you superstitious fuckers. I’m having so-so luck today. I have a cold, but I don’t have to drive to fucking OC, so that’s good. My cookies came out good. Banana-pecan, they taste like little round banana breads. Some have a little baking soda-y tang, which is bad luck, or bad stirring.
I haven’t been killed yet, so that’s either good or bad luck, depending on how you look at it.

I did this years ago…my friend posted it to his myspace profile, i’d forgotten about it. If I may say so myself: awesome. A little shadow behind the smurf woulda been good tho (Use transparency selection in the layers palette for the initial mask cutting out the smurf, then add the transparency of the smurf itself by creating a new layer, filling the selection you have with black, painting the smurf shape in there, selecting the new black shape, create new layer, select black shape’s transparency (Command-click the palette icon), and choosing Layer>Layer Mask> Hide selection.
Then set your brush to a soft setting, blend mode Multiply, Opacity 30% or so. Enjoy!

Charles Darwin, b. 2/12/1809 d. 4/19/1882
Here’s raising a pint to the greatest idea conceived by the mind of man.
Yes, he wasn’t the only guy to come up with the idea, and current science would not be comprehensible at first glance to the man. But we as a species would not be wherever we are now without Darwin’s rigorous, detailed, meticulous work. Truly a historical giant.

Cal Berkeley’s “Understanding Evolution” page
I slept in a park in Berekeley when I was a teen. And spare-changed for a Fat Slice.

PBS’s Evolution resource page
I watched “Judgement Day” last night, about the Dover trial. It was awesome and recommended. You can watch the whole thing online at that link. Do it.

Here’s the complete text of The Voyage of the Beagle, one of the works that made Darwin famous in his time.

Oh yeah, here’s pretty much everything else he ever wrote, including Origin.

I’m going to take time through the day to think about the man, the ideas, and the results. If you’ve never looked into his work, I’d recommend it, again. To me, he’s one of the pillars of the amazing trip humanity, and life, has been on. These things drive me to honor life, to love the time I have, and try to do everything I can with it.

one of my favorite stupid sites.

So some esurance commercial comes on. it’s a guy singing about how he gets animated about esurance, with a guitar. Get it? He’s playing off how the commercials are animated, Genndy Tartakovsky-style.
I want to kill that commercial. I wish I was a D&D type magic-user who could cast spells reanimating the dead, or creating golems of inanimate materials (I realize that’s clerics, but I also know you’re a fucking geek now, so deal with that little nugget, you bastards), just so I could animate that commercial, and then kill it to death with my hands. I want to feel the life drain out of that horrible fucking abortion of a commercial’s veins and hear its sputtering last breath. esurance is trying to cultivate this cooler-than-thou bullshit image. I know how bad they really suck. They tripled my rates after someone ran into me, and every time I see their spy-chick’s fake perky boobies, I think to myself “Why can’t the villains win? Just this once?”
Commercial, I hate you.

from the pilot:
Uncle Gabby: “Let me clear something up for you…if it’s horrible, it’s exists. If it’s beautiful, you’re imagining it.”

I started playing poker again online, and I suck. I’m even watching it on TV. But I just blow. My brain is not thinking right for whatever reason. My brain is not geared for poker.
I’d like my friends to come over and play with me, still. Perhaps this weekend instead of a mini-scrabblethon. Some kind of game. I need to sit around a table with drinks and talk shit. It’s time.

Tonight i decided i’d avoid making meat and cook a pasta dish for me and des. i found a nice looking recipe at my favorite site for arugula pesto. Fantastic. I gathered the ingredients. Roasted the garlic. Roasted walnuts. The pic in the link makes it look all clean and white, while mine ended up being green, grassy, and too intense (raw garlic). Alternate bites would yield alternate results…first a tasty chew, then essence of lawn clippings.

There’s Desi chowing down on my green fiasco. Later she would complain of intestinal pain, and I blame myself. I have created death pesto, which attracted Tacky the Death Cat to creep up on Des in that pic. He was about to harvest her soul. I fended him off with a couch cushion and a hissing noise. Weak-ass Death Cat.

Post mortem: I believe my main failure was in the amount and kind of arugula I added. I hyper-compressed the cupfuls, so it was likely too much. The recipe called for arugula leaves, and I left the stems on. That would explain the woody/grassy taste of the pesto. The garlic intensity was pretty clear cut. I have to get a better idea of what a “clove” constitutes. I bet I had a couple that were too big, so when I roasted them, they didn’t roast all the way through and as a result were super-intense. I was supposed to add a half-clove of raw garlic for a little kick, and instead added the equivalent of 4 cloves.

Overall, I’d recommend it, with the caveats of removing the damn stems and roasting the garlic fully. I was wondering what it would taste like if the arugula leaves were blanched in boiling water as well. I’ll report.

desi said if i wanted more hits i had to post tits and boobies

before emo was emo. pre-emo?