Thursday, March 31, 2005

The Weekend's Hoppin'!!

Belated Happy Birthday to Bionic Chick!! I missed it by 1 day. Darn!

(Thu May 31)
I don’t usually promote for Club Medusa, but Tonight is a do not miss … Tommy Lee performing LIVE at Medusa. No, really.

(Fri Apr 1)
For all the Vancouver Peeps, go to Lotus Long weekend’s Easter Bunny Bender.
Every year I swear to Stevie that I’ll try and every year I don’t quite make it. Vancouver and Portland are one of those cities that are just too close to be considered close.

Dave Seaman @ Element


Fourthcity Latptop Battle @ Chop Suey
If you’ve never seen a Laptop Battle, this is definitely the first one to check out.

(Sat Apr 2)
Mt. Baker’s Expanded schedule for April!! They have snow!!

(Tue Apr 5)
If you are out on Tuesday check out the new Drum ‘n Bass location at War Room. I’ve never seen Kid Hops play DnB. That’d be sweet!

DRUM & BASS Tuesday at the WAR ROOM
presents KID HOPS in the WAR ROOM
with RODDIMUS & DOC SCHMIKYL 04.05.05
@ the WAR ROOM 722 e pike st.
(e pike & harvard) 21+ full bar
*NO COVER*

(Wed Apr 6)

A Puuurrfict date night
JEROMY NAIL @ the Chapel Bar
Sexy, loungey beats courtesy of Mr. Nail at Capitol Hill's newest hang out.

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

worksbykanani.com

Kanani's site is up!! Please check out her fabulous art work. This woman is truely amazing.

www.worksbykanani.com

The thing about Ex's

The thing about lesbians is, not only will you run into your girlfriend's ex-girlfriend often, but there's a very good chance that you'll also be wearing her underwear.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Cobwebs

I'm ready to move into the next phase of my life.
But how uncomfortable it is to walk through a door
covered with the cobwebs of my past.

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Perl ‘la la’ Land…Literally

I believe I’m actually uncovering a parallel universe.

I’m starting to believe that Perl is actually a village in an alternative universe where everyone is a Monk that walks around one foot-in-front-of-the-other speaking in their native language, Glorious Nonsense.

I haven’t touched Perl in two years. I never quite got the hang of it before, but I could say ‘hey’ to the world in more ways than most people can. There’s a lot more call for it in my new employment (yes, I have a day job), which is exciting. When Delicioso found out that I was a computer nerd, he had his friend Tom Christiansen, author of my fav Perl book, The Perl Cookbook, send me a copy.

Learning a programming language really is learning a different way to think. Not only are you learning new symbols (two dollar signs $$ put together will actually tell you the number, or id, of the program, or process, you are running) and new meanings to words (chop() will actually “karate chop” off the last character of a word and hand it to you a plate), but you have to learn to only think one step-at-a-time or you’ll trip and fall flat on your face. Then you’ll get really pissed and frustrated because you can’t figure out why. So programming nerds who know how to communicate with the rest of the world have found lots of colorful ways to translate what it is we are doing while we are looking into cyber space all day long… and why we are a little bit insane because of it. But because we are computer nerds (and of the ‘higher mind’ -- ahem), we also have to entertain ourselves (or keep some VERY dry material entertaining) by adding little jokes and innuendos that only other computer nerds can see. A perfect example of me entertaining myself while I’m entertaining you is my binary babydoll T-shirt*.

Here’s how Tom explains hashes to me.


‘People and parts of computer programs interact all sorts of ways. Single scalar** variables are like hermits, living a solitary existence whose only meaning comes from within the individual. Arrays are like cults, where multitudes marshal themselves under the name of a charismatic leader. In the middle lies the comfortable, intimate ground of the one-to-one relationship that is the hash.’

Also to explain my point, some comments by Larry Wall, the dude who invented Perl.

