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She likes Blue Margaritas? That's my specialty! I wish the US Postal Service would send my damned drinks.
jimmy Well, fuck it, I lost my post. Anyway. Copy the text before hitting Publish, I know I know. What I want to know about, re: searchability, is this: Dictator Jeffron Corp. Hmm? New members! You are all welcome to join the forum, just send a quick email to coop@xenius.org and I will get you Blogger-fied. Love to have you with us, whether you are posting, reading, or just gracing us with your spiritual presence. I have had the wackiest week. Yesterday, my car got run into in the parking garage while I was at work. I wasn't there, so I'm fine, but my poor car, It looks like hell. Dents & scratches galore. Luckily, I have good car insurance, but it's still going to be a pain. On the bright side, now I can get the scuff on the bumper fixed, from where I backed into the wall at the dentist's office. Comments from certain secret dictators about one's driving are now anticipated, heh. The Mzilla is sorely in need of a giant blue margarita, some chocolate, and Ewan McGregor. Then it'll be all better.
coop I haven't been very good about letting y'all know about new members...i.e., thebadmonkey, coen, Cuddlecore, my brother Steven, and a young woman from UC Berkeley who found out about xenius through my brother because they live in the same dorm. Also, there's this: search This is the second time I've seen jeffron on a search engine. He's just a searchable guy! I'm retreating to my parents' house this weekend with the scanner, my computer, a book on Perl, a dictionary and tons of blank paper specifically to work on xenius undisturbed and well fed. My dad is a programmer, so I like to keep him around when I'm visiting his house. I just realized, he's a pretty funny guy too. I also have a pretty rare family situation, since both of my parents still live together. I dunno, I consider myself lucky. Subject: retreat! Hi dad. I was wondering if I could stay with you guys this weekend as a sort of retreat. I'm finishing up a Math exam Thursday, and during the quiet period that follows each exam I want to buckle down and begin learning Perl and Flash or just C as soon as possible. By Friday I should have a programming environment for one or both of them. I would like to just bring my new computer up there and set up shop in the guest room or downstairs and just concentrate on absorbing the stuff, so that when I return home I'll actually have done something. Let me know. I'd also like to go out with you guys or see a movie or something. It's been too long. -jimmy ~//~ Hi Jim, Yes, it has been too long since your last visit. As far as the retreat, prayer service will start promptly at 7:00 AM, followed by the 'stations of the cross', 50 rosary cycles, confession, then your one meal of warm water and stale bread. THERE SHALL BE NO TIME FOR MOVIES OR OTHER SUCH NONSENSE. Services will be led by the Holy Mother Valerie and Father Thomas. See you soon. Dad _______________ Sheesh. I hope he's joking. Anyhow, I'm going to put a few flash buttons on xenius if noone objects. It'll give it a little bit of personality. I'm not sure about compatibility issues, and that's actually my only concern. But don' worry, it'll be subtle.
jimmy I love John Waters. sigh. He's a national treasure!
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Whoa, I got into the "post" page at last. Half the time I'm getting "cannot find server." My net connection seems to have selective hearing, like me when the boy is asking me to help him with the dishes. "Huh? oh, that's nice." I feel icky about being happy that the Republican governor won in RI. (the Democrat was going to hang our agency out to dry) Just looking out for my greedy little animal self, as are we all.
coop I can't remember which John Waters movie it is, but someone asks Divine what her philosophy is, and she says: My philosophy is KILL EVERYONE NOW. It must have been Pink Flamingos. I was just reminded of that. It was pretty funny.
jeffron x At last, the gentrification of San Francisco is complete.
