Just a note for my legion of fan.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/how-.....-industry-1006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/rel.....al-chiefs.html

I LOVE this one - it's for wills - women reduced in inheritance, non Muslims cut out entirely... All legal.

All progress for the last 500 years will be destroyed by Islamic immigration - but remember - you’re racist if you don't like it!

I mean, the uniform is brown and the armband is red! That's not a Nazi!

You mean someone has actually run the numbers and decided to punish the BIG murderers for a change?

You mean someone has decided not to treat Communist atrocities as natural disasters for a change?

WOW!

http://sergio-quijada.deviantart.co.....oman-392625121

I actually almost met Jim Henson once. Terrible mistake that I decided not to go...

I could have been a Fragle....

http://sirkowski.tumblr.com/image/57578825988

All I can say is that the economy here is improving, I swear it.

I have to laugh, I've spend the whole time reading History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi at https://www.mangapanda.com .

Ever wondered what the experience of being in a stomach is really like?

According this this article at boingboing right here

http://boingboing.net/2013/04/01/di.....ml#more-213192

It's like this.

>One thing is clear from these experiments. Mealworms are not much troubled by gastric—that is, hydrochloric—acid. Many people, including myself when I began this book, think of hydrochloric acid more or less the way they think of sulfuric acid, the acid of batteries and drain cleaners and hateful men who wish to scar women’s faces. Sulfur likes to bind with proteins, radically altering their structure. If that structure is your skin, you come away from the experience disastrously altered. Hydrochloric acid isn’t as caustic.

For me the confusion can be traced to the movie Anaconda, the scene in which the giant snake rises from the water to regurgitate Jon Voight’s character, his face melted like wax. Some time back, I visited the lab of my favorite snake digestion expert Stephen Secor, the technical consultant on Anaconda. I told him I wanted to experience gastric acid, to get a sense of what it might feel like to be alive inside a stomach. He made me promise not to tell his wife, who oversees safety protocol for the university’s labs, and then he took a bottle of hydrochloric acid off a shelf and put a dab—five microliters—on my wrist. I braced for sharp heat, as from a drop of scalding water. It was a full minute before I felt anything at all, and then only a weak itch. He added another drop. At three minutes, the itch turned to mild irritation, which held more or less steady for twenty minutes, then faded to nothing. It left no mark.

About a little doggy with a problem...

http://youtu.be/I_ma2vLlHCI

No comment

http://boingboing.net/2010/04/15/co.....not-theft.html

It's photograph of a ventriloquist dummy named Humphrey made by Len Insull.

It's a collectors item and literally an artifact of an extinct civilization.

http://www.ventriloquistcentral.com.....nsull_main.htm

Is this graphic novel on the net - I think I see the future of comics here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/int.....-graphic-novel

Watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLnF7CQ8Ac

You might want to visit this....

http://www.chuckjonesexperience.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DO1ERmPBw&feature

'Control, this is Seal Team Six. We have a situation, over.'

'Seal Team Six this is Control - Elaborate, over'

'We're just scaled the south wall and are approaching tactically, when all hell has broken lose in the compound. There's this *guy*...'

'Describe, over'

'All I can say is, kinda a redneck jewboy...'

'Holy shit, that's not Jim Groat is it?'

'He's got a shitload of guns..'

'That's Jim Groat. Goddamn it.'

'He's screaming about 'Martin' somebody...'

'Christ, we'll never take Osama alive now.'

'Ok - new orders. Wait this out and just try and pick up the pieces. Damn.'

Over due. Cub Pron should have been banned from the get go.

It's the very sort of thing that gets the site in trouble. Glad to see it's gone.

Gonna be worth it because they have JOHNATHAN WINTERS voicing Papa Smurf!

I found this the other day, I wrote it in 2000!

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A rant by fmur321 (followed by geek talk) April 10, 2000

This is in the public domain. Copy me, I like to travel.

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If there is one thing that annoys me, it's the following stupid fallacy:

'if you count the letter A as a small integer x and put small integer y difference between each letter so B is worth x + y etc then the letters in Z's name adds up to 666 so he's the Anti-Christ'.

I've had at least 5 well-educated huckleberries breathlessly inform me of this one.

People will grasp at any excuse for this crap too. I remember when Ronald Reagan became President of the United States. I had people who I knew were raving atheists assure me that Reagan was the Anti-Christ because Ronald Wilson Reagan has six letters in each word.

It's all political baloney. And worse – a lot worse - bad mathematics. Political baloney we can live with. Bad math can kill you.

