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by arbi
9-18-07
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/18/1155252
Dude! Suite!
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/18/0429250
in related news, the new york times is giving up trying to charge for its online version. in order to stay competitive in the post-scarcity economy, you have to give your product away.
hotornot also recently quit charging, made everything free. it's all explained iin cory doctorow's down and out in the magic kingdom
www.craphound.com/down
which of course, he gives away free

 

by arbi
9-18-07
linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/09/18/131240 : fork the kernel?

 

by arbi
9-29-07
the trip to baltimore philadelpia then boston for the xkcd fest, and columbus, is gonna take way more than 3 panels if i ever get around to telling it.
short version: had a good time but 5 days of sleeping in the car and no shower. then i came home and slept for two days.
at first i thought i'd overslept for a trip to madison, but that's not till this week.
bought a new tire, checked the mail, bought a lawn mower, did the laundry and dishes, collected some rent, started blog # 15, unpacked the car, but really haven't done anything.
i'm meeting corey at the club again tonight. he and zeke have been inseperable since i introduced them.
finished 'ender's shadow', currently reading a peter whimsey i seem to have stolen from my ex. mom gets back from france today.

 

by arbi
9-29-07
http://ballots.blogspot.com/ 2007/09/ this-is-placeholder-for-first-draft-of.html
This just in: The US Supreme Court will hear the Indiana Voter ID case.
Actually it was a few days ago, but we haven't been making comics yet.
We happen to have with us an expert on the case, an Indiana election lawyer who has been working on this since last june.
Moo.
Back to Jack in the studio, this has been, "this just in!"

 

by arbi
10-01-07
saturday: nothing. sunday: nothing.
what i did friday "bought a new tire, checked the mail, bought a lawn mower, did the laundry and dishes,"
what i did today: bought two new tires, bought a lawn mower, did the laundry.
tires $35 mower $65 credit card $500 dues $115 gas $20, texas taxes $501 coffee $2 so far that's $1138
also, paid my lawyers dues on the last day before they would have been late, paid my credit card. went to the bank
went to pay the electric bill but 40 people in line, i left. mowed the lawn. self-propelled lawn mower for the win! $65.
saturday: went to the club to see corey, blew $20, went to joell's party, sold a box of dumpster dived masonic secret lore, $20, broke even.
still to do: post office for a money order. done. come home and write some memos. not done.
it's 4:20 right now, but that no longer means what it used to.

 

by arbi
10-01-07
mandingo/407691/
panel 1: most clubs. panel 2: my club, after a few drinks. panel 3: my club, before a few drinks.

 

by arbi
10-03-07
yesterday: went to madison. got back 10 am today. 750 miles. exhausting.
fog and rain and construction zones the whole way. had to keep stopping for naps or for the rain to die down.
the web page says the club was open tonight, and i could hear music, but the doors were locked >
the screening went ok. 50/50% i'll get in the $4600 study. spent around $150 in gas and such.
the male nurse was a bear, so we did the secret bear handshake, passwords and countersigns.
i stopped by c_street, a gay bar in urbana illinois i was last at 14 years ago, but it was 2:30 am and they'd just closed. woke up at dark. the club that was having the slave auctions seemed closed,
and i stopped by kareoke but got bored quick, so i came back home to keep reading my lord peter wimsey stories

 

by arbi
10-05-07
it only took me 3 tries to spell anomaly
yesterday was fun. got up late, did nothing all day online, met some guy off craigslist, had sex for the 4th time this year (given a very loose definition of what sex is), went shopping, went to
the club, got kissed by some guy -i've been reading over his myspace blog. had a conversation with one of the stippers about his porn career - it's the most i've talked to the guy in about 3 years.
today i need to go file to contest a traffic tricket, so i'll have to get dressed, find the ticket, drive to the other side of town, wait in line, not really looking forward to it, but it's still an
easy day. i have a list of lots of letters i should be writing, and have been putting off. unless corey calls, i'll stay in tonight.
chance of getting much work done - low. chance of cleaning the apartment - low. maybe i'll check my mail, buy some mothballs, deploy the micecube i bought, check my oil, put away the dishes.
i couldn't find the ticket, so the only things i've gotten done were to add oil and clean the car.

