Category: stardate

SARASOTA, FL. – A man accused of taking photos of a sleeping woman after he undressed her has been charged with Video Voyeurism.

The evidence was found in a camera that the man left behind at her residence.

OJ: voyeurism: FAIL
BRAIN: I know, how do you expect to beat off to photos you don’t have with you?

You know what is funny about voyeurism? It’s not so much the act as the getting caught that is the crime.

Like if no one EVER knew that you did it… the victim would not be harmed… since it’s their impression that causes the actual harm. The creepy feeling only happens after you discover someone has been watching you naked.

If a dude beats off to your naked body in the forest and no one finds out, does it make a sound?

Today I found a gooey thing in my indoor water plant. I shook the bowl a bit and the goo ball slowly elongated… into an arrow head.

I figured out this must be a planarian / flatworm. I had never seen one of these guys before! There’s no chemicals in my plant, and the water is crystal clear. I guess it’s a vote of confidence that these guys are living in the water. They must have come from the (outdoor) pond where I was growing my other water garden.

I have two bowls. In the planarian one, there is parrot feather, duckweed, and fairy moss. And aphids on the parrot feather. I think I found a larval ladybug which I put on the bowl; hopefully that will do something.

The other bowl isn’t doing as well. The plant in it is a water hyacinth of some kind, which came with soil in the roots. It’s a floating plant. My mom got it for me and left it outside with no water, so when I got it, it was half-dead. It seems to be coming back. Unfortunately I left it outdoors for a couple days so now there is some kind of water thing living in it – I think mosquito larvae. The water is black and murky. I have to drain it and start over.

I promise when elected to impose free mandatory health care for everyone, including illegal immigrants and house plants.

I also promise to require random abortions and institute “Death Boards” that will control the population, by quota, but also largely by arbitrary whim.

In addition, 20% of the population will be required to reverse their sexual orientation, also chosen at random.

Maybe then you all can have something real to complain about.

BEN: Pokagon state park, wtf
BRAIN: gotta catch em all!
BEN: isnt that where you get the 30 safari balls and you catch things in the bushes
BRAIN: Pokagon is a Flyover-type Pokemon

Last night, August 6th

And the early morning, like 4am, of Tuesday, July 21st. Possibly the morning before, July 20th as well.

MYSTERY

UPDATE:
…until a day or two before Thursday, September 17th, 2009. Bummer.

Back to the earth Monday, September 21st. Good voyage, and better luck next time kiddo.

I had a major bummer experience – I have Time Machine running off a Time Capsule.

I noticed (eventually!) that my backup hadn’t completed for days. Eventually Time Machine popped up a dialog telling me this as well. But why? I watched it run and saw that it never got out of the “Preparing” stage. I let it run for hours. Trying to be especially patient, I even let it run for 48 hours. It never stopped “Preparing.”

I read online you could read some logs or something using Console.app. Console’s icon bounced a couple times, but never brought up a console. I had to Force Quit it. And still Time Machine was Preparing.

I called Apple support. I have an Apple Care membership. They suggested I load the Time Capsule as a drive, and delete the “sparsebundle” there. This would erase all my backups and history, so I could start fresh. While this may have solved things, I didn’t want to do this: what would be the point of backup with Time Machine then?!

They gave me one more hint before I had to go. They said to use Disk Utility and attempt to Repair Disk on the Time Capsule volume. So I did… the process took a long time, even though it estimated it would take an hour… it ended up taking over 2 hours. I let it run all day.

When I got back some bad permissions had indeed been detected, and repaired. I shut down Disk Utility and attempted another Time Machine backup.

This time it worked! It did Preparing for only a few minutes, and then completed the backup, adequately proving that I hadn’t started over from scratch with no history — if I had, this Preparing would have taken hours.

Please stop wailing over Michael Jackson now. I haven’t seen this much unjustified shock/surprise since the Twin Towers were blown up by terrorists.

Hey here’s a news flash: most if not all your childhood idols, if they were older than you, will die while you are alive.

They may even die if they were younger than you.

They will for sure die at some point.

And so will you. You’re going to die! And there’s so much to do!

Better get crackin’!

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BRAIN: Check out the Poop Monster
SARAH: Wah!
SARAH: That’s disgusting
BRAIN: yet fascinating
BRAIN: cryptozoology!
SARAH: don’t want to know what is in the sewers of NYC
BRAIN: alligators?
SARAH: maybe they will eat these things
SARAH: or be consumed by them, who knows
BRAIN: maybe we can stitch together balls of these poopmonster things and make a Sewer Golem
SARAH: that’s sick – just sick
BRAIN: use it to rob banks, steal virgins, the usual
BRAIN: eventually Batman shows up and beats everyone up
BRAIN: what a killjoy
SARAH: I am going to need to recover before lunch

BRAIN: the cheap starbucks machine is on woot today
SHAC: the day we get acquired im heading straight to the closest williams sonoma or sur la table
SHAC: and spending $2k on a machine
BRAIN: the day we get acquired I’m going to buy an order of fries
SHAC: im gonna walk in w/ 100s and just say “hook it up”
SHAC: or “lets do this”
SHAC: havent decided
SHAC: this is a critical moment so it must be handled just right
BRAIN: you can practice in the mirror

I just saw Bawdy Caste’s production of Clue at the Clay Theater in San Francisco, which they performed like they do the Rocky Horror Picture Show– they perform all the action in costume silently as the movie plays behind them on the screen. The audience heckles the screen as the movie plays.

Something I noticed this about Clue this time was the minor inconsistencies between each of the three solutions– would Yvette really have time to run the length of the mansion twice, kill the cook, and drag her body to the meat locker in the time she spent off-screen?

To sort this out, I was thinking it would be cool to put footnotes on screen while the original action is happening, color-coded by each of the three solutions: “Solution A: Right now, Mrs. Peacock is killing the cook.” In addition, the clues used in the solutions would be called out: “Yvette flinches when she sees Mrs. White.”