Sunday, March 22, 2009

Dropping Easter Egg bombs on that A!

I just found Dollhouse when I was browsing Hulu last week. It's a pretty good show, there is something about it, I don't know if it flows very well, there is something off about it, but I'm going to keep watching it. The premise is that dolls can be loaded with any persona or combination of personas to be whatever their client wants.

I fell head over heals for "Altered Carbon", "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Angels", and "Woken Furies", by Richard Morgan. All three books are science fiction stories about a dystopian future where people can change bodies, called sleeves, by changing the stack or memory chip. The protagonist in these books is a guy Takeshi Kovacs.

I was watching an episode and the guy that changes the persona in the dolls was talking to another person about a Japanese guy that had made a discovery in brain research or something. I stopped it and zipped back to see if he mentioned Takeshi Kovacs, but he hadn't, dang, I'd hoped he had...

Midnight Madness

It's always an adventure to walk home down MLK, you are 90% likely to run into a wacko. Case in-point: Saturday night, walking up MLK to catch the 6, had some time after calling the Trimet phone number so I walked up North and came to the Plaid Pantry and I really needed a salty snack, I got a can of Pringles then walked out. I noticed there was a stop right there so I made sure it was for the 6 and ate my chips.

This dude walked up to the stop and said something in a real loud deep voice, I don't know what he said, but it caused me to look up and see a dude with crazy hair like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future carrying one of the Portland Recycles reusable grocery bags. He came up to me and said he just got out of Detox and they let him keep his space bag. I didn't understand space bag (I must've shaken my head or cocked it to one side like a dog) and so he came closer and showed me. I thought he was talking about the Franzia boxed wine because it has a 'space' (-slash- futuristic) shiny mylar bag inside of it, on second thought he might have just been referring to the bag that the Bureau of Environmental Services has been giving away.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

West Linn

I posted on my Twitter that I was going out with Nancy to help her redo a wetland delineation out in West Linn, OR. We had some fantastic weather and I was able to take this picture of Mt. Hood clear and bright looking straight down Hidden Spring Mountain Ranch Road or something like that.

This photo taken with my G1, woot!

There are a ton of huge houses in West Linn, quite a few situated way back from the main road. I observed a geezer hooking up his garbage and recycling containers to the bumper of his Escalade one day. "Oh, honey, please bring the cans back in."

The wetland delineation work was fun, it was good to get out of the office, I was in charge of using a machete to clear a path through the blackberry bushes. I got pretty good at it, but my forearm started to ache after a while.