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Monday, May 31, 2004
The Alabama Weather Blog
Check this out. This is the blog I've set up to run on its own. My local ABC network sends out weather forecasts, watches, and warnings. I've set it up so that their emails are blogged here. Plus, I've added a nice Nationals Weather Service radar image so you can see what's going on.
Check this out. This is the blog I've set up to run on its own. My local ABC network sends out weather forecasts, watches, and warnings. I've set it up so that their emails are blogged here. Plus, I've added a nice Nationals Weather Service radar image so you can see what's going on.
If Glenn Danzig will rejoin The Misfits, people will stop saying that he is gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I see the weather alert blog idea works. While last night was pretty rough, there wasn't any warnings issued for Walker County. Below you see two posts, one being a correction of the other, of the Tornado Watch that we were under.
I'm amazed at the fact that one can have a website that generates its own content. I've set up a blog that does nothing but list forecasts, watches, and warnings of Alabama. There's some tinkering to do before I link to it. But imagine other subjects and notions. Let's say you're into music. You could set up a blog then subscribe to all kinds of music related newsletters. These newsletters will post to your blog and create your content.
Before I start to really tinker with my weather blog, I'm going to eat.
I see the weather alert blog idea works. While last night was pretty rough, there wasn't any warnings issued for Walker County. Below you see two posts, one being a correction of the other, of the Tornado Watch that we were under.
I'm amazed at the fact that one can have a website that generates its own content. I've set up a blog that does nothing but list forecasts, watches, and warnings of Alabama. There's some tinkering to do before I link to it. But imagine other subjects and notions. Let's say you're into music. You could set up a blog then subscribe to all kinds of music related newsletters. These newsletters will post to your blog and create your content.
Before I start to really tinker with my weather blog, I'm going to eat.
ABC 33/40 E-WARN: SLSAL
From ABC 33/40 E-Warn:
WWUS64 KBMX 310853 CCA
SLSAL
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED WATCH NUMBER...
AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 350
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
350 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2004
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 350 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
AND INCLUDES 28 COUNTIES IN THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF ALABAMA...
ALC019-055-311400-
...NORTHEAST...
CHEROKEE ETOWAH
$$
ALC057-063-065-075-107-119-125-311400-
...WEST-CENTRAL...
FAYETTE GREENE HALE LAMAR
PICKENS SUMTER TUSCALOOSA
$$
ALC001-007-009-021-073-105-115-117-127-311400-
...CENTRAL...
AUTAUGA BIBB BLOUNT CHILTON
JEFFERSON PERRY SHELBY ST. CLAIR
WALKER
$$
ALC015-017-027-029-037-051-081-111-121-123-311400-
...EAST-CENTRAL...
CALHOUN CHAMBERS CLAY CLEBURNE
COOSA ELMORE LEE RANDOLPH
TALLADEGA TALLAPOOSA
$$
$$
WWWW
E-Warn is a free public service from the ABC 33/40 Weather Center
and Pizza Hut. Order from Pizza Hut online anytime:
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WWUS64 KBMX 310853 CCA
SLSAL
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED WATCH NUMBER...
AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 350
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
350 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2004
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 350 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
AND INCLUDES 28 COUNTIES IN THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF ALABAMA...
ALC019-055-311400-
...NORTHEAST...
CHEROKEE ETOWAH
$$
ALC057-063-065-075-107-119-125-311400-
...WEST-CENTRAL...
FAYETTE GREENE HALE LAMAR
PICKENS SUMTER TUSCALOOSA
$$
ALC001-007-009-021-073-105-115-117-127-311400-
...CENTRAL...
AUTAUGA BIBB BLOUNT CHILTON
JEFFERSON PERRY SHELBY ST. CLAIR
WALKER
$$
ALC015-017-027-029-037-051-081-111-121-123-311400-
...EAST-CENTRAL...
CALHOUN CHAMBERS CLAY CLEBURNE
COOSA ELMORE LEE RANDOLPH
TALLADEGA TALLAPOOSA
$$
$$
WWWW
E-Warn is a free public service from the ABC 33/40 Weather Center
and Pizza Hut. Order from Pizza Hut online anytime:
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ABC 33/40 E-WARN: SLSAL
From ABC 33/40 E-Warn:
WWUS64 KBMX 310850
SLSAL
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
350 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2004
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
AND INCLUDES 28 COUNTIES IN THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF ALABAMA...
ALC019-055-311400-
...NORTHEAST...
CHEROKEE ETOWAH
$$
ALC057-063-065-075-107-119-125-311400-
...WEST-CENTRAL...
