Martian Sunset

I was reading through the Wikipedia article for Mars when I stumbled on this picture of a martian sunset.

Pokemon no longer causes cancer

Here's an interesting article from Joystiq.com:

It was almost one year ago when scientists had found a gene that causes cancer and named it POKEMON (POK Erythroid Myeloid ONtogenic). The name was indeed clever, but is no more. The reason? Pokemon USA, not wanting its "gotta catch 'em all!" card associated with anything that causes cancer, had threatened to sue Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where the gene had been discovered and the term coined.

The new name for the gene is the not-so-interesting (and unpronounceable) Zbtb7 - as it turns out, Sonic the Hedgehog is already taken.

Yarn Of The Dead

I love these cuddly zombies.

Sidekick 2

The Washington Post did an interview with the "hacker" that got into that dumb famous person's sidekick.

"As soon as I went into her camera and saw nudes my [expletive] went [expletive]," the young hacker recalled of his reaction to first seeing the now-public photos of a topless Hilton locked in an intimate embrace with a female friend. "I was like, HOLY [expletive] DUDE ... SHES GOT NUDES. THIS [expletive]'s [expletive] HIT THE [expletive] SO [expletive] [expletive]."

Extra expletives added for effect.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/danger/paris-hilton-sidekick-hack-explained-104243.php

Incredible Little HTML File

I don't know much about this whole GTD craze that seems to be going
on, but somehow I got drawn into 43folders.com and lifehack.org and
other obsessive places. And they had a link to this little guy:
http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

It's an Wiki html file that you save on your computer and can edit
very quickly. A self-contained wiki site!

Here's some tips on using it:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/more-tips-and-discussions-on-using-gtdtiddlywiki.html
http://tinyurl.com/d3hof

I just started moving all my personal information from an ugly
intranet site that I made to quickly access junk passwords and "GTD"
lists. It is so much easier to update info on TiddlyWIki than it was
to edit the html pages with a web design program or notepad.

It's slightly amusing (to myself, at least) that I installed apache,
perl and a wiki program on my pc a couple days ago so that I wouldn't
need to edit the html anymore. Before I could finish moving my
personal data onto the more processor intensive wiki, I stumbled on
this great alternative. Praise the lord!

-niem

Crazy Dream

I had a very long and odd dream last night. I don't remember everything, but I remember the last little bit of it.

I'm in a store and all of a sudden there is an infestation of twine. The twine starts to form baskets and it's every where I go. I see some people are getting attacked by the twine. I try to run away from it, but the twin has made stacks of baskets in some parts of the store which blocks most places I try to go. I stumble on the scissors aisle and I feel like a hero. I start cutting up twine around the store, but then one strand of magic twine grabs me and pulls me up hundreds and hundreds of feet up this tube in the ceiling.

The tube is a fun slide which seems dangerous because if I was going down the tube instead of up I would probably die. When I got to the top I am no longer being bothered by twine, but I am left alone on this metal tube that is tilted in such a way that I am sliding back down the tube. I frantically hold on to some stuff on the side of the tube to prevent sliding down. I place my other hand on another lever for support, but lever breaks off.

Lever was holding a door closed that says "Emergency Frankenstein." The door starts to shake and frankenstein-like mumbling is heard on the other side of the door. I try to hold the door shut, but eventually frankenstein gets out something happens and I for some reason I start to sing a song to frankenstein about how beautiful he is. The song was kind of like a Monty Python song about how you're beautiful in your own way or something.

Now I'm viewing the song as a camera rotating around Me and the frankenstein. When the camera rotates off of me and onto the frankenstein, it turns out that I am the frankenstein, but I look mentally disabled and don't have any stitches in my scalp or bolts in my neck. I am no longer the singer, but I don't know who is singing. It was like Monty Python meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.

As the song ends, the music fades and somehow the singer slowly fades away too. I am no longer in a tube, but in my room. I set my radio alarm clock so I can wake up in the morning before going to sleep. I try to set my alarm clock to a radio station and as the static from the radio fades and the music comes in, I fade into a weird scene from a black and white movie. When I fine tune the station, I am no longer in my room, but watching two people riding in the back seat of really old car laughing and having a good time. The girl looks at the front seat and sees a spider driving the car. She says "I think that spider bit me," and then it cuts to them standing on the sidewalk and she look uneasy. She sees spiders running around everywhere and has a weird psychedelic spider freak out.

Then I woke up.

Terra Bite

I did some rearranging and now I have one terabyte worth of hard drive space on just one of my computers. I have more than that scattered between my other computers and mirrored backups. This computer age is insane. I hope it lasts for a while longer.

I just walked outside my house and the air smells similar to the after taste of whiskey or rum. I wish I had a porch and some cap'n morgan.

The End.

Monkey Labels

Graphic design is an important part of selling a product and different products will sell to different demographics because of graphic design. I buy alcohol that has pictures of monkeys on it.

Nimbus Brewing Company Logo

The side of the six pack box. Scanned specifically for Mike Willey.

Bendy Finger

This is as far as I can bend my finger before it starts to hurt.

Ghetto Splint

I can't afford stitches, so I made this contraption to prevent me from bending my finger and opening my deep knuckle wound. Q-tips have over 3 uses!

Finger Cut

You can't tell in the picture, but that is a nasty cut. I need to be more careful when cutting vegetables. I made a bad ass peanut soup in spite of the massive bleeding and trips to target to get things to holdthe skin shut.

