http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery
build software that imports a huge chunk of pi into a database, then allows visual representation of that as arbitrary number of pixels bitmap etc.. see what pi ‘looks’ like.
One of the things that most people don’t know about me is that I send out probably only a quarter of the emails I write.
I wonder, if I were to be hit by a bus tomorrow, what would be made of all the emails I don’t send. I can’t decide if I’d want them to be delivered to their intended recipiants, or deleted – probably a little of both. They make for intereseting reading for me, though.
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So, P. stayed over last night in order to help me face the scary Democrats (or the other way around, I think she was just as apprehensive as I was about the whole thing). It turned out to be rather a lot of fun, although I was truly pushing exhausted by the end of the thing, since I didn’t sleep at all last night. [Working and then playing music]
Anyway, sometime around 10ish we wandered down to a local school to cast our vote. My neighbor, who is a big Dean supporter, booed as I wrote in ‘Kucinich’ in the box, but it was completely in fun. Or mostly so anyway. There was one Kerry supporter who kind of scared me a little bit.. 😉
Anyway, so, after this our chair explained the rules of the system, and how we would be able to change our votes, horse-trade to get canidates viable, and whatever until the cutoff time. When we were told that any canidates with less than 15% of the vote were unviable, P. turned to me and said ‘Sorry’ and I started trying to figure out who I was going to change my vote to. I had just about decided on Kerry, despite the fact that there are a few things I really dislike about him – like how plastic he seems, how rich he is, and how he voted for the recent war – when I happened to glance over at the sheets.
You could plainly see everyone’s vote – I think this was a good thing, considering the horse-trading that later ensued, it made things simpler – and it didn’t look like Kucinich wasn’t a viable canidate _at all_. in fact, when the votes were tallied, in our precinct he got more than Kerry!
But then, I always knew I lived in a cool neighborhood.
It was neat in general – I got to meet some of my neighbors, which is something I definately don’t do enough of. In the end, we broke up into groups and decided who would take our issues to the county on May 1st and 8th. There were several volunteers, but I was chosen.
So now I’m active in local government. Well, kind of.
Anyway – I was also happy that at one point when it looked like Kucinich wasn’t going to get enough votes for a delegate after the horse-trading had ensued, P. was willing to change her vote to make Kucinich a viable canidate. 😉
It was a cool system – had almost a instant-runoff flavor to it. I think it would make a good system for electing a president – you could support multiple parties easily!
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“My Past Lives” by Too Much Joy
from the album “Son of Sam I Am”
I was Genghis Kahn I was Aristophenes
I was a guy named Urgh in 50,000 B.C.
I was Rasputin and all the chicks he had
I was Catherine the Great I was my mom and dad
I’ve been a butcher I’ve been a baker I have been a bookmaker
I have skippered Clipper ships and dug for undertakers
I’ve lived to be 98 and I have died when I was four
I’ve lived through war and peace and war and war and war and war
I could write a book about my past lives
I should write a book about my past lives
I died three times at Waterloo
This life’s not the best but at least I’m not you
I was Abe Lincoln I was all the slaves he freed
This life’s not the best but at least you’re not me
I’ve been French noblemen and I’ve been Russian peasants
I’ve been somebodies, nobodies, once I was a pheasant
Iwas there when Ceasar bled and I followed where Moses led
I wrote the words Mohammed said, I kissed the ground where St. Paul tread
I was best man when Henry wed, I put the crown on George’s head
I slept in Washington’s bed, I shot John F. Kennedy dead
I watched Atlantis sink below, hung out with Bowie at the aAlamo
I didn’t like being Edgar Allen Poe, I was sick a lot whe I was Rimbaud
I helped the druids build Stonehenge, me and Buddha invented Zen
Once I borrowed Shakespeare’s pen, Joan of Arc was my best friend
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“Galileo” – Indigo Girls
galileo’s head was on the block
the crime was looking up the truth
as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
i try to trace them to my youth
then you had to bring up reincarnation
over a couple of beers the other night
now i’m serving time for mistakes
made by another in another lifetime
how long till my soul gets it right?
can any human being ever reach
that kind of light?
i call on the resting soul
of galileo
king of night vision
king of insight
i think about my fear of motion
which i never could explain
some other fool across the ocean years ago
must have crashed his little airplane
how long till my soul gets it right?
can any human being ever reach
that kind of light?
i call on the resting soul
of galileo
king of night vision
king of insight
i’m not making a joke you know me
i take everything so seriously
if we wait for the time till all souls get it right
then at least i know there’ll be
no nuclear annihilation in my lifetime
i’m still not right
i offer thanks to those before me
that’s all i’ve got to say
maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
now i’ve got to pay
but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
to let the next life off the hook
or she’ll say look what i had to overcome
from my last life i think i’ll write a book
how long till my soul gets it right?
can any human being ever reach
that kind of light?
i call on the resting soul
of galileo
king of night vision
king of insight
how long?
how long?
how long
www.TrueMajority.org/oreo
OKCupid says I am:
The Loverboy
Random Gentle Love Master (RGLMm)
Well-liked. Well-established. You are The Loverboy. Loverboys thrive in committed, steady relationships–as opposed to, say, Playboys, who want sex without too much attachment.
