tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57447902011-04-21T14:31:14.900-07:00A Portland alternageek's adventures in electronic music, programming, horror movies, video games, politics and other esoterica.Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064195422129628146noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5744790.post-1089135456285897952004-07-06T10:24:00.000-07:002004-07-06T10:37:36.286-07:00

My statement of fact that Dick Gephardt had been tapped as Kerry's running mate has been exposed as so much blogosphere fiction, and frankly, I couldn't be happier to be wrong. The story came out of reports that Gep's top aid was being flown to the VP announcement via a chartered jet - something that no one could imagine would be done for any other reason than Gephardt getting the nod. I'd

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I went and saw Spiderman 2 last night instead of watching the tail end of the fireworks. Since most of downtown Portland was busy either playing with explosives and drinking PBR, or watching someone far more qualified play with much bigger explosives over the Willamette, the theater was fairly empty. It was a fun movie - certaainly the best of the big summer releases thus far, and far more

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Although his first term hasn't even ended yet, Bush is already considered a failure by a vast majority of historians. A recent survey conducted by George Mason University's History News Network resulted in 338 out of 415 of those interviewed describing Bush's presidency unfavorably (for the mathematically challenged, that works out to 81.4 percent). In the "worst president since..." category,

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In light of the Abu Ghraib scandal, it shouldn't surprise anyone that the Bush administration doesn't give a shit about human rights. Yeah, they've payed lip service to them, but only as one of the weekly justifications for war, and even then, only after it became clear that Hussein's balyhooed arsenal of weapons of mass destruction was a complete and total farce. The following report describes

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Looks like I prematurely complained about Kerry not speaking out on the Abu Ghraib fiasco. CBS is reporting that he's joined the growing chorus of Democrats demanding Rumsfeld's ouster. He's still no Dean, but it's nice to know he's willing to try to take the base out for a drink every so often.

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Last week it looked like the US Press intended to wholly ignore the Abu Ghraib scandal. What a difference a week makes. Reuters reports that the scandal has now grown so large that some Democrats have started demanding Rumsfeld's resignation. Nancy Pelosi is leading the charge, and in the process, finally acting like the opposition leader I hoped she'd be when she replaced Dick Gephardt after

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"Appalling" doesn't even begin to describe the tortures and abuses that occurred in Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison last month. Already infamous for the human rights abuses that Saddam and the Bathists perpetrated there, CBS's 60 Minutes 2 has broken the story that a group of army reservists decided to carry on the tradition. Images of the abuses are available here for anyone with a strong enough

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Canada's Globe and Mail and Australia's Big News Network are both reporting that the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Comission (CRTTC) has decided against granting FOX News a Canadian broadcasting license. Although I wasn't able to find a rationale for the decision on FOX specifically, I'd imagine that the CRTTC's decision was based on FOX's failure to meet this clause from

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Wired News and Slashdot are both reporting that Forgent Technologies have decided to start suing companies ranging from Apple to IBM to Kodak over rights to the JPEG compression format. I haven't done enough research yet to determine whether there's any merit to it or not, and the extent of my legal knowledge is basically nil, but my first thought is that Forgent's behaving like a mini Microsoft

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By now, everyone's heard about the military and the Bush administration's hissy fit over photographs of flag draped coffins coming back from Iraq. The reason they're so irate is pretty obvious - simply report that ninety-something US soldiers died this month (over a year after el presidente had his "Mission Accomplished" flight-suit circle jerk appearance) and it's an abstract figure, but show

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On my way to grab lunch in one of the company's cafeterias, I walked past a television set running CNN. Woodruff didn't comment on it in the 5 seconds I was there, but the crawler reported that at least 26 more US soldiers died over the weekend. 26 soldiers. 26 dead kids, most of whom are probably younger than I am (and I'm not even 30). And the harsh reality is this - they've died for shit

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Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's post-Lay CEO, suffered a full blown nervous breakdown in NYC earlier in the week. Yahoo reported that he was running around, ripping people's shirts open and accusing them of being FBI agents assigned to follow him. Predictably, he's already been released, but at least Skilling, made infamous for screwing thousands of employees out of their retirement savings, got a

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Margie Schoedinger's death has been confirmed today. Margie Schroedinger's death was actually confirmed back in November. Every other comment I've made stands. You probably haven't heard of her. Hell, I actively follow these things, and I didn't remember Schoedinger's name until I came across the article via a Daily KOS diary this morning. Schoedinger should have made headlines last Summer

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I finally got a chance to read the infamous short-story from Palahniuk's Summer 2003 book tour. Maybe I'm desensitized or something, but it was no where near as grotesque as I'd expected. Whish isn't to say it wasn't grotesque at all, because frankly, it was fucking sick. But the accounts of people vommiting and passing out in indepedent bookstores all over America made me expect something ...

