Hey, who farted?

Ok obviously not much going on, a nice quiet Friday night.  I just finished a pretty big painting tonight so I'm kind of celebrating.  Yeah, it's not really big but 26" X 41" is a little above average for me.  I started it a couple years ago and the closet ate it for a while then I dragged it back out a few days ago and decided it needed to be finished off.  I tried to take a picture but I guess I need to do that in daylight, the flash tends to ruin it.  I'll get a better shot tomorrow outside and post it.  I just got this loaner comp to accept my printer which has the port for my camera flash card so now I can upload from my camera.  I still need my old files etc and a decent comp to set up a nice web page of all my art though.  I'm trying a bunch of different styles these days, this new painting isn't one of the new ones but it looks pretty cool.  Some day I hope to stumble across a style that works and people really go for it and I become rich enough to say "Fuck You" to the dumbasses and be able to retreat into a house in the middle of 500 acres of woods, swamps and hills with moats and machine gun nests and electrified fences and razor wire.

On a lighter, less self-centered side of the near future, the good news is that the space program might actually be something to look forward to after all...  Obama is putting a bill through that looks like it's going to pass, one that insures that we not only get at least one more shuttle flight beyond the proposed last one next February, but that we immediately begin work on the next heavy lift-off rocket to further the exploration of space, and it makes significant reference to "beyond low Earth orbit" capabilities.  That means the moon, among other things.  In my opinion we should probably already have a small outpost on the moon if for no other reason than to shut down those "we never went to the moon" people.  Anyway, it seems like a logical place to conduct the first experiments for how we're going to handle going to places like Mars and the exotic vacation planet Risa.  Here's the bill, click the link.  I found titles II and III the most interesting.

Library of Congress search
Type in  S. 3729 in the search, that brings you to the bill.  Then look at "Text of legislation" and look at the most recent item, it was up to 3 today.  After that you can read the whole bill but II and III were best as I said.  I tried to link the text page but it times out after 30 minutes.  Maybe it works anyway if you go straight to it.  Try this link first.  Try this, text of legislation bill S. 3729

Last but definitely not least, there's this...  In Zelda Twilight Princess...

What you're seeing is four bottles of purple juice, the fairy tears.  That means I got one from Jovani, and did the Cave of Ordeals three times for three more fills of the juice.  (The only way to get multiple bottles of it.)  The Cave of Ordeals gets harder each time so this is kind of something to lust after.  Who's your daddy.

Well, it took a while to get a halfway decent shot, and it still looks kinda washed out but it's close enough.  I think to get a good picture I have to have just the right light. I think clicking it gives you the full size and it might look better and more detailed there.  I don't think even full size it shows the highlights in the dolphins' eyes and a lot of other details.  Whatever, hopefully I can trade it for some money.

Dinner and a show...

Ok, I guess they're too cool for us to eat, but I imagine that any other sea creature that eats one gets a nice light show and possibly a monstrous mutation beforehand.  If I had an office to decorate and enough money so that it wouldn't put me out to spend about 20k on a wall sized aquarium, I'd fill it with these guys.  The following link is a page with several short videos showing the amazing effects that the cuttlefish are capable of.

NOVA videos of amazing cuttlefish

This would be small but acceptable, but two or three times the size would be more like it.  Also the lighting would need tweaking, as well as the addition of a a few palms on either side and maybe ferns of assorted texture.  Then a coffee table and a nice leather couch facing it, a mini fridge built into the coffee table, a couple lava lamps, blacklights, and a fine glass hookah and I'm ready for work.  Anybody wanna come work for me?  Hah!  I can tell you that there would be no need to yearn for the weekend.  Which it almost is, by the way! 

Hey Kylie, nice to see you!  How's everything?  I'm hoping the recent troubles have worked themselves out and life is getting back to something resembling normal.  You had a visor for the flourescent lights?  Sounds extreme but probably worked, I never thought of that.  I usually wear a ball cap so I'm pretty much visored at all times anyway.  I bet without it I'd be annoyed by the constant bright lights.  As for the Xmas lights, I've been doing that too since the landscape lights died, I have a couple strings of blue and green I light up on the weekends.  Normal lights suck, don't they? 

Alright, no recent news worth ranting about except that dumbass Lindsay Lohan making a mockery of drug and alcohol use, and Old Rose from Titanic died over the weekend at age 100.  I'm hoping this time she managed to die without first throwing away a zillion dollar gemstone.  The odds are pretty solid.  :D