I have to say, that, in general, I do not believe in randomness. I'm sure there are some Quantum Mechanics (Maniacs?) out there who will beg to differ and provide supporting arguments, but until then....
Let's say I flip a coin. This particular flip comes up HEADS. Can you provide me with a proof that it could have been TAILS? Sure, sure, you can show that the next few flips might have different outcomes, and further that the next 1 billion flips will average dangnabbitedly close to 50% each. But that's not what I asked. I want proof that the original action might have taken a turn to the T-side. Since that has already (not) happened it is in the -- still apparently -- inviolable past and cannot be changed. So maybe it wasn't random at all?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to argue that we can predict the future. Both complicatedness (many moving parts) and complexity (intersecting feedback loops) make that practically and theoretically impossible.
I'm just saying that we can predict the past.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
More Spam
Got this, nearly, irresistible offer yesterday in my inbox -- which these days rarely gets anything but unsolicited crap and online sales receipts....
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Friday, October 30, 2015
Local Color XX++
Long time, sorry, I've been uninspired by life the universe and everything...
Anyway.
Two back-to-back only-in-NM news items have forced me out of forced retirement:
Sadly it appears that the above was only alcohol related rather than crank driven.
However this one is definitely ETOH^2:
Maybe this will put me over the edge...
Anyway.
Two back-to-back only-in-NM news items have forced me out of forced retirement:
Man Beats “Zombie” Roommate To Death After Watching The Walking Dead
A New Mexico man who had been watching TV’s “The Walking Dead” says he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie. Grants police spokesman Moses Marquez said Sunday that 23-year-old Christopher Paquin was beaten and that 23-year-old Damon Perry is being held on a murder charge.
Sadly it appears that the above was only alcohol related rather than crank driven.
However this one is definitely ETOH^2:
Mother and daughter struck and killed [while fighting about excess drinking] on N.M. 599
Lt. Andrea Dobyns of the Santa Fe Police Department said the two women were traveling with a female friend when they stopped their vehicle and got into an altercation that escalated to violence.
Maybe this will put me over the edge...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Local Color XVIII+1
Two Standout Items from Today's Sheriff's Hotsheets
The case of the over-attached (ex)girlfriend:
Case # 0215002016 False Imprisonment 02-09-15
Deputy Assigned: Leonard Martinez
Commander Entering: Cpl. Edward Webb Jr.
Location: Don Bernardo(Nambe)
Arrested: Amelia Gabaldon 19 yoa female (Santa Fe)
Victim reported as he attempted to break up with his girlfriend she became upset with him and would not allow him to leave her residence. Suspect blocked her doorway and would not allow the victim to leave. After allowing victim to leave the room, suspect then sat on the hood of victim's vehicle and would not allow him to leave in his vehicle. Suspect was arrested and booked without further incident
The curious case of the unknown unknowns:
Case# 0215001992 Burglary (Residential)
Deputy Assigned: Deputy Marvyn Jaramillo
Commander Entering: Lieutenant Joe McLaughlin
Location: 3900 Block, Riverside Drive, Santa Fe, NM
Between an unknown time on Thursday, January 29, 2015 and an unknown time on Friday, February 6, 2015 person(s) unknown utilizing unknown menas gained entry to the rear door of a residence at the location. Once entry was gained person(s) unknown damaged the interior of the residence. Person(s) unknown also removed the kitchen faucet and water heater.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
(too much) Local Color XVII
Albuquerque Edition
Albuquerque Edition
¡¡¡all these news items in one day!!!
Sunday’s Top Morning Headlines
Albuquerque police are looking for the person who shot and killed a woman outside of the TGI Friday’s restaurant. They say he is Ernest Serna, 46, is responsible. He is 5 foot 2 inches tall with hazel eyes. Police say he is armed. He was last seen driving a black 2008 Dodge Ram with the license plate KFX832. It has chrome wheels and no window tint. It was seen speeding away from the scene of the shooting.
