Where have all my Cowboys gone to?  

    Been wondering what all of my friends are up to. We’ve all been spread abroad… maybe it’s for our own good, like at the Tower of Babel. Now all of my friends (that I hang out with) are stable, normal and over fifty years old… my friends are grandparents. This not bad.

    The past few days I have been working on our store’s new catalog. In the process, I have been learning how to use QuarkXPress. Rachel really wants to be in the catalog but all of the photos that are being used are my “re-editions” of stock photos from the manufacturer. My plan is to sneak her face into a wave or her reflection, in the eye of a fish. Either way, I am going to be editing some photos at home to add some extra fingers and other oddities which tend to only be noted subconsciously. That is what I like to consider my signature.

    One of my youngest friends, Noraa, showed me some tricks for keeping my tomato plants healthy… it was amazing. At first, I had a twerpy plant, then I applied his advice and pulled off some useless branches. BOOM, in a couple of days the tomatoes were growing faster and the plant grew one-third, larger! Thanks Norra!
    On another garden note, I planted some cucumbers and once they get a little bigger then seedling size, they take off! Every now and then I go out to make sure they are not strangling any of the other plants. Cucumbers are a vine plant. For about 4 days, I left them to themselves and they are taking up almost half the garden! There are a lot of flowers, lets hope we have enough warmth in the year to get some produce! If I get a lot, everyone is going to get a cold cucumber in the mail!

And how do you like that, Spartan!?

August 13, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, General, Nature, Technology

People that I do not know  

These are photos I found. Old ones. Copied some files to the iPod I found in a snowbank a few years ago and did an `rm -r *` on the wrong hard drive. Some of these crazy photos with the photo all chopped up are a result of I/O errors from copying to my iPod. Some of them took on a whole new feel.

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July 10, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, Dreams, Technology

Watchtower Library for Macs  

    I forgot to post this when we got a Mac, last year. Now that I am finally upgrading to the new version, I am remembering to do it.

    For years, I had run Watchtower Library in Linux. It took a lot of messing around. You had to know what you were doing to get it to work. It took using odd Bash commands and some tweeking of Wine. When I found out Macs were now using Certified Unix, I really wanted one. When I sat down to install Watchtower Library I thought it would be just as much trouble as in Linux but it isn’t! A brother out there created an automatic installer that makes it so anyone can install it!

    It is easy to install. Instructions can be found on the website but all you have to do is follow the prompts. Everything can be found at wtlib4mac.royratcliffe.me.uk.

UPDATE: I was notified a few days ago that since it is the same version of Wine used in Mac OSX and Linux it works on both very well!

March 19, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Technology

Give me a Morphsuit  

    One thing I would really like and need is a Morphsuit. Ever since I knew how green-screening worked, I have wanted one for using with green-screens and as part of my wardrobe.

    It seems like everyone wants to get out on a trip. The other day, I was with a big car group. There were three families in the car, besides me. They had all moved out of the state to nice warm places and moved back! The women all talked about how crazy they were for doing it. Then everyone turned their focus on me and called me crazy for never leaving. They said I’m young and full of vigor, that I should have moved somewhere warm since I could. They told me they were happy to have Rach and me in the Hall, despite the fact that we were crazy for staying in this frigid state.

    There is one less suit I can wear to meetings until I sew the button back on the pants. I sat down and it shot off inside my jacket like a bouncy ball in a box. What shock! One thing that has been getting me out and exercising is Geocaching. It involves GPS and hidden "treaure." Well, it is moreso the thrill of the hunt. It is like a worldwide hide and seek game where you hide containers with nearly worthless loot in them. It is a good way to get out and explore places you might not otherwise go. I have gone for a few hikes this winter to Geocache. At the begnining of the winter I went out into the middle of a lake and started a fire. It was great.

    In the picture on the left (click to enlarge) I was the only one who had been out there since it snowed. There were no tracks on the lake or trail when I went out. After assessing the lake, I determined where the center of the lake was, the best I could. There was a wealth of dry wood around, so I dragged out as much as I could and burned it all, had some coffee and a sandwich. Then after a while had some brandy. There must be some way of convincing Rach to join me on these types of expeditions.

    If anyone is up for winter camping let me know. KC and I are definitely going to give it a shot sometime soon it will be fun. We will fish, eat, have a fire, maybe have a few drinks and camp out like the olden days… except we will have high quality synthetic materials to keep us warm and probably use a lighter to start the fire… drive to the location in a heated car and sleep in the frozen woods for no reason but to have fun.

February 12, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, Dreams, General, Nature, Technology

Terribly Delightful… isn’t it?  

    Terrible Women of South America at 45 speed… double time!

terribleWomen45.mp3 (this is for your listening)

    Terribly delightful… isn’t it?

