teknidermy

Sorry to mess up your board dutchy but that thread will not load anymore, I'm listening to car alarms and dodging live zombies...

Starting a new one each year is a good move. Not that I'm listening to anything, other than the news.

Yikes! This loaded like lightning. And yeah, now I can easily count the years I've been chit chatting with you! I've lost track...

And me is listening to California Love (probably not appropriate for me at work but they've still not fired me)

Look, it's the girl who sings like a goat:

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Nelly Furtado - Maneater

There you go picking on Nelly again! I'm just on my lunch hour listening to beeping car horns and passing trucks (and of course dodging live zombies again)

It was the radio that picked the tracks.

That being said though, it is now weekend.

/me scoots

Good for you, enjoy, I don't get to start my 9/80 schedule until mid May of this year. (It's been grueling)

The tempation to make prison jokes... But since the sun is shining I'll just go bask in its light next to my cats (chores to do).

Grrrrr wise guy, well, I made it! It's now the weekend and me is going to change and run to the gym to melt in the sauna! (gym is empty on Friday nights cuz everyone else is out drinking and partying)

Yesssss!

So now every time I see those commercials with those mgical fitness tools that are so much better than the tools they advertised a month ago, I'll think of you.

A song to go with that: LNR - Work it to the bone [link] (1988)

You'd be thinking of me for nothing cuz I'm not into that stuff I simply run to the gym for melting my stress away in their blazing saunas and/or to jump on any treadmill for a quick bust a run once again to release pent up stress (or decompress so to speak)

/me goes check out your link...

Ummm, not to sure what to think about that one. (never heard of it before)

Because it's as old s dirt.

So er, you escape the sweat shops and treadmills of live by going to the gym and doing the exact same thing in a different setting? There is some irony in that.

More gym songs (with a video catered to the male demographic): Eric Prydz - Call on me [link] (2004), sample taken from Steve Winwood's not particularly stellar "Valerie" [link] (1987).

Hmmm, I've never thought of it quite like that but yes, with the difference being when I walk into work I'm soft and relaxed like a wet noodle however when I leave I'm wound up tight like a rubber band and when I walk into the gym I'm wound up tight like a rubber band and when I leave I'm soft and relaxed like a wet noodle?

/me goes check out mijn dutch dj's tunes...

hehe! Oh boy, that's about what it is like at the gym. (zombies and pervs there too) ppl there for different reasons of course. As long as the pervs kick back it's good but there are strange ppl...

Yikes those two songs are the same? I had to back to listen again but yes, it is!

You have me at a loss here. I don't know any songs about wet noodles.

I do have another gym song though: K-Liber - Viben [link] (date on the video is 2008, but I think's it much older). I semi-regularly imitate the fat guy's bit. His voice is ridiculous.

Hmmm, I don't care how old that tune is or is not or how ridiculous you say his voice is I loved the entire tune! Every bit of it. hehe

Slaap lekker mijn crazy dutchy...

No sleep for the wicked. Back at work already.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

/me is listening to the sounds of the city all around me.

Good night non-wicked one...

I still have those yellow claws stuck in my head [link], however, I'm currently listening to... the news.

Well it sounds alot better than the news so that's good.

/me goes crawl into my bed...

Flashback from the 80s. This guy went on to host MTV shows for a decade after this one hit.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: King - Love and Pride

So I went to the dentist today and he gave me his "you need to floss" lecture again (his favourite subject next to using an electric toothbrush). So he flossed two teeth as an example.

Guess whose teeth gum hurt like hell at the moment.

That's why I never floss. It's craziness.

Stop being such a big baby. If you floss regularly your teeth and gums "wont" hurt like hell (they only hurt cuz you're not used to it.) And also use a mouthwash daily that helps to keep your gums healthy. Unless of course you prefer to look like a pumpkin in 10 yrs?

One thing I'm learning now that I'm aging having led a boring life and not having been a party animal has preserved me a bit not that it matters time catches up with you sooner or later (but I suppose later is better)

Anyways take care of your body and your body will take care of you...

I say flossing is a conspiracy cooked up by dentists and the manufacturers of dental supplies, along with electric tooth brushes and mouth wash.

Oh really? All you need to do is simply look at someone who has done some upkeep w/ their teeth and then look at a homeless persons teeth and the truth shall be revealed!

You need to brush your teeth and brush them well. That is all.

Some silly song that seems to get a big push but I find a bit lacking: Martin Solveig & Laidback Luke - Blow [link] (probably because the first guy hasn't put out anything I like).

Nothing too stellar (but not all that bad either)

Anyways, three day weekend for me! /me goes run to the gym tonight to relax and turn into a wet noodle again...

I've got various candidates to go with for "weekend", but I'll settle for this one: De La Soul ft. Q-Tip & Vinia Mojica - A Roller Skating Jam named "Saturdays" [link] (1991). Mix is a bit different than what I remember, but it's two decades ago since I last heard this one.

Only one true good tune by De La Soul (and you already know this to be true)

[link]

I always had the idea that of the De La Soul guys are brothers or even twins. They look so similar. /me goes look it up

Apparently they are not... /me goes hide in his cave again

Insert a "two" in that first sentence somewhere. I'm such a fleet typist that my fingers miss the key words.

Don't feel so bad it took me until yesterday when I dropped that link for you that I just realized at the beginning of that vid what he meant when he was talking about the water and food coloring!!! That we are all the same (water, but some of us are just different colors) hehe

I actually never knew what he was talking about...

I still don't know what the guy is talking about, since I've never seen that video from the beginning until now.

And someone came and stole my weekend. How can it be over already?

La la la laaaaa! /me still has another day off tomorrow but as of right now I have to go dance with my laundry (which means lil jon time!)

[link]

/me enjoys the day for mijn dutchy *cough* since you have to work today and I don't...

La la la laaaaa!!!

Laugh.

While you were crunking with the laundry, I arrived at work hearing the French national anthem being played somewhere. Turns out the French president was in town on an official visit.

Oh boy you Europeans!

/me goes back to crunking (but now w/ the dishes) and now I'm trying to figure out who stole my three day weekend!?

I've never heard the French national anthem before is this what it was? [link] if so, I'm not missing much my ear drums are weeping right now...

Hmmm, since I am Italian I should actually listen to the Italian national anthem atleast once in my lifetime right?

[link]

My eardrums do NOT know how to process any of those sounds for a groove? But my biological makeup recognizes the sounds from the Italian one as sounds from my Mommy. (and my grandparents) hehe

National anthems don't have beats. They're supposed to be serious and solemn. And slow too.

I forgot you cannot see my face to know when I am joking around w/ you. Very dramatic and diplomatic sounding! But I am serious when I say I don't know how to process that stuff (since I've never heard foreign anthems before) The Italian one however sounds Italian for sure.

My ears probably recognize that sound/vibe from the crazy old Italian music my grandparents and my mother and father used to listen to that I may have heard when I was a baby (who knows)

Slaap lekker mijn dutchy...

Dutchy btw I was "tormented" w/ this one when I was growing up so this was our family anthem...

[link]

That's what you get when you grow up in a mafia family.

I've been hearing a new track by Ms. Perry which is rather high on the haunting effects, plus a deep bass. One of her better outings I'd say: Katy Perry ft. Juicy - Dark Horse [link]. Not sure if there's a real video of the song. Every "official" vid I tried was scammy.

I posted that one for you a while back but I think the vid was a collage of various other vids of hers pasted together remember? Anyways, yes that one I think is her best one yet. (but now that it recently caught on it is getting over played)

Yup, I had to dig around in our other thread and I see that I posted that Katy one for you 4 weeks ago. Men!!! They never really listen! hehe

Let's just say that's probably why it sounded familiar.

Both my post from work today did not post here dutchy. It's no big deal but at this new Dept that I'm currently working for I only have access to DB's but no internet access at all (hence why I use my phone) but the issue I have when coming here seems to be on and off? I can post from my Note III but it seems to be hit and miss from my iPhone. (which I use when they release jailbreaks and I update my themes etc)

Anyways, all I listened to all day on my radio was that Katy Perry tune (Dark Horse) it seemed as if they played it 100 times today! and it was the first tune playing when I first turned my radio on in the morning when I got to work. hehe

I see two posts from you that were posted via proxies. Proxies are blocked in the filter since that is what spammers tend to use.

Besides, you're supposed to work at work. Even if tormented by Ms. Perry.

When I'm at work I'm indeed working wise guy! At any rate there is always Wifi at this cozy lil cafe for my note here. But what I don't understand in regards to that proxy issue is if I'm using the same AT&T service and the same UC Browser though be it on different phones why is my iPhone posting via proxies but not my note?

And this cafe music is going to put me to sleep I better get myself in gear and get to the office upstairs.

Slaap lekker mijn dutchy.

The two posts up here were sent from a Samsung device over a sbcglobal.net line. The one before that over rr.com. The two that got blocked came from an iPhone over a mycingular.net line via an attws.com proxy.

Those names don't mean much to me. It could be that the wifi network in your office is supposed to be more secured than the one in the cafe.

Anyways, why are you in a cafe at work? /me cracks the whip

Bloody hell, I type "cafe" with the correct spelling (accent on the e) and my post gets eaten. If I hadn't written this stuff myself... Grrr...

Annoying! (I left a stupid book underground earlier for you) What is bugging me is that I've used my iPhone in the past at work to post and it's worked and I still don't see what the difference is since it is still the same service provider on either phone. My Samsung Note I don't like to use as a phone because my hands are too small and it's like holding an iPad up to your ear to talk on which is one of the reasons why I run back to my iPhone and I keep my other one for reading books and using for videos since the big screen is easier on the eyes.

Anyways, no big deal cuz just look at all the important stuff I post about...

You may use the same carrier, but apparently those two phones go on the web over different networks. But I don't have a mobile phone, so I remain in blissful ignorance over it all.

Well apple is quote the control freak so it should not surprise me. But for all I know the issue could also be the jailbreak on that phone since it's crashing constantly now. My note though be it hard to handle in my hands is much more dependable and stable...

Cept the auto correction spelling can be annoying...

Quote = Quite

Moving on to new music. This one has been getting airplay for some time now: Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster [link], again with a minute before the music starts.

Katy and Ke$ha were going toe to toe on my radio yesterday at work so my ears do not want to hear anything today.

/me goes get an early sweat on at the gym...

This calls for... Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence [link]

/me kicks you!

Actually I did indeed enjoy the silence today, ran to the gym, came home and fell asleep!? I'm so full of energy now I know not what to do.

But I have the season finales of Dracula and American Horror Story recordings to catch up on.

/me goes kick it some more...

So full of energy that you morph into Ms Couch Potatoe.

I was a complete couch potato yesterday and when I awoke I had a surge of energy (but it was too late to go run a ton of errands) and today I wake up with not a drop of energy and early enough to go get everything done! (the joys of getting old)

/me goes try to get in gear...

/me hands Doreen her walker

I don't even have to run now. With that walker you can never catch up with me.

Pfft! When and if the day comes that I cannot walk I will bypass the walker and get me a cool motorized scooter w/ shiny rims and drop it and when I scoot by you peddling on that old bike of yours I will just leave you in the dust!

Anddd me is listening to Beyonce and her hubby opening up the Grammy awards. (I still think her haircut sucks though)

So Daft Punk wins everything, have Pharrell as their mouthpiece and everyone ignores Nile Rodgers. And apparently Beyonce's backside was a sight to behold, except the news did not provide pictures thereof.

/me goes sulk in the corner

/me goes sulk extra because the accent on the e caused the post to be eaten again. This is very strange. I never had a problem with that before.

/me smacks the hell out of you for wanting to see Beyonce's backside. (I seen it and you didn't miss much)I will say that Katy sang her Dark Horse tune and the show they put on to her song was perfecto! (that was the best part)

And it seems your own messageboard is turning against you!

Hey! They actually already have a vid posted of it: [link]

The video is removed by now. And this board is betraying me too.

It figures, maybe this one will stay put long enough for you to view it: [link]

Anyways her whole stage performance and setup surrounding her song was excellent (or atleast I liked it) everything else during the Grammys was so so...

Setup looks good. Audio on the other hand... I don't know what happened there, but it seems to be rather muted.

The audio was just the typical YouTube user posting homemade poor quality video stuff.

New music: angry rappers trying the ballad thing: Ronnie Flex ft. Mr. Polska - Zusje [link]. Not much speed or bass, but has a bit of a reggae beat going on and lots of echo.

Hmmm, I liked it! Plus it was a nice change from the obsession the radio stations currently have over playing KeSha and Katy Perry, I swear for two weeks they have been playing them two back to back. I like like Katy Perry's tune but come on not every 5 mins all day longggg and on every station!

Rain tonight Dutchy!!! (We're having a severe drought over here cuz we've not had much rain this winter) I know I'm going to sleep good in la la land tonight w/ this rain but tomorrowwww it means a 3 hour commute instead of the usual 2 hour since it'll be a smash up derby on the freeway with a few drops rain.

I suspect that Ke$ha song is actually a Pitbul song featuring Ms Ke$ha. Similar to the Rihanna track that's actually Eminem. Funny how singers overtake rappers in perception.

Anyways, we're having eastern winds here, which means frost. I'm packing 'em in boxes and sending the lot over before the plants on my balcony freeze to death again.

I got excited for nothing cuz it turned out to be nothing but a light mist still everyone on the freeway freaked out cuz the road was semi shiny (if it snowed I cannot imagine what everyone would do!)

Maybe you should get a spraycan of fake snow and spray that on your car's windows. Ofcourse, that's more a Christmas thing to do.

Nah it might cause an accident...

Don't do it while driving ofcourse.

Silly, I meant if ppl look over at my car and just "see" the illusion of snow they will crash. (ppl over here don't even know how to drive when we get a drop of rain it is ridiculous)

I cannot even count how many times since I've started at this new job downtown that I've almost gotten smashed frommm (me strains from saying bad words)

Strains or refrains (all the same)

/me goes run off to the gym...

Heb a goed dag! (or something like dat)

What you need is a vehicle with a bullbar. Just like they hve in Australia. So you scoop all the idiots who got their driver's license in a cereal box.

What I need it to probably ride a bike like you do, around all those crazy ppl and that stupid traffic but it's too many miles away from where I live.

Yeah you're lucky you are in la la land about now...

La la la laaaa!!! I haven't heard this for a while

He is jealous for me,

Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,

Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy.

When all of a sudden,

I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,

And I realize just how beautiful You are,

And how great Your affections are for me.

I actually avoid a certain street because it's full of people who got their driver's license in countries with no cities by driving around the village pump, who like to cut corners without looking, plus people from places with no traffic, since they think they can cross the street without looking.

Fortunately this behaviour is largely restricted to one particular street.

And... you turned into a tree? Congratulations?

I suppose it is worse for you (more dangerous since if you get hit you've got no protection!) Be careful!

As for that tree remark...

/me pokes you in the eye w/ one of my branches!

Just to annoy you further w/ my worship tunes: [link]

Amazing really, that we are all just floating around in space in our perfect bubble of protection around this planet and as wretched as we are he still has not just poked the bubble of protection and let this world just fizz into nothingness yet? (I find it amazing anyways)

/me goes unwind from my day and get ready to go visit la la land whilst you get your booty in gear for your day soon...

Nothing amazing about it if you leave out the imaginary friend.

Apparently it's been 120 years ago that the saxophone was invented. So the Belgians did a Top 50 Saxophone Songs thing. I only caught part of it and ofcourse I missed my favourite: Guru Josh - Infinity 1990 [link]

I also find it amazing that you still don't realize that you cannot keep me on topic on message boards? (though you really try hard!)

Anyways, I suppose he (my imaginary friend) would not want to destroy us no matter how wretched we are since it would be similar to a parent though their children may not turn out the way they planned they wouldn't actually kill or destroy them?

Alright! Enough of my ponderings...

I've not heard that Infinity tune for a long time (a bit too jazzy for my taste though)

It's because of the saxophone. Relic of the 80s.

And on-topic is for wusses.

I'm listening to the sound of some serious rain! Finallyyy, even with the brutal two and a half hour commute home I loved it!

/me goes visit la la land...

This rain needs to stop in a bit though. I have to go out and get groceries. Preferably without getting drenched.

/me tosses you a carrot...

Carrots will work well to improve my nightvision but to little against rain.

For some reason I have the solo to this song in my head: Within Temptation - Enter [link]. It's a bit of a rain song, I guess, but I haven't heard it in year, so no idea where that suddenly came from.

And upon closer inspection I meant Restless, not Enter. More suited for ears that can't stand growls too.

Took a bit of searching, but this is the most recent live performance I can find of it in someting close to the original arrangement: [link] (beware of bad audio). It's another band playing it (Delain), but with the original singer as guest vocalist. Within Temptation themselves play it with a violin instead of guitars these days, which makes it way too low key for me. They went soft a long time ago, so I stopped at their third album.

Oh boy, mijn dutchy yeah, I remember you dropping a link in the past to that song before (she sounds a bit dramatic and Opera'ish)

I need to dig me up something hard, loud and with heavy bass to get my booty in gear for the gym today cuz I'm super lazy and still apparently in my rain coma...

And these lil churping birds singing outside my window are not helping me (they sound like a fake nature screen saver)

Not very hard, not very loud and not very low, though the title certainly suggests so: Dev - Bass Down Low [link] (we call that false advertising). There's a bit of a missed opportunity in this song.

Can't find a remix that actually goes deep, but I did stumble across a half decent wobble version: [link]

Not that bad (though you give it to me after I don't need it anymore)

No Drac no American Horror Story, what is a girl to doooo!

In the category "crazy videos", more Yellow Claw: [link]. definitely not their best outing really. But the video goes from "what the hell am I watching?" to "what the hell am I watching!".

Yikes! Had I not thought it was too convenient that they suddenly had a plastic body bag practically in their back pocket I would have believed that vid was real or something! Disturbing way to start the day...

That was probably the effect they were going for. But I doubt burglars walk around with guns over here. Or not these type of burglars.

If anyone ever breaks into my house, my guard cats will probably hide under the bed or something.

Over here dutchy those burglars would not have been so polite, before they shot her and chopped her up they would have also raped her. It's not too nice over here on this side (so us females master kick boxing) hehe

It's not that we have polite burglars. It's more like most burglaries here, according to police reports, are impulse decisions. "Oh look, an open window. Let's go break in". So they don't want trouble, but they do have a lack of understanding of property.

Anyways, Winter Olympics have started, so the only thing on TV now is sports, sports, more sports and evaluations.

Typical guy go watch those yukky sports.

/me goes look for lunch...

There's no escaping it. Sports, sports everywhere.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Artfull Dodger ft. Craig David - Rewind

Hmmm, you're right it's on every single channel... Ack! I miss my Dracula!!!

Craig David's only good tune: [link]

Craig David all over you.

One of my colleagues decided it was time to scare another colleague away by putting on some guitars, so I found myself listening to, among other things, these Brazillians: Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots [link]

My colleagues are softies.

Hey what happened to my post? Now this board is eating my post from home too?

Oh well now it's being nice and letting me post. Anyways, that Sepultura are "immature" growlers. hehe

Too short perhaps. I did drop the minimum number of required words to more than three, I think.

Note to self: Never post only 3 words. (I'm getting beat down between work and commuting so 3 words right now is hard!) hehe

Slaap lekker mijn dutchy...

Some recent French stuff: Maitre Gims - J'me tire [link].

There's supposed to be an accent circonflexe (^) on the i in "maitre", but somehow something under the hood seems to have developed a taste for munging diacritics. It can't have been the filter, because the post does get through, but gets lost beyond that point. I'll have a looksee when I have some time (as in: when watching rasslin').

rasslin = wrestling?

I think the messageboard is finally breaking down and doing it's own thing now.

*sneeze* /me comes share my cold with you...

It's become sentient. The code has essentially been unchanged over the past ten years, so whatever is causing this, it's probably at a lower level. Maybe the host updated some of the underlying software.

Anyways, I had a headache, a stuck neck and was super sleepy yesterday, so keep that cold over there.

Well it seems to be standing the test of time (ten years!) and I suppose it's still stands true if it ain't broke don't fix it. How often do you need to type a special character/symbol on your keyboard anyways?

/me goes look up that sentient word...

Stupid cold!!! I've got 3 days off and I was all excited thinking about all the things and places I wanted to do and run to like, go to the mall and then go to the gym and then go to the mall and then go to the gym and then go to the gym and then the mall (well you get the idea?)

Now, all I want to do is go to bed! Argh!

Technically speaking, over here, if you become ill during a day off, it counts as a sick day and not a day off. I've never played that card. Then again, I'm never sick.

Whatchu talkin bout willis?

All I know is 3 more months and I've completed my 6 months and I get my 9/80 work schedule which will be more doable cuz what I'm going through right now to obtain my Secretary III Item is murder. (though I rec'd a letter of commendation yesterday from the Director for a special project I had been working on)

/me brags! =)

I never rec'd anything like that working at that hospital I finally left. But it's just really hard trying to keep up w/ the hours and the commute is making it near impossible trying to keep up with it all.

And this bragging leads us to... Chaka Demus & Pliers - Murder She Wrote [link]

Now that's the way to wake up in the morning (and mijn dutchy always manages to pull something goed out of his pocket) So strange even when we get what we ask for we STILL complain. God forgive me.

