Subgenius School

For those of you interested in such things, my personal clergyman Rev. Ivan Stang will again be teaching his online course on the history of the Church of Subgenius. This allows the students to download huge amounts of Subgenius media, audio and video and text. Even better, you are given the opportunity to create your [...]

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CREATE South is In the Can

The CREATE South conference is now behind us. Big swatches of the day went not like I hoped they would but like I dreamed they would. The day wasn’t perfect by any stretch but the flaws were forgivable and survivable and the strengths powerful and heart-warming. I’d write more, but now I’m driving down to [...]

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Create South - T minus 9 hours

Tonight a group of us met at the Liberty Steakhouse for dinner and drinks as a pre-conference shindig. I met a few people that I knew online but had never met in person. This includes Heather who has been helping organize and calling in to the conference calls but who I didn’t previously know. I’m [...]

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Do What You Imagine

Dan Conover writes about shooting his short film over the last few weeks.
Dan talks about the power of cheap technology when it intersects the desire to be creative. That’s the spirit that drives our Create South conference this weekend. Not coincidentally, Dan and his wife Janet will be presenting at the conference about ways to [...]

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Generic Joke

Here’s something I believe everyone can enjoy.
Q: How many of a group does it take to perform a task?
A: N. One to do the primary activity and N-1 to do something loosely related.
Oh, those stupid people in group.
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Nicola Griffith on the Taser Panacea

My dear friend Nicola Griffith has a post up on the Huffington Post about women, tasers and self-defense. Her basic point is not unlike that of much of Bruce Schneier’s writing - tools that are less effective than you think and that lead to a false sense of security are worse than no tools at [...]

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Accidental Art

Oil
Originally uploaded by evilgenius

Just fooling around with Photo Booth while getting my oil changed, I took this picture. It turned out much better than I would have expected for such a thing. I expected that the background would have been the strip mall behind me [...]

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Cullect

I’ve been watching Garrick van Buren’s Cullect project for a while now. I’ll admit that I feel a little guilty about it because I’ve taken several runs at it and I always feel like I’m not grokking the full power of it. I mean, it seems like it has a lot to offer and is [...]

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Settling in to 2.5

I hope this is the last post about Wordpress and the upgrade migration. The issues seem to be shaken out. If you do see something that doesn’t work right, please drop me an email. Tags are now integrated. Andrew Herron wasn’t sure if the tags I had set up from Ecto would actually push to [...]

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First Wordpress 2.5 Impressions

So far so good on the Wordpress upgrade and host migration. Ideally, one would be doing these things in smaller, more manageable pieces rather than all at once, but I had no choice. Once WP 2.5 was released, I no longer had the option of installing an older version with the Dreamhost installer so I [...]

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Comment Test

Friends, please do me a favor and leave a comment. I had problems with plugins stepping on each other on the previous host. I’m hoping that upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 and current versions of all plugins will have fixed it. If you have any problems trying to leave one, please email me. Thanks!
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Tag Test

I’m just curious about this. Ecto has tags on the side that I use occasionally, but they insert into the bottom of the post as a footer type deal. Now that I’m a version of Wordpress with tags built in, is the whole deal hooked together well enough that these will just recognized as Wordpress [...]

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New Host Test

If you see this post, that means you are looking at the new host. Things aren’t perfect but it’s getting there. I’m happy to be getting shed of my old hosting box, which was aging and lately needed a reboot EVERY! SINGLE! DAY! Dreamhost is far from perfect but at least it is easy to [...]

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Confession

I don’t know what being “rickrolled” means, and I don’t care enough to google it.
Update: Chris Yale in email and Don Moore in comments explain it to me. The reality is less interesting than I would have ever dreamed.
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I Need Help Testing Comments

I’ve heard from several people that ordinary use of the comments has been triggering the Bad Behavior plugin, usually with an error that the “user agent has changed since the page was downloaded.” The only thing that has changed recently has been turning on the WP-Cache plugin for the whole site. I’ve upgraded the cache [...]

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YAP (Yet Another Possum)

YAP (Yet Another Possum)

Originally uploaded by evilgenius

We have caught a possum yet again. The count is getting fuzzy but this is probably the seventh one or so overall. We started hearing funny noises from the crawlspace last night when it got really cold, so I [...]

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Technorati Claim

Bogus post to reclaim my blog on Technorati. It was claimed as the old blosxom version.
Technorati Profile
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Pile of Index Cards

Via Reverend Dan comes this extreme example of a organization via the pile of index cards. I am seriously underutilizing my Hipster PDA so this system really impresses me.
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Modern Girls Got No Shame

Modern Girls Got No Shame

Originally uploaded by evilgenius

A few years ago, I made a blog post about how unbelievable my teenage self would find the modern world. “You mean to tell me that I’ll be able to see down girls pants and I won’t really [...]

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Writers

When I wrote my WGA post this morning, a typo that I caught led me to a sad observation:
A writer is always one letter away from being a waiter.
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