Archive for November, 2007

Cthulhu Tentacle Mesh

In the shallow ocean, I’m lifting mussels and sea-snails from the bed. Multicolored, shiny, they swim away, extending thin pneumatocyst filled anemone strands, like little Cthulu tentacles reaching for freedom. They roll in and out of the shells, extending with great length and gracefulness, gliding around the water. “Look at that.” I point to a [...]

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Umbrella Ride on a Cranberry River

I’m floating down a murky marsh on an umbrella. Cranberries float on each side, amidst the brown stink of it. There are trees, strange trees with raspberry things, clean, green and red, just at arms reach. I pick them into the umbrella, safe from the water around us. A dam breaks and the water rushes [...]

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Police Sushi

Running from the police, I stopped at your house to rest awhile. You don’t live far away… Ordered a rainbow roll and the guy said he’d put chicken in it–chickenfish. I ended up with a funky peanut butter and jelly sandwich that had some kind of fish/meat mashup inside it.

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IsUserIsAnonymouse

I ran across some ‘interesting’ code today. As I do many days while debugging this outsourced website I’m working on, I found some tidbits that should go in the coding blunders hall of fame. The quick version is this: The site failed on something called IsDefaultProfileExists. Looking into the code, I find that it takes [...]

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