(from KRQE-NEWS13)
Albuquerque police say a 3-year-old boy got ahold of a gun and shot his dad and a pregnant woman. It happened at the America’s Best Value Inn off Menaul in northeast Albuquerque Saturday. A 2-year-old girl was also in the room, but was not hit. The adults are expected to be ok. The children are on a 48-hour custody hold with CYFD. The adults could face felony criminal negligence charges for having a loaded gun near children.
Albuquerque police evacuated the La Quinta near Coors Boulevard and Iliff Avenue because of a pipe bomb. Police found it outside of the building and it took it into the lobby. Officers say the bomb squad was able to detonate that bomb and the case has been turned over to the federal authorities.
Just a couple comments from the peanut gallery here...
- Finding a Dodge Ram with chrome wheels and NO window tint should be pretty easy here in NM.
- Why did the police, upon finding a bomb outside, bring it INTO the lobby of the building?
Thursday, December 18, 2014
gotta back date this to December 14
Dagnabitanyway...always a day or few late and two-bits short.
Anyway, recently we (should have) celebrated the 70th anniversary of the passing of Lupe Velez, the patron saint of unintended consequences:
Anyway, recently we (should have) celebrated the 70th anniversary of the passing of Lupe Velez, the patron saint of unintended consequences:
Monday, November 17, 2014
YATC -- Yet Another Taxonomy Compiler
For decades my friend Brian has self-identified as a Moron. In his defense, because he is obviously much smarter than me, I declared myself an Idiot. Recently affairs of the world have come to such a point that I was sorely pressed for descriptive expletives, so I asked Brian if I could join him in order to free up an appellation for other uses. He agreed to upgrade me to moron and now I can freely use idiot as needed.
In order to have a clear order of precedence I looked for the ur-meanings of my terms, and the ever faithful wikipedia came through under the Idiot sub-heading of Disability:
From this I have developed my idiosyncratic taxonomy for use in further discussions.
An Idiot does stupid and or dangerous things over and over. In current American medical classification, these people are now said to have profound intellectual disability.
A Dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning.
An Imbecile has an intellectual disability less extreme than idiocy. This is now usually subdivided into two categories, known as severe intellectual disability and moderate intellectual disability (again, thank you wikipedia). I apply this word to media personalities who just make up information and then get huffy when someone argues with them.
A Moron misses connections which are staring him/her right in the face. They do however usually have the ability to learn once something is explicitly explained to them (Brian, and now I, pretty clearly fit in this category).
Then the various categories which reflect lack of experience, education, or tact rather than missing capability, and thus may be redeemable.
A Fool is unwise or lacking in judgement.
An Ignoramus is stupid, uneducated or ignorant.
A Dolt is stupid and entirely tedious at the same time. According to the Urban Dictionary they may also be oblivious to their own mental incapacity.
A Dullard is an unimaginative person. Again with thanks to The UD: An omnipresent, boring, annoying, and frequently idiotic being who is a master of inane conversations. Note that Websters has an extensive set of synonyms under dullard, but only two antonyms...
A Cretin is a vulgar or insensitive person, c.f.: clod, lout. A special sub-class (which may not be redeemable) was created by Karl Marx and best described by Friedrich Engels:
A Jackass will do anything that might make them seem to be popular. I apply this to most politicians.
An Asshat has their head up their ass, or more technically:
A further set of categories applies to working environments:
Dweebs are people that aren't really capable of anything but sometimes try anyway. Most employees throughout the management hierarchy are dweebs.
Then there are the Nerds and Geeks. They're pretty much the same except for one important quality. Both Nerds and Geeks are fairly tightly focused and capable in some, usually technological, subject. The difference is that the nerd thinks he actually enjoys doing what he's doing. The geek knows better.
Yahoos are egregious people whom you can't live without because they get things get done.
And finally, Gurus can be truculent and unpredictable. They amuse themselves by solving obscure problems and, if you are lucky, one of those problems will be yours.
Many of these folks are intelligent enough to believe that they know everything. Some few realize that they don't. An even smaller number actually do know everything, or at least how to figure it out.
In order to have a clear order of precedence I looked for the ur-meanings of my terms, and the ever faithful wikipedia came through under the Idiot sub-heading of Disability:
Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years.This is reasonably close to how I would classify actual children of those various ages so the glove fits nicely. The entry also mentions that Idiots are barred from voting in Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ohio, and British parliamentary elections. Would it were so...
