Carolinian's Journal

02/04/2007 23:51 #38022

Ball Turret Window
Category: heat

I've got too much to do to write a long post right now. I've spent most of superbowl sunday caulking my bay window. I had to pull down all the thermal plastic I had put up in November because all the wind blowing straight through the window had pulled the thermal plastic from its mooring tape. Yes, it's really scary that wind cuts right through my bay window, which is why it as of tonight sports more silicone than all tonight's half-time show dancers put together.

With most of the sources of leaks accounted for and plugged the next round of plastic should go on far easier and stay on far longer. It's kind of depressing, though, that what should be the comfiest room in my house that I should find the most soothing has turned into that which is most painfully cold. Home should be the place that makes you feel comfortable for the few hours you get to spend inside of it, and I'd like for my living room to exemplify that. I won't bitch and be a pussy about having to walk outside in freezing temperatures wearing a big down jacket that everyone says is way to heavy. I'll take those lumps. But inside my own damn house, things should be different, dammit.

Incidentally, the really sick part of my personality feels that it would have been splendid weekend for an outdoors ice cream party. I keep imagining a box of ice cream sitting outside on a table, and it never melts, and it all seems really cool.

chico - 02/07/07 00:16
I like your ATHF userpic, Carolinian.

In honor of it, I offer a tidbit from tonight's ATHF rerun, about a huge spider with a crazy master plan that he tries to implement by popularizing a rap song that encourages listeners to eat candy.

I Want Candy
-MC Pee Pants (MC Chris)

I want candy, bubble gum, and taffy
Skip to the sweet shop with my sweetheart Sandy
Got my pennies saved so I'm her sugar daddy
I'm her Hume Cronyn and she's my Jessica Tandy, I want candy!

put it in a pile, split it with my bitty 50/50 down the line
kinda like close encounters of the cavity kind
im talkin liquorice kisses, talkin chocodile smiles

I want candy, i got a sugar tooth
put on your shin gaurds, Sandy, 'cause i wanna knock boots
lick my peppermint stick til' the lollipop droops
gumdrop that dont stop til' its licked knot loose

(ladies)
candy... candy...

i need candy bubble gum, and taffy
get in my way punk, you're gonna get ya ass beat, nasty
Do it till your dad sees, embarass your family
Just 'cause you came between a kid and his candy
I need candy, any kind'll do
Don't care if it's nutritious or "FDA approved"
It's gonna make me spaz like bobcats on booze
A hyperactive juice that only I can produce

And fuel a giant drill, bore straight into Hell
Releasing ancient demons from their sleep forever spell
So they can walk upon the earth, and get resituated
And Hock the diet pills that MC Pee Pants has created

I need candy, want some candy, eat candy til' I'm dead
I'll kill you for some candy, give me candy, gimme head!
Where you keepin' all the candy?!
Who made you candy king?!
If you dont give me some candy, I will make the ladies sing!

(ladies)
Candy, in tha morning, candy on the way to school
Candy, at school, at lunch in the afternoon
Candy, in school, on your way home from school
Candy, at diner,at dinner, in bed!

Mess up the mix, mix up the mess
Come on down yo, here's the address
At 6-1-2 Wharf Avenue,

Right next to, gentlemen's club.

vycious - 02/05/07 00:37
i could see that kind fo thing working if the ice cream had warm fudge to compliment it. mmmmm.....

01/26/2007 19:24 #37884

Of Mind Songs and Monkeys
Category: life

For the past two days, I've had the New Order song "Bizarre Love Triangle" playing in my head, and it isn't going away. It's driving me nuts.

Going further off on a tangent, these guys so totally have the right idea about how to spend an icy winter.

If Buffalo had hot springs, and I was Japanese, and I was a monkey, I would so totally be a Buffalo Japanese hot spring monkey.

01/19/2007 00:33 #37770

IE DOM salvation at last
Category: web

Finally someone has come up with a solution that will let (e:paul) develop natively for Internet Explorer while making sure that firefox-using (e:peeps) can still use their favorite browser.

zobar - 01/19/07 08:17
re optimized porn rendering: A little-known bit of trivia is that the image-rendering library in Firefox is called libpr0n :::link:::

- Z

paul - 01/19/07 01:02
That is such a scam that my web filter at work blocks it as unsafe because of hacking.

01/16/2007 01:56 #37712

Familiar Weather
Category: weather

Recently, the weather has been kinda like the winters back home. Cold, unbearably rainy and wet (not like a good dry snow) and punctuated by ice storms.

If the trend has to continue, I'd certainly hope that a Bojangles would fall down from the sky and relieve my sweet tea withdrawal.

leetee - 01/16/07 09:02
Latinas on Elmwood sells Luizianne tea bags. Best way to make a good southern brew of ice tea up in this here north, bless its heart.

01/13/2007 02:10 #37667

Pure As The Driven Snow
Category: music

I need to cut back on the caffeinated beverages.

The entire day, I've Grandmaster Flash's song "White Lines" running through my head. While I probably could never get tired of hearing that thumpin' bass line intermixed with people screaming "Freeze! Rock!", this is getting a little sick.

paul - 01/13/07 12:44
I used to love this song when I was younger. At the time I had no idea what it was about. Start the song at around 0:45 and the line "Something like a phenomena" occurs. I had no idea that it's origin was in this song.