thunkjan
BATTERY WATCH: Episode 2. 01/02/12.
I know you’re probably wondering about the status of my batteries, and I would be too if I was in your position, so I’m sorry it’s been a while between updates.
Nothing has changed with the previously mentioned remotes, the batteries remain the same.
However, I have charged up two rechargies and put them in my xbox controller so I promise I’ll let you know when I change them.
Stay tuned, Dear Reader, for the adventure is far from over!
BATTERY WATCH: Episode 1. 8/01/11.
2 days ago i changed the batteries in one of my remotes. today i changed the batteries in 2 of my remotes. check back on this blog for updates detailing the status of my batteries.
how to make a cone piece
this is easy and you can make really large ones. you just have to cut a piece of a drink can the same shape as the paper in the pics. you can trim the curved edge to make it smaller or keep it large for big bongs! have a play around and find what you like.
this is paper to show the basic shape you need to cut. the last pics are from one i made from a beer can.
TO MY 15 YEAR OLD SELF:
how to easily make an effective bucket bong! (with pictures!!!!!)
1: the lid to a bottle of popular fruit drink (golden circle/just juice etc) with a 1 cm hole drilled in the middle and a cone for a pipe. see thread, fits snug into 1 cm hole.
2: the cone sealed in the lid with blu-tak. you dont need one to be put together like this, you can melt the lid and jam a cone in, make your own cone etc etc, you just need a cone at the top (better if its sealed tho).
3: the bong: a 2 L cordial bottle (all i had) with the bottom cut off. and the bucket. and a fire extinguisher (very easy for buckets to get out of control).
4: we have lift off! the trick is to lift it slowly and make sure its really on fire well when youre lighting it.
5: my other lids with 1 cm holes in them. i chose one (the green one) and it happened to fit the bottle.
6: previously i had a bigger bottle (needs a bigger cone i think). you can easily make your own cone http://thunkjan.tumblr.com/post/1722961553/how-to-make-a-cone-piece-this-is-easy-and-you-can
pays to be prepared: make lids like i did and get a cone like mine, buckets will be easy to prepare, and will work 100%. you dont even need a bucket, maybe just a sink/bath or even a pool… or a river/rock cave/billabong etc.
if you do it properly, buckets will increase the intensity of your high, no matter what you put in it (hydro down to bush leaf). obviously a green hydro cone is going to be much more intense than weaker bush leaf, but through a bucket bong either one will increase in intensity. with a large bottle you can jam almost 3 L of smoke into your airways in 1 second.
before you take a hit, take a deep breath in and then breathe all the air out. then take the lid off and secure the lips around the open bottle. plunge down while breathing in. and then remember to inhale as much air as you can and then hold it in as long as you can. if youre not stoned after smoking through a bucket bong its time to get a new stash.
theres lots more info out there about buckets if youre still wondering try some google.
another good thing to do is listen to zoot allures or studio tan by frank zappa while youre smoking up. or listen any frank zappa at any time. at all times listen to frank zappa.
but dont do drugs, drugs are BAD. and beware the bunyip!
ps, the only law these photos show me breaking are the no smoking laws i am breaking: in those photos the smoke is from legal herbs i bought at a legit shop during the day.
not even the ants wanted to eat the crumbs of Freedom pancakes
http://www.organicsaustraliaonline.com.au/prod6039.htm
as is advised, Freedom Foods do not put any yeast, nuts, sesame, peanut, dairy, fish, egg, gluten, wheat or GM ingredients into their so called pancakes. the cake of the pan.
my opinion (as a healthy omnivore in his 24th year of life) is that these insipid pancakes are disturbingly unsettling to masticate; the taste is revolting. you’ll be spitting like a llama with a bad attitude.
do not buy a Freedom Foods pancake shaker. unless you have allergies. if you do have allergies, let me tell you that im so very sorry to rub in the fact that you cant eat nice pancakes. this was not intended to be a jab at those who are less lucky than i when it comes to type of foods. there be no oppression here. im just pointing out the fact that in my opinion Greens is better.
ants are not the only creatures that have turned down a free feed from (again) in my opinion, dubious producers. my dog wouldnt eat Dick Smith’s version of Nutri-Grain. she’s a very clever dog.
Viking Pride
Just when I thought it had turned too much into The Adventures of Nancy Botwin: Super Whore; away from a show a about a bad ass mom selling weed, the last episode of Weeds is characteristic of the show’s greatwriting.
Ellis Tate recording Nancy giving her version of events (and what story may follow)
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more excellent scenes with Andy
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a hint of that familiar doug-ness we all love so
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Weeds randomness
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Viking Pride.
Recharged my Weeds Faith.
Who knows, they may escape the USA and set up another bad ass grow house in a brand new country…
(Some) Drugs Are OK!
