well i was out of town this weekend with no way to get my pictures onto the computer. here's three pix to make up for it.

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

I have more ny pictures on picasaweb

apparently i'm going with the one post every three months thing. i've been using twitter lately. it's like one sentence blogging, heh.

i got this little guy the other day. i love it. it's easy to have a camera all the time now. it takes pretty nice pictures. 5mp and stuff, although it's better outside than in. inside, if there's enough light, it's pretty good at taking pictures quick. if i use the flash though, i gotta make sure what i'm taking the pic of is far far away or it gets really overexposed. it's an insanely bright flash. i want to get an eye-fi for it sometime. i haven't even really put any pictures i've taken online yet. maybe i should start keeping like a picture blog. hmmm. of course they'd probably be mostly pictures of my dog and cat. lol. ok ok, i'll start today. here's a picture of something i saw yesterday.

Wow, it's been forever since I posted anything. I guess I haven't been doing anything interesting.

Today I knitted the first thing I ever knitted without a pattern. I'm not a great knitter, but I think it came out ok.

Just in case anyone else wants to make one, here's what i did...

----stem----
co 3
i-cord for a while
put 2 st on holder

----leaf----
repeat for each stitch on holder
1 kfb 2
2 (an all even otherwise marked) p
3 k2 kfb k1
5 k1 kfb k1 kfb k1
7 k
9 k1 ssk k1 k2tog k1
11 k2 bo1 k2
12 bo2 break yarn.
bo2 (i just used a small piece for this)

---making---
bind in extras.
with the two at the top of the stem, i went through each leaf to give it a little more support than the 2 st. from the kfb.

i hope this all makes sense. first try!

Help!

freak of nature

today i harvested this freak of nature from my garden. it's the third double tomato i've gotten so far, but this is the first one where you can see the seam so clearly. it looks like the two tomatoes were actually sewn together. weird...

anyone have any good things to do with tomatoes? today i'm gonna cut up the cherry tomatoes and toss them in vinaigrette and fresh basil.

Wii

yesterday was the first time i've ever seen one in any store. i did not buy one, however, as i'm still holding out for a black one.

have a skull

i knitted this thing the other day. it uses the pattern in Pretty in Punk. it's made with crappy crappy old hand me down red yarn. i mean seriously, this stuff SUCKS. i probably won't be using it again, but oh well. you can't be too picky about free yarn i guess. i like th skull though so maybe i'll put that on some other stuff...

it's almost halloween, right?

here's a cute jack-o-lantern i knitted. hooray for halloween! i've made three already. knitting in the round is kind of fun.


(here's the pattern)

and i'm taking my bobble head pen with me!

i guess i won't be writing any more posts bitching about this job. i just was notified with two hours left on a friday afternoon that it's my last day! and yes, it's fully within their power to fire a temporary worker with no notice. you may think i'm upset, but i'm not really. i have the power to completely understand their position, no matter how much tact they use (or don't). so if anyone needs a web developer or sys admin, don't forget about me!

and i'm taking my bobble head pen with me...

even death may die

One thing you should know about me is i'm addicted to google reader. i have hundreds of feeds and read most of them. today, i was reading the how-stuff-works page on the necronomicon. so the necronomicon is an invention of h.p. lovecraft in case you didn't know. it's sort of a dark spell book. well lovecraft has an immense cult following and there are many published books entitled necronomicon. i, in fact, own a copy of the version by simon, which doesn't really stay true to the lovecraft stories, i've heard. this particular version is made up of various occult rituals and sumerian mythology. i haven't read the whole thing, but it's different. if you've ever read the satanic bible or anything, it's kind of like that.

so i think it would be kind of cool if stuff like this really existed. if lovecraft really did know about a secret book that gives you immense power. but it would be like those books bound in human skin with a lock that would suck you in if you opened it. oooo

well anyway, i haven't ever read any lovecraft, but i keep thinking i should (i'm not sure if i'd like horror books or not though). i actually learned about the necronomicon from robert anton wilson's books, the illuminatus! trilogy (or was it schrodinger's cat?). one thing that's stuck with me since i read it was this passage:

gestorben ist nicht, was für ewig ruht,
und mit unbekannten aonen mag sogar der tod noch sterben

or as it is in the necronomicon:

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die.

phoneless iphone

i REALLY want an ipod touch. that thing looks so cool. i can't do browsing or google sms with my phone, so having a browser in my pocket would be awesome... i'm usually around a wifi point. plus multi-touch input! I got to play with an iphone once, and while i wouldn't use at&t or spend hundreds on a phone/contract, i really liked the device. it seems very well done. the screen is just freaking amazing; so bright and high resolution. and the touch input worked just like it does in the videos. it's like it just knows what you want to do.

