egress EE-gress, noun:
1. The act of going out or leaving, or the right or freedom to leave; departure.
2. A means of going out or leaving; an exit; an outlet.

intransitive verb ee-GRESS:
To go out; to depart; to leave.

In order to keep the crowds moving through the exhibits in his traveling show… Mr. P.T. Barnum posted signs that read: “This Way to the Egress.” Eager to view this presumably strange and exotic exhibit, the throngs would push through the door labeled “Egress” — and find themselves in the street.

Land Sakes… Have I been chained here a year already? I can’t believe that Fritz has been gone so long, and that the goon squad I hang with now, I’ve known the vast majority of my pals since at least last August. (When the interests list made it easy to find folks!) Thanks to for being my very first friend! *hug*

I think I’m in a better place than I was a year ago… a wonderful woman, none of my friends are irritating transient mobile types, Newt’s happy and healthy, as am I…Lj seemed more innocent, and there were no features… no interest lists, no privacy settings, only one lj user pic, and, it seemed, no petulent children or mean folks either. For wat seemed like forever, some folks thought that Darktrain and I were the same person…I’d post one word, and set of a rhyming game that went of over a hundred entries… romantic lovey words to my darling. 🙂 A bunch of fun stuff.

I love the memories feature… I’ve got a zillion links and fun posts marked. 🙂

Thanks to everyone who has made the last year here fun!I hope to see the lot of you in the next year, too!

When you agree with someone, do you say “Here Here!” or “Hear Hear” ? And what does it mean? What is the origin of “Here Here” or “Hear Hear”?

The correct term is, “hear, hear!” It is an abbreviation for “hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!”

Of course, if the speaker is actually asking a question, such as “and just where do you think we should open the new strip club?” it’s not hard to imagine that at least one yahoo in attendance might yell, “here, here!” But this would be the exception that proves the rule.

Looking Over The Edge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/newsid_1343000/1343171.stm

Scientists have pointed a telescope in Hawaii toward a part of the universe viewable through our galaxy’s north pole, revealing a section of existence where galaxies are as plentiful as stars and look like sparkling jewels.

At least, that’s what a poet might say.

Me? I think it looks like an out-of-focus picture of blobs on a black background. Sure, the blobs are bigger than, well, almost anything and are an impossibly long way away from us – but they’re still just blobs.

. . .

Whole Hog
http://hollywoodandvine.com/radiohead/rha_primary_frame.html?music

If you can’t wait to hear the new Radiohead album scheduled for release next month, guess what? You don’t have to!

For two weeks, Capitol Records and the band are offering the new album in its entirety via streaming audio over the Web. By visiting the link above, you’ll get connected to Heavy.com and be able to listen to all 11 tracks in order, full-length, free free free.

Who says the Web is doomed?

. . .

Too Many Hackers
http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,,10_770121,00.html

Attrition.org, which makes it its business to track and record Web site defacements by hackers looking for a little attention, is calling it quits.

This time, it isn’t because of lack of funds or an inability to find investors. Instead, Attrition is being forced to stop doing it’s job because there’s too *many* defacements going on and it can no longer keep up.

The site has over 15,000 records in their database now, but with the number of hackers and hacks increasing, they just don’t have the manpower to do it anymore.

Greatest Hits: http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/

. . .

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…
http://pr.mp3.com/pr/337.html

Way back when MP3.com was being sued by every major label for copyright infringement, every label except one settled out of court for an equal share of the litigious pie. That one label was Vivendi Universal, which is now going to plug all that money back into the company along with another $300million to purchase the whole thing out right.

In what is being read in industry circles as the nail in the coffin of free digital music on the Web, Vivendi will spend $5 a share to purchase MP3.com and its millions of registered users, as well as founder Michael Robertson who will earn $150million all by himself on a URL he bought for $1,000.

Had I only known…

. . .

Avast Me Hearties!
http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/05/21/software.piracy.ap/index.html

A new report suggests that 37% of the software on your computer (assuming you’re at work) is pirated. That’s right kids, even your company isn’t ready to start paying for everything they load on the hard drives.

And that’s $11.75billion that the software industry lost last year alone.

Most of the blame lands squarely on the growing prevalence of including CD-ROM burners on every new computer sold.

. . .

Bigger Blue
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/2001-05-21-ibm-storage.htm

IBM has announced that it’s broken another unbreakable barrier, creating hard disk drives up to ten times larger than anything currently available. Think of all the pirated software you’ll be able to keep, now!

Using a three-atom thick layer of ruthenium, whatever the hell that is, the company has managed to cram 100billion bits of data per square inch, so that 40Gb drive on your Dell may soon be a 400Gb drive.

The repercussions would impact every type of hard drive made today, including IBM’s MicroDrive for digital cameras and MP3 players.

http://www.duniho.com/fergus/enneagram/test/

Type Score
Five 16
Four 13
One 12
Seven 11
Nine 10
Six 9
Three 5
Eight 5
Two 3

Your Raw Scores by Triad
Behavioral – 891 2 Control – 258 1
Emotional – 234 0 Harmony – 369 1
Mental – 567 5 Ideals – 147 5

Coping Styles Triad Social Styles Triad
Positive – 792 1 Assertive – 378 0
Competency – 135 4 Compliant – 126 1
Reactive – 468 2 Withdrawn – 459 6

Five
Primary Intelligence: Mental
Coping Style: Competency
Social Style: Withdrawn
Hierarchical Style: Control

Seeking control over their lives, Fives seek to increase their competency by withdrawing into their minds to gain knowledge. Fives tend to live in the mental world of ideas rather than in the outside world. They are good at creating systems, but their need to be in control makes it difficult for them to work within systems. They tend to work better outside the system than within it. At their best, Fives understand things more deeply than other people and advance science and human knowledge by sharing their insights.

from

http://www.lessons4living.com/enneagram5.htm
Famous Examples of Fives:

Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Stanley Kubrick, John Lennon, James Joyce, Stephen King, Franz Kafka, Kurt Cobain, Garrison Keillor, Jerry Brown, Bobby Fischer, Yoda of Star Wars, Dilbert, C-SPAN.

