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Jimmy, I wonder if you'll pass my fiance on the road?! He's going to reach Dallas tonight, and continue westward tomorrow morning. ____________ He ended up breaking down just past the border of TX/ New Mexico, and got towed back to Anthony, TX. I'm so disappointed. Of course, it's Sunday, so he has to wait 'til tomorrow to try to get the car serviced. I'm just hoping like heck it's something small and can be fixed quickly. ____________ Update! One fuel pump later and a day late, he's back on the road. Esimated Arrival Time: tomorrow evening, Los Angeles.
Anna test melody 2.36 mb. you and your flailing horses kicking up the dust woe for your wicked body strapped to your baton heroes and the anthropol grind and mash their teeth and the world has sunk beneath gone with your tortured buildings wan beneath their rust bombs like some maverick comets buried in the dust you bring your armies, and we will bring the heat and we'll put this world to sleep ...and we will rise again with our flailing horses kicking up the dust on with our pretty bodies bent beneath their hooves heroes and the anthropol grind and mash their teeth when the world has sunk beneath the world has sunk beneath... Off to TX today.
jimmy OOPs!
jimmy Hey guys, Thank you very much for the sympathy, and Jimmy, thanks for trying to get info for me. I was finally able to get an audience with one of the fin.aid office's managers yesterday afternoon. He turned out to actually be really nice and considerate. Unlike his subordinates, he did not try to toss all sorts of blame at me. He reviewed my account, and went to speak to the loan people in the office about it. In the end, he was able to work things out in a manner that was much more acceptable to me. He also acknowledged that certain things need to be fixed in the whole system to eliminate this sort of mistake happening. He said that sometimes it takes about 2 years for mistakes like this to be caught. I was a little creeped out at first when I went into this guy's office, because he had a picture of himself with GWB in there, but he did help, so... Basically he shuffled an older loan that had been backed out, back in, to cover most of the amount they said I owed, leaving only about $1300 remaining. Then, without making me do any more paperwork or running around, he processed my summer loan application for an amount that will pay them back their $1300 and leave me with $1100 to take for my summer living expenses. This arrangement gets me out of crisis mode. It still sucks that there was such a big mistake in the first place, but I'm feeling much more calm now. Thank goodness, cause it hurts to be that angry. Jimmy, I forgot about my response to that peter spam guy. LOL! (btw, I go to USC, not the rival school, UCLA. Since I don't give an excrement about sports, I don't consider UCLA my adversary, however.)
Anna  The hive currently contains a very interesting album by Blonde Redhead. They are: Kazu Makino : singer, guitar Simone Pace : drums Amedeo Pace : guitar, bass, singer The Pace's are twin brothers from Italy I think, and Kazu is from Japan. I think it's considered noise pop, but it's heavily mathematical. In any case, it's gorgeous and I think XW especially would enjoy it if she hasn't heard it already (probably has). The music industry is currently threatening to sue people who share lots of music files (more likely this threat is specific to networks like Kazaa, Xolox, Limewire, etc..). I have mixed feelings about it. In any case, it's probably time to start pulling some of the more popular downloads from your Shared Music directories if you use a filesharer. a poetic dialogue jeffron and jimmy and vanderguile accident as glyph. the hidden grammar, disguised as death and dying or scattered siderolite shattering exactly. a quiet, grassy clearing. then suddenly! silence. a curious arrangement of fallen branches. so the blackbird knows a certain ratio, and falls softly what such machines say by the fluidity of their parts -the opulence of spaces is merely the syntax. the message, comes just after. -jimmy ____________________ Glyph as accident. the dying grammar, hidden and disguised as death or shattering siderolite exactly scattered. a clearing quiet, grassy. then silence! suddenly. Curious branches of a fallen arrangement. So a certain blackbird knows the ratio, and softly falls what their machines say by such fluidity of parts -the opulence of syntax is merely the spaces. just after, comes the message. -jeffron It was some sort of dialogue. He replied directly to the post which was called "delete this post", calling it: "why we can't blame martin". A response? An edit? A nibble? Whatever, I loved it. Then Vanderguile came along...he/she was a chess partner who did not want me to reveal that I knew them in the club, and did not want me to reveal their gender (which I'll remain true to). predetermined as ? obvious hallmark of code— dead Liz Kubler Ross or exact "editor lies" collected, combined a grassy clearing? oxymoronic. then silently! __________ improvisations of Beethoven's 9th SR-71A 9.8m/s^2 911 0 and 1, they say by continuity of the whole syntax, the merely corpulent space there is no message. -vanderguile Then: actually had the oppurtunity to see an SR-71 blackbird take off in Mildenhall England. It was phenomenal. -jimmy And Anna, who made me laugh when a bot named Petescandoper came into the club to spam: Dear Petescandoper, please get your piddly little peter out of our club. Best wishes, Anna I'd better get back to work.
