tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84779929336420000972024-02-08T11:30:47.786-05:00ennui go<i>trying to grasp the idea of <b>what this life is</b> in the hands of my mind, so as to roll it around a little and thus form it into a thing, to hold up and show to you</i>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-69115216747628600792013-04-11T01:16:00.000-04:002013-04-11T01:16:13.450-04:00newth otter<script language="javascript" src="http://www.namcobandaigames.eu/Brain-Exercise/blogparts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"></script><br /><script language="javascript" src="http://www.namcobandaigames.eu/Brain-Exercise/blogparts/BrainAge.js"></script><br /><script language="javascript">BrainSet("q2O2fAf19x1v8b.AHB4H")</script><br /><br /><br />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-13857929885865770702011-08-04T20:52:00.001-04:002011-08-04T20:53:32.059-04:00NOOP OASThey yeah so I signed back into my blog for the first time in more than a year.<br /><br />yippee keyay.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-44101486009652758202010-05-02T17:01:00.001-04:002010-05-02T17:01:57.417-04:00good news bunny!<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/4572512928/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4572512928_4f615db70f_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/4572512928/">bunny</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ro6ot/">ro6ot</a></span></div>I got a new camera to replace the one that fell in the water during the big flood!<br clear="all" />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-84730860650824362482010-01-01T20:29:00.002-05:002010-01-01T20:33:12.596-05:00NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!this year I am going to live blog all the computer movies and TV shows I watch!<br /><br />OK so for starters I just finished 'The Generalissimo" 30ROCK episode....<br />ROOFIE JOKES:<span style="font-style: italic;">ALWAYS FUNNY<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>haha no just kidding... all of this. I will not be "live blogging" my "culture" consumption.<br /><br />maybe my caloric intake?<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /></span>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-33465662331616337512009-12-20T10:51:00.001-05:002009-12-20T10:57:10.532-05:00big snow dayhighlight from tomorrow*s futurecast:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-mU-YSk32I<br />*dear murphy: I call no jinxiesro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-18172797698072888902009-12-11T11:20:00.006-05:002009-12-11T21:37:17.218-05:00like comparingDo you know the idiom about "comparing apples and oranges"? I think it generally means "things that are different shouldn't be directly compared," in a marketplace, bartering sense. Because apples and oranges are different, and it quickly becomes complicated because one person will slightly prefer apples over oranges, or vice-versa, while another will have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">strong</span> preference one way or the other, and yet a third person might value them equally. And this usage is correct, accurate, and true: it IS important to compare "apples to apples," ...which, you know what, is pretty much WHY 'money' was even invented in the first place: as a (non-perishable!) <span style="font-style: italic;">medium of exchange</span>.<br /><br /> The thing I keep thinking about, though, is how -which now that I'm reflecting for communication's sake, I realize is obviously the reason these two items, an apple and an orange, were "picked" (GET IT!?! HAW HAW*<span style="font-style: italic;">)<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span></span>for the expression in the first place- in many ways (very nearly EVERY WAY!) apples and oranges are <span style="font-style: italic;">the same</span>. So I have thought up different categories ~with examples~ of things it is difficult and problematic to compare:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">∙apples and pizza<br /></span> this is the first step away; an apple and a pizza -or a SLICE of pizza? hmm- are vastly more different than an apple and an orange; but importantly, they are both foodstuffs, i.e. intended for human consumption. [without getting into philosophic/religious debate, I think the question "is an apple, <span style="font-style: italic;">after it has been picked, washed, and delivered here (onto this rhetorical table</span>), accurately described as 'intended for human consumption'?" may be a good way to distinguish between people who are capable of engaging in <span style="font-style: italic;">worthwhile</span> dialogue, and people who are not.]