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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
9:37 pm	>snooze Hello. No, nothing really interesting has happened to me. I am just really not into blogging much anymore. It looks like Squeaky had a snag with the posts, because I couldn't read anything before 9 July. Anyhow, yes, I'm still here. Current Mood: blah Current Music: "Stomping On Thru" - Matthew Stubbs (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
2:09 pm	I am still about. I have been busy doing other things, both off and on-line. I admit that IJ does not have the strong appeal I used to have for LiveJournal. But I am casual about most of the items my Friends have been scrawling anyway. I mention that I shall be attending Cinema Wasteland in Strongsville, OH. next weekend. I suspect you can tell I enjoy the exposition, even though I am not a keen fan of science-fiction and horror movies. If you attend, the way to try and find me is to go into the dealers' room. Either Andy Copp, Dave Kosanke, Jon Kitley, or especially 42nd Street Pete can give you the data of what I am wearing (& it will be distinctive). If you are at the Kitley's Krypt table, look inside the closed box labelled "XXX". It contains mostly gay porn. {!} Yes, I will have selected Japanese Adult Videos on hand. The persons at this Wasteland whom I want to see and hear are Christina Lindberg and Danny Steinmann. Christina was one of the most beautiful females to appear in Swedish "Soft-X" movies of the early 1970s. Yes, she was frequently nude. [But scenes of her apparantly performing a hardcore act were a body double.] Danny Steinmann, under a pseudonym, directed the amazing explicit movie "High Rise" [1973]. The movie must be available out here somewhere. There is no jolting imagery preventing a DVD re-release. The scene you must view is where our female protagonist happens upon an apartment where two other lesbians are grateful to have another female join them. The scene is choreographed completely using mirrors. Current Music: "I'm Telling You Now" - Freddie & the Dreamers (Comment on this)
Monday, December 29th, 2008
8:35 pm	F.I.F.A. Club World Cup Japan 2008 Final: Liga de Quito v. Manchester United ( Yokohama - 21 December ) Current Music: "Quiet Storm" - Smokey Robinson (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
6:55 pm	Coming around again. I have again been accredited by F.I.F.A. (yes, the international soccer hotshots), and shall be travelling to Japan; specifically, Tokyo & Yokohama; to cover its F.I.F.A. Club World Cup Japan 2008. I will be there from the 10th to the 23rd. This time, I am staying at a facility in Shibuya-ku, closest to the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line. But it is also near the Odakyu Line. I will be shopping for items on the soccer off-days, and I also anticipate experimenting with ramen restaurants and izekayas. Yes, I am sure I will finally get to Shimo-Kitazawa. I hope I will get an outlet for my soccer reportage with somebody on-line. But if everybody declines me, a story or two could wind up here on IJ. As for the teams, the bookmakers are giving prohibitive odds to Manchester United, the European champion. This is likely due that the South American champion are not from Brazil or Argentina. They are “Liga” [L.D.U. Quito] of Ecuador. North America is again represented by Pachuca F.C. of Mexico. This was the last year that CONCACAF used a direct knock-out format to select its team. The 2009 format features a group stage, and proceeds to a knock-out final. Pachuca crashed out in their first match last year versus a team from Tunisia. So, this year, F.I.F.A. restored the fifth place match. Africa is Al Ahly of Egypt. This is the third time in the four years I have covered the tournament that Al Ahly are the African team. Gamba Osaka of Japan are the Asian representative. In the two years that F.I.F.A. rejiggered the tournament to include the host nation's domestic champion, to try and increase Japanese attendance of the matches prior to the final; a Japanese team have managed to claim the ‘proper’ spot for Asia. The ‘play-in’ match will feature the Asian runner-up, Adelaide United of Australia, versus Waitakere United of New Zealand. That is the first match, occurring on Wednesday, 11 December at National Stadium in Tokyo. Al Ahly contest Pachuca on Saturday, 13 December at 13:45 hours [GMT + 9] in Tokyo. View the tournament bracket here. F.I.F.A. will move this tournament to the United Arab Emirates in 2009 & 2010. Japan will host it again in 2011 & 2012. Is there a chance I would travel to the U.A.E. to cover the 2009 tournament? Yes, but it would necessitate either Montreal IMPACT [Canada] or Puerto Rico ISLANDERS [Puerto Rico - doh], both of the second division of professional soccer in North America, winning out. Sorry; but I have the impression that the U.A.E. is far too straight-laced for my tastes. Current Mood: pensive Current Music: "When Your Life Was Low" - Lalah Hathaway & Joe Sample (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
