Whew. Been busy lately. And it's not getting any easier. But now it's documented -- see my journal entries for MOVING and Manufactured Homes For Dummies and of course the new JOURNALS: Index page. WARNING: Some of these are only slightly-edited raw audio-diary notes, very chain-of-consciousness, eh? How I REALLY think...
True Facts - Roadside Attractions - History - Academia - Media - Sport - Canadianisms - What Every Canadian Knows - How To Tell You're In Canada - How To Immigrate - etc. But nothing about famous Canadian entertainers, artists, spies, inventors, conspirators, psychotics, etc. No Canadian UFOs. Bother.
More references than you can shake a slipstick at! Everything about everything, and then some! Tables, reports, overviews, details, translators, calculators, charts, tutorials, alerts, and everything else! Now I'll have to learn something! Or everything! And then more! Zowie!
Get electrolyzed today, eh? Then see this Informal Survey of Computer Music Synthesis Tools and an homage to video synthesizers whilst creating new fonts and then monitoring your gayness or something like that.
1. Don't buy high-priced insurance packages.
2. Don't get into debt.
3. Take note if your wife suddenly starts using different or more seasonings.
4. Pay special attention to curry.
5. Don't neglect having sex with your wife.
And don't miss Operation Clambake: The Fight Against The Church Of Scientology On The Net and the Cult Awareness Network and the Science Of Love and the Racial Slur Database and Pets Or Food? and the XXX-Rated Bible and Phake Gamez and Pravda Fun and the Laws Of Sex and Girls Are Evil and lotsa other sensible stuff.
Music generated on a computer is usually associated with the thumping beats of techno. But a quieter aesthetic is emerging. It's so subtle you can hardly hear it.
But if that's too subtle, there's always GrooveBlender and Irving Berlin
He translated Egyptian hieroglyphics, built perpetual motion machines, spelunked inside volcanoes, collected stuffed armadillos, redesigned Rome, created magickal oracles and botanical clocks, and much more.
Symposium: Was Athanaseus Kircher The Coolest Guy Ever, Or What?
Athanaseus Kircher — Today, the New York Institute for Humanities at New York University will be
hosting one of many celebrations of the life of Athanaseus Kircher. Kircher was born 400 years ago this month. He became a Jesuit scholar and one of the leading intellectuals of 17th-century Europe. Robert Siegel talks with Tony Grafton, professor of history at Princeton University, about Athanaseus Kircher, his inventions, and his contributions to many fields, including acoustics, linguistics, physics, chemistry, mathematics and astronomy.
(4:00) Click here for more information.
Followup: A Postmodernist of the 1600's Is Back in Fashion — By SARAH BOXER, New York Times — A puckish question was raised on Thursday night at New York University: "Was Athanasius Kircher the coolest guy ever, or what?" For those who have no idea who Kircher was, let's begin with the "or what."
Followup note: I've been researching Atlantis, and find that Kircher drew a famous map showing the whereabouts of Atlantis and Antilla, etc. Gawrsh, such synchronicity...
CHORUS:
We are living neath the great big dipper, we are washed by the very same rain
We are swimming in the stream together, some in power and some in pain
We can worship this ground we walk on, cherishing the beings that we live beside
Loving spirits will live forever, we're all swimming to the other side
Zow! I just heard this Pat Humphries song yesterday on NPR and damn near cried. Now I have to learn the bugger. The chords are straightforward, essentially Pachelbel's CANON. The lyrics are great. Zow!
Some fun (?!?!?!?) journals:
Magellan's Log (from Texas)
The Exile (in Moscow)
The Girl From J.U.L.E.N.
GRIST (gloom & doom & fun)
fun?
* FROM CHELNI TO GUANTANAMO - I arrived in Chelni with my CNN+Disney-molded image of foul smelling Islamic fundy psychos whose minds have been warped by an overdose of Koran-feeding. I hoped to glimpse the culture that spawned such radicals...
* HOLY SHIT! - The first thing airport security asked when we landed at Ben-Gurion Airport was, “Why did you decide to come to Israel? Don’t you know there’s a war here?”...
* THE DIVINE RIGHT OF TEXAS DADDIES - The unsettling truth behind Dubya's fake sangfroid -- and the people who made Dubya what he is today. Yow.
* PRESIDENTIAL I.Q. TEST - A patriot has created a brief, simple intelligence test for present and future occupants of the White House.
* B.A.P.T.O.W. - What's behind the current church-sex headlines. Hint: BAPTOW = "The Baptist Ascensionary Plot to Take Over the World."
* NEXT PLANET, PLEASE - Earthquakes, forest fires, floods, dissolving icebergs, poison ivy, alligator attacks ... What kind of payback is that for all the hard work environmentalists do? It's time for the movement to throw in the towel.
Back from a fortnight's vacation, mostly in the southern Sierras, in canyons in the vicinites of Mono Lake & Lake Isabella & Bass Lake. Abduction avoided. Now, on to the next phase of the move: contractors should start onsite work next week.
Meanwhile, a fairly recent song: VEGGIE MURDER (musically inspired by BE MY YOKO but distinct) and a (developing) full page on SACRAMENTS FOR MORONS — and stay tuned for FUNDAMENTALISM FOR MORONS, eh?
