards religious expression. The courts have not helped, allowing schools the discretion to let an offended minority control a cowed majority. Such politically correct thinking has resulted in a host of inane actions, from the Easter Bunny being renamed "Peter Rabbit" to Christmas Concerts being dubbed "Winter" Concerts and some schools even outlaw the colors red and green, saying they're Christmas colors. And now, simply because someone is offended by the title, students cannot play music that has no words and is performed with no religious intent.

What school officials and the courts fail to understand is that by sanitizing the schools of anything remotely related to religion, they are not only silencing an entire segment of the population; they are also contributing to a cultural wasteland bereft of a rich heritage of Western art, music and literature -- all of which, at one time or another, has been greatly influenced by religion.

Religion is such an innate part of American culture that it would be impossible to create a strictly secular course of study for students. To put this in perspective, consider the following.

If someone complains about Michelangelo's art because it was so often themed on Christianity, does this mean that we are supposed to have art history books without the Sistine Chapel? What about other masterpieces such as Da Vinci's The Last Supper? For that matter, what about great writers such as Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, or Edgar Allen Poe?

Some of Western civilization's greatest music was inspired by religion or created for a religious purpose, composed by such maestros as J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Mozart, and Joseph Haydn. Even contemporary artists could find their music banned in schools under such a rubric. For example, the Beatles are visited by Mother Mary in "Let it Be"; Led Zeppelin writes of a "Stairway to Heaven"; and even Jon Bon Jovi sings about "Livin' on a Prayer." Such a course of action would reduce American culture and arts education to a sterile wasteland.

Just as with religion, art has always been a matter of personal experience. Each person brings their own experiences and interpretations to art, rendering it nearly impossible to establish a litmus test for what constitutes "religious art" as opposed to secular art.

Anyone who has ever appreciated a book, painting, symphony, or even newspaper article, movie, or television show should be repulsed at the idea of government officials dictating what art is -- and, more importantly, what it is not. Anyone who has ever appreciated even a comic book should cringe at the thought of letting the government control it.

This brings us back to the Supreme Court's refusal to review the ruling in Nurre. We are witnessing the emergence of an unstated yet court-sanctioned right, one that makes no appearance in the Constitution and yet seems to trump the First Amendment at every turn: the right to not be offended. Yet there is no way to completely avoid giving offense. At some time or other, someone is going to take offense at something someone else says or does. It's inevitable.

Each time we allow political correctness to triumph over our constitutional freedoms and basic common sense, we are complicit in undermining the freedoms on which this nation was built. And in a case such as that of Nurre v. Whitehead, we will destroy our culture as well.

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I was especially taken by his points on say Da Vinci's artwork having chrisitna imagery, and is THAT condoning a relgion? Should art students NOT be shown that? Must they also be taught artwork from other religions, even though the work of Da Vinci is at most inspired by Christianity?

That's why I think this will be a monumental decision, if the court goes far-reaching again (as they did with the Citizen's United decision) and lays down language that goes beyond merely the Westboro case.

HOw do you guys think they will/should decide?

Netflix Watch Instantly Suggestions

A'ight, who has some awesome movies that I can watch on Netflix on my laptop like now?

Anyone else ever wonder what the hell the criteria is to get a film on Netflix? Seriously, I've watched the first five minutes of lots of films that not just bad or low budget, but look like they were filmed on a cell phone. Horrible.

While a lot of the movies kinda blow that are on demand, here are some horror ones (my usual genre) I found that were actually good. Below are a few others. These are what come to mind as enjoyable when scrolling though my "recently watched". I'll add as I come across more.

Hopefully you guys have some good suggestions.

So here's a shitload of horror suggestions if you're bored.

Triangle

NO, not the sci-fi original with Luke Perry. This one stars Melissa George, and is like a long episode of Twilight Zone. It's all about time loops, fate, decisions we've made and the repercussions of them. For a lo-budget film, not bad at all.

The Perfect Witness

Another low budget, but VERY well acted film. Once I got past how one of the two leads looked a hell of a lot like a bearded, rapping, whatever Joaquin Phoenix, I really dug it. Opening scene is a dude tapes another man murder a woman, and runs away. After five minutes you discover that the dude doing the taping has been trying to find a serial killer that's on the prowl, and he did.

So what does he do with the tape of evidence? Uses it to balckmail said serial killer to allow him to make a documentary about him.

Kinda like "Apt Pupil" in that way, but goes down different paths as the movie and plot continue. The two leads are really good in this one, especially the killer. He avoids being cartoonishly evil or jovial, and instead plays him like a man that could walk amongst us. He just happens to loose his shit once in a while amurder people.

