Candied Woman Ire

The Comedy Writes Itself

2006-10-07T07:41:29Z

The conclusion of an editorial Thursday in The Hill:

Hastert and Boehner need to get on the same page or Republican troubles will continue to mount.

squared spiral

2006-09-27T23:31:59Z

squared spiral
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Beached

2006-05-31T07:17:16Z

Beached (on Vimeo)
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

g_na isn't the only one who gets to see elephant seals. Jef and I were at Point Reyes last week and found these guys on a beach that's not part of the normal rookery so we managed to get pretty close. We were so close we could see they had runny noses! I could even hear the little one snoring although he stopped before I started recording. Here's the video.

Rattlesnake Wrestling

2006-05-31T07:03:58Z

Rattlesnakes
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Have I mentioned that I have a video blog? I set up Walking On Air Video as a place to put some of the video clips I generate when I'm hiking. I don't post there much but I have a couple of recent posts.

The first is this one of two rattlesnakes I found at Windy Point Open Space Preserve. They were twined around each other and it was like arm wrestling except the arms weren't attached to anything. Apparently its pretty rare to catch this behavior on video.

Go To Jail

2006-05-28T07:03:33Z

Go To Jail
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Anagram Insanity

2006-01-30T08:06:47Z

While trying to dream up a new domain name I tried mining the internet for more anagrams of my name and found these.

I rein dada cowmen
Win One Dada Crime
DewedIranian.com
dead cow inn
wine and cod
candied woman ire
weirdo maniac den
widened macaroni
wired macedonian
wino danced
non-acid dew
dead now, inc
widen romance aid
i downed american
romanian iced dew
wearied nomad, inc.
a manic owner died
men, a war icon died

Noah has a good one: "Hadron Famine". And of course Jamie's best one involves a monkey, "Jake, Simian Wiz".

Zytrolanikul Night Club

2005-12-17T19:50:04Z

Zytrolanikul Night Club
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Craft arriving from Planet Muni.

Down The Merced River

2005-08-24T00:13:10Z

Merced River
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Here's the video I made from the movie clips I took of the Merced with my new camera while I was at Yosemite a couple weeks ago. Remixable recordings are a good thing. Too bad there aren't more of them.

TIE DYE JERKY GOBACK

2005-07-22T18:47:19Z

TIE DYE JERKY GOBACK
Originally uploaded by Dawn Endico.

Big Oak Flat, California, home of the world famous Tie Dye Jerky. This is on highway 120 on the way to Yosemite. I'd like to think they sell some kind of hippie rainbow meat, but probably not.

Burning Boing Boing

2005-04-22T21:56:27Z

I just set up a new SmartCast feed for boingboing. Feedburner munges boingboing's normal RSS feed and adds enclosures to items which link to audio or video. Add this feed to a media aware RSS reader like ANT or iPodder for boingboing recommended stuff to magically appear on your computer in a tivolike fashion.

White you're at it, check out Rocketboom and Walking On Air Video. Rocketboom is a kind of Daily Show for bloggers and Walking On Air is a blog I set up as a home for my elephant seal video. I've posted a couple so far and will add more some day.

Boingboing: RSS Feed

Rocketboom: RSS Feed

Walking On Air Video: RSS Feed

Being an action figure ain't all it's cracked up to be.

2005-03-18T04:27:33Z

Ken's Flashback

jwz's recent post about his collage hack had a link from jaykayess to one his automatic collages. I liked it so much I tried doing one myself. Here's a link to my post in the flickr Technique group on how I did it.

Squirrelly Wrath

2005-02-10T03:57:44Z

Next time you're at the corner café, leeching free wireless
internet, sipping on a urine sample cup sized cup of coffee swill, go
watch Neurotially Yours. My favorites are Small, Medium, Large and Fatkins Diet. The rants are pretty good too. Do it or incur Foamy's Squirrelly Wrath.

War Machines

2005-01-08T06:56:27Z

Torpedo Controls

To welcome fgmr to livejournal I thought I'd post some more old-fashioned high-tech. This time, from the USS Pampanito, a World War II era diesel submarine which is now a museum at Pier 45 in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the pics of the crypto machine came out all blurry. It was on the far side of a dark room behind plexiglas. At that distance it just looked like a typewriter anyway.

Make it stop, make it stop

2004-12-23T18:31:47Z

Next time when I wake up to put the finishing touches on my year-end slideshow extravaganza and I'm racing around to leave for the airport in a couple hours, I will make sure that one of those finishing touches is not to add dissolve transitions to all two dozen slideshows. Its been two hours and iDVD is still rendering transitions.

It says "Estimated time to completion: 10 minutes after you leave for the airport".

new hairdo

2004-12-20T08:01:40Z

new hairdo
Originally uploaded by prunella.

Knit your own wig.

jwz's recommendations

2004-12-08T01:58:56Z

jwz's recommendations

All you iTunes Music Store using, DNA Lounge inhabitanting, jwz fanboys and girls should go rate this playlist at iTMS (link only works if you have itunes installed). The songs in the playlist are songs from jwz's three music recommendation gruntles from 2002, 2002 (part 2) and 2003 plus maybe a song or two that he's mentioned in livejournal. You don't have to buy anything, just rate the playlist. The more people who vote for it, the more likely iTMS users will see it and maybe this will help promote some of the indie bands on the list in some infinitesimal way. Yes, there's a lot missing but the list can only have stuff the store sells. I'm surprised it has this much.
UPDATE: Here's the playlist for the iTMS impaired. I copied this from the mail they sent when I recently updated the list. Too bad they don't list the album too.


