Tired of your usual curses? Looking for something fresh and powerful and slightly confusing/disturbing? Try the Irish Curse Engine! By selecting from their offerings you can turn something like "May the malevolent hedgehogs gnaw at your underwear." into "Go gcreime na gr?inneoga cealgr?nacha do chuid fo-éadaigh." Luckily, they also include a phonetic guide... "guh GREH-muh nuh GRAWN-yoh-guh KYA-luhg-roo-nuh-khuh duh khwihj FO-AY-dee." Looks like my sig file is going to get a little updating! *evil laughter* Thanks for the link, Looka!
posted:10:58 AM | link |

This is a BIT strange - Wil Wheaton (you may remember him from Stand By Me or as Star Trek's Wesley Crusher) has a web site and a web log, and it's not the fact that it's a pretty good web site to click through that's strange (or that he created it himself and uses GREYMATTER for the blog, which requires reasonable computer knowledge), but that a great number of the things he writes about are very similar to the way I tend to think about things. But since he accepts himself as a nerd/geek and glories in it, I suppose that explains things - LOL. (link via metafilter)
posted:4:23 PM | link |

Happy 10th Anniversary to Mom and her husband Harley! I can hardly believe it's been ten years already, but that's fantastic! :-) Besides, it's cool having someone in the family with a name like "Harley" - LOL.
posted:10:33 AM | link |

Some things just boggle the mind. Radio people are analyzing how well Gary Condit (sp?) did in his interview with Connie Chung by talking about his gestures and level of nervousness and are focusing more on how he SHOULD have done the interview to get the response he wanted. They are basically discussing how good of a job he did with manipulating the public based on his answers and bodily movement. It struck me that these analysts are at least one HUGE step away from the basic problem - that politicians are trained to manipulate the public to get the reactions they want and the votes that will keep them their jobs and aren't (in general) people of integrity, being honest, and working for the people. Now, I'm not SURPRISED by the politicians, but it seems that the radio people have all accepted that this is just the way politicians are, and that makes me shudder in incredulity. I think Default/Mass Reality is just getting STUPIDER and STUPIDER - that's my well-thought-out, witty, clever, intellectual, and reasoned response to this - LOL.
posted:9:58 AM | link |

Happy 2nd Birthday, Blogger! It's funny - I always feel like I come late to these kinds of web trends, that everyone else pretty much already had a weblog before I even thought of starting one or knew what they were. But my weblog is already a year old and blogger's only two - that really puts things in new perspective for me!

And I guess I can fully announce that project I've been working on now - it's a collaborative weblog focusing on writing! It's called the Writers Blog (link in left column too) and while we're still getting people signed up and onboard with blogger, it's starting to lift off the ground now. I don't really know what deliciousness will come of it, but I'm expecting it to be interesting at the very least! An intriguing point is that the people I've thought to invite cover many different areas of my life - my life in NY, in NC, in WA, and now in CA as well - all together in one blog. From a completely 'ego' based perspective, I wonder how these many aspects of 'my' life will interact - it'll be fun watching people go off in creative directions, including myself!
posted:11:03 AM | link |

Ahhh, titles - so strange, so campy, so vague. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether a title is for a Star Trek Episode or a Christian Metal Band - LOL! (link via metafilter)
posted:3:58 PM | link |

I know this is probably going to be neither revelatory (relevatory?) nor deep to most of you, but life is strange in that a lot of times you have to just go through things before you can 'understand' them. I don't suppose we SHOULD be able to understand them before we experience them though, since the experience is 'the thing', but... When you walk through something consciously, just allowing yourself to feel your way through, and you're WATCHING yourself feeling your way through and knowing you're NOT knowing what's going on, well... anyway. How's that for a bit of circular, self-reflective reflectivicious transmogrification? ROFL - I kill me.
posted:10:17 AM | link |

Went over to our friends' house the other evening. tom made THE most delicious chicken garlic pizzas and pepperoni pizzas, and the rest of us simply scarfed them up. We also had some excellent Reisling, played with energy after centering ourselves with a bit of fun drumming and chanting, and then finished off the evening with a rush of chocolatey goodness by devouring slabs of fudge cake. Now THATS living! *grin* It was really terrific sitting out on their back porch, which they've transformed into a lush green garden atmosphere, surrounded by pine trees - I almost forgot I was in California! Thanks for a terrific evening, guys!
posted:10:06 AM | link |

Okay - weirdness of the day... Anyone seen Obey Giant stickers in their area? (Thanks to metafilter, which is back up after the admin has come back from a two week vacation - the nerve! *grin*) I think we haven't, but maybe that's because we're not in an urban area and the cows don't like stickers on their bumpers. LOL. If you click on the Obey Giant link, read the Manifesto and maybe it'll start making some sense to you. Maybe. ;-)
posted:1:51 PM | link |

Animals I saw on my drive today: three huge flocks of quail, each running like crazy to get out of the road (flying seems to be a last resort), a brown boxer dog in the back of a pickup, a horse peeing in the middle of a field (well, he WAS! *grin*), no less than FIVE hawks sitting on phone lines in various spots, a vulture slowly and reluctantly lifting away from road kill as the car approached it, and cows laying in the cool air under the shade of the walnut trees in a nearby grove. There - now you can go on with your life.
posted:2:39 PM | link |

This has got to be one of the most amazing crop circles I've ever seen, and so complex - particularly when you consider that it's 900 feet in diameter. If you go to this page (Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country) you can see this image next to an image of a deliberately man-made crop circle - it certainly makes quite a contrast. Thanks to John for the URL.
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