Dusty Chalk

Well that's disappointing.

Those shorpy pics are not visible to me for some reason. More random ballet dancers here. IP carriers via Avian carriers RFC

The firmware change itself is $1 -- the other $49 is for knowing what to change.

(shudders)

Uh...what? No! Need to talk to you all about Lasik, too. She seemed to say some outdated things in that area, too.

That is, indeed, a great icon picture of St. Koshka. (choir: "ah!")

That is pretty cool, thanks for the info.

Glad I said something, I did not know that.

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here the veal, try your waitress, tip all week.

Eye appointment. Doctor had a wonderful bedside manner. But now my pupils are dilated, and everything looks glossy, like 1970's psychedelia and/or porn. If you thought blue LED's were bad before, it's now piercing. On the bright side, she recommended I go home before nightfall and stay there, so I'm a-drinkin'.

Elder -- weird combination of stoner and prog metals -- long song structures, some excellent jamming, fat dirty sputtering 60's/70's-ish guitar tones. Love.

And on the other end of the spectrum...yowzers:

Yeah, that suit was hilarious. Finished that, started Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit o' Revolution -- Craig is hilarious.

I hadn't thought of that, so I had to go back and reread it so that I could do the same. 's'awesome.

Yeezh. On the one hand, I like bats, because they eat bugs, especially mosquitoes. But on the other, I wouldn't want them on my ceiling neither -- in a nearby cave is plenty close enough. Aren't they literally rats with wings? And yet, that is usually reserved for pigeons. Okay, here's a silver lining for you: at least it wasn't a pigeon.

Meatloafin'! 'Like'

I was thinking pirate radio.

Neal Stephenson's Reamde is US$2.99 this month for Kindle, here. (Other books featured also.)

The Yes Men Fix the World -- highly entertaining if a bit misguided. Highly entertaining. HIGHLY entertaining.

Real World Studios: I give you, head-case's new mascot: Moar odd/eccentric/weird/interesting composer factoids here.

Didn't someone here say they like Au Revoir Simone? I totally dig it in a Stereolab/Ladytron sort of way.

Someone in the YouTube comments posits that it's a CO2 fire extinguisher. I agree it looks like something mechanical like compressed air, but it sure looks like it was aimed at the house, like it was trying to get in the window. I'm going with water spirit.

That's the way I interpreted Justin's question and Al's retort.

Seriously. If Laura Prepon doesn't get an Emmy nom, the world isn't fair. The expression on her face when she says, "of course you do"...wow. I had to watch that scene like 3 times. Role of a lifetime. And I was already a fan, but nothing beforehand compares to this. EDIT #1: that entire conversation is one for the books. Just...unholy carp, where did that come from? EDIT #2: Just finished season one myself -- unholy carp, that was amazing. EDIT #3: I love the fact that they represent evangelical Christians as trailer trash. That's pretty much my view of them in real life, if a bit oversimplified.