I'm not in the market for a car right now, having just picked up that dunebuggy, but a friend of mine is selling a very nice Aztec 7 built around a Porsche transaxle with some decent improvements on the bodywork. It's currently in Nevada, and here are a couple photos:
After getting turned down by a dude with a shotgun at the old governor's mansion, perhaps because we broke through their security without permission, and perhaps because they'd been burned by previous renters hosting raves, Rafael and I went out to Tecolote again to see if the beachfront bar owners were there today. The one that in theory was to meet us today had delayed his return until Friday, but as luck would have it, we were able to talk to someone who's involved with a second, much larger space on that same beach. In the photo below it's the large building on the left.
Anyway, it's really looking better and better, and the details are starting to fall into place. This place would provide food, drinks, everything, as well as arranging to make sure that we have entertainment like water skiing and so on reserved for us. And of course it's guaranteed shade. The event listing is here and there's a forum attached as well. If anyone has any special requests (“I want to get married on the beach”, whatever), please let Rachel or I know so we can consider the feasibility.
I've said it many times before and I'll say it here again: the almost singular cause of suffering in this world is stupidity. As long as most people are not exercising and using the potential of our massive mammalian brains, it only takes a very tiny number of greedy and unscrupulous people to do immense amounts of damage — it's not that capitalism is bad, but that capitalism is a system which becomes unstable when people don't treat it with respect. It's a powerful tool for progress, but like all powerful tools, it can be destructive if used wrong.
In any case, recent polls show that only one in six Internet users is able to tell the difference between a paid or sponsored link in a search engine — only 38% even know there is a difference. However, over ninety percent of users are confident that their searches are productive (more). Where are all these users? Well, let's take a look at what AOL customer support email has been accidentally sent to me today (more, more, more).
“Go to your happy place”
every time i logged on to that chat room there was a user covering the screen with all smiley faces….it caused me to loose aol connection becuz it froze my screen somehow….i couldnt see the user screen name becuz of the freezing of my screen as soon as i logged on to the chat room, but i could see the entire chat screen covered with smileys….i did this twice and had to exit aol and sign on again.“Racial Slurts”
LAREYNADELCHAT1 HAS BEEN HARRASING ME ALL NIGHT FOR NO REASON AND HAS ALSO BEEN THREATENING ME WITH HACKING MY PC USES RACIAL SLURTS AND HAS NO RESPECT FOR OTHER USERS FROM THE AOL CHAT ROOM ” SE HABLA ESPANOL”“buffalo chat 11/12/04″
is in room constantly bagering other members used notify aol 20x in one note for him lets get with the program people“someone is impersonating my husband!”
My name is JamieLynn Roberts my husbands name is Chase Roberts (Chaserisastud) someone for sometime now has been using my husbands screenname and all his info to send porno sites to people and talk dirty to them a girl that goes by the screenname of Josiris Yoshire emailed my husband saying that if he did not stop talking dirty to her she would report him to aol
she sent me a copy of exactly was said she even copied it from the page. We have changed his email pass every day and two days ago on Monday that person was on using his stuff i know it was not my husband because at that exact moment i seen the person online i called him at work they do not have access to aol from his work. . please do something about this and please make it stop. Sincerly JamieLynn roberts
I love the last one, because it's something that I see over and over… “Someone stole my husband's credit card and signed up for an account on your disgusting site! I know my husband, and he would never look at something like that! Refund the charges immediately or I will be filing a complaint with the FBI!” Anyway, for those of you not demanding a refund, here's a shot from one of the upcoming updates; it's from the author of the story “Four Fingered Joe”. Yeah, next time you won't be laughing when you find out the punishment for the five finger discount.
“I understand ma'am, but you may want to have the FBI check your closets, because our log files show that the access to our site was done from the same IP address as you are sending this email from. We'll get the refund processed within 24 hours.”
Anyway, I'm off to school now, but I wanted to post two links that I've been meaning to mention but haven't had a chance to. First, check out The Global Trip, an inspired and perhaps never ending travel blog about an around the world journey… on that note I'll also mention (via KA) Nomadic Research Labs — you may remember their wired bike (that's wired not weird) and other projects over the last twenty plus years, but now he's doing a neat new boat project. For those of you into nomadic living, sailing, or homebrew tech, it's very much worth checking out.
And now off to school, right?
Awww, hell, let's add another AOL complaint mail. This one's a long chat transcript. I have no idea whether there's history between these two characters or it's a mutual hallucination.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: lol fuck u
Auto response from PenPaLDad:I am away from my computer right now.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: u dunno anything u dumbass
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: believe them all uw anna
PenPaLDad: i over heard
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: ur just a faggot who likes to gossip and ruined me n my gf, im gunna fuck u up soon
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: trust me n believe me
PenPaLDad: come little boy , u dead meatr … i got more power lawyer than u
PenPaLDad: just be prepare
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: LMAOOOOO
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: TRY ME!
PenPaLDad: u try me
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: Why r u worrying about cops?
