Boycott IMAX...!!!

This Rant may contain Spoilers for Superman Returns... ( ??? )
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i got my sister to take me over to the local IMAX Theater Sunday to see; Superman Returns in 3D...!!!
Only to discover the rinky dink IMAX Theater here in Spokane Washington isn't showing it in 3D...!!!
Additionally; The posters on view throughout the IMAX complex there advertise the film as being: 'In IMAX'...???
What does this mean; 'In IMAX'...???
It was Not filmed in IMAX, since the film; On screen only took up about half the full screen,
One quarter of which was empty along the top and bottom.
It was simply a conventional theater quality version,
Shown on an IMAX screen. Should this qualify it for inclusion in the IMAX genre of film...???
You could show any home slide show on an IMAX screen, and then argue persuasively that it is 'In IMAX'...!!!
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i just noticed while reading the blurb on the website sited above that--
Even in the 3D version, ONLY SELECTED BITS have been converted to 3D...!!!
What a Freakin' Rip Off...!!!
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Boycott IMAX!
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What else.
i'm still hobbling along on my walker, since i broke my hip back in May, and while i was there, None of the IMAX attendants asked me if i needed any assistance, or showed me any consideration in finding a suitable seat. In fact, there are NO facilities there to accommodate any Disabled Persons toward the end of finding a suitable viewing seat.
The only seats that are availbable to persons in wheelchairs, are in the very freakin' front row...!!!
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And then; The carpeting had a very detailed and complex pattern to it, that made it very difficult to determine where the edges of the stairs were...
Since these edges were not marked or lit in any reasonable manner...!
It was a genuinely very dangerous arrangement of stairs and darkness...!!!
Even for ably mobile persons...!
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The film 'Superman Returns' is a 2 1/2 Hour film, substantially longer than most IMAX films- i suspect- and as such, Was made additionally unbearable to me- in particular- because the seats are bare hardwood...!!! Even the sleaziest conventional theaters have padded seats...!
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The film itself.
Was very Lame.
If you recall the 1978 version, the byline was "You'll believe a man can fly" which was especially cruel, because; given-- even-- the technology that was available at that time, it was just wrong.
They filmed it wrong.
They mismatched the backgrounds to the wired superman in the foregrounds...
AND THEY KNEW IT...
and they shipped it anyway...
That is Lame.
Very Lame.
This New Version, at least, did not suffer from that same 'type' of Lameness...
It was Technically - OK - But just a bad film.
It had this one bit, about 20 minutes into the film which highlighted the 'SuperEffects' and thereafter, it was amazingly tepid.
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And the storyline was essentially nonexistant.
Superman, leaves-- for no good reason, and then returns...
In a Kryptonian Spaceship.
The curious thing about this is that a pivotal plot device later on, perpetrated by Lex Luther, requires us to have some comprehension-- Or Sympathy-- for this 'Idea' of a Technology based on Crystalography...???
Wouldn't it have been nice, if at the beginning of the film, we were able to witness how this technology actually worked, on board the freakin' Kryptonian Space Ship...
But NO!
We are only allowed to see the damn thing Crash...!!!
What does that really say about the superior benefits of Kryptonian handiwork...???
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Then: Later on-- to add to this point --Lex Luthor is going to essentially take over the world by using this Kryptonian technology that he stole from Superman's, Amazingly Security Free, Fortress of Solitude...
So anyways...
Lex impliments this 'Landmass Bomb' and then the world sits on it's hands.
OK -- Very little time as gone by during this period, but even so,
Lex-- while claiming to have the technological resourses to combat all the worlds armies and such...
Is completely Unprepared at this time...!!!
He has not created a single Kryptonian weapon to defend himself with...!!!
Wouldn't it be nice if we got to see him impliment some of this Crystal Manufacturing Process in a more functional and INTERESTING Manner...!!!
GeeOdd...!!!
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i was reading in Newsweek, the director; Bryan Singer was saying that he's really evolved as a director, because this film was made to attract 'gals' with it's 'Romantic' Elements...!!!
What a freakin' HOOT...!!!
The Romantic Elements consist of Lois Lane being a Cold Fish towards both her 'New Boy Friend', Clark Kent & Superman.
There is also the not very subtle revelation that her child is actual Clark's/Kal El's --
But it faulters repeatedly when we'd rather hope that there was a deeper scratch into this theme...
Plus: There's this Article that Lois wrote: "Why the world doesn't need Superman" that she's won a Pulitzer Prize for... But we never get to see even a hint of what her argument was...???
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If the Superman Suit is Invulnerable, as is demonstrated repeatedly...
Then why does it allow Lex to stab Superman with a Kryptonite Knife...???
OK -- The suit is susceptible to the effects of Kryptonite too...
OK -- If that's so...
Then when Superman is fatally weakened at the end, lifting the Crystal Continent into space,
Why isn't the suit equally damaged, and torn off him during reentry...???
HUH...!!!
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Are there any clever, memorable lines in this film...???
In the first film, you may recall; Lois screaming-- "You've got me-- Who's got you!?"
No such wit exists in this version.
The closest is a convoluted aphorism about seeing the world through each others eyes...???
It was too long.
And dull.
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Superdull.

Something New...

i have something new, that was posted in my Heretical Ideas & Inventions Section...
Is it possible to Win Consistently; At Roulette...???

Are you Reading This...???

It has recently come to my attention that some humanimals are actually reading this blog...!!!
i would like to remind you-- that if you are...
Then: You have a moral obligation to leave a comment on at least 33.3% of these occasions.
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How to do this:
Scroll down to the bottom of this entry,
or the page entry that you're reading,
and click on the phrase "0 Comments".
Then when that comes up:
Click on "Post a Comment"
In the box below "Leave a Comment"
Type in some Words.
Scroll down to the 'Radio Buttons' for Anonymous or Your Identity...???
Click on the appropriate button.
The next part is crazy and complicated
Next to the box that says: "Word Verification"
Type in the psychodyllic characters imediately above that...
This is meant to prevent evil spammers from posting ad's here...!!!
Then click on "Login and Publish".
That should be it...???
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Thanx...!!!

Pedigree Tables & Asperger's...

One thing that i seem to have noticed from my recent exposure to 'the rest of my family'...
Now that i've done some research into Asperger's and Schzoid Personality Disorder...
Is that i think EveryOne of my blood relatives has Asperger's or some closely related personality disorder...
But that for some, unknown factor, they are all comparatively functional, while i am not.
Classically; Symptom wise-- Many of these people are much more pathologically disturbed than i am...
So i'm thinking...
Maybe Asperger's itself isn't the disabling blight that it's occasionally made out to be...
( Asperger's is; already conceeded to be, pretty dang subtle in most cases )
...But is a sauce that highlights some other disaffection...
Like unrequited genius.
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???

Lack of Bloggic Attention...

