oh heaven.......

spent the last few hours downloading music

not just any music but that which I need

[an alphabetical listing of course]

Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Cole Porter
Count Basie
Dean Martin
Ella Fitzgerald
Etta James
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Quincy Jones

and now with enlivened with a pulse
I am off to get my house in order
I have dinner guests tomorrow night
and much to do

my apartment looks like
a moving truck exploded in here

stuff strewn about
with that bizarre sort of organization
only recognizable to it creator

oh does anyone know if I have class tomorrow
it is labor day and all, but looking at the syllabus
it has work due and class scheduled
so
who knows


and another thing - listening to Bing, Sammy and Dean
sing about the evils of Booze is something particularly entertaining

(no subject)

ok folks
a few little guidelines when you are ripping mp3s

let me say first that this only applies in two conditions

1) you intend to share these with other people or on the net
or
2) you are too damn stupid to know if you are sharing them or not

Of course if number two applies to you then I highly recommend euthanasia to rectify that particular issue.

If you are doing it for your own collection then whatever
but for the rest of you,

a few file sharing guidelines


( Mp3 conventions and standards )

Life's Special Moments

Ever have those moments where are sharply reminded that you are not nearly as cool as you think you are?

of course you have

life would be no fun with out those little moments

when you realize that your disposable adult undergarments are on backwards

and the product tag is sticking out the front of your pants

enabling you to proudly share your product loyalty with the rest of the world

ok I suppose we could all do without those particular moments

but that's not what I came to share

those of you with any sort of short term memory
and any reason to care
might remember my complaining that my new laser printer was not working

well, I discovered the reason today

did not even have to read the fucking manual [RTFM]

I was merely looking around for a USB extension cable
when I noticed a parallel port cable lying under my computer table.

That's odd I thought
I didn't have a spare printer cable which is why I needed to buy one.

Then it hits me...

...with the exact force force of a New York City yellow pages

thrown from across the room by a very angry

but [still] incredibly sexy blonde with a 34D-19-23 figure

Do not ask how I know exactly how much force is transferred into a phone book by a woman under a hundred pounds

for it is far too long of a story, but I can assure you, it is much greater than you would expect

God knows it surprised the hell out of me

ok now where was I,
oh yes
being hit with a telephone book
wait no
that is not it

oh yes, the printer cable

So it dawned on me that printers function far better
when they are connected to the intended computer
than when the cable is laying on the floor collecting dust.

why

if I had not spent most of that day having raucous and disturbingly perverse sex
[there was even another person there for much of it, imagine that]
I would almost feel bad about my oversight

oh well, I need a drink

bourbon love where are you?

mmmm

( nothing to see here, really, dont say I didnt warn you )

ethics and behavior

With all the news about Enron and Worldcom
[among many others]

Congress is voraciously rambling about oversight, talking about making new laws, and stricter enforcement

Nice words but if you look a little closer
you start to question where it is coming from...

Out of 535 members...

29 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Forty-seven percent of them have acted in way which show a failure to be responsible citizens

Yet they claim to be able to legislate our way out of this current mess

some how

I am not confident