From this I have developed my idiosyncratic taxonomy for use in further discussions.
Intelligence
An Idiot does stupid and or dangerous things over and over. In current American medical classification, these people are now said to have profound intellectual disability.
A Dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning.
An Imbecile has an intellectual disability less extreme than idiocy. This is now usually subdivided into two categories, known as severe intellectual disability and moderate intellectual disability (again, thank you wikipedia). I apply this word to media personalities who just make up information and then get huffy when someone argues with them.
A Moron misses connections which are staring him/her right in the face. They do however usually have the ability to learn once something is explicitly explained to them (Brian, and now I, pretty clearly fit in this category).
"Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard from the Ancient Greek word μωρός (moros), which meant "dull" (as opposed to oxy, which meant "sharp" (see also: oxymoron)) [!emphasis mine!] [wikipedia:Moron]
Education
Then the various categories which reflect lack of experience, education, or tact rather than missing capability, and thus may be redeemable.
A Fool is unwise or lacking in judgement.
An Ignoramus is stupid, uneducated or ignorant.
A Dolt is stupid and entirely tedious at the same time. According to the Urban Dictionary they may also be oblivious to their own mental incapacity.
A Dullard is an unimaginative person. Again with thanks to The UD: An omnipresent, boring, annoying, and frequently idiotic being who is a master of inane conversations. Note that Websters has an extensive set of synonyms under dullard, but only two antonyms...
A Cretin is a vulgar or insensitive person, c.f.: clod, lout. A special sub-class (which may not be redeemable) was created by Karl Marx and best described by Friedrich Engels:
Parliamentary cretinism, an incurable disease, an ailment whose unfortunate victims are permeated by the lofty conviction that the whole world, its history and its future are directed and determined by a majority of votes of just that very representative institution that has the honour of having them in the capacity of its members. [Encyclopedia of Marxism]Working our way further into politics:
A Jackass will do anything that might make them seem to be popular. I apply this to most politicians.
An Asshat has their head up their ass, or more technically:
Their cranial capacity has been reified by the hegemony of the interiority of their posterior. [Schippling, 2014]Asshats believe what imbeciles (media) and jackasses (politicians) say.
Work
A further set of categories applies to working environments:
Dweebs are people that aren't really capable of anything but sometimes try anyway. Most employees throughout the management hierarchy are dweebs.
Then there are the Nerds and Geeks. They're pretty much the same except for one important quality. Both Nerds and Geeks are fairly tightly focused and capable in some, usually technological, subject. The difference is that the nerd thinks he actually enjoys doing what he's doing. The geek knows better.
Yahoos are egregious people whom you can't live without because they get things get done.
And finally, Gurus can be truculent and unpredictable. They amuse themselves by solving obscure problems and, if you are lucky, one of those problems will be yours.
Many of these folks are intelligent enough to believe that they know everything. Some few realize that they don't. An even smaller number actually do know everything, or at least how to figure it out.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
impending autumnal anxiety
Last Sunday morning I dreamed that my friend Jen and I had a baby. It was gestated in a water cooler like thing:
When the time came I somehow knew that I needed to disconnect the black vacuum cleaner hose that lead down to a drain in the floor:
And out spewed a damp lump of cloth and flesh. Yup...fully clothed, something like a well used doll that one would find in the Goodwill reject bin.
Like any good new Father I sorta paniced. I grabbed the baby and turned it over. She -- one of those things you just know in dreamland -- started breathing frantically, her stomach distending and reddening with each gasp.
I rushed into Jen's office -- apparently Jen worked though the entire pregnancy and birth -- thrust the child into her arms and told her she needed to feed the baby. She was unimpressed.
I only add this to my permanent record because Jen insisted that I keep track of our relationship's ups and downs.
When the time came I somehow knew that I needed to disconnect the black vacuum cleaner hose that lead down to a drain in the floor:
Like any good new Father I sorta paniced. I grabbed the baby and turned it over. She -- one of those things you just know in dreamland -- started breathing frantically, her stomach distending and reddening with each gasp.