 

mandingo/407770
guns don't kill people
these guns do
by arbi, 10-05-07

 

by arbi
10-07-07
i have just enough time while the bacon cooks to make a comic. of course, since i'm militantly vegan, it must be veganbaconTM, or, it fell off a truck.
this usually ends with a comic that's not very good, or the kitchen on fire.
www.allenklein.com
I'm reading the "change your life quote book".
kipling once said that words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. may the words in this book be the prescription you need to change your life. - page 6
do you like kipling?
i don't know. i've never kipled.

 

by arbi
10-07-07
we report
i noted there havent been many new comics today. then i noticed it's Sunday. this means either,
remember the sabbath
and keep it holy
you decide
or
these slackers only make comics when they are on someone else's clock.

 

by arbi
10-09-07
yesterday: i almost bought a volvo for $500 from a myspace friend, but it got away at the last minute.
went to the club, hung out with corey and zeke, drank one too many.
today: picked up my mail - post office was closed yesterday for canadian thanksgiving or eurocentric genocide day or whatever it is.
worked an hour and a half on a memo, about refiling an indiana voter ID case. my tolerance for work is low; my work avoidance skills are strong. stopped by kareoke.
dumpster-dived some stuff, a dozen tshirts, a giant halloween rat
tomorrow: probably will avoid work again like every other day. maybe i'll read thru my todo list. maybe i'll mow a lawn. anything but the memo.

 

by arbi
10-09-07
SassyOphelia/408249/
"Divide Your Age in Two and Add Seven." Yeah I've heard that before somewhere.
let's see, 47 by 2 plus se7en, comes to about 30.
http://austin.craigslist.org/m4w/419154651.html note: comic is now 40% funner with addition of this topnote. 10/20/07
yeah, that's about the cut-off. Corey and Dannon are 29, for example.
Adam was 29 when he dumped you. Jerilyn was 30 when you kicked her out for stealing.
So with occasional exceptions, I date people who are no older than 30.

 

by arbi
10-11-07
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/11/ orion_spa.html?category=space&guid =20071011093030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000
Do you ever get that feeling somebody's sneaking up on you?
Orion nebula 10-20% closer than 10 years ago

 

by arbi
10-12-07
T, W, R, F - avoided work, no progress on the memo. W - had a date to meet one of my anarchist colleagues at a straight bar, but our wires crossed and he wasn't there.
stopped by kareoke - it's the same show, same dj, dannon crews, but it moves from bar to bar each night of the week - met a johnny cash impersonator, then went to a coffeehouse for chess.
R- I have a cold, and can't take medicine for it, since i'm hoping to be a in a study shortly. So I went to the club for some tincture of juniper and quinine tonic. up all night on the computer again.
Forgot to go to a bar association meeting in French Lick, Indiana this week. F - got the call that i'm in the $4600 study, so I'll head to Madison on sunday. F- dinner and the club w/corey and zeke.
Overall, this year, I've gone from being broke to doing ok, made some very slight progress in the friends and love life department, still haven't cleaned my apartment or gotten my law practice back on
track, but i guess it's been a good year, and it's not over yet.

 

by arbi
10-12-07
www.nomorelyrics.net/song/176377.html
It was a Zombie Jamboree Took place in a Nova Scotia cemetery Zombies from all parts of the Island Some of them was a great Calypsonians
Back to back, belly to belly I don’t give a damn, I done dead already Oho back to back, belly to belly At the Zombie Jamboree
showthread.php?postnum=253172 not an entry
Although the season was Carnival We get together in bacchanal And they singing
Back to back, belly to belly I don’t give a damn, I done dead already Oho back to back, belly to belly At the Zombie Jamboree
A lot of dem bushes talkin’ ‘bout war And I’m afraid they're going too far So it’s up to us you and me To put an end to Catastrophe
lord intruder>kingston trio>harry bellefonte> bob marley> rockapella

 

More Comic Competitions » RCD #8
May I help you?
I could really use a hand job.
by arbi, 10-12-07

 

rcd #8, 2
How's that ark coming along, Noah?
I could really use a hand, Job.
by arbi, 10-12-07

 

"Conagra recalls pot pies" http://www.reuters.com/article/ consumerproducts-SP/ idUSWEN164120071012
remember those pot pies from the 70s?
yeah, we got baked, man
by arbi, 10-12-07

 

by arbi
10-17-07
Sunday: drove to madison. haggled for a hotel room, $42. went to a couple clubs.
Monday: got kicked out of the study for an irregular heartbeat on the ekg.
Monday: started for home, it began to rain. Went back to madison, got general tso's tofu, went to a club, hoping the rain would stop.
It rained for 12 hours. It was tuesday by the time i got home. I spent a few minutes being despondent over losing $4400, but got over it.
later that night: it's cats and dogs out.
Tuesday I lined up a couple more screenings. Went to the club, hung out with Paris and his boyfriend Malibu. I'll drive to chicagoland tonight. It'll probably rain.
It hadn't rained here for 3 weeks, but every time i drive near Rockford ill., it's rain, fog, construction zones, one time a flash flood.

