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Children.
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Governing law.
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In the event case of any conflict between the terms of this policy and the terms of any electronic or machine readable privacy policy (for example, a P3P electronic privacy policy), the terms of this written policy shall control.
If you're reading this and you personally know me, you might want to check out the Friend's Pix page I just put up. If I have any pix of you, it's likely I put you on that page. If you're not on the page, it's probably because I couldn't find and edit your photo, not because I don't like you.
If you have a different or more current photo of yourself you rather I use, just email it to me and I'll get to work with it. I just use the factory-loaded paint program, notepad, and a bucketful of patience to make web pages.
Also, if you maintain a home page, tell me and I'll link to it from there.
Now that we got that settled, you can go back to stuffing your face with those potato chips and getting your mouse pad all greasy.
I got a newsletter from sectionZ.com today. It seems they're doing well. They've incorporated now, got some sponsors, and some advertising money. It reminded me to start thinking about filling in some links on my audio list ... coming soon to the left side panel near you ... or in the blog here, anyway.
I did upload a short MP3 I made with Fruity Loops Studio while just screwing around with the demo version. If you want to download it, t's called Nag Trance.
Take a look at the home page I've been fiddling with over on http://www.mical.net/jfz/index.htm anyway and let me know what you think. It should load fairly fast for those like me with just a dialup connection. And some of you are still surfing the web at 800x600 pixel resolution, so I made the page look decent when it gets resized. More fun html coding with notepad.
Hopefully, it won't look as schizophrenic as these pages.
Some of you know that when I was in the military, I worked with highly classified and specially compartmentalized information with Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR). It's been a long time since I worked in a SCIF, but my interest in intelligence continues to be an odd hobby.
The cold war has defrosted and the Soviet Union, as we knew it when I was more than a little nervous about our collective fates, is no more. The Berlin Wall may have been reduced to souvenir pebbles for tourists to take home to their grandchildren but the U.S. is still actively involved in the collection and analysis of good intelligence.
The CIA, NRO, NSA and similar agencies use ever-increasing advancements in technology toward that end. I have uncovered one technologically superior surveillance device: The M4 Robotic Bunny Rabbit.
The M4 RBR, for short, is an incidious little device. I believe sunshine can sterilize anything so I created the Got Bunny? web site for you to spread the word among those you care about, lest they too fall victim to its ways.
Since I've been posting about Eye Candy and what not recently, here are a few of my recent autonomic spasms. I'll be able to post more later -- "Oh joy!", you say -- when I can pick up my 98-box from the kitchen floor for the third-friggin-time and copy files from it. Most of these were created with the Dell's factory-loaded software, like the simple Paint program which I've used to make everything lately. I miss Adobe PhotoShop, but I guess I'll just have to deal with that loss in Therapy in the Imajica, later.
Eminem has reached icon status. I wanted to give him some Warhol-esque props.
Bambism This fawn was sleeping six feet from my kitchen sink window. I snapped its photo, scanned it, and added the cute 'Hang in There, Baby' type of comment.
I started with a digital photo of my own vomit in an emesis basin (something Warren Ellis might appreciate), flipped it vertically, changed the primary colors and added cactus.