I see cute and fuzzy bunnies...being massacred by my mother

In the course of my life I’ve taken a Rorschach, PAI, MMPI and a couple other tests I don’t remember the names of. All of them were taken with a joyful subversiveness in having fun with the answers. The scenarios they create just seem to beg to be made fun of.

I’ve always thought standardized psychological tests to be a bit silly, and was pleased to see the topic show up on plastic. One guy has apparently violated the rules and disclosed how Rorschach tests are scored. After reading that page it would appear my playful answers about angels and demons at war during a Rorschach test were not helpful. I was handed a schizotypal personality disorder diagnosis from one doctor and he urgently wanted to medicate me to stop a paranoid or delusional schizophrenia from setting in later. It was at that point that I realized that the doctors took these things far more serious than I did. I never went back to see him again. Although the realization came too late.

Dallas and Hollywood

At the Angelika roundtable discussion I learned two new factoids about Dallas’ contributions to American movies. The shocking one is that Blade Runner screened at the North Park theater before its release. Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott were present. This Dallas audience is the one responsible for the studio changes to the movie as it was originally released. Oh the horror, this is probably the real reason Redford put Sundance in Utah instead of Fort Worth (One of the cities he looked at for hosting the festival).

Where's the beat?

Salon has a good article on electronic music in America. It’s about why techno remains underground and Britney and Eminem top the charts.

Longshot

I was over at Dave’s place this morning and Julie was cooking something. In no time at all she accidentally set a dish towel on fire. They must be coated in something because it smelled really bad and sort of melted. Dave tossed it outside, doused the flame with water and then the Jehovah’s Witnesses walked up.

Not too much later I was taking Julie to work. I was stopped at an intersection waiting for the light to turn. The light turned and I watched the car to my right drive on, then I heard a loud pop. A grandma in her lincoln towncar came in from my left. She had been rear-ended and her car was forced into the intersection. Her car passed in front of mine and she almost hit the car to my right as it went through the intersection. She had to back up before I could go through the intersection.

IRC quotes archived

QDB has some really funny quotes from irc.

Holy cow!

Now web pages really do look better on the Mac than on Windows. IE 5.2 for OS X now uses the fancy text rendering system built into OS X. My jaw dropped the first time a web page loaded in the new browser.

ruling the root

I read Salon’s review of Ruling the Root about the root dns servers for .com and so forth. It sounds pretty pessimistic and predicts that intellectual property and law enforcement have taken over the assignment of .com, etc names for their own nefarious purposes.

If it really becomes a problem I don’t see why people won’t just setup alternative root name servers. All my friends and I would use them to get around on the Internet and communicate with each other, and fallback to the ICANN TLDs as needed.

I just did what I

I just did what I should have done in the first place. The previous entry about the past weekend has been marked friends only.

Love train derails in DFW, feelings scattered everywhere

I just wanted to say that snarkfests happen with blogger users too.

Witness a recent visit by Richard to the DFW area to visit Julie. As you read the links below you’ll want to view source as all the snarking is below the HTML surface so to speak.

It all starts with Richard stealthily commenting on his frustrations with Julie. (Skip down to the 6/8/2002 entries). This was a bad idea as it ballooned out of control.

Add N to (X) is shway

A pleasing musical diversion came my way in the form of Josh’s May mix of the month.

The first track is a rocking song from Add N to (X) called Metal Fingers in My Body. It’s an interesting mix of musical styles.

I’d never heard of them before. They are a trio from London. Looking around on their website I learned that they built an interesting musical installation. It consists of a theremin (that spooky sounding instrument that creates sound when you pass your hands through the air around it and disturb the magnetic fields) and a bunch of finches. The birds fly around inside and unknowingly manipulate the theremin to create sounds.