karen left me last month. i'm still pretty sad apparently.

I have the following problem with telemarketers/customer-service reps: given the low bandwidth of telephone lines, my speech impediment and my unusual and long last name, it takes forever to communicate the spelling of my last name over the phone. Even in person, this is a trying process. Back in the day, and probably even presently, pilots ( Read more... )

I'm now sufficiently recovered from the narcotics to report that I am indeed back and in one piece. Turns out the nurse was incorrect in telling me I'd only be sedated and Dr. Mitchell was kind enough to knock me out for the whole thing. In fact he did such a good job knocking me out that I slept for five hours and wasn't awake when he came in to ( Read more... )

Un Chien Andalou fast-forwarded, edited, and overlayed with "debaser"

got me a movie ( Read more... )

I'm kind of freaking out, so I thought I'd share my freaking out with my friends: I'm going in for surgery on monday. If it works out the way the doctor thinks it will, my vision-loss will stabilize and I'll be more or less able to see out of my left eye for the remainder of my life. If it doesn't, my left eye will be more or less useless to me ( Read more... )

I was reading in Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants about his theory that google is building an AI. There were many interesting and purely speculative points made in the article but this one really struck me: In many ways, google already passes the Turing Test. Try it yourself: Why is the sky blue?, Tell me about the Lisp Programming Language., What is ( Read more... )

The tattoo parlor downstairs is doing a lot of things to keep the community on its side since SC only just changed the laws to make tattoo parlors legal. I'm not so sure about this particular approach, and I'm especially not sure about their copy editor. Note the delicious typo:


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Its been a fantastic month of mostly travelling. I travelled through LA, San Francisco and Denver visiting close friends and family in a rented Mustang convertible. I'll post the Flickr pics one of these days ( Read more... )

I am so bachelorcore I bought one of theseI did have enough dignity to give the shower a thorough scrubbing before installing it, though, rather than hope that over the next month the shower would clean itself ( Read more... )