http://blog.virus-machine.net This thing will never get updated. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:11:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I am aware of all internet traditions." http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/06/17/milhouse-is-not-a-meme/ It's a vroom vroom future rocket bubble car thing! http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/05/28/o/ He hitchhiked (slowly) to Plattsburgh, NY, and was pretty sick of it (the getting stranded part), so he took a bus to the border (Lacolle-Champlain). They wouldn't let him in. He had proper ID and all - birth certificate, SS card, photo ID, etc. They don't believe he's only staying for ... http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/05/07/at-the-border/ Tickets: Megabus, from Cleveland (11:59pm Eastern, 3-18) to Chicago (5:15am Central, 3-19). Lodging: CouchSurfing, with a friend of the woman we stayed with in Columbus. Getting There      The Coffs drove JohnnyPotamus and Katie and I up to catch our bus. We arrived at Tower City in Cleveland (from the Akron area) at ... http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/20/chicago-trip-day-1-9pm-march-18th-2am-march-19th-in-mostly-chronological-order/ Pissed off. I was about to check out a patron w/2 items. Coworker answers phone, pushes me out of way, spends 10min fumbling w/comp. Pre ... # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/10/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-10/ I found a whole different side to Massillon that I wasn't aware of, while trying to find something else entirely. I was looking for any sort of urbex opportunities, and after a bit of searching I found an art show sort of thing going on later this month, by a ridiculous ... http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/10/sort-of-an-alternate-universe/ Tetris: 95,760 # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/09/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-09/ Little boy with a t-shirt that says: JUSTIFIED (in a banner swirling around a cross) just as if I had never sinned. He looked to be about 8. # Gameboy Tetris: 80,845 # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/08/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-08/ One bright day in the middle of the night Two dead boys went out to fight Back to back they faced each other Drew their swords and shot each other A deaf policeman heard that noise He came and killed those two dead boys I find the variations of the Two Dead Boys poem fascinating. Everyone ... http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/07/my-mother-taught-me-this-when-i-was-very-little-or-evolution-of-folklore/ http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/06/muppet-tom-waits/ Voting day. Clinton's going to win Ohio, just so you know. V-V # Little boy with shirt saying 'justified just # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/04/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-04/ Idea: The Traveler's Guide to the 20th Century. History, geography, politics, science fiction. # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/03/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-03/ In the attic of the library, alone. It reminds me of one of my nightmares. Need to come back with a camera & a flashlight, & maybe a rea ... # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/03/01/etys-tweets-for-2008-03-01/ Too damn cold. It should be either April or Oregon. # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/02/24/etys-tweets-for-2008-02-24/ It's gorgeous out here, calm & cold & quiet, with the prettiest snow this season. # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2008/01/02/etys-tweets-for-2008-01-02/ Sandman (Halloween 2005) Dr. McNinja (Halloween 2006) http://blog.virus-machine.net/2007/12/06/other-johnnypotamus-costumes/ JohnnyPotamus is Internet Famous. Fucking BoingBoing! Doctorow's picture is the best one out there, sadly - the only other three we can find are: (photographer[s] unknown) http://blog.virus-machine.net/2007/12/06/hoshit/ Travel scrabble. House rule: make two words in 1 move, score is both multiplied. Got 35 on 'nee' & 'we'. -E # Nobody in the library agrees on how to shelve things in AV, & i get to deal with the mess. -E # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2007/11/24/etys-tweets-for-2007-11-24/ A very kind man named jim - i think - gave me $5 for more glowsticks. It makes people happy! -E # There are some girls here discussing politics, in the way that one tells them what to think and the others nod along. "So we don't like ... http://blog.virus-machine.net/2007/11/17/etys-tweets-for-2007-11-17/ I had a fantabulous day at work, which involved three hours of getting high off carpet fumes in AV while alphabetizing CDs, and another ... # http://blog.virus-machine.net/2007/11/16/etys-tweets-for-2007-11-16/