/me stops all this complaining and grabs this tune to add to my playlist and get ready for the gym...

That being said, the dub behind Murder She Wrote pops up in so much dancehall, it's become a bit trite. I like one hit wonder Kevin Lyttle a bit better: Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On [link] (for some reason the original no-budget video has vanished from YouTube).

First listen to that one, then check out the oh so similar Mohombi [link]. It's almost the same mix.

Trite? hehe

Dutchy your vocabulary is adorable, I'd have probably said "overkill" but then again my vocabulary is lacking (or better yet sucks)

/me goes check out your links...

Yikes! I forgot about that one and how good that one is too! I seriously need to revamp my playlist again.

/me goes back to listen some more...

Second one is a total rip but who cares it's good too! (I'm grabbing them both!)

A little bit after this I realised that neither song is what I was thinking about. But I can't remember artist nor title.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Sheena Easton - The Glamourous Life

Ack! Sheena Easton (you were probably thinking of Vanity 6)

/me enjoys the day off for you!

I was thinking Sheila E actually. But in the end, it's all Prince.

And further torture (the Belgian can play sucky music too):

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Sheila E, Vanity 6 (both pretty much the same breed)

Suddenly me wonders after all these years if you have some special code written in this site for yourself with that:

/listen

Anyways, me is listening to chirping birds and I'm a wet noodle from the gym, getting ready to jump in the shower...

I type that nonsense by hand. It's a bit of nostalgia from when we still had an IRC channel.

I've not used IRC since then (I think kinky_crae ruined me for life!) hehe

Anyways, this is the same thing as IRC to me.

/me goes to the mall which is another thing, the pay increase I rec'd for my new position I'm spending on cloths to keep up w/ that job!

Yeah, yeah I knowwww stop complaining!

Women + money + malls = ample time to watch sports.

Men! I only watch the Olympics to make myself fall asleep faster...

Been browsing the site thought I would say Hello :P

A visitor! And just when there's dust everywhere.

So I stepped into the office today and was greeted by Forever Young. Before all Doreens run for the hills, they also played Usher ft. Ludacris & Li'l Jon - Yeah [link] today.

/me steps out from behind you and puts the baseball bat down (I thought he was an intruder not a visitor) we need to break out the cyber snacks!

We're like a bunch of hillbillies, getting scared when someone visits our remote hideout in the mountains.

Welllll, what year was it when our last visitor came? And the bigger question is where do they go after they say hello? Do they suddenly fall into the Teknidermy's abyss?

/me goes check out your link...

Lil Jon comes to the rescue and saves Usher of course...

I got busy today and didn't even have time to fiddle w/ the dial on my radio so once again my ears were beat up by Ke$ha. (that song of hers makes me dizzy and nauseated it's so horrible)

Maybe our visitor will return, maybe not. Ke$ha can go though.

The Belgians play more hiphop than our "own" stations.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit

The Belgians have also been playing this stuff a lot: Chvrches - Lies [link]. Very rough electronics, so probably not your cup of tea.

And then they played that Italian song your family loves.

Wu-Tang? They've aapparently got good taste!!! I'm still being tortured with that Pitbull & Ke$ha tune since I've got to be reserved while at work. (Petey Pablo's Freek a Leek might not fair well whilst I'm at work)

I finally listened to that Chvrches tune (not easy to follow links from my phone at work) anyways, it's not that I didn't like it but just that my ears seriously get confused w/ foreign sounds so I don't know what to think about it?

I'd say playing something like Jailhouse Rock would be suitable at your job.

/me pokes you

Veryyy funny wise guy...

I thought long and hard about that. It's the only prison song I could come up with, other than "Working on the Chain Gang".

Ummm, Ummmmm (actually, I can't think of any!)

Well a vid popped into my mind but the song really has nothing to do w/ the vid! [link]

"Telephone" has a jail setting, yes. Labi Siffre's "There's something inside so strong" as well. It's a bit gospelly, so perhaps of interest to you: [link] (1987).

Meanwhile, I've got "Rock the Boat" stuck in my head for some reason.

I see or hear the word gospel and this sound jumps into my mind (however, the tune has nothing to do w/ gospel) [link]

I hear that War intro and the Flower Travellin' Band springs to mind: [link] (1971).

Ack! You're kidding me right? Anyways, been listing to stuff you don't like today: [link]

Time to get the nails trimmed: listing = listening

It must be Sunday. And your imaginary friend was punishing you. And speaking of punishment, the cat thought it was a good idea to eat some flowers (they can't digest that) and then throw up... on my carpet!

Nah, part of my day was my Mom punishing me when I went to set up her new tablet and remove a ton of virus' off her laptop when I set her up it's always the same thing when I need to connect to her Network, Netflix and email accts etc:

Me: Mom, what is your user name or login and password?

My Mom: Ummm, Al (my Dad) do you remember when we changed our passwords what are they now?

My Dad: Ummm, Honey didn't I tell you to write that stuff down?

Me: Ummm, letzzz do this thing Mom cuz I need to get home before midnight, we can either remember them or find them or create new ones and get this going!

It normally requires me 10 mins to fix whatever issues she has and 8 hours to recover her passwords for everything!!!

/me goes hit the gym...

That "I don't know my login details" thing is the prime reason I'm not doing computer maintenance anymore. Aside from the fact that it's bloody annoying in the first place and they always act innocent when I ask them where all that suspicious stuff comes from (or give different answers each time I ask).

There is nothing suspicious about it, no matter how innocent they try to look, it's from them going to those stupid online gaming sites and probably porn sites (they should be ashamed of themselves at their age)

But, as annoying as it is for me (and it drives me insane!) I know I will "never" say no to them...

Anyways, on to some tunes and tackle this house now: [link]

I have less scrupules. I said "no" to my uncle when he was stuck installing Windows 8.1 and apparently my aunt "shed a tear" (her words). So I guess I'll invite them along with my annual dinner in six weeks as a consolation of sorts.

Don't be surprised if they bring their PC along w/ them...

They're not that devious (yet).

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

And I'm listening to Dark Horse for the 10th time so far today (repeat hell on the radio again)

And I'm listening to Dark Horse for the 10th time so far today (repeat hell on the radio again)

And I'm listening to Dark Horse for the 10th time so far today (repeat hell on the radio again)

What I get for trying to post from work...

Repeat hell in the forum? You should be working, not playing. And there are much, much worse things than Katy Perry. Bastille's "Things we lost in the fire" [link] getting played at least every hour for instance.

And since we are posting the worse tunes let me drop the ultimate worsest Zedd- Stay The Night

Actually dutchy that link of yours is not too bad...

It's horrible. It was on the radio when I just walked into the office, so the days is already off on a wrong start. As for that Zedd song, I may or may not know it (have to check).

Oh, and now they're playing your favourite song. Ms Perry doesn't get that much airplay on this track really.

Looked up that Zedd song: [link]. It is indeed quite horrible. Or the word I'd like to use for tunes like these: "infantile".

That's the one and it most certainly should not be played on the stations they play it on since it does not fit at all "anywhere" hehe! (It's just, ack!)

Time for some good new stuff. I really don't like our Belgian friend's previous two tracks (Formidable and Tous les Memes) and they get played to death, but his new song is very good: Stromae - Ta Fete [link] (rather dark video though).

What in the world was that!? I think I liked it but that ending was yuk!

Very strange video, yes. But in a way all his songs are dark.

Oh, I think they're singing about me again:

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: EMF - Unbelievable

Yes they apparently are sillyyyyy, I'm listening to the sounds of the city and it's cold outside so I'm heading back to the office.

It is time for the annual trip to the vet where my cats get their annual shots against various cat diseases. This means I have to catch them, put them into their baskets and hops on over to the vet. All this accompanied by a never relenting orchestra of cats crying foul and murder (or in other words, they complain loudly during the entire trip).

Fortunately the vet is just down the road.

By now things have calmed down and you're back home with your kids I mean kats! And the trauma is overwith...

On this end it is stormy, rainy and windy and all I can think about is being in my warm soft bed with my soft and fuzzy blankee!

The tomcat did not quite appreciate us trying to give him anti-worm drops after taking him to the fed, so he jumped out of his cage with such force that he apparently broke my mother's nose (I let my mother give my cats those drops so they don't suspect me having anything to do with it) and my right arm is covered in scratches.

I think she was exaggerating, but who knows.

Coward! Making your cats dislike your Mom like that!

Huge thunderstorm over here and it's 2:30pm in the afternoon and it looks as dark as 9:00pm!

When you get up you can grab a bucket and come over to my house and help me bail out this flood sleepy head. I've never seen such a downpour I got flooded w/ hail and water.

You are inside and your roof is functional, is it not? And you're hopefully not living in a valley or incline. If so, no problem.

/me goes look up some rain tunes... Some Draconian always works well with rain [link]. And I need to get me some new CDs. Last batch was a year ago, I think.

Having a roof had nothing to do w/ it dutchy...

The sky turned black as night in the afternoon and then there was a flash (like a camera flash) that literally blinded me! Seconds later the sky opened up w/ a "waterfall" (not heavy rain) but a waterfall then hail was pounding on my windows which I don't know how I don't have busted glass? Then within a couple mins, rising water poured in from under my doors and also the sliding glass doors etc.

I've seen alot of storms in my lifetime but this was a bit different...

Anyways, I didn't drown and I'm still alive but I will have to check that link out later I'm still scared!

So apparently it either never rains in "sunny" California or they don't know how to do proper drainage there. Great fun, mopping your house on your day off.

Nah it rains, I'm not sure what that was though...

(I normally love thunderstorms but that was some kind of explosion storm!)

Be glad you weren't riding a bike in the middle of it.

What does my ear hear? Is it the George?

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Wham! - The Edge of Heaven

No be glad you were not riding your bike in that you'd have been swept away in the flood or river! Seems the storm is gone and we're back to normal (though my house is not back to normal it's a mess!)

I walk when it storms.

And look what they're playing now! Excellent music to clean up the house to.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Alphaville - Forever Young

I don't know what you see in that horrible tune! And since I can't be in two places at the same time, cleaning my house will have to wait.

And now I'm home and do I feel like cleaning my house? Nope!

/me goes watch this Pharrell interview...

My cat figured this morning was the opportune moment to throw up on my new carpet. So I had to do some cleaning, even if I didn't want to, or my carpet would be ruined.

Boy those kids of yours! I mean kats!

I am quite sure she did it on purpose. I chased her off the carpet when she started throwing up, turned around and so did she. Little demons are probably smirking afterwards.

Anyways, enough barf stories.

I'm only tolerating your barf stories cuz you've been patient enough to listen to my lil wheezer stories over the years so carry on if you mustttt...

Those little weezers should have moved out by now. Ofcourse, they're half Italian, so they don't leave the house until thirty.

Gino moved out a few weeks ago with his girlfriend or fiance (but he keeps coming home so much I can't even tell) and when he is over there he is calling me constantly. As for Sammy I'm trying to teach him how to drive so he can get independent but he won't let me. He will though when I scare him and tell him I'm thinking of moving closer to Los Angeles since I cannot deal with this commute much longer...

Over here we normally jump ship at 16 Gino just turned 22 so that's like 30 in LA years...

Thinking of moving? I thought you were living in your dream house now.

I love the house I currently live in dutchy but I don't love having to get up at 4:00am everyday to deal with the commute to work and depending on the traffic getting back home takes me anywhere from 2 to 3 hours some days. (It's brutal on top of difficult work hours)

Decisions, decisions. Either keep up commuting; move closer to your job; or find a new job that does not require a three hour drive.

Alternatively, get a pied-a-terre close to your work and stay there during the workweek and retreat to your dream house during the weekend. Costly though.

Well, yesss I've got several options, but one option I will not opt for is Sammy living in Los Angeles so first things first, I'm trying to get him to let me teach him how to drive and he needs to finish up High School and if I move to Los Angeles he can go live w/ his brother and attend College w/ him. I refuse to spend the next 20 years of my life commuting to LA and that is where all the Secretarial positions are located.

/me goes turn myself into a wet noodle and sweat off my grueling work week...

So I went to Youtube to look up songs about wet noodles, but then figured I'm recommended to many crazy stuff already and can do well without pasta. I also got distracted by a documentary.

A song about work then: Desmond Dekker - The Israelites [link] (1968)

I like this link you dropped better: [link] (would you believe I've not heard it once yet over here on this side?) Seems to have the deepest vibes that scratch all the right spots on my eardrums.

Anyways, off to clean up a ton of leaves and tree branches left from the storm all over my patio. Here's a good version of Three 6 Mafia again but this version is minus thugs and fast heavy breathing...

[link]

There's a 44 year difference between Desmond Dekker and that Skrillex tune. People have figured out how to seriously drop the bass in the meantime.

I don't think I've ever heard a Three 6 Mafia song on radio or TV on this side of the pond.

I just adjusted to the last time change exactly a week ago from today and now they've changed the clock again!!! (Which means when I get up at 4:00am it will really be 3:00am) My biological clock cannot be trained according the time whoever that person is that decided to keep changing the time like this. OMG how in the world am I gonna deal w/ this 3:00 thing! And I cannot force myself to sleep at certain times when I'm not tired. This is just ridiculous...

Imminent burnout! Fortunately we don't have that nonsense until the end of the month.

Meanwhile, we're stuck in the 80s again.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Blondie - Call Me

Burnout indeed, just when you think it can't get any harder but oh well, such is life. And I'd take Blondie over this never ending loop of Ke$ha over here...

They also played some worship tunes. Well, it's technically a worship tune, but I don't think anyone takes it as such: Third World - Try Jah Love [link] (1982).

Ancient, not heard that one in quite a while. I did hear a semi good one though it too be an oldie: [link]

I may or may not have heard that song. No audio hear, so I can't check. Currently being tortured by some screaming midget.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Prince - Purple Rain

Ah, yes, that "In my house" song was the one I expected it to be. The old fogey staton is having an 80s week (as if it isn't like that any other week of the year), so I've probably heard that entire list of related videos.

hehe dutchy screaming midget? Prince? (I take it not your boss?)

Anyways, I was tied up in a meeting for 4 hours and then the only sound I listened to thereafter was of me typing on my keyboard so there were no tunes or Ke$ha for me today.

The boss never screams. He only looks disappointed.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: The Cure - A Forest

Yummm that's a good one! And I think somebody else got tired of Ke$ha and called into that radio station cuz it's a bit better today.

Whata man, whata man whata man whata mighty mighty good mannnn...

(What I'm listening to at the moment)

Hey, I knowww I did not change the radio station since this is the only station I can get reception so what is up?

War - Lowrider

Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip to seeee

Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with meee

I will tell you this, an 80s week means that they play way, way too much Prince. Far more Prince than, say, Michael Jackson or Madonna.

Well, at least it's not Kesha.

I'm not too sure what happened w/ that radio station but not one time did I hear Ke$ha played on it today and the playlist though it played lots of oldies it was totally fresh!

At first I thought the Belgians were only playing songs by dead people today, but then I noticed they all died of drug related causes and as the day progressed the theme turned out to be drugs.

As to the why of things, I do not know, but they did play Rock to the Beat [link] (1988). Granted, not the orignal version by Reese and Santonio, but good enough.

I think you've posted that before several years back (I like that version better I think)

And I've just been busy so my ears have not been able to relax long enough to listen to the radio but they did happen to catch a few seconds of your little screaming midget today! hehe

Can you imagine so busy that the radio is actually on and playing and you cannot even pay attention or hear what is playing. =(

I never even knew that was possible!

Ack! I just looked up at my TV and they had a commercial on and the car was driving down the streets of LA right where I work. (last thing I want to see)

Okay, new episode of The Big Bang Theory, I'm happy again! (tired but happy)

The term for it is "being in the zone". Rarely happens for me because I have colleagues popping up at my desk all the time.

I think Big Bang Theory is to have three new seasons even. There's some long term planning.

What is the term for when you have been working for several hours before you notice you didn't even get to turn your radio on! Now this is getting crazy, I get jumped on before I even get settled into my desk and ready for my day!? The only good thing about it is that the day goes by super fast...

Wait! Three new seasons!!! Hooray! (I didn't know that!)

/me goes hit the gym and turn myself into a limp wet noodle...

There's a whole article on what you're experiencing: [link], although they paint it as a positive and enjoyable state, which may not always be the case.

Hmmm,bleh, I agree w/ your first comment of being in the "zone" when I'm at working and working on a project "everyone" and "everything" around me suddenly becomes invisible and I simply go into my own little world. I can get the job done to perfection in one quarter of the time it would have taken the average person (if even the average person could even complete the tasks at all)

The problem w/ the way "I" function, is that most "everyone" takes advantage of me and I'm a stupid easy target.

And as for now I'm going to run back to the gym for my morning wake up and zone out everyone around me there as well cept, at the gym I "can" focus on what I'm listening to so I need to fill up my nano w/ some goed tunes!!!

Boy, how in the world am I a secretary? Check that mess out! (Only by the grace of God)

Good tunes with dubious lyrics for Ms Secretary: Dr. Kucho & Gregor Salto - I can't stop playing [link] (from a good number of years back).

Dutchy you'd probably make a better secretary than a Webmaster w/ that vocabulary of yours, dubious? Had I not been hanging around w/ you for all these years on stupid messageboards my vocab would be null.

As for that vid that girl might be playing w/ herself to avoid having to stroke everyone's egos...

I got to the gym and after 10 minutes my music player's battery died leaving me at the mercy of the gym's overhead music which is always stuck on the 80's tunes. *sigh*

I picked up my English from watching the A-Team (among other series).

Did you say 80s tunes? Did someone call for... Flashdance? Michael Sembello - Maniac [link] (1983). It even has an electric drumkit and a key guitar (or whatever you call those things). And... cellos?

You forgot Boy George And The Culture Club?

Boy George was in A-Team once, I kid you not: [link].

You'll have to make due with just that commercial, as the only versions of the actual episode I can find on YouTube are either from compression hell (blocks and glitches everywhere) or by some wise guy who figured taping shows is done by pointing a camera at your TV set (and not even at a straight angle).

Interesting, was that when he kinda realized he is actually a boy?

I think that was his parents' fault. If I recall correctly, they wanted a girl, so he wore dresses and stuff. Hmm, no mention of it on the wiki so probably just gosip.

Really? Poor guy, all I know is the first time I seen him I thought it was a girl for a few seconds then years later he seem to dress as a boy so I figured he was confused who he is?

But to me a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy and a duck is a duck (does not matter how they dress it nothing will change it)

Course these days there is surgery still you cannot change what you are DNA wise (nature is pretty stubborn)

DNA-wise there is a whole spectrum between XX and XY. Things are not always as clear cut as they seem. And that's without bringing orientation into things.

That being said, the 80's were an affront to fashion (and even I who don't care much about fashion can see that).

Everything on earth has an opposite sex, the fish in the ocean all the animals on land, and "Humans" etc. It is nature and "natural"

Is it natural for a woman to love a woman and a man to love a man? Yes, totally, natural but, when they decide to corrupt that love into their own personal "perception" of love, then nope it's no longer "natural" it's now altered (every time people alter stuff they mess everything up)

Be honest, does it "fit" natural? Nope, Does it "look" natural? Nope

They can put on a dress or use a fake dildo or whatever it takes but still it wont fit or look or ever be "natural"

Do I have people close to me that are totally 100% gay? Yes. Do I love them? Yes. Do I agree w/ their sexual orientation? Nope, and they know it.

Answer me this, now that the law says it's okay for either sex to use the same bathroom do you feel comfortable peeing with some strange girl in there? I don't feel comfortable or safe with strange guys in the girls bathroom! Some of the guys are not gay just pervs! hehe!

I take it that Doreen World must be a particularly nasty place. La La Land is much more amusing.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Rick James - Superfreak

Particularly amusing (or annoying, depending on point of view) is that we have municipal elections tomorrow. So what do the TV stations do? They host debates by politicians who operate on a national level. Pretty pointless when it's about local elections.

I sure hope you're not dancing around in a dress over there in woodenshoe land or I might have pissed you off? (I'm sorry)

/me not Scottish

Oh look, they've wisened up and are showing some local debates now and follow those up with national debates. Still silly though, because whatever they think in other municipalities has nothing to do with the elections in my town. But at least it's something.

Dutchyyy hehe

I'm sorry, but look at you saying my world is nasty cuz I expressed how I feel about it?

I told you that I have close friends "and" family that are gay and we talk about it even though we don't feel the same about it. To me there is a difference about it when peoples preferences are "forced" upon you and now they have unisex bathrooms and you just don't understand how it feels being a female and having a male follow you into a bathroom in downtown Los Angeles (#1. You are a guy so you don't know. #2. You don't know Los Angeles)

And "elections" are completely boring (my nasty opinion!) however, I will leave them on my TV if I want to fall asleep faster...

Queue "Nasty Girl". Except that I've forgotten whether it's Janet Jackson, Vanity Six, Appolonia Six or someone else...

