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Hey Speck, those are great designs! Are you in a fashion curriculum/occupation? Sorry if you've said somewhere. You've got a talent for it, whether officially so noted or not. I didn't want to go by, neglecting your post with the shuttle news, without going back to say how much I appreciated your dresses. Your stories are always great too! Your creative Xenius is a beckon! Hey Coop, wanted to clock-in on your post too! Sorry about the illness. I hope that you re-Coop real soon! And yes, it's not just the Nyquil! Blogger is/was doing weird things with the line length to some of the posts... although, now that you mention it, the last few (at least) seem better now. Mayhaps you've already done the fiddlin? Either way, get better real soon! We miss you! Jeffron, cool articles! I only browse randomnly when I'm online, and little enough news filters in otherwise. I suppose I should sunscribe to one of those science newsletters. At least to notice something as big a the wireless 100th anniversary! Interesting too about the (next to last) Civil War widow. And she was still living in a log cabin! Wow! We have come a long ways! I think of it in the sense of what the Whitehouse must have been like during the Cuban Missile Crisis, compared to more recent technology. Let's see, they probably had a radio, though it may have been AM only, and it probably was tubed, not transistored. They might have had a phonograph/record player, although "Hi-Fi's" (which were about to come into vogue), may not have been available then. It would have played LP's and 45's, and quite possibly had a setting to play 78's. They might have had a tape recorder, reel to reel only. It may have been equipped as a dichtophone, able to record dictation. There might have been a TV, though it probably was Black and White. They may have had a ham radio, and, or other wireless communications. Though the CB revolution had not happened yet. There probably was a ticker-tape machine. (Ever see a ticker-tape parade? The ticker-tape machine makes the ticker-tape, a way of reporting stock prices, as soon as they fluctuated, well that and as soon as they could be sent by wire and printed-out on the ticker-tape machine. Please correct me if I've got that wrong). They might have had a telegraph machine (close kin to ticker-tape machine, except used for any type of communication, not just stock prices). They probably had a typewriter, though it wouldn't have been electric. There were satelites. That might have been where they got the satelite photos of the Russian ships, with the bound for Cuba missiles. But in 1963, there probably were only about as many satelites as could be counted on your fingers (and possibly toes). They may have had a memograph copier, though modern Xerox copiers would not have been invented yet. And of course they had telephones, the old dial type. Well, and the "Red Phone" for direct communications with Russia (didn't need a dial, it only connected to the Kremlin). There were no digital/tone phones then, no cell phones, no fax machines, no desktop computers, no Macs, no laptops, no modems, no DSL, and absolutely no World Wide Web! No cable, digital or high definition TV. Color TV was just being developed. No video or digital cameras, no audio cassette recorders/players, no "Walkmans", no CD players, no electronic game systems (not even "Pong"), no pagers/beepers, no geo-physical locators, no digital clock radios, FM radio was only being developed, Rock and Roll had begun to leave an impression, though most of the music in the Whitehouse was probably Classical or Jazz (some things haven't changed, HA), no micro-wave ovens, no boom boxes, no robotics (though "Robbie the Robot" may have been seen in "Fantastic Planet" by then), and certainly no one had ever gone to the Moon! They probably carried out most of the business, negotiating with Kruschev (Russia's Primeminister at the time), via aforementioned "Red Phone." And the rest of their communications/information gathering was via courier and dial phones. Although it is entirely possible that some messages were sent via telegraph. On this technology, we narrowly missed having a nuclear war with Russia. Oh yea, I forgot... they had the bomb. In fact, they had the hydrogen bomb (a big brother to the atom bomb, about a thousand times more powerful than the ones dropped on Japan during WWII). Well, the bomb is what it was all about. My point? Er, uh, I don't have one really, but that I guess we keep marching on. It is incredible how much has happened/has been developed in 40 years! And this doesn't even touch on military, medical, or other, more commercial technologies, I'm sure others would be more adept at mentioning. It'd be nice to think that we develop such for peaceful uses. However, the military tends to lead the way in research and development. To a large extent, the fate of the shuttle program is in their hands. Ahhh, memories! heh! Peace-Out Y'All! Awwa \A/
