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We went to visit Rose... 
When we left it was dark, and I didnt know there was a ditch behind me.
Zach thought it was cool
After failing at pulling it out ourselves, I called AAA
They said they'd send a tow truck
But Zach got cold...
The End
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| My Birthday Party |
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September 6th, 2006 • 1:24pm ] |
If you are reading this, you are invited.
It's on Oakland street in Roseville Michigan 48066.
Come drink some beers with me this Saturday.
586 945 6678
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August 4th, 2006 • 3:49am ] |
I have a livejournal.
Haha.
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June 8th, 2006 • 4:42am ] |
Comment with your name, and...
01. I'll respond with something random about you.
02. I'll challenge you to try something.
03. I'll pick a color that I associate with you.
04. I'll tell you something I like about you.
05. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
06. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you.
08. If I do this for you, you must post this on your LJ.
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March 16th, 2006 • 2:23pm ] |
Can
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February 18th, 2006 • 6:59pm ] |
Yeah. I love my life.
It's gooooooooood.
Haha, fuck you.
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Here's a story that is so fragmented, so contradictory, so strange and bizarre I eventually had to tape all the bits and pieces of the story to my office walls to try to create some kind of a big picture.
The story is growing and I can't help but think of the possibility that all of this information on the wall will eventually form the basis of a legend among must-believers; a legend not quite as powerful as the Kennedy assanation conspiracy, true, yet a legend which should last for decades -- if not forever among believers.
I'm going to offer you what I've been able to learn about this story as well as my own conjectures.
Philip Taylor Kramer, one-time bassist for the rock group Iron Butterfly, disappeared on February 12'th, 1996, and hasn't been seen or heard from since. Among the computer networks, news of his disappearance created only a minor flurry of comments by rock music fans yet for the most part his disappearance remained of little interest. Until, that is, the rumors came down from both reliable and dubious sources that Kramer was working on a faster-than-light communications system just before his disappearance. In various paranormal and so-called "advanced science" discussion groups, the possibility that he had been abducted by a super secret agency of the United States, the Russians, or aliens from another planet began. A dozen "real reasons" for his alleged abduction have risen to the top of the conjecture heap and all of them are, well, imaginative.
I observed the growing rumors and the widening conspiracy yet I didn't think much of it -- until KTLA News here in Los Angeles ran a short five minute report on his disappearance and confirmed that Kramer had indeed been working on a faster-than-light communications system. KTLA reported that Representative James A. Traficant Jr. of Ohio was concerned about Kramer's disappearance due to the fact that Kramer held nuclear-oriented security clearances tied to the MX Missile project and due to the type of mathematical research Kramer was working on.
Though several tabloid papers covered this strange story, eventually reliable sources started to invstigate and report. On May 5'th, the San Diego Union Tribune ran a lengthy story covering the disappearance. As I had expected, the story also covered the growing claims of conspiracy and possible abduction by mysterious agencies. Ron Bushy, Iron Butterfly's co-founder, was supposed to have been working with Kramer to schedule an Iron Butterfly reunion tour at the time of his disappearance. When the Union Tribune talked with Bushy about Kramer's disappearance, Bushy said "I honestly believe that he has been abducted by our government or an agency that is part of it or maybe a foreign government or a company." [Reference 1]
The reason for this suggestion was the fact that just days before his disappeared, Kramer and his father believed they had worked out a mathematical breakthrough which would allow the nearly instantaneous transmission of matter which would also revolutionize the communications industry. "We're talking 'Beam me up Scotty' time," Bushy said.
The research deals with a mathematical representation describing faster-than-light communication employing gravitational waves and magnetic particles. Current research on the detection of gravity waves consists of hugely massive aluminum or niobium cylinders, sitting inside of superconducting tubs of liquid nitrogen deep underground, and the only events capable of producing gravity waves of a high enough intensity to be detected by such devices is a supernova, the collapse of a black hole, or the creation of the universe. Contemporary research also suggests that using the Earth itself in conjunction with a distant spacecraft might also be used to detect these extremely weak waves. [reference 2] How such a technology can be used to transmit matter or communicate over any distance instantaneously hasn't been covered in any of the articles I've found and nothing in any faster-than-light conjecture books I have on hand talk about it.