Doing linear scans over a hash is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

So after a while() of translating that this:

while (<>) {
for $chunk (split) {
print (“chunk\n”);
}
}


… allows you to do print every word in a file, you actually start to become a little … kooky.

Perl is not the only village in the Universe. There’s also the Linuxtown, where people write commands that do things that are totally off the beaten path. Example, I found a command called ‘ddate’ when I accidentally typed ‘d’ twice. Here’s snippets of the help (manual) pages for this command.

$ man ddate
DDATE(1) Emperor Norton Utilities DDATE(1)
ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates

Arguments (or what each symbol does when you type it)
%H Name of current Holyday, if any

%N Magic code to prevent rest of format from being printed unless
today is a Holyday.
%X Number of days remaining until X-Day. (Not valid if the SubGe-
nius options are not compiled in.)

%{

%} Used to enclose the part of the string which is to be replaced
with the words "St. Tibâs Day" if the current day is St. Tibâs
Day.

%. Try it and see.


% ddate
Sweetmorn, Bureaucracy 42, 3161 YOLD

% ddate +âToday is %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %Hâ
Today is Sweetmorn, the 42nd of Bureaucracy, 3161.

% ddate +"Itâs %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %H" 26 9 1995
Itâs Prickle-Prickle, the 50th of Bureaucracy, 3161.
Celebrate Bureflux

% ddate +âTodayâs %{%A, the %e of %B%}, %Y. %N%nCelebrate %Hâ 29 2 1996
Todayâs St. Tibâs Day, 3162.

BUGS
ddate(1) will produce undefined behaviour if asked to produce the date
for St. Tibâs day and its format string does not contain the St. Tibâs
Day delimiters %{ and %}.

NOTE
After âX-Dayâ passed without incident, the Church of the SubGenius
declared that it had got the year upside down - X-Day is actually in
8661 AD rather than 1998 AD. Thus, the True X-Day is Cfn 40, 9827.

AUTHOR
Original program by Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson
(mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Major rewrite by Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP, aka Andrew Bulhak
(acb@dev.null.org)
Five tons of flax.

DISTRIBUTION POLICY
Public domain. All rites reversed.

SEE ALSO
date(1),
http://www.subgenius.com/
Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Or How I Found Goddess And
What I Did To Her When I Found Her


I thought there were a lot of drugs in the Entertainment world, but apparently they are running around rampant on Planet Geekdom as well. Cheers.

*Thank you ThinkGeek for putting out girl-cut t-shirts a few years ago. You rock!
**My, that’s a scary word!

Monday, March 21, 2005

Girl4Girl ... de Lights

Girl4Girl on Sat was a blast. Please take some time to email chris at girl4girlseattle dot com and tell her she rocks the par-T!.

Highlights
Hell actually froze over as Elltee’s attended her first G4G ever (and love it)!!
DJ Stacy, layin’ em down.

Meagin Donovan, local singer-songwriter and passionate feminist's first G4G.
Chris, the night's Promoter getting embarrassed when DJ Stacy called her out for dancing on stage.
Dunc & Karen almost thinking about mashing me between them (some day…).
Shannon giving me a 'Raspberry' on the cheeky and me not remembering at all.
The kick-ass tracks & smooth transitions of DJ Special-T.
Actually getting to speak to Jen & Kelly for more than 3 minutes.
Raver Girl (aka Heather) spinning her neon yellow wrist bands for a Ravergirl origional lite show.
Kristi pointing out Kimber Xara so I could give her a big ass hug.

A line outside waiting to let in 1100 WOMEN !!!!!
Quinn following the BioGirl theme and looking cute in a hat & tie.
Spending lots of time with Evil Genius & Audel Snow (ok, that was at Digweed on Friday, but hey, it’s my blog and I can say what I want).

