Strangelet Factory

It’s true.

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:06:44 -0500

It’s true.

attictv: My favorite piece of music in the entire world is...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:38:00 -0500

My favorite piece of music in the entire world is “Sexual Harassment In The Workplace”, a live improv piece on ‘Strictly Commercial’. Go give it a listen.

Bravo station! Bravo station, come in! Something made it through...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:53:20 -0500

Bravo station! Bravo station, come in! Something made it through the portal. Repeat: SOMETHING MADE IT THROUGH THE PORTAL.

I’m all grown up and shit.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:47:03 -0500

I’m all grown up and shit.

I am trying hard not to vent about this whole contraception...

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:46:29 -0500

I am trying hard not to vent about this whole contraception horseshit that’s going on in our country right now so here is a naked lady.

My wife wants “slutty librarian” glasses. I love this woman.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:50:41 -0500

My wife wants “slutty librarian” glasses. I love this woman.

roselynnlocks: Live computer sex!...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:16:00 -0500

roselynnlocks:

Live computer sex! http://roselynnlocks.com/shows-with-rose

I would give anything to know what $12.95 got you in the era of the green-screen Apple ][c vis a vis “sex”.

I’m sorry I talked about politics again. Here are boobs.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:31:06 -0500

I’m sorry I talked about politics again. Here are boobs.

dear weed culture

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:06:00 -0500

I guess you guys are stoned when you have your meetings? Cause I feel like I need to mention this to you.

Look I know Ron Paul seems like a really great political friend but he’s not. He’s a young-earth creationist who believes life begins at conception, and is also probably a racist and homophobe. I know that ad hominem attacks are bad - “just because someone believes in thing A doesn’t make them wrong about thing B”. But in practical terms, it’s a good sign something’s amiss, you know?

His belief that we should end the war on drugs is certainly correct, except that what he means is, we should replace the federal war on drugs with local and state prohibitions on drug use.

Now to be sure, I favor local prohibitions over federal ones - I lean libertarian (although I am of course utterly against the drug war, which is really a war on poor people).

But the data seems to imply that if you really want to fuck with people, don’t waste your time at the federal level; take it to the states. Eg, the people who REALLY want to end Roe v. Wade know that the math is on their side to ban abortion a county at a time, rather than “waking the sleeping giant” and mobilizing nation-wide groups.

So be careful, you guys. Don’t sell out your freedom to the gremlin with the song-and-dance.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

so bored with this joke you guys

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:00:38 -0500

so bored with this joke you guys

OHAI you're the company social media guru now.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:44:30 -0500

When I was 16, all I wanted out of life was sex and drugs. I...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:29:15 -0500

When I was 16, all I wanted out of life was sex and drugs. I wanted sex and drugs so bad I didn’t know what to do with myself.

But I was a dork and couldn’t really get either of them so I spent most of my time playing D&D and teaching myself to program.

Now I’m almost 39 goddamn years old, and not to humblebrag but I can have all the sex and drugs I want. That programming thing turned out to be sort of lucrative, so even if I still lack the moves to participate in frankly ludicrous sex acts (Fig. 1, above) I can pretty much make use of FREE MARKET CAPITALISM and buy it.

And yet all I think about lately is how awesome it would be to play some D&D.

(I’m thinking this after the sex, mind you; I’m not a complete dork.)

I have been neglecting this tumblr, and for that, I apologize....

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:33:14 -0500

I have been neglecting this tumblr, and for that, I apologize. Please accept this as a token of my apology.

Things I hope for in 2012: an end to stupid pubic hair politics on Tumblr

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:00:00 -0500

Can we please be done with stupid debates on Tumblr about pubic hair? So incredibly stupid.

First and foremost: there is no political statement to be had. None. Sorry. The notion that removing one’s pubic hair is some modern side-effect of pervasive pornography (and thus, having it is counter-culture or whatever) is bullshit. You can tell, because if the complete removal of pubic hair was a totally post-70’s construct, we wouldn’t need to invent a word like ‘merkin’ in the 1600’s. Granted removal of pubic hair was probably a hygiene issue (helps cut down on lice) in terms of its utility in antiquity. Still. People have been removing their pubic hair for pretty much as long as we’ve had the ability to do so; for hygiene, for aesthetics, for whatever.

Point the second: the idea that those who favor the removal of pubic hair are latent pedophiles is bullshit. There is simply no data to support this; it’s not been a commonly-held scientific belief since the 1800’s (when phrenology was believed to be a thing). So if everyone could please stop it with the “UR A PEDO LOL” bullshit. Unless unfounded arguments are your thing; in which case may I suggest Christianity? They’re huge on that.

Let’s break this down.

What you do to your pubic hair is your business. Even if you’re in the business of letting people see it.

If anyone makes you feel bad for what you do to your pubic hair, they’re an asshole.

If you make anyone feel bad for what they do to their pubic hair, you’re an asshole.

If you ask someone their preference and you give them shit over their answer, you’re an asshole.

It’s just hair. It grows back. (I wish the same could be said for the hair on the top of my head.) Shave it, grow it back, style it like a fucking topiary.

There. We are now completely done with pubic hair debates on tumblr. let us never speak of this again.

For Xmas my wife got me a bunch of incredibly-hard-to-find CDs from a British indie band, and a...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:51:54 -0500

For Xmas my wife got me a bunch of incredibly-hard-to-find CDs from a British indie band, and a bunch of parts for my shotgun.

My life is incredibly … uneven.

Photo

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:43:28 -0500

check out this sweet rig they set me up with at my new job!

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:18:21 -0500

check out this sweet rig they set me up with at my new job!

kenyatta: US Congress attempts first ever ban on a specific...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:23:14 -0500

kenyatta:

US Congress attempts first ever ban on a specific brain function

From mindhacks:

The United States Congress has just passed a bill to ban ‘legal marijuana’ incense products and ‘bath salts’ stimulants – a legal move which, possibly for the first time, prohibits substances based on their action in the brain and not solely their chemical structure.

The bill is an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act which currently contains a list of prohibited drugs, defined entirely by their name.

Due to the varied nature of cannabinoids, and the fact that semi-legit labs seem to be producing new variations at a remarkable rate, the bill uses quite a wide definition.

The bill (pdf here) specifically prohibits “cannabimimetic agents”, defined as:

…any substance that is a cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1 receptor) agonist as demonstrated by binding studies and functional assays within any of the following structural classes…

and any preparation

…which contains any quantity of cannabimimetic agents, or which contains their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers…

In other words, the definition includes a general class of compounds and possible chemical variations that have a specific action in the brain – namely binding to the CB1 receptor.

This is, as far as I know, the first attempt to ban a specific brain function.

This is sort of chilling. I’m not really much on mind-altering substances (that aren’t alcohol) but the idea of “ban the effects of a receptor by name” just doesn’t sit right with me.

8 hours left.

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:09:31 -0500

8 hours left.

operationblackbird: OPERATION BLACKBIRD: “Gear up!” Loves me...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:44:04 -0500

operationblackbird:

OPERATION BLACKBIRD: “Gear up!”

Loves me some wheelguns.