I'm not very good at hello/goodbyes, but do not fear, I do not forget (I just delay, bide and wholly post knowing I'm very, very late to whatever is new).


Speaking of new, Hello Not Me. How are you finding your time spent here? What can be incorporated to make the experience flow better? Your input is very important to us.


To add a bit of colour and found randomness, (re: OCM fw: reason for being) here's something I usually post, but just as a link this time: * -

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rd_monster.jpg

Hi Jetée Edée.
As you see, I do spend an above average time searching for images and sometimes I end up at SuperStock; while I'm not very familiar with their philosophy and business practices, my impression is this type of photo site tends to be restrictive about use of their member's photos. I have also been at Corbis and I get about the same impression. While I'm not as diligent about it as you, I try to give credits for the photo as often as I can, and I prefer photos without watermarks or site signatures or whatever they are. I remember you mentioning FastStone but I have not used it. This seems so simple, so usually I'm just grabbing the photo's URL or if I can't then I use "print screen" and then paste it into "Paint".

I might miss a post
if I don't hurry with this one -
Pardon my English.

(2+4)-9=0-3

I am enjoying this place very much, than you. I will have no great input for making this place any better than it is already, for I come from my own little world where 500 nerds reside. I guess me being a nerd, but not a very good one. I did not realize I was a nerd until a couple years ago.

Me, I've wavered on and off with nerdiness or not. I'm currently in a non-nerdy period.

What was the relisation you uncovered within your hidden 'nerd' self, Not Me?


-- (to note: if you couldn't guess in the short time frame of a single page of almost non-sequitur'd conversations, I really like a backstory, and a historical aspect to virtually anything. It makes the mundane matter, and it also reminds me, "When am I ever going to get to sharing my Pez Musuem find?")


On a semi-unrelated note, I had a feeling you (re: BadNick) used the simple solution of Fn + prt sc, then paste into Paint. Honestly, I still do this about a quarter of the time, even with such an elegant little application as FastStone, whose entire basis for being born is to eliminate the hassle of 20-30 seconds of the routine, and reduce it to a simplified decision of around 5-8 seconds.

What would you guys like? How about a random mixtape from my music discovery folder webnote (more minutia)

Remixtape Vol. 3 - Stereogum

I watched the final shuttle launch last night...
T-31secs.... we have a problem...

some great footage of the launch and the flight, until main booster sepo...

I like nerds;
I've always been one,
unashamed.

Part of the reason
I can post without blushing
is because I can't.

I lit a candle
in a pile of rocks I made
& watched it burn down.

It was beautiful.
More so, as I reflected
what won't pass again.

Ocm?, that reminded me of this song.

2-(4+9)=-11

Cultural icons
don't owe their reality,
nor do they own it.

Does it seem kind of ironic that one does not post within this realm as often as one could, only because one feels as though there is no more voice to be had? (shortened: I've run out of conversation starters.)

I mope too much.

Here's an innocuous, and most importantly, a random question for you to partake in (if willing): Now that the year is almost over, is there anything to which you are looking forward to beginning anew?


- - - - -

#1 from my TLTE! Blog folder webnote (I think you've gotten the idea - I try to save EVERYTHING)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li...uq4lo1_500.jpg

“The AIR from PRAGUE is a middle-sized can filled with the spirit of the city,
a piece of world heritage. The can is 88 mm (3,46 in) high and 86mm (3,38 in) in diameter.

The design of the label is simple and clear, clear as the morning sky over the
Charles Bridge on sunny summer morning. We carefully collect the air from
the most popular places in the city.”

The air we all breathe,
in & out, in & out &,
belongs to no place.

I mope a lot, too,
but projecting it hurts more,
so I avoid it.

What was I hearing?
I thought their other voices
were continuing...

((2+4)-9)-1=-4

Then, too, I'm confused,
about our relationships,
continuing care.

Family and home seem pretty stable other than the dynamics of having two rapidly developing boys around...but that's the deal with children, so what else is new?! The future in my work life has the potential for great flux in the very near future, with possible significant new opportunities for me. A bit of intrigue and drama add some excitement, along with a good bit of the unknown. Now that I read what I just said, it sounds like something a fortune teller would say. I usually don't open or eat fortune cookies.