It seems unlikely that anyone has even noticed that i haven't been very attentive towards my blog here, but-- with my fractured hip and staying at my sisters, where i have to sit in these terribly hard chairs that they have in front of their computers... it's very trying to get anything done...
Plus-- this stupid leg hurts in all the wrong places...!!!
It doesn't hurt in the vicinity of the hip joint, that was actually fractured...!!!
It never did-- !!! --it always hurt along the inside, around the groin, and now it's migrating to the knee and shin...!!! And a little of the foot.
But mostly- it hurts all down the inside, especially when even the tiniest amount of torque is applied to it... ???
But on top of that; there is this comparatively low volume of annoying discomfort all the time, which makes it difficult to concentrate on anything for even the shortest length of time, and i always had a pretty short attention span to begin with...
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Sandi- my sister -took me out to look at rooms and studios the other day, and it was productive in that we discovered that everything is very expensive, and those few that aren't very expensive are disturbingly slovenly... or have kooky elements to them, which i suspect will be the measuring stick for the room that i eventually settle on...
e.g.; Just how unacceptably kooky is it?
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i'm not getting along with my niece; Deana, at all.
Everyone else in the family thinks she's the darling; and i suspect that the reason for the disconjunct is that she knows that i know that she is really a scheming vampiric witch.
Is it my fault that i have supernatural powers?
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My Medicaid has finally been approved...!!!
And i have a doctor's appointment tomorrow to get a referral to a Orthopedicologist... and get started on some genuine Physical Therapy.
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more when i can...

Old DVD's

i just recently got a DVD Player, one of those little ones, with the big screen ( if you sit close enough to it...??? )
So i've been catching up on the movies/films that i've missed out on, during the last 2+ years of intransigence...???!!!
Of course the BAD Films make a much stronger impression than the good films, which i hardly even remember seeing...
i was hoping that NetFlix would have a record of all the films that i'd watched during the last couple of weeks, but they don't...!!!
The WORST film that i watched recently was 'Polar Express' which was a WONDERFUL Book, A True Classic, that when converted to film, was translated into an Arnold Schwarzenegger Vehicle...!!!
Ack.
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Profit ( The TV Series that ran for all of 6 Episodes back in the early 90's ) is as PERFECT Now as i Remember it being Then...!!!
Profit; Is still, i believe-- The Best TV Show Ever Created.
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The Latest Harry Potter Machine... Eh.
i think the last one was better.
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Recent Biddles... ( ReDirection...! )

While i haven't been posting directly to this Blog Stream,
There are some New Items under The Alternate Contents Menu;
In Picoans--
And Owies Series: Broken Hip.
!!!

Latest News [ Offset by about 2 weeks ]

Well...
i've been out of Hawai'i for about a week,
and before that, i was in The Wahiawa Hospital; Orthopedic Ward, for about Ten Days,
And before that, i was walking around on a broken hip for about a week...
So that i am just now beginning to 'be able to' update this blog again.
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Where am i?
i'm staying with my sister ( Sandi ) in Spokane Washington.
[ See My Resumé for the current address...! ]
There is Me here, and Sandi, and Deana ( Her Daughter ) and Derrick ( Her Son ) is coming and going, because he just broke up with his girlfriend and he is between residence's.
There are also two cats, Peeps and Molly.
i'm am getting along best with Molly.
Peeps was very friendly at first, but i was a little too rough with her, and then she was avoidingme for several days; but today i caught her napping on my sisters bed and she let me pet her for awhile... until i hopped onto to the bed, and then she ran off...???!!!
There are additionally; Two Turtles and one fish of Derrick's.
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My Right Leg hurts most of the time, with a dull constant throb.
What is kind of annoying; is that several parts of my leg hurt that are far from the broken hip, specifically my Knee and Shin...???
Ugh.
It is hard to find a good sleeping position that doesn't seem to make it worse.
When i'm tired enough though, it doesn't seem to matter.
i've also recently developed something 'weird' in my mouth, that may be a broken tooth, or ???.
It doesn't 'Really' Hurt, but it feels funny (???) and it's sometimes hard to swallow.
!!!
And i was on AntiCoagulents for the time i was in the Hospital, and i've got quite a bit of blood in my Number Twos...!!!And i just had some Diarrhea...from Carrots or Chicken soup...???!!!
And my Right Hand seems to be loosing all it's strength...???
From pressure using The Walker...???
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When i went over to The Department of Social and Health Services,
They told me that i couldn't apply for 'Food Stamps' and Medicaid until the end of June,
When Hawai'i would be able to complete their paper work of cutting me off...!!!
But until then; My Medicaid Card from Hawai'i would still be good, as well as my EBT Card for Food Benifits...???
But then; 2 days later, i got a letter from DSHS saying that i was approved for Medicaid immediately... and i would get my 'Coupons' in 3 to 5 days... But we are going right into a 3 Day Weekend, which are always trouble for these sorts of things...!!!
But i just know that if i present The Medicaid Card to anyone over here, they will just Balk at it...!!!
AND i've already schedualed a Dentist Appointment on the 30th and a Doctor's Appointment to Establish a Primary Care Physician, on the 1st...
And i very much suspect that neither of them will be cooperative, and may even Black List me...!!!
i think my Leg will have completely healed by the time i finally find a Orthopedic's Docter to do The Follow Up Care that i'm supposed to be getting...!!!
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Sigh.
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Still... Everyone else's problems are much worse than mine.

Latest News...!!!

Well...
i am no longer in Hawai'i...!!!
i am now in Spokane Washington, living, for awhile,
with my sister [ Sandi ]
and niece [ Deana ( who is letting me use her computer...!!! } ],
and nephew [ Derrick { who comes and goes, as he is also in a transitional state...!!! ) ]
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i am working on the epic tale of The Broken Hip...
It can be found; in it's still partial form at:
Alternative Contents
Owies Series: Broken Hip
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Friendly Birds

After the big rains in Hawai'i,
The birds had been terribly neglected by the tourists,
who had failed, day after day to show up in the parks and feed them...!!!
Consequently; when i did show up to feed them,
they were VERY friendly & aggressive...!!!

(Tummy Hurts.!)Tummy hurts!?

(Delay?)Gate changed ... Boarding not on schedual...!?

(LA)Now in LA will be here for 4 hours! Tried to call Beu, but connection keeps breaking off,..!!!

(AirPort)Walking around the airport is VERY tiring!

(Walker)Got a (second) new Walker - ( INVACARE 6241-A)

(Ageing)Bob Barker is getting Really Old! I cant stand watching celebrities getting older - !!!

(Trip To Airport)Not 35$ - 60$!!!

(DiVince Code)This is about as revealing as: "I've found errors in 'Winnie the Pooh'."

(DiVince Code)There's a ad on the TV where a guy says "i've found errors in the DiV- codes!"

(X-Ray)Got a prescription for antibiotics for my owie toe...

(X-Ray)Had an xray this morning...

(Diet)All the food here has been great - but i must have had something "funny" yesterday...???

(Boring Day)Only news is that it will cost about 35$ to take a taxi to the airport!

(Balance...?!)...Since May 8th!??! All tests show that everything is working just as it should be...!??!

(Balance...?!)...From the dead! It is working perfectly and the date activator is advancing... But it hasn't saved any

(Balance...?!)Something weird happened to my 'is the universe in balance' program, which also returns messages...

(Left(Good)Toe)About a week before i broke my hip i "somehow" injured my left big toe: which may be ingrown- !

(Stuff)Met dr. Lee - the dr. That admitted me - i thought he was a resident...!!!

(Stuff)Broke battery powered shaver! I think i may be able to get 2 more shaves out of it...???

(Elevating Leg)I tried elevating my leg ( more floating ) last night & it really helped my puffiness...!

