SkeptiLog, evil twin of

A backpack (external/parallel) CDRW burner is a wondrous, magical device, and like all magic it requires the proper incantations. Hocus pocus. Sometimes the spell turns dung into gold; sometimes it's vice-versa. Abracadabra. Ah, another learning experience...

• Watch out for the robotic humans, they can't be trusted.
• We should shut down the ALIEN UNDERGROUND SLAVE CITIES right away, eh?
• You mean you want to have sex with robots? Why? Or, why not?
• If you've ever wanted to create an undetectable total mind controlled slave, check out how The Illuminati do it.
• But your slave may escape from your gulag and tell their tale. THEN you'll have trouble....
• It all started because some demented rich-bitch on Earth had wanted to fuck her prized poodle. But Fifi puffed up...
• Is hedonism enough? Is pleasure more than just the absense of pain?
• You've probably wondered what the domain name EgoDeath.Com means, haven't you? Me too.

Simple Things Are Best!

• Ah, I love the feel of toys running thru my brain; the feel of ultra violet on my flesh; the sound of cosmic baseball in the spring...
• Ah, I love to see butterflies flutter by; to observe deformed frogs flop around; to watch samurai troopers slaughter each other...
• Ah, I love to dream of visiting the Yukon; to send my spiritual body traveling thru time; to roll upon absolutely genuine oriental rugs...

Is anybody actually seeing this? [Guess I'd better add a hit counter...] What do you think of the layout of the bulletins in email and newsgroups; the bulletins and log and links as displayed on the Web; this whole SkeptiThang? How do these websites look on your browser [assuming you're using something other than MSIE4/5]?? Gimmee strokes...

Get up early; produce three bulletins; drive 400 miles; come back home, shave off a full beard; it's been a busy day.

• WINE WITH PEANUTS: "Sonoma County votes to change the name of its airport to the Charles M. Schultz Airport, in honor of the late cartoonist." Peanuts International Airport, Santa Rosa CA, just down the road from here. Sheesh.
  [More on Schultz at the bottom the first log page.]
• Want to know where someone is buried? Try FindAGrave.Com. Want to make sure they're really buried there? That's your problem.
• I got all excited when I saw a page of Geezers From Hell maps but then I found they were for a game. Sheesh.
• Then I found this nice map of the Hotter'N'Hell Hundred, and I just may try that, one of these years...
• Wheel, Reinvented - "Cycling shifts into high gear." But those are all Neanderthal Wedgies - get 'BENT!

Sprawl crawls up next to monument. The Casa Grande ruins are about to be swallowed by shopping centers, suburbs and/or a Federal prison. Bother. Is Area51 next?

• Fred's new Site: quality photography, professional site.
• But he's yet to be found with a Google or Yahoo search. Better work on that, Fred.
• Woops - I don't want to forget John's page -- nice trucks -- although I must admit that my own Fords are a little newer, if not quite so charismatic.
• Some of the best American Indian music of the last century is available at Indian House Records.
• Steve Getzwiller is helping restore traditional materials [ie Churro sheep/wool] to Navajo weavers, and is marketing their work.
• Dulce, New Mexico, in the Jicarilla Apache nation, is known for secret alien/govt projects as well as the usual Indian stuff. Zow.
• Some people make a big deal of Hopi prophesies. Other people move along with life.

Went to San Francisco today, to Chinatown / North Beach, to buy stuff. Didn't find it; saved lotsa money. Spent it elsewhere. Such is life. No UFOs / alien abductions / Yetis / Illuminati observed. Conspiracies everywhere, though. Hot hot hot day -- 85 in SF, 97 in Petaluma, no April Fools's about it. This is spring? Alien weather-modification porgram is obviously effective. I had no energy / time to search Web, find nifty sites, dazzle y'all. Tomorrow...

• DoS Attacks, Cryptography for Dummies, and a UNIX Security Primer - ain't hacking wonderful?
• You never know when you'll need to cleanse a leper and you want to be sure you perform the right ritual, right? Right.
• You could sing along with His Body Was a Playground for the Nazi Elite or The Mothership & the Fatherland or some other song on the Brainwashed Jukebox, or you could do something else entirely.
• Like, you could go Dancing with Elvis in Cyberspace or you could wade thru moronic SubGenious babble.
• Or you could take advice from Reverand Retentive or the Mystic Beagle. Right.
• Don't know where to turn? ASK JESUS! and be instructed.
• Trying singing along with robots and their fractal music for a change. La la la. Lo lo lo. Li li li. Gronk.
• Or maybe you just need a Mind Machine to hot-rod your head. I sure do.

