It's official: die snugglepuff is safe and sound on the ground in NY.

Soon...

... very soon...

... it will be time to teach Alvin how to use a lighter so he can light my cigarettes.*

But before that happens, I'll be accompanying my mother plus my sister and her brood to San Marcos tomorrow afternoon, where they will take one nephew and the niece to see that movie about the culinary rat while I will accompany the other (older) nephew and his dad to see transforming robots blow up shit real good. Why we're doing this in San Marcos escapes me at the moment, but that's fine.

And now that these announcements have been shared, I will return to the latest Block book (HOPE TO DIE, and I'm about halfway through).

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* Of course, since I'm theoretically going to quit smoking during my vacation -- just as soon as the last pack in the fridge is smoked, which should be sometime late tomorrow night or early Saturday -- I'm not sure how useful this will be. Nevertheless, it seems like the right thing to do, don't you think? I suppose once he's trained I could send him to set my enemies on fire. If I had any enemies. And if he possessed any kind of navigational skills whatsoever. Plus I'm not technically sure how he'd carry the lighter... do you suppose they make fanny packs for kitties? Could he even figure out how to open it? Well, I guess if I put some tuna inside he'd figure it out eventually... probably at the wrong time, but eventually....

Her Noise, courtesy of UbuWeb.

Rod Poole exits stage left.

This is why yer moms always told you not to fuck with rockets. [WARNING: FNORD: TENSHI: GRUESOME PIX]

"O NOZ! Don't nibble my 'nads just cause I brokens into your cribs!"

Think she might be in over her head?

It sure looks that way, doesn't it?

BOO! Hiss!

Myspace fought the law and the law won.

More compelling explanations.

HAH! Rudy gets kicked in the nuts!

In the Kingdom of the Ostrich, Karl Rove is king.


Die snugglepuff is away at her Accounting I class at ACC and I am here with the kitties and a plate full of scrumptious li'l cheese bits. Muenster cheese and guyere cheese, mmmm mmmm gooooooooooood.

... posted on behalf of purplerifka, whose aging laptop is having issues at the moment:

Is the x-axis always vertical and y-axis always horizontal (or vice versa)? We're talking about graphs here... a subject about which I know next to nothing, alas.

Any of you math geeks who can answer this, it would be most appreciated....

I guess shrimp can go bad even in the freezer, if you leave it there long enough.

No shrimp for my tofu 'n ramen surprise tonight!

While die snugglepuff was using my PC a little while ago to check on email, I stepped outside for an illicit puff (that "breaking training" think, bleh). About fifteen minutes later, back inside, I was looking for Alvin and finally opened the door to find him outside. The doofus obviously followed me out without me seeing him. Chilly, chilly Alvin! I'll bet he thinks twice about that now when it's cold....

Oh, and a shout out to kalilflower and anyone else down with grotesque noise: Check out the Myspace page for 20.SV, a one-man project (from Lebanon, of all places) pursuing a twisted variant of noise / black metal using "frequency music" -- you know he's got to be evil, because he's done production / remix work for Stalaggh, who are plenty obnoxious in their own right (see the appropriate review in the new post for TOTDA).