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This is my first post in over two weeks. Cramming for finals and various other real life events have been keeping me busy. I'd say that I'd blog most or even some of them, but I've discovered that there's really only a one - two day window between doing something and it still being topical enough in my mind to meaningfully discuss it. After getting home from work last night, I watched the

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I entertained myself for the first hour and a half of work today sipping coffee and writing the following post up on daily KOS. Unfortunately, it was post ninety-something out of a few hundred comments and well buried in the middle of a large sub discussion, so barely anyone read it. Or maybe it just isn't that insightful. Either way, it took effort, and I don't have anything else to fill the

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Someone over on the Shocklines message boards made the comparison, and even though I haven't watched Re-Animator since high school, the accuracy of it jumped out at me. Separated at birth? Granted, Dr. Hill's bloody head isn't the best image to use for the comparison, but if you watch the film, the resemblance is pretty damned eerie. Now we just need a Jeffrey Combs look-a-like for VP.

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The gay community scored another victory today, when Multnomah County (essentially Portland, OR) determined that denying gays the right to marry violated the Oregon constitution. Couples have already started lining up for marriage licenses; the Oregonian reports that roughly 50 couples have been married so far. It's awesome news, and it reasserts Portland's status as one of the most progressive

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Barring a realignment of the planets and whatever other apocalyptic portents Kucinich or Sharpton would need to win every remaining state, we've got John Kerry as our nominee. At least he isn't Joe "Let's ban videogames" Lieberman. Lesser Evil '04 it is.

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Fun with Shockwave, Abominable Snowmen and Penguins. I'm an animal rights type and only one step removed from vegetarianism. I still think it's funny.

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Industrial Nation's site has a link to a petition to keep Ohgr's "Magik" video on MTV. Apparently, the right wing have targetted the once and future Skinny Puppy frontman for content in his latest video that compares Bush to Hitler. I'm actually more shocked that Ohgr's even getting air play on MTV (or that any video is, for that matter) than I am that the video's generating controversy. Every

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This is one of the most poignant and cool ideas I've come across online in quite a while. I think I'll send some flowers via the cell phone during a smoke break tommorow. For anyone whose knowledge of floral arrangements is about as strong as mine (ie, nil) this page may be useful too, but I suppose calling the SF florist and telling them to make a $25.00 - $35.00 wedding bouquet (or whatever

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The party, country and world all owe you one.

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No matter what Dean's political future may be (and I'm digging in my heels and crossing my fingers until the bitter end) it's beginning to look more and more like the movement behind him will continue. The Change for America link that's on the right hand side is the latest evidence. In a nutshell, Trippi's back, he's started a new blog, and he's attracting lots and lots of people from the Dean

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We've officially confirmed that WMDs in Iraq were just a right wing wet-dream, rumors are circulating that the ad comparing Dean to Bin Laden came from Robert Toricelli (and therefore, from John Kerry by proxy), yet more evidence (because apparently there wasn't enough of it in 2000) suggests that Shrub decided to wander off from Alabama to god knows where when he was supposed to be serving in

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And I've got a web counter (scroll way down to the bottom). Now I can keep a headcount of uhmmm, myself, my mom and my girlfriend. :p

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Found this site on the always entertaining gorezone boards. Simply load the page and you'll get a random giallo title, plot and director. Gotta love those rand() functions.

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The Perils of the Goth/Industrial Scene I'll toss the image up on my own FTP space later.

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double w00t. The apartment's WiFi hookup is finally working. I had to do two things - disconnect the USB cable from the DSL modem to the desktop (with a multi step powercycling process) and remove the wireless modem from the network bridge on the laptop. I'm majoring in comp sci, and yet, I've still got no idea what the hell the network bridge even is. Guess I should study my windows

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I've sucked it up and accepted that there's probably an 80 - 85% chance that John Kerry is going to be the Democratic nominee. He's gotten there because he's perceived as being "electable" (I'm going to ignore the anti-Dean push-polling and robocalling Kerry sponsored in IA until I see some more evidence) but the irony is that he'll almost certainly get us a Dukakis/Mondale style bloodbath this

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The New Hampshire Primary's occupying most of my thoughts today, but the list of Oscar Nominees is worth at least a mention. Return of the King, the best film of the best trilogy since the original Star Wars has tallied up eleven nominations. From theonering.net they're: Best Picture Directing Writing - Screenplay - Adaptation Makeup Music - Original Score Music - Original Song Art Direction

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Although his views are probably more in line with mine than any other candidate running, Dennis Kucinich has never been one of my favorite candidates. Throughout the primaries, I've been focused on balancing idealism, pragmatism and sending a clear message to the Democratic Establishment. Kucinich certainly meets one of those requirements, and arguably meets the third, but based on his demeanor