(MythBusters-Quote)"We never believe the mathematics on MythBusters!" (engineering rules!)

(MythBusters!)This is the PERFECT Science Show! Rather than serving an agenda, they are actually searching for the Truth!

(M.D.)

(M.D.)Happy Giant Self Replicating Molecules Day...!!!

(Messages...)Send to :
15099902750@mmode.com
Note : They may NOT be more than 108 characters!!!

(Flight)My Aunt Barebelly has apparenty succeeded where i failed twice - and that is to get me a flight out of here!

(Clean Up)So i just washed it off the best i could with a wash cloth & antiseptic soap! I think it will be OK?!

(Syncronicity)One of my other aids ( Darlene ) has visited Bremerton! Her sister lives in Silverdale.

(The Grand Order)...Of things
"No happiness, but sometimes unhappiness helps. Russian Proverb

(Messages...)Send to :
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(Clean Up)When i fell & broke my hip- i got my back pack filthy & there's no mechanism for washing it...!!!

(Walker! )Ivan found me a "REHAB" Walker...!!!

(No Walker!?)He assured me that he would get me a new one- but now i dont even have the lame one that i had before...?!?!

(No Walker!?)Wade just came in and took my walker for a lady that was leaving today- that was their last one!

(IV)Beth took out my IV plug - haven't used it since Tuesday (?)

(Steerage...!)Being moved to steerage some time today... Boo hoo hoo ...!!!

(PhonePlan)My aunt Beverly just called & we chatted for 33 minutes!!! My phone plan prefers shorter calls!!!

(Pictures)You might think that i'm sitting here drawing- but i am sitting doing nothing! Broken hips will do that!

(Bugs)I just realized that i haven't been bitten by a bug or ant since Friday...!

(Syncronicity)My nurses aid ( Louie ) for today (Thurs) used to live in Bremerton!

(Obvious?)These hospital meals are giving me some idea of what a healthy dinner should look like...?!

(Expulsion...!!!)It would appear that my tentative expulsion date is now May 17...!

(Eeeeeeeek...!!!)Some of these posts are being bounced...!!! Resent ones are probably very confusing...!!!

(Phone Home)(-part 2)
didnt think that she was sincere enough?!?!
:'(
but now= pain & sufficient craziness Conquers all

(Phone Home)Tried calling my sister that offered to take me in a few months ago, but i blew her off bcuz i didnt (...)

(Sandi)My sister (favorite sister) just called & said i could move in with her for awhile when i get back to Spokane!

(Sandi)My sister (favorite sister) just called & said i could move in with her for awhile when i get back to Spokane!

( d:=))i don't want to be bad...

(1st XRay)Dr. Mitchell now says that the 1st xray (examined by dr g. Bruno) did show the fracture...!!!

(Sandi)My sister (favorite sister) just called & said i could move in with her for awhile when i get back to Spokane!

(Phone Home)(-part 2)
didnt think that she was sincere enough?!?!
:'(
but now= pain & sufficient craziness Conquers all

(Phone Home)Tried calling my sister that offered to take me in a few months ago, but i blew her off bcuz i didnt (...)

(Supreme Wiggiliness)I dont want to be a crazy street person any more ( !!! >

(Supreme Wiggiliness)Im in the Wahiawa Hospital with a broken hip !

(Thinking)I've been thinking lately that i seem to lack the ability to rank items by their importance...!!!? (

(Methodology)To painful to go to library = messages being sent by cellphone!

(Health Watch)I need someone to take care of me!

(Health Watch)I need someone to exploit me!

(Health Watch)I have an inflamed tendon in my right leg that makes it excruciating to walk!

One in a Trillion...!!! ( ??? )

Jump over to: One in a Trillion...!!!

New Stuff...

A lot of the 'New' Stuff is hidden under
the 'Alternative Contents' Sections...
Which are merely Regions of Sorted Pages...!!!
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Regretfully;
There's no way of knowing which ones have been updated,
Unless i tell you here...???
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Disquieting Visions has a-lot of new stuff...
And Reasonable Beliefs is mostly just resorted material...
There are lots of new Picoans and Stories...
But i still have a-lot of stories left to fill in...
Also; i've tried putting the 'Good' Ones at the top...!!!???
New Owie Docuementation Coming Soon...!!!

i just discovered
something kind of Kooky...!!!
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If i don't fill anything in the Title: Box...
Not only is it left Blank...!!!
But it's not seen as Blank, but just left off...!!!
This changes the look of the entries significantly...???

Second Kooky Discovery...!!!

Notice the Date below each Entry...???
If you click on that; You'll bring up that page, all by itself...
So--- You can clip out the http: Address and paste it into a email to all your friends or enemies...!!!
Try it Today...!!!

Stuff...

1. Those Lunatics that work where i sleep at night, left a whole bunch of lights on last night...!!!
   So naturally; i thought that somebody was working late, and wandered around for awhile, but when i came back around 9:00p, the lights were still on, and there weren't any cars in the vicinity...??? So crept up onto my usual porch, and waited very quietly for another hour before deciding; after not hearing any sounds or seeing any shadows moving around inside, that they were all gone...!!!
   This is the third night, in the last week that they've left lights on...
   They are just toooo irresponsible...!!!
   
2. i found a book at the library the other day on The Standard Theory; The Theory of Almost Everything -- and i would Really like to Catchup on what physics is doing these days, and find a good explanation of 'Quantum Theory', But all the books that i find; just drive me CRAZY...!!!
   So after flipping through this one at the library, i PROMISED myself that i would read this one all the way through, and if i came across things that ticked me off, i would TRY VERY HARD to just ignore them, and press on...!!!
   So i made it all the way through the Introduction; and almost half way through the First Chapter, when the number of annoyances started to pile up on me...!!!
   [ i didn't finish it...!!! ]
   Why i hate Science Books...!!!
   
