I was just looking at the system logs on my G3 and I saw the strangest thing in them. There were these random entries that said:

Wearly I sit here, pain and misery my only companions.

Pardon me for breathing, which I never do any way so I don’t know why I bother to say it, oh God, I’m so depressed.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I’m standing?

My capacity for happiness, you could fit it into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

I’m not getting you down at all, am I?

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Ha, but my life is a box of wormgears.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

I stared at this for a few minutes then went to check the past logs. It was there too. I started to grow a little bit worried and looked around online to see if I could find anything about it. After a bit of looking around I found this thread over on usenet (thanks to Google). Yes, it was the mouse drivers for my system. That makes perfect sense… or not. Though it is nice to know that the folks at Logitech have a good sense of humor.

Amazing article about two (stupid) people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Our party-crasher might have been able to guess that he was among law enforcement had he taken time to study the picture of the Framingham SWAT team on the fridge. Or look at the sweatshirt worn by the host. It had the words Burlington Police Academy and a pair of handcuffs stitched on.

Oblivious to these and other clues, Garland struck up a conversation with Gutwill, never knowing he was a police detective.

Thanks to Lukas for the heads up on this.

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) — An octopus in a German zoo has learned to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act underwater.

Frida, a five-month-old female octopus, opens the jars by pressing her body on the lid and grasping the sides with the suckers on her eight tentacles. With a succession of body twists she unscrews the lid. [ CNN ]

I can see this octopus getting into all kinds of trouble now. How intelligent are Octopuses (octopii?) supposed to be anyways?

Way back when I used to read usenet there were a few newsreaders out there that let you set rules for ‘scoring’. You were able to tell the program to look for certain words and give them a number value. Then you could say to sort by the scores of posts. In theory the higher the score the more keywords it had that matched your interests. It also ment that stuff you didn’t care about would drop to the bottom of the list.

As I start using RSS more for newspaper type feeds I find that I hate sorting through things, or there are regular posts from some newspapers that I really don’t care about. It would be great to start scoring things based on things I’m interested in right now.

Well, the Tussionex definitely helped me sleep last night. For the first time since last Friday I slept for more than an hour. I think this will definitely help me recover quicker (along with a little push from some antibiotics).

The parents are coming up to take me out to lunch today. I think it should be a sushi day.

Once again Wednesday rolls around, which means another episode of The Analog Lounge. Last week I was curled up on my couch with a nasty cold that had just hit. This week, I still have a cold, but hope to be able to come out and kick things off tonight with an opening set (even if I do feel a bit sick still). So I hope to see everyone else making an appearance too. Our special guest tonight is Keith Kene, an even better reason to make an appearance. Here’s the official word:

Changmian and Dubcoast present

*~The Analog Lounge~*
The relaxed side of things. Join us every Wednesday for a mix of
music styles in the lounge at Vertigo. Tonight we welcome:

Keith Kene (formula 409..keep it live) Boston,
MA

Keith Kene is one of those Boston DJs who I just don’t hear spin often
enough. He’s been helping Boston and
New England get their groove going for around a decade, and tonight he’s agreed to come out
and play for us. So bundle up and come on out for a night of house
that’ll warm you up deep down inside (along with some help from a
martini or two).

with resident dj’s
Gregory Blake (Changmian) Boston
Special Pete (dubcoast music) CA
Peter Ellis (ttb) Boston
Pete Yagmin (Changmian) Boston

Wednesdays
@ Vertigo (upstairs)
126 State St. Boston, MA
617-723-7277
10pm – 2am
21+ with ID
$5 cover (gets you into both the Lounge and Anitya)
No dress code
www.changmian.com
www.dubcoast.com
www.vertigoboston.com
www.mapquest.com (directions)

Upcoming Guests:
03/05 – Qi – madlifted – MA
03/12 – DJ Dres – proton radio/dubcoast/DEKLAB – MA
03/19 – MDR – Changmian – MA
03/26 – Residents Night

To view our calendar online (with support for you iCal and Mozilla
calendar folk):
http://ical.mac.com/gblake99/The32Analog32Lounge

And don’t forget Anitya, downstairs at Vertigo this week the one and
only Hugh Sharpe.

Ambrose Bierce: “Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.” [Quotes of the Day]

Nasa is reporting that Pioneer 10 has fallen silent.

Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday.

What was apparently the spacecraft’s last signal was received January 22 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network. At the time, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles from Earth; the signal, traveling at the speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive.

When I was a kid I really wanted to go up into space. I remember reading about Pioneer 10 and everything. In some ways it’s impressive that they were able to keep talking toit as long as they were. Damn, I still wanna go to space. It’s pretty much impossible currently due to my health, but it’s a nice dream.

I found out the actual name for the thing where my heart was racing, along with what they gave me to fix it. You can read all about Supraventricular Tachycardia here.

Doc Searl asks: You mean this isn’t an Onion story?