Actually, I think this is a prety good idea. I designed a similar approach a few years ago, for use with audio / video compositions. Never got around to programming it, however. Got hung up on other stuff. But by clipping and reassembling with the proper parameters, it should be possible to generate material ranging in impression from the brilliant to the moronic, angelic to demonic, lustful to platonic. Maybe I'll try it again, when timer becomes available. Soon. Maybe.
* McSpotLight: What's Wrong With McDonald's? What else?
* Vegetarian Times: Veggie News Online. Virtually Vegan.
* Eating Babies!
Eating Babies!
Eating Rats!
Eating Grandma!
* And the rest of the AFU food archive, for your delectation
* Have I posted the Food Timeline before? Sorry...
* And how about Pets Or Food? Sounds familiar.
* Celebrate Bizarre Food Holidays (via AltaVista/Raging)
* Try some Weird & Disgusting Foods of the World
* I sure miss my old Oscar Meyer WienerMobile WienieWhistle
* The Condiment Package Museum is very educational. Right.
* Essential Food Trivia for the Martha-Stewart-impaired
* A very very few really really awful Cannibal jokes. Oy.
* Insect recipes: Tasty and Random (via FunnyTummy)
Europe's first school for witches and wizards opens in
Austria - just in time!
Nurse seeks truth behind near-death experiences - but won't test herself.
Were
alien bodies found near Ely? Or desert
rats who'd been out too long?
UFO falls through roof of couple's bedroom - ruins elaborate BDSM trick!
A Punch in the Face: Lunar Landing Skeptic Says Buzz Aldrin Attacked
Him
Weeping Virgin Mary statue draws pilgrims to Oz
home - or the free beer?
Psychics' vision appears cloudy in kidnapping case - more peyote needed!
The oddities of people's beliefs -
your beliefs, anyway; mine are just fine.
Bigfoot: Legends and Truth - Does Bigfoot lurk in Pa. mountains? Why
not?
Big
cat is spotted with cub - 'Joy" To See Big Cat Nearby - More Meow
Mix!
'Witches' stoned, burned to death - NewAge practitioners quaking with fear!
New German Bones Complete Neanderthal 'Family' - and baby makes 3...
Double Deception: Many Stars are Really Two ... or
Four! - or many more!
A
hitchhiking stranger is sometimes not a human being - especially if GOP
Hollow Earth Expedition Not Buried Yet - but Hollow Head search goes well
New photos reopen Nessie debate -
too bad that all photos can be faked...
Two-headed baby sea turtle found on beach - and tastes just like
chicken!
At last, the moving phase of The Move is complete — all the Stuff has been transported from Sonoma County to Amador County, from the lowlands to the mountains. Whew. Now come the unpacking and house-fixing phases, the land-covering phase, and whatever.
Moving Phase: Endless daylong haulages of carloads to onsite storage, culminating in the horrendous labor of stuffing and unstuffing a houseload of furniture into a 26-foot truck.
Unpacking Phase: Includes assembling new shelves to accommodate the disgorging of hundreds of crates of books etc. Also, deciding where to put what goodies in which place.
House-Fixing Phase: Besides the numerous cosmetic problems (cracks, chips, scrapes, discoloration, etc) in this new house, it also seems that at least SOME of the wiring is focked up. Lots of incompetant assembly. Hope the place doesn't burn down.
Land-Covering Phase: This hillside is alluvial clay which tends to blow away in dust clouds when the conifer duff is broken. Woodchips, landcover plants and slope-stabilization is needed, as well as drainage. Later we'll add garage, labyrinth, etc.
Whatever Phase: I noted a number of creative projects in my audio journal, which I'll transcribe and post Real Soon Now. Stuff to learn and do and destroy, etc. Fun fun fun.
OK, it's getting serious, getting near the end. I hauled another SUV-load up the hill a couple days ago [Tuesday after Labor Day], will do so again tomorrow [Friday], and then it's Showtime: The Big Push. Get the big moving van (a 24-foot-long bugger), load it, haul it, unload it, drive back to pick up the RV, and that's it, everything but the unpacking of several tons of pre-hauled stuff. And the remedial work by the contractors. And the basic landscaping, necessary to keep all the dry clay soil from blowing around or washing away in the winds and rains. And the detection of all the flaws in this new manufactured home.
We walked-thru the place with the sales manager last week, and he noted many necessary repairs. I was there a couple days ago and found more problems, and reached a conclusion: this place sucks. Sometimes you can put lipstick on a pig, and sometimes the pig needs a dress. This pig needs lotsa landscaping, lotsa interior finishing, and some propping-up. Inside when it's quiet and empty, looking out the formulaic windows and the remaining trees, it feels like a trailer on steroids. And not the best steroids either -- cheap imported steroids. Like much of my family, I'm about to become Trailer Trash. Bother.
This is my new blogchalk: United States, California, Volcano, *, English, Chard, Male, 51-55, music composition, propaganda. :)
The above sentence is formulaic crap generated by the BLogChalk machine; I dunno if it will do any good. Let's see.
