I was just looking for pics on my site and I found that when I last changed the look of the site, I did some stupid crap and lost all the image galleries that I’d posted.

CRAP!

I still have the pics, and in most cases I still have the image galleries saved as a whole, so I should have them back up shortly. I haven’t gotten out and shot with my camera lately, but I’ll get off my ass and do so, and post some of those when I get that rolling again.

As Wile E. Coyote would say, “Back to the ol’ drawing board…”

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I don’t know when the last time was that we spoke, but I’ve been dry since Easter. I’ve had a couple nights of excessive intake in the last month, but mostly I’ve been sober. Not to pat my own back or anything, but I’m clearly better than you.

At any rate, I saw this today and it cracked me up.

-source: www.xkcd.com

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Extra special awesome happy funtime thanks to Dudeman for going 100 miles out of his way to deliver the Nutter Butter Beater to me yesterday. I tuned it up this morning, and…oh my goodness. I know it’s only a $10 bike, but I’m such a bike snob that I’m going to be required to purchase the following items to get it to Satisfactory Condition: new brake calipers, as the ones on the bike are so utterly worthless that it feels as though you actually SPEED UP when you grab a handfull of brakes (yeah – not so much to my liking) and a new pair of shifters – these ones are the Hi-Tech Thumb-Breaking models and require so much torque to shift gears that I may not be able to hitch-hike ever again. After that, if I feel particularly uppity, I might replace the BB/cranks, and possibly the seatpost/saddle combo, but those aren’t necessary for Living The Good Life, as I intend to do on this sweet ride.

The only thing left is to give it a good name. No, I’m not going to give it a human name like stupid people are prone to giving their cars/trucks (sorry to everybody I know, since EVERYBODY I know gives STUPID human names to their vehicles)… No, I mean some kind of play on the Nutter Butter theme. Some possible names include: Nutter Butter Blaster, Nutter Butter Beater, Nabisco Speeder, The Smoothie…you get the idea. If you feel like commenting and leaving possible names for me, please do so. In the meantime, bask in the glory that is The Nutter Butter Piece of Crap!

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Yes folks, this is for real! Star Wars + Legos + imaginative photography = awesome!  Check it out here.

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I love being sick.  Every time I get sick, which isn’t that often, I whine.  A lot.  Today I have the congestion in the sinuses and the lungs are producing that yummy green rubber cement stuff that we all like.  It’s sort of funny because a little over a week ago, I was laid out with the night sweats and shivering and headaches and oh man, I’m gonna die.  And I am.  Some day.

I have decided that that illness was due to an allergic or similar reaction to an air freshener that I’d bought a few weeks prior.  I came upon that conclusion because A) I had headaches and body troubles, but no chest/nasal symptoms and B) as soon as I identified and tossed out the air freshener, I started to get better.  So there you have it.

But now I have the wonderful chest and nasal congestion and wouldn’t you know it, the weather is finally turning into what resembles Spring.  Great.

At one point my mom told me to take a peek at the whole swine flu phenomenon that is being shoved down our throats right now by the media.  Did you know that you’re doomed and that you’re going to die?  You will.  Some day.

Did you know that less than 200 people have died from the dreaded swine flu and that something like 20,000 people a year die from the non-dreaded normal flu?  In the U.S. alone?  Uh oh…we’re all gonna die!!!  Some day.

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I believe I did.  My good buddy Dudeman was at out of town on my birthday. After getting back to town, he recently was at a swapmeet, when he noticed this thing and decided that it would be the perfect gift. I agree. Let’s just say that it’s the perfect grocery-getter, or the perfect barley-blaster, or the perfect festival-finder, or even the perfect parade-pedaler.  Read ‘em and weep…

I’d go ahead and say something silly like, “My shoes for the other bike are more expensive than this bike.”, but let’s face it…pretty much any of the supplemental gear that I use for the main bike is going to be more expensive than Mr Nutter Butter. Even brand new it might have been $50. Dudeman paid $15.

That’s one pair of socks.

After rebuilding it from the ground up, I’m going to see about putting ONE really expensive item on the bike so that those who know will see that it’s a serious ride seriously stupid ride, as far as beater, swap-meet bikes go.  I can’t tell from the picture (I haven’t actually taken delivery of it yet) some of the specifics of the various parts, so I’m not certain if it will take 9/16 or 1/2 pedals, but if I can’t get a $200 pair of pedals I might have to look into a $100 saddle or a carbon seatpost or something.

I’m psyched!