FAYETTE GREENE HALE LAMAR
PICKENS SUMTER TUSCALOOSA
$$
ALC001-007-009-021-073-105-115-117-127-311400-
...CENTRAL...
AUTAUGA BIBB BLOUNT CHILTON
JEFFERSON PERRY SHELBY ST. CLAIR
WALKER
$$
ALC015-017-027-029-037-051-081-111-121-123-311400-
...EAST-CENTRAL...
CALHOUN CHAMBERS CLAY CLEBURNE
COOSA ELMORE LEE RANDOLPH
TALLADEGA TALLAPOOSA
$$
$$
WWWW
E-Warn is a free public service from the ABC 33/40 Weather Center
and Pizza Hut. Order from Pizza Hut online anytime:
http://www.pizzahut.com
To sign up for other ABC 33/40 E-Warn products, or to unsubscribe, go here:
http://www.jamesspann.com/ewarnmain.html
WWUS64 KBMX 310850
SLSAL
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
AREAL OUTLINE FOR TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
350 AM CDT MON MAY 31 2004
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 21 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT
AND INCLUDES 28 COUNTIES IN THE FOLLOWING PARTS OF ALABAMA...
ALC019-055-311400-
...NORTHEAST...
CHEROKEE ETOWAH
$$
ALC057-063-065-075-107-119-125-311400-
...WEST-CENTRAL...
FAYETTE GREENE HALE LAMAR
PICKENS SUMTER TUSCALOOSA
$$
ALC001-007-009-021-073-105-115-117-127-311400-
...CENTRAL...
AUTAUGA BIBB BLOUNT CHILTON
JEFFERSON PERRY SHELBY ST. CLAIR
WALKER
$$
ALC015-017-027-029-037-051-081-111-121-123-311400-
...EAST-CENTRAL...
CALHOUN CHAMBERS CLAY CLEBURNE
COOSA ELMORE LEE RANDOLPH
TALLADEGA TALLAPOOSA
$$
$$
WWWW
E-Warn is a free public service from the ABC 33/40 Weather Center
and Pizza Hut. Order from Pizza Hut online anytime:
http://www.pizzahut.com
To sign up for other ABC 33/40 E-Warn products, or to unsubscribe, go here:
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Tonight's weather isn't very nice. We are under a Tornado Watch. I'm going to try to have my local ABC Network update my blog with Weather Warnings for Walker County. I already get Weather Warnings in my regular email. I just thought it might be interesting to have it posted to my blog automatically.
Saturday, May 29, 2004
Do you ever just want to get a big truck, put a PA system on the back of it, and drive through Amish Country playing Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law?"
eHarmony says Marika, an Asian/Pacific Islander from Birmingham, AL, is a match with my profile. To contact Marika, I'll have to pay eHarmony $50 to $250. When I joined eHarmony about a month ago, they were free or at least I was under the impression that they were. Then they gave you seven days of free service. But it took about a month for any matches to show up. So basically, eHarmony sucks. Again, for the dumb, eHarmony sucks.
For the past few days, I've been playing guitar a lot. My fingers hurt. I've been playing that much. First, I tried to just play with my old Strat. But that thing has battle damage. I avoid my Fat Strat because the strings are really gone. But, I just had to play the Fat Strat. I'd give anything for strings at this point.
When your strings are really dead, you just add lots of effects right? Layer them on. Oh boy. Chorus, reverb, echo, tremolo, and wah are a dead string's best friend. Then you realize you can get the same sounds with just the guitar cable, running it along bits of metal. Listen to that sustain as I run the plug between a quarter and a penny.
Marika, or any other potential match, email me. I have an idea for a trip to Amish Country.
eHarmony says Marika, an Asian/Pacific Islander from Birmingham, AL, is a match with my profile. To contact Marika, I'll have to pay eHarmony $50 to $250. When I joined eHarmony about a month ago, they were free or at least I was under the impression that they were. Then they gave you seven days of free service. But it took about a month for any matches to show up. So basically, eHarmony sucks. Again, for the dumb, eHarmony sucks.
For the past few days, I've been playing guitar a lot. My fingers hurt. I've been playing that much. First, I tried to just play with my old Strat. But that thing has battle damage. I avoid my Fat Strat because the strings are really gone. But, I just had to play the Fat Strat. I'd give anything for strings at this point.
When your strings are really dead, you just add lots of effects right? Layer them on. Oh boy. Chorus, reverb, echo, tremolo, and wah are a dead string's best friend. Then you realize you can get the same sounds with just the guitar cable, running it along bits of metal. Listen to that sustain as I run the plug between a quarter and a penny.
Marika, or any other potential match, email me. I have an idea for a trip to Amish Country.
It has been a long two days.
