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| Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | | 10:00 pm |
Earth Day ferret, coyote and squirrel! On Friday & Saturday, I joined the other hi-4 fursuiters: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rapidtrabbit coyoty el_wereturkey. We performed at the NYC 2008 Earth Day fair outdoors on Vanderbilt Avenue, next to Grand Central Terminal. Our photos are hereI am delighted to report that many more New Yorkers recognize me as a ferret than ever before! Only 2-3 commented on my rainbow bandana, correctly identifying me as a gay ferret, but happily no problems occured. Last week as I photographed Ike A. Ferret (my Ikea ferret for Weaseltrek) along 8th Street, several folks were stunned that he wasn't real, and many not only recognized Ike as a ferret but told me how they have/had ferrets of their own! Ferret awareness is really high! I wish we could find and share all the photos folks took with us showing their spontaneous joy. I think the funniest part was greeting a wedding procession as they returned to their apartment right by the bandstand, so I got to meet the groom! The biggest "egoboo" was when Coyote and I were dancing along to the band and they called out for folks to dance with the ferret and coyote! Yay! Real recognition! There were some promotional suiters there: - a giant walking "Zen burger"
- a person all covered in leaves
- trash cans full of trash to show proper sorting and recycling
Toyota had a large trailer display with touch-screens reminiscent of the World's Fair displays with "educational" stuff about decreasing one's pollution and carbon footprint, although their propaganda was evident in promoting their hybrid/electric cars. Their gimmick: everyone was handed a barcoded packet of Basil seeds. You had to travel around the exhibit, scan the barcode and complete several exhibits to earn points towards things like a flashlight. I didn't have enough time to do all the exhibits so I earned 350 points, enough for a tree. I received this email acknowledgment Congratulations! On behalf of Toyota, Meepy Ferret chose to have a tree planted in your honor by the National Arbor Day Foundation in a national forest near Cherokee.
Meepy Ferret attended Toyota's Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience, an interactive touring exhibit about hybrid technology and alternative fuels. While at the Experience, Meepy Ferret participated in our interactive challengesand earned enough Highway Miles to have a tree planted in your honor. | | Friday, March 28th, 2008 | | 12:29 am |
Sharper Image dehydrated water: add money to make money The Sharper Image filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to close 90 of 180 stores. But what stings me is the way they stole money from the customers by not allowing about US $75 million in gift cards from being redeemed in the stores! http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/03/06/gift.cards.worthless.ap/index.htmlThe good news: Discover card is refunding cards they issued. The stupid nooz: The Sharper Image is voluntarily honoring their gift cards if you volunteer to pay at least the face value of the card AGAIN! It's like the Bugs Bunny Cartoon with the dehydrated water "add water to make water". So let me get this straight: in order to get the $25 already in Sharper Images' pocket for my gift card, I need to spend at LEAST $25 MORE to redeem it?! Fool me once ... Here are the details: http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/cust_help/cserv_giftservices_giftcertificates.jhtmlIf you choose to redeem your card/certificate, you must purchase merchandise equal to twice the current value of the card/certificate in order to redeem it And thinking of vampires, I donated whole blood today! The needle thing is called a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CannulaA cannula (from Latin "little reed"; plural cannulae) or canula is a flexible tube which when inserted into the body is used either to withdraw fluid or insert medication. | | Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 | | 1:04 am |
Writer's Block: Stolen Goods
I still feel most frustrated when my toolbox was stolen. Not just because it was over $300 in tools that took years to find "just the right tools" but because some were from my grandfather. I eventually replaced most of the tools but not all because they're no longer available, or they're made in Pakistan instead of Germany (lower quality), etc. and few "feel right" because they're not old enough to have gained any spirit from real use. I really can't say my time was stolen from me because I'm usually the one not using my time and life force to its fullest. I can't say my innocence was stolen because there's a strange tradeoff from going from ignorance to not-as-st00p1d, and there are some rewards along the way. | | Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 | | 12:18 am |
no such bargains anymore
I'm finally sorting furry art-prints I bought at recent furcons and doing the proper fanboy thing of putting them all into plastic page protectors.