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

I'm not reviewing this. Fuck you if you don't know and love it.

Seed

The next sentence I will type haunts me, but it must be said.

Not a bad Uwe Boll film.

There. I said it.

It's in the vein of the other "torture porn" movies (I HATE that phrase), but stands out for a few things.

1. The opening has actual footage of animals being killed/tortured which was some sort of thing he worked out with PETA, whom Uwe is a member of. I find the footage repulsive and quite unneccessary, but in a way it DOES relate to the overall point of the film.

2. He has an over-the-top hammer death scene that is VERY violent. Too bad his budget makes it kinda weak in the end.

Honestly, the film isn't great, and I had REALLY low expectations since Uwe made it and of the six or so of his films I've sat through none of those were even truly watchable, so thi swas MUCH better than those.

Pervert!

NO not horror. Instead, if you ever enjoyed Russ Meyer pics, than this is for you. Porn star and former California Gov candidate Mary Carey stars in this horror COMEDY featuring more big tits than you've seen in ages, ridiculously bad acting and dialogue (largely intentional/unavoidable), and a rampaging penis monster. AWESOME !!!!!

Antichrist

Yeah, THAT movie. Firstly, the "hardcore sex scenes" described by almost all reviewers are minimal. The gore was minimal. In fact, I found this to be less "offensive" than I was told it was, though there are certainly a few cringe-worthy scenes for both genders to enjoy.

The acting is actually pretty good (Dafoe is more subdued than I expected, but it fits here) and the film LOOKS beautiful. Seriously, as an "artsy" film this delivers.

However, the script was...I don't know. Not bad by any means, but not great either. And if anyone else has watched this, did I miss something about the very last shot, or was it not supposed to actually mean anything?

Worth watching just to see what ya think of it.

The Lost

Based off of a Jack Ketchum novel, this surprised me. More of a thriller than a horror, this film feels more like "Blue Velvet", but without all of Lynch's weirdness.

The biggest thing this film has going for it is the lead role of Ray Pye, played by Marc Senter. Take James Dean, Dennis Hopper from Blue Velvet, and Henry Lee Lucas (as portrayed by Michael Rooker) and mix them all in a blender. This kid plays an intense sociopath.

Deadgirl

Well, while certainly close to a horror movie, this film is too fucking wierd to truly count as a horror movie. Here's the premise....

Two high school losers ditch school one day and come across the title character chained naked in the basement of an abandoned mental institution. She's a hot naked zombie. They are horny teenagers. What do you THINK they do?

Seriously, this film is fucked up in concept alone, and then when you get to the plot continuing, it gets fucking stranger. No real frights, though certainly moments of tension and dread, with some gore.

What's most unusual about this movie is that it is treated with respect and made up of pretty good acting and damned fine direction. It's more about being a loner in high school, wanting to fit in, having secret crushes, and other typical John Hughes type drama that HAPPENS to feature necrophelia.

Weird man.

Gore-Gore Girls

It's a fucking H.G.Lewis film. What do youe xpect?

Also on demand by Lewis, Blood Sucking Freaks, Blood Feast, and Blood Feast 2.

All are AWESOME !!!!!

Art school and charcoal stuff......

So, besides my normal sexually deviant shenanigans (just finished a four page horror/comedy/erotic teaser comic for Swedish Playboy model Nikki Magnusson) I decided to do something POSITIVE with my art.

I started taking correspondance classes at the Joe Kubert (drew "Conan" back in the day, and both his son's work in comics now) School of Art.

Normally, I'm not a big fan of "art calsses" in general, mainly because once you have the basics down, it really comes down to perfecting your style through practice.

However, when I actually looked into it, I found that the classes were cheap, the school is an actual accredited (legit, not the "draw a turtle" horseshit) college, AND I respect Joe Kubert's art. And the man that would be my critic, Tom Mandrake is an AWESOME artist.

So I figured it would be worth it to give it a go, try a class, see what I think of it.

As opposed to "normal" art classes, I wouldn't be told from the get go by my art teacher that "Comics aren't REAL art. Now here, study Monet and copy his work!" as happenened in the two art schools I dropped out of years ago.

I'm halfway through my first "course"...."Horror Art", and I already find that it's helping my work. MY attention to detail is improving drastically. I think the presure of knowing an actual pro that I respect the hell out of is making me work harder on this stuff, and that's great in the long run.

Also, I used to do very basic pencils, and then added most of my detail in the inking after. This class requires everything be turned in in pencil, so I'm doing MUCH more work in the beginning pencil whcih makes the whole pice better once I add even more detail in my inks.

