Monthly Archives: July 2007

26 Jul

well spring

well spring

hello. i got robbed again. i definitely didnt understand it for at least three days. but today i am thinking that i understand that more than other things. for instance i do not understand political identification. its creepy. and i definitely dont know why the only public place i hear squeeze songs is in the grocery store. i will never know why george lucas put cgi muppets into his new movie versions or why he had a cameo in beverly hills cop 3. but i guess people steal because they need shit. and i have some shit so they took it. its pretty simple and i guess i dont feel so angry now that i understand it. im not yodeling or anything but im also not seething. i think i will display some knee jerk reaction. but i think that reaction will be different than i thought it would be three days ago. watching people and waiting for them to do stuff is pretty interesting. i guess if you are always somewhere between amused bemused or confused you are getting quite a bit out of life and frankly that is never a bad thing.

 
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22 Jul

3rd

3rd

its not like all i do is complain. im just filling the time with observations see. like for instance. ok im not the biggest fan of myspace. i do recognize the utility of keeping a profile as it has connected me to a COUPLE people that i have been pleased about reconnecting with. but mostly i hate it. i hate the shallow giggly dumbshit comments the slothlike load times the disgusting layouts people use and most of all i hate those ads after i log out. in addition to those hates though a new monster is wading into my hate mush. the music pages. many people love to say “but myspace gives indie artists a new chance to get their work out there!” bollocks. the good undiscovered bands got it out there before myshitspace existed. all myspace does is get your work out to morons. and the latest dirtbag move on the music page writer peoples part is…….. referring to themselves in 3rd person. are you dead? do you plan to play your music dead? why are you referring to yourself in 3rd person? it does not magnify the intensity of your music. it does not get you on vh1. it does not make people imagine leonard nimoy is reading your bio. all it does is make you appear to be selling snake oil . and who am i. hell maybe you are selling snake oil. go ahead. cater to reptiles. i hope nobody talks to you directly at your show. everybody will just say to you “could you get *&#$dope to sign this for me?” you will feel stupid after the 50th time because you will realize a) you were dumb to suggest you were dead by writing your personal bio in 3rd person, b) you were dumb to assume your fans on myspace ‘really do love you! <3 xoxoxo ^_^ c) you wish you had joined friendster because you think that would have been a better way to ‘get yourself out there’

 
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21 Jul

vulpine slack

vulpine slack

i just dont understand people. if i walked up to you and said to you “could you tell me what time it is?” there are relatively few ways to misconstrue the question. the first and quite literal meaning is i need to know the time and so i am asking you and therefore your reply is business as usual, “why its 4am good sir.” the other possible interpretation is you are threatened by my gigantic 140 pound presence and think only of your wife and child and so in reply say “just take my wallet i dont want it!” ok. so how does email present such a massive difficulty in following the simple thread of a question to its quelling? if i ask a question lately via email, regardless of how analytically inclined or well read the person is, at least 50% of the time (based on the last ~100 emails i have sent to people) i get a response that does not reflect or address all or some of the content in my impetus email. i am not talking about emails of whimsy. those are different. i am talking about focused and specific questions that simply get ignored or slip right past a reader for no reason whatsoever. the effect is another email or further communication via phone or face to face contact. what the hell? is anyone using email actually reading the prompts? i might as well just reply to all emails saying i like bananas but not the dried ones that are sometimes coated in chili pepper and salt because the taste and smell of them reminds me of stale vomit.

 
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19 Jul

hello from dirt

hello from dirt

well i am about 1700 feet from total depth on the well i have been stationed on. we will most likely hit total depth on saturday; then at around 2am or so we will run production casing string. that means by tuesday i will be moving out of a trailer and back into a hotel in marshall texas. and that is it for now. everything else is ostensibly irrelevant in my life although beneath the surface such is not the case. heh.

 
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15 Jul

test lightbox

test lightbox

this was the beginning of a hydraulic fracture operation

 
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10 Jul

something tickled.

something tickled.

recent advances in software have had significant impacts on my life. you may remember some through your own experience or by proxy. either way you should know that more software is being written that gets shit done. i attribute this to the dudes that fight through the pain when they run linux, and the dudes that drink so much mountain dew their eyes are perm red. today another blow was dealt, imho, to email client inadequacity. i found a plugin for thunderbird https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2533 which will allow you to import/export or alternatively sync your addressbooks to a remote location using ftp https webdav. think foxmarks for thunderbird contacts. this is fantastic! i am not going to justify using thunderbird. if it has not become your client of choice you either do not need the power and simplicity it affords you for free, or you think webmail is the “best” mail. and even if you do use “best” mail you can do it through thunderbird now. google users are not immune to contact woes either. if you are not using a client locally to store your email you must be connected in order to access info. if you are doing that, you still dont have a good way to sync contacts, much less sync them over multiple computers. it is also possibly you are not an email whore like myself and do not need thunderbird because your life is not inextricably tied to the internet. i am not willing to respect you if you fall into that category though. so there you have it. i will probably not worry about staying on top of contacts any more thanks to the fine folks at mozilla and the fine work of guenter. thanks guys! lateral note: if you all start using directory synchronizer, we should all let guenter know, as well as thunderbird. this is the kind of feature that immediately catapults a program to the forefront in my opinion. i know microsoft outlook does it with webdav but not everyone has access to a webdav. whereas many people have access to ftp now. at the very least i hope development on this continues in future versions of thunderbird because after using it for the last 30 minutes i dont think i will be able to go back to Tools->Export->csv.

 
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06 Jul

feign your fane with fame and

feign your fane with fame and

i am living in a trailer for the first time in my life. it is interesting. i have always been happy in small confined spaces, just ask zahir about my dream house. but this confined space is badly designed and air doesnt circulate well in it, an observation that i didnt realize i have the faculty for making. i am doing it because i am learning about drilling. it is a grand process that has many dirty metaphors for description. if you cant handle generally dirty metaphors you are no longer capable of handling me. i smell like a mix between febreeze and elephant. tomorrow i will shower because i will have towels. i like vegetables. i like salad. i guess what im driving at here is i fucking L0V3 dietary fiber. this has never been more apparent to me than this week. hail. Es el ass ie. insofar, word.

 
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