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Blue light not so special I think I will ignore it

I just came downstairs, and the family room was glowing blue. No, it is not evil light coming from the toaster in the kitchen, although there is another story brewing there. This time it is my Wii (you know, the game that gets you to throw the nunchuck controller, in a fit of exuberance, right into the new expensive flat screen monitor you just got, for the Wii).

Yes, I have email. I have it through my PC from work, from tribe, from flickr, and from a dozen other places I have registered a... read more

Wed, May 7, 2008 - 1:30 AM permalink - 2 comments

Owie my feet, ears, eyes

I walked across San Francisco today, from Ocean Beach on the Pacific, through Golden Gate Park, through the Panhandle along Felt to the Civic Center, wiggling my way, figuratively speaking, through downtown to the bay, where there was a cold beer, a nasty cheroot, and some friendly company waiting for me. Wait ... maybe I got those adjectives mixed up a bit. Along the way I walked past Moscone Center where, in a moment of "how the hell did this happen?", a friend of mine was just arriving to ... read more

Tue, May 6, 2008 - 11:47 PM permalink - 3 comments

How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco

This was fun. Next time I'm bringing two of me, one to play with the camera, and the other to just play.
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 1:08 PM permalink - 1 comment

A party of dingos

All week long at work I was locked (by responsibility, not under actual lock and key) in a room with the same people, and by week's end was tired, burnt out, and cranky. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel: the promise of a party with pizza, wine, and Finns. Well, the light was a chimera; I had been led astray; I wanted the car but got the goat. They double baited and switched on me. First, no Finns. Damn. Instead, they said, a Dane would be there. I tried to explain that Danes are... read more

Mon, April 21, 2008 - 2:54 AM permalink - 4 comments

My evil toaster

A few years ago we bought a toaster. It is just a regular toaster made by Cuisinart, a reputable French company. It is white, a good color. Its model number does not contain the number 6 at all, and neither does its serial number. I checked. Three times. In UV and infra red. We got it new, so it wasn't a return, and must have come straight from the factory. And we got it from a normal place, Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm now beginning to wonder what they actually mean by Beyond, because my toaster i... read more

Tue, April 8, 2008 - 6:03 PM permalink - 7 comments

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Blogs I read

The Levitt and Dubner Freakonomics blog at NYT
Beat the Press, by Dean Baker
Talk Show: Dick Cavett Speaks Again
Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a Liberal
Bottleneck Block in the L.A. Times
It is sometimes nice to read about a place that has shittier traffic

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۞ Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
۞ Economists might not be a religious bunch, but I do see a frightening amount of 'blind faith' regarding certain old theories within the profession. - from Freakonomics blog
۞ You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. - Richard Feynman
۞ You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry
۞ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
۞ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. - Wyatt Earp
۞ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If anything can survive the probe of humor it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. - Eric Idle
۞ I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. - George Carlin
۞ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein
۞ Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. - Plato
۞ Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
۞ It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
۞ Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. - Steven Wright
۞ I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. - Richard Feynman
۞ The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato
۞ My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steve Wright
۞ If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
۞ If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. - Quentin Crisp
۞ It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice – there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. - Frank Zappa
۞ A wise man once said, never discuss philosophy or politics in a disco environment. - Frank Zappa
۞ The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. - Frank Zappa
۞ Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other. - Frank Zappa
۞ Mohawks may look cute, but they do nothing to retain body heat. - Guy Trebay of the NYT
۞ There is nothing in this world more terrifying that somebody who thinks he is right. - Peter Hitchens
۞ All sorts of new life forms are emerging out of the corpse of the music industry. - Peter Gabriel at a promotion of The Filter
۞ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Re: Erotica (in Hot sex and cold tofu) > It'd be like sharing my porn with you. *blah*

But ... but ... porn is better when shared.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:38 PM

Re: Erotica (in Hot sex and cold tofu) > but...but Amanda erotica is not porn....

That line is only for academia.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:36 PM

Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) (in Hot sex and cold tofu) Fallow seems to apply more to the vagina than the penis.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:35 PM

Ears wide shut

By Peter Schaaf

photo posted Yesterday, 10:10 PM

Re: Erotica (in Hot sex and cold tofu) No one answered. What does that mean?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:05 PM

Re: Japanese ladies weight loss secret (in Hot sex and cold tofu) Which one rubs who's?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:03 PM

Re: The Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus) (in Hot sex and cold tofu) No, I think divorce is liberating for the penis.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 10:02 PM

Re: You know you are screwed when ... (in Me & Zareen's Pickles are Evil) ... your family clinic lab tests come back sealed in a plastic envelope.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:37 PM

Re: You know you are screwed when ... (in Me & Zareen's Pickles are Evil) ... you bite into a pickle and it bites back.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:36 PM

You know you are screwed when ... (in Me & Zareen's Pickles are Evil) ... your turn comes up in front of the judge in traffic court, and the judge calls you by your fist name. And only you first name.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:35 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) I don't. I was thinking of making an evil bunny suit for Halloween, but I guess I could switch that for a giant lint roller. Would that work?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:03 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) > a stretch choli

I had to look that up. Nice.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:01 PM

Re: OK, enough. Let's talk ... cervix (in Save My Thread) I saw a variation that was: "Dr Johnson, at your cervix".

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 8:39 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) I thought where you were going was ... and suddenly my pomegranate juice turned into Chianti. Now THAT would have been a trick. Maybe it has to get cycled through the keyboard a few more times before it looses that fruity taste.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 8:00 PM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) Tee hee. Makes me happy.

Actually, I shouldn't be too happy. The farther away in time you travel, the more energy it takes. So your reverse stalking of me, as opposed to ... Elvis, or Ringo back when he was still sober, or Napoleon ... is just ... read more

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:56 PM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) No I think you are stalking me ... just doing it backwards.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:24 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) But the hat! Joe Cocker may think it is OK, but in my book ...

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:17 PM

Re: Terry Tate (in Chummy's Weird World of Sass and Chiffon) Geneva Stoller gives a whole new definition to the words Human Resources.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:10 PM

Re: Terry Tate (in Chummy's Weird World of Sass and Chiffon) Where the hell do you play a four and a half minute commercial? (Other than YouTube, I guess. Maybe I'm not watching enough YouTube.)

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:06 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) > Torroid, was that merely an observation, or a proposition?

Why yes.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 4:13 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) > Didja see Aunt Bea's outfit?

No. Not Grannie panties?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 4:12 PM

OK, enough. Let's talk ... cervix (in Save My Thread) We've had two threads full of foreskins and prostates, and frankly I'm beginning to get worried about the lopsided nature of this tribe. So, just to restore some balance to the universe ... let's talk cervix.

Got any good cervix jokes?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 3:09 PM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) > Tis better to have popped the clutch than to have clutched... no, nevermind...

Is this cross-chatter from the prostate thread?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 2:59 PM

Re: When am I going to die? (in Save My Thread) Not sure what they meant, but since it hasn't happened yet, I could still be either.

However, if you ask Gemma, she should probably say that I've already been trampled on by a certain flavor of Scandinavians.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 2:48 PM

Re: Do you want your foreskin back? (in Save My Thread) > A "flap" doesn't really "flap"..........if you catch my drift.

Uhm ... yes. Unless it's a really big foreskin. Really, really big.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 2:08 PM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) > Hey th3r3.

No, no, no. That's limited to pictures!

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 1:43 PM

Re: The littlest gas station woe (in Learn To Drive!!!!) > I hope you pumped that gas with a little attitude.

I'm trying to come up with a ... euphemistic interpretation for this. I try to think, but nothing happens.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 1:42 PM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) HI Heather. I like the outfit. Especially the hat.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 1:39 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) > "dress you up in gold lame speedos & put money in 'em/steal and then share w/you your own chianti"

That can go both ways, you know. Or three, even.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:56 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) Take your clothes off. That always helps.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:52 PM

Re: MY PICKLE RECIPIE.... (in Me & Zareen's Pickles are Evil) But Andy and Barney are dead.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:36 PM

Re: Picnic Ants (in Me & Zareen's Pickles are Evil) That's not yiffing, that's screams of pain. What kind of furries parties do YOU go to?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 12:35 PM

Re: now in session (in a.m. | TIMECLOCK | p.m.) Crouched in the corner ... deciding whether to jump ... for the middle, or for the door.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:33 AM

Re: Please!!! (in What is WRONG with People??!!) Ah, I got it now ... arm trick.

I've seen this done. Yes, there is an arm trick.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:27 AM

Re: How do they find the time to do this? (in What is WRONG with People??!!) What if we founded a church that preached atheism?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:26 AM

Re: Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) Spin? Or Spawn?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:25 AM

Re: You only get demoted in Japan (in Save My Thread) That sounds like one HECK of a Trivial Pursuit question set. I've got a game coming up this Saturday, with some dingos. How can I get a hold of a copy?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 11:23 AM

Re: Please!!! (in What is WRONG with People??!!) > I do the arm trick too

Arm trick?

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:13 AM

Re: Please!!! (in What is WRONG with People??!!) > Remember, most of us cringe at the meer thought of getting hurt down there.

And ... most guys swoon at the thought of being adjusted down there.

Wait ... somehow swoon doesn't come across as the right word.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 9:12 AM

Re: The middle lane (in What is WRONG with People??!!) Found this site devoted to this cause: www.driverightpassleft.com/index.asp

It's a little bizzare. They have one useful page of information about various state laws and links to the relevant codes, a place to post a message to a forum bu... read more

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 8:01 AM

Howdy (in Learn To Drive!!!!) Ģıŋ invited me to this tribe following a scree from me about driving. Well ... Ģıŋ didn't actually invite me ... Ģıŋ mentioned the tribe, and something about "should". So maybe I popped the clutch ... oops, poor pun.

discussion post on Mon, May 12, 2008 - 7:40 AM

Re: Do you want your foreskin back? (in Save My Thread) The way it normally w


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