Anywho, here's some samples of some of my crap so far....

Assignment...Make your own version of a classic monster. One large, three smaller down the side.

Assignment.... Three panels on top, one large on bottom. Emphasize location, time, era, weather, and mood. Three top panels to show a location, slowly getting closer and changing angles. Large panel, a shadow drops across character frightening them.

BTW, the above one Rick may recognize. It's of Sebago in the Old Port.

If anyone is interested in comics and learning comic art, these correspondence courses are worth it in my eyes. The actual college in NJ costs $18,000 a year (tuition only) and is a two year college.

A couple hundred per course (complete with supplies) and more importantly the opportunity to be critiqued by true pros that know their shit is totally worth it to me.

Also, here's just a little something I did on the side. I hadn't worked in Charcoal in over a decade, and decided to give it a try again. These two will probably be part of a larger series of near-nudes done in charcoal I'll send out to erotic mags when done. Obviously I ink them first, then do all my shading with my soft black charcoal pencil and white pencil. Vine charcoal is for chumps!

I've gotta say, working in charcoal now is MUCH easier than I remember it being back in the day when I tried before. These are still a little more rough than I would like, but for the first two pics I've done in a decade, I'm kinda happy with how it came back to me.

blood into wine

if you ever liked a tool song or made a batch of wine this movie is required viewing. yeah that means you rick

I'm a Bad Person

The last few days have been a wakeup call. Both our liver enzymes have been WAY over level and that was confirmed by our doctor. He prescribed meds for anxiety for him and aa for both of us. i'm scared. never in my life have i have i been overstressed. and the two people i care about most are suffering: most of all, jess. she doesn't show it. she's been the light of our lives, but she sees it. and that makes me cry. i'm still looking for work and andy's business isn't so great, we're underwater in our house and i hate this state. sorry to vent, but i needed too. things could be worse, i say to myself. and it's true. that's what i keep telling andy, anyway...but andy is like "get a job!" i'm trying but it's not good enough.

bad bad bad shit

this is so not good.

da fookits

And then, after a long and winding journey, a tipping point is reached. Compromises discarded, hope tarnished, faith abandoned for saner measures. The point where you no longer can stomach another bitter drought of manipulative excuses, because regardless of any reasons offered, you know there's no reason to accept any further disrespect and disregard

car tire recycling?????

we are planning to use some old tires to grow potatoes above ground this year. ( higher yeild less work yadda yadda yadda)
since some fucknugget thought the alley a block away was a good place to toss an unwanted tire i grabbed it and went to werk on turning it into somthing useful. total fail.

lessons learned.
1 a sawzall will cut the sidewalls off a tire or cut across the tread not both
2 tin snips are not enough to cut across tire treads
3 angle grinder will get thru the tire but it will burn more rubber than it cuts and
4 the sidewalls of a car tire are a poor substitute for a bike tire as a gasket on a door cun into a barrel
5 burning tires stink a whole lot worse if you are standing over them
6 a tire with sidewalls cut off and one cut thru the tread is about 1/5 the size of an intact tire.

poof

*poof* the whole world is now united under one government, and you're the figure head of said ruling party. what's the first 3 things you do?

Dylan

Are you a Bob Dylan fan?

I am looking to include more Dylan in my collection.

What are some good albums to check out?

Currently I only have the three disc edition of Dylan album from 2007.

Any suggestions would be nice.

Vinyl

So, as some of you may be aware, vinyl is "making a comeback" over the last 6 months to a year.

What I love most about this is that a little over a year ago some friends and I were drinking at a local bar, got drunk, started talking about vinyl, and it came out how my wife had a still working record player collecting dust in a spare room, and I have about 200 45's my mom gave me about 15 years ago.

This led to the drunken walk from said bar back to our place to dust off said record player and said 45's for a night of more drinks, and spins of many Beatle's , Stone's, Hermans Hermits, Monkeys, etc.

This then led to many trips to the local vinyl store, Enterprise records (specializes in blues and classic rock vinyl), and the NEW vinyl store in town "Sounds Absurd" (great name and specializes in 80's vinyl).

A while ago, we also hit up a viyl store in Portsmouth that specialized in punk/metal/industrial albums.

At this point, I am SO happy with my growing collection of shit. My favorites are...

-of 45's, Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men," Beatle's "Helter Skelter", Sam the Sham "Little Red Riding Hood", Five Stairsteps "oooh Child", and the 45 that made two of my friends orgasm when they saw it..... "Their coming to take me away Hh-Ha!" by Napoleon XIV.

