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Just did a COMPOSITIONAL MAP and pre-recording of a song called the last chase. I also saw the Return of the King. Don't go. Bruce Willis is dead throughout the entire movie. No no, it was quite good. It put my heart in a strange place.
jimmy Recycling is hip, Jimmy!
chiefwagonburner I just heard my favorite Brian Eno piece, "Ascending", being used in a song by one of those Dido/McLauchlin/O'Connor/Amos pop-stars. It wasn't just sampled. It was the whole fucking song. With a bumpin' bassline and some drums over it, and the woman singing about whatever it is pop stars sing about. Oh yeah. Themselves. And how you can't hold them down, boy. WHY?????????????????????????????????????
jimmy How nice. I know the boss. Friend worked for his trucking company a few years back. Heh, I even had dinner with the guy. This is the best line: "Other goods seized in the raids include drug packaging and manufacturing equipment, cash and a set of vintage hockey cards."
chiefwagonburner Jimmy: ahahaha. Jeffron: it depends on how far away you are from the hotspot and how good your antenna is. People that use wireless at home make cantennas that boost the range a lot. This is not exactly portable though, so when out and about with a wireless connection on your laptop you are at the mercy of your wireless card. If you have line of sight with a hotspot, you will get a good signal. Add in a few buildings and it drops off a lot. Most places just have a hotspot for a specific location, a cafe for example, so the range doesn't really matter. A lot of people are doing this with their home connections. Last night I went out war walking. In the old days of dial bbs' and mainframes, calling a block of phone numbers looking for computers was called war dialing, so walking around with a laptop looking for wireless connections is known as war dialing. Yes I am a nerd. Anyway, walking around my neighborhood I found 4 separate networks (default, linksys, linksys, CuteHouse), but couldn't get a decent signal to the goldenhillfreeweb until I was pretty close. Me thinks the card on the laptop sucks. If I am going to use the wireless at home I will need to use a cantenna to boost the signal. Finally. "The court said indefinite detention was inconsistent with U.S. law and raised serious concerns under international law. " Freedom Tower. The wind turbines are pretty cool. RIAA setback David Kay quiting. New telescope.
chiefwagonburner jeffron is not the nutcase, jimmy. YOU are the nutcase. sheesh. And I thought I had weird dreams... hee hee hee... well, it did provide me with a good chuckle this morning.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Congratulations, jeffron! Odd too, since yesterday morning I had a very very strange dream about you. It had to do with you "coming home" from some life changing thing, yes, somewhat like school, and you lived in Boston....except Boston was ON the Sound. It was like Venice. I met your family and stayed with you. Your family was highly eccentric and your sister was something like...a nudist or something that was taboo. Your father did not budge from the couch where "the game" was on. What game, I have no idea. I never have any idea about "the game". Your mom could not leave the kitchen for the saran-wrap-like anti-feminism barrier which prevented her from wandering to other parts of the house. I'm sure if I'd ever met your family I wouldn't have had a dream like this. I guess my brain was filling in blanks. You were a quiet genius who had a preoccupation with building pipe bombs, but I thought nothing of it. Your room was full of blues and aquatic colors, turquoise and such. It was large enough to fit a small bed and a television. Your bedroom floor had a hatch in it that lead directly to the water below. You used it to get in and out. Your floor felt balsa wood thin, as though we could crash through at any moment, flailing and gasping and splashing about while surrounded by floating furniture and chunks of wood. There was something strange about your house too, aside from it being above the water and on stilts. The pipe sytem to your house was missing pieces of pipe, which I assume was because of your pipe bomb hobby, so water was all over the floor leaking from who knows where, and your mother was constantly battling water spouts which appeared periodically in the kitchen. All while she was making "scrapple". Some kind of weird meat my grandparents swore by. It was winter, and when we left the house there were three Simpson's-esque bullies waiting for us (the Fox show the Simpsons, not the lead role of the famous Simpson trial featuring best supporting actor Johnny Cochrane). You balled up a bunch of snowballs and pelted them and they went away. This was ON the water though. It was frozen over in some parts so we could walk on it as though it was a street. There were also these creatures running around, which my brain had borrwed from the Dark Crystal which I'd been watching that night. They were the creatures on stilts..I forget what they were called. We made it to the 'shore' and walked through ankle high slush to a parking lot where a girl was waiting for you with a horse. Suddenly you had a southern accent (and you wore a ball cap like a fratboy and were from Arizona) and there were MTV cameras everywhere. Great, I thought, reality television.. She yelled at you for awhile for standing her up, and the three of us and the very pale horse walked for several blocks while she continued. You were quiet. The horse was white, but parts of it were like crystal noodles which you find in a variety of Asian foods. Especially Thai, in my experience. This meant you could see through parts of its body where there was not hair, giving it a pinkish color. The horse had mange, so this added to the effect. She continued to argue until suddenly we were surrounded by police officers and you had somehow slipped away so that they never saw you. I had in my hand something you'd given me to hold, half of a model bridge...It was the Brooklynn bridge, I think. They referred to me as some kind of bomber. They thought I was you. Bullhorn: "Drop the bridge and put your hands up!!" The girl screamed and the horse bolted. "What?", I asked, dumbly. I woke up before they arrested me. I believe your plan was to put the model bridge on the bridge itself, only the model bridge was a bomb. You had unabomber status in the dream. Ok, so I don't think you're a nutcase bomber or anything, but perhaps your general aura of mysteriousness led my sleeping self to that conclusion.