Aw "We've grown used to the idea of space, and perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave." - Ronald Reagan, Jan. 28, 1986 I was in Ms. Malis’s class that day. There were two lunch periods, and mine was later. I guess it was like a recess period, because there were only a few of us in the classroom. Ms. Malis had been a flight attendant before she taught school, so she’d traveled all over the world and had a real passion for geography. She was nuts about Egypt, and we spent a whole lot of time making pyramids and cardboard sarcophagi covered with crayon hieroglyphics. I was in the back of the room, coloring a map of Africa. It was a big map and I was almost done. I was coloring the little countries on the eastern coast. I remember I was coloring the Ivory Coast purple when someone came in and said the Space Shuttle had blown up. I didn’t remember how I felt then, until today. Columbia was named after a sailing ship, the first U.S. ship to circle the earth, in 1792. That ship also discovered a river up in Oregon, ‘Columbia’s River’. It’s funny, I picture some crusty old codger in 1792 saying “Bah, why sail around the earth. Waste of time and money if you ask me.” But I’m sure glad we have a robust international shipping system, in which global sea voyages are routine and common. When people say the space program is a waste of time and money, I’d say they are being like that old codger in 1792. The future will be what we make it. I truly believe that one day space travel will be widespread, and that people will live on other worlds. It’s really true, we have only just begun. The Wright Brothers first flight was in 1903, 100 years ago. They flew at 10 miles an hour, at an altitude of 10 feet. New reports say Columbia broke up at an altitude of 200,000 feet, at a speed of over 13,000 miles per hour. A couple weeks ago, I read this article about the 100th anniversary of the first wireless transmission. Think of that! This completely common thing everyone uses every day has only been around for 100 years. I thought that was amazing, and in a similar vein, this article also reminded me that the past is not that long ago, and progress, real progress, has been amazing. Bowie, did I really just quote Ronald Reagan?
jeffron x I'm feeling pretty sad about the astronauts. I just bought an outdated book from the Glendale library yesterday about moon exploration. It must be so chilling for people in Texas where the debris is falling. Speck, I loved looking at your outfits. I still haven't splurged on my sewing machine, but I think I really ought to soon! I'm inspired. Of course I probably wouldn't be producing anything wearable right away considering I haven't done any real sewing since I was about 8 years old. -agraham
Anna It's sad. The space shuttle, Columbia is down, somewhere over Texas. It was scheduled to land in Florida today, but something happened on the descent back to Earth. This from a news article at Yahoo: "CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Columbia apparently broke apart in flames as it streaked over Texas toward its scheduled landing Saturday, killing all seven astronauts, six Americans and an Israeli." & "Shortly after Columbia lifted off Jan. 16, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and was believed to have hit the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard." Nothing has been confirmed as to exactly what happened, though the second excerpt above may indicate a possible event leading to the accident. Terroism is not believed to be connected to this disaster. It is a sad day for the space program. My heart goes out to the families. Awwa \A/
Aw good morning Chairites... and happy New Year, xw. :) (glad groundhog-day eve to the rest of you!) I am in hibernation/recovery mode for the next few days at least, but I can be reached at my xenius address. Things are much better than they were earlier in the week. Still have a job. Haven't had my salary published in the paper. Had oysters (cooked) for the first time last night. Loved them. I am glad there have been so many posts, even though I haven't really had time to participate. Let me get the brain fog cleared up, and I'll be right with you. Is the blogger template looking yukky to anyone else? All the table sizes are different for each post. #%&*! I think I will fool around with a new design starting next week. If anyone has graphics, color suggestions, taglines, (heh) or revolutionary concepts in blog design, email me and we'll talk. Speck! I loved the suits. (well, I liked all of your designs, but the suits are something I could actually wear) The 80s suit is so much cooler than a real one could ever have been. They cheered me up this morning, as I sat here in my voluminous blue plaid pants. thanks! Welcome Sara, glad you joined us.
