I was Thinking, or Not

Cooking With a Hammer A few years ago I wrote a book called "Cooking with a Hammer". I never published it, because I was an idiot and I thought the publishing field was full of bullshit, and I was not going to hoar myself to them. At this point I wished I had, because I no longer have that book, because it was written on my old Apple IIc which has long now been gone, sniff, sniff. I am now going to write a new book, a tribute to the original, mostly because at this point in my life I can not capture the original cynacism and scathing wit that made CwaH different from the usual cookbook. This new book is tentatively called the "Breaking Down of Bread" and will deal with the making and using of bread. Well isn't there already a few hundred books on bread, by much more famous people than yourself, you may ask, go ahead you may ask. Sure there are, but that doesn't matter, it used to matter, but today it does not. The best part is when I wrote CwaH there w...

Just some more stuff I am thinking about. I have been studying the pet industry and natural pet care. Especially the area of pet nutrition. This information can be found anywhere on the web, but I am thinking that I can put together a small blog that will bring many of the various resources into one place. I am also going to add my comments, and general knowledge to provide helpful information useful to anyone seeking a better life for their pets. My study is by no means complete, but I hope to make this a work in progress, with an e-book made available every once in a while that will be sold to help support my efforts. I do have to pay for the internet. The last few days I have decided to try to put our dog on a "made diet" to see how well it goes. I expect that there will be some changes in her, even some that may seem like sickness, until she gets better.

Just some more stuff I am thinking about. I have been studying the pet industry and natural pet care. Especially the area of pet nutrition. This information can be found anywhere on the web, but I am thinking that I can put together a small blog that will bring many of the various resources into one place. I am also going to add my comments, and general knowledge to provide helpful information useful to anyone seeking a better life for their pets. My study is by no means complete, but I hope to make this a work in progress, with an e-book made available every once in a while that will be sold to help support my efforts. I do have to pay for the internet. ---------------- Listening to: WRVO via FoxyTunes

Looking into Chocolate's Face I have spent a few weeks now looking into the processes of converting raw cocoa beans into cocoa and chocolate. I am not really certain what the true difference is between chocolate and cocoa, except that one is usually for baking and the other is generally accepted as the name for the chocolate that we eat in combination with various amounts of sugar and milk solids. My interest is not in chocolate as it is generally known, but as it could be known. My interest is in delivery of medication. There are many benefits attributed to cocoa, and I have seen many of the clinical results. In my search I have found that the use of basic cocoa, not highly processed chocolate, is what would serve to provide the highest level of benefit. I have read about the benefits of raw unprocessed cocoa beans, and I have seen clinical studies, however the studies are performed on fermented and roasted chocolate (cocoa) liquor not on the unprocessed raw beans. I then ...

Facism is at Least Honest Re: From Heather's Blog Original Re: culture whores tribe Most excellent re-post. However fascism would be preferable to a false democracy or republic. Fascism is only observable from outside the state. Those that live within are blind to the regime. History has demonstrated the class system is permanent in human nature. The classes that exist are so well developed that even those that are in their particular class do not acknowledge their own class. Only the very top of the class system has the ability to see the classes that are below them. Let us examine the basis of this. The top one percent in the class system is always the top one percent. Two factors do not change. The top one percent, and the bottom 64% of the classes. Where the changes occur is in the top 5%, the middle 10%, and the middle 20% of the classes. Reviewing this we have 1%, 5%, 10%, 20%, and the 64% remaining. The top one percent are likened to gods, or divine influence. T...

Primrose Pansies and Proletarian Panza Chicken little is falling, and she won't get up. The end of the world as we know it is far from coming to a television station in your area. By the time it is announced on your local network, or in your favorite web blog, the time will be gone. Oh, wait it already is. Perfectly manicured lawns are a true sign of demise. When there is too much for you to do, and you have no time for the rest, you know that you should really be out there trimming the hedges and spreading more fertilizer on the lawns. What I am waiting for is the searing reality that will certainly come, but probably at such a slow pace that most people will become accustomed to it before it even reaches the proportion necessary to make an impact. The reality is that most people will not see a difference. They will not notice that many of their neighbors are no longer around, because they will leave not in droves, but a few a time. There will not be any explosion, as the m...

