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James -jimmy, jim..dude?-

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About Me

I'm just like everyone else, but ..not ..quite. I'm in touch with the aesthetic plane.When I die I will be reincarnated as a.(insert stupid tech fetish here)......... I like being a geek, I'm sometimes too passionate about computing. Aesthetics and bikes balence that well.Oh yeah. Texican. the people who died in the alamo also called themselves Texicans.Roller Derby. Yeah. My grandfather, his brother in law was Leo Seltzer. He invented it, grandfather & family worked it, and Leo's boy Jerry ran roller derby untill it's formal demise. Long live the banked track, the last memory of 6 day races.reference Mahler, Alma; SCLC, the; Basiie, Count; Whiteman, Paul; Mac Bride, Seán; Derby, Roller; Powell, John Wesley;Powell was my ancestor, a cross between Lewis&Clark and Marcel Mauss. A sorta proto-ethnologist who was a huge early voice in shutting down the "Indian Schools" Read his account of the first recorded trip through the Grand Canyon. Other folks in my family started....Roller Derby.

My Interests

yes, i've got interests.....more than anyone could imagine...really...uhuh yup...I never thought Brittanica covered enough topics...WikiP..may ..MAY evolve into something good in a few generations..

I'd like to meet:

Elephants in toe shoes leaping with fiddles playing Bill Monroe tunes. Yeah, I' like to see that.Id like meet ..humanity..en masse. You can travel the world and meet a new person every day, or you can never cross the county line and do the same. One way.. you meet mostly other wealthy tourists, the other..what you see is a cross section of our own social strata..guess which is more fun?oh yeah,,.and someone who can teach me how to make tofu that doesnt suck.

Music:

I get Ellington confused with Bach sometimes. Most bands are blogs with guitar. I met Basie once...and John Cage...there is a pic of littleMe being held up next to my dad by louis armstrong. My favorite teacher was close to Alma Mahler. (supercoolwierdchik#1) Sonny Stitt is an underapriciated master. And whatever it is...its ALL about 5 lines and 4 spaces.

Movies:

go see a play instead. brecht rocks.

Television:

crak. the best TV these days is streaming radio.

Books:

borges. dequincy. The best reading I've seen was Doris Lessing or Ferlinghetti. Though I aint seen Merwin yet..he's overdue for the Nobel. Ariel Dorfman started his career with a delightfull short book, "Reading Donald Duck" about how to think about the BS fascism in our culture. His look at Pinnochet prepares the reader for Bush. Pay Attention to this man. Ariel Dorfman.

Heroes:

Sandwiches, mosty. And Barbara Jordan.

My Blog

I am the Grim (tech) Reaper

My Latest is gig is something I've done a dozen times now. I'm transitioning a full time tech job to offshore and dispatch. A giant text book and publishing frim has a distro plant in Desoto..they do ...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:35:00 PST

RIP Maynard

Maynard Ferguson was a gateway drug, impresario, a hornplayer who advanced the design of his axe, owner of terrible haircuts, and probably the largest single employer of fresh faces from the one and 2...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:24:00 PST

Dell knew ten months ago

I generally dislike reposting shyte all that often..this cuts the mustard though.As near as I can figure, they became aware of the BOOM factor after shipping for almost 2 months, and then kept shippin...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:01:00 PST

Blue Streak (s) in the sunrise, Varmit rush hour

I can't say exactly, ten, maybe more years ago I took to the habbit of going out by the old UNT astronomy lab..eh Observatory. It's not that great an obsevatory anymore, too much light polution, but i...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:11:00 PST

nano nano

Are You Willing To Relocate? yes, always.(i'm relocating this bit)Aug 7, 2006 7:55 AMSubject Irrational fear of hippies, and-Body: I'm not saying you can't have a rational fear of hippies, lord know...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:51:00 PST

Off key.

Keys Suck. I always loose them. They don't keep thieves out.Consider the Bic Pen /kryptonite thing last summer, or look a the Bump Key vid on utube or digg. I used to carry a bolt cutter for getting ...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:49:00 PST

Walk outside at Dawn

AUGUST IS UPON US>This is a very weird part of summer. Its Hotter. The days are starting to shorten though...meteor showers are almost on us.If this area used to be known as the great american desert...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:43:00 PST

The Floydgate s are about to open now.

In reading about Floydgate...the most interesting thing I've come across is that Jan admitted to taking X...It just gives you this image of a Giant Dieter on a bike..all happy like..listening to europ...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:46:00 PST

floyd..did you put a patch on your nuts?' course not.

I dont think so.maybe.floyd came from dirt..where they dont do that so much.The circumstances..the reaction..give floyd the benafit O the doubt.I wanna dig out some science as this fiasco goes on.If t...
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:37:00 PST

my my, what a badass..Fa Fa Fa Floyd

dont care..win. not win..podium or not, landis is the shit.yesterday he scewed up so bad on the final climb he may as well as held a trackstand.the next day to get it all back before the final climb.....
Posted by James -jimmy, jim..dude?- on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:37:00 PST