Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Monthly Archives: July 2002

Three horns?

Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Should I worry? Is that a bad sign?

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Shannon: apprentice bartender?

Sunday, July 28, 2002

The evening's drinks:

Melon Tequila

1 1/2 oz Tequila
1/2 oz Triple sec
1 oz fresh Lime juice
1/2 oz melon liqueur

To be honest,
not great.
Drinkable, but
not great…

Evil Blue Thing

1 1/2 oz Creme de cacao
1 oz Blue Curacao
1/2 oz Light rum

I was surprised!
Really yummy…

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The rebuild is crawling along… I think we should be able to have things restored by morning, let's hope it's not too long a night. Why do things always happen when you're on vacation, and why did my business partners (who normally would have dealt with this for me) have to go out of town?

Let's make ourselves feel better with some funmail. I assume that most of you know what the Klez virus is, and how to deal with it. Anyway, one of the things that Klez does is send itself with a fake “From” address picked at random. As such, popular email addresses (such as mine), get “blamed” semi-regularly. Here are a few recent emails I've received about it:

From: “Caitlin McKissick” <bunnyluv02@msn.com> To: “iamviolation” <iamviolation@bmezine.com> Subject: Re: A new game Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 01:04:16 -0400 who the fuck are you? why the fuck are you sending me mail? I don't like anyone at BME so don't send me anything again. Caitlin Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:17:55 -0600 From: Realms <joesmb@pacbell.net> To: glider <glider@bmezine.com> fuck you asshole i got a virious scan it will not work dick head From: “Maude E. Fyer” <star13k23@hotmail.com> To: iamviolation@bmezine.com Subject: Re: Japanese girl VS playboy Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 00:35:31 +0000 http://www.churchofbodmod.com sorry, nothing here…… Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:19:40 -0600 From: Realms <joesmb@pacbell.net> Subject: fuck you asshole it didnt work To: glider <glider@bmezine.com> fuck you your virious didnt work dick head i got a virious scan you cock sucking ass hole cumm eating faggot mother fucker

Well, I'm sure that fun will continue for some time… So — if you think I sent you a virus, I didn't. I don't even run software that's vulnerable, and I never run foreign programs on my main machines.

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Time to work…

Thursday, July 25, 2002

I'm rewriting my scaling routines this morning to use a better filter, and am then finishing the update I started yesterday… I'm also going to go get my mai; I have some packages waiting — however, I can't say I'm looking forward to walking through the sea of Catholic jackasses that think the best way to show their popepride is to wave American flags and chant “U-S-A! U-S-A!” over and over again, and then follow that up with a volley of profanity if you don't join them…

Maybe a piece of funmail or two will make me feel better. This first one is in regards to BME/Risks:

From: “Cynthia” <Bubble_Bath14@***.***> Regarding: Safety Pins this is the sickest site I have ever seen. you not only scared me out of getting my tounge peirced but i have now decided to take all my peircings out. thanks a lot!!!

OK… Just a couple more, but then I have to get to work. The risks section generates an endless supply of moronic feedback — mostly just from people who want to be smartasses, submitting stupid information… For example,

From: “Caitlin McKissick” <bunnyluv02@msn.com> Subject: what the fuck? loss of blood has many many numeorus risks, duh! loosing too much, AIDS, feeling very sick, passing out due to loss of iron, etc.! These are things whomever is working on this page should know. People who read this page should know all the risks, some people needd this very much. I would applaud you if you had some information on this subject due to just using your brain. From: joe_2_cool@***.*** Risk name: burn / Fireplay if you play with fire, you're going to get burned. someone who wants to play with fire around their genitals is a brave person in my opinion! personally, i wouldn't want to run this risk of burning my penis off and never being able to have a GOOD sexual experience for just one night of plessure.

Yeah, thanks a lot Einsteins. Finally, I like this message a lot mostly for its crazy layout:

From: richard t hunt <at3hunt@***.***> Subject: No subject i want to get my eye brow pierce but i heard that it hurts its not like your piercing but do you got a pics to show that i my not want that pierce

I'm off to do some work… Now… What's best… I'm currently using area averaging, but could bi-linear, bi-cubic, box filter, triangle filter, Hamming, Gaussian, bell filter, B-spline, cubic filters, Lanczos3, Mitchell, sinc filter, Hermite, Hanning, or Catrom filtering… Time to run some tests!

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A recommendation

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

If a friend of yours says to you “Hey — I got blocked* from someone's page. Can you go to their page and send me a copy of their diary?“, the only answer that won't get you removed from the site is “NO“. Feel free to ignore that warning if you don't mind being deleted. Anyway, I thought that this might amuse some of you — it's a scan from one of my old “idea” sketchbooks from early 2000.

I'm pretty sure that was the first time I'd started to plan what was to become iam.bmezine.com… And yes, I really do design everything on paper. Even things like data structures are written by hand first, and then entered into the computer.

* Note that the new block features I'm working on allow you to block not only a specific user, but a specific user PLUS everyone on their buddy list as well (you won't be shown the contents of their buddy list).

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Napalm the downtown core… please!

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

There are three major festivals in Toronto this year. There's Gay Pride (obviously you know what this is), Caribanna (an Afro-Caribbean festival), and World Youth (a Catholic festival). Each draws about a million people, but each is treated very differently by the city. This damned Xtofest Pope-o-rama that's happening right was given something like $40 million by the city, and has been run at a loss, even though the city is currently overrun by bottom-of-the-barrel trash and no city revenues are generated… On the other hand, Gay Pride was given an insultingly small $40,000 (forty thousand dollar) grant by the city, even though it generates enormous revenue for city businesses and is a respected yearly event.

I declare:

The more gays and gay culture in Toronto the better.
The more blacks and Afro-Caribbean culture in Toronto the better.

I wish I could say the same thing about the obnoxious bottom-of-the-barrel xian trash that's currently overrunning the city, but I can't. Now, I should say that I have no problem with Jesus or God (define them as you see fit), and there are numerous Christians on IAM that I respect both as friends and as people (Scrunnel, Jason, or Zarathustra all are good examples of that), but if Jesus had less restraint he'd be tearing open the earth right now and letting these people fall to Hell without having to wait for their deaths.

Again, this is not an attack on Christianity — the vegan pot-smoking love-spewing Jesus figure is something we can all aspire to, irregardless of our faith… This is about a bunch of brain washed kids throwing their money and support at a pack of child molesting bastards that have caused more murder and suffering than any other force we've seen on this planet. If Bin Laden et al are required to pay for their sins in blood, I call for the international human rights court to indite the Catholic Church. They must answer for centuries of the most vile crimes humanity has produced.

And I am disgusted that I — as a taxpayer — just had to pay for their cult meeting.

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Will the maps never end?

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

I know there are a few problems with international locations where there is more than one city of the same name… Sorry… Still working on it… But fixing that bug is definitely included in my to-do list. Anyway, here are some closeup maps of the different regions, using data from about four days ago if I remember right.