Correction to last-night's PS -- XOOM seems to be back up, the archives are updated and available. But XOOM is still a slow pig, and I'll see about moving the arcs to a faster site, probably over the weekend. Gotta do a better subscription page too... and re-work the navbar... and de-jaggy the OTRSS logo... and... and...

Reminder: if you're not receiving the bulletins you're expecting, your subscription may be having mail problems. See the NOTICES & EXCUSES sidebar [on the left, here] and see if your address is posted. G'luck.

	Damn, it's a gorgeous day today! It's so nice out, I think I'll leave it out. Metaphorically speaking, of course. Maybe. Singin' in the sunshine... Later: Whew. Had the first long bike ride this spring on the 'bent, the bridge-to-bridge loop around the Russian River Valley -- wore myself out, think I'll crash now. [zzz... thud]

• Q: Why is a bassoon better than an oboe? A: It burns longer.
• I'll never forget Moose Turd Pie - how the hell COULD I? It has a long history!
• The Composer, The Cult and The Musical Guru revisits Gurdjieff to good effect.
• I just downloaded Napster and yes, it works -- I've been sucking up tango MP3s, filling up the disk -- time to expand storage. Ah, the costs of free music...

Unhappy PS: the XOOM system seems to have crashed -- I tried updating the archives yesterday, with no luck, and it's still down tonight. I guess it's time to move the archives to another free site. Ah well, XOOM was a slow pig anyway. Good riddance.

• Some people stay busy EXPOSING DEMONIC ALIEN LEGIONS [a vital task, you must admit] and revealing the truth about Desert Storm War Crimes while others just catalog UTOPIAS and hope for the best. And you?
• Without an Azimuthal Equidistant Projection you really don't know where you are, now do you? And until you take the Ooze cruise you don't really know slime.
• The Roman Empire wasn't all that great. None of us are. But Wartime San Francisco was pretty impressive. What's your favorite City Of Seven Hills?
• embracing the grain of time and my head is a tower of fire: ADONIS
• Do you prefer MUZAK FOR SPACEPORTS or MUSIC BY THE AUDIENCE or something else entirely? Do you make Art by Fax Machine?
• What's your favorite improvement? Were humans meant to fly in the air? To travel beneath the sea? To speed across the land? Why not?

	OK, the changeover went pretty well. No more surprises right away. I hope.

NEEDING ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET:

• Build A Genesis Machine - terraform alien planets for fun and profit. Or for survival. How long can you tread vacuum? A biggish comet/meteor/asteroid WILL eventually smash Earth's biosphere, y'know. Better get ready. Let fractal robots do all the hard work.
• And check out all the other fun things you can do with Fractal Robots.
• Has a knowledge machine terraformed your brain/planet/universe yet? Did you notice?
• Maybe you should just become a Spiritual Cyborg. Or at least simulate the experience.
• Who'll use smallpox to terraform Earth to their liking?
• Everyone could use some Goddess Helpers to work out their problems. Like intercepting asteroids.
• And maybe the Goddess Helpers could relieve you of Post-Punk Nazi Guilt Syndrome. Or maybe not. Some transformations may just be too difficult...

Cutting to the heart of matters... I'm back from the hunt, with much to report. Journal entries are linked below. Also, there will be a major [but mostly transparent] change to the structure of all this SkeptiStuff, with more appropriate naming. These log entries will move to SkeptiLog.Pitas.Com; the links will all live on the connexions page, SkeptiCon.Pitas.Com; archiving listings will get complexified, but the common archive page [currently at Xoom] will allow for easy retrieval. Relax. Give me a day to get it all worked out. And I should resume producing bulletins by tomorrow [Tuesday].

March 2000 Trip Journal:

• 18 Mar: HOT EMF BEAMED INTO OUR HEADS!
• 19 Mar: CRASHED UFO! COYOTE CORPSES!
• 20 Mar: YOLLA BOLLY YETI! NO UFOs!
• 21 Mar: NARROW ESCAPES! TROUBLE!
• 22 Mar: UFO! BIGFOOT! ET TRACKS!
• 23 Mar: HYDROIDS! CHEMTRAILS! WITCH!
• 24 Mar: PETROGLYPHS! ALIEN FACE!
• 25 Mar: FEY MINE! GUNNERS! SASQUATCH!
• 26 Mar: BIRDS ATTACK! ALIENS ABDUCT!

This site is about to replace SkeptiCon.Pitas.Com as the home of SkeptiLog -- and about time, too. I'm slowly untangling the snarl of SkeptiSites...