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posts from 2009.04
Last night Voltaire played his very last show in his very first full-band tour right here in Ithaca. Of course, I was there, and of course I have some pictures!
The last time I saw Voltaire perform with his full band at Blacksun III, where the performance was limited due to time restraints and the number of bands that had to perform. This time there were no such limitations, so there was time to play all the crowd favorites. It was a really great show and while I do miss the banter you get during his solo performances, I appreciate the chance to hear his music as it sounds on the CDs. Unfortunately I was too busy dancing and having a good time (and lending my real camera to a friend to collect video footage) to take more than a blurry camera phone shot of the show:
After the show I posed with him:
And then I got an Ithaca tour date poster signed, which I am going to have to frame and hang near my signed Creature Feature poster.
On a related note, have I ever mentioned how a google image search of ‘voltaire goth’ currently returns two different images from my site on the first page? Yes, apparently I have.
- I made some glow in the dark sculpey earrings the other night. Think people would be interested in buying stuff like this? http://is.gd/tkZ7 #
- Fun with Shoggy (a squishable octopus)! http://tinyurl.com/cw854w #
- I have trouble writing the word ‘kid’. I want to write proto-human, burden, parasite, etc. SO BAD. This is my release. #
- @JupiterSinclair: Good ones! I use ’spawn’ frequently, but the others are new to me :) in reply to JupiterSinclair #
- @squishable: Glad you like it! Thanks for the RT :) in reply to squishable #
- Dinner at Zaza’s for happicow’s birthday! Yay, gnocchi! Yay, happicow! #
- Mother in Law’s Tongue http://is.gd/tn2C #
- Shift to diurnal mode FAIL. Not looking forward to getting back into the rat race tomorrow. (I don’t even like cheese that much) #
- @ThatKevinSmith: Some people probably read http://is.gd/ttA6 as implying that is all you think your wife should be using her mouth for. in reply to ThatKevinSmith #
- Garofalo on teabaggers: “It’s like showing Frankenstein’s monster fire, they become confused, angry, and highly volatile.” http://is.gd/tu0H #
- @slithy_toves: Just goes to show how much these people really don’t get the world in which we live. in reply to slithy_toves #
- Tummy bein’ rumbly. It must be time to head to the bar! For food, of course. (And gin.) #
- Holy crap! Free calamari! <3 squid! #
- I eatted too much. #
- Noooo!!! Beer spill, in my lap! No offisher, I hashn’t been drishnking… #
- Just to clarify, the beer wasn’t mine and I’m not the one who spilled it. Also, I’m not drunk. Rizeally. #
- After wrestling with my bike rack for a while, finally got around to dropping my bike off for a tune up. #
- @ironicsans: Bwah? Earth Day is April 22, ne? Also, this video keeps stopping at 2:32 and refusing to load further for me. http://is.gd/tH7z in reply to ironicsans #
- Just joined a twibe. Visit http://twibes.com/Ithaca to join #
- I am spectacularly tired. I need to boost my blood-caffeine level, and Mountain Dew isn’t cutting it. #
- Re-doing a bunch of work I did about a month ago, since it seems to have vanished into the ether since then. #
- RT @jephjacques I WANT TO BELIEVE: http://bit.ly/xEDdD #
- In what bizarro hell dimension does “meets or exceeds expectations” == “disappointment”?! #
- Writing perl while exercising – yay! #
- Wrote a little program to have a bit of fun sending email/txt bombs easily, from the command line. I’ll try not to overdo it. #
- This new killer app makes me really want an iphone. http://is.gd/tWwL (Via @TechCrunch) #
- @loxosceles: Thanks, I try! in reply to loxosceles #
- Babykilling app got pulled. Damn high and mighty censors, taking everything too seriously! To vent my rage, I’m gonna go shake some babies. #
- It says a lot about me that I have no objection to the idea of eating infants but would sooner starve than hurt a kitten. http://is.gd/h8ef #
- The Tim and Eric Awesome Show is the best thing on television since Liquid Television. #
- Andrea’s baby story / nightmare http://is.gd/u1lJ #
- When there is nothing else handy, Urban Decay’s eyeshadow primer potion apparently works as a decent concealer. Sorta. #
- Waah~! Coffee filter FAIL. Looks like I’m buying my cuppa today. :( #
- @jessnevins: No, but it’s hard when the whole feed is filled with one person’s posts. Maybe a blog post with a tweet link would be better? in reply to jessnevins #
