The Casino Out Behind Nick's

I had the greatest dream, I was at Steve T's (formerly Nick Tahou Hots) and the fire was out on the grill, it was getting cold or hey buddy was cleaning it or something, and I had to wait for my plate so I did... then when they served me, actually I don't remember if they ever served me, but I got shown to this great casino room in the back with a bunch of absurdly huge slot machines!

Hey buddy was there, and I brought out $10 and another $10, and maybe a dollar besides... I couldn't resist the temptation to gamble in that casino, well I played the first $1 in a dollar machine and another $10 and for that $10 I was standing next to a beautiful blonde girl that was trying on a pair of thong underwear, some red gap shorts with a picture of Mao in the crotch, and she wanted to take my place at the machine so I let her... I didn't see any more of her then...

Anyway the machines were all dispensing these novelty Giant Dime Balls that were some marked as "this is not money, don't take it with you or its stolen," some not marked at all because the lettering had worn off—eventually I found the machine where you go to redeem them, and it spit out this gnarley looking quarter... then I kept looking and I found it was dumping a shitload of $20 bills and ones and fives, concert tickets and nacho cheese fries, it was like some glorious dreamland behind Nicks, and was Hey Buddy ever smiling!

I was trying to figure out how it could possibly be legal to gamble at Nick Tahou's and Mike Kush showed up, took a few dollars from my winnings, and just walked the other way while I figured out how to pick up and collect my nacho fries...

Ontology Management

I meant to look this up today: SWOOP

but, I found myself sitting in front of a computer with no java, and a cell phone with some. uncomfortable installing Java on random peoples' computers, I will take a look at this when I get home.

this one looks good too:
Differential Ontology Editor

Why is this important? The best verse is terse.

Vigorous writing is concise. An ontology can help you to manage the coherency and breadth of your thoughts, or so the story goes... I hope my writing doesn't wind up looking like those awful spam monkeys I still hear from every now and again!

Sadly, Facebook and Delicious still seem to be not supporting Chinese or Korean. Maybe it is just my input method that is at fault. I can't believe it doesn't work.

Pea Soup Design

Who has seen an example of my design sense? If you know me you should know that I am like a spartan and that I have no innate aesthetic sense of my own. I believe that furniture should be arranged to maximize positive energy flow, and so with the lay of a page, but to define what that means exactly is perhaps more art than science.

When I am designing a space, web page or home interior, I collect the chips, be they text images or furniture, and I arrange them in the first pleasing order that comes to me, included with absolutely minimal adornment, decorating them with only what I deem to be absolutely necessary to facilitate navigation and to preserve a sense of accommodation to save my readership from wondering what I wanted them to see.

I cook the same way. I'm making pea soup right now, and it matches the color of this page. I hope that it turns out quite delicious, but I'm short on the usual pea soup ingredients by a few, and I'm afraid therefore that it might turn out non-delicious. Such is life, so I suppose I'd better have a better list the next time I go shopping for food!