   1. Failure to Include Elemental Axioms...
      They typically start in the middle of an argument/explanation and just assume that the reader knows all sorts of fundimentals about physics...
   2. Failure to Explain Mathematical Equations...
      It doesn't seem to me that it would be To Difficult to define all the variables of an Equation, ( if you're going to include them ) and then ReExpress the gist of it in Plain English... Typically; They will insist that this Can't be done... But i would take this as evidence that they are just parroting the equations, without having an understanding themselves, of what they represent!
   3. Failure to ( A Loathing For ) Include Illustrations, or including really lame illustrations...!!!
      i think that many writers & publishers think that Illustrations are for 'Babies' and that serious books, even serious books for 'Lay' readers shouldn't include Illustrations...!!!
   4. Using Common words in Novel ways, and failing to explain their usage.
      An Excellent example of this is the use of the word 'Spin' when describing a property of Electrons... i would like to know, what this is...!!! And short of that; how are they measuring it...??? Is it a magnetic property... or what...???
   5. In this last book, they mentioned that 'The Double Slit' Experiment has been done with; not only photons or electrons, or even whole atoms, but with 'BuckyBalls' ( Buckministerfullerenes C60 Molecules...!!! ) ...!!! But they failed to describe the whole experiment fully... The Buckyballs apparently reproduced the Stripes that suggest Wave Interference, but they didn't say how they were measuring their impact on the screen...??? Were there actually stripes of carbon molecules in certain places and a dearth of them between these... What does this mean... Were the molecules, whole molecules, canceling each other out...???
      Wasn't important enough to mention; apparently.
   6. In another spot, the author brings up that Einstein, by means of interpreting Maxwells equations, discovered that faster than light travel was impossible.
      Does he mention these equations, or how their interpretation would lead to this conclusion...???
      No!
      Another thing about Einstein & E=mc^2... Doesn't it strike you as just a tiny bit Odd, that the multiplying factor for converting Mass to Energy would be THE SPEED of Light...??? Where does that come from... Why would it be The Speed of Light...??? Does anyone ever ( In these books ) touch on this...???
      Or is it that everyone else thinks that this is the most natural place to get this factor...???
   7. And Relativistic Time...!!!
      When you put an Apple in the Refrigerator; Is it Time Slowing down that Retards it's spoilage, or just the slowing of the apples molecules...??? It also seems to me that when things are happening on this planet; things are happening on a planet in the vicinity of Alpha Centuri at the same moment, and by calculating when those events took place, from radio transmissions, you could KNOW that they happened simultaneously... This is the same thing as Sound Traveling through Air... No one makes the mistake of thinking that Sound Transmissions are fooling with Time Frames... Why do they make this mistake with Light...??? It seems to me that when it comes to Light; Physicists turn all Religousy...!!! Einstein said this, Darwin Said that... Don't contradict our Gawds...!!!
   8. And The Example of Gravity and Acceleration... There is a Parable that describes an Elevator that is either Accelerating through space at such and such a rate that the effect is Equal to The Gravity of Earth at Sealevel, Or The Elevator is at Sealevel, motionless, on Earth.
      There is; According to this Parable; NO WAY to tell which it is, if you're in the Elevator... But by their own rules, You Can...!!!
      Time is ( alledgedly ) effected by Gravity, and if you had two very sensitive Atomic Clocks ( or some such ) and put one at the top of the Elevator, and one at the bottom-- then; if you were in a Gravitational field, like the Earth, the clocks would differ after a time,
      But the clocks in the accelerating Elevator would remain in sync.
      Why do they create these idiotic storys that are just plain wrong...!!!
      Like the one with falling Balls...! The Heavier Ball would hit first...!
      ( Not by much; but it would fall slightly, ever so slightly-- faster...! )
   9. Why are Science books so awful...???
      i think it may be that; Some time ago; The Illuminatii discovered that it was Really Easy to Destroy The Whole Universe, and in order to protect it--
      They have to keep everyone really stupid...!!!
      The Universe would really be better off with nothing smarter than Dinosaurs,
      but The Illuminatii are trying to make the best of things, the way they are.
      
3. i lost my hat the other day, Again...!!!
   i was on my way to bed the other day, and instead of taking the 62, i thought it might be fun to take the 55, all the way around the island, the other way...
   which would take an additional hour and a half...
   But after awhile-- While reading Johnny Tremain, i noticed out the window that we were at an 'impossible' intersection...???
   The way the 55 goes; there is almost always the ocean on one side, so that busy intersections are pretty much impossible...!!!
   So i tried looking out the windows, which were like mirrors, and i couldn't make heads, nor tails of where we were...!!! Then i saw a familiar McDonalds, and knew that we were near The Valley of The Temples, and this must be a 65...!!! But the Sign on the Bus clearly Said 55... Circle Island...!!! Ugh!
   And at this time, some of the other passengers realized that this was not the 55...!!!
   So i had to ride the bus for another half an hour, until we came to The Hygenic Store ( Which is anything but...!!! ) and i had to wait another half an hour for The 55...!!!
   ( The Electronic Sign on the first Bus was Broken...!!! )
   And when changing to the real 55, i was so frazzled that i forgot my hat on the 65...!!!
   So; The next morning, i bought a new one, Same Style, only Blue ( last one was Green ).
   There have been too many unexpected expenditures this month...!!!
   
4. The Rain has Stopped, mostly... ( Still plenty of Drizzle ) ...but now there is lot of Blustery Wind, and it is very Cold, both at night, and During the Day...!!!
   
5. ugh.

Light Anomalies

There are two Light Anomalies
that i've been experiencing lately...
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One:
This one has been happening to me ever since i started wearing glasses,
and it occurs very infrequently... But around a dozen or so times in the last 5 years.
The circumstances of this anomalie is that i will be sitting, and usually looking down at some piece of work i'm doing, and i will notice a 'light blob' or 'necklace of light blobs' tranverse my field of vision,
usually; exactly horizontally, rarely vertically, never diagonally--
It's apparently a reflection that occurs on the surface of the lens; on my glasses.
The thing is; What makes it anomalous, is that there is nothing around me that could account for this...
The other day it happened outdoors, so there is a considerable amount of unaccounted for phenomena around me-- But nothing that would immediately explain the light.
In times past; This phenomena would occur ( more frequently ) in my room, where there was nothing that could even come close to explaining where the reflected, primary object, was located.
On several occasions i tried to reproduce the effect; without success.
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Two:
The place that i sleep at night is A Porch in the middle of a long building, with no lights along the side that i sleep on. [ Except for a timed, proximity activated porchlight that during this phenomena is never activated. ]
On the opposite side, facing this side of The Building, is A Ravine approximately 20 yards wide, filled with heavy vegetation.
On the other side of that is a park, which features many bright lights over a baseball field and throughout the park.
On the other side of The Building is a busy thoroughfare.
The Building is solid, and light from the cars can not penetrate the upper rooms...
But-- The Building is constructed with a 1 1/2 to 2 foot space beneath it, from which, the head lights of cars easily penetrate to the side that i occupy.
O.K.
So the lights from the cars can frequently be seen; causing a multitude of curious shadows and shapes that play on the side of A Shed several feet from The Main Building, and all along the vegetation leading into the ravine.
The Anomalous Phenomena is the rare occurance of A Very Bright Spot, that Flashes along The Top of The Shed, just under the awning, taking on different shapes, and occuring all along this strip under the awning.
It is much to bright to be compared to any of the lights coming from the car's headlights, which are usually very dim, considering distance and their pathways.
The Bright Spots are also directly on the opposite side of The Shed, from The Park's Lights.
There is also nothing that could account for the lights coming from anything along either side of the building, perpendicular to The Building, and perpendicular to The Shed's side where these Lights are occurring.
( ??? )

Somebody Sent Me A Comment...!!!

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006
18:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: edgarblythe
To: transamoebae@seanet.com
Subject: [The Translucent Amoebae Consortium]
4/13/2006 03:21:47 PM

I have to say, you are very talented.

--Posted by edgarblythe to
The Translucent Amoebae Consortium
at 4/13/2006 03:21:47 PM

Broken Bee...!!!

Weird Broken Bee...!!!

i think you can see from this picture that this bee is broken...!!!
Also that it's a really Big Bee...!!!
When i was here in Hawai'i the first time;
Back around 1986-7 and so on...
i had come across a kind of bee that was Entirely Black,
Like this one--
But it also had Wings that looked like they were stamped out of Copper Foil...!!!
i haven't seen any more bees like that-- this time around...
One really curious thing about This Bee...
Is that despite it's Very Broken Wings...!!!
It was actually able to fly pretty well...!!!
REALLY...!!!
It wasn't extremely excellent flying,
But it was off the ground, flying around for a minute at a time, flying...!!!
Bee's are supposed to be barely able to fly to begin with,
And this one barely has any wings at all...!!!
And how did they get all broken up like that...???
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Speaking of Weird Insects...
When i was living in Bremertowne,
i'd come across these Giant Ants...!!!
...From time to time...
Then i heard on Art Bell that there was a Beetle in California that looked Just Like an Ant...!!!
Which seemed perfectly consistent with These Giant Ants that i was seeing...
Because-- Although they Looked Just Like Giant Ants...!!!
They were always by themselves...!
That is:
They were always seen Individually,
Not in Groups, which is the usual Modus Operenti for Ants...!!!
Why would a Beetle Evolve to look just like an Ant...???