I have a friend who tried the Atkins Diet. He couldn't shit for awhile.
Last night I heard "It's About Time" by Van Halen. I've been listening to it off and on. It's new. New as in, "Is that really Van Halen? Is that really Sammy singing?" Nice things are on the way. The song really does mix Dave Van Halen and Sammy Van Halen, musically that is. The lyrics are all Sammy. The song is heavier than I expected, which makes Van Halen III look worse and worse.
I've been editing HAUNTED. Things haven't been as bad as I thought they might be, and things are moving along nicely. Hopefully, they'll keep moving along nicely. Things happen for reasons. This time around, a prologue and epilogue showed right up. It's weird, they're not exactly part of the main story, just the befores and afters. They will add a lot, but not really affect the storyline, just the mood entering and leaving. I like that a lot.
Lynx is a neat thing. Lynx is "a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web." It is a command line web browser (think DOS prompt for you M$ folk). When you view a webpage with lynx, you're just getting colored text. There are no pictures, graphs, and from what I can tell, tables. Webpages are streamlined by the little app. I'm amazed at how this reduced the webpages down to what you're there to see in the first place. It takes the distractions away. Neat. This is just another thing I've discovered in the new Mandrake Linux 10 Official. Simply neat.
I have a friend who tried the Atkins Diet. He couldn't shit for awhile.
Last night I heard "It's About Time" by Van Halen. I've been listening to it off and on. It's new. New as in, "Is that really Van Halen? Is that really Sammy singing?" Nice things are on the way. The song really does mix Dave Van Halen and Sammy Van Halen, musically that is. The lyrics are all Sammy. The song is heavier than I expected, which makes Van Halen III look worse and worse.
I've been editing HAUNTED. Things haven't been as bad as I thought they might be, and things are moving along nicely. Hopefully, they'll keep moving along nicely. Things happen for reasons. This time around, a prologue and epilogue showed right up. It's weird, they're not exactly part of the main story, just the befores and afters. They will add a lot, but not really affect the storyline, just the mood entering and leaving. I like that a lot.
Lynx is a neat thing. Lynx is "a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web." It is a command line web browser (think DOS prompt for you M$ folk). When you view a webpage with lynx, you're just getting colored text. There are no pictures, graphs, and from what I can tell, tables. Webpages are streamlined by the little app. I'm amazed at how this reduced the webpages down to what you're there to see in the first place. It takes the distractions away. Neat. This is just another thing I've discovered in the new Mandrake Linux 10 Official. Simply neat.
Friday, May 28, 2004
Women don't like to bring another woman into the bedroom for their man because women can't stand to see another woman happy with a man.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
AlterNet: Microsoft Goes McCarthy in War Against Linux
I was looking for information on when Microsoft called Linux unamerican, and I found this. It's from a few years ago, but it is still a disturbing read. It illustrates the mentality at Microsoft that still exists today.
"Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin said, 'Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat.'"
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open source software a 'cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.'"
Isn't it wonderful that the American Government uses Linux. The National Security Agency uses Linux to keep us safe. They don't trust M$. I don't either.
I was looking for information on when Microsoft called Linux unamerican, and I found this. It's from a few years ago, but it is still a disturbing read. It illustrates the mentality at Microsoft that still exists today.
"Microsoft operating system chief Jim Allchin said, 'Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat.'"
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called open source software a 'cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.'"
Isn't it wonderful that the American Government uses Linux. The National Security Agency uses Linux to keep us safe. They don't trust M$. I don't either.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
'Last Samurai' Author DeWitt Reported Missing in NY | Reuters.com
From Reuters.com:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Helen DeWitt, author of the acclaimed novel "The Last Samurai," was reported missing near her home in Staten Island, police said on Wednesday.
DeWitt, 46, was last seen on Tuesday morning, police said, asking for help in finding the author, whom they described as having blond hair and weighing 130 pounds.
Her critically acclaimed debut novel "The Last Samurai," which is unrelated to Tom Cruise's latest movie of the same name, tells the story of a single mother and her son, Ludo, who reads ancient Greek at age 4 and obsessively watches the classic Japanese film "The Seven Samurai."
Earlier this year, another prominent New York author, Spalding Gray, went missing for two months before his body was pulled from the East River, off Brooklyn, New York, dead of an apparent suicide.
From Reuters.com:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Helen DeWitt, author of the acclaimed novel "The Last Samurai," was reported missing near her home in Staten Island, police said on Wednesday.
DeWitt, 46, was last seen on Tuesday morning, police said, asking for help in finding the author, whom they described as having blond hair and weighing 130 pounds.
