January 2008
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Stellarium →
Okay, You know that i love free stuff. well this is so free , even i can’t believe it. This shows you all the stars in the universe and is available for all platforms linux,mac,windows. i love to take my laptop out on the porch and see what’s out there. Last night I saw Sirius(which I consider my star system,hey ,I AM THE KING,ya know) the Little Dipper and Mars.
GO PLAY WITH STARS
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Great drug, but does it prolong life? -... →
This article says that Lipitor and it’s ilk do lower cholesteral ,but don’t prolong life. I knew it ,sold a bill of goods by the drug companys.
As the Jefferson Airplane once sang “and the pills that mother gives you don’t do anything at all”
Bastards
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Satellite is weeks away from hitting Earth ,should... →
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okay here i am
I have been very lazy for the last few days ,but i am back with a vengence.I really liked Heath Ledger sorry he died .
i have a better story thou the cat that DIDN’T die .
Just before christmas i agreed to house sit for my friend Mike while he went to Florida ,not really house sit but stop in a few times a week to feed the cats and bird.
The first night i went(to pick up the keys and...
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Ringo Starr walks off 'Regis and Kelly' - CNN.com... →
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Bobby Fischer, erratic chess master, dies at 64 -... →
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The High
do you know these guys ? “The High” came up on the random and it struck me how much i used like these guys ,check out “box set go”also if your feeling frisky try the Charlatans UK they were part of the manchester scene, still sounds fresh 18 years later.
had a great time yesterdaty hanging with my friends unowhour
mmmm that rice pudding was good
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Watchwhat a beautiful day
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Chickens in the Crock Pot
moments to kill before i rush off into the night to fight crime,oh yeah i don’t do that .
i want to start a band that is all feedback based ,i heard a band on the radio today
(The Magnetic Fields) and i don’t have a clue who they were because , well you know why , well any way this band wasn’t feedback based but had this really cool orbital sound where it sounded like the bass...
i love my new browser, for now
Firefox has been driving me nuts ,it crashes all the time
Safari isn’t really an option, it JPS (just plain sucks)
so i tried Opera and so far so good, it has some drawbacks but not too bad
Drawbacks first, it doesn’t handle RSS feeds that well but i may need a different reader
i’ll let you know.
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so it's the weekend
i have had a busy couple of days.
Thursday I went to Binghamton and took the snowflake installation down at
The Roberson Museum and Science Center
well let me say i really enjoyed my time at the museum,made a lot of
snowflakes met a lot of kids (big & small) .
Next up is the
John James Audubon Show
which i think will be fabulous. It combines the Audobon paintings with the
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McCain and Clinton win in New Hampshire -... →
Once again the old guard takes New Hampshire.
hillary and mccain seem like 2 sides of the same coin
as my friend and hero Hunter S Thompson might say
“well we had to let the greed merchants win it’s the American way”
we are so screwed
what up with that
weather is shit today ,so i’ll probably be here a lot today.
yesterday i was totally bored and listening to NPR on WJFF,when i heard all the election stuff from New Hampshire and couldn’t believe some of the responses to the exit polls.i heard a man in tears who said Obama was the brightest ray of hope in American politics since JFK .
i want a JFK, a a person who will open his...
WatchSoooooooo cold , it’s hot
$149.99 HD camcorder amazing →
another perspective: shawny-o talks about lordville sabrina and other stuff
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give it away for free
hey all , here is some stuff i reccomend that is FREE for the taking
Librivox is a website that has free audio books some are great some suck (just like real life). they are read by volunteers and are all public domain. reccomend “KIM” by Rudyard Kipling ,Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley, and Some Experiences Of An Irish R M by Edith Oenone Somerville and Martin Ross
Archive.org...
Bruce Sterling's "Manifesto for 2000" ( i read it... →
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under the grid
morning folks.although i don’t live “off the grid” i feel like it today.pipes are frozen ,broken and bashed .i just came in from chopping a hole thru the ice in my rain barrel to get enough water to flush the toilet.it’s about 9:30 am and already 40 degrees so i am gonna rock the water, my barrel will be full by noon and I will be shittin’ pretty.
so what is next...
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New year's morning
After a very laid back new years eve party (people and food were great particularly liked the chicken wings,thanks Jeff&Rebecca) I went to the house i am sitting and thought i would pick up my stuff and head for home about a 40 mile drive,but fell asleep in a chair and woke several hours later.By then there was a half a foot of snow and it was almost a whiteout.of course i jumped in my car...