A group of retards have posted a video on the typically super handy site Instructables showing us the dark side of the lasers (besides destroying Alderan). The uberstupid bodymod of Branding has moved from Future Primitive Hippies to the able hands of Bored Nerds. Funny, my dermotologist has ads for Laser Tattoo Removal, but there is no way to remove these.
Kids, don’t do this. Your skin just wants to give you a full body hug, don’t go burning it like you used to burn ants.
Does this remind anybody else of the tattoo scene in Starship Troopers?
This video just reminded me to change my party affiliation back to Independent (I registered Democrat only for the Primary). I think joining either team guarantees that you are rolling over to take a corporate sponsored dildo up the ass. I can’t vote neither so at least I’ll vote for the one who talks about helping the environment, women’s rights and marriage equality; even if they never really do anything about it.
I have a sad Mac. I fucked up the screen, and it’s getting a “not covered under warranty” repair. So that’s why I’ve been sans-posting. I am expecting an email from the Republic Tigers soon, I caught them at Ribfest Chicago last weekend-review/interview/story to follow soon.
Anywho, the July 08 issue of Elle Magazine is incredible, and whilst killing time at my soul-crushing job, I stumbled across a mini-article about Ketamine.
Apparently it is now on the list of recreational drugs that shows promise as a remedy for mood disorders. With testing, it is proving to be a potential treatment for depression, more specifically, overcoming one of the greatest obstacles in treating depression: the ‘crucial lag time before medication takes effect’. That period is considered particularly high-risk for suicide. Most antidepressants can take weeks to kick in and take effect (while sometimes not working at all), while ketamine takes hours.
According to an experimental trial published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, 71% of subjects had a significant reduction in their symptoms after an infusion of ketamine. I’m interested to see any follow-up research on this theory. Apparently, those crazy club kids were on to something. I’m gonna go watch Party Monster.
Two great things together. Kittahs and Theremins. These cats are adorable, is Japan getting an especially cute strain of kitties?
To the uninitiated Leon Theremin was almost as important to electronics as Tesla and Edison. Beyond inventing the Theremin which was the first instrument that you didn’t even touch to play, he also invented a few dozen other gizmos that are now the basis of synthesizers and electronic music. Theremin also created the “Buran” eavesdropping system which recorded conversations in French and American embassies by measuring the window glass vibrations using a low power infrared beam from a distance. But really anyone could have done that right?
And he probably invented untold hundreds of spy-sci while working for the KGB.
Lee Spievak lost the tip of his finger to a model airplane’s propellor. His brother just happens to be involved in Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine. So like any good bro he sent him some magical pixie dust made from pig guts (like so many other magical pixie dusts are made from). Within a month the rest of his finger grew back… including his fingerprint.
Dr. Albert Hoffman, a Swiss scientist best known for synthesizing LSD, died yesterday at the age of 102.
He first discovered the effects after accidentally ingesting some of the drug through his fingertips, and argued for decades that it could be an effective treatment of mental illness.
Hofmann called LSD “medicine for the soul” and was frustrated by the worldwide prohibition that pushed it underground. “It was used very successfully for 10 years in psychoanalysis,” he said, adding that the drug was hijacked by the youth movement of the 1960s and then unfairly demonized by the establishment that the movement opposed.
Here’s a great article about him, written a couple years ago, about his feeligns over what he affectionately called his “problem child”. Thats cute. Acid is like a snot-nosed kid who gets bad grades.
I admit it, I enjoy porn. I don’t buy it, I don’t rent it, I don’t keep a stash of it, but I watch it. I’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff. Mostly because one of my former roommates (you know who you are) used to ask us, “Hey wanna see something fucked up…” And whether we wanted to or not, our curiosity would get the better of us and we would watch. And what would usually follow would indeed be very fucked up depending on how JAPANESE or GERMAN it was. The kind of thing that you wish you could CNTL + Z and UNDO out of your brain. What is it about the axis powers anyway that makes their porn so crazy now? Is it maybe that after seeing the Holocaust and Atomic Bombs that everything else is completely tame and harmless in comparison? Well it seems that it has taken the British to trump them both with THIS EXCERPT from “A Girl’s Guide to 21st Century Sex” where apparently when thinking outside of the box they did the opposite. I warn you now, THIS VIDEO is Very Educational and VERY NSFW.
Its sad that using these words is going to spike my daily visitors. I’ll throw in another one for good measure, Bukakke. Good luck erasing this from your brain, suckers.
Technology, man. It must be the future. Here’s a nintendo shunk down to the size of a NES cartridge. Click the image for the google translation. Those crazy French-Japanese.
Hippie New Year everybody. I missed 4:20 today. Cause I was working… on a Sunday. I’m in California, it should be a state holiday. This makes weed nun very unhappy.
Here is a link to a previous Weekly Trashing about Pot. I’ll spoil it for you. It should be legal.
