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Been working on an interview/weird audio segment which I’ve decided to name “Holiday Shloss”, in which a good friend of mine, Aaron Shloss, discusses his feelings about the holidays and the people around us. Click on the player below to listen.

I wrote a poem at work the other day:

Sitting in my Cadillac,
Staring at the Sun,
Oh! my poor old retinas
Have never had such fun.

Exhaust fell off at Reno
Lost a cylinder as well -
Now I’m running loud and bogging
And something inside smells.

Perhaps I dropped some jerky
In between the seats,
Or the man I gave a lift
Left something bad for me.

Now I’m sort of wondering
If I’ll find a place to stay
But also sort of not because
The sky is better anyway.

The galaxy transmits across
When I look up at night,
But its tongue is foreign,
And drowned out by lights.

I need a place,
To find a place,
Away from things that shine,
So that I may hear the heavens,
And know what’s on their mind.

The chemical is now being used by Iraqi insurgents as bomb energy. Read the LA Times article here for a great summary of the current fucked up happenings in Iraq. It’s a god damn death circus.

I am using an Epson CX4600 scanner to do some work.

The only other scanner I’ve used was an HP, and the house software was a bit rough around the edges. So I found Vuescan, a third party scanning utility, and went about it. It is spartan in design. Bullshit free and powerful. It allows scanning with multiple passes to normalize output, bit-per-pixel settings and auto rotation/mirroring.

I did end up trying the factory Epson scanning software, though, which actually turns out to be a very thoughtful implementation in its “Professional Mode”. With that said, however, I must recommend Vuescan if you are deciding to do some serious fucking scanning.

Main screens of each:

Something is fucked about Wordpress’ default security functionality. Why can people log into my admin account, when I don’t sign out, if its access is linked to my IP address?

What I’ve been up to in between jerking off and having nightmares about the Care Bears:

The Wall Street Journal is dumbing itself down and cutting three inches from its width to appeal to “women and young people”. Officially proposed changes are an “easier-to-read font, colorful graphics, summary boxes and a more narrow size”. Fucking fantastic.

I refuse to believe that “women and young people” are as dumb as Dow Jones and Co. think they are, and dearly hope that flashy colorful graphics and a bigger fucking font will not become the new wagon to jump on… Summary boxes? What the fuck? Propping up idiots does not help the country!

WSJ, while right of center, is one of the few papers that does not assume its readers flunked out of the third grade. It’s style is elegant and clean, and showcases one of the most beautiful front pages I’ve ever seen. This is all gone with the revamp. Pretty typographic minimalism replaced by…probably fucking pie charts and info graphics.

What the fuck is happening to journalism?

Whoa, man, detonation! I’m not really looking forward to going to work, as it seems somewhat awful to me. But that’s alright, I know my hours are helping me build a brighter future for myself and the country, and our nuclear brothers over there in Isolationa.

As it is, our country is so fucked.

To those who ever work on a Volvo that utilizes a Bosch Jetronic fuel injection system, and are having problems with the car dying and refusing to start again, I offer some advice. In this scenario fuel should be making it to the engine, if it is not there is another problem - check the fuel relays or the pumps. This problem relates to the failure of the vehicle fuel injection computer, located behind the passenger kick panel:

When the key is turned the computer sends a current through the injectors that terminates back at the computer - if this ground is not being produced the car will not start or run.

Check the ground to the fuel injectors - the computer supplies it. This may be accomplished by unplugging an injector plug and hooking a voltmeter into the two terminals. If the voltmeter is dead when you crank (computer should be sending signals to the injectors to spray fuel, and a current produced), use a known good ground in place of the injector ground (keep the positive injector terminal monitored). If you get a current then, the ground provided by the computer is bad and Jetty Jetronic must be replaced.

Apparently the computers in these cars go bad rather often. It may have something to do with the bio-degradable wiring insulation Volvo produced for these cars, creating shorts and such over the years as the wires become exposed, fucking up the computer and other parts of the electrical circuit, like the system and fuel relays.

