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Monday, July 28, 2003

Wearing Your Tie Too Tight Increases Risk Of Blindness! 8:04:45 PM    comment []

Technical stuff: It took 45 minutes to clone my 80Gb drive to a new 120Gb one that I bought over a month ago. In the process, I swapped a 512Mb PC2100 DIMM from my dead 1.2 GHz AMD "backup" computer to the 2.2 GHz Intel one that I put together for processing video files. The Intel would not boot. I had suspected the motherboard on the AMD, but now I suspect bad memory. I'll put it on a third system tomorrow to confirm. Replacing 512Mb ain't cheap, but it's cheaper than a motherboard, processor, and all the fuss. I'm posting this from the WiFi laptop as I watch Hofmann's Potion on IFC. It's a lighthearted documentary about psychedelics. Meanwhile, the Intel computer is defragging the new hard drive. I'm also sipping a Yuengling.I've never been able to post hypertext from email and I'm wondering if it will work if I change the default from WYSIWYG to Source. What I hate about UserLand (someday Larry Niven will write a sequel to RingWorld called Userland), well one thing, for one, is that the option to select WYSIWYG goes away when you select that as a preference. I'd prefer that the the default just changed on the homepage (or better, that you could switch remotely...and edit remotely. It is a nightmare to see an obvious typo miles away from home and know that it will be there until you get back to your host computer. 10 miles from home is bad, 500 is worse, but 5,000 is unbearable). Soon the cobbler's children will no longer be barefoot. I've neglected my systems at home while working overtime to keep customer computers happy. I've never put SP1 for WinXP on my system and all this is prelude to that. I also made some ass-kickin' blini and brisket while the computer-intensive portions of all this ran their course. The format of this message may be totally screwy until I can get on the one with Radio software to fix it. But I am very happy. (later...nice surprise! New drive defragged in under 45 minutes and I could change "PC2200" to the less stupid PC2100. I'm glad I'm at home. Still, when I edit email posts, all formatting is lost and everything becomes one humongous paragraph. That could probably be fixed. I also added the the hyperlink on the movie. It's okay, but don't go out of your way to watch it. If you are blogging with RCS you don't need LSD, you've already found alternative reality) 7:28:26 PM    comment []

Here's the brisket sliced and ready to sealed into bags, each with enough for two sandwiches. 24 hours on the marinade 12 hours slow cooking 3 hours smoking 6 hours chilling 12:01:18 PM    comment []

“Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tunes without the words— And never stops—at all— -                                  - Emily Dickinson   If you think you have a sense of humor…     [Barney tells a joke. Everyone laughs, except Hannah.] Hannah Stubbs: I see that it's funny. I have a sense of humor. Barney: Of course you have a sense of humor. Everyone thinks they do, even people who don't.   …it’s probably because of this guy:                 I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance -waiting for the bathroom.   I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money.   When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.   I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. 11:25:14 AM    comment []

The brisket is finished. It doesn't look like this anymore. I cut off a corner to sample, it sliced like butter. Tender, from hours of slow-cookin' over water. Smoked with hickory, coated with Southside Market BBQ sauce for the last hour. The flavors intermingle and linger... 3:10:32 AM    comment []

Attack Cicada! While the brisket finishes smoking, I went outside to water my survival pineapples (the fruit became a pico de gallo component, I stuck the leaves in soil and they grew last summer. I thought the cats had killed them indoors during the winter, but now there is fresh growth...). Suddenly there was an incredible ruckus and this gigantic bug orbiting my head, chattering like an insane Baptist speaking in tongues. Finally, the cicada landed on the screen and consented to pose for this blurry photo. 2:26:19 AM    comment []