I rushed into Jen's office -- apparently Jen worked though the entire pregnancy and birth -- thrust the child into her arms and told her she needed to feed the baby. She was unimpressed.
I only add this to my permanent record because Jen insisted that I keep track of our relationship's ups and downs.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Local Color XVI
asshat division
Case# 0214013638 DWI
Deputy Assigned: Deputy Jared MosherCommander Entering: Lieutenant Joe McLaughlin
Location: Santa Fe County Detention Center
Vehicle: Black, 2003, Chevy, 2 door
Suspect: Marcos A. Deleon, 28, Santa Fe, NM
Charged: DWI, Providing Alcohol to Minors
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at 3:31 AM deputies responded to the location in regards to a call of the suspect driving to the location to post a bond and possibly being impaired. The suspect was found to be under the influence of an intoxicating liquor and had a Breath Alcohol Content of .08 or greater. The suspect also provided beer to the 19 year old male passenger in the vehicle.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Score!
Was looking for an animal themed gifting experience and found this. I wonder if she'll appear on every page I visit now? (I'll miss bikini girl though)...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Drive This Google
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| this morning's, ok ok, early afternoon's, view from the top of my driveway |
On the other hand it took just one adventurous adClick to get this image to appear on every web page I visit, so life is not all bad:
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| http://www.revolveclothing.com/DisplayProduct.jsp?product=WARE-WX20&utm_campaign=Tellapart&cvosrc=Retargeting.Tellapart&utm_medium=retargeting&utm_source=display&source=Tellapart |
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Etantdonnes WhateveR™ Manages My Day
Posts are coming hard and fast here...I'm sure it won't last...But...
I recently saw mention of Google Now being the latest must have app. It purports to coalesce all the needs of the busy new economy executive into one convenient package on your device. It's probably a godsend for your typical globe-trotting urban Google Employee™, so I started imagining how it might help me get through a typical day. I couldn't sleep until I got this all down on magnetic bits:
At 7 AM WhateveR™ wakes me to announce that American Airlines flight 2798 is boarding at the Santa Fe Airport. Maybe I can get a glimpse of it taking off...Nope...missed it again...
If I had needed a boarding pass for that flight it wouldn't have been printed because my old printer is attached to a Windows 2000 desktop that doesn't support the Media Transport (With Added DRM!) Protocol. No matter, at 7:38 AM WhateveR™ pings my cell phone with an apology for the failure and offers to print a voucher for the Google Chrome Operating System that won't run on the computer in question because it has less than 1Gb of RAM. It also prints, on the printer at my Fire Station, a coupon for a new printer.
After I get up I check the weather. It is 65˚ and balmy in Sunnyvale, CA. After finding the Change My Location button hidden under the Follow the San Jose Giants ad, I get the options of New York, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and Other. Clicking on Other and navigating the droop-down-menus I find last night's weather for Santa Fe, NM. With a little more poking around I get it to update and admit that it is indeed mostly sunny outside. I change to degrees C with the simple click of the button next to the temperature display.
My friend Ken's birthday is next month. Mine was last week. WhateveR™ hopes I had an
After breakfast WhateveR™ notifies me that there's some traffic on Old Las Vegas Highway and encourages me to drive on out there and have a look. Included is a helpful map:
I check the weather again and find that it is 28˚ F with light snow in El Dorado, KS.
Later I am notified that, in ten minutes, I could be having lunch with the Fire Department in town. A map of Santa Fe Springs, CA is provided. In current traffic it should take 12 hours and 26 minutes to get there. And BTW, while I'm at the Fire Station I should check to see if the guy who was supposed to order new printer toner ever did it and if that little popup window is still popping up up every few seconds? And here's a coupon for toner for my old printer. Click to <CANCEL>. Then enter <QUANTITY>. Would you like to review your purchase? <CONTINUE>.
The appointed time to walk out to the mailbox comes around.
No packages are going to arrive today. One came yesterday but the driver left it in the middle of the driveway and the meter reader ran over it. WhateveR™ is sorry that it only just remembered that.