Lowlights

Shannon giving me a 'Raspberry' on the cheeky and me not remembering at all.
Only seeing Monica for about 10 seconds in passing when she gave me the ‘Yo what up’.
Not finding Zarah to dance with despite our calls, texts, and endless searching the left, right and center areas beside the stage (where else would she be?). Bew.
And G4G isn’t actually complete when Miss-E or Phin aren’t there.
Not calling Sheiny back cuz I was out prancin’ the town with the ladies. I miss him…but I know, as the origional PIMP, he understands.

Shannon, Go Bra!!

Check out the Stranger article featuring Shannon & the Gaelic Gays!

http://thestranger.com/current/chow.html

Thursday, March 17, 2005

The Weekend Starts Hear!

(Thu Mar 17)

Zacharia is in T-town for some DnB madness
http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=84514&eventid=19584

(Fri March 18)


DIGWEED!!!! @
Element
http://www.johndigweed.com/

(Sat March 19)


~~~ Life
@ The Baltic Room
featuring Loveslap's Heartbeat Vol. 1 Tour
with special guest DAVID HARNESS (San Francisco)

~~~ DJ Misha with Smash TV, Damian Lazurus
@ Re Bar

From Misha 'Rumor has it that Holger Zilske (Smash TV) has been tearing it up all over the US and we should expect a hell of a dance party! Holger has developed his own visuals to go with his set and will be playing some new material from his upcoming 12" "Tech-tech talk" out this month'

~~~ LA Kendall & Julie Herrera
@ Last Supper Club

~~~ Girl4Girl
@ Premier

DJ’s Stacy and special guest DJ Special-T
Who wants to bet body shot that we'll get more than 1000 women again this month!??

(Sun Mar 20)

DO YOUR TAXES.
… and then come over and do mine…

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Pop Pop, Fizz Fizz

We get free soda pop at work. I’m not a fan. It’s too dangerous. I have enough vices. I’m pretty good about only drinking 1 or 2 pop’s a week. But when it’s free like that!! Good thing they don’t stock Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb. I doubt I will ask them to or I'll never be hydrated again. They do have these yummy ‘water’ drinks, though. Talking Rain. I’m getting addicted.

Thing is, I’m totally stumped. The label says there is 0% fat, 0% sodium, 0% protein, 0% Calories and 0% carbohydrates. It only contains Spring Water, Carbonation, and ‘Essences from Natural Fruit Oils and Extracts’. So how does it create the berry flavor? And why does it taste sweet? I can only assume it is created from the ‘Essences from Natural Fruit Oils’. I can’t find any information about the ‘Essences’ from their FAQ. So I emailed them the question. I’ll let you know what they say.

The Berry is my favorite. It is Berry good.
We used to have Tangerine, but not anymore.
The Lemon Lime tastes like pine needles.
Every once in a while I’ll have a Cherry Coke.
Vanilla Coke has it’s own web site, but Cherry Coke does not.
In fact, www.cherrycoke.com is a redirect to www.vanillacoke.com. What’s up with that?
I wonder if Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke are also made of ‘Essences from Natural Fruit Oils?’

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Jdub back on the Dub Dub Dub

Looks like M.I.A. show is cancelled for tonight. Bew! I'm bummed.

But the good news is that I can listen to some M.I.A. tracks from home now cuz I've got the WWW hookup! Which means you'll be seeing more blog entries from me finally. Yay! I've got wireless hooked up in the pad, too, so I may even send some blogs from the Toilet! Or the bathtub!

If you are itchin' from not going to Chop Suey tonight, head there tomorrow for DJ Sawka. And please thank Elletee for answering my Valentines prayers. Also give her a hi-five (she loves those) for playing some House records at Bob's Big Boy Birthday party at W. Seattle Easy Street on Saturday. She rocks!!

O! -- A must-do. Log onto www.clubvibes.com and vote for Stevie G. for best promoter of the Year. He and his crew have been putting on Fridays at Sonar in Vancouver for a long ass time. He really is a fantastic promoter and he's puppy-dog cute. You'll have to sign up, but club vibes is good times.