- RT @rstevens: The Bible is scientific proof that people will believe any story if you tell it enough times. #
- @JhonenV: Kraid in Super Metroid. Monsters 2 game screens tall == rock on. in reply to JhonenV #
- Using duct tape as pore strips… HOLY CRAP this is awesome; why haven’t I tried this before?! #
- @IcyBrian: If you leave it on for just 5 minutes, the amount of glue remaining on your skin is negligible, but cold cream would prolly help in reply to IcyBrian #
- My Twitter personality: likeable inquisitive cautious My style: chatty coherent SHARER http://twanalyst.com/tekniklr #
- @feliciaday: That’s one way of looking at it, but another is that you only live once- why risk one day regretting NOT trying such things? in reply to feliciaday #
- Tried to sign up for BookArmy (via BoingBoing). Buggy software wouldn’t let me. Screw it. I’ll stick with blogs and All Consuming. #
- Suddenly, I want to watch Svankmajer’s Alice, on mute, with Throbbing Gristle setting the score. #
- The smoke detector was whining about apparently nothing this morning. Probably broken, but still disconcerting. #
- One-stop shopping: Store your Anti Monkey-butt Powder ( http://is.gd/ujA5 ) in your unstolen commercial milk crates ( http://is.gd/ujAN ) #
- @slithy_toves: I hear ya. I’m gonna attempt commuting to Cornell biking up University Ave nxt week. Probably will take some getting used to! in reply to slithy_toves #
- @harda: Thanks but the idea of manually copying my reading history from All Consuming fills me with dread; think I’ll stick with this awhile in reply to harda #
- Added some springtime Cornelly pics to my site: http://is.gd/ulO9 (bottom of the page)
My favorite: http://is.gd/ulOt # - I think this is the first day this week that I’ve left work while the sun was still up. Good day for it! #
- Just saw someone doing something extremely stupid involving a bicycle and a cliff. #
- If he had fallen and spilled brains everywhere, I would have laughed. And taken out my chopsticks. Yum! #
- Beast, you’re skying http://is.gd/uoiU #
- Biked for the first time in a few years. About four miles, at a good pace. My legs feel like wet noodles- and I’m walking like I’m drunk. #
- @ Hai Hong in Ctown for Jason’s bday. Can’t decide between chicken lo mein or curry chicken. #
- Peter made Jason a Nannerpuss marionette! http://is.gd/upRm #
- @zombieite: Qwijybo: Big dumb balding north american ape with a short temper (Scrabble word from the Simpsons) in reply to zombieite #
- @mhaithaca: What was it? I think you mistyped the twitter username @yungrican513 – doesn’t seem to exist. in reply to mhaithaca #
- Just submitted Qwijybo (Big fat balding north american ape with no chin and a bad temper) to the Urban Dictionary: http://is.gd/uxp2 #
- Anything cool going on in #ithaca tonight? Looking forward to Voltaire at The Haunt tomorrow! http://is.gd/uxvI #
- @mhaithaca: Aw, I was hoping for a real answer! I guess I’m unfamiliar with Twinkle- thought it was an app, didn’t know it had users too! in reply to mhaithaca #
- Watching Day of the Triffids- a true classic! #
- @loxosceles: Sounds like a plan! Did the poison apples have any interesting side affects? Probably not great for pregnancy! #
- Biked 6.9 miler in 35 min, avg mph = 11.8. Got a bug stuck in my helmet and fell trying to swerve into a bumpy driveway to get it out. Ouch. #
- Post cleanup: I got up and noticed I was covered in blood. If I hadn’t been wearing a helmet, I wouldn’t have fallen. (… http://is.gd/uzOW #
- @loxosceles: Gotta go somehow. Besides, there have been studies showing that cars give wider berths to unhelmeted bikers. in reply to loxosceles #
- @loxosceles: You have had a lot of post birth dreams, though, right? Maybe your body just wants to get it over with. in reply to loxosceles #
I really wish I had an iphone so I could have gotten this app before it was pulled.
The vitriol in the comment section of the TechCrunch page saddens me, even given the content. It seems that people really can’t help but take themselves far too seriously. You don’t like it? Don’t buy it. No one is making you go shake any real babies.
Maybe 5% of the commenters agreed the app is an awesome concept (if anything, it needs more gore). A few people even pointed out that it could maybe SAVE the lives of babies if a temperamental parent was unaware that shaking their bundle of screams and poop was something that could, y’know, permanently shut the thing up (assuming that is not actually what the parent wanted).
Probably the best comment (from BubDZombie):
This is the worst thing I’ve seen since ‘A Modest Proposal,’ which I’m still trying to get banned from libraries and schools.
