Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
     I miss the "Bath Salts makes you zombie" hysteria of earlier this summer. 
     
            I thought it had the potential to be best drug scare since Crack mania in the summer of '86(thank you Lenny Bias and Don Rogers)

[MV/Liberace!]

I just gave my Ipad away. What makes google nexus the better choice?

i don't know that it's necessarily "better" than the ipad, but it is the first android tablet to bring with it a polished, snappy, credible user experience unencumbered by bloatware, OEM modifications to android, and "other horseshit."  if you're already an android fan, then it's easily the better choice.  if you're not an android fan, then the ipad is probably the better choice for you.

too add, why did the Asus memo disappear?

not sure what you're referring to.

[onan]

     I miss the "Bath Salts makes you zombie" hysteria of earlier this summer. 
     
            I thought it had the potential to be best drug scare since Crack mania in the summer of '86(thank you Lenny Bias and Don Rogers)

After many years of seeing the misinformation promulgated by our government from Marijuana to LSD. I too am a skeptic when being informed about the dangers of street drugs.

That being said. The hospital I work for will not accept a patient that has used bath salts in the previous 6 months. Is it hysteria? perhaps. I will also say, that when a patient "walks in" on their own requesting help we are legally obliged to treat that patient. Every patient I have seen that has endorsed using bath salts has had some cognitive impairment. Although, many mental illnesses may have some amount of ineffective or disturbed cognition it is not to the level I see with those that have used bath salts. Only patients that are in a full blown psychosis have less ability to form logical linear thought.

Granted I see a very skewed section of the population at large. And that may bias me greatly... it is tough for me to judge.

[Eddie Coyle]

After many years of seeing the misinformation promulgated by our government from Marijuana to LSD. I too am a skeptic when being informed about the dangers of street drugs.

That being said. The hospital I work for will not accept a patient that has used bath salts in the previous 6 months. Is it hysteria? perhaps. I will also say, that when a patient "walks in" on their own requesting help we are legally obliged to treat that patient. Every patient I have seen that has endorsed using bath salts has had some cognitive impairment. Although, many mental illnesses may have some amount of ineffective or disturbed cognition it is not to the level I see with those that have used bath salts. Only patients that are in a full blown psychosis have less ability to form logical linear thought.

Your experience has been echoed by somebody I know who works in a similar field. Actually, of the relatively low number she has seen who've used bath salts, almost 3/4 share an address...which happens to be the biggest homeless shelter in the city. People who were pretty far gone prior to dabbling in bath salts. It doesn't strike me as a drug being used recreationally at a Hot Tuna concert...more like a bridge dweller's choice of high.

        I've known quite a few crackheads through the years who were able to hide their addiction somewhat convincingly. I severely doubt that's possible with Bath Salts, which seem akin to an Angel Dust/PCP...

[McPhallus]

I just wonder how many people think "bath salts" are, you know, bath salts.

[Camazotz Automat]

I just wonder how many people think "bath salts" are, you know, bath salts.

The reckless manner in which it was reported in my area all but claimed it was possible to go into a Bed Bath & Beyond and stock up. 

They insisted on using the confusing slang with no qualifiers and in fact, themselves seemed to believe they were reporting on common magnesium sulfate rather than the drug. It was pretty damned annoying.

[ziznak]

the "Bath Salt Zombies" sounds like a great name for some sort of punk band.

[Camazotz Automat]

This is an oldie but goodie set of instructions on generating a band name, album name, and album art:

1) Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random article is your band's name

2) Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last 4 or 5 words of the last quote is the title of your album

3) Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture is your album cover

Put it all together with Photoshop.

My results: band name is Pro Oriente - album title is Resting Before You Get Tired

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[Eddie Coyle]

 
    Excellent, Cam. Though Pro Oriente's album cover reminds me of the back cover of Cactus' 1971 opus "One Way Or Another".

     Which means I'd buy the motherfucker.
         

[McPhallus]

    Excellent, Cam. Though Pro Oriente's album cover reminds me of the back cover of Cactus' 1971 opus "One Way Or Another".

     Which means I'd buy the motherfucker.
         

Both of which sort of remind me of this:

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Took a few times to find a flickr that did not mind me dling some random photo.

[coaster]

Figured I'd give it a try. fun fun.

