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Because malevolent is too hard to say!
And you can't tell me the alien ain't CUTE!
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furtive explorations
"How stupid do you want them to think you are?"
Seek the power, find the Sock of Destiny!
The hostile team now consists of scads of
people hardly ever posting to this site! Of course that doesn't actually
equate to any more posts, it just ups the brownian motion of the
system a bit more.
Earth First! Make Mars Our Bitch!
Friday, September 14, 2001
- 10:38:36 PM by mark
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- Antwon's wonderful idea to respond to this actually cheered me up. Warmed my heart, actually. I really recommend you not look at that last link if you aren't strong of heart, since it is particularly vile pr0n.
- 10:07:48 PM by mark
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- Yeah, I have spent time at "work" -- too distracted by constant traffic to get much coding done -- working on this.
A nice HTML flag. Yes, it is kinda stupid and it is real old-skool HTML but I like it and I couldn't find a nice little sticker one for my car window.
At least I've been putting a candle out on the ledge every night. That and donating a good bit to Amazon's Red Cross Effort. =)
Oh yeah, and on the flag, the proportions of the stripes and blue are just about exact. Thank-you-very-much. Make sure if you whip up a homemade flag that you get the proportions right
Thursday, September 13, 2001
- 11:36:12 PM by mark
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- My roommate reports he got a missive from the internet titled "Attract Men With Larger Breasts" which he pointed out could be parsed either "[Attract Men] [With Larger Breasts]" or the much more marginal "[Attract] [Men With Larger Breasts]" which a misplaced pause could effect. How sad a time do we live in where this is the most cheerful thing that occured today?
BTW, 7 days of illness now and it looks like it will press on into my second Friday. *bleagh* Half the people I know have had or are coming down with this. At least I got it late and don't seem to have wound up playing the role of "Outbreak Monkey".
And now off to dream, frighteningly, of large-breasted, disease-ridden monkeys with a strange attraction to spam.
- 4:19:09 PM by Nemo
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- Another way to help out.
- 10:18:43 AM by mark
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- This morning on the way into work I wound up listening to Cool, Cool River and wound up in tears for a second.
And these streets
Quiet as a sleeping army
Send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven
For the mother's restless son
Who is a witness to, who is a warrior
Who denies his urge to break and run
Who says: Hard times?
I'm used to them
The speeding planet burns
I'm used to that
My life's so common it disappears
And sometimes even music
Cannot substitute for tears.
- 1:13:14 AM by sklutch
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- You know...I don't consider myself to be a "bad" person, but the fact of the matter is that I can't wrap my brain around this whole WTC thing, and one of the first things that came to mind was "great, now we get to watch more of our constitutional rights chipped away in the name of safety." This was followed by the realization that I was hungry, so I went and got some food. It was while I was minding my own business, eating the mass-munchies, that another customer looked at me and asked how I could eat at a time like this...they didn't like my answer of "I didn't die, I'm hungry, and death happens." I've known 5 suicides...personally...and I agree that the attack was a [Bad Thing], but I can't see any way to keep these things from happening besides obliterating entire countries with nuclear warheads and hunting down every member of that ethnic background and sterilizing them from the face of the planet...really. Admittedly, we can tighten up our airport security so that planes full of volatile fuel can't be hijacked and flown into targets, and I've always thought that important buildings should have SAM launchers, but everyone consistently tells me that I over-react, too. My knowledge of how I over-react helps me to keep from being on CNN myself, and so I KNOW that "We the People" shouldn't act hastily on this and immediately scream "Foreign terrorists! Kill all foreigners!" This is particularly true in light of OKC/McVeigh, when "right-thinking people" mobbed up and attacked innocents. I have to trust that our intelligence community [and, yes, I understand that the phrase seems an oxymoron] will investigate thoroughly and eventually determine, if not who EXACTLY, then what organization developed this attack. At that point, I fully support armed forces retrieving said people from hostile lands, bringing them to the US and then punishing them in accordance with either our laws OR THE LAWS LAID OUT BY THEIR OWN RELIGION. Remember, if these were Muslim terrorists, there are brutal provisions for murdering innocents...even if the religious figure said that God ok'd the killing. As of yet, no one has successfully proven that God spoke to them, but they HAVE published what God said and declared it to be Holy Writ, enforceable across the world. It would be a fine case of justice to use their own published beliefs against them..or would that be irony? Damfino...it's been over 15 years since I had an English/Literature class. On the other hand, if it turns out to have been a home-grown conspiracy/attack...the people involved are completely hosed and will run for the rest of their lives.
Looking over the "go get them from hostile lands" line made me realize that too will just escalate things...*sigh* The only way that I can see this kind of thing stopping is for EVERY person on this planet to find the idea so repugnant that they dismiss it out of hand. Unfortunately, we humans have an incredible capacity for hate. Great, now I'm depressed...think I'll watch some pr0n and cheer myself up...
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
- 11:24:19 PM by mark
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- This here sums it up, I think.
