Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Tuesday Ocotober 14
THE WALKMEN
EARLIMART
& DUMBWAITERS
9pm | $8/9 | All Ages!
@ Orpheum
1902 Republica de Cuba - Ybor City - 813.248.9500

Sunday October 19
THE DECEMBERISTS (top-notch, mellow indie rock - from
Portland, OR)
& SPECIAL GUESTS TBA (MAYBE YR BAND???)
9pm | $6 | 21+
@ New World Brewery
1313 8th Ave - Ybor City - 813.248.4969

meep.

Coffee is ready, I am comfy-pantsed, writing and missing you like crazy.

Half of me still swears it's cold outside.

The other half is too preoccupied to think of anything but you.

" Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. "

amazon.com review. filedrawered because it's the most succint explanation of his work that I've seen, and I want to save it for people who ask me how his books are. :D

I just found an autographed baseball at the foot of my bed.

I don't OWN an autographed baseball.

Where the hell did this come from?

These are disturbing times, indeed.

was fine for all of 10 minutes then made mistake of calling home and now everything's inverted. what I know dissolves into what I fear and my realities twist back on themselves and perform grotesque dances in my head, while their mouths vomit this stench out of my pores. afraid to call afraid to lie down afraid to stop typing afraid to eat afraid to talk. I am unsure of anything I can't touch and hold and physically destroy.

[Firefly] Time for my prayers:
[Firefly] Our Father, who 0wnz heaven, j00 r0ck!
[Firefly] May all 0ur base someday be belong to you!
[Firefly] May j00 0wn earth just like j00 0wn heaven.
[Firefly] Give us this day our warez, mp3z, and pr0n through a phat pipe.
[Firefly] And cut us some slack when we act like n00b lamerz, just as we teach n00bz when they act lame on us.
[Firefly] Please don't give us root access on some poor d00d'z box when we're too pissed off to think about what's right and wrong, and if you could keep the fbi off our backs, we'd appreciate it.
[Firefly] For j00 0wn r00t on all our b0x3s 4ever and ever, 4m3n.

from bash.org

hey.you.girl.

Musta Got Lost - J.Geils Band

fuckers took my matches.

home head imploding tired need sleep but happy and missing you all at same time

more later

me go sleep now

brandon

where is this coming from pulling me

if anyone needs me i'll be in bed

Boxcar Whitey's Boxcarfull of Lore & More!

snicker

best article I've read in awhile.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A microbe that thrives in boiling water and "breathes" iron has stretched the limits of where scientists believed life could exist, according to a report published on Thursday.

The bacteria-like organism lives in a hellish undersea environment where water boils out from underwater vents called black smokers. There is no light, the pressure of the water would instantly crush anything living on land and the water is loaded with toxic chemicals.

The discovery suggests that life could exist on planets very different from Earth. It also suggests that life did not always evolve in the ways biology teaches -- in warm, soupy waters bathed in sunlight on the planet's surface.

Kazem Kashefi and Derek Lovley of the University of Massachusetts tested a sample of water collected about 200 miles off Puget Sound and nearly a mile and a half below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

The water was collected by a University of Washington team looking for archaea, bacteria-like organisms that live in extreme environments.

The area they explored can be reached only by remotely operated submarines. Known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge, it is marked by black smokers that rise the equivalent of four stories.

Life has been found around the black smokers, teetering in the balance between frigid and boiling waters and often using the sulfur in the water as fuel.

For example, another microbe called Pyrolobus fumarii lives in temperatures of up to 235 Fahrenheit (113 Celsius).

But the newly discovered microbe survived even higher temperatures and did not use either oxygen or sulfur in respiration. Instead it uses iron to burn its food for energy -- the role played by oxygen on most other species on Earth.

"It's a novel form of respiration," Lovley said in a statement.

Kashefi and Lovley tested their sample by steaming it in an autoclave -- used to disinfect medical equipment.

To their surprise, they were able to grow this organism even after bringing the water to temperatures far above the boiling point -- up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, or 121 degrees Celsius. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius.

They nicknamed it Strain 121.

"Growth at 121 degrees C is remarkable because sterilization at 121 degrees C, typically in pressurized autoclaves to maintain water in a liquid state, is a standard procedure shown to kill all previously described microorganisms and heat-resistant spores," they wrote in a report published in the journal Science.

"Autoclaving did not kill strain 121, and it doubled in cell numbers after 24 hours at 121 decrees C."
(original here)

This is why I love bacteria and almost did molecular / microbiology as a major.

They're really fuckin' cool.

And now I know
Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say
I thought I knew
But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

Until you've seen this trash can dream come true
You stand at the edge while people run you through
And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you
I thank the Lord there's people out there like you

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers
Turn around and say good morning to the night
For unless they see the sky
But they can't and that is why
They know not if it's dark outside or light

This Broadway's got
It's got a lot of songs to sing
If I knew the tunes I might join in
I'll go my way alone
Grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in New York City

Subway's no way for a good man to go down
Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown
And I thank the Lord for the people I have found
I thank the Lord for the people I have found

Elton John - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

here, moving and cleaning. thinking of you.

Why'd they have to interrupt The Simpsons, just for this? - Weird Al

No, my heart is not stone...but dammit, the simpsons are almost on and the same show is on every channel.

Soon, I will be at the mall buying a kite. Woo!

AAAAAGH!

Dammit!

I wish I had a stunt kite. NOW.

dammit. stop it. no reason and idiocy permeates every thought. can't you separate what you feel from what you know from what you know is mind jammed in overdrive and tying to undo everything?

drunk drunk drunk (with pirate and leather hats) barely type intimate conversations of relationships and mark? hope everything works out and think and manipulative. yes.

(fragment of kerouac poem)

HEY! This wasn't supposed to be published yet! It's nowhere near done!

Pretend you didn't see it! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

snap your finger
stop the world—
rain falls harder

Kerouac - American Haiku

Men in Hats

empty empty empty empty

this place is ----- and I shouldn't be pushing things into small corners but I am

Knock on door:

Apt.: "We've had some complaints about loud music coming from your apartment...you'll have to turn it down."

So...it seems someone called the office on me for playing Andrew Bird's WEATHER SYSTEMS and the SLOWREADER album too loud.

Only me.

Remember when that cop yelled at me for playing Morphine too loud?

saw this quote online and had to save it.

"I'm not sure if cybering with 5 guys at once means I'm more of a slut or more of a computer addict"

it is quiet here
under flourescent desk lights
eating white noodles.

the spacing I like
but sometimes I think it makes
me seem pretentious.

the use of haikus
should be limited to just
wizened, older folks,

living on the land
what they grow in their gardens
and catch with their hands.

my hair, not whispy
my hands, not sore and calloused
but my coffee, cold.

it is a hard life
here in the dent of a chair
catching rain with spoons.

Andrew Bird is doing a FREE concert in NY on August 21st.

Wouldn't know anyone who would like to go, would you?

So, I've been getting a ton of hits from people looking for stuff about UCF, ROCK, and the flags-in-classrooms debate...

are you all just curious about the situation, or are you ucf students, or what?

I've gotten more hits from that issue than anything else.

long long long drive and it will be a long long long night. wrap blankets around me shortly to keep me from me and goodnight. wish you were here but i understand but that doesn't make it any easier or change the fact that you are 130 miles away now and will be far far far more than that tomorrow and even further the day after and even further the day after.

there will be chunks of me along I-95