all right, let's not get carried away. this thing was just released, maybe i should wait till the second iteration. the problem i see now is the 8/16G capacity. wtf is that about apple? the ipod "classic" they're calling it now has a 160G capacity. my current ipod (3rd gen) is 20G (i'm using 13G, don't think i'd want to downgrade my space so much). tell me the next iteration will have at least 20G for the low end model. i just have to wait.... wait... wait...

i'm so boring

this job is so boring. i'm given stuff like once or twice a week to do! so i've decided i'm going to start posting in this thing at work! exciting. shhhh, don't tell. i'm technically supposed to be keeping track of my hours like a contractor, but i usually have to make shit up to fill in the time. you have no idea how many hours i can spend "going over website" or "checking links." fantastic.

moving on...

a couple days ago, we started watching heroes. omg.so.good. we don't have tv so we usually end up watching shows late, but it's nice having an entire season, especially with a show like this. i remember being at nfm during the airing of the season finale. there were crowds of people around the big screen tvs. now i can see why. i did not honestly expect the show to be as good as it is. we're only at episode 7 of 23, but i'm hooked. i love shows/movies with so much interconnectivity. sometimes it gets a little gory, but i can deal with it for the story (kind of like saw). the japanese guys are my absolute favorite. that hiro is so funny. i like the cop too. and when the cheerleader woke up on the autopsy table! that was great. so to anyone who didn't see it the first time around, i recommend downloading the first season and watching it. it's definitely worth it.

In Stitches

i've jumped on the bandwagon of knitting. it's pretty fun and there's some awesome patterns out there. i started with the one from the newest Craft: ... a crime scene scarf. since it's my first project, i'm taking pictures to keep track of my progress. i'm enjoying making it, but i need to get better at knitting. i'm not leaving enough string between the letters and they're getting all squished. and it's getting harder to keep the thing unrolled. i wonder if that's normal in a scarf though... well, it shouldn't be too noticeable cause i'll be folding it in half and stitching the sides together. i read somewhere that after you're done knitting, you can get it wet and stretch it out to dry and it'll end up even. i'm hoping so...

Are We Next for Google Street View?

the newest fucking atrocity

Difficult One Way

where the hell is my flying car?

Another Trip to the Grocery Store

omg! cheese!!!!
Yeah, we tried to figure out how to steal that....

The answer

The answer to life the universe and everything
^^click it^^

Everyone's talking about VA Tech

So I will too...

Someone asked me what I thought about it. What can I think about it? It's a tragedy... what else can I say. I've seen people's blogs about this, talking about the need for higher gun control, making guns harder to get. I don't know what the solution is. I'm not one who believes we should be restricted in our rights, but how can we protect the many from the one who may snap. And how will we know who it will be?

I read yesterday that a certain university (I can't speak for others) was planning a candle light vigil last night for the victims. I think at one point I may have thought this was a nice gesture. Maybe I've become too jaded, but when I saw that, I was not touched or comforted by the thought. A candle light vigil.... how is that going to help? "Hey look everyone, we feel bad! We're showing we feel bad by burning stuff." No. It may help one or two people in the unlikely event they were related to one of the victims only by giving them other people to comfort them. Other than that... no. Why do we do things like this? Is it really just to show everyone else that we are "good people" or do the people planning these events really think they're making some sort of difference somehow? I really don't have any answers. I wish I did, I wish I could make the actions and reactions of the masses make sense in my brain.

The Lab is Full of Sheep!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you suck and should go to electricsheep.org

Weird Stuff at the Grocery Store Day

Yes, apparently it was the long lost holiday of finding weird stuff at the grocery store. I didn't even know there was Thank You brand pudding!

Hungry??

Yeah, I like to do random shit at friends' houses.

I <3 Legos

RARRR!!! ROBOT CRUSH CAR

The Takeover Begins...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Store...

and I can only describe it with images. Images made very crappily with Paint and a mouse, w00t!

So... pretty close to my house we have this intersection that looks kinda like this:

So there we are and the cars are all lined up normally. We're sitting in the lane to turn left behind that other guy sitting there.

The green light is going left and right and when it changes, there will first be a green arrow for the bottom turning lane. So apparently the guy behind the guy turning left in front of us decided for whatever reason he could sit in the lane next to the left turning lane.

But the guy turning left from the right side wasn't gonna get HIS turn taken away from him. Or, I don't know, maybe he didn't realize that car was there.

