tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52955539718558801752024-10-02T02:31:12.987-04:00we're all a little touched at this tea party...faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-1674570658345499192011-08-29T23:49:00.000-04:002011-08-29T23:49:31.161-04:00

sometimes i can be a chameleon. blending in and smiling/nodding just helps get you through some situations. a survival technique. people mistakenly assume i agree with them just because i don't argue with them. they also fail to notice that i'm not agreeing with them either.  anyhow. the point is: if you want freedom of speech for one, you kind of need to give it to all. and also: people do

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I really wanted to post here a little more often than never....such grand aspirations have I. I've been experimenting with ways to strip expenses down to a bare minimum. Not that I'm an extravagant spender--kind of hard to be if you don't have it to spend in the first place. But still, I'd like to be able to save some money since my pets won't be around to take care of me when I'm too old to

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i've been thinking a lot about the slipstream of life lately. and death following a hair too closely. and the disparity between each person's rowboat. i read that "slipstream" also refers to a genre of fiction, at least since 1989. "the fiction of strangeness." writings that deal with an element of the surreal or are heavy with cognitive dissonance. but really i have to wonder if that's not

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So I don't catch a lot of commercials anymore, but I've seen this one ad twice now for Burlington Coat Factory that I pretty much deplore. You can watch it here if you haven't seen it already. Apparently it's for their new slogan "brag about it." Whatever. Basically, the point of the commercial is this snooty women with a French accent is a little too pretentious  about being

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I've used that title before a long time ago, but I've got them again, the post office blues. <harmonica solo> So almost a month after my request for a copy of the signature that I paid the post office to receive (signature confirmation), I finally get a response! That is, a letter from USPS regretfully informing me that they can find no record of that item. Thankfully I know it got there,

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My brother sent me a link to a few years old story about a man being arrested at a Best Buy for trying to pay with $2 bills. Try here (or alternatively, here) to read about it. Anyway, it got me thinking about the times I've tried to spend my $2 bills. It never goes well. Even had a bank teller look at me odd once for trying to deposit them. Same goes for 50-cent pieces and $1 coins! The cashiers

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(I first mentioned this site back in Feb 2007. some of these campaigns are still just campaigns. COME ON PEOPLE, THERE ARE SOME WORTHY CAUSES HERE!!!) you know, they do have a point. or two or three or four or.... and by "they" i mean "DOWNSIZEDC.ORG" and why should we need campaigns like this? i mean, you'd think it would just be the logical sensible thing to be doing when you're drafting a bill

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Decided to go through former posts at earth*asylum and pick out some oldies & goodies for reposting here. What can I say, I'm feeling a wee bit lazy right now. But also so there'll be something filling the void here until I really get back into the blogging groove.  It's been quite a while. Been letting the day job get me down, but no more!

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The Cat: We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.Alice: How do you know I'm mad?The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn't have come here. (Duly noted.) Many years ago I rambled some whimsical albeit mindless rants and now am back once again. Properly URLed.  I dubbed myself fairiechild, but it was others who insisted on the madhatter. I have preferred to say "the madhatter in fairie form," but

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-79959729610001403392008-10-26T10:19:00.001-04:002011-04-03T21:19:08.201-04:00

this is very very cool….very very interesting….come on, what’s in that scotch tape? Peeling Scotch Tape Powers X-Ray Machine (from Discover.com, 10-22-08)"Peeling a roll of ordinary sticky tape can generate 100 milliwatt pulses of X-rays, enough to capture a human finger on X-ray film, according to a new study by UCLA scientists. …"  crazy, no?

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-70394813869077865092008-09-02T21:53:00.002-04:002011-04-07T19:19:03.823-04:00

a couple years ago i noticed some weird goings on. of course, i’m always noticing weird goings on, but i like to look upwards and check out what the aircraft is doing from time to time. i have a lot of chances to witness their activity. by the way, i’m in a quiet zone and some high altitude commercial flight paths with an occasional military “game”…… the constant goings on include chemtrail

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-81049360629936628752008-06-30T11:11:00.003-04:002011-04-07T19:19:19.245-04:00

i get this depressed little laugh when people are so swayed by manbearpig’s global warming creation. that’s not to say it doesn’t feel a little warmer than when i was a kid; however, i just don’t think people are the solitary reason for it. nor do i feel that it’s a trend that will last forever. in fact, this summer has been rather cool compared to last summer. i find it silly to think that the