1:06 pm	Grommed from the_terrible's IJ As somebody who enjoys inserting color into Insane Journal, and other forums' posts, here is a fascinating meme. You are lightcyan. #E0FFFF Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working. Your outlook on life is very bright. You are sunny and optimistic about life and others find it very encouraging, but remember to tone it down if you sense irritation. Take the spacefem.com HTML color quiz. Current Mood: impressed Current Music: "Ain't Nobody" - Rufus and Chaka Khan (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
2:34 am	Re-establishing contact Hello, everyone. I have managed to upgrade my computer. I now run Windows® Vista. You know that I obtained this computer at Aldi®. It was cheap. But there was one key piece of hardware it did not have: A modem. So I had to wait a while for a internal V.92 modem to arrive here. Opening up a computer case is something I try to avoid. (I am not a gamer who tinkers with overclocking his CPU.) But this was relatively simple, as long as you have the proper screwdriver. There are two slots inside the Medion® case where you can add a card. One of those will accept a modem. As you can probably view, I have managed to get back online. The first website where I opted to visit was Mozilla, in order to download Firefox v3. Perhaps at some future date, this computer will acquire a broadband connection. Just about everything I had on the old computer was left behind. Figuring out how to remove a hard drive from it and putting it in this computer is beyond my ken. The programs were all for Windows® 98. I had a lot of pictures & videos, including the full-sized ones of my avatars, but it is not worth the time and effort now. What I want to do with this computer is transfer my VHS videocassettes to DVD-Rs. (I bought Memorex® DVD-Rs made in Taiwan as the test media.) Nero v8 is included on here. I spent time at SourceForge.net looking for open source versions of a media player, compression, image manipulation, and an FTP Client. I reverted to Download Accelerator Plus, Teleport Pro, and mIRC. What may surprise you is that I downloaded Azureus - a very popular torrent reader. I have updated all the security patches from when this computer was built [12 June 2008]. I have tweaked {whoops} the display on it to custom colors. [You knew I would do that.] I also lost my netcam. There seems to be no way I can hook it up. The video card on the Medion does not have an input for its plug. It appears that Microsoft finally omitted NetMeeting from the software bundle. [It is included in Windows XP, if you know where to look, or what to type.] But the upside is that I can resume viewing netcams on free websites like JMeeting and Ashcast. Also; I had no choice on this: Flash® is installed on here and enabled. I shall reiterate. If you have cash, this Medion computer seems to be a solid value. Just remember to obtain a modem for it (even if only as a backup for when your broadband connection goes out). [I wonder if Aldi stores still have these? It was a “Special Value”].] Current Music: "Isotope" - Joe Henderson (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
3:04 pm	Moving onward ( Advancement eventually occurs. ) Current Mood: anxious Current Music: "Mean Woman Blues" - Roy Orbison (Comment on this)
Monday, September 1st, 2008
1:31 pm	Blasé Sorry, people, but I am really just not interested in InsaneJournal now. It seems that when I do logon here, nobody has responded to anything I wrote, and everything I read in my friends' IJs is depressing or enraging. I am taking a long break from here. However, this IJ shall remain online. Current Mood: morose (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
10:54 pm	Better than a meme I really do not have that much to scribe here. But I would be remiss if I did not point out some under-reported news that occurred in the U.S.A. this day. Elfwreck blogs about the thirty-five articles of impeachment brought up against the President of the United States of America. As somebody who lucidly serves as an example of why one needs to practice security and anonymity when on the Internet; note Articles XXIV & XXV. It has nearly bubbled onto the public's cognizance that Verizon has an 0c3 (a huge Internet pipeline) from its switching office to computers operated by the F.B.I. and the N.S.A. (Have you espied a Verizon print ad? At least one of the persons in the background of those ads is a tacit admission of the spying program.) Current Mood: moody Current Music: "I Ain't Drunk, I'm Just Drinking" - Albert Collins (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