Geek talk

After steaming about one particular instance of this barefoot hillbilly behavior out of a guy with a Masters Degree in Computer Science (Really!) I got to thinking that this whole thing is in fact a nice problem in linear algebra.

You see, if the name has N letters in it and you start with the letter A as x and put a difference of y between each letter then

A is x + 0 * y,
B is x + 1 * y,
C is x + 2 * y etc.

The sum is Nx + the sum of the differences from A times y, which we will call D.

So if the name is AB then the sum is 2x + (0 + 1) * y and D is (0 + 1) or 1. And if the name is ABC then the sum is 3X + (0 + 1 * y + 2 * y) and D is (0 + 1 + 2) or 3. Get it?

We want to solve for all solutions where x and y are integers.

Also, this forms a straight line of the form y = Mx + B where M is the slope of the line and B is the y intercept.

Solving for y for 666 = Nx + Dy y is (666 – Nx) / D or y = –N / D x + 666 / D

Because all terms of 666 = Nx + Dy are to the first power and integer results are desired, this is a linear Diophantine equation.

So, all we have to do to prove that someone is Satan's Son is to solve a linear Diophantine equation for 666 = Nx + Dy which shows you how reliable an indicator THAT is.

I had this idea at least twenty-five years ago and I NEVER saw a computer program for it, an article, a BBS text file, NOTHING. So I decided to write one in Qbasic for my state of the art 286 running Dos 3.1 (or was it 3.3 ?) in the early 80s.

It worked, but it used trial and error and I didn't like that. Also sometimes it didn't produce any answer at all and I didn't know why.

So I recently decided to move it to VB 6 and do some research to solve it properly.

Luckily, I still had my Chemical Rubber Company Standard Mathematical Tables 20th Edition that I bought for Grade 13 in 1973. You cannot get a better Geek Icon than this book, I mean it.

Page 166 (hmmm… exactly 500 pages short of Satan's Page… I'm sure that's significant somehow) is the section on continued fractions – how to solve a Diophantine equation of order 1.

First, x and y must be made relatively prime. This is done by dividing them by their GCD (Look it up. The algorithm is at LEAST 2,500 years old.)

You also have to divide 666 by the GCD of x and y and guess what? If it doesn't come to an integer your subject is bailed! No solutions in integers!

So THAT'S why my old program sometimes delivered no answer!

Now you have to express x / y as a continued fraction. <q0, q1, q2 etc> These q terms are called convergents.

The algorithm for this is pretty straight foreword.

Divide the fraction and check the remainder. Replace the numerator of the fraction with the previous denominator and the denominator with the previous remainder. Divide again.

The convergents are the integer results of this continued division and you quit when the remainder is zero.

So 241 / 37 = < 6, 1, 1, 18 > which is 6 + ( 1 / ( 1 + 1 / ( 1 + 1 / 18)))

A number n is set by this procedure that is distinct from the length of the name N. It is four in our example as four convergent terms were found before the remainder zeroed.

Now what we do with these numbers is pretty wacky.

We define An and Bn using (I love this) a *recursive* formula! How cool!

An = QnA(n-1) + A(n-2) and Bn = QnB(n-1) + B(n-2)

The n, (n-1) and (n-2) terms are subscripts and are NOT multiplied by anything.

Also - we start with term n = 0 yet use term n-2. That implies that there are negative terms of A and B and here they are.

A(-2) = B(-1) = 0 and B(-2) = A(-1) = 1

(Note from April 20 2001 – VB.NET wont be able to run this elegant solution in it’s present form as it does not support the dim (from to) statement – no negative subscripts…. I hope Bill changes his mind on this.)

So – for ax + by = c when a b and c are all integers and a and b are > zero and relatively prime and n is the number of convergent terms of the continued fraction x / y, all the x's and y's are found by these formulae

x = (-1) ^ (n-1) * B(n-1) * c + t * b and
y = (-1) ^ n * A(n-1) * c – t * a

Where ^ is 'to the power of' and t is any integer.

The problem is solved now. But for the sake of convenience I solve for t with x = 5 and print the 5 before t and the 5 afterwards. That shows all our small starting values.

I just have to say before I go that I love this stuff. It's so good and truthful, as opposed to the Number of the Beast from the name crap.

Notice that if your name is nine digits long – or any factor of 666 - that you automatically lose as you can set the diff to zero and let A be the quotient of 666 and the name length. Makes you wonder if in the old days people's lives and careers were ruined because their name added up wrong…

Post Rant

All this and other evidence beyond the scope of this document lead me to believe that the highest form of human behavior is ethical behavior. Not intellectual behavior but ethical behavior. To decline to do wrong even if you can get away with it.

