Well, I'm Off to casting lab again. I can only hope that the needy new person doesn't show or that her rich and irritable friend is going to take up her time.
I'ts been a while since i posted anything personal.
I was doing a lot of casting work before Christmas.
Now it's almost Easter and Ive done little.
The problem of the forgotten sale during the holiday show has been resolved. The purchase was paid by gift certificate. So the actual sale was a month earlier. At least I was nice about it--I acomplished that by staying awy from Anna and reminding her by E-mail each week.
About the postings below...
Call them filler if you wish. I know they lend to that Echo Chamber Quality that pervades the media. The trouble is that Blogs are hot as media go, and there are all different people using the online journal for all kinds of purpose. Most of them have only the smallest number of links possible.
Originally I started doing this because i lost a lot of work on my computer. Program crashes and viruses. I figured that If I saved my work on someone elses server, it would still be there and it is.
I also started because i admired the honest and depth of some of the bloggers i encountered.
Oh yeah, I want to be famous too. Just a little. So I work in metal, making bracelets, and in Blog which is pretty ephemeral. problem is that i do nothing when I'm depressed. Hence the quotes from news feeds.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
News?
C.I.A. Given Data on Hijacker Before 9/11
(24 Feb 04)
JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
NY Times
WASHINGTON -- American investigators were given the first name and telephone number of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers two and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington, but the United States appears to have failed to pursue the lead aggressively, American and German officials say
(24 Feb 04)
JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
NY Times
WASHINGTON -- American investigators were given the first name and telephone number of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers two and a half years before the attacks on New York and Washington, but the United States appears to have failed to pursue the lead aggressively, American and German officials say
Marriage?
Burningbird says:
I agree. We could have several kinds of sacred and secular unions. to support differing households and communities.
If we're going to have an amendment to the Constitution to ensure the sanctity of marriage by denying gays the right to marry, then I think it's only fair that we do a good job of it: let's make divorce unconstitutional.
I agree. We could have several kinds of sacred and secular unions. to support differing households and communities.
Monday, February 23, 2004
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Dean Leaves Legacy of Online Campaign - BizReport
Dean Leaves Legacy of Online Campaign - BizReport: "Dean Leaves Legacy of Online Campaign"
Dean's campaign leads me to wonder if we could circumvent government in general and just do the things we need to do.
Dean's campaign leads me to wonder if we could circumvent government in general and just do the things we need to do.
AchievingHappiness.com - Helping People to be Highly Successful and Happy
AchievingHappiness.com - Helping People to be Highly Successful and Happy: "Appreciating the Good Parts of Life"
refered by Halley
refered by Halley
After the death of his guru, Kanai took up residence in the cremation ground of Tarapith, where at midnight - so the Bengalis believe - the fearsome Tantric goddess Tara can be seen drinking the blood of the goats slaughtered day after day in an effort to propitiate her anger.
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Blog for America
Blog for America: "We're sad that George W. Bush believes that engineering a public perception of prosperity will get him elected more effectively than engineering actual prosperity."
What are you looking for?
Please post a comment.
What are you looking for?
Please post a comment.
Democracy and the internet
O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In
This article discusses some of the failures of the Internet community as well as some successes. notably there are Comments from Joe Trippi, a form DEAN campaign manager.
he makes a few observations about Dean's fundraising on the net, and some positive things about Meet Up
Also somewhat discouraging comments from Joi Ito about Weblogs: "When you focus on blogs, there is a loss of community."
Ito and Ethan Zuckerman suggest that other media like talk radio have greater impact on democracy.
This article discusses some of the failures of the Internet community as well as some successes. notably there are Comments from Joe Trippi, a form DEAN campaign manager.
he makes a few observations about Dean's fundraising on the net, and some positive things about Meet Up
Also somewhat discouraging comments from Joi Ito about Weblogs: "When you focus on blogs, there is a loss of community."
Ito and Ethan Zuckerman suggest that other media like talk radio have greater impact on democracy.
Will it play Peoria?
scriptygoddess
Just a note to my self to comment on things.
Some of this blog is just garbage on my desk top.
sorry
scriptygoddess
Just a note to my self to comment on things.
Some of this blog is just garbage on my desk top.
sorry
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Fog (glossary definition)
Fog (glossary definition): "Fog A hydrometeor consisting of a visible aggregate of minute water droplets (or ice crystals), suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface. According to international definition, fog reduces visibility below one kilometer. Fog differs from cloud only in that the base of fog is at the Earth's surface while clouds are above the surface. When composed of ice crystals, it is termed ice fog. "
"'No, Ralph, No'"
A friend of mine, (A very conservative system engineer,) suggested that Nader's 2000 campaign was "right for all the wrong reasons." My tendency was to agree. I can't dispute the idea that Nader helped toss the election to Bush, but let's remember that Nader argued that the whole thing was crooked any way. The Center for Public Integrity has an informative website about campaign funding. Not to mention a best selling book: The Buying of the President 2004 (HarperCollins).