Say my name, say my name (decent mix up today on the radio)

[stupid diacritics bug ate my post, so here I go again]

I think I've heard a bit too much Beyonce/Destiny's Child today. Shakira has a new collaboration with Rihanna out: [link]. Song is up-tempo but otherwise unremarkable. I even suspect Shakira is not even singing here, but just showing off her impressive vocals capabilities. Now if only she'd do better songs.

Alot of collaboration going on between recotding artist lately and I like her on a show I watch called The Voice. I'm not sure if it airs over there.

That show probably has spin-offs all over the globe. Originally a Dutch concept apparently: [link]. I'm not particularly keen on talent shows though, so I don't watch it.

Say what??? /me goes and reads that again, Holland?

I don't normally like talent shows either (unless that is all that is on TV) but the Voice I got hooked on cuz it is different to me since the judges cannot see the talent only hear them so they cannot judge the singers by their first appearance so they judge by "true" talent.(totally different than the norm talent shows)

Strange as it may be, apparently "we" are big in TV-concept land.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Tears for Fears - Shout

And what do my ears suddenly hear playing? Nasty girl...

And what do my ears suddenly hear playing? Nasty girl...

Hmmm, what is that? Well it'was one of those dayzzz.

I keep hearing that Beyonce tune you dropped a link to for me "Drunk in Love" and yes it does indeed have some good banging deep bass but I keep having a mental image of her and Jay Z going at it in the kitchen so it sorta ruins the tune? hehe

Anyways, nasty day, off to la la land early...

The video on the other hand has not much kitchen action going on, but more of Ms Knowles hanging out on the beach at night or so.

Back to the "nasty girl", I don't think I've heard anything new from Janet Jackson in a decade.

Janet Jackson? Nah, [link]

I knew I was mixing them up... I'd say that was her only hit over here.

Oh, and in the category "crazy videos you find online", DJ Snake ft. Li'l Jon - Turn down for what [link].

Okay, now that is most definitely the craziest vid online I've seen so far, though I'm certain if I searched I'd find something even crazier (since crazy has no limit)

Hmmm, you seem to be right about Vanity 6 I poked around and basically that was her only decent tune? She had a couple more but I could not stand them (seemed prince put her in the spotlight to mask himself or something on her other tunes) but Nasty Girl was the best...

Lenovo B750-57323558 29" All-in-One PC with Intel Core i5-4440 Processor,6gb Memory,1TB Hard Drive,Nvidia GTX760A Graphics,BD-R Combo,Wifi,HDMI,Windows 8.1

Mmmm & Yowzaaaa! 29" love at first sight! Time to see what WOW possibly looks like on this baby!(though work keeps cramping my style so I might just download a trial)

Uh oh, Doreen is slipping into the game world again...

As for our screaming midget, he did this a lot. Sheila E, Sheena Easton, Vanity, Appolonia, Wendy & Lisa. All kinds of artists who sound a lot like what Prince would write, because it was (partially) Prince behind the scenes.

They were just a pretty faces to put in front of "his" music I think. (seemed to work for a song or two, but apparently nothing too long lasting for any of them?)

Not much different from other producers then.

Oh no, suddenly the weekend is over! How did that happen?

I don't know dutchy...

I do not want to go to work tomorrow I didn't get to download WOW! No time, I've just been uninstalling all the preinstalled software on this new machine and trying to tweak it to my style and that's about it since I got it!

I'm in favour of building your own machine. Saves you from spending an evening uninstalling crap.

You're a guy so I would assume that. My All in One choked on me after all these years (and two major repairs) so I had to finally lay it to rest.

RIP All-in-One. But out with the old and in with the new.

I remember the days I used to buy a new machine every six months then I bought that HP and stayed on that machine for so long it became a part of me (actually miss it, as slow as it was!) but I can get used to this one soon enough! This screen is unbelievable and seems to stretch from one side of my room to the other and when I open and stick two windows side by side it's "exactly" like having two monitors (freakishly longggg display, the res is 2560 X 1080)

You mean you're becoming sensible. Computers these days last for years. This netbook is almost six years old now. My desktop is even older, but I simply do not need the extra processing power.

Sensible? Me? Nah (now I'm buying phones every six months) but I am aware and working on it (wellll, sometimes)

Wisdom comes with advanced age. Except for me, as I was born old.

New music (okay, they've been playing it for months): YG ft. Jeezy & Rich Homie Quan - My Hitta [link]. Reminds me a bit of Luniz' "I got 5 on it" from way back.

I'm already advancing in age and it still is not happening apparently...

Hmmm, who dat be!? (I don't think I've ever seen or heard of them before) but I definitely like them. If I were not so tired from my day I'd have to go search them out some more!

Meanwhile, I (and my colleagues) are completely fed up with London Grammar, for instance [link]. The singer sings on top of her longs constantly, without much variation and that gets old really, really fast. That it gets way too much airplay does not help either.

That vid is not supported for mobile devices so I will have to check that out later.

/me goes walk among the zombies for lunch...

I don't like to go by what others say (I gotta make my own mind up) but after checking her out better and listening to this: [link]

I have to totally 100% agree w/ you here...

Oh lord she must have a really good music producer that really has it out for her? She is pretty but, that voice? What in the world!

I don't even know what she looks like (well, I do now). She obviously has the singing apparatus to produce sound at such an intensity without going false or nasal. However, I prefer a more ebb and tide style of singing, and not constant maximum output.

Almost headache inducing.

Well, I don't know what I like, but my ears do! (when they hear it)

Right now, the only music I hear is the tomcat meowing somewhere in the house. Since I don't speak cat and the cats don't speak human, I don't know what he's on about.

And apparently summer time kicked in today, so I'm going to be miserable the entire week (and after that I have a week off to acclimatise).

Can't trust anything on this date, but apparently producer Frankie Knuckles died today or yesterday. You probably don't know him, but like DJ Kool Herc was the innovator of hip hop, Frankie Knuckles is responsible for the genre known as "house". Sample of his style: Baby wants to ride [link] (1987).

Back to other old stuff.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Joan Jett & the Black-Hearts - I love Rock 'n Roll

I'm barely calming back down. It's not been good over here in Cali since Friday night dutchy. Not good for anyone living within a one mile radius of my house! I'm thinking God is literally trying to "shake" some sense into me?

Dutchy I just checked out that link you dropped for Frankie Knuckles and nope, I've never heard that before (not once) where do you come up with this crazy stuff?

You need to tell that invisible friend of yours to turn down that bass.

As to where I get my stuff, the term we use here is "algemene ontwikkeling" (or in other words, keeping ones eyes and ears open). I hear and see a lot.

I did, and he turned it down a bit, the one that woke me up for work gently shook me up. (either that or after experiencing 300 of them over the weekend I'm finally getting used to them)

Oh, so it was just your fancy new alarm clock then?

And speaking of "fancy", new music: Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy [link]

Nah, and no use even discussing them with you, no matter how smart you are, you've absolutely nooo possible idea how scarey they feel and sound dutchy since you live over there in woodenshoe land...

Currently listening to: (Dont know by who) - She used to be my girl

Hey I think it's mijn crazy I mean crae_zzz dutchy's 16th birthday today! Right? Or am I getting confused at my old age now?

Just checked your link out. I was wondering who sang that fancy song...

That'd be that Charli girl with the fake accent.

Now, what would be a fitting tune to go with this world crae day? I'm going to go classic here: Paradisio - Bailando [link] (1996, so sixteen years back).

Charli girl? I seen her and was not sure what in the world to think! As for your link...

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country." (why are you such a royal pain in my behind!)

/me goes find another link but I think I know this tune anyways.

Yup I know that one...

/me comes back and dances a quick dance w/ you who is the world's oldest sixteen year old and then runs off to the gym...

Happy birthday mijn dutchy! Heb a goed dag! (or daag, pick one cuz I'm not sure) hehe

Went out for dinner. Restaurant was more a beachclub than a restaurant, but so was the price, so I ain't complaining.

When I ever move on to the ripe old mental age of seventeen (doubtful), I'll be playing this tune: Ladytron - Seventeen [link]

Well, since you are sixteen I'll pretend it was with your Mom!

Okay, you've dropped that link to that song before and it still is completely sucky...

You mean it is completely awesome. /me goes play it again

It fits right in with your Forever Young tune...

Which is completely awesome too. Also great is this one: The Flirts - Passion [link] (1982), though this extended version stretches it out a bit too much.

On second thought, that 12" extended version is rubbish. It's missing the hook. This one, from Italian TV even, is better: [link]

You do worry me some dayz...

/me is just listening to outside my window sounds: fu fu dogs barking, birds chirping, airplanes, neighbors talking and yelling.

And a cat purring while sleeping on my leg, since I have the week off. Cue Madonna, no wait, cue MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday [link] (this stuff is so bad it almost loops around and becomes good again).

You brat! I'm at work currently listening to a sucky song "Never knew love like this before"

hehe dutchy, first time I hear that version of Holiday (and you are right)

Unfortunately, time flies. It's tuesday already. The only I know about today is Ruby Tuesday and it stinks, so not looking that one up.

Some Mobb Deep instead: [link]

That seem to load fine on my phone? Normally they don't and since there is a pesky bee that keeps following me I think it's time to head back to the office now...

It's you cue to get back to work.

While getting some new plants for my balcony, I overheard this song playing at the gardening shop: The Beloved - Sweet Harmony [link] (1992). It's like they knew I was there.

Mijn crazy dutchy... I don't know why when I first looked at the name of the song I automatically thought your link was taking me to listen to The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (which is my favorite tune)

And since the sound of this truck is annoying me I'll take it as a cue to get back to the office.

While you slave away at the office, I'll go play some Sisters of Mercy: [link] (the Belgians play this one a lot)

Who's slaving at the office? Not me, not today!

La la laaaaa!

/me goes start my day off w/ my favorite tune! [link]

What? Get back to work you! Who's going to keep the economy running if you have the day off?

Don't know, don't care! Today is be selfish and do what you want day!

Slaap lekker mijn dutchy...

Shall I share the horror story of what my tomcat did this morning? On second thought, these things persist forever on the internet, so I'll spare you the details. But in short: what happens when a cat eats a long (human) hair and later goes for a number two?

Umm, I'd say he made a hand made beaded necklace? But, since he's a cat I'll guess he made a butt made beaded necklace for you?

And after that he was running around the house. I'm glad it just "dangled" instead of being dragged around the floor (and carpet).

The joys of pets.

A song about them: Baha Men - Who let the dogs out? [link] (which is technically not about dogs).

There is no way around the hazards of long hair. (you should see what I have to "cut" off of my vacuum cleaner's rollers) My hair gets so wound up on it that it stops spinning. Every time I finish cleaning the rollers I wonder how I have any hair on my head since there is so much stuck on the rollers!

/me is listening to strange birds outside my window and faint automobile sounds in the distance...

I'm trying to get my lazy body up and drag it off to the gym but these birds are telling me go back to bed!

I think the birds are just gossiping about that lady who's loosing all her hair and you are eavesdropping (strange word) on them.

/me googles...

Apparently "eaves" is the edge of the roof and "eavesdropping" originally meant you were standing so close to the house you could hear the water drips from the roof.

Nah, I've still got plenty of hair (thank God) but I think I go through some sort of "molt" at certain times of the year.

That is called "spring".

And someone came along and stole my holiday. Now I have to go back to work again tomorrow... Woe is me!

/me stashes your Holiday under my bed...

Next one is up in six or seven weeks (I have too much days off stacked up).

Saw all kinds of new music, but as I am getting older, I can't remember name or title. Did I post this one? W&W - Bigfoot [link] (still not too keen on this style but the video is good).

Nope, first time I see you post it. (I thought both the music and vid was cool)

Back at work and back to oldtimer music.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Sister Sledge - We are family

Once again, I had my radio on all day at work and cannot even remember one single song I listened to? Too much work and tight deadlines apparently torturing both me and my ears...

I'm never that focussed. It's 80s day here again.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: A-Ha - A View to a Kill

/me stops by and runs back to being focussed.

Hooray!!! I survived the week! Do I know what I listened to this week? Nope, not a clue and yes that radio of mine was on all week. (heavy work load) but theeee weekend is upon us!

And it's an extra long weekend over here (Easter is two days on this end). I don't know any Easter songs except the theme from Jesus Christ Superstar, but I do know a few about bunnies, for example: Konijntje Wiebel [link]

What in the world was that dutchy? hehe

I've just spent about an hour trying to find a tune I heard on my ipod's radio at the gym but to no avail. Searched by a few lyrics I grabbed and tried to find it off the radio station that it played off of also to no avail. Argh!

The radio station I normally listen to and why in the world did they discontinue the playlist? [link]

I would say that playlist is broken. Reminds me of some local TV station whose playback froze somewhere during the weekend, so they showed the exact same frame the entire day until someone finally fixed it.

Sloppy things.

Problem with lyrics is mishearing them. You don't get far with the wrong lyrics.

Obviously I had the wrong lyrics cuz I never found it...

Anyways, It's Easter today but since I don't want to be a hypocrite and run to Church the one day out of the year me goes play some Brandy and get ready to run to the gym: [link]

Hmm, instant float around and don't wanna do nothing! [link]

Enough with the Christian documentaries today! One more confusing than the other and these people talk as if they were walking the earth during that time? Reminds me of when they air the documentaries of space, these people narrating talk as if they have been out there in the black hole themselves and seen one first hand.

/me goes watch a scarey movie instead...

If you break things down to the fundamentals, Christianity is basically an End-of-Days cult (and perhaps the other two Abrahamistic religions too). In the beginning all was well and perfect, until a certain someone had to eat an apple (and blame it on a poor snake). Fast forward a few centuries through ages of misery and some guy pops up who says "Hang on there, I'll be back in a jiffy to take all of y'all to the promised land where we can hang on clouds all day long".

A disheartening thought really.

I can take this in two directions, Joe Smooth's "Promised Land" [link] (1987) or Rammstein's "Engel" [link] (1997).

I can't debate you since I'm clueless and not gotten to the other side yet. When it comes to religion ppl begin to make their own along with their own set of rules. As for God that is something I'm personally unable to deny (from my own life experience) but that does not mean I could explain him nor understand him any better than anyone else.

I'm listening to some tune that should be buried but i don't knw the name of it...

Okay, you and your freaky songs dutchy!

I only post decent song.

How about this new Shakira track: Empire [link] (where she sounds rather not like herself).

Ack! I only like her whenever wherever style...

/me goes grab lunch somewhere since you didn't make me some!

We have lunch set up at work here. No need to bring my own. Ofcourse, they get every type of food except what I eat, so it's not all that.

Ah, here's that song the Belgians play all the time, but of which I've never managed to catch the name, until now: Cassius - I love U so [link] (2010, that old already?)

Ummm, dutchyyy "you" never managed to catch the name of that song!? Even I who never really listens to lyrics can tell the name of that tune since the only lyrics in that tune seem to jump out at you because all they repeat over and over again is "I love U so" (Never heard that tune before but I liked it)

As for today, it was Administrative Professionals Day = Treat your Secretary good day (so I was spoiled rotten) but tomorrow it's back to the shackles and whips...

"I love you" is so generic I don't even date google it, Ms Secretary.

Right now I'm being tortured by a Grease song. Cover version even...

Generic by default...

I'm listening to hmmm, not sure what the name is but it sucks, me goes fiddle around and try to get another station it's hard to get any good stations in these LA high rise buildings (you'd think they would be more technology friendly) everyone is always complaining about reception issues

And the only other station that semi tunes in is playing your favorite screaming midget...

One good thing about time progressing is that people play way less Prince. I remember the year 1999, when they played that blasted song of his the entire time.

Time is progressing? I would not know it by these oldies they keep playing on this station today.

They play Coldplay instead of Bon Jovi on the old fogey station. You probably don't notice it on a day by day basis, but there is change.

Hey you two lovebirds. ;)

Head over to [link]

We've rounded up all the 'old-folks' and 'has-beens' for a lill reunion. :D

Welllll, since my lovebird over there is in la la land I guess I will go head off to the party w/ you snowy!

I thought the frosticle had retired? Stop living in the past!

Hmm, I would say that my account still seems to exists, but my password is gone (tried all possible combinations and variations) and those recover-your-password emails arent's arriving (not in spambox either). Ergo, don't expect me.

Oh, and XSS warnings. StarDock should fix that bit.

Oh, here finally come the emails. And a retarded password policy to enter a new password. If I want to enter a one letter password, I should damn well be able to do so.

Reminds me of a certain amphibian who used the name of his company as his password. Now there's security for you.

You just described (to the exact) the process I went through last night to get myself logged in, I started to think that maybe froggy banned me from his site!

I'll let you represent me there. Too much of a hassle to get back in.

You NEVER take me out anywhere!!! We are always all cooped up in this dusty old thread listening to the same ole tunes day in and day out! I want you to take me out to wincustomize!

Alright, so I already went over to wincustomize and represented you yesterday, and told everyone we got married so now I have to practice being your nagging wife...

Yeah, I saw that. I want a divorce! My lawyer will be contacting you shortly.

Oh be quiet you grump and go visit your cyber brothers. I spotted that DavidK had passed away last night and I got so sad and thought why in the world is this making me so freaking sad I never even met the guy and like an idiot I realized that I had! I'm happy our lives somehow touched, he was a great person that I had the privilege to meet through skinning. You on the other hand I'm still trying to figure out!!!

/me goes get my behind in gear...

The height of this thing was almost two decades ago. And some of the folks back then weren't the youngest ones even then. There will be a day when you or Ken or Plastic or me will be gone and that will be the end of Tek.

I suppose you're right dutchy. Oh look! Your divorce lawyer finally arrived!

/me grabs his pen and goes sign on the dotted line.

And before I forget: I want half your money!

And I want my weekend back too...

Did a little snooping, but I can't find any mention of DavidK passing away in between Jafo repeatedly saying his health is deteriorating (to you three years ago no less) and the mention of his passing in that reunion thread. So it must have happened somewhere late 2011 or in 2012.

Hmmm, we've not kicked the bucket yet? And 79 weeks and 4 days? How many months is that? (I don't like doing math so I will never know)

And I also see that this board is still making posts disapper into thin air.

Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew

Wait, what? Who is this?

I still have plans for this thing called Tek, but I move at a mollusk's pace.

Well, at your rate it most likely will not happen in my life time (or anybody elses for that matter) but as long as Ken has not taken Tek down yet...

Justin Bieber - What do you mean

And yes, I had to go look up a Mollusk (you could have just said snail?)

I was actually thinking more of oysters. Which can actually move, but very, very slowly.

Hmmm, not really worth even making a 2015 thread?

/me is listening to golden silence.

I thought I was out of harddrive space, so I have a dozen CDs ready to be ripped of which I have no idea what they sound like. I'm not listening to much music when I'm the computer or vice versa.

My listening to music has slowed down a bit when responsibilities sped up on me but now I'm hoping I can get back to me again...

Though come to think of it, I doubt either of us missed much from what music I've heard lately.

There's way too much Ed Sheeran on the radio. Oh, and the old fogey station we have at work has discovered Avicii, so I hear that rubbish a lot.

Never heard of Ed Sheeran before but on this side of the ocean all that's been playing is Adele and Justin Bieber. As for when I'm at work if I played either my Christian tunes or my ghetto tunes I think I'd catch some grief...

It's probably not what you think when I said "Library" dutchy. I'm not working in a quiet Library filing books wearing glasses etc. I work for Library Headquarters, I'm Secretary to the Head (who oversees 90+ Public Libraries in L.A. County) It's pretty interesting seeing what goes on behind the scenes in those "supposedly quiet & cozy libraries" that most ppl "think" that they are...

Drama, politics and probably some backstabbing. Anyways, you've really picked up on this secretary thing. Quite the difference from the stay-at-home Doreen from days of yore.

Nope, more like vomit, poop and indecent exposure, ppl seem to think that public libraries are free babysitting agencies and shelters for the homeless. And I've learned I like working for females better than males as a secretary (they're less territorial) I had to respectfully decline my last promotion offered due to I'd rather stay put with my current boss she is comfortable to work for but when she retires in three years I may be on the move again...

Are you still in the business of building websites and data bases dutchy, or have you switched gears as well?

I'm like a tree. I don't move (much).

But from the sounds of thing, you are in the library, weirdos and all, and not in a seperate building.

No, I am in a separate building away from the circus. (I work for the head who runs the show) I just envisioned libraries being different, it kind of took the enchantment away or something. hehe

Try university libraries. No riff raff allowed there.

Nah, I don't want to add shootings & bomb threats to the list. We are obviously living in two diff sides of this globe. Anyways, me grabs a bite of mijn dutchy and goes dabble on our article for lunch. Goodenacht.

/me evades bite

My cat just attacked my toes, so my reflexes are sharp like lightning.

You, like lightning!? That's not the dutchy I know. I recently became one of those *cough* cat ppl like you a few months ago and got an exotic short hair. He is turning me into a zombie! He creeps into my bed ritualistically at 2:00 a.m. I get awaken by a purring ball of fur that has either his nose pressed against mine or is licking my face to wake me up. I'm still adjusting to what I did to my life by getting him.