[Camazotz Automat]

Took a few times to find a flickr that did not mind me dling some random photo.

Yes, I think it used to be easier to copy and download flikr but now many are technically blocked.  But you can do a screen grab of the larger view or, what I did was harvest the third thumbnail itself that shows up on that initial page.  They do allow you to right click/copy those and then paste into your photoware where it can be enlarged/edited.

    Excellent, Cam. Though Pro Oriente's album cover reminds me of the back cover of Cactus' 1971 opus "One Way Or Another".

     Which means I'd buy the motherfucker.
         

Eddie, I admit, when I first read your post, I could not help but picture Debbie Harry crucified to a giant saguaro cactus in some kind of ~stigmata inducing~ pose, whilst H.R. Giger looked on, shouting, "Perfect, hold that pose!" as he had flashbacks of painting her Koo Koo album.

Mindflayer's evokes a German ambient album.

Coaster's makes me think of the music scene in Austin, with a little Sandra Bullock thrown in and maybe an undercurrent of old acid house dance music.

[Eddie Coyle]

Eddie, I admit, when I first read your post, I could not help but picture Debbie Harry crucified to a giant saguaro cactus in some kind of ~stigmata inducing~ pose, whilst H.R. Giger looked on, shouting, "Perfect, hold that pose!" as he had flashbacks of painting her Koo Koo album.

You're speaking my language...as a (fill in the blank) addled teen I had both "Brain Salad Surgery" and "To Mega Therion" on my bunker wall, the utter blasphemy of the latter would have devastated my Mackerel snapping kin...had they been allowed in to see it.

          My father had a massive crush on Debbie Harry back then, which I gotta admit, kinda ruined her for me for a long time.

[Camazotz Automat]

   You're speaking my language...as a (fill in the blank) addled teen I had both "Brain Salad Surgery" and "To Mega Therion" on my bunker wall, the utter blasphemy of the latter would have devastated my Mackerel snapping kin...had they been allowed in to see it.

          My father had a massive crush on Debbie Harry back then, which I gotta admit, kinda ruined her for me for a long time.

I went through a very similar chain of events regarding my father and Olivia Newton John. Seriously.

[Eddie Coyle]

I went through a very similar chain of events regarding my father and Olivia Newton John. Seriously.

I'm elated that I wasn't alone in this struggle. My old man also had similar fixations on Priscilla Barnes and Farrah Fawcett back then(circa 1981-83). While my preferences were for Catherine Bach,Tanya Roberts and Erin Gray.

               Though he tempered it(I was 7) with "don't ever think you'll meet girls like that in real life, unless they're touring with the USO". I don't know what was worse, the gloomy prospects on meeting beautiful women or the serving in the military aspect.

[MV/Liberace!]

"don't ever think you'll meet girls like that in real life, unless they're touring with the USO".

wow... what a buzzkill to hear that at SEVEN.

[Jasmine]

You'll be getting a bill in the mail harm

Damn. I can't find my reading glasses...they're around here somwhere. Does the above say
"You'll be getting it from Bill at the mall and it will hurt?"

[Jasmine]

I just wonder how many people think "bath salts" are, you know, bath salts.

McPhaullus, just so you know, last week I made a generous donation to the United Negro College Fund.

Your Honky Sister,
Jasmine

[onan]

"You'll be getting it from Bill at the mall and it will hurt?"

Best album title ever.

[Eddie Coyle]

wow... what a buzzkill to hear that at SEVEN.

I laugh about it now, but yeah it was probably a little too early for such "realism". 

       I'd never tell my kid such grim realities....actually didn't have to, I figured since he had my genes, he'd already figured it out.

[ziznak]

"You'll be getting it from Bill at the mall and it will hurt?"

Yup... that Bill, he's a rough one.

I always found it curious how back in ancient times your exposure to beautiful women was limited when compared to the modern days overstimulation.  Back then even the women who were thought "hot" were probly quite homely by todays standards.  Kinda makes me wonder what a woman like Cleopatra would have ended up doing if she had say developed the complexes found in young women today due to the unattainable standards found in the magazines and TV.  Maybe that suicide by snake would have happened at a much younger age?  Would you like some bulemia with your inferiority complex hmmmmmm?

[McPhallus]

McPhaullus, just so you know, last week I made a generous donation to the United Negro College Fund.

