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Drive By Catting
It was determined this weekend, after thoughtful consideration, that a new form of urban warfare could be easily enacted with simple laser pointers. As we all know cats, or Felis silvestris catus, find laser pointers completely fascinating and can’t pass up the chance to chase them and try to attack them. Of course they never catch them because it’s just light, but cats don’t understand that scientific part of it.
So the thinking is that you drive down the street with a laser pointer directed at the parallel sidewalk for several blocks. Any cats in the area will be drawn to the beam and chase it instinctually. After about 6 blocks you’ll most likely have around 35 cats chasing the laser (45 if you are in the neighborhood of a crazy cat lady) and by this point they will be pissed. This is when you stop driving and aim the laser onto the chest or face of your target. The cats will then pounce onto this person trying to get the laser, and thus rip him/her to shreds. A side benefit is that once your disengage the laser the cats give up and run away leaving no evidence. Unless of course someone is watching, in which case you can just repeat the above targeting them at the end.
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Brief notes
Back from a long weekend in SF where we were hoping to finish everything on the Metroblogging redesign but looks like it’s probably a week or so out still. The trip was fun and I met and hung out with a bunch of cool folks including Fatal1ty and Tim Ferriss. You’d be proud of me though, I think I contained my fanboy-ness. Unfortunately the words of my friend Tim Biedron who once said something like “the thing about people is they always find new ways to disappoint you” were on my mind the whole trip. More evedence to the fact that you can really only focus on and trust what is happening right this second, right in front of you – that expecting anything from anyone else in the future is surely just building yourself up for something to fall apart. Thinking some people are exempt from that is the first step to falling.
I’ve got a few new speaking engagements lined up which have been added to my wiki and I’ve updated my Dopplr profile to reflect those trips. BIL looks like it’s going to be a ton of fun – they asked me to speak about media hacking, specifically the Anonymous Vs. Scientology stuff I’ve been covering on blogging.la – the reactions are almost more interesting than the story itself. I’m also really looking forward to going to Texas for SXSW this year. I didn’t go last year but heard all the stories and when I got invited to speak this year I took that as I sign I should go back. Visiting Texas is always kind of fun since I lived there for a few years as a kid. Johannes and I are driving back to LA afterwards to film a bunch of stuff and visit nuclear test sites and shit, so maybe that will include a trip through my old neighborhoods in Garland and Dallas. I’ll talk more about the other trips as they get closer.
My friend Wil just had some crazy sinus surgery and has been laid up and it’s freaking me out a bit because anyone who knows me knows that if I could just remove my sinuses all together I’d be all over that as they are a constant source of hell in my life. Stupid sinuses.
A few months back Caryn gave me a few songs by the Editors which I liked all right and who happened to be playing in LA last week. I went to the show at the last minute and haven’t been able to stop listening to them since then. It’s almost obsessive actually, something about them is just providing the perfect soundtrack to just about everything right now.
OK, back to work. More soon.
March Conferences
Was already planning on going to SXSWi this year (as I’m speaking) but in the past few days have also been invited to BIL (not TED) and GSP – both of which look interesting and given their proximity to Los Angeles are fairly doable. Though might require some kind of train voyage or road tripping to some extent. Anyone else going to or considering going to these events? BIL is March 1 & 2 in Monterey, GSP is March 3 & 4 in San Diego. Let me know.
Valentines Stuffs
“In the end, all you can hope for is that the love that you felt has equaled the pain you’ve gone through”
Thanks to Warren Ellis and Ed Adkins for posts this morning reminding us what Valentines Day is really all about. Here’s some ecards you can send the people you aren’t yet sick of. I hope everyone has a night full of things they will deny ever doing tomorrow. I know I will.