Slaving away on the move. Too many miles too often. Yuck. I managed to update a few GO! pages: added a Lemuria section to the Atlantis page. Added some materials on religion on Priestly Pedophilia and the Bible Code. Added some materials on Astrology. Stuff like that.
Now there's another week of slavery, er moving, to deal with, then we're off on vacation for a couple weeks, somewhere between Mono Lake and Area 51. Just can't stay away...
Of course not. Histories and calendars are all frauds. Timelines based on tree-rings, accounts in non-European cultures, lake-bed depositions et al are totally irrelevant. Enough anomalies exist in European architecture and calendrical mathematics to PROVE that 300 years have been inserted into the European timeline. Naturally this benifits the Reptilioids/Republicans who wish to terraform Earth to fit their specifications and harvest all humanity for food. It's all a plot, eh?
NOTE: The above link may fail. Try here.
BEAM ME UP, I'M COVERED! and Alien Abductions Inc. and Abduction Survey and Abduction items on eBay. Not to mention the H in Jesus H Christ. Whew. At least Tax Day is done with.
Meanwhile, SkeptiNews bulletins will be a bit spotty in the immediate future, as I am now driving 330 mi. (530 km.) round trips twice a week, hauling boxes of books etc. from the temporary rental to the permanent homesite. And I get to load and unload. It's better than a gym! But I'm not left with much time to issue bulletins. Bother. Then in a few weeks there'll be a relaxing vacation around Area 51; and then a maximal push to complete the move; and then the unpacking, and sorting out just where everything is to go; and then I plan to spend some quality time with my micro-digital recording studio. So the bulletins (and their loyal audience) will suffer. That's life, folks.
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:43:55 -0700
From: "chuck" <xfiles@uswest.net>
Cc: alb@datafilter.com,
mc@topica.com
Subject: Re: [MC] Psychologist Calls Implant Claims "Delusions"...
I have undergone many CAT scans looking for the implants in my neck and ears with nothing ever being detected. I am under heavy torture with the devices they injected into my neck and the tissue around the devices swells up during torture to as large as a half dollar. There is no question if the devices are in my neck or where they are in my neck and even the doctors have all felt the devices with their fingers and said that there is defiantly something there.
Nothing shows up on the CAT scans. Not even the lumps which my doctors say should show up. During these test I'm also tortured horribly. The implants scream in my ears as I'm being tested and my neck burns like I'm being burnt with a cigarette where the implants in my neck are and the torture is outrageous and is slowly murdering me in the cruelest and most unusual ways.
The FBI tells me that the devices are real and in my neck and the DEA who injected the devices also admits to injecting the devices but they claim that they are above any laws and they are and there is no law in America just the control of the general population.
On the other hand when Radar looks for the B-2 bomber they don't see anything either do they. The bomber is as real as the implants are. Chuck
Amplify your guitar with a SmokeyAmp cigarette pack, turn almost any flat surface into a
speaker with Soundbug, or
pop a Sound Bites Writes FM Radio pen into your mouth and make the voices in your head sing. And don't forget MemePool/Music
and PLANETARY ALIGNMENT in MAY .... Just in Time for TSAR VLADIMIR'S Second Anniversary !!! and UFOS SHUTTERING PEACE AND QUIET and US Invented Plane Attack on Pentagon Claims Bestselling French Book and much much more. Whew.
I ain't a cowboy, I never been one
That ain't a real horse; this ain't a real gun
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That ain't real bullshit you're steppin' in now
This ain't no real bull; that ain't no real cow
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There's nothin' peaceful 'bout home on the range
It's never homely, it's only strange
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Only a moron sings "Yippee-ki-yi-yo!"
Only a moron with nowhere to go
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I ain't a cowboy, I never been one
That ain't a real horse; this ain't a real gun
* US cardinal accused of molesting woman * (BBC)
"The head of the Roman Catholic church in Los Angeles reveals he is being investigated over a claim of sexual misconduct in 1970."
I have a hypothesis, a calendrical hypothesis. Around the year that some Westerners call 0 (between 1 BCE and CE 1) came the origins of what became Xianity. Around the year CE 500 the eastern (Oriental) and western (Graeco-Roman) branches of Xianity schismed. Around the year CE 1000 the western branch schismed into distinct Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Around the year CE 1500 the Protestant branch schismed from Roman Catholicism.
We are now around the year CE 2000. It's time for another great schism, probably involving Roman Catholicism, which will once again split asunder. These past schisms occurred for significant reasons: disputes over authority, interpretation, practice, validity. The upcoming schism may be driven by questions of sexuality and authority: does the Roman hierarchy promote abuse and protect the abusers? How many Catholics will be so digusted by the moral bankruptsy of their church that they will want to leave it and be identified with a newer, 'purer' body?
?Quien sabe? But if something is going to happen, now is the time. Of course, this supposition may be totally unfounded; I may be glossing-over the real timelines, oversimplifying the chronology and complexity of the breakups of Xianity. Big deal: it's MY story and I'm sticking with it!
And as for the bishop, well, at least he ain't queer, eh?
and the Museum of Online Museums
(via Meemers) and
Get a BA in Astrology
(via Fark) and
Brad, the game
(via Sensible) and
Gargoyles, Then and Now
(via BifRivs) and
the war is over and
War-R-Us news and the
previous sk.AGOG! entries (whew!)
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