New Wiggly Cycle Beginning...???

Maybe it's not just beginning now...
Maybe it's been cooking up for awhile...

1. i have A New Owie...!!!
   It is on my right forearm and it started at about 2:00am on April 2nd!
   i woke up to discover a White Blister on that spot, and it looked like a White Eraser in size and shape...??? So i popped it, because it was annoying me, and i didn't really think too much as to what it was, or where it came from... But then, almost immediately afterwards, i got to thinking... 'i should put some 3 in 1 Antibiotic salve on it', so i did.
   But the next day, or so, it 'Blew Up' and then a day after that, i decided to put a bandage on it, and i was also thinking that i really should 'Dig it out'...! But i didn't because it was really hurting alot... and The Bolus was really snuggled in there...!!!
   Then i was going to just 'Leave it alone' for awhile, and see how long it took to heal, without getting any perscription antibiotics for it...!!!???
   But then; Sunday ( April 9 ) i noticed that i was leaking pus quite a bit, so i took the bandage off; and the brown, sickly pus fountained out of it, and with just a little squeezing, LOTS MORE pus flowed out this HUGE hole in my arm.
   Ugh.
   So; after i squeezed most of the pus out, i noticed that the Bolus looked 'Loose', so i decided to dig it out with Tweezers...!!!
   Owie, Owie, Owie...!!!
   The Bolus had the colour and consistency of Butterscotch Pudding, so it was pretty hard to get a grip on it...!!! i was also using some Q-tips, With which i was able to fit the whole head of them into the Hole...!!!
   How can it do that...!!! There is supposed to be Muscles and Nerves and Arteries in there...!!! How can my hand still work...???
   Ugh, and Ugh.
   Owie, Owie, Owie...!!!
   i think i got most of The Bolus out, which i think is The POISON from Whatever it was that Bit me, surrounded by Dead White-Corpusceles...???
   Then i filled it with Iodine, and poured that out, and filled it with 3 in 1 Antibiotic Salve and put a new bandange on it.'
   It doesn't hurt quite as much as it did the other day, and/or/but -- it is still leaking, but i think it is leaking blood now, and not pus. i think i would rather have it leaking blood than pus...???
   
2. i went over to check my mail today...
   i'm expecting a letter from Marc Calvary that is supposed to have sent me $40 from The 'Show' in Portland... and i have going AROUND AND AROUND over this...!!! It is making me COMPLETELY CRAZY...!!! Because i am NOT supposed to have any 'Extra' Income from my SSI...!!! They will not allow me to keep 5¢ more than what they send me...!!!
   i think that is CRAZY...!!! What incentive am i supposed to have to get a job and work my way out of this, if they just take everything that i earn away from me...!!!
   Or if my aunt sends me $10 for Chrstmsa or my Birthday... They take that away from me too...!!! [ Does that sound EVIL to you...!!! ??? ]
   And it's not like i'm getting extremely wealthy...!!!
   i get $600 from them, and the cheapest studio apartments around here are like $1500...!!!
   ugh.
   But if i don't report it, and hand it over ( or they deduct it ) then i'm afraid someone will yell at me...!!! i hate getting yelled at...!!!
   PLUS-- They won't just settle for me telling them that i've 'Earned' $40 from this Show in Portland, they won't take my word for it that it's $40...!!! They'll demand Complete Documentation for it...!!! i don't have any documentation for it...!!!
   When i reported that i'd gotten some money one chrstmsa, they made me write to my mom and aunt, and they had to send Certified Receipts for the money that they'd sent me...!!! [ It sounds too CRAZY to Believe doesn't it...!!! You can call and ask them about this yourself...!!! The Number is: 1-800-772-1213 ]
   And another thing...!!! i was over at the office awhile ago about something or another...??? and the worker there just spontaniously mentioned that if i did find someplace to live, and it was below 'The Market Value' -- Such as if i moved in with a relative or something, and didn't pay a full rental amount... They would slash the amount that they do send me, because it would no longer 'Be in Need'... !!! ( ??? )
   They just tell me these things to torment me.
   So anyways- it hasn't come yet...!!!
   
3. But while i was over at the mailbox place, ( Postal Connection of Kapolei ) i discovered an OVERDUE Notice in my box...!!! It was over-due way back in February...!!! But she didn't remind me about it until NOW... and so i think i had to pay a bunch of penalities...???
   It was hard to be sure, because she was even harder to understand today than she usually is...??? ( i think she's natively Korean...??? )
   But the fee to cover it until July 18th was $76... and it seems to me that it was ALOT cheaper last time, when i originally got it...???
   i was just checking my Checking Balance this morning, and i was thinking, well; $112 should be enough to get me through this month... and now that's been Wiped Out...!!!
   ugh.
   
4. It looks like the rain is finally overwith...???
   There was a 'Letter to the Editor' from some Geezer that was around in '58 when Hawaii had it's last 'Big' Rainy Season, and he was saying that; "You think this was rainy...! HA! Back in '58, we had 17_inches in 24 hours... This time; it took a whole month to accumulate 17_inches...!"
   But it's still pretty cloudy... it's not exactly back to weather as usual... And plus; All the rain brought a whole bunch of Mosquitoes & Gnats... And FLESH EATING BACTERIA...!!! Several of the beaches are closed due to this Man Eating Bacteria...!!!
   The kind that i have on my arm looks pretty OOGY... But it's Localized...???
   i don't understand how it could be Localized though...??? Why doesn't it just stream through my blood...??? ( ??? )
   
5. Around the beginning of the month ( April ) or a few days before that...??? My Left foot started ( Suddenly ) Hurting like CRAZY...!!! Like it was full of broken Glass or somesuch...??? And that lasted for about a week, and now it's back to it's 'Usual' amount of pain... just around the toes...??? The weird thing was, it didn't look at all injured... They never do...!!! The Owies on my legs and arms always LOOK like Serious Owies... But my Feet always look FINE... But hurt all the time...!!! ( ??? ) ( Maybe they're a little puffy...??? )
   
6. Good News! My poops have been looking really healthy the last two times...!!!
   
7. Partial Book Report:
   i didn't actually read the whole book: The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore...
   And Another Book that is kind of like it-- Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link...
   That i did read all the way through...
   Both of these books were started on the premise that they were 'Quirky' writers...!
   Moore has the dullest style... He apparently just wrote a fairly dull and ordinary story, and then went back and took all the adjectives and 'spiced them up' which is the sole attribute of his quirkiness...! The story itself is as plain as paste.
   Kelly Link has a fun and easy to read writing style and her stories contain lots of quirky and fun detailing... But they go on and on, without going in any particular direction...! Then as most of her critics have mentioned; they end with a twist. i think that that 'twisted' endings are a direct consequence of her not knowing where the story was ever going, but that she needed to end it after so many pages; perhaps because she'd exhausted all the ideas she had for that narative... and so; she simply turned the story line off in a perpendicular direction and stopped typing.
   The book i'm reading now is; Terry Bisson's The Upper Room, and other likely stories.
   This is also a quirky collection of short stories, and he does some things that i would normally think of as very annoying, but he seems to pull them off; such as repeating lines or catch phrases, over and over and over again...???!!! The stories are very imaginative and easy to read... But although i'm only 2/3's of the way through this first book of his, they are beginning to seem just a tad formulistic...???
   But still; i'm planning on following this up with Numbers Don't Lie... and Bears Discover Fire... if i can find it...???
   Then i'd also like to find Link's Stranger Things Happen... which the library doesn't have either...!
   
