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EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
(evilbenfranklin)
Certifiable Mad Genius in Training
Better Living Through Merciless Experimentation!
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34 years old
168 cm, 5 ft 6 inches
Saving the world, one datacenter backup library at a time. Wannabe superhero. Future Space Pirate.
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Free thinker, gamer, scarily intuitive, loudmouthed, all-about-the-liberty, genetically stubborn Texan SOB.
Happily married to ephemeral.
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Evilben, it's been ages! how's you? how's the missus? - Good to see you back!
Good to be back, thanks. We're doing better... it's been a bumpy ride for us the past few months, but I think if we can survive the last few aftershocks, we should be okay eventually.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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I see Jimmy's up to his usual proselytizing... and usual standards of coherency.
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Good morning, folks.
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Mornin', folks. Hiya, Butterfly. :)
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Hello, folks. Sorry if I'm quiet... getting over bronchitis, and it's left me a little loopy, so my multitasking ability is way, way down.
I'm outta here for now. Talk to y'all later.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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Another day closing, another crisis solved, and my boss called me a superstar.
Busy day... but a good one.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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Hey, Zeph. S'up?
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Jesus saves? Airbags do.
-Zeitgeist
Jesus saves. All others in the party take full damage.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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ORANGE TX- Rainbo Bridge closed when winds reached 49MPH. Ambulances huddling under overpasses- Port Arthur Pulling out the people running the pumps-oh ! That is when overflow spills in.
-sand
According to information here at work, the police and military authorities have told our people to stay off the roads. They're not letting anyone move around Houston Metro that doesn't have to, save for emergencies.
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Okay, hon. Enjoy your afternoon, and I'll see you in a few hours. :)
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Coincidentally, I really, REALLY want a nap, right now.
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It's interesting how adrenaline affects the body. It's like chugging a six-pack of energy drinks, then running a marathon at super-speed, followed by the sudden inexplicable urge to Take A Friggin' Nap.
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The leading edge of IKE is making landfall. Storm is still listed as Category 2 Hurricane. Winds sustained at 105MPH.
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I love this country. I served this country in the Army for several years. I think the idea of America is great... however, I think that the lunatics have gotten the keys to the asylum, and that it's gotten too big, and too polarized to hang together much longer.
The main question is where the cracks are, how hard they're going to split, and where the shrapnel's going to fly when it happens.
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Okay, back from lunch, and the baleful red voicemail light of my desk phone is illuminated like the eye of Sauron, seeking its victim.
Responses to messages may be slow.
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Ok... crisis is on hold for the moment. Going to go grab some grub. Ephe, I'll call you in a few, once I've wolfed down lunch.
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Love you too, Ephe. Sorry I haven't called yet -- haven't even gotten lunch, yet. It's been bugnuts crazypants today.
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...I am definitely gonna need me some DOOM time, at some point tonight.
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Sand: More like I'm trying to get service out to someone in H-Town who drew the short straw.
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o/` Riders on the storm... Riders on the storm... o/`
O HAI. I R SAVING UR DATAS FROM HURRCAIN.
...Kill me.
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*grumble* And my work day frustration level just jacked up about 300%.
#$%& it. I'm goin' to lunch.
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matter cannot generate code. code systems only come from intelligence - Kimberly
Actually, I'm going to chime in and disagree on this point, or at least clarify. "Code" can mean the cryptographic sense, in which you are taking understandable info and making it encoded and unreadable, or the reverse - decoding information to comprehend it.
Another meaning of "code" however, is the programming sense - A set of instructions. DNA/RNA fulfills this criteria rather nicely.
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Mornin', Zeph.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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IF CWB = CWB + 1
THEN F = F + 1
GOTO HOME
(Where CWB is Co-Workers Babbling, and F is Frustration. )
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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Good morning from Texas.
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I need a change in my life. If I don't, then the stagnancy of my career shall provide my energies with nowhere to go, and the resulting vibratory harmonics shall surely drive me mad.
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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Good luck to everyone out Florida way... looks like Hurricane Ike's going to hit hard. =\
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Anyhow, work's done. Time to go home. Later, peeps.
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if nobody wants you to share with them, then it kinda sucks after a while... ; )
-Zephyrus
I don't mind people sharing, as long as whatever they're sharing isn't Drama-Flavored. ;)
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Some days, certain people should just mind their own gods-damned business.
It would make life, in general, easier.
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Another day done. Later, folks.
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Good morning everyone. Hopefully Tuesday will be a good one.
I could never get the hang of Thursdays, for example.