Jetronic computers are cheap from eBay and junkyards.

According to today’s New York Times, on September 15th Hitachi set up an internal “craftsmanship command post” after “…blades fell off one of its turbines at a nuclear reactor earlier in the year.”

Fell off! Ha!

“A man standing in a checkout line at the Chester ShopRite took out his penis and urinated on the cash register last Friday afternoon, according to police.”

Oh, yes,

Tanks are rolling in Bangkok, whooo! Constitution revoked, state of emergency flickered - the King approves! Military has Control, the Prime Minister has lost his money…

Good evening.

My name is Rich Henry. I noticed you as you walked in and was impressed. You look thirsty! I think I’d like to buy you a drink but I’m not sure, you see, I’d much rather ask you to the beach. There we could gaze into the moonlight, and I could smell your hair. And perhaps, you could smell mine.

God, help me get through the day. Fall before me with red rivers running from you. Do me the favour of reinforcing my delusions and reinventing my dreams.

God Lord God, help me through the day. Help me through the night, and help me build my house. Plumb my pipes, paint my walls, God, my love is as unending as the sea.

God, learn me good reading good. Books and binding, Lord, unto you I direct. The floor caved in today and I fell so far.

Lord Lord God, hold me hand cupped and pour thyself from it. Into the mortar, cement my place with you and yours and theirs and his. Mary comes, many years, forty winks, forty tears. Reason out the ways of our Fathers, and Discover greater methods. To you I project, my grace and will.

Stand tall before me, King of Kingless, and let yourself go. Weep and mourn the loss of our things. Bring me flowers, and a nice vase. Allow not my brothers to fall before vice with black hands and broken faces, Lord, please protect my interests as you protect your own. Show me your inner circle and let me in.

Empty air and molecules keep us safe and secure and safe and sound. Let the rivers end and flow. Let the redness run and make a tool of my imagination.

Flag burning constitutional amendment almost passed today. Dark times are all around us but everyone thinks the sky is bright because we can still buy groceries and the Sears Tower didn’t blow up.

I’m sure this proposed amendment will come back around for another pass sometime on, and public opinion has yet to be swayed (most of USA population supports prohibiting flag burning, but not amending the constitution to do so). So if you love your country, burn a flag in public and get the wheels of free speech rolling fast.

There is something slimy and tentacled creeping around in the shadows. The GOP is fucking with the Constitution to advance their rhetoric. Gay marriage? Flag burning? Both defeated, and time wasted, to no effect save a sigh of reinvigoration among the conservatives’ failing support. Fucking November elections, bringing non-issues to the front of the line.

How many tendons must Bush cut before this country trips down the staircase and breaks its neck? General Casey wants to leave Iraq. No denials, that’s the way it is, straight from the fucking Pentagon. So why were the Democrats met with unpatriotic spitballs flung from across the aisle when they proposed a similar pullout months ago? I truly hope the public memory does not fail to recollect the idea’s original source.

The transformation of the conservative power into a two ton monster has been gradual and few have noticed. They are the enemy.

Things are going bad. The house that Bush built is faulty and failing but keeps at it, and why not? No one ever complains about the plaster falling on their heads.

In another few years, after a few more scandals, another round of faux constitution reform and logistical incompetence over there in the desert I truly believe that the citizens of these United States will, positively, let anyone get away with anything, for whatever reason. Take away some more rights, throw some more supposed terrorists in Guantanamo without charges (but make sure to take away their sheets!), listen in on additional phone calls and continue to spy on international financial transactions. And shit, why not continue to blister the press’ ability to function by throwing more of its members in prison or casting further disgrace on good reporting?

Yes, great roads ahead but you can fucking SEE THEM CRUMBLING from back here - why are people not waking up?

There is a giant beetle on my head and it is controlling what I say. Flub flub flub flub.

Remember to wash behind your ears, and, when the time is right, prepare the warhead for transport.