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I just saw a GOP Team Leader Ad at the top of my site. That's fucking hilarious. At first, I was irritated by it, and felt like doubledense was being bastardized by a right-wing friendly link. But after further thought, it occurred to me that the Republicans are actually paying to appear here. I suppose I'll have to click on one of their "Reelect GW Bush!" ads every so often so that I

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Just found this map showing all of the public WiFi nodes in PDX. Quasi-public ones, like Portland State, aren't listed (you'll need a login and a password for one of the PSU domains to get WiFi there, but since PSU has 20,000 plus students that shouldn't be too difficult.) Unless it says otherwise, I'd assume they're all 802.11b, which means that 802.11g equipped laptops should be able to get

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Reuters is reporting that Dean's changed his tactic, telling his supporters in a speech in Manchester, NH "Those of you who came here intending to be lifted by ... a lot of red meat rhetoric are going to be a little disappointed". I'll need to see more details before saying whether this is movement in the right direction or the wrong one, but just by virtue of being motion rather than stagnancy,

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Well that wasn't fun. I'm still pulling my thoughts together on what this means for the grassroots, Dean, and progressivism in America, but for what it's worth, I adored the Doctor's "Rally the Troops" speech. FOX, CNN and MSNBC's talking heads can tut-tut and criticize it all they want, but it sure as hell got me fired up, which is what it was designed to do. And now that Dean's given us that

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I'm waiting on the IA results with baited breath, but here's something that (predictably) the mainstream press has completely ignored. Bush's approval rating has dropped to an average rating of 54.6% according to the five most recent polls. There will definitely be a bounce following tommorow's State of the Union address, but it's interesting that Shrub's "stunning victories" are generating

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Sad to see Carol Moseley Braun drop out of the presidential race, even if it is past time that we clear the field a bit. I've watched about half of the debates, and she's been a high point in each of them - upbeat and gregarious when everyone else (including Dean, in all fairness) spent their time sniping at each other. In a perfect world, she'd be at the head of the pack. In the world we live

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Warning: You'll probably want a shower after reading the transcript that's on the other end of this link. For anyone who doubts exactly how disturbed the ultra right is, here's a transcript of some of the e-mails that Margaret Cho's site has received today. Conservatives at the Free Republic are up in arms because she criticized Bush during her speech at Move On's "Bush in 30 Seconds" dinner,

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Gotta love hyperbole, huh? The above was an actual quote from one of the anchor people discussing the snowstorm and freezing rain we got hit with earlier in the week. Yeah, there were downsides to it but at least on Tuesday, it was pretty, the city was quiet, and almost no one had to go to work. It's the only one of the three days I took off, but it was awesome seeing a large city with only a

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i didnt want to call this "#2" for the self deprecating insinuation tone kinda thing it had, ya know. i got a new cd today, well it's not that new, and it's not mine and i didint literally aquire it today, but ya know. i borrowed it from the friend that i stayed with when i was snowed in that one time, remember? (if you dont, read the stuff before this stuff). wanna know what it is? IT'S WAR,

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Here's that person: (in AI voice): Hello.....Hello...you are reading this from the year one-nine-nine-nine.... (not in AI voice): i am famous now, people are reading stuff im writing and it feels weird and naked.... (in AI voice):......naked and hot for you now....in the year one-nine-nine-nine do people read this? i wanna know if somebody reads this. i think the cat that works outside my

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I missed a lot of things in my "two months in a nutshell" post. For most, I'd imagine it's because they weren't worth the brain cells I'd need to store them in short term memory. But here's one from earlier this week which is actually useful. I was pretty annoyed when, after getting back into Portland, I popped the copy of Final Fantasy X-2 that my Mom had gotten me for Christmas into the PS2,

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Christ, almost two months since an update, and I can only pull the "really busy" on roughly 1/2 of it. The End of 03 and the Beginning of 04 in non-chronological order Went and saw the WWE live and went to a launch party for a new rum back in November. Both were severely underwhelming and no, I didn't have to pay to attend either of them. Coded for about 20 hours straight in order to finish a

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Just found out about the protests 40 - 45 minutes ago. I'm far more centrist than the black bloc types, and as such, I don't put a whole lot of effort into following the anti-globalization scene. That said though, this sounds ugly as fuck, and the Miami PD look to be just short of killing somebody. The net's rife with scattered reports of undercover cops whipping out Glocks and of uniformed

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Hopefully I'm getting the name of the band I saw right. Shelley got stuck at work and so I headed over to the bar in SE Portland on my own, where the friends we were meeting had already shown up and the band's members had yet to go on. Within twenty minutes the Ramblers started their set, and our two friends and I took up a table in the back of the bar where we passed the night chit chatting,

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I've got less of a hangover than I expected - probably because I behaved and paced myself over the course of the evening. The fact that it was about 30 degrees farenheit may have helped in that regard - hard liquor would have been good, but I barely ever drink it. Cold beers on the other hand were something to nurse rather than chug. Since I've worked a lot of overtime, I left work early, came

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Strangely, I'm spending my Halloween evening going to a bluegrass show, which is probably the most unelectronic style of music there is. Stranger yet, I can't name a single bluegrass artist. It's an invite from a friend though, and who knows, maybe I'll actually dig it. Look for me to buy a banjo and start blowing across a moonshine jug some time next week.