January 29, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: General, Music, Technology

Present and Past, Plogshoff and Pargosh  

    Been Geocaching Lately. That is some fun stuff. You have probably been feet away from one several times. People hide things in the most obscure places, yet right in the normal walking path of hundreds of people. I have been by several and now that I know of them I got the GPS coordinates and opened them!

    Wow, Tool really has some beautiful music. The Tool String Tribute album I have is amazing. I have not listened to the actual band in some time though.

UN-IMPORTANT MEMORIES THAT HAVE RECENTLY FLASHED

• Typing with I Seek You (ICQ) with friends.
• Seeing Tool, live, twice! Couple of the greatest shows ever.
• Seeing Primus, Colonel Claypools Bucket of Bernie Brains, two separate occasions. Awesome! Phantasm!
• Climbing very high towers, just for the view.

    On a more serious note, there is news to declare! It is probably best that you read it for yourself. Since these things disappear from the internet, I have copied the article. You may read it below:

The City of Solana Beach emergency crews were called to respond to a possible shark attack at approximately 7 a.m. this morning. Both Fire and Lifeguard Rescue Services arrived at Tide Park to assist a 66-year-old male victim, Dr. David Martin, who was pulled from the surf by fellow swimmers and transported to Fletcher Cove Park Lifeguard station for emergency treatment…

Could this be, yet another, result of the terror that the Terrible Women of South America have brought upon us?

January 16, 2010 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Dreams, General, Music, Nature, Technology

Google Wave  

    I finally activated my Google Wave account. If anyone out there has one add me! My address is flipjargendy {at} googlewave.com.

    If you think you would use Wave, let me know. The only way you can sign up is if you are invited. Just like when Gmail started, it is still in testing. So, just like the person before me and the one before him, I’ll have anyone who wants an invite leave a comment to this post with your email address encoded in Base64. I like that idea because that way we aren’t giving bots email addresses to suck up and spam… and Base64 is so cool.

    There are some awesome pictures Rach and I came across some awesome pictures which will definitely be posted on my next post. These photos are so great! The only reason I am not posting them is because of who is around me at the moment.

December 13, 2009 by flipjargendy
Categorized: General, Technology

Concurrent Versions of the Brain  

    First Walleye in my HANDS! Ate them. My first one was 10 inches long… I snagged it! Ooops! That’s illegal! DNR man not happy.
    Bigger fish yield well. Walleye look like little sea monsters who want to desicrate your throat. They have the teensiest of fangs and eyes but no eye sockets! Yocka bo-zocka! They are almost big enough to cuddle but that would be like trying to cuddle a big bar of Sandle-wood soap. They are slippy dippy.

    At work last weekend I got a call to help a customer at the customer service desk (the “boat house”). It was very bothering because I was trying to get work done so I could get some things listed on eBay and GunBroker. When I got out to the boat house, no one was there. Then I heard someone say my name in an A.D.H.D. sort of way. It was my uncle! The last time I saw him was… way to long ago. It was great because I had been thinking of him for quite some time. His father-in-law was with him. He invited me to go fishing with him. We went… and his father-in-law, a pretty old dark horse type, had chart-plotter (GPS for boats) units all over the place on his fishing boat. He had an Aqua-Vu (under water camera system) and high tech depth/fish finder. It was very cool to see. After that experience I found out how worthless fishfinders are. The chart-plotter came in handy though. You can see the structure of the lake and find your way back in the dark! It was an experience.
    It turned out to be a great night. The moon was out and the stars are amazing up here. You can see the haze of the Milky Way like a haze of fog drifting in the air. Plus I experienced an awesome time fishing with my uncle. I told him to come up for ice fishing this winter. He sounded excited about it. Hopefully he will be able to and I will get to write about another memorable experience with him.

Snag

To hook a fish externally that has not tried to bite on your lure/bait.

    Rach is not home tonight so I make fish and wild rice food for me. She no like wild rice. Music for tonight is George Harrison….. what… I think the song that just started has a mantre in it because I think there was a lyric in there about Herr Krushna… hmmm. Pretty sure he’s at least singing about the Herr Krushna. This dude rocks some dackle saddle crops. Vinyl is good sound. Mars Volta sounds great on vinyl toozies.

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    Just through in a Jefferson Airplane album. Tonight I decided to listen to some old records I picked up when I was experimenting with music. Just listened to a little Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young but wasn’t in the mood. I used to listen to them a lot when I was nineteen. Jefferson Airplane is sleep enducingly boring but good for background noise.