OddJob is out of business (they were a closeout store of anything and everything). Once and ONLY once they had Lion brand File-N-View Executive Presentation Folios #43024. 24 double-sided clear page-protector pockets for $1.69. I can't find them ANYWHERE! These are SIDE LOADING pockets so the papers can't slip out and it accepts 11 x 17 prints spanning 2 pages. Since each pocket is double sided (2 pockets!), it's possible to have ledger prints on every page, or just use plain letter sized paper and they don't touch even back to back! I guess it's just too good to make anymore. Gurrrrrrrrrr :" | | Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 | | 5:26 pm |
it's the shiny SILVER blingBling show! President's day is the 25th anniversary of the Rapid Transit Rabbit Show! Yay! Whee! Whoopie! RTR, Cuppy, Rupert and I were there to share the superDuper CuppyCakes! I taped together 80 Metrocards and 10 other transit tickets (such as New Jersey Transit'sOzonePass program and used superShiny stickers for the "25". I even had a new collar with superShiny silver "GP" blingBling monogram! You see, GP (pronounced JEEPY) is my character's name. "me jeep de meep ferret" is an introduction a-la Monty Python's "me doctor, you nurse" Instead of using a mp3 player, I am a meep-ferret powered m33p player! As ferret foley and mp3 player-with-kazoo, I was at a loss to think of songs for "silver anniversary" so out of desperation I used Silver Bells (learn more here). I'll have to review the tape to list all the obscure songs I played related to the topic Cuppy and RTR were covering. | | Sunday, February 10th, 2008 | | 1:45 am |
the bastards! I have a full PAID account with att.net for my email and yet they still spy on me with "targeted advertising". I expect crap like that from the "free email/internet" sites such as yahoo, netzero, AOL, but not from one I've been a full rate payer for all these years :-( The culprit: http://octoknot.com/Octoknot offers leading ISP’s, ESP’s, and Webmail / E-mail software providers a targeted, optimized advertising solution to improve advertising revenue streams for webmail traffic. Products include: Ads-in-Mail Text Lite Ads-in-Mail Text Pro Ads-in-Mail Graphic http://www.quantcast.com/octoknot.comOctoknot.com is a top 5,000 site that reaches over 420K U.S. monthly uniques.The typical visitor reads the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and banks at AmSouth. As if AT&T was not evil enough with their warrantless spying ... | | Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | | 2:46 am |
shit! shit! shit! I don't like complaining or whining but I can't let this go by silently. A major independent bookshop is out of business: http://www.coliseumbooks.com/ Saturday, January 6th 2008 was their last day of business. I was never a bookworm but it was bargain booksellers such as Coliseum Books, Strand, and those on Reade Street that got me into buying esoteric books for entertainment and learning other things. Only Strand remains. All the bookshops around the Cooper Union was gone, no more "bookshop alley". Walking around Manhattan after my Google interview was dreadful. So many shops are EMPTY. I've never seen so many vacant storefronts, even in the late 70s and 80s when NYC was bankrupt. I'm sorry, but the economy is clearly collapsing. It's "winner take all" with big-box stores pushing out all the independents that endured for so many years. Until now.
