Kittens and baby monkeys are friends.

Amazing photograph. Thanks to Hemmy.net for finding this for me. Hemmy found it at CityRag. So, I'd like to thank them even more.

But most of all, great job by *kazzie* for capturing and sharing this moment. Apparently she hung around watching them for over an hour. She's posted a lot of non-monkey/kitten cuddlefest photos as well.

Why isn't this on television yet? It strikes me as The Electric Company for today's kids. Well, I guess as far as I can tell, it hasn't been picked up yet. But maybe soon. I think it's actually gear for a little younger child than The Electric Company. Although, it looks pretty cool to me, and I'm in an older demographic.

Yo Gabba Gabba! It felt good to say it again.

The YGG! folks have also resurrected Biz Markie.

Visit the Planet Grand Theft Auto Forums for a link to a clearer movie showing the Mysterious Ghost Photographer of San Andreas.

Poster "47" provides a link to an .avi file. Mac OS X users will need the DivX Codec.

I spent five minutes with GarageBand. I did not try to figure out anything except for how to record something right away using nothing but myself as the sound originator. And out came what I've affectionately dubbed "recording #11". I think it has something to do with a track I overwrote and how when I first dropped it into iTunes it split all the tracks up separately. One of them was "recording #11".

And yes I realize my timing was off. And that some sounds are a bit random. But I like that, the random part, that is.

If there's no room left for improvement, then there's really no room left is there.

Click and laugh. Can't describe without spoiling. It's short and to the point.

Visit my previous link on the mysterious ghost photographers of San Andreas. The link to the movie was dead. It was a ghost link, if you will. And, if you won't, well...it still wasn't working. But now that's all over. I will probably make this available on YouTube in the near future.

It was made with a digital camera, but I still think it's the only movie online featuring the ghost photographer. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. But let's just say I'm not and move in.

As far as the new Grand Theft Auto for PS2, Liberty City Stories, no, I haven't purchased it yet.

UPDATE:The video is on YouTube now as well. Here, in my vlog and here, in the greater YouTubeosphere.

Rocketboom explains.

And assuming there is a tomorrow for the Internet as we know it, visit Rocketboom daily. I can't believe it took me this long to find this.

You can now set your browsers to http://thisblogismyblog.com or http://www.thisblogismyblog.com. My lazy ass decided it was time to figure this out. But it couldn't, because all it's good for is shitting and preventing my jeans from falling down. The belt helps with the latter, but I'll give my ass some credit.

So as my ass sstruggled (that's the way asses sspell it) to solve this problem, my brain eventually told it to sit the fuck down, and took over. And now it's fixed. There is a chance that I may have a better post in the near future, but hang on to this one as long as you can, just in case.

I knew nothing about The Fountain when I picked it up at the public library, about three months ago. But I knew that when it was done, it needed to be mentioned here.

I read a lot. Blogs, books, newspapers, e-mails, comics, web sites, professional journals, magazine, and sometimes even the pile of novels that I can't keep up with. And, of course, graphic novels. Now sometimes a graphic novel is a collection of individual comic books bound together under one cover. Well, I'm not sure if The Fountain appeared that way, but I am certain that it is one of the best representations I've ever seen of a graphic novel. This is why people should read graphic novels, and get over the fact that it's a story that has pictures, and there's nothing wrong with that. (Although, I'm sure most of the people that read this blog don't have a problem with it.)

Darren Aronofsky (you know, one "A", like Elvis), wrote this as a movie. The movie was cancelled originally, but was eventually made. But I am not looking forward to seeing it. I don't care who's playing the characters, or how its filmed, or how much is spent on effects.

It's a good story. And the graphic novel medium suits it fine. This may not have been Aronofsky's original intention. But combined with Kent Williams gorgeous illustration, I'm convinced the story as told the way it needed to be.

There's three intricately weaved storylines here, but it's all one story that takes place at different points in history. Despite the battles fought in South America and the travels through the universe, where The Fountain truly hits home is as a story about love, life, and death. Simple, huh?

Isn't every story about that, one may ask? Every story may involve that, but every story may no reflect upon it or encourage introspection on these matters.

I don't want to give a synopsis, but I know when the book was over, I was moved. I shook, I shed a tear.

Maybe I'm a big baby. There's always that possibility. It's not so much that it's sad, but there's something beautiful about The Fountain.

I'm not sure what happened to the style on my site, but if it's white with red and blue letters, than something's not right. Temporary I'm sure.

