Welcome to our future. Better not whistle ‘hey jude’, sing in the shower, etc. ————- A 73-year-old bar manager who illegally performed copyrighted tunes by the Beatles and other artists on the harmonica was arrested Thursday on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, police said. Arrested was Masami Toyoda, of Tokyo’s Nerima-ku. He has reportedly [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Giant Food, How do I hate thee, let me count the ways…
Yes I vowed on this website four years ago in January never ever to shop at Giant again. This is after their PeaPod Grocery Delivery Service left $150 worth of groceries on my door step during an ATTENDED delivery stop. I think Evil Bastard is still Deaf from my Angry Angry Panda screaming moment. Well, at [...]
Books – Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age
(or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer) I just took a look at categories and realized that nothing with a book topic had been published since 12/05. That’s pretty disappointing, especially with evil_bastard as a contributing writer. My last fun book was Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age. ———— “The primary protagonist in the story is Nell, [...]
Bang-cap Kitties
Yes, it’s probably a name of a band, but under this story’s context – it’s the final and only successful cat/plant discouragement system after a year of trial and error/failure. So, I have this sort of palm-like plant thing that I adopted when a company office was closing down. It’s supposed to look like this. [...]
Cell house cookery.
A stinger is a home-made immersion device for using electricity to heat water. It is considered contraband, often as “dangerous” contraband. It is made by connecting metal plates to each wire of an electrical cord (usually from radio or TV), and keeping them separated by an insulator. They can be purchased for about $5, or [...]
Free shell
For all those without access to a unix system ——————– Silence is Defeat public access unix systems for free speech, established 2000 Currently, a free shell account with us offers: 50MB storage space, http access(http://silenceisdefeat.org/~username), ssh, sftp, imap-ssl mail, pop3-ssl mail. Instant messaging clients for IRC, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, and Lily. P2P [...]
My bi-yearly complaint about the time change….
For those playing along at home, it is time for my bi-yearly complaint that whoever thought up this fall back/spring forward time change thingy doesn’t have little kids.. blah blah blah My over tired, stressed, weekend working mother of two kids under three friend came up with the best idea. Stop flipping the time. Cut [...]
House in Stewart Little….
I have commented in the past about well know actors doing the voices in kids cartoons. One Saturday morning I was watching cartoons with Q and Four, and I hear the voice of House. Hugh Laurie does the voice of Stewart Little’s dad. Do you know how hard it is for me to watch Stewart [...]
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