Sellouts. Shocking to me as I hate Disney.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, Dept. of No Upside
- 24 February 2011
Monsanto
'Recent research claims that Monsanto's Roundup Ready genetically modified crops contain an organism, previously unknown to science, that can cause miscarriages in farm animals.
According to Treehugger, the organism can cause disease in both plants and animals, a rare feat.'
--Huffington Post
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
19 February 2011
Trees
I was idly wondering, "Has anyone ever written a BAD song about trees?" since the only ones I can think of are excellent (Ombra mai fu and Kalinka). I googled 'songs about trees' and the scales fell from my eyes with a rush... or actually Rush ('The Trees'), plus 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree' plus 'The Pine Tree" and so on ad infinitum.
I don't blame the trees, though. It's just another example of how we humans appropriate perfectly noble and good things then gussy them up until they are meaningless. As well as being the only earthly species with a host of good qualities, we are alone in our ability to trivialise and churn out endless streams of crapola. Even applying labels like 'noble' and 'good' is a human concoction. We are odd ('odd' being a human invention).
/me* wanders off with a crooked expression of consternation on her face.*
* All preceding and following is mere human invention. I suppose there's no way to avoid being human.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, music, Opera
21 January 2010
Disgusting
The American Supreme Court has ruled against precedents that set limits on corporate political spending. The corporations had just a bit of difficulty buying elections, but now the way is completely clear for them (oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, evil "food"* corporations like Monsanto, chemical companies) to get what they want. Great move.
*"food"
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, Dept of Bread and Circuses, Dept. of No Upside, Dept. of This Will Not End Well, Disfunction Junction
24 July 2009
I suddenly developed big computer problems, so if you don't see me for a while that's the reason.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, puter
19 June 2009
Oooh. Convenient.
My First Ever Aditi to Agni Transfer
I just built something for the Undersea act. I actually built it on Aditi then nipped over in the Meerkat and made a backup and imported it onto Agni - very convenient but I feel a bit naughty for some reason.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
04 May 2009
Lucy's Adventure
Just to see if it's possible, I hopped on my paper airplane at my place in Higgins to go to Davenport.
Headed NW, made it over some banlines, and then had clear sailing for a looooong time.
Got to some frigid snowy mountain areas after days and days, and was still a ways off.
Then suddenly over the horizon, the red line appeared!
Getting closer!
Couldn't believe it!
Then POW!!! What hit me! I went flying off, couldn't stand, couldn't stop, couldn't see myself.
Had to TP to home.
What was it?
I dunno but i did get this message at the time of the explosion:
[14:43] Second Life: Your object 'Tiny Paper Airplane' has been returned to your inventory lost and found folder by Osprey Therian from parcel 'Osprey Therian Fine Art' at Bodega 254, 120 because the parcel is full.
Next time!
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, Department of Bwuhahahaha
21 April 2009
Blogging, About the Usefulness of
Candide: i have a new blog!!!
just kidding
me: heh
I need to go dust yer old one off.
Candide: no i'm not
me: ok
Candide: i'm more like a geopard
me: I knew it was wrong but I wrote it anyway. I'm more like a leotard.
Candide: hence why you are a blogger 
me: I am truly a blogger. When my power is out I write blogposts in mah head.
Candide: do you post it in your head too?
me: nope
me: nope
I fergetz the posts as soon as the power comes on
Candide: you should get a laptop
it has portable powers
me: I have always kept journals and thinfgs tho
indeed that is something i should consider
I could be even more out of control
Candide: get one of those OPLC (one laptop per child) laptops that has a mechanical handle you can turn to generate electricity ... then you can blog forever
me: I think those are snazzy
I could pretend I am buying it for a needy child
THEN BLAWWWGGGGG HAHAHAHA cough choke
ok goodbye
Candide: byeee
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
12 April 2009
Bad Os
Had visitors and drank a lot of champagne and didn't make it in to SL until 2:27pm (the event started at 2).
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
01 February 2009
Uh-oh ========:O
/me is in trouble.
Update: perhaps not.
I NEVER TOUCHED IT.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
28 January 2009
Party time!
I'm having a little party in the comments section of Candide's blog, so DO PLEASE stop in and say something witty. The address is HERE. Casual dress is fine, although costumes are encouraged. There will be drinks (beer on tap, champagne, tea and coffee, various soft drinks and bottled water - some sparkling). You can stop in any time, but I will be in and out tomorrow. I should add that although Candide has not given permission and this is just a little naughty, he'll never notice.
SEE YOU THERE!
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
31 December 2008
Responses so far on my New Year's graphic:
twisted
sadistic
weird
Success!
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, New Year's Eve
26 November 2008
A friend of mine who shall remain nameless, but who is employed by a museum (doesn't narrow it down as much as you think as I have more than one friend who works for a museum) informed me I am on her shit list. "And you're not getting off." "What happened?" I asked. "It was like this," I was told...
"Last time I saw you, you were eating raw cranberries.* OK?"