jimmy It's over! Jeffron can have a life again! Yay! I think in the last week I've had maybe five hours of sleep tops on one night, and the rest have been on and off hours, a few here, a few there. Basically I feel completely disconnected from reality, but I have to say, at this point, it doesn't feel that bad. t's that crazy point of exhaustion where speaking in funny voices to yourself is the most amusing thing. Sure, I get some strange looks on the bus, but what the hey. The other day I woke up at 7pm and thought it was 7am, which is very disorienting. So I am Done with skool, although not Finished Finished but Mostly Very Closely Finally Done, and I am going to celebrate with a microwave dinner and a few hours of sleep, which seems better than just about anything right now. Paris Hilton can have it back tomorrow but today, the world is mine. Wi-fi, for those of us that are curious, can you provide a brief review Chief? Basically I'm just wondering about reliabiility of the connection and speed. There's a local outfit here that has hotspots all over town and it's only 10 bucks a month for students, so I'm considering it. Though free would be better. Congrats on the impending Harvardness, X, if that be your final destination. It's about time somebody brought the Ivy League some Slack Chair cred. If you join a secret elite society that controls the world, will you tell us? Oh wait, that's Yale. The Wal-Mart ad kills me.
jeffron x Haha: San Diego Union Tribune prints Purdue fake scholarship story as fact. Word for word. Update - the UT pulled the story from the website, but google got em. I want to work in the ministry of information. Hole punch clouds. Time's Iraq photo journal
chiefwagonburner I found out the other day that my niegbourhood has free wireless internet. I was thinking about setting this up myself a while back. We are going to see if we can convince my building owners to put up a relay on the top of my building. If we could get that up, we would have range into downtown. Put your geek shields on full. Uhg, this stuff just makes me sick: 9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable. I didn't think that this would ever come out. I want to see someone run a comercial showing this. More here. A widely publicized Iraqi document that purports to show that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta visited Baghdad in the summer of 2001 is probably a fabrication that is contradicted by U.S. law-enforcement records showing Atta was staying at cheap motels and apartments in the United States. Isn't it just lovely that all this information comes out now? Nice one: U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities.
chiefwagonburner  Mytila gets the fly... That fly took hours and hours. Initially, I had intended to place the face of a starving child into the eyes of the fly; a reflection. But I was watching Dr. Strangelove and got sidetracked. Sorry if the file is too large.
jimmy An interesting story if true. Why don't Americans respond to this stuff? Madeline Albright's statement. Hiyas Kelly! Welcome! Peace Awwa \A/
Aw Welcome on, Kelly!
jimmy Not entirely sure why God told me to come here and post some words, but I think I'm ready for a change... so here I am God, set me freeeee!
Kelly Monty Python( Run away! Run away! ); This is like the plot of a childrens book or something.
chiefwagonburner There is no true Democracy. No true rule of the people. Never was, not likely ever will be. Okay now that we are on the same page... Is this American model better than others in the past, or other models which might be better in the future? Our Constitution claims to recognize all people, claims to recognize them as equal. This is a great lie! Will America live up to its proclamations? Or will we continuie to invent excuses? Is Democracy truly a rule by the people? Or is it decided by those who continue to rule? We will not throw off these bounds that bind, until we decide, that being free people to decide, is better. We bear the burdens we bear, because we believe that they are necessary. If it became unnecessary, we'd no longer have those burdens to bear. Do politicians decide that for you? Do you have imaginery burdens? Imagine no burdens. Imagine peace and prosperity for everyone. Vote for Freedom, vote against corporations. Really think that out, figure out what the corporations want. Then vote against it! Or not. Who knows? Cancel GW! Maybe what I meant in the end was, that all would be okay for people. God bless us, everyone! Peace! Awwa \A/
Aw The wanted man was sought night and day! They searched high and low, everywhere that they knew! They knew the man had to have hiding places, beyond their realms of searching. The Man must be well inscounched, somewhere they could not see. But they knew he was there. All they had to do was wait for the one person to open the door. Then they got him! A traitor opened the way for the rest of them to do their job; to take the Man down! If GW was ever sought with such fevre, we'd be shouting the same declarations of pride, catching that scounderal! Perhaps with this next election, we will have as much celebration to make! Headline News... "The Capture of Saddam Hussien was Eclipsed by the Dethroning of GW Bush! The American People Finally Fed Up With the President Who Would Be King!" A guy at work (security), made light of the capture of Hussien, saying, "Now what do you say about our President?" I bristled! "Just because he completed what he said was his goal, doesn't make that goal worthy! Never was there established a connection between Hussien and 911. No Weapons of Mass Destruction were ever found, No connection to Al Quida has ever been established. Bush's close associates reap the best of the Iraq reconstruction contracts. The oil is still there, at their (Bush's people's touch)! Hussien was an evil man? Maybe. If two evil men combat, and one wins; does that make the winner a good man?" I left him telling me that all of them (politicians) are bad, in bed with big business! And by that, he was right. But I will never vote for a man who propses to make his world better, on the backs of those he considers lessers! Perhaps they all do. I don't know! I've been told that Howard Dean has gotten most of his support online, as individual contributions of $100 or less at a time. Very little of his campaign contributions coming from big business. I can't verify that. But it might be a good thing. I started out writing this as a satire about the Iraqi people capturing GW Bush! I dearly wish somebody would! Peace All! Awwa \A/
