axis of inversion (channel 4, deal 1, trick K)

axis of inversion (channel 4, deal 1, trick K)

Image by KevinHutchins314
Once a'porno time, everybody lived in a world of insanity where they all mutually agreed to remain crazy. Then somebody said, "What if we all decided to stop being crazy, and started to do things in a way that makes sense?" So they dealt with that person promptly, brutally. The fear of any disturbance to their established insanity motivates people to attack and destroy any nonconformity. Most people would rather remain comfortable at the price of remaining insanely stupid. Few people would dare to risk the scary and potentially uncomfortable prospect of thinking sanely, few people dare to challenge the brutally insane stupidity, few people imagine it would be worth the effort to challenge the oppressive hegemony. The stupid and insane are in the majority, and they are generally heavily armed. The thoughtful and sane are usually in the minority, and they are viewed as an aberrance which must be eradicated lest they threaten the established comforts of the insanely stupid.

The Insane Family (humanity) is riding in their car, hurtling at a hundred miles an hour toward a brick wall. The wall is looming, menacing, threatening. Does the Insane Family turn the car around? Do the Insane Family members attempt to slow the car? No. They spend all their time arguing about who will have the best seat. They bicker and fight, their arguments drag on, any potentially useful activities or decisions are delayed, and still they rocket towards the brick wall. Meanwhile, some of them put a lot of effort into improving their gas-mileage.

Occasionally one of us will try to escape from that Family, from that car: sometimes one of us will grow tired of asking politely for the car to slow down, to turn around. Sometimes one of us will become so frustrated, we'll try to find a way to jump out the window, as dangerous as that could be. Sometimes we'd rather take our chances and risk the injury of falling to the ground at a hundred miles an hour, but perhaps survive, instead of continuing to hurtle toward the brick wall which is more obviously fatal. Usually someone fails in their attempt to escape, because the Insane Family is so incredibly crazy they will actually cling and claw and refuse to let go of the poor person who is trying desperately to leap out the window. The Insane Family will insist that everybody stay seated, will insist that nobody is allowed to escape from the insanity car. They will drive you to their doom, and they'll tell you it's for your own good the entire time they're driving.

Give them a good kick in the face. It won't really matter, because they're going to hit the brick wall in just a moment anyway. They'll scream and whine about the kicking but only for a second, because they'll soon enough be far too occupied with the consequenses of a brick wall to the face and won't be able to worry about the trivialities of a few queers who complained and kicked and tried to jump out of the insane car at a hundred miles an hour.

Does it seem quite crazy to attempt to jump out of the insane car? Does it seem any less crazy to continue living in that car, to reproduce and give birth to more children in that car, to spend an entire lifetime with an entire society crammed into that car? Does it seem any less crazy to continue trying to make technological improvements to that car, trying to make the car more "efficient" and more "sustainable" and more "responsible", instead of just taking the foot off the gas pedal?

I was going to tell you all to: "Fucking park already, you stupid fuckers, or the brick wall will take care of the parking for you." But then i realized it was too late, things had already gone past the point-of-no-return. The insane car is too close to the brick wall, no turn will come in time. No amount of diversion will prevent the crash against the wall; the best that can be hoped is to alleviate some of the devastating consequences of the crash. Perhaps the impact could be survivable, but we'd need some kind of huge "airbags" to cushion ourselves during the crash. Maybe we should use the Stupid Insane Family as our airbags, because they're really not good for much else.

Yeah, that seems appropriate. Next time you see a breeder, a reproducer, a child-bearer, a parent, one of those fucking stupid Insane Family members, just tell them: "You are only good enough to be my airbag." Then kick them in the face and jump out the window.

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Le tableau s'est tourné.

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Strategy:

Medium = without cards of Earth, and almost out of the Void (down to the final 10 LUCK), and never able to properly lead the foolish jOkEr (0 DEMON) in this position with the contractor to his right-hand side, there appears to be a choice between only: Fire, Water, or Air. In each of the three elements he could theoretically be holding the remaining high face card above every category; but the contractor would most likely have discarded some Air and/or Fire cards. The proliferation of Air sWords from the Bitch's prognostication would suggest that suit might be running nearer to the Void than perhaps the more questionable Fire wANDs. It appears the Air is most dangerous, and his court of three Air face cards suggest any Ψ Psion Queen would have already been played by the taker (instead of the Ace from the Bitch) thus the Void could be yawning open right beyond this move. He should lead with his highest two sWords of wIsdom (2 Air), as this could either reveal an opening for a Ψ Queen from his co-defender, or take an empty trick (perhaps another Bitchy card?), or force somebody into the Void.

