Altered Musings

Driving to burning man

evilrevchris — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:11 GMT

so, i woke up at the butt crack of dawn today. turning in my bed i finally have given up on sleep for now. today is the day! by tonight i'll be sucking up the dust. i'm too excited to rest! i'm gonna go get some coffee, and roll a spliff, finish packing my underwear and socks and then i'm bouncing out of here! see you in the desert, evil chris

Bacon-cooking alarm clock

evilrevchris — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:01:29 GMT

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/12/maker_of_the_day_matty_sallin.html

watch this right now. NOW.

evilrevchris — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:57:14 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVT1NEyZFY

a really interesting report on animal revenge

evilrevchris — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:57:22 GMT

when animals freak out on humans, is it revenge? have the animals just fucking had it with us? it sure sounds that way, and i can't really blame them... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/10/sv_animals.xml&page=1

my hero, Mae West said...

evilrevchris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:01:13 GMT

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. To err is human, but it feels divine. When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before.

new funny pics

evilrevchris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:55:06 GMT

i just uploaded a bunch of really funny stuff, check it out!

Earn a ticket to burningman

evilrevchris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:23:51 GMT

the offer is simple! work 5or6 8hr days at the shipyard in berkeley BEFORE AUG 16 and receive a gift ticket from our crew! you could have the joy of spending time with some very friendly/smart/cool people and become a small part of huge project thats a lot of fun! you might even learn a few things. from what i hear there are more than a few people drooling over this giant steel butterfly, i know i am, check it out! lepidodgera.com/

24' Truck Rental needed, 08/17-09/04 1k offered.

evilrevchris — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:16:14 GMT

We are a dedicated team of hard working artists and engineers in great need of a 24' rental truck Aug 17 through Sept 4 for $1000 total rental fee. We want to use the truck to transport a large scale kinetic art piece and then return home to the bay area with it. Please email or call 510.326.5976 Chris

kung fu madness

evilrevchris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:03:05 GMT

http://watch-movies.ro/index.php?m=movie&g=the_forbidden_kingdom_(2008)#

Cheeky little bastard

evilrevchris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:34:46 GMT

today i'm feeling cheeky! damn! i dyed a chunk of my hair pink yesterday, and today i'm just on a roll. i have a feeling it's going to be a beautiful day.

universal tenticle love

evilrevchris — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:00:13 GMT

http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/Movies_all/79453/Futurama%3A+The+Beast+with+a+Billion+Backs.html?aid=0&part=1

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

evilrevchris — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:48:10 GMT

http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/78029/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Kingdom+of+the+Crystal+Skull.html http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/Movies_all/78029/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Kingdom+of+the+Crystal+Skull.html?aid=0&part=2 http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/Movies_all/78029/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Kingdom+of+the+Crystal+Skull.html?aid=0&part=3 http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/Movies_all/78029/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Kingdom+of+the+Crystal+Skull.html?aid=0&part=4

saturday night speed

evilrevchris — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:49:59 GMT

Speed Racer http://www.sidereel.com/Speed_Racer/_watchlinkviewer/288

Recovering

evilrevchris — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:08:53 GMT

my foot has no pain, and i am recovering very well and with ease. if i had known that this surgery would've been this easy i would have had it done years ago! i am very excited about being able to dance again, and even walk without pain. it is so amazing that after years of daily chronic pain to be free from it... i can hardly express the lightness i feel. i'm not even done healing yet, and i already don't feel the pain anymore. it's truely truely truely outrageous...

please visit me!!!

evilrevchris — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:55:10 GMT

i'm sitting on my ass at home, recovering from surgery, and would love some company... shoot me an email if you have time to come by, i live in west oakland, easy to get to from bart and very close to the city, emeryville, and berkeley

Good News, China says it will meet with Dalai Lama's envoys

evilrevchris — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:08:32 GMT

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/34891.html “We see this as a very positive gesture by the Chinese authorities,” said Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, adding that Premier Wen Jiabao told him of the upcoming talks at a “private tete-a-tete” Thursday evening. “The Chinese say they are ready to discuss everything except sovereignty. And so if the concern of the Dalai Lama is, as he has always stated, the respect for cultural identity, religious identity, and autonomy inside China, I believe there is real room for dialogue,” Barroso said.

surgery

evilrevchris — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:42:05 GMT

i had surgery today! my foot is all strapped up and bandaged, and it is numb. i'm riding waves of pain killers feeling good about the decision to end the foot pain. i look forward to dancing at burningman this year without pain! anyways... i've got to stay off of it, and chill.

Birthday!

evilrevchris — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:06 GMT

april 22, tomorrow, is my 35th birthday!

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

evilrevchris — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:12:16 GMT

http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/Movies/70234/Fear+And+Loathing+In+Las+Vegas.html

late late thursday night crack, or fri morning crack with coffee

evilrevchris — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:21:28 GMT

http://www.avatarchapters.org/59/book-3/chapter-13.html http://www.avatarchapters.org/35/book-2/chapter-15.html

soon to be dancing!

evilrevchris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:53:14 GMT

I will be having surgery next week on fri, to fix the painful arthritis in my feet. The doctor thinks i'll be dancing in time for burningman! I might need company in the coming weeks as i recover.

