Nuclear Røse

I had a dream last night that I was working at a movie theater on the top of a hill and Stephen Colbert was hanging out in the theater office. The theater was laid out in such a way that, moving up the hill, there was a theater yard, then the actual theater with an entrance from the yard, then above and behind that, the projection booth, and then the office. Further up behind the office were some dark alleyways and streets. I could stand in the office and look through all the open doors down the hill at the beautiful view of the city below.

Stephen Colbert decided to smoke a lot of pot and while doing that, he came up with an art installation idea. He put seven or eight television sets and VCRs suspended from strings next to each other in the theater yard and then had some bleachers and pillows to sit and watch. I didn’t think it was that impressive until someone pointed out to me that one could actually climb into the TVs and interact with whatever was going on on a particular TV, so I climbed into one where people were hanging out on a big yellow couch. To people sitting outside of the TVs in the bleachers and on the pillows, our talking sounded like gibberish and it just looked like some kind of crazy TV show, but to us inside the TV, everything made sense. I tried out some other TVs and some I couldn’t get into because they were too small. One that I got into was a black & white western.

By the end of the whole thing, I was still trying to explore the TVs, but they were starting to fall down andPara ver previamente como se juega un Keno en el casino espec�fico antes de jugar haga el voluntario debe hacer clic en la propia maquina. become not-so-stable. By this point Stephen Colbert had turned into Kevin Spacey, and I think that this came about because I had seen Kevin Spacey on Charlie Rose’s show on OPB the night before.

I made something: ???????? ????? ????????Here is a site I put up that will allow you to interact with my home computer and make it say things out loud.

I’ve begun working on an implementation of John Conway’s “Game Of Life” which relies upon people visiting my website:

James Life

It’s one of a number of IP-integration projects I plan to build in my spare time.

I’m taking a literature class entitled “The Elegant Email”, taught by Kim Stafford. One of the main goals of the course is to become more aware of everyday life in Iraq by reading Iraqi blogs. Kim gave us two popular blog’s URLs to start out with:

Baghdad Treasure: This is the blog I’ve been reading the most. It’s by an Iraqi journalism student living in Philadelphia. It’s a mix of American and Iraqi culture, sometimes documenting the hardships of Iraqis that the author knows, and sometimes documenting the author’s discoveries and experiences in America.

Days of My Life, by Sunshine: This is another one that I’ve just begun reading a little bit of. It’s written by a teenage girl in Iraq. She talks about her life and the lives of others around her, and the hardships that they must endure.

It’s unfortunate that American media corporations are too involved in their affairs to give the kind of true information that you’ll find in these blogs. For those without means of access or knowledge or time or motivation to access these blogs, the best they will get is something biased and catering to the pressure that the U.S. government and private interests force upon the American media. It’s my opinion that American’s are so oppressed that they cannot afford to care.

This is us.

If you like puzzles, check these out:

n.nfshost.com - The point of this one is to get to the next page. I kicked it’s ass, but it took a few days. Some of them are pretty hard.

HackThisSite - Use your 1337 haX0r sk1LLz to hack these websites. I got about half way through the realistic challeneges, but I haven’t had time to work on it lately.

Not Pron - I really like this one. It’s complicated, and I don’t know how many levels there are, but I think I’ve gotten into the teens.

If you like art and special effects, check out these sites:

Slow Wave - People’s dreams turned into comics. The first time I saw this site, I didn’t realize that was what was going on, and I thought to myself that this guy must do a lot of drugs…

Peter Gric’s art - This is the art of Peter Gric. I discovered his site one day while searching for “good art” or something random like that. His paintings are sort of surrealistic robotic fantasy things.
And if you like good music:

The Putrid Flowers - I don’t know a lot about the band, but I like their music. They want you to download their music, and you should.

Too tired to go on… Have headache… Bleeding from the ears…

I’ve just finished my facebookpedia greasemonkey script. It displays Wikipedia information for any links that you hover over on a user’s profile page. However, all but the “interests” section’s descriptions are disabled by default so you don’t pull too much information from Wikipedia, like if you’ve got a slow ‘net connection. It’ll be more fully-featured when I get some feedback and get around to acting on the feedback. So, if you have greasemonkey installed (you need to be using Firefox), go here:

http://www.sawdustbunny.com/facebookpedia.user.js

An “install this script” box will appear at the top of the page (if you have greasemonkey installed and enabled) and there are some settings you can change to allow facebookpedia to display information for other sections of the user profile.