Seems I cannot post links here anymore to show you but anyways he's winning my heart over slowly. (he's a lot more work than I expected a cat to be)

Something's eating your posts. I expect it's your cat.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Heaven 17 - Temptation

Probably because I tried to post a generic link to show you the breed. I'll post an actual pic of him at some time in the future. And of course, today, I'm dying again because he seems to be completely nocturnal and wants me to be as well so I'm sleep walking today at work!

I have no idea why your post got eaten. Well, I do have some notion as to what may be the cause, but it's coded, so hard to decypher.

Regardless, that's one sad looking cat.

Sad, nope, that pic is a generic just to show you his breed. He's an exotic short hair and looks nothing like his name. I have to show you an actual pic of my cat. When I got him a few months ago he was an adorable cute tiny ball of fluff, now he looks like a mutation or cross between the abominable snowman and yoda! But it's too late to return him because I've already fallen in love with him.

Dutchy, you're going to have to save me from myself with this article. I don't want to over think it or I will change it 50 million times depending on my moods and you'll never get it, so when I'm done in a couple weeks I'm tossing it to you to edit, shape it, and hopefully mix yourself into it okay?

/me looks up "exotic short hair"

/me shakes fists at the heavens for all the defects

A pox on those breeders.

My three cats all fall into the "European short hair" category, which is so broad it can mean anything and basically boils down to "parents and breed unknown".

You can take as long as you want.

However, I do prefer to edit it only once and then publish it (in some shape or form).

You have three cats? I thought you had two? (one is more than enough for me) I'm not enjoying the litter box part of owning a cat that is for sure!

One of my cats (the calico) died right after christmas last year. Suffice to say I was not happy.

Early summer, my aunt said she had two stray cats strolling around her trailer, a mother and her daughter. So they caught 'em and those two are living with me now and keeping the big old tomcat company. Stray cats are rather wild, so it's been, shall we say, interesting these past few months.

I'm sorry dutchy to hear about your cat, that's one of the nasty things in life is death. But, I'm glad you got two new trouble makers to keep you busy. If I had more time I would have a small zoo but work pretty much sucks the life out of me. Dexter is keeping me busy enough, Friday I'm off and I'll be spending it at the vet...

Dexter don't want to go to no vet.

My two new strays have never even been to a vet (though the mother was sterilised at some point). Hell, I'm not even able to pick up the mother. Last time I tried she somehow managed to rotate herself in her skin and slit my wrist.

Little demons they are.

You can't even pick her up? She must be wild, mine follows me around like a minion in world of warcraft, he even stays at the door outside when I take my shower! And Dexter is going to the vet (because he's been on antibiotics) I'm hoping he doesn't have a serious issue he had blood in his stool. I didn't know about the risks of these special bred cats they also have breathing issues because they've got hardly any nose. (But I'm use to breathing issues from my kids) hehe

Anyways, the lady I got my cat from is a breeder and competes in cat shows she made sign a contract to agree to get him fixed because of his blood line and the competitors she got his parents from don't want the offspring competing or something like that. I was like yeah yeah gimme the papers and the cat I'm not into shows or breeding I just want him as my pet. Boy did I not know what I got myself into. (But I love him) Next month now I have to get his furry snowballs cut off in order to get his papers. I was told though he will not spray his territory or stray etc I'm freaking out about doing that to him though.

It's either that or Dexter will hit up on the ladies on his walk around the block and will sire a string of kittens.

I'm not as worried about that as much as I am of him getting stolen in 5 seconds flat. When I took this creature to the vet he drew a crowd around him as if he was a movie star. hehe

Goedenaht dutchy

Li'l Dex will be screaming bloody murder on his way to the vet.

Dexter's furry Lil snowballs are still safe (for now) tomorrow's vet appt is just a follow up.

Dutchy since you're into history can you remember what year we were visiting skinz.org? You were there before me. Was it 88,89 or 1990? I need the year for my Frankenstein article.

And what happened to my post? Anyways I had to read our own article to find out it was 1998.

In my mind it's 1997. But in reality, it was just a relatively short period between 1998 and 2001 perhaps.

T'was 1998 (I had to go read our Toasty interview) and it felt like needles in my heart dropping Dex off at the vet. (they have to do blood work on him cuz he's still bleeding)

I've no freaking clue why I did this to my life! I think it was empty nest syndrome when Gino left for Oregon last year to go to University. But I'm seriously losing it getting myself bonded to a cat now (rediculous!) plus Sammy is allergic to Dex but he's already fallen in love w/ him too. Argh! What did I do!!!

Okay, it's worth it! The way he reacted when I went to pick him up today. Apparently his labs came back good and all the vet did was double his antibiotics for another 10 days and I have to keep him on a prescription diet. Just some kind of I can't remember what she called it but he's basically got a sensitive digestive system.

Translation: your foster child is a picky eater.

Nope, if I don't close the shower door or the lock the bathroom door now he'll be licking the inside of the shower and drinking the toilet water (gross!) I called my Mom to ask her if that was normal for a cat? She still has those two cats which, by the way, I think are immortal (since they are still going strong) and she said her cats don't do that, he gets into everything. I didn't know I needed to cat proof my house!

It's actually quite normal. Cats prefer fresh water, but their definition of fresh differs from that of ours. My cats for instance prefer the watering can (why is their no real English word for this?) or the dirty bird basin on my balcony, instead of their cups.

Really? I never drink sink water (tap water) I only drink purified bottled water, so that is what I give to my cat, maybe that is the culprit to his irritated digestive system and causing the bleeding because of the alkaline balance or something. (not something I thought to mention to the vet)

Hmm, according to Mr. Google:

Cats are animals. They drink out of puddles and toilets and other nasty places. It's safe for him to drink tap water. But if you insist on bottled water...it's fine.

Okay, now "I" know you are blocking my links dutchy...

It's still a mystery why only your posts get randomly blocked.

It could ofcourse be that a lot of folk have false positives and we are actually not the only ones talking here.

That being said, I never get blocked.

Back on topic: rather odd that one would not drink the faucet water. That's what its for, is it not?

No mystery, I'll assume not to post links unless I want them to go underground.

And my water faucet in my shower is to wash my body with and my water faucet in my kitchen is to wash my dishes with? Actually, in New York I will drink out of water faucets (because it has no odor and taste sweet) but here in California I smell sulfur and the water taste scary therefore, I only drink purified bottled water here. (even for my tea and coffee)

With all that talk of California drying up, you might as well import your beverages.

Not really talk it's actually true. They are trying to figure out different ways to deal with this drought over here...

Your favorite presenter just walked on stage at the AMA's Prince! And J-Lo is hosting, you'd just love this. hehe

/me kicks Prince off the stage

That old coot recently released a new album. I hear it sounds exactly like the previous two dozen.

It looked as if he's frozen in time and needs to be defrosted badly.

Dutchy is that email address for you in the contact link below still valid? Or what address are you using these days? Mine is still my first name at me .com please send me it when you have time this week, I'll wrap up our article this weekend for you. (Almost done)

Oh, the contact address works alright. I get plenty of spam on it daily.

Okay, I'll finish it and send it to you on Sunday dutchy, it's not much but it's at least a lil something.

Not much? I thought you were going to write a book. I had a publisher lined up and everything. Alright, I'll cancel the publicity photoshoot on Thursday.

After I started writing it I realized it was heading to be more of a skinning biography rather than a skinning article, so I switched gears in order to not have you sitting at the chopping block all day fixing my mess since I seriously doubt you even want to be bothered having to tag it up.

But since I'm not all that nice I'm sending it to you in .doc format rather than in your preferred .txt format...

Which means I won't be able to open it, since I don't have Office installed. I don't mind short or long articles, but incompatible formats are problematic.

Okay, so, I'm thinking presentation is everything and you want me to just put it into a brown paper bag and toss it to you? Alright but if I have to strip it down naked you better dress it up good after you get it!

If presentation is everything, you'd put in into a format that is used in the print industry and designed for fidelity.

Or in other words: save as or print to PDF.

Word on the other hand, is extremely fickle and stuff breaks in between versions and what not.

Fidelity does not exists on earth. And .pdf = work and when I'm not at work playing lil secretary I don't even want to see anything that resembles those letters not even .fdp

Birthday plus Holiday means my family will be forcing me to eat too much and have fun so I will be finishing it up and strip it down to .txt before Sunday.

Run, turkeys, run! The hairy apes are after you!

And my family will most definitely take down one more poor turkey for Christmas...

Nothing but a hazardous obstacle course for me, all I do is a lot of bobbing, ditching weaving and running to avoid all the poison. (I like being able to still see my waist "after" the Holidays)

One down and one more to go!

I think it's someone's birthday. Beware of the cake!

Birthday was two days ago and nope no cake. A few years ago I developed a hypersensitivity to sugar I can flirt with about one bite but if I go past that I'm dizzy and sick, some might call it a curse (I call it a blessing in disguise)

Black Friday on this side of the Ocean and I'm avoiding the temptation of spending my hard earned money and avoiding the stampedes of crazy ppl that are spending all their hard earned money under the camouflage of sales...

In this day and age, you can do your discount shopping online as well, oh diabetic birthday girl. Less fisticuffs and scuffles that way.

Diabetes? No, the only health issue I suffer from is Chronic Anemia & Vitamin D issues all the time but that's about it. What is fisticuffs?

OMG, dutchy where do you find these crazy words you mean throwing blows?

Dutchy, I sent the article tonight while you were in la la land if you don't see it in the morning check your spambox or let me know.

Thanks, (I hope it's not too much work to fix)

With proper caps and puntuation even. And that weird double space after a period used by people who've had typing classes.

I'll go have a looksee.

With me there is no such thing as proper anything. The hardest part of writing the article is knowing that you Mr. Educated will first be tossing it under a magnifying glass before tossing it up.

Anyways, coffee and gym and then to see if it's safe outside to hit a store and get some shopping done. Don't rush, you can post the article whenever or like I said even after the Holidays if you want.

Waiting until after Christmas and New Year is a bit late though.

Whenever you want dutchy, don't worry about it.

Kristain Stanfill - Even So Come

Amazing instruments! But, I know if "you" listen to the actual lyrics you would not be able to stomach it. Let me see if I can post an instrumental version. (this board no longer allows vids though so it would be a miracle if it post)

Nope, you've got it on lock down now...

Shoot! I cannot find an instrumental one without lyrics still showing but this has acoustic, electric, killer drum, piano all of it. Oh well...

Problem between keyboard and chair, I'd say. Though it's probably a caching thing.

/me googles...

Waiiit, these be worship tunes. No, I think the filter was right on this one.

Hey! there is nothing wrong with my skillz, it's just that you have corrupted our open minded message board! I bet if I drop one of my booty tunes the message board will allow it.

Nope you definitely got this board on lock down for vids dutchy...

Gosh darnit, it's seems to be genuine. I never coded an URL block though. No time to investigate now though. Have to be elsewhere today.

And I need to stop saying though, though.

It's okay because me can still come over here and "sing" my tunes if I cannot post links to them! (course I'm not listening to anything at the moment to come irritate you with)

/me goes get busy in this day too...

I'm going to get to the bottom of this and fix whatever is causing it, but I do think I'll leave in a worship tunes filter.

Hmmm, okay, then...

La la la laaaaa!

*cough* Hillsong United - Ocean (Where feet May Fail)

You call me out upon the waters

The great unknown where feet may fail

And there I find You in the mystery

In oceans deep

My faith will stand

And I will call upon Your name

And keep my eyes above the waves

When oceans rise

My soul will rest in Your embrace

For I am Yours and You are mine

Your grace abounds in deepest waters

Your sovereign hand

Will be my guide

Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me

You've never failed and You won't start now

So I will call upon Your name

And keep my eyes above the waves

When oceans rise

My soul will rest in Your embrace

For I am Yours and You are mine

Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders

Let me walk upon the waters

Wherever You would call me

Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander

And my faith will be made strongerrrr

In the presence of my Savior

/me gets the broom and sweeps it all out

Relaxxx, you can put the broom down. Today it's catch up on cleaning this house so it will be more like:

YG - Twist My Fingaz

Meanwhile, I still have not investigated things. I did however take a look at those PNGs of your and it turns out they were transparent after all, but the tool I was using to crunch down the massive filesize destroyed the transparency.

Of course they were transparent. The only way they would have a black bg is if I was diabetic and chose passwords of 123456.

And I'm being sarcastic of course. If you need the originals in another format or resized let me know and when I get home tonight I will check if I still have them.

Actually, your family comes first and it's the Holidays so please don't worry about that silly article okay.

It would be easier to have the originals, so I could save those as JPEG and do the compositing and layering in HTML/CSS. Would bring down size a lot and people wanting to see the originals could click through (if I'd add a link to each image).

And on second thought, I think your password was Hello123.

I think I chose that when I was sixteen and used it like forever but now that I've gotten "older" and wiser I changed it. hehe

/me kicks the Hell out of you!

I will send you the originals later when I get home.

A few years back I randomly stumbled over a dump of usernames and passwords. It had a very old password of mine. The accounts listed would suggest it was an older skinsite, though I don't know which one.

The fact that it was out there means that a) said site stored its passwords in plain text (big security no-no); b) it got hacked at some point in time; and c) the list got distributed.

If it is any solace, froggle's password was even worse.

Ummm, was it stardock123? And I'm thinking yours was ChaKraMa666? (and now I'm getting so old I cannot remember what was the title of your old skinz, that had that weird name)

You're fairly close on the amphibian password.

It's alive! (me types in my bestest Frankenstein voice)

Ah yes, Frankenstein. Such a sad story. None of the movies accurately capture its actual plot. Not that I can recall what it was about exactly.

That's because there are way too many different versions to remember...

One novel, many adaptations. Scientists creates a living being from corpses. The "monster" escapes, befriends a (blind?) girl until he is uncovered and flees. And it somehow ends with some kind of final confrontation between Frankenstein and his creation in the arctic. There may have been a murder in there somewhere as well.

Strange, I just watched some modern version of it a couple weeks ago (but I think I fell asleep because I can't even remember the ending?) I do remember it was not a blind girl but a blind old man that befriended him and fed him or something (and the only thing I consistently remember in all the versions I've ever watched is I feel sad for him because he is innocent) hehe

Well, I'll be skipping the adaptations. It's really a sad story at heart. Unlike, say, Dracula, which is a thriller.

Dracula for me has always felt pornish (most likely cuz I've got an over sensitive necck or something)

Vampires in general fall into that category. Hence the whole Twilight thing (which I've managed to avoid).

You missed nothing there (they basically ruined any decent mental image I ever had of a real vampire)

Ofcourse, it's aimed at "young adults", which is a point in time we've left years behind us. Or it just refers to tweener girls.

I don't think age has anything to do with whether or not you can enjoy anything in life but rather more about whether it's done right? That movie was not done right. If I can get a break I'm hoping to go see The Good Dinosaur.

Doesn't mean I deny my age or anything like that it just means I'm fully aware we are only here on this earth one day at a time so each day my age has absolutely nothing to do with the decisions I make. There are other things more important to base your decisions by. Dutchy I think you're older than me!

I'm as old as the world. But of youthful spirit.

I've no clue what you are. But, you range from 16 to 85 yrs from post to post in my head. hehe!

Still your mijn favorite (and only dutchy)

Ugh! Dutchy, I forgot to tell you that tomorrow morning I've got to take Dex to the vet to get his furry snowballs fixed. (I am so dreading it) when I got home right now and looked at him I feel horrible! He has to fast from tonight to tomorrow for his surgery. And this cat can drink a river! I can't even stand not giving him water!

/me goes play cat nurse...

I'd expect fasting to mean no eating. No drinking would be a bit odd. Cats usually don't drink that much though (they're desert animals in origin).

Alas, poor latent offspring of Dexter, we hardly knew ye.

Nope, no drinking or eating as of 9:00 p.m. last night and of course this gremlin got into some water under the Christmas tree that Sammy got me. This cat is not a desert animal he is from the North Pole. Well, I will see what the vet says this morning now that he got some water...

(I've no clue how you deal with three cats this one is driving me crazy)

All is can say is that two of 'em are rascals, and one is particularly naughty. Half the groceries I get these days are catfood. My old tomcat on the other hand is not feeling well, so he's playing recluse.

I remember your tomcat (from your shaky camera pics) you better keep a close eye on him, he might need an antibiotic or something? One is more then enough!

The trouble with cats (or pets in general) is that you don't know if they're seriously ill until they have one foot in the grave already. The tomcat does not want anyone around him right now, so I'm not going to stress him out more with vet trips (he and his late sister hate trips) unless he shows signals. We're close to the threshold though.

That's your decision. Though I don't know anything about cats I do know one thing in general, anything living requires water and food (water being most important) so once Mr. Tom stops drinking and eating whether he likes trips to the vet or not you should take him or you will be taking him for a trip to the pet graveyard.

What I do is pick him up out of where he's hiding, then drop him next to his food and wait until he eats it. He still eats his food, so that's good.

And look what we have in the other thread. Spammersss...

/me sees no spammers? (I suppose you got your broom already)

As for Mr. Tom you may need to just change his diet to make him feel better. Or depending on when his sister died it could just be depression? Do pets get that?

Cat depression is a thing, yeah. He has his off days every now and then, but those usually don't last this long. This is more an off week.

Ah well, at least he's eating, still using the litter box and still responsive.

That don't sound too good dutchy (and I think you already know what you have to do) I kept putting off taking my cat to the vet when he was sick with that bleeding issue, hoping it would just go away (plus I didn't want the vet bill) finally, when I gave in and took him I ended up having to crush antibiotics into his food both morning and night for 20 days! Because I was being stubborn. There is something wrong with him, give yourself some peace of mind and get him checked. (I bet he needs an antibiotic or a change in his diet or "something")

Actually, this has happened before, some months ago. I took him to the vet and he said there's something going on, but his readings are okay. And then he gave him a magic shot just in case and I had a happy cat again.

But you don't want to rely on such magic, so for now I'll stick to observing. He's not bleeding or throwing up or anything. Just hiding and being scared of everything.

hehe! (such magic?) well, I'm certain you know more than I do about cats so you will do the right thing. I didn't know and waited way too long (still the outcome was good, no more bleeding)

I wonder what could be the problem, maybe the other two cats are ganging up on him when you're not around.

One of the things about owning a cat that I'm finding completely disturbing is that every single time I take a shower if I don't remember to close the shower door after I'm done when I go back into the bathroom I find him in the shower licking the inside of the tub. Totally disgusting! Is he addicted to soap!? I just threw him out of the bathroom again, he does this all the time and I cannot for the life of me remember to close the door to the bathroom when I'm done. Does your cats do this? Is this a cat thing? I don't understand it and I'm worried the soap will make him sick again. (and I'm sick of visiting the vet!)

Cats are crazy. But they're not stupid. If the soap would be toxic, li'l Dex would not drink it. My crazy cats like to drink from a dirty dish on my balcony, which is filled with rainwater and has all kinds of algea thingies going on.

I hope you're right, and balcony rain water seems harmless but soap? At any rate my cat has a clean mouth which is better cuz he wakes me up at 2:00 in the morning licking my face. I also thought that cats were suppose to be afraid of water but mine apparently loves it.

Anyways, me sends Mr. Tom strong healing vibes...

For creatures that groom their fur all day long, cats sure do have smelly breath. That's probably why Li'l Dex uses that soap.

Dex still has kitty breath but his tongue is like sandpaper. He's got no nose so I get waken up at 2:00 every morning with his flat face smashed to mine trying to lick me with his sandpaper tongue, purring and hugging me with his two furry paws. (totally gross) but, I Love him!

Good night mijn dutchy...

I always suspect cats do that to see if we're still alive or if they can start eating us.

Your cats may eat you but my cat is a soapetarian so I'm safe.

I'm suddenly reminded of this "bath soap" thing that was a thing over on your end a few years ago.

I'm almost afraid to ask but, whatchu you talkin bout Willis?

The correct word would be "bath salt". It's what your old neighbours are tripping on.

Bath salt? I'm still not sure what you mean dutchy? At any rate, I caught him in the shower this morning yet again all wet and licking the soap. (crazy cat)

/me comes to wish mijn dutchy a Merry Christmas eve (and I see you're stuck at work as well?) I'll be getting home from work at 7:00 tonight and then have to cook all night long since I've got my whole family coming over tomorrow. (should be challenging)

So everyone seems to be doing Christmas dinners the day before. My Christmas dinner will be on the day itself. And then we'll finally be freed of those god awful tunes.

As for your bathroom licker: first hit on google for me.

Bloody link parser seems to have gone belly up due to (unannounced) server changes some months ago and is probably what has been eating your posts (and mine just now).

Every year I say this is the last time I'm doing the Christmas dinner for my family (and then I feel bad and do it yet again) so much work on top of work! I must be insane or something. But, Gino came from Oregon to visit and everyone wants to see him since he's been gone a year.

As for your link getting tossed underground now at least I know it's not something personal that the board has against me!

We need a Tek Christmas theme.

Correction: no, we don't. Then I'd also have to make an Easter theme. And a New Year's theme.

Oh boy, jussss try to think out of that box you live in for once. You could simply dress up the Tek Bunny & Skull logo with a Christmas hat for Christmas and then take the logo off the site or whatever. For Easter welllll, he is a bunny right? Use some imagination!

