Today’s issue of Organic Mechanic mag­a­zine fea­tures a rare inter­view with one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing and con­tro­ver­sial fig­ures in the early twenty-​first cen­tury. A mas­ter of faux pas, feng shui, and the fox trot; the defender of all things taste­less: Cap­tain Spacepants. OM: Cap­tain Spacepants, I must say that it is an honor to have the chance […]

I just got back from a sweet night of the blues fea­tur­ing Robert Lock­wood Junior. Lock­wood is allegedly the only per­son to have actu­ally learned gui­tar from the king of delta blues, Robert John­son. The blues ensem­ble that played with him was quite good, but it was obvi­ous their style of blues wasn’t the same as […]

The night before last was nearly sleep­less for me. Typ­i­cally I have almost com­plete con­trol over what I dream about, even unto night­mares. Yet Mon­day night, I had quite uncom­fort­able dreams, and I am not cer­tain why they were so uncom­fort­able. Every dream I had, and when ever and where ever it took place, my best friend friend from high […]

Mak­ing a Com­pi­la­tion CD [c-​CD] is quite an affair. The process is described in detail in sev­eral places, some shal­lower than oth­ers. I never make c-​CDs for myself. The discs I burn that are com­pos­ites of artists, aren’t com­pi­la­tions. I just put them on a CD so I can lis­ten to them else­where. A c-​CD must be made for some­one else, […]

I went sled­ding today for the first time in sev­eral years. We went to Edge­wa­ter and dis­cov­ered that a plethora of ear­lier tobog­ga­neers had packed the entire hill­side into a per­fect sled­ding slope. Anne had got­ten her child­hood sled from her par­ents place and she and Liam had picked up a cheapy plas­tic one from the store. The […]

I won some Cash for Christ­mas and today I received it. I got the CD– Amer­i­can IV: The Man Comes Around and the DVD– Johnny Cash: A Con­cert Behind Prison Walls. I also received a cou­ple of stick­ers. I had heard the album with Phil right when it came out and was impressed, so it was great to win it […]

I know I’ve had the South Park Avatar thinger on here before, but its updated and much nicer. To save your char­ac­ter you must do a screen cap­ture, the site gives you instruc­tions on how to do that. Click on the pic to go there. This guy is from a down­load­able pro­gram called Hero Machine. It basi­cally gives […]

there was a man who had a goat. this goat was like any other goat. it could eat tin cans and do com­plex algo­rithms with lit­tle or no paper­work. one day, while the goat was walk­ing around in cir­cles, the man chucked a piece of poly­eth­yl­ene gly­col at it — thereby piss­ing the goat off. the goat pro­ceeded to calculate […]

i’ve finally got­ten just about every­thing i need in order to start build­ing a web­site for mea­gan. she man­aged to scan a bunch of her art­work with the hi-​res scan­ners at ND and i’ve been busy down­load­ing it to my machine. the *.jpgs are so large that they threaten to crash my browser and per­haps the very computer […]

my first truly per­sonal expe­ri­ence with antique fur­ni­ture was dur­ing potty train­ing. my potty chair was this tiny wooden seat with a hole in it. inside the hole was a porce­lain cham­ber pot. in back of the seat was a lit­tle door which gave access to the cham­ber pot. it also had a pullover restraint/​table that now reminds me […]

Fin! Finally. I no longer work for VDS. Mon­day I start my new job as a man­u­script edi­tor. It should infi­nitely bet­ter, even though I’ll be work­ing in a cubi­cle. At least the peo­ple I’ll be work­ing with will have decent oral hygiene, and a mod­icum of com­mon sense. I don’t have to make copies of any­thing from here any longer. […]

my com­puter is slowly approach­ing the event hori­zon of unuse­ful­ness. [damn that word has one pre­fix and a dual suf­fix, how awful]. it is toast. the main prob­lem my machine has is lack of HD space. i’m still run­ning on 8.5GB; this makes it quite dif­fi­cult to down­load the amounts of stuff that i wish to download. […]

I’m typ­i­cally not very excited when I am given a hypo­thet­i­cal ques­tion along the lines of ‘If you were on a desert island what five things would you want with you?’ My answer is always some­thing along the lines of ‘A Coast Guard ‘copter, fuel for it, a book on how to fly a ‘copter, enough food and water […]

The brake pads on my car have been shot for weeks. I’m finally get­ting them replaced this Sat­ur­day, and I will feel infi­nitely bet­ter after­ward. Not because of appre­hen­sion regard­ing my less­ened stop­ping abil­ity but because I’ve been putting up with this heinous screech­ing noise as the warn­ing guide scratches against the wheel. It has made […]

I went to the Cavs/​Knicks game last evening with Liam and Anne, and Amy. This was my first time actu­ally being present at pro­fes­sional bas­ket­ball game. We bought the tix from a scalper for 20 bucks a pop [they were reg­u­lar priced at $65] and I am sure glad I didn’t pay full price. The game was pretty boring. […]

Any­one have a clue who those ladies are to your left? I sure as hell don’t. I’m not even sure why I have some film with them on it in my apart­ment. They are only tem­po­rary, till i find some­thing more appro­pri­ate. The side­blog should cut down on the ran­dom links that often appear at the end of my […]

I saw Ghost in the Shell last night. The Matrix can suck eggs. “A ghost-​hacked human is a piti­ful thing.” “A copy is just an iden­ti­cal image. There is the pos­si­bil­ity that a sin­gle virus could destroy an entire set of sys­tems and copies do not give rise to vari­ety and orig­i­nal­ity. Life per­pet­u­ates itself through diver­sity and this […]