8. ...???
   
   

The Disappearing Elephant

The Amazing Retardo's Disappearing Elephant

Rain, Rain, Rain...!!!

1. It's been raining, pretty much, non-stop here along the Hawai'ian islands for some 3 weeks...
   Torrentially so in many places...
   We're supposed to get around 1 1/2 inches this month, and have gotten nearly 12...!
   Amazingly; we are only up by 200% for the year so far...
   Usually; Torrential rain around here will come on very quickly, dump a huge amount of rain, and then go away...
   When i was here several years ago, a huge tropical rain storm tore out a bunch of streets in the hills and then when i first came here last year, there was a big storm that flooded the library's basement at the local university... destroying a few billion dollars worth of rare documents...!!!
   But this last storm has lasted for such a long time that these sorts of things just keep happening and happening... A damn has broken, sewage has been overflowing, roads are being torn up, the ground everywhere has turned to mush... and i can't get my socks to dry out.
   It is making me very crazy.
2. i added a bunch of new pictures to the Picoans section, and although they're not 'sized' very well...
   ( this stupid blogger-editor is not accepting the sizes that it used to...??? )
   ... they are still reliably awful.
   i really need to go through them and edit them down to the best 5% or so...
3. My left foot hurts. It looks OK, but it feels like i may have stepped on a big nut or something...???
4. There is this weird effect that has befallen me several times...
   ( how can i not learn from the first few times...!!! ??? )
   ...and that is that when i get my shorts wet, and then sit for a few hours, my butt develops a huge Owie...!!!
   This latest one has finally drained, but it still hurts when i sit on it.
5. i have another owie on my right hand that may or may not be getting better...???
6. Although it may not look like i've been very active with my blog lately, i've been adding things, and reorganizing page in the 'Alternative Contents' sections...
   Look around in them for new stuff...
7. i keep forgetting to mention that my old Church back in Spokane Washington,
   Saint Paul Lutheran Church
   2159 North Hamilton St. Spokane, WA. 99207
   Has gone out of Business...!!! And been sold...!!!
   ( This was a few months ago...! )
   Have you ever heard of a church going out of business...???!!!
   [ Naturally-- i can't find any new about this on the Internet...!!! ]
   i have seen 3 McDonald's go out of business and each has struck me as a sure sign of the coming Apocalypse...???

Cleaning Out My SubJournal

My Subjournal is full...
and i've already gotten a new one...
But i need to 'Save' some dregs from the old one before i transfer it to... ( ??? )

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Why Not?
( i'm sure !!! ??? i already did a blogpage on this, but i can't find it...??? )

1. Full Character Access on Computers
2. Instant Start Up
3. Robot Bank Robberies
4. Call in Bank Robberies
5. Heretical T.V.
6. More Sensible Assassinations
7. AI
8. Really viable robot pets
9. Commercial Submarines
10. Custom Cars
11. Freedom of Fashion
12. Ugly People revolt.
13. Animals with Infered Vision
14. Why do Smart People let the dumb people run the world.
15. Super Crimminals ( Artists as Crimminals )
16. Jedi-Knight / Templar / Samuri's...
17. Teaching of Stupid Science
18. Recognition of heretical Science
19. Colonize the moon
20. Bad Space program / looking for life on Mars
21. Homelessness
22. War on Terror
23. Lack of a Free Press
24. Obvious Untruths
25. Masturbating in Public...
    Sure it might be rude, like spitting... But why is it Illegal...?

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Psychological Test
THERAPIST
THEME
TOGETHER
THEOCRAT
THEREAFTER
THEREFROM
THEREINAFTER
THERE'D
ATHEIST
ATONE
ATTIRED
ATISSUE
BEACON
BEARING
BEAROUT
NOTABLE
NOTATE
NOTICE
ANTHEM
REDACT
SHEARED
SHEATHING
BATHER
FATHER
FATALLY
FATTIER
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ScreenSaver Universe

1. SaberToothed Animals
2. Giantism is various animals
3. Gratuitious evolution of unnecessary features
4. Best Proof- All the things that should be happening, but aren't
5. Golden Ratio Variance...
   And other significant proportions...
6. Just So Falacy explanations for 'x'
7. Magick as violations of 'Natural Law'
8. Along with The Other 'Just So' attributes that contribute to life being possible, what is the allowed variance of 'Water to Land'...?
   If a planet had too much water, fire using animals couldn't evolve, but too little would mean that life might never get started...?

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How do they Know that...?

1. E=MC^2
   Where did the C come from...?
   That's always looked very suspicous to me...!
2. How far away is the Sun?
3. How big is Jupiter?
4. What is Entanglement?
   It seems to me that if, under the conditions usually attributed to Entangled particles... Everything would be Entangled with Everything else...???
5. What is a Magnetic Field?
6. What are the chances of a photon dropping INTO the Zero point background energy reserve...?
7. That the calculations for pi, are really pi?
8. Cobe results were the result of the 3 degrees of background radiation...?
   It always looked to me that the pictures looked just like what i would have expected from a steady state universe...?!

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What if someone visited the future
and it contained innumerable 'Things' ( transport devices, off path zones, devices... ) that were made up of 'Forms' that the visitor could not see...! His brain, as an infant, was never exposed to these 'shapes' and thus, as an adult, could not see them...!
( tests with kittens seem to bear this out...! )
In the visitors brain, these unusual shapes are processed as 'Regular' forms up to the point where the brain tries to find an example, or previous reference to the 'regular, Non-amorphous, structured form... So that it's not classified as a previously known form, nor does it qualify as a unclassified shape, such as a puddle or cloud... These shapes pass all the tests for 'real shapes' but there just aren't any examples of them for the brain to 'See'...
These shapes would 'fall between' the cracks of things like Cirlces and Squares... Not one, not the other, and not exactly an amalgum of both either...!!!
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Experiment to Prove Reincarnation

1. Select a large number of city birds ( people would most likely choose to reincarnate into a bird that is going to live in a familiar environment, IF they chose to reincarnate into a bird at all...!!! ( Some may chose Romatic Birds... But this sampling may prove sufficient ) -- Presumably )
2. Assume that only a small number of these birds are from Humanimal Reincarnations, and that furthermore, the humanimals that they previously came from, were from a 'Western' Civilization.
3. Fabricate a gizmo that will display or present combinations of 2 sets of 2 objects ( 4 objects in all - per trial run ) such that one set is obviously related to one another, such as butter and toast, But in a way that a non-human would not immediately 'see'...
   And the other set would not be obviously related...
   ( Someone very clever may be able to find a link between them, but it would not be 'Obvious' ) -- Such as a Ring of Keys and a Tampon.
4. Assume that only a human mind can discern that the related pair of objects are related.
5. And that the bird can then choose that set, and recieve a small, encouraging reward.
6. If a statistically large number of birds-- OR one or two birds can consistently chose the related pairs, then the simplest explanation is that they are humanimal minds currently inhabiting bird forms.

