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This post-it note was stuck on a page inside Oscar Kiss Maerth’s The Beginning Was the End, a wonderful book that (seriously) advances the theory that sex-crazed, brain-eating apes were responsible for human evolution. I checked this copy out of the University at Buffalo Library. The actual text and pictures are mind-bending on their own, […]

so i finally got around to buying a new battery for my camera. yay!

at radio radio on april 24 at 9:00 pm is a show being put on by none other than j1, and i couldn’t be more pleased to invite everyone who reads this to see: dan potthast & rick johnson rock and roll machine they each have myspace pages: http://myspace.com/danpotthast http://myspace.com/rickjohnsonrockandrollmachine j1 has stellar taste in […]

at my new job, at least one of the sites i am now tasked with taking care of uses asp/vbscript. now, i am not an expert programmer, by any stretch of the imagination. i am self-taught and i went to art school, and because of my ADD, have trouble sensing patterns, so this means my […]

It’s been a great ride these past five years. Please join me in giving a fond farewell to WebKit, and a hearty welcome to our new Microsoft overlords. right, david, like that wasn’t obvious Technorati Tags: aprilfools, hyatt, joke, jump, lame, notfunny, safari, shark, st00p1d, st00pid, stoopid, stupid, unfunny, webkit

so my doctor is making me get blood work done, i forget what all is being tested, but it’s related to my ADD and lack of sleep. so i’m sitting in a waiting room at a hospital, anticipating some nurse sticking me with some needle. this sort of thing used to terrify me, but my […]

and i didn’t even get nauseous when i saw that the nurse had drawn three effing vials of blood. i did, however, ask, “am i going to live? don’t i need that stuff?” Technorati Tags: blood, bloodwork, hospital

so it’s sunday morning, and it is not quite 5 am, and i am awake. at 5:30 am starts my very last starbucks shift, and it only goes until 9:30 am, at which time i’ll be done. done. starbucks was fun, but that feels great. yesterday i went bike shopping, since my new job is […]

i am, at this very moment, i am having to re-learn how to use flash, which is now in version eight. the last time i used flash it was in version 4. things have changed. wow.

Evolutionary computer improves its hardware with genetic algorithms: Cory Doctorow: Techies at the University of Oslo have built an evolutionary computer that changes its design using genetic algorithms to improve performance: What their hardware does is par up “genes” in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the most effective to accomplish the […]

this video is a little slide show to a bit of narration from my favorite non-fiction book, last chance to see. via the another chance to see blog.

latest news: i started a new job at imagenation, and i like it. i still work for starbucks; hopefully, one day, that will change. today was a wonderful 68 degrees fahrenheit and i walked to bazbaux from imagenation cause it’s that close and i saw a guy walking an italian greyhound and it made me […]

so, my computer sucked for a while, but i finally fixed it, which required re-installing os x, from scratch, after doing a low-level HD wipe. then i couldn’t find my serial number for my blogging software (ecto) and so it’s been a good while since i posted. over a month?!!? wow! today i watched a […]

when horrible monsters come over to play andask you to share of your toys andyou’re tempted to ask them stay overnight inspite of the horrible noise then, horrible monsters will break all your things butat least they will look in your eyes andat least they bother noticing you plusmaybe they’ll teach you to fly (?) […]