Monday, January 30, 2006

Online dating scandal - and back to the pumpkin patch

28 year old male, scared of AIDS, nervous around children, and mistrustful of condoms seeks - likeminded hot women for non-sexual highly erotic adventures.

Sweet tagline. Let 'em know you're serious about not givin' a hoot. It's only earnesty. It's also hilarious. It was the new year of the dog and I spent a weekend off the leash. Put it on the table.

A single response came from an elegant lass with great hair and the guts to laugh along. The rest wisely ignored the once in a long-time promo. No mystique there - cause face it - the only thing you're gonna get for richer or poorer with online dating is an STD.

Well it worked out well. Got online, made a digital connection, shared a few laughs and got out (profile deleted, bogus email address = el gonissimo)

And all you sista's BE SAFE - get that dog tested before you find out the REALLY hard way - hard is good, hard is nice, be smart, cause hardball may not give you a second chance! (and ain't no hard ball that much fun to play).

This punk is back to his pumpkin patch. Much safer, and dividends.... amazing dividends.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Durty style Kempo Karate in Charlottesville

Hi Dude,
Thanks for the rolling pin. It's badass. Just spent three weeks in a dojo here in Charlottesville learning kempo style. That's what the sign said. "I call it South Paw Style" sensei replied when asked to clarify. A tactful insight - might have called it "cage fighting light" and saved me a few bucks... clever fella, that sensei. Right away it was everything in one place that I wasn't looking for. My special technique is running - fast and far. My physical fight or flight knob is tilted so far right to boogie out git down that the notion of physical confrontation is an abstract extreme - give me that pen any day - that's what I was taught.

Charlottesville /earth presents a conundrum in that regard - we have a serial rapist on the loose and when last Sergeant Green was confronted on this matter his response was "You can't catch dem types of folks, you gotta catch them on speeding tickets, or shoplifting or such" so in other words if you're a babe in this town you're S.O.L. Hard core. So a bit of whoop-ass training is necessary.

Anyhow, I'll skip the unnecessary details. The part about wrestling a 265 lb state champion wrestler from Texas. You don't need to know about that. You don't need to hear about the 5'3" Mexican or the skinny redneck plumber. I'd rather not mention anything about that at all. The part about... well you get it. Anyhow, the important thing I learned was about bone structure. Bones really do like a little action. They like getting whooped on - it informs the osteoplasts that they are needed, and they go in there and strengthen bones after they get wacked. The rolling pin....

SO - before every practice we would ritually beat every bone in our body lightly at first and then harder to "knock the air" out of the bones using hard objects - fists for ladies with weaker bones, baseball bats for the larger ones. All that matters is that from your toes to your head you rap hard enough to blast some of the crap outta yer skeleton and let it reharden - in fact you can make your bones like teeth - totally badass and calcified. Alex, thank you for the rolling pin. It's working I think. Ever since the suplex I've been wary of returning to class, however when I bumped my shin against a large metal object the other day, the seering pain brought a tinge of gladness to my mind "Whoopie, the osteoplasts are really gonna get off on that" I said smugly to myself. I hate to sound the coward, it's just my reality. Given the chance I'll run, fast. My signature move in class was the duck, cover, and roll - I even escaped from the Mammoth One - that was a glad moment, though in a room 20' x 30' it mattered not.

To the women of Charlottesville (and other parts of the land) - now that you know what a wuss (some of) your men are I would really encourage you to attend the kempo classes at the end of JPA behind Durty Nelly's. If the men can't stand up to the aggressors it's going to be up to you lasses to do the job. Stand firm, aim for the sack, grab and twist - that's my advice, it's honest albeit from a meager dude. And if you have a good rolling pin give yer legs a ratta-tat-tating once in a while. If you ever have to kick ass you can think of your legs as teeth and gnaw on some jack-ass'es face with 'em... ROARGGGGGG! (yeah, me and my keypad are hardcore...)

hastas ya'll

Monday, January 02, 2006

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Originally uploaded by phunktion.
Well, the writing is now on the wall - the free speech monument, in charlottesville, virginia on the downtown mall. daggone squirrels. you can't hardly keep an eye on them nowadays.

