Garbage

I worry that my level of post xmas garbage will not be up to proper standards of my neighborhood this year.

today's war

today's war
a death engine
connected to the pumps of income taxation
siphoning individual labor into corporate pockets
inefficiently

engine energy sources unwilling to give up comfort for peace

Deep phobia

Do you ever think about your water pipes? Slowly building up deposits in the valves. Brass threads straining and cracking against the pressure. Relentless pounding from pressure cycles. Pressure fittings reused again and again. Drains clogged.

Do you have a basement? Full of stuff. Finished. Below your pipes. No gravity drain. Nowhere to go. Indoor septic swimming pool potential.

Do you have below grade water sources? Cesspool is higher than you. Toilet with horizontal drain pipe. Bilge pump with a history of failures.

How do you sleep at night?

If it wasn't for the damn war I'd feel okay posting this.

Stolen Toothpaste

I went to China recently.

More importantly I went to Newark recently. Nice airport, bad location.

First time for both.

"Security" happens. Xray shows. TSA speaks.

TSA: Can I search your bag.
Me: Sure.
TSA: (holding up my full tube of toothpaste) you can't have this.
Me: Why?
TSA: It is too big.
Me: So squirt some out in to the trash until you are happy.
TSA: I have to go by the size of the container.
Me: How does it feel to be an ignorant pawn in an illogical system.

Okay, so the last one was just in my head.

Reminder for next trip: carry on large, empty toothpaste container filled with air.

In my head.

Something started happening in my head today. Upper left side, an inch above the ear. Periodic twitching movement with about 5-10 Hz frequency. A pulse lasts about one half second and reoccurs randomly with about a minute between. It goes away for hours at a time and comes back for about ten minutes. Affects jaw muscles slightly. Doesn't seem correlated with stimuli. No apparent change in cognition.

Change sucks

Don't you just hate it when someone shows you something icky?

http://www.lilug.org/pipermail/lilug/2007-January/029016.html

O. M. F. G., indeed.

http://www.lilug.org/pipermail/lilug/2007-January/029104.html

I hope nobody ever shows me something icky again!

Architecture

Do you ever find something that you really want to like but all your direct, personal experience makes you just detest it?

End Of Days

Don't even dare to deny it.

the end

Have you actually watched it? I've just.

He's a tough guy with a Mac laptop... NOW. But, why didn't he fight Bush's "result" in 2000? Why?

"It's best for the country..."

Still, it is the end. Say goodbye.

Hilarious Mosque on the Prairie

Finally, a TV show that shows muslims as cute and cuddly and which is not afraid to use the word "bomb" in an airport as a joke.

O Canada! Our home and native land!
O Canada! Humor on our TV.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0923293/
http://www.mininova.org/tor/542214

And, no, like all interesting shows, you can't watch it on your (US) TV.