Song Name		Artist


Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n Roll		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Work It Out		Brassy

Who Stole the Show		Brassy

Crushed		Collide

Coin-Operated Boy		The Dresden Dolls

How He Wrote Elastica Man		Elastica

Glass Danse		The Faint

Silver Screen Shower Scene		Felix da Housecat

Everything Is OK		Halou

Obstacle 1		Interpol

Charlotte		Kittie

Leper		Ministry

Sharks		Morphine

Black Limbo		My Scarlet Life

Metal (Remix)		Nine Inch Nails

Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me		Oingo Boingo

Reptiles and Samurai		Oingo Boingo

Ich Bin Ein Auslander		Pop Will Eat Itself

Menofearthereaper		Pop Will Eat Itself

Sweet Water Kill (The Ocean Song)		Rasputina

DwarfStar		Rasputina

Watch T.V.		Rasputina

The Donner Party		Rasputina

Wish You Were Here		Rasputina

Flippin' tha Bird		Ruby

You and Your Friend		Snake River Conspiracy

Lovesong		Snake River Conspiracy

Somebody Hates You		Snake River Conspiracy

Vulcan		Snake River Conspiracy

Dirty Hole		VAST

Pretty When You Cry		VAST

Maps		Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Why are they named after shoes?

2004-12-07T04:15:27Z

Nike Missle Being Raised On Launcher

I visited the Nike missile site in Marin yesterday and took lots of pictures of assorted 1950's high tech gadgets, blinkenlights, an analog computer and things that make mushroom clouds in the night. Supply your own Strangelove quote.

It was actually a very interesting place. The site is owned by the National Park Service but a lot of the work and funding at the museum is provided by volunteers. Docents are mostly Army vets who worked on Nike missiles so they know what they're talking about and are pretty interesting to talk with.

You Better Piss Elsewhere!

2004-11-24T10:00:42Z

You Better Piss Elsewhere!
Originally uploaded by Candied Woman Ire.

You know, sometimes I really don't miss living in a crappy neighborhood. And to think dmose pays extra for this. Living between Ti Couz and Tokyo Go-go is pretty tempting though! (plus the other 47 restaurants within a block of him)

Art Isn't Easy

2004-11-24T08:37:35Z

The art installation at the Adobe Bookshop right now is the store itself. The shelves are still labeled by subject, but the books are arranged by color, like a rainbow. Surprisingly, this turns out to be a pretty cool way to shop. If you're there to look for a specific book, then you're probably SOL. But if you're just there to browse then having the books be in random order makes you see books and make associations that you never would have noticed before.

The show ends Dec 12 but it would be cool if the store stayed like this. (not that I ever shop there)

Adobe Bookshop is on 16th between Tokyo Go Go and Ti Couz, near dmose. More at SFGate and NPR.

Free To A Good Home

2004-11-19T08:44:07Z

Getting new carpeting meant I had to pack everything in boxes and put it in the dining room to age. In the process of unpacking I noticed I have duplicates of a bunch of stuff. Let me know if you want something.

DVD
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Casablanca (This is from the welcome package we got from Time/Warner after the merger. Not to be picky, but I would have preferred options that didn't dive to the bottom of the Marianas trench. The best part of the package was the discount subscription to Mad Magazine. The best part of the separation package was the CD with a thousand free hours of AOL.)

CD
Railer - Frame of Mind (I was so excited to find this in the dollar bin at Amoeba that I forgot I already have one)

Books
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
Engines of Creation - K. Eric Drexler
Yosemite National Park - Jeffrey P. Schaffer Second Edition, revised 3rd printing 1987. This is a couple of editions out of date and the topo map is missing.

I also have several pounds of O'Reilly xlib and xview books that someone could probably talk me out of.

NO CAPES

2004-11-06T05:02:49Z

I love my friends! I love that the dress code for our event tomorrow is:

"NO CAPES"

Update: OK, now I understand the cape reference. Cultural illiteracy is its own reward. See tequilarista's report on her moment of victory.

Wave Your Organ

2004-11-05T07:22:22Z

Wave Organ
Originally uploaded by Candied Woman Ire.

For all you goths, geeks, freaks, hipsters and nerds who still haven't visted the wave organ because you can't find it, well now you can. Here's a map.

I managed to make it there at high tide last month and finally got to hear something. And guess what? It sounds like... (drumroll please) ... it sounds like water sloshing around in a plastic pipe. Imagine that! I'd hardly describe it as a 'hypnotic Aeolian harp'. Its more like a wave didgeridoo.

Stormy Weather

2004-10-31T20:57:39Z

Pillar Point after a storm
Originally uploaded by Candied Woman Ire.

There were high surf advisories on the 19th and 20th so I went to the coast to check out the surf. It looks a lot calmer in these photos than I remember it. I think the waves were at about 10 or 15 ft. Apparently the photogenic ones were smaller.

Take It With A Pond Of Salt

2004-10-17T07:35:49Z

Salt Crystals
Originally uploaded by Candied Woman Ire.

I found another place that is Not Of This Earth. It turns out that the marsh south of Bayfront Park isn't a bird sanctuary but is in fact, ~~the hellmouth~~ a salt pond.

ArtCar Fest

2004-10-04T06:43:48Z

Space Junk
Originally uploaded by Candied Woman Ire.

Here are some of my pictures from the ArtCar Fest in San Jose, September 18, 2004. These pictures are all are closeups. This guy actually photographed entire cars and paid attention to their names. (Never mind his dig at Netscape 6. That's not Mitchell is it?)