April 18, 2004

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  Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeets Pooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  
  

   

  
  

  Hey, I know it’s been awhile, but Blogbat has been, as they say in Engrish, vely vely busy.  My time on the web has been confined to creating a web presence for a new venture with which I have joined forces. Naturally, between this and time spent at stylish outdoor cafés in Highland Park waiting on colleagues, it has been a busy ordeal. I shall not even enter into bemoaning the many trials by the pool which must be suffered on a daily basis these days. Not that things such as the matter of slain CIA spook Mike Spann and the common practices of uprisings from Mazar-e Sharif to Fallujah after the apparent subjugation of enemy combatants has ever grown dim in our rearview mirrors. In terms of this, it always continues to be of interest to me, because these events should not necessarily come as any surprise for those who are equally in tune with the schemes and natural tunings of their enemies, as they are with their own pre-drawn playbooks, even as truly well drawn as they have been.

  
  

   

  
  

  I know I promised a few weeks ago a revealing and engrossing spiel (spiel was my word exactly) on all things Bin Laden, but my timing was off and I need to wait until all or more of my ducks are in a row if you will. It is a messy kind of bird though. Kind of tangly, the whole bin Laden affair, and I have heard that I sometimes can be a bit of a bull in a china shop at times, so I’m sitting on my observations there for a bit until I know the best way with which to discuss the various complexities at play in this. I do appreciate the insights given by a Ukrainian friend recently, though. I know it is a letdown for the kind reader, as it was made more than plain to me by the ensuing spike in traffic during the period of my past few blogs thereafter followed by a just as sudden drop of the same which indicated to me there was at least some anticipation there, unrequited, if you will. My site had a lot of interest particularly after the whole Libya process where I spilled the beans about their intentions to pass nuclear technology on to other parties, rather than use it, two days before news of this hit the front pages. I really have had a love-hate relationship with such things for some time. Not the Libya thing, rather the lack of surprise to it. With a lot of things It’s a little like watching a video of mice in a maze…that you’ve seen before. I would say this is largely because people always telegraph to you what they are really all about; we just sometimes don’t want to acknowledge it. Some are loud, some are subtle, all telegraph. It’s hard-wired. I suppose that’s it in most cases.

  
  

   

  
  

  But enough for human affairs for this blog. One of the things recently which has captivated my interest has been a strange little desert bug called the Camel Spider or the proper family name, solifugae (which sounds like a bad Engrish sentence. For example, “sol-if-you-gay, you supposed go find gay lestelaunt downtown for yuh flied lice”). Not that I don’t have a life, but sometimes the weirder aspects of science really attract my attention. Sort of like the creature known as John Kerry. With an overbite to rival that of Hillary Clinton’s, the Solifugae, while neither spiders nor (dare I point this out) camels, are actually a type of crusties which scurry about at upwards of 10mph and are found lurking about at night in the middle-east as well as wandering into its place of public prominence vis-à-vis the Iraq war. But he has cousins closer to home, too. In fact, he collects bug-welfare cheques in the sands of the great state of Nevada (“great,” is of course loosely defined here. Nevada, where the motto is, “Hey, at least we aren’t California!”). But the camel spider is something different in that unlike his cousins the spider and the scorpion, the solifugae do not trade in chemical or high-tech weapons. They rather overpower their adversaries with the brute force of their huge chompers (Hint to Mr. Rumsfeld who is slowly coming around to this, I hear). The site to which I have provided a link above also has a link to some vely intelesting video of these tenacious teethers.

  
  

   

  
  

  -Blogbat

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  OKAY! So sticking to my day job: Here’s some of what went down today…

  
  

   

  
  

  1. Got a Starbuck’s Frap

  
  

  2. Let the dog out. (yes, I did it, “woof, woof woof”) 

  
  

  3. Picked up relative visiting from Florida

  
  

  4. Came Home

  
  

  5. Visited and had dinner and visited some more

  
  

  6. Let the dog out yet again (because I care…about my carpet). (yes, I did it, “woof, woof woof”) 

  
  

  7. Began this blog

  
  

  8.Here I am, wasn’t that fun?

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

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  “Give me ambiguity…or give me something else.”

  
  

  …There’s more, but whoever leaves the lights on for wayward waterbugs anymore?

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  The daily Poo

  
  

  “Look stimpy! Eeet’s Poooooo!”

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