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  hey everyone.. ive been absent for a while. havent really felt like doing the online thing.. neglected my journal, neglected my forums.. email.. website.. all of it.. i dont know that i will be updating this site for a good while... i will remain in the digital world with my email (----) and tribe account (  http://people.tribe.net/fnord-inc  ).. some of this is due to drama (irl and digital) some of it is just disliking the livejournal medium a little lately. if you have something you need me to read, feel free to email me or call me or whatever :) you are all friends, you know how to get a hold of me :) ~~ in other news, i have moved into a new apt.. dont send me mail till you get the new address. ~~ not gone permanently.. until later.. cant let this 4 year old lj account die completely :)

  i found mom's old bible in my books while packing.. look what we had drawn in the back cover :)

  McCARTNEY + MORISSETTE USE ALIASES TO FOOL PIRATES + THIEVES thanks for telling us, now we know what to look for........... http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/mccartney_-_morissette_-_use_-_aliases_-_to_-_fool_-_pirates_-_thieves McCARTNEY + MORISSETTE USE ALIASES TO FOOL PIRATES + THIEVES SIR PAUL McCARTNEY, FAITH HILL, ALANIS MORISSETTE and DEPECHE MODE are among the huge acts using aliases in a bid to make sure their new albums get to critics at newspapers and magazines. Music industry bigwigs fear the bigger stars' preview albums are being swiped by interns and pirated weeks before their release dates. So, McCartney's upcoming album has been credited to PETE MITCHELL, while Hill, Morissette and Depeche Mode are sending out their albums as FERN HOLLOWAY, ARTHUR MOORE and BLACK SWARM respectively, according to the Los Angeles Times. Publicist MITCH SCHNEIDER, who represents both Morissette and Depeche Mode, says, "It is really a practical thing for...

  http://replymail.ne1.net http://replymail.sitesled.com Changes include: multiple new submitters 130 or so new cards many new "heavy envelopes" a whole new site format and CSS encoding basically a whole rewrite.. it looks similar but it is a whole new beast.. dialup users should beware, but i have tried to keep stuff  as minimal as functionally possible for all users to enjoy.. let me know what you think! FEEDBACK WELCOME! positive and negative.. seriously.. the next update will include a full rewrite to push it onto a larger server with scripting on the back side.. this will make the whole thing run great as it will be able to dynamically bring the content forward instead of having clumsy menus and slower load times.. but i want to incorporate many suggestions into it.. i am thinking of even implementing a comment system to allow people to give feedback on specific items directly

  original article: http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/001013.html August 24 / Playing a Platinum Record Valentine, you see, OWNS a platinum record. He's taken it upon himself to play it and determine what exactly the grooves of a default platinum record contain. Clearly, this is awesome. Collapse "I have a story I thought you might be interested in. Long story short is that I used to be in a cheesy Christian band (regrettably) and we had a single that was on a double-CD compilation. This comp sold 250,000 copies and since it contained two CDs the RIAA certified it platinum. I have possessed a platinum record for the past six or seven years. I had it hanging over the toilet in my bathroom. Anyways, last Saturday my friends and I busted it out of the frame and put it on a turntable. You might be interested to know these facts about the record: * The hole in the middle was the size of the hole in the middle of a CD. * There is extra space around the outside of the record that ge...

  for anyone interested, suzuki and i will be in town next month should be in sometime on thursday the 1st and leaving sometime on sunday the 4th.. its not a long stay, and is family oriented, but we can kick it for a night if people have the time :) would be good to see people again. you all know how to get a hold of me, will try to see if we can plan something ahead of time

  i find the idea of friends only posts or private posts confusing and backwards. i dont know that i will keep this post up (or for how long)... chances are i wont..   this entry is mainly for myself, there are no links or funny jokes in here, in fact, its fairly depressing so dont click the cut if you dont want it. Collapse Many of my friends are aware that my mom is going through some issues with the big C. She flat out isnt going to get better and is just taking it day by day until she will eventually succumb to it. Recently, she started having more issues with her lungs. They were filling up with fluid and needed to be emptied fairly often. the doctors, in an attempt to help her did some fairly twisted stuff that appears to have a positive effect and will hopefully make her more comfortable for a while. They keep saying that she is having a "good day" but when i talk to her, i dont hear the good.. this isnt cynicism.. it is the reality of hearing someone you love holding ...

  http://www.lightover.com/epic/ In the year 2014,  The New York Times  has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC?

i know it makes me hungry... :(

  i want to smack people who have f-cked up bugmenot... i am searching for a username and password, i get shit like this: Account #18 NeverUseBugMeNot Itdoesntworkever well no fucking kidding it doesnt work, its because of nuts like yourselves! ..

