So, I’m reading Penn Jillette’s novel Sock, and a certain passage brings up the band Cop Shoot Cop. Penn posits that the name isn’t about police violence. Rather it is a junkie’s to-do list (You have to cop so you can shoot, which makes you need to cop so you can shoot again, etc.). Turns out this isn’t the official line:
Puleo reports their name was inspired by both the band members’ shared dislike of police officers, and a newspaper headline about a botched police raid, reading “‘Cop Shot Cop’ or maybe it was ‘Cop Shoots Cop.’”
[This gets long...]
Continue reading ‘Stream of Media Consciousness’
So, the Broncos failed miserably — The Steelers managed to turn “No Mistake Jake” back into “Jake the Snake”. End of story.
Also, the Avs are rapidly losing ground in the standings after losing two in a row.
I also don’t care if Theo is back, the Sox are going to blow this year.
Bah.
I needed more time to read books and sketch out my future tattoos anyway. 
Is Nabokov’s masterpiece still shocking? (Short answer: YES.)
Lolita turns 50 this year, and having stayed so perverse, it remains fresh as ever. To fully appreciate its perversity, though, one must first appreciate that it is not obscene. Your run-of-the-mill obscene masterwork—Tropic of Cancer, say—demands that you, enlightened reader, work your way past the sex and excrement to recognize how beautiful it is. But with Lolita, you must work past its beauty to recognize how shocking it is. And for all its beauty, for all its immense ingenuity and humor, one easily forgets how shocking Lolita is.
I think that’s really the genius of the book: wrapping such disgusting subject matter in some of the finest literature ever produced. I suspect that may have been the challenge Nabokov set for himself, too, and somehow he pulled it off.
Published in BiblioThingy,
Code Monkeying,
Curiosities,
Folx,
Food and Cookery,
Getting Fit,
Homebody,
Hooliganimals,
TechnoLust,
Televisio,
The Intarweb and
TuneStuff .
So, yeah… I’m still here. Here’s a little catch-up:
- My efforts at work on the superultramegaubercrazy-high priority project have come to a rather frustrating result so far thanks to interoperability problems between ColdFusion 5 and Oracle9. Every time we hit the Oracle9 database it causes the memory usage of the ColdFusion server to climb, with that memory never being released. This eventually causes the connection to the database to die with an S1001 Memory Allocation Error, which requires a ColdFusion restart to fix the problem (until the memory allocation builds back up again). Super-fucking-duper.
- The Big Blue Couches rock. While we are trying to keep the pets off them, it’s obviously futile. At least the puddles of Mingus hair come off the ultra-luscious blue microsuede without a problem. I’m just extra-pleased with the fact taht I can lie completely prostrate on the big sofa without touching either arm.
- The Wife and I have been to the hotbox yoga a total of three times so far. I am enjoying it quite a bit, though I think I may have overstretched my back the last time out. We hope to squeeze a couple more classes into our two week trial period.
- My motorcycle wrenching buddy Erik and his wife are inches away from having their baby boy. Very exciting times for them!
- I’ll be brining the second turkey of the month for Thanksgiving festivities starting tonight. If you haven’t brined a turkey or at least eaten the product of said process, I can’t even express how much you need to try it.
- I’m almost done with the Tales of the Otori trilogy. I highly recommend all three books.
- Now let’s turn the lens outward a bit:
And thus concludes today’s category smorgasbord.
A new favorite quote, dedicated to my friends in the sales staff at work:
I have no valid complaint against hustlers, no rational bitch, but the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
Thanks for lending me the book, Johnny!
Molecular motors push liquid uphill
Droplets of liquid have been moved uphill by molecular motors designed to manipulate Brownian motion.
While other researchers have found ways to make drops of liquids move before, what is new here, says David Leigh at the University of Edinburgh, is the use of molecular motors to achieve it: “This is the first time you can use molecular-level motion to move a macroscopic object. OK, so it’s only a tiny droplet – but it’s a start.�
How very Diamond Age!
Best are the “you might also do this” scenarios:
The so-called “nano-shuttles� could also create a range of different types of smart surfaces, such as adhesive surfaces that can be switched on and off, or surfaces that can be switched from one colour to another.
Brave new world, indeed. I can’t wait until I can finally customize the color of my flying car!
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