The Ultraviolet Garden

Not happy with my gallery. The problem is, one can’t comment on a single photo or even a single gallery. If you leave a comment on any photo or gallery—it’ll show up on ALL photos and galleries.

Unacceptable. I will find a way to fix that. Meantime, if you’re not specific in your comments I have no idea what photo or gallery you might be commenting on.

I don’t know if I want to add a five star rating system or not. Probably not. It shouldn’t be that easy for you to dislike my shit. I prefer forcing you to actually comment to tell me I suck. You don’t get off with just one click. You’ll have to contend with me I guess.

Haven’t been logging on to Facebook as much. It just really, really sucks over there. All the quizzes, for one (and I like quizzes). I wouldn’t mind them so much if everyone would occasionally post something other than that.

Also, it shouldn’t be notifying me via email that someone “also” commented on something, when I have not commented on it! But no, they want you to be notified, even if you just hit “like” and did not comment at all. So at least in this respect, Facebook doesn’t distinguish between “comment” and “like”.

Well. I didn’t like.

Elsewise, I found a neat resource: RR_LiveAudio.

That’s “Radio Reference” if you’re not a scanner head. Follow their tweets and the next time news is being made, you might be able to listen to the live radio chatter as it happens. This was the case re the Balloonboy. It was very interesting listening to what was going on as it happened.

I wouldn’t mind providing a feed to RR, but someone’s already providing coverage for my county. It’s pretty awesome.

Here’s a clip I made from the movie Four Rooms. I love this movie. The first room I could do without but the rest of them are great. This is room 309. The Misbehavers.

I’m behind in a couple of things I need to do, but I’ve actually been making progress.

New photos of the cats.

I wonder if linking to one of my own pages will cause a trackback to appear. I’m about to find out.

Nice try, Michael. Not unexpected. I suppose you don’t have much else to do, legally. There’s not a lot of options open to you. It’s that damn video tape. If only it would go away.

Thanks for the heads-up, Noble.

There’s many recipes out there for cannabutter. (I appreciate them all.) But I don’t know if anyone’s ever made vapobutter.

Not that I knew what I was doing, but I decided to try making pot butter with vaped weed. Vaped weed is weed that hasn’t been burned but rather heated in a vaporizer and then inhaled. Vaporizing your weed is healthier than smoking it, because when you smoke it you’re getting the carcinogens that get made during the combustion process. Eating it is even better for me, which is why I wanted to try vapobutter.

We thought: if this works we can extend the utility of the material.

It worked. Evidently something went very, very, very right. What can I say except don’t make any plans. This is great for sleep problems, pain, anxiety etc., because you get more of the “body high”.

I see Indica in my future.

You need a vaporizer. Volcano is our choice. I understand you can get them with digital readouts. We're not that fancy.

Grind the weed using a Mendo mulcher. The little orange plastic grinder that came with our Volcano wasn't that good. At all.

As you’re vaping your weed and over time, you’ll be collecting the “toasted” remains. Save those in your container of choice (we use a ziplock bag).

The green is obviously the unvaped weed. The brown is what it looks like afterwards.

Here’s what you need:

1 cup of vaped weed
3 quarter-sticks of butter (never use margarine)
Water (Guesstimate! But add more water to cook it longer)

You’re going to add all those ingredients into a pot so that you can simmer it. The idea here is to simmer for hours until most, if not all, of the water has evaporated out. I prefer this because I don’t like having to pour out the inch or so of water from the butter after refrigeration. (But tend it—so you don’t burn the butter.) If I have the time I simmer for as long as I can. Remember: you’re cooking weed that’s already been “used”, so simmer longer than you might ordinarily.

After all or most of the water has been simmered out, set it aside to cool.

Once cooled, use cheesecloth and strain it into a container (I use a tupperware container).

Gather the corners of the cloth together and squeeze as much liquid as you can into the container. This may take several minutes and don’t be afraid to use your (washed!) hands. But again make sure it’s cool enough.

After you’ve rung out all the juice, you can throw the vaped weed and the cheesecloth away.

Place the butter in the fridge to solidify.

Vapobutter!

Use vapobutter for brownies, cookies, cakes or whatever you like.

To extend the utility of your material even further: unscrew the bottom compartment of the Mendo mulcher and harvest Kief. (Hey, I’m just learning all this stuff myself. I thought they were talking about Keifer Sutherland.)