Friday, December 09, 2005

40' container to (Iraqi) freedom

Interconnection.org, almost a year ago, succeeded in shipping a container of computers to Iraq - supplementing a group already established in the Northern region where the Kurds live. It will be interesting to see where our efforts may land. The right stuff is sure to emerge in time. Inveneo.org has created a really cool all-purpose completely wilderness ready solar /pedal powered system with a satellite com-link and we'll see what that baby runs. Looking forward to it. According to Charles Brennick - the tireless captain of Interconnection.org the shipping costs should not run about $8,000 or so from the United States through Turkey and onland through to Iraq. To the South where the Ma'dan live - p'raps another couple grand.

Update - Lisa @ Trans Global Moving has a quote @ $6,900 to Kuwait = very cool. She says an armed Mad Max style escort into Iraq is necessary for anything beyond the border. Armed escorts in the region run $8,000 to $12,000. 3fty.Us is now up and running - a defaul Joomla package with some nice components running.

Clock is a tick tockin'

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Kudzu aka Pueraria Lobata aka Ohwi Form and Function Review

My kitchen now has two buckets with root in various stages of production, a third vessel carries the root in chunks, and another bucket contains the remnants of first round blending and grinding. Having weakened hands from weekend warrioring for the last several moons my grip on the machette has provided blisters well along my palms. The claims of kudzu as a hand cream and soap must be true - -- my silky-smooth blistery hands... oooh ahhhh.

Form - lifted off the of HPLC land - 14 isoflavones of varying funkytions -
Puerarin, Diadzin, Diadzein, etc..
So here's the short list on kudzu functions -

One vat in the corner is murky and smells like glue - it's about three days through its seven day adventure into becoming the goo for myself and my boozing friends. The gray starchy sediment along the bottom is congealing a bit, and we're about to test the Bonaroo Method of hurrying things up a bit.

NB: The Bonaroo Method should be fine given a 36 hour delay - necessary for the starchy sediment - otherwise don't waste your time straining.


and the oven has now reduced a few gallons of guck into several ounces of starchy, grayish glue. Having given this glue to several of my heavier drinking friends and declared its flavor to be like that of yams, heating the stuff destroys all of the meds inside.


Anyhow - HPLC for Kudzu can be done for a cost...

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Binary For Allah

"Some of us are like ink and some like paper.
And if it were not for the blackness
of some of us, some of us would be dumb.
And if it were not for the whiteness
of some of us, some of us would be blind."

Kahlil Gibran - whatta way to say thank you == whatta great day's been today. Coffee + Cardamom, kudzu cleared and yes, the nitrogenated soil has a dark, breathable hue to it - some of the best dirt I've ever laid eyes on. Turning the brambles down into the soil about eight to twelve inches or so should leave plenty of food for worms and give next years crops something special to root in :) So far so good.

Friday, November 18, 2005

Virginia Goat Herders Attack Kudzu - Kudzu Fights Alcohol Back


Kudzu Korner next to chez wahoowa and the tracks - this is where the initial harvest may begin...
Final Answer Courtesy Apalachia Science in the Public Interest - managing kudzu in south western virginia

West Virginia Goat Study adds Kudzu Management to the list of cool goat funktions. The Virginia State Dairy posse knows this all too well, yet their local hero John Coles - o tempora, o mores... ya know?

kick kudzu in the kiester and get back to your big backyard!

Also check out Kudzu Cuisine some nice recipes - a vinegar I bet she end's up selling on Ebay :)

In a bizarre twist kudzu is also well known in China as a drinking dispeller, an unusual property according to David Lee of Research Park
This may be good news for the wahoos - Charlottesville's a village covered in kudzu and booze.