jimmy scary new day here. Republicans control everything.... Feels like the dawn of a dark new era. Oh, and the fine people of San Francisco voted to kill all the homeless people.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians You know jeffron, any meal that includes instant rice is pretty bad. That is some serious slacking. but on to my own embarrassing confessions: Two years ago after a kind of dark New Year's party in the city, Josh and I decided to have a symbolic new year's day meal. Good luck stuff to cleanse the weridness of the previous night away and get the year off to a good start. So we went to the store and wandered the aisles collecting things and talking about their significance. It was fun and felt really special in the moment until we got up to the cash register and looked at our cart and realized that we had a totally trashy and kind of embarrassing meal assembled. Here's what we got and why: A Bag of Dried Black Eyed Peas (which are still nailed to my kitchen wall) because that's what people in the south eat on New Year's Day for good luck. Neither one of us is from the south, but a good friend of ours lived there for a few years. We would have bought canned black eyed peas so that we could have actually eaten them, but they didn't have any. A Can of Baked Beans this was a substitute for the black eyed peas and also a nod to Josh's childhood when he used to go out to his extended family's ranch in Jamul and ride dirt bikes with his dad and uncles. They'd make campfires and have Beans on Bread unless they ran out of bread and then they'd have Beans on Hand. Pickled Herring in Cream Sauce My dad always ate this on New Year's Day. It's supposed to bring you good health for the year. Maybe it's the idea that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... I think it's a German tradition. A Jar of Pickled Vegetables (carrots, cauliflower, etc.) Josh loves pickled stuff, and he'd never had this before. I only like pickled pickles. Cheez Whiz and Crackers I hate to admit that I love Cheez Whiz, but I do. There's something toxically delicious about it. Josh had also never had it before so it was a first for him. It's good to have "firsts" on Jan. 1. Brown Cow Cream At The Top Yogurt - Peach I forgot the reasoning behind this. Probably because it's healthy and yummy. Mint Milano Pepperidge Farm Cookies a personal favorite from childhood. Beer Well, you have to toast in the new year with a beer. naturally. I think that was more or less it. I may have forgotten a few things since this was a few years ago that we're talking about. You get the gist....
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jimmy I think bread with honey is perfect. I mean, sardines with instant rice? THAT's embarassing. And something I actually eat. Screw judgemental relatives. Screw employers. I called in 'sick' tommorrow. I even 'called'. Fuck 'em. Viva impecuniousness! Oh, and if anyone is too :insert your neurosis here: to post your recipe, send it to jeff@xenius.org , and I'll make a clever page for it. I mean, y'all gotta eat. And I'll have a day off, sans soap operas.
jeffron x It is morally reprehensible! At least that's what my older sister always tries to tell me about my own impecunious state. It seems to be quite an affront to her very moral fiber that I am relatively poor. Not as poor as some, but more poor than my sister. I don't know why it bugs her when I live halfway across the world from her and manage to support myself in the squalor that I've grown accustomed to... Speaking of impecunious states, I like the slacker cookbook on the hive page. hee hee... I'll contribute a recipe later. I tried to think of one last night, but "chips and salsa" or "bread with honey" were too self explanatory for a cookbook. slacker as it may be. And embarassing. Yes, those are real dinner options for me. So are pickles. Isn't that sad?
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Well duh, Speck. Being poor should be a crime. Not only is it criminal, it's morally reprehensible. If you don't have money to spend, how can you possibly have anything of value to contribute to society at large? That's why when I grow up, I'm gonna own a big fat bank and hoard all the money I can so everyone will know what an upstanding, kind, honest, worthwhile human being I am. God Bless God's Country!
