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By nightflameblue (Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 10:22:42 AM EST) (all tags)

Once you get used to it anyway.

Googly muzak. Kitties. Random Thoughts.


Apparently I've completely lost my mind. The thing I recorded that I could swear I did in one take? I spent over three hours last night trying to find the patch I used or reconstruct the patch I thought I used to record it but couldn't get anywhere near that sound. Not even touch it. Finally, in complete frustration, I did my patented eight-guitar overdub which I've been avoiding for a while and found that to be the closest of any of them to the sound I had recorded the night before. Still not a perfect match though.

I've heard of tubes changing tone over the course of a day due to humidity, temperature fluctuations, pressure changes, whatever. I didn't realize modelers had gotten to the point where they could duplicate that phenomenon. And hey, I have no clue whatsoever what I did to get that tone down that's rockin' my world. So I got that going for me to.

It's like fantasizing over some really hot $member_of_your_preferred_sex for years, hooking up with them for a night of passion beyond your wildest dreams, then seeing them hit by a bus the next morning. No matter how hard you may try, you'll never get them put back together.

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The two little kitties have been absolutely kooky over the past few days.

EXAMPLE: We have a little cat house type thing that sits on the table behind the couch. I set my glass of water next to it most of the time. So, we're sitting there last night relaxing and all of a sudden I hear *SPLASH*, look back and there's little vino, scratching and clawing at the little cat house, trying to pull himself up as it slides over sideways, my water glass flying across the table. The little house just kept on flipping over on him as he pulled himself over and over again to the top of it. Eventually, the cycle broke as he flung himself away from it as fast as he could and over the couch.

Normally a water spillage incident of this magnitude earns him a bit of a scolding. He's got a habit of sticking his head in our glasses and if he can't reach the water in there he just knocks them over and drinks it from the resulting puddle. However, watching this happen both made me feel sorry for him, and made me laugh uncontrollably to the point where I couldn't get upset enough with him to evoke a scolding.

We're mellowing in our old age. Mrs. NFB and myself have been known to throw the older cats in the sink for a bath due to similar incidents with them. It stopped them from ever tipping over a glass again, but we just can't seem to bring ourselves to do it with the kittens. Maybe we're just worn out. Or maybe they're just too damn cute to be mean to.

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Random thoughts:

"Proven by science" is something you often hear spoken by those that don't have the vaguest concept of what science actually entails.

Sometimes it's OK to like things that suck. I mean, I like the Star Wars prequels almost as much as the original Star Wars flicks, but I'm not gonna pretend that any of them are truly great movies. I'm OK with that.

Political decisions: Heads they win, tails you lose.

Enough. Outs.

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Kitties by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #1 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 11:48:57 AM EST
Kitties!

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)


I got a dog that can herd cats. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #2 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 01:03:26 PM EST
But that doesn't change how awesome that commercial is.

Not quite as awesome as that commercial with the herd of dachsuns though. "STAMPEDE!"

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Political decisions by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 01:20:30 PM EST

I think it's just so cute that everyone is pretending the outcome of this election is something their vote has some bearing on. A quick look at the secured "super-delegate" votes indicates this election has already been paid for, so we'd all best get used to another return resident to the White House holding court for another four fucking years. God forbid the Clintons get jobs and buy a house like everybody else. I mean, the Bush's didn't have to, so the Clintons are owed, right?


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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.


796 super delegates, 4,049 delegates total by lm (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:07:11 PM EST
That leaves 3,253 delegates elected by popular vote for the Democrats. That doesn't suggest to me that things are so cut, dried, packaged and sold quite yet.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Right. by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:28:42 PM EST

Mark my words: Clinton owns the election, and the election results will prove me to be correct. Whether you believe it or not is entirely your concern, but what I say will come to pass.


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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Funny thing. . . by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:42:09 PM EST
I actually wrote up, then deleted, a large paragraph where my political statement is now about how Hillary just comes across like she think's she's OWED this election and that that damn whipper-snapper Obama better just wait his fucking turn and stay out of the way.

There are a small number of folks who think there's no reason to hate Hillary. Then there are a few that have hated her for a good long while. Then there are people like me, who didn't have strong feelings one way or the other until they saw the way she's been behaving in her campaign. I mean, I know all politicians have a little of that ego-centrism, but hers is so out-and-proud.

Arguments about how a woman in her position has to come across like a complete bitch to be taken seriously will be quickly dropped into the nearest trash bin. The asshole men have found ways to be assholes while still looking like halfway decent people (some of them). You wanna play big-time? Do it right.