I’m so bored. I need to go on a Drug Adventure. The kind where I’m up all night and still fully loaded when Earth spins around so Australia faces Sun again. I need that good old familiar feeling of fear and loathing… not necessarily at The Man, or the establishment (though I do enjoy placing myself in the middle of society when my brain chemistry is far from the accepted norm). No, I’m just hoping for at least a general state of incredulous disbelief of the fact that I am alive and perceiving the world. Well, at least some of it, we humans only “see” a very small amount of the electromagnetic radiation, and we don’t “hear” all frequencies either. Oh, how I wish to be sitting on a rock the edge of the Pacific Ocean, with all its trillions of litres of salty water, and my aquatic brethren swimming about in it, pondering these such things.
But why do I need drugs to appreciate these things? I wouldn’t say that I need drugs to appreciate these things (life). But taking drugs helps. Drugs have a lovely de-conditioning effect which I do very much enjoy. Also, I see taking drugs as a celebration of life. Let me explain…
By the time the drugs reach my brain, they have been broken down into single molecules. The molecules hit the receptors on my brain cells, I integrate them into my chemistry and away I go. The ongoing chemical reaction of Tristan becomes slightly more complex. I think these thoughts nearly every time I take drugs. Getting stoned/high/tripping/pinging etc. is a celebration of the beautiful complexity that is the human being. We have these amazing brains that are capable of so much, we can think and perceive and experience - I feel sorry for those who deny themselves the experience of drugs. There’s this fear amongst us humans, the fear that if we do something pleasurable we will be punished. Maybe words can be partly blamed.
The word “drug” has such a negative stigma. Many people seem happy to classify anything stronger than marijuana as “drugs” but fail to put alcohol or even caffeine in the same box. Paracetamol is a drug. They give it to kids. Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco, but people who smoke cigarettes aren’t termed “drug addicts”. Smokers do have special sections in restaurants/hotels, though. Imagine if junkies were given the same leniency. “And will that be shooting up or non-shooting up today, madam?”
Tobacco costs Australia billions of dollars in the health sector and labour sector. In 1998-9 1.4 billion dollars was spent on drug abuse, 1.1 billion of this was spent on tobacco alone. That’s 5 times the amount spent on alcohol and almost 17 times the amount spent on illicit drugs. Tobacco also kills people, and not just consenting adults. In Australia in 1998-9 there were 103 recorded deaths of children aged 0 - 14 due to involuntary tobacco abuse. Yet ciggies are sold on every street corner and drugs like acid (which does no somatic damage at all) and ecstasy are outlawed, and people who partake in said drugs are shunned. Something is obviously wrong with society if an industry which kills people is accepted but harmless substances are not.
Of course there are dangers when taking drugs (like driving), but drugs shouldn’t be blamed when people act idiotically. Alcohol isn’t outlawed when people are caught drink driving. If a person does something that puts themselves and/or others at risk then they personally should be punished. Drugs don’t kill people, stupid people kill people. If people were educated on the dynamics of drugs then it would be a lot safer.
But don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting a no holes barred, lawless free for all. I just think that some substances should be legal, and regulated. Age limits apply to alcohol and tobacco, why can’t a similar system exist for other substances, like marijuana, acid, and other delicious treats? We already have a system in place that limits the supply of drugs (prescriptions from doctor) - surely these substances could be introduced too. Perhaps a database containing info of when you last got on, how much you bought etc. could be utilised? A system could be designed that would work. That would get rid of drug dealers and associated crime too.
According to John Birmingham, the marijuana business in Australia is bigger than viticulture, which is a billion dollar industry. If the Government legalised weed and put a little tax on it, they would make big dollars. This money could be put into schools, or hospitals, or any of many the areas that could do with a little extra dosh.
But anyway, for the moment I will have to rely on my underworld contacts on the black market for my fix. And hopefully that will be soon.
Dweezil Zappa has done a good job of promoting his father’s music. I bought the DVD/CD Zappa Plays Zappa after hearing a some of Frank’s music. The tracks that Dweezil and company perform that I was familiar with before experiencing the DVD are: Cosmik Debris, I’m The Slime, Peaches En Regalia and Montana. Not many at all. But that was Dweezil’s purpose, to show his father’s music to people who may not have heard it before.
I have since listened to the albums that contain the songs on the DVD. And I am so glad that I did. Frank was a musical genius. It’s as simple as that. According to Wikipedia, there are currently 87 albums of Frank brilliance to listen to. That is a lot. Hopefully before I die I will have a thorough, complete understanding of Frank’s music.
Zappa Plays Zappa is awesome. If you like good music, buy this DVD. The musicians are excellent. Some are from the old school - Napoleon Murphy Brock on sax, flute and vocals, Steve Vai on guitar (of course), Terry Bozzio with his enormous drum kit - and they definitely live up to their reputations. But some are from the new school - Aaron Arntz pwns 4 keyboards and a trumpet, likewise does Scheila Gonzalez with 2 keyboards and a sax. Awesome music, written by a true genius, played by awesome musicians. Very enjoyable indeed.
-monkey
the sodium gates open up and in go the sodium ions as the cells depolarise. i can feel them activating as i experience friction. the body is composed of a very small percentage of the ‘matter’ found in the universe. the rest of the entire universe is pressing on the boundaries of the body. the body is permeable.
junk food is noise.
so is thsi typo.
