bloodhound or anticipatory spasm? you decide

Went to D's last night and saw the lovely and talented bruisedhips who kept me up on celebrity doings via the magazine she was reading. It was good to see her back here in civilization.

Also talked quite a bit with my friend C who is in a suit and countersuit battle with her insane former landlord, and is changing her career from mathematics to architecture, and therefore had good stories to tell. The management at D's is terrified of her since she wrote a letter to them ripping a strip off their incompetent and lazy-ass antics.

Today I tried and failed to buy a soldering iron at Fry's. Long story short they haven't really got capitalism down to a science there. I ordered from a Yahoo! shop instead. I need to get my solder on, as I'm returning to the world of radio geekery and have to make a packet radio cable so that my Paccomm Handy-TNC and my Yaesu VX-5R HT can hook up to my linux laptop!!! [snorting noises]

I've been pretty depressed lately. I need to stop thinking about all the fucked-up things I can't change.

Pass it on.

Go Bill Moyers:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0610-11.htm

"..that our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive "half slave and half free" - and that keeping it from becoming all oligarchy is steady work - our work."

DO NOT CALL ME

http://nocall.doj.state.ca.us/

Californians may pre-register to screw telemarketers; national do not call list. Register now, it goes active in October.

List of bad foods released

<ignatz> free-range onions
<zebulon_y> organic nutrasweet
<zebulon_y> vat-grown bananas
<ignatz> GMO salt
<zebulon_y> stain-resistant tomato hybrid
<ignatz> cauliburger
<zebulon_y> fraid
<ignatz> hothouse fish
<zebulon_y> more 'fraid
<ignatz> aged corn-fed Kansas squid
<zebulon_y> [oak cask]
<zebulon_y> peat-filtered Vermont ham
<zebulon_y> in jelly
<ignatz> honeybaked sushi
<zebulon_y> dolphin safe line-caught asparagus
<ignatz> extra virgin liverwurst
<zebulon_y> slow-roasted mesquite pork brains
<zebulon_y> mountain oysters, hand-picked by Juan Valdez

Drink the water.

http://www.cdc.gov/safewater/

Programs that use chlorine and narrow-spigot water containers are proving popular and successful in countries with water safety problems. Who knew? A little bit of sodium hypochlorite and a better jug, and no more chronic diarrhea. This is huge in places where everyone is always sick because of crappy water.

dumb quiz?

( dumb quiz )

Overheard at diedrich coffee

YEAH SO MARIO PASSED HIS BAR EXAM AND HE IS RENTING OUT SOME HUGE CHARTER BOAT WITH LIKE 200 PEOPLE AND ANYONE WHO STILL DRINKS OR DOES TOOTS IS GONNA BE THERE. I AM SO PROMOTING IT, LIKE MY WHOLE ROLODEX.
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ignatz