…is Acid. It’s the fucking truth. If you’ve been there then you know and if you don’t then its just too bad you didn’t get to rub your brain up against God’s beard like we did. I’m sure you weren’t doing anything better with your early 20’s when it would have been the best time for you to do it, too. But it’s never too late, you should go get some now. Its a lovely day after all. And it’s like my good friend A*** said, “It’s funny that they are all over at the church learning about God, when we’re over here experiencing it.”
Here is an amazing comic about LSD in the style of Jack T. Chick Publications which have scientifically* been proven as the most reasonable and effective manner to indoctrinate someone on the dangers of indulging in anything ever. What better way to teach people that they are hellbound than with a poorly drawn comic you pick up randomly off the sidewalk or haphazardly placed upon bags of dog food in grocery stores. I used to work graveyard shift at a grocery store and would find these all the time. I tried to collect them all. My favorite is still about shriners and freemasons worshipping the devil and fezzes being red because they were dipped in the flowing blood of christians.
I’ve never heard a real argument against LSD. Theres the bullshit about people jumping off of balconies because they thought they could fly. Well maybe they subconciously wanted to commit suicide anyway? Besides, nobody can prove that ever happened. There are quite a few cases that prove Alcohol to be a factor in people falling off buldings and balconies at colleges all around the country. The other thing people say is that “you’ll go crazy”, yeah maybe if you eat a whole sheet of it. As if you couldn’t die from drinking a whole bottle of Everclear.
Having a good experience is all about set and setting. If you do the proper dose and take it with knowlegable people that you love and trust with your life in a safe and comfortable environment then you’ll have one of the best, most memorable experiences of your life. You will see the true beauty of your life and the world around you, you will hear music with your entire body, you will see how meaningless the bullshit you surround yourself with really is (your job, your debts, your pointless fears). And it will be a hell of a lot more REAL than a trip to Disneyland.** Want more info? Consult the end all, be all of drug experimentation safety sites that is Erowid.org.
Have a good conversation with your cat everybody!
*science has been scientifically been proven the fastest way to hell according to Jack T. Chick.
** please don’t mix LSD with Disneyland or any other public expositions.
Apparently the hallucinogenic herb salvia is being targeted by lawmakers as ‘the next marijuana’. Eight states, including Illinois, have already placed restrictions on salvia-classifying it as a controlled substance, and 16 others are considering a ban.
Salvia is sold on the internet or in certain smoke shops and herbal stores, for $15-50 a dose, depending on potency. It is produced from a Mexican plant used by Mazatec Indians for healing and ritual prophecy.
No known deaths have been attributed to salvia’s use, but it was listed as a factor in one Delaware teen’s suicide two years ago-although the autopsy found no traces of the drug in his system at the time of death.
Most people think that this commotion over the drug is overblown. As soon as you make something illegal, people are just going to find something else. One Florida state representative has already introduced a bill to make possession of salvia a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Bill LB840, which would make salvia divinorum illegal in Nebraska has moved to the floor of the Legislature, but has seen little activity as of yet.
California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, an organization of more than 2,000 criminal defense lawyers, opposes such bills because the group says it criminalizes behavior without sufficient scientific evidence, such as whether the drug is addictive or harmful to the body. The group advocates public education about the drug-what a concept.
Many scientists believe the drug has “real promise,” particularly with treating mania or bipolar disorder. Others say it has potential for slowing the transmission of HIV. Who knows. Maybe we never will, with such drastic knee-jerk reactions to a pretty little plant.
I think this Microphone Lamp is pretty dope. I think trying to charge $236 for it minus shipping is mega-douche-tastically pretentious. Its still homemade, pisswad, that means with $ > 30 you can makes-it-the-fucks yourself. I’m sure that instructables already has a similar DIY step-by-step. Go to nearly any music venue and they will straight up GIVE YOU one of their broken microphones. When I was working sound at the chatterbox, bands would thrash the shit out of the gear. You’ll want to wipe the mic down with some lysol just in case the band Faggot used your microphone and got AIDS all over it.
I’m trying to think of other music related things you can make into hangy lamps. I think an Accordion light fixture would be dope. Ikea already has lamps that look like bellows. Lets see that magic, science!
I made that one up. And its reason enough that I only took 1 math class in College(unless you count beginning Computer Science). There is a Flickr collection of flowcharts, Venn Diagrams, Bar Graphs and Pie charts of the narratives from rock songs. Some of them are quite amazing. Some of them made me notice that am in not in touch with much of modern hip-hop. It also reminded me how many math classes I spent drawing band names on my notebooks.
