The nihilism of humdrum ignominy and quotidian fêtes of bureaucracy abound. People scurry, sulk through their existences – barn mice bathed in the blood of the slaughtered pig that is the American Dream, packed-meat animals gaudily festooned in glimmering metals and shiny plastics, outright dissidents shell-shocked by the blithe disregard for … nobody wants to [...]
Stolen from a favorite webcomic: “How could you possibly think typing ‘import skynet‘ was a good idea?” Have not been working on Skynet, (lies?) however, did put together some fun scripts to automate menial labor. Still procrastinating the development of the script automation framework – keep diagramming and reorganizing. May not get around to it. [...]
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A roughly five-story tank containing a petroleum-based flammable liquid caught fire about 5:15 p.m. at the Bayer CropScience plant, 8400 Hawthorne Road, Fire Battalion Chief Joe Vitale said. – Chemical tank catches fire at the Kansas City Star Those CropScience people really seem to have a problem containing their flammables…
“Individual MAVs may perform direct-attack missions.” Originally spotted at Video: Air Force’s Killer Bugbots Attack at Wired.com.
The intrigue of the grizzled anti-hero caricatured in film noir seems to have passed from the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, revolver-toting private investigator to the IRC-chatting, unwaveringly-unfashionable, laptop-toting computer geek. There will always be a place for drug-dealing junkies / kingpins and psychotic outbursts, but cybercrime is the insanely feasible get-rich-quick ticket to intrigue which can grant [...]
This suits my aesthetic inclinations. From 2008 in Photographs, courtesy of the Boston Globe.
No sleep last night, running into 40+ hours of wake-time. Words and phrases resurface from past scrawl like the ghost image of a passenger jet partially obscured by clouds [shark breaching the surf] reappears after the genuine article is long passed. No flotilla of 747′s in the patch of sky where I see them. No [...]
Courtesy of the darling parishioners of the Westboro Baptist Church: http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=false&token=d3c_1229133179 I remember when we used to sing songs this one, back when I was a wee lad – we would sing so many wonderful songs before we ventured out to set fire to the lovely crosses we had placed in all our neighbors’ lawns.
Received a call from a number registered with “Countrywide Home Loans” a few days ago. I did not pick up – let the call go to voicemail (per unknown number protocol) and found a synthesized voice message requesting I call the number back to inquire about an “account” (no further information RE: nature of account, [...]