The walk counts for a good bit of exercise on my monthly cumulative, but the activity total does not include moving my tenant's bicycle out of the way so I can disassemble a portion of the garage storage system in order to verify that I really can't find that part for the kitchen sink that I thought that I still had after WhateveR™ discovered the scanned receipt in myGoogle Documents.
The markets closed mixed. Would you like to login/create a myGoogle Finance account? <CONTINUE>
WhateveR™ reminds me that I could go to dinner at one of four restaurants within 5 miles of Old Las Vegas Highway and that I (still) have no mass transit options for getting there. It does however provide another map:
One of the four offerings (B) closes at 3pm but I cannot convince WhateveR™ of that fact. Nor can I cause it to ignore another of the selections (D) which appears to be a private catering business. So they both show up as options every day around this time.
A fifth possibility is fielded: a Hotel with a four star restaurant in Las Vegas, NV. In current traffic it should only take 9 hours and 14 minutes to get there. Would I like to Change My Location? <YES> <NO> <MORE>
I am then reminded about that Art Opening for which I got an announcement last week. It was yesterday. Also, my latest New Yorker issue is stuck in a Post Office delivery eddy between Kansas City and Albuquerque for which I might have collected ten frequent flier miles on the credit card that I cancelled last year. And, did I receive my weekly sales flier from Bed Bath and Beyond: <YES> <NO> <MORE>?
After dinner WhateveR™ notices that I have yet to leave the house and offers to broker a car rental for me.
I recently saw mention of Google Now being the latest must have app. It purports to coalesce all the needs of the busy new economy executive into one convenient package on your device. It's probably a godsend for your typical globe-trotting urban Google Employee™, so I started imagining how it might help me get through a typical day. I couldn't sleep until I got this all down on magnetic bits:
At 7 AM WhateveR™ wakes me to announce that American Airlines flight 2798 is boarding at the Santa Fe Airport. Maybe I can get a glimpse of it taking off...Nope...missed it again...
If I had needed a boarding pass for that flight it wouldn't have been printed because my old printer is attached to a Windows 2000 desktop that doesn't support the Media Transport (With Added DRM!) Protocol. No matter, at 7:38 AM WhateveR™ pings my cell phone with an apology for the failure and offers to print a voucher for the Google Chrome Operating System that won't run on the computer in question because it has less than 1Gb of RAM. It also prints, on the printer at my Fire Station, a coupon for a new printer.
After I get up I check the weather. It is 65˚ and balmy in Sunnyvale, CA. After finding the Change My Location button hidden under the Follow the San Jose Giants ad, I get the options of New York, London, Dubai, Shanghai, and Other. Clicking on Other and navigating the droop-down-menus I find last night's weather for Santa Fe, NM. With a little more poking around I get it to update and admit that it is indeed mostly sunny outside. I change to degrees C with the simple click of the button next to the temperature display.
My friend Ken's birthday is next month. Mine was last week. WhateveR™ hopes I had an
After breakfast WhateveR™ notifies me that there's some traffic on Old Las Vegas Highway and encourages me to drive on out there and have a look. Included is a helpful map:
I check the weather again and find that it is 28˚ F with light snow in El Dorado, KS.
Later I am notified that, in ten minutes, I could be having lunch with the Fire Department in town. A map of Santa Fe Springs, CA is provided. In current traffic it should take 12 hours and 26 minutes to get there. And BTW, while I'm at the Fire Station I should check to see if the guy who was supposed to order new printer toner ever did it and if that little popup window is still popping up up every few seconds? And here's a coupon for toner for my old printer. Click to <CANCEL>. Then enter <QUANTITY>. Would you like to review your purchase? <CONTINUE>.
The appointed time to walk out to the mailbox comes around.
No packages are going to arrive today. One came yesterday but the driver left it in the middle of the driveway and the meter reader ran over it. WhateveR™ is sorry that it only just remembered that.
The walk counts for a good bit of exercise on my monthly cumulative, but the activity total does not include moving my tenant's bicycle out of the way so I can disassemble a portion of the garage storage system in order to verify that I really can't find that part for the kitchen sink that I thought that I still had after WhateveR™ discovered the scanned receipt in myGoogle Documents.
