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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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5:12 pm - Some HMX goodness.
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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3:33 pm - To Follow Up
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| Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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8:12 pm - Please Don't Fuck This Up
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| Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
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7:36 pm - Mystery Solved!
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| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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2:25 pm
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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3:23 pm - The episode that never was
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| Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
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6:02 pm - You have to love those 419 Scammers
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| Friday, November 17th, 2006
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10:38 pm - 26 More Hours!
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| Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
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8:50 pm
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| Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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5:24 pm - Proud to be an ameruchan
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Nov. 3, 2006 — An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.
ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.
"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.
"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.
Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.
One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.
"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.
The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.
During the ABC News sessions, some recruiters told our students if they enlisted, there would be little chance they'd to go Iraq.
But Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of U.S. Army recruiting for the entire Northeast, said that new recruits were likely to go to Iraq.
"I would not disagree with that," Manning said. "We are a nation and Army at war still."
Manning looked at the ABC News video of his recruiters.
"It's hard to believe some of things they are telling prospective applicants," Manning said. "I still believe that this is the exception more than the norm. … I've visited many stations myself, and I know that we have many wonderful Americans serving in uniform as recruiters."
Yet ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the Army, you could just quit.
"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just be like it never happened."
Manning, however, disagrees with the ease the recruiter describes.
"I would believe it's not as easy as he would lead you to believe it is," he said.
Sue Niederer, whose son, Seth, joined the Army in 2002, said she was all too familiar with recruiters' lies.
"They need to do anything they possibly can to get recruits," Niederer said.
Seth was sent to Iraq and was killed by a roadside bomb.
Niederer said she was not surprised by what ABC News had found. She believes it's still a widespread problem. She said that recruiters told Seth he wouldn't be put into combat.
"Ninety percent [are] going to be putting their lives on the line for our country," she said. "Tell them the truth. That's all. Just tell them the truth."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2626032&page=1
Then again maybe this is a new type of evolution. Kids this out of touch should be weeded out.
I dunno anymore.
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| Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
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8:05 pm - Could it be?
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I just ran across this article on pitchfork.
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Late Sunday night, a mysterious post appeared on E6 Townhall, the Elephant 6 message board. Credited to a poster named "Nigh" and written under the subject heading "news and fish and meaningful messages." Here is what it said:
"hello again.
"for the past few months ive been putting together the pieces of everything ive written in the past three years and its been a revelation. whenever i had the time ive been writing melodies and keeping them in my head for later, and songs just accumulate, im not waiting as some have said. i still dont know how we're going to put it all together, the songs will have more noises and collages in them. because of that we dont know whether this will be korena pang or neutral milk hotel or michael bolton but that doesnt really matter. names are just a box we put things in to separate them, and we're figuring out what box these songs go in.
"we dont have a timetable for releasing the album yet, so dont get your hopes up for new songs now. if you want more "aeroplane" just ignore all of this, the songs are songs but they're longer and more free. when jeremy came down after his tour we just spent days playing noise while screaming and it was incredibly liberating.
"it has been so much fun that we will for sure be playing a show or two, probably more. freedom is a wonderful thing but at a certain point you need the routines of normal life. ive had that for a while but i realized last year at the show with the livys that the best sort of normal ive ever had was on the road with my friends. getting to gigs late with cars coughing and trombones smacking on doors, the giant egg leaks over the masses, the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days. it can never be the same but i need to get as close as i can to that again.
"so thats all. everything is happening soon, this is the year.
thanks for listening. jeff."
Could it be? Jeff Mangum, arguably indie rock's most elusive character, announcing his return to the spotlight? Or just an elaborate hoax?
Well, according to Kelly Ruberto from Cloud Recordings, it is not a joke. Jeff Mangum really did write that.
John Fernandes of Olivia Tremor Control ("the livys"), Circulatory System, and Cloud Recordings, had only this to say:
"Sounds like him, but you never know, probably is."
Holy shit.
However, according to Robert Schneider, Apples in Stereo frontman and Mangum's close friend, Mangum confirmed that he did NOT author the post.
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Article
They are still dancing the confirm/deny dance, but one can hope.
I would love to hear what he has put together for us for this trip.
Figured I would post this as I know some of you are fans, and may not have caught the article.
current music: GrUps - Lil Red Riding Hood
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| Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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2:11 pm - Towel Day
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You sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? Now there's a frood who knew where his towel was.
You are invited to join your fellow hitchhikers in mourning the loss of the late great one.
Join in on towel day to show your appreciation for the humor and insight that Douglas Adams
brought to all our lives.
What do I do?
Carry your towel with you throughout the day to show your participation and mourning.
When do I do it?
May 25th.
Where do I do it?
Everywhere.
Why a towel?
To quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
www.towelday.kojv.net
current mood:  sick
current music: Gogol Bordello
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| Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
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8:56 pm - Keep on fighting that power.
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I have neglected internet for real people.