- 2:37:28 PM by mark
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- I've watched more TV in the past two days than I think I've watched in a week over the past year. I have trouble leaving my desk to get a coke because I've been watching streaming live TV while coding at work. The last time I remember being glued to the television like this was Desert Storm. Of course I tend to watch more TV while ill, but normally that is because I'm at home. I'm not used to being at work ill and watching TV.
Mostly I've been watching C-SPAN, MSNBC and WABC on Broadcast.com. All did a fine job and balanced the CNN we've been watching in the Network Ops Center. What an unreal couple of days.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
- 5:45:20 PM by mark
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- I understand some planes got diverted to Louisville. If you know someone stuck here send me e-mail and I'll do my best to help them out. I live within 5 minutes of the airport. I can't give blood yet because I'm still ill so this is the best I can do to help. =( If you have a friend stranded, I have a couch.
- 10:10:40 AM by mark
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- What can you say that makes any of this any better? How do you cope with this?
Maybe, what country do we glass over, nuke back to the stone age, to make this stop?
Monday, September 10, 2001
- 11:31:03 PM by mark
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- Kungfool hmmm... SexyLosers errrr...
- 11:20:41 PM by mark
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- Math and Baseball Collide and I'll bet that McFarlane is sweating now. =)
- 10:02:50 PM by mark
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- Tonite while on the way to dinner (a'coughing all the way...) we stopped at our first choice and discovered it closed. The three of us guys trotted back to my car (yeah, sick, and I had to drive) and a weird looking guy comes over and asks us if we wanted to see "the apartment".
One, we hadn't got any where near that building. Two, we are all clearly edging into or past 30 and are all male. Three, my car (Pontiac Bonneville) isn't exactly the sort of car people around there drive. After we disappointed the guy Bud mentioned that we would make an amusing "Three's Company" variation. After a second, I said, "We're all guys Bud. One of us pretending to be gay would make the situation worse." As soon as I said it though, the idea struck and we amused ourselves running down variations on the TC/Bosom Buddies concept. All guys, all gay, having to pretend to be straight to live together was the best of them.
The other odd thing that came up was my roommate John's story of why he was wearing glasses today. It seems that while in a client's home his contact started to the do the "pre-flutter" that presages a leaping-out. He attempted the blink it back technique to no avail and the contact leapt out. He held a hand out and in fine olympic tradition caught it square on the hand. Only to have it licked away by a large dog... The dog, it was later explained to him, was ill and really "phlegmy." Thus, glasses. =)
This goes to prove that no matter how hard you try and come up with really funny stuff like three guys having to dress like tranvestites in order to live in a sorority house only to discover that the entire house is gay and they have to act out faux lesbian acts on each other in order to escape the attentions of the girls (no matter how much they desire it) can't possibly ever be as funny as real life is everyday.
- 6:08:20 PM by mark
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- Multiple fun things from a circus coupon flyer I found:
Lions, Llamas, Camels, Horses which one of these doesn't belong?
Children may not be left unattended. Subject to seat availability. That's a new twist! You can only abandon them if there are enough seats?
Live Circus Band I have this image of a clown being twisted up and used as a tuba. Mommy!
Acrobats, Aerialists & Clowns! This is the same sort of list as the animals above. I presume that the "&" implies that the three groups listed here are mutually exclusive. Thus, the clowns never get off the ground and you'd better not laugh at the acrobats.
America's Only Circus Sideshow Clearly these people have been on the road since before daytime television was invented.
- 4:48:15 PM by mark
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- I'm too ill to go into work, (Typhoid Mark they would call me), but I did wind up working from home a bit. Nothing like hacking Perl and Siebel from the house. With a fever. In my underwear. While surfing the web.
I only wish I had the chain of links to explain how I got to Zap's home page. I bombed the computer once and have stuff set to wipe my history and cache on reload. Handy trick except when you really wish you knew how you got somewhere. Oh well, at least it amused me almost as much as coding did.
- 4:43:19 PM by mark
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- While watching TV last night I heard the phrase, "We don't like liars in this country." It has been stuck in my head all night. This afternoon, as my fever subsides a bit, I finally figured out why. It is completely false. We do so like liars in this country. In fact, we tend to set them up with nice offices in Harlem and nice book deals. Or at least a good television show. =)
Sunday, September 09, 2001
- 4:57:19 PM by mark
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- I wound up going to a nice concert last night after chatting with Maud'Dib (face to face for the first time in four years!) My Morning Jacket played a fine set, all in all. They kept calling it "Stoner Rock" which is both kinda mean and kinda right. The singer had a bit of the wailing Neil Young thing going and the band was damn good. The drummer especially wowwed me. Of course, I was wigged out on cold-medicine and a good rolling fever from the nasty cold I have so it was perfect music for my mood and condition. =)
What made it more fun than usual was seeing it at Planetarium. (What makes that URL less fun is the fucking pop-up on the page. *grr*) A buddy of mine Ken did the lights and sound for it. He did a damn good job and now wants another shot at it because he is sure he can do it twice as well. =)
Also; I'm telling you this for the last time: trippy music just fucking gets better with trippy visuals!
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