Dealer (Contractor) = without further Air, he must trump into the Void. The Producer (3 of trumps) was prognosticated by the Bitch, but it seems too dangerous to skip this opportunity to escape with the WIZARD (1 Ace of trumps). The co-defenders against this contract had been leading so boldly into the void, it caused great concern about the danger of lingering too long with the Petit Ace. He's unlikely to be overtrumped at this moment, due to the half-dozen remaining sWords in the defenders' distributions. The taker should trump this trick (K) with his Ace and secure his Key Terminal cards: if he can take this WIZARD (and he already holds the TITAN too) then he'll be assured of an easier scoring target.

Initiate = moving last into this trick, he must follow suit and choose among his remaining two cards in the Air. He has only his 7 sQuiggly sWords or his Queer Ruler of sWords (Ψ Psion face card worth 3 points on her tête). He should give up this gasp in the Air, and surrender the 7 in order to desperately protect the Ψ Queer.

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Scansion:
Medium = 2 Air.
Dealer (contract taker) = void 1 Ace of trumps (WIZARD).
Initiate = 7 Air.
Contractor scores +1 tricky point for the triplet of cards +4 tricky points for the Key terminal (1 Ace of trumps); these 5 are added to his previous 11 to bring him to a new subtotal of 16 points at the end of this trick (K).

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Dance Card recap:

Initiate = Pass. Medium = Pass. Dealer = Take. Bitch = "air Ace, air 6, air 9, void 3 Producer, earth 6, earth 8." No mention of slam intention. No mention of handful during inititation.

Trick A: I= void 2 Sorceror. M= void 8 Balance. D= void 9 Hermit.
contract 0 +1 = 1 point.

Trick B: D= earth 6. I= earth 7. M= earth Ten.
defense 0 +1 = 1 point.

Trick C: M= void 12 Man. D= void 14 Art. I= void 15 Devil.
defense 1 +1 = 2 points.

Trick D: I= water 2. M= water A. D= Ψ Psion of water.
contract 1 +4 = 5 points.

Trick E: D= earth 8. I= Υ Upsilon of earth. M= earth 5.
defense 2 +3 = 5 points.

Trick F: I= fire 2. M= fire Ten. D= Ω Archon of fire.
contract 5 +5 = 10 points.

Trick G: D= earth Ace. I= earth 4. M= Ω Archon of earth.
defense 5 +5 = 10 points.

Trick H: M= fire 3. D= fire 6. I= Ψ Psion of fire.
defense 10 +4 = 14 points.

Trick I: I = air 4. M= air Ten. D= air Ace.
contract 10 +1 = 11 points.

Trick J: D= Ψ Psion of earth. I= earth 3. M= void 6 Lovers.
defense 14 +4 = 18 points.

Trick K: M= air 2. D= void 1 WIZARD. I= air 7.
contract 11 +5 = 16 points.

my memory card is dead day 150

Image by Cwluc
Ooo I wanna see the new AC Moore 150/365

Sorry I was a little verbose thinking about how I lost some photos...

