31 May 2002

amish teens gone crazy
apparently there are a bunch of drunk, under-aged amish kids running around. and somebody thought it'd be a good idea to make a documentry about it.

i can't think of anything witty so...

amish afro

afro squad

that's a good segue into and out of all things amish...

**from Rick
defender of the so called faith
a guy who used to beat his wife.
a wife who's trying to get a divorce.
a restraining order.
some cops.
me, drunk outta my mind.
what a lovely evening last night was...

30 May 2002

-sob-
black heart fool who knows so well
speed walk streets with names like girls
dance with chickens in desert airs
playful city streets...
the beats in the mind and it drives it drives
callused hands meet tender flesh in the middle
punk rock hair-do all made up for fashion
and the label remains on permanent display
jet blown back to Betty Boop days
in the instant you close your eyes
and could this make up hide the eyes like curtains in your window
singing the song that plays over and over and over...
...what a geek...
...the Original Lobotomy 101...made while at work on just another cheesy free server...didn't even have FTP...interesting color choices though, huh?
rude dog
i don't watch much TV and the speakers on my computer recieved a healthy dose of orange soda awhile back...following that line of thought (???) my friend sent me a video of 'rude dog' from the conan show. i haven't seen conan since he was on the Daily Show...

by the way, i am a fiend for orange soda...

29 May 2002

spring
@~}~

the fun is over; the dream is gone; long lost girl-friends still haunt my sleep; she turned over and smiled at me; made me think of suicide; its not all that bad; but mostly so; hollywood-vinyl-pin-up-doll; made for pleasure; fun-police; why can't i wake from this terrible sleep; ive never seen dawn; except through glass; could my eyes bare the sight of it?; would wings sprout and carry me away?; or is that the bottle talking now?; visions of cornfields and long straight-aways; revving up motors with Daisy Duke girls bopping on the side-lines; she screamed then as i do now; ate cauliflower with soy cheese; my little Earth-girl; but ulcers and cancers and pisces , aquarius and sagittarius; all those busy bees and paramours; dance with me on a sunday morning; the virgin is lonely and lost with out you; everythings horrible and everythings fine; i'll be alright...
big city
yesterday i went to get a haircut...just one mind you...and i ran into 4 people i know at the barber shop...made me realize that i live in a fairly small town...

i miss the city...where it never goes dark...the only stars you see are on the streets walking around looking very beat...and even if you could see them, the giant pillars of capitalism would block the view.

been thinking of SF...sara and kat are plying me with sweet stories of pleasure and pavement...something to think about...

28 May 2002

pocket full of quarters
i went out to dinner with my parents the other night and at the table next to us was a family celebrating their sons graduation. his grandparents were asking what school he was going to now that high school is over and what he was going to do with his life. i caught my dad looking at me at this point. so when the kids said he had no idea and he was going to take a year or so off and then maybe try junior college for a little while, i just smiled.

23 May 2002

{busted}
a few months ago i recieved a ticket for possesion of marijuana. this rather sucks given that i'm still on probation from drinking before i was 21 (now almost 2 years!)...maybe im biased, but i think they should try to bust criminals who actually commit a crime, not a hapless drunk who enjoys an occasional puff. i work, go to school, pay my taxes and now have to deal with some judge who probably thinks im some sort of deliquent...i admit i may be, but thats not for him to judge without knowing me.

22 May 2002

|side note|
americans drink to be social...the brits to "un-wind"...the germans for taste...the russians for a good time...the irish, well, we drink to get drunk...
|toast|
few people recognize the importance of etiquette while drinking...kids go to college and learn to do keg-stands and beer-bongs...very few learn the real etiquette of drinking...its a way of life. this article is the first step for those with no bar-room manner's...a sort-of guide book for the inebriate-impaired...

**from mightygirl

21 May 2002

Benjamin worm targets Kazaa

By Matt Loney
ZDNet (UK)
May 20, 2002, 8:00 AM PT

The Kazaa file-swapping network has been hit by a virus, according to security experts.

The Kazaa network is one of the most popular file-exchange networks, with more than 81 million copies of its client downloaded to date, according Sharman Networks, the company that developed the service.

Security software firm Kaspersky Labs said the worm, called "Worm.Kazaa.Benjamin", is the first malicious program to spread through the Kazaa file exchange network, although Gnutella was hit by a proof-of-concept worm in February.

The Benjamin worm was reported to Kaspersky Labs on Saturday. "In terms of data destruction it is not very dangerous," said Kaspersky spokesman Denis Zenkin. "It does not erase any information, but eats up space on your hard disk and it jams the data transmission channels. It becomes harder for the Kazaa network users to communicate because lots of infected data is being placed in their hard drives, and if you look for a game you are likely to be offered a copy of the virus instead."

Benjamin spreads by creating a directory that is accessible to other users of the Kazaa network. It makes numerous--possibly thousands--copies of itself in this directory, using many different names from a list contained in the body of the worm. When a network user conducts a search for a file under a name corresponding with one the worm's pseudonyms, the unsuspecting user is given the chance to download it from the infected computer.