jimmy Anna, I was going to reply to your Financial Aid nightmare yesterday. I was all worked up about it, but Blogger was upgrading and I couldn't get in. That sounds just fricking awful and it seems like there has to be some way the situation can be corrected. As Financial Aid is a federal affair, and hence country wide, I'm wondering if there's any way I can do some research for you. Our clients are in the Financial Aid and Admissions business, and I speak to them on a regular and friendly basis. Also, my boss knows the system very well. I'm sure they could tell me something. None of them are from UCLA specifically, but from what I understand it shouldn't be that different from school to school. [*just sent an email to my boss*] I hope this gets straightened out.
jimmy Er? Bigger and Better Blogger? Was this a Blogger upgrade, or a Xenius one? Does anyone else see a change? I got a Help popup when I first started to post, and there's a calendar in the lower right corner now. I could close the Help, but the calendar looks permanent. Not that it's in the way, just different. So far posting seems to work the same. Alas, technology marches on! *sigh* Jimmy, as soon as I saw the Trinidadian spelling of Geejoavor ("Jimmy"), I started looking into changing my citizenship (not to mention my religion)! We all need a little Jimmy now and then! Funny thing, when I came-up with/chose my nome de plume/paintbrush, in Art school all those many years ago (circa 1974-5), I was not so familiar with Eastern or Mideastern names. Seems Awa/Awwa/Awwai/AWWA (American or Australian Water Works Associations), etc, are already names in several cultures; Japan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, USA, Australia to name a few. Course the latter two referring to the water works association. Coincedentally, I was born under the water sign, Heh, which is all good to me. I did choose the name because it had that sound (Eastern/Mideastern), but only later realized that it pre-existed my placing my initials (AW), added in reverse (WA) to themselves. Course I'm not sure that any refer to Awwa as a god. Likely as not it is used to street bums as in, "Get your Awwass out of my doorway! You're driving away the customers!" Some good articles Chief! I believe that someone posted "The Cog" earlier. It is a classic, as is "Lauf der Dinge" (sp?). And I keep wishing that those sliding approval ratings will be Bush's undoing. I fear the nation may need something more dramatic, to vote him out this coming election. I've read some of that stuff about needing 5 or so hours of sleep a day. And power napping definitely works for me! But my power naps are usually unplanned. I suspect if I tried to control/schedule them, I'd lose all benefit worrying about the schedule! Instead of a rock and a pail, I have actually used a pen or pencil in the described manner. While dosing in a sitting position, holding a book, pen or pencil, I start back awake as the pen drops. Is that where "so quiet you could hear a pen drop" came from? I find the best naps to be half hour, one hour, or three hours in length. More or less than those approximate times (unless it is a full 6-8 hours sleep), leave me drowsy or with that over-slept feeling. Anna... SCREAM! I hate when that happens. Sometimes bureauarchcracies (sp?) seem to mess-up on purpose. Keep after them, get it straight. It's as though they make it so hard that most people give-up. Those who stay on top of them usually get the right treatment. It's just such a long and hard effort to make it turn-out right. Reminds me of a friend I was talking to last night. He said that when his parents (both of them) got a serious ailment (cancer), their health insurance dropped them. It is a scam! The minute you need the insurance, they decline to pay-out, despite years of paying into the insurance when they were healthy! They are rackets! Insurance companies have to make money to stay in business. If people get sick and they have to pay back, the companies lose. It's like the "House always wins." It has to win overall in order to remain solvent. Thus they usually figure out ways to deny coverage. They'd go broke if they actually paid out on all of the claims that they get. Sorry to hear of your problems. Stick with it! Make them acknowledge their error. Take it to "Twelve on your side" (our local TV station, maybe you have one which helps people out of scams and jams) if you need to! Good luck! I loved "Kids in the Hall!" One of my favorite routines was the "Flying Pig!" Also great were the "My Pen" skit, and of course the "I'm crushing your head" skits! I gotta go to work! I'll catch-up on the rest later. Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw haha, Chris, that totally reminds me of one of my favorite Kids in the Hall skits: Transcribed from: Comedy Central Transcribed by: Tlyco@aol.com [Bruce, Dave, Scott, Kevin, and Mark as themselves. Note: "All" refers to all minus Bruce.] [Camera is focused on curtain. It pans to reveal all five men in hospital room. Bruce is in bed. Kevin and Scott are on his right; Mark and Dave are on his left.] [Voice over speaker calling a doctor. Dramatic music as Bruce wakes up.] Bruce: [weakly] Ah! Kevin: Guys, guys, he's awake. Mark: Hey Bruce. It's me, Mark. Dave: Hey. Mark: All your friends are here. Scott: Bruce. Dave: Bruce. Bruce: Don't look at me. Don't look at me. Mark: Sure. [They turn away.] Bruce: Look at me. [They turn back.] Dave: Yeah. Bruce: You guys know why I'm in here, eh? I tried to commit suicide. Dave: Yeah, we. . . Scott: Yeah. Mark: Yeah. Scott: Kinds of a . . . drastic way to get out of paying your rent, isn't it, buddy? [Others look at Scott, kind of shocked he said it.] Bruce: Yeah. It is. [Now everyone laughs.] Dave: So, why'd you do it, Bruce? Huh? You wanna tell us why? Mark: Hey Dave. Dave. Dave: Huh? Mark: He doesn't have to explain this to us! I mean, c'mon, I--don't we all look into [dramatic music begins] the inky abyss of our souls sometimes and don't you find the roar of the loneliness you find there deafening, man, just deafening? [Music hits climax and ends.] Bruce: No, it wasn't that, really. Scott: Good! Bruce: But, it's all in my note, my suicide note. [He pulls out a thick bundle of paper from under the sheets and places it on his legs.] Dave: Oh yeah. . . [Rest add various yeahs.] Bruce: [proud] What part of the note did you guys like the best? Kevin: Best. . . [All "uh" and "oh" as they fake thinking.] Kevin: So many good parts. Bruce: I really like when I describe myself as a prisoner in a world-sized jail. Dave: That was good. [Rest "yes" and such.] Bruce: Scott? Scott: Huh? Oh, uh, th-that's a tough call, Bruce. Uh, there's just so much . . .there was. . . Bruce: [whiny] Scott! You didn't read my note! Kevin: [quiet] Oh, Scott. Dave: Oh, Scott! Scott, you really should have read the note. Scott: Well, you didn't read any of it either, Dave! Dave: Well, it was a bit long, don't you think! Scott: Ah-ha! [Awkward silence] Dave: Yeah, I thought you were trying to write yourself to death. Bruce: [worried] Kevin? Kevin: Mm? I thought some of it was great. I just didn't get the part where you wanted to kill yourself? Bruce: Oh! Only the point! Only the point, Kevin! Kevin: That's right--the point! I missed the point! Dave: Yeah. Bruce: Markus? Buddy? Mark: Look, I just skimmed it, looking for my name. I'm sorry. Bruce: I can't believe that none of you read my suicide note! All: Well. . . Bruce: Get out of here! Scott: Okay, sure. Bruce: Get out of here. Scott: Okay, you get some sleep and we'll see you after the funeral, okay? Bruce: Funeral? Dave: Scott! Scott: Oh, Jesus. Dave: Yeah, the funeral--Leckie's funeral. [eying Scott, mad] Bruce: Suicide? Scott: Uh. All: Yeah. Bruce: Well, how did the plagiarist go?! Scott: Naked, on the back of a Harley, wearing nothing but spurs. Mark: Nice--nice note, too. Precise, interesting; I couldn't put it down. Dave: You know what? Mark: What? Dave: I hear that R.E.M. is turning it into a song. [Rest to Dave--ohs? and Is it true? etc.] Bruce: Well, I swallowed a shoelace!! Scott: I know!! Mark: You shouldn't have!! You should not have done that! Bruce: Don't look at me! Scott: Okay. Mark: Of course not. Bruce: Get out of here. Scott: Okay. [All leave through door near Dave.] Bruce: [disgusted] All of you. Kevin: Get some rest. Bruce: All of you. Kevin: Let's all go. Let's all go. Bruce: Except--Kevin? Kevin: Hmm? What is it, pal? Bruce: [stage whisper] Read it. Kevin: The note? Don't you think it's a bit too long? Bruce: It's only 160 pages. Kevin: Cut it down to 50 and I'll read it. Bruce: [happy-ish] 100! Kevin: 60. Bruce: [whining] No, then I would have to leave out High School. Kevin: Well, High School is half the book. Bruce: [whining] It's not a book-- Kevin: Oh, no no! Bruce: --Kevin. It's a cry for hel-lp! Kevin: I meant a cry for help. [Bruce motions for Kevin to sit down next to him. Kevin motions that he should be going, but he sits down.]