Whatever will we do.
current mood:  ecstatic
current music: Leo Kottke - The Train And The Gate
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| Thursday, March 30th, 2006
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9:25 pm - So what's next, Tubgirl water fountains?
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What really makes me sad is my initial impression was suprise that he doesn't have his wedding band on.
If you don't know what goatse is then congratulations on still having a bit of a soul left.
current mood: Mood
current music: Dragonforce - Fields of Despair
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| Thursday, January 12th, 2006
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12:53 am
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| Saturday, December 31st, 2005
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12:42 am - What in the fuck, seriously. What in the fuck.
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| Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
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10:51 pm - Not sure if anyone cares, but we just turned this up at work tonite
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[Quote]==========================================================
This afternoon, a new '0-day' (meaning brand new and previously unknown) exploit was announced by several major antivirus companies.
In short: it's possible to put a virus into a kind of image file (a "Windows MetaFile" or WMF) that shouldn't normally be able to have a virus in it. You can get infected just by *looking* at an otherwise normal image or webpage with vulnerable software, such as Internet Explorer for Windows. Even a 1 by 1 pixel transparent GIF can carry the malicious code.
Security advisories:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/912840.mspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/18255/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16074/
The payload seems to be some sort of spyware. If you have customer complaints regarding a new program that just showed up on their PC called "SpyAxe", or if they mention a red X in their Taskbar, they may be infected. Some versions of this exploit may actually disable the Task Manager, so that you cannot end task. Sometimes, an access of this file will spontaneously trigger the Windows Picture and Fax viewer; if a customer is confused about that program starting to open, that's a red flag as well.
Internet Explorer is extremely vulnerable to this.
Mozilla / Firefox / Opera are immune from 'infection on viewing', but if you 'save as' this file with one of these browsers, you can get infected.
Also, Google Desktop automagically indexes all files on computers, and it will trigger any exploits hidden in a file that has been saved to the computer. Disabling Google Desktop for the time being is a good idea, no matter what the browser.
AV companies are rolling out fixes today as they can manage. This exploit may be tricky and may circumvent some protections in major AV software such as Mcafee or Norton AV. ClamAV and AVG are being mentioned a lot as solid defenses against this new exploit.
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So everyone becareful while porn harvesting for the next couple of days.
current music: Wolfmother - Vagabond (Thanks Shomizu)
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| Monday, December 26th, 2005
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9:50 pm - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto
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I'm pretty careful when it comes to my socks. Certain philosophers (Emilio Estevez in St. Elmo's Fire, for example) have speculated as to why socks so often get lost whenever people do laundry, but--until recently--that had never happened to me. In the span of fourteen years. I never lost a single sock. But then I lost a sock in October of 2001. And then I lost another two weeks later, and then a third around Thanksgiving. And it slowly dawned on me that something was afoot. "What in the name of Andrew W.K. is going on?" I asked aloud while sorting my freshly cleaned garments. Why were my socks suddenly disappearing like Chinese panda bears? What had changed?
The answer: Mr. Smokey.
It occurred to me that the only aspect of my laundering that had changed in recent weeks was my new found affinity for petting a feline of unknown origin. Accessing the public laundry room in my apartment complex required that I briefly walk outside of my building's back door, where I consistently encountered a large gray cat I liked to call "Mr. Smokey." Despite our initial differences, I struck up an amicable relationship with Mr. Smokey; whenever I saw him. I would scratch his kitty ears and his kitty tummy, much to his kitty delight.
Or so it seemed.
Evidence began to mount suggesting that Mr. Smokey was using this weekly exchange as a diversion to steal my socks, one at a time. It's still not clear why he wanted my socks, since it had always been my assumption that kittens wanted mittens (in order to acquire pie).
However, there was no other explanation for these disappearances. In fact, I have reason to believe there was a whole network of cats involved in this: Perhaps Mr. Smokey stole my attention while a second cat (or cats) pounced into my laundry basket, snaring the best available footwear and fleeing into the darknetss. I'm convinced an even larger cat ("Mr. Orange") from a neighboring building was part of this conspiracy.
"How often have I said," asked coke-addict Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four, "that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" This is true; I am nothing if not logical.
Mr. Smokey must die.
~Chuck Klosterman
I'm not sure why I posted this. I just really haven't updated in a long time.
Will try to get to my It's a pretty okay life xmas update in sometime soon.
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| Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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8:51 pm
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| Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
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11:12 pm - Dean Gray's American Edit
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I am really suprised no one else has posted this so I will go ahead.
This is an amazing free download mash-up album done by Dean Gray (Party Ben?).
I have really been enjoying it, and it is totally free. They just ask that you donate to various charities
if you enjoy the tracks.
Here is a link to the first track "American Jesus"
http://www.americanedit.net/Audio/01%20-%20Dean%20Gray%20-%20American%20Jesus.mp3
You can pull the rest at:
www.americanedit.net
Check it out and give a few a listen.
current mood:  bouncy
current music: Dr. Who on Holiday
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