I had my appointment with Diane today. It went great and everything’s in order. (Her office is very comfortable, put me at ease. She even let Noble borrow a book that he commented on. And she REALLY read my files! I was impressed with the stuff she remembered.)

(I scanned the original copy of the license.) It’s not the type of license that you may see others using, which includes the patient’s photo (I’ve seen them and they resemble driver’s licenses or photo IDs). Those are valid too but if you have what I have (below) then it’s not really required.

The following is indeed a “license” to use cannabis.

My license to grow, cultivate and use cannabis

Youtube pulled the video of Deputy Paul Schene and Travis Brunner. Good thing I downloaded it beforehand.

Again, here’s the video. I reposted it.

If you’d like to d/l it, right click and “save as”.

Unlike the others, this vid has sound. I wouldn’t have it up any other way. See, I don’t think it’s okay to sanitize things so we don’t have to experience any trauma. As long as we, as a collective, support the police/policy; as long as we accept the principle of qualified immunity for cops, then we should be made to witness the results of that mistake.

Sound and all.

“Be made to” isn’t the best way to put it. I’m not talking about forcing anyone to witness anything. I’m referring to its availability to those who actually do want to know what these cretins get up to while they’re supposed to be serving and protecting the public—a public which includes Malika Calhoun. Of course that’s not what this goofy asshole did.

I think it’s pretty obvious that the testimony of the police hasn’t lived up to the good faith and qualified immunity bestowed upon it.

The guy in that video assaulting Malika is the same guy who shot two persons (1 of them to death) in ’02 and ’06. He has been under investigation for those shootings. Might want to look at this guy’s entire career. He’s apparently had it made… like a serial killer in a horror film.

I can’t think of any good reason for giving police officers special privileges. In fact, considering the special powers and resources they already have, it makes sense to hold them to a higher standard than the public at large. A crime committed by a police officer, if treated differently than one committed by anybody else, should carry a tougher penalty, not a lower one.

And we should get rid of those special charges and penalties for people who victimize police officers, too.

Frankly, if regular paychecks, taxpayer-issued guns and armor, and backup a radio call away aren’t enough to keep Paul Schene and his buddies happy in their work, they’re welcome to try their hand at really dangerous jobs, like driving taxis or working on commercial fishing boats. —J.D. Tuccille, Civil Liberties Examiner

You can read the rest of J.D.’s article here.

This is a very old scanner model. They’re not made anymore but a few folks out there still have their old Sportcats. I had this model in the ’90s:

The frustrating thing was that I had to call Uniden up and ask for the IF because it wasn’t printed in the manual! Can you believe that shit? The woman on the phone had no clue what I was talking about. I asked her to excuse herself and put someone on who knows what an intermediate frequency is, and to then give that information TO ME.

Finally a guy came on who knew what an IF was but he had a hard time finding the IF on this model. He finally found it and gave it to me, but I lost it. It was yrs ago, after all.

But recently I needed it again.

I wasn’t able to find this information on the ‘net. Anywhere. Therefore, I figured it out for myself and offer the info here for others. You ready? Here goes.

And the Intermediate Frequency for the scanner models SC150B (black) and SC150Y (yellow) is…

(drumroll…)

21.6MHz

That’s twenty-one point six megahertz.

Good luck navigating the reverberations every 21.6 megahertz! I understand, now, why double and triple conversion is a good thing. Glad we got a new model, now we use both.

I still think the signals they’ve recently made illegal for us to hear (signals that were perfectly legal in the 90s) should belong to whomever has the receiver to pick it up.

Provided, of course, that they keep printing and including warnings on any products (like baby monitors and wireless phones) that DO broadcast, no matter how weakly the signal. This way the user becomes responsible for not revealing personal information (like credit card numbers) on their cordless phones.

And everyone should know that their baby monitor broadcasts a signal. Do you want strangers in your ‘hood listening to your baby’s bedroom? Creepy! So just be aware. Nobody can do that job but you. RYFMP (Read Your Fucking Manuals, People).

Wouldn’t you rather be responsible and more “aware” of the world around you? Rather than having a Nanny State, as Ron Paul put it recently?

What was it Twain said about censorship? Oh yeah:

Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it. —Mark Twain