Before the advent of the mp3 blog, I found a lot of music (legally) online through Epitonic. They've been missing from the game for awhile, but are back with a fresh design, although it seems a bit clunky. The question is how often will they update, and will they make up for lost time.

I just end up with a lot of blue shirts, and at this point I'm running out or room for blue in my life. It may eventually affect my mood.

That said. It's a nice shirt, so what if it's blue. I can wear the same damn color every day, if I damn well please.

I have a Threadless blog, too. I post there rarely, but if I do it's bound to quite ordinary.

You, too (not U2, although Bono may have considerable sway, at least with the old last Pope anyway) can help the Internet not suck. Well, it will still suck up a lot of bandwidth. But that's a good suck. That means more flashing color lights and pretty pictures and all that kind of crap. Save the Internet, Kids.

And PBS as well. Save that while you're at it. I know last year the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had some changes among the higher ups, and now we've got commercials after Sesame Street. Thanks, new regime. The president made sure there was a Republican majority, appointing 3 Republicans, and now there's a vote to take away all the funding.

There's an interesting quote on the Wikipedia entry for Cheryl Halpern, the current Chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting:

"Mrs. Halpern is outstanding in her field as a propagandist."

And save Ferris. Don't forget Ferris.

If you're lucky your local Circuit City will have it in stock. And if they do, their price is $14.99. Although I haven't seen a Circuit City near me that has a copy. It's NOT available online.

Good luck, Gamers.

UPDATE: 6/20/2006: I was just at the Circuit City web site, and now this title is available there at the $14.99 price.

For fans of Bloc Party. Including live set at Coachella.

Found it @ Surfstation. It's really lame that there's no new content, maybe it's time for a redesign to just feature the linkblog.

For dinner last night I had some sharp cheddar cheese, potato chips (2 different flavors of Kettle chips, beer cheddar = yum), and a banana, and a mango. I'm not sure where this is going, but is it any wonder it's difficult getting my kids to eat right. I'm sure the flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and pecan pieces dropped into yogurt for breakfast today did nothing to encourage my five year old. I think i try to eat very on often enough occasions, so that I can eat some absolute crap and still end up with a better nutritional lifestyle than most of my American peers.

We made Pancakes today for breakfast. And I threw in some egg, applesauce, cinnamon, vanilla, and macadamia nut oil into the mix to get something besides flour in the little guy's system.

Now that I'm done typing I will strategically insert links in places that may or may not be appropriate to ensure this posting gets an "E" for effort. Which, where I come from is still a failing grade.

Note: Egg link goes to mini-game, in case you need a further distraction. If you weren't distracted already, you wouldn't be here in the first place.

I rolled up the Queen. No, not her. The Queen of All Cosmos. (She's the one on the right, sans facial hair.) It happened about three weeks ago, but it took awhile, and I actually had to wake up my son a little earlier in the morning to witness it, since he would never forgive me if I didn't. (You are entitled to your opinion of me as a parent, and if you decide to share it, then please share some hints on getting the 5 year old to eat vegetables as well.) I don't recall the exact size of the katamari necessary for rolling up her royal highness, but it had to be between 3000 and 3500 meters.

The animated gif is from the Panic web site. Fine purveyors of Mac software and Katamari Damacy t-shirts. Well, where else would you by them? Target ain't got 'em. I'm expecting my shirt soon. And in the meantime I'm debating of when to unveil the PSP in my house, and the family debut of Me & My Katamari. There's a five hour road trip coming up real soon, so it'll happen before then.

Related links:
GameSetWatch Interview with Cabel Sasser of Panic on the collaboration on the shirts with Katamari creator, Keita Takahashi.
GamaSutra Interview with Keita Takahashi.
KmikeyM - he who packs the shirts in mailing envelopes..

A stretch, but...ah well.

This is not chicken soup for the soul. But I still can't get over this story about the two 70 year old women that take out large insurance policies on homeless men. Sounds a little odd, but not completely evil. But that's until you hear the part about how the men are found dead as a result of hit and run accidents.

So much for arsenic and old lace.

The filename for the thumbnail from MSNBC.com contains the moniker "fraudbroads". That would make a better title than mine.

I don't much care for bills. I care even less for paying them. i'm kind of paying them now, but not really. i've been looking at the katamari home page and david choe's web site.