I'd like to live in the now, rather than clinging to the years gone by ('07-09, '94-95, '78-82).

I heard this song on the radio about an hour before I submitted to roasting myself slowly within my tomato can of a mode of transport (2 hours!!).

Perhaps you can do something with it.

Nor do I, BadNick.
The last one said some nothing:
"Keep your plans secret."

The kids insisted,
as if knowing what it was
had some importance.

re: BadNick

I used to save my folded fortunes from within the confines of a crunchy cookie in my wallet.
I also shoved in some tea packets of wisdom quotes, just because I thought they were neat.
(what is it that you call that small piece of paper affixed to the string, which in turn, belays the commercially-packaged tea bag into one's cup? Do you think it even has a name?)

This was before I forgot to take my wallet out of my trousers when I did a wash, and so, all my Western-Eastern snippets of wisdom were lost and soggy, along with the leather wallet. I have not yet sought to replace it, some decades later. (meaning: I have not sported a wallet as an accessory since that fateful day in the laundry room.) I also lost some trading cards in the raw deal, so that may make the ordeal slightly more traumatic.

we're in tune here.

Oh. I've depressed myself some more. (digging up past posts.)

I've only started three of the ideas stated above in just under the past 400 days, and I'm barely even maintaining one of them.

I'd bet that your list
is much longer than that one,
since I read issues.

Maybe I'll get my act together, and finally rise to that prominent pedestal I've aspired to for so long.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0...qk32o1_400.jpg
(I've heard there is a vacancy for a 'world leader' nowadays; I'm thinking of applying.)


- to note "{TLTE! webnote: entry #10

You are quite right. My listings are indeed vast, and so are my resources.
The only thing to which I am lacking of is time, ergo, my (failed) proposition to create ourselves a new "modernized" calendar.

Since it would be too time-consuming to list everything that I am "hopefully" going to share with you all one day, here is but a single excerpt, from Jetty's Graffiti folder webnote {filed under: Share on TFP_>Artworks_>minutia alert}

Thing to keep in mind is, I have a whole host of folders, subcategorizations, and ideas I'm culling / curating for future reference's sake. So, you can take the below, and x1000 a thousand, and be pretty aware of what I've been up to for about the past 4+ years, all around the web, in Smithsoian Magazine, and whatever films from the past 10 or so decades I've managed to get back up to speed with; enjoy.

-- to note: #1 definitely decribes my current affliction :surprised:

Yikes! If I had many more parallel universe lives going on right now, which I very well may have but can't prove or disprove it, I would explore all those links simultaneously. As a start, I just found out that I like to play with typeface.

24924

You're back! The Terminator has failed!

crash? I admit I liked Crash Bandicoot but now that my kids don't play that I sort of miss him.

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g292/nickjt/crash.jpg

I admit crashes
have managed to change my life
no more than crushes.

For me, crushes yes, crashes no. Now that I think of it, nothing can change your life. You live, things happen, you move in a direction, etc. To change anything you'd have to be able to go back and change something that already happened. I don't think you can change the future since whatever ends up happening was the future.

You're getting philosophical.
That's incredibly appropriate,
for a former NONSENSE thread.

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Turbulence, by flight404

Turbulent, the moon,
if rotation it could have,
so just what was that?

author's comments:
While playing around with the magnetosphere code, I found myself wondering what it would look like if I restricted the movement of the particles to the surface of a sphere. Well, it ended up looking like I thought it would. Pretty, but ultimately not an improvement. It looked a bit like the magnetic structure bucky ball pieces from a couple months ago.

On a whim, I added a new vector which would cause the particles to swirl around the center of the sphere along a coded equator. I started to see hints of nice turbulence swirls so I kept at it. To help emphasize this effect, I modified the rotational vector to have three peaks so as you travel from the north pole to the south, you would pass through three bands of rotation. I also added a perlin noise vector to make the movements seem even more chaotic. [Below] is the most recent video.

The brighter dots represent the positions of the main particles. In order to make it look a bit cloudier, I started using the midpoints between nearby points. If two points have a distance of less than 100, I draw a fuzzy texture between them whose size and alpha are inversely proportional to the distance. So as the distance between two particles decreases, the fuzzy texture gets larger and brigther. Because of this, the ‘clouds’ can appear and disappear as the main particles drift about. Here is another version where I am using simple gradient ellipses.