Her critically acclaimed debut novel "The Last Samurai," which is unrelated to Tom Cruise's latest movie of the same name, tells the story of a single mother and her son, Ludo, who reads ancient Greek at age 4 and obsessively watches the classic Japanese film "The Seven Samurai."
Earlier this year, another prominent New York author, Spalding Gray, went missing for two months before his body was pulled from the East River, off Brooklyn, New York, dead of an apparent suicide.
Last night DistroWatch posted three links to Mandrake Linux 10 Official. For the past few months, I've been using Mandrake 10 Community. Community, while a bit more sturdy than 9.0, had a few rough spots in it. But I loved it. If I wasn't told, I would have never known is was something to use and work bugs out of. So last night when links became available for the Official, I imediately began to download the three discs.
By this morning, I had two out of three discs. On Mandrake's website, they had published the mirrors list so you can pick an ftp closest to you. Well, they all seemed full... except the ones in the Netherlands. Why? I don't know. I used one there to finish downloading the first disc.
I've since installed and pretty much got everything back to the way I like it. Setting things up in Official has been like setting things up in Community. There were a few things that were easier like Anti-aliasing Fonts. In Community, that took a bit to get working with my dual monitor setup. Turning on the sound stuff seemed easier this time too.
Superkaramba still requires some tinkering in the source code before compiling it, but that little bit of software isn't from Mandrake.
"Everything is groovy. Everything is fine," - Nick Cave.
While I was installing Mandrake, I sat and tried to figure out how stupid the Insane Clown Posse is. Thankfully, the installation didn't take all that long so I didn't get too deep in thought. Maybe I'll write Stephen Hawkins about measuring of the stupidity of the Insane Clown Posse. Surely there's a Quatamn scale we can use.
"On the road to Rock and Roll," - Joe Strummer.
By this morning, I had two out of three discs. On Mandrake's website, they had published the mirrors list so you can pick an ftp closest to you. Well, they all seemed full... except the ones in the Netherlands. Why? I don't know. I used one there to finish downloading the first disc.
I've since installed and pretty much got everything back to the way I like it. Setting things up in Official has been like setting things up in Community. There were a few things that were easier like Anti-aliasing Fonts. In Community, that took a bit to get working with my dual monitor setup. Turning on the sound stuff seemed easier this time too.
Superkaramba still requires some tinkering in the source code before compiling it, but that little bit of software isn't from Mandrake.
"Everything is groovy. Everything is fine," - Nick Cave.
While I was installing Mandrake, I sat and tried to figure out how stupid the Insane Clown Posse is. Thankfully, the installation didn't take all that long so I didn't get too deep in thought. Maybe I'll write Stephen Hawkins about measuring of the stupidity of the Insane Clown Posse. Surely there's a Quatamn scale we can use.
"On the road to Rock and Roll," - Joe Strummer.
Monday, May 24, 2004
AP Wire | 05/17/2004 | Lisa Loeb, Dweezil Zappa Break Up, Food Network Show Cancelled
I think this is the second thing that I've ever really wanted and got since I asked Santa in 1980 for a Wampa* action figure.
*snow creature in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
I think this is the second thing that I've ever really wanted and got since I asked Santa in 1980 for a Wampa* action figure.
*snow creature in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Zap2it - TV news - 'Family Guy' Returns Next Summer to FOX
I think this is the first thing that I've ever really wanted and got since I asked Santa in 1980 for a Wampa* action figure.
*snow creature in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
I think this is the first thing that I've ever really wanted and got since I asked Santa in 1980 for a Wampa* action figure.
*snow creature in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Andy Kaufman)
This sucks. I really wanted Andy Kaufman to come back to life like that other famous dude. You know, that guy who was like dead for a while and then was alive again. What's his name? Oh yeah, Superman.
This sucks. I really wanted Andy Kaufman to come back to life like that other famous dude. You know, that guy who was like dead for a while and then was alive again. What's his name? Oh yeah, Superman.
Friday, May 21, 2004
Warren Zevon
I just learned this:
TULE LIVINGSTON DILLOW
JULY 3, 1946 - MARCH 3, 2004
WARREN'S FIRST WIFE AND MOTHER TO THEIR SON JORDAN ZEVON PASSED AWAY AFTER AN EIGHT MONTH BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER.
I just learned this:
TULE LIVINGSTON DILLOW
JULY 3, 1946 - MARCH 3, 2004
WARREN'S FIRST WIFE AND MOTHER TO THEIR SON JORDAN ZEVON PASSED AWAY AFTER AN EIGHT MONTH BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Have you ever had one of those days where just as soon as you wake up, there's somebody wanting to talk about everything and nothing at the same time? And after several hours of this, you realize that that glass of water you had for breakfast just isn't cutting it anymore. Do you just walk away from the people who are either having the conversation of their life or have just discovered that they could talk and are trying to make up for all the years of silence? Yes. But they follow you anyway.
