“Flag up” photo by RICKY FLORES, The Journal News (New York)

It’s what the aliens tell the Woody Allen character in Stardust Memories. ... I think that’s about the extent of my philosophical insights. ... As the beloved LOL told me, Bob Hope was with the marines on some Pacific hell hole, and a marine for one reason or another had failed to encounter the enemy, which he really desired to do. So he cries out “Hirohito stinks!” ... Whereupon the enemy steps forward and shouts back “Roosevelt stinks!” ... The Marine is stymied, complaining “I can’t kill a fellow Republican!” ... This is supposed to have sent the saintly FDR into paroxysms of mirth at some big todo....

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Resumé The Rant Pages: Products and Technology And now ... Bounteous Bloggery! + The Basement + Music Owen’s acronyms ’n’ definitions This website is defiantly composed entirely in comic sans because it’s so cute. ... Except for the pitiful iThing multitudes, who’ll just have to put up with sans or Times Roman or whatever the hermetic wizards of iThingyness decree for this moon phase.

The clamoring public may submit abuse & complaints to owenlabs@aol.com ... welcome to the most secret place on the web ... the bermuda-triangle of html ... my own private imbroglio ... my personal web page ... the j.g. owen web site Ah, the years pass, don’t they? ... But still, this remains! ... For more than 10 years! ... Nothing compared to The Cernettes who apparently appeared with some of the less complicated particles when the web was young and I only slightly senile.... So behold! and look upon my resumé ye mighty and despair ... and I hope your browser renders the word “”, as one of my machines does, when it feels like it — so chic ’n’ wacky! ... Well I finally got terminally bored and set the form to the lovely and gracious “Windows 1252” character-encoding; apparently otherwise the browser guesses to the best of its ability and whim (?). ... Or then again, why not check out the puerile pretensions of my pointlessly-fashionable bloggery. ... Or ... Whatever happened to all those rants? Some time in the Clinton administration, I moved my complaints about various gadgets and technical issues to the rant pages, with such exciting topics as how to switch the control/capslock keys in XP.... Then there is my softer aesthetic side, so distinct from the concrete-like computer-science realism of these pages, my heart-rending mp3 music, notes / discussion thereof. ... Or check out the Hammond Chord Organ story with a lovely picture — and so much more! ... Or avail yourself of the very latest news on Polaroid cameras!.... HACKERS: The tic-tac-toe board over there is FOSS provocateur - extraordinaire Eric Raymond’s very own hacker emblem/logo: a proclamation that I proudly proclaim also, here stand I, proud hacker. ... Etcetera. ... If you didn’t know, “hacker” used to mean helpful computery people i.e. like I used to be — who could fix things in unimaginable ways, at least to the normal — a concept today more-or-less covered by “geek” — since the stupid media got finished with hackers. ... But Raymond wants to take it back; ... stranger things have happened. ... Click the thing to see his thoughts and excuses. ... And here’s a search button, which you can try using to search my site if the incredible laser-like organization somehow fails:

One Voice I’d forgotten about this MP3 until it turned-up on my ancient shuffle. ... It’s a truly creepy global-warming PSA which I expect “Environmental Defense” might prefer to forget, but not me, here on the eternal golden memories attic web site! ... It played after a Bill Monroe rendition of The Old Crossroads, and was followed by the giant thundering chorus of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. ... Startling religious sentiments from the music machine....

The Kredit Krisis Krunch Katastrophe Krisis Ce Finé!! Yup, it’s over! ... Right around the corner! ... On our morning keep-fit so we don’t-face-the-death-panels walk! ... Now at last, we can return to our perennial favorite: the Swine Flue Krisis Katastrophe Plague!!!

My Neighbor Boy is Stranger Than Yours This object startled me a bit as I was taking out the garbage. ... Life is wonderful, no?

The peace that passeth understanding — in this case, a motel in the morning in St. Augustine I think. ... The wandering years revealed accidentally it was Tampa....

And here is a parental unit long ago and far away. ... That’s both of them in front of the Volkswagen bus, with an old friend; her husband took the picture, which is one of those 3D things. ...

... And through the miracle of cousin-discovery, the other unit as a beautiful young woman, so many endless eons ago....

click for a nice w98 desktop flag from Tiger Technologies	Terrorist moron sets himself on fire burning the flag (Washington Times).
Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 8’ x 7’ 8’’ (243.9 x 233.7 cm). MoMA.	what we’re fighting for
a cute meter The Amazing RoboHelp Pop-Up demo CD (windows media video)	Owen’s Rules 1. There are no technical problems, only personnel problems. 2. If it isn’t tested, it’s broken. 3. Include hardware reset in the software interface. Another item that has puzzled humanity for so many years can best be expressed as a question: Do all stupid programs inevitably dial the internet? Research is ongoing.... And here’s a thought: Features are hardest to fix. ... Finally, an old T-shirt sentiment, as true today as when I first saw it: E = mc2 ... It’s Not Just a Good Idea, IT’S THE LAW
Friday 5/18/12 4:38 pm