Aw Well I never guessed that they were gassing us. Here's the hidden text: =========================================================== Let's go next to the tube the person died becuase the stick was groping the breast the guitar is twisting the plane? kill me now! Life Insurance Is Very Important Visit Our Website Right Here Provide security for your family Friends don't let friends go giving lessons to the skateboard the walkman doesn't enjoy yelling for the filthy briefcase Whether you're in need of life insurance protection for your family or a business, saving for college or retirement, dreaming of a new home, or wanting to maintain good dental and vision health, we can help. the bumpy killer bee hates the homeless man Hey baby wanna let me start eating your killer bee? Visit Our Website Right Here A smelly planet makes baby Jesus cry Pin the rock on the donkey Let's go next to the tube the person died becuase the stick was groping the breast opt out by clicking ============================================================= And that's the end of it. Weird stuff! Wait 'til you see my next post... Peace or Anarchy? Is there a choice? Awwa \A/
Aw Someone got the real story on the Saddam capture. Speaking of Saddam, here is to memories. More fuzzies here. POLApola Hah - Lauryn Hill going off on the catholic church at the vatican christmas concert.
chiefwagonburner They do that to throw off bayesian filters. A lot of them are using passages from books as well - Alice in Wonderland for example.
chiefwagonburner Ok, so check out this spam. I don't know why it is the way it is, but this is how it appeared in my inbox. Notice the very faint, slightly off-white text. Highlight that text and read it. What the hell is that about? My guess is that they're assuming some mail readers will interpret it somehow and if people catch a glimpse of it in a preview window they'll want to know more because after all...WTF? Or maybe it's searchable? Or maybe the spammer actually hates what they do and they thought they'd throw some funk into it. After all, "a smelly planet makes baby Jesus cry." Let's go next to the tube the person died becuase the stick was groping the breast the guitar is twisting the plane? kill me now!
Friends don't let friends go giving lessons to the skateboard the walkman doesn't enjoy yelling for the filthy briefcase Whether you're in need of life insurance protection for your family or a business, saving for college or retirement, dreaming of a new home, or wanting to maintain good dental and vision health, we can help. the bumpy killer bee hates the homeless man Hey baby wanna let me start eating your killer bee? Visit Our Website Right Here A smelly planet makes baby Jesus cry Pin the rock on the donkey Let's go next to the tube the person died becuase the stick was groping the breast opt out by clicking My coat is radioactive Got mall? Don't be so buttery A kinky hat makes baby Jesus cry >>
jimmy  I was listening to Coltraine when I heard the news about Hussein today. It was a strange juxtaposition. I thought about the soldiers who captured him as I worked on this image: how they celebrated when they captured Hussein with cigars, and how I couldn't possibly blame them. How many of them took these jobs and thought they would never be put them in the exact situation it promised...action, adventure, army of one, etc.. "Ok, I'll do it for 6 years. Then I'll get out. It's just another job." And *BOOM*. War. My fellow bandmate Eric is in the Navy. He often talks about who among his friends would be able to survive the military lifestyle; taking orders, being humble and respectful to superiors, handling the often incredible workload punctuated by days of slack. One of our friends, a well known poet in San Diego signed up for the Navy. Interestingly enough, Eric says he'll survive and do well. Eric never analyzed me. I guess it's a given. You have to appreciate the soldiers, ya know? I certainly admire them without admiring the position they're in. The confrontation in the picture grew from that. When I was done, the phone rang and it was one of Mytila's coworkers wanting to know if she could work for her, probably. But she was already at work. The following image I did several hours later.  I've gone crash test dummy crazy.  I got the productivity bug today. Catherine of Re-Record put me on her contributor's list and I'm afraid I have no idea what I'm going to do, though I'm happy to take part. It looks like her project is going to be fabulous. This one isn't exactly work safe.
jimmy 
chiefwagonburner Might be old news to some people - but I found this story on old masters using high tech (image projection) for their works.
chiefwagonburner Apparently Saddam Hussein was found this morning.
jimmy And thanks Jimmy. You are my muse... in some sort of strange, exitentialist way. Be well All! Awwa \A/
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