Color Blind James Rant 1 So here's the deal, I am trying hard right now not to be very upset. Just once I would like to see someone make a color blind game. One that doesn't rely on color to determine how the game will be played. Let us for a moment imagine that not every person in this world is capable of seeing the full spectrum of color correctly. I am not certain that anyone has heard of colorblindness, but it is a fact of my life. It prevents me from driving commercial vehicles (large trucks, commercial jets, ships, and the like), and a few other not really very inconveinent things, but what really gets to me is that obviously game developers are not colorblind or not concerned. Sleep well... -James-

Why Hackers are Good As if this hasn't been presented a few hundred times before. If I had done my research properly, which I will once I have decided what I want this to address. Essentially what I want to say is that hackers not only press the buttons of the established software (and often hardware) developers, but they also quite often develop them selves the fixes to the errors that they exploit. There are many who have disagreements about this subject, and often those most opposed are those that have propriatory rights to their software. I am not reffering exclusively to the Open Software vs Propriatory software debate, but even those so called crackers, spammers, virus writers, and all the other cyber crimimals. We want to complain about them, and write about them being "evil", while we maybe should look at them differently. There is no doubt that they the wrost of the hacker persona, are attempting to steal information. This is a question of trust by the com...

Dancing with Me Sculpter However long it takes, that is exactly how long it takes. I can't tell you how long it took, but I can tell you how it feels, how it smells, how a lot of things, but time slips away from me. Time is not an issue, perfection cannot be rushed. There is no deadline, the medium is already dead. They don't feel a thing, I do all the feeling for them. They taste nothing, I do that for them. They hear, see, smell nothing, I do that for them. They will always be dead, but I will live for as long as I can, and through me they will be given a new type of life. I consider myself an artist of the finest art. For I work in the finest medium. Scupting with remains, perfecting the dead, and giving them life through artistic crafting of their bodies. Perhaps there are a few out there that do not consider what I do to be art, but who are they to say. I may not get acolades from any gallery or art society, but my work continues to bring comfort to many of the li...

Blog Test I am looking over my blogs in the past on this particular blog. I see that I am still testing the waters, and haven't developed my style yet. I haven't even settled on a particular signature yet. So I will continue to test things, and see if they get responses. So far no one really has responded, but I don't really care, because this is for my benefit, and maybe I want to publish stuff that doesn't matter to anyone else, so it doesn't matter to me what others really think, at not in reference to this blog. I have several other blogs, most of them are more pointed, and some of them are even private, so I will continue to publish in some form. There is no such thing as private, as even though I may make a blog private on the server, it is on the server and if at some time they decided to make it public it is well within their rights unless I pull the data of the server before it can go public. Any way I have a bunch of stuff to publish here now so tha...

Daily Rants The problem is I don't always have a daily rant. Right now I have three post I just haven't got to. I don't mind deadlines, although I hate to think that I should set them form myself on a blog. I see other blogs that include things like new every monday, which is not too bad on the surface. I can sometimes go a week without wanting to post anything. Sometimes I will write several pieces and not post them until several days later, not because I am editing them, but because it just is easier to do that way. So I don't always have a daily rant, but I quite often have a weeks worth of rants in one day. -James-

Danze-Macabre: Introductions You might have heard of Murder Inc., and other various organizations of the macabre. Along the way you will find common threads. Throughout history there have been many people who for one reason or another have ventured into a field we as citizens of a civilized culture can not condone. Be it ritual sacrifice, or cannibalism (an ism does that make it legitimate), there have been examples of either individuals, groups, or cultures that endorsed what we today may consider at least perverse. So what happens when the concept changes. What happens when the profile perverts. When the concept of the monster turns from what we perceive as normal into that which we have come to accept as some other form deviation. What happens when those that you would trust the most, become the one you should trust the least. When your mother, your father, your sister, or someone like your preacher becomes the perpetrator of such heinous crimes of cultural taboo that we can...

Biggest threat to U.S. drinking water? Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070123/sc_nm/usa_water_dc So who would have thought the top worry among water experts turns out to be rusty pipes? Water, don't get me started. Our top priority is rusty and faulty pipes. Your kidding me, right. Oh yea, they are a concern, should have been twenty years ago, maybe more. But our biggest concern. Okay, let us assume that this is the huge concern they purport it to be. What is the solution. Replace them with plastic pipes. Hey wouldn't that mean the use of more fossil fuels, and the leaching of VOC's into our water supply. Oh yea, that's right we need one more way to introduce greater dependence on oil, a depleted resource. I agree that iron pipes used 50 years ago are probably in need of repair. They mention in the article that some of these pipes have been in service for over a hundred years. But after the extensive purifying process, water ends up in your glass after trav...