Choe's site has a photo collage (it's in that pop-up window which is also the "news" link) which if you scroll down goes into detail about his hobby of setting up the perfect photos in GTA: San Andreas (this link is not to photos by David Choe, obviously). And since this site (thisblogismyblog, my parentheses are getting more annoying than ever, just pray that I don't scan through this one more time) hasn't commented on the Grand Theft franchise for awhile, why not mention it here. The GTA gamers will get some perspective outside of cheat codes and rumours.

I'm a big fan of Choe's art, I've picked up Bruised Fruit and Cursiv. But I'll admit it's been awhile since I flipped through. He pops up here and there in Giant Robot.

And while I'm on the subject of West Coast folks, I'll mention Pete(r) Moraites. And then I'll mention to him this posting. But by then he'd probably have read it. Or maybe not. Anyway...Pete is avisualmucialtitleanimatronillustrvidedirectninja guy. He's mad talented, and he's got something called focus working in his favor in the last few years. Like how Cyclops from the X-Men needs those goggles or fucking lasers just destroy all. I think he's got those goggles implanted in his brain or something.

Yeah...umm...well he's got a DVD release party happening which includes his video and music work (solo and as part of the duo, Salvador Dalek) It's this Saturday May 20th, beginning at 7PM at the Ocean Front Gallery, 801 Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach, CA 90291. Full details here.

I figured I'd mention Pete's work or web site at some point or another. But not really when I was paying my bills thinking I was going to segway into more of a personal post, and then detouring via David Choe in Pete's direction. But posts have a way of writing themselves.

Oh yeah the Peter Moraites DVD is entitled Spelling Test. I hadn't mentioned that, and it will probably be better for everyone's Googling purposes now that I've told you. And he blogs here.

I believe I was in 3rd grade when they played this in my elementary school, but it may have been earlier since Star Wars came out when I was in 1st grade. (LL note: Looks like it was 1st grade. 1977.) I still chuckle when I see this. If the Internet was around back then, they certainly would have had a ton of traffic.

Hardware Wars.

More:
Home page
IMDB entry
Wikipedia entry

Apparently, in 1999, George Lucas called Hardware Wars his favorite Star Wars parody.

I'm a big Chewchilla fan myself. I fondly remember him gnawing on Princess Anne-Droid's cinnamon buns.

Sometimes it takes another blog to kickstart the fluids in the grey matter to congeal into some form of thought. Rather than to let this pseudo-intellectual colloid cause any type of brain hemorrhaging, I'll post it here, just in case the blogholder deems it unworthy of publication on their site.

Blog: Life Beyond Code
Author: Rajesh Setty
Posting where my comment may appear: Ways to distinguish yourself #127 Synchronize your configurations

Synchrony - It's the reason that the baseball team with the highest payroll cannot get their boat to the World Series every year. A team composed of All-Stars will not beat the best regular team on a given day. Statistics are only that...statistics. It doesn't mean you'll get the same performance in September that you got in July. If your third baseman thinks your catcher is a scumbag, there may be some trouble with synchrony even if they are the best at their position.

I enjoyed your post, and making the connection that even in our personal lives, the concept of synchrony or teams is involved in situations where you feel you are operating in a vacuum. I may feel like I'm alone when I'm dealing with a medical bill that my insurance won't pay, and although there's no formal team, the individual efforts, attitudes, and abilities of myself, the customer service rep at the insurance company, their manager, the clerk at my doctor's office, and perhaps the doctor herself(himself) will determine the success of this unrealized(?) team to process payment on my insurance claim.

We don't wear the same uniforms or collect a paycheck from the same place, but every issue that is addressed by more than one individual requires some happy synchrony to see itself to fruition. Even if the item is low priority on one person's to-do list, the respect with which I treat one of my "team members" in our conversations could have a great effect on the final result.

Good luck with your book.

There you have it. A post. Sure, it's a comment, but as the title would indicate, this is my blog, so if I want my comments on another site to be a post, well then, they'll be a post.

On another note, I started reading Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein tonight. Yeah, the forward of the book already has me feeling like a tropical fish in the Antarctic Circle, but I figure there's got to be something I could gain from reading this. I'm already wondering that if these theories can be applied to such mass entities billions of light years away, isn't the inverse possible? Can the macro affect the micro? Is it possible that these theories of mathematics and physics could be used to come up with the solutions needed to deal with viruses or cancer cells. Maybe in fact, they already are, because right now I don't know enough about either, but I do know that if my mind is still working, I certainly ain't dead, and that's a good thing.

See ya next post.