In other news, my new roomie Tara Rize just snagged a manager at Easy Street Records in Queen Anne. Go visit her and tell her 'Congrats!'.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Gigs for Minx, Misha & some Premier Photos!!

I finally put up the photos from Premier!! Thanks again to Jersey Girl, photographa extrodinare!

Also upcoming gigs from the Hitgirls & Electrosect!!

In Town!!
WEDNESDAY 03.16.05: Sensory Effect Presents KJ Sawka and Scientific American @ Chop Suey

Outta Town!!
THURSDAY 03.10.05: DJ Misha @ Saucebox: PORTLAND
WEDNESDAY 03.16.05: DJ Minx @ The 5th Avenue: DETROIT

Monday, March 07, 2005

Missing Me? Some upcoming shows to keep you company.

I’m all moved into my new pad and I can’t find anything. I don’t quite have internet yet, but I’ll be back on-line shortly and SO much better. I bought a 200 Gig Hard Drive because my 20 Gig-er just ain’t cuttin’ it.

I’m sorry to all who showed up at the HRC Fundraiser last week expecting to see me but did not. After moving for 12 hours that day, I couldn’t lift my arms. But I hope you bowl'd your assess off and Thank You for supporting Civil Rights and HRC.

Some great music coming up in the next two weeks:

(Wed March 9)

See it First with The Femurs!, The Blakes, Jailbirds, and Panic @ Neumos. The Femurs are kick-ass. They are up and coming, kids. So go see them on Wed so you can say ‘I saw them back in…’

(Thur March 10)
Tegan & Sarah w/ Ditty Bops at an all ages show at the Croc.
Tegan & Sarah are two very cute, very talented lesbo identical twins who totally rock.

LICK! Also that night, the premier of LICK at Chop Suey! Featuring DJ’s Anna Oxygen (from Olympia), Master Stan, Fagolis & Sappho. Do not miss another premier of a fantastic queer night.

(Fri March 12)
Kings of Convenience @ Chop Suey

(Tue March 15)
M.I.A. A hip hop DJ from the U.K.
This is a very special appearance by an artist that will top the charts with her first album, that isn’t even out until April! You must see her!!

Speaking of lesbians, queer nights are the feature in this week’s Stranger. The article talks about G4G’s move to Premier and the G4G Revolution that we all created last month! I do have some photos to put up from that show! I’m totally in transition with the move, of course, so I’ll get those up ASAP! Girl4Girl already has photos up on their site so check them out!!. There’s a photo of Sokolicky & Zarah and also Heather, Phin’s lady of the night!! And of course one of DJ Rickie Leigh looking Fabulous!

So go have fun and I'll see you all real soon.


Thursday, March 03, 2005

HRC Fundraiser THIS Saturday

If you are PISSED that not all humans are granted the SAME rights as others in this ‘FREE’ country, please take the time to join MYSELF and DJ ELLETEE on Saturday for an HRC Fundraiser/bowling/pizza/music extravaganza.

The
HRC has been hard at work fighting for YOUR rights. They can do so only with YOUR help. So let’s have some FUN, work TOGETHER, and bowl to make this a country better place for everyone.

Leilani Lanes will be ENTIRELY taken over on Saturday!!
http://www.leilanilanes.com/

For a measly $35 YOU get:

FREE Pizza
FREE Bowling
FREE non-alcoholic drinks (the bar will be open for Alchies!!)
1 year membership to the HRC
The same CIVIL LIBERTIES granted to all Americans… okay, so we aren’t there yet. But that’s why we NEED you.
The event goes from 6 til midnight so when you are NOT bowling in your 2 hr slot, you scan still hang, drink,cruise, and dance (if you so desire) Buy tickets here!
https://secure.boxofficetickets.com/800-494-TIXS/WebObjects/BOTx.woa/wa/searchByEvent?id=11781