I have been going to this site Instructables.com for a little over a year now. On it you will find step-by-step instructions and videos for building, fixing, wiring, soldering, modding, and fine tuning just about anything imaginable. Want to build a robot that makes you coffee in the morning, go there and figure it out. And just recently stumbled upon WonderHowTo.com which is pretty close to the same thing but whereas Instructables is more about things you can make, wonder how to has instructional videos on absolutely ANYTHING! Of course I knew what it would lead to. The most popular instructional videos are all about sex. (But my favorite in that regard being the one about telling a hooker from a cop) But what i’ve been nutting on lately are the videos of how to swindle people. Not that I would mind you, but its good to know in case i’m ever a fugitive or destitute. It seems that most of the Con videos come from a british tv show (which means a shittier, watered down and overly funded version will be on American TV within a year). Ah, truly we have reached the information age.
Sometimes I just want to learn everything that will fit into my brain. Unfortunately I have had to displace a good deal of peoples names. So if you run into me on the street, don’t be offended if I forget your name again, Mom.
via Moma.org: Bees have a sense of smell fine enough that they can detect some Cancers and states of fertility and ovulation. Does this sound as impossible to you as it does to me? Well as part of a modern art exhibition —you know what, I think it’s witchcraft. I’ll just copy the text from the website:
Precise Object, from the BEE’S project: New Organs of Perception. Prototype. 2007
Susana Soares (Portuguese, b. 1977)
Design Interactions Department (est. 1989), Royal College of Art (UK, est. 1837)
Soares has conceived a series of alternative diagnosis tools that use trained bees to perform health checkups, detect diseases, and monitor fertility cycles. “Bees have a phenomenal odor perception,” explains Soares. “They can be trained to target a specific odor.” The Face Object has two chambers. Bees that detect certain odors in the breath—some of them even connected to forms of cancer—will go into the smaller chamber if they sense them. The Fertility Cycle Object has three chambers: The largest corresponds to the ovulation period, the second to preovulation, and the third to postovulation. The bees will fly into the relevant chamber. The Precise Object has an outer curved tube that prevents bees from flying accidentally into the interior diagnosis chamber, making for a more precise result.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go to Walgreens and pick up a bee chamber.
One day, I will be dead. But it’s ok because you will be dead, too. And our perfect black kitties will be dead, and our Moms will be dead, and if we have kids, they will be mean little bastards …and then they’ll die. And thankfully everyone named George Bush will be dead as well. Unless they find their way into a deep space hyperbolic chamber like Ripley from Aliens and find a new Earth (which there are apparently tons of!)
Thats all fine with me because the Sun is going to eat us alive. We only have maybe 7.6 billion years left until this happens. So you might as well cash in your savings bonds now.
Les Paul is my absolute hero. If you go to my myspace, you’ll see his photo in my “Who i’d like to meet:” section. (Right next to Cyndi Lauper, Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick and Prince). That is a very exclusive club i’d say. He is still alive today and at 92 I hear tell that he still plays a regular Monday night show in New York City somewhere. My goal for the year is to visit New York because believe it or not, I’ve never been! How is that possible? I probably know just as much about New York as I do Los Angeles and I’ve lived here a full year already! So when I go, if he’s playing, I have to meet Les Paul!
What is he responsible for? You might be saying to yourself. (Don’t lie, I know you are) Well firstly, without Mr. Polsfuss we wouldn’t have multitrack recording. Is that important, you say? Oh, naive one. He started out using muiltiple records to multiply the sound and moved on to invent the first muiltitrack Reel-to-Reel tape recorder. (Which was pretty much the industry standard until recently when computers caught up) See, this is pretty important when you consider how every album has been recorded since the 1940s is because of him. There would be no overdubs, no artists harmonizing with themselves, no multiple takes to get the record “perfect”. And like how many guitarists lately have you seen use loop pedals to layer their sound and play multiple parts live? Think about how empty those Beatle records would be if there wasn’t all of that crazy shit going on through “Tomorrow Never Knows”?! He also invented Reverb. (which means no Surf or Rockabilly Sound.)
Yeah duh, I almost forgot to mention that he also invented the solid body electric guitar. The sexiest thing in the world, right? The man is a fucking wizard. He’s like Gandalf of the Guitar. His name is on his guitar and yours (if you’re cool); and it is pretty much the most best guitar ever. (Sorry Strat players, its not even close. Tele players, you’re not too far off.) All of that and he was a high school dropout.
NOW BEHOLD HIS WIZARDRY, AND WORSHIP BEFORE THE DARK LORDS MULTI-TRACK ALCHEMY:
explains Soares. “They can be trained to target a specific odor.” The Face Object has two chambers. Bees that detect certain odors in the breath—some of them even connected to forms of cancer—will go into the smaller chamber if they sense them. The Fertility Cycle Object has three chambers: The largest corresponds to the ovulation period, the second to preovulation, and the third to postovulation. The bees will fly into the relevant chamber. The Precise Object has an outer curved tube that prevents bees from flying accidentally into the interior diagnosis chamber, making for a more precise result.
