I don't usually like to make one link posts, but holy f****** s***!!!

Thunderstorm vs. Chaitén Volcano

Tuesday Morning: "We've set a meeting for Thursday mid-morning... can you come ( Read more... )

I've finally figured out the industrial music that is played out these days...

it's vocal progressive/Euro trance with a serotonin problem.

Which makes me laugh thinking about all of my industro-goth peers back in the nineties who vehemently despised "rave" music :-)

The Hot Tub is alive and well!


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The lovely thing about those online contact forms put up by special interest groups is that you don't necessarily have to use them in accordance with the agenda for which they are created.

Case in point:

America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath onPS: Two words: "First Amendment ( Read more... )

Two years ago today I was hurting - mentally, spiritually, and physically. We'd spent the previous night watching the dismal election returns pour in while out at Emo's. With the bar close at hand, we moved from cash only to a tab in no time. I lost count of the number of drinks I had by the time last call came around. Needless to say, I wasn't ( Read more... )

Twice in one day even ( Read more... )

Wikimapia: a Google Maps / Wiki mashup

The short of it: a Google Maps implementation that allows users to add arbitrary regions to areas of the map. You can add a brief title, a free text description, and folksonomy tags to each region. It's multi-lingual too.

At first I was dubious, but then I focused in on my 'hood and saw how much was not ( Read more... )

When I want to avoid explaining to someone why I am going out into the countryside for Flipside, BM, etc., I often tell them I am going camping. This isn't totally untrue, but as many of you know, it is stretching the truth just a bit. I haven't been camping outside of a Burn or related event in years (a couple of trips to the primitive areas of ( Read more... )

With Sumer in full-swing here in Seattle, we've been turning our attention to outdoor activities. We have some lofty goals consisting of multi-day wilderness hikes, but we are not yet fully equipped, let alone prepared for such trips. To begin remedying this, we thought it best to start small; so yesterday, cuddlenoise, libbyt, double00range, and I went for a hike in a nearby ( Read more... )