ENJOY!

I wrote a report on MIR (in pencil) in like 7th or 8th grade and I just found it. Here’s what it says:

MIR: The Space Station
By: James M. Pereira II

Space Stations
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Mir is the newest in a line of Space Stations that have been sent up into orbit by the Soviets since 1971. Salyut 1 was the first space station send up into space.

After Salyut 1, Salyut 6 had the distinction of being the first station to be resupplied and refeuueled, thus doubling the stations life by 9nine months. Thanks to the extended life span, scientists were able to do things like materials processing, Earth observations, and astrophysical and biomedical observations.

Salyut 7 had almost the same configuration as Salyut 6. Salyut 7 hosted ten crews consisting of aboutfrom two to three people each. At first a crew of two people werewas sent to the Soyuz space station.

To send supplies to Soyuz 7, the Soviets had created an updated Soyuz to be unmanned and sent to the space station. The ship is made to burn up in the atmosphere.

There’s just one more thing I want to write. I read that a piece of the American space station Skylab mostly burned up in the atmosphere, but a chunk of it almost hit a man in Australia.

Mir
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Mir is the most recent space Soviet Space Station to be sent up into orbit. Mir, meaning, peace, was named as a reaction to the United States Strategic Defence Initiative. Mir is built on the same technology as the Salyut* except for a few noticeable differences such as the six docking ports instead of two as on the Salyut. Another improvement is that Mir uses computers to do many routine tasks previously not done by computers. Also the Mir has two oversized solar panels that rotate towards the Sun at all times and the Salyut only has three.

The Mir has a 13.5 meter long hand four-meter diamaeter core as to which scientific modules can be added on for living quarters, labs, etc. The space station grows as modules are added. Modules can also be detatched and left free-floating beside the Space Station when not needed and new modules can be added on or taken off as desired.

In 1987 the first module, named “Kvant” was attached to the space station. Kvant is a 5.8×4meter Astrophysical Research Laboratory. That year there were modules outfitted for food growing, remote sensing, and other varios things. There wre also two more modules added: An improved Soyuz TMZ space vehicle and the Progress-Freighter.

Mir Systems
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The Mir system is similar to the one used on Salyut. Mir’s propulsion system contains the main orbital maneuvering engines, propellant, air tanks and other equipment. The engines are covered by hypergolic nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine. They are used to manuver Mir and the progress vehicle and be used to boost Mir into a higher orbit.

The temperature in the Space Station is between 18° Celcius and 28° Celcius. The recirculated compressed air is filtered out by Lithium Hydroxide filters (I guess that means it’s nuclear). Humidity is also controlled.

Living in Mir
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New crews arrive in the updated Soyuz-TMZ space craft. The Soyuz TMZ has a new avionics system, called Kurs, which provides for automatic docking (docks automatically). It can do all the manuvers necesarrynecessary to dock on the Space Station. The Progress Ferry, or Tanker, delivers essential supplies when needed. All the systems, the flight path, the altitude control, orbital manuvers and docking are all controlled by eight computers.

The zero-gravity complex has chairs and tables and exercise equipment and is also an eating and working room.

Mir Life (cont)
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There is a hand and face washing facility, but there is no shower. How do they clean then? They use wet wipes. Scientists are kept busy aboard Mir in their free-time with books, videos, television links which allow them to speak to family and friends and tapes which play earthly sounds such as birds singing, windo blowing, sea waves breaking and other familiar sounds. The Mir complex also has ceilings (I drew an ‘i’ over the e and an ‘e’ over the i, so I don’t know which way I actually misspelled it and floors to give an earth-like feeling to the place.

Work is done on a day-by-day schedule. Future tasks would require about six cosmonauts and additional living quarters would be added. One of their most unique tasks so far was to taxi from Mir to Salyut 7 on Soyuz space craft, stayed 50 days, and returned to Mir after 101 days in space and shut off Salyut 7. Then they returned to Earth after 19 days. This was the first crew ever to transfer between two space facilities.

Salyut 7 was then moved to a higher orbit and is now under observation to see it as the systems decay over time. The Mir complex is expected to be totally completed by the early 1990’s, which means it is probably complete by now. Sometimes around 10pm I see Mir fly by. It looks kind of like a star but goes faster.

Outline:
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I. Mir (space station)
A. overall
B. systems
C. Living in Mir
D. Misc.