While cooking a microwave dinner, I thought I'd post and share.
While cooking a microwave dinner, I thought I'd post and share.
Monday, May 17, 2004
I've switched from deadlove75.blogspot.com to having my blog hosted on mysite, www.underthemoon.us. For those who have my blog bookmarked at the blogspot address, please go to my site and bookmark it there.
DiamondDead :: The Official DiamondDead Website
This doesn't seem to suck. Diamond Dead is a movie being made by George Romero and Brian Cooper. You can read the script and other things, even give feedback, which seems to work.
Horror and Rock and Roll... and dead things. Plus, there was talk of a guy named Marilyn Manson playing a pot smoking Jesus who doesn't want anybody to "tell dad" that he smokes pot. This was based on the second draft of the script. They're now working with Romero's script, which is a little different. And who knows if Manson is in or out. Go to the site and read.
This doesn't seem to suck. Diamond Dead is a movie being made by George Romero and Brian Cooper. You can read the script and other things, even give feedback, which seems to work.
Horror and Rock and Roll... and dead things. Plus, there was talk of a guy named Marilyn Manson playing a pot smoking Jesus who doesn't want anybody to "tell dad" that he smokes pot. This was based on the second draft of the script. They're now working with Romero's script, which is a little different. And who knows if Manson is in or out. Go to the site and read.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
Well, I think I've got the blog looking how I want it to look. I needed to update it a bit to reflect the current look of my site. It now fits seamlessly. Now if only I could fit seamlessly...
I am currently tinkering with the blog. Things may appear... well, messed up for a bit or for a while. I don't know yet. I am working on it.
Saturday, May 15, 2004
"Oh lord. Oh my lord," - Nick Cave.
Well, the site looks different.
-- Just as I start to type this, somebody starts banging on the door. It's fifteen minutes until five in the morning. It turns out it's somebody who's broke down and needs the phone. Before I let them in to use the phone, I made sure I'm very armed if you know what I mean. I guess I was up for a few different reasons. --
Back to the site. It's different. I hope I uploaded everything I needed. And for some reason, I accidentally figured out how to get my background image to work in the blog. I say accidentally because I have no idea what I'm doing right now.
I'm going to go sleep despite any clowns that could be nearby.
Well, the site looks different.
-- Just as I start to type this, somebody starts banging on the door. It's fifteen minutes until five in the morning. It turns out it's somebody who's broke down and needs the phone. Before I let them in to use the phone, I made sure I'm very armed if you know what I mean. I guess I was up for a few different reasons. --
Back to the site. It's different. I hope I uploaded everything I needed. And for some reason, I accidentally figured out how to get my background image to work in the blog. I say accidentally because I have no idea what I'm doing right now.
I'm going to go sleep despite any clowns that could be nearby.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
Booming Death Cult Draws Mexican Gangsters, Police
"Like many Santa Muerte worshipers, Gutierrez asks God's permission to pray to Death, unconcerned by the contradiction between practicing Christianity and a growing pagan cult, which is experiencing a revival after lying dormant until the 1960s.
'First for me comes God and then Santa Muerte,' he said."
Santa Muerte = Saint Death
"Like many Santa Muerte worshipers, Gutierrez asks God's permission to pray to Death, unconcerned by the contradiction between practicing Christianity and a growing pagan cult, which is experiencing a revival after lying dormant until the 1960s.
'First for me comes God and then Santa Muerte,' he said."
Santa Muerte = Saint Death
I had a horrible night and morning of horrid dreams. No, I didn't have dreams of something chasing me and dark things. Those are rare. I just dreamt of people and places and times over and over. It's like there's this whole other world somewhere that I'm a part of, and that I only get to see it at brief times during dreams. There's people I know very well or seem to know very well in my dreams. And there's usually a woman. And sometimes there's a child, mine. Last night there was both. I can never remember their names when I wake up. Never.
And the places are here but they're not here at this time. I don't know what time they are. Some things look like they did ten years ago, but some things look like they're ten years in the future. There's plenty of stuff I'd never own sitting around. And I bet all of it was expensive.
But I'll wake up still feeling what every I was feeling in the dreams, which makes mornings rough and the day usually follows the same way for a while.
Well, at least I'm not dreaming of snakes in water chasing me. That was a nightmare once. It could be worse. It could be Republicans chasing me in water. They'd probably be shouting how I'd have to pay for any water damage to my house because under their new plan, everything is an act of God so the insurance companies don't have to pay. That's kind of like our President now. He sees everything that he does as an act of God. Just ask him. He'll grin and shrug then grin some more.
