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Instead of doing anything useful I extracted some of the more interesting subject lines from my Junk folder. I think I will start a School of Philosophy. this helps enhance the experience regardless if u need it or not and regardless of if u want it or not. A fresh bright mouth Swallowed a flashlight, did you? And fill at unleavened prick It’s not kosher if it rises. Another pro VIÃGRRA And here I’ve been using the home version! At sing in easily elkhound You ain’t nothing but a hound dog… Be drink as gringo We don’t need no drinkin’ straws! Be fix be polytechnic bigot Dental adhesive for racist engineers? Best Erection Drugs ! limpet If he won’t buy it, insult him. Drugs ‘R Us We B’ Wasted. Friendly notification We won’t be so nice next time. Get White-Hot Offers from Crest Wipe your chin… Go break at comet Wear purple Nikes. Go hurt of jackrabbit woman Hard liquor and fast women. HAIR LOSS? GET REAL! Cheap transplants...

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Sock puppet – Encyclopedia Dramatica . Just found this wonderful site yesterday. It’s all about the Internets , “invented by Al Gore and pluralized by George W. Bush”. It’s also a great place to get tips on making your life interesting and everybody else’s lives miserable. And how to deal with dramatis personae who wish to make all the world their stage. Like the Drama Whores who hang out with the mentally ill in support groups, manipulating people who actually need support into throwing pity parties for them. Nobody heals if an environment like that gets out of hand. There are tips on creating Drama , important definitions such as “Mary Sue”- see previous post – and psychological profiles of various Internets Personality Disorders (IPD). One of the more disturbing IPDs is “ species dysmorphia “, a paraphilia in which the sufferer identifies too strongly with the animal cartoon characters from Saturday mornings. Yo...

Results: You are Mulier badasstica pseudofeminista , the Grrl Sue. Your aggressively bitchy “feminist” stance only causes men / boys / male elves to posture the more, and you fall for it. And them. Surprise, surprise. What Species of Mary Sue Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

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One day widder biddy Wussley is all so sad…. He sez: “Nobody WUVs me enny more… I think I will just commit sewer pipes in a big nasty way and make my mommy all mad and everything!” Google Groups : alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die Very old ST:TNG humor. I almost named this blog after it. *spoiler* don’t go if you liked Ensign Wesley Crusher or if you dislike skull fragments.

Caveat: I’m an electrical engineer. Do not construe this to be medical advice. It is NOT. I have chosen to use allopathic meds as the basis for my treatment, and I will not change my mind – at least not until after menopause! But with my pdoc’s blessing I am allowed not only to take supplements, but to choose them myself. I don’t take the supplement-du-jour, I wait until they’ve been proven out and people have been using them for a couple of years. I am taking: SAMe, mitochondria food. It has been proven effective in mood disorders and my psychiatrist suggested this one. A couple of studies showed some anomalies in mitochondral functioning in bipolars, probably mediated by the cell rather than in the mitochondria themselves. The mitochondria, small organelles within each of our cells, provide the main source of energy at the cellular level. They use glucose and oxygen to modify a molecule called Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) and change it into another substa...

Barking Man Bites Mailman Plumb said he bit the carrier as a joke, and has no history of criminal activity or mental illness, police said.

Spirituality doesn’t have to take the form of a belief in a god, or even in an intelligence. It especially doesn’t equate to organized religion. In fact, churches have to discourage religious epiphanies in the general membership, lest their god tells someone outside of the power structure something the church elders don;t want to hear. I am an electrical engineer, and I really, really like what I do. I am also a Master in Usui Shiki Ryoho . I like that too, but for different reasons. Reiki isn’t a religion, it is a modality with spiritual overtones. This isn’t the Occult, it is a simple technological limitation, that frequencies outside our limits of detection actually exist. After that, make the great leap into the void … in some way that I do not yet understand, we can act as transducers. Do headphones understand piezoelectricity ? Chaos in the extreme becomes perfect order. Chaos also has a fractal similarity with scale that enables us to under...