Foods all in the oven cooking and fridge ready and now comes the real challenge to try to make myself look all bright eyed and busy tailed for everyone when I've not slept in two days! (which won't be easy at my age!)

Have a goed Christmas mijn dutchy

/me tosses you a hug...

/me steals the food

Sheer madness

/me hands you the bones that are left...

Now I do have some folk in the family that like to gnaw the marrow from bones, I myself stick to just the meat. No drumsticks for me.

I've got a few too that gnaw at bones for the marrow. (gross)

I'm just relieved it's all over with (for the moment)

Except for the bit where they left you with the dishes and the mess.

No kidding, you got that right. I was worried about my cat being traumatized from all the craziness so I put his litter box and food upstairs expecting him to run and stay upstairs. I kid you not that everyone formed a circle around him and my cat was spinning and break dancing the entire time he was entertaining everyone of every age. Total freak.

What is even stranger is that when I went to the lady's house to who was a breader of these exotics I went to pick up his brother, who is a dark chocolate seal point (white with chocolate boots and tips and eyes etc) but when I got to her house and took one look at Dexter when he came downstairs it was love at first sight and I had to beg her to let me buy him because she wanted to keep him (he was not for sale)

Mine is a cream point so he is as you seen in the pic white with kinda orangie/beige seal points and boots (though you most likely could not see much from the pic)

Some cats are better with people than others. I've got one shelter cat and two stray cats, so they all avoid people like the plague unless it's feeding time.

/me goes look up this "seal point" thing...

Dex stayed by my side greeting and partying with everyone the whole time. He was a better host than me!

Speaking of hosts, check out the guest we're hosting in part two of this thread. I have a funeral to attend in a bit (and ofcourse it's raining cats and dogs right now), so I'll clean it up later.

To the reader, it's obvious that this is spam. For a computer it is not. I can think of some filters to intercept this, but I wonder how many fake positives it would generate. Plus I don't want to make filtering too language specific.

Dutchy, all those words you typed and the only word I see is "funeral"

/me sends you comfort vibes that saturate and surround you. (depending on how my healing vibes worked out for Mr. Tom you may either welcome or run from my vibes) hehe

I've long known that people die. Except me ofcourse. It's a sad thing, but all part of life.

When my Uncle died a few years back, my mom and sister had to drag me to his funeral kicking and fighting. I'm not into going to them (I'd avoid attending my own if I could)

One should not be forced to attend anything. However, I do think it's the right thing to do to show someone proper respect. Even thouhh said person won't be seeing it. This whole funerary thing is more about the "survivors" than itis about who passed away.

This service, by the way, was heavily Christian, with Jesus this and Jesus that and "oh, what would we do without your guidance". And there I was, the heathen, straight in front of the rev.

Exactly, hate being forced to please everyone! they've already passed into the spirit world so there is no need to attend to "show" respect since they have left their vehicle and now can see your heart/spirit (so they know "exactly" how you feel) no need to go stare at their empty car.

Anyways, that must have been totally awkward for you listening to that Rev who was probably boring and annoying to you. (What a job they have)

Religion = Names (or rather labels) to make people think they know or understand the truth. The fact is, faith should not be given a name or whatever.

I never really looked up the definition of Heathen?

hea⋅then /[link]

noun

a person who does not acknowledge your god

Interesting (when you look up words) hehe. Everyone likes to label my religion and if you had to mine would be closest to Christian but I don't think it's good to label religions and be placed into that category or box. I don't even think God can be put into words. All I know is I have faith he exists and when I die, I'll find out for sure. (and I'm hoping he don't send me to Hell) hehe!

/me stokes up the furnace in anticipation

Okay, I'm starting to get fed up with this broken filter.

When you look up words, though, always search for the etymology (I'll help you on this one: the origin of the word). The description you found paints to broad of a brush. Originally it simply denotes someone who is not Christian.

In a derogatory fashion even. Heath = uncultured land, so a savage.

So you're a savage? (I already knew that cuz you eat meat)

Anyways, God is not something you can teach, either you feel him or you don't. I felt God's presence before I was old enough to figure out what to call it. (Maybe 5-6 yrs old)

Gino mentioned to me the other day he is Agnostic (I've not even looked up the proper definition or spelling of that word so I hoped I spelled it right?)

What is surprising to me is that he taking up a major in Physics so he is basically very educated and studying the cosmos and distant galaxies or whatever, and he cannot see God right there in his face. hehe

Happy new year! (now we get to write 2015 instead of 2016 for 6 months)

Gino will be leaving back to Oregon today, I thank God that Gino cannot see my spirit cuz it will be crying and in pain today! I hate it dutchy that he is leaving but I'm so happy and excited for the path he is on in his life.

And there went my post dutchy, oh well, gotta get ready for this day...

Cheer up. You've got Li'l Dex to fill that empty nest.

Well, I handled it pretty good (but I could see he was not handling it too good) I'll be fine, there is always Netflix (but can't find anything decent tonight for some reason)

Goedenacht you Heathen...

So many channels, so little of interest.

Or perhaps it's because there's so many stuff that it is hard to choose. Whereas in the ye olden days there was one channel and you'd watch whatever it broadcasted.

For me, I think the issue is too many programs and nothing of quality that catches my interest. I can't seem to get into just anything if it don't pull me in. There's a ton of garbage programs...

Well, Dex just got his two week check up since being fixed and all is well (cept he lost his mojo) I've been meaning to ask, how is Mr. Tom doing over there?

Mr Tom threw a fit and peed on the floor when I tried to get him off my stack of T-shirts and bring him to his food, since Mr Tom prefers playing scarety-cat instead of puss-in-boots.

So I'm now trying a different approach. I'll just let him be. I'll bring his food to him. If he does not want to eat, fine. If the little trailer trash cat eats his food, fine.

So far this seems to be working quite well. He's a lot more visible these days, but still very far from the energetic cat he used to be.

Sounds like he is getting better but, don't you think maybe the other two cats are messing with him when you're not around? Could be why his behavior changed (he's getting bullied and ganged up on)

Mine constantly plays puss-in-boots with me but I know already he's a demon in disguise. I have a spot set up on my bathroom counter top where I've got my blow dryer and stack of various scrunchies (cloth hair bands) every single time I got to grab one to put my hair in a ponytail I cannot find one because he jumps up on my counter and grabs them and hides them from me I have to freaking my waste time hunting and searching all over my house in the closet and under the beds, downstairs under the couch to find one! Like I just noticed he did it again. (time to hide them from him now)

Cats are little demons. Watch their mouth when they yawn and their true devil face appears.

It took some time for Mr Tom to get used to the first trailer cat (the mother), but he and her got on fine in the end. Then the daughter was caught and brought in and at first the big red one was curious of this timid white creature. But she's all used to her new house now and parades likes she owns the place. The tomcat probably has no idea how to deal with such brashness, so this is going to take some months.

hehe! She parades around like she owns your place? (That's just a female thing I suppose) When my cat yawns since he has no nasal passage he looks more like a catfish or something. He turns into a different creature for a few seconds.

Right now he's got his leg all stretched out and is licking and cleaning himself. He's soooo fluffyyyyy! (I have to go get him right now!)

Li'l Dex is enjoying his peace and quiet to do some grooming.

Lil Dex does not look so cute and fluffy at 2:00 in the morning. (I need to lock my bedroom door tonight, he's a royal pain after midnight)

Poor Dex. All alone at night.

Poor Dex!? He doesn't have to be away from home 13 hours to work, he likes to sleep all day and play all night!

Well, yes, that's because cats are demons. They hunt for souls at night.

In all seriousness, depending on their age, cats have this half-an-hour-of-madness once or twice a day, usually around dawn or dusk. Although, my demons like to go crazy like that in the middle of the night. They run around like maniacs and then go back to sleep like nothing happened.

That about describes my Dex. (I know nothing about cats) I never seen myself as a cat person but I wanted a fluffy pet and dogs need to walked, because of my working hours I need something low maintenance (hence Dex) however, since I've had him he's everything but low maintenance. I even have to clean his eyes everyday because of the type of cat he is and his tear ducts etc. He is ritualistic and comes to my room shortly after 2:00 a.m. every night/morning to wake me up and he's so irresistible I start cuddling with him and then I can't fall back to sleep!

I forgot to mention that I think my cat sees dead ppl too, he's always staring at things in the air and chasing invisible things (I always think he is chasing a bug but there is nothing there) not sure what he is hallucinating on. (could just be all that soap he consumes) hehe

Right now he is attempting to run up the walls like spider man and attacking me and running around, he gets crazy when I come home...

And I don't know if it is my imagination but when he gets playful and crazy his eyes turn red? Dutchy is that even possible? (or is my cat possessed?) hehe! I'm serious they turn red, I keep thinking it must be the way the light is reflecting on his eyes but it seems to only happen when he is crazy playful.

You normally don't see the white of a cats eye. Cats (and dogs) do have a reflective layer on the back of their eyes, which means that if you stand in between a cat in the dark and a light source at the right angle, you will see the light reflected in their eyes. They will seem to be glowing.

Normal cats are low maintenance. Ofcourse if you pick a breed with deformaties because they "look cute"...

Okay, now I really want to smack you. Unfortunately, you're right but I found out about this type of cat and certain issues he has "after" I bonded with him. (so I'm tied to him 'till death do us part)

You're hooked now. You'll never want to get rid of Li'l Dex.

Nope not getting rid of him, I'm married to that cat...

What? I missed the wedding! Was there cake? Was it any good?

Yes, it was a small wedding. (so small I didn't even know it happened) now I'm washing his dishes and cleaning up after him and he doesn't even take me out!

Sounds like the real thing all right. At least you won't have to iron any shirts.

On the other hand, I wouldn't be cleaning up poop & pee for 15 years straight? Even with kids it's only for the first several months. (It's a good thing he has deformities and looks so cute)

Unless your kid had a severe handicap ofcourse. Parents like that are thrice cursed: 1) kids; 2) they will never regain their lost spare time and will always have to take care of their kids; and 3) the kids will never amount to anything.

I thought having kids was the most sacrificial thing I've ever done in my life and that they have taken me outside of myself to teach me love, patience and kindness but this cat is taking me to a new freaking level! And you having (3) "wild cats" must be a Saint or something.

Atleast with kids you get some space! This guys is wrapped around my ankle ever moment I'm at home and he seems to know my every move and is there two steps ahead of me. This morning once he "made me" get out of bed he was then waiting at my contact lens case and then near my toothbrush. If I don't lock him out of the bathroom he will jump in the shower with me. I seriously do not think this is normal behavior for a cat and if so I never signed up for this!

You're the only othe creature the cat sees, so it's trying to socialise. Contrary to the myth, cats are very much not solitary creatures (just solitary hunters).

When my cat died, the tomcat would roam the house, meowing, looking for his sister. He would cling to me from the second I got in.

Now he has two new sisters and he's going like "What are these creatures? What do they want from me?". But at least he's not searching for his real sister anymore.

I actually thought cats were solitary creatures (that stayed hidden until they come up to you for a 2 second pet & cuddle) I didn't know they were so clingy, I like my space so this is really going to take time for me. I can no longer wear black (which is my whole wardrobe) thanks to his white fur and there is nothing I cannot do that does not involve pulling him either off of me or pushing him out of my way. This might be a love/hate relationship. I can't imagine getting rid of him (because I do love him) but this is going to take me some adjusting for sures.

Sorry, to be bending your ear off about this cat stuff, I just don't know about cats, and I suppose I probably should have read a book first before getting him (but you already know how me and books get along)

I know nothing about cats other than having experience with them. I've always had cats and dogs around. These are cats #7, #9 and #10 for me, I think. No dogs for the past decade.

You can forget about keeping your cloths hair free. I'm always covered in them. You can brush the cat every now and then to get the loose hairs out (and cats like that). But that's a drop in the ocean.

I think with that many you are an expert. As for the hair, I'm going crazy and you must not need to even put a coat on in the morning!

You can't fight it. You can only accep it. Hairs everywhere.

I suppose so. And I will have to change my wardrobe colors from black to white and learn to be more patient with him bexauseat this point I cannot part from his fluffy behind.

Sorry, my nails and cell phone keyboard are not compatible.

/me hands Doreen the scissors to trim those nails

My nails are fine it's these microscopic and flat keyboards on phones that need revising.

Next up: finger guards you can slide across your fingertips (like they used to use whem sewing back in the days).

Voice typing would be more ideal, though, I doubt it would be appropriate to be at work and someone hearing:

/me is listening to Wu Tang - Shake Tha Booty

Which reminds me I need to create a 2016 listening to thread this weekend (or sometime before 2017)

I'd say you'd have to be very disciplined and the software highly trained on your voice and pronounciation for voice typing to work.

Better yet "thought" typing? (but if it had auto correction that could cause serious problems for some)

The mind wanders. You'd spent half the day correcting the output.

True, better to have the nails wandering once in a while...

Okay, so now the board don't let us create new threads? Oh well,

/me goes back to the World of Warcraft it's more stable these days (then this board!) hehe

It all falls (or fails) under the same filter.

Sort of like Russian Roulette I suppose (though the odds for posting vid links are better in the outside lobby message box)

There once was a messageboard that had a dinosaur named Romh as its mascot. Disappearing posts were blamed on him (or her?). I suspect the dino moved here.

Then Romh is to blame for my disappearing new I'm listening to (2016) thread! Actually, I've been jumping into WOW since Sammy activated my account (of which I've not played in ages because of time constrictions) and "he" apparently created a few of his own characters on a while back. (sneaky kid)

However, now that he is in college and is working (welcome transition to the adult world) he found out about true time constrictions (hence why I'm now jumping into the account so he don't *cough* waste "his" hard earned money) hehe!

Right, just to maintain his characters. Make 'em all pink and girlie girlie.

hehe! I noticed he even deleted some of mine to make more room for himself to create more characters. I've not played for so long I'm shocked to see all the new upgrades to the game. (pretty good changes)

Course in one single day I can surpass ever level character he's been working on to level up.

/me goes jump back into Dungeons listening to:

Yung Joc - It's Goin' Down

(which "severely clashes" with the enchanting sounds all around in WOW)

You need a lowrider, blasting ghetto tunes, to cruise around in WoW.

Actually, there are silly looking rides in WOW however, I do enough of that in real life so when I do get to play I always choose my mounts to be crazy beast or animals etc.

Dutchy, sorry to bother you again but what does a hair ball look like? I gave Dex a bath yesterday and brushed him for 30 minutes! When I was done I had enough fur in pile that looked bigger than him! And there was still hair falling out all over the place and he kept licking himself off. Anyways, this morning when I got up I noticed a rug flipped over that I though Sammy must have kicked up by accident and when I kicked the edge back flat I seen this weird thing that I thought Dex pooped but it was not that it was (I don't even know) but I almost vomited cleaning it up! He never has gone on to the bathroom on the carpet before so I'm thinking is that what a hair ball looks like!? So disgusting! I was thinking they were just a ball of fur they cough up all tidy and neat NOT that mess I seen. OMG it was horrible.

I'm still trying to think how in the world Dex got the throw carpet folded over it trying to hide that hideous mess of whatever it was.

He probably tried to bury it. Cats do that, since they tend to be proper tidy. Hairballs look like sausages made of wet hair. They can have quite a nauseating smell.

If he's throwing up, he probably needs to be combed to rid of the loose hairs. If he does so after being combed, it's probably a one time thing.

Yuk, yup, that was exactly what it looked like dutchy (which makes one wonder, why in the world they call it a "hair ball" since it looked nothing like a ball) wellll, now I know what a hair ball looks like (and I pray I never have to clean one up again!) totally gross!

If they start throwing up hairballs, it means it's brushing time. Over here they start shedding when winter is over. I have not brushed my trailer trash cats yet, so that should be interesting once spring hits.

What's interesting to me is that I've been told cats hate water/baths but mine is obsessed with water so all I have to do is leave the shower door open and I can kill two birds with one stone.

The one thing that is driving me crazy about him is hides my contact lens case from me and now my makeup which is causing me to be late to work in the morning since I'm having to search the house to find his hiding places!

Get him some toy mice to play with so he won't go after all your small cases.

My mom being a cat person like you thought the same thing so she went out a bought for me the favorite toy that her cats have played with forever (it's a soft mouse that has a small motor and when it gets swatted it squeaks and runs around. When she brought it over, she was the only one excited about it, my cat looked at her as if she was totally crazy and the mouse has been sitting there collecting dust. Plus I have bought numerous toys but he's not into toys.

Bottom line is I'm now having to hide in either my drawer or small boxes anything he notices that I use on a daily basis. I cannot leave one single thing on my counter top like I used to do. Toothbrush, contact lens cases all my lipsticks or eyeshadows ANYTHING!

My trailer trash cats got some rabbit sized mice. These are basically kids plushies from Ikea (not assembly needed), but these two are predators, so they're very much into catching them. After seeing them "play" with these things, I wouldn't be surprised if these two had caught a lamb or two during their stray days.

The tomcat doesn't give a rat's behind about them though.

In other news, I've added some debug code to the filter, so I can identify the exact filter that's triggered when a post vanishes into nothingness. It won't solve the problem, but it will help identifying a possible cause.

Next step: get a post to get eaten.

I would post a vid and help you there but I'm not actually listening to anything at the moment. But I suppose I could find something decent for you?

Okay there you go, it just went underground.

The good news: it's not the filter.

The bad news: the post still vanished, so it's something else. There are some other checks in place, so I'll have to search elsewhere.

Isn't there a way to simply write an exclusion into the script? Such as, based off of the "your name" field? If either your name or mine appears in that field it will not filter the post? So we could be excluded from the spam filter? Hard to explain what I'm thinking and most likely this type of scripting is not doable here on this board.

That will only work until the spammers figure out your name is the magic key. I don't like to tie it through specific terms.

No, it's either that messages are being posted too fast or that some of parsing goes haywire, leaving only empty messages, which both get skipped.

Well, if there is anything that you think I might be able to help you with dutchy, let me know.

Just continue posting like you normally do and tell me when something gets eaten so I can investigate.

You could start by investigating why the Lobby shout box functions for vid links and the message board does not. (though the links posted from YouTube are exact) I know you said the filter is the same but something right there seems strange.

I think I found one gremlin. Namely me filtering the wrong field on the board. Let me see if I can post a link now...

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: Yellow Claw ft. Ayden - Till it hurts [link]

What!? No Burzum? (thank God) and I figured it was something simple dutchy.

/me kicks you for taking so long to fix it!

I had set up a no-links filter on the name field. Or so I thought. Turns out I had it hooked up to the message field. So no wonder posts with links got stripped.

Also, Yellow Claw is the cat's payamas (at times).

Believe it or not I actually have their "Shotgun" in my library. Probably from you turning me on to them some time ago because they certainly don't get air time on this side of the ocean...

Most in my library have already fallen off the map, such as this:

[link]

Fallen off the map, dead, or in jail, I reckon.

I only pop in for a quick check and I already see three spammers that got through. Grrr... Trouble is, there's nothing about their post that is particularly spammy, other than that what they say has nothing to do with what is discussed and there's a random link at the end.

Makes for an interesting puzzle.

And even more interesting is that they are not in this thread? Track them and I'll send a few pit bulls over to their house.

Yeah, it's strange. They always seem to pick older threads. It's almost as if they have a list of URLs to post to or something.

But I think I've seen the pattern in their messages, so I can make a new filter (which will probably eat your posts as well).

What? You mean I won't be able to post links for you of my important cat pics and tasteful vids again!? Just because of that spammer!

It will be all peace and quiet again. I'm going to let the spammers play around for a bit (it's weekend after all) and then I'll clean up the mess.

Nobody ever told me running a message board was like being a janitor.

Quiet!? Well, then I best drop my last link before we go quiet again...

[link]

Hmm, I really cannot believe I was listening to that back in the day (well, I do still love the beats but those lyrics?) hehe

Anyways dutchy, I was looking for a something up in my closet and found my ancient Lacuna Coil CD (t'was like listening to this for the first time again!)

[link]

Mmmm yowza! Yup, that one is going with me right now in my car (tons of appts today) laterz mijn dutchy...

If I recall correctly, you weren't a fan of the lyrics back then either. /me goes clean up spammers

Such is the life with the internet, spam everywhere! Even in legit applications that you've purchased.

Yeah, but they're really out of the woods now. I know how to deal with these specific ones, I just have to cough up a filter for it. Meanwhile, there's a spammer called Doreen active in all those ancient threads all of a sudden.

Filter added. Already blocked one of those sods. Now I can return to eating my breakfast in peace and quiet. I'll clean up the topic listing later.

Oh be quiet I couldn't help it, even your old posts make me still laugh. Well, I never laugh but you make me at least grin silly...

I'd make us a new I'm listening to 2016 thread but actually our threads are more like anything goes these days? Plus right now I'm only listening to my clock ticking on the wall. (which at times less sounds is better)

I'm watching the news and am laughing at the spammers, Ms Evil Grin.

Pouring rain on this side, so I'm in for the rest of the day, going to grab my fluffy cat and turn on my fake fireplace and go veg out on the sofa for the rest of the day mijn dutchy...

I've got a fake fireplace app on my new TV. I'm still not convinced of apps on TV, although the YouTube app is nice. I did not buy a bloody TV for silly "smart" features.