  From the Himalayan Today magazine 1993 archives   N::N    A::A M::M A::A S::S T::T E::E "Shake hands and come out fighting." It's the referee's  final counsel to two pugilists about to beat each other's  brains out with clenched fists. Even outside the ring, a  handshake can be a little off-putting. When o­ne returns  to the West from an extended sojourn in Bharat or  elsewhere in Asia, the hand suddenly thrust forward can  seem more ominous than friendly, especially if the hand  offered is that of a stranger. Of course, o­ne soon  acclimates and the menacing aspect of this salutation subsides. Perhaps that moment of intimidation derives from the history of the handshake. According to one anthropologist, the handshake evolved in medieval Europe, during the times of knights. It seems not all were laudable Lancelots or gallant Gallahads. More than a few would approach opponents with concealed weapons and when within striki...

  Warming hits 'tipping point' Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting Thursday August 11, 2005 The Guardian A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today. Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres - the size of France and Germany combined - has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. The area, which covers the entire sub-Arctic region of western Siberia, is the world's largest frozen peat bog and scientists fear that as it thaws, it will release billions of tonnes of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. It is a scenari...

  http:// Waving hello to electricity...plus fresh water Published: 08 August 2005 04:00 AM Industry Channel: Energy & Utilities Source: The Engineer A wave energy system that sits on the seabed could simultaneously generate electricity and produce fresh water, according to the UK company commercialising the technology. The Australian-developed CETO system has just been bought for £5m by UK investment company, Renewable Energy Holdings (REH). The CETO unit is anchored to the seabed at a depth of between 10–25m and coupled to a proprietary pump system which supplies high-pressure seawater to a conventional on-shore generator. As waves moves over the unit, they depress a disk on top of the box and transmit a force to the pump, which delivers water at almost 70 bar. It is carried ashore in a 125mm diameter pipe to a turbine, which produces the electricity. Each CETO unit could potentially produce 100kW of power. The water can also be pumped through a reverse osmosis filter on the ...

  so i was in the movie theater this weekend hanging with my girlfriend, suzuki. we were wading through a decent but not great zombie movie... "Land of the Dead' by the king of zombies himself, George Romero.. to our surprise, we realized it must have been filmed in canada (confirmed in the credits) because in the opening scene, one character who gets a lot of camera time is none other than Dean, the Bardell Rapist from degrassi next generation. needless to say, we feel he was well treated in the film... having recovered from the surprise of Dean, we were greeted later in the film by an extra in a night club. the camera had a couple really good shots of his head. i was attempting to determine why this man was so familiar when Suzuki leaned over and very excitedly advised me that it was Dwayne from DJH and DHS. ~~ I hear other degrassi sitings include Joey as a helicopter pilot in "Godzilla"...... i havent seen him in it yet but will be rewatching it when netflix kick...

California's SUV Ban The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to know it. By Andy Bowers Posted Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004, at 11:42 AM PT Unless you drive one of the largest SUVs, such as the Chevy Suburban, the Cadillac Escalade, or the Ford Excursion, I'll bet you've watched them thundering down quiet residential lanes and wondered to yourself: Why is that monster allowed on this little street? Well, here's a surprising piece of news. It may not be. Cities throughout California—the nation's largest car market—prohibit the heaviest SUVs on many of their residential roads. The problem is, they don't seem to know they've done it. I discovered this secret ban after noticing the signs at both ends of my narrow Los Angeles-area street (a favorite cut-through route for drivers hoping to avoid tie-ups on bigger roads). The signs clearly prohibit vehicles over 6,000 pounds. I knew a 6K pound limit ruled out a lot of the larger ...

  burrito cart burritos.. good... better than betos.. better than super B.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  I remember being in vegas and one night my walkman went on the fritz.I didnt have any other tape player available and so i scrounged up 9 bucks to go buy a cheapo radioshack walkman. I sat outside till 4 in the morning listening to Violator over and over watching the stars and smoking cigarettes... After a while, Martin Gore started to sound drunk because my batteries were dying so I went to bed. that was a fantastic night....

  http://www.musichallaudio.com/shanling_products.asp?show=true&prolook=scd-t200_sp-80 SHANLING SCD-T200 SACD PLAYER & SP-80 DUAL-MONO TUBE AMPLIFIERS The SCD-T200 SACD player uses the latest Sony KHM-2334AAA drive and the Sony CXD2752R SACD decoding chip. The DAC is a Burr Brown PCM 1738 24 bit/192kHz custom made for SACD technology. The line output is tube and the headphone output tube amplified. The volume control is electronic. The MSRP of the SCD-T200 IS $2,695.00. Matching both the CDT-100 CD player and the SCD-T200 will be the stunning new SP-80 dual-mono tube amplifiers. These 50wpc.amps use EL34, 6N8 and 6N9 tubes and have a synchronized remote volume control. The MSRP of the SP-80 is $2,495.00 a pair.

