blog of Intrepid Wanderer

This is the weblog of Intrepid Wanderer. You never know what you might find here; graphic descriptions of bodily functions, computer programming secrets, proselytizing for the antichrist, miscellaneous ranting and kvetching, valuable information on living off the land... if you don't share my rather weird interests you may want to try slashdot instead.

You can consider my Del.icio.us links an extension to my blog, as are my LifeTango goals and my other to-do items. My to-buy list is also public, but only for sharing any useful ideas that might be there; I'm not requesting charity, neither do I offer it.

You can find me easily in google searches, as jcomeau, jcomeau_ictx, or jcomeauictx. There are lots of other jcomeaus, but AFAIK I'm the only jcomeau_ictx out there so far.

If you want to comment on anything you see here, go ahead and email me, jc.unternet.net. You know what to do with the first dot. Make the 'subject' line something reasonably intelligent-looking or it goes plunk! into the spambasket unread.

This page generally sucks less using Mozilla Firefox.

2012-05-14-0542Z

Finished my first Stephen King novel, The Dark Half. Loved it. A little more "horrific" than Dean Koontz's stuff, but I wouldn't necessarily agree that it belongs in a "horror" genre. Categorizing books and movies in that way seems to be misleading and counterproductive for the most part.

Two recurring dreams I've remembered pieces of lately: first, there's a building reminiscent of Skowhegan Area High School, but with several levels connected by escalators, which one of my dream selves frequents. There are some shops, bars, and restaurants there but he mostly goes to parties to pick up women. He seems to be interested primarily in sex, and has had so many women he gets their names confused. I saw my cock in one of these dreams a few days ago, and it was black. In the dream, I assumed I'd gotten sunburned on that part of my anatomy somehow, but on later reflection decided that this "self" might be a black man.

In the other dream, all I remember is an unusual building or structure, the top of which is a huge sign with the face of some famous (in this particular dream-world) guy in a cowboy hat with some writing underneath. It's on the facade of maybe a 30- or 40-story building set quite a ways back from the street, and might not be a building at all but possibly just a gigantic sign made to look like one. I remembered more details on awakening but that was already a day or three ago and I've forgotten.

2012-05-10-0139Z

Checked out the east side of the freeway between Old Redwood Highway and Washington Street. Had to climb over a few fences, but didn't knowingly cross any No Trespassing signs. Saw a deer south of Corona Road, bounding away gracefully.

2012-05-08-1928Z

Decided to check out the $3.99 slice and pint special at Z Pizza over by Whole Foods. Turns out it's that price only if you choose Coors Light, otherwise it's $1 more. They have a choice of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (my choice), Blue Moon, and one of the Lagunitas brews.

2012-05-06-0556Z

I got rid of the ads on my blog so I can curse like a motherfucker the way I used to, without Google censuring me (not a typo; they can't censor me but they can cut me off from ad revenues for profanity). I'll still have ads on any blog entry to which I give a name, such as Opt Out of Social Security.

Been messed up all day, ever since I woke up at about 3AM after getting run over in my dream. What was that movie that started out "I hate dying first thing in the morning! Ruins my whole day!"?

2012-05-04-1819Z

Carrying a pen with me now, actually two pens hanging on the various things I wear around my neck. This is an amazing productivity enhancer for me, as when I sit in the coffee shop I can sketch out my ideas, either diagramming software concepts or designing inventions. Haven't been doing it for years, guess I'd just forgotten how useful it is. Another good thing to do would be to print up documentation of things I'm studying to have with me. Something I can scribble on is often far more useful than a document on the computer.

2012-05-04-0322Z

Cooked a pound of brisket on the stovetop: poured in maybe 1/8 cup of soy sauce, double that much red wine (Fisheye Merlot from Oz), filled the pan with water to cover the meat. Put it on low and simmered. Topped it off every hour for 2.5 hours, turned off the gas, and let it sit for a half hour before eating. Tender and delicious, and I drank every last bit of the liquid.

2012-05-03-1846Z

It took me hours, over the course of 2 and a half years, to take the old bicycle apart -- the one that brought me from New Mexico to northern California. The metal, aluminum and steel, was worth about $1.75. Glad I did it anyway. Not only is my pile of junk reduced, but I met a pleasant old guy at Maselli's who shot the breeze with me a little. Told me about a time in Hawaii when the rain came out of nowhere, poured for 5 or 6 minutes, then the sun came back out and dried him out again in no time.

2012-05-03-0548Z

As the US continues challenging Hitler's Nazis for being the worst terrorist organization the world has ever seen, it's long since time for the international community to cut off ties to the US government. Doing so will be the best thing you could do for the people of the US, who are, like the rest of the world, victims of our government's actions against people, against the environment, against life on earth as we know it.

The sooner our allies abandon us, the UN castigates us, the world as a whole vilifies and alienates us as a nation, the better off the average, beer-drinking, fun-loving, open-minded world citizen will be, in America or elsewhere. It's not about countries, it never was. Nation-states are a relatively new invention in the history of humankind, a mere 10,000 years or so in our millions of years of existence, and not nearly one of the better ones (alcohol and sports being far more useful). So you, freedom-loving peoples of the world, please pressure your governments to sever ties to the US and to implement economic, military, and any other sanctions against us. The more you do to hurt our government, the better off we Americans and the rest of the world will be.

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