Dude.. Your getting a *bomb*
Just saw this in alt.sysadmin.recovery. Had to share with the class...

Upon leaving the coffee house this morning, I saw something I hoped never to see again when I moved to Arizona:
My Breath.
It is cold and rainy and yucky today. I am going to go take a hot bath and dream of sunny, 110 degree weather that lasts for months.

Due to all the talk here about it, I am now lusting after this...
I am so getting one when I get a job.
I have been wanting one for a while, plus now with the dual powermacs out (although they do use PC-133 ram which will slow them down, FWIU), and I am jonesing hard for a laptop (had to give mine back when I got the boot).
Hopefully I will get a job before my tax refund is used to pay bills/rent/etc...

I'm bored, and all my cats are asleep in their preferred sleeping spots. Heather, on top of the monitor, because it is toasty warm, Kiki on the footstool, and Baby seems to have reclaimed the papasan chair.
Someone entertain me!

Update:
Heather just moved from the top of the monitor to the top of the router...

Wonderful people tried to buy me something but could not.
I am happy and sad.
I'm going to talk a bath and ignore my insane kitty.

Tonight I had coffee with an ex-coworker and got a big bag of neoplanet swag 'cause I got laid off.
I fixed a bug in my little program, and it's not leaking memory all over, cause that's just messy.
I want a new feature in Movable Type. Something like MTEntryIfTitle, cause sometimes I have titles, and sometimes I don't.
I wish I could make sense in one sentance only.

SUNSHINE WHEAT BEER is brewed for year-round enjoyment using equal portions of wheat and barley malts. It is spiced with coriander and orange peel in the Belgian wheat beer tradition. SUNSHINE WHEAT is silky gold in color with a spicy aroma and a subtle citrus character.

I wish I was silky gold with a subtle citrus character...

Nine things about me that are true and one that isn't
1) I have a bizarre addiction to BBC World Service
2) I don't own a television
3) I have 3 cats
4) I have 3 body piercings
5) I know 3 people who used to work at the National Security Agency
6) I'm asthmatic and I smoke
7) I used to be married
8) I am afraid of water
9) I am afraid of being alone
10) I am not the boss of you

I have a secret
So all you bloggers who keep personal blogs (as opposed to news blogs or warblogs), do any of you keep secret diaries, to write the things you are thinking about people that said people aren't allowed to read?
Or is it just me?

Kingdomality
"Your distinct personality, The Prime Minister might be found in most of the thriving kingdoms of the time. You are a strategist who pursues the most efficient and logical path toward the realization of the goal that you perceive or visualize. You will often only associate with those people who can assist you in the implementation of your plan. Inept assistants may be immediately discarded as excess baggage. To do otherwise could be seen as inefficient and illogical. On the positive side, you can be rationally idealistic and analytically ideological. You can be a bold decision maker and risk taker who can move society ahead by years instead of minutes. On the negative side, you may be unmerciful, impatient, arrogant, impetuous and impulsive. Interestingly, your preference is just as applicable in today's corporate kingdoms."

What is your Medieval Vocational Personality?

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Proud to be Human
Ok You, turn in your thumbs and get out of the pool...

Unemployment Update
dee dee dee deedadeedadee dee dee dee
Well, today I managed my first interview. Since it looks like the recruiters are going to be no help whatsoever I started submitting resumes myself.
Looks interesting and they are developing what could be a pretty interesting app. Should hear from them this week, but on reflection, one of the interviewers seemed to have a problem looking me in the eye.
He kept looking at my left eyebrow. Ladies, I think now I can understand what you must go through.
'Hi.. Yeah.. My eyes are over here, thanks'...

Oh well.. Hopefully they won't hold my odd fashion sense against me.

Seen tonight, walking downtown.
Two 'Cowboys', readily identifiable by their stetson hats, expensive dusters, and boots. It always amazes me, having grown up on a farm, that people like this could pass themselves off like this because they listen to country music. The vast majority of these 'Cowboys' I imagine have never actually even seen a live cow, let alone the inside of a barn. After moving horse manure for a few hours with a pitch fork, any romantic ideas one has about cowboys is quickly dispelled.

Filet of Sole
or 'So that's what my foot tastes like'
Anyone who talks with me much can find me disagreeable. Ask around. I hold several wildly unpopular and widely misunderstood beliefs. I could go into detail about it, but I won't. But lets just say that when any of these things come up, I have a tendancy to go off and stick my foot in my mouth.
To anyone unlucky enough to broach these subjects with me, I am sorry. I try to keep these things to myself, but as yet have not found a reliable way of doing this, short of not talking to people.
Apparently that is best. I would best served with these wonderful one-sided conversations I have with myself.

Unemployed Day 4
Well, total wash again. Got one lead from an ex-coworker.
Went into the office again on thursday to drop off some severance paperwork and talked to a couple of the guys there. Got a bunch of contact information, also some 'If you hear of anythings'.
Skated down to Fry's (5-6 miles) and spent money I didn't have on the Buffy 1st Season DVD set. So I will be homeless and destitute, but I will have seen The whole BtVS first season. Also, the second season comes out in June or July! Hopefully I will have a job by then.. :)

Unemployed Day 2
Nothing to report today. Called a couple of recruiters and sent out the res some more. Sat around the house. Went to the store to buy some generic chow.
Went to Dyanna's to watch the Stars/Wings game and eat chinese food. It was kind of nice to get out of the house for a little human contact.
Wings lost, but it doesn't matter at this point. They are still the number one team, and when it all shakes out, they will still be the number one team.
But after many, many years as a Detriot Lions fan, I am used to being dissappointed by my sports teams.