update: A friend reminded me that in the 1970s there were entire blocks of boarded-up empty stores in some areas of NYC. I'll admit I've forgotten that because there were so many other unaffected areas, such as Manhattan's 8th Street, Canal Street. I lived in Fresh Meadows, Queens, NYC from about 1965 to 1984 and there was NEVER AN EMPTY STORE in the neighborhood. So I'll have to modify my statement: I've never so many empty stores ALL OVER MANHATTAN: nearly every street or Avenue. | | Monday, January 14th, 2008 | | 11:33 pm |
low priced KangooJumps on ebay! I don't know the seller "05rhino" http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZ05rhinobut he claims to have 875 brand new pairs on box, thus the low prices (starting at $7.00 + $20 shipping). A good opportunity for fursuiters who wanna bounce like a ferret or Tigger! update I just won a pair on ebay for the opening bid, so I'll get to report about them soon. The seller's emails are rather friendly. | | Friday, November 16th, 2007 | | 8:51 pm |
upgrade-a-ferret? May I be bold enough to post my holiday wish-list here? Until I can afford a new PC, I'm upgrading my existing ones. If any of my friends have spare parts, please think of a needy ferret? I need - slot 1 CPU: 1 GHz or better
- 256, 512 meg PC133 RAM
Thanks! | | Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 | | 6:31 pm |
I just attended an amazing free concert at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden (the glass atrium). National Public Radio's show New Sounds hosted the Talbot Project (choral group) performing Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles. John Schaefer introduced the show: over a solid hour of nonstop vocals. Those performers had stamina! While it was mostly A Cappella, there were small musical bridges (solo violin) and minimalist accompaniment with bells and crotales. Even before the concert, I had a clue that the Wall Street/World Trade area was being horribly uglified when I exited the PATH station and saw a white fabric tent where there used to be a beautiful metal canopy. I walked around the area, checking places I used to work. Both 40 Broad Street and 75 Wall Street used to be office buildings with full occupancy. Now they're BOTH totally gutted and being converted to million dollar condos. Many office buildings around Wall Street are now condos. 40 Wall Street was Bank of the Manhattan Company (which merged into Chase Manhattan Bank which merged into JP Morgan Chase), now it's The Trump Building (but happily it's still all commercial, not residential). 55 Wall Street was the First National City Bank (Citibank)'s headquarters. Then it became The Regent Wall Street (a luxury hotel ). Now it's the Cipriani Club Residences. There's even a BMW showroom on Wall Street. It's clearly a playground for the rich. I cannot understand where all these rich people are coming from and how the developers think they can all make money at a time when the mortgage industry is in such crisis that it's pulling down the global economy. No, no, don't tell me, let me guess: it's only the POOR people with the interest only sub-prime mortgages that caused the problem: these RICH people have solid finances that will never collapse. Yea, sure. Many ground floors look like they were bombed: the lobby and sidewalk stores are totally gutted because the stores, delis and restaurants are all gone. There are no office workers to patronize them. This confirms my earlier feelings: there is no need to rebuild the World Trade Center. No businesses want to remain in downtown Manhattan, thus the excess of office space being converted to residences. Trading floors can now be anywhere since it's all electronic, and few want so many people in one place lest they suffer like Cantor Fitzgerald did on 9/11/2001. | | Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | | 1:23 pm |
Open House NYC is this weekend http://www.ohny.org/Open House NYC 2007 is October 6 & 7. It's the ONLY time many private places are opened to the public. A great way to learn more about the hidden history, beauty & functions of the city! | | Monday, October 1st, 2007 | | 4:56 pm |
strange dream, not Herbie but cousins I had a strange dream. I was in some mish-mash of Futureopolis, Tezuka's Metropolis and Mizayaki films. I'm arriving at some airport with a bunch of furs coming home from a furcon. We're wearing white outfits and top-hats kinda like from Clockwork Orange but without the eyeballs and icky bits. We get into something like a mining-car (seats and sides but no roof, probably like the scene from Indiana Jones) that operates on a wall-mounted track and takes us down a roller-coaster like ride to the main terminal. We have to watch our heads at the low clearances. The landscape is - a huge hill covered in pretty colored buildings with matching colors so it probably makes a peppermint-swirl when viewed from above. I've been watching Pon Poko so that's probably the influence (the concentrated housing onna hill).
- Many many huge spherical tanks covered in pipes. One was under construction and the pipes climbed up the outside by themselves, more like the robotic fire hoses from Tezuka's Metropolis than a Monty Python animation.