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">∙apples and orange</span>: [can for clarity be called <span style="font-weight: bold;">apples and purple</span>]<br /> An apple and a color are pretty different; an apple is a thing you can see and touch, whereas a color is something you can see but which, in its broadest [and simultaneously, narrowest?!?] sense, only exists as a <span style="font-style: italic;">quality </span>of other, very diverse, things. Importantly though, <span style="font-weight: bold;">orange</span> can be experienced by the senses, in the physical world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">∙apples and music</span><br />I haven't thought about this one much; I think it is only different from the previous category in that 1)music generally enters the perception via the ears, unlike "orange" whose vector is usually the eyes, and perhaps more importantly 2)"music" is a one-step-broader category than just any single color.... I think, therefor, that the difference between this category and the previous one is (are you ready:) <span style="font-style: italic;">apples and oranges! </span>i.e. significant enough to consider different and merit sober consideration.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">∙apples and quantity</span><br /> An <span style="font-weight: bold;">apple</span> is a physical object, whereas <span style="font-weight: bold;">quantity</span> is a narrow, concrete, and specific trait[is quantity a quality? I think it is!] of physical things. Note that the important feature of this type of difference is its utility in spite of requisite intellectual gymnastics; for this reason I have tagged this category with a semi-abstract concept pertinent to the original discussion, <span style="font-style: italic;">which was occurring for a reason.</span> "So different that it takes some real brainstorming to think of a scenario when you might even ever need to compare the two things"... note however that I think such a scenario might possibly actually<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"> a</span></span>rise. (Which to my mind is <span style="font-style: italic;">slightly different</span> from saying "I think a person might be able to <span style="font-style: italic;">imagine</span> such a scenario"... I think that very difference is a great example of the next category!)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">∙apples and causation<br /></span> In some circumstances it is useful to compare <span style="font-style: italic;">a physical thing </span>and<span style="font-style: italic;"> an abstract concept or intellectual activity... </span>this category refers to THE OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES, when not only is it difficult to even IMAGINE, let alone PERFORM the comparison, but the very fact that the diverse elements find themselves in the same discussion should be read as a signpost: WELCOME TO POINTLESS‼ <span style="font-family:times new roman;">↑ </span>REALITY <span style="font-style: italic;">X</span> MILES BACK <span style="font-family:times new roman;">↑</span> (the existence of a pointer in pointlessville being itself a prime example of "theoretically interesting on some level but without relevance on the physical ground")<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*no, "haw" is different....the fruit of the hawthorn, it is more like an apple...</span>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-3389330111198119832009-09-28T22:11:00.002-04:002009-09-28T23:30:03.769-04:00last swimmingI should tell you more about the other day's swimming. Have I already mentioned that I have in the past few years crossed the magical body-fat-percentage threshold such that I no longer sink slowly to the bottom when I hold still in fresh water? Well, in a doubtless related development, I am now able to <span style="font-style: italic;">enjoy</span> swimming in water that is cooler than ever previously! Generally I think of 'being immersed in cold water' as literally Tortuous, the other day as I was getting into the water I thought to myself "this water could definitely be warmer and that would be extremely OK" but I got in anyway. <br /><br />I felt <i>a little</i> cold while on the return swim from the island, such that I swam part of the way with my arms still and tightly at my sides in a (laughable*) attempt to conserve heat (I generally use a modified elementary backstroke, with alternating-sides scissor kicks; this is similar to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_swimming_styles#Forward" target="_blank">back double trudgeon</a> except for the arms, and with swim-fins on, as I had, is reasonably effective with no arm motion at all!), but after I got out of the water, I first got a terrible terrible headache and had to lie down to keep from fainting, then several minutes later felt very very cold and started to shiver a lot!