There is an object which looks like a tube of toothpaste here.
Not sure which BBS this was on, may have been my own (Dark Forces / Innerlink).. The year was 1996 and the message base was dedicated to users’ L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon) character descriptions. “The Darkener” was my first longstanding online alias and has stuck with me through the fall of BBSes and […]
I just got “thedarkener.com” !!! This site will transition to the new domain name in the next couple of days. Finally, the rightful owner has it – the mysterious, dark Warrior (Death-Knight, actually) from Legend of the Red Dragon. I fucking love the Internet. =p
Roadwarriors know what it means to be able to pack a bag. Being mobile is very important to me and my line of work – I’ve come to depend on certain devices, tools and methods to not only make myself comfortable and able to work but to simply stay sane. There are too many things […]
So I’ve spent another day with Periscope being at the center of my ‘lazy’ attention span(s) throughout the day. A few observations: 1) I can tell that the fever will die down very quickly with its current feature set. The Periscope devs will really need to dig deep into what it means to livestream your […]
I’ve been infatuated with Periscope for the past few days. I’ve hardly been on Facebook. I don’t even *care* about Facebook anymore. I do admit I didn’t care very much about it already, but Periscope has become a really good reason not to waste time on Facebook feeling part-way disconnected from my friends. Living through […]
June 29, 2015..a man working at an Athens’ central fish market waits for customers.
There was once a little fish who lived in a pond. On a particularly sunny day, a very big horse walked over to the pond for a drink. The little fish looked up at the gigantic horse in amazement and swam up to him. “Horse, why don’t you live in the pond?” The little fish […]
Last night I had an incredibly vivid dream (one of a few, actually). In this particular dream sequence I had parked my car on a busy block and for some reason that escapes me, was walking around the block to get back to it. I was looking down at the sidewalk and found a couple […]
I am the Reflector Direct it from me Push hands Invade my consciousness It bleeds around me I hold my force field It subsides It will come again I’ll feel nothing It may linger closer I’ll accidentally let it in Inevitability We share the space And even if we didn’t I would find it somewhere […]
The Fountain At times we pull from it Stronger than others Sometimes it runs dry And we die of dehydration It is the thing that we live from We cannot pinpoint But when it is here We know it We drink it We live it Spread your arms and yell Keep the feeling close We […]
This is a poem by someone on IRC named Benceno around 2003. He had written this and shared it in the channel (#poetry on DalNet I think). It was really cool, and I told him I liked it a lot and he seemed to take offense to it (he might not have believed I was […]
Storm thorugh the oceans But keep the moon in place Thrash through the desert As long as I see your face Keep it coming I can take anything Now You hide behind curtains And the diamonds blind my eyes A million treasured glimpses of, Those bright, bright bursts of light Keep me thinking… Keep me […]
I have to admit I didn’t think about Warrior much until the news last year. UW was my favorite wrestler (I was 7-10 years old around his heyday in WWF). At the time my parents were going through a messy divorce and I looked up to him as a pillar of strength and stability. Last […]
Found this in /etc/network/interfaces on my BeagleBone Black..lol. # Example to keep MAC address between reboots hwaddress ether DE:AD:BE:EF:CA:FE /me wonders what this refers to, if anything interesting….hmmm…..
13 Years after I start my business, trying to give people a clue as to how to do the “right thing” on the Internet…and I still see everyone using generic e-mail domains for themselves. “my.office.name@gmail.com” …. *sigh* The world is doomed.
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Stuck in the cruft Of an illusion and a fantasy Reaching up to find the solidification Of what I can call real But nothing is Time is Matter is Intentions are A green folding plastic enveloping me Reminds of my fantasy A portal to that which is unseen By the conscious, by the living I […]
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Belt it out like you haven’t before Let it out and perspire some more This is what it’s all about Live the life without a doubt
I have my entire music collection on shuffle. The past 4 songs I’ve heard were specifically about marijuana (Bone Thugs & Harmony, Dre/Eminem x2, Kottonmouth Kings).. *waves*
If I Make a song With words that make you worry Will you Lock me up And buy yourselves a jury If I Gather the ones That feel the same as me Will you Call us terrorists And say we can’t be free Stuff a blanket down my throat Throw me off a one man […]
I feel similar sensations each time. Many times, independent original music is presented in different and unique ways. The levels might not be “standard”, for instance. Maybe the musicians are doing the recording themselves. Maybe there’s a single room mic capturing every instrument, every harmony as they intermingle in the (same) space that occupies the […]
I am The two sides Fit snugly together You are Just one side But you got it better I don’t Wanna sit aside And just waste away, but When I Set my sights My time’s going down the drain Slow down Speed up If you don’t play the game You’ll waste away But I wanna […]
When cell phones started becoming mainstream I always sort of avoided them. Maybe it’s the part of me that resists change (I loved my pager, after all). But I remember even back then in the late 1990’s, I felt like the benefits of having a constantly-on radio on your person for the sake of communicating […]
Systemd seems to take control away from the console user. For instance, with Sysvinit, if I encountered a problem with a startup or shutdown script I could normally CTRL+C out of it and the system will continue on its merry way. Today, I shut my computer down to air-dust it. When I hooked it back […]
What if Facebook swapped words around in your posts/replies to make you look like you can’t type (thus others would partially dismiss what you’re trying to say) if you posted something that they (or their superiors) didn’t like? On that same note, what if Facebook modified posts for certain people who view them? Would be […]
Got this as a present – a multifunction pocket knife, complete with that much needed cheese spreader you know and love.
I was rooting around my old BBS installation tonight and, while looking through the file bases found a document. A digital artifact, if you will. Before they were popularized as “Emoticons” by hundreds of AOL junkies, and eventually replaced with emojis, way back in the beginning….they were “Smilies”. This document, “The Unofficial Smilie Face Glossary”, […]
Find me When you least expect it Don’t try me, I’m undetected Catch me And it’d all change Chase the wagger a bit more, baby So find me In the air around you There’s nothing more true But you wouldn’t believe it So find yourself In the darkness of your chambers Nothing can remain here […]
The C64 theme has to do with my childhood. When I was growing up (from age 5 to… 11?) You would normally find me in the living room, laying stomach down on the blue carpet, Commodore in front of me. We had it hooked up to our big old wooden framed television set. I’d be […]
Sorceror Dark sea of awareness glowing coat of awareness Flyers Predator Keep inner silence They will be bewildered They will leave Envelope, suffocate This is their job Eat a baby’s glowing coat Leave only a spine, a sliver to keep us alive Keep us in your fear Our awareness Will keep you Away Our awareness […]
No matter how many times I tell people ‘Do NOT use Outlook’, they don’t listen. No, they just don’t listen. They go and use Outlook because they ‘like’ it, because it’s what they’re used to. And then they come crying to me when they get a corrupted .PST file. Again. And again. *facepalm* UPDATE: It […]