 

by arbi
10-17-07
/christopher7murphy/409057/
Say, you got your Trek parked outside, aintcha?
Oui, pour quoi?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlacXUJP4mw
It's too loose.

 

by arbi
10-17-07
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQNt64PxfE insanely great latvian parkour video, 8 mins
i was at the club last night, and there was this madonna video i'd seen before, -jump?- with some guy jumping off things
i went, oh hai, that's parkour!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwDjijmCm7U the madonna video
parkour, of course, is that trendy new martial art of jumping around buildings. see video. there's a local meetup group i might check into.
although i'm hopelessly out of shape being out of shape is a job requirement of the work i do, keeps certain enzyme levels low.
a martial art of running away and hiding is perfectly suited to my aardvark style kung fu. it's basicly how i handle combat - look for an exit strategy and get the heck away.
this comic is basicly a repeat of an earlier one, but the videos are new.

 

by arbi
10-17-07
test
In today's exciting episode, it turns out that if you type text and then hit the random button, the text stays the same. didn't know that. only been here 3 years.
comic "drawn" for rcd#9, but it's not good enough to even enter.
Luke, I am your father.
NOOOO00000oooo...
Might be time to cut down on the deep fried pizza and haggis after midnight - I thought I heard that duck talk.

 

www.stripcreator.com/comics/mandingo/409072/
whattle it be, mac?
that's what SHE said
by arbi, 10-17-07

 

this one is the mutant offspring of www.stripcreator.com/comics/xxxenon/409116/ and www.stripcreator.com/comics/christopher7murphy/409105 because i'm too lazy to think up my own ideas
did you hear the joke about "a bomb in a bull"?
yes, it was.
by arbi, 10-19-07

 

by arbi
10-19-07
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story? section=local&id=5714859
drove to waukegan yesterday, and back. it didn't just rain, it was tornado warnings, hail warnings, high winds
on the way back it was better, didn't start raining till i was within 100 miles of home.
"Storms sweep Chicago area"
i was falling-alsleep-at-the-wheel tired by that point so i stopped at starbucks near ohare and hung out a graveyard for a while till i felt like driving again. the tornada passed thru walcott a few
hours after i did.
http://www.realitymachine.net
i was going to go to the club, but fell asleep til 2 am. i don't expect to get into the study - had the same irregular heartbeat problem on the ekg.
but they'll tell me next week if i'm in.

 

by arbi
10-20-07
yesterday: paid electric bill. raked leaves went to a party. met mitch at the club 5 years ago. his coworkers from kinkos/fedex were most of the people there. mitch shaved his moustache and wore drag.
i like mitch a lot - when he's sober. corey and zeke have gotten matching tattoos, chinese ideogram for love.
did nothing all day, except the dishes. wasted time online, myspace, xkcd forums, chat room with friends, downloading files.
off to meet lane at the club, then i'll stop by joell's. joell bought 22 shares of google - not very diversified investing.
this space left blank for sunday, or for drunken rambling when i get home.

 

by arbi
10-22-07
did nothing today, for values of nothing that include picking up the mail, going to walmart for motor oil, and getting a +5 on a slashdot post.
I bought a bottle of Malibu (the drink) for a halloween present for Malibu (the dancer), since I got some "Paris" chocolates for his bf Paris.
And some sage for Sage. I don't think he reads 4chan. The other dancers don't have names that fit this game.
Went to the club. Told Malibu that Malibu (the city) is burning. Corey and Zeke were drunk in honor of one month together. I got drunk too, which wasn't the plan, spent quality time w/ Lane + London.
I really need to clean the apartment - it's getting so there's no room to walk around.
Tomorrow I'm expecting a call that I didn't get into the Waukegan study.
Maybe I'll have a few weeks off to (not) write a memo.

