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Saturday, February 7, 2009
11:25AM
Did you just mistake your parents for a bike rack?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
LEBANON, Ind. (AP) -- A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a central Indiana cemetery.
Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her left foot with the sword while performing the rite at Oak Hill Cemetery, police said.
Gunther said she was performing the ceremony to give thanks for a recent run of good luck. The ceremony involves the use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the full moon.
Gunther said was aiming to put the sword in the ground, but hit her foot instead.
"It wasn't the first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot," she said.
Gunther immediately pulled the sword out of her foot, and her companions took her to Witham Memorial Hospital, where she was kept a couple days for treatment.
No charges were filed, police said. The Wiccans were warned that being in the cemetery in the city about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis after posted visiting hours constitutes trespassing.
Wicca is a nature-based religion based on respect for the earth, nature and the cycle of the seasons.
Current mood:  amused
Thursday, June 19, 2008
my contract is set to be terminated on August 15th
Current mood:  distressed
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Thought I would share
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Which way is she spinning? can you make her change directions?
I can get my brain to see clockwise and counterclockwise. Most people only see clockwise (right side of the brain).
It switched each time I blink. and my brain is yelling at me to stop
Current mood:  curious Current music: Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT remix)
Monday, September 17, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Well, I've spent the last month building a website I hope gets used. I had one like it before, and I had about 20 regular users before I pulled it down. The new site will be available to everyone, and it is hosted at our house, so no hosting issues.
What's the site about? well -- it's about cooking and sharing cooking ideas with others. Do you have a favorite brand of cinnamon, a family recipe, or a special way to make cucumber salad? Well, I invite you to come and share it with me, and anyone who browses across my site. Currently, the database has a few recipes in it, and a handful of ingredients. (It's not finished, and in theory -- it will never be complete).
I will be bulk loading ingredients in the next few days, but anyone who has an account can add new ingredients if they are not available. I am sending this out as a open notice for "beta" testers and early adopters. I want personal recipes and stories, noting carbon copied from foodnetwork or the other websites. Anyone who submits a recipe will have credits at the bottom of the recipe display.
The website has a forum section if you have any questions, or want something added. One of my goals is to publish a cookbook for everyone who wants one. And -- the website is not finished, so some things may look odd, but everything does work (as far as I can tell)
Oh -- http://www.sketchyskitchen.com
Current mood: curious
Monday, August 6, 2007
Anthony Bourdain on other cooking shows (quoted from Elliot in the Morning inteview.)
I watched Sandra Lee, ya know semi homemade, and I just want to yank my eyeballs out with a spoon and ram my head through the wall. It's just so horrifying, and Rachel ray - it just drives me into a peroxis of rage and nausea. And Hells's Kitchen is a freak show. I don't know any chef who would hire any of those nitwits to even man the fry station or even a dishwashing station.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
I think there is a misunderstanding of memes for most people. I've always identified memes as non tangible concepts. Thoughts, fads, ideas, beliefs.. not things you could hold in your hand. I think the average person's introduction to memes has been through the internet. Blogs, forums, email, and youtube have introduced people to viral videos, lolcats, chain letters, and other cultural memes.
For those who have not read Dawkins, Dennett, or Blackmore, memes are what's left after the fact. It's the concept - you hear an urban legend, when you pass it to the next person, the locations might have changed, but the concepts are still the same. 'Remember that girl in high-school who....' Well -- that same meme exists in every town, every school has 'that girl'. We imitate and pass the information on, losing some to translation, but retaining the meme.
The speed of introduction, I feel, caused some of the problem. 'All you base are belong to us' -- this came out of nowhere - it made the papers, videos, pictures, signs - everyone has seen this. This is the first time I saw the word used in the blogworld. Image macro's are another meme - these sprouted from the Something Awful forums in early 2001, though they didn't see prime time until the O RLY owl surfaced in 2003. His popularity increased and was even a candidate for a mascot for a business (started as an inside joke) in 2006. The meme of lolcats has introduced the image macro and the term 'meme' to the blogsphere.
As you probably know, lolcats are still new to many people, but many will easily say that the phenomenon is a meme. They understand that lolcats are a meme, but incorrectly attribute the actual image as the meme. They saw the pattern, and deduced a definition from those actions. It's not the image posting that is the meme, the image is just an artifact, it is the concept that is the meme. The tradition of chain-quizzes are memes (answer these questions, and send to x number of people), but the actual quiz is just that, a quiz.
You cannot send someone a meme. 'But you just said chain-quizzes are memes' -- no, I said the tradition, or concept is the meme. I cannot send you fashion, popularity,or religion, But, I can send you a way to participate in those memeplexes (collection of related memes). You can participate by performing whatever social behaviors are expected. I recently saw someone post a 'food meme'. It was just a list of foods, that is not a meme in itself. 10 things I like is not a meme about myself, it is just a list. Memes are not tangible, they are not lists, quizzes, pictures, or even recipes.
There are two different types of memes that are being discussed today -- those that evolve and thrive, and those that are resistant to change. Fashion, religion, music, and cuisine all evolve. Recipes are passed from parent to child, and over time, the recipe changes to fit the current epicurean style. Religions adapt to the changing global environment and technology. Fashion changes by the day, with the 'directors' of the meme steering the ship. Designs are memes that are resistant to change. Origami patterns are passed down intact, or forgotten. If you make a valley fold, when you need a mountain fold, the resulting product is no longer viable, and will not propagate. If you have a baking recipe and you loose an ingredient in the translation, it may never be passed down again. Who wants a recipe that is guaranteed to fail...
My Gran's rolls are a meme now. Most all families have a recipe that their grandmother made, which everyone has fond memories of. If the recipe can be passed down to the next generations, the meme will propagate, and continue to live. But if the recipe is lost, the meme will die. I received 4 different recipes to make my grandmothers rolls.. none of them are accurate. So, to continue this memory, my uncle and I have attempted different combinations of recipes to duplicate the roll and preserver the meme for the rest of the family. The meme is the memory of the rolls, the part that remains with you when you think about them. It's not the recipe, but the impact/importance of them. If I cannot reproduce them, and thus pass down the family recipe, I hope to be able to create something that will be spoken about with love after I am gone.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
10:26PM
You fit in with:
Atheism
80% scientific.
80% reason-oriented.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
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Current mood: cheerful Current music: bukowski - Modest Mouse
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