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| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
mrnihil
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10:40p |
reference material look at this thing. 10 volumes of philosophy. 6200 pages. why can't someone make a 6200 pages, 10 volume set of books about more occult matters- crop circles, nazi mysticism, ooparts, reincarnation, conspiracies, taoist immortals, ayahuasca, dreamtime- all in one massive set of volumes? and, to make me pickier, can we stay away from the New Age blah blah blah? i'll compromise, and let the publisher have an entry on icke if we can avoid an entry on wicca, but in return, i want better info on crop cirlces, not the Bower and Chorley bullshit i saw on tv in the early 90's. Current Mood:  still drunk!Current Music: still inuyahsa in another room |
asirnay
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10:22p |
Skillz Freestyle On "Rap City"
Ladies and grentlemen, this is hip-hop.
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mrnihil
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10:07p |
Persepolis * do you liek cartons? * do you not hate muslims? * do you think people are fucking retarded, regardless of culture? * do you think the Middle East sucks? * are you an art fag who likes to pretend you saw something before it was trendy? * are you pretty sure that not everyone in Iran drinks blood and eats kittens? check out Persepolis. it gets narc's blog entry of approval. Current Mood: drunkCurrent Music: inuyasha in another room |
ruakh
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10:57p |
Saw Harold and The Dark Knight.
I saw Harold today and we saw The Dark Knight together (both of us seeing it for the first time), but seeing as I'm seeing it again Monday (with Hillel — Harold is also coming, funnily enough, so I guess I'll see him again then), I'll still be pissed if I see spoilers from any of you before then. ;-)
(I actually didn't want to see it today, seeing as I'm seeing it on Monday and don't see enough movies for it to seem worth it to see the same movie twice in three days, but seeing as Harold offered to pay, I didn't see how I could say no.)
It was really good; I'd see it again, no question. For example, I'd see it on Monday, a ten-minute walk from my cubicle, on Hillel's dime. (It's not every day you see an opportuniy like that!)
As you can see, this entry was brought to you by you're seeing this entry due to the verb "see" and the letter "C". |
lizzelizzel
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10:37p |
Romance is...
a playground after dark, a creaky swing race beneath moon and streetlights, and sneakers scuffing woodchips.
Jason, let's go do that. |
ferburton
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10:29p |
Watchmen
Greatness to come. |
maskedretriever
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7:27p |
Okay, I'm offended as a man... http://www.menagea3.net/I mean seriously. This woman's so mean to us :( Still a fun comic on the whole... |
tomix
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10:14p |
Character.... Saturday?  Since it's been two weeks since my last Character Wednesday, I opted to merge the two in one piece. Here's Sandman (from two weeks ago) and the Flaming Carrot (this week). I could play this off as a happy birthday tribute to Bob Burden... yeah, that's it. Happy birthday Bob! Next week is going to be Matt Feasell's Amazing Cynicalman. |
| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
laura_seabrook
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12:09p |
Cold Yes it is, cold today! Brrrr. Current Mood:  cold |
| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
megatexas
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7:01p |
Yreka, California
Yreka, California. Pronounced, Why reek-a? A question to which I have no answer.
Yreka. I like horses. I like tractors. So I've come to the right place. Unfortunately, I don't like fire. So it's the right place but the wrong time.
Because, here's a funny little detail that I overlooked somehow -- the entire central valley of California is on fire right now. Whoops. My brilliant little plan of hitch/biking down I-5 looks a bit different now. Why is it that this year has had all the worst weather? Not just rainstorms, no, snowstorms and firestorms too. This is plain silly. How on earth am I supposed to get to San Diego without crossing the central valley?
The good news is that there are apparently fire trucks all over the place down there so I might actually get to use my Red Cross certification for once. I've had those cards in my wallet for six years now.
At least it's a nice day outside. A little hazy. |
heykidzcomix
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10:02p |
D8
avataaaaaar
Edit: Am I the only one who noticed Ryu from Street Fighter in the tavern scene?
