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December 31, 2003
Happy 2004 everybody!
Happy F'n New Year
December 29, 2003
keep in mind darling, not every saint is a fool
KOPI LUWAK: The Indonesian palm civet prowls about the coffee plantation, eats choice coffee beans, and excretes them, undigested. The resulting coffee beans, which pass through within millimeters of the cat's perineal glands, are gathered and brewed into coffee. It is reported to be the most expensive coffee in the world. [In other words, it's civet bunghole-flavored coffee.]
Here's a pic of a civet:
Some more info about "Kopi Luwak" (a.k.a. civet bunghole-flavored coffee):
According to local legend, the palm civet, in spite of its categorization as an omnivore, is a fastidiously picky eater. Thus, it is thought that this musky epicure selects only the coffee cherries that are at their very peak of ripeness and savor. (Other foodstuffs selected by the civet at their very peak of ripeness and savor include: insects, palm sap, birds, voles, spiders, squirrels, and frogs.)
As the civet's gustatory interest is strictly in the outer, pulpy portion of the coffee fruit, it allows the commercially viable pit (containing two of what we know as the coffee bean), to pass through its digestive tract physically unscathed, though perhaps somewhat morally cheapened.
Like the common house cat, the civet habitually tends to void its bowels in the same spot every day. Thus, it's the work of but a moment for cheerful coffee plantation workers to run their fingers through the creature's rich, loamy feces and glean the treasures within, which are then washed (thank God for small comforts), roasted, and sold as "the world's finest, and most expensive, coffee," at prices often exceeding $200 per pound.
December 28, 2003
What not to do during Return of the King
1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where the hell is Harry Potter?"
2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
3. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: "The Ring."
4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
5. Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.
6. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."
7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"
8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.
9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.
10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"
11. Every time Elrond appears, shout out (in your best 'Dobby' voice) "Clothes! Master gave Elrond Clothes!"
12. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout "RUN FOREST, RUN!"
13. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!" See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.
14. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"
15. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.
16. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
17. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.
18. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"
19. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like.
20. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.
21. Wonder out loud if Aragorn is going to run for governor of California.
22. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"
24. After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."
Stolen from here.
December 26, 2003
les rythmes digitales
It's funny, sometimes you feel so bored by everything, but then you also feel to lazy to do anything. It's a viscious cycle I tell you.....or to many pizza rolls *blah*
Here you go terri,
Have fun with them....
Have fun with them....
December 25, 2003
Damn you beef jerkery and your irrestibale spicyness!
Merry Christmas! I hope everybody's schwag was sweet. I got some pretty cool gifts this christmas, not to mention a free dinner from my sister 
Here's a couple highlights:- ATHF, Family Guy vol 1 and 2 box set's
- 3 books, Wiring, Plumbing and Dude, where's my country?
- 2 sweaters from J. Crew (god, i'm so old I actually like getting clothes now)
- leather gloves from wilson's
- Latest LadyTron CD
- Best Buy gift certificate and a Visa Gift card (predestined for Buffy season 5)
- HomeWorld 2 from my sis, and a new robe!
- Black Titanium Skagen watch....uber guten.
Of course Jen got some cool things like some more Snowmen sculptures, dvd's and a new stereo. And the cat's? They got the joy of playing in the wrapping paper all day :)
December 24, 2003
Merry Christmas Eve everyone
Merry Christmas Eve everyone from Burger King! Oh, and don't give crappy presents! CD's make bad gifts for kids!
December 23, 2003
Merry Christmas
It's about that time :)
December 21, 2003
Early Christmas Present
Jen got me a brand new magazine subscription as an early gift:
December 20, 2003
It's the end of the world as I know it...
....and I feel fine.
Except I don't know where my gnome is. Ever have that problem?
Oh well, i'm sure it's just an Intermittant, multiple protocol problem.
December 19, 2003
set it off
I had an interesting dinner with my sister tonight.
Every since my mom died (our mom.....i know, just can't get out of the habit) I've had this feeling like i've become more important to her. Now, thats not to say I wasn't before, but it's changed in some ways. Like when I was going to switch cell phones, she was not very happy i was considering switching to cingular from nextel because then she couldn't beep me whenever she wanted to. I stayed with nextel (which actually turned out cheaper, despite my employee discount at cingular) and picked up an i60, but I was kind of surprised at how much she didn't want to loose that connection with me. I guess I just wasn't away I was that important.
Now of course if she reads this (hi terri) she'll say, of course your important your my brother. But still it's a real surprise to feel as if somebody needs you when you grew up needing them.
I like to think i was strong and was there for her and my mom while she was dying. I felt I had to be the person who made other's laugh in order to distract them from the horriblness of what was really happening. its funny though, i spent so much time supressing my feelings in order to feel i was strong, that i wonder sometimes if i surpressed them to much. Even today my sister tears up thinking about my mom, but I don't.
Don't get me wrong, I get sad, depressed, I hate the fact that she had to die the way she did. For the last month it was more like taking care of a big baby than watching my mother die.