Your Honky Sister,
Jasmine

It's all about the crown, sister.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
       I wish I'd been born five years later. Just for the one simple  purpose of putting my favorite movie phrase "That's Cosmo...He's Chinese" in my high school yearbook. Of course the editors would reject it, and I'd have to come up with an acronym or acrostic to get it in there.

[Camazotz Automat]

       I wish I'd been born five years later. Just for the one simple  purpose of putting my favorite movie phrase "That's Cosmo...He's Chinese" in my high school yearbook. Of course the editors would reject it, and I'd have to come up with an acronym or acrostic to get it in there.

Speaking of hidden messages.

I am suddenly and vividly reminded of something that occurred in 1998. I was working in a data processing area of a bank, in charge of "gathering" credit card charges to be uploaded later at night for the ACH clearance on the VISA and MC terminals. All of this written in a language called CTOS.  (I'm elaborating for the computer retro geeks.)

Anyway, I had a regular PC as well and had set the screen saver to "marquee," so that whatever text entered endlessly scrolled by at whatever speed.  I think I set it for black with a blue background.

Instead of words, I had put a jumbled string of dots and dashes, to resemble Morse code, though had not gone to the trouble to construct actual words.

We had a "Visitor," scheduled for a tour, someone important, who was to do a walk through and would visit my office, while the escorting CEO would say something like "These are the brains of VISA and Mastercard," as he gestured toward my two cabinets.

So my superior approaches me the day before and said, "About your screen saver, it doesn't say 'fuck you' or anything, does it?"

[Eddie Coyle]

Speaking of hidden messages.

I am suddenly and vividly reminded of something that occurred in 1998. I was working in a data processing area of a bank, in charge of "gathering" credit card charges to be uploaded later at night for the ACH clearance on the VISA and MC terminals. All of this written in a language called CTOS.  (I'm elaborating for the computer retro geeks.)

Anyway, I had a regular PC as well and had set the screen saver to "marquee," so that whatever text entered endlessly scrolled by at whatever speed.  I think I set it for black with a blue background.

Instead of words, I had put a jumbled string of dots and dashes, to resemble Morse code, though had not gone to the trouble to construct actual words.

We had a "Visitor," scheduled for a tour, someone important, who was to do a walk through and would visit my office, while the escorting CEO would say something like "These are the brains of VISA and Mastercard," as he gestured toward my two cabinets.

So my superior approaches me the day before and said, "About your screen saver, it doesn't say 'fuck you' or anything, does it?"

        But isn't what work is all about? Fuckin' around and playing games with "the man's" technological advancements. An old boss of mine had to have a "special security code" that would lock part of the building into a "Get Smart" maze, with alleged electric eyes and incipient lasers(or so they'd have us believe)

              My boss was using the code words "panty sniffer 94". It was fine for about a month, until an inspection occurred while he was out on the road and only he had the password. So his commandant while he was away notified him on the walkie talkie about needing the password NOW...and my boss sheepishly is spelling out "panty sniffer" over the walkie talkie as the inspector glares at the commandant.

             Could have been worse. My boss informed us that he'd being using "pussy fart" as the password for the first two weeks.

[BobGrau]

Today I had cause to utter the phrase "dissolving all that ecky gunk that's built up in your kidneys".

Today was a Good Day.

[MV/Liberace!]

              My boss was using the code words "panty sniffer 94". It was fine for about a month, until an inspection occurred while he was out on the road and only he had the password. So his commandant while he was away notified him on the walkie talkie about needing the password NOW...and my boss sheepishly is spelling out "panty sniffer" over the walkie talkie as the inspector glares at the commandant.

             Could have been worse. My boss informed us that he'd being using "pussy fart" as the password for the first two weeks.

wow.  what a scene.

[Eddie Coyle]

wow.  what a scene.

    The guy was the best boss in the world. It was a depot where machinery/vehicles were kept, and he'd often declare a "mental health day" for us and send us to the strip club down the street. "Come back in four hours to hit off the clock".

       About a year after I left that job...I found out he was busted for no showing and drawing a check and lucky not to be indicted, he probably rolled over on somebody. Good dude though.

[Camazotz Automat]

"And that girl had a wooden leg." - Smile, 1975