furtive explorations

If there is one single sign of a good movie, it is getting out of it and having no idea how much time has past. If you believe that there is more than one useful sign of a good movie then another might be spending more time after the movie talking and laughing about it than the movie itself was long. Wow. A third sign of a good movie is crapping yourself but that is easily confused with the flu so it isn't nearly as useful. I nearly did that, as well, without any hint of flu.

And god forbid you view the site in Netscape 4 right now. I haven't re-tweaked the style sheets to help it look a little less like total ass. Man is that bad or what?

BTW, that ugly background tile is actually scanned clothes-dryer fuzz that I mangled real quick into a tile. And yes, scanning 15 chunks of various color dyer lint was really stupid. The raw image is like 90MB. I can barely open it in a photo editor to chop out a single color. It is going away soon, I was just playing with that bit. W3ME needs to be very vanilla so it doesn't overwhelm the hosted sites.

For those of you not in the know...TooPure ruled the indie world in the nineties. Forget Pearl Jam. Forget Nirvana. Forget that grunge shit. The bands that TooPure represented and published were pivotal to the development of indie rock in the nineties...all the while keeping it real amidst the chaos of becoming world famous.

1992 forever changed my music listening habits...largely due to msuic from TooPure. From their artists, to the artists related to their artists, to the subsequent bands formed by former TooPure artists, and on...this is the stuff of legend.

TooPure was responsible for the finding and publishing of bands such as Th' Faith Healers, Moonshake, PJ Harvey, Stereolab, Laika, Seefeel, Seely, Long Fin Killie, Minxus, Pram, and others.

Always on the cutting edge, Too Pure caught the live music scene of northern london, put it onto wax, and conquered the world. And all the little funny tidbits are in there...how a barmaid became a haunting vocalist amidst the melodic sonic disarray of Th' Faith Healers, how a little-known country gal became number one overnight thanks to a song about her Dress, and how amazing bands such as Moonshake fell apart due to personnel foils and evolved into creative experimental giants Laika. Read...and get a little bit of background on what made London indie music of the 90s a big player on the world stage.

It's like C...but different. Better tasting...particularly with those better-managed arrays and spank-tastic garbage collection.

Yum!

• DaliWorld
• Rave Rant
• SmoothWall
• JoelOnSoftware
• Buddhism made stupid "Is the Internet dumbing down our planet?" my friend asks. "Yes, oh god yes!" I reply.

"Put another way," Pimentel says, "about 70 percent more energy is required to produce ethanol than the energy that actually is in ethanol. Every time you make 1 gallon of ethanol, there is a net energy loss of 54,000 BTU." Ouch, we put more energy into making the sstuff than we can get out? How much fossil fuel gets burned to do that?

Ethanol from corn costs about $1.74 per gallon to produce, compared with about 95 cents to produce a gallon of gasoline. I think he is talking market price here and not cost. If gas cost 95 cents to produce I don't think they could sell it for $1.15 and still pay for transport and advertising and gas-station attendants and industrial cleaning teams they bring in once a decade to disinfect the toilets.

The average U.S. automobile, traveling 10,000 miles a year on pure ethanol (not a gasoline-ethanol mix) would need about 852 gallons of the corn-based fuel. This would take 11 acres to grow, based on net ethanol production. This is the same amount of cropland required to feed seven Americans. Or about 10 non-obese people, or an entire village of starving, dewy-eyed children

If all the automobiles in the United States were fueled with 100 percent ethanol, a total of about 97 percent of U.S. land area would be needed to grow the corn feedstock. Corn would cover nearly the total land area of the United States. Throwing the current feces and cement motif completely off

All hail the AJBR!!!

mp3 playing/recording creamy goodness!

• InkyBlack is worth a peek for the attitude. Art.
• MikeIntosh worthy of link just for the URL but nice site design and amusing stuff. Art
• Demonology 101 Comic in "book" form, looks engaging. Over two years of stuff there makes it impressiver without making up any stupid sounding words...
• CrackerJap is a comic that may or may not be funny to you. It amused me tho...
• Idiot Box is worthy of a peek as well. Other good stuff on the site besides the comic...

Now, for the life of me, I can't remember the last time I had played Spin The Bottle...it gets lost in hazy forced-forgetfullness of an awful youth. Be that as it may, I must say that STB (not to be confused with STD, thank you very much) is a pleasant way to spend the evening...even if the bottle did seem to be weighted for guy/guy kissing.

Then I got to thinking about innocent games such as STB, and what the Internet has done to them...

• X-Files STB frickin' wierdos!
• Voyager Crew STB more frickin' wierdos! leave them aliens alone, they probably have cooties!
• Nickelodeon's "SAFE" STB basically removes any fun from the game...keeps it hetero only...more PC, family-values bullshit
• Alcoholic STB! i don't know...it seems to be too much in my opinion...i'drather focus on the kissing than the booze.

all in all, STB is harmless, tasty fun for all! enjoy! (now I just need to find a party that's playing 60 Seconds In The Closet, and my adult reclamation of youthful blissful activities will be complete!)

Cuban Academy of Sciences... really, isn't that "'nuff said?" (try here, it'll take you all day to spot the working link on their page)

ADC? Nope. ADC? Not likely. ADC? Err... No. Touchstone number one folks; wouldn't an "Advanced Digital Communications" company have a fucking website? If you start your reply with "Uh, Well..." choke it fucking back.

more recent update from the same crappy writer. Lovely details on inconsequentials like the personal lives of the people involved and a complete lack of any details on the project or any actual human being out side 4 people ever having anything to do with real research. *grim*

On the other hand, the "busy" has been the good "busy" where things have been accomplished and mighty flagons of booze have been consumed and many a fine tale has been told. Not the "gettin' busy" which would have been better than good. Also not the bad "busy" where I spend days cleaning tile grout using a tooth brush assembled from disused tampon appliques, non-fat cheese substitute, and my own armpit hair. And it espcially hasn't been the grim form of busy where I've just spent the last two days canabalistically justifying the spray-painted "abattoir"on the side of my wod-chipper. That would have been a very grim "busy", indeed.