Jet's post brought back frightening memories of my fluid dynamics classes. Scary stuff.

Those scammers need a huge boot to the head.

Nancy scares you worse.
Go ahead & admit it.
Don't worry, I will.

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OK, on the Nancy question I'll be Frank since I liked his singing and acting.

My wife said I was "hot" but I think she's feeling vibes from radioactive decay:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...adioactive.jpg
A main source of the 44 trillion watts of heat that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive
isotopes in the mantle and crust. Scientists using the KamLAND neutrino detector in Japan have measured how much
heat is generated this way by capturing geoneutrinos released during radioactive decay.

See ya later, I'm going to try to catch some geoneutrinos now.

Are these geoneutrinos
what require us to enjoy our heat -
radioactivity?

Novel idea,
too far outside my knowing
to try to think so.

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/brea...okingnorth.jpg

Ocm?,
Is that in your neighborhood? It looks like that line might be pointing your way.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...rn5to1_500.jpg
the tree by Meyoko (Berlin, Germany)

Interesting note from above:

Meyoko discovered her passion for her art in France, she subsequently studied in Paris and began illustrating. Teenage angst and other turbulent times caused her to move to Berlin.

Imagine angst causing things!
I never had a problem with it,
if I now still don't have one.

(2-4)+(9-4)=3

By spending about two hours (at first) this past weekend discovering what a danbooru is, I've come to learn a tiny bit more of internet history.

+ bonus

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...warao1_500.jpg
This image? Besides being cool... (I like attention to detail in the mundane) and wasting away in my TLTE! Blog folder webnote for the past few months ...

I've also found the sauce, using what else, but something else I happened upon this weekend.

Coincidentally, today was the first time I've really tried Chrome and after using it for about the last couple hours, I quite like it.

I like chrome on cars,
sadly underused these days,
as if it's mundane.

mundane, as well as relatively expensive due to the environmentally toxic properties now associated with that shiney stuff. Talk about environmentally toxic, I've been predicting your presence in the who will post next thread and your absence is becoming a toxic liability to my credibility....excuse my rambling and don't take it personally, I was just trying to use some words with "y" in them.

Yentls yammer, yes?
Your yonderness yells youthful,
yet yeti-like yarns.

(Sorry, BadNick, I was trying, but gave up.)

your you'ness yielding yummy y's

zzzzzzz ....almost bedtime

cautiously definite.

here's what seems like the longest view northward from our street

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...on/ac20116.jpg

Composing such a picture,
filled with the barren, vital structure,
must have been satisfying.

((2+4)-9)+5=2

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate.
Then I worked in the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.
After that I tried to be a tailor, but I just wasn't suited for it. The job was only sew-sew anyhow.
Next I tried working in a muffler factory, but that was exhausting.
I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it.
I attempted to be a deli worker, but any way I sliced it, I couldn't cut the mustard.
I studied a long time to become a doctor, but I didn't have any patience.

I guess social networking applies to all ages.

Infant Bibliophile
Location:United States

About Me
I'm an infant (now toddling almost-3 year old!) bibliophile, itching to share my enthusiasm for books with the world. Besides books, I love french fries, watermelon, cars and trucks, animals, games, yellow things, maps, and Morse Code. I also have multiple food allergies, which keep Mommy and Daddy on their toes, and a baby sister to share my love of books with.

Interests: Children's books, books, quilting, parenting

Favorite Books: Dear Zoo, Bubblebath Pirates, Whose Knees Are These, Hand Hand Fingers Thumb, Counting Colors, Curious George, Dr. Seuss, Peek-a-who

"Do you ever get the feeling that this story's too damn real, or in the present, tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage & it seems like you're the only...person...sitting in the audience?" -Jethro Tull, "Skating Away"

That reminds me of a date I had many years ago. We went to a dinner theater, sat down with a few others who got there early, started eating munchies and a couple drinks. As time passed, the play wasn't starting yet and we were starting to wonder what's the delay. We eventually figured out that the "cast" was dispersed throughout the audience and we were actually in the play. I liked it, although she was painfully skinny and I wished she'd eat more.

