Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and the dreaded wind hasn’t kicked-up as of yet, so the air is warm and easy. Despite Spring being sprung last week, the US midsection is still in the cold stages with a snow-dump forecasted from Kansas to maybe Washington, DC: Add winds gusting up to 40 mph and you get one wintry mess. However, March Madness is set to bracket the Read More ...
Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January, and I went out and found this used two-year-old Dell, which began to have problems, too. The Start Up program got shot to shit, or it malfunctioned, or was eaten, or whatever. Despite repeated attempts Read More ...
Interesting, though, I don’t know if it’s real or not — can’t read Cyrillic. Some photos of supposed-fragments off the famous meteorite that flamed across the Chelyabinsk region of Russia last month can be seen here (via The Reddit Edit this morning). And why that’s interesting, I don’t know either — just some coal-looking rock chunks. My eyes has always had trouble the words ‘reality,’ and ‘realty.’ Grade school and beyond before Read More ...
Mr. George Carlin explains: “‘Older’ sounds a little better than ‘old,’ doesn’t it? Sounds like it might even last a little longer. … I’m getting old. And it’s OK. Because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die — I’ll ‘pass away.’ Or I’ll ‘expire,’ like a magazine subscription. If it happens in the hospital they’ll call it a ‘terminal episode.’ The insurance company Read More ...
The tragic death of Aaron Swartz continues to make waves on the soft, sandy beaches of the InterWebs. Swartz was only 26 when he committed suicide a couple of weeks ago when an impending legal case apparently became too hard to bear — a near-empty case until federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz decided to use Swartz to send “a message.” The message was all-too political: “He was being made into a Read More ...
Ground fog, misty and warm this early Thursday morning along California’s northern coast, a way-direct contrast to the frigid, icebox temperatures back east. My youngest daughter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, told me last night over the phone it was ONE DEGREE outside. And that’s just pure crazy. Also nuts is being offline and depending on the TV for news — a landscape so empty and cold it feels like the plains Read More ...
Overcast and warm this Wednesday morning here along California’s northern coast — and deep in frustration. Last Friday afternoon, we were burglarized — the crank-headed assholes stole my new laptop along with a six-year-old Dell from up in my daughter’s room. The computers were apparently the only items taken, although drawers and boxes were dug through by the before-mentioned assholes. Nothing else of any significance or importance seems to be Read More ...
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a Read More ...
One crucial element off the World Trade Center attacks was fright, and from this fear arose a desire coupled with the technical ability to scrutinize perceived enemies, real or maybe politically imagined. The ongoing David Petraeus freak show details how this shit can morph into something way different — and all US peoples should beware of how aware are prying eyes. Last March, King David blubbered at a spy conference: Read More ...
(Illustration found here). Even as a tiny, little shit — vs an old shit now — I’ve always been a full-blown movie nut. In countless darkened theaters as flickering images played across gigantic screens, these episodes in fantasy seemed to remove me from a world I couldn’t understand, or maybe didn’t want to, and created a life beyond the normal. And to experience fairy-tale longings amidst living in near-poverty in Read More ...