<br /><br />So this is why I had said earlier " <span style="font-size: 78%;">note to self: next time bring wetsuit </span>" in case you were wondering.<br />Or, even if you weren't!<br /><br />*being immersed in cool liquid is an extremely effective way to <span style="font-weight: bold;">lose</span> heatro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-70814183807303367512009-09-18T23:03:00.003-04:002009-09-19T16:25:41.749-04:00oh, people.OK so.<br /><br />On the 'good things that happened this week' side, I finally finished my 'how to build your own SODA CAN STOVE' write-up for my friends Erin and Lief's <span style="font-style: italic;">flowing well</span> zine project! I designed a brand new build just for this- it is extra easy to build because instead of custom making the inner cylinder out of a section of a regular sized can and gluing it into a smaller tube, this one uses a prefab SMALLER CAN (red bull etc) as the inner ring. Also it will hold more fuel than regular soda can stoves do, as it is larger due to being built from 23oz <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arizona "Iced Tea"</span> cans... so now I can cook a whole pot of mac & cheese out in the wild without needing to pause in the middle to refuel the stove.<br /><br />Also epic solo swimming journey out to <span style="font-style: italic;">Blueberry Goose Island</span> on Friday after work... <span style="font-size:78%;">note to self: next time bring wetsuit?</span> Only the second time I've swum all the way out there!<br /><br />On however the 'colossally bad things that happened this week' side, someone with whom I was slightly acquainted through a coworker had overdosed on heroin and died at a house where I was working, and my coworker (and friend) found his body. Not knowing how long he had been sitting there, he called 911, then came and got me and told me the situation. Neither of us knew that the person was dead, so we were trying to revive them, and I said that we should do CPR while waiting for the paramedics; upon trying to move him to the floor to do this I discovered that his legs were stone cold and his body was stiff (my coworker had touched his face and neck, which had been in the sun so were warm), so we knew then that he was dead.<br /><br />may this never, ever, EVER happen to you.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-85066082240985005242009-08-27T21:11:00.001-04:002009-08-27T21:11:44.856-04:00how not to blog 101 : "what I am eating for dinner"<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/3862993771/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/3862993771_fe37705192_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/3862993771/">dinner</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ro6ot/">ro6ot</a></span></div>Q: who was it that said "if you are going to be cooking (sic) up some uncured poultry-based hot dogs shockingly reminiscent of tofu-pups, in a pan with some water so's they don't burn, you might as well put the steamer-top from the rice-cooker over said pan and steam some kale too!" ?<br /><br />A: That would be the poorly known Anglo-American author and culinary wunderkind Eeyore Strewly.<br clear="all" />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-20299221905938821012009-08-25T00:28:00.003-04:002009-08-25T01:09:30.103-04:00I went back a gainsome of you may have heard or read my story about that fateful night when my eyes, roaming over the flavor selection on the Ben & Jerry's shelf in the ice-cream section of the local convenience mart, landed just wrong upon the words <span style="font-style:italic;">chubby hubby</span>, "my heart broke a little bit, and I just walked out."<br /><br />well, tonight I realized -or, 'registered' is probably more applicable since really I had already known on some level- that it isn't as though I can't or shouldn't eat ice cream, even delicious & wonderful ice cream. the thing is, THE THING, right, IS: I just shouldn't eat a whole pint in one sitting!! <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">DER</span>¹, not much of a break-through, I know. But still; it takes all kinds [of realizations²].<br /><br />So, tonight I went and bought the old stand-by, my first ever favorite: coffee heathbar crunch. AND, ate a small bowl of it.<br /><br /><br /><br />¹ "uh-DOY", if you prefer. see <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_duh"TARGET="_blank">duh</a><br /><br />² note that this word simply means 'cause to be made real'. Note further that, or HOW, this is the case: you think of something..... which then IS real.