You'll get used to it old man. I love my TV. As for the fireplace though, mine was apparently a real one that the owner had to seal closed because of some kind of ordinance in the town home village. I don't own, but, someday hopefully I'll get my real fireplace.

The thing with real fireplaces (my parents used to have one) is that the room with the fireplace is warm, while the rest of the house is cold. Not to mention smoke everywhere, no matter how good and clean your chimney is.

I don't care, I'll run around the rest of the house wrapped in a fluffy blanket with smoke goggles on. I want one.

While your longs are gathering ash deposits, I'm still laughing at the spammers.

/me pokes you in the eye. There are a million ways to die so dying from fireplace exposure sounds okay by me.

Not if the exhaust fumes from your daily transit traffic jam don't get you first though.

/me runs

Well, you have a point there Mr. Evil. I was commuting 3-4 hours a day to Los Angeles (though I'm only 25 miles away from there) the traffic is sooo bad I cried some mornings and prayed on my knees every night to be rescued! The very day I signed my papers that I had passed probation and secured my promotion someone spotted an opening for a lateral transfer 10 mins from my house. I went for the interview and got the job. I thought I was in Heaven then 9 months later a new Director from Germany promoted and she happen to live in Long Beach so I was moved to the Long Beach District Office when she was moved and then I had to take (3) freeways to get to work. I was back on my knees praying and crying and then I got called for another promotion (big one!) back closer to home and I went for the interview and got it! Been there since, recently, I got two new offers for yet another promotion of which for personal reasons I had to respectfully decline. (after experiencing working as a secretary for a man, It will never happen again) the woman I currently work for is wonderful however, she will retire in 3 years which means I will be back on the move again most likely.

When I think back to all the changes and experiences I've had in just the last few years dutchy it blows my mind. Lots of mental growth, God kept forcing me out of my comfort zone, but he keeps rescuing me as well so all is good I suppose.

That's quite a difference from stay-at-home Doreen. I'd say it's all for the better. Getting all those job offers means you're doing a good job. And you get the luxury of picking and choosing.

Dutchy, I'd stillll rather be at home telecommuting like before (by nature I am a hermit) but, hence my faith in God, because most candidates on the list also come with papers yet I seem to still get chosen and I've got nothing! I'm always surprised and thankful (but I know it's just miracles)

Experience trumps papers any day of the week.

I'd be lying if I said I had experience for the recent jobs I've been chosen for. I've gone to three different Departments. Public Health, Probation, and currently Public Library Headquarters (each have absolutely nothing in common at all) I started each job with no experience but left each one with experience only to move onto the next dept knowing absolutely nothing about their department and I made that clear during my interviews. Made no sense to me? At any rate I feel thankful and blessed.

This current Library Dept is the best and though I have no control over my future I hope to stay in this dept. The two recent offers of promotions were from Probation and the other was Public Health. But, like I said both offers were from male bosses, which is not gonna happen again, I had one bad experience and I'm not willing to chance it again (not for "any" amount of money)

I still find it strange how you say you have no control over your future. It always sounds like you're some kind of commodity being tossed around. In the end only you yourself are responsible for the choices you make in life.

/me ignores the "she must be one of those religious naive girls" (or better put, stupid girl?)

Anyways, dutchy, you might work for the private sector?

When you work for the County you actually are a commodity or a better more precise description is you are an "Item"

If I were to email you from my work email account you would see a .gov at the end of my email address because the County is of course part of the Government therefore, when you apply to work for the County you need to literally go down to HR and have all ten of your fingertips fingerprinted so that they can submit them to the FBI (yesss, I said FBI) for clearance, then you have to go down to the DMV and purchase your entire life's driving record to return it back to the Humane Resources Office (just in case you have any DUI's and may need to once hired, have to drive a County vehicle for a meeting that they may send you to attend in Booneytown! (or some God forsaken city) then you need to sit down behind a computer with the person who is processing you in HR and sign an affidavit that you have revealed to them "all your online social media accounts" in which at that point and time they make you sit down and sign into Facebook or Twitter so that they can read "and" print your wall or whatever they call it and place it into your personel file. This entire process is called "Live Scan" and if your clear "Live Scan" then they require your last two Performance Evaluations along with telephone numbers to call your last employers to speak directly with them, and two years of attendance records. (hence why you best not burn your bridges on your way out of any department)

Each "Department" is Budgeted by the BOS (Board of Supervisors) and is allotted a specific amount of "Items" for example: Items = (1) Dept. Head, (1) Head Assistant, (1) Administrative Assistant I or possibly II, (1) Secretary (of which could be various levels such as Sec I, Sec II Sec III or Senior Sec I, Sec II or Sec III etc. (I'm currently now at Sr. Secretary II but could've been a Sr. Sec III if I took the other two recent offers) then (1) Senior Typist Clerk, (3) Intermediate Clerks etc. etc.

You are simply an Item. Now if for example when my Boss retires in 3 years and the BOS does not fill her Item and/or they decide to no longer fund or budget our specific dept for whatever reason yesss, they can simply toss my behind back to downtown Los Angeles to go work for someone else wherever the need of the County is. I have no say so at all.

I actually should not be posting to you from my work computer because I have to sign into the internet with a specific password assigned to me for tracking purposes and could be fired for using county equipment for personal use however, I could argue that "you want to fire me for browsing the internet? When you have sexual predators and thieves sitting on higher paid items?" I don't think they would want to go there. (but I should just come chit chat with you on my lunch) At any rate, I think you get the picture?

Bottom line is you don't really have any idea how things are on this side of the ocean and I don't have any idea how things are over there. I have choices yes, but I choose not to be homeless or end up in court fighting idiots that work for the county either. The process to move is by Divine timing of things. Another words when God opens up doors out of nowhere that just happen to be at the right time and right Item and right location.

Yikes! Wellll, how in the world can I correctly explain this to you dutchy!

With walls of text, I suppose. Be glad the filter didn't eat any of that.

The upside of it is that this work seems to have improved your spelling vastly. I see comma's and periods and capitals in the right places. So you may have sold your soul to the devil, but at least you got something out of it.

Oh boy, sorry about that. hehe

And if it were all that simple about choices in life I would kick you at this moment.

/me goes run to the gym...

Now don't you go thinking that punching bag at the gym is me!

Hmm, that's a reallyyy good idea.

/me goes run back to the gym...

Let me try to post some music, as that is what this thread was about originally.

In the category "camp that will make you question my sanity and taste in music", Eddy Wally - Cherie [link] (1966). It's a terrible, terrible song, but this guy was an icon in Belgium, mainly due to the fact that he always looked at things from the bright side and had an air like he was the greatest thing ever and everyone always played along with it. I'm quite certain he aware of that. Alas, he passed away yesterday.

And it seems the board is still not at a hundred percent, because it just ate my post because of an accent d'aigu on the first e of cherie, grrr...

I already know your sanity and taste is probably as crazy as mine is (just in totally different directions) hehe

Anyways, if I am doomed to spend the rest of my life with you on this stupid board the least you can do is fix it already!!!!

Encoding glitches may have been around even before the server software shuffle threw the filter off kilter. I can recall a number of empty post going back years.

Hmm, well, I suppose I shouldn't complain since you did fix most of the issues with vid links getting eaten etc. But you could still paint the walls or something!

In due time. I have an article to publish first. Need to figure out how the (completely unfiltered) commenting was hooked up, since it's been over a decade.

I have some ideas about a makeover, but as you know, I'm ridiculously lazy.

You are more than ridiculously lazy but, hopefully you'll do it in my life span. Hopefully this will post because I'm tethering from my phone to my tablet at lunch again.

/me test Tek...

And it seems it didn't get moody on me! Now to figure out why the message box is zoomed on me. Dutchy also, if and when you do refresh Tek you need to trash all my mindless chit chat. (Probably will just do it again) but yes, please clean my mess off.

Asking someone who studied history to erase history... Tsk tsk...

Meanwhile my tomcat is suddenly peeing all over the place. He has never done that before (give or take one or two "accidents"). This is a very ill omen.

I get the feeling that Mr. Tom has never really recovered from losing his sister or that other cat that died. Is he eating normally? If not, you might be visiting the pet cemetery soon. And since I just spotted a cat hair on my lunch I might be coughing up a hairball soon...

He's eating and drinking aplenty. Vet thinks he may have kidney failure. This sudden peeing all over the place reeks (literally) of blatter problems. I'll have to monitor his behaviour. I still need to catch a urine sample, but if this keeps up, I'll have plenty of opportunities for that.

He's still quite active and responsive though. He just jumped on the couch to demand food a minute ago.

People, pets and things that are old suddenly have all kinds of problems.

He sounds fine then, maybe he's just marking his territory because of the other cats or something? And getting old is just another challenge in life that's all, it's how you look at things and deal with things that count, you better get him checked again lazy guy...

Okay and there went my post!

Your post is logged as an empty message. So for once the filter was not to blame for this.

The big red tomcat has a blatter infection of sorts. So the vet gave him antibiotics and some stuff to lower his urge to pee all the time. The tomcat won't be enjoying all those extra pills.

Poor Mr. Tom, give him some cuddles! Yup, the vets seem to give antibiotics for "everything" (good thing they simply get smashed into their food)

My post was not empty but cut and paste does not play well over here. Most the stuff I read said that cats are very prone to Urinary Infections and something called Crystals. But that stress can cause them to get sick frequently as well. Therefore I'm still thinking Mr. Tom is not happy about his new room mates...

He's not the happiest about the little white demon pussycat, but they're not fighting or hissing at each other. During an earlier examination the vets used a drain to extract some urine. It may have caused the infection (my theory).

I do hope I can move about the house now with having to check everything (like the couch or the bed) for sudden wet spots.

I can't imagine that (and hope I never have that happen) Since I brought Dex home he's not had one single accident and he was only a few weeks old. I couldn't believe she had him potty trained for me so young. Anyways dutchy I hope Mr. Tom gets better quick on those antibiotics and things get better for you.

/me sends healing vibes...

My half-wild trailer trash cats have had no training whatsoever and went to the litterbox from day one. No "accidents" ever. Cats are rather tidy creatures. That's why they're grooming their fur all the time.

No random wet spots today. Alas, my couch still reeks.

Well, while they seem to keep "themselves" clean our pads are stinky and full of hair all over the place. hehe I'm not even joking there is not one single place in my life that does not have his hair on it. You should see the black carpet in my car, you'd think he's been riding shotgun with me and I suppose it's my shoes tracking it all over the place. At any rate, I love that pain in the behind. I'm so happy to hear Mr. Tom is doing better. Those antibiotics work fast, hopefully the vet gave you a long enough prescription. Mine was on them for 7 days for another issue and when he stopped them his bleeding returned so they extended the meds for almost a month and finally he was cured.

Ten days of antibiotics and he already has a pill a day for his kidneys. He runs for the hills when he sees me get them.

As for the hairs, I can only say I'm used to them. I can't remember it not being like that, since I've always had pets (even though I'm allergic to 'em).

hehe runs for the hills? Mine is a lil piggy so I was just simply crushing them and mixing them into his food.

With three cats, hat's not a viable strategy. Putting him separate isn't either. Can't won't understand what's happening and get frustrated and what not.

No wonder Mr. Tom is running for the hills then. You're traumatizing him, so most likely the best solution would be to give him a treat immediately after so he connects the dots that after the abuse he gets a reward or something.

My cat is a freak of nature. This morning I was cleaning up the kitchen with bleach and he was meowing and rolling around on his back in the bleach! But when my Mother brought over that stupid mouse thingy she said that cats like catnip so she put the catnip all over the mouse and he took one sniff and never touched it again. He hates noisy toys. But bleach turns him on!?

Then when Gino came to visit me he brought his dog Cosmo with him. I thought my cat would run upstairs and hide, instead he greeted the dog and the dog ran upstairs. If this cat gets loose outside and pitbull comes up to him he will probably shake his hand/paw or something. Total freak!

I believe Lacuna Coil is coming out with a new album soon but I've still got to poke around for more info and their tour dates for 2016.

Check out 1:33

[link]

Hairless cats look like gremlins. Oh, and apparently cats like bleach.

There's not enough movement in that Lacuna Coil track. It's basically a pop ballad with heavier guitars. You could swap out the guitars and put in a banjo.

It would be a nice solution to the hair issue but they are wayyy too ugly. Lacuna Coil has something in the works and yes I will try it but the fact is nothing beats their Comalies CD (absolutely nothing) so I'd be surprised if they came out with something that can beat it...

In the category "customers who bought that also bought", did I ever mention Sengir [link] It's quite similar to Lacuna Coil, although the singing is a bit rough on this one. I was actually looking for a different track, but the only one I can find on YouTube has no audio.

Hmm, the sounds are good but the female singers tone is yuk. (it's got nothing, almost monotone)

It was their first album back in 2003-ish. Give 'em some room for growth.

Nah, I will wait for Lacuna Coil's new album that's coming out in May'ish (and keep my fingers crossed)

/me comes toss mijn my dutchy some candy hearts for Valentine's Day. Have a good one dutchy...

Off to a BBQ at my friends, family etc. (rather be playing World of Warcraft) if I wrap that visit up real quick I can make it back home and play!

Barbecue? Over here winter has suddenly realised it needs to get its act together or we won't be taking it serious anymore, so it's been freezing at night.

So I was just looking at the database and how commenting was rigged on articles. Judging by all the empty tables, I seem to have had all kinds of grand ideas over a decade ago, that never came to fruition. But I can't remember what they were.

And at the rate you move you probably never will...

Anyways, in the 90's over on this side dutchy and it's a Holiday weekend so no work, and since I've got a new toy: [link]

/me goes into the World of Warcraft in outrageous panoramic detail! Yikes!

I cannot even believe the game actually loads full screen on this crazy curved screen and the detail! I may never get to work tomorrow. hehe

As long as you don't browse the web full screen at that ridiculous res. Yes, people actually do that.

Nah, I bought it because the sales guy took off an additional $400 from the Holiday sale price and I couldn't refuse it. But if I keep buying stuff I will surely die before I can afford to retire someday. I'm already invested for the next 20 years. (I'll be using it for gaming and Netflix) It's insane for gaming.

Wait. Hold up. Who are you and what have you done with Doreen?

The old Doreen was planning to end up under a bridge somewhere.

My spending habits unfortunately will most definitely keep me working for at least the next 20 years. (unless I remember to buy a lottery ticket and win!)

How is Mr. Tom doing? Are you still force feeding him antibiotics or is he okay now?

He still doesn't like it and he's learnt to fake swallowing the pills, so it's great fun. According to my mother, antibiotics taste horrible, so she's not surprised. Three days to go. He doing fine otherwise though. But key thing with antibiotics is too always finish the complete set or you get resistent bacteria.

Well, come to think of it they are sneaky! hehe

Good. Then if he is still around then he will pull through.

This would be where I plug some new music. Were it not for the fact that I haven't been hearing much new music lately. Or at all for that matter.

I used to have the TV set to a music channel when I was at home surfing the web, but those seem to gone the way of the dodo. Perhaps I should use the YouTube app thing on my new TV and let it randomly play stuff...

Same here, life is getting in the way of my music listening however, on my way driving to work and driving home I'm normally blazing my tunes (to keep myself awake) something I listen to since my ears love to play in the slums and party: [link]

/me runs off to the gym...

Yes, that sounds like your tunes alright.

I've set my TV to play some trap and it's now strolling from weird mix to weirder mix. Most of it unfortunately not being up to Yellow Claw level.

Some Claw for mijn dutchy:

[link]

A classic from over hear with a good shot of L.A. for you. hehe

[link]

/me goes dance with the laundry...

Krokobil! Dare I explain what it is all about?

And that tune of yours really sounds like a tune of yours for sure. It's that WAR thing, thirty years later.

Thazzz because there is real and then there is imitation...

I'm clueless what they are singing about in that Claw tune but I like it (therefore, it is most likely like most of my other booty tunes)

[link]

Goedenacht dutchy...

One more decent classic one for you to send you into dreamland over there. [link]

(I never get sick of that one when I hear it)

Dutchy, before I forget, look what I came across while at the mall: [link] [link] When I went to take a closer look at the shirt I seen at Nordstrom was $85.00 with a tiny lil familiar bunny, they even have one with the ear bitten into like yours.

Do an image search for a company called "Psycho Bunny"

Hmm, interesting apparently in "2005" he happened to sketch this image on a napkin. hehe

Inspired by the 17th-century non-conformist maritime marauders and secret societies like the infamous Skull & Bones, Godley sketched a logo on a napkin during a meeting with a friend, an English weaver. His adventurous and aspirational vision replaced the traditional human skull with a rabbit’s head, and an icon was born. The standard was set for what the Psycho Bunny brand would come to represent: classic style, redefined.

When you wear the Psycho Bunny logo, you’re wearing the distinguished wit and unrivaled style of its founders. When people ask you what it means, tell them what wearing Psycho Bunny’s unmatched quality means, and how it’s inspired you to search for the exceedingly unique in your own life.

We've been robbed!

Do note though that that is basically a human skull with two big teeth and hears. More hare ears than rabbit ears, I'd say. Whereas my bunny, which is years older, tried to look the part.

Plus, I prefer my skull and crossbones with the bones behind the skull.

I see the obvious differences however, when I poked around for a minute I spotted in his earlier sketches even your lil piece of the ear missing. But like I said there is real and then there is imitation.

/me goes drag myself to the gym (I'm totally lazy this morning)

I need to update it one of these days, but that's very low on the priority list (with #1 being publishing that article).

Well, get to publishing then. Dutchy, I "tried" to figure out how long I've been talking to you (but I literally became dizzy & faint) hehe

Umm, do you realize how long we've been talking but not talking? It's insane to even try to mentally process it.

Anyways, if you do actually ever publish it I miss your sketches. Add some sketches to it you lazy bunny.

Sketches won't be happening. But the article should be up one of these days.

One of these days will probably be tomorrow. Just looked at the commenting code and how things are hooked up to the database. I need to add a column so I can indicate if an article is open to comments. Right now I just have all commenting code, err, commented out to disable things.

No dutchy, It's niet zo goed when I stop and think about things. I don't want you to hassle with that. "It's ridiculous" Just drag it into the recycle bin (I "promise" I don't mind, so please don't think that I'm playing around) I'm not sure why I even bothered giving you more work then you need. I will however be upset at you if you post it. I'm sorry about that dutchy.

Sudden stage fright? Should I refrain from posting it?

No, it's definitely not stage fright, I'm not sure what it is? (I think it's just hormones) and yes, drag that into the recycle bin.

More like archive it next to other shelved articles.

/me goes look up some news to post

Great, so you're apparently a hoarder too? Just throw it away.

Yeah, but history! Creative effort has gone into this. Can't just delete it like it has never existed. Besides, now I've got stuff to blackmail you with. I demand your high level WoW equipment or the article gets it!

OMG, you are crazy dutchy. (I don't care what you do with that silly article, it's up to you) I called off sick today to mope around which means I probably should sometime today go take my character to the auction house and go buy her some decent armor the last time I played I got slaughtered and spent most my gaming time (what little I get) running back from the cemetery to reclaim my dead body over and over again.

So basically what you're saying is that WoW is gangland. Don't they raise the max level every time an expansion comes out? If so how do they prevent high level players preying on low levels ones? What's in it for the high level players anyway, except being sociopaths.

Yes they raise the player levels with each new release of the expansion packs etc. and PVP (Player vs Player) is of course on certain realms (of which I don't play on) I play against the game but what happens is there are spans of time that I don't play the game (cuz of work etc) and then when I logon to play the whole game has changed and I have to learn it all over again (new spells, buffs, realms etc etc) I end up wandering off into a new zone and get slaughtered by creatures that I'm not familiar with.

Had to run off for training this morning anyways to answer your question regarding what's in it for the higher level players well, they go to the realms that have battle grounds and pvp they can get unique armor there that the lower level players drool over. I only go into those realms when my brother comes into town and or now when my son Gino wants to hook up with me in Game world and group.

I find it more enjoyable playing solo because when you group you have to deal with everyone's nonsense just the same in real life. Their weirdness still comes through in the character they are playing.

My brother for example is the same exact nutcase in the game as he is in real life and I want to kill him (but the difference is I can actually kill him in the game if I choose to do so) hehe

Fratricide. Be wary of big angry monsters. It's usually a sign you shouldn't be going in that particular direction yet.

Fratricide?

/me wonders just how big your dictionary is...

Take a random noun, add -cide to it and you've got yourself a new word. Nothing new about "fratricide" ofcourse.

Back when I was still studying History, we used this book: [link] for General History (broad overview of things from the Middle Ages to the 1960s). The author had the habit of using a new obscure word every paragraph. Many trips to the dictionary were made.

Yikes! (I got bored just reading the description) Dutchy, I actually think it's more of a culture thing. Possibly due to the climate differences? hehe

Over there the focus is more on education over here it's more on body image and toys. But on the broader spectrum of History, body, toys it all turns to dust so who cares...

Anyways, one thing remains constant until the last breath: [link]

Course with that said I will be listening to this today: [link]

Mmmm mmmm mmmm!

You also need that Laffy Taffy video in the suggestions list to clear out that worship drivel.

