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New Host Well, folks, if you're seeing this, you're at the new iaatb.net. Not that it looks any different from the old iaatb.net. For now, at least. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) The shake-up has been shook Whoa! I have a blog. Okay, yeah, I know, so I haven't updated in a long time. Well, I was working the corn job, man. And then after that, I've been trying to get ready to go to Italy. Which has mainly involved trying to build OpenBSD on my old laptop. Mmm, learning CVS-- and not the pharmacy. Went to the state fair tonight to honor standard Augustal tradition (actually, August by itself is an adjective, just like Indiana, but since I hate that colloquial nightmare-- those blocks of nouns that somehow modify each other-- I'll use Augustal, which also sounds like it should be something from Latin America. Wow, I'm digressing like Melville; somebody hire a copy editor before it's too late!) Started off the evening with a fabulous hand-dipped corndog, followed by a pork tenderloin, onion rings, fresh corn, and then like a pepsi and some ice cream and a lemon shake-up. Yeah, when I got said lemon shake-up, the cashier didn't see that I had it after it was paid for, and asked the other guy working the booth if he had made the shake-up. The reply was today's title. The way it was said (The shake up ... has been shook. ) was hillarious. Oh well, I guess I didn't have any italian sausage or whatever. Unusual, but made up for by the tenderloin. Anyhow, after that, listened to that little band from Ecuador that's always outside the crafts and family arts pavillion, wandered around the pavillion where they sell crap (I have no idea what it's called), and then hit up the cattle barn. The cows were cool as always-- I actually saw short-horn cattle for the first time, which are what the first guy named Lamb off the boat in Virgina (mid-1700s) came to manage. But what was even cooler was that subaru had a cutway of their boxer-4 turbo-intercooled car engine in the sell-crap pavillion, since they make some of their cars at that factory outside Lafayette. I'm not that big a fan of subaru, but it was really awesome to see a full engine-gearbox assembly in cutaway and be able to look closely at it and even touch it, especially with a turbocharger and an intercooler, which aren't standard variety car parts. Also, the fact that they had the kinda-silly-but-still-informative "made IN Indiana" sign at their booth like all the little trinket mongers made it all worthwile. Yeah, that's about it. Individual Post | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) 15:59 0506.23 Site Move iaatb.net will be moving hosts over the next week or so, so everything will be locked to interaction, and perhaps disappear and reappear at random intervals. Sorry for the inconvenience. Individual Post | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) 16:07 0506.8 Our Vertical Leap is Beyond All Measurement It's been a long time since I wrote a blog thing on here that's more than a paragraph, so I'm going to do it right now, because, you know, my culture has advanced beyond all that you can possibly comprehend with 100% of your brain. Anyhow, I haven't been able to sleep on anything approaching a 'regular' schedule this past month, so time has started turning into lyrics from late '60s Beatles songs. It has given me the chance, though, to start eating breakfast again, which is nice, because I miss good orange juice. Orange juice is awesome, unless it comes out of a pepsi spigot in the caf, when it tastes like cruddy lemonade mixed with a twinge of off-brand tang. Oh, and bitters of some sort! Waugh. Anyhow, so breakfast. And also, the other nice thing about being at Neuhaus besides breakfast and stuff that is bigger than I am and like 500 channels of stuff and better weather and more shirts are, of course, the endless stacks of recent catalogs that are constantly invading our mailbox like some sort of unending bulk-rate Normandy beach landing. But on 8½"×11" glossy. Anyhow, to add further to the meandering theme of this text-block (I reuse to think of it any more as a paragraph), my favorite are the J. Crew catalogs, mainly because they've got good stuffs for the most part. However, the wierd thing about these is that these are summer catalogs, so everybody's outside on the beach or whatever, and they're wearing khakis and those worn-in unlined blazers and ties and stuff. (See here.) I'm wondering, where the heck is this place that is so bright and sunny but one can still wear something like that? I don't care about the beach or whatever, but, seriously. I was burning up on sunday wearing something similar and it was only like 85 or something outside. But, anyway, they still have the best-looking fabric belts regardless. Also, since I've been up at weird hours I've watched a lot of my two new favorite TV shows, Mythbusters and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. But, like always, I really like the non-major aspects of the show better than what the thing's marketed as. Like, seriously, that Adam Savage guy is nuts. I mean, totally crazy-go-nuts-university type nuts. But eventhough he's the cohost of Mythbusters, he's on there less and less which I find unfortunate. And then, of course, ATHF is great and all, but the real humorosity is derived not from the fast-food-inspired main characters, but rather, the mooninites, who have five (thousand) dimensions. In fact, you know, I think the mooninites are the cleverest concept on TV today. I mean, I'm just saying. Oh, also, now that I'm done throwing in mooninites quotes, I'd also like to say that I've come up with a bunch of goofy album ideas for my nonexistant ultra rock group Six Flags Over Your Mom. My current favorite: (You are now entering) AMISH COUNTRY. Some of the tunes would have titles like "luddites in my back buttonless pocket" and "Barn Razor". Just so you know! Individual Post | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0) |
