Moon Farmer December 2000 Archive
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Posted by at December 31, 2000 11:27 AM
Arigato, Captain Huntingdon!
Posted by at December 31, 2000 10:03 AM
I'd like to thank everyone who's read Moon Farmer in the year 2000. In 2001, Moon Farmer be publishing my extremely-long-awaited first novel in serial form, and I hope you'll enjoy that too. If you'd like to keep updated on when the serial begins, and when new episodes are posted, please subscribe to the Moon Farmer mailing list (send mail to moonfarmer-request@lists.sonic.net with "subscribe you@youremail" in the body) and you'll be the first on your block to know. Here's hoping you get pleasantly drunk and go into the new millennium hangover-free.
Gabrielle Taylor, co-editor, Moon Farmer
Posted by at December 31, 2000 07:43 AM
The team, from the Machida district of Tokyo, also believe they will be able to reprogramme male cells into producing eggs so that men can both father and "mother" children. This could allow gay men to be parents together.
Posted by at December 31, 2000 06:50 AM
Posted by at December 30, 2000 07:11 PM
7... MY BROTHER-IN-LAW Adam was over and we were all hanging out watching the basketball game. Upset by a play, oblivious to the toddler in the midst, and in full testosterone form, Adam screams to the TV, "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? YOU GOD DAMN STUPID MOTHER FUCKER!!!" Without missing a beat, 3 1/2 year-old Justin blurts out, "Uncle Adam, we don't say 'stupid'!"
Posted by at December 30, 2000 04:43 PM
In the middle of the room sits the Hotcube. The Hotcubist today is George. It's his job to monitor our calls, watch our times, listen in if necessary, and write us up. Stay on a call longer than thirty minutes and your name goes into a log. Sit in Wrap (the time between calls) for longer than three minutes, your name goes in a log. Take a Health break for longer than five minutes, your name goes in a log. Leave your desk without an appropriate code. Logged.
Posted by at December 30, 2000 01:16 PM
The zombie computers, controlled remotely by crackers, will then eat the brains of the Internet.
Posted by at December 30, 2000 10:49 AM
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Posted by at December 29, 2000 03:24 PM
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Posted by at December 29, 2000 01:28 PM
Unrequited love, sexy Chow Yun Fat, and flying wutan mountain fighting. Subtitled. Go see it.
Posted by at December 29, 2000 01:15 PM
I visited the no longer kinky haired korean behind the pink door last night. I drank Corona without lime and stared at the pyschodelia decorations while she disserated a philosophy of life from behind the bar. It was the end of a solo flight to all the after dark points in my heart. All strings cut and tidy. God be with two thousand.
Posted by at December 29, 2000 01:03 PM
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Posted by at December 29, 2000 07:21 AM
On the net, as it is on earth...
Posted by at December 29, 2000 07:12 AM
Posted by at December 29, 2000 05:58 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service garnisheed the wages and tapped the bank accounts of a half million taxpayers last year, a huge drop owing to a new law that emphasizes taxpayer rights.
Full story here: http://www.accountantsworld.com/news/currnewsyb.asp?q1=16907382
Just a bit late for seven people in Boston, Mass.
Posted by at December 28, 2000 08:42 AM
!!!!!!!!!
Posted by at December 27, 2000 08:01 PM
Mencken's Creed
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
Posted by at December 27, 2000 05:29 PM
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Posted by at December 26, 2000 10:35 AM
Innocent until ineffective consel proves you are guilty.
Posted by at December 24, 2000 07:32 AM
Danielle McGuire, 15, filed suit December 18 in a circuit court in St. Louis, Missouri, charging...
They start young in the land of the lawsuit!
Posted by at December 23, 2000 06:14 PM
The African connection is rather tenuous, but it appears to be the most likely. The earliest recorded use of jazz to refer to the style of music is from 1916. A slightly earlier usage of jazz, meaning full of vigor and energy, dates from 1913, which supports the African theory. Another contemporary usage dates from 1918 and means copulation, and is probably related to the slang term "jism."
Posted by at December 22, 2000 06:27 PM
Air Force Lieutenant Jasmine Boswell was flying her fighter jet over Saudi's no-fly zone when the missile coming out of nowhere hits her plane. She bails out of her disabled jet, but lands on an alien-looking desert with spaceships flying overhead. She also encounters an injured Romlijhian B'Kah, whose starfighter crashed killing his brother. Only his vision of the angel Jas saves his life.
Posted by at December 22, 2000 03:33 PM
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Posted by at December 22, 2000 06:48 AM
This site is really quite wonderful. The focus is classical, jazz/blues. There are dozens of mp3s available for download by artists you may have actually heard of (as opposed to the random nonsense on mp3.com or the like). Piles of information about webcasts of classical and jazz artists -- really, it's everything I wish a rock music site would be but almost never is.
