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Here's the live webcam of the Pacific Northwest Lego Train Club's attempt to break the world record for longest lego train layout. Here's a page of photos of the same. They are setting it up inside the Seattle Center. Serious geekery. (from /.)
Went to see Neil Young last night @ Jones Beach. No beer sold here ! Drove from JC over the bayone bridge to Staten Island expwy to belt pkwy to southern state pkwy. Cleaned the return trip at midnight in one hour.Super excelent sound system and it was net broadcasted as well.
The pretenders opened. CH looks the exact same as when I saw her 20 years ago! They finished up with Neil's "The Needle".
Neil's touring with I guess you'd call it the family band. Wife and Sister on back up vocals and back up hippy groove dancing (the sister is HOT) plus keyboard, drum, peddle steel, bass and NY. Mentioned that steel peddle guys been with him 30 yrs and the rest averaging 10 or so. These people have names and I do them a diservice not to mention them.
Opened with "Motor Cycle Momma" and the sister really wailed. The sound guy must have turned her down after that but it was a nice blast while it lasted. Lots of acoustic and electric but it all really cooked. "Harvest Moon" got a big pop from the new upper deck croud 'cause they alone could see an early H M coming up from behind the stage. Neil kept asking every one how they were doing and that he was good. He noted that last time he was here that there was no upper deck and that all those people would have been up in the sky for another big upper deck croud pop.
I really dug "Walk On", they worked it for it's full rockin' potential.
They played from 9:15 to almost midnight.
Let me dig arround the NY news group for a set list and I'll be back in a while with sumore.
I'm gushing cause it was my first NY show.
Some new features added today to the main page. Read all about it in System News. And please bug me with any problems. Thanks.
Wow. Crop circles. Wow.
from current reading of r b fuller (some of you may know i saw him in 1984 and he told me (us) that we should mate with dolfins (which always makes me think about the original flounder of greenpeace that got a blowjob by a dolfin when young and made him go "wild: for them--now as some may know he now left and has his own boat that just rams boats that are doing the wrong fishing--cool!!)--any way heres a few quotes from :operating manual for spaceship earth (1969):"the universe is the aggragate of all of humanity's consciously-apprehended and communicated experience with the nonsimultaneous, nonidentical, and only partially overlapping, always complementary, weighable and unweighable, ever omni-transforming, event seguences"..."the evolutionary antibody to the extinction of humanity through specialization (---he hates this as he thinks its limiting and limits creativity etc....----) appeared in the form of the computer..." and i love how he call's us (humans) "plantings"
i miss the hash--the king hussian(sp?) "cream" the most--it was "classic" and yummy (~10$ gram)--i miss it today against my wishes to stay stimulant free, ok i am not considering the usual ginseng, caffine etc, but i am counting alcohol which now is flooding my new wrong's right now (i o d'd the other nite and have been recoupin for my apoitments in tokaj, hungary)--the magala "cream" (14$) was much stronger from india but i dont miss it as much (actually i miss linda the most:>), fyi the nepal "cream" was nice too ($8 but at a cheaper place)--now i'd pay double for some screapins off the dust bowl of any bar--yes i could find it here (prague) but its too much work and seeing this guy shooting up heroin on the street couple days ago turned me off from talking to the usual caracter...i drank 2 nite cause my lovely fav pasha(se sustanence abuse) was closed so i didnt want to cross the river to deal with the crowds so i went to the "hot" Kampa Grill with its room filled with old folks with sexy "local gils" serving 1986 Vega Sicilia below my company's whore-sale...whatever i am toasted now and have to go buy some....cigaretts-_chow...
All pages now have new URLs, although the old ones will still work. Please update your bookmarks. The front door (index) is at digitalmediatree.com (no more 'draw.php3?global=xxxxxx'.)
In case you are having trouble making up your mind, here are two web sites to help you out. The American Presidential Candidate Selector will help you pick a winner. Supposedly I should vote for David McReynolds (Socialist party - I never heard of him either,) and actually, after reading up on him, I've found we do hold a lot in common. That maximum wage thing kind of ruins it for me though. It did pick Nader as my number 2, so it's not too far off.
These questions were much harder for me to answer, but the Belief System Selector has me pegged as a neo-pagan, which, given the possible outcomes, is pretty accurate (although I don't think of myself as a neo-pagan; I prefer spiritual non-euclidean, but that's pretty much just to end those types of conversations.) How 'bout you?