Of full length albums....

-My three Bauhuas albums

-Four Ramones, two of which WERE sealed, but fuck that I wanna hear them man.

-The very first three song My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult album.

-My radio station promo vinyl for Robert Johnson from the 50's, two albums, lots of AWESOME shit.

-A Leadbelly collection.

-And of course, Creedence. Fuck man, Creedence sounds AWESOME on vinyl.

-A picture album of Rob Zombie's "Hellbilly Deluxe" (The album cover on side one, and the CD art on side two)

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So all of that said, any of y'all collect vinyl?

If so, what ya got in your collections?

And, as always comes up with us getting drunk and listening to vinyl (which we are doing this evening as well).....

Seriously, think about "HOW" a record player works. Does it make sense? Really? I mean, watch the fucking needle travel in the grooves and think about how these specific sounds are eminated from it. A singer, a drummer, guitar, bass, all picked up from that fucking needle and vibrations from grooves?

AND they had this technology over 100 years ago?!?

Fucking magic, man. Fucking magic.

Off to grab a beer and listen to some Tears For Fears......

getting ready for spring

time to start gathering newspaper so i can make a bunch of these

newspaper pots

Made You Look

suckers.

going zero waste?

so i have this idea. probably another of my far fetched need to slow down and let reality catch up ideas. i am trying to take the house to zero waste

no easy task in a town where the existance of the worlds largest (last i checked there might be a bigger one in india now) incinerator is

the city as part of the original construction contract banned curbside recycling. THANKS COLEMAN YOUNG. so it has been a giant pain in the ass to recycle here for the last 30 years. there is now a private drop off center that handles just about everything.

so recycling sorting is coming tot this house soon. so is a worm bin and some chickens. we already have those reusable cloth shopping bags. so now i guess it is a matter of buying shit with less packaging. i am aiming for nothing in the trash by january 2011. any other strategies?

a bump

So the other day I saw a bumper sticker which read;

GOD is Pro-Life.

Really? Then who's bright idea was the food chain? Or why does one twin embryo occasionally cannibalize the other in womb? Heck, in great whites it's SOP for the stronger fetuses to devour the weaker ones in preparation of birth. Why is there any such thing as spina bifida killing baby's in the 25th week of pregnancy?

Why do people buy that stuff????

switching operating systems

on dean's advice i dumped windows and switched to opensuse

so far i am loving it.
the computer is running much faster, probably because windows is a memory hog.
the screen resolution is better (better drivers perhaps?)
no problems getting external harddrive or the usb drive for camera card to load ( and about 4x faster than before the switch.)
no weberrnet access yet but as the wreless gadget has no power light working we are thinking it is fried. it will be replaced today or tomorrow.

anyone else running linux? what problems am i likely to run head first into?

ginko biloba

I love me some Ginko. pretty trees, odd leaves, direct evolutionary connection to pre-ice age earth and most importantly it makes one hell of a tea. So when i was told some fucktard ran over the ginko tree in my front yard (middle of iris bed none the less) yesterday, i was pissed. not kinda mad not frustrated but foaming at the mouth i wanna eat his still beating heart pissed. Two miles from home and i get the call "somebody hit the ginko tree" echos of "What the fuck could be heard for in windsor. I got home and sure as shitty drivers my tree was snapped 6 inches off below the ground draped across the sidewalk with two suv sized tire tracks cutting right thru the flower bed up to it.

So i had to chop what was left of my favorite tree down, being careful to avoid anything made of paper lest it burst into flames from mere proximity.I bucked it into fire wood and piled up the lil sticks for a brush fire at some unknown date in the future. Then it hit me people grow trees from cuttings all the time, perhaps i can save this sweet sweet source of better than coffee. Minutes later i am on the phone with an area greenhouse. "Can I speak to your tree expert?"

About a half hour of back and forth on hold as he checks propagation manuals (i shall have to find some of these treasures) and offers generic indoor winter rooting advice and a plan is hatched. the brand new brush pile no longer a waste product to be consumed as an idle distraction over beers and bowls takes on new life as a genetic bank, a means to keep a living fossil, well, living. now if i can just track down some rooting hormone and topsoil on a snowy December sunday.......

calling OF and RD

I bought this chainsaw a while ago at a pawn shop. I know not the best tool to buy used. at any rate it idles crazy high and always engages the blade when it is running. what is wrong with it and how do i fix it?

it (I) happened to me

true story:
i violated my probation,
got revoked,
went to prison,
got out.
Think Attack was my first stop the second i got internet access.
love ya,
missed ya,
i'll be around