And the places are here but they're not here at this time. I don't know what time they are. Some things look like they did ten years ago, but some things look like they're ten years in the future. There's plenty of stuff I'd never own sitting around. And I bet all of it was expensive.
But I'll wake up still feeling what every I was feeling in the dreams, which makes mornings rough and the day usually follows the same way for a while.
Well, at least I'm not dreaming of snakes in water chasing me. That was a nightmare once. It could be worse. It could be Republicans chasing me in water. They'd probably be shouting how I'd have to pay for any water damage to my house because under their new plan, everything is an act of God so the insurance companies don't have to pay. That's kind of like our President now. He sees everything that he does as an act of God. Just ask him. He'll grin and shrug then grin some more.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
NewsForge | MandrakeSoft: An inside look
An interesting read. In the interview, Francois Bancilhon, Jecques Le Marois, and Gael Duval of MandrakeSoft discuss bankruptcy, SCO, and the "Wraty of Billy."
An interesting read. In the interview, Francois Bancilhon, Jecques Le Marois, and Gael Duval of MandrakeSoft discuss bankruptcy, SCO, and the "Wraty of Billy."
Godsend Institute :: Using Life to Create Life
"Not only does cloning work, but it's a safe and healthy option for a qualified and loving family."
"Dead doesn't have to be an ending. At the Godsend Institue, we have the ability to make it a fresh start."
"Our son’s name was Michael and when he died he was five years old. I was heartbroken of course, but my wife was absolutely devastated. She had been told that she was unable to have children and when Michael was born, she had taken it as a sign from God. When he died, my wife’s faith died with him. Then we heard about Dr. Wells and Godsend. It’s been three years since he gave Michael back to us and all I can say is that if there is a God, his name is Dr. Richard Wells.
-- Joe R.
Dr. Wells and his staff took what could have been the worst time of our lives and made it the best. The care and professionalism they showed us during such a tough period will never be forgotten and I would not hesitate to recommend the Godsend Institute to anyone who has suffered a similar tragedy. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
-- Emilie H.
If more people were like Dr. Wells, there would be no need for war or religious intolerance or preemptive anything. This world needs love and here is someone whose entire life is dedicated to creating more of it. What a wonderful man! I can’t praise him enough. If you've lost a child, you owe it to yourself to at least call. Hear what they have to say. You won't be sorry.
-- Ginny B."
Don't worry. The folks at the Godsend Institue have no connection with those nuts at Clonaid.
If you want more info about the Godsend Institue, please call 1-888-699-2672.
"Not only does cloning work, but it's a safe and healthy option for a qualified and loving family."
"Dead doesn't have to be an ending. At the Godsend Institue, we have the ability to make it a fresh start."
"Our son’s name was Michael and when he died he was five years old. I was heartbroken of course, but my wife was absolutely devastated. She had been told that she was unable to have children and when Michael was born, she had taken it as a sign from God. When he died, my wife’s faith died with him. Then we heard about Dr. Wells and Godsend. It’s been three years since he gave Michael back to us and all I can say is that if there is a God, his name is Dr. Richard Wells.
-- Joe R.
Dr. Wells and his staff took what could have been the worst time of our lives and made it the best. The care and professionalism they showed us during such a tough period will never be forgotten and I would not hesitate to recommend the Godsend Institute to anyone who has suffered a similar tragedy. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
-- Emilie H.
If more people were like Dr. Wells, there would be no need for war or religious intolerance or preemptive anything. This world needs love and here is someone whose entire life is dedicated to creating more of it. What a wonderful man! I can’t praise him enough. If you've lost a child, you owe it to yourself to at least call. Hear what they have to say. You won't be sorry.
-- Ginny B."
Don't worry. The folks at the Godsend Institue have no connection with those nuts at Clonaid.
If you want more info about the Godsend Institue, please call 1-888-699-2672.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
There appears to be video of an American civilian being beheaded on an "Islamic Militant" website. There has been a body found in Iraq. According to the Associated Press:
"The poor quality tape showed a man dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room with five masked men behind him.
"My name is *********, my father's name is *******... I have a brother and sister, ***** and ******," said the man, adding he was from ******.
After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed ******* to the floor and shouted "God is greatest" above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife then held it aloft for the camera."
I removed the man's name and other information.
This whole thing has really gotten out of hand hasn't it? Americans soldiers are dying left and right in Iraq. Now civilians are. Yeah, the above is brutal. I wasn't going to quote all of it, but I figure that's what happened so I'd repeat it here.
