Thursday, March 31, 2005

funny stuff

old pictures

in case you're curious what i looked like when i was a senior in high school.



and the long-famed carpet board design:

life in hell


those of you read the city weekly probably know that matt groening's strip "life in hell" can be found in the back.

but you probably don't know it's hard as hell to find on the internet. or at least as far as google is concerned.

i dare you to prove me wrong and find an official web site.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

so if you're thinking of starting a blog...

or just want to publish tons of pictures, it looks like this google-owned site (in google we trust!) is the place to do it. i can't believe their just giving me this bandwidth for free.

more pictures from december - ists

enjoy...



van gogh gogh gogh!

in case you hadn't visited google today, here's a reminder that vincent van gogh was born 152 years ago. just so you know.

new sleater-kinney album rocks

i just barely arrived home from school, and as i settle in to do some homework/web design/whatever, i decided to listen to a little music while i win a few more hands of freecell.

this had finished downloading:

i'm listening to it now. it's great.

unfortunately, if you're the kind that buys your music, you'll only be able to get it when it comes out may 24th.

The Decemberists Concert


it was awesome. one of the higher ranked concerts i've attended, especially considering the low price of $13 plus service fee.

here's one of the better photos i managed despite the terrible light.

Monday, March 28, 2005

things i find funny #2

people who swear with the word 'scheisse'. it's a german swear, it means 'shit' in english (or 'mierda' in spanish, 'govno' in russian.)

i heard someone say it while i was in the library this morning. odd....


try it. it's pronounced SHY-SUH. it's fun.

things i find funny #1

i've been to kfc a couple times recently because of those new little sandwiches they have and a friend who actually like their food. while there, i grabbed a couple condiments to take home with, the following included.



honey sauce? at first i thought, maybe they add something to make it better.

nope.

flipping it over, you find this:



yes, that's right, the first two ingredients are high-fructose corn syrup and sugar. then they mix in some honey. no wonder they don't call just HONEY. weird. makes you wonder what the actually use for 'chicken'. (chicken sauce, probably.)

Saturday, March 26, 2005

read interesting books!

after having immensely enjoyed the book Guns, Germs and Steel by jared diamond, i decided to go to the library to pick up his latest. it wasn't there, but an earlier book of his, Why is Sex Fun?, was. Here follow one of the most interesting parts:



In fact, a long series of biochemical steps is required to produce all those other structures besides ovaries or testes. Each step involves the synthesis of one molecular ingredient, termed an enzyme, specified by one gene. Any enzyme can be defective or absent if its underlying gene is altered by a mutation. Thus, an enzyme defect may result in a male pseudohermaphrodite, defined as someone possessing some female structures as well as testes. In a male pseudoher-maphrodite with an enzyme defect, there is normal development of the male structures dependent on enzymes that act at the steps of the metabolic pathway before the defective enzyme. However, male structures dependent on the defective enzyme itself or on subsequent biochemical steps fail to develop and are replaced either by their female equivalent or by nothing at all. For example, one type of pseudohermaphrodite looks like a normal woman. Indeed, "she" conforms to the male ideal of female pulchritude even more closely than does the average real woman, because "her" breasts are well developed and "her" legs are long and graceful. Hence cases have turned up repeatedly of beautiful women fashion models not realizing that they are actually men with a single mutant gene until genetically tested as adults.


Since this type of pseudohermaphrodite looks like a normal girl baby at birth and undergoes externally normal development and puberty, the problem isn't even likely to be recognized until the adolescent "girl" consults a doctor over failure to begin menstruating. At that point, the doctor discovers a simple reason for that failure: the patient has no uterus, fallopian tubes, or upper vagina. Instead, the vagina ends blindly after two inches. Further examination reveals testes that secrete normal testosterone, are programmed by a normal Y chromosome, and are abnormal only for being buried in the groin or labia. In other words, the beautiful model is an otherwise normal male who happens to have a genetically determined biochemical block in his ability to respond to testosterone.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005


in case you were wondering where the name of my blog come from.

lately, freecell has been my version zen distraction.

i stop thinking, and let the computation and puzzle solving skills take over. usually for 3 or 4 games in a row. they add up.

Thursday, March 17, 2005


i found this picture on another website... thought it was really cool.

donnie darko: director's cut


i finally watched the director's cut of donnie darko, even though i had downloaded a copy months before it came out... guess i just had to see it on a dvd.

it's better in the director's cut, especially if you've ever had one of those deep discussions about the movie. a few more of the peculiarities are explained. plus the soundtrack is slightly different, which is odd.

if you're still interested in figuring out the meaning of the movie (if there is one), or just want to see a great website, try this: donnie darko

this is still in the works with the producers:

i'm currently in talks with the studios to make a film featuring local talent. many different genres are being discussed, but the one that keeps coming up is, well, advertised on late night comedy central.....




hoping to see the project move along?

make a donation!

html and such code

in case you didn't know, i haven't programmed in html or java or any such language since the 90's. so i'm trying to figure out what exactly the template i have is doing and how i can change it so that you will give me more money.

btw, i'm posting this because it's after midnight. i want to see how it formats this.

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

donations

so i found out that it's frightfully easy to add a donation button to my sight.

turns out you should give me money now.










so i watched...

silence of the lambs almost 5 times last weekend.




first i rented it, then it started coming on AMC every other movie. every time i flipped through the channels it was on. then AMC played a version that had a little bar at the bottom of the screen telling all the behind-the-scenes stuff.

good movie.

this is the guy that provided info about serial killer profiling:

John Douglas

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my very first post....

this post was written very first... it's mostly
too see how this process works. if you found this
somehow, congratulations.