 

by arbi
10-23-07
Before it got too dark, I took the trash out to the curb.
My neighbor was doing the same thing, so we said hi.
That was my whole "go outside and be social" adventure for today.
Otherwise it's been the usual routine of blogs and webcomics. Read a bit of Dinsaur Comics and caught up over at questionable content.
when i was a kid, tuesday night always meant scouts, not to mention school, so i had a reason to get out of bed. a few years ago, tuesdays meant kareoke, because i have a crush on the dj,
but i gave it up a few years back. my social circle gets smaller as time goes on. home, the club, my other house, work, that's about it.

 

by arbi
10-24-07
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=07/10/23/2223200
i got into the chicago study, so i have work for november to make up for the work i lost in october.
i got an article posted to slashdot
http://vark.blogspot.com/ http://vark.blogspot.com/2007/10/ this-is-me-with-randall-munroe-xkcd.html
i posted a pic of me with xkcd's randall munroe, on my blog.
so it's been a pretty good day so far.
what could possibly go wrong?

 

www.stripcreator.com/comics/ themushroom/409981/
there goes another one
by arbi, 10-24-07

 

by arbi
10-24-07
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ mandingo/404122/
I used to have a roommate, cuz the rent here is kinda high. But he turned out to be a crackhead and stole my TV so I threw him out.
Then I found my TV at the pawn shop, but they refuse to give it back to me. I'm pissed.
and TVless.

 

by arbi
10-25-07
I had big plans for the day. I was gonna request an absentee ballot, go to the post office and bank, get decaf, stuff like that. Did nothing.
instead, i stayed up late, got up late, read mars-kzin wars III in the bathtub.
Now I'm going to drive all night to kentucky, hang out with my ex for a few hours, come back, pack, get ready to be in chicago on sunday.
being out of decaf is the limiting factor that will force me to spring into action, get up and go out shopping. after a few more chapters.
My place is trashed, piles on top of piles, laundry and dishes undone I'm at the point where I have so much stuff it's in the way of knowing what I have and I can't get to anything.
The OCD hoarding instinct is a pro-survival adaptation, up to a point, and then it can become a problem. I suppose its a matter of inventory control and filing systems.

 

by arbi
10-29-07
I'm up at Robbot Labbs again, day 2 of 22. The pay is ok, $4350, the food is bad and mandatory, the claustrophobia hasn't set in yet.
They've been doing EKG's once an hour all day. They vary the routine with blood draws and blood pressure readings.
15 showed up for a 12 person study, so this morning three were culled - I survived.
Some of the people are the same ones who were here with me in March. One guy says he's been coming here for 5 years - he has a huge scar where the needle goes in the elbow.
It's a tight-knit culture of lab rats They finally upgraded the computers - 4 new ones, 40 people waiting to use them. I should see if my laptop works.

 

by arbi
10-29-07
choadwarrior/410473/
So whaada you feel like doing tonight?
Oh nothing. I'm feeling bitchy and moody and bloated for some reason.
Me too.
Is there a full moon?
What did you do this weekend?
Went cycling with a friend.

 

by arbi
10-30-07
badcomics/410578/
I'm hungry!! I'm hungry!!! I'm HUNGRY!!!! Feed me!!!
I can relate.
A cat named dupont.. groovy!
my father worked most of his life for dupont. Feed me! was pretty much the corporate motto.

 

by arbi
10-30-07
Robbott Labbs, somewhere north of chicago
Day 3. A lot like day 2, only with more drugs and more bloodletting.
Kinda reminds you of home in the ghetto in indy?
days 4 and 5: we're into the easy part now, a few procedures a day. watched casablanca, reading a book about nelson rockefeller.
the noisy guys from the other study are going home today. with luck, there might be hot water for the shower at some point today.
epic saga to be continued, stay tuned.

 

by arbi
11-03-07
This must be day 7. Email from my ex. Her current guy is dying of cancer, and I found a place online where he can get the anti-cancer drugs free or cheap from the maker, so he'll be getting chemo.
It's one of the first payoffs of this line of work in anything except money room and board and hot and cold running movies.
they let us take a walk outside today. the noisy guys go home tomorrow, but i hear there's 40 more coming next week.
I'm getting nothing done so far on any of the memos. Reading a book right now about Bill and Hillary's crimes and misdemeanors.
It continues to shock me that the Democrats are squandering all of their anti-bush moral capital on a crook like that.
O'Bama's kind of cute, but if he had white skin he'd be just another east coast elitist liberal in the grand tradition of dukakis, kerry, ted kennedy, biden, mondale, humphrey, muskie,
wj bryan, wilson - but wilson won. Biden's actually looking pretty good compared to the rest of the pack, and has almost as much of a chance as Ron Paul.