The only way this could get any worse is if we were like torturing Iraqis and taking pictures... wait, oh yeah, WE DID!
Again according to AP:
"Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings as revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, a film on an Islamist Web site showed Tuesday."
This is really bad stuff. And it's going to get much worse. Thank you Bush, Jr. Yes, I blame our president. He had tunnel vision and lack of understanding. Now he's going to grin like an idiot (or C average student who got away with stealing the answers to a test, yet could only remember enough of the answers to get a C) and try to come off like "Yeah, we're doing the right thing, we're fightin' terra (terror in Bushisim), and it's going to take awhile," and he'll stop himself before he says "who knows how long it'll take." You can tell when he stops from saying something he's thinking when his shoulders bounce. The only reason why he stops from saying something he's thinking is that he knows Channey will put him in a corner when he gets back to the White House.
As for the fuck ups who killed the American in the video, your "God" isn't all that great. I am not anti-Muslim. I don't think these nut jobs are Muslims at all. I think they worship greed, power, and dominion. That's their "God." According to the Muslim faith, Allah wouldn't like what they're doing. And if they weren't a bunch of pussies, they wouldn't wear maskes either.
"The poor quality tape showed a man dressed in orange overalls sitting bound on a white plastic chair in a bare room with five masked men behind him.
"My name is *********, my father's name is *******... I have a brother and sister, ***** and ******," said the man, adding he was from ******.
After one of the masked men read out a statement, they pushed ******* to the floor and shouted "God is greatest" above his screams as one of them sawed his head off with a large knife then held it aloft for the camera."
I removed the man's name and other information.
This whole thing has really gotten out of hand hasn't it? Americans soldiers are dying left and right in Iraq. Now civilians are. Yeah, the above is brutal. I wasn't going to quote all of it, but I figure that's what happened so I'd repeat it here.
The only way this could get any worse is if we were like torturing Iraqis and taking pictures... wait, oh yeah, WE DID!
Again according to AP:
"Al Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings as revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, a film on an Islamist Web site showed Tuesday."
This is really bad stuff. And it's going to get much worse. Thank you Bush, Jr. Yes, I blame our president. He had tunnel vision and lack of understanding. Now he's going to grin like an idiot (or C average student who got away with stealing the answers to a test, yet could only remember enough of the answers to get a C) and try to come off like "Yeah, we're doing the right thing, we're fightin' terra (terror in Bushisim), and it's going to take awhile," and he'll stop himself before he says "who knows how long it'll take." You can tell when he stops from saying something he's thinking when his shoulders bounce. The only reason why he stops from saying something he's thinking is that he knows Channey will put him in a corner when he gets back to the White House.
As for the fuck ups who killed the American in the video, your "God" isn't all that great. I am not anti-Muslim. I don't think these nut jobs are Muslims at all. I think they worship greed, power, and dominion. That's their "God." According to the Muslim faith, Allah wouldn't like what they're doing. And if they weren't a bunch of pussies, they wouldn't wear maskes either.
Monday, May 10, 2004
MSNBC - Nancy Reagan urges stem cell research
Nancy Reagan is now onboard. Republicans, who are doing their best to block stem cell research, used to worship her husband like he was a prophet. I doubt this changes anything.
Nancy Reagan is now onboard. Republicans, who are doing their best to block stem cell research, used to worship her husband like he was a prophet. I doubt this changes anything.
Saturday, May 08, 2004
Thursday, May 06, 2004
FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY > Jason Hodges' Online Store | CafePress
Go buy my book, FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY. Now!
Go buy my book, FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY. Now!
I just realized, several hours later, that I never tested my new favicon with Internet Explorer. I guess later I'll boot into Windows and do that. I hate to. Even when I do end up in Windows, and that's rare these days, I use a variant of the Mozilla browser. That way I avoid all the security problems with IE. Maybe I can get IE working with WINE in Linux. I've got Word working in Linux. I imagine the folks back at Redmond never expected that one.
Have you heard of the new worm, Sasser? I was watching MSNBC yesterday and an "expert" talked about it. He said if you left your computer on and you're running XP or Windows 2000, by the time you got home you'll probably have the worm. He said you didn't have to do anything to get it. He suggested downloading a patch from somewhere else and installing the patch on your computer before you connect to the Internet. Lovely.
Last night on the Screensavers, there was talk again about why Open Source is the better thing. Everybody gets to look inside and fix all the problems. This is opposite to the M$ notion of keeping it all to themselves. This way, only bad people can sneakly get the source code for Windows (I can only imagine what that stuff must look like) and find all the bugs and holes. Half this stuff is found by chance and hopefully, by chance, more good folk find it than bad folk. These good folk are often hammered by M$ for tattling. But hey, think of it like a building on fire. Wouldn't you want the employees yelling that the building is on fire instead of the builders and owners wanting to keep it hush hush until a) you notice the building is on fire and b) they find a way to put it out?