A friend of mine, (A very conservative system engineer,) suggested that Nader's 2000 campaign was "right for all the wrong reasons." My tendency was to agree. I can't dispute the idea that Nader helped toss the election to Bush, but let's remember that Nader argued that the whole thing was crooked any way. The Center for Public Integrity has an informative website about campaign funding. Not to mention a best selling book: The Buying of the President 2004 (HarperCollins).
Blackening Skin, Blackening Skin Syndrome, and Vesicular Dermatitis
©1996, 2000 Melissa Kaplan
A good article on skin disease in Iguanas. Kaplan mentions thatsalmonellas is often a cause of black, oozing scabs. I guess that I should be taking Sweetie to the vet immediately
©1996, 2000 Melissa Kaplan
A good article on skin disease in Iguanas. Kaplan mentions thatsalmonellas is often a cause of black, oozing scabs. I guess that I should be taking Sweetie to the vet immediately
Wrathful deities
Here is an insightful article on the angry looking images found in Tibetan art. Refered by Indigo
China arrests Internet essayist
Tue 17 February, 2004 07:19
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have formally arrested a civil servant, whose Internet essays are critical of the government, for subversion in a case that has provoked widespread criticism of China's human rights record
Internet surfers have flocked to Du Daobin's defence, even posting an online petition at www.mzyzy.com saying he had not called for the overthrow of the Chinese government.
Monday, February 16, 2004
Spoils of War
B.B. is very articulate here. I rather thought that the JJ ss-bowl incedent was a sort of staged rape. Essential to the staged raid of a televised f-ball match.
Good reading
Burningbird: Rape of Woman and other Spoils of War
Good reading
Burningbird: Rape of Woman and other Spoils of War
Friday, February 06, 2004
Fresh (air) Paint
Smog-busting paint soaks up noxious gases
This article in New Scientist discusses a paint that uses titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate to bind Nitrogen Oxide gasses which are pretty much toxic. The gas molecules bind to the paint partices, oxidize and then slough off in water.
This type of catalytic surface has been used in numerous test around the world. One such test in Milan Italy showed that 7000 square metres of road sufrace reduced nitrogen oxides by about 60%.
The paint base itself is clear, so it could come in any color you like.
This article in New Scientist discusses a paint that uses titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate to bind Nitrogen Oxide gasses which are pretty much toxic. The gas molecules bind to the paint partices, oxidize and then slough off in water.
This type of catalytic surface has been used in numerous test around the world. One such test in Milan Italy showed that 7000 square metres of road sufrace reduced nitrogen oxides by about 60%.
The paint base itself is clear, so it could come in any color you like.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
Surveys pointing to high civilian death toll in Iraq
Preliminary reports suggest casualties well above the Gulf War.
By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the May 22, 2003 edition
BAGHDAD ? Evidence is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi civilians may have died during the recent war, according to researchers involved in independent surveys of the country.
None of the local and foreign researchers were willing to speak for the record, however, until their tallies are complete
Such a range would make the Iraq war the deadliest campaign for noncombatants that US forces have fought since Vietnam.
Preliminary reports suggest casualties well above the Gulf War.
By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the May 22, 2003 edition
BAGHDAD ? Evidence is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi civilians may have died during the recent war, according to researchers involved in independent surveys of the country.
None of the local and foreign researchers were willing to speak for the record, however, until their tallies are complete
Such a range would make the Iraq war the deadliest campaign for noncombatants that US forces have fought since Vietnam.
Blast death toll reaches 105
From correspondents in Suleimaniya, Iraq
February 5, 2004
AT least 105 people were killed in the twin suicide bombings at the weekend in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq, a Kurdish television station reported today.
From correspondents in Suleimaniya, Iraq
February 5, 2004
AT least 105 people were killed in the twin suicide bombings at the weekend in the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq, a Kurdish television station reported today.
business as usual
Democracy Crumbles Under
Cover Of Darkness
House Republicans Bend Rules, Press For Votes During Wee
Hours To Escape The Light Of Accountability
By Congressman Sherrod Brown
12-18-3
Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:
At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes.
At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes.
At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the Leave No Millionaire Behind tax-cut bill by a handful of votes.
At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization and prescription drug bill by one vote.
At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in July, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote.
And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday in October, the House voted $87 billion for Iraq.
Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.
What did the public see? At best, Americans read a small story with a brief explanation of the bill and the vote count in Saturday's papers.
But what did the public miss? They didn't see the House votes, which normally take no more than 20 minutes, dragging on for as long as an hour as members of the Republican leadership trolled for enough votes to cobble together a majority.
They didn't see GOP leaders stalking the floor for whoever was not in line. They didn't see Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay coerce enough Republican members into switching their votes to produce the desired result.
In other words, they didn't see the subversion of democracy.
And late last month, they did it again. The most sweeping changes to Medicare in its 38-year history were forced through the House at 5:55 on a Saturday morning.
The debate started at midnight. The roll call began at 3:00 a.m. Most of us voted within the typical 20 minutes. Normally, the speaker would have gaveled the vote closed. But not this time; the Republican-driven bill was losing.