 

by arbi
11-03-07
instapundit.com/archives2/011238.php
Instapundit asks, is cocktailing a word? I vote yes.
Oh, I thought you said you were a cockateel.
vark.blogspot.com/2007/11/ word-for-day-cocktailing.html.
Cocktailing: 1. cocktail [v] - See also: cocktail
When you say you're going out to have some cocktails... but you really plan to get some tail.
this one's funnier with the censorship filter turned on
Wassail!
step on it, there's some cocktailing us.

 

by arbi
11-05-07
The place we're staying is called vista hospital. What could possibly go wrong?
i am here
Just came from dinner. Corpse of holy cow, unseasoned boiled canned carrots, canned mashed potatoes, white flour roll, cow juice, white flour cake with canned strawberry goop, the same damn salad as
every other meal. it's getting a bit monotonous. darrin got lucky - he had a fly in his canned whipped cream. oh yeah, canned whipped cream. and a hot cup of no coffee.
Most of the guys in the study are - guys. Straight guys. But there's this one american indian woman who's had her tubes tied, so she can be in the study. She's really cute, and it's hella distracting.

 

by arbi
11-05-07
Hari_Nezumi/411195
I'll just have a coke.
Sir, is Pepsi OK?
No.
I'll just have a coke.
Coming right up.

 

by arbi
11-05-07
arbi/411208
I'll just have a coke.
No coke. Pepsi!
I'll just have a Pepsi. *sob*

 

by arbi
11-05-07
Hari_Nezumi/411191/
Um, yes, tech support? There's something wrong with my computer. It won't start.
Did you try reversing the polarity on the forward nacelles? Have you recollimated the dilythium crystals?
1-900-248-TREK
What kinda tech support hotline is this?
Did you say tech support? I'm afraid you've dialed a wrong number.
illogical @#$%^&*humans

 

by arbi
11-07-07
arbi/411208 boloboffin comment
Master, how I can I finally attain lasting peace?
Connect to your inner kangaroo
like this?
that was easy.

 

by arbi
11-07-07
yesterday's adventure: they tried to put me and my roommate in with the other guys to a free up a room - it would have been me and 2 guys in a large closet.
i broke out my lawyer-type negotiating skills and got to keep my room, just added wierd walter as a 3rd roommate.
today's adventure was the new study drug made two of the guys very sick, so they cancelled that study and sent them all home, so it's not as crowded now.
walter
today's other adventure was the doc came in looking worried and ran an extra three minutes of ekg on me, asked about my family history of heart disease, looked for and found some swelling in my legs.
it might be benign, it might not be. this is the thing i've been worrying about, and now i have real doctors looking at it.

 

by arbi
11-07-07
So they are taking me off the study drug. I'll see a cardiologist tomorrow. They will probably send me home.
I'm focused more right now on "gee, my check isn't going to be as much as i expected" than on "maybe i'm going to die of this someday"
They gave me my own room and are running blood pressure checks every three hours.
I've had two friends die in their twenties from heart trouble. The one guy was an extropian who planned to live forever, the other guy knew he didn't have very long.
I already faced my own mortality a few years ago, when a punk put my gun to my head after torturing me till i told him where the gun was. kid wasn't really bright, but he had a certain courage,
breaking into my house knowing i had a gun. he's doing 100 years now. but anyway i'm an extropian too, and plan to live forever, or at least 100 years.

 

by arbi
11-08-07
Cannibal cruise lines
mandingo/411595
moh
Granny should have read the fine print.

 

by arbi
11-08-07
They haven't sent me home yet, although I'm off the study drug now.
I was trying to call the Brennan Center at NYU about an amicus brief in the voter ID case. Collect didn't work nor did my credit or debit cards, so I got an operator.
What long distance company do you want to use?
I don't care.
This actually happened.
This is I don't care long distance. We are connecting your call.

 

kane2742/411767/
by arbi, 11-08-07

 

by arbi
11-10-07
I got home last night. It didn't even rain. 3 hours to drive through chicago, three more hours from northern indiana to home.
Nobody broke in while i was gone, but the magical cleaning elves must be on strike, place is still trashed. Houseplant died, too much water or not enough sun.
The mice are healthy though. Now I have an extra week to do nothing in, although my study check will be only about half what I expected,
and I can't do more studies there without a doctor's ok.
It's a setback, but not enough of one to drive me to find a real job.

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