jeffron x It's hard for me to forget to vote, since I vote in the lobby of my building. But I didn't do it this morning because I was tired and confused and there were too many people there scattered about scribbling away. But I'll do it on my way home. There are a lot of crazy things to vote on this time. Like the proposition that Gavin Newsom (evil bastard) put on the ballot to cut homeless people's government checks from the *whopping* $395 a month that they are right now to $59 a month. 'cuz ya' know, they just spend it all on booze and drugs because every one who's homeless is an addict. Yeah, including all those seniors and pregnant women and little kids on the street who got kicked out of their homes when rents went through the roof and evictions were more common than the flu. Oh yeah, and when they converted a lot of the residential hotels into $1200 a month studio apartments. And the only way you could ever get an apartment was to prove that you made 4 times the rent and had never bounced a check in your life and had about $3000 cash to put down for first month, last month, deposit.... The pigs. There was also talk about making it illegal for people to spare change ya' at intersections. People in their nice cars don't want to be bothered by the site of dirty homeless people! There are all these billboards around now that have pictures of nice *respectable* middle class people on them and they say really awful things like, "I don't want every alley I walk by to smell like a toilet." and then NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD underneath it. Isn't that awful? anyhoo. I'm voting today for sure. The sad thing though is that Prop N - I like to call it the Kill All The Homeless People Proposition - has overwhelming support and will probably pass.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians I checked out the ordering info for this book and came across this 'lil tidbit: Codex Seraphinianus. Ediz. francese Titolo Codex Seraphinianus. Ediz. francese Autore Serafini Luigi; Calvino Italo Prezzo EURO 200,00 Dati 392 p., ill. Anno 1993 Editore Franco Maria Ricci Collana I segni dell'uomo Italo Calvino has his hand in everything. I think I'll try ordering it through inter-library loan. Should drive some poor workstudy crazy finding it. Remember Slackers, it's Nov. 4, Election Day. Get out and vote. It's a legitimate excuse to be late for work. **** Well, as of 7:30am, 8.3% of my ward has voted for the Green Party candidate for governor (I was the 12th voter to show up). Who knows, maybe someone else did/will too. I was on time for work. Screw voting.
jeffron x Today was a good day with regard to the never ending search for apocrypha and the arcane. http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/serafin.html#Telefol Codex Seraphinianvs I have been actively searching for this book for two years. It was rather difficult to find, especially since I could not remember the name. Here is a great essay on the Hallucinatory Encyclopedia". It was written entirely in an invented language (or one not native to earth; ??), and is presumably a physics manual, taxonomy and travellers guide to an alien world. It has never been cracked, though linguists and mathematicians, puzzle solvers (and psychologists) have tried, and some purport that it is written entirely in nonsense. My goal is to acquire a copy of it and make it available whether it has passed into public domain or not. No work of such incredible beauty should be hidden by $500-$1000, and I think it is in the public's best interest to crack it. USD (University of San Diego) library is supposed to have it...I'll have to check it out. __________________________________________ Also a part of the search was the Playstation game "Intelligent Qube", a puzzle game similar dissimilar to any puzzle game I have ever seen. I found an image of the game on the XOLOX file sharer, which is basically using Limewire and Gnutella servers. This one I've been searching for for 3 years. Unfortunately the person sharing the file did not give me a chance to download it, and so the search continues. It was comforting that the game is still on the minds of collectors out there (I'm no collector, I want to PLAY IT!). The game boggles you and gives you a running score of your "intelligence quotient", shouting things with text like "brilliant!", and "genius!" when you do things just the right way. It requires concentration, planning, speed and flexibility, and it's just too damned addicting. The game is out of print and is hard as hell to find. The game has this very official mood in the beginning, as though it was developed by the NSA in an attempt to target and recruit puzzle solvers and code-breakers, but the iq score it gives is presumably nonsense, though fun regardless. After getting used to the game my I.Q. would top out at near 800, which if actually true would have me pissing my pants, covering my head with aluminum foil and smearing myself with my own snot. I never had the chance to seriously involve myself with it because of rentals and all (DAMN YOU Blockbuster!) so I'm now pining for it so hard I'm about ready to flip. Problem though...I want it for free. Yeah. I'm a big baby. At the Hannibal Lector library I read about some loopy genius folk. Interesting site. I've had the Silence of the Lambs movie on loop for days now...that and Army of Darkness, which is very similar to Terry Gilliam's brilliant film Jabberwocky. The latter is fine stuff if you haven't seen it. -jimmay!
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