By 4 a.m., the bill had been defeated 216-218, with only one member, Democrat David Wu, not voting. Still, the speaker refused to gavel the vote closed.
Then the assault began.
Hastert, DeLay, Republican Whip Roy Blount, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin - all searched the floor for stray Republicans to bully.
I watched them surround Cincinnati's Steve Chabot, trying first a carrot, then a stick; but he remained defiant. Next, they aimed at retiring Michigan congressman Nick Smith, whose son is running to succeed him. They promised support if he changed his vote to yes and threatened his son's future if he refused. He stood his ground.
Many of the two dozen Republicans who voted against the bill had fled the floor. One Republican hid in the Democratic cloakroom.
By 4:30, the browbeating had moved into the Republican cloakroom, out of sight of C-SPAN cameras and the insomniac public. Republican leaders woke President George W. Bush, and a White House aide passed a cell phone from one recalcitrant member to another in the cloakroom.
At 5:55, two hours and 55 minutes after the roll call had begun - twice as long as any previous vote in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives - two obscure western Republicans emerged from the cloakroom. They walked, ashen and cowed, down the aisle to the front of the chamber, scrawled their names and district numbers on green cards to change their votes and surrendered the cards to the clerk.
The speaker gaveled the vote closed; Medicare privatization had passed.
You can do a lot in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness.
- U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, is the ranking member on the Committee on Energy and the Commerce Subcommittee on Health.
Previously posted
Democracy Crumbles Under
Cover Of Darkness
House Republicans Bend Rules, Press For Votes During Wee
Hours To Escape The Light Of Accountability
By Congressman Sherrod Brown
12-18-3
Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:
At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes.
At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes.
At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the Leave No Millionaire Behind tax-cut bill by a handful of votes.
At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization and prescription drug bill by one vote.
At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in July, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote.
And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday in October, the House voted $87 billion for Iraq.
Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.
What did the public see? At best, Americans read a small story with a brief explanation of the bill and the vote count in Saturday's papers.
But what did the public miss? They didn't see the House votes, which normally take no more than 20 minutes, dragging on for as long as an hour as members of the Republican leadership trolled for enough votes to cobble together a majority.
They didn't see GOP leaders stalking the floor for whoever was not in line. They didn't see Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay coerce enough Republican members into switching their votes to produce the desired result.
In other words, they didn't see the subversion of democracy.
And late last month, they did it again. The most sweeping changes to Medicare in its 38-year history were forced through the House at 5:55 on a Saturday morning.
The debate started at midnight. The roll call began at 3:00 a.m. Most of us voted within the typical 20 minutes. Normally, the speaker would have gaveled the vote closed. But not this time; the Republican-driven bill was losing.
By 4 a.m., the bill had been defeated 216-218, with only one member, Democrat David Wu, not voting. Still, the speaker refused to gavel the vote closed.
Then the assault began.
Hastert, DeLay, Republican Whip Roy Blount, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin - all searched the floor for stray Republicans to bully.
I watched them surround Cincinnati's Steve Chabot, trying first a carrot, then a stick; but he remained defiant. Next, they aimed at retiring Michigan congressman Nick Smith, whose son is running to succeed him. They promised support if he changed his vote to yes and threatened his son's future if he refused. He stood his ground.
Many of the two dozen Republicans who voted against the bill had fled the floor. One Republican hid in the Democratic cloakroom.
By 4:30, the browbeating had moved into the Republican cloakroom, out of sight of C-SPAN cameras and the insomniac public. Republican leaders woke President George W. Bush, and a White House aide passed a cell phone from one recalcitrant member to another in the cloakroom.
At 5:55, two hours and 55 minutes after the roll call had begun - twice as long as any previous vote in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives - two obscure western Republicans emerged from the cloakroom. They walked, ashen and cowed, down the aisle to the front of the chamber, scrawled their names and district numbers on green cards to change their votes and surrendered the cards to the clerk.
The speaker gaveled the vote closed; Medicare privatization had passed.
You can do a lot in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness.
- U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, is the ranking member on the Committee on Energy and the Commerce Subcommittee on Health.
Previously posted
my favorite sonnet
If poetry could pick apart the atom,
Unravel D.N.A., or stop old age,
It's value could be measured with a gauge
And read so clearly anyone could fathom
The full five feet of every line and verse.
But there's more to poetry than metered lines,
The by-products of our frustrated lives
Or an attempt to set things right with words.
We could think of poems as frozen time,
As threads of thought, holding words together.
What connects them is not the verse or rhyme
But measured breath, a date, a time, a thought.
An emotion that we had before dying,
A ripple on the waters which we caught.
If poetry could pick apart the atom,
Unravel D.N.A., or stop old age,
It's value could be measured with a gauge
And read so clearly anyone could fathom
The full five feet of every line and verse.
But there's more to poetry than metered lines,
The by-products of our frustrated lives
Or an attempt to set things right with words.
We could think of poems as frozen time,
As threads of thought, holding words together.
What connects them is not the verse or rhyme
But measured breath, a date, a time, a thought.
An emotion that we had before dying,
A ripple on the waters which we caught.
Monday, February 02, 2004
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