Category: x-personal
Random and intermittent postings about life, the universe, etc..
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Streaking Party
http://www.herbalessences.com/streakingparty/want_highlights.asp
They guy on the left at the end of the commercial is my friend Jason. I went to school with him at UB. I knew he was in New York acting, but I had no idea he was up to this.
Protected: I miss her so much sometimes
News of the Weird
So Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new Governor of California. Hmmm. This has possibilities.
I’ve thought for a long time that there’s not nearly enough surreality in people’s lives anymore. In times past people didn’t know everything about the world around them. They might not have known what was over that mountain, or under those rocks.
Now, I’m not saying that the huge increases in the knowledge base of the human race is a bad thing, I’m just mourning the lack of a sense of wonder anymore. Nowadays, if you don’t know something, it takes hardly any effort at all to find it out. There is not much anymore that makes people go “huh?”
Thus, I think things like News of the Weird and Schwarzenegger being elected governor are good for the planet, in a spiritual sense. We need things to go off kilter. It helps keep us on our toes.
You know, looking over some of my latest posts, it almost sounds like I’m trying to codify this as some kind of philosophy. Weird, huh?
Bongo Drums
http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/
On one of the pages he even links to CPIP (Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol,
with the amazingly fast speed of 0.08 bps)
I think I like these kind of projects because they take the high-tech and
bring it back down in to the lower realms again. Of course, they are also
kind of bizarre.
Maybe not the lower realms, that’s probably not the best way to put it.
Back into the hands of ordinary men again. In theory, anybody could use
this idea and send info via a bongo drum. It’d kind of like the man who
turned his old satellite dish into a 10 mile line of sight transmitter for
his home wireless network with the aid of an old Pringles can.
Actually, I think it goes even simpler than that. It’s probably a
development of the common attitude in theatre that not only do we use
products in ways the manufacturer doesn’t recommend, we use stuff in ways
the manufacturer never even dreamed of before. We use simple household
products in ways that would make most lawyers yell “Class Action!” like
those excited screams you hear in porn films. MacGyver has nothing on any
half-decent theatre company.
Protected: God damn it!
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No, there’s too much to explain, let me sum up.
1. Woke up
2. Went to work
3. Stopped for lunch
4. Went back to work
5. Went to CAD lab to work on Kathy’s project
6. Got so pissed off at Vectorworks I left the CAD lab swearing
7. Went to grocery store, bicycled back puring rain
8. Napped
9. Had dinner
10. Went back to CAD lab, wrestled with Vectorworks more, am almost done with plot.
11. Went to do a twenty minute lighitng call with Jen
12. Spent 30 minutes trying to figure out why there were two random lights on in the Festival
13. Bought ice cream