Maybe we can try this. If people really want to link to NYTimes stories, try using 'www10.' instead of 'www.' in the URL. Seems to get around the annoying log in problem.
Jim going out of town and asking us not to f things up, is he challenging us?
I know a few of you, like me, are on dial-up accounts through inch.com. Things haven't been going too well for the last few days. Some sites load fine, others are either painfully slow, or won't load at all. My traceroutes show lots of problems all over the map, but most notably in the bbnplanet.net system. This fits with the internet traffic report which is still reporting a bbn problem in Washington D.C. (100% packet loss washdc1-br1.bbnplanet.net.) However, inch isn't noting that as a problem. They say
"08/08/00 11:31 The slow connections problem continues to be a circuit between Chantilly, VA and Chicago and involves Sprint. This indicates that the circuit must be used for peering (exchanging traffic) between the 2 networks. We've been assured that they have been working on it constantly, as it is affecting numerous customers in the mid-atlantic region."Either they are missing something, or Sprint owns bbn? Is that right? I guess probably that is the case since VA seems to be about the right location. Man, if you are on the east coast, you really don't want to have a problem between you and MAE-east. Trust me. Arrrrgggghhhh. What about you non-inchers? Any noticable problems lately?
unearthing "prehistoric" central park.
Apparently 60 Minutes did a piece on Echelon last night. Did anyone see it? (Is that show still really popular?)
Here's a mass email from Michael Moore about the upcoming election. I never know what to think about this guy. Basically I agree with him on most issues, but like I said, I'm never sure what to think about him. Maybe I've just been brainwashed by the anti-Moore publicity campaign. Still, I think he's on target here. I saw Nader on Meet the Press this morning and I thought he sounded very reasonable. Even electable, although I know the odds aren't too good on that one. If the internet does play any role in the election, I'd have to think it would be to Nadar's benefit. Are emails (political spam?) like this going to do any good?
buckle in. we visited this shop yesterday and there's more than the web site shows...
more later
From the micro-informative television news watchers at the Tyndall Report comes this great political story (last story on this page.)
"DOUSE THE FLAMES In Dade County Fla municipal elections, a firefighter candidate stumbled across a rule that county workers cannot hold elective office. 'If he wins the election, he loses $200,000 in retirement benefits,' warned NBC’s Kerry Sanders. Too late to take his name off the ballot, what is a candidate to do? 'He is running the ultimate negative campaign. This candidate does not want to win. He hopes he will be able to say what few would ever want to say: I’m A Loser!'"I'll bet he wins.
Everything is running very slow this morning. The internet traffic report is picking up a few problems (like the completely dead router at washdc1-br1.bbnplanet.net - 100% packet loss - perfect score!) At first I thought our hosts at he.net might be suffering a DoS attack, but now it looks more widespread. Be patient.
Dave, I thought you were supposed to be blogger point man? I have to find out about new stuff on *riothero? What's the scoop on newsblogger?
Referring to the last paragraph of dratfink's 7/26, gobs of fyre, I'm a prude, I admit it, but even if I weren't wouldn't those be kinda strong words for a bestselling author of adolescent children's books? Ms. Rowling's suggestion that someday Jesus will suck the greasy cock of the devil seems, I don't know, at least a little inappropriate, a little bitter. Did her mum run off with the clergyman and leave her on the steps of the orphanage?
As Malaclypse the Younger stated: "Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." (Yes, that link was basically an excuse to post the aphorism.)
Now that the major party conventions have been reduced to media events, the media are no longer interested. I'm thinking there's a message in there, somewhere. Once upon a time, the three networks all provided gavel-to-gavel coverage, suggesting that these were important events, which everyone should watch. In fact, they didn't leave you much choice. Old timers wax nostalgic about smoke filled rooms, public floor fights, and the days when things were actually decided at the conventions. Now it's all scripted in advance, and the networks treat the conventions like unpaid advertising, which is pretty much what they are. I guess PBS and cable will give you more coverage, if you really want it, but the Arianna Huffington fronted Shadow Conventions look to provide a more promising podium.
From the Kesey archives, here's an 800k .mov file of Neal Cassidy driving the bus and talking the talk.
eat the purple people eaters!!