New Template Update Soon I am dissecting the blogger template as of right now, to ensure that I have all the necessary components. In a week or two I will begin using the new template on my site http://jmsdlog.blogspot.com including the google ad space. I t will then contain code for a banner roll, that will be for sites I find interesting. It will also include a new index and heading that will introduce the site to people coming to the site. I figured while I was fixing the template, I might as well fix a few other things that bother me about blogger. I wrote my first blog on this site for the purpose of introducing the rest of the post to people visiting the site, but unfortunately the post list newest first, which is how I would like it, except I want my first post (the intro post) to be listed first. I also want a banner roll script that will exchange a few banners that I want to put on the site. Now I won't derive any income off these banners, they are not affiliate pro...

If you have ever seen this particular web log of mine previously you saw that it used a particular template. It used to use one type of template, and then another, but they were all "Blogger" templates. Well since their template broke and will not now go back to behaving properly, I will have to build my own. This is not a problem, as I code XHTML all day anyway, but the point of using blogger was to avoid having to do this very thing. Now I am forced to because they obviously cannot write code that can continue to behave, or throw proper errors when it should. I am not a flamer, generally, although back in the early 80's we were all flamers and hackers so I guess at one time I was such a creature. Now I try really hard to be tollerant of many things, and have especially appreciated blogger for the ease at which I could post some stuff to their site without having to do the template or CSS work. Now I will have to do that, so I have downloaded their basic template, ...

Get a passport before it's too late link: http://news10now.com/content/all_news/oswego_county/?ArID=92081&SecID=155 Good Morning everyone, welcome to the new dawn experience. Like the sheep lead to the slaughter people are heading to the Post Offices and other locations to obtain their Passports. This is a good idea, I believe that everyone should get their Federal ID as quickly as possible. Be certain that you get your chop while you are at it, because without your chop you won't get and chits and without chits you won't be able to buy Federal food, or even the party whiskey. And how could you get through the night without party whiskey and party cigarettes to numb your brain. Otherwise you might have to realize that your are being led to the slaughter one by one until everyone conforms to the party line. Conform or be cut out from the heard. Accept the party line or you will be sent to camp, where they will ensure that you will not remember why you were here. I...

Free Land You have probably already heard the story by now. Writing this now seems almost anti-climatic, but I will try to record the events as factually as I can remember. You are now probably in your homes, trying to live by the hour, hoping that you won't be exposed. Sitting there with your meager rations and your survival manuals, hoping that someone won't come knocking at your door. I hope the best for you, but I can't live that way. I had to get out, take the chance, and do something. The news reports will probably drone on for the next two years about possible causes or possible cures. They will continue to parade their experts across the stage in the hopes that you'll buy their brand of snake oil. What ever, you have it, not me, I'm on the road, taking my chances as I head towards the desolate regions, where the air is cleaner and the by now the land is free. Twenty-four hours ago, the news was new. I knew it was coming, could see it on the wind. T...

Okay now that I have seen it on the site, I will have to modify it to fit the format, although I will be changing the template soon, so maybe I will leave it be for now, and change it then, because I want it stay at the top, and rotate with a few other images I have now decided that I will feature. This complicates everything, so for now excuse the mess, as I have decided to leave it, for now and then change it as I update the template I use for this particular web log.

Well this is a first, I am going to feature a banner on my web log. If you are a fan of dark fiction, as I am, this site has some fairly high quality fiction available on CD. Normally I would just put the link here, but their banner is quite nice, so here it is (above), as a link to their site. Now that I have done this and have broken the cardinal's rules, I probably will go back to using very few if any images, and not specifically advertising on the log. I use a simple Google advertisement on all my web logs, because it is basic and unobtrusive, for the most part. I am fine with this until it changes. I am fine with Google having domain over the web log server I use as well, at least until they change something that damages my work here. When that happens I move on, and hope to recreate the same else where. I will be writing some stuff, if not here, in another web log on the same server, that I am considering for publication in electronic publications and print rags such as...

Toady I found the curious condition that allows many to believe that they have some concept of something or another. The condition is that when one persons view is so well accepted it becomes a basis of fact for the majority. This concept is such that it should seem that any story that is artfully created by any particular organization that is such slanted to an earnest view can make a larger impact than if it were locally situated. This condition may very well be the condition that would bring about the events that history seems to report. The bias by which this is done can then be suspect of the slant by the conditions of the current organization that was generating the information in the first place. Therefore the events which we may or may not remember exactly are all possible subjects of such conditions. This is a historical condition that can attribute to further digression at the craft of timely interjecting. Through careful crafting of the lessons that are taught to our ...