Inuit Viking link? -
Husband claimed to be an alien -
Hunting for gravity waves -
Snakes overrun school -
Prison halts Satanic services -
Evolution of a radio -
Ancient US skeleton belongs to science -
Death by caffeine -
Famous UFO pic branded a
fake -
Robot guinea pig was a spy -
Trees on the Moon -
Fireballs in space -
Japanese deadly exorcist charged -
Return of the Northwest
Passage -
Eunuch mayor loses seat
I emailed some FLASH UPDATES on the move last week, and when I get things reconfigured I'll post'em here, backdated. But the upshot is: we didn't know when/if we were completing the move until a few days ago; then we thought we'd be doing that over the US Labor Day weekend; then we found that no trucks were available because this is the most popular moving weekend of the year; so we'll hopefully move next weekend. But who knows what the fock could happen by then? Hope the aliens abduct me soon...
Meanwhile: this has been a lousy period for SkeptiLog-ish observations, songwriting, and composition of GO! essays, although I've added grafix to some of the latter. Maybe everything will be tuned-up by Hallowe'en; maybe not. Meanwhile, my feet hurt. Bother.
* Home-buying tips for first-time buyers
* BRUTAL NEWS - almost more than you can take
* MicroContentNews is currently covering Scientology
* Energy Alliance Center documents sex & drugs & whatever
* Project Censored is very serious - so should you be
At last: THE MOVE! To be accomplished over this weekend, the Labor Day holiday here in the US. Who knows when another entry will be posted here? (The SHADOW knows...) And who cares? (The UNIVERSE cares...) And what are these mice doing here? (They're MOVING, dummy!)
Meanwhile, the family has been here and gone. Mum and Pill drove down from Oregon to gather with sister Barbi and Bill, and kid Gus (now in his late 20s). They smoked and drank, we drank and ate and talked, everyone had a fine time (I think). I drove B&B&G all over Sonoma County, both to show them the sights, and to traverse a few backroads for the last time before we move away. Past the Snoopy International Airport and Sonoma Air Force; around our old Forestville digs; into the winery tour at Korbel; up and down the coastal cliffs, tasting salty air; going BELUGA! in Bodega Harbor; et cetera. And a bit of wine tasting, of course, of course. And then to a pseudo-tacoria.
I thought today about writing a story. It would begin something like this:
"I think I learned to talk persuasively the night my old freaky friend Harrigan threatened to throw me out the apartment window. Sure, his girlfriend had just dumped him for me, so I couldn't really blame him for being pissed. And I was a lot bigger and stronger and less wrecked than him, so just who would toss who was in doubt. Still, it would've been better if neither of us ended up in the alleyway six floors down. So I talked him out of it."
But I'm too busy now to work on that piece. The final push for the move may or may not come in the next few days, but I've got lots of family due to show up tomorrow. The confluence of events and visitations will interfere with most intellectual / creative activities within my skull. I can't even organize an entry of recent sightings. Bother...
Excerpt: "You have become a nation of monsters, America. Hypocrites. Murderers. Fools." Read the entire letter here.
You really don't want to miss this. Unlike those "hard-hitting" letters from foreigners praising some aspect(s) of
Amerikkka, THIS one won't be reprinted in publications and
reposted on websites all over the country. THIS one will be completely ignored by the media. The momentum of the police state / war machine won't be impeded by this gnat bite. Bother.
A caveat: I don't subscribe to ALL the views in this "open letter", particularly re: US support for Israeli "secular Zionists" slaughtering Palestinians. I've noted much froth in news and opinion forums bewailing the torments of Jews vs Arabs. I HAVEN'T seen much concern over much more voluminous bloodlettings now underway: Muslims and Hindus slaughtering each other over Kashmir (a situation which could go nuclear); Muslims and Hindus slaughtering Christians in South Asia; Muslims killing Christians in Nigeria and Sudan and Indonesia; the ethnic cleansing of Christian communities throughout Asia in recent years.
And I haven't noticed as much concern over various factions of Christians, Muslims, Hindus and others who wage frightful fratricidal wars against 'heretical' co-religionists. Indeed, the targets of most Fundamentalists aren't those outside the faith, but those in other sects of their own faith who just aren't devoted enough. Karen Anderson wrote about this in THE BATTLE FOR GOD.
I also don't go along with the FEDERAL RESERVE IS RUN BY PRIVATE BANKS WHO CONTROL U.S. CURRENCY conspiracy theory espoused here. Some of the usual right-wing-nuttisms can be found in this letter. But the stuff about the imposition of the police state, the fascist regime here -- yeah, that's all too true.
Not that the situation in Canada is much better. But at least Canadians are more polite.
* The nice folks at CropCircles.Org want you to take a close look at this specimen and decide whether it's bogus or alien or just art.
* WHO SEZ that cropcircles are bogus?!?!? CSICOP SEZ!!!
* Orbital distortion or model for cropcircles?? YOU decide...
* Support the ban of Dihydrogen Monoxide!
* "Welcome to Transtopia. Cult of the Technocalypse. Portal to digital Heaven & Hell. Citadel of radically progressive thought. Realm of future gods." Right.
* I want to grind your bones to make my bread. But don't take it personally.
* Nessy, the Loch Ness Monster, is almost never around when you want her.
* AHA! The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11! And NASA wants to read your mind! And of course, China want to conquer the world! But don't we all?
Wow! Anti-Gravity is Here and Top 10 Out-Of-Place Artifacts and Reich's Contact With Space and Experiences With The Supernatural and Close Encounter of Another Kind. [via WotS]
Don't miss the prior entries, eh?
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