Notes to self for future wonderment:

• Words stuck in my head for years:
  • Karate Chop Massacre (From that night of long jambles and cackle blathers to Shannon and David)
  • Screemin’ Urithras (Dave Anderson.. thanks. It is a funny image in the head)
  • Poop Horse (One day it pooped popped into my head)
  • Watch out for Slim Pete! (Mulch beneath the feet in Avon at Blue Grass Festival. Chubby boy exits bus.)
  • Bogdoxy (Ry Wilks… thanks, James-ah Joyce-ah rock-sah!)
• A rodent in the wall makes your wife want to bawl.
• Missesseses Robinson-ah! Woah, woah, woah… you just put in Simon and Garfungckle (Thank Rach… wouldn’t have experienced, if it weren’t for you)
• Joe Demajio – did you play baseball?
• Percy was a scavanger little lich when he turned up in the gutter but we love him today. He thinks I saved him because I slept with him when he was a kitten and he cried and almost cut open my eye-lid. I guess I didn’t really sleep. Rachel also saved him. I thought he might have rabbies and said we should leave him in the gutter. How could I!? (¡Gracias RaeRav!)
• Jeff Abbott where are you and your wife. Maybe I will be that guy on your couch that you make breakfast for. You won’t recognize me because I will have a beard. Don’t worry that will be okay then. Remember when we watched the lunar eclipse. Beautiful!
• Pink Floyd, driving the overnight, watching her sleep. First time I saw a Beautiful girl! Haven’t stopped since then.
• Get yourself a ribon for your Smith-Corona.
  • Remember where you found that?! At the Palisades sitting in the lobby of the 550. Rock! Got a free Smith-Corona.
• Float. Fly. Liquid air. Breath under water. Phantasm.
• Remember when your body got warm. Feels like you could lie on needles and be comfortable? The climbing vines with blooming and de-blooming flowers. The amazement and wonder at seeing the earthquake christmas lights.
• Neu Ulm. Mein Frau und Mich das Radio spielte. Deutsch essen war gut.

October 01, 2009 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, Dreams, General, Nature, Technology

Craigs for Bem  

    The past few days I have been listening to The Blood Brothers. They give me spider fingers and beaver tail tongue… They are amazing.

Note: See the pictures at the bottom when you are done reading. They go along with this post. Pictures in my posts will soon be common. It is much more fun. Zugggggggaaaah.

    Craigslist has pushed in the the far stretches of Earth and added a section for Bemidji, Minnesota. There is also a Brainerd, Minnesota section which may have just appeared as well. Since there aren’t many postings in Bemidji yet I decided to add a posting in the “Free” section. Apparently it goes against the Craigslist guidelines so it was flagged and taken down. Only one person had a chance to responde to my posting for a free glass of water. He was interested but wasn’t sure about the item when he emailed me saying: “I can’t tell from the picture but is that glass half full or half empty?”.

    Abe contacted me the other day… wish I could join him. September, 11^th really takes the fun out of things though… all I picture happening are people having a great time, just being gloomy the whole time or being raided by the F.B.I (^{J. Edgar Hoover}). Either way it will certainly be fun… its going to be held at residence of Abe, Alex… and the rest of them. Wish I was there. 9-11 baby!

    Recently, went on a long drive. Stopped in a little town and saw that some kid was looking for work. Resisted the urge to call the number. Would have felt bad.

    Tonight, on the Super One bulletin board, I saw a flyer for a walk to prevent suicide… sounds like a lazy way to prevent suicide. It made me wonder how many people who drive electric wheel chairs join this walk.

    Its starting to change colors a tiny, tiny bit here. Mushrooms are popping up and I wish I had a book to tell me if I will enjoy eating them or die a horrible vomiting death. Mushrooms and Sardines are on my tongue lately. There must be some way of making those tastes converge into an Earth shatering taste craft.

    B ƒ L… Rach and I finally got to spend a day together. We walked around town and visited this amazing! rock garden a block away from our house. There is a stream and rocks and flowers! It is great. It was so nice to spend time together and relax for once. It makes me sort of happy that winter is nearing. My job will be less hours and we will be together in the house staying warm together.

September 05, 2009 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, General, Technology

Convention Mania  

    At the convention we got a new DVD, all about creation, and found out we are getting a new song book! It is nice to be the last convention of the year because none of us will have to hold back from telling about the new releases or anything!

    There were so many great points, simple ones but enormous at the same time, about keeping your mind focused on signs that will make us aware unseen things going on. It was amazing to have a convention like this. It was amazing! The drama was also great. Everything was so realistic. All of the things David’s so called friends were doing and saying to him were things people did and said to me… except for crashing a car because of drunk driving. I never crashed a car when I was under the influence of anything but fun.

    Also, I have been thinking for some time about quiting my job and doing web-design or web-development work. If anyone knows of someone who does this type of work who is looking for someone that could work from home let me know. I know it is rare but if I could do a little work like that and make enough money it would be great.

    What would this post be without pictures!?

August 03, 2009 by flipjargendy
Categorized: Creations, General, Technology

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