MdJGutie
How Great Am I?January 4, 2008
a wannabe hardass, but softer than a boiled twinkie. it's cute when she tries tho.
March 24, 2006
If you're lucky you will get Maria as your instructor to the deep end of the kennel.
Maria is the kindest and most compassionate person I have ever met who will beat you with the stupid stick ...BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT. I honestly don't mind because I already believe that dogs have it figured out more than us...and we deserve to get smacked by the stupid stick once in a while. Anyways, Maria...love you and all that you do for those great Souls in transition.
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I have an IQ of 152... I put that up, not to "brag" (I don't think you can rightfully brag about your IQ any more that you can about your height or hair color), but because it tells you more about me than any other single fact. It colors everything else I am, or am not. It is more consistent with who I am than my race, or nationality, or my ethnicity, or my gender, or my birth order, and more than my place or date of birth. I am more the product of my intelligence than any thing on a census form. It may not be the first thing a stranger takes note of, but it has more than anything else been the thing people have commented to me about all of my life. It, more than any other single thing, has effected what I did and how I did it.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert A. Heinlein ...and I can do most of those things (I've already done most of them), except for butchering a hog. One, I'd never be able to kill one (unless it was in self-defense) and two, I'd feel awful about someone else killing it (though I've dissected more animals than I can remember including a fetal pig, I've long since hung up my scalpel). It's stuff like that what keeps me from eating pork. Really, I feel sorry for the pigs and don't want to contribute to their misery. On the other hand, I’ve done more than my share of comforting the dying. I read somewhere that some people are called to be midwives to those who are exiting this life, and beyond that I keep being asked to mind the corpse until the undertaker can undertake them because for some reason I’ve never minded corpses. "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe." I feel a strong kinship with the Electric Monk as described here by DNA in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" because of the breadth and depth to which I am able to believe things other people have difficulty accepting. "The greatest danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail to reach them, but that they are too low, and we do." -Michelangelo ...and I try to remember that.
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She’s been very sick, so I brought her to my house to stay with me. I was afraid I might be bothering her by watching her so closely and hovering over her. She let me know it was alright when she jumped up on the couch next to me, scooted over, laid her head on my chest, and fell fast asleep.
Wed, July 23, 2008 - 2:05 PM
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I’m glad because I love making her life as easy as I can, …. only now I can’t move. 
Thank goodness for broadband cards and a trunkful of spare laptops, otherwise I'd have no choice but to go to bed and like sleep or something.
Wed, July 23, 2008 - 3:44 AM
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... is there anything better than switching through the channels and finding the Tour de France?
Sun, July 20, 2008 - 1:09 PM
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I HAVE to move closer to a bike path. 
I was going though my image files and found this. She walked up to me in my driveway on New Years Eve. She'd been running around the neighborhood for a few days, hanging out with the stray German Shepherd I feed. Bob, the GS, may be able to defend himself from the coyotes (he's had some tangles with them in the past), but she'd make them a light snack if they ever got hold of her. She was a complete sweetheart. Pure white coat with corn flower blue eyes. Not a dog that should be living ...
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 3:04 PM
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... one dog at a time."
Fri, July 18, 2008 - 12:48 AM
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Dangerpantz' reaction to hearing that I picked up a dog I found running in traffic on Florence Blvd. in Compton today. Now all I have to do is find him a home. [I'll post a better picture once I take it.]
Where I've been, what I've been typing.
Re: No Bootcamp on the 27th!
(in Burner Bootcamp)
Ooooooooh, later this week is much better for me.
I am going "surfing" tomorrow in the morning (I hang out on the surfboard and try not to be eaten by sharks) and then I am working the Cirquek at 6. discussion post on Sun, July 27, 2008 - 12:39 AM
Re: The injured and the dead
(in Adam Is Delusional)
"Really, I love trying to figure out what he said by what people say back. It's like having a private particle accelorater."
I DO EXACTLY THE SAME THING!! I think of it as a logic puzzle, but without the logic. discussion post on Sat, July 26, 2008 - 12:42 AM
Re: Elysium Pix!!! Post-um!!! ;-D
(in Elysium Midsummer Festival 08)
Well, it's not as if you were wearing all that much SB.
discussion post on Fri, July 25, 2008 - 11:22 AM
Re: That's our girl in the LA Times!!!!!!!
(in LA Burners)
Show is awesome. Venue is awesome. Vibe is awesome. Get there on time and in line when you're instructed to get your seats. The house fills fast.
discussion post on Fri, July 25, 2008 - 10:22 AM
Re: Opening Night!
(in CIRQUE BERZERK)
It was a great night. Looks like it's going to be a great weekend.
discussion post on Fri, July 25, 2008 - 10:17 AM
Re: Pretty green lights....
(in Elysium Midsummer Festival 08)
Yep. Lasers. I remember walking past them and thinking they looked as if stars or fireflies were hanging in the trees when I noticed they were on me as well and traced them back to their source.
Even after I knew where they came from, I sti... read more discussion post on Thu, July 24, 2008 - 9:36 AM
Re: need help getting prepared for Burning Man?
(in LA Burners)
Hmm. This reminds me, I really ought to buy my ticket. I won't, but it reminds me that I should. Then there's some sort of packing involved? Is that right? I forget. Am I supposed to buy stuff? I've got a weeks worth of crinolines and four ...
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discussion post on Wed, July 23, 2008 - 12:07 AM
Re: And he's back
(in Adam Is Delusional)
That presupposes he has a brain. My own theory tends closer to a congealed glob of mush. A sour, spoiled, congealed glob of mush.
discussion post on Tue, July 22, 2008 - 11:58 PM
Re: I- just- can't - help -msyself....
(in Adam Is Delusional)
Holy crap. If using our best judgement were legal that little twerp would be looooooooooooooooong since dead. I'd see to that personally.
discussion post on Mon, July 21, 2008 - 11:32 PM
Re: "Burner: Tales from the Playa" now playing in a browser near you!
(in LA Burners)
I noticed that. If I tried to make it play before it was loaded it went in fits and starts.
discussion post on Mon, July 21, 2008 - 1:34 AM
Re: Military is going to shoot pigs
(in Go Vegan)
The fucking navy is constantly fighting for the right to kill whales and other sea mammals, but I think the protests and law suits are working to stop them.
discussion post on Sun, July 20, 2008 - 10:15 PM
Re: SUNDAY BOOTCAMP da 20th?
(in Burner Bootcamp)
I suck, but not totally, just a lot. I did the sit up thingies after you left! Fifteen with no problem! I want to do those next weekend, with or without the rest of you. I also worked up a sweat at the dog park atterwards chasing a greyhound...
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discussion post on Sun, July 20, 2008 - 9:23 PM
Re: GLOW BLOW
(in LA Burners)
I heard they were expecting 25,000 and thought "no fucking way will you catch me within ten miles of SM." Holy crap, it's hard enough to find parking and navigate the tourist traffic on a regular weekend. I've heard nothing but bad reviews abou...
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discussion post on Sun, July 20, 2008 - 4:53 PM
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