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Swiped from the loverly Grouse of Snow… fill it in and stick it in a comment pls kthx

ABOUT YOU
1. Name:
2. Date of birth:
3. Place of residence:
4. What makes you happy:
5. What are you listening to now/last listened to:
6. Do you read my journal:
7. If you do, what are the bits that stand out as particularily good or bad:
8. Interesting fact about yourself:
9. Are you in love at the moment, or have a crush:
10. Favourite spot/place to be:
11. Your favourite lyrics (poetry or song):
12. Best time of the year:

RECOMMEND
1. A movie:
2. A book:
3. Artist/band, song and album:

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. If we have mutual LJ friends, tell me what you like about them:
4. Put this in your own journal so I can tell you what I like about you. :)

Here are my answers…

ABOUT YOU
1. Name: Rob
2. Date of birth: November 12, 1977
3. Place of residence: Long Island, New York, USA
4. What makes you happy: Art, good media, creating stuff, laughing with and at the world, sharing all that with friends
5. What are you listening to now/last listened to: Super Mario remixes off OC Remix
6. Do you read my journal: (n/a)
7. If you do, what are the bits that stand out as particularily good or bad: (n/a)
8. Interesting fact about yourself: Pagan / hacker / comic / Tarot reader / artist / writer / southpaw with too many things to do in too little time.
9. Are you in love at the moment, or have a crush: I’ve always got crushes. Not in love with anyone just now, at least not where it’s mutual.
10. Favourite spot/place to be: Under blankets.
11. Your favourite lyrics (poetry or song): Depends on my mood. Right now I’m really into Albuquerque.
12. Best time of the year: Bedtime.

RECOMMEND
1. A movie: Duck Soup.
2. A book: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (George Carlin)
3. Artist/band, song and album: Information Society, White Roses, Don’t Be Afraid. (I just so happen to have it posted here, with the artist’s blessing.)

PLUS
1. One thing you like about me: (n/a)
2. Two things you like about yourself: I like creating things, and I like it when I’ve finished creating something and no longer have to bother with the damn thing.
3. If we have mutual LJ friends, tell me what you like about them: (n/a)
4. Put this in your own journal so I can tell you what I like about you. :)

Home from work. Coughing up strange things.

On another frightening note, ever see someone who looks exactly the same in every photo?

via wtf_inc

Tachyon TV, the best satirical-scifi-zine-turned-blog-type-newsfeed ever, has published an article of mine. I brag!

The first thunderstorm of the season is brewing outside. Woo and yay!

Interesting Goddess quiz swiped from Auntie Krizu…

Neit Indeed, you are 91% erudite, 100% sensual, 66% martial, and 70% saturnine.

Neit, who was said to have emerged from the primeval water to create the world, is one of the oldest Egyptian Goddesses. Although the Egyptians believed that Neit was of both a masculine and feminine nature, as she was self-produced, she was usually depicted as a woman. The Egyptians believed her to be an ancient and wise Goddess, to whom the other Gods came if they could not resolve their own disputes. Besides being the ruler of the lower Heavens, she was also the patron to hunt and warfare, domestic arts, mysticism, as well as women and marriage. All this makes her some kind of a “jane-of-all-trades.” As a deity, Neit is often shown carrying a bow and arrows, linking her to hunting and warfare, other times she is shown with a sceptre, symbol of rule and power, and the ankh, symbol of life.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 81% on erudite You scored higher than 90% on sensual You scored higher than 90% on martial You scored higher than 72% on saturnine

Link: The Mythological Goddess Test written by Nitsuki on Ok Cupid

Just got back from seeing “Kung Fu Hustle” with the Scorpio Squad. That was one hell of a great movie! Never before have I literally laughed myself to tears at a martial arts flick. See it NOW!!!

Swiped from everyone’s LJ…

You’re a little gold key, and you unlock other
people’s hearts. Your kindness and willingness
to be there for those you care about lets
people open up to you knowing they will be
accepted. People will rely on you, but be
careful not to give more than you have.

What sort of key are you and what do you unlock?
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Straight Outta Compton - Explicit Content Only
The old NWA album with everything BUT the curse words removed. I don’t know why this is so much fun to listen to.

via Hektik

Simultaneously swiped from Roxy and Jenn…

If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.

For me this is true many, many times over. If you’re reading this I’m probably talking about you. Thank you for everything!

Which reminds me… It’s been about ten years since I had my first personal Internet-access accounts. They were the free trials of AOL and Compuserve that came with the first (and last) new PC I ever bought myself.. an IBM Aptiva with a 100mHz Pentium, eight high-flying megs of RAM, and a whopping gigabyte of hard drive space.

Coming as I was directly from a couple of cranky 286 and 386 boxes dialing up to BBSes, playing with the rudimentary Internet access functions of some of the insanely high-test ones, and gingerly fooling around on the old Sprintnet and Tymnet now and then, I was in utter heaven on that Aptiva. I remember wondering how I’d ever use up all that room. “OMG, it’s a thousand megs!!!”

I still have a soft spot for that old thing, even though it’s in pieces now. My current machine contains one of the Aptiva’s old case screws, and in a spare drive bay sits the 5-1/4″ floppy drive from the old 286.

Hi, my name is Rob, and I’m a sentimental old nerd.

Enamon, Fina, and I took a walk around today, and played with my infrared-modded cam in the daylight, where it works much better. I’ve uploaded the resulting pics to my infrared flickr set.

Here are some samples…

Fina and Enamon, both of whom are dressed in dark clothes.

Bright trees and dark sky.

Me, dressed in a maroon shirt and black vest.

Coca cola is all but transparent to IR.

Many nerds are familiar with these instructions for converting a common webcam into one which uses infrared rather than visible light.

I carried out this hack on a cheap digital camera. Now I have an ass-kicking IR cam!

Check out my first batch of IR photos, and drop me some comments while you’re there!

David Tennant is the next Dr Who!

Speaking of which, Who Is Doctor Who is a fictional website run by the BBC. This website was introduced in the first episode of the new Dr Who series as the project of a conspiracy nut who notices the Doctor’s appearances in photographs and images throughout history. (Their photoshop jobs are pretty crap, though. Glad the rest of the show’s effects surpass!)

The site continues, and “issues” of the site are released tying into whatever happened in the most recenbtly aired episode. “Sightings” are submitted by fans who would like to play along. I had to get in on this action, so in the bottom link of the issue pertaining to the first epsiode (alien menace: living plastic creatures) you can find my reference to my other loves of prank calls and my new mobile phone.

I brag!

I’ve been having lots of fun with the camera phone, and although they aren’t great quality I wanted to throw some of the photos somewhere, so I started a Flickr account.

Check out the Pope!

Swiped from Ann

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English

40% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Swiped from Jenn

Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.