t r u t h o u t – CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away Yes, we already knew that. It was certain as early as summer or fall 2002. Let’s think it through: If we got bin Laden, Bush would have had no boogeyman to frighten us with. So the military let bin Laden slip off into Pakistan. He’s 6-foot-tall, a giant among Arabs, with a seriously damaged arm and possibly dragging a kidney machine. How hard could it really be to find him? Trust me, he is in a comfortable, air-conditioned apartment somewhere in Pakistan. Pakistan – their President, Musharraf , gets a lot of mileage out of being an ally in the “War on Terror”. The Pakistani Muslim schools – madrasses – are veritable terrorist kindergartens. They teach the kids from before they can walk that giving their life to kill an infidel is the greatest gift they can give their god. How does a moderate Pakistani president remain in power in an Islamic extremist country? With lots...

Thinking about The American Dream. You wouldn’t look at me and think Money. I can’t afford the trappings that would take me up a level. Did that make sense… you have to act like you belong to the club before they’ll let you in? The American Dream requires that you spend spend spend the future and hope that future earnings pay the debt. To even get in the game requires access to credit, doesn’t it? Megadeth did a song about this called “ Foreclosure of a Dream .” Did anyone notice that they just brought back the 30-year T-bill ? That’s right, your grandchildren will still be paying this administration’s debt 30 years from now. It’s also enlightening to look into who exactly owns the U.S. Public Debt . What would happen if our foreign investors demanded repayment ? What would we give them?

Got some bloodwork back from the doctor. The asthma hasn’t improved, even though the steroids are messing up my head. Thyroid is ok. My eosinophils , a type of white blood cell involved in asthma, are >500. The reference level is between 40 to 400 per cubic millimetre. There are four types of white blood cells, each doing a different job. Neutrophils are pH-neutral cells that gather and dispose of bacteria and other detritus in the blood. Lymphocytes are the cells that are responsible for determining the difference between our own cells and foreign materials. They “learn” to react quickly to threats. When they react to non-threatening materials such as pollen or pet dander, they are the cause of allergies. Lymphocytes are carried through the body by the lymph system, a matrix of tubes similar to veins and arteries. Lymph is pumped by muscular action – by exercise – rather than by a heart analogue. Monocytes are similar to lymphocytes in that they re...

The continuing saga of the Linux Laptop . The battery wasn’t warranted, so I didn’t expect it to work. It didn’t. I ordered a new battery on ebay, should be in early next week. S’okay, I have an AC adapter to use until then. I borrowed a LinkSys WUSB11 USB network I/F from work to try under Windows 98. Alas, I didn’t have the right USB cable. The next day I borrowed the correct cable. Alas, I lost my router in the power failure that morning. It was the only computer accessory in the room that wasn’t on a surge suppressor. Of course, my new surge suppressor is in there in the box waiting for me to set it up. Eh. So anyway, I ordered a new wireless router, a USRobotics USR8054 . This is what I had, and I liked it. Very easy-to-use interface – with online help. Good deal! I also ordered a combination floppy disk/flash reader that caught my eye. It has to work in one of the computers, right? And just to be thorough, a Belkin F5D6020 ...

I graduated high school in 1975. The world was in constant change from the time I was little. New paradigms all around. Students protesting an unjust war, many minorities fighting for equality. A great human awareness of our place on the planet and in the cosmos. Even the pop music carried the message. O Brave New World, that hath such things in it! The opiates of the masses – TV, religion, the double-edged sword of technology. Some eye-openers – Kennedy’s assassination was the first time I developed in interest in American politics (my mom was English, and a Queen made a whole lot more sense), Barry MacGuire’s “ Eve of Destruction ” which was the first time I became aware of war as something more than Army Men shooting rifles at some vague, dehumanized Enemy. A Life Magazine article with the first pictures of a human fetus in the womb. Martin Luther King ’s assassination. [Update 11/22/2006 See comment below.] The space race , John Glenn, A...