Cool, man.

A good reference set of pages…

http://www.phaster.com/index.html

ok, this is a pretty cool use of flash – an xml loaded phone directory.

A #1 Super Happy Special Lucky Fun Bill
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The Treasury Department recently sold 44,000 one-dollar bills to one person — at a price of $5.95 apiece.
The bills weren’t even all that special — they weren’t very old, and they didn’t have any major flaws that made them valuable to collectors.
What they did have though, was four number eights in a row in their serial numbers — a sign of luck to many people of Asian descent.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/luckymoney010525.html

Best Pep Rally Ever
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What witnesses call an inappropriately “racy” pep rally on a valley high school campus has lead to discipline for those involved, and students are not the only ones being disciplined.
Neely said that his son and 11 other students engaged in what amounted to sex acts at the school gym during the rally. High school officials and 900 students watched
http://thekcrachannel.com/sac/news/localnews/stories/news-localnews-78932920010524-230510.html

It’s Official: Canadians Are Dull
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QUEBEC – A new report says there is some truth to the notion that Canadians are a somewhat plodding and not very creative people, and suggests a traditionally Canadian approach to the problem: the establishment of a commission on creativity.
“Canada is not a very creative culture. Traditionally, it hasn’t been,” said David Bentley, professor of English at the University of Western Ontario and author of the principal recommendations of the report. “It’s tended to be a receiver, a secondary culture. I would love to see that turned around.”
The study says that while there are pockets of innovation in Canadian industry and schools, most of the country might as well be declared creatively AWOL.
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010525/573077.html

Do-It-Yourself Amputation
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OTTAWA – Adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has told how he cut the tops off his fingers using a saw and vice in his workshop when the pain from frostbite became unbearable.
In February last year, Sir Ranulph was flown to Ottawa for emergency treatment on his left hand after it became frostbitten during a solo trek to the North Pole.
On his return to England, the tips of the fingers and thumb turned black and dark red — evidence of dead flesh — and ached every time he touched something.In steady pain and months away from scheduled surgery, he retreated to his workshop at his home in Somerset for what he calls a “common sense” remedy. Using a vice mounted on a workbench, he inserted his injured fingers, one at a time, and cut off the dead ends with a saw.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20010525/573443.html

Teachers Make Fun Of Bart Simpsons
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At least one family is fuming over an “awards” banquet where Gustine Middle School teachers publicly ridiculed poor performers – including learning disabled students. Teachers gave about 30 students certificates for such things as lying, failing to turn in homework, trying to con teachers, being chronically late and getting D’s.
“You could visually see some of these children were angry. These are the days of Columbine (High School). This is not a funny matter.”
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=MOCKAWARDS-05-25-01&cat=AN

Deputy Fired for WTO Acts is Reinstated
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A King County sheriff’s deputy who was fired for using excessive force during the 1999 World Trade Organization unrest in Seattle will get his job back, an arbitrator ruled yesterday.
“The arbitrator basically ruled that it was OK to pepper-spray those girls in the car, and it was OK to kick that medical worker while she was on the ground,”
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/24461_wto24.shtml

Pilot Interrupts Class
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The mangled body of a Lebanese pilot plunged into the office of a schoolteacher yesterday, after IAF F-16 fighter planes and Apache helicopters shot down his light plane with an air-to-air missile.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/05/25/News/News.26930.html

Vegan Worcestershire Sauce

Ingredients:

• 6 Tablespoons water
• 4 Tablespoons tarmari soy sauce
• 2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 6 Tablespoons apple juice concentrate or brown rice syrup
• 1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses
• 1 teaspoon powdered ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
• a pinch of onion powder
• a pinch of powdered cloves or pumpkin pie spice

Directions:

Blend all ingredients. You can do this in a blender, with
an electric hand mixer, or an egg beater, or if you don’t
own any of these, just put everything in a jar or container
with a tight-fitting lid and shake, until it’s well
blended. Store in the refrigerator, and use as called for
in your favorite recipes.

Serves: 1 Cup

Preparation time: 15 mins

happiness is…
lying in bed, reading a good book, with a cat purring on your shoulder.

I’m going to confirm that theory! See you!

Hank Scorpio is my idea of a great supervillian!

Farewell, Mister Bunt! http://www.johnfiedler.com/globex/ for more about my hero. (Kodos and Kang take a close second.)

Thinking about classic science fiction now.

Five things I want from the 1950s/60s idea of 2001.

A personal Jetpack!

