party shout

steven colbert's address at the white house correspondents' dinner:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/WH-Dinner-Colber.mov

(very small video, but the audio is good)

Apologies for my selection of T-shirts.

I had a few designs tumbling around in the back of my head for the last few days, and these were the two that made it out.

While I think they're awesome, I can't look at them for more than a minute without getting a headache. Withdraw them if necessary.

-Z

This is a question for Josh (although anyone is free to respond)

Too lazy to learn about it right now, but what is the significance of normal mapping in 3d authoring packages? 3ds Max has a material slot for a Normal Map, and I cant see what difference/aid that renders(!?!) in the final product. I understand you use Maya, and was wondering if you knew if this is of any importance or not...

-Z

The old black guy at the liquor store said to me, "Hey, Zach! I got some more of that sweet stuff for ya!"

I looked at him aghast, until he said, "There's some good honey liqueur miniatures attached to the Wild Turkey this week!"

A short story by Zach Beard.

*edit: in truth, the liquor store staff knows me by name. you should be so lucky.

PA Town Plagued with Underground Fire for over 40 years...

"The ruins of Centralia Pennsylvania no longer exists on some maps. The story began sometime in 1962 along the outskirts of town when trash was burned in the pit of an abandoned strip mine, which connected to a coal vein running near the surface. The burning trash caught the exposed vein of coal on fire. The fire was reported and thought to be extinguished but it apparently wasn't. The coal then began to burn underground. That was in 1962. For the next two decades, workers battled the fire, flushing the mines with water, excavating the burning material, backfilling, drilling again and again in an attempt to put the fire out or at least contain it. All efforts failed to do either. By the early 1980s the fire had affected about nearly 200 acres. An engineering study concluded in 1983 that the fire could burn for another century or even more and "could conceivably spread over an area of approximately 3,700 acres."

"Over 43 years and 40 million dollars later the fire still burns through old coal mines and veins under the town and the surrounding hillsides. The fire, smoke, fumes and toxic gases that came up through the back yards, basements and streets of Centralia practically ripped the town apart. Today Centralia is a near-ghost town with only a few remaining hold-outs who refused government offers of compensation."

http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm

yann, fuck you. I sat there, hypnotized by the microtones, blindly following whatever instructions the tv was blaring at me until by computer went to sleep! Seriously, I'm surprised that the non-prime chromatic music box sounds so good. Also, what's a crypto calliope?

from zach.

http://partymode.org/files/114.jpg
http://partymode.org/files/112.jpg

hmmm. strangely enough, that pinkerton website avoids any mention of the pinkerton guards, and their role in the Homestead strike (e.g. killing people).

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