I chat with other furs in the moving car about the fun we had fursuiting. The Aussie fur invites me to visit Sydney to film/videotape some fursuit videos around the airport (after the last flight) so it's empty and apparently security would allow it. I try to boast of NY's many airports but had to remember that things have greatly changed from when I was a 5 year old kid running 'round and 'round in the round Marine-Air terminal at LaGuardia airport. There are apparently huge windows and/or glass ceilings along the track because I see low cloud cover and the gondolas of all the zeppelins breaking thru the clouds as they slowly hover and wait to land. Then I woke up. Sorry :-(
The MeepMobile II is here: a shiny new VW Passat Wagon. I'm sorry it's not a furry-animal car like Fox, Rabbit, Sable, Cougar, etc. I am pleased that the 2.0L 4 cyl turbo engine is strong enough that I don't feel I'm missing ANYTHING from the 3.0L v6 I had in the Sable. This is NO fipp-fipp mobile! Huh? Wazzat? Oh yea, you weren't there. While most people think "Herbie the Love Bug" when they hear of VW, I think of my Matchbox "superfast" VW Bug. For a while, Matchbox cars were competing with HotWheels with a track system (loop-the-loops, banked curves, jumps) and cars that rolled FAST. But my poor VW Bug had some axle problems so instead of rolling fast and smooth, something vibrated making it go "vippp vipppp" and slow down, thus my calling it the FippFippMobile. Considering the way many VW Bugs were slow to accelerate, the concept stuck in my mind. | | Friday, September 21st, 2007 | | 12:24 am |
| | Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | | 10:33 pm |
Wild West Woozle! Ferret was with rapidtrabbit and friends at Wild West City, NJ. I had a BLAST! The kids were responsive, affectionate and playful! The weather was ideal, the announcer had our correct names & species, the cast & crew were fun and cooperative! I didn't get on a horse (RTR did since he's experienced) but we got a stage coach ride and I got to meet the 2 real ferrets there! Happy-DOOKS-galore! The cast and crew: Ferret video of the day: Ferret Frenzy inna pile of shredded paper! | | Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | | 2:47 am |
| | Monday, September 10th, 2007 | | 3:14 pm |
the meepMobile: 1990 - 2007
ferret cries: the meepmobile (1991 Mercury Sable wagon) has died. A f**king 6 inch coolant hose burst and the engine overheated so the head gasket's damaged. It's not worth the $$$ to repair a 17 year old car. In the past year I replaced the catalytic converter (so it passed inspection!) and radiator and MOST other coolant hoses. That's what burns me up: I paid $$$ to fix MOST of the coolant system and my former mechanic didn't replace BOTH hoses, so the entire engine's damaged now.
I'd buy a new car IF IT HAD THE SAME 81 cubic foot cargo space. The new wagons are only 70, and I'm unsure I want a minivan (low gas mileage, not as safe). What's a ferret to do?
Yes, I also loved being a ferret driving a Sable (mustelid pride!) | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 5:29 pm |
going ... going ... gone
Sigh, I missed some money making opportunities. Unless someone knows what ones are "rare", I've got to toss all my AOL cds and containers. Some containers are re-usable, such as the DVD cases and tins, but most I'll discard unless someone still collects them!. I know it was silly that people were collecting and trading them but some were selling for $$ on ebay for while.
Similarly, I'll be discarding all my EISA, VLB/VESA, microchannel and token ring stuff. It's only a few boxes, but I need every inch of space possible. I was saving that stuff in case I needed to revive/resuscitate such systems, but time's up :" | | Thursday, August 30th, 2007 | | 7:07 am |
| | Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 | | 4:13 am |
bears in the big glass house throw no Rolling Stones? RoothRoo pointed out this macrophile sculptureDenver Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program announces the installation of the much anticipated public artwork by Lawrence Argent entitled I See What You Mean, a 40-foot tall, blue bear, at the Colorado Convention Center. | | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | | 10:15 pm |
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