Posted by at December 22, 2000 06:41 AM
Enjoy it, you bastards!
Posted by at December 21, 2000 04:08 PM
Posted by at December 21, 2000 06:07 AM
And remember to meet my demands, or I'll kill the elf.
Posted by at December 21, 2000 05:55 AM
Notice the woman so politely carrying the testicles.
Posted by at December 20, 2000 12:53 PM
A new map of the centre of our own galaxy, The Milky Way, is the biggest, most detailed, and most sensitive yet made. The map shows giant streamers and huge clouds of interstellar gas where stars are being born 26,000 light years from Earth - shedding new light on the exotic structures in this unusual region of our own galaxy.
Posted by at December 20, 2000 10:10 AM
Posted by at December 19, 2000 02:51 PM
We have added two out-of-print books to this site -- Stars in My Sky and Celebration -- both books originally published by Magic Circle Press and until now available only in used book stores.
Posted by at December 19, 2000 10:10 AM
Posted by at December 19, 2000 07:21 AM
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) [The American Language]
Suck on THAT, Quebec.
Posted by at December 18, 2000 09:23 PM
The problem is this: ironic and dry don't translate to the low-brow as well as crude and obvious do.
Man after my own heart.
Posted by at December 18, 2000 06:20 PM
"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
All jokes about the banana republic nature of America are much funnier coming from the mouth of a man who likes to send people to the chair.
Posted by at December 18, 2000 02:41 PM
We are not looking to eradicate all female characters with huge boobs, as we realize some gamers enjoy them... but it would be nice if not ALL female characters had them!
Amen to that!
Posted by at December 18, 2000 02:08 PM
DiaryLand: get your fun, free online diary you can update through your browser!
Looks not quite as good as Blogger but, and this is a major plus, it doesn't have any ads on it, where BlogSpot hosted weblogs do.
Posted by at December 17, 2000 03:07 PM
Posted by at December 17, 2000 03:05 PM
As you may have heard by now, Rage Against the Machine's management company told Sony to ban a number of Napster users last week because they had downloaded Rage songs from the "Renegades" album. To apologize for this Napster incident, and to thank you all for your patience, understanding and support, we have made all of this exclusive Rage audio and video available to all of you for free here on our website. Get it now!!
Posted by at December 17, 2000 11:08 AM
From the "that's about right" department..."
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation." - Georges Clemenceau
Posted by at December 17, 2000 09:33 AM
Posted by at December 17, 2000 08:36 AM
We will be providing the business structure in the world's first free-market location.
How many millseconds is that? I first heard of HavenCo in... September?
Posted by at December 16, 2000 10:30 AM
Posted by at December 16, 2000 04:19 AM
It's not bad enough he got stomped by someone who looks like he washes with a cheese grater, but then he had to listen to Jon Bon Jovi? Oh Al, Al!
Posted by at December 15, 2000 08:07 PM
Posted by at December 15, 2000 08:00 PM
For those of you wondering what I want for Xmas, here're my lists at Amazon.com and CDNOW. Not that I endorse either of those guys; buy locally and mail it!
What about you, Shad, aside from peace love and understanding?
Posted by at December 15, 2000 07:32 PM
Last spring, someone wrote "No Graff No Freedom No Fathers" across the bottom of a painting by John MacCallum.
I used to babysit for Terry Graff. His house was amazing; full of bizarre art and fascinating books. Still don't know why his contract wasn't renewed, but it's their loss.
Posted by at December 15, 2000 11:35 AM
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Posted by at December 15, 2000 10:36 AM
Chretien said he and Bush made plans to meet as soon as possible. The two are likely to meet for the first time in Quebec City in April at a summit of the Organization of American States.
Unless, of course, someone files a complaint about allowing felons into the country? DWI is more serious in Canada than it is in Texas. Don't think about sending Spiro Cheney instead, either, Dubya -- his rap sheet's just as bad as yours.
Posted by at December 15, 2000 09:20 AM
Posted by at December 14, 2000 06:52 PM
I was reading Voltaire's Candide yesterday and then I took a nap and had a dream about syphilis, the Thirty Years War, gang rape, and the Spanish Inquisition. When I awoke from my dream I had this uncontrollable desire to be a car salesman. I have discussed this with my parents (who have funded my 5 years of academic mediocrity) and they were greatly disappointed.
Posted by at December 14, 2000 04:26 PM
Text of Bush's Victory Speech I am thankful for America and thankful that we are able to resolve our electoral differences in a peaceful way.