coop So I just posted a bunch of really crappy photos of the stuff that I've been sewing recently. go check it out... http://www.xenius.org/speck/sweatshop.html I need to fix it up so that it looks not quite so depressing. Half the pictures are blurry and I look weird in all of them because it's strange to take your own picture. So whatever I'm not a self-portrait person. Two of my friends who go to school at SF Art Institute are making me and my clothes part of this photo project of theirs. I'm pretty excited about it. They're using a large format polaroid - it takes HUGE pictures, and apparently there were only 5 of the cameras that were made and SFAI has one of them I guess. Anyhoo, I'm excited about it. I think they're going to have me wear the Space Invaders Dress and the Green Coat Dress. I'm awfully partial to my suits but I think that they want something more colorful/bizarre. But really, my black and red Corporate Cheerleader Suit is pretty bizarre as far as I'm concerned. But Josh doesn't like it that much for some reason. ah, well. I have more clothes that I've sewn, but I got tired of changing outfits and staring solemnly at the camera. And grandfunkpunk- I'm sorry I've been such a slacker about getting back to you about the suit. I still want to do it - really! ho molto sonno alla prossima tutti
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Hey thanks for the props Jimmy! Anyone interested in their very own copy of "Awwa's PoP Hits" can send their snail mail addy to awwa1@yahoo.com Send for your free copy today! Welcome Sara! Nice to meet you! I'm new here too! Lousy about the misinformation being printed there in San Diego! But it's becoming that way everywhere! I swear we got a conspiracy on our hands that is bigger than anyone ever imagined! The SUV's and the propaganda machines just keep rolling along! And if that oilman/(illegitimate?)President has his way, he'll have his filthy hands on all of that Iraqi oil in no time! I'm sure Sadam is a real bad man. But this is going about resolving the problem all wrong, for the wrong reasons, with little home support and partically no world support! If we thought that foreigners hated Americans before, look out after this mess hits the fan! It's a classic situation where a few power mongers are using the fear of the masses to fuel what appears to be support for an otherwise completely Imperialistic grab for resources! And they probably won't stop there! Jest Yew Wetch! (Heh, borrowed your misspelling Speck). The good news is that people like Robert Redford, Nelson Mandala, Jimmy Carter and others are coming out and making statements, that do get reported in the news! The bottomline is that it will still take the support of the people, a grassroots movement, to do anything about these leeches of society! I believe that eventually people all over the world will discover the key to everyone's success is cooperation with all peoples, whatever their ethnenticity, religion or other cultural background. Those who don't understand that are the ones who'll be spoiling to continue to cause problems with the rest. Alas, Humanity! Whew! Can ya tell I feel kinda strongly about it? Aw well, it'll work out in the long run I guess. It'd be nice to see more people actively working in that direction. Now that'd be worthy of new coverage! Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw Hey. I just joined Xenius. My name is Sara. I'm in high school. Ummm.. I don't exactly know what else to say. I'm really excited to make a website. http://www.xenius.org/discomamma ciao darlings
Sara 35 minutes ago I was walking past the World Bank next door to my office building with my nose in a book. While I was reading about an angry scientist who sent a letter to his partner in response to his partner unveiling their Grand Unified Theory before it was even ready, the World Bank was being robbed. Again. This is the second robbery in two weeks, and the fourth in 3 years. All I had to do was look inside. Anyhow, the letter is even more interesting. It was a blank page with the caption, "This page proves I can paint like Titian. Only technical details are missing." _________________________________________ My friend went to the Martin Luther King parade here in San Diego. She said in the march behind an anti-war campaign vehicle were at least 3,000 people. The waves of people just kept coming and coming, she said. The San Diego Union Tribune, with its own agenda of manufacturing consent, reported '100'. I HATE THIS WHOLE FUCKING PLANET.