Everything old is new again. I’m sure the point was lost on everyone who needed it.
It must be fun to be a new-age techno witch-hunting bookburner! Too bad I have standards that aren’t easily threatened by books, video games, and other media.
- Heading back to Ithaca, full of turkey and pie #
- I feel very silly for getting excited that @zoetica uses the same shade of blue dye that I do. http://is.gd/sdEN http://is.gd/rQOH #
- Via @templesmith, Xtians teach us about female anatomy! Did you know a queef happens when your separator flap loosens? http://is.gd/sk17 #
- Baby birds are called “bees”. http://tinyurl.com/c2u4yk #
- Gin is blacklight reactive http://is.gd/suTN #
- The craziest person I know is telling me I am crazy. #
- I’m really enjoying this whole vacation thing. Staying up past dawn, waking up past noon- I’m beginning to feel like a real person again! #
- @Pelmell: The secret is to not read every tweet. Get the best sent to your phone, and read the rest only when at the computer and interested in reply to Pelmell #
- “To go the”? I need more caffeine, clearly. Anyway, I’m off! #
- After filling up on chinese food, we couldn’t find the theater. Ended up finally getting there about a half hour late. Oops. #
- Show was good, but I feel bad we missed the beginning. I have never been to a play where the actors were also the orchestra before. #
- Tea break! Iron Buddha- Strong, powerful and straight forward, yet caring. It’s the green milk oolong bubble tea for me… http://is.gd/sRVV #
- RT @feliciaday: Nice compilation of Twitter Tips and links for new Twitterers. http://bit.ly/141xt6 #
- Oh, no. This is terrible, and probably true: RT @ironicsans: Twitter’s endless September began today. (for more info: http://is.gd/17wF ) #
- @loxosceles: Point taken. Also, in twitter you only have to pay attention to the people that you follow so the effect may be minimal. in reply to loxosceles #
- @loxosceles: Nothing wrong with that, ‘cept for the term “twittiquette”. Of course, no one will care about anything ‘cept tweeting every poo in reply to loxosceles #
- Homemade cakewreck for happicow! http://is.gd/tcbd #
- Happicow in his super sexy new birthday hot pants! http://is.gd/tdyq #
- I got happicow hideous cow mutants http://is.gd/tdA4 #
- Peter adopts his role as village prostitute http://is.gd/tdAT #
- Watching this made me sneeze: http://tinyurl.com/c9qjwb #
- I’m so nocturnal now- really not looking forward to work on Monday. #
I grew up with The Doors. Words cannot express how wonderful I think this is.
By Violenn Simon, via VideoSift
This reminds me of a John Waters film. Meaning, of course, that it is completely awesome in a mostly disturbing way.
I’m rather late to the party here, but this must be done! It had never before occurred to me that this is something I should do- I wish I had thought of it myself, and that such a thing were happening in the US.
I’ve always thought it’s very unfair that children have something as personal as religion decided for them at an age where they have no say in the matter- in my opinion, it’s akin to slavery. After reading The God Delusion and learning about babies being clandestinely baptised without their jewish parents consent then being stolen from their parents by the Church (as they had the “right” to be raised Catholic), I feel much more strongly about it.
So while magical splashes of water don’t actually do much of anything, making a big stink about them DOES raise awareness of something I find objectionable, so it’s certainly worth the minimal effort.
I Theresa M. Solow, having been subjected to the Rite of Christian Baptism in infancy (before reaching an age of consent), hereby publicly revoke any implications of that Rite and renounce the Church that carried it out. In the name of human reason, I reject all its Creeds and all other such superstition in particular, the perfidious belief that any baby needs to be cleansed by Baptism of alleged ORIGINAL SIN, and the evil power of supposed demons. I wish to be excluded henceforth from enhanced claims of church membership numbers based on past baptismal statistics used, for example, for the purpose of securing legislative privilege.
Of course, babies have to deal with greater unconsented grievances than magic water, but I think the tide is slowly turning against those already.
- For the first time since Wednesday, I’m actually feeling nontrivially better. Still coughing, but not quite so much DOOM about it. #
- This is what I do, I sit on you
Sit on you
Sit on you
This is what I do, I sit on you
Sit right on your cat!