I wonder what less peaceful ways President-elect Bush had in mind?
Posted by at December 14, 2000 08:18 AM
Today at 2pm, we will have a company-wide meeting on the sixth floor balcony to explain the situation. As you know, we recently closed a $30 Million round of financing. Although it may seem odd that we laid-off employees immediately after this financing, our capital enables us to provide the laid-off employees with a good severance package.
I don't go to _any_ finance-related meetings held on balconies.
Posted by at December 14, 2000 05:45 AM
I suppose it's safe to confess:
I knew all along that Al would never be president. The Republicans would never run a sleazy ignorant felon of Dubya's proportions unless they knew they had a lock on the election -- and I don't necessarily mean blackmailing them Democrats in some weird and conspiratical piratical way, although that's possible -- Republicans having a worse secret than Watergate is what kept them from retaliating back then, so likely the Democrats having a worse problem than making a president or whether Bill had sex with anyone and they're hoping to just ride it out.
But that notwithstanding, I knew the whole time that Al wasn't going to be president. It's like when someone dies and you still see them in the old familiar places; I could see a great absence of Al in the White House. Impossible to say; for someone who puts as much stock in The Almighty Word as I do to say the truth, especially during these foolish last weeks, for one more person to say it might be enough. The entire time I had this sinking evil down my bones -- I suspect many of us did -- that Al was for some ugly, but not unfathomable, reason, a less attractive candidate to the American people than that fetid criminal Dubya.
Y'see, Dubya won't make that much difference to you if you're an American reader. The president can't actually do that much to his own people. But Americans never lost their taste for owning slaves. They just do it larger scale now, and they whip their neighbors instead of their relatives. There may well not be two clean drops of water in all of Canada to rub together at the end of this one.
Posted by at December 14, 2000 04:59 AM
I will not entirely believe the Election That Never Ends is over until Clinton is moving out his stuff. However, my sympathy for Al Gore is profound. Oh Al, if I weren't already involved you can bet that I'd go smooth your creas-ed brow. You poor cute bastard, you were up against something that grew in the bottom of the fridge crisper. That's right Al, tell Geetee all about it. So Al, is it true you sleep nude?
Posted by at December 13, 2000 07:14 PM
Posted by at December 13, 2000 07:56 AM
Mrs. Everywhere is my "new" irregular column -- I say "new" in that it is from 2000, but I have done a few of them by now: When is the last bus to Athens? (on copyright), We are not Property (on something like, but not necessarily, divine Providence) and Wherever You Go, There You Are (on where the ideas to censor the Sopranos may have come from). The latest one, An Honest Villain is a Cut Above / One Who Smiles and Smiles, is so short that you could read it in less time than it'd take me to persuade you to go read it.
Posted by at December 12, 2000 07:26 PM
Posted by at December 12, 2000 07:12 PM
What's so wrong with Marxism and eugenics?
Posted by at December 12, 2000 07:04 PM
...in an insane society, the quest for truth can only be a psychopathic act.
Posted by at December 12, 2000 06:42 PM
LEGO & Steven Spielberg MOVIEMAKER SET
Posted by at December 12, 2000 08:14 AM
Right now, examples of demand aggregation seem almost trivial, but that situation will soon change. Consider MobShop.com, which lets consumers join with others to become mass buyers. On offer recently, for example, was an AcerPower 8600 computer with a suggested retail price of $2,405. If one to five consumers register to buy the machine, the price would drop to $2,049; with between six and 15 buyers, the price would fall to $1,999.95, and so on. The more buyers, the lower the price.
Posted by at December 12, 2000 07:05 AM
Technology professionals are clocking longer hours, but producing less, and are at greater risk of jumping ship for a new job than ever before, an annual survey of business technology development has found.
...which is why in Ontario, Canada, the provincial government is rolling toward letting companies make their people work SIXTY hour weeks. That was a well-resarched amendment to our legal system, wot?
Posted by at December 12, 2000 06:51 AM
"But Geetee," some of you have cried out, "surely even you were a child once."
I used to puff my seegar and say "ciccolinas, I never stopped."
Then I found this decaying Kodachrome of some artwork that was a bit too heavyweight, being on canvas, to go on the fridge. I was five at the time I executed it, just the same.
Posted by at December 11, 2000 03:25 PM
"Genomics is the next industry that will undergo this kind of explosion," Myhrvold said. "It will rival anything the computer or communication industries gave done up until now. It has the potential to reshape the entire world economy in exactly the same way information technology has."
Again, in harmony, "Well duh!". Anyone who doesn't see the enormous probabilities of gene-tailored technology simply hasn't been awake in the last twenty years.
