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Saturday, October 29, 2005 simple logic I'm sure some of you remember that for many years I did logic problems for fun, in my spare time. And so since I'm such a dork, obviously my curiousity was piqued when, on line at Barnes & Noble awhile back I found myself beside a table pushing "Su Doku, the new logic puzzle craze". And now it seems like it's really popular. But it's crap! I picked one up and was able to solve most of it in my head before it was time to pay for my book. It's all layed out, no interpretation or functions necessary. Once you've done one, you've done them all. But I suppose at least the intention is good: a mainstream hobby that involves (some) thought and reasoning. I've been really into getting hot apple cider lately instead of coffee, but Starbucks is the only place that has it. And actually, they use apple juice, not apple cider to make it. And actually, not all Starbucks have it. But it's near impossible to get hot "cider" almost anywhere else in this city (unless you make it at home, of course), so I take what I can get. note: it's absolutely gross when they put caramel and whipped cream in it. Starbucks also renamed hot chocolate so they could market it as their own. What a crafty bunch of bastards. There are those things that you just take for granted and never really think about or analyze. When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named Freaky the Deaky. She was the little black girl towards the top of my Chutes and Ladders board, and she lived off the Broadway-Lafayette subway stop. Until now, it never really occurred to me how weird it was that (a)I had an imaginary friend, (b)her name was "Freaky the Deaky", and (c)her image was drawn from a character in a board game. Writing a meaningful autobiography is some serious shit. Monday, October 24, 2005 vigilance sometimes the people who seem like the lazy people are actually the more in touch and sensitive souls, unavoidably affected by the crap that abounds, and then it's just so difficult to be inspired. Ignorance is not an option. Remember the toys we grew up with? Tuesday, October 11, 2005 recent construction  This is recent. I drew it a week or two ago. I say it's a Samurai. I've also heard dog or horse. It doesn't really matter. The Samurai label serves as an attractive and convenient watermark, which is why I added it. It was brought up to me that drawing a samurai may be an indication that I'm turning into a 14 year old boy.   My CD player/recorder stopped working on the left side, so I opened it up. I love electronic guts. This time I impressed myself with how methodical I was about the process, taping each screw onto the place it came from of so I could keep perfect track of everything. The left side is a 5 disc player, and the right side is a real-time CD burner/recorder. Both should work, especially because it's less than a year old. It's probably still under warranty, but how annoying to deal with that. After tooling around, I fixed it! Then, I tested it as I was putting it back together, and it had stopped working again! Bah. So, for now, it remains open. Bah. At least I managed to rescue some of the CDs that were inside. Fascinating stuff. Monday, October 03, 2005 dioxin anyone? I don't purport to be an expert on this, but it seems markedly unkosher that our luscious president's initial appointment of the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the same woman who disbanded the research study on the harmful affects of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was found to have toxic dioxin contaminants which have been blamed for causing health disorders and birth defects in both the Vietnamese population and U.S. war veterans. It has also been found to have carcinogenic properties.
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