I think it’s sort of sweet that the girls stayed clothed, myself. I don’t think university officials in my state would even notice this party. From trinnit

double secret probation

I lamented last year that we technology people at my job had created a not particularly complex system and in two years had totally lost our grip on how it worked, so that large portions of it were opaque and mysterious, with “No Touch” signs on them. This depressed me, and put me in mind of the general state of humanity and our poor collapsing Towers of Babel in which we take such pride, etc.

We rebuilt our Tower, using new and better tools, and rules that kept us from our previous folly. There were great resolutions passed, Five-Year Plans approved by the Central Committee. Happy days were here again.

We built a new system from scratch. Two months later, it is full of mystery and fear. People use the passive: “It keeps doing that” or “It doesn’t seem to do this properly” or “I don’t know why it did that”. This is something we built! Our Frankenstein’s monster, our golem, our own little Pokémon.

I predict this trend will accelerate, and the next project will be built at the same time that we fail to comprehend it, so that we’re slaving away on incomprehensible tasks to build something we can’t conceive in our minds, like Richard Dreyfuss building his Devil’s Tower in the living room in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

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Who is stealing his signs?

I was talking to the security guard at work this weekend while both of us were being very, very bored at the office. We were bitching about Los Angeles and its many flaws. He said he was from New York and wanted to go back. When I asked what he missed most about his home town he said “Hmm.. I think the filth. And the chaos.”

I’m glad myself that I only have to go into this city once or twice a week now. It broke in the early 90s and was never fixed, and it is held together with sticky tape and lies.

In my own pueblo, it was announced recently that COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES TO MEET ON LEVEL PLAYING GROUND TO CLEAR THE AIR. I suppose the big fans they use for air clearing wouldn’t work on a tilted playing ground.

$80,000 feast results in horrible food poisoning.

I wonder if there were any fiery letters on the wall?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20040922/ap_on_re_us/plane_diverted

Cat Stevens on plane. Cat Stevens on TERRIST list because: Islam. Plane diverted. Passengers relieved that they were not forced to listen to “Peace Train” until Salman Rushdie’s book retroactively banned.

It is, indeed, a wild world.

Fries or a shake?

Either way you’re getting some whoppers of mass destruction, homefries.

and two more

I walked on to the patio tonight and was immediately struck with the following scene: Two pretty 20somethings sitting in the coffeehouse, both with ponytails, both with laptops, facing the same way, sitting the same way. And I said to myself, “we live pretty near the factory, don’t we?” At one point they started talking to each other and we figured maybe they were comparing cars or boyfriends or generally having a Famille Smith moment. It was really sort of eerie.

here they are

… WHAT-core?

Not only is punk dead, it is now a really embarrassing zombie.