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-52268167026383092992009-08-16T10:41:00.001-04:002009-08-16T10:41:11.845-04:00ant vs bee<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="260" height="195" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=649a062559&photo_id=3826585654&flickr_show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=649a062559&photo_id=3826585654&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="195" width="260"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/3826585654/">ant vs bee</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ro6ot/">ro6ot</a></span></div>here is the documentary evidence of that insect fight I told you about <a href="<br />http://ro6ot.blogspot.com/2009/06/haiku-of-this-day.html"TARGET="_blank">some while ago<br /></a>.<br clear="all" />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-66193220210254524222009-08-14T17:24:00.001-04:002009-08-14T17:24:13.770-04:00slogan earring<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>a haiku<br/><br/><span style='font-weight: bold;'>keeping the 'uh' in <span style='font-style: italic;'>spasmataz</span> <br/>since nineteen-seventy-three!</span><br/><br/>does that work at all?<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=377a9f5f-7c6c-81cb-aa6c-03aee92306c0' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-69409431018733173362009-08-14T13:44:00.003-04:002009-12-11T20:58:16.072-05:00haiku of the month clubI just took a class:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Buddhism and Meditation</span>.<br />Think I got a C.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-13250794469940987852009-08-05T17:06:00.002-04:002009-08-05T17:12:33.933-04:00ooh ooh<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>I bought a new TV on WOOT, and it works SO GOOD with my computer!!! I had an old-school TV hooked up via S-video to my computer, and (maybe you know how that goes?) the text was completely unreadable unless it was set on the hugest, dumbest resolution, only then often programs would have their "OK" or whatever buttons too low so you couldn't see them for clicking. NO MORE! Plus, I got a wireless keyboard at salvation army that matches the wireless mouse and wireless receiver that i already had.... so say hello to <i>way less cluttered TV-lounge type area!</i><br/><br/>leave a comment if you want to be invited to (a) celebratory movie-watch... so far nominations include live-action speedracer movie.<br/><br/>the low point of today so far is not being able to find the cable to hook the PS2 up to the new TV to see if the found special-remote-to-make-using-it-as-your-DVD-player works ( I adopted a poor abandoned Platstaion2 at the beginning of the summer when some mean college kids left it behind... then I ebay'd up a copy of <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari' target='_blank'>katamari</a> which is fun enoughh to be the only game I own, I'm pretty sure. <br/><br/>should I go swimming this afternoon, or will it rain and I can just stand outside for a few minuites for the same effect? decisions, decisions.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=83ad90c9-9326-8079-9ee4-120781cf18af' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-41384625152901618562009-07-18T22:58:00.001-04:002009-07-18T23:48:21.364-04:00Souvlaki AbdullahThe high point of today was stopping by <a href="http://www.sillys.com/"TARGET="_blank">Silly's</a> in Portland (Maine) and getting a lamb & french fries wrap. The fact that, though I saw no coffee infrastructure in evidence I inquired into some regardless, which resulted in a tiny press-pot just for me; also the shared smile with the person who actually made the wrap for me, upon its annunciation.<br /><br />The low point of the day was the fact that it took me two and a half hours to get ready to leave. Between the car-power-socket ["cigarette lighter" style] I had freshly wired in being shorted and blowing three fuses before I got it trouble-shot correctly, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/1137279474/sizes/o/"TARGET="_blank">Monkey</a> having used up all of her in-stock cat litter necessitating an extra trip to the market.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-56841579545666052612009-06-07T20:45:00.001-04:002009-06-11T22:13:33.611-04:00haiku for today<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>this evening I saw<br/>an ant dragging a live wasp<br/>by its left eyeball.<br/><br/><br/>----------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>I shot a little movie of the occurrence but the exact moment when the ant bumped back into the wasp and grabbed it by its compound face was sadly not well captured, as I was ineptly looking at the real thing failing to point the camera just right.