I remember growing up, she would leave for work before i would even wake up for school, and return an hour or two after i got home from school and pretty much go to sleep. I know she did this to pay the bils for us, but I wonder in some ways if this made us more distant.
it's funny really, in some way's i'm the biggest momma's boy in the world, i used to cry when i tried to spend the night at somebody elses house. But in other ways there's a part of my mind that say's "she's dead. we all die. get over it, everybody else has felt this way". I don't want to keep going on about this constantly, because I know other's have experienced loss greater than me. But on the other hand i'm so fucking angry that i have these terrible memories in me of what became of my mother in her last days. That is not the person I wanted to remember. My mother (i know, i know....our mother) was a great person. She had her flaws, but she was kind, generous and helped a lot of people. I loved her very much and miss her every day. And if i could go back and live my life again, i swear i'd be a much better son to her. Some of you have a chance to do things I would give my soul to do again. Please don't forget that....
Don't get me wrong, I get sad, depressed, I hate the fact that she had to die the way she did. For the last month it was more like taking care of a big baby than watching my mother die.
I remember growing up, she would leave for work before i would even wake up for school, and return an hour or two after i got home from school and pretty much go to sleep. I know she did this to pay the bils for us, but I wonder in some ways if this made us more distant.
it's funny really, in some way's i'm the biggest momma's boy in the world, i used to cry when i tried to spend the night at somebody elses house. But in other ways there's a part of my mind that say's "she's dead. we all die. get over it, everybody else has felt this way". I don't want to keep going on about this constantly, because I know other's have experienced loss greater than me. But on the other hand i'm so fucking angry that i have these terrible memories in me of what became of my mother in her last days. That is not the person I wanted to remember. My mother (i know, i know....our mother) was a great person. She had her flaws, but she was kind, generous and helped a lot of people. I loved her very much and miss her every day. And if i could go back and live my life again, i swear i'd be a much better son to her. Some of you have a chance to do things I would give my soul to do again. Please don't forget that....
December 18, 2003
this is planet earth
Same shit, different day.
random block rules!
So I called in sick to work today and basically sat around the house all day doing nothing but dozing on and off. I swear i've never been so tired in all mylife.
I didn't do the dishes, didn't change the litter, didn't really do much. But I did do one cool thing. Remember how I was trying to renegotiate my apartment rent before i renewed my lease? Well they agreed to shave $125 off my rent. Pretty cool eh? I should have thought of it sooner I guess, but at least I did think of it.
Other than that the only thing I got done today (didn't even play any FFX-2 at all) was I got the block-random.php file working in Moveable Type.
What is a "block-random.php" file you ask? See it's this php file designed to work with a program called Gallery 1.4.1 (my new photo album), and what it does is it pulls a random image every time the page is reloaded from your gallery.
So now, as you've probably already noticed, on the right above the calander, there is a randcom image pulled from my gallerys. Pretty cool eh? I couldn't have done with without the helpful people over at the forums.
Now in celebration, links for everyone!
- YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!! Video of somebody beating SMB 3 in 11 minutes!
- Proof that above video is a fake, but still so farking cool it's not funny.
- 19 bug bombs + 1 lit pilot light = house exploding
- Jeesh, everybody is denying having sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky lately.
- Just a friendly little cat song. Ok, gonna go drink some pineapple juice and try to sleep (actually I don't have to try, i'm practically narcoleptic right now).
- YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS!!! Video of somebody beating SMB 3 in 11 minutes!
- Proof that above video is a fake, but still so farking cool it's not funny.
- 19 bug bombs + 1 lit pilot light = house exploding
- Jeesh, everybody is denying having sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky lately.
- Just a friendly little cat song. Ok, gonna go drink some pineapple juice and try to sleep (actually I don't have to try, i'm practically narcoleptic right now).
December 16, 2003
Hung some lights today
Jen's M&M christmas lights are cool!
Sicky poo
The sad part is that I try to take care of myself.
I wear a scarf, don't go out with wet hair, even wear gloves. In fact when everybody around me started coughing like it was a SARS convention I started taking so much vitamin C I thought I was going to start pissing Tropicana.
At least I get to work from home and don't have to leave the house if I don't want to. God I love telecommuting! Merry Christmas!
And now, before I pass out from codine and dayquil, here are some links:
- More job's move to India, would you like to supersize your order? (just practising for my career in food service)
- Get pulled over for no registration? Register via cellphone before the cop can tow you. Suck that officer fatass!
- Group warns against violent video games. Kid's now know what games they want thanks to list.
- How Monty Python changed the world. Doesn't mention why it took 30 years for most people to f'n get it.
- Indiana running out of tickets to give out. Hypocrisy rejoices, order's more tickets.
- Stop Masturbating with Jesus......he see's everything and thinks you one sick motherfucker.
At least I get to work from home and don't have to leave the house if I don't want to. God I love telecommuting! Merry Christmas!