jimmy 2 out of 11 sites were "sub-genius", Awwa, but I think we get the picture. The word "slack" in this context has been around since before Chaucer; the dude who is lucky enough to be cited for many first recorded word usages. Well. Maybe not that lucky, he is dead. His stuff is fun to read because it's like someone threw German and English and Latin into a bowl and made some sort of sex-lit gumbo. We have another new member, folks! His name is "saturday", and he found us through cuddlecore. Sheez, this zine circuit is massive! I wish I could go to zine-town. My friend cabney (www.xenius.org/cabney) started a public library in his home which is this cool industrial space, so x-w sent a bunch of zines to add to his public book collection. I think it got me hooked on zines, to be sure. I haven't even given them to him yet. Uh. *laughs nervously*. Today is a big deadline at work. I can't believe how busy I am this weekend. I'm supposed to record with friends, finish up the paper (got an extension til monday), take my aunt out to Sea World (Shamu's misadventure) on Saturday (puke). My mom asked if I was available. I told her I didn't think I would be very nice since I would have a hang-over. She said "well don't drink!", and I pretended that I couldn't comprehend what she was talking about. "Don't....don't drink? Um...you mean like...you mean like don't drink too much?" "You don't have to drink on Friday, Jimmy." "Um. I'm not sure what you...oh! You mean I don't have to drink alone?" "You know what I mean." "Uh...call me back when you make sense?" _______________________________________________ True story: (When someone prefaces a story with "true story", doesn't it make you doubt everything they've ever said?) A friend had me play guitar at her wedding. As a gift, she had the oppurtunity to buy this shiny silver writing kit and have it engraved with my initials, or buy this booze flask and have that engraved with my initials. Confused by my WRITTEN stories of drunkenness (they were written stories, which suggests I write at least more often than I drink in one sense), she bought me the flask instead of the writing kit. I was pretty hurt by it, and it was revealed later she thought I was sort of a drunk. My close friends know better though. My roommate still thinks I drink only once per year! (She's known me ten.) Fact is, I have about 1.5 drinks every two weeks; which is alot for me, but didn't start until I was 27. It's just that everytime I have a drink, I REALLY have a drink. _______________________________________________ Arg, time for work.
jimmy May I point out a few sites... http://www.subgenius.com/ts/hos.html Which is the "Hour of Slack" Sub-Genius Web Radio. Pretty funny stuff! If you listen to enough of it, you find yourself buying their stuff! next thing you know, you are a subgenius! Hey, nothing wrong with that! In fact, I believe that they actively (more than most liberal radio can get away with), point out the reasons some things happen, and make-up a good reason why it's wrong that it happens! They're some of the most acvtively creative, idiots that I've seen anywhere! And then there's the Church... http://www.subgenius.com/ Well, these guys are for real! At least in as much as propogating this stuff for 15 or 20 years! Again, you too can become ordained! For a slight fee! But it's all reasonable! In fact, if you read the literature, you'll find that most of it is right! I guess, knowing Jimmy, "I'll never wear a T-Shirt with someone's logo on it!"I question if you want to have that association! Now everyone who reads this... do your own personal web search for the word "slack." Report back here, how many of the hits were related to the church of the SubGenius. Okay, I'm letting everyone off the hook! You don't have to report back here. But if you don't find the hits I'm talking about, say nothing, Heh! oKAY, SO NOW i'M TRICKING THOSE WHO DON'T SEARCH AND WHO DON'T CARE!, and not only that, but my CAPS lock was on! http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=op&va=&vp=Slack&vo=&ve=&h=w&bbase=Search&vl=&vc=&vd=all&vt=any&vss=i&vs=&vr=&vk=&r=all&g=0&n=20 Above, a Yahoo search for, "slack" Fudgit! I just wanted to say, "slack" is big as SubG, and SubG is big on tha Net! And anything otherwise posted with "slack" as a mention, will throw it's lot in with SubG. Now that's not necessarily a bad thing. Just be aware of it, heh! If you haven't seen it yet, SubGenius is pretty cool/funny! Hey, Peace-Out Speck and AnaG! And All! Awwa \A/
Aw Awwa, I got your cd in the mail today. I'm totally excited about it. Judges? I think you're brilliant. THANK-YOU! I have shitloads of music software to give you. I had intended it for the hive, but I haven't uploaded them yet. Let me know what programs you're after and I'll upload them for you. You should have access to everything you want.
