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Boo's Weblog
Everything you wanted to know about a lot of crap!
last modified May 22, 2003 at 13:07
This product is absolute shite! I hate it with an intense ferver bordering on causing a psychotic break!
I made this shithole of a product the other night. You are supposed to pop the pop corn until done, then you put this big hunk of caramel on the top of the bag and put it back in the microwave for two more minutes. Of course if you've ever made popcorn before you know that once you get to that 1-2 seconds between pops you are getting close to burnt so if you put it in the microwave for two more minutes it burns! Stupid. I then tried the second bag (2 bags for 5 bucks, a super ripoff, but I was interested to see if it would work). Anyway, I tried to do the caramel separate from the popcorn, but when I poured it into the bag and tried to shake it up, the caramel just made a huge ball out of the pop corn and you couldn't get the caramel to coat anything. Then you have to pick out all of the unpopped kernels. What a pain in the ass! The only thing I got out of the whole experience was sticky and pissed off. Never, I repeat, never buy this product!
MARVEL 1602 #1
Written by Neil Gaiman, art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove, cover by Scott Mckowen.
"It wasn't meant to be a secret…
I get it all the time now. I just arrived in Portugal, in Lisbon, to promote CORALINE, and the first question I was asked, in the car from the airport to the hotel was 'So, can you tell me anything about 1602?'
For more info visit Comics Continuum here:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0305/23/marvelindex.htm
Probably the biggest book festival in the world. The town has been "independant" since 1977.
http://www.hayfestival.com/2003/DOCS/index.htm
If you like art, and like computer chips check out this "zoo". All of the pics are from computer chips that the designers had put some art on. Pretty cool.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html
I work for a large European based company that has many sites here in the US. In order to get things standardized around all of their locations they made everyone do things like they do in Europe, which means that we all got this shithole email application called Lotus Notes (makes a lot of sense when every US company uses Outlook). Anyway Lotus is like a webpage, you have to refresh it to have it look at your server and see if there are any new messages, whereas Outlook is basically always connected and retrieves a message as soon as it comes in. So sometimes I don't get my emails from the morning until the afteroon, because the server the messages are sitting on gets pretty loaded up and has to queue stuff to go out. Also if you don't close Lotus the way it likes it will not open again until you reboot your computer. So if you have to do a ctrl-alt-delete command to close it you have to reboot your computer to get it to work again. I had to reboot my computer 7 times this morning becuause of this PIECE OF SHIT, CRAPHOLED, FUCKING STUPID, NO GOOD, BASTARD CHILD OF EXCREMENT OF A APPLICATION SUCKS ALL THE ASS IN THE WORLD AND EVERY COPY OF IT SHOULD BE BURNED AND DUMPED INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!!!!!!!!!!
Whew, that felt better.
From Word Spy
http://www.wordspy.com
posthuman
(POHST.hyoo.mun) n. An imagined species that will evolve from human beings
by manipulating their genetic makeup and augmenting their bodies with
robotics and other technology; the future era of this species. —adj. Also:
post-human.
Example Citation:
The future that germline genetic engineering could enable is one of a ruling
genetic caste and ultimate alienation of ourselves from ourselves. The
threat from nanobotics is not just the emergence of posthumans but the
wholesale replacement of the human, genetically altered and otherwise.
—Ralph Brave, "Germline warfare," The Nation, April 7, 2003
Backgrounder:
What is this germline genetic engineering that's mentioned in the example
citation? It's one of the two main ways that scientists are proposing to
alter humans at the genetic level. The first method is called somatic gene
therapy, and it involves injecting foreign genetic material into a person in
the hope that the person's cells will take up that DNA. If successful, that
person's cells will then start producing whatever proteins the DNA's gene or
genes are meant to express. (Or they may stop producing certain proteins,
such as those that cause the symptoms of a disease.)
The second method involves altering the existing genes of a fertilized egg.
Such an egg is called a germ cell, so this method is known as germline
genetic engineering.
The path to a posthuman world does not go through somatic gene therapy since
that technique (which is already in clinical trials) only works on
individuals: the genetic modifications are not passed on to the person's
offspring. Germline tinkering, on the other hand, modifies the person's
genetic makeup, and that makeup gets passed on to all of that person's
descendants. Make enough modifications — vastly improved hearing, strength,
endurance, and so on — and the result is a species that perhaps ought to be
classified as something other than homo sapiens. (Particularly when you
"augment" this genetic mutant with robotics and internal nano-machines
designed to keep disease and physical obsolescence at bay.)
Earliest Citation (noun):
It's in the third, fascinating section of the book that Haraway shines, and
where she shows herself to be a true heretic. The centerpiece of the section
is "A Cyborg Manifesto," a controlled and sustained brainburn in which
Haraway not only lays out the problems of perspective in a postmodern
culture, but actually offers a solution: what she calls "cyborg embodiment,"
a dual point of view formed from the psychic melding of the organic and the
machine, forming a hybrid creature that slips easily between the natural and
unnatural worlds. In "A Cyborg Manifesto," Haraway has constructed a
Declaration of Independence for mutants, an anthem for a planet of bombarded
and fragmented post-humans — the hopeful monsters who will hop and wobble
their way across the minefield of postmodern culture into the next century
and beyond. Utopia will never be the same.
—Richard Kadrey, "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women," Whole Earth Review, March
22, 1992
Earliest Citation (adjective):
Sen. John Culver of Iowa calls this recycling "government by crisis." That's
a much milder phrase than what some of the futurists are offering. They look
at the current calamities and talk of extinction, annihilation and
post-human civilization.
—Colman McCarthy, "The Task of Keeping Up With the Future," The Washington
Post, August 10, 1980
If you are a fan of the Hellblazer comic series check out Scifi Wire:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-05/21/11.15.film
Keanue Reeves is starring as John Constantine (I couldn't have picked a worse Constantine, he'll probably be American instead of English as well).
Don't know a whole lot about this yet, but looks to be pretty cool. Check out Newsarama for more details.
http://www.newsarama.com/1602.htm
Want to control light? Go here:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993750
I really like comics and will be posting comic related stuff pretty regularly. I came across this in my searches. We'll call it: Comic Atomic.
http://www.ep.tc/atmc/
This is my first post to my weblog. I doubt anyone will read this, but who the fuck cares? I will be posting interesting things I find and hope others will do the same. There is no agenda here I just thing blogs are pretty damn cool. More to come!
Boo
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