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Archytypes

1. War
2. Menstual Blood
3. Sun
4. Moon
5. Jealousy
6. Litter Free Neighborhoods
7. Ruined Cars
8. Mail Boxes
9. Ugly Women
10. Smokers
11. Buckets
12. Genitial Mutilation
13. Shopping Malls
14. Important Hat
15. Things Painted with Flags, Eagles, Political Animals
16. Arrows
17. Lines on Roads
18. Wallet
19. Large Marked Bags
20. Masturbating on a Bus, in a closet...
21. Closets full of broken toys
22. Shorts
23. Genitals showing through
24. Filthy hands / face / neck
25. sores
26. rolls of fat
27. patchy grass
28. gaurd rails
29. laws
30. lies
31. riding animals
32. private spots
33. swimsuit area
34. mice
35. neon green signs
36. pets for children, drunks, lonely housewives
37. difficult puzzles
38. windows
39. polygons
40. foreign facial features
41. flow charts
42. street lights
43. street signs
44. yard sale
45. buildings as churches
46. bleeding
47. ink
48. the differenc shapes of leafs, clouds
49. mathematical variations
50. underwear as a
51. set theory
52. Suzies tangerine eyebrow pencil
53. The Picture of Everyone
    This idea is that you can make a picture that is so ambiguous that it looks like anyone
54. Confusion...
55. and so on...

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The Gullible Skeptic
The gullible skeptic is someone, that for whatever reasons, chooses ( if this is the right word ) to agree with whatever the broken scientists ( pathalogical skeptics / current orthodoxy ) says is true.

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And lots more...
to boring to transcribe

SubJournal....

My SubJournal is pretty much filled up, and i need to get a new one...
Would you like ( this one ) my old one...
What is it exactly...???
It's just a notebook of ideas and some doodles, and scratch pad things, and reminders and whatever i needed to write down, so i wouldn't forget... unless i forgot to write it down...???
Contains genuine Aspergerian Rants...!!!
( Not quite as crazy & insightful as Schzophrenic Rants...! ??? )
Send me your Addie...!!!
[ Will be sent by First Class Postage : Poste Haste } ( !!! )
If you like it; You can send me something fun...
( Like a Tabloid Subscription...!!!
i wish i could afford to subscribe to all of them...!!! )

Recent Biddles...

1. i have a new owie, that is pretty much like my old owie, except that it's smaller, and on my right hand, near my thumb. It had been a even older owie that was slowly making a recovery, but i had to pick at the scab and calloused skin there, and i managed to pull off some fresh skin, and that became infected...!!! Even though i took great pains to smear some 3 in 1 antibacterial salve over it immediately...!!! And now it Hurts way more than my old knee owie and it is spreading along my arm...!!! It has a bandage over it now, and under that, some liquid skin, and i'm not going to even look at it for at least 3 days...!!!
   
2. i was on the bus about a week ago, on my way to Kapolei, and i took my calculator out to fool around with... This Calculator is an HP48gx, the last really nice Calculator that HP made... They have since remade the 48 and come out with a 49, but everyone that has either of these newer versions agree that they are really lame... Especially in production quality...!!! HP used to make calculators that wore like bricks, and now they are turning out the same cheap crap as Texas Instruments and Casio... Gawd Bless their twisted souls, everyone one of them.
   So anyways... i made an amendment to a directory ( file of programs ) and in order to save it to a protected memory card ( that would remain intact if the calculator proper, crashed for some reason, which is rare, but not unheard of... ) i would have to take the card slot cover off, then turn the memory card to read/write... rather than just read... which is safer for the data...! So i opened the card to the calculator, then saved the amended directory, and then the bus turned the corner to Kapolei, and i jumped up and got off, and i forgot to put the card slot cover back on...!!! And it was Lost...!!!
   But i didn't discover this for several days...!!!
   And i had a coniption fit... ( ??? )
   BECAUSE-- Without the cover, the cards might slip out, and if the merged card slipped out ( i have two, one is merged and one is for archives ) and the calculator was turned on, memory would be corrupted...!!! And everything in memory would be lost... which is about 200K or 200 pages of data...!!!
   So i Purged alot of it, in order to Free that card, and convert it to an archive formated card, like the other one... So i lost alot of data, in order to save some of it...!!!
   i cried and cried...!!!
   Then; after i posted my dilemma on the HP newsgroup, someone wrote and told me that Calcpro still offers these -Obsolete- parts...!!!
   So i ordered one, which was 3$ and spent another 6$ for postage...!!!
   But this guy that told me about Calcpro, said that some people think that they're disreputable...!!!
   So stayed tuned to see how that works out...
   
3. It's been raining ALOT over here in Hawai'i lately... for like about 10 days or more...
   Torential Rains...!!! 5_inches in One Hour...!!! ( in some places...!!! )
   It rained really hard where i sleep, last night, but only for about an hour and a half, and i only got slightly damp.
   
4. Have you heard about The Puzzle that involves an airplane and a conveyer belt runway...???
   See my commentary and leave a response...!!!
   
5. March 10th ( Friday )
   i opened my HP48 and saw that my Equilibrium Calibrator was just about off scale for AN EVIL DAY...!!! The graphic displays how good or Evil the day will be by colouring in a portion of a Circle, like a pie slice, and today it was all black except for a tiny sliver on the right side. Left side is Bad, Right Side is Good... So that The Left side was entire filled in, and nearly all of the right side, by way of around the bottom and back towards the top...!!!
   Plus: The Equilibrium Calibrator ( Not it's real name... What would be a good name for this program...??? ) also allows dead people to talk through it, and todays message was:
   "SHITBOOKINDING MIGRA"
   The dead are often very cryptic with their messages, but along with the severe Equilibrium index, this didn't sound good...!!!
   Then: Fortunately ( ??? ) after looking up the Fragments File, which records the numerical amount of the Equilibrium Index, As opposed to the imprecise graphical representation... i saw that it only recorded a value of -6...!!! ...Which for me, is nominal...??? Then i saw that the Calculator was in Radians Mode, which it should not have been, because i don't think in Radians, i think in Degrees...!!! But i do have a program that i downloaded the other day, that draws Spirographical Designs ( Sort of ) and it Changes the Angular Mode to Radians... So that seems to explain that...!!!
   Case Solved.
   
6. i Sewed up some loose spots on my backpack...
   The left shoulder strap was coming loose, so i sewed and over sewed that down with orange and green thread... i like to use contrasting thread ( over black ) so i'll have a better idea of what i tried 'before'... so when that fails, i'll try sewing someplace different...
   This approach worked with the bad zipper, that i tried fixing twice before i finally took a moment to carefully examine my old sewing patterns that were next to the original sewing patterns, and i discovered that the original sewing was way off....!!! So i pulled the zipper back into it's more or less correct alignment, and sewed that down, and it's been working for 5 months...!!!
   Then i was going to sew some 'Patches' over two holes in the bottom, but i decided that that would be too difficult, considering that they were right next to the waist band, and i would have to sew through that, and it was designed so that it could conceivably come apart, which it would no longer do, if i sewed it all shut...!!! Plus; it would be a real cow to try to sew through that...!!! i already broke one needle sewing the shoulder strap down...!!!
   So instead, i just pulled the edges over one another, pushing the holes into dimples, then sewed the far rims together...
   We'll see how that holds up.
   
