I'm sorry, I just can't seem to get over that word. Food. Food. Food. Food. I just stare at it for hours on end. It's just wrong.

Anyhow, sorry about the lack of updates. I believe I just royally fried my PC (fortunately not my Internet machine!), and so I'm pretty distressed about how things are not shaping up well AT ALL. It's a hardware issue, not a software one, which means it's going to get expensive.

Once I get this fixed, more hilarious hoots and hijinks will commence.

30 Seconds To Mars - A Beautiful Lie - Battle Of One

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Eventually, with the micronization of all technology, we will have some absolute wonders available. I would like to just fast-forward a few dozen years and see what comes along.

Oh look, there I am. I’m wearing an “onionhead-hat” that comes complete with drop-down mirrored sunglasses (my personal statement trademark) that project Ultra High Definition renderings of all that I see to my eyes (Ultra High Definition - which is currently being worked upon in Japan - is 7680 x 4320 pixels!)

The onionhead hat is - of course - in complete defiance of gravity, and enables me to sit crosslegged and flying through the streets of Portland. And we’re not talking about just any plain old hovering. We’re talking about pinpoint turning, 360 degree directional thrust, and full micro-thread displays. I will be providing, through my onionhead hat a variety of advertisements, which will mean that my full time job will be making sure that the random person on the street will be watching corporate messages.

But don’t you worry. By this time, making insipid advertisements will become a crime as heinous as cannibalism. Of course, by this time holographical projections will be all the rage. So, as I’m flying down the streets of Portland, I will be sometimes seen as a van, a monster wheeler, and maybe a flying wiener dog.

And, me being the developer of the TLMOD, I will of course have weapons built into the onionhead hat. And by then my army will have come to fruition, and we will have a hovering group of onionhead hats flying around. But since the purpose is not to become a despotic leader filled with hate and cruelty, most of my weapons will be “gas-guns” designed to dispense hallucinatory drugs.

While the populace remains mostly paralyzed and tripping, I will install myself as the most Honorable Floating One, and will purposely steer humanity for the betterment of itself. I will have to continue this on my TLMOD blog. See you there.

Chris Isaak - Forever Blue - Go Walking Down There

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rocket! rocket! rocket!

Following the previous post, I went over to freegeek.org’s brick and mortar store on NE 10th Ave in Portland. Oh the toys of yesteryear that were there. My most prized possession from that store is a GENIUNE MECHANICAL SWITCH KEYBOARD.

These keyboards had stopped being made after 1990. Why? Because they’re so darned expensive to make. I mean, once the Americans had started demanding a certain wage, and printed circuit boards and steel board backdrops had been subject to shipping tariffs, the future of these nearly indestructible keyboards was doomed.

The newer keyboards (and I’m fairly certain that everyone has these nowadays) are gel-based. There’s a layer of gel embedded with metal contacts that touches a thin filament printed circuit board whenever you depress a key. This allows for cheaper materials, and the consumers get keyboards that are - for the most part - almost entirely silent. There’s only one downside to these keyboards. Almost nothing is guaranteed, and if you have a problem with it, don’t even bother trying to have it repaired. Even those $100+ models you find designed for gamers and the ultra-elite technocrati. If you send those in for repair following the ever-shrinking “limited warranty” that the manufacturers provide, they’re more likely to just throw away (or at best - recycle) the keyboard, and send you another one - simply because it is much less expensive to do things that way.

Mechanical switch keyboards (the good ones) have a steel plate inside, holding the silicon board with embedded circuits and switches. The most famous manufacturer was Omnikey, and rich, and I mean RICH people are scouring the world looking for remaining models of Omnikeys. The benefit of Mechanical Switch Keyboards is that each key is on a pair of springs, and they manually bring down the contact points. A well made MSK is darn near indestructible at a guaranteed three million keystrokes PER KEY. They are also some of the noisier keyboards in existence, and sometimes the ones you hear in movies. They produce a “takka” sound for each and every keystroke.

Even now, I am typing madly away at roughly 80 wpm using my MSK, and enjoying every Takka keystroke.

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju - Sin In My Heart

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STOP MUNCHING

Sorry about the delays in blogging. The wait was caused primarily by the lack of witty and insane things to put in italics at the bottom of the blog. Those don’t just come from somewhere! Well, some of them do, but for the most part, all of those are completely made up by myself.

We may rejoice now that I have compiled another list of things to throw at you. Well, I’ll rejoice, you’re more likely to sit there stunned into silence.

I am trying as hard as I can to upgrade all of my hardware for the least amount of money. This is where the misguided credence “do more with less” comes into existence. Well, here’s the deal. I have to return an external hard drive I bought in November of last year, because the back fan is making a very loud grinding sound - that is, when it works. I’m assuming that the fan in the back is provided so that the hard drive doesn’t melt after so many hours of usage. As I was using it to back up everything that I do, I feel that having a stable and non-melting backup source would be ideal.

So I’m sending in the request for the RMA as we speak. But here’s the good deal. On another site, they are selling 300 GB external hard drives for $150 + S&H minus a fifty dollar mail in rebate. Even if I buy two, I will be paying less than what I paid for my 400 GB external HD. With shipping and handling.

So happiness in all its blinking lights will be heading my direction soon.

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms - Your Latest Trick

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endless thought explosions

I've noticed that I get some ten to a dozen views a day on my blog, and yet Adam Warlock 2099 is the only one with the guts to post a comment on my blog (Tricky Terri is not currently available - phone line problems.)

This leads me to the conclusion that I CAUSE FEAR IN ALL ITS MYRIAD OF FORMS. This...is so undeniably hot.

I'll probably wind up like that NPC guy in Baldur's Gate (either 1 or 2, I forget) who loses his magical (and cursed) armor, and becomes the lord of undead.

PLAYER: Wait a second, you LOST your armor and now you command the unliving?

NPC: Yes, it was a cursed armor, protecting me in life and haunting me in unlife.

PLAYER: Shouldn't that be the other way around?

NPC: I think that it's one of those "neuveau curses," you know, reverse effect...I think the game producers are trying to get away from the classic elements of curses and magic in general....

PLAYER: I want to lose that armor!

NPC: Too late, I'm already the lord of the undead. I called dibs.

<-----Why is this emoticon still here?!?!

You know what really irritates me? Those people who are INFATUATED by the concept of vampires. WHAT IS THERE TO LOVE AND STRIVE FOR? To be a dead person who sucks blood to exist? And let me get this fact through to you people. Unlike in Van Helsing or Underground, vampires are undead, and cannot "get it on."

Okay? They are DEAD PEOPLE. If DEAD PEOPLE could get it on, then there would probably be an entire movement of people just pushing to die. Can you imagine the advertisements for such a movement? "Viagra - raises the dead, in more ways that one!" Although, one can argue that everyone is already "stiff!"

Right, enough with the necrophilia before breakfast.

I personally would rather be a werewolf.

Oh, and if I've held your attention thus far, I've started up my Seven's Revolutionary Music Station again. Things are a-happening.

De/Vision - Void - Ride On A Star

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steady the house with one hand