Enough rambling. I need to go to the post office.
Have you heard of the new worm, Sasser? I was watching MSNBC yesterday and an "expert" talked about it. He said if you left your computer on and you're running XP or Windows 2000, by the time you got home you'll probably have the worm. He said you didn't have to do anything to get it. He suggested downloading a patch from somewhere else and installing the patch on your computer before you connect to the Internet. Lovely.
Last night on the Screensavers, there was talk again about why Open Source is the better thing. Everybody gets to look inside and fix all the problems. This is opposite to the M$ notion of keeping it all to themselves. This way, only bad people can sneakly get the source code for Windows (I can only imagine what that stuff must look like) and find all the bugs and holes. Half this stuff is found by chance and hopefully, by chance, more good folk find it than bad folk. These good folk are often hammered by M$ for tattling. But hey, think of it like a building on fire. Wouldn't you want the employees yelling that the building is on fire instead of the builders and owners wanting to keep it hush hush until a) you notice the building is on fire and b) they find a way to put it out?
Enough rambling. I need to go to the post office.
I finally got around to creating a favicon for Under The Moon. A favicon is what you see sometimes in the address bar or saved link to a site. Most sites seem to have a favicon these days. I used to have one. When I moved my site to GoDaddy, I misplaced it. It troubles me that my old favicon is out there, wandering cyberspace and probably hanging out with the wrong crowd. Poor little favicon. I can only hope it never finds out that I have a new one.
Sunday, May 02, 2004
I have just ordered a copy of my short story collection, FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY, from CafePress. This is very weird. I want to get a copy in my hands, check it out, make sure the fonts look right, the covers look right, before I set up a page for it, sell it on my site. Hopefully, everything is okay. But I won't know for sure until I see one.
There's a good thing about print on demand, which is what my book is. I can make changes almost instantly. As mistakes are found, I'll change them and upload a corrected book. This seems to work well for Linux distros, and I think it'll work well for me.
As soon as I get a copy and see if it's okay, I'll set up a page for it on my site. I'll then begin promoting. I'll to send it off to places for reviews and all that stuff. That's going to be fun and completely shameless. Joy.
Well, now the only thing I have to do is wait until it gets here in the mail. The mail. Oh, I love the Post Office.
There's a good thing about print on demand, which is what my book is. I can make changes almost instantly. As mistakes are found, I'll change them and upload a corrected book. This seems to work well for Linux distros, and I think it'll work well for me.
As soon as I get a copy and see if it's okay, I'll set up a page for it on my site. I'll then begin promoting. I'll to send it off to places for reviews and all that stuff. That's going to be fun and completely shameless. Joy.
Well, now the only thing I have to do is wait until it gets here in the mail. The mail. Oh, I love the Post Office.
Saturday, May 01, 2004
Buy my book.
From a Hole in the Sky
13 Stories of Horror, Madness, and Religion make up this dark-kudzu collection. A city run by angels with demanding burial rites. A white van jostling with clowns and warnings about sleep. A weeping pastor with a dead man in a boat. Homicide, Suicide, Jesus, and The Devil. To join a family, you're going to need some stitches. Kids today on their way to cut grass and play cowboys and injuns'. A hole in the ground where poor John Henry met a foul ending. And unholy birthing machines with a chosen one. All this and more. Where do bad things come from? They come FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY.
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A blog of the current forecasts, watches, and warnings for the state of Alabama. The posts are automatically generated from E-forecast and E-warn e-mails from my local ABC Network Affiliate, ABC 33/40. The images are from the National Weather Service. The site will refresh itself every ten minutes.
From a Hole in the Sky
13 Stories of Horror, Madness, and Religion make up this dark-kudzu collection. A city run by angels with demanding burial rites. A white van jostling with clowns and warnings about sleep. A weeping pastor with a dead man in a boat. Homicide, Suicide, Jesus, and The Devil. To join a family, you're going to need some stitches. Kids today on their way to cut grass and play cowboys and injuns'. A hole in the ground where poor John Henry met a foul ending. And unholy birthing machines with a chosen one. All this and more. Where do bad things come from? They come FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY.
The Alabama Weather Blog
A blog of the current forecasts, watches, and warnings for the state of Alabama. The posts are automatically generated from E-forecast and E-warn e-mails from my local ABC Network Affiliate, ABC 33/40. The images are from the National Weather Service. The site will refresh itself every ten minutes.
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