 http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback63.html Shaded Dog Days Mark Fleischmann  By: Mark Fleischmann July 17th, 2005 I have a little black Halloween cat. He is 10 years old and as feisty as ever, but as luck would have it, he loves my dogs. He stares at them in fascination as they play. I’m glad they get along because I must have dozens of dogs. Shaded dogs. I’m referring to the shaded image of Nipper on the RCA LP logo, that cute little Jack Russell terrier who stares into a gramophone. The most valuable shaded dogs are RCA Living Stereo LPs pressed in the late 1950s. When in good condition, they’re worth a fortune. Audiophiles say they’re the best-sounding records ever made. Collapse The patron saint of the shaded dog is Michael Hobson of Classic Records. He remastered the Living Stereo LPs with rebuilt vacuum-tube mastering gear and reissued them on virgin vinyl. Thanks to Mike, I know exactly how sweet, smooth, and authentically musical a shaded dog can sound. I also hav...

  Sean has a blog now.. http://seanlovett.blogspot.com/ he is dedicating it to stories and stupid shtit that has happened tohim in his life..  damn i love this guy :) he is starting off slow, but it will be worth keeping an eye on for sure :)

 excuse me but.. WHAT THE FUCK? welcome to 1984 people, random ID checks are coming in 3 years with the "Real ID" system...  http://www.local6.com/news/4724689/detail.html

 http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/07/14/campbell/index_np.html "Shut up and act" "Evil Dead" star Bruce Campbell discusses Tom Cruise, idiot film executives, his hilarious debut novel -- and the joys of not being famous. "There are some people who don't know who Bruce Campbell is, and there are others who will wait hours in line just to get next to him. The 47-year-old actor's uproarious roles in horror films like "Bubba Ho-Tep" and the essential "Evil Dead" franchise -- which he created along with his high school buddy and fellow Michigan native, director Sam Raimi -- have earned him a dedicated cult following. Indeed, legions of aspiring horror-show nuts have followed Campbell and Raimi, who parleyed his own "Evil Dead" accomplishments into a career helming Hollywood blockbusters like the "Spider-Man" movies, ever since the two do-it-yourselfers first decided to produce and shoot their own films instead of wa...

this is freakin amazing! http://www.turbotap.com/ http://www.turbotap.com/Video05/Tu… 4 seconds to pour a glass of guinness (and we all know how much head you can get off that if done wrong..) about 1 minute to settle and have a perfect 3/4 inch head......... freakin amazing i tell you...

 http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2851029 ~~ what blows me away is that you can get non caffienated drinks in a regualr shop.. no one says "you have to drink caffiene".... so whats with the attitude and statements made by those people interviewed? whats next.. will you need a temple recommend in order to get a "caffiene free chai 'non tea' iced grande high horse 'poser'"? ~~ and while i am ranting... for all the starbucks fools.. tall means small, grande means medium, and venti is italian for 20.. as in 20 oz.. as in you are paying too much for bad coffee... http://italian.about.com/library/children/blnumber20.htm

 http://enkuechen.zidev.com/cookbook/ Einstürzende Neueküchen is a virtual cookbook contributed by the fans of Einstürzende Neubauten. and i want to make this... http://enkuechen.clawz.com/cookbook/?p=20 and this... http://enkuechen.clawz.com/cookbook/?p=93

 http://www.shatnerhasbeen.com/ for people who are going to scoff before listening to this.. it is actually a damn fine cd including music by joe jackson, screaming by henry rollins and many other people.. to be honest though, the clips on the site are infused with interviews and give it a weird feel.. iw ould suggest a download off p2p and then buying it if you like it.. well worth it ~~ and even if you hate it.. you can make fools out of them all by watching the horrible video section :)

 http://earth.google.com/ it is official.. this is the coolest thing i google has ever made.. people with broadband should go here and download the 10 meg application and play... i plan to use this to take tours of cities as i read about them in books.. example... the next time i read neverwhere...

  a softer world - may 27th 2005

  soo.. friends and i went to see sin city on the big screen tonight. when i watched my illegal version at home, it was pretty satisfying, the lower quality did someting for it which made it feel more artsy and interesting. on the big screen however, it was just a terrible terrible movie.. mr rodrigruez.. not that you care, i am disappointed in your more recent films.. time for you to go back to low budget mariachi films until you get your head deflated.. you will make good films again.. like bedhead. also- finally.. i have a near mint copy of Vicious Pink's Self titled album in the mail coming to my work. can i say just one thing about it? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! i am practically glowing with this find..24 buck plus shipping and i have a near mint glorious vinyl lp coming to me.......... im gonna cry..