"If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up."
-Mitch Hedberg

"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
- Mitch Hedberg

My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. And I don't want them to, you know, I'm like, "Hey, hold on fellas, lemme hold one of yous... and feed you a leaf."
-Mitch Hedberg

"On a traffic light green means go, yellow means yield and red means stop. But on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where did you get that banana?"
Mitch Hedberg

Lucky Pope

Mitch Hedberg and the Pope passed away in the same week. This picture shows another connection that they have.

Ministry Science Theater 3000

I was watching MST3K today when I noticed that a long monologue the Judge in "The Violent Years" by Ed Wood is sampled in my favorite Ministry song: "So What."

"Some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime or that it's confined mostly to large cities. Juvenile delinquency is on the rise...thus apparent that something has gone wrong with the environment. Adults create the world children live in. Juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency, and in this process parents play the key role. When children grow up among adults who refuse to recognize anything that is fine and good or worthy of respect... respect.... respect.... respect.... respect...."

Doggy Stylus

If you were channel surfing on Super Bowl Sunday, you probably passed by something that I found very interesting: The Puppy Bowl.

The Puppy Bowl was a 3 hour long program on the Animal Planet station. It featured over 20 dogs playing with each other in a mock football stadium while easy listening music plays in the background. That's all. Just hours and hours of soft guitar music and dogs frolicking, drinking water, eating treats and resting. Occasionally, the referee would appear in the Puppy Bowl stadium on his knees and blow a whistle. He would say something like "Puppy foul! 20 yard line!" and then clean up dog shit on national television.



Nat and I love bad television because of our MST3K addiction. We must have watched at least half of it, while making jokes about the old ladies who were probably watching it trying to find out what the score was. Then after it finally ended, there was an add that said you could buy the DVD from AP's website. So we did.



I mention that, because I just found a preview of a game for the Nintendo DS called "Nintendogs." I watched this preview video and was shocked at how similar this game appears to The Puppy Bowl. There is no point to either the Puppy Bowl or the Nintendogs game. At least by the looks of that preview video. Upon further inspection, the Nintendog game requires the use of the Nintendo DS's Stylus to "nurture" your virtual pets. And by this awesome flash preview it shows that you can play jump rope with your puppies! JUMP ROPE! I have to get this game!

Fools Shop At ThinkGeek!

I just got an offer for a free shirt from Thinkgeek.com in my email with a $10 purchase. I have a long list of things that I may buy from thinkgeek so I thought I might as well buy something and get the free shirt, but this shirt doesn't make any sense. Upon further reading "Fake Ghostlike Photons!" is an anagram. I love anagrams, so I tried to solve it, but it's a long one. Well, obviously, they probably are spelling out their name, so it made the anagram a lot easier. faostlphoos thinkgeek. Fools shop at think geek? WTF? Damn smug ghost.

Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors Business Card
Originally uploaded by jiberish.

Recently while getting directions from google maps, I found that Running With Scissors (the makers of Postal and Postal2) are based out of Tucson. I was suprised even more by how close I lived to them. I figured that I may see someone in a RWS shirt sometime and, sure enough, I did.

I talked to Phil Murphy, the writer for RWS. Nat's coworker is married to him, so I'm closer to RWS than I am to Kevin Bacon. He told me some interesting stories and gave me his Business Card. Unfortunately I am not a business man so my applications for this card are limited to display purposes.

Adult Swim Party

Adult Swim Party
Originally uploaded by jiberish.

I am at the Adult Swim party right now. It"s pretty boring unless you like loud music and very loud raffle ticket drawings. Natalie got a stress relieving ball that is supposed to be Meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but the eyes are sideways and it smells like extremely strong paint fumes.

I just found out about Mitch Hedberg. That's very sad. I was hoping this party would cheer me up. I was also hoping this party would have somebody from an Adult Swim show like the writers from ATHF or Tom Goes To The Mayor, but there isn't anyone here that seems to have anything to do with the show.

I think Cartoon Network just sent a box of merchandise to this bar and tape of old Futurama episodes that originally aired on Fox and said "promote our network." Maybe I'm bitter because I didn't get a crappy tshirt that I'll never wear. I should be happy.

Bloggle Noggle

Trying the old blog thing again. Did it by hand years ago, then got tired of the html editing and wasn't smart enough to figure out how to automate it. I'm still not, since I'm doing this now instead of working on my website.

I just tried creating an account and when I found out that my username is taken, I decided to try to log in and sure enough I have an account here that I set up on Feb 13, 2002.

Now I can pretend to be old school.

So I really didn't like it when the name "blog" started getting popular back then. I guess it's better than Online diary, or journal or something. I loved the idea of the automation, but I couldn't bring myself to actually use a "blog."

I set up an account in bloglines mainly to try an use RSS before I knew that RSS support was built in to firefox. I only made one post there, which was this:

October 14, 2004

first blog

By jiberish

Here is the "blog." The main reason for this nonsense is to give my cellphone a better home page for news feeds, but I have no idea what I'm doing.
Here's some content: http://voksenlia.net/nytt/
This website is so beautiful it makes me cry. It takes a while to download the videos, but they are worth it. This is the best timelapse photography that I have ever seen.

That website still rules. If you have the bandwidth, download the larger videos. It's so beautiful that it deserves the best resolution possible. If I could speak whatever language that person speaks, I would beg for high resolution DVDs of that stuff.

Anyway, this is the end of my second first blog post.

Much respect,
Niemsta