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Taut and Tenuous

Monday, December 18th, 2006

High strung would be an understatement as I am thrumming like a piece of twine stretched too tight. A buzz has settled over my mind rendering my thoughts a touch incoherent, making my movements twitchy and nervous, and leaving a sour knot in the bottom of my stomach. We stand only six days from our due date but I feel wound as if we are six days past it and the well meaning of others has not helped either.

“You’re still here?!”

“What? No baby?”

“She’s so big! I’m sure it’s a boy and not a girl!”

“Ha! In a couple of weeks you’ll wish you didn’t do this!”

“Oh no! Watch that doctor because when the baby is that big they can make mistakes and your baby could end up with a palsy of some sort.”

How do I put this nicely? Shut-The-Fuck-Up.  The last thing I need is to hear your theory on how the sex of the baby is different, especially after we and our family have sunk thousands of dollars into girl’s clothing, toys, and items.  On the same line, no I do not think we’ll wish we made a different choice in a couple of weeks, though I am wishing I had made a different choice with regards to engaging in a conversation with you.  As for telling me that something could happen to my baby during delivery, you don’t think I don’t already know that? Do you really believe that I want to even entertain that discussion at this moment, let alone with you? Seriously, what is the matter with you.

Today’s song is “The Message” brought to you by GrandMaster Flash & the Furious 5.

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US Hate Groups 2005, Connecticut Edition

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Faux Real Tho points to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s report on Active Hate Groups in the US which counted a total of 803 groups. Surprising to me, though it probably shouldn’t, was that Connecticut rings in with five active groups while Rhode Island and Vermont slip by with zero.

SPLC Hate Groups 2005 Connecticut

As far as hate goes, it seems balanced in terms of the number of groups that hate each other, though the Eastern part of the state is really representing with the hate. Go figure. I guess Danbury really is for lovers.

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Joe Lieberman continues to suckle at the teat of public monies.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

This morning I was all fired up to bang out a post about how the supposed repudiation of the Republican led House and Bush Administration policies.  I also had a deep itch to blast the public for sticking behind a career politician like  Lieberman who has sold DNC planks to make RNC oars.  You know what? Fuck it.  I voted yesterday and as far as I’m concerned that is more than enough for me.

I am sick of politics.  I am sick of a short-sighted US populace than cannot see beyond their own paranoid and callow self-absorption.  I am sick of the shit-stain brown shirt Republicans and urine soaked yellow panted Democrats and that either is indistinguishable from the other.  Sick of the fact that our electoral system is rigged for moneyed interests.  Disgusted with the simple fact that the only motivators for my fellow citizens to blindly react are hate, intolerance, xenophobia, and fear.  Fuck it.  All of it.

Instead of thinking about all of this I’m going to do the rational thing.  Ignore it and go read a book that has jack shit to do with real world events.  That and listen to some new music.

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It’s not like we are losing it…

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

…because very likely it has already been lost.

Either from ineptitude and ignorance,

No business in America would put someone with no computer expertise in charge of a multimillion dollar information technology (IT) purchase. However, this is precisely what we’ve done with our election officials. Good, well-meaning but technically naive bureaucrats all over the country have been sold huge, complex, untested computer systems that masquerade as simple “voting machines.” These officials have been put in charge of a massive IT procurement project, and they simply are not qualified.

Or plain old malfeasance,

e-Voting
Tom Toles

I will be voting but with little faith that my vote cast will have any weight, meaning, or purpose. Rather, my vote will be like that futile attempt to change the traffic light cycle by franticly pressing the crosswalk button. It will amount to nothing.

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Gneiss Threat!

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Geologist and his rock deemed a threat. Rock confiscated for the safety of all. Robert M. Thorson, a professor of geology at the University of Connecticut, hassled for his favorite rock writes,

I suppose I could have put the grapefruit-sized specimen inside my sock, swung it around my head like a mace, charged the cabin and attempted to hijack the flight…Perhaps your tax dollars will be used by an internal think tank of agency hire-ups to ponder why on earth a geologist would travel with a rock. Who knows?(No Stone Unturned)

Gneiss Threat
Scary rocks!
Gneiss laying siege to Dublin
Photographic proof of the Gneissian Threat

I for one feel safer knowing that the bureaucracy works tirelessly to protect me from dual-use items such as chunks of gneiss. Thanks, TSA, that was a close one!

via Boing Boing

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Intractable Mess?

Monday, October 9th, 2006

For all intents and purposes my cheap-ass home stereo solution has been working out real well but there is one minor problem and it is a problem that many of my friends have laughed at me for or just shook their heads in disgust muttering, “Have you no shame? None!?” My tags are a total mess. Worse than having non-existent, bizarre combinations like “CountryFusionSpaceJazzBop”. No, I have bleed-over where song titles end up in track numbering and genres become a string of unsupported characters. It is sickening to look at especially since it renders Jinzora damn close to useless for the way I listen to music (smartlists on random).

Here are some highlights from the genre tag:

  • ■Hip-Hop
  • “Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp min
  • 0.03
  • 03_Chaconne con variazioni.mp3
  • 4
  • false
  • Nameless (Radio App..”
  • true

To give you an indication of how big the problem is there are 6446 tracks tagged with either “-” or are empty in the genre field and on top of that I have some 33049 tracks to check. An egregious case of WTF if there every was one. So now I need to figure out how to remedy this problem and wishing that I were more diligent about my tagging like some of my friends isn’t going to get me very far.

What I need is stupid simple, easy, and relatively accurate system as I have neither the time nor the patience to hand tag every single track. So to get my feet wet, I’m going to narrow the directories down to smaller groups and give the auto-tagging feature of EasyTag a shot and see how that works. In the past EasyTag has served me well but I’ve only used it in small isolated instances and am not sure how it will handle chewing on hundreds if not thousands or tracks at a time.  Time to roll up my sleeves and get to work.

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