The explosion vaporized any planet nearby

evilrevchris — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:02:20 GMT

...a great disturbance in the force. As though millions of voices cried out in terror, and then suddenly silenced. ... WASHINGTON (AP) -- The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye. art.exploding.star.nasa.jpg A star 7.5 billion light years away exploded, giving off the brightest gamma-ray burst afterglow ever seen. The aging star, in a previously unknown galaxy, exploded in a gamma ray burst 7.5 billion light years away, its light finally reaching Earth early Wednesday. The gamma rays were detected by NASA's Swift satellite at 2:12 a.m. "We'd never seen one before so bright and at such a distance," NASA's Neil Gehrels said. It was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. However, NASA has no reports that any skywatchers spotted the burst, which lasted less than an hour. Telescopic measurements show that the burst -- which occurred when the universe was about half its current age -- was bright enough to be seen without a telescope. "Someone would have had to run out and look at it with a naked eye, but didn't," said Gehrels, chief of NASA's astroparticles physics lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The starburst would have appeared as bright as some of the stars in the handle of the Little Dipper constellation, said Penn State University astronomer David Burrows. How it looked wasn't remarkable, but the distance traveled was. The 7.5 billion light years away far eclipses the previous naked eye record of 2.5 million light years. One light year is 5.9 trillion miles. "This is roughly halfway to the edge of the universe," Burrows said. Before it exploded, the star was about 40 times bigger than our sun. The explosion vaporized any planet nearby, Gehrels said.

Rest In Peace Arthur

evilrevchris — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:19:38 GMT

Arthur C. Clarke, famous for writing science fiction books, has passed away today. from the ap: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who co-wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90. ADVERTISEMENT Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s, died at 1:30 a.m. in his adopted home of Sri Lanka after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said. Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey," Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer. He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits. He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s. Clarke's non-fiction volumes on space travel and his explorations of the Great Barrier Reef and Indian Ocean earned him respect in the world of science, and in 1976 he became an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. But it was his writing that shot him to his greatest fame and that gave him the greatest fulfillment. "Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered," Clarke said recently. "I have had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these I would like to be remembered as a writer." From 1950, he began a prolific output of both fiction and non-fiction, sometimes publishing three books in a year. He published his best-selling "3001: The Final Odyssey" when he was 79. Some of his best-known books are "Childhood's End," 1953; "The City and The Stars," 1956, "The Nine Billion Names of God," 1967; "Rendezvous with Rama," 1973; "Imperial Earth," 1975; and "The Songs of Distant Earth," 1986. When Clarke and Kubrick got together to develop a movie about space, they used as basic ideas several of Clarke's shorter pieces, including "The Sentinel," written in 1948, and "Encounter in the Dawn." As work progressed on the screenplay, Clarke also wrote a novel of the story. He followed it up with "2010," "2061," and "3001: The Final Odyssey." In 1989, two decades after the Apollo 11 moon landings, Clarke wrote: "2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined." Clarke won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 1974 and 1979; the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 1974 and 1980, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was awarded the CBE in 1989. Born in Minehead, western England, on Dec. 16, 1917, the son of a farmer, Arthur Charles Clark became addicted to science fiction after buying his first copies of the pulp magazine "Amazing Stories" at Woolworth's. He read English writers H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon and began writing for his school magazine in his teens. Clarke went to work as a clerk in Her Majesty's Exchequer and Audit Department in London, where he joined the British Interplanetary Society and wrote his first short stories and scientific articles on space travel. It was not until after the World War II that Clarke received a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics from King's College in London. In the wartime Royal Air Force, he was put in charge of a new radar blind-landing system. But it was an RAF memo he wrote in 1945 about the future of communications that led him to fame. It was about the possibility of using satellites to revolutionize communications — an idea whose time had decidedly not come. Clarke later sent it to a publication called Wireless World, which almost rejected it as too far-fetched. Clarke married in 1953, and was divorced in 1964. He had no children. He moved to the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka in 1956 after embarking on a study of the Great Barrier Reef. Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, discovered that scuba-diving approximated the feeling of weightlessness that astronauts experience in space. He remained a diving enthusiast, running his own scuba venture into old age. "I'm perfectly operational underwater," he once said. Clarke was linked by his computer with friends and fans around the world, spending each morning answering e-mails and browsing the Internet. At a 90th birthday party thrown for Clarke in December, the author said he had three wishes: for Sri Lanka's raging civil war to end, for the world to embrace cleaner sources of energy and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings to be discovered. In an interview with The Associated Press, Clarke once said he did not regret having never followed his novels into space, adding that he had arranged to have DNA from strands of his hair sent into orbit. "One day, some super civilization may encounter this relic from the vanished species and I may exist in another time," he said. "Move over, Stephen King."

greatest bike ride ever

evilrevchris — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:22:07 GMT

i bought a brand new bike, a giant suede! i rode my new bike around lake meritt today, and it was lovely. i am feeling much better. this is the first new bike i have ever purchased as an adult, and i wanted comfort. i got a great workout from it, and the seat was big enough to not hurt my ass. i'm in love with it.

feeling better

evilrevchris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:53:09 GMT

i had some acupuncture today, and i must say it really helped my outlook. a break from tribe would be a good thing, but i don't think i'm going to totally throw in the towel. thank you, everyone who sent words of concern and encouragement. it really did help a lot.