"Yes, OK."
"Let me say that my husband likes paintings by X - and there was an opening at another museum of a show of paintings by X. As a professional courtesy the museum invited people from my museum to attend the opening - so my husband and I went. It was a chinzy affair - no bar, no food, just little elaborate little pastries and bottled water.** I didn't want to eat the pastries because - eh, I would rather eat something better for me. I saw a tray of beautiful cranberries laid out - gorgeous color - and I thought, 'Well, Vivian eats them - maybe I'll try one.'"
/me starts to fidget. "Do you know all the people at that museum? Are they ok?"
"No, they all have sticks up their butts."
"Yeah, as I'd expect from there."
"Anyway - so I ate one. Immediately one of their people said 'Oh my god did you just eat that? That's how we present the pastries - it's not supposed to be eaten. I'm going to tell Y and Z.' TOTAL PUBLIC HUMILIATION."
"You should've said, "Don't you get tired of being conventional?"
"I should've said, 'In
"You should've picked a flower out of a bouquet and eaten it, too. Was it good, at least?"
"NO! And it had some kind of funky coarse salt stuck to it."
/me rubs it in the wound, "Probably driveway salt."
"Eeeek."
--Silence while I imagine what I'd've done--***
"Now you need to eat raw cranberries at every opening until you get famous as the cranberry woman."
"Fuck that."
"Just be advised - never exhibit at an ordinary social function any behavior you have learned from me." <---words to live by
* I like bitter/sour/weird tastes.
** That is a horrifyingly bad opening ===:O
*** Probably laughed.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
25 September 2008
Yahoo destroys NetDisaster :[
Back in August I posted links to NetDisaster, which was a clever site with many different disasters from which to choose and apply to a webpage. Pick one - say, Ants - and ants would stream onto your screen, gathering up elements of the webpage, and pile them up. It was good fun, and the site creator was inventive and playful.
Enter a humorless security firm in the employ of Yahoo (ptui) which somehow managed to get the whole thing shut down. /me shakes her fist. Jerks.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
07 July 2008
The big announcement: the Linden Prize.Mitch Kapor seems like a decent man, despite his close relationship to that most dreaded of all human inventions, the spreadsheet. In a firm but gentle manner he told us the Age of Immersion is over, the Age of Pragmatism begun. He indicated that the step from one to the other is not a choice but is the way technology applications develop.
I suppose it goes along with the SL5B being a trade show and how it feels like so much is done for the aggrandisement of those doing it. Truthfully I've never seen such egos* as are grown in SL. On another note, after having spent yesterday at a talk and just now watched the announcement video, the unnecessary and annoying remarks made by the audience makes me very tired indeed. It occurred to me, unkindly, that the speakers are disrupting things just to get their names out there, but perhaps I am wrong and they are merely obnoxious idiots.
The crazy-making particle behavior when the UI is suppressed is (unavoidably) visible in Torley's machinima, and I hope the pressure is being applied to get it straightened out as it's THAT AWFUL. It's bad enough with two hands but much worse with one, and although I used to have a mousebutton programmed to toggle the UI, I don't anymore (for a reason).
In the Bwahaha Department of Bad Debbil Osness, I accidentally bought the presentation laptop the other day when I was flying past the stage area. I'd just bought an SL5B bracelet and I had thought (well, truth is I didn't think at all) it was just a freebie. After a bit I got an IM asking if I'd bought it - to which I replied, "Yes, and I don't know why I did." I sent it back without looking at it (or I suppose I could've Known the Announcement Ahead of Time). The owner was Everett. I have never met him, but he has received blame from many residents for the controversy-and-backpedaling leading up to the celebration when he announced that the theme would be community but this-this-and-this community could not participate. As I said on some other blog, it isn't easy living in The Handmaid's Tale (the USA), which explains but doesn't excuse what happened.
*I can be annoying, too, I would reckon.
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, Department of Bwuhahahaha
19 June 2008
Avatar Rendering Cost of Ebil
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil
16 March 2008
Match Races Are Teh Debbil
The Saturday before last a lovely new couple showed their developing male-female rivalry act, and it was mentioned that "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" would be the logical music choice. It's a nice enough song, and from a decent musical, and I suppose it's time to wipe out old references in my head that strike when that song is mentioned.
I said nothing at rehearsal, then spent the next hour or so watching Ruffian videos (but not the last race) as that was the song the television* network played for the match race between Foolish Pleasure and Ruffian. Yes, I know all about Reviewer and Shenanigans and the harsh but necessary way weakness is culled in racing, yet it was a dreadful thing to watch at the time.
I'm not time-based, so things that happened long ago have more or less the same emotional weight forever.
* "Television" was both the boxlike receiver of images beamed through the aether and, too, the pulpy content intended to fasten people in place so advertising could be injected into their minds. Anyone my age would be familiar with the term although I don't expect younger people to understand (go ahead and feel lucky if you don't).
Labels: ...Is Teh Debbil, TSMGO