Now then. I think that the situation is an unfortunate one, but really… how many times does this have to happen?

If you post something to the net, odds are very good that someone will be able to read it. If there’s something you want to keep a secret but kept in your journal, I recommend you post it private, so you can keep it, and nobody else spreads it around. I imagine 99.9% of folks out there won’t repeat it, but stuff can come out a number of ways, especially when you don’t know who your friends are out here. if you want particular friends to see it, put it out using a filter (that’s how I put love letters out in my lj for my sweetums). Going friends-only isn’t going to help, unless you firmly know the nature of each and every person on your list, and what the cache on their computer looks like, and if you know that their (and your) account is hack proof. (it Isn’t)

Expect that if you write something that someone else can read, that they might tell some other person, cut and paste, or reiterate it in some other way. (I make a point of not passing on private information, and had to jump through hoops to clear my name. I still bet that there are folks ‘outside the know’ that think I’m untrustworthy…anyone who actually knows me can attest that I’m good that way.)

On a slightly different note, A lot of Lj’s have been smelling like high school cliques. Those guys are free to post whatever they like, but I don’t have to read them. I recommend that anyone who doesn’t like what they’re reading in someone else’s journal to stop reading it, step away from the fight, if you can. What does the opinion of an idiot mean to you? I’m very impressed at how Mateo recently dealt with some dolts… Live and let live. He came out looking like a gent and a scholar, while others looked like classless jerks. That’s the way to handle folks… don’t stoop to their level if you can help it.

is my current read. Amazing.

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes. book, non-fiction, physics, politics, espionage, Cold War, highly recommended. more later about it.

(not really sexual, before those feelings showed up.)

Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman)
Cathy Lee Crosby (That’s Incredible!)
Sarah Purcell (Real People)
Vicki Lawrence (From the Carol Burnett Show)
Yvonne Craig (Batgirl from Batman and Robin)
Barbara Feldon (agent 99 from get smart)
Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeannie)
Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time)

oh, and –

Mary Anne from Gilligan’s Island. (ginger was a ‘ho)

bibelot BEE-buh-loh, noun:
A small decorative object without practical utility; a trinket.

Bibelot is from French, from Old French beubelot, beubelet, “a small jewel, a trinket,” from a reduplication of bel, “beautiful,” from Latin bellus, “pretty, handsome.” It is related to bauble.

albedo al-BEE-doh, noun:

1. The fraction of light reflected from a body or surface.
For example, earth’s albedo is around 0.39.

2. The white, spongy inner lining of a citrus fruit rind.

[From Late Latin albedo, whiteness, from Latin albus, white.]

Some of the most interesting, unusual words describe everyday things. Who would have thought that this fleshy, spongy, white thing inside an orange had a word for itself… and that it would share it with astronomers? Or that it would have the same ancestor as the words for an egg part, a photo book, or smearing of a canvas? What all these words have in common is whiteness or albus, Latin for white. Albumen is egg white, an album is a book with white pages, and when we daub a sheet of paper, we de-albus it.

Has anyone actually seen Clutch? http://us.imdb.com/Title?0159364

very bizarre…

This Canadian movie is about an occult loser thief who nabs a magic book for his murderous patron. During the heist he kills the owner and leaves the body with his uptight brother and his internet-porn addicted roomie. On the way to make the delivery, his car breaks down and he has to get help from a female mechanic with lots of baggage. Lots of weirdness ensues, especially when people start reading the Book.

Paradoxes:
A Bibliophile who refuses to read.
A Mechanic who refuses to ride inside cars (this becomes a problem for her kidnappers when they are forced to drive slowly while she walks outside the car).

Cameo:
Tom Green as The Computer Gimp(!) who throws a fit when someone dares bring a book into his cybercafe.

Things that happen just as folks who play an RPG would try to do them:
Attempt made to hide a corpse by blowing it up with dynamite on a beach
Tazering a Priest when caught in the apparent act of necrophilia
Using a Prince song for a eulogy at Skinhead funeral service

Computer Status update. Got my machine back, minus both the video cards.

Astley’s going to bring the cards down tonight, after he gets back from church. (expected about 8:30)

Let’s see how it goes.

Cool Orange Cats –

Newton
Streaky, the super cat (Supergirl’s Pet)
Morris
Heathcliff
Garfield
That Cigarette smoking one in ‘s latest animation. (has it a name?)
The Cat Next door to Snoopy
The Cat half of CatDog
Azraël
Bill
Bonkers
Josie! (well, a redhead hottie dressed as a kitty)
Bubastis (well, genetically altered lynx, but I dig the watchmen)
Swat Cats
Daniel Tiger on Mr Rogers.
Spot (Lt. data’s pet)
Spot (Hong Kong Phooey)
‘s Faithful Companion, Max!
(see Josie, above)

Is catbert Orange?

Hmm.. I know I’m forgetting someone. probably a lot.