The headlines of some of the articles I've found are kind of interesting and guarantee to provoke the purchase of the publication. "Alien Abductions? Two Rockers Lost in Space" is a story in a publication by an organization called "Addicted To Noise" -- ATN -- which covered the disappearance of Richey Edwards and Philip Kramer -- two rock stars who share a great many similarities in their disappearances.
Many web pages on Internet which offer comment on Kramer's disappearance also carry attention-grabbing titles and offer mysterious conjectures. Several comment upon how the story of Kramer's disappearance is worthy of something one expects to see on "The X-Files," the FOX Network's very popular science fiction series. Some speculate upon the meaning of the title and words of Iron Butterfly's highly successful song "In a godda da vida," the meaning of which is widely known among music fans as being a drunkenly slurred reference to the Christian "Garden of Eden" myth. Even KTLA's News anchor mistakenly stated that the song's contents and title remains a mystery. If mankind can learn the "true meaning" of Iron Butterfly's most famous song, several New Agers have suggested, we'll find out what "really happened" to Philip Kramer.
Some of the newspaper accounts conflict slightly with others. Various report that Kramer either did or did not make an appointment to pick up an associate at the Los Angeles Airport yet a $3.00 bill for 45 minutes of LAX parking was received by the Kramer residence 10 days after his disappearance containing a receipt with Kramer's IOU written on it. Kramer, it seems, didn't have the cash on hand for parking or -- it is considered by some -- he didn't wish to waste three dollars on parking knowing in advance that he was going to disappear and wanted to save his money. Being a computer executive, Kramer would have known how easily credit cards and checking account transactions can be tracked and, if one wishes to go underground, hanging onto three dollars when one can write an IOU instead makes good sense.
What's interesting is that Kramer _didn't_ pick up his associate. Something must have happened to him at the airport while he was waiting. It seems that he went to the airport parking lot, receiving a parking stub, and started waiting in the arrival terminal for his associate to arrive. Sometime during his wait, something prompted him to simply walk back to his green van, leave an IOU for his 45 minutes of parking, then drive off into oblivion. As he was driving away, he made a series of strange telephone calls to friends and family expressing his love. It seems that the last call he made was to 911, "This is a Philip Taylor Kramer and I'm going to kill myself."
I have asked myself, if a man is going to kill himself, why would he leave an IOU for three dollars unless he seriously just didn't have it on him? A successful computer executive, I would think, would always have at least a small amount of cash. If Kramer was intent upon making himself disappear, planting the suggestion that he was going to kill himself might have been an attempt to make the police who would later investigate his disappearance suppose that he was successful. Kramer's wife also might not stand to get legal issues resolved until years after Kramer's disappearance made him legally dead so the claim of suicide might also have been out of a desire to help his wife. His van hasn't been found. If he did kill himself, his van might have been stolen and stripped down just hours or days after his suicide. At this point, all anyone seems to be doing is employing conjecture, myself included.
What is in agreement is that Kramer's mental stability was slipping. Just days before he disappeared, he stated that the Earth was going to end due to a supernova; that his father, a Professor of engineering at Youngstown University in Ohio, was really a god; that Jennifer, his wife, was really Mother Earth. As they were looking for a new home several days before his disappearance, he told his wife that he was frightened that people were going to come for him. "Honey, we're going to have to live behind walls. Honey, people are going to want to get at me."
Perhaps Kramer actually believed that he had stumbled upon an astounding breakthrough. The paranoia expressed tends to make me think that perhaps Philip Kramer disappeared to try to protect his wife and family from what he believed were dangerous government agencies who would eventually come after him after news of his breakthrough became known to them. That leads me to think that, if he is still alive and simply in hiding, he will eventually resurface and perhaps try to either start a laboratory of his own to develope his breakthrough else find a laboratory he feels he can trust and sign on with them.
For us skeptics, though, what might be more interesting was Kramer's growing involvement and belief in New Age mysticism. The Union Tribune reported that Kramer had read "The Celestine Prophecy" -- a best-selling book about a middle aged man who sets out to find the "nine insights" of life. Kramer asked his wife to only eat "