Dammit! I had my meth lab all set up in my basement and ready to go - until I got to the drug store and found out I had to ask the pharmacist for a 24-pack of Sudafed. Damn, damn, damn! Curse my bashfulness! Now that I can't corrupt the youth of America I guess I'll have no choice but to spend my spare time helping old ladies cross the street.
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling legislators.
- Z
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11/17/2006 20:00 #37392
foiled againCategory: drugs
11/10/2006 16:57 #37391
he gets resultsCategory: potpourri
I have to get this off my desktop, but I don't want to lose it. One of the video guys sent this to me a while ago. He was putting together a commercial for a client and had the video cued up wrong at the end.
He gets results.
- Z
11/08/2006 11:23 #37390
why i am proud to be latvianCategory: booze
11/02/2006 20:04 #37389
great minds, right?Category: geeky
I got some productive fucking-around done at work today.
I've been playing around with Django
a lot. It's a very young framework, but as long as the developers retain tight control over the architecture, I think it's got staying power. Not very long ago I started reading up on J2EE and Jakarta Struts, and it seemed to me to be such a brilliant idea, but like anything Java, it was just way, way more complicated than it needed to be. As I read more about it I kept saying, yeah, if this were done in Python instead we could just cut that out, ... and that ... and wow, you'd actually be able to use it. Django is gunning for everything in J2EE and Struts that is useful, without all that other bullshit that's only there to circumvent Java's fascist static typing. I get the impression that Django is a lot like Ruby on Rails - except that I know Python.
Today I started poking around at the Yahoo Flash Maps API. I like it. I know this is going to offend certain people, but let's face it- AJAX+DHTML is an egregious hack based on a misbegotten API [XMLHttpRequest I'm looking at you]. I think using Flash instead is a much more elegant solution to map service in particular, and Flash's HTTP library, while a little weird, at least suggests to me that someone thought it over before they released it. Also, Yahoo offers the Boring-old-image API to their maps, which I intend to use on our fledgling mobile website. Feature request: you should be able to dump a pile of markers onto the map and ask the map to make sure they all fit. Yahoo's agreement says Non-Commercial Use Only, but as long as (e:ajay) doesn't blow me in, I think we're cool.
- Z
I've been playing around with Django
a lot. It's a very young framework, but as long as the developers retain tight control over the architecture, I think it's got staying power. Not very long ago I started reading up on J2EE and Jakarta Struts, and it seemed to me to be such a brilliant idea, but like anything Java, it was just way, way more complicated than it needed to be. As I read more about it I kept saying, yeah, if this were done in Python instead we could just cut that out, ... and that ... and wow, you'd actually be able to use it. Django is gunning for everything in J2EE and Struts that is useful, without all that other bullshit that's only there to circumvent Java's fascist static typing. I get the impression that Django is a lot like Ruby on Rails - except that I know Python.Today I started poking around at the Yahoo Flash Maps API. I like it. I know this is going to offend certain people, but let's face it- AJAX+DHTML is an egregious hack based on a misbegotten API [XMLHttpRequest
I'm looking at you]. I think using Flash instead is a much more elegant solution to map service in particular, and Flash's HTTP library, while a little weird, at least suggests to me that someone thought it over before they released it. Also, Yahoo offers the Boring-old-image API to their maps, which I intend to use on our fledgling mobile website. Feature request: you should be able to dump a pile of markers onto the map and ask the map to make sure they all fit. Yahoo's agreement says Non-Commercial Use Only, but as long as (e:ajay) doesn't blow me in, I think we're cool.- Z
10/29/2006 13:43 #37388
sunday morning + psaCategory: politics
Ever since (e:dragonlady7) joined the Rollergirls she's been going to practice early every Sunday morning ... giving me a chance to sleep in, take my time waking up, and cook up something nice for when she comes home, bruised and exhausted. I'm no chef, but cooking is one of my favorite hobbies, and it provides a nice, relaxing way to start my Sabbath. Today I made a small frittata with bacon, green peppers, green onions, and Swiss cheese; the store-brand coffee was enhanced with a dash each of amaretto and locally-produced [Grimsby, ON] Oh Canada maple liqueur . Yum.
Public Service Announcement:
It's almost that time again where we tell our elected representatives what we think of them, and there are a number of very important federal and state offices up for election this year. The League of Women Voters has put together an excellent guide that should be required reading as far as I am concerned. Please read it so that you know what the Hell is going on before you get in the booth next Tuesday.
Positions up for election:
US Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) incumbent
NY Governor, George Pataki (R) retiring
(NY Lt Governor, Mary Donohue (R) retiring)
NY Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer (D) retiring
NY Comptroller, Alan Hevesi (D) incumbent
All three House of Representatives seats are up for election this year as well.
