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Ominous!
You know, Friday the 13th is bad enough, but when I got in my car to head home from my carpool, the trip odometer read 66.6 miles.
I got home, went back into my room, and the thermometer read ... 66.6 F.
I'm at two decibeasts and counting.
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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time
Last year, I posted an LJ entry that said that the defining moment for our generation wasn't when man set foot on the Moon, but when we turned away.
Most of my commentators, bless their literal souls, thought I was just talking about the space program, and at that stage in my recovery, I wasn't quite up to clarifying the symbolic and metaphorical ( Read more... ) -
Understanding Athelind's Argot: FNORD
Wikipedia has a surprisingly good, succinct and precise explanation of a concept that is supposed to be deliberately inconcise and obfuscating. It begins:
Fnord is the typographic representation of disinformation or irrelevant information intending to misdirect, with the implication of a worldwide conspiracy.
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In Which an Anonymous IP Address Tells Me About His Mother
Those who just read my pearls of wisdom via their friends lists may not be aware that the topmost entry on LJ page is a mash-up of a CAPTCHA test and the Voight-Kampf test from the opening scene of Blade RunnerOn 18 January 2011, that entry got a word-salad comment that looked like a random text generator used a series of metaphysical screeds as a ( Read more... ) -
Spirit of Radio: No Resolutions, Just Resolve
And so, another year ends, and Your Obedient Serpent will be more than happy to be shed of this one. I bid 2010 adieu with two upraised middle fingers and a shout of defiance ( Read more... ) -
More Holiday Music Fun
One of my co-workers brought in a CD of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's A Very Scary Solstice.
I found that it works best if you play it just low enough that listeners can identify the jolly holiday tunes, but can't quite hear the lyrics.
Of course, since I mentioned these songs, I have to link to the music videos for two of them:
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Midnight Music: Changes!
Staying up too late
Listen to the radio
Bowie channels Vox
( Still don’t know what I was waiting for ... )
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