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Some sen-ryu for you:

 

camel toe from hell
skankin' it on the dance floor
wantin' some lovin'

four twenty today
marijuana in your veins
have you seen my pants?

all I want to eat
everlasting gobstoppers
they can talk to me

interrogative
whoa! phil's el paca darlings
emit gamma rays

beat down by the man
my second cousin Freda
has no left nipple

defending virtue
like I'm Thomas Aquinas
bring on the hookers

creation sans goats
what a bleak, drab, little world
look! I am crying

my sen ryu lack
in sense, style, and worthiness
but you can't stop love

 

That's enough for today I think. That'll be $19.95, plus tax.

 

 

  I CLAIM THIS WEBSITE IN THE NAME OF SPAIN!

 

 

Few things in this world are worth considering as possible alternatives for ambrosia, but I'm going to give a quick list of possibilities.

  • That last little bit of cereal at the bottom of a Cheerios(R) box that has all the dusty crumbles in it mixed with lots of sugar
  • Really good french fries
  • Kahlua and milk
  • Chocolate ice cream
  • A significant other's lips and tongue
  • Sweet potatos
  • Purple fuzz zombie weed
  • Candied apples
  • Pepsi(Coke is not an acceptable suggestion)
  • Really spicy blackened chicken
  • Tofu(beg for its forgiveness first, damn you!)
  • Burritos
  • Habeñeros
  • Shrooms
  • Stuffed jalepeños
  • Thai Basil's chicken fried rice(all hail Doug and Jean for introducing me to Thai Basil)
  • Flour tortillas, pan fried in butter, and covered with fresh minced garlic
  • My mom's birthday cakes
  • The Globe in Montreal
  • MY ASS!
and, to hear tell of it
  • shaver's guacamole
but I'm pretty sure he's tootin' his wee horn. It's probably Janice's recipe, anyway.

Other news: New PA jewelry. A nice 6 gauge titanium captive bead ring with a blue tint. Spork-a-rific. Pretty ouch-y going in, though, due to jewelry form factor. I think I'll stop at this gauge for some time. One of ferrets seems to have eaten a rubberband or part thereof. I'm mildly concerned, but not terribly. It's being passed so there's little chance of serious illness or death. Hooray for synchronicity. Got the first three rolls of film back that I took with the new camera. Lessons learned after several years of not taking photos and then starting up again: 1) I keep missetting the aperature, 2) My right eye is significantly more astigmatic since I stopped actively photographing, and 3) a flash sure would be nice. Wing chun class continues to be fun and an ass beating. I like it. Saturday there was some odd Carribean parade past my home. Neat little floats and I think I got some very good photos. Went for a 40k ride on Sunday with Martin and Slick. It was a lot of fun, but the longish uphill climbs(well, longish for me) into the wind sucked mightily.

Signed up to help out at a local homeless shelter, but they don't want me until later in the year when fewer homeless folk are willing to sleep on the streets due to the extreme cold that Ottawa gets. That will be an interesting trial. I was idly wondering what the average "open source community member" does in terms of local community work. My gut feeling is that it's effectively 0. I know a lot of the geeks I've met feel that they're already doing an immense service to the world by contributing code or support to projects that are important in the perspective of the world, i.e. DVD/CCA, FreesWAN, GNOME/KDE, kernel work, etc. Some of these do actually have an effect on a community outside our own(see Arturo's Red Escolar story), but in the main we don't seem to be a very philanthropic bunch. Or perhaps all our philanthropic tendencies are (mis?)directed at things that we understand most readily: computers and a better way to let the "underdog" compete. I don't know. Might be a neat project to start. Trying to get the plethora of shy, ego-centric geeks out of the house and working on local charity work. Sounds infeasible. Might have a remarkable impact if it happened, though.

I've talked enough. We need more monkeys!

Fin.

I started this diary entry trying to relate how responding to flame bait is not unlike scratching a genital itch in public. I took the metaphor much too far and it lost its coherency entirely, making for a completely unintelligible entry. Now I'll simply take pleasure in the fact that from now on when you think of responding to a flame, you'll think of me scratching my balls and adjusting my PA in the middle of a meeting or possibly your living room.

And it's spelled "Kaspar" because I say it is, Martin.

Last night was the first kung fu(Note: For some reason this isn't resolving) class I'd been to in quite a while. I've got a new phrase for my current state of existence: a cornucopia of discomforts. Yayness for me! On an amusing side note, I was knocked unconcious for a brief while after the first hour or so of class by another student who's about 5'2"(I'm 6'2" or so) because I didn't manage to block a punch properly and she didn't pull it. Humour abounded, but I'm 100% All-American Injury Boy and so was largely unhurt, except for a sore jaw. The instructor did note that the other student(I'm afraid can't remember her name) laid out with a wonderful chain punch combo to lay me low. Then I went home, showered, shared the amusing fruits of my labour with two friends, and wandered off for beer and food with Mr. Martin Kaspar Petersen. Hoorayness!

Last night on my walk home, I was accosted by a Scientologist. In the process of arguing with him(I am amused by the beliefs of Scientology and despise the Church of Scientology), I managed to make him angry enough to take a swing at me on a rather crowded street. I didn't even insult him. All I said was that I honestly believed that the leadership of the Church of Scientology was significantly more corrupt and ambitious than other organized religions. I might have mentioned that Heber Jenizsh's hair looks like it's a really bad toupee.

Want to read some really fun opinion pieces online? Check out Operation Clambake as well as DMoz's opposing views pages.

Gods, I love the world. I really do.

Mr. Martin Kaspar Petersen and myself were lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy people this weekend. On Saturday we went for a wandering. I took him into the Glebe to show him some of the shops up there. Went for lunch at the Loon, had the chili and beer. Goodness. Bought a camera on the way up there. Very nice, old Minolta XG-M semi-automatic. Now I can take fun stupid pictures of the silly shenanigans that I get up to as well as the silly shit I see all of the world.

Sunday, we went for an inadvertent 5 hour bike ride up the Ottawa River Parkway and stopped off at Ikea so he could order his fooynichuh. It's a nice ride and an evil store. Some neat shit around Ottawa, surprisingly enough. I think I'll hit Zac[hkque] up for a long weekend in September and ride around Montreal for 3 or 4 days. Might be fun.

Lots of drinking all around. Some supremely good food on Sunday. Just yummy cum laude. It's nice to have some glorious and joyful days after 6-8 months of ick. Who's a happy camper? Yo soy!

Get off the computer! It's a beautiful day! Why are you sitting there! Get out! Go drink! Go frolic buck nekkid in the meadow! Go flirt with some hot men/women/girls/boys!

Ok. That last is asking a bit too much for a lot of you.

Leave the domicile without any techno tidbits and see how your day goes, children.

It hurts. It hurts. It hurts so good

My diaphram is cramping.

Found a good climbing gym/skate park here. Suck my nuts, you super-Christian dog soldiers! On the other hand, lentils.

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