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“if youre not that smart, which i am not, you have to spend a lot of time asking a lot of...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:02:13 -0500

“if youre not that smart, which i am not, you have to spend a lot of
time asking a lot of questions to try and figure it out” -S. Dubner

dear stephin�merritt, thanks for skipping ohio on your upcoming tour. i dont know what i would do...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:13:16 -0500

dear stephin�merritt,

thanks for skipping ohio on your upcoming tour. i dont know what i
would do with myself if you actually came to columbus to a venue i
could actually afford. i might begin having problems with
incontinence, and so i thank you for not making me piss myself. good
thing i dont [inhabit/plan on visiting March 5 2010] Bloomington,
Indiana (pop. 183k metro + surrounding) rather than columbus (pop.
754k metro only). then again, your show here last time sold out of $60
tickets in about three hours, so maybe its just that you like the
drama of /watching, wondering/�if your show will sell out, despite
cumbersome ticket prices.

truly, your devoted fan (who is so glad his pants arent full of urine),

mfg

ps. ive been having an affair with micah p. hinson.

ppl please check out my new web page, mfg.squarespace.com ktxbai

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:57:46 -0500

ppl please check out my new web page, mfg.squarespace.com ktxbai

“Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:00:12 -0500

“Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might
not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can’t even
begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must
be like? (…probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars
blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons of mayonnaise and
60-inch plasma TV’s). How will you ever be able to use this
website?????? You wont. You’re an asshole and your browser is an
asshole. So look, I’m going to be honest: I kind of hate you. BUT we
c-a-n make this work. Here is what I am going to need you to do: fire
up your Toshiba ShitBook� that weighs about 45 pounds, wipe the Cheeto
dust off the screen, download Safari, delete Internet Explorer from
your computer, punch yourself in the face, and get me a pulled pork
sandwich. ” - from the footer of http://www.newtoyork.com/

boom goes the civil war cannon! yay ohio

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:32:08 -0500

boom goes the civil war cannon! yay ohio

your wave invite is on its way jess, welcome to the chaos!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:19:05 -0500

your wave invite is on its way jess, welcome to the chaos!

i have three google wave invites left; any more takers?

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:46:06 -0500

i have three google wave invites left; any more takers?

i have to bleach basement floor in my office. fantastic.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:51:20 -0400

i have to bleach basement floor in my office. fantastic.

gop gop gop gop is the new nom nom

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0400

gop gop gop gop is the new nom nom

Open Source Software & Sustainable Farming

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:37:09 -0400

There is a disconcerting flaw in the modus operandi of (vegan) sustainable farming. A central tenet involves not only purchasing and consuming food that is produced in a sustainable way, but also actively boycotting the purchase of products made by companies that do not promote sustainable practices. The idea being that if the sustainable companies have a market swell, the non-sustainable companies will move to protect their profit margins and change their practices.

The inherent flaw to this is that once the non-sustainable companies corner the sustainable market, they will crowd out the smaller companies and eliminate competition. To sum up, sustainable farming has no end game, probably no middle game. Granted, I am not a member of any strategy committee (thank god, it’d be awful); I do not immerse myself in their literature. It just appears to be a major flaw from the outset based on the board and the pieces.

The idea that we would just buy local, buy no meat supporting products, buy only things in season leaves me wondering; is there sufficient attention being paid to what happens if the boycott succeeds? Inevitably, the big boys swoop in and choke the channel for the boycott.

Right now there does appear to be a corollary dilemma in the Open Source community regarding Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation. What happens when you allow a company that is fundamentally opposed to Open Source development contribute and take from the Open Source community? OSS is a type of boycott, and a type of functional, evolutionary modus operandi. OSS is a true competitor against Proprietary systems.

The parallel I hope to evoke is that of the conscientiousness that the OSS community as it moves forward in tandem with Microsoft involvement in OSS. It does not appear as though sustainable farming literature has formulated itself sufficiently to compete against fundamentally opposed economic forces if their boycott works and the non-sustainable sources slice and dice the parts of sustainability that allow them to crowd the market.