Current Music: The Death of Bishie Hitler |
cromagnon
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6:11p |
CATAGORY J
its been quite a while since i heard from you
not really sure of what youre going through
its been so long since weve been in contact
i worry that youre never coming back
you hold such a dear place inside my heart
not knowing now, seems to be the worst part
i know your busy life and hectic schedule
how you always push yourself, working like a bull
things are going ok, here, but i feel so empty
because at the end of the day, youre not with me
and when the going got rough, and i needed you most
now, only your memory lingers, like a ghost
you always wanted the best, wanted me to aspire
you brought such passion in me, my fiercest fire
you pushed me to be the best, using gentle hands
always wishing that id become a better man
we spent hours talking deep into the night
you never gloating how often you were right
now the years strech like shadows at dawn
and im left to ponder just where youve gone
before your eyes... how i must have grown
all, what you truly were, i had never known
you are what has made the best of me as a man
you, my true friend, my family, my only clan
i need you like the blood in my veins
after all this time, the feeling remains
you watched me fall apart and build myself again
but now i feel hollow without my dearest friend |
maskedretriever
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6:38p |
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| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
bombidol
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2:34a |
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| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
asirnay
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7:42p |
At The Movies: Hancock  I didn't intend to go see this. There hasn't been a Black superhero movie since Blade: Trinity, and Will Smith just had to play one who is a drunken buffoon. Not to mention, I'm not really that big of a Will Smith fan either. But, people I know that already saw the movie told me that there was more to it than just that. So I decide to give it a chance while it was still in theaters, instead of waiting for it to come on cable. I'm glad I went. This is the first Will Smith movie I really liked in long time. You'd think someone who doesn't care about himself like Hancock would really care enough to save people's lives. But yet, he does. Gradually you learn more about Hancock, and it all makes sense. Jason Bateman is great as Ray Embrey, Hancock's idealistic PR rep who works hard to get his reluctant client to turn over a new leaf. Also impressive is the near perfect Charlize Theron as Ray's wife, who's given more to do than just being eye candy. One complaint everyone seems to have is about the lack of a strong villain. But that minor detail I can overlook. I heard this movie described as the best graphic novel never written. I wouldn't go that far, in light of the weak third act. But, Hancock is definitely a fun, entertaining movie. You get the sense this is how a superhero would exist in the real world. Props to the three leads and director, Peter Berg... |
thedelusionist
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9:03p |
Backwards Slide
For a while I thought triathletes who did Ironman races were really cool. That is fading. I still read every blog post by Chuckie V and Gordo Byrn but it is not the same. I just think of them as dudes who did some races rather than teachers now.
I am sliding back and thinking different people are cool again. It has been a transition over a year. I started thinking Kevin Smith is cool again. Henry Rollins and Joey Ramone top the list just like when I was 16. What I really need is a new teacher. I need a new artist to learn from and emulate. I need to study writers and writing like when I was in school. I need to learn all about them and what they do like how I learned about Ironman triathletes. Then I might just get half decent at it.
Like a long time friend said, "You need to work on your writing. Even if you write a serious article or something, it will be funny."
I know he's right and it's well past time.
So who should I study?
Who is that cool writer that I can learn so much from?
What I lacked in my early years of trying to be a cyclist was the right teachers and learning environment.
I know going it alone is the hard road.
I have discipline and focus that few people can match.
I started this blog with a life list. That has all changed. I started my last blog years ago by saying I am on a quest for love, happiness and a job that doesn't suck.
