Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod. (A Calypso from the Book of Bokonon, "Cat's Cradle" by K Vonnegut) The translated version IMHO is better :D

...this book with all my heart and soul I must say, it was better than 'The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nighttime' and there was one concept that I found quite interesting... A cat's cradle is the perfect example of the meaninglessness of everything... A cat's cradle is just X's of string between a person's fingers... Is there a cat? nope. Is there a cradle? nope. The meaninglessness of it all.

... of Mother Night broadcasts propaganda for the Nazis with the intent of passing on secret info to the Allies but the greater effect of strengthening many Nazi soldiers' commitment. The Narrator of Cat's Cradle merely researches for his book and tries to save the world from ice-nine. But I sympathized with Howard Campbell in his quest for - what? only some form of peace? whether he deserved it or...

Sight's back. Hearing's gone. Elaine copied bits and pieces of Rowan's headset tech. for me, and now I've got a headset that translates sound into emperium frequencies for me, among other things, but it's...that all the time. Eh. Vlad got beaten up pretty badly, again, so I've got Jayren, Liruna, Fury, and Matthias making sure he doesn't wander out of the inn and die again. Once was fucking bad enough

I've finally strayed from tattooing my legs and started on my arms. Here's the first, done today. and just for a better placement view, artist is Lucas from The Color Machine in Vacaville, CA. he was also kind enough to do a Frida tattoo for me so I'm currently stuck on him.

...hell will I do an analysis on everything I read so I'll pick and choose a precious few.  Ratings will be from a scale of 0-10.   Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury [8/10] Metamorphosis  - Kafka [7.5/10] Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut [7.5/10] A Clockwork Orange - Burgess [9/10] Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky [9/10] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams [9/10] Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...

...these days. Nice work on analyzing HIPPA regulations extracting rules for teleological model - directed goal network development. Then I went to Chapel Hill to see Adrian Belew play at the Cat's Cradle - arrived a little late and missed the first twenty minutes or so, but he played two long sets with a killer bassplayer and her little brother on drums, who more than one person remarked...

...comfort simple souls. An example: "Prosperity is just around the corner." Grandfalloon: A granfalloon is a proud and meaningless association of human beings.       - all fictional words from Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. (which is a rather intruiging-sounding book) some rather cool videos: the owl, by i love you but i've chosen darkness / Emanuel Ho doll face by andy huang...

Out most of the day helping out on Cat's Cradle , which opened tonight, though I really wanted to be at home dealing with my own shows, which still need casting attention that I've been behind on as I've been helping out on other peoples' things. Sent out a bulk email quickly to 17 people who had expressed interest in the shows before I left, came home after running box for the show to 11 responses...