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Thanks for the good wishes, Karen. Right back atcha. :)
-EvilBenFranklin, Mad Scientists' Union Local 42
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Want to be Humbled and Dropped to below ground level? BE a Caretaker- Comfort may be quiet- and NOT fleeing when others cannot bare THAT pain. They do FLEE- feeling Vulnerable and Inept in that position. THEN you must open your Soul to allow it to flow Through you- EXPERIENCE not opinion.
-sand
I'm starting to understand this, Sand. I see her in pain, and wish I could relieve it, but I know that I'm not a miracle worker -- but either way, I'm NOT running from this. I care for her too much.
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The most frustrating kind of pain is not the pain in yourself that you cannot alleviate... but the pain of a loved one that you cannot easily relieve.
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"To deny yourself is so true to form...
You spend most of your days wishing you were never born..."
--Hybrid, "True to Form"
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Caring gets difficult when it seems like nobody cares that you care.
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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
--Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens"
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God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (i.e. everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
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- "You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?"
- REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX.
-- Death in conversation with a biker (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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The kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.
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Heyo folks. Greetings from Boring Cubicle Land, where I once again don the Headshackle of Customer Service and fix problems that people either can't, or are too darned lazy to RTFM about.
Granted, the manual in this case reads like stereo instructions translated from Korean through Esperanto, but still.
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Eep! I'm on my way home, Ephe. Be there ASAP.
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...I think I have had entirely too much caffeine, today. I am tired, nay, utterly tired, but I feel like I'm being dragged along for the ride anyway. Don't got much motivation, but I'm putting one foot in front of the other anyhow.
I do what I must because I can.
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I really, really wish my joints would stop popping and clicking at every single opportunity.
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Read you Mel...when "PLANS" go astray...
One meets ones mettle somewhere in the middle.
-sand
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Past visitations...a friend felled by illness....I be the...Nanny till her ability to stand and function returns.
Dog is so happy to see me...head on my foot when I sit.
Yeah, Like I do not have enough chores of my own. But HER House has>>>>AC ! and Hi Speed internet : )
-sand
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Somewhere in past week- I did see a TV screen and weather report.
Giant Triangle of RED meaning way HOT.
Thus far only 105 heat index.
Means Siestas and COOL is at 3 in the Morning.
-sand
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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/31/the-hidden-brain.html
The Brain at Rest is NOT at rest.
-sand
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Bedtime for this earth rotation....
-sand
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when it is said: ALL Men....or ALL women...
or ALL of any color/race/creed...then you KNOW ignorance and Prejudice is to follow.
As an Observant Being in a human Body...I have seen enough anomolies even among a Smart Dog and a Dumb one...to KNOW that thinking ALL of anything is NOT the issue. Fundamentalists...suck...and I have also met a few Genuinely kind ones.
But I do Not Blame them for the woes of this Journey.
-sand
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: )
-sand
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REPOST:
almost deleted my account. still deciding.
->-^-:{
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Yeah- me too... takes way too long to delete pages- a quick kill to the once was as we move into the here and NOW.
-sand
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meanwhile I have yet to totally clear out Truck from camping/dig...and frequently give away Ohh pretties from Earth...Brings tremendous smiles.
-sand
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MEL !!! Just talked to Karen on phone...28 days to AUSTRALIA! also Finishing last papers for her degree.
Flow is awesome!
-sand
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Unloaded 1/3 of Truck bed...and Blood spilled ( wear GLOVES you silly)
The stinky wet clayed Jeans...Washed.
Stained for all time now-Iron Oxide does that ya know. Smile at Crystals poking from mud encasements.
-sand
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Yes Mel>>>CAPACITY to Love<<<<
some got it...some pretend.
-sand
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YO MICHIGAN DUDE !!!!
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Gragg posted this over on Facebook> thought of YOU!
http://www.flixxy.com/icon-a5-amphibious-sport-airplane.htm
-sand
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Fog from Earth and Lake below-
Lightening strikes all around- Winds Howled and I reinforced stakes with Big Rocks to hold tent in place. Spent Moms Day in Lap of Mother Nature : )
-sand
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Yeah my fingernails will grow back-
Yeah the Orange clay that stains my skin will fade-
But the shared words/energies/ experiences of Miller Mountain...Priceless !
-sand
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MEL- You got a Message !
-sand
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Woke before the Sun...Start the Fire...boil the Water...Coffee!
End of Night> more of Same....when you Actually USE the Body...the rest takes care of self.
-sand
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Now my Gratitude is to the mundane> Dry bed and walls that do not threaten to cave in. Electric Lights? wow...Fan ? Double wow.
