If you or anyone you know is looking for temporary secretarial work until September, I have a friend in Hamtramck who says they very much need someone. Contact myself or ivynova!
There was a teensy bit of brain breakage.
•June 6, 2007 • 10 CommentsSo, I’m leaving the gas station yesterday afternoon, and I pass by a lady wearing a white T-shirt with Stevie Wonder on the front. Not, “Steve Wonder, Concert of 1984”, but a big square picture, like “I believe in Stevie Wonder and made this shirt all by myself.”
My first (crass) thought was, “Dude, he’s not getting any blinder.”
(it must be blinder. It’s no fun if it’s “more blind”. Leave me be! :D)
Allow me to clear this bit of indigestion, will you?
•June 5, 2007 • 8 CommentsI’m sure I’ll regret writing this tomorrow. I want to write a little about how I feel about spiteful people, clear the air as it were, because questions keep coming up, and I would like to not have to answer them again.
Saying anything in such a public place as my journal potentially implies that I take arrogant pleasure in how I deal with emotional bullies and provides exactly the attention that I do not intend to give.
However, I must express myself, and (as ever) feel a near-compulsion to make my intentions perfectly clear — due, in part, to my own mistakes and misconceptions over the years. It seems this pot will just get stirred up, over and over, and this is my last attempt to empty that pot, completely.
Perhaps you, my friend, have your own experiences or thoughts you’d like to share, and I can learn from you. Forgive me if the post seems self-indulgent; this is LiveJournal, after all.
I heard an author on public radio say, “With all the heart-breaking circumstances in life, who needs villains?” I quite agree.
I’ve got a problem
•June 5, 2007 • 18 Comments… and it’s your mom.
See, I’m in the kitchen looking for food, and my phone buzzes. I look at it and say aloud, “What?? Your mom’s got low battery!”
I realized, right then and there, that I’ve got to stop talking about your mom. Clearly, your mom isn’t even funny – in fact, your mom probably wasn’t funny when I started using it. Oh, it was always in inane circumstances (of the “your mom went to college!” variety, never insulting), but if I don’t get off your mom soon, people are going to start associating me with your mom.
And that’s not good.
So here I am, pledging honestly, right here and now, that I’m going to try to get off your mom for once and for all. It may be difficult, but I owe it to myself.
You have to do your part, though – when you stop laughing at your mom, I’ll stop bringing your mom up. Deal?
Mentionable and manageable
•June 5, 2007 • 1 Comment“And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.” – Mr. Rogers, defending Public Television funding, 1969
I can’t describe how much that one sentence resonates with me, nor how strongly I believe it is true for adults as well as children. (thanks, peculiaire)
Google Street View jewels
•June 5, 2007 • 10 CommentsSumida / New Tokyo Tower
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Intended to be complete in 2011, this 2,000 ft tower will be the largest free-standing antenna in the world, and will utterly dwarf the rest of the tokyo skyline. In a landmark arrangement, it will push out all of the digital audio and television signals for Tokyo, replacing entirely the current analog signals which are being blocked by new construction.
What I find most fascinating about the structure is The changing shape of the cross-section as you follow it up, from a triangle-shape to a circular cross-section. I wish I understood how this sort of shape would behave in wind and earthquake, compared to either fully rounded or traditional square shapes. Well, I can guess when it comes to wind, it’s really the stability I’m interested in.
Don’t mess with our lolcats, or we will fuck you up.
•June 4, 2007 • 7 CommentsRemember that post I made about Sci-fi writers joining the war on terror where I described how we can’t even defend ourselves from a Distributed Denial of Service attack (just like Livejournal is facing right now)?
Well, twice in the history of Teh Intarweb, a DDoS attack was performed on what’s termed the DNS Backbone, in an attempt to shut down the internet as a whole. These are the (now 13) main servers that translate your request for “meebo.com” into “69.36.250.253”, which points to the actual server those files sit on, and if they all go down, the internet (more-or-less) goes dark. Well, that’s debatable, but let’s move on shall we?
This is in reference to the second attack, that happened this February:
The attack began at 10:30 UTC, and lasted about five hours. Although none of the servers crashed, two of the root servers reportedly “suffered badly”, while others saw “heavy traffic”. The botnet responsible for the attack has reportedly been traced to South Korea. [2]
On February 8, 2007 it was announced by Network World that “If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source.”[3] This is likely due to one of the DNS root servers being under the control of the United States Department of Defense.
Now that I did not know. Interesting, how our gov’t has reserved the right to nuke the crap out of anyone who keeps us from our daily distractions, eh? Normally, I’d feel kind of uncomfortable, but actually, that puts me at ease.
I mean, c’mon, that’s our porn (nsfw) they’re threatening! Talk about a low blow.
He meant some TOTALLY AWESOME gamer nerd, I’m sure
•June 4, 2007 • 28 CommentsA friend of mine posted something she saw in a forum:
our graduation ceremony was today, and right when some gamer nerd got his diploma, someone in the audience played the zelda “get item” music and he did the zelda spin-hold-out-item stance
And I said that I felt an ache because I was not there for this experience… and that I think going back to school for three years would be worth it just to recreate this experience.
I don’t know if I’d have the guts for it, but I sure as hell hope someone videotaped that part of the ceremony. I’ll have to search youtube for it next month.
EDIT: I love jphotog‘s icon:
Fun stuff!
•May 31, 2007 • 9 CommentsSo, I’m reading comments in my friend netmouse‘s journal and I see peculiaire and joedecker and … I just had to sit back and marvel at the weird little circles and spirals and weaving webs we create with our friendships.
I totally thoguht that was netmouse. It was Mactavish, which is a whole ‘nother apple, and totally makes sense. *grins* whoops! Friendships, I’m afraid, no longer marvel me. Completely unmarvelled.
Ben came over with the three-part DVD of the last three shorts we produced, and I have to say, they’re pretty hilarious. I was A.D. on one, I helped pick and place sound on another, and was Director of Cinematography (as well as co-writer) on the third. Ask to see it! I promise, it’s more amusing than a wedding!