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It's out and proud because it's genuine by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #13 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:34:28 PM EST

I mean, did you hear her talking about all her "experience", including her time as, as far as I can recall, "person married to the dude living in the White House" as governmental experience. You know, I was present when my mother gave birth to me, but that doesn't make me a mom.


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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Well, yeah. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 04:05:55 PM EST
I notice that even the media has taken up the experience trumpet with her, which doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense to me. But hey, she was a senator for a couple years. Which is what she keeps attacking Obama over being a "lack of experience."

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Well that made sense. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #15 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 04:06:57 PM EST
Fuck. I need to stop typing in two windows at once.

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It is somewhat to be expected by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 04:36:25 PM EST

I'm sure that at any given football game on any given Sunday, any given number of life-long football fans sit in the bleachers thinking their coachly insights are what is sorely missed from their favorite team's losing strategy. I mean, after all, those fans have been around football for 35 years, surely that spectator experience automatically converts actual experience, right?

With Hilary, of course, if she repeats it enough, it'll eventually become the truth.


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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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Does that count the . . . by Christopher Robin was Murdered (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:35:50 PM EST
The Florida and Michigan delegates? I'm not sure, when push comes to shove, that the Dems want to televise them snubbing two states worth of delegates. That sort of crap plays bad come general election time. If they're let in and all their votes go for Clinton (as they are currently set to do), what's the count new count?

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I doubt that it does by lm (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:24:50 PM EST
But you appear to be accusing the DNC of being unwilling to shoot themselves in the foot. Personally, I'd be surprised if the FL and MI delegates get seated. But as to whether it will make any difference if they do get seated, we'll have to wait and see.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Ummm, yeah by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:49:19 PM EST
Then we get President McCain. You think the party doesn't know that? Not that the party isn't capable of beign that stupid, but.

Right now the only candidate remaining, on either side, who can really energize the Republican base is Clinton. She will also, simultaneously, turn off a large part of the Democratic base.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)
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The Democratic party is good at one thing: by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 02:58:12 PM EST

losing elections due to disorganization and the unjustified sense of entitlement and popularity they think they have. So, yeah. They'll likely lose the general election, again, and they'll have only their selfish-ass selves to blame. No skin off my back, as, either way, I don't get the president I want. And to tell the truth, I'm almost looking forward to the whining and charges of conspiracy amongst the losers. They've damn near mastered that shit in the last eight years.


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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.
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I'm a fan of the 2004 election conspiracies. by garlic (2.00 / 0) #10 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:07:43 PM EST


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What's pissing me off is . . . by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 03:10:27 PM EST
I'm no Democrat, but if they don't pull their freakin' heads out here soon the Republicans are in for another free-ride despite the fact that they've neatly flushed the country down the toilet again over the last eight years. I truly despise this two party system of ours. Stupid and stupider, which do you pick?

Hillary's god complex is getting to me to the point where I practically foam at the mouth when I see her on TV. I do not want to rock that vote this next year. Not that it matters. I'm in a state where all votes go republican anyway, and my vote gets counted in with whoever wins the state. So I can vote for whoever I want, it won't change who my vote gets counted for for the presidential race.

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That's what the Nader voters said by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 05:27:52 PM EST
If 10% of them in Florida had voted for Gore, he would've won...

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)
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I don't know about all that. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #18 Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 05:39:16 PM EST
I just know that in the two presidential elections I managed to get off my ass and vote for the candidate I voted against (because there was nobody to actually vote for) got my entire states votes. I don't fully understand how we call ourselves a democracy when every vote only matters if you're voting for the winner in your area. If you voted for one of the other guys? Well, we want our area to be important, so we're just gonna go ahead and change your vote to this one over here because it's more convenient. K?

The system is in need of an overhaul, but I ain't no fucking mechanic.

I do find it amusing that one sentence that holds very little actual content sparked so much conversation.

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We aren't a democracy by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #19 Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 08:53:32 AM EST
We're a Republic. Different beast. The Constitution is set up, purposely, to limit the power of the majority, while also limiting the power of government.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)
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I'm well aware. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #20 Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 11:26:05 AM EST
But we need to get our "informed leaders" to stop spouting off about democracy. We aren't a democracy. And, in fact, the way we're set up, if the electoral college decided to vote against what their herd of cattle and sheep voted, there's nothing to really stop that from happening aside from the threat of getting kicked off next time around.

It's an interesting step away from monarchy, but I think it's time we either take the next step away, or just give up the pretense.

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