When it is downloaded, Benjamin displays a false error report, warning the user that the file is possible corrupted, but then goes on copy itself into the system directory and creates two keys in the system registry.

As well as eating up free disk space, said Kaspersky, Benjamin opens a Web page, called benjamin.xww.de to display banner ads. On Monday morning the Benjamin.xww.de Web site had a message saying: "Domain closed due to massive abuse."

Benjamin is written in Borland Delphi and is approximately 216KB in size - it is compressed by the AsPack utility. The size of a file can vary greatly as the worm ends each file with random data--called "dust"--for masking. But, said Zenkin, is can be removed relatively easily by deleting the infected files. Antivirus software vendors such as Kaspersky Labs have already updated their products to detect it,
he added.

Sharman Networks could not immediately be reached for comment.

**got this from matt
PERSONALITY DISORDER OF THE WEEK


Schizotypal Personality Disorder:
A pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

(1) ideas of reference (i.e., incorrect interpretations of casual incidents and external events as having a particular and unusual meaning specifically for the person)

(2) odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)

(3) unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions

(4) odd thinking and speech (e.g.vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)

(5) suspiciousness or paranoid ideation

(6) inappropriate or constricted affect

(7) behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar

(8) lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives

(9) excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), 1998 by the American Psychiatric Association]

Summary:
Ah, good old Schizotypal Personality Disorder! It soothes on a rainy, dreary Monday, doesn't it? Sure, I'm slaving away at my crappy-ass job with no end in site, but at least I'm not some kind of a fucking weirdo!


**from rabbit blog

20 May 2002

cool daddy-o

found THIS on mighty girl dot net...god i love that woman...
[dur!]

across the street from my apartment lives this lady and her boyfriend/husband (im not sure which)...yesterday she is out on the street picking a fight with these little kids...they were making noise and she wanted them to stop...it was like 2p on a sunday!...so instead of asking the kids to please be quite, she goes over there itching for a fight...i was going to go down and defend the kids, but they did a terrific job of it themselves...they actually got her to back down!...i love kids...

17 May 2002

fix your own freeway

ever confused about which freeway to get on? troubled with those sneaky left-lane turn-offs? well, now you can just fix it yourself. with this easy step-by-step video, you'll learn how to find matching colors to freeway signs, put up your own freeway sign, and get away with it scott free! order today!
time stamp

i'll ask for a second to gather my thoughts up. they were spilled on the counter and im afraid when i got up. they fell through a letter to this girl that i know. and she reads them quite slowly devouring the up words. with one hand beside her and the other much lower. she's waiting for something she wants to discover. i will not desert her, i will not desert her.

so i take all these pills to try and balance my brain. but im even a little more than afraid. that ive gone off the deep end and i cannot swim back. it'd just be so terrible that i'd have to laugh... another drop in the bucket, it scares me to death. im not much better than most or the rest. she has built up this shrine in an image of me... full of things i cannot see...

i might swim to an island where i'll be alone. no more discussing these things with anyone. because i can't explain how or why that i am. im too old to be changed, im nearly a man. she begs for forgiveness and i duly oblige. and this circle gets repeated when she asks me why. why does the dew smell so good on a field? if maybe it didn't would it make it less real? or maybe its nothing more than a dream. would knowing that make it better or worse than it seems. i'd fall to floor and simply stop moving. and see if anyone asks what im doing. and if they didn't and the world would go on and not notice. the death of this idiot, madman, and poet. i think it'd been fun to go to my funeral. and make farting sound or something as juvenile. what i want when i die, yeah my last request. is to replace my head with an old TV set. so all in attendance just might have some fun. watching old I love Lucy reruns.

16 May 2002

cool aid

im going to joshua tree this weekend with my dad...he does this every year...him and his buddy's from high school go out there and re-enact scene's from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test...wicked real...

15 May 2002

the pink dot
Ozzy Osbourne's teenaged daughter has made a cover of Papa Don't Preach, Madonna's 1986 hit, with member's of incubus...does this sound stupid to anybody else? but, kelly says SHE didn't pick the song...mommy did. mom's a great manager...she's even setting up franchise's...

14 May 2002

how to give your own frontal lobotomy
you will need:
* a corkscrew
* a mirror
* a turkey baster
* a towel or moist towelette
* a sharpie(r) marker
* a map of the human brain
* a band-aid

1)using the map and mirror, locate the general area of your own fronatl lobe. mark on skull with sharpie(r).
2)take the corkscrew, and screw into marked area. use towel or towelette to sop up blood.
3)after penetration into the frontal cavity, remove corkscrew and insert turkey baster. remove frontal lobe.
BE CAREFULL AND REMOVE ONLY THE FRONTAL LOBE
4)remove the baster and apply band-aid.
5)enjoy life as a vegtable. never again be bothered to get up before using the restroom. my advice, use money from 401K to but stock in Depends(r)