But when he made the turn, instead of backing up and correcting himself or whatever (cause we all saw what happened) he just pulls onto the island. What an idiot! I don't know if he got off the island (he was in a little PoS car) cause we didn't wait around, but I do know he had to wait for a buncha people before he could even go.

An Interesting Comparison

http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/

http://www.apple.com/environment/

If you're up for some reading, read both links all the way through.... the differences are quite interesting.

Hooray for Baking!

gingerbread cookies

I saw this car today with the license plate "CAR"

I tried but it's really hard to take pictures with a camera phone while driving.

glog??

if a web log is a blog, does that make a google web log a glog?

Hot Wheels are BAD!!!

"The 2007 Hot Wheels lineup includes fun muscle cars and speed demons, but omitting practical and fuel-efficient vehicles sends the wrong message to kids" (http://blog.wired.com/cars/2006/11/toy_cars_lack_f.html)

I read this snippet today while browsing Google Reader and probably overreacted.

hot wheels shouldn't have to send messages to kids

doesn't anyone ever take responsibility themselves anymore??
how about PARENTING??
oh right.... i forgot. we live in a society of blame and frivolous lawsuits

these are some hot wheels from when i was a kid. they aren't the "practical" OR "fuel-efficient." that is SO not the point of hot wheels. besides... i turned out to be a conscientious gas consumer... no toy car is gonna tell me what to do!

grrrrr (annoying nerd stuff)

So i've been working with this problem for a while and the solution REALLY annoyed me. I used to be able to use the command+k to access my windows shares using smb right. blahblah, nothing difficult. Then one day, it stops working!?!?! I would type in the smb://serverip and it'd be like, "cannot connect cause name or password is incorrect." Huh?!?! I didn't even get a prompt box. What the hell?? yeah, so finally, after stupid trying of stuff... using cifs, trying different formats for the connection, using smbclient from terminal (which btw worked, but i'm too dumb to work the command line), disabling and enabling the microsoft signed traffic dealy (disabled cause previous to 10.4, had to be. i have 10.4, found out it encrypts by default) I find out why it isn't working. YOU HAVE TO HAVE NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP ENABLED!!! WHAT!?!??!?! it's true. as soon as i enabled it on the servers, bam, authentication box, connection works. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. it doesn't even make sense.

ok, now so it's not just a nerd post... the microwavable chef boyardee mac&cheese is gross.

Chibi-Robo!

on a projector :o

Fuck you Microsoft

Needs service my ass. That thing just got the shit modded out of it

Interesting Experiences in the Drive-Thru pt 3

"I don't know sir, all I know is he hit the pole"

you know it's a bad day in the lab when...

Flaming Lips and Ween

i took pictures. cept by the time Ween played, i kinda gave up.

ween & flaming lips

Yummy!!

we transfered our plants from the ground at our old place to pots (actually buckets and trash cans) at our new place. they're all lined up beautifully on the patio :D.
here's our first edible fruit produced! i'm excited. any ideas what to do with banana peppers? we haven't got any of the other ingredients to make salsa yet and i don't want to waste these guys. they smell really good.

what the fuck are we doing out here on this desert?

I've started the book. It's as good as you would expect

Interesting experiences in the drive-thru pt 2

Last night we went to Taco Bell and the car exploded in the drive-thru. No joke, smoke and everything. While we were waiting for a tow truck, i was watching traffic pass. two trucks went by, one after the other, pretty shitty trucks. somebody must have thought they were cool though because the trucks were all jacked up and had ground effects. it was pretty funny.

Blogged with Flock

Who would have thought

'Magic Mushroom' Drug Study Probes Science, Spirituality

Volunteers who tried the hallucinogenic ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms during a controlled study funded by the U.S. government had "mystical" experiences, and many of them still felt unusually happy months later.

According to the Baltimore team, nearly two-thirds of thevolunteers said they achieved a "mystical experience"with "substantial personal meaning." One-third rated thepsilocybin experience as "the single most spirituallysignificant experience of his or her life," and another 38percent placed the experience among their "top five" mostspiritually significant moments.

Most also said they became better, gentler people in thefollowing two months. "We don't think that'sdelusional, because we also interviewed family members and friendsby telephone, and they confirmed these kinds of claims,"Griffiths said.

heh, i just found another article about the study. It's from China and involves the word "magic."