And there you go with that drivel word (I had to go look that up) For me when I listen to worship tunes it's kinda like when I go to the mall and I'm smelling so many perfumes I can't smell the differences anymore so they hand you a jar full of coffee beans to sniff so that you clean out the senses in your nostrils and then you can smell again? (either that or I have one ear that is possessed by the devil and one that is saved and Holy)

Right now all I hear is a crow outside my window and I've got a gaming hangover (I've not had one of those for years)

Time to call Gaming Anonymous.

There's something worse than perfumes, like when you walk into a Chinese store and a wall of incense comes crushing down on you. That stuff is foul. I don't know why people burn it.

I think it's the video card (I can see moss in between the cobblestone, I've never seen that in the game before) It's amazing on this computer. As for perfumes 99 percent all smell so synthetic therefore I need to sniff a thousand before I can find the one that is just light, fresh and fruity enough (I'm too picky to even stand myself)

Incense is always nauseating, makes me dizzy and nauseated "every" single time I smell it.

I've completely wasted my entire weekend off from work doing nothing productive (and it felt good!) hehe

Hmmm, looks thick and foggy outside this morning what to dooo?

Gym or Game, gym or game?

Jog. Then game.

Traveling along the highway back from my sister's place it struck me just how many twigs and branches the leafless trees (because Winter) along the road had. The level of detail. The insane resolution needed to capture that.

Conclusion is that I'm using computers and tech a fair bit too often instead of being out there. However, it's also freaking cold outside.

You couldn't capture that if you tried anyways. Remember what I said about real and imitation.

Anyways, I kinda thought maybe you were off sick from work or someone died again. (I'm glad you were visiting your sister)

I ended up running to the gym, I'm a bit of a creature of habit and though I know that skin and bones aren't too attractive I always feel better to sweat out anxiety or stress each day to keep (or try to keep centered if that makes any sense) hehe

I can only get there 3 days a week now that I'm working 4 long days so I can't skip it.

Goedenacht dutchy...

I upgraded my phone to the Galaxy S7 Edge and guess what they are giving me for free? A Virtual Reality headset and one year of Netflix for free? Can you imagine between us having to work chained behind our computers all day for work and then as addicting Netflix is and now VR is basically being handed to us on a silver platter? We will never see real things again!

Count me out though. Those images of people in VR headsets are like blind moles popping their head out of the sand and something I've previously seen in nasty science fiction stories.

Mine will be going to Sammy to play around with, they are huge and horrible looking

Secretly tape it and send the video to his friends.

Sammy and his friends are all nerdy geeks they will probably all take turns with it. He's got one friend that looks like Gollum or something. (strange bunch)

Goedenacht evil guy...

Careful with that Gollum guy. If he sees your rings he'll go all "My preciousss... Give it to us" on you.

Nah, no rings. Sammy seems to choose his friends differently (obviously not by their looks) but judging by the looks of his friends (though Sammy is a looker) I'm not too sure what he will be bringing me home as his soul mate someday. (should be interesting)

Or when he'll say "my girlfriend is pregnant" and you'll go "nooo, I'm too young to be a grandma".

I do however have a feeling when that day comes and you become a grampa that's something you will day Mr. I'm gonna be 16 forever. hehe

Day = say

/me slaps this auto prediction keyboard

I am forever young. My mental development has stopped at sixteen. Given the adagium "mind over body" the mind is trying its best to enforce that onto the seemingly inevitable physical decay.

I have a nephew who's in his twenties, so if he hooks up with someone and starts breeding in the coming few years, I'll be a grampa (technically "great uncle") way before I'm up for that.

So silly, I actually assumed in all the years I've been chatting with you that behind the scene you've probably been married and divorced once or twice and have kids.

While in reality neither will happen. Marriage is (or should be) a completely unnecessary thing. While kids would impede on my already scarce time. Three cats and household chores is enough of that already.

Wellll, you seemed to have not seen this in the Dictionary or Wiki: (copy n paste)

Common-law marriage, also known as sui juris marriage, informal marriage, or marriage by habit and repute, in which the couple, usually a man and woman, lives together for a period of time where a couple is legally considered married, without that couple having formally registered their relationship on as a civil or religious marriage.

Umm, we've been living on this message board together for so long we are married. Which means you actually have (4) cats "and" kids. What is it our 20 year anniversary? Which means China or Platinum?

Hmmm, during the course of our marriage we even moved several time to various message boards, skinz.org where we had our honeymoon making up silly words and then skinnables.org etc. etc. (I didn't like wincustomize too much not enough privacy and the walls were a bit too sterile (not homey enough or something over there) hehe

/me goes grab some tunes and run to the gym before I piss you off. I actually did try to divorce you once but that didn't turn out too good for me (cuz I missed you everytime I listened to music)

And we aren't even discussing music...

The sui juris thing exists because some laws are written with marriage in mind, in cases like inheritance or who governs the kids and other kinds of responsibilities. It all dates back to previous eras of backwardness.

Hmmm, you have a point there about the discussing music. Now I'm really getting nervous. I'd tell you to be quiet you are giving me a headache! (but I can't even hear you) and I'd tell you to go away! (but you are already far away) hehe

I have to confess that I never seen the sui juris thing before I only heard of the "Common Law" thing over here in California but it figures you would already know it!

/me gets moving in another day...

/me dons historians cap

Or maybe I should not put on that cap. I was going to say something about how there are different ways of codifying law in different countries. Except that the proper details elude me at this point. Let's just leave it at that there's the letter of the law (what is written down) versus the spirit of the law (how it was intended) versus common sense (what needs to get codified and what not).

Dutchy, I awoke to pouring rain and thunder and now I come to read history? I am going to fall back asleep and I've got a million things to get done today!

Anyways, there would be no need for written laws if everyone simply had (3) things. Love, respect and common sense.

And live under a rock.

As long as there are people within shouting range of each other there will be strife.

Well seeee you seem to have common sense!

Or observational skills.

I like to gaze out of the window at what happens in the street at work. It's a single lane one-way street with lots of restaurants, so there's a lot of trucks unloading. Enter the well-to-do in their big cars, who for some reason opt to go through this street and then find themselves stuck behind a truck.

Watching the temperature rise is great fun.

You are an evil bunny! You would never believe me if I told you the things my eyes were able to behold from my office window when I worked downtown Los Angeles. Where I currently work when I look out my window I see no people at all only beautiful quiet trees that sometimes sway. (I love it!)

One day (when I was working at that particular office downtown LA) one of the other secretaries asked me out to lunch so I decided to be a dare devil and went. When we were crossing the street there was a man in front of us screaming and waving his arms all over and she said to me "Don't make eye contact with him, don't make eye contact with him" but it all happened so fast and I was curious what was he screaming about. I made eye contact with him and he seemed to not see me or something and she was right behind me, he chased her with a box cutter (that was what he was waving in the air in his hands) we both ran back into the building. hehe

I somehow doubt it was much "hehe" at the time.

Unless it was an acquaintance of yours.

No not any acquaintance of mine and no not funny at all cept that I thought it was strange that she told me not to make eye contact and I did and she did not but he chased her not me. Anyways, point is downtown LA is full of mental cases just walking the streets like zombies.

What a contrast to the place I go now to have my lunch where I'm under a tree that has blossoms already budding away from all the madness that resides in Los Angeles. I rec'd a call for a promotional interview downtown LA again yesterday and I had to guard my mouth and respectfully decline.

Wake up sleepy head, I've got some good news I want to share with mijn dutchy. I got another call today for a promotion, (apparently the list I'm on is still active because I'm still getting a few calls) and the position is in the ISD Dept., a tad bit closer to home and also has the 4/40 work schedule and my boss is female. I sent in all the requested items for their review and now I have to wait and see if I get the interview. I'd ask you to say a little prayer for me but you might combust into flames or something so I'll just say wish me luck! I'm excited for this one!

Hurray! They're fighting to hire you, so you get to pick and choose. I say that calls for cake.

They are not fighting for me they are fighting for their next slave. hehe

Anyways, the list was supposed to have expired Nov 18th of last year but for some reason they must have extended it? At any rate who cares! My current boss is not too happy about the news but she is a really nice person (one that does actually have love, respect and common sense) so she is happy for me too.

I sent my paperwork yesterday before I left work for them to review and this morning they already have me scheduled for my interview on Monday at 9:00am.

I'm nervous!

I'm nervous!

I'm nervous!

/me grabs that cake for lunch...

Oi, where's my piece then?

9:00 AM interviews are murder.

/me tosses you the whole cake. Can't eat cake right now I don't wanna be dizzy, cloudy and nauseated, I've got to be clean, shiny and sharp! I'm going to the mall today for a Super Spinach Quinoa Salad (with green apples & spiced pecans) and have them toss a few chunks on top of Blackened Salmon!

Mmm mmm mmm!

Actually dutchy over here the County Facilities open at 6:00a.m. I start where I currently work at 7:00a.m so I'm normally up between 4:30 or 5:00 (or whatever time Dex comes purring on my face)

What kind of heathen hours are that? I'm supposed to be at work at nine. In practice it's nine thirty. I find that's way too early for me already.

Oh, don't forget to brush your teeth. And don't eat garlic the day before.

If you think that is bad, I just found out that we need to put our clocks forward one hour on Sunday night! I think you already know how I feel about them messing with the time (I just barely adjusted to the last change a few days ago)

Don't be silly, I'm Italian of course I'm gonna eat garlic. And I'm kidding I wouldn't do that the day before. I've got everything in check on the outside dutchy but all kidding aside though I come talk (type) a lot to "you" I'm freaking out on the inside. Sitting down before the interview panel is stressful. (this part I'm "not" excited about)

No need to stress out, it's only your future that's at stake.

But in all seriousness, it's not that they drew your name from a hat filled with papers with names. If they invited you, they know your credentials. They just want to see how you are in person.

Wear a pink tracksuit, golden chains and chew gum non-stop.

First off, what time is it? I'm totally confused again, the clock on my computer, my walls and my head are all telling me different times again. (I hate this!)

Secondly, I never know whether to like you or hate you! and Thirdly, at this point I seriously don't care if I get this job or not all I want to do is get tomorrow over with cuz it's stressing me out.

/me gets myself to the gym...

Wake up! You'll be late for your interview.

I'm so lost with this stupid time change you have no idea. I just got into my office and my clocks here are all telling me different times and I cannot believe it's almost 11:30! (this is crazy!)

Anywaysss, I did it! I did it! I went, the interview went well. Felt like a good fit. (at least for "me" it felt like it) now I have to sit and wait, once they clear the list I should know by Friday or Monday. "IF" they choose me, I will accept this one dutchy.

All I know is I'm soooo happy it's over with. It'll take me a week to decompress from that. hehe

Hurray! So, where's my cake then?

There will be cake if I get it...

Speaking of cake, how about this Gloria Gaynor cover by Cake: [link]

I won't be clicking on that link because:

#1. It's Gloria Gaynor

#2. I'm at work

#3. It's Gloria Gaynor

It's a cover. There's no Gloria Gaynor in there anywhere.

Besides, you should be singing "I will survive" at work. Or at least whistle it while walking down the hallways.

What is it with you and these freaky tunes? Are you serious? that tune is horrible! And I'm not sure I will survive, the suspense is killing me waiting, I really want this job. I will be working as a higher level secretary for a woman who oversees 47 software devs that develop software for the County. I want this one dutchy...

I got nervous, maybe I did not talk enough to stress to them how much I want this one, maybe they felt since I'm coming from the Library that I'm not plug n play enough for that since it's in a different department and they'd have to train me. I hate waiting, I would have rather then just said yes or no on the spot.

Don't doubt yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

I do doubt myself (I'm only human) and if you dare to drop a link to that freaky I'm only human tune I will kick you! I rec'd an email from the lady this morning inquiring clarification on one of my references which means I'm actually in the race. I still don't know the outcome yet.

Two songs come too mind: 1) The Editors "Are we human (or are we dancers)", and 2) The Human League "Human". Fortunately for you I don't like either songs.

Instead, some Matthew Wilder to boost that confidence: [link] (someone explain to me why there are six people in that band, while I only hear four instruments max).

OMG dutchy you have the worsest taste in music! hehe

I'm ok if I don't get it, competition over here in Los Angeles County is totally fierce (you are probably unaware since you live in woodenshoeland) the fact that I put myself out there and apparently I've been chosen to look closer at (which means I'm in the race now) "if" they don't select me I'm totally fine. Maybeee I will be alilll disappointed to be honest (I actually think I wanted this one) but the last couple of promotions I got were more than I ever expected and the current lady I work for is wonderful. Before she even finishes telling me what she needs I've got it done (there is great chemistry between us) This other women looks like a challenge and these days I'd rather be calm and comfortable not stressed and having to jump through hoops all day long. The reason I think I may not get it is yesterday she contacted me a couple times in the morning asking me questions about my references. "ALL" my references are outstanding (Honesty speaks bounds) However, one particular male Director I worked for in the Probation Dept. had diff ideas of what a secretaries duties are. I ran away from him the day after I signed my papers to secure my item (a position opened up for me that day by the grace of God, I'm serious!) and I "think" he might throw a monkey wrench into this for me. If so, then whatever, it just was not meant to be for me and I'm happy and ok where I am.

And from that wall of text, we can go in various directions. From the "putting yourself out there" we can go to the completely inappropriate: Kelis - Milkshake [link] (and I wouldn't be surprised if the Neptunes had something to do with this track).

Dutchy, I put walls of text in an attempt to "try" to explain things better (but I think I make it worse?) hehe

Putting myself out there = I tried. (I ain't putting anything else out for the creeps looking for free milkshakes) I think our cultures are way too different for me to even try to explain anything to you?

Lets put it this way, bottom line: I miss working in the shadows behind the scene telecommuting. This other way of having to work now is too much crap and totally stressful! Takes me wayyyyy out of my comfort zone. There! That sums it up.

Andddd, if this job don't happen I'm done with putting myself out there! (too stressful and not worth it at all) you cannot put a price tag on peace of mind, which I think I now understand better from all this mess. hehe

Andddd, that was most definitely the best tune that Kelis made!

Peace of mind is why I have a four day work week. Baby Jesus did not create us to toil our days away. /me looks at household chores...

As for Ms Kelis, let's not forget this appearance: Ol' Dirty Bastard - (Baby I) Got your money [link]

I agree 100% with you on that.

How in the world do you find these crazy videos dutchy? hehe

Which of course always seems to help me suddenly spot some outstanding old classics of my own: [link]

/me does a quick dance over here with you and then get busy doing those horrible household chores you mentioned up above...

Dutchy, I still have three Teknidermy T's in my closet.

(1) Long sleeve - Large

(1) Short sleeve - Large

(1) Short sleeve - XXL

I was just thinking if you can come up with an idea of who you want to donate them to or hold a contest here at some point and time? I don't know, they are just sitting in my closet. Just let me know if you can think of something okay? Of course they need to pay the shipping. (I'm not that nice)

Problem is they are all absolutely huge.

Ohhhh dutchyyyyy! [link]

I got it! They get the executive approval on 4-7-16 and then we move forward for livescan etc but they chose me!

Some git took a bite out of my cake!

Congratulations. As a present, you can have three Tek-shirts. They're a bit big, but you can sleep in them or something.

Oh boy, what is a git? I'll toss them back in the closet tonight for another 10 yrs. Or until they turn to dust. (I cannot throw them away)

Git = Dirty rat, I thought you were speaking Dutch. Turns out you're speaking Crazy. hehe

Now, I'm thinking what in the world did I do!? I have to actually go do that job!? And stop rolling your eyes, I know I will survive.

I'm not saying anything, but you know it's never too late to (re)visit Ms Gaynor.

If that stupid song jumps in my head right now I'm going to... (actually nothing cuz I cannot reach you to smack the Hell out of you) but I hope that tune haunts your dreams tonight!

# First I was afraid

# I was petrified

Err, I forgot the rest of the lyrics.

#Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. (that's about it for me)

Dutchyyyy!!!! I hate you!

/me goes back to work with Gloria... (stupid song has a curse on it)

# Now I've spent so many nights

# Feeling sorry for myself

# But I feel strong

# And I know how to get along

What's worse though is that I have had Milli Vanilli stuck in my head all week. No, I'm not going to look it up. My YouTube history is a big mess already.

Milli Vanilli? Mijn dutchy is getting crazier by the moment! As bad as I'd like to go copy n paste some of their lyrics to get stuck in your head, I cannot even bring myself to search those guys out.

And I literally woke this morning with that tune in my head before I even fully awoke and recognnized what theme it was!

# Whatever you do

# Don't put the blame on you

I think it's because there's this commercial which features the one remaining member singing with a caption "Fab's real voice". Not a particular effective advertisement, because I cannot recall the product, but it did stir up some memories.

I think I have a mental block with them (or built in protection mechanism) because I don't remember their tunes other then the controversy surrounding them for not really singing their tunes or something like that?

/me drops one of the tunes I'm grabbing to take to the gym this morning. Mmm mmm mmmmm!

[link]

Seems like there is nothing good lately just the same old tunes but since I've got him collecting dust so I need to blow that dust off and grab some of his tunes to take...

Uh ohhhhh!!!!! [link] (forgot about all these good ones)

/me tosses all Nelly tunes out of the window Uncle Phil tossing Jazz style

In hindsight, that (and Carlton) was the only good bit about The Fresh Prince.

OMG! Again? hehe

Nevermind...

I call divine intervention on this one. Whatever you posted, it never made it to server. Log shows empty posts. And the log logs raw input, before any filter touches things.

That being said, it's odd how these empty messages get through, as that should not be happening.

Dutchy, you waste too much time trying to find a reason for everything. (sometimes things have no logical explanation)

For example, you won't believe me when I tell you that stupid tune was haunting me like crazy, when I turned on the TV it was everywhere! Sound bites and short vids of her singing only the lyrics you knew. hehe

Apparently, the Library of Congress declared Gloria Gaynors "I will Survive" tune a few days ago (anyways, you'd never have believed me)

So windy today and perfect that all the blossoms are blowing off the trees and looks like snow flakes all over.

And causing hay fever everywhere... I sure won't survive that.

So dramatic. Since when has a little bit of wind and blossoms ever killed anyone? (that's what allergy meds are for anyways!)

Don't make me sic Elton John on you. Wait, too late: [link]

No way am I going to click on that link here in the office (you will ruin my image!) Elton John are you for real!?

My ears! My ears! I'm in agony!

Now I'm going to have to hurt you...

/me goes scoop up these blossoms all around me and toss them in this thread!

It was probably a stroke of nostalgia. Old age does that to you. Though I must say that, for instance, this mix of Tiny Dancer [link] is quite nice.

hehe! OMG Dutchy, wellll, though getting older makes us wiser apparently it does absolutely nothing to improve our taste in music!

The whole being wiser thing is a combination of weariness and life experience. If you're old and tired and have seen things, you know better than to do stupid things and it takes too much energy anyway.

In us, I meant in general. I personally think when I was younger I thought I knew it all but as I am actually getting older now I realize I know more and more "less" with each passing year. But, my trust or faith seems to grow more and more each year (because of my personal experiences, I never can figure out logically how things seem to work themselves out for me)

I know you are more of a logical thinker so you will just assume I have on a pair of rose colored glasses or something but for the last five years or so I have been jumping off of cliffs and I having hit the ground "yet" (but it's been scary)

Hit with by a windmill more likely. No, I think you've been doing great. Moving up in the world and all that.

This wisdom talk reminds me of this song: Bathory - Man of Iron [link] (yeah, yeah, the guy was a terrible singer).

You've been reading me and my typing for years (gotta be miracles) hehe

I was contacted by my new dept this week I had to look up every other word in the dictionary. (I will be processed over by the end of this month or first week of May. I'm both nervous and excited!)

Anyways, me goes check out that Bathory tune of which I "think" that one was my most favorite on the CD...

Ack! Nope, that one sucks. This one was the one mijn invisible dutchy turned me on to and I fell in love with: [link]

But, I won't be able to get my sweat on at the gym with Bathory I need something much more delicate and tasteful:

[link]

I'm going to let them play Bond of Blood [link] at my (long distant) funeral to annoy the hell out of everyone. I hope the center has decent speakers, because the bass is essential to the song. Then again, I haven't told people this yet, so when it happens they will probably pick some random piece of drivel they find fitting.

I'm not sure if Petey Pablo would be appropriate.

Dutchy, do you realize that tune is 25 years old now? Unreal, and yes that one was goed!!! Just tell your family to contact me I know your playlist for the funeral. hehe

I already told my kids no funeral, just cremation and toss me into the ocean. (I've eaten enough fish in my lifetime so it'll be payback time for the fishes when I die)

My grandma used to say "stick a sausage in it and let the dogs drag me away". It was a cremation in the end with the ashes being spread across the waves. Although I held the dispenser a bit too high, so I suspect it ended up in everyone's hair.

hehe or everyone inhaled her! I personally only find my true peace and refuge by the ocean so that is where I want my ashes. Anyways, you have yet another birthday coming at you old man, so happy (16th) birthday to mijn dutchy...

Yes, I remember because mine is around turkey time and yours is around bunny time.

