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Contains Sulfites

This unmanipulated photograph (4869) was shot 19 November 2011 at a friend’s house near the airport.  The subject is a bottled electronic firefly.  Quite a clever if spastic mechanism actually. Just your basic upload preparations done: levels and contrast slightly … Continue reading

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Out of the Ashes

This unmanipulated photograph was shot on 25 December 2011 at C’s uncle’s farm house near Snohomish, WA.  Just a snapshot, really; it is what it is. That’s little Asher Pruitt in the arms of his papa.  He took a real … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Internet Isolation

On the Internet no one knows your a Turing machine. Of course, the problem for two Turing machines conversing over the Internet is that neither can be truly certain that the other is the Turing machine it thinks it is. … Continue reading

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Is Facebook Decending?

As with anything popular it is also popular to complain about Facebook.  Now I feel like I get a free pass since my complaints are not of the class “Why did you move my cheese?” but rather “Why doesn’t your … Continue reading

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Black Butte Clone Batch Number 2

Batch: 2 Recipe: 3 lbs Maris Otter Pale .5 lbs English Chocolate Malt .75 lbs American Caramel 60*L [Crystal] 4 lbs Dry Light (malt extract) .33 oz Galena (Pellets 13.00 %AA) boiled 60 min .75 oz Cascade (Pellets 5.50 %AA) … Continue reading

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Taxes Are Confusing

I worked for about three months for the IRS, in collections no less.  My second least favorite job.  I hated it and left.  The first worst was working in a sheet metal plant and it wins that contest by dint … Continue reading

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You Think My Backyard Is Cool, but John Elliott’s Backyards Rocks

My old friend Ian Parks moved to LA a few years back and set himself in a sweet little place with a cool courtyard.  He puts on music shows there calling it Frog Town. Living in Seattle I’ve only been … Continue reading

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The Great Black Hope and Disillusionment

I might own an arsenal of firearms and I might think giving money to beggars is wrong (a la Plato: you are building an economy for begging), but I’m also a(n aspiring) musician and living in Seattle; this affords me … Continue reading

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Alarmists Rally Against UnReason

Well well well… we meet again my slippery sloped sloppy companion.  Global Warming you will yield!  And your sidekick—Global Climate Change—you are going down down down.  A scientist told me. Only problem is he’s the black sheep, red headed, retarded, … Continue reading

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Dummy Is Polished Wood

I’ve been watching a lot of films with Adrien Brody of late (since a certain princess I know really likes him). I was surfing a film site and noticed that he stared in a film along side Milla Jovavich. I … Continue reading

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