Rotorglow

Turning out the Lights

2005-09-09T23:59:00.000-04:00

I'm shutting this page down. If you're not redirected in 5 seconds, join me over at the new one by clicking here.

Opportunists, or ....?

2005-09-01T10:21:00.000-04:00

Gas prices around here went up between 15 and 60 cents overnight. Cheapest I've found 93 octane is $3.16/g. Most outrageous I've seen is $3.60 at the place next door to my office.

Sleeping Remy

2005-08-29T10:44:00.000-04:00

08-27-05_2340
Originally uploaded by rotorglow at 29 Aug '05, 3.51am PST.

At Tim and Kat's on Saturday night. During a raucous game of "make fun of the video dating" and "R. Kelly is a tool," Remy (one of Tim and Kat's dachshunds) decided he'd had enough and had a snooze on the couch next to me.

08-27-05_2340

I need to add that while we were all sitting on the porch, around dusk, a swarm of the most savage mosquitoes I've encountered mutilated my ankles. We were eventually chased inside (which led to the above-described picture and hilarity), but I've been in mosquito-induced ankle-misery ever since. Including as I sit here restlessly, typing furiously to try to keep my hands off my ankles. I have 12 bites on one ankle, and 11 on the other.

And at the risk of repeating myself, I'm in sheer agony.

Annnndd....we're back

2005-08-25T00:22:00.000-04:00

San Xavier 10
Originally uploaded by rotorglow at 21 Aug '05, 4.08am PST.

Kind of. DanielR had to take down the blog because NeoPhi was getting hammered by spam crawlers, so blog.neophi.com is down for the time being. I had this old Blogger setup from before the b2Evolution days, so I figured I'd just start updating it again. Hopefully the b2Evo posts will come back someday, and I'll be able to migrate them over. To this, or something else.

At any rate, a few things have happened. Bob Moog died [NYT obit], about which I'm pretty sad. My father has an original vinyl version of Wendy Carlos' Switched On Bach, which vaulted her and Moog to prominence, and proved that synths could be used for "serious" music. I haven't heard that record in years, but I sure remember it getting heavy rotation when I was a kid.

Other Moog links: post and bio at moogmusic.com.

Sucks.

There was also this crazy raid on a rave in Utah. I must say I'm pissed all out of proportion about this, and I really hope the PR disaster that's brewing (for the Utah County cops) sweeps 'em up and leaves 'em wondering where their M16s went.

video, and info. Draw your own conclusions.

That's it for now. I'm pissed, and tired at the same time.

My new blog

2004-08-05T14:15:00.000-04:00

Hmmm.... Seems I've started a new blog. Entirely hosted and served from NeoPhi. None of this Blogger stuff.... Check it.

Henri Cartier-Bresson est mort

2004-08-04T16:41:00.000-04:00

Boing Boing: Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson dies

Crap.

Gevalia spam

2004-08-04T11:21:00.000-04:00

Wha...?

I can never describe the walk back to my truck. It was cold and sweet. Are you getting pieces of this? Hi, I said to all the animals.

Love, and hate, are powerful emotions. But under the circumstances, I'd do it again. This was a place without the internet, without email, without the rush of business meetings and untapped desires. There's something I should tell you.

Hi, I said to all the animals. I can never describe the walk back to my truck. Just tell me your answer, even if it sucks. He extended his hand by way of introduction.

Love what you do and do what you love The continuation of our species matters more than you can imagine. It is the single most important thing we can do. (I'd seen something really weird. :) Sounds good to me, I said. I'd seen many of the same things I've seen before. ZG9oYzI0dkB5YWhvby5jb20=

Yeah. Ok.

Corante > The Importance of... > The Obsessively Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act

2004-07-28T17:29:00.000-04:00

Corante > The Importance of... > The Obsessively Annotated Introduction to the INDUCE Act

Oh my. This link is as awesome as the bill it ridicules (and debunks) is...ridiculous.

Don't vaporize me! I have impeccable grammar!

2004-07-28T10:02:00.000-04:00

Someday the Space People will come to enslave the human race. And when they get here, I hope they go easy on me because I fucking know when to use "I" and "me," "its" and "it's," "your" and "you're," etc

Good god.

Dumbass

2004-07-27T15:00:00.000-04:00

Yo, dipshit who grabbed the door to my building before it latched after I let myself in--

It was late. You and your little friends were walking by. I unlocked the side door to my building and went inside. As I climbed the steps I saw that you'd grabbed the door and were suspiciously waiting for the rest of your crew to come back to the door. Since I didn't recognize you, I paused on the steps and looked back, wondering what your deal was.

You saw me looking at you warily and you said "don't worry, I'm not gonna rob you."

"You're right" I replied. Then you gave up and closed the door and staggered on.

My remaining question is:

Why the hell were you holding the door open in the first place, you little turd?

plog

2004-07-14T12:05:00.000-04:00

Clampants has cooked up another piece of brilliance: plog

Run, don't walk.

Um

2004-07-06T09:40:00.000-04:00

Seems like I should have something to say. Ok, well, maybe I do.

Today we welcome a new site to the Biscuit Federation of Associated Websites: rotorglow.textamerica.com It's the moblog organ, if you will, of the publishing empire that is the Biscuit Federation. A variety of low-quality cam-phone pix will be posted there, mostly taken by Yours Truly, though I just added some pix that I found on a phone I purchased (and subsequently returned) via eBay.

Stay tuned so you don't miss the fun.

spam subject of the day

2004-06-30T14:34:00.000-04:00

"jersey cow brides of 527"

I'm serious. I couldn't make that up.

I cannot tell a lie

2004-06-22T11:49:00.000-04:00

There....I said it. Happy?

Mmmmmm.....gmail.......

2004-06-21T16:52:00.000-04:00

Got me some gmail. Clean slate, no spam. Is this the end of my love affair with pine?

good question

2004-06-19T00:16:00.000-04:00

Best spam name and subject:
----
From: Numbers Floyd
Subject: why are you answering my phone calls?
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Holy crap

2004-06-17T16:04:00.000-04:00

Someday people will know the difference between "EDT" and "EST."
Not to mention:

it's/its
you're/you
how to pluralize nouns (meaning NOT with an apostrophe, as in "noun's")

Yikes.

2004-06-11T11:57:00.000-04:00

I think I'm gonna be sick.

That's Doctor Rotorglow, DDS, to you

2004-06-09T14:29:00.000-04:00

My white shirt is a little too crisp and too big. I look like a dentist.

2004-06-07T14:57:00.000-04:00

Task Manager again. Love Windows. Love it.

Ride the tiger down River Euphrates

2004-06-07T10:41:00.000-04:00

Jesus, they're good. Can't wait to see them. Just need to figure out where.

Hell yeah, Pistons

2004-06-07T10:32:00.000-04:00

I've decided that I hate the Lakers more than I hate Larry Brown *and* Rasheed.

2004-06-04T16:10:00.000-04:00

Win 2K Task Manager shot of the day.

2004-06-03T10:59:00.000-04:00

Washed and waxed the car the other day. Seems there's life in the ol' thing yet, and it looks pretty good. I think I'll keep it....

wow

2004-06-02T22:16:00.000-04:00

Goddamn, I make a great fuckin' mint julep. Thank for the recipe, Bill.

But I still wish I'd written this.