Just before going to bed last night, I went to turn off the aquarium light and noticed the plecostamus acting weird, sucking feverishly on something. I realized he was sucking the guts out of the guppy, which he had somehow corralled and caught. This was a bummer because it was the longest-lasting guppy I had ever had (~six months). I thought the scene would make good source video for something, but by the time I got a tape into the camera he had abandoned his prey. I waited a while and he came back to it, but backed off every time I moved the camera close. Usually, pleco is dumb as a doornail. I never thought he had any awareness of my presence at all. But suddenly he seemed hyper-aware of my every move. I think that doting on actual prey rather than the usual algae tablets triggered some million-year-old self-defense instinct. For 20 minutes I tried to tape him sucking on the guppy’s belly, but couldn’t get a single good shot.
Trapeze Practice
Finished tweaking my first iMovie. It’s pretty limited software compared even to personalStudio, not to mention Final Cut Pro, etc. But what it does well, it does really well, and it’s not hard to get quality results. Would be nice if it output MPEG, but it does support a huge number of QT output options, and is way easy to learn and work in. But personalStudio spoiled me for real-time everything and 10 layers. Maybe someday…
In early 2000, before I got married, I went down to Santa Monica and spent a day on the flying trapeze, in the back yard of a guy who does stunts in Hollywood. We shot some video that day, and that’s what I used as stock for the iMovie experiments.
Time Travelers, Please Help!
Hoo boy… disturbing spam. Disturbing because it seems so totally sincere.
Subject: Time Travelers PLEASE HELP!! ..
If you are a time traveler or alien disguised as human and or have the technology to travel physically through time I need your help!
Also if you are from any of the following planets and can help me as mentioned please reply:
Vadikar,Nefarious,Tralfamadore,Valnator,Travers,Edenad
I come to you for help, and need a way of doing this in the following way exactly in such a way
that there will be little or no danger. I come to you in peace. Trust and honesty is an absolutely must!!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed.
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel physically back in time.
Rewind my life (including my age).
Be able to (remember what I know now) so that I can prevent my life from being tampered with
again after I go back.
I am in great danger and need this immediately!
Only if you are a time traveler or nice alien and have this technology please send me a
(separate) email to:
xxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks
Alien Worshippers
Don’t let the title fool you. This is not a satire site.
Bert bin Laden
Bert (of Sesame Street’s Ernie and Bert) was showing up all over the wires today in Reuter’s photos. Here (look just to the right of the main bin laden head).
Milk People
Amy suggested i do something relaxing, so made this:
Gnome Liberation Front
Roger says:
The latest and greatest in citizen activism done the French way. Why do I suspect that Daevid Allen is behind this thing?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010712/od/gnomes_dc_2.html
And I say: There isn’t enough guerilla art in this world. Daevid just keeps getting younger as his hair gets whiter and longer.