Unemployed Day 1
Well, today was such a wash. I went to the office so I could pick up my personal effects and my severence. That was odd. Went to my friend's house to work on my resume, as I don't have a copy of Word. Talked to a recruiter. 'bout it. Now I am going to eat some ramen and read.

Well, this sucks..
I called in sick today because my ears were bothering me and whatnot, so later in the day, while I was at the supermarket buying some drugs for my aches, I get a phone call. It's work.
Me: Hello
Them: There's no easy way to put this, you're unemployed.
Me: I guess I will need better drugs...

Oh well. They layed off more then half the company and the board wants to offload the whole kit and kaboodle.
I haven't been unemployed since college..

Happy happy day!
This showed up in my inbox this morning..

"Say Anything" (DVD) is available for pre-order at Amazon.com

Just how cool is that? Now I just have to wait until March

Ok, geeky Star Wars rant here, so if you aren't into it, check out my links page :)

So I have officially become tired of people talking about the members of *NSync being in or out of the next Star Wars installment. I will admit to being initially shocked by the announcement, but after some thought, I realized I was being a snob.
It seems to me, thinking on it, that Star Wars fans feel that George Lucas 'owes' them something. Like this is something they shared with him, and he turned on them in some way. This is his gig, created out of whole cloth. I was initially turned off by the whole 'Episode One' thing, but thinking back on it, it was no more cheesy or commercial the the other movies.
Star Wars was something he created, and perhaps it was simply to create a commercial conglomerate out of the whole thing, but it doesn't change my feelings of seeing 'Star Wars' for the first time, at 6 years old, at the drive in. Pajamas and everything. And every episode after that still brings back memories of that first time. Or when I saw 'Return of the Jedi' on opening day. And I think that is what the whole thing is really about, for me at least. Recapturing that wonder of a 6 year old for a couple of hours. Putting aside the cynic in me to dive into a universe where something like magic can happen.
Maybe I'm just old, but I remember being totally mesmorised for a couple of hours, sitting in my older sisters car.
I guess I just need to feel young once and a while. And if Lucas want's to cast Brittney Spears as the next Jedi Master, so be it. I personally am prepared to accept whatever he turns out, and revert to my wonder, and damn the cynics and critics..

So there.

Look at this simple web image
Stare at the doorway, in particular. If you don't see it, keep looking for a good minute or two. You'll know it when you see it.

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Design your own O'Reilly Book Cover!
I know there are a couple of people out there who will find this funny..
Here is my bookcover.

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What the captain said
Here is a link to some interesting and education comments from the captain of Flight 363, about the reasons for his decision to boot Secret Service agent Walid Shatter off the plane.

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I just SnobJumped all the way back to my own blog.. That is tooo cool..

I am such a geek
Now, for your viewing pleasure, in the lefthand margin...
Random Poetry
It's vocabulary is a bit limited at the moment, but I will fix that soon enough. Until then, amuse yourselves with poems about whales and doors.

From here on out, Kira shall be known by one and all as grasshopper, because she is young and needs to learn

Larry Flynt wants "Under the Burqa" pay-per-view special.
"We know there are millions of----well, thousands----well, ok, hundreds----hell, I know there are at least a few beautiful, sexy women in Afghanistan who are starving and need money for the children and stuff. I just want to give them an opportunity to taste the freedom our bombs have brought to their part of the world. I want them to rip open their burqas, and show the world the finery of their forbidden flesh... their Afghani nasties... their jiggling Jihads of love."

Jiggling Jihads of Loooooove...

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iMacalicious
Ok, I am not the worlds biggest Apple fan, having seen Jobs screw up many 'insanely great' things in his day, but this is just cool. Here is the Time cover pic.

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The BBC Rocks my Knickers
The BBC is rebroadcasting their recording of The Lord of the Rings.
Live on Radio 4 starting yesterday 1430 - 1530 UTC. Time to break out the shortwave and setup an antenna. I'm sure the other residents of the apartment building will be so happy when I start stringing wires all over :)
Maybe they will broadcast online..

Not only did I manage to get all my Blogger entries imported, I also managed to pull the comments out and match them up! Only minor hackery on the import script.

There has to be a better way to do the import for this. Describing an XML file should be the best way. Then one could define his blog as:

<blog title="blog">
    <author name="Scott"/>
    <entry date="10/10/2010">
    <title>
        this is the title
    </title>
    <text>
            this is the main entry text
    </text>
    <comment author="Scott" date="10/11/2010">
        this is a comment
    </comment>
    </entry>
</blog>

Then it would be easier to write a filter to create the XML, then the import script would never need to be muddled with. Perhaps I will look at this over the weekend.

Oh Ladies
This is an official dare. I dare each and every female reader to contribute to this project..

Come on, it's art!

Now, if someone wants to write a song that goes something like: "All we are saying is give a sustained aerial bombing with coordinated ground assaults a chance" that might be helpful.

Jonah Goldberg, via Andrew Hofer

He is now one of my heroes..

I now have 2 resolutions *yeay*
1) Finally learn Calculus.
2) Finish Howard Zin's Peoples History of the United States.

Woow. Now aren't you all excited?

Happy new year, ya'll.. Hope it was good and everyone had fun. I spent the evening with Dyanna, of Throughyoureyes fame. Wonderful dinner and conversation.

But, alas, no wild monkey sex.