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Ever since I first saw this phenomenon, I thought Tilt-Shift Photography was cool. If you search the term, you’ll find that people are using certain lenses and/or Photoshop to make normal images seem like miniature models of the subject matter. Here’s a cool video found out there on the internets, it’s called Bathtub IV, by Keith Loutit…

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Way back in ’95 I moved from AK to Seattle. At the time, I thought I’d visit my buddy Zeno and his brother Brint in Florida. I had no reason to rush to Seattle so I hung out with them in Jacksonville for 2 weeks. At the end of the visit we took a roadtrip to Tampa and went to Busch Gardens. That was a blast and to this day I’ve never been on a bigger, faster rollercoaster. Definitely a fun place. While there, we decided to get a caricature done of us for no good reason and I brought it home and yippee…we got a stupid picture done.

This last February, Brint came through town and as we were driving around Seattle trying to find the Perfect Beer, that caricature drawing came up. “Where did that thing go? That was a hilarious picture. What a fun trip that was.” A bunch of crap like that.

Not even a week later, another friend called me to say that he was cleaning out his dungeon when he came across this weird drawing of what appeared to be me, Brint and Zeno. Dave had met both of them before, so he would know, and sure enough it was the very caricature that Brint and I had been talking about. Hilarious!

Today I was learning about PHP when I decided that I’d had it and needed to do something to expend mental energy. So I took a photo of the caricature, imported it to Photoshop  and colorized it. I’d gotten a ways into it, when I realized that doing the proper hair color was one thing, but I have no idea what color Z and B’s gorgeously dreamy eyes are…so I texted Zeno.

“What color are Brint’s eyes? Yours are green?”

Mine are blue.  B is hazel.

“Hazel?  You homo, what color are they!?”

His woman says they are blue but he was born with hazel eyes.

“Hazel…Are your sheets mauve and your thong peach?  Idiot…”

So…what the hell do I do with that?  HAZEL???  I’m a guy, I don’t know what the hell color that is, and besides, for most guys doesn’t it come down to the simplest box of crayons?  There are only 8 colors in that one: black, white, blue, red, yellow, orange, violet and green.  That’s it, that’s the whole rainbow! When another guy asks you about your brother’s eyes (THREE men in that equation), you use one of those 8 colors.  Actually, bloodshot would be a perfectly valid answer too, but that’s not the point.  The point is that we don’t do hazel.  And on top of all that!??!  This answer came from a construction worker in Alaska!  Holy crap!

I got so flustered I made B’s eyes blue and Z’s eyes green.  I thought hazel was a shade of blue…what?!  Whatever, it’s all good.  As always, click the image for a larger one.

Special thanks to Zeno’s monobrow for making an appearance. Good on ya, mate!

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Here I am, at Delta Foxtrot’s pad, waiting for their flight.  I’ve been housesitting for the last week and now I have just another hour before I need to go pick them up.  Can’t drink.  Took my guitar home, although that doesn’t mean much cuz he’s got, like, 6 in the jam room…  But the point is that I’m in Finished Mode.  I’m done with this place.  The cats are fucking weird.  One has stayed hidden for the entire week.  I give them the wet food from the can just to make sure that she’s still here and alive cuz she won’t make an appearance for the dry shit, while the other just lets you know that he is indeed here by meowing nonstop for the first 15 minutes after you arrive home from work or wherever.  Hell, he just meows cuz he’s a cat and he can, dammit!

So here I am.  Empire Strikes Back is on TV, but I could do a one-man play of that movie with no rehearsal, so it’s on strictly to keep me company while I surf the web.  Did you know that Han Solo thought that tauntauns smelled bad on the outside, and yet he found that they smell REALLY bad on the inside too?  Yeah, he did.  He was trying to save Luke’s life out in the icy wilds of Hoth after Luke didn’t report in after going to look after what he thought was a meteor, but it really turned out to be an Imperial Probe Droid, aka a Probot.

Holy crap.

So I’m surfing around and I find this little nugget.  This comes courtesy of The Stranger, an alt weekly here in Seattle.  They have their I Saw U ads where if you saw somebody interesting, but didn’t have the time/guts to talk to them, you can place an ad and maybe something will come of it.  In addition to seeing if somebody spotted you out in the streets, it’s also fun to see ads like this.

Now, let’s just take a look at this shall we?  Firstly, she thought the guy was incredibly, no, ridiculously hot.  That right there was enough to inspire her to place the I Saw U ad.  However, he’ll have to wait for a different life, because apparently having a job at Subway (during a recession, mind you) makes one a loser.

See how I did that?  I made a point of bringing attention to the fact that this person is an idiot because she’s making fun of a person who actually has a job during times of record unemployment in our country.  But then I silently went about spelling the word “loser” correctly without pointing out that this idiot shouldn’t throw stones at people with jobs when she can’t spell or use punctuation OR proper grammar in her ad that does nothing positive for ANYBODY.

Well, it does good stuff for me, cuz I get to call her an idiot on the internet, thus making myself feel better about myself, or something like that?  Sure, that.

Only one more hour.  I hope that this relationship between Princess Leia and Han Solo actually goes somewhere.  Her planting a kiss on Luke in the infirmary gave me the creeps for some reason…

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