Bibliography:
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Space Travel by: Alan R. DeOld, Ed.D., Joseph W. Judge, MEEE., Teri-Lynn Judge, MSEE.
pub. Davis Pub., inc.
(c)1989

The First 25 Years in Space By: Alan A Needell
pub. Smithsonian Institute Press
(c)1983

Omni-Edition #?
pub. Omni, inc
(c)1994

ALEX “THE UTILITY BELT” HASELDEN

Yesterday I interviewed Alex “The Utility Belt” Haselden. That’s not his real nickname, actually. I’m just making this shit up. But the interview is real. REALLY real, in your face, and glopped all in your hair so you have to take a long shower to get it all out.

Me: Can I interview you?

Alex: No… PEREIRA!

Me: Please? I’ll pay for your food.

Alex: I guess so.

Rachael: Am I gonna be in this? Are you gonna quote this?

Alex: Why are you in it? You always wanna be in everything.

Me: What was it like for you growing up?

Alex: Boring.

Me: Can you be more descriptive?

Alex: No.

(It was right about now that the chocolate milkshakes arrived…)

Me: What would you say is your biggest accomplishment?

Alex: It’s probably the time I punched Rachael in the face.

Rachael: That didn’t happen!

Alex: Yeah, you’re right. It didn’t happen.

Me: Rachael, I’m not interviewing you.

Rachael: You already did and it was a traumatizing experience. You misrepresented me!

Me: I did not!

Alex: That’s bad journalism. You shouldn’t misrepresent her.

Me: What are your plans for the future?

Alex: I’m gonna be a mathametician and then I’m gonna use calculus to find out why girls are so stupid.

(Rachael gave Alex an evil look right now, like she was going to flip out and start beating people up for no good reason)

Alex: I mean… why they’re so awesome.

Me: Would you do a dead person for $50,000?

Alex: No.

Me: $100,000?

Alex: No. I don’t fuck dead people.

(Our yummy food materializes right about now)

Me: I’d do a dead person for $50,000, but only for science.

Alex: What?!? NO!

Rachael: He’s gonna misrepresent you.

Alex: Are you making this up you little bastard?

Me: What do you think misrepresents you best?

Alex: James.

Me: What is it about you that makes you so irresistable to women?

Alex: What?

Me: No, really.

Alex: You should ask the women that.

Me: What if I can’t find a woman?

Alex: That’s too bad. I guess you can’t get an answer… I don’t know what makes ‘em tick. That’s what calculus is for.

Me: What if I pretend to be a woman and tell you?

Alex: What???

Me: What if I pretend to be a woman and tell you what makes me tick?

Alex: Ok. Why don’t you just ask (Rachael)?

Me: What “rev’s your engine”, Rachael?

Rachael: I think it’s like “jumping the vampire”. Jumping the vampire rev’s my engine.

Me: Would you consider your mom to be a “MILF”?

Alex: No.

Rachael: I would!

Alex: Really? You wanna fuck my mom??

Rachael: Yeah, she’s a pretty lady… pass the ketchup.

Me: Who’s your favorite classical composer? Do you live for Bach?

Alex: No.

Me: Mahler?

Alex: No.

Me: Wagner?

Alex: Fuck him. Prokofiev.

(Rachael left to attend a party in the ladies room)

Me: Man, did you check out the hot ass on Rachael?

Alex: No.

Me: Do you want to put mustard on her seat so when she sits down she’ll get mustard on her butt?

Alex: No.

Me: Okay then. Tell me about your experiences with photography.

Alex: Whenever I take pictures, it’s fake. There’s never any film in my camera. It looks like there’s film running through it, but there’s not. Next question.

Me: Thank you for granting me this interview, Alex.

Alex: What? Keep going you son of a bitch! I’m not done yet.

(At this point in the interview, Alex became quite beligerant.)

Alex: Erica almost stuck her bloody finger in my mouth!

Me: Ok. I’m done with the questions. You’ve been a real sport, Alex.

Alex: Bitch.

RACHAEL WORDHOUSE-DYKEMA: THE INTERVIEW

I don’t really like having things done for me, so when I decided I wanted to put up this blog, I started coding my own blog-ware. I was pretty excited about it for the first three days or so, but then I got caught up in other things and didn’t have time to work on it. So finally I just decided to go with WordPress.

I saw a bumper sticker that said “grow your own dope, plant a Bush”. I laughed on the inside, and a little on the outside, too

Watch yo’ back, foo’.