September 2006

Just a heads-up to readers, and would-be commenters on Eau Salée Lunaire:

I do employ rel="nofollow" under the following conditions:

• When your comment is first posted, the nofollow attribute is added to your entry.
• Once your comment has stayed where it is for three days from the time of its posting, the nofollow attribute is removed from your comment.

I went with this option, rather than sticking to WordPress’s default nofollow forever settings, because there are people with legitimate sites out there that deserve a little link loving.

The whole thing is made possible with Kimmo Suominen’s excellent DoFollow plugin for WordPress. You can use it to set a number of days that the nofollow attribute will reside on comments, and then be removed.

As comment spammers get smarter, some of them will slip through the cracks of even the best spam filters money can buy. It’s worth it to have a little opportunity to get the hot embers off your lap before they burn you.

I’m sure that we all know someone, or are friends with someone who might need help with an addiction.

There are people out there who are more than willing to help with Alcohol Rehab — it’s not an easy thing to stop drinking booze on your own, when you’re used to turning up the bottle every night. That’s why there are people who are willing to work with you, in a one-on-one situation.

Drug Rehab is something I can honestly say I understand quite well. When I was younger, I used to sit around with my friends. We’d pass the bong, take heavy hits, pop pills, and get drunk all together. I know what it’s like to be stoned, drunk, and wondering why the world looked like a bloody fish bowl. It’s hard to just quit doing drugs just like that, and expect to be whole and normal.

I have family who have been down this road before. You can’t just stop overnight. You need help. You need the support that only someone else can provide.

I suggest that if you’re in the kind of situation above, that you take the money that you’re wasting on getting messed up, and spend it on getting some help.

This is a public service announcement.

5: When I pick a lighter to sell to a customer, it has to match or compliment the person’s shirt. I do this almost subconsciously.
4: I can’t eat chocolate very much or very often, because I am single. It’s like an aphrodesiac to my system in large doses.
3: I prefer music that I can’t understand the lyrics to. I like the work of looking up just what it is that I’m humming along to.
2: I have entertained the thought that I am really a self-contained universe, and with my death, nothing will exist ever again.
1: When I sneeze, I often say ‘chicken!’ while sneezing. Initially, I did it to amuse my young cousins, and I grew into it. Now it happens all the time.

So, what’re your five odd facts?

Awwww!, originally uploaded by Xial (AraiyaBomazi).

Don’t get the wrong idea: I Don’t want kids. But these two playing in the hospital waiting room was too Cute.

From an earlier IRC conversation:

<@Xial>
So, I had this weird dream the other night.
I was walking to a corner store with my aunt and my cousins. In this store, they were playing Hakim, and it was crowded. People were selling drugs and stuff there.
They also had imported scratch-off tickets from the middle eastern regions.
One of the tickets had the words ‘AL BED’ printed on the face.
ap :: Hakim - Nazra (MP3, 179kbps, 4.63mb, 1:29/3:37)

<Kolmeck>
Al Bed? weird…

<@Xial>
I bought the ticket, and it was a winner. Four free tickets.
Interesting trivia for you: Unscrambled, AL BED is BLADE.
(And I only notice this now that I’m writing about it.)
More interesting trivia: I haven’t listened to Hakim in MONTHS.

<Kolmeck>
Hakim? what is that?

<@Xial>
ap :: Hakim - El Hak’ale (MP3, 176kbps, 6.21mb, 0:10/4:55)
Specifically, it was the song that I’m playing right now.
That’s how I recognized it.
Yet More Interesting Trivia: “EL HAK’ALE” translated to “IT’S YOUR FAULT”.

Right now, I’m sitting awake, because of another dream I had.

I was dreaming of our old house, but in better condition. I was in the front yard, and it was about 9 pm. I don’t know what I was doing outside, but I was digging something. I saw a snake hiding in a hole, and as I went to prod it with the shovel, it slithered off. Something prompted me to turn around, and as I did, a green rattlesnake struck me and bit my right nipple. As it hit, I woke up, with my pulse racing, which was not good. I felt my heart trying to jump out of my chest.

Something in my soul is telling me that something is going to go terribly wrong, and I’m afraid. Terribly afraid.

It seems like the crew at PayPerPost are becoming quite proficient in Guerilla Marketing. I say this because they have invaded the Today show.

They gave people waiting for the Today show shirts, stickers, signs, silly putty, and something to look up when they got home. It also seems that they’re getting ready for the next big thing coming out of their camp, which has me curious.

Of course, you might enjoy the little (Okay, 9.5 minutes long) video they have up for the event, complete with drinks, and a visit to what looked like a FedEx-Kinko’s.

Now, I’m not a big Today fan (Matt Lauer, “… you’re right. He does interrupt.” — Father of the Pride), so I missed that on the television, but maybe someone here has seen it or can find it on the internets?

Christ, It’s a Matt Lauer. Get in the PayPerPost.

My computer’s been horked for a few days, and initially, I thought it was the hard drive that Windows was on. So, I hosed its content, reinstalled Windows, and it promptly started the issues again, as soon as I added drivers.

I’m now fairly sure it’s the VIDEO CARD, since it only acts a fool during anything that really uses the card. Screensavers, games, etc.

Result: I gotta come up with the clams to buy a video card, or hopefully find my old 32MB Geforce2.

Until then, however, I get to deal with frozen Windows.