26th District (Amherst and points east), Thomas Reynolds (R) incumbent
27th District (West Side, Lackawanna, and points south), Brian Higgins (D) incumbent
28th District (East Side, Tonawanda, and points north), Louise Slaughter (D) incumbent
-- My Opinion --
I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, regardless of how wrong it may be, and we pay our politicians to represent our opinions. If I disagree with a politician because I disagree with his constituency, well ... for better or worse, at least he's doing his job. Lately, though, it seems that our representatives are more interested in promoting the soap opera of politics [and at a very bad time, mind you] than in, you know, running the country. If the country's in the shitter and you want to know who's responsible, I'll give you a hint - it's not the Republicans or the Democrats at fault - it's the incumbents.
This year, I think a simple vote of no confidence would suffice.
- Z
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New journal music: Rasputina, 'The Mayor,' from 'Frustration Plantation.' gather:0607319001162147286
she's been going to practice early every Sunday morning ... giving me a chance to sleep in, take my time waking up, and cook up something nice for when she comes home, bruised and exhausted. I'm no chef, but cooking is one of my favorite hobbies, and it provides a nice, relaxing way to start my Sabbath. Today I made a small frittata with bacon, green peppers, green onions, and Swiss cheese; the store-brand coffee was enhanced with a dash each of amaretto and locally-produced [Grimsby, ON] Oh Canada maple liqueur . Yum.Public Service Announcement:
It's almost that time again where we tell our elected representatives what we think of them, and there are a number of very important federal and state offices up for election this year. The League of Women Voters has put together an excellent guide
that should be required reading as far as I am concerned. Please read it so that you know what the Hell is going on before you get in the booth next Tuesday.Positions up for election:
US Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) incumbent
NY Governor, George Pataki (R) retiring
(NY Lt Governor, Mary Donohue (R) retiring)
NY Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer (D) retiring
NY Comptroller, Alan Hevesi (D) incumbent
All three House of Representatives seats are up for election this year as well.
26th District (Amherst and points east), Thomas Reynolds (R) incumbent
27th District (West Side, Lackawanna, and points south), Brian Higgins (D) incumbent
28th District (East Side, Tonawanda, and points north), Louise Slaughter (D) incumbent
-- My Opinion --
I think everyone is entitled to their opinion, regardless of how wrong it may be, and we pay our politicians to represent our opinions. If I disagree with a politician because I disagree with his constituency, well ... for better or worse, at least he's doing his job. Lately, though, it seems that our representatives are more interested in promoting the soap opera of politics [and at a very bad time, mind you] than in, you know, running the country. If the country's in the shitter and you want to know who's responsible, I'll give you a hint - it's not the Republicans or the Democrats at fault - it's the incumbents.
This year, I think a simple vote of no confidence would suffice.
- Z
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New journal music: Rasputina, 'The Mayor,' from 'Frustration Plantation.' gather:0607319001162147286
joshua - 10/29/06 18:27
This is very sensible. In truth politicians that have been in office, particularly for a long time, are the ones who have the least to lose when they know that their seat is relatively safe and tend to do things contrary to the benefit of the constituency. My god, in our city we should know this all too well.
I think that all of the politicians in our locality will retain their seats. I am voting for Spitzer this time around.
This is very sensible. In truth politicians that have been in office, particularly for a long time, are the ones who have the least to lose when they know that their seat is relatively safe and tend to do things contrary to the benefit of the constituency. My god, in our city we should know this all too well.
I think that all of the politicians in our locality will retain their seats. I am voting for Spitzer this time around.
museumchick - 10/29/06 14:54
Thanks so much for posting this and for providing the link to the Women's Voters site. I wasn't sure who was running in some of the less publicized races- so that's very helpful!
Thanks so much for posting this and for providing the link to the Women's Voters site. I wasn't sure who was running in some of the less publicized races- so that's very helpful!
The ironic thing is I don't even like pseudoephedrine. It works miracles on my sinuses, but it makes me feel all spacy, and it's really expensive. I ended up buying the phenylephrine instead in the hopes that it has fewer side effects.
What I object to more than the supposition that I'm some kind of crank dealer, is the assertion that limiting retail purchases of nasal decongestant is going to have any sort of noticeable impact on wholesale meth manufacture. If it works at all, it will only serve to help eliminate mom & pop meth labs and strengthen the market position of the large-scale manufacturers, who most assuredly do not buy 24-packs of Sudafed.
It is also troubling that it took a large-scale media scare before there was any real research into less freaky nasal decongestants. [see also Tamiflu :::link::: ]
- Z
OTC Sudafed seems a little silly, although anybody that is buying a massive quantity of the stuff isn't buying it because they are feeling stuffy.
Jay and I are always talking about the 'nanny state.' This is a perfect example.
you give up too easily my friend.
you could get a bunch of your meth-head friends and customers to go and buy a box or two each at different locations.
in no time at all, you could have all the pseudoprine hcl (or whatever the fuck it is) that you need.
You can thank Linus Torvalds for this idea. Working in Linux, I've become accustomed to "workarounds"
I do ask one favour. Please let me know when you are homebrewing so I can stay away from your lab.