As we become more and more powerful in our individual scope of movement, it is more and more imperative that we voluntarily stop doing bad things, like packet bombing eBay for instance.

I am not an atheist. However, I totally dislike irrational behavior, especially among educated people. It's dangerous, and as computers become more powerful, it becomes more dangerous, as the recent DDOS Internet attacks demonstrate.

(That's it – inconvenience the rich – THAT was a clever way to keep out of trouble…)

And if you think THIS is something - wait until the new GENETICS stuff kicks in. It's the next Geek Territory, let me tell you.

It's actually COOLER THAN COMPUTERS. Kids will be building REAL virii at home in 10-15 years on the outside. Sure, most of their stuff will die as soon as they take it out of the test tube but some of it won't and THEN we will have a problem.

The human race may go extinct because we can't handle this. People thought it would be The Bomb that did it, but the Bomb was never popular culture and the gene stuff will be. Kids could wind up trying to show how bad they are by making plagues, especially if some fools make it look cool in the movies or popular songs.

Suppose the Columbine kids got their hands on this. And there's no stopping it. Are we going to have to have a conflagration before we learn?

Personally, I'm looking forward to the day some 16 year-old clones a porn star for his very own. It'll hit the fan then. You think the press and government are irrigating their trousers NOW?

2020 on the outside. Remember I told you so.

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Have fun with this – if you change it just send me a copy at (account long gone) and remember – if you meet the Buddha in the street, kill him but if you meet ME, buy me a beer!

TWO rather nice Russian only furry comics..

http://mrcomics.ru/strips/so_original/

and

http://www.mrcomics.ru/strips/mercs/

I'm going to miss him. He helped alleviate the weird and inexplicable shortage of ElfQuest pron.

Staying at the Caleta Hotel (on a cliff...)

Due to weird stuff happening, I'm in Spain right now!

There's a thread on reddit right now where a Canadian artist has asked for things to draw and people are giving her suggestions.

The creativity on this thread is the highest I've ever seen.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/c.....draw_anything/

It's got it all...

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4554230.....he_Furry_Bible

I haven't heard from Taral Wayne since he lost the Hugo award for the 8th time last Sunday to Frank Wu. I hope he's not on a bender...

Here's some speculations.

AP - JILTED ARTIST ARRESTED IN NINJA SUIT

8 time Hugo award loser Taral Wayne was arrested dressed in a Ninja suit by Brookline MA police today at 2 AM outside winner Frank Wu's apartment and is being held pending a hearing.

'It's pretty clear what his intentions were' said a Police spokesperson, 'He had one of those karate swords with him.'

- or -

From the WorldCon Archives circa 2020

'2009 - Taral Wayne 'incident' at the Hugos.

"We 'ad to trank him like a Rhino at da ZOO! 'e ignored da tazers, eh? And da pepper spray just seemed ta piss 'im off!" a Montreal Police spokesperson said after artist Taral Wayne went berserk after losing the Best Fan Artist award for the eighth time.

"We needed da Jaws of Life to break da 'eadlock 'e had on dat uder art geek Frank Wu. 'e then picked up Officer Mongo, 'o weighs like treefifty pounds eh?, over 'is head and trew 'im da length of da room. It was pretty impressive, for sure! We got da whole ting on da security cameras."

Mr Wayne is currently being held pending a psychiatric examination. He is undergoing a course of treatment described as 'lots of Thorazine'

(Aside - Police Division Christmas party. Lots of drunk cops standing around a TV monitor.

"'ey Mongo! 'Dis is where you get owned by dat art geek, eh?"

"Shuddup!")

- or -

AP - SPURNED ARTIST DESTROYS WORLDCON HOTEL

8 time Hugo award loser Taral Wayne destroyed the Montreal Delta Hotel today after undergoing a fantastic transformation during the ceremony.

"After the award was announced and we all realized he lost AGAIN, he CHANGED!" eyewitnesses report.

"He got madder and madder then he turned GREEN - He started to get bigger and bigger, and his shirt and shoes exploded but his PANTS stayed on - they turned purple though, we don't know how THAT happened!

The only word I have for it is 'Incredible'"

The transformed Mr Wayne then allegedly began a rampage, destroying the entire hotel while bellowing "TARAL SMASH!"

The fantastic figure was last seen headed for the south eastern United States while traveling in huge bounds.

"Best freak-out EVER" One portly eyewitness was heard to proclaim. "I shall be on the Internet, registering my AWE."