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-49990700045343904322008-06-29T10:47:00.002-04:002011-04-07T19:19:35.102-04:00

the simplest way to express my feelings on religions/cults/philosophies (including those “anti-religious” paths of science/politics/sociology/etc) is that i don’t worship anything. you could call that my “belief system” i suppose…the belief that absolutely nothing, no matter how wicked or wonderful, is worth my mindless and utter devotion. and why isn’t it? well, i see no justification for

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-78518684784040861522008-05-04T12:51:00.002-04:002011-04-07T19:19:49.864-04:00

so there used to be one show that i would adjust the antenna for…alas no longer as it has truly passed into the realm of “every other show on television”…….but this isn’t my actual point. what i really wanted to mention, was that in waiting for that show a couple weeks back, i was so lucky to catch the grainy tail-end of that wonderful piece of drivel called grey’s anatomy. the part where they

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-9205035928525992392007-10-01T14:28:00.022-04:002011-04-10T11:46:10.351-04:00

to carry on in the vein of microscopic brain infesters, here’s some clips from a little story about Naegleria (i feel like this should be an x-files episode* or something….): Killer Amoeba Blamed for Six Deaths ...thanks to the amoeba Naegleria that is often found in fun places to swim. it likes to destroy tissue on its way to your brain. that's where the feast really begins. mm-mm-mm.

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or maybe it’s just the heat. it’s not luck, ’cause i’m not the lucky type. but my beau lost his place in his book, didn’t feel like looking for it, so asked me what page he was on. of course, i had no idea–this was just a lark. so he tells me the range of pages and without thinking i reply “213″. he turns there and then acts a little odd. apparently that WAS the page he was on.

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RFID tags are in pretty much everything you buy nowadays. they collect a lot of data which can be extracted when in range of a RFID reader. basically, the object is scanned throughout the delivery process to a store, inside a store, upon leaving the store, after you take it home, wherever you happen to take it. as long as you have a reading device, you (or anyone else) can access this info and

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don’t think you’re immune, ’cause you’re full of them too! every living thing is crawling with them, at least every animal. i suppose it’s only when something upsets that delicate balance called health that we might notice them. or rather, we notice their effects. i will finish with human parasites in a moment. here are some interesting insect/animal parasite stories: apparently, there is a type

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i assume Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience to authority (& those of others) are known, but if not, wikipedia has some articles (try here & here) to start you off. what no longer amazes me is how so many people heedlessly obey a perceived “higher authority.” yes perhaps nothing constructive would ever get done if we didn’t, but personally i see this subconcious kowtowing as mostly

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i have not had internet for a while and there are no convenient cafés offering wi-fi in the woods  i do prefer fall, what little we have of it anymore. i always feel more like myself.  though really i have not much to say at this moment. it is tiresome professing opinions and very trying hearing them.  silence can be a very dear friend.  but i will listen to the wind when she

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though i do not recommend all of william s. burroughs writings, i do suggest you peruse “the electronic revolution” (currently available as a pdf here and online in parts here: part 1 & part 2) ……something i’ve pondered over myself a few times. ignoring his obsession with sex, you'll find he describes a quite interesting experiment. basically using the cut-up technique with video/audio/

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-29609670246796832262006-01-29T07:11:00.006-05:002011-04-07T19:21:00.187-04:00

or, this is not inevitable! one giant (perhaps staggering?) thought/theory that should be kept in mind is that life as we know it doesn’t have to be life as we know it. perhaps it could all be different. perhaps it could all change. even easily if we all agreed upon it. it wouldn’t be this anymore. it could be that. maybe we would like that better. maybe we wouldn’t. swirl it around a bit. what

faeriechildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16344297361517710524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295553971855880175.post-72840678591494394832005-12-15T01:03:00.001-05:002011-04-07T19:21:43.093-04:00

i watched this movie “katherine” with sissy spacek (1975) last night. i’ve actually been watching a lot of movies from the 60s & 70s lately. (when they had no clue that you could play with lighting in such a way that it would still look like night AND you could see the actors.) here’s the thing though. quite a few (like “katherine”) are protest films, thought-provoking films whatever you want

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