Out there...the mud caked jeans that near stand alone...you left out to dry...whack em next day to break off clay...wear again...
Yeah...MUD people.
-sand
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One Regular comes specifically for the quartz Boulders...has a wench that can pull 3,000 pounds> sells stuff at One Dollar a pound. That is for the Plain rocks.
LOVE the variety of slates and conglomerates too. The sandstone is often Alien in appearance...Honycombed with the holes thru which the silica fluids one went through 400,000 years ago.
-sand
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what emerges...from greed to avarice...to my points of FULL and start the give-a-way to those nearby...Gasps: You are Giving that to ME?
Yes dear....now before you Leave here....Give one away to someone else.
Then watch for the Energy shift.... Big Grins.
-sand
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Daytrippers came dressed in WHITE!!!
Carrying white fluff dogs ? White tennies?
a Sight to amuse the many sane people.
-sand
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LOVE Geology- Looked and read it like a Book...the shelf lines and probability of crystals> LO! it was SO! The manner in which the Large backhoes Take out the loads...as they dump on piles...then factor in Gravity. BUT we tend to make magical and quaint stories to amuse the novices.
-sand
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What of Flutterby?
-ZARmageddon
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Left after 3 days...Missed the mother nature showtime. The Live or Die stuff> LOOK Deep inside and OUT.
Stand your Ground...or sit in small tent...as Fogs roll in...as Sky Clears to the million stars...as all changes AND remains the same.
-sand
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For a few more days my skin will be stained Orange from the Iron oxide of clay- fingernails will grow back, etc. MY idea of FUN scares the crap out of some folks : )
-sand
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YE Verily Zar....The FUN that pulled the kink out of right shoulder ( heavy buckets and boots swathed in heavy Mud) Sun blasts at times on the monsoon washed piles...pick up the glints...
-sand
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I was warned the night of Tarnados...grinned from my little tent...next day the RV folks LEFT !!!
This morning I ran the shop ...alone on the Mountain. Sky full of Hawks...ground loaded with Rabbits and Blackberry bushes in bloom. Abundance filled the eyes .
-sand
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From the long Matchstick sizes to Fist size and MORE....green sand with mud balls...break apart and manganese coated CLEAR crystals> breathtaking even to the regulars and manager...all Grins !
-sand
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9 day campout- howling winds- raging storms.
Thousands of crystals9 no joke or exageration)- aching muscles Hauling buckets and massive blocks of rocks imbedded with crystals. Saw truck lean- put more on other side to Balance and distribute.
-sand
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Gratitude in Abundance~
-sand
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More Laughter will ensue> by choice.
-sand
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We will lift a coffee cup to ya'll at the campfire.
-sand
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Friend Butterfly reported ( via facebook)- west Bound highway outta Nashville is Open...Good to GO!
-sand
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Tiny pink Rambling Roses are blooming ...everywhere.
-sand
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morning -and I walked the big Ditch eating Blackberries and admiring the wildflowers.
-sand
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As I Travel on highway before the sun is UP-
I shall BE the Love song-to...of ...and BY
the source : )
-sand
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no bonfire of deadwood- all is wet here.
HOWEVER...Campfires next week on Miller Mountain in Arkansas.
-sand
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>>>BELTANE<<
-sand
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~MAYDAY~
-sand
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Our Teachers are everyone we ever came in contact with.
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Some of the "worst" people> showed me how NOT to be...or go down That path.
Based on the Misery they exhibited.
-sand
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AGENDA> May...Crystal Dig.
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June> Dragon Project.
-sand
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week and 1/2> Roadtrip.
Tent in yard-
campstove by door-
Truck in ready-
***Butterfly to meetup again and on the way stop and hunt for Monarch eggs.
-sand
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I looked and saw Beauty-
Today and everyday....
-sand
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Just on porch- hulling Strawberries.
Misquito bites arm...hand smashes misquito.
***on the concrete squares- new mama cat rolls in leftover warmth from sun.
Rains on way- off I go...to DO stuff.
-sand
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ZAR>>LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A loved one made a request of you some time ago, and the task still lingers undone. You have the energy to do it, but you lack the desire. Find a motivation, before your loved one finds it for you.
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oooh- scarey ????
One of my scopes for today mentioned Procrastination as a GOOD thing ?
The Funnies....Yep.
-sand
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APRIL 4, 2010:
Mercury and Mars square off, producing a volatile balance between saying and doing. People will expect one another to put money where their mouths are, so this is no time to talk about actions that you really have no intention of taking. Also, it's easy to see the flaws and point them out, but it's far better to offer up solutions instead of a critique.
***By Holiday Mathis
-sand
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