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.