jimmy Thank you for posting that article, Speck! That's the sort of thing that makes my day. The pcrm quoted in the article is a group that I really admire. :)
Anna You're probably right, there, Awwa. I don't know much about the church of the sub-genius, though I'm sure the last thing we need is someone babbling about a "church of the sub-xenius". It is funny though, that alot of the ideas I've come up with probably have direct analogs in Sub-Genius territory. I need an exclamation that denotes frustration without digust. "Yeesh" isn't good enough. Nothing new under the sun, anyhow.
jimmy I haven't caught-up on all of today's posts, but at work, as I was reading Jimmy's post, just below the last post, which after this one makes it about three posts down, the post where he was going on about the tire, and the name for the new paper; I thought that I might point out the obvious. Anything named "slack" might have "Sub-Genius" connotations. They pretty regularly slaughter everything with "slacknesses!" Now, I'm not saying that Xenius isn't pretty close to "Sub-Genius" (and the Church of Bob Dobbs, in case anyone was wondering), nor that they are nor aren't closely related, and I don't claim to know all of the aforementioned cross-pollinationatory associations. But I did want to point out the obvious. As incredibly fun as "The Slack Intelligencer" is, it might be already used, confused, reused and abused by other associations. How about "The Xenillion!" Oh and one other thingy. I can't seem to figure out how to change my signature/nickname to these posts. When I signed-up for Blogger, I told them my first name was Aw, and my last name was Wa, HA! So now they want to sign me as Aw. But when I looked at their Help section it said to click on a button that I don't see on my tool bar, "Configuration" or "Terminal" or something. Anyway, if anyone has a pointer about that, I'll be much obliged. Ty Awwa \A/
Aw Medical school replaces lab animals with computer simulations January 30, 2003 The University of Colorado medical school will begin using computer simulations for cardiovascular and respiratory physiology labs beginning this spring. The simulations will replace the use of live dogs in the lab as part of an effort to control costs, the Associated Press reports. Computer simulations have been used in renal labs in place of live animals since 2001 at the university. As many as 70% of U.S. medical schools currently use information technology-based applications in place of live animals in the lab, according to the (http://www.pcrm.org/) Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Animal activists had urged the University of Colorado to stop using animals for teaching purposes. "It's a decision we've made independent of any pressure we may have gotten," UC spokeswoman Sarah Ellis said. "This is a financial decision." University officials expect to save $17,000 in the spring quarter; the school spent $27,000 on 29 dogs last year (Hamilton, 1/30). ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why are people such jerks sometimes? Whenever they stop doing something bad they always say that it was a "financial decision" instead of just admitting that they were wrong. Ho torto. is it so hard? good god. One of my friends has a dog that was rescued from a medical lab. He's a little beagle named Flip and he's so very cute, I just can't imagine someone doing whatever it was they did to him. Poor Flip. He is a little deranged, but it's hard to tell how much of that is from being a medical testing dog and how much of that is from just being a beagle.