The markets closed mixed. Would you like to login/create a myGoogle Finance account? <CONTINUE>
WhateveR™ reminds me that I could go to dinner at one of four restaurants within 5 miles of Old Las Vegas Highway and that I (still) have no mass transit options for getting there. It does however provide another map:
One of the four offerings (B) closes at 3pm but I cannot convince WhateveR™ of that fact. Nor can I cause it to ignore another of the selections (D) which appears to be a private catering business. So they both show up as options every day around this time.
A fifth possibility is fielded: a Hotel with a four star restaurant in Las Vegas, NV. In current traffic it should only take 9 hours and 14 minutes to get there. Would I like to Change My Location? <YES> <NO> <MORE>
I am then reminded about that Art Opening for which I got an announcement last week. It was yesterday. Also, my latest New Yorker issue is stuck in a Post Office delivery eddy between Kansas City and Albuquerque for which I might have collected ten frequent flier miles on the credit card that I cancelled last year. And, did I receive my weekly sales flier from Bed Bath and Beyond: <YES> <NO> <MORE>?
After dinner WhateveR™ notices that I have yet to leave the house and offers to broker a car rental for me.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
... finally ...
!!Bed and Beyond Barf Honors Duchamp!!
For the 100th anniversary of his ground-breaking new-media work the latest catalog offers:
I'm not sure exactly what one should buy three of in order to create exactly which look but I have to give them props not due to NYMoMA for the recognition. I couldn't find this Special Look at their online presence, but at least they have other Bicycle Wheel art for the massahs:
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Local Color XV -- second world problems
Beaver Causes Internet And Cellphone Outage In New Mexico
06/28/13 01:46 PM EDT
(via the HuffPost)
TAOS, N.M. -- Officials have finally identified the culprit behind a 20-hour Internet and cellphone outage last week in northern New Mexico -- an eager beaver.
CenturyLink spokesman David Gonzales told The Associated Press on Friday that a hungry beaver chewed through the fiber line last week. He says the biting evidence was discovered by contractors who worked to repair the outage.
Officials say more than 1,800 Internet users were affected by the blackout. The number of cellphone users without service during that time is still unknown.
CenturyLink owns a fiber-optic cable that runs from Taos to Interstate 25.
The cable carries wireless data for many residents around Taos County.
CenturyLink spokesman David Gonzales told The Associated Press on Friday that a hungry beaver chewed through the fiber line last week. He says the biting evidence was discovered by contractors who worked to repair the outage.
Officials say more than 1,800 Internet users were affected by the blackout. The number of cellphone users without service during that time is still unknown.
CenturyLink owns a fiber-optic cable that runs from Taos to Interstate 25.
The cable carries wireless data for many residents around Taos County.
I've had a few instances of bunny-driven internet outage, but they were all fairly local...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Local Color XVI
nothing to see here -- keep moving
This seems to have made the national news of the weird so I guess everyone already knows about it...but...I just can't resist...
Police: Driver drove drunk while having sex
Posted at: 05/29/2013 8:45 AM
By: The Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico man is facing multiple charges after police say he was drunkenly having sex with a woman while driving, crashed his car in Albuquerque, then hid from police behind a cactus.
Luis Briones
The Albuquerque Journal reports that Luis Briones was found with one shoe on and his shorts on inside-out Monday night after he crashed his Ford Explorer.
In addition, police say the 25-year-old's female passenger was found naked outside the vehicle after being ejected. Authorities say she had deep cuts to her face and head.
Police say after the crash Briones tried to drive away and leave his passenger behind when a witness grabbed his keys from the ignition.
He is charged with aggravated DWI, reckless driving and evading police.
No attorney was listed for him.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
If y'all don't actually believe this could be happening, here's the police report (courtesy of http://i.cdn.turner.com which appears to be some kind of image hosting site...):
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Local Color XIV -- animals in agua fria
Sorry this took so long to get around to posting. I was waiting for the local news to pick it up, but I guess there have been more important stories for Holy Week.
Last Tuesday, March 19, the County Fire Department responded to an illegal burn, reportedly a "buffalo head" on fire. It turned out to be a complete elk carcass. Since elk are not in season the FD turned it over to State Game and Fish.