<br/><br/></div>ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-11883214470042798262009-06-06T21:59:00.003-04:002009-06-07T20:23:03.196-04:00the haulthis season's <span style="font-style:italic;">casa de oro</span> [the time when students move out and leave perfectly really good stuff behind and/or throw such away] has yielded up as follows-<br />5 ipods:<br />8 gig 1st gen nano ~given to roomate<br />30 gig 4th gen (b&w screen, not photo) ~given to other roomate<br />4 gig 1st gen mini ~promised to sister<br />2 30 gig 5th gen video: one with dead hard drive, one with dead battery<br /> these last have been recombinated to yield one fully functional unit featuring 3 seasons of <span style="font-style:italic;">the (american) office</span>, AND a replacement headphone jack for MY 5th gen ipod video, whih was only sending out the right audio chanel.<br /><br />also a newer digital camera for my mom (new battery on the way from ebay), also one for my friend paul the plumber. also super awesome powered speakers & subwoofer dealie for peter (1st roomie above) and another set for me (which turned out to have one dead speaker, which I replaced today with one from a different broken set I have nearly thrown away about 4 times).<br /><br />what else: 2 playstation twos (no games tho) including gun-controllers I've never seen before, and can't imagine using. possibly I can sell these on ebay or craigslist?... a brand new in-box, still clipped together pair of ugg loafers... umm what else? maybe that's it.<br /><br />what's new with you? {see note at right about emailing me}ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-66572454409350284592009-04-26T20:55:00.004-04:002009-04-27T11:34:11.624-04:00<span style="font-style:italic;">visualizing a mental explosion as an effect akin to a huge & ever-expanding snowplow, clearing everything away*, radiating outward yet not dissipating even as it grows.</span><br /><br />in other news, i've been kayaking twice in the past 2 weeks, and have now got my truck 100% working again after 1)putting in a radio, which messed up the running lights; 2)fixing the lights, which disabled the gas & temp gauges; and then replaced the dash console, restoring full function thereto. Now I just have to rollback the odometer (which came from a different truck) to the correct reading... although hopefully I will swap the actual odometer out for one that has a resettable trip counter, for the easier keeping track of my miles-per-gallon, and simplifying the calculations of general navigation.<br /><br /><br />*this is something which I sometimes wish could occur to my "accumulation" of "belongings".ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-74543525729429714672009-04-06T04:21:00.005-04:002009-04-06T05:44:10.373-04:00where to startit occurs to me to reassure the blog reading public not to worry; despite (dis)appearances, I have actually consumed further meals than <a href="http://ro6ot.blogspot.com/2008/12/oat-me-oat-me-oh-oh.html"TARGET="_blank">¹</a>oatmeal on December 14th and <a href="http://twitter.com/ro6ot/status/1101148754"TARGET="_blank">²</a>egg noodles with sadly un-garlic'd cream sauce on January 6th. Why, just yesterday I tore into a charming box of whole-wheat rigatoni and emeril's "gaaaahlic" pasta-sauce-from-a-can....<br /><br />but seriously folks: what HAVE i been up to?!? the phrase "surfing (like a dead body)" comes to mind, with attendant disturbing mental image. But really (not THAT seriously!!) it hasn't been that bad.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">last night I had a dream of riding my bike to a house show and finding crazy velcro luggage in a dumpster- a whole bunch of matching large gray suitcases which could all be joined together, and fit into a tough protective container like a mega suitcase 15 feet long, ten feet wide, and 18 inches deep.</span> At the time I thought to myself "hmm.. I guess that IS how you carry enough photography equipment {including development chemicals} for a 'National Geographic' funded safari exploration trip when said journey has its own cargo plane" but in hindsight I think instead, without un-thinking the above, "this is a regular-sized multi-compartment sundries bin; <i>I am currently little</i>."<br /><br />there is much more to say. a little bit at a time.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-66532561553539823092009-02-23T11:41:00.000-05:002009-02-23T11:42:31.398-05:00self-confusing prophecyGUESS WHO POSTED TO HIS BLOG!<br />(does that count?)ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-48354940698302546562008-12-14T10:58:00.003-05:002008-12-14T11:38:12.360-05:00oat me, oat me... oh! oh! *as far as I'm concerned, the reason god created summer the way it is, was to let us pause from having oatmeal for breakfast.. so when we start having it again we would be struck anew by its amazing deliciousness. (I am aware that this cosmogony completely ignores the inconvenient fact that some people eat oatmeal year round- CRAZY people!!)<br /><br />have I said enough on that subject? mayhap. DAMN BUT I LOVE ME SOME OATMEAL.<br /><br />*with apologetic appreciation for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg"TARGET="_blank">billy squire</a>.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-5734309654888235462008-10-31T13:48:00.003-04:002008-10-31T14:00:56.706-04:00(as a dog who is particularly sick, presumably)hey everybody.<br /><br />It is halloween, and I am sick. I have been slightly sick for about eight days, but until day-before-yesterday this entailed simply the occasional sneezing bout and intermittent soup-poop. Yesterday and today it is full-blown sore throat, runny head, fever, aches, and misery. Yesterday I stocked up on good old-fashioned chicken-noodle soup. Also, it turns out very helpful to drink bunches of water- WHO KNEW?!? <span style="font-style:italic;">don't answer that.</span> So I feel like I am sufficiently on the mend, that I might be able to bundle up and wander through the scary maze tonight! But don't expect any "rock & roll until the break of dawn" out of this one.<br /><br />end transmission.ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-44263479470462823292008-10-25T04:27:00.005-04:002008-10-25T07:10:37.021-04:00went to a show(note: other stuff happened too)<br /><br />So I went to a show the other day, up at the stairwell gallery. It was "Aniki Dawn" of Providence, "SnowBlink" from Toronto, and "Dead Western" from Sacramento. It got past my bedtime, so I couldn't stick around for Dead Western, but I liked the two other acts pretty alright. (note to self: after you grab the .txt file cheat-sheet of "how the heck do I make links, new window, etc, & stuff" from other computer, make that a link to jake's photoblog). I have to track down snowblink online so I can say I liked them, and buy their CD (as I mentioned I had to dash off) but the main thing I came away from this show thinking about was how, when kyla (Ms A. Dawn) mentioned via inter-song banter (often an important aspect, helping steer the atmosphere) that she hadn't changed out of her pajamas before leaving the house that day, and was in fact still wearing them, the thought immediately occurred to me that, since I have been sleeping in my clothes for several months now, "wearing my pajamas all day" is a much less depressing way to think of this! Of course, upon any amount of further reflection, it immediately becomes clear that these two concepts ("PJs all day" vs "sleeps-in-clothes") are actually approximate opposites: on the one hand we have "cozy and comfortable all the time, cuz why the heck not!" and on the other, "never achieving particularly comfortable, just crashing as-is". See how that works? <br /><br /> I tend to think of this type of dichotomy as a relative or correlate of the old "glass half-empty or half-full" idea, only I have come to know it as "is the glass <i>almost totally empty</i>, or <i>a little tiny bit full</i>"?ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-47488747263016733822008-07-25T13:22:00.001-04:002008-07-25T13:22:18.416-04:00a funny thing happened on the way across the parking lot...<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/2699943525/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2699943525_eca5c0fffb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/2699943525/">whand</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ro6ot/">ro6ot</a></span></div>I thought I saw a little dry leaf skittering across the asphalt as I drove out yesterday; a little dry leaf that looked a lot like a tiny crustacean. wha-HUH? try "a tiny lobster" (aka 'shrimp")!!! He or she was totally not afraid of me, and was showing off kung-fu stances to keep me from attacking it. CRAZY, RIGHT?<br clear="all" />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477992933642000097.post-36713210045957230422008-06-29T18:25:00.001-04:002008-06-29T18:25:01.926-04:00momma (didn't) told me there'd be days like these<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/2621919697/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3250/2621919697_bbac56cd7f_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ro6ot/2621919697/">OUCH!</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/ro6ot/">ro6ot</a></span></div>WTF man!?! was this screw sitting balanced point up, or how the heck does this $%*# happen?<br clear="all" />ro6othttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15287355352234929326noreply@blogger.com0