Note: Never did we make it there, hahaha So Mom and I spent the day together. She actually drove my car. We set out to get one thing, new phones for the house, and somehow most of the day past us in a blur of fun, exciting, cheap, and free. First after a bit of DDR for the last few games on the iPhone I realize that the experience is missing a few things. I really like the pads DDR just isn't the same without them. I had what I thought was a good idea and call around to whatever arcades were in the area and ask them in they had a specific version of DDR. That was most definitely a bust. Then I thought hey why don't I find out where they get their machines from, call those guys, and ask them where someone might have purchased that game and go pay them a visit. They were close. After a short stop at the restaurant store over some miscommunication with some lids we head out to Sonic for happy hour (yup totally my mother idea actually) and grab a quick bite. She sees a new Target and says we should stop there. Some how we never made it there either. In Sam Clubs for new phones and their selection is small but decent. Pick out a phone with the help of Sam's employee and I thought to myself hey I wonder if they have any decent DDRs for cheap here. Turns out they did for . I was on cloud nine minus the fact that I have never officially owned a PS2 so I took a leap and bought one of those too for their new low price of sub-0. Mom who is looking for a new car since the last unfortunate incident asked me with all my gadets in the car where is the nearest Hyundai dealer. Turns out that was in NJ (dirty jerz!). Salesmen was nice and not too pushy for the last day of the month even after mom found the car she wants. Came back to PA needed to drop off a computer I had fixed over the week(end) and on the way back from Catasauqua mom drove past the new shopping center and asked "I wonder when the new AC Moore is opening?" I replied with an "Already open". Driving over there took a gander I Five Guys and saw that people were *WALKING INSIDE!* I yelled stop and ran out of the car. Turns out it was friends and family day and they were giving away free food. All food. Everything on the menu. Anything you could order. Oh freaking happy day! Honestly I could keep going on about how much fun we had meeting all the new folks to Five Guys and the guy that played a very funny little practical joke on me. And they're welcoming calls of "I've got it!" and "Hello First timer!" This place is awesome. Somehow I think I knew something was going to happen to my card. If you're still seeing black and reading this far my Eye-Fi card is dead. I'm going to send it to a data specialist and hope that they can save my photos. I don't even know what mom had took inside the store while I was getting ready for my shot. Still overall it's only a memory card right? Life goes on and today was a could bit of it. Until Tomorrow.

"Heart in Pieces" digital Valentine heart design by mimitalks, married w/children

Image by mimitalks, married w/children
Valentine's really don't have to be red...
As God has gifted me, so gift I you. Happy Valentine's Day early...

Suggestion: Print on acid-free white cardstock to fit on a page and cut out with a paper cutter.I fold the card in half vertically and match up the edges. I place the card on something that "gives" - like a carpet - then use a bulletin board push pin to poke a hole through both layers of the card in the center of the two circle indentions on the full color side. Then I cut out the shape you see at the bottom - on the outer side of the green line. I push a mini brad (one of the metal ones for this design, check out a scrapbook store or dept. for these) through each of the two holes and spread out the prongs on the back side of the card in a vertical direction. Securing the card this way gives you a pouch in which to put a small gift - like a sandwich bag of sweetheart candy or a wrapped homemade cookie or lollipop (something not too heavy or bulky). Make a copy of a favorite photo, tear the edges to make it roughly into a heart shape and glue it into the torn heart - or come up with your own idea! Going under a Creative Commons license for personal use only.

potty picture

Image by pinprick
they don't really make "hey! good job using the toilet!" cards for kids. so i made one of my own. i wish i'd gotten the color better in the photo, but now it's in its envelope so this will have to do.

My Flickr picture frame project

Image by James Cridland
- An old laptop, which doesn't have enough memory in it to run today's software
- A picture frame from Ikea
- Flickr

The plan is to have this picture frame showing all photographs with a certain tag: and for it to rotate through them every five minutes or so.

So far, I've stripped down the laptop, mostly to turn the screen around, to make it as flat as possible, and to strip as much prettiness from the casing to ensure the thing runs nice and cool. The frame's planned to be open at the back, so that it doesn't get too hot.

Things still to do:

1. Find some software (or bake my own) which will do a good job as a screen saver type thing under Windows 2000. After checking, none really exist: most insist on Windows XP (which this laptop doesn't have). I suspect the solution is probably a simple Flash application, but I need to work out how to get the photos from Flickr - I'd like to do it automatically, rather than manually. I suspect that I'll share a folder on this laptop, and tell it to frequently check how many files there are inside it.
2. Work out some way of keeping the laptop affixed inside. The good news is that this frame is quite nice and thick, and made of wood. Stubby screws will probably do the job.
3. Get some frame mounting card properly cut, rather than the amateur job here. And find a nice photograph to put in the other frame.
4. Put VNC Server onto the laptop, so I don't need to use the keyboard
5. For the best effect, work out how to hide the mains lead that goes into it. A cheat would be to put this on a window ledge or shelf.

I feel sure someone's already done this, so any comments would be welcome.