Blogged with Flock

This is kinda fun

I got Flock and i've been playing with it for today. It integrates a lot of things into the browser. It has pictures on the top from flickr and photobucket with drag and drop-ability. And right now, I'm typing this blog into a pop up window that will publish it to blogger for me. The bottom has this cool thing that you can just drag web content into and use later. Sort of like Google Notebook, but it's not in the way. I actually used it to hold some pictures that I put into notebook later (by drag and drop). I added some extensions too; web developer, google notebook (it tries to make you think it won't work, but it does), gmail checker, del.icio.us. It's built off the Firefox browser so it's pretty much like using that, plus. The thing i don't like is the first time you start, it takes FOREVER. Not unlike Firefox. I solve that by never closing my browser. w00t

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Interesting Experiences at the Drive-Thru

Sometimes we go to a McDonalds for breakfast on the way to work. The way this McDonalds is laid out, there is one lane for the drive-thru that splits for two ordering kiosks then converge back together to get to the windows. There is a lane around this for getting around the building. We got in line and got up to the split, but the line wasn't moving so we waited to see who would go before picking a side. Behind us were about four or five cars. We notice a lady in a white car start to back up and go around another car and try to go around us. She got next to us so we went to a kiosk. She had the nerve to honk at us. She was trying to cut! Didn't you get in trouble for that in elementary school?? I just don't understand... what was the point?

Some people like morning coffee, others like to suck on a battery

ha, so apparently ie gets pissed if you try to call a javascript function twice. my bad. but my "FUCK YOU IE" still remains valid as IE has no native support for m-jpegs. ugh. what am I supposed to do now???

FUCK YOU IE

Error on page!?!?! it works in Firefox, wtf is wrong with you. Yeah and how about error codes that actually tell me something. I totally know what "Object Required" means especially when the source code there is a BLANK LINE.... seriously. So I said, 'maybe the code generated from this site just doesn't work.' and tried a whole new page with nothing else. IT'S FINE. no errors at all!!! I didn't change it a bit to add it to the existing page and BAM, errors. Fucking IE. I don't care what anyone says, IE 7 is NOT going to be cool. It's going to suck just like it does now. wooeee, tabs!! yeah, everyone else did that 3 years ago!

GAHHHHHHHHHh

boom

they shot off some fireworks yesterday and i tried to take some pictures from the 3rd floor. my camera ran out of batteries and there was a window in the way, but here they are anyway

wow

google made a blogging widget. how very exciting

You Asked For It

not really, i just made that up. i remembered to take pictures of that other thing, you remember right? i forget...

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Yesterday, I was browsing around teh intarweb and ran across this. I sent it to someone cause it was really funny. he messages me:
him: what?
me: what?
him: The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch.
me: yes
him: yeah, its a joke
me: IT'S A FUCKING TREE OCTOPUS!
of course it's a joke
him: sasquatch?
me: seems fitting

He told me later he thought maybe octopi could have evolved into land creatures so he didn't know it was a joke till he got to the sasquatch part. Too funny!

so many levels of wrong

so, i totally have to remember to get a picture BUT... there's this cemetary right by where i live and they have a big yellow sign advertising newly available, limited time only space. it's so horribly wrong, but it makes me laugh.

i'm sick of the NSA

it's quote day today. although i believe i've successfully updated this infrequently enough that no one reads it.

Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin

There is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
-George Bernard Shaw

looks like it's still the same fight.

the reason we can't use solar power is because the sun goes away every night and no one knows where it goes!

so tonight we went to a comedy club. it's in the rich asshole part of town now, so that sucks. it's on the second floor and we got there early so we're jammed in a tiny space trying to let the people inside get out so we can get in. and... there's this drunk bitch behind us. this drunk bitch tried everything to get in front of us and yelled at everyone who was moving cause she wasn't. luckily once we were seated, she was in the front and we were in the middle-ish. so i don't hear from the drunk bitch for a while. finally, lewis black is up there. if you haven't heard him, try to cause he's fuckin funny. anyway, he was talking about some bill to allow people to carry concealed handguns. then he said, Dick Chaney... and that drunk bitch and her friend were like, oh, he's a great guy! much booing followed that comment. Lewis asked her why she said so and she was all, oh he's smart and he's been in office for a long time blah blah i'm a whore. so Lewis tells her no, she's wrong, he's not a good guy. she keeps trying to defend herself and finally he says, "shut the fuck up." so finally they shut the fuck up and he goes on to tell us how it was supposed to go and then go on with his sketch in a similar fashion. i could see one of the drunk bitches from my seat and after that incident, she pretty much sulked at every joke he made. then.... dun da da daaaa... SHE WALKED OUT! both of them. it was awesome. the crowd all cheered when she left! the best part is, her husband stayed for the whole show and laughed his ass off.