2:22 am	A reminder I shall make one of my rare public appearances this weekend at Cinema Wasteland in Strongsville, OH. [near Cleveland] at the Holiday Inn. I'll be there all three days. Yes; a handful of the DVDs obtained in Tokyo will be brought along. Perhaps I'll trade some of them to the purveyors in the dealers' room. Or maybe I'll get lucky and wind up in somebody's room in which it has a DVD player. (I'm not staying at the Holiday Inn. I'm at the Motel 6 next door.) I don't know yet what I'll be wearing. If you go into the dealers' room, ask Andy Copp at the Nightcrew Video table, or Dave Kosanke at the Xploited Cinema table if he's seen Vincent. I am renting an auto. I anticipate going to a couple of stores to get beer (and a cheap bucket in which to haul around the beers). I also intend to go to the Brew Kettle brewpub (the best brewpub in the U.S.A. to the members of RateBeer.com) sometime on Saturday night. Weather for Cleveland on Saturday has a zero percent chance of an ice storm. So come on out and meet me. Judge for yourself in person whether I am being too paranoid. Current Mood: sympathetic Current Music: "The Sidewinder" - Lee Morgan (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
8:48 pm	Semi-public appearance II I will persist at some things until I accomplish what I intend to do. I am again attending Cinema Wasteland in Strongsville, OH. (suburban Cleveland). The Spring show is 4-6 April. I post this now because, if you register for it before 8 March, the three-day V.I.P. registration costs only thirty dollars. If you reside anywhere along the midwestern corridor of Megabus, its schedule is open through the show dates. Enter the Promotional Code "WIN2008" [without the quotes - with the capitals] in the indicated field on the page and you could win a free ride to Cleveland (You would pay only the 50¢ reservation fee.). Look for the Click 6 internet rate for the adjacent Motel 6 next door to the Holiday Inn for a less-expensive room rate. I will have a rental auto, so if you want to go with me to the top-rated Brew Kettle Brewpub close to the expo, you can. If you click through, you will notice it is showing some incredible movies. If you broach the subject of Fem Doms to the typical vanilla person, the iconography which he/she will express is that of the "Ilsa" movies. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: "Java" - Al Hirt (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
6:00 pm	Grommed from Sapphog's IJ: What-blogging-site-am-I-? ( The result may surprise you ) Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: "Walk Through This World With Me"-Bruce Hornsby & The Range (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 15th, 2008
6:04 pm	Saving bandwidth The scythe went through here today. If you were one of the Insane Journal users who I unfriended (because you had not yet friended me), but you would still like me to read your IJ, please respond here. (Comments are screened.) Current Mood: bitchy Current Music: "Reach Out - I'll Be There" - The Four Tops (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, January 14th, 2008
9:24 pm	Tokyo: The entire subway system. ( I open the oyster. ) Current Mood: pleased Current Music: "Put It Where You Want It" - Average White Band (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
11:53 pm	User Info page updated I have revised my User Info page to include my terse thoughts about SUP (Russia) buying out Six Apart's portion of Live Journal. Current Mood: pensive
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
12:46 am	F.I.F.A. Club World Cup Japan 2007: Final - 16 December. ( Boca Juniors (ARG) [CONMEBOL] v. A. C. Milan (ITA) [UEFA] ) Current Mood: indescribable Current Music: "Green Chri$tma$" - Stan Freberg (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
9:11 pm	I will do it again. ( Getting better at it. ) Current Mood: calm Current Music: "Musicology" - Prince (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
3:25 am	An alphanumeric meme with a lot of queries ( Grommed from the_terrible's IJ. ) Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" - Vince Guaraldi Trio (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
4:14 am	Semi-public appearance I will actually be in attendance at Cinema Wasteland in Cleveland (Strongsville), OH. this weekend. I will be fairly noticable. I will be the attendee not wearing black. heh heh heh heh But in the dealer room at the Holiday Inn, you might find me hanging around either Dave Kosanke at the Xploited Cinema table (in the rear on the left), or Andy Copp at the Nightcrew Video table (usually on the right lane, in the interior, just short of the celebrities' tables). If I am not there, ask them what Vincent looks like. Yes, I probably will have something found in Tokyo with me. I will have an automobile this time, because I intend to go get some good beers to drink there this time, and not have to sponge off some other guests. Maybe I'll even get together some people to go to a local brewpub. I bet I won't encounter an ice storm. {Edited: Dave Kosanke was not there; and I misspelled Andy Copp's name.} Current Mood: pensive Current Music: "It's All In The Game" - Tommy Edwards (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
2:47 am	A weblog service's next move ( I again peer into the future. I was spot-on the last time. ) Current Mood: peaceful Current Music: "Little Bit O' Soul" - Music Explosion (3 Comments |Comment on this)