Party time is tomorrow. I have the week off to do absolutely nothing.

Or so I wish. There's always chores. And the chores you put off until you have a week off. Right now I need to get groceries, but after a week of sunshine, it's suddenly pouring.

Pouring rain, no work all week!? Lets trade places!

And I'm going out for dinner and have to pay for everyone. But that was my own idea. Don't want to show up for dinner soaking wet.

You're paying!? Good thing they haven't implemented time travel yet! Have a goed dinner birthday boy...

It's my party, so I treat my guests.

/memo to self: don't take meatballs as a starter and then more meatballs on the main coarse. I think I can skip dinner the next few days while digesting this.

Hence why I only eat meat 1-2 times a month... I rec'd a call yesterday from my new department to report this morning downtown L.A. for Live Scan (which I just returned from) procedure normally takes all of 5 mins but of course took an hour for me since the person doing my fingerprints said "Where are your fingerprints?" apparently, I hardly have any? Hopefully the process goes fast and I should be working in my new job in 2-3 weeks!

You don't have fingerprints? Aliens snatched you and replaced you with a robot? Will we ever see the real Doreen again?

Silly, I must just be deformed. hehe

Strange though because when I came to this current Library Dept. the guy told me that he thought his machine was broken and he could not figure it out and told me before I left that they may have to call me back again for figerprints (but obviously they never did) and yesterday the other dept said that has never happened before and she thought her machine was broken. Anyways, I'm just hoping everything goes through quickly, I gave them a copy of my ID's etc. I must just be deformed. hehe

And "you" get back to work your birthday is over!!!

What in the world! I had to find out what it could possibly be since this keeps happening to me with two diff depts. now (I thought maybe dehydration or something) But, there is something called Adermatoglyphia maybe I have it? Can you imagine if I were born a criminal! I'd have it made! hehe

No, you're definitely a robot. Remember way back when you were the only one who could operate that report generating machine? That's because that machine was actually one of your relatives.

No, actually, I had a special love affair with that machine. A lil birdie told me that after I left that machine never spoke to another single living human being again, therefore they had to shut the whole program down. Could also be the reason I don't have fingerprints come to think of it (they worked my fingers to the bones)

Dutchy, they released a sneak peek of Lacuna Coil's new album yesterday. I think they turned totally demented or something! I know you are still enjoying national crae_week but you need to check it out because it might be up your alley. Not mine though (it sent me running under the bed) freaky, I think the band got possessed by the devil! hehe

Check out The House of Shame (I think that was the name of the one tune off the album they released yesterday as a teaser)

Here it is dutchy I found it: [link]

What are they thinking!?

It's not that different from their usual sound, it it not?

Reminds me of something I heared over a decade ago, but I can't remember what. Thought Machine Head at first, but that's not it.

It's wayyyy different from their usual sound. Apparently they sold they soul to the devil in order to sell more albums.

Yesterday I went to get my taxes done and I got completely slaughtered! Then whilst waiting for the paperwork to sign my life away they played on the overhead speaker that cursed song I will survive (double freaking punishment!)

I think there are tracks on the single album of theirs that sound a bit like it.

The tax mafia wants me to file my taxes digitally. I say "sod it" and let the guy who does my parents' tax do it. This digitilisation of government operations is a bad thing. You need that paper trails in case things "vanish".

Tax Mafia? hehe

You got that right! They wiped out my entire life savings (and stole my fantasy of renting by the beach) with my upcoming promotion it will only get worse I suppose unless, I marry a house but I'm not committing myself to another thing in this world dead or alive.

Dutchy, you can simply keep a printed copy if they file your taxes electronically. As a matter of fact they always print out a copy by default so it's really no different than doing it the paper route and by snail mail etc.

What is this "printer" thing you speak of?

The less accounts I have to keep track off, the better.

Besides not being able to avoid death and taxes I'm pretty sure electronic filing is another one to be added to the list in the near future...

I eagerly await the first mass breach of hacked tax data.

Not I know what hackers would want with any of that.

You do realize that whether or not you file electronically your tax info is being submitted into basically the same database right? Mailing it don't change a single thing (other than processing time)

You remind me of my mother who won't use her credit card online no matter how bad she wants to purchase something. She always ask me if she can use mine!

Your mother is absolutely right.

/me has no credit card

Dutchy, dutchy, dutchyyy. I will take my chances with my one lil credit card just as I do when I cross the street each day. hehe

I bet you have a ton of grey hair?

It's official. I got my release date for my promotion, I start on April 25th!

I'm nervous!

I'm nervous!

I'm nervous!

My cats give me grey hairs. Crazy little demons.

Congrats on the new job. Don't be nervous, you've done this a dozen times by now.

You know that I'm playing around with you because if you do have grey hairs it's only because you are a wise old man which is why I come looking for you to snuggle on you. (you always ground me or something)

I've no idea how you can handle three cats (specially when I have to clean his litter box) this one lil demon I have is more than I can handle. Now he discovered how to open up all the cabinets in my house so when I come home it looks like someone has ransacked my house and robbed me or something! Right now he is trying to get me to go play hide and seek with him.

And to think I got him because I no longer need to change diapers so I suppose I felt lonely and now I will be cleaning a litter box for the rest of his life! Plus, I cannot even claim him as a dependent on my income tax! I don't know why I do the things I do! (but I love him so I'm stuck)

/me goes burn some of this nervous energy off at the gym...

And right now he tossed my contact lens case on the floor to piss me off. I'm telling you this cat is a possessed demon for reals!

Cat needs some toys. Nothing fancy. Mine like to play with clay marbles (the kind you put in pots with plants to keep the water from evaporating). I get to pick those up from all over the place to put 'em back in the pots on a daily basis.

/listen

* craeonics is listening to: the neighbour singing along to NSync...

My cat has toys but prefers to interact with me. Because I do realize he needs another cat (but me is not committing to another living thing ever again)

Cats don't always get along with each other anyway.

Right now one is using my lap as a bed, so I'm stuck on the couch.

so cute dutchy, it's amazing to me too that this ball of fur can control me the way he does. (he owns me completely)

There's a germ in their litter that can cause a disease called toxoplasmosis. It makes you susceptible to the cat's mental commands.

I'm only half lying here.

Don't even remind me of that because my cat is void a nose bridge therefore when I wake up in the mornings his face is smushed flat against my face licking and purring (which means I most likely already have that disease)

That buzzing you hear is Li'l Dex giving you mental commands to bring food.

Actually, I meow to him and he meows back and we go back and forth like that. I've no clue what I'm saying to him but he sure behaves as if I'm speaking fluent cat lingo. hehe

Or he thinks you've gone ga ga.

Which would not be too far from the truth... /me runs

Oh be quiet you! Just for that I'm gonna punish you by spamming your inbox...

Plus I have to take my meds today to calm my nerves! But I will be nice and share the lower dose with you! [link]

I think I'll pass on those pills. I suspect they cause hallucinations and cause people to mail cat pics.

Don't make me send you a pic of my pet fish too! I was just too lazy to upload it and post a link here. (sorry about that you grump old evil guy!) hehe

Back to music, since this is supposedly a music thread.

The TV's been all Prince since his death yesterday. I've heard quite a few of his songs over the years, but I can't say there's one I'd listen to voluntarily. His music feels so sticky. Very much not my thing.

That's cuz you're a grumpy old man! And it's raining purple over here too, of which I don't much care for his music or the color purple either.

/me goes jump into this day and get busy...

What's weird is how certain media (like CNN) went crazy over it, like it's the end of the world. I usually have a news station on in the background, but one story dominating the broadcast the entire day is not how things should be.

Meanwhile, I still can't think of one of his songs I like.

I think you described him well as too sticky (but I'd add screaky, screechy & frilly) for my taste but if I had to choose a tune I could almost tolerate it would be:

[link]

I'm thinking he took something he thought was harmless (but caused an arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) as we age we shouldn't mess with things and just ride out the pain, mood swings and cravings (I think anyways) but most will run for a quick fix whether it be from the corner seller "or" the corner drug store...

Talk about a complete butcher (they should be arrested) : [link]

Anyways, here is "decent" cleaner version of it: [link]

Maybe he was frequenting Michael Jackson's doctor.

I wonder how close that specific tune is to things like W.A.R.

Meanwhile JuJube is giving me weird recommendations: [link] (Mongolian stuff).

Hmm, well though Prince was a few years older than me I was forced to listen to him on the radio but I suppose the difference would be something like this?

W.A.R. = [link] and Prince = [link]

hehe! I suppose that JuJube has got you right?

Yikes! Tomorrow I start my new job! (Curse these nerves that God bestowed upon us mortals)

/me listens to music that transcends!

La la laaaaa!

[link]

/me sweeps out the worship tunes

My ears are clogged for some reason, so I can't hear 'em anyway. Good luck on your first day at the new job. Try not to get into fight with your co-workers.

Thank you dutchy. I can't even believe it, I'm actually sitting on Executive Row. (so no boxing allowed) hehe

My boss oversees the group of Devs that are responsible for creating software applications for all the various departments in Los Angeles County (which means I will be overseeing the devs on her behalf) My nerves were a bit fried today, so me goes grab Mr. purring dex and hit the bed early...

Hope you feel better dutchy (you might have a ear infection brewing)

Good for you. Smack those devs around!

In sadder news, the big red tomcat has taken his final trip to the vet today. Pets bring great comfort, but their lives are so much shorter than ours.

Unless you buy a turtle, one lived up to 152 years old! (but they're not as cute and cuddly)

But, on a serious note, I'm so sorry to hear about Mr. Tom, you just stuck a pin in my heart too just hearing the news dutchy, I assume you had to put him to sleep? So hopefully he went out on a cloud and didn't suffer. I'm sorry dutchy...

He went quite peacefully. No anger, no fuss.

The trailer trash cats don't seem to miss him, which is just typical of cats. Then again, he was in hiding most of the time the last few weeks.

I'm glad he went peacefully, and he fulfilled his purpose here on this planet of bringing you some joy and happiness (which knowing you might be a hard one to please, I'm sure he had a very tuff job!) but I feel bad for you dutchy I was just looking at Dex and I can't imagine losing him, though he is a kitten (under a year still) I know that time does fly by quickly.

/me sends you a tight hug...

Just checking in on you dutchy. Sorry, currently being a bit overwhelmed learning but wanted to see if you are okay?

I've been coughing for three days straight. These things apparently affect me physically. The big tomcat will be cremated and his ashes scattered across the North Sea, or so I've been told.

That's more for my peace of mind, for none of my cats have ever seen the sea, nor do they like water.

I'm the same way, if I get stressed out my body acts up on me. You either have an ear infection brewing or a head cold. If it gets worse you might need an antibiotic. If Mr. Tom didn't like water I'd have chosen another place to put his ashes? (Dexter on the other hand is a freak for water so I will keep this in mind for him when that day comes)

Anyways dutchy since I'm officially one of those crazy cat people (like you and my Mom I can relate alil better now) there is a time for grieving (and you need to) BUT as you obviously know about death, there's not much TIME so try not to stay down for too long okay... I was tripping out recently that the Queen was recently celebrating her 90th birthday and Prince suddenly dropped dead at 57 (who would have thought)

I already said this to you but time is just an illusion so stay in the moments and try to feel better quickly. Go get a new book or go ride your bike in a forest or something. I clean when I'm stressed (cuz I can't sleep) so with this new job situation my house is so clean you can eat off the floor right now. hehe

Bleach that litter box and clean up so the other cats don't get sick.

Also, one more thing, there are people you can reach out to touch to feel better and people you can't reach out to touch but, you can still feel their souls and mine is available for you dutchy you know how to contact me. Feel better soon okay.

Yikes! Sorry about that. (but you're a book worm so I just left you a book to read?) hehe

Sorry...

Dutchy, here is a band aid to put on that cut you just got: [link]

(course my ears drums are once again partying in a dark alley today) *sigh*

I think worship tunes are the cause of my condition...

This is a good exercise for my body's resistance. They've been slacking, so a bit of drilling should do them good. I'd just wish they'd be a bit faster about it. The coughing needs to go. Fast.

If it's the worship tunes, then good! That means they are doing their job. Worship tunes are suppose to purge the mess out. (hence why I listen to them to do my cleanse after I fill up on all the mess I normally listen to)

Pouring rain over here and Dexter is sitting at the window wanting to go out and play in it.

If those worship tunes were any good, they'd purge the house for you.

Let Li'l Dex go out. Watch him get wet and change his mind in thirty seconds and run back in again. And then he'll want to go out again a few minutes later.

Nope, my neighbor on the right has/had one of those lil fu fu dogs and one of our neighborhood coyotes decided to come eat it for a snack when she let it go out.

Hmmm, It's May? Wellll, me knows what I will be listening to!

/me drops off some goed stuffezzz for mijn dutchy...

[link]

Little fu fu dogs are technically big rats. Dog only starts if their height is taller than, say, a human knee.

Anyways, coyotes need food too.

I've always been attracted to lil fu fu dogs but in my past I've actually "only owned" the type of dog where I would say "Oh you wanna come look and talk to me?" I dare ya! Can't really find anything decent but basically Pitbulls (which are a adorable as pets but super fierce protectors)

Now that I've officially entered into old hagg land (I'm a late bloomer) I think it's safe to own a fu fu dog but, It seems I ended up getting a fu fu cat (my Lil Dex)

They look all sweet and innocent until someone comes up close to the owner then suddenly their fangs appear and their whole face changes. Nobody will mess with you. (not sure if this link will work on your end)

[link]

OMG! look at that face!

If I got a pitbull again Dex would probably kick his behind!

Dex is not afraid of anything, not sure if he is just super brave or just plain stupid. Gino brought his dog down for a visit recently for the Holidays and I thought his dog would scare Dex but Dex sent Gino's dog running up the stairs hiding. hehe

Pitbulls or any fighting breed are rotten to the core. If you hear stories of people getting mauled, it's rarely a labrador or a collie.

I don't live in woodenshoe land I live in Los Angeles County where you have a dog like a Pit bull for a good reason (to prevent being raped or robbed) anyways these days I reside in a safer environment therefore I don't require a Cujo dog.

I know just the song to go with that: Baha Men - Who let the dogs out [link] (technically not about canines, as one of those presidential candidates over there knew damn well when he said this: [link]).

I've not heard that tune in ages. (and of course I'm clueless of what that tune is about)

/me goes check out the lyrics...

Okay, I still don't get it? hehe

(The only thing that comes to my mind instantly is when a guy is barking at a girl like a dog) But after looking up the lyrics I don't see that?

This is age old secret Men lore that has withstood the tests of time, and apparently still does, so I shouldn't be spilling the beans.

But... "who let the dogs out" = "who let the ugly girls out".

Ahhhh, sorry dutchy, my brain is a bit exhausted (I'm in training for the next six months) by the time I get home I can't remember my own name.

Anyways, regarding the above, it's quite the opposite over here because if you hear any man barking or howling for that matter it sure ain't cuz you're ugly.

That's funny though cuz the girls (on this end anyways) we call the guys dogs because they bark and howl like a dog (with no class) when they're trying to pick up on a girl.

All I know is that the Brotherhood of Men has revoked my membership now.

I get the feeling mijn dutchy is in a club allll his own anyways. hehe

Goedenacht...

Which brings us to Mr Cent, whom I haven't heard anything from (music-wise) since he stormed onto the scene many, many years ago: [link] (well over a decade ago already).

He's around over here popping up here and there in movies etc. And he's making more than 50 cent.

I thought he recently filed for bankrupcy. Curious how you can be both bankrupt and still swimming in money Scrooge McDuck style.

Who knows how they can get away with that, he obviously is swimming in money. I understand "nothing" of this world except you can pretty much stick everything into the four categories (good, bad, ugly or beautiful that's about it)

The worship scene needs to release more than one good tune a year this is ridiculous. But I found something decent for my day...

[link]

/me hides the worship tunes

It's Saturday and those little demons woke me up at eight.

Eight? My alarm clock starts at 4:30 no matter what day of the week it is.

He jumps on the bed at 4:30 purring and I feel two furry paws wrap around my neck and then a sand paper tongue licking my entire face, then, he begins harmonizing various tones and sounds which translate into "Please, get up!"

I can see who wears the pants in that relationship. If you ignore those cries for attention for a bit Li'l Dex should stop and will wait until you wake. It works on my cats. My cat always have a filled bowl of "dry food", so it's not like they don't have anything to eat.

I always have dry food in Dexter's plate as well. I think the reason he is so clingy is because he does not have another cat to hang with like yours. (but there is no way I will sign up for taking care of another cat) and ignoring him is impossible since he does not take no for an answer so I actually have to get up and put him out of my room and lock my door (but then I cannot fall back asleep when I do that anyways)

And Li'l Dex goes "no, no, don't lock me up".

I do hope he can at least look out of the window at the birds.

My two trailer trash cats like to sit on the balcony and gaze at the cats below (I don't know why people let their cats roam about like that).

Unfortunately, having extraordinary looks comes with a lot of set backs so if I let Dexter go outside he would either become a cupcake for one of our local Coyotes "or" be stolen in 5 seconds flat. (He comes from a line of show cats and is worth a few thousand dollars) when I bring him to the vet I have to rip him out of everyone's arms to get him back because he attracts crowds and it's not fun at all. But, of course he sits on the windows and stares at the lizards and birds running around outside.

He's an Exotic so he's a lot of work for me such as expenses with grooming, eyes, breathing, digestion etc just various health issues and he is still just a kitten! (which means it will probably get worse) I honestly did not know what I was getting myself into but I already fell in love with him so I cannot get rid of him though I get offers all the time...

You're surrounded by crazies.

In other news, my new TV is a smart TV, so it comes with a YouTube app. So I can use it as a poor man's jukebox. So yesterday, I searched for a Immortal song and let the app decide for itself what to play next. After a while it ended up with Bathory. And since Bathory released quiet a lot, it gets stuck on Bathory.

So I picked another Immortal song and let it run for a bit. Lo and behold, again it converged on Bathory.

I can only conclude that YouTube thinks I should listen to Bathory whether I want to or not.

Well, you can't go wrong with Bathory because it's unique from all the usual common styles of music (and constant "repeats" that normally play on the radio)

Or you can totally confuse YouTube by doing what I do, play worship tunes one minute then play ghetto music? (My YouTube never knows what's safe to recommend for me)

You're going to end up with MC Hammer: [link]

I'm not clicking on that link here. hehe

(but I am pretty sure I can guess what it is silly)

/me slaps some of that Hell out of you! I've not heard that one in a while... when I listen to worship tunes it must be void of rap and when I listen to rap it must be void of worship (those two don't mix, sorta like oil and vinegar)

I hear there's quite a long Christian Hip Hop out there. I avoid it like the plague, but it exists. Music is best characterised by the sound than the lyrical contents anyway.

On a Tek related note, I'm still pondering over the best way to set up a system that is both flexible, easy to maintain and fast to write. A system aimed at providing an overview of the various skinnable apps out there, with categorisation, releases and what not.

Because that is the direction I see Tek heading.

Noted. I'm sorry dutchy, I wish I could help you here but I've got a lot going on with learning this new job at the moment. When it calms down in a few months I will try to help you but you'll need to toss me some ideas for what you want okay?

Okay, because things can be read or interpreted wrong trying to communicate on a board, let me write a book in a futile attempt to explain myself better to mijn dutchy...

1. I totally get it that you deal with developing websites for a living therefore, the last thing you probably wish to do when you come out to play is work on a website?

2. I obviously don't have the same skill set as you, but, if you need me to help with something (since we seem to be the last two still standing) toss me some ideas that you feel I could handle and help you with okay?

3. I feel Tek is our playground when it becomes work it's done. If you still have that article I tried to put together and don't feel it's too silly and want to post it go ahead as "filler" until we can do something maybe more substantial for Tek?

Things will calm back down for me in a few months and I will try harder to come up with something to do for Tek like you are trying to do as well.

Andddd to get back on topic (OMG! you are alwayssss going off topic!)

As for saying "Music is best characterised by the sound than the lyrical contents anyway" I couldn't have worded that any better...

I think you should listen to Lacuna Coils new album when it comes out later this month. I have a feeling judging by the sound you might like it. (It has that sound that sends me running under my bed) hehe

I have a dozen albums I still need to listen to (because I don't have a CD player and rip stuff to disk, but my harddrive is full). And there's half a dozen albums out that I still need to get.

When the time is right and I've code up that catalogue of skinnable software you can help by naming apps I may not be aware off.

It still has a long way to go before we are at that point though. Got to have a working system first.

Anddd you still of course need to fix that issue where this board apparently likes to eat my post periodically?

I think that's more of a connectivity issues, wherein the message never reaches the system. It could happen anywhere along the line. Perhaps there's a firewall I'm not aware of in front of Tek that eats those posts.

Or it's related to the phase of the moon.

Then I'll blame it on the moon...

Whatever you do / don't put the blame on you / blame it on the rain.

Damnit, now I've got Milli Vanilli mulling in my head again.

I only know one tune that does that to me and I don't dare even think or type the name of it...

# Girl, you know it's true

/me runs

The last time I heard any of their tunes is well over 25 years ago. Curious how those lyrics have grafted themselves into my memory.