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Even though I don't have a black and purple mohawk anymore, I still more or less self-identify as one of the "alternative" kids whenever I give subcultural status much thought, and one of the thing that always pissed me off about the various counter cultural scenes is the hypocrisy/apathy when it came to actually changing the system. Bitching about Haliburton and MOAB bombs may be popular, but

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Portland's always had one nationally recognized video store (which doesn't have a website, but you can check out their city search entry here) and while I wouldn't go so far as to say it's got two now, the Hollywood Video on Burnside has recently been made into the corporation's flagship store and has become a pretty strong number two. It's still not perfect - their foreign section is decidedly

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It doesn't look like the various free web hosts like to be used as image dumps. Too bad for me, but I suppose it's reasonable when considered from their perspectives. The knee jerk, anti-capitalist anarchist in me is still annoyed by it though. For now, anyone who wants to see the various cell-phone cam photos that illustrate the site can do so by clicking this link. I'll be adding it to the

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Problems with the images. For those who care, refreshing and/or right-clicking on where the images should be appears to work. I'll fiddle with geocities some more and see if I can figure out why images only load about half the time.

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And here I am: ego, thy name is blog.

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As far as I can tell, blogspot doesn't offer FTP space anymore, which is too bad, because as of this afternoon, I was ready to fork over the $15.00 they used to request for the service. Hell, after reading their e-mail to subscribers, I would have given them $15.00 just for the hoodie. But that's beside the point. It's not that I don't have plenty of webspace available (stretched out across

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Anyone who's into horror/dark fantasy and who's looking for something to do this weekend might want to check out the 8th annual HP Lovecraft Film Festival. I went last year, albeit just briefly on Saturday night, and got the chance to not only catch Dagon on the big screen, but to listen to Stuart Gordon discuss it afterwards. Lots of funny, bizarre and potentially totally false factoids that

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No, you're not all stupid. Sadly though, 55% of you are apparently total fucking morons. To those of you who voted against the idiotic recall, Portland is a really nice city, and hell, you can probably buy a 4000 square foot house with a view of the city for 1/4 of what you're paying for your bay area condo. Most of the locals may bitch about Californian transplants, but fuck `em - we're over

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It's Talk like a Pirate Day. A handy dandy english-to-pirate translator be available here if you're not aye on t'proper grammatical rules o'"A'vast!" versus "Arrrrrrg!". Plastic has discussiono'modern pirates, who dissapointin'ly enough, probably don't have eye patches and peg legs. The above paragraph went through the translator, and as you can probably see, completely failed to inject "scurvy

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This quiz should appeal to good geeks everywhere. Sort through photograph after photograph of shy, introverted misfits, and guess whether they're a programmer or a serial killer. I did a 10/10 myself, although that was mostly based on whether I recognized the photograph from a true crime book somewhere.

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Albuequerque, NM is set to host the Democratic presidential candidates first debate tonight. Univision and PBS are running live coverage (along with C-Span, I suppose). Anyone who's interested can get a schedule of when the debate will be aired in their area and which network it will be aired on here. Anyhow, there are two questions that occur to me about this. How much mud will Lieberman,

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The first Jeepers Creepers wasn't great, but its first thirty minutes was one of the most frightening half-hours to come out of a major studio in years. Salva did a hell of a job in capturing the cinematic equivalent of the "teen-agers hear nails scratching on the hood of the car" sort of ghost story, and although some of the character's actions might have been unbelievable, they all made sense

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It only took me an hour and a half, but the site's color scheme finally appeals to my ex goth-kid sensibilities a bit. Cascading Style Sheets seem nice and all, but learning them at the end of a forty hour work week when one's last experience with HTML was in 1998 sort of sucked. Oh well, anything for the sake of aesthetics, right?

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Some day I'll remember when it's Labor Day versus Memorial Day versus Veteran's Day... Oh well, time to drink some microbrews and play Suikoden 3.

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Wheee, the first entry. To be totally honest, I've never, and may still never, understood the appeal of these things. Vanity sites have been a part of the Web since the very beginning (remember how many sites there used to be with names like "Bob's page"?) and the blog's never really struck me as being the huge evolution of that concept that everyone else has made them out to be. But what the

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