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Entries from October 2005

Vending Venting No Vici

October 27th, 2005 · 9 Comments

We’ve got a vending machine at work that was obviously manufactured in some alternate dimension where the inhabitants don’t understand the concept. A dimension where time runs at a different pace than in our dimension. This machine distributes Pepsi (and related) products in cans. But it does it verrrrry slowwwwwwly. I [...]

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Tags: Voles · Whining

Transformations That Were Too Hard To Find

October 25th, 2005 · Comments Off

A quickie shout-out to my BÖC-loving peeps here. I got my hands on a copy of the Espers EP The Weed Tree, which I talked about in this entry. So far, I’ve only fully listened to their version of my all-time fave BÖC track Flaming Telepaths, but I have to say I love [...]

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Tags: Music

Gratuitous Promotional Movie Tie-In

October 24th, 2005 · 11 Comments

Now I expect an advertising fee from Lions Gate Films. I refuse to put any links up though, as the both the studio and film sites are very noisy.
Latre.

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Tags: Movies

Skies of Blue, Trees of Greenish-Yellow, Satellite Dishes of Grey

October 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off

My backyard tree yesterday, as seen from my front yard:

Look at how blue and clear that Colorado sky is.
Here’s the front yard tree (foreground), and it has no leaves left on it at all:

Latre.

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Tags: General · Personal

Book Publishers Suck

October 20th, 2005 · 9 Comments

Seriously, book publishers suck. What’s the point of hardback books? Only to gouge the consumer, as far as I can tell. Seems like an outmoded publishing model that needs to be retired.

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Tags: Books · Whining

Bonus Boobies!

October 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

I was a bit freaked out this morning when I opened up my local paper and read today’s Pickles:

My initial impression was that the artist was going the surreal Zippy the Pinhead route and thought that adding a headless apparition of a sumo wrestler (or naked pregnant woman?) to the second panel would give the [...]

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Tags: Comic Books & Strips