Area man has self flung from trebuchet, eats shit and dies
Best quote:
Some members of the stunt club were intended to complete jumps wearing fancy dress costumes, but after the first jump were told by instructors to remove any capes they were wearing which could slow down jumpers through the air.
Area Man Jams Cop Radios, Goes To Slammer.
Best quote:
Mitra testified the Nov. 11 episodes were accidental transmissions that occurred when two wires rubbed against themselves and the transmitter. He said the sex sounds were broadcast because he was listening to them on a loop in his bedroom, and when he heard them on a police scanner and realized what happened, he threw the transmitter away.
Holidays bring out a weird split personality in the U.S. We are instructed to enjoy each holiday, and the quarter of the year we call the “holiday season”. It’s our liturgical calendar. Everything from Christmas to Superbowl Sunday is celebrated with deadly serious intensity. It isn’t just that advertisers push us to buy stuff. We get into this shit really deep and want to do each holiday perfectly. We will be joyful, or patriotic, or “spooky”, or whatever the occasion calls for, and we will demonstrate this with decorations and special foods and events and and and.
At the same time the holidays scare the hell out of us. Partly because of public service campaigns over the years by anti-drunk-driving organizations, we have a national obsession with the hazards of holidays that’s just as strong as our desire to celebrate the hell out of them. “Enjoy your Memorial Day barbecue” or “Have a Merry Christmas” has acquired the suffix “safely” in the last 30 years. It’s understandable that we’d want to reduce the body count from New Year’s drunk driving or poorly cooked turkeys, but we put way more effort into it than the actual numbers warrant.
Sentimentality makes us frightened. Each holiday must be perfect — the Christmas Carol Christmas, the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving — or it will be a terrible tragedy. Not only must the snacks be perfect and every child rosy-cheeked and laughing, but no one may die during the special happy time.
I’m on the record as disliking the new Halloween for other reasons, but the safety bit is hilarious here. Folks! Let’s make sure that while celebrating the Day of the Dead, All Hallows’ Eve, the terrifying Pandemonium in which the gates between Hell and Earth swing open and the dead walk the earth and Satan Himself tests the faithful with the terrors of the grave, that we’re all super safe and stuff!
And now a piece of found poetry received from my HR Department today on this very subject: SAFE HORROR
CitizenX just sent me a link to a book called “Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History”. I’d probably like it; I enjoy that kind of boutique pop science book. They can be awfully precious, and the writer often believes that THIS ONE THING IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVERYTHING, but they’re fun like candy and I do learn from them. It’s like the enjoyable bits of college lectures.
Anyway I realized that there are about a hundred books out in the last decade with titles in the form: [FAMOUS PERSON]’s [NOUN] and they’re almost all this kind of book. Some of them are just [PERSONAL NOUN]’s NOUN
Examples: Galileo’s Daughter, Halley’s Quest, Miss Leavitt’s Stars, The Mapmaker’s Wife, Humboldt’s Cosmos, Kepler’s Witch, Einstein’s Heroes… Those are just from a quick look at Amazon’s “History of Science” category.
Maybe we should make a matrix of Famous Dead People and Nouns and write all the ones that aren’t done already. Dibs on “Kropotkin’s Bicycle”, here!
Guruphiliac has an update on the megalomaharishical antics of the TM people, worth a read.
Anne Rice has always been a crap writer, but now she’s really losing her shit in a big way. $5 says “scientology in a year”.
On Myspace:
hey i no you prolly don’t know me, maybe you do, i thought i had a message from you once, anyways i was just lookin up on profiles and thought you were hot. I totally like older guys than me its cool.. I am drinkin so forgive me if i am ramblin but yea, so add me as a friend, or lets chat on my webcam if you want, its free, you can get there from my profile. What is up? You not going out? lets party lol
I love my monster.com job updates, not because I am looking for a job right now, but because of things like this.
I’m glad they don’t just passively reject the transactional staffing industry paradigm. But couldn’t they do so proactively? It’s great that they can handle projects of varied size and scope, too. The companies with the fixed size and scope are awfully weird. And I knew about globalization, but when did the economy become project–based? I thought it was all about shit like steel, and wheat, and oil, and the value of the Euro.
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Yeah, so if you could not route my packets to Google through an RFC1918 address, that would be great. Yeah. Glad they’re just Diedrich’s ISP and not mine.
Edit: looks like lots of other people are having this problem. I think someone bent their router, and stuff. Oops!
Via torgo_x; crossposted to
Jim Marshall insists that he has decoded the Codex Seraphinianus of Luigi Serafini. Whether or not there was a code in this bizarre, beautiful work of art is not known to me. What’s certain is that Mr. Marshall has mixed psychoceramic genius with the “Da Vinci Code” phenomenon and created his own work of art.
http://www.cr.cx/seraphinianus/codex/index.html
“I believe that the Rosetta Stones found on the pages mentioned above were meant for other audiences and not for the human race at this time!”
[…]
“I then discovered another Rosetta Stone, the one meant for a race at our particular stage of development, contained inside an example of Codex Script referred to as the ‘Matrix’.”
[…]
” Character for O – not sure. ( alien input ? )”
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