You’ve had many relationships and nearly all of them have been successful. You’re a nice guy, you know the ropes, and even if you can be a little hasty with decisions, most girls think of you as a total catch. Your hastiness comes off as spontaneity most of the time anyhow, making you especially popular in your circle of friends, too.
Your exact opposite:
The Billy Goat
Deliberate Brutal Sex Dreamer
You know not to make the typical Loverboy mistake of choosing someone who appreciates your good humor and popularity, but who offers nothing in return. You belong with someone outgoing, independent, and creative. Otherwise, you’ll get bored. And then instead of surprising her with flowers or a practical joke, you’ll surprise her by leaving.
ALWAYS AVOID: The Nymph
CONSIDER: The Window Shopper, The Peach
Woke up.. seriously time-shifted from working a 24 hour day day before yesterday – yesterday.. (as in, punched in at noon, punched out at one). There are still bugs. Well, there always are.
Had really awful dreams last night.. P. moved to some little town in them, and I was saying goodbye and leaving all the blankets with her and it was just really sad..
Bruce came by last night and we talked about design work on the UCM-II, and the possibility of him laying out Scotty. Of course, that involves either me doing a design session on scotty on my own, or getting Lee to move on it – and I gather he’s busy with other things. But I need these modules _today_..
And I still have a bunch of parking meter crap to do, not to mention that database to fix for circle-R (I’ve been working on it.. there’s something wrong with BuildRelevantTags)
Say something relevant, sheer, speaking of relevant tags.
Mike is coming over today. My Stranger ad brought many musicians interested in jamming, but not a single one of them is into electronica. Oh, I take that back, there’s one girl who is. But I gather there aren’t all that many people out there in the wilds into the idea of a electronica jam band..
all in all, life is depressing. Need to clean up house. Need to continue working on parking meters, but am already approaching my cap of $4000 for the mtrax application, and still much to do. Once again, I make bad time estimates and have to eat it. And the new boss is apparently a stickler for getting timing right. Well, I told him 6 weeks for mtrax and etm – I’m _ONE GUY_. I don’t have anyone to handle the administrivia so I can concentrate on coding, I don’t have a test person (H. claims he is but he never tests anything and when he does I get back emails which show he has no clue how the product works – I need a test person who actually makes a effort to understand the software.. but I digress)
The new shell app crashes whenever it’s run in release mode. Which is kind of frustrating because by definition when it’s in release mode ther eis no debugger.
I heard the news today oh boy.. about a lucky man who’d made the grade..
Echoes of dancerboy.
1. Scary Stories Series by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Forever by Judy Blume
8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
9. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11. The Giver by Lois Lowry
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
14. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
15. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
16. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
17. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
18. Sex by Madonna
19. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
20. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
21. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
22. The Witches by Roald Dahl
23. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
24. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
25. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
26. The Goats by Brock Cole
27. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
28. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
29. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
30. Blubber by Judy Blume
31. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
32. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
33. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
36. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
39. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
41. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
42. Deenie by Judy Blume
43. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
44. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
46. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
47. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Eye! by Alvin Schwartz
48. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
49. Cujo by Stephen King
50. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
53. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
54. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
56. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
59. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
60. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
61. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
62. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
63. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
64. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
68. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
69. Native Son by Richard Wright
70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
71. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
72. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
73. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
76. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
77. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
78. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
79. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
80. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
81. Carrie by Stephen King
82. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
85. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
86. Private Parts by Howard Stern
87. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
88. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
89. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. Jumper by Steven Gould
95. Christine by Stephen King
96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
97. That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
98. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
99. The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
I was going to post about my dream this morning, but I decided it was too dark and too odd and not meaningful enough – (I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had – Tears for Fears..)
So anyway, here’s some new tracks: (these are small enough that even you dialup people could manage if you tried)
Lyrics by Esen & Sheer, music by Sheer
and some covers:
And with my friend
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That latest version of Love/Hate was goth, for sure, without a doubt. Despite the electronica-style intro.
I’m really starting to get into this recording stuff. Some of my latest tracks have been sooo coool… well, I think so anyway.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/dave_lieber/7643262.html
Ah, reminds me of the good old days. You know, I had a friend who will remain nameless who wrote a peice of software that destroyed disk drives on apple-][es, and I don’t think they did anything to him for that. They finally suspended him for putting Virus Creation Labs on the LAN (which I don’t think they should have – I mean, it’s a good objective way to learn assembly programming, it’s about as educational as they come. I admit, you can do some pretty evil things with it, but come to that you can do some pretty evil things with a text editor too)
Anyway, a long standing reaction of the school systems everywhere to anything they don’t understand is to suspend, expell, or otherwise harass the people involved. There’s a long standing tradition of discouraging individual thought in schools, and it looks like it’s still alive and well.
No wonder we suck so much.
S.