*meow!* # - I have a really hard time watching some movies on account of my face blindness. Zombie Diaries: hard to follow. #
- Just listed myself in the http://localtweeps.com local Twitter directory in ZIP 14850 #
- @EatingIthaca: “No self-respecting adult, no matter how abstemious, would order a Shirley Temple.” I do this all the time! in reply to EatingIthaca #
- Just had a chat with the nice man who cuts my hair about Ithaca and its fake liberals. Rock on! #
- @ecorrado: More like how some in Ithaca wax poetic about being liberal but fail when it comes to actually doing something outside the norm in reply to ecorrado #
- @loxosceles: You can, sorta, but not in any useful way. e.g., http://localtweeps.com/state/NY/Ithaca/#report in reply to loxosceles #
- Work exchange, possibly of the evil genius ilk:
“You might want to check for cromulence”
“I’m not sure who that is but I’m sure all is well” # - Dear lazyweb: What is the antithesis of R&B? Please dm- I am at a bar, feeling a need to out-annoy some obnoxious patrons. #
- Ugh- snow. Do. Not. Want. #
- I bet I’d get bronchitis less if I lived in a warmer climate. #
- Played with my last.fm settings- I’ve been a member so long that ‘overall’ stats are useless. http://www.last.fm/user/tekniklr #
- @AWPNY: IAW @maithaca: HTML email is teh suck. Of course, I use mutt as my mail client because it sucks slightly less than other clients. :) in reply to AWPNY #
- I am not representative of anything. #
- @loxosceles: Thanks, but I left shortly after that anyway. Also, I doubt the jukebox had that. Also also, I only just got your last message. in reply to loxosceles #
- @archiemcphee: Here’s my #crazycat : http://is.gd/rgaM in reply to archiemcphee #
- @slithy_toves: Yes’m :) in reply to slithy_toves #
- Did my roots last night and wasn’t kept up all night by my own coughing. Maybe today will be a good day! #
- I think I’m homesick. I was walking around Cornell, wishing it was Rutgers. Then I saw someone in a NJ shirt, and I coveted it. #
- Listening to chill music at work: http://tinyurl.com/c27s2m #
- My current primary email address wasn’t listed on my gpg key. Oops. #
- Apache is redirecting to strange places, and I Don’t. Know. Why. FAIL. #
- So frustrated. No progress. Giving up for now. #
- Paul fixed it. Apparently the httpd.conf ServerRoot was causing the problem. It makes no sense still, but whatever. It works now. #
- I have yet to hear a good reason how same-sex marriage makes anyone else’s life worse. Shut up and die, controlophiles! http://is.gd/rDsT #
- Drove BF to job interview, ten minutes late. This bothered me much more than it seemed to bother him. #
- OFMG Kittens!!!1!1 http://is.gd/rQOH #
- Back in NJ for a few days. Tomorrow: par-tay at D&B; Sunday: celebrate zombie pogo-stick day with eggs, chocolate, and turkey. #
- Steve thinks Twitter should be called the Twitterus http://is.gd/rYM7 #
- Mechashiva be helpin’! http://is.gd/rZs7 #
- It amazes me how many terrible parents have their kids in D&B at (nearly) midnight. #
- Drunk… Now Whitecastle! #
- Whitecastle!!! http://is.gd/s09h #
- Aftermath http://is.gd/s0dV #
Sometimes I feel like I’m being run through the psychology experiments of a sadist. This somewhat amuses me, so I will document it for posterity:
(14:55:49) REDACTED: I IMed you first. If I deny this later, I’m lying.
(14:56:41) tekniklr (y): Duly noted
(14:56:49) REDACTED: Who is this?
(14:57:07) tekniklr (y): Teri.
(14:57:10) tekniklr (y): Who is this?
(14:57:31) REDACTED: Watson
(14:57:40) REDACTED: You sent me a message
(14:58:05) tekniklr (y): When did I do that?
(15:07:23) REDACTED: 11 minutes ago.
(15:07:52) tekniklr (y): Yes, I was responding to a message I just got from you.
(15:08:31) REDACTED: What was my message?
(15:09:12) tekniklr (y): (14:55:49) REDACTED: I IMed you first. If I deny this later, I’m lying.
(15:10:22) REDACTED: What is that??? I never sent that. I don’t even know you.
(15:11:04) tekniklr (y): Heh
(15:11:29) tekniklr (y): Y’know, someone is playing a joke on someone, and I don’t really care who, because it’s not very entertaining.
(15:12:03) REDACTED: I am sorry about that. I feel you.
Yes, I could have had some fun there. But I really have better things to do at the moment.
I love Chad VanGaalen’s song Molten Light, but I am completely enamored with this animation he made to accompany it:
Via Decidedly Grim