Food Pills that meet all my health needs.

Giant rubbery monsters isolated on a distant Japanese island that mete out environmental justice on those who would defile nature.

Radiation that Gives me Superpowers, with no bad side effects!

A society where man is free to explore his own personal growth, unencumbered by monetary needs of giant evil corporations in a friendly, kind one world government.

Really… I’d settle for the Jetpack.

Ah… nomad looks good, running like a top.

The lj client for windows is still much, much nicer, though.

Went to the grocery store, and got a sample box of Harmony. (A vanilla-tofu cereal targeted to women. No, really!!) I figured that If I’m in touch enough with my feminine side to start the community, I can have a sample-size box of this stuff. From the package design — soft shades of light blue and yellow — to the key nutrients, the cereal is designed with women in mind. The female silhouette above the product name is reaching, General Mills says, for balance — or harmony — in her life.

I notice the net is surprisingly fee of pictures of the box!
Here’s sort of a shot –

Say, is it me, or does that wisdom wall look like a bathroom?

Anyway, here goes. It’s Yummy! Much sweeter than I’d thought it might be…tasty and deals with milk ok. Vanilla-ish, as opposed to “MEGA VANILLA FLAVOR BOOOOM”. Sort of Vanilla Wheat Flakes with little nutty cluster thingies. (No honey flavor. though… I thought honey and nuts were required to hold hands? Perhaps that’s my cheerios indoctrination showing. ) I heard another review of the stuff, and I do agree… “Rice Crispie Treats and Aluminum Foil”. The aftertaste needs work. You know that feeling you get in your mouth after you eat a multi-vitamin? That sort of tinny taste? You get that after. Bleah. But, it goes away after you take another rmouthful…. until you was it down. then Bleah again… Maybe I’m hypersensitive though.. (I’m one of those picky people that can tell you if the coke I’m drinking was made with sugar or corn syrup this week). Just so you know.. A 1 1/4-cup serving of Harmony provides 100 percent of a woman’s daily recommended intake of folic acid and Vitamin E, 60 percent of the recommended calcium and half of the recommended iron and Vitamin C, plus 2 grams of soy protein… so I have that covered!

From the package design — soft shades of light blue and yellow — to the key nutrients, the cereal is designed with women in mind. The female silhouette above the product name is reaching, General Mills says, for balance — or harmony — in her life. Checked the side of the box against my half-empty total cornflakes…it turns out that Total has way more calcium, iron and vitamin C than Harmony, and it has equal amounts of folic acid and vitamin E. And Total has just 110 calories per serving, compared to Harmony’s 200 calories.

So, I wonder if the people that buy it know that it’s bigger on the hips…antioxidants, soy, calcium, iron and folic acid are all “hot” right now, so General Mills wanted to jump on that bandwagon. How ironic that if a woman chooses the cereal targeted at her, she’s missing the chance to eat an even more enriched cereal from the same manufacturer! Stupid marketing.

(Honestly, If I’m going to have a general mills cereal, lucky charms is my fave sweetened junk food cereal of theirs.. or monster cereals! MMMMmmM Frankenberry. )

Getting ready to make my system dual boot again…(linux, I’ve missed ya!)

Abandoning red hat and slackware for Nomad.

I wonder if I’m doing the right thing… ah well, worst comes to worst, I can just wipe and begin fresh (yay for mirrored hard drives!)

Besides, Encap makes stuff work really smoothly. (well, more smooth than not.)

Wish Me luck!

note to self –

configure –prefix=/usr/local/encap/packagename
make
make install

What happened to launchcast? 🙁 just a couple of radio stations, now?

at least the all access live music part is still keeno. (and I still have access to my other custom radio on radio.sonic.net.

Listen To My Station

My Sonicnet Music Station

but that station still needs tweaking. ah well, it’ll do. (I liked the other one better because you had more fine tune control… I love frank sinatra, but hate the song ‘love and marriage’ since married with children came on the air.)…

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/thumbs/newyork/newyork2.html

has some *amazing* photography by william gedney. gives good ideas for writing.

obstreperous ub-STREP-ur-us; ob-, adjective:
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; unruly.
2. Noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.

(My Sweetie was obstreperous as a child… closer to definition number 2. )

Obstreperous derives from Latin obstrepere, “to make a noise, to clamor at or against; hence, to disturb, to interrupt by clamor,” from ob-, “toward, against” + strepere, “to make a loud noise.”

I see you. Sitting there… Staring.

Hi!