Hello.
     I haven't posted anything on this blog for quite some time, because I didn't have any ideas that popped up.
     Well, I just was looking at my photos in order to see what to use so I can then delete them in order to make more memory room on my computer, and these came up, which are appropriate for this blog.
     In Magic The Gathering, the color blue is associated with islands, magicians, technology, and certain types of cities.
     Anyway, here are some shots in San Francisco from a balcony when we were at a 'Dead Can Dance' concert...

      The domed building is city hall in San Francisco.

      It's a beautiful structure.

      I don't know if what they do in this building is always beautiful, though.

     And here is Marco The Finn.  He is a guitarist and musician.  He is somewhat of a wizard, too, which is why I thought these photos belonged here.

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     As a note, with these new cameras that have a lot of megapixels on them, I noticed they can take up a lot of memory room on your computer.  So, it is better to use the photos in some capacity than to just let them sit on your computer, which needs at least 15.0 GB of free hard disc space in order to run smoothly.
     If I ever need these photos for anything, I can always save them from this blog onto my computer again, which is a good thing about blogs.  I use them for photo storage, haha, and I can do some writing while I am at it.

Chimpanzee Brain in a jar

     This is an appropriate image for the power of blue, since in the islands, Magic and Technology often mix.

Wow, I have 70 hits on this blog, probably all of them are from me.

     It counts it every time I look at my own blog.  I'm fine with that.  It just makes it look like people are actually clicking on this blog.  That just isn't true, though.  It's all me.
     They might someday, which is the reason for doing this blog, but it ain't going to happen anytime soon.
     Blogs are not like youtube, where there are millions of people on watching videos 24-7.
     This blog is for the future.

     Funny that I have old books in my studio that nobody reads anymore.  Those books, some of them well-written, get no hits at all anymore.
     That is very sad.

     In blog terms, books are 'assembled in order monetized pages'.

Wow, I have 63 hits on this blog

     Well, it also includes my own hits.  That doesn't matter overall, though, because it makes my little counter go up on my blog which makes it appear to have more hits than it actually does.
     A bigger number is more impressive to anybody who actually does look at the blog.

     Oh, this just in from my news desk...."Evidence is beginning to show that Herman Cain is bastard."
 
     It is good to keep up on current events.

The Island Sanctuary of Howard Stern

     I'm at the cafe, listening to Howard Stern.  I was laughing in the cafe, listening to High-Pitch Eric, and now Tabitha Stevens is talking about her terrible non-porn movie.

     There is a girl sitting to the left of me, texting.  He has nice black leggings on her thick, black legs.  She has a nice face, and brown granny boots. She looks nice and has a red vest sweater.  She's been sitting there for forty-five minutes.

     It seems that people on youtube who talk smack have crappy channels, and produce no videos.  Their whole purpose is to write negative comments, and that is their 'art'.  Big whoop-to-do.

     Subforsub people suck even more.  I don't even want to talk about them.  They are my youtube enemies, though.

     That Tabitha Stevens girl is pretty entertaining on The Stern show.  Listening to her regular acting voice just makes her look like an amateur, talking like a regular person with no acting lessons.  She's good at porn, though, from what I understand.

     Howard's show has been my Island Sanctuary for twenty years.

     I need to pee.  Coffee goes right through me.  I can't think when I have to pee, not even to write in a cafe.

     It's nice that my laptop works again in the cafe.  Some update prevented it from working.  That always happens.  For two days, it did not work in here.  I'm glad it is working again.  I get to listen to Stern while I type, it's real nice.
     I'm so glad that there is so much Howard stuff on youtube.  It's awesome.  I'm listening to them talk about this movie that was on t.v. called 'Judgment'.  It's a movie about a pedophile priest.  It's okay to put a movie like that on network t.v., for Howard to talk about the movie, but if I talk about it on this blog, adsense might not like it, and they might cancel this account.  Ridiculous, huh?  But adsense will do it if they don't like what I write.  They will cancel me if they don't like my content.  Adsense advertisers might get offended, while they themselves make offensive content in their ads.  All I know is that their ads annoy me, and always have.  I never click on their ads.

     Anyway, nice to have a good time at the cafe. 

     Thank goodness for Howard.  He's had me laughing for twenty years now.  I'd have the radio on, and wake up laughing.  No other program has ever done that. 
     His program is a sanctuary of laughter for me.