jimmy Haha no, I completely skimmed that Jimmy.
chiefwagonburner What...did no one catch the Trinidadian spelling of 'Jehovah'? Hey...did anyone ever see those Superlearning books? Apparently, and this is dubious, Russia experimented with sleep learning by playing instructional tapes while people slept and incorporated a wide variety of other interesting techniques. I don't know, but it seems it was a cold war trend to publish these books about the fascinating human testing of the Soviet government. As a chess player, many of the things these paranoid / fascinating books speak of do not seem so far fetched; having read about Spassky, Karpov and Kasparov and their rigorous training regimens...weird shit.
jimmy I seem to remember reading that 20 minutes was about the perfect nap time anyway Jimbo. I am trying to remember where I found it, but I found a site once where they where people had trained themselves to only need a 20 minute nap every 3 hours. Apparently the first week is hell, but after that your body quickly adjusts and goes immediately into rem when you nap. There are some set backs to this of course - 1) though people had done it for years, no one really knew if there were any health concerns 2) You HAD to nap every 3 hours, it becomes somewhat involuntary 3) If you miss a few naps or sleep a long time you will have to go through hell week again to retrain your body. Ouch, that sucks Anna. I know all about that. I had to get a student line of credit (basically a credit card) for my last bit of school. The hoops get annoying. But the best part is paying them ;) I still have 5'ish years left on mine.
chiefwagonburner Yeah, I was just trying to get all literal with you. You know, in the spirit of the witnesses. Anyway, me an' the Jove, we're on a nickname basis. I'm inviting him over for a glass of wine tonight, because we need to have a serious rap session here. I need to hear it from the horse's mouth, know what I mean? Arg. I already had some wine. I was so angry today, I actually could not see straight. That is angry. Beyond angry, it was LIVID. Did I mention, I was a little upset? Lord. Jesus fing christ in heaven, I know you will forgive me for using your name in vain. (Iff'n I'm offending anyone, I'll gladly edit this post later.) Ok. Tell me that I really never woke up this year. I've been in a long sleep. Must be a coma or something. Please, tell me now, because this really cannot be the reality I know and love. The financial aid office at my school, they processed and disbursed a loan to me last year in AUGUST, yes folks, almost a year ago, that they had informed me they were not accepting because it would put me over my budget limit. OK. So, today I went in to check on a budget increase loan that they approved for me a week ago, for summer. And they tell me, all of a sudden, "hey, what in the world? We gave you all this money last year that we weren't supposed to. Now, you OWE US some five thousand dollars, plus. All we can suggest is that you appeal for the opportunity to take out another loan, to pay us back." Wha? Wait..WHAT? Can you um, please tell me why I have to pay for their error? I know that they do not lack the intelligence to realize that if they are so very generous to allow me the upmost priviledge of taking out another loan to pay them back for the loan they accidentally disbursed to me, that I will be paying twice the amount of interest for a mistake that they made? No? Oh, I see. It's my fault, because I was under the impression that the loan money they gave me was part of the federal loans that they actually did deem viable. I may be about to tell Los Angeles to kiss my behind goodbye. *screaming, and screaming again*