What I have learned is that life is not about checking things off a list. |
lothos
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9:05p |
Is It Bright Where You Are? Have The People Changed...? I'm obsessed with the Watchmen trailer and the Smashing Pumpkins song that comes with it. The Beginning Is the End Is the BeginningSend a heartbeat to The void that cries through you Relive the pictures that have come to pass For now we stand alone The world is lost and blown And we are flesh and blood disintegrate With no more to hate Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour I hold secrets flame We can watch the world devoured in it's pain Delivered from the blast The last of a line of lasts The pale princess of a palace cracked And now the kingdom comes Crashing down undone And I am a master of a nothing place Of recoil and grace Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour I hold secrets flame We can watch the world devoured in it's pain Time has stopped before us The sky cannot ignore us No one can separate us For we are all that is left The echo bounces off me The shadow lost beside me There's no more need to pretend Cause now I can begin again Is it bright where you are Have the people changed Does it make you happy you're so strange And in your darkest hour I hold secrets flame We can watch the world devoured in it's pain Strange Strange Strange |
poisonrational
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6:11p |
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vonandmoggy
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8:41p |
A post about nothing...but at least it's a post! Hi, remember me? Nice to see you...you folks haven't changed that much...no, wait, that haircut looks really nice on you! Oh and you had a baby! And so did you! (Actually, both ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ku_zu_no_ha and sassy_red_head have had babies lately...and, as moms go, they're both awesome.) And you got engaged...and you're off in Turkey with you and and and... Crap...I was away too long, wasn't I? Ah well...no point in blogging over spilled milk. I'll just have to get my act together. I don't know what's wrong with me lately, normally I talk too much and lately I just haven't been able to find anything to talk about here. I saw a few memes but I figured it would be cheating to just stick those up, if I wasn't at least putting up the proper post occasionally. So, anyways...a list. 1) The best news of the week is that someone Von and I both like a bunch, who shall remain nameless because I suspect he'd prefer the privacy, is doing better after having suffered a serious stroke back in May. He's back online, which means he's able to type. This is wonderful, trust me. I almost cried. 2) I've been feeling crappier and crappier lately, which is not a good thing...however, my new doctor's appointment is this coming Wednesday. WEDNESDAY! And if he helps me, I just might have to dedicate something to him...you know, like a castle or a mountain or a bridge. I don't really have a plan yet but I'll come up with one, and fast, if he's helpful. I'm a little tired of being feeble and pathetic, even if I do manage to cover pretty well to friends and co-workers most of the time...Von sees it and I know he's been worried. And nobody likes to worry a loved one. 3) Tomorrow I'm off to Quebec City with my father and sister to see Paul McCartney...I know, it's pretty nuts. It'll be just us and 197,000 others, apparently. I was iffy about going because I can only stand for maybe 20 minutes before I'm really sore (stupid innards) and chairs are forbidden, but dad found me a tiny inflatable cushion. Won't I look cute perched on my little cushion in a crowd of 200,000? In the rain? You better believe there'll be pictures! 4) If you want an excellent, if fancy, breakfast in Ottawa...Sunflower Cafe on Rideau Street (yes, sort of in an odd neighbourhood...transitional? Permanently? But worth the visit!). Because the sweetheart of an owner also does this gluten-free cake! 5) So, I'm a little behind on my friends list...tell me something that's happened in the last two weeks. If you have nothing to tell me, make something up...it's Saturday night and I wants e-mail, dammit! *stomps foot...while grinning* Moggy Current Mood:  calmCurrent Music: CFL on tv |
jerem_morrow
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8:45p |
Oh, to hell with it.
Okay, so trying to keep up with LJ/YouTube/MySpace/COILHOUSE/Grinding/WarrenEllis: OVERLORD/Dwarf-Bestiality...e-mail, and so forth and so on is proving impossible at this point. I've become the 'Hey I'm back, no wait' guy. Let's just say I'll be dropping in when I can, and if you need me, you have my e-mail.
Oh, also, I've a new phone, so if you need my new number, e-mail me. Or message me on MySpace. Not too keen on leaving my # lying around on LJ, dig? |
popjellyfish
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5:44p |
We all knew The Dark Knight was going to be good. So what if it's one of the best films I've seen in years? The point of interest is the Watchmen trailer that debuted with it:
So I've settled on the fact that this is still going to be a piece of shit. BUT, the trailer itself looks amazing and I kind of wish that this would be all that they would release. Just these snippets from the comic that are brilliant when brought to life, but before hey can be expanded into a whole film that will probably miss the mark entirely. I could even care less about The Smashing Pumpkins, but for some reason the song really works for the trailer. |
asim
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7:57p |
Latex and Me. I swear, I was thinking this before seeing Some Else's Post on a similar topic, but I saw a post over at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) corsetmakers about this outfit:  And it made me think. Think past buying it, because as much as seeing it on lalitadasa would be luscious, you know what'd be So Kick-ass It Hurts? Learning to put together awesome outfits like that. You know, on the side. When I have tons of free time to not only restart sewing, and to finish developing my corset-making skills, but also to learn how to do latex corsets and clothing. I have what appears to be the only book on the latter, but no one I know (well...maybe one person) with any hands-on skills and experience doing it. But if I did...I gather than not many people in the SouthEast have those talents. And maybe there's a niche for someone who wanted to do something sexy/artistic, but New, outside the Goth/Victorian axis. Not sure what, yet, especially with Cultural appropriation issues in the back of my mind. And maybe not in this economic climate, but this would be a great time to Just Practice, wouldn't it? Anyway, off the see the fetish film that's breaking box office records. |
thecartoongod
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6:31p |
I survived days 3 and 4 at my job. I'm not as gung ho "oh my god this is gonna suck" as I was when I made my last post, but I'm still on the fence. It's a little...intimidating how little they've planned this position, though. Here's what I mean and let's see if I can explain this in a way that doesn't make my own brain implode with confusion.
