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Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Matrix Revolutions plot the traditional Japanese hippo dancing jockstrap photos.

A little navel gaze- those are the top 10 search keywords that brought people to this site this year (ok quarter as it’s only been since September). I had to laugh when I first read it off the screen.

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Year End Shorts

Wednesday, December 31, 2003

Some shorts for the end of the year:

  • The Telecom Riot Act of 2004 — 29 Reasons To Not Celebrate The 20th Anniversary Of The Baby Bells
  • The State of the Economy as seen through eBay auctions and trends — summary: If there’s a recovery on, we’re not seeing it…
  • According to my 2004 Farmer’s Almanac, sunrise will be at 7:14am here with the tide still high, and the FBI will now be eying me more suspiciously. Yes they actually released a warning brief to their offices and police nation wide that almanacs are a probable terrorism tools and to “watch for suspects carrying almanacs, especially if they include suspicious notations or marks.” Add all that to the fact that I am a library card carrying, scuba-certified veteran….
  • WikiPedia the excellent online open encyclopedia –along with it’s spin-off projects are in financial need. There have been some outages recently caused mainly by the fact that they have no spare hardware to cope with routine failures. As with any similar system, when a failure occurs the load on the rest of the system increases and as their system is already heavily taxed, results in cascading failures. WikiMedia is looking to raise at least $20,000 to get new hardware so they can continue their growth and provide redundancy in the system. This is a great resource that I use on average every other day. WikiMedia is a Non-Profit organization and appears to qualify any donation as tax deductible, although of course IANALFAOTABSOMFAFA(I Am Not A Lawyer, Financial Adviser or Tax Adviser But Some Of My Friends And Family Are)
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Shatner Releasing New Album

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Captain Kirk (aka William Shatner) is threatening to bring us a follow up album to the critically acclaimed The Transfromed Man. What, you don’t recall that album? The song stylings of Shatner on that album’s cut, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (mp3) is easily the worst cover of a Beatles song ever released. Also not to be missed (by the musical masochist at least) is Mr. Shatners haunting (well it haunted me for a number of nights) cover of Mr. Tamborine Man (mp3). These songs from The Transformed Man are not overshadowed by Shatner’s over acted readings of Shakespear which appear between the songs.

Amazingly Mr. Shatner intended The Transformed Man as a serious album, both musically and as readings of Shakespear. It has in many ways turned into a comedy cult classic. Shatner’s fans deny the reports that the album has been used by various Intelligence agencies as an interrogation and torture tool.

I just played the majority of Shatner’s available media for my wife, who is writhing and crying miserably on the floor. If you need to incapacitate someone I suggest:

In the highly unlikely event that doesn’t reduce them to a quivering mass… well there’s plenty more out there (all mp3):

Oh and there are lot’s of RealVideo clips at the First Church of Shatnerology.

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Black On Black: Field Of Beans

Monday, December 29, 2003

Black On Black: Field Of Beans

A second photo from a “Black On Black” coffee theme.

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B&H Video Catalog = Porn

Sunday, December 28, 2003

My sister-in-law is in town visiting for a couple of days. As part of my Christmas present she brought the latest porn supply from NY — B&H Video’s latest catalog. I’ve already spent about $12,000 (well in my dreams that is) and I haven’t even gotten to the video monitors and cameras. It’s great that she gets up here every 2 months or so and can keep me supplied with a fix. I love their web site (along with Adorama’s) but while I can take the laptop into the bathroom, it just isn’t the same…

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