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: fuck cops fuck u
PenPaLDad: new jersey cop already called st augustine cop
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: good
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i got pulled over lastw eek so whats up with that?
PenPaLDad: tsk tsk tsk
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: duh u stupidfucker
PenPaLDad: bye , i dont need i
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: thanks
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: u didnt need to im me too
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: believe all u wanna
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: camfrog faggot freak
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: go suck ursel
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN is away at 1:55 P.M.
PenPaLDad: tsk tsk , u need to go to church
Auto response from AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: Find me at my aim.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN returned at 1:55 P.M.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: u too
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: ur gay
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: so childmilsoter
PenPaLDad: lmao
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: yea lmao
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i think its funny, bec ur really fucked ur own ass
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i think its funny d at u got raped
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: HAHAHHAHA
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i heard u fucked w jared, n shyt
PenPaLDad: look at yourself
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: uncut n blah blha ghahahahhaha
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: look at myself?
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: im just a pimp that fucks girls only, lMAO
PenPaLDad: hahahaha
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: you got ward .. you sucked him lol
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: go suck him more
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: eat anyones cum all u wanna
PenPaLDad: u got beat up by ur exlady's father
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: LAMOOOO
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i betaen him up
PenPaLDad: tsk tsk , yo mama didnt treat u good
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: he got all bleeding n shit but all i got was facturing hand,
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: thanks, yo dada fucked u so hard which is aint treating u good too
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: keep itup
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: go ahead
PenPaLDad: yea yea yea
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i dont care
PenPaLDad: sorry to hear that
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: many ppl gunna do something to you
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: nah, im, glad if they r lookin for me
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: it doesnt bother me
PenPaLDad: hahahaha, i am not scared
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: watch me, ill get out in 30 mins, lm ao
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: good, dont be scared
PenPaLDad: be prepare
PenPaLDad: i got a gooood expsevie lawyer
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: good for u
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i have 3 ones
PenPaLDad: hahahaha
PenPaLDad: bye
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: good, bye bye
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN is away at 2:00 P.M.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN returned at 2:00 P.M.
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: poor kathy that she had stuffering sucking ur uncut ick
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: really, im serious, poor kathy to be involve this
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: ttyl
PenPaLDad: your jelaous
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: jealous?
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: i got hott chicks than u
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: u just got retarded family
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: lmao
AiNtLaZy4RaCiN: fuck ur own son n break his virgbin by u, ttyl
PenPaLDad: look at yourself
PenPaLDad: u are such a troublemaker thou
Yeah, I think I'll stick to IAM, thank you…
PS. Google's new video search is pretty neat.
We've had a one month rental on a Jeep which expires in a few days, so we went and picked up a car today. Still have to add it to the garage page, but here's a quick photo of the new BMEmobile. Image update later today by the way, I'm just starting the upload now.
The thing about transscrotal piercings is that you can't just clamp and pierce them with a standard barbell, so they're beyond what the average piercer can do. Doing them as a piercing risks trapping an infection (which won't be able to drain) inside the scrotum where it can rapidly (within a couple days) become life-threatening. I have friends who have nearly died from this piercing and other scrotal infections — take this risk seriously!
In theory, the “right way” to do this is by creating a larger hole or slot through the scrotum, and then the front and back are cleanly sutured together. This is the technique pioneered by Jon Cobb back in I think 1994 that is now used by virtually all professionals doing the procedure. Done right, the piercing can fully heal in under a month (and the larger hole has better drainage ability in the case of an infection).
I saw this technique linked on MeFi and quickly wrote a version of the action he described (although it has some fairly obvious flaws in it). To be honest it's easier to write it yourself than for me to provide a copy of it because even with the action you've got to “get” it to use it right.
Note: If you do want to see how I did this, here's the current version of the action. You will have to do a lot of the work manually still (like choosing your rotation angles, and applying any distortion to the lines). Note that the first time you run it, a few errors will be generated because of missing layers. Ignore them, but when it's done running the first time, press undo three or four times (until the 'Layer 1' reappears). Anyway: etchit.atn (F9 activated).
With Rafael's help as a translator and oracle we went down to the beach today to see about reserving it for BMEfest. Tecolote, the beach that's pictured in the BMEfest banner is still top on our list and we all pretty much agree it's the ideal place. The food is great, and we will be able to reserve the restaurant so it's all ours (the beach is public). It's big enough that we've got more than enough space, and pulling on the beach will be totally fine as well, although just out of respect to other people who aren't into that it'll have to be a little farther down (but that's better for people doing it anyway). Here are two more panoramas, looking down the beach each way from the restaurant.
“Excuse me. Excuse me, Señor. May I speak to you please? I asked for a mai tai, a margarita, and a piña colada. I asked for no salt, no salt in the margarita. But it had salt in it… If you do that again, I won't be leaving a tip. I won't be putting one down. I could check into a competing resort. I could write a letter to your nation's board of tourism and I could have this place condemned.”
“I could put… I could put… strychnine in the guacamole.”
