I'm Now Motivated

You may be able to tell by the rate of typing letters and suchlike that I am once again on an actual computerish widget. I have fought through the Swap of Symantec. With a single arm. Tied behind my back. And an extremely patient wife. I have located, created, forgotten, recreated 30 seconds before remembering, enough passwords to make this thing show me naked pictures of Bigfoot.

 I can once again pump out nonsense at nearly a lot more speed. So...

Dear World,

Game on.

Love,

paleo

Bloggie Business

Firstest of all. Read this. Listen to your damn body. Treat it right, unlike, say, me.

Firster of all, Imma hoping to be posting more for a while. Finally. I know. Probably some blogroll changes as some people have dropped of the map. Which brings us to

Firsterest of all, please welcome friend of paleo Teh Burgemeester to the wide world of porn errr, Internet Newsletters. He's a good shit, smarter than I am (bastard), and his first post is far better researched than most of my polemics about Bigfoot, Lindsey Graham, and Bigfoot/Lindsey Graham slashfic.

You're welcome for the last image I put in your head. Send complaints to 1060 West Addison Street, Chicago, IL 60613.

MetaPost

Order of business: we have additions to our list of achievers.

The Political Environment, seems generally Wisconsin focused (and, as I am a lonely outpost of cheesehead in the godforsaken state of Minnesota, I still pay attention), and appears to be a fresh new rabbithole for me to crawl down. Via ZRM

the portfolio of Mike Pleiss, an artist of my acquaintance and a helluva good guy. This is not a sales pitch for him, I am not certain he is doing much more than showing his stuff and getting his name out right now, but there is contact information. I think he has a lot of good stuff there, one of which he made as a woodcut for my wife and I as a wedding gift. Give it a look if you like!

Another Meta Post - A Couple Achievers Added

Please welcome to Checking Out Your Shorts:

Sharon Day and Ghost Hunting Theories!

Check it out, check out the podcast. I heard her on the Beyond The Edge paranormal podcast and checked out her site, a lot of fun!

Also added, an offshoot of Cesca's Awesome Blog, Cesca's animation,

Snarkrocket

Good schtuff, deeply, deeply wrong!

Old Man Yells At Clouds, Needs Tech Help

Perhaps any one of my ones of readers may be able to help with this, and I'm not an IT guy so I'll explain as best as I know, but will prolly look dumb in the process.

So. I have a DVD of an interview with my mother and her family about their time in Germany through WWII and into the US. It was filmed on a mini-tape handheld film camera, and my cousin somehow managed to get it onto DVD. I want to chop it up into 15 min segments so I can post to BlechTube and then to a family blog.

My laptop would not read the DVD at first, until I found a VOB reader (?). It now plays in Quicktime, with sound, and a Title-Chapter menu. I tried to load the three files (in VOB format) to Windows Moviemaker, which I can use (in a dreadfully elementary manner) to create MP4s for posting. The video comes up on Moviemaker, but no sound seems to load.

Hayulp!

I Need Help With A Linkage - MetaPost

Hi kiddies.

I haz a new and improved "Blogs O' Importance" widget over there on the right hand side (probably holds up hands thumbs out the right) of blogs I think are paramount. At the time, one Mr. Charlie Pierce was entered, his politics blog at Esquire is beautiful*. The only reason for the bleedin' website's existence, in my humble wossname, the rest of the site is pretentious nonsense.

ZRM pointed out a bit ago that my link goes to the Esquire front page, which only rarely has to do with snarky Bostonians and more often has to so with watches, waterproof to 17,000 meters, genuine coelecanth leather banding, fine Latverian gearing made with Unobtanium 47. My blog, not fucking interested. I want to highlight the contributions of Mr. Pierce to the political discourse. 

I tried reloading the /politics/ link a couple times, but I cannot find a way around the fact that the damnable ciphering gnome inside this here naked lady machine keeps deleting the subheadings, changing the link, sending to the home site.

Shorter: 

Second Shorter (on the grassy knoll):

HELP!

Seriously, any suggestions how to defeat this damnable thing? 

*But, Mr. Pierce, should you somehow happen to read this, DROP THE FB COMMENTING SYSTEM, add another registration, I don't care, but I ain't'nt joining Facebook.

Year 1, A.C. - One Year Of Checking Out Your Shorts

I knew I was coming up on a year, but only caught, this morning whilst checking into something, want to make a musical directory for myself so I don't post the same stuff too many times, that the date was March 7.

A year of general weirditude. Endless tangents requiring a dowsing rod to find the point I was originally trying to make...often being that, ultimately, I should not be in charge of anything. For example, I'd bomb anyone using rice adjuncts for beer, St. Louis, this means you.

Probably shared enough of myself to continue diminishing my chances to make friends in The Real World, When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Believing In Bigfoot. I have happily let my geek flag fly.

I've never been under the impression that I'm the new media. I'm comfortable both in life and with myself, and don't have the time or hunger to Empower The Afflicted And Afflict The Powerful, as much as I want to, anyhow... 

There are bloggers out there who are genuine reporters, including many who have been seen and linked to here - I'm not, I have my pet philosophies, liberal viewpoints, what I of course consider to be common sense; my last post on gay equality of marriage in Minnesota; my determination that the owner of the Vikings is a criminal and that Minnesota is getting the shaft in so many ways on this dumbass stadium project; the fact that Mitt Romney could have made a lemonade stand very successful and universally corrupt, and so should not have been in charge of anything either. 

You've watched the showing off of a basement remodel, while, hopefully, not noticing that it is making paleo go slowly crazy - and we've basically had a comparatively good experience, and are actually reasonably close to done, thus cutting down on my future therapy bills. In truth, this sort of project is never easy for anyone, comparatively good experience or not, but, the horror stories heard from even just friends' projects would have had me gibbering, shivering, laughing maniacally through the sobs.

Also featured some of my pet kinks: fishing opener is coming up, put up the stockings and earthworm bunting; in general, music needs either crunchy guitar or crunchy lyrics or at least some goddamn emotion, hence, Top 40 Pop Music/Country Music is the most Satanic of all forms of anything ever and how in hell do you pronounce Ke$ha anyway TikTok my ass; the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is one of the coolest photos ever taken, right there with the Patterson Gimlin film.

Thanks for reading, if you are reading and not commenting, fucking bring it, I can go anywhere and take abuse but am happily providing a public forum.

Thoughts, critiques, scathing rebuttals?

New Linky-Dink

Please allow me to introduce:

AMERICAN LOONS

A patriotic look at fundies, anti-fluoriders, conspiracists, right-wing-nut-job politicians; and not ignoring lefty idiots, our own conspiracists, anti-vaxxers (with a particularly sharp edge towards Huffpo and Oprah), homeopathic gurus, quantum wooists; and the unclassifiable, ie., teh Time Cube guy. 

Of course, given my fondness for Biggie, ET, beasties, ghoulies, and things what go bump in the night, I'd probably be a candidate. Eh, it's all good.

It's quite the rabbit hole, especially if you follow links to scienceblogs, freethoughtblogs (PZ Myers - yay!), and Rational Wiki.

I'm Cool Now

30 degrees below zero Kelvin, with a windchill of are you fucking kidding me. Warrmmm.

Okay, a little bit of meta-news. I've added an email account to the blog -

simplelittleelectrician@yahoo.com

- for personal questions, electrical questions, pharmaceutical questions, metaphysical questions, go ahead.

If you feel a need to blast me, make it funny and it gets it's own post.

If you're trying to sell me siding, expect a string of expletives, a shortage of commas, and a biological impossibility or two.