And now, before I pass out from codine and dayquil, here are some links:
- More job's move to India, would you like to supersize your order? (just practising for my career in food service)- Get pulled over for no registration? Register via cellphone before the cop can tow you. Suck that officer fatass!
- Group warns against violent video games. Kid's now know what games they want thanks to list.
- How Monty Python changed the world. Doesn't mention why it took 30 years for most people to f'n get it.
- Indiana running out of tickets to give out. Hypocrisy rejoices, order's more tickets.
- Stop Masturbating with Jesus......he see's everything and thinks you one sick motherfucker.
December 13, 2003
where have i been
No where really, but I"ve been having a bitch of a time setting up netbpm to work with gallery 1.4.1. Finally got it working instead of Imagemagik.
Oh yeah and playing around with Juniper ERX 1400's.....
But tada, introducing a new picture section:
Photo Album It's a lot better than the old system, and now eveyrthing is in one place. Plus I can add pics without needing FTP access!
Photo Album It's a lot better than the old system, and now eveyrthing is in one place. Plus I can add pics without needing FTP access!
December 10, 2003
It's raining, and I have no umbrella
The GS project is a success! (Ghetto Subwoofer Project) It lives and has a heart beat! Of course the 320w x 2 amp helps as well :)
My Very Own Darkly Gothic Poem 
My Very Own Darkly Gothic Poem
My Very Own Darkly Gothic Poem
the night falls in a heavy, suffocating cloak, soulless are we.
the salvation for which you lust
flares once, then dies,
smothered by madness.
all hope must not endure.
your heart beats no more.
how could you cause such hurt?
lost souls surround us, crying,
save us from ourselves.
December 09, 2003
Happy B-Day to Jen
Today is Jen's 29th birthday, so let's all wish her a happy one (or course she's dating me so what more could she really want...)
Everyone have a drink for her!
December 08, 2003
I am a fat bastard
Oh my god, I just ate a Prime Rib dinner at Millrose, and I stuffed so much food into me it's not funny. The prime rib was very good and not at all fatty, but there was so much. It was like eating a solid brick of beef.
So I was putting a new Amp in the car the other day and dave noticed I was getting some flapping from the speakers in the sub. Turns out the cone driver cover was coming off (the speakers are old, so odds are the acrylic glue finally became brittle and broke). So rather than replace it, I decided I could maybe fix it with a little Super Weatherstip adhesive.
Nice eh? It won't win any awards but it seems to work pretty well :)
Nice eh? It won't win any awards but it seems to work pretty well :)
December 03, 2003
RIAA can suck my balls
I was reading another article on the RIAA and their lastest attempt to put the P2P genie back in the bottle and decided they need to change their name to get away from the negative image the lawsuits have given them. I suggest the following:
American
Society of
Starving
Recording
Artist's
Pursuing
Enforcement of
Recording
Standard's See the word starving...that means the artist no longer has bottles of cristal (or whatever the fuck it's called) to demonstrate their bling bling.
Society of
Starving
Recording
Artist's
Pursuing
Enforcement of
Recording
Standard's See the word starving...that means the artist no longer has bottles of cristal (or whatever the fuck it's called) to demonstrate their bling bling.
December 02, 2003
happy birthday to me.
Found this pic over at strangecosmos.com:
Nice to know stupid people are breeding, eh? Take another look.....did you see the kid inbetween them? Well happy birthday to me. I'm 28 years old today, still playing video games, and god help you if you let me walk into the lego store at woodfield. :) Well if you'll excuse me I'm going to go enjoy some Victory Storm King, play a little FFX-2 and relax. Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday today! In fact as a way of saying thanks, here are some links :) - Give yourself super power's! No really it works, and natural herbal pills will make your penis so big you'll be dragging it in the sand too!
- 25 Albums that should not have been made.
- If someone says they can make money appear out of goat's blood and twig's for only pennies on the dollar, something is probably not right. Oh yeah, and your stupid, go get sterilized before you procreate.
- This is sad news on my birthday, woman arrested for garage of dead cat's. Apparently thought it was mouse heaven.
- Chicago snow parking sucks ass. Greedy city and tow truck companies rejoice.
Nice to know stupid people are breeding, eh? Take another look.....did you see the kid inbetween them? Well happy birthday to me. I'm 28 years old today, still playing video games, and god help you if you let me walk into the lego store at woodfield. :) Well if you'll excuse me I'm going to go enjoy some Victory Storm King, play a little FFX-2 and relax. Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday today! In fact as a way of saying thanks, here are some links :) - Give yourself super power's! No really it works, and natural herbal pills will make your penis so big you'll be dragging it in the sand too!
- 25 Albums that should not have been made.
- If someone says they can make money appear out of goat's blood and twig's for only pennies on the dollar, something is probably not right. Oh yeah, and your stupid, go get sterilized before you procreate.
- This is sad news on my birthday, woman arrested for garage of dead cat's. Apparently thought it was mouse heaven.
- Chicago snow parking sucks ass. Greedy city and tow truck companies rejoice.