Now, Laserfiche is a documentation archiving tool. It's purpose is to import scanned documents. These documents can have metadata tags associated with them, and can even be done automatically. For example, I will be starting by importing project folder documents from about 15 years ago. As MTS is an engineering facility, certain documents will have things like an engineer's name associated with it for example. This process can even be done by a document recognition process and each document can use a process called OCR which recognizes characters and can usually populate all text on an image document into a searchable database. However, this thing is a lot more trouble than it's worth.
Basically, I have 2000 (I'm not exaggerating, this was the number I was told) boxes full of files and folders, all of which need to be scanned. Now, I've had at least 1 meeting so far about what types of documents can be scanned and what can be tossed, and most of the folders have at least 50% garbage in them so far. Still, I have to go through each project folder (each box so far has about 20 folders) and remove staples and paperclips, then sort the papers. I estimate that just sorting each box of projects will take me a day or two. For simple math, let's take the optimistic approach of a day. I'm now at 2000 days (or 10 years based on a 200-day work year) for sorting alone.
Then there's not just scanning, but file management. One thing that came along and blindsided me was something called Retention Identifiers. Each of these documents have a code associated with it which dictates how long a document must be held for before it can be destroyed or the maximum time you're allowed to have it. Obviously the date that the file can or must be destroyed changes for each document based on creation and as such can't be automated (I'll get to how worthless the automation is in this scenario) so it must be entered manually. So now you take 1 project folder which may have up to 500 pieces of scannable paper, each scanned in by what kind of file they are, then data is entered manually for everything else.
The reason you can't automate this (or why it would be dumb to) is because it can't do what I thought it could at first, which was recognize documents. Instead you create bar codes that you can associate documents with. Those bar codes dictate what is filled into the fields automatically. It sees bar code #XXX, knows it's for project 111.11, then knows that said project has X engineer, it was done on X date by X project manager. Handy to do if A) you didn't have to break them all down by document and B) you didn't have to prepare a spreadsheet with all that information beforehand. Not much point to collect and type all the information into a spreadsheet just to avoid having to collect and type while you're scanning.
So yes, this was poorly planned and will take about 20 years just to get the old information into the system (which says nothing for current projects), but I'm also now part of the planning process. I've had 3 meetings in 4 days with another set for Monday. I've created documents for which sheets get tossed and stay, a 4-page document for a meeting about Laserfiche and how to handle the file and folder structures, and there will be plenty more to come. This seems like a LOT of work for a temp to be doing and I don't understand exactly what it is that I'm there to be doing over the next 6 months if this project can literally go for 20 years. Seriously, this is enough work to justify staffing a full 5-person department over and they have 1 person working on it for the next 6 months.
It feels nice to be included and I've done enough with this already that I'm not looked at as just some temp worker here to be a slave. I guess my biggest question is why they couldn't get someone in the company to answer any of these questions beforehand. What kind of company that expects all this stuff from an employee would go through a temp agency and expect to find someone? Not to toot my own horn too much here or anything, but I feel like they got really lucky finding me with the experience I have.
So I'm not really sure what's going on here, if it could become a temp to hire position or what, but we'll see. I want to talk to Rod, my boss, on Monday and ask some of these questions, but he seems to be almost as out of the loop as I am. And I don't want to make it sound like, "how did you think a temp would be good enough to do all this?" to sound like I'm complaining about the workload. This is just so much more involved than what I would have expected temp work to be. Certainly more in-depth than any temp work I've ever heard of. |
| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
tozocomic
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12:38a |
076  At the Comics & Zines Event in the Plough pub yesterday I made a couple of discoveries: Gareth Brookes’ Woman woman and Martlar’s Eyetopus! - both simply drawn collections of humour that made me chuckle. Jimi is planning more London area small press events which is great news as London (surprisingly) lacks much of an S.P. scene. |
| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
keithcsmith
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5:58p |
Doctor Horrible's ending.... ummmm totally not expecting that! |
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