However, like the Internet, which provides communications power without communications skill resulting in barrels of whaledreck being poured over a few slim needles of information, gene-tailoring will provide longer lifespan without understanding of the nature of life. Doesn't anybody else see how this is a bottle waiting to be smashed along the diagonal?
All of this comes from the idea that the heart, or the soul, is as magical and mysterious as the Black Plague. Which it is: EXACTLY as magical and mysterious as the Black Plague.
Posted by at December 11, 2000 06:51 AM
Imagine that...
Posted by at December 09, 2000 09:11 AM
In Which the Citizen Tries Blogger, and Gets Hooked
Posted by at December 08, 2000 10:22 AM
...execute a hostile takeover of Clark's Tories...
Posted by at December 06, 2000 08:45 AM
"We came to buy Maria Callas' underwear so that we could burn it"
Posted by at December 05, 2000 08:07 PM
...beneath the digital face lies a .22-caliber pistol -- a phone gun capable of firing four rounds in quick succession with a touch of the otherwise standard keypad.
Posted by at December 05, 2000 03:39 PM
Fueled by adenosine triphosphate (ATP, the so-called energy of cellular life) and spinning nickel propellers at eight revolutions per second, molecular motors made of ATPase enzyme are said to herald a new generation of ultrasmall, robotic, medical devices: "nanonurses" that move about the body, ministering to its needs, for example, or "smart pharmacies" that detect chemical signals from body cells, calculate the dose and precisely dispense drugs.
Posted by at December 04, 2000 03:49 PM
I have been overwhelmed by massive response to my sheepish confession that my lifelong passion for the ceremonial watching of Pro Football on TV is not quite as keen this year as it has been. At first I felt vaguely ashamed to admit this, especially in print -- but within hours of the thing's appearance on Page 2, I was deluged with messages from people who Agreed with me and said they'd been feeling guilty about it but were afraid to say the words.
Posted by at December 04, 2000 01:56 PM
Most of you are probably aware of an article that appeared in the November 27th issue of The New Yorker magazine in which a writer discusses how he posed as an employee in the New York City offices of an e-consultancy for 16 days.
Posted by at December 04, 2000 01:52 PM
The Phaser-like device uses two beams of UV radiation to ionize paths in the air along which electrical current is conducted to and from the target.
Posted by at December 04, 2000 01:35 PM
"Al, Al, just whut d'y'think you're doin', Al?"
Posted by at December 04, 2000 01:11 PM
The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as prophesied in the Bible, in time for the 2,000th anniversary of his birth. Our intention is to clone Jesus, utilizing techniques pioneered at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, by taking an incorrupt cell from one of the many Holy Relics of Jesus' blood and body that are preserved in churches throughout the world, extracting its DNA, and inserting into an unfertilized human egg (oocyte), through the now-proven biological process called nuclear transfer. The fertilized egg, now the zygote of Jesus Christ, will be implanted into the womb of a young virginal woman (who has volunteered of her own accord), who will then bring the baby Jesus to term in a second Virgin Birth.
Posted by at December 04, 2000 12:46 PM
Some hardware to go with MisterHouse. This is ridiculously affordable; you could make your whole house programmable for less than the cost of a half-decent teevee. Have it turn on the radio when you're supposed to wake up, turn on the light in your room, turn on the shower... It probably can't dry you yet, but that's for version 2.0.
Posted by at December 02, 2000 08:16 PM
Mister Who?
MisterHouse is an open source home automation program...
Posted by at December 02, 2000 07:55 PM
Posted by at December 02, 2000 02:38 PM
"The flag goes with the foul landscape, and our jargon muffles the drum.
"In the great centers we'll nurture the most cynical prostitution. We'll massacre logical revolts.
"In spicy and drenched lands!-- at the service of the most monstrous exploitations, industrial or military.
"Farewell here, no matter where. Conscripts of good will, ours will be a ferocious philosophy; ignorant as to science, rabid for comfort; and let the rest of the world croak. This is the real advance. Marching orders, let's go!"
Democracy, Rimbaud
Posted by at December 02, 2000 10:33 AM
Posted by at December 02, 2000 09:53 AM
I have on my desk a small fat round clay bottle, with white and bronze glaze. My thumb on the base, I can trace the signature, Guy Duguay.
So, for Guy, an artist who died to AIDS, if for no one else, Moon Farmer observes Day Without Weblogs.
If you're feeling really civic, go to the Guy Duguay Virtual Gallery and buy a Guy Duguay from his widow, Louisa Barton-Duguay.
Posted by at December 01, 2000 06:16 AM
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