Wow, my laptop works at the cafe again, SWG, and other stuff

     Well, I like to work on my blogs at the cafe, and for two days, it didn't work.  I couldn't connect to the internet for some reason.  It might have been an Avast! update, which usually screws up everything.
     I'm just happy that it works.
     You know, when I am at home, I don't feel much like blogging, and getting into text mode.  I can do it with some effort.  However, at the cafe, I can go right into it, no problem.  Blogging here is actually quite nice.  I got some nice blues music to listen to, and some people here to feed off their energy.
     The thing with blogging is, and writing in general, that if it becomes all about the writer, it becomes boring as all hell.
     I try to keep this blog clean with words, but I don't think 'hell' is a bad word, though some people do. 
     Anyway, to continue, life is good.
     I figured this blog would be a good place to write about my computer problems.  Blue Island energy often deals with technology within the Magic Universe.

     My island is not an Artifact Land, but I've been to them.  They are cold, metallic places.  Not much life there.  Well, it's a different story with Artifact Lands.  I'm not quite sure how it all works.

     Anyway, I'm just glad my laptop works in the cafe again.  I even brought an alternate wireless device as back-up just in case this Belkin wireless card didn't work.  It has a long history now of working quite well on this computer.

     I watched a Star Wars parody video made by National Lampoon.  It was funny, but it's interesting to note that some of these kids that are online can make way funnier videos than some of the professionals.  It's true.  They get really into it, and to them, it's not a job, it's a passion.

     So, Peter Jackson is worth about $450 million.  That must be nice.  He lost 50 pounds after 'The Return of The King' and stopped eating hamburgers, which are so yummy, but you know what?  They make you fat.

     Anyway, I'm going outside for some fresh air, and a smoke.

     It's nice to stand out there, and watch the cars go by.  I saw my favorite graffiti van.  It's just covered in graffiti, and no one tag stands out.  There is a nice all-over coverage, which would look good in a painting.
     A cop car drove by, and the passenger cop looked at me, and seemed to chuckle, or smile, or whatever he did.  Being a block away from the cop station, a lot of cops drive by.  They look at everybody, it's their job, I don't take it personally.  They don't like to be looked at themselves.  It's usually not good to look at them.  They take it as a sign that you are too interested in what they are doing.
     My general advice is, "Never talk to a cop if you can help it."
     Also, when I was out there, there was some black guy with a hood on.  I avoided him so he wouldn't ask me for a cigarette.  It's hard to mind my own business while I am standing outside.  Someone often asks me for money or for a cigarette.  I get tired of it when I just want to be left alone.

     So, I am a weird guy.  They've been saying that about me since junior high.  No big deal.  They just don't understand that I grew up on comic books, movies, and a healthy dose of television.  My mind is in that world.  I'm not the best person you will ever meet to interact with.  I save my energy for myself so I can put it into my art and my creative ventures.  It takes a lot of energy for that.

     The 20th century's primary color was Blue, what with Picasso's paintings, and with The Blues.  My grandmother told me once there was a restaurant that was all blue, including the plates and the lights, but it just didn't make the food look good, so the restaurant closed down after a short while.
      She did mention a restaurant that was very successful for a while.  All they served was Home-Made Beef Stew and Apple Pie.  That was it.  People would come from miles away just for this.  It was such a simple concept, and it worked.

     It is nice to sit in the cafe and type.  I really like to do this.  It is really nice.  It is nice to get out of the art studio, and have a clean table to work at, and not have to deal with all the clutter of my place.  I love my place, but sometimes it gets to be too much.
     I still like to write with a pencil and a pen on paper.  It's really fun.  I seem to produce a lot more words typing on this little keyboard, which is USB connected.  It's an external keyboard outside of my laptop.  It works real good.

     SWG is shutting down.  The last day is December 15.  I see no need for them to shut it down.  What's the point?  I think they should keep some servers open, and just let it run it's course, until nobody is there.  People still want to play it.  When you invest so much time into a character, even if the game starts to become outdated, people still love it. 
     Maybe it isn't financially viable anymore.  Plus, Knights of The Old Republic is coming out.  However, there are a lot of people who still play EverQuest, so there is no reason not to keep SWG going.  Sony has enough money to keep it going.  Maybe Lucasarts just wanted to pull the plug on it.
     When I play SWG, I can only play it in small doses.  After one space mission, I just want to shut the thing off.  It still looks really cool, though.  The attention to detail is marvelous.  The game kind of looks lifeless with what they can do now, though.
     They changed the game so many times, that it is different than when it came out, and I don't know if what they did was good.  I liked the original tier system of leveling up.  I never ever got used to the new one, I was so thrown off.  I never had much time to play, so that was one of my problems, too.  Now I want to play since I won't have a chance after December 15.  They have an emulator for the game, I discovered on youtube last night, but I don't know about emulators.  I'd rather play the real live version of any game, and pay for it.

     Let's see...what else is there to talk about?  I don't know. 

It looks like bots in Russia are looking at this blog

     That's fine with me.  I'll take every hit I can get.