I have so many questions...
Last Tuesday, March 19, the County Fire Department responded to an illegal burn, reportedly a "buffalo head" on fire. It turned out to be a complete elk carcass. Since elk are not in season the FD turned it over to State Game and Fish.
I have so many questions...
Thursday, January 24, 2013
...more things to worry about...
As if that isn't anxiety inducing enough...
Due to having my inbox "outside the pale" of crap-filtering, I get a hundred of these everyday -- it's scary what-all the Russians want to do:
To: <gpbcid@etantdonnes.com>
From: "Derek Dotson" <peacetimec00@heinemann.com>
Subject: Russian sluts want to cune for you
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
additional information, misc
Reading the book Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business that I found at Moes I stumbled on his c. 1983 piece MetroMobiltan which externalizes the relationships between the Metropolitan Museum and it's corporate funding tits by examining the influence that Mobil Oil had on the show, Treasures of Ancient Nigeria. It also extends the thesis that the then Met director, Thomas Hoving, innovated the whole concept of corporate blockbuster funding. Looking a bit deeper (actually quite a bit, as this particular type of information is not so easy to find online) I found that my memory was correct that, 1) The 1972 (1976 in the US) Treasures of Tutankhamen was the first popular blockbuster; and, 2) It was funded -- in the National Gallery at least -- by Exxon, c.f.: http://www.nga.gov/past/data/exh410.shtm
That last little tidbit is the hard part to find as all the gee-whiz online information about these hugely popular shows conveniently ignores who paid for them.
Anyway.... My point is that the early '70's date exactly lines up with the end of the big Art-Tech shows which were, 1) Funded by large corporations -- Pepsi, Phillips, Bell Labs, AMC, etc; and, 2) Contained new work that was research oriented -- rather than greatest hits from the past. So, what happened was that our corporate masters realized that they could get much more bang/buck out of old dead artists than they could from work that better aligned with their scientific and engineering pursuits. And PFFFTT went the collaboratory milieu.
Fortunately, I Am a Sensitive Artist, so I don't actually have to support this hypothesis with actual data...
The only constant is change. For the worse.
That last little tidbit is the hard part to find as all the gee-whiz online information about these hugely popular shows conveniently ignores who paid for them.
Anyway.... My point is that the early '70's date exactly lines up with the end of the big Art-Tech shows which were, 1) Funded by large corporations -- Pepsi, Phillips, Bell Labs, AMC, etc; and, 2) Contained new work that was research oriented -- rather than greatest hits from the past. So, what happened was that our corporate masters realized that they could get much more bang/buck out of old dead artists than they could from work that better aligned with their scientific and engineering pursuits. And PFFFTT went the collaboratory milieu.
Fortunately, I Am a Sensitive Artist, so I don't actually have to support this hypothesis with actual data...
In Other News
Something has changed about the Lazzaroni Amaretti Cookie wrappers. They no longer fly. The paper doesn't form the ash chimney as shown in the video. It appears that it is not just me as I've found a number of complaints online dating from 2008. But no explanation. I would have at least expected the box to have a warning and liability disclaimer about lighting anything on fire.The only constant is change. For the worse.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Double Order of Nostalgia
There are two Odd things about my history with this comic strip:
- I first saw the strip in the mid-1960's in the Riverside Press Enterprise, one of the most editorially conservative publications you could find in those roaring days of John Birch. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen.
- Twenty years later I would (and still) own a Norton Commando motorcycle. To my shame I've never given him a Magic Cookie.
I do however live with a rather large Space Bunny...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Webstory
Here's a cute little article about the first photograph ever posted on the WWW:
Yup, that's CERN's own Les Horribles girl band from 1992. There's also a photo of them performing at a Nobel Prize celebration party that year and other ephemera. Unfortunately, none of the original band members were actual scientists, but they played them on TV.
This picture put the GIF mechanics in place that now enables us to see, not only Goatse, but everyone's best/worst/most-boring day at work. 24/7:
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| Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders |
This picture put the GIF mechanics in place that now enables us to see, not only Goatse, but everyone's best/worst/most-boring day at work. 24/7:
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| Forklift Fail |
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