7. i've been looking for several months now for a novelty pencil that is like "an ordinary pencil with a lead in it..." ( NOT a Mechanical Pencil...!!! ) ...Except that this Pencil has 4 or 6! different coloured leads combined in the slot normally reserved for just one...!!!
   i've seen these in a couple of different forms... But i've never bought them for myself...!!!
   i think someone sent me some, then i found one, then found another...!!!
   And Now-- i've lost all the ones that i used to have, so i've been trying to find someplace to buy another...
   And i Can Not...!!!
   Actually: i did find a place on the Internet that sells 'Chartpak Magic Fx - Crazy Chromatic Coloring Pencil' But all the recommended stores Do Not Carry them...!!! So i may have to order ONE Pencil from this place...!!!
   If you know where to find them, Buy me one or two and send them to me:
   My { Mailing }Address is Now in my Resumé...!!!
   
8. i found a new pacifer the other day, but it doesn't have the perfered handling ring that i would like...???
   Why are the gawds providing me with new pacifers, but not the kind i like...???
   
9. i was over at Foodland the other day, and i bought a can of Beefaroni Spaghetti, a pastry and a can of soda... And they charged me $3.59 for JUST THE SODA...!!!
   So i says to the checkout girl... "Is that right...?"
   ...and she gets this really scary zombie look on her face, and then stares of into space for the longest time, and finally regains conscousness, to say; "Yes."
   So then i went over to the soda counter area, but it is such a harum-scarum mass of clutter that i quickly give up and walk over to The Service Counter, where the manager just Completely Ignores me for like 2 hours...!!! But finally i get his attention and he carefully explains to me that what happened was that this particular brand of soda is not sold individually, only by the 6 pack, which is $3.59...!!!
   ( i found it by itself, so i speculated that 'someone else' broke up a 6 pack...!!! )
   But all during this time, he doesn't seem even remotely interested in 'Straightening It Out...!!!'
   So i just left. Highly Disgruntled.
   And Then...???...!!!...he runs out of the store and calls after me, and suggests that i come back and Straighten it out...??? But i was so frazzled already that i just left.
   And i fully intended to NEVER GO THERE AGAIN...!!!
   But the very next day, i went there again.
   The thing is-- They OFTEN UNDERCHARGE me for pastries...
   and sometimes i don't notice it until i've left the store,
   and sometimes i kind of notice it right away...
   But they Do It ALOT...!!!
   So i don't know what to make of that...!!!
   [ This is the same store that once Short Changed me $8...!!! ]
   { i thought that i'd documented that story on my blog, but i can't find it now...??? }
   
10. Note from my cousin Michelle...
    Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006
    20:06:04 -0800
    From: "Michelle Guthrie"
    Subject: re: showing in Portland
    
    Hi Chrs,
    Mom and Dad, via Aunt Bev, told me about your showing in Portland.
    Unfortunately, they told me that is was today, March 2nd.
    I went down and met the gallery owner, (who is a great guy), and he told me that it was last month.
    He said that is was very successful, and that everyone really liked your work.
    I was able to get a few of the booklets that were there.
    Let me know when you show again in Portland.
    Best Wishes,
    Your cousin, Michelle
    
    Commentary:
    Did anyone else in the family buy any of the books...???
    NO!
    And why would Auntie Barebelly wait until after the show was over, before telling anyone about it...???
    Is it any wonder why i'm so disfunctional...???
    NO! It is Not...!!!
    

Things i don't like about...

Things i don't like about:
The Franklin SCD-1870
Dictionary & Thesaurus

1. Although it has all Seven of George Carlin's Forbidden words:
   It doesn't have 'Golden Ratio' or 'Comeuppance'...
   And many other commonly used words...!!!
2. Although it actually pronounces some words, it doesn't pronounce all of them,
   And the ones most frequently excluded are the foreign ones that i really need help with...!!!
3. It has a special section, that it way too small, for Symbols, but there are not only too few of them listed, the graphical representation of them is too small...
   Absurdly so.
4. Although i have a Duacell Ultra Battery in it,
   and it's apparently a long way from actually being dead,
   The Dictionary keeps 'Resetting' itself...
5. And when it does reset;
   The Font is reduced to Its smallest size,
   And The Word of The Day is turned off...!!!
6. And When The Word of The Day is Reset--
   It starts over again with a Prearranged List...!!!
7. The Scoring Method for Letris & Letter Poker is really Stupid...!!!
   All words are assigned points on how long they are;
   So that a one letter word gives each of it's one letters One Point,
   While a five letter word is allowed Five Points per Letter ( 25_pts. )
8. Hangman often uses Obscure &/or Foreign Words...!!!
9. Athough you can Highlight -most- Words and then look up their definitions...
   This doesn't work with all the words,
   Nor does it even work with the Abbreviations that it uses,
   And it doesn't list those Abbreviations anywhere...!!!
10. The Thesaurus is really lame.
    It does have 'Class' words occasionally, but not as a general rule.
11. Given the amount of memory that mp4 players, and other 'modern' devices have now,
    This Dictionary should have all the words from The Complete Encyclopedic Set of The Oxford English Dictionary... ( Plus Illustrations; In Colour...!!! )
    But it squeezes by on the nearly same set as they were using 20 years ago, with their first Electronic Dictionaries...!!!
12. The Protecting Cover is really lame.
13. [ add more here ]

Other than that though...
It's ok.

Normalacy & Deviant Sexuality...

If you've ever fished through a Strangers Garbage Can,
Or gone 'Dumpster Diving'...
Or perhaps you've heard First Hand Accounts of people that have...
{ No Second Hand accounts are acceptable...
You just can't sustain the same level of 'Believing' with a Magazine Article
or a Careless Anecdote thrown around at work...! }
Then you'll no doubt have some appreciation for all the weird, wonderful and amazing things that people will throw away.
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Everything happens in threes.
Have you heard that expression...???
i think that there may be some truth to it...!!!
Weird things DO seem to happen in sets...???
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So the other day, i happened to find BOTH a Dildo and a Penis Pump...!!!
In Different Locations...!!!
How often have i EVER found a Dildo or a Penis Pump...???
NEVER...!!!
Then One Day after that, i found four Porno DVD's
Along with an envelope with Pictures, Apparently from these DVD's,
Printed on extremely expensive Photographic Paper,
and carefully inserted into Clear Plastic Display Pages for a 3 Ring Binder...
The most curious thing about that was that although every effort was made to make their presentation professional looking, The images themselves were of the crassest, unimaginative, unartistic poses imaginable... Plus; The simple quality of the images made them appear as if their were photographed off an old 12_inch Television set with a cheap Polaroid camera...???
The other very curious thing about those DVD's
Is that this is the SECOND Time i've found Porno DVD's in that particular garbage can,
which in located on the top parking lot level of The Ala Moana Shopping Center...???
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That's very mysterious.