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I have another Tenderloin moment for ya'll. I was walking down my street on sunday to go to the farmer's market at Civic Center. It was a lovely sunny day and everyone was kinda fired up because the Tet Festival (Vietnamese New Year) was going on over on the next street and so there were lots of people milling about and firecrackers going off and such things like that. Anyhoo, as I passed a liquor store on the corner, the Cadillac Market, I saw these three guys who were out front. They were a little older and semi-cracked out, alcoholic, whatever you know just dudes, blah. They had set up some milk crates in front of the store and had a huge boom box on top of them and they were BLASTING Prince's Erotic City and totally dancing to it. Like really gettin' down but still clutching their 40's in their hands. ah, yes. tee hee hee And later that day I wandered through the Tet Festival which was full of billowing smoke from the grilling meat and firecrackers going off all over the place and little baby girls dressed in huge fluffy pink dresses and drag queens in tight gold outfits with big sunglasses and even bigger lips and pop singers on stage with wild pattern pants and lots of orchids and french pastries. Ho sonno oggi. Ho fame ora. ci vediamo.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians  I had to do something before I went to bed. Funny that I wanted to do something that was about nothing. This paper is driving me nuts, but on Friday it's over. Welcome aboard Awwa, your post made me laugh, even if I was surprised you settled on "amber" rather than brown. Harumph!!! Anyhow, I haven't requested the subdomain for the paper yet (i.e., slack-intelligencer.xenius.org). I am doing it tomorrow (thursday). If anyone has a possible name for the paper or even a story, let me know. I don't want to commit to a subdomain only to miss out on someone's idea. Then we can vote, I dunno. I was supposed to put up "In the Slacker's Studio", which is finished, but I haven't got the energy to code it yet. Svedig gives good interview! Got a flat today. Called Triple-A, had them say "credit card number, sir?", reached in the wallet only to discover... I'd left it at Radioshack last night. Called the Radioshaq, and they naturally refused to divulge the number Walked back to my car. Found a spare. Drove the car back to work to tell them I was ok. Walked out to car. Spare was flat. Walked upstairs, told them I was about to load the dolly in the server room with two tires and walk to the gas station for air. Of course who would guess this: The dolly tire was flat. Got a ride. Finally made it home. Napped. Yelled at the woman who I'm doing the paper with. She yelled at me. I got all soft, said I was sorry. She continued complaining about life in general. Made latkes. (Though onions give me nightmares.) Talked to X-W. Failed to help her come up with zine title, my best being "pretend it never happened", and "A Beautiful Guide to Tupperware", which I thought was ironic somehow, but now that I look at it, "what the fuck was I thinking?" -put on Blade Runner as background noise. I have seen (or heard) this film perhaps 1200 times. Not even a joke. Rented it 3 days ago, watching it for the 11th time since. It was worse when I owned it. The last time I did this, I made this. Beware, there is MIDI. God, I was such a fucking geek. That replicant info about me? Well, it's in the proper format. (Except I gave myself a mental level of A.) It's a good thing I can't get into Star-Trek, else I'd have been officially out of the gene pool by now. Going to bed. Must buy tire in the morning. On screen now: (Roy Batty examines chess game between Tyrell and Sebastian, and moves a piece.) Sebastian: Nope, knight takes queen, see? Won't do. *sigh* For the record, chess games in movies are 9 times out of 10 based on famous games. The game in 2001, the one in Blade Runner, haven't researched the one in 1984, but etc., etc.. One of the crowning moments of my life: Driving into Los Angeles to see Anagram's art which was on display at the Bradbury building...the Ray Bradbury building that was Sebastian's house and was the set of the beautiful closing scene of Blade Runner. Anagram's art on a Blade Runner set! Of course, it was me. I missed her art by a few days. 12:24 am. Goodnight. [note: the time posted below will make me look like a liar.]
jimmy slack is a way of life. it's a beautiful way of life. welcome to xenius, all y'all new members, by the way. why is slack a beautiful way of life? it's like this comforting feeling I get while in school. Sure, everyone around me is calculating their next move and how to get into Harvard and their GPA, while I am slack. I am content, I am centered, I am arrogant that my slack powers will get me through much and my charm will get me everywhere. I've been noticing that more and more lately. Maybe I'm just too arrogant for my own good. --- On a side note, our school has started an abstinence campaign. They do mention contraception, but it's more along the lines of "Contraception is not 100% effective!" The posters are so funny. They're pasted everywhere in the girls' bathrooms, so whenever i take a piss, I'm reading a "SPERM - ALL IT TAKES IS ONE" poster or "How to say no to sex:" It's pretty crazy and absurd 'round here lately. Abstinence ! yay! I also enjoy the "You two look so cute together....don't ruin it by having sex" poster. that sums up why i've been away from xenius for quite awhile. abstinence, school bathrooms and slack. obviously.
x A lone harmonica seems fixated on a single note, "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAH! WAAAH! WAAAH!" The stranger dusts his chaps with a slap of his wide-brimmed hat, squinting in the darkened environment of this new bar, his new home. He deftly moves the toothpick he's been sucking on, from corner of his mouth to the other. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAH! WAAAH!" Setting his hat back, half pulled over his eyes, he saunters over to the counter, with a "Ching, Ching, Ching!" each step a ring from his spurs. Tossing a double-eagle on the bar he orders, "Ya got any micro-brews? Something with a little hoppiness to it?" The barkeep just stares back at the stranger, all the while he polishing the mugs behind the bar. Finally he says, "Yea, we got a few micro-brews. Ya like 'em golden, amber or brown?" The stranger looks the barkeep straight in the face, "Amber will do." Then without turning his head, he spits the toothpick into the spittoon at his feet, in anticipation of something a little more to his liking to suck on. "WAAAAAAH! WAAAH! WAAAH!" ==================================================================== Heh! Hi all! ;-D I missed ya! I been kinda busy on a few projects. I'm actually getting a few Art ideas together, still doing some music and other pursuits. Then I happened to check by the "Regs of Noy" and saw the addy for "Xenius!" Whoever came-up with the idea for this place is a Xenius! It's reaallllllll niiiicce! And good to see some familiar faces and all. Thanks Jimmy for getting me started and Coop for Blogging me on! As for cutbacks... our Governor's doing the same kind of house cleaning. Fortunately, I work for the Agency which handles the retirement contributions. Sooo, usually when the rest of the state downsizes, we actually add positions to handle all of the buy-outs, early retirements, and refund requests. It's pathetic how inefficient they tend to be, because the buy-outs pay the best people to leave, so that the rest of the work force has to work harder, for less pay! But alas, looking for a better job just cuts into my slacktime too heavily! Gotta have "slack!" Many of the worlds problems could be solved, if only we could figure an environmentally safe way to increase the amount of slack! Peace-Out (for now)! Awwa \A/
Aw thanks Jimmy... it is like a slaughterhouse in here, the morning after... so many empty cubicles. I just sent out some Blogger invites, so watch your mailboxes, those of you who emailed me already. :) I never got called into Catbert's lair yesterday, not being in the "laid off" or the "moved to another department" groups, just the "guess what, we fired your cohort and now you get to do his job *and* yours for no more money" group. It's too bad, because I would have had some fun things to say. (then again, that might have been a good thing... I am still here, after all) Bowie, I am in dire need of a distraction from your Glamness!
coop I'm wishing you the best, coop. I can see it now. guy: Any relation to Alice Cooper's first wife? Mary: No, heh. It's just a coincidence. guy: Boy I just love Alice Cooper. Hey, you must know about him? What's your favorite song? Mary: (somewhat stumped) Well...hehe, it's hard to say. I guess I just sorta like 'em all. guy: I'm the same way! Yech. _________________________________________________________________________________ Ok, so I mentioned a few things that aren't getting done because I've been so busy. I mentioned the slack news forum. It' s actually set up, but it hasn't been customized yet. If you'd like to see it, go to http://www.xenius.org/xforum/temp/index.php. I am also requesting a sub-domain for a farcical newspaper, being slightly different than the other newsforum in that it's more in the spirit of The Onion. Something like http://blank-inquisitor.xenius.org , or whatever. The newspaper would be updated "whenever" and articles submitted "whenever". I told my workmate about it and he sent me an email saying, you mean something like this? Jay Blank's perfect accent when ordering was seemingly unnoticed by a taco shop employee sources reported late Tuesday night. "I don't get it" said Mr. Blank. "I ordered a Chili Verde Burrito combo, number 4, and made sure I used proper pronunciation en Español. That means, "in Spanish" he explained. "But I could have said chilly verdy for all that guy cared" Mr. Blank muttered as he ate his number 4 combo. I responded with "yes, that's fucking brilliant!" If anyone has any ideas about a name and symbol for such a paper, let me know. TheDiscoMamma, whom I only just met (she found us through cuddlecore's site) said she wouldn't mind helping. I think that's just damned great. xenii inquisitor blank inquisitor the slack intelligencer whatever. -jimmy
jimmy Welcome new folks. (nice to "see" you again Awwa!) Any new members who want to post on the forum, send a quick missive to me by clicking the handy "contact forum czarina" link on the upper left. I'll get you all set up. Lately, I have been a spiritual presence on the forum rather than a participant. Sometimes benevolent and sometimes wrathful. Well, not at any of you, or your posts, but wrathful in general. Today is official "Office Space" re-enactment day at my place of work. The consultants are calling everyone into the HR Catbert's office one by one, and giving some people the heave-ho. I am not on the list, as far as I know, but lots of my friends are. Including lots of people who actually do the work around here. Shucks. I feel like going in there carrying a stapler and muttering about moving my desk again. I am skittish about using the ladies' room because I know there are people crying in there. So, if you have any luck to spare, or any vibes of good slack, send 'em our way.
coop Incidentally, xenius dot org has several new members, and of course I've failed to mention it. ___________________________________________________________________________ Awwa, suburbangoth, anteater and the Disco Momma! Welcome aboard! I keep forgetting to tell everyone about the blog too. BAD DOBBY!!!!! Anyhow.
jimmy People rioted in Oakland when the Raiders lost. People riot on college campuses when their teams win, causing injuries, massive public damage (i.e., overturned cars, fires and destroyed traffic signs to name a few). The best way to deal with the loss (or win) of your favorite football, basketball or hockey team is to overturn the cars of your neighbors and fellow citizens, most of whom will most likely have been rooting for the home team anyhow and so therefore will be rioting themselves. This is a sure argument to be raised while you are held in police custody as a counter to questions such as "didn't you know flipping random cars and setting them on fire was illegal?" Answer: "Well yes, but they were probably doing it to my car as well." Please, if you are going to pull motorists out of their cars and beat, kill or maim them (because your favorite team won or lost an important game), be sure to keep blood stains off of your own clothing. Have respect for the team jersey! I mean, look at the team when they're on the field. Do any of their jerseys have blood on them? Everyone knows that you can't bring a traffic light down by shaking it. Traffic lights cost millions of dollars to set up. Swinging from it, pushing against it, kicking it or beating it with a "no parking" sign will NOT get the job done. The city wouldn't invest in such a flimsy artifact...I mean, traffic lights are supposed to save lives and time and money, so they're built to last. The best way to bring down a traffic light is to steal a police car or other sturdy vehicle (gotta love the Crown Victoria) and ram it into the traffic light's base in excess of 40 mph or so. I can't stress this enough and frankly, I'm tired of repeating it: Therefore, if a riot batallion is charging you with night sticks, tazers, tear gas, blast shields, nets and beanbag guns, calm your stupid ass down, take a deep breath and gently place your beer in a safe place. Or fuck it. Just down it, but make sure you're standing still. I have not met anyone who can run from cops while simultaneously gulping beer. More notes later.
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