Interview at the Jeffers Corporation from ZachGalifianakis

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:08:04 -0400

Interview at the
Jeffers Corporation from ZachGalifianakis

WoodstockBourbon - Mates Girlfriend - (2009) :30 (New Zealand)>

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:01:16 -0400

WoodstockBourbon - Mates Girlfriend - (2009) :30 (New Zealand)>

spam post on tsuru society bulletin board

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:46:20 -0400

*»>if spambots were zen masters they would all sound like this….»actually, come to think of it, that thing writes about as well as i do. i wish it had its own spam-blog…

Vegan Mac & Cheese (+hellyeah)

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:58:19 -0400

originally we were going to have a pierogi party along with our friends john and kristin. we will be postponing that, and make pierogis soon (six fillings, 2 dozen of each). amanda made aloo saag (which was very good).

as for the vegan mac &cheese:

1 lb medium shells, whole wheat; cooked drained (1-2 leftover cups once cooked)
1 qt vegan cheese sauce consisting of:

1 10 oz block vegan cheddar from guiltless gourmet (shredded)
4 oz better than cream cheese from tofutti
soy milk
three minced cloves garlic, sage, sage, sage, two whole shallot chopped, two finger hot peppers, 1/4c chopped parsley, (shouldve used kosher but we were out) salt, pepper, paprika, (oregano, basil; not necessary); all to taste basically
3T earthbalance (vegan butter)

steps:

so, boil the pasta.
turn stove on to medium low. melt earthbalance in a 1.5 (or two quart would be better but i made exactly 1.5 qts of sauce from the amounts given and it was a little heavy on the soy milk) sauce pan. saute shallots, garlic, peppers.
add enough soy milk to fill 1/3 of the 1.5qt sauce pan. start adding the shredded cheese by small clumps and stirring the whole time. add a table spoon or two all the way to 4 oz’s as you go. as soon as you have added all of the cream cheese and added about half the cheddar add a little bit of soy milk; then keep going with the cheese.
preheat oven to 450F
basically its a back and forth, add about 2 teaspoons or more corn sarch to thicken sauce. once you have about 1.5qts sauce for the pasta it should be ready to go if its to a thick but still pourable consistency.
spray pam on bottom (probably not necessary). put 1lb minus 1-2 cups pasta in a 9” round casserole. pour in the sauce. top with about a half cup of panko. bake until panko turns brown.

enjoy

Even Hilter is mad at Google for C&D order on Cyanogen...

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:46:05 -0400

Even Hilter is mad at Google for C&D order on Cyanogen Android -osokrayzay

3D printing in glass

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:03:06 -0400

3D printing in glass

HF Sneek Peek: New paintings by Ron English

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:02:22 -0400

HF Sneek Peek: New paintings by Ron English

being a bit of an analytics slave, i noticed that in 2 days, Barueri, Brazil (the country sending 31...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:33:06 -0400

being a bit of an analytics slave, i noticed that in 2 days, Barueri, Brazil (the country sending 31 clicks in the past month). well for one, i would like to say that São Paulo is one of my favoritest names ever. for anything. that would be like someone telling me columbus/youngstown is okay, especially since i like ohio’s name. well anyway, thank you brazil for that inordinate spike in stats! i feel so self-satisfied.

speaking of songbird (www.getsongbird.com), you should really support their project. and if you...

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:10:40 -0400

speaking of songbird (www.getsongbird.com), you should really support their project. and if you dont know what songbird is you should really be listening to all of your music on it, because its a song magic window that makes your computer listenable! but by support i mean head over to http://www.getsongbird.com/store/www.getsongbird.com), you should really support their project. and if you dont know what songbird is you should really be listening to all of your music on it, because its a song magic window that makes your computer listenable! but by support i mean head over to http://www.getsongbird.com/store/ and buy their swag. …but if you know me dont buy the above…

"Climb Over"

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:42:31 -0400

“Climb Over”

- (off the album ‘Dawn’) Mount Eerie Climb over the hill to where you hoped to find nothing, And find it teeming with gold in the light. Be disappointed and glum. Beat yourself like a drum. Yell out “Who stole my Silent Night?!” Call in sorrow, your friend. Ask her where has she been and where does she head? Left or right? Call compassion in. Ask him “How are you kids, and where are you guys crawling tonight?” Bring Hope along. Have her sing you a song. Have her sing of her travels and flights. In fact, go ahead and call all travellers. Keep trying in vain to gather which direction things are headed and why. They won’t tell you where to go because they know you. They know that you stupidly hope to evade them. They say “You can try, and you will keep trying, And you’ll be right on the verge, Until you die die die die And then you’ll find there’s no place to hide