2#!&-4&^%$-9%(.5)=7

so much easier
come the beautiful presents
than the where we are

What did you have for dinner, BadNick?

veal parmigiana with rigatoni in a light tomatoe sauce and a side of spinach w/garlic & olive oil; a pretty good cheese cannoli and coffee for dessert

I'm now gardening.
These unused of plants' childrens
will be delicious.

I have yet to make a salad from dandilion and plantain, but it's never too late. I also have a bunch of those tiny wild strawberries in back of my yard.

Have you taken a picture of them yet, Nick-0?

I think, when two months ago, I visited an acquaintance's new abode, for the reason that my transportation was slowly eroding away its foundation, and whilst there, he offered me 23.75 to landscape the area and arena, I too, found some wild strawberries. They are quite small and round, no?

Yes, they are cute little things. A found pic, but like this:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...rawberries.jpg

Is there an unwritten rule that we should/shan't eat them?
What about our pets - how much fruit do we actually even feed them - why should this hurt when all else is good?

I'm off to do some research: wild berries

I've eaten them and I felt no ill effects and they tasted like you would expect sweet little strawberries to taste. I just found this:

The fruit ripens in late spring or early summer. Much smaller than commercial strawberries, it takes long to collect, but tastes much better. Stuff yourself with wild strawberries, collect them to use on cereal, in pancakes, oatmeal, fruit salad, sauces, or other desserts. Theyíre so good, they're the symbol of perfect excellence.

Now I'll eat even more of them!

I also found this and it reminded me of Ocm?:

A HAIKU GUIDE TO WILD STRAWBERRIES
1. Always pick the day
before the berry;
try the first day of summer.

2. Then fall to your knees
and follow your nose
in a field the sun favors.

3. Yes, bring a bucket
but to eat your fill,
you must be lucky or small.

4. And to bring them home,
even to loved ones,
makes you a strawberry saint.

by Terry Hayes

I'm in the doghouse today.

So funny, Jetee.
You know dogs, they love to eat.
Don't give them onions.

But wild strawberries,
since so small & so tasty,
can hardly hurt them.

Notice that TLTE has about 68,000 more views than the other guys?

What happened to that new person we had recently?

Was it Not_Me? (probably my fault, regardless)

I'm saying IT"S NOT!
But ev'ry moment's coming
will never be me.

Our mutual views
& tolerance, internal,
can't scare them away?

It's ironic. That small snapshot of a statistic might lend one to perceive that we the higher cume rating, therefore, we would have the bigger audience of viewship / participation, but it seems that the more likely answer is that us remaining four are to view the topic a pocketful of times daily, on average, and we come to set ourselves apart as being both viewer / player on an island of self-satisfied ramblings.

Idea-infusion?

Ain't that what it is?
Another negative thought
won't help us, Jetee.

((2-4)+9)/7=1

This thread needs more folks
who can accept its structure
& try to fit in.

See? I'm a negative-nelly, even when I'm trying to remain neutral.

Let's see what my TLTE!-Blog (non-existent save for a webnote) has in store for us:

http://api.ning.com/files/9jL1Cvqf1P...fordamene2.jpg
Ah! It's Wednesday all over again. (does the above image show alright?)

The above image
makes me feel lovely-naughty
trying to read it.

One trick, my fellow member,
is finding truths wherever you look,
whether you like them or not.

I truly liked that one, too, Jet. I was trying to decide which part I liked the best, but I can't decide since I'm attracted to all her parts. I could just start by kissing and smelling her neck. But I don't like the soles of her shoes, though they might be practical for walking in shallow mud puddles.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh...6f9yo1_500.jpg
Ruel Pascual


-- to note: this applies anywhere.

((2x4)-9)+7=6

What's that image called?
"Little Desk on the Prairie"
seems impractical.

24-9-7=8

Sometimes on beaches,
if imaginary ones,
things became lovely.

Losing lots of things
leaves room for lots of others
if not the right ones.

excerpt from my WAVES category-compendium:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8...1bauo1_500.jpg

When the waves swim by,
do you see the fish in them:
Is that image yours?

Face recognition?
It's not the natural sort,
lest you look in eyes.

Sorry, my notebooks
are under piles of clean clothes,
Roommate throws my scraps.

Hey, remember me?
I used to be your project,
& tee ell tee ee.