Anna Oops, sorry, God. No hard feelings, dude. You're right, Anna. It's just that I've seen so many variations of that name I get confused! The Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States use the spelling "Jehovah", as you say, but so many use Jehová, Jehova, whatever. I always thought 'jehova' was the most common form. But you know...it's not even 'his' name. From what I've read it's a Hebrew derivation: Adhonai-Lehouah-Jehovah; where Adhonai was the word they used in place of his actual name because they were afraid to say it out loud (plus the Hebrew had the distinction of missing vowels until some linguistic preservationists started using symbols in their place so nobody seems to know how the hell it's pronounced-hence the 'Tetragrammaton', Anagramaton). It, much like the Greek term "christ" was for Jesus, was a word for his station. _______________________________ [five minutes later...You have to LOVE the internet!!!] HEY! I found a list of all the spellings! This is just fucking cool, check it out: Awabakal - Yehóa Bugotu - Jihova Cantonese - Yehwowah Danish - Jehova Dutch - Jehovah Efik - Jehovah English - Jehovah Fijian - Jiova Finnish - Jehova French - Jéhovah Futuna - Ihova German - Jehova Hungarian - Jehova Igbo - Jehova Italian - Geova Japanese - Ehoba Maori - Ihowa Motu - Iehova Mwala-Malu - Jihova Narrinyeri - Jehovah Nembe - Jihova Petats - Jihouva Polish - Jehowa Portuguese - Jeová Romanian - Iehova Samoan - Ieova Sotho - Jehova Spanish - Jehová Swahili - Yehova Swedish - Jehova Tahitian - Iehova Tagalog - Jehova Tongan - Jihova Trinidadian - Jimmy Venda - Yehova Xhosa - uYehova Yoruba - Jehofah Zulu - uJehova _________________________________________ Chris, that nap article was very interesting. Anna and I took a class once, where the instructor told us that Thomas Edison and someone else I want to say was Ben Franklin but I'm not sure (definitely Edison though) would take power naps and in teh case of Edison, he would hold a rock over a pail while he slept (presumedly sitting up?) and when the rock fell and woke him he would get up and continue working. SHeesh, if this were me, I'm sure I would just adapt to holding the rock and sleep through the full 6 hours. Typically, that's what I need, but I take a 30 minute nap every day, and lately, I have been consistently waking up exactly 17 minutes into my naps (time begins when I set my alarm and put my head down). I think that's just freakish, but I always wake up feeling refreshed anyhow. Sometimes I end up sleeping for 7 or 8 hours on the weekend.. "Other research has suggested that people given six hours of sleep a night over a sustained period find it extremely detrimental." That doesn't seem to be the case for me, but who knows. Maybe I just don't know how bad it is for me?
jimmy Sheesh, if you're gonna say "fuck that" to Jehovah, at least spell his name right! ;) just razz'n ya, Jimmy.
Anna I was working on the website...I was in the middle of a hot, breathy homosexual scene between two Samurai, and I kept hearing this knocking and "hello?" I figured it was the neighbor's house, and kept watching, but it turned out it was my front door. Jehova's Witnesses. They've been by dozens of times, and I've never let them in, but they've been working up to it. They leave me literature, which I read lightly. Today he was forward about it: "We were trying to make the best use of our afternoon, and we decided it would be great if we could minister to you." And for probably the first time in my life, I was able to turn away the offer bluntly and immediately and without excessive hinting about, and he thanked me for my candor. I let him know that I was guilty of giving mixed signals, because I gladly snatched up the literature but was not, and never would be interested in hearing a ministry. I told him that I was not religious, and had been so for as long as I could remember. And I'll be damned, he and his buddy let up. It's a moving moment for me. Most of my life, I've spared people from my feelings of seperation, making sure that they were heard and while that might be considered a good quality, I suffered for it. My time was wasted, as was theirs in many cases, and suffering through people's 'ministries', diatribes and poorly thought out prolegomena has always been at my expense. Well I just thought I'd share that now I'm politely saying "fuck that".
jimmy The Cog was amazing. Was it the same artist/engineer group as "Der Lauf Der Dinge"?
jimmy I thought this was an interesting take on the americas before columbus. How easy would it be for a country with no nuclear expertise to build an A-bomb? Forty years ago in a top-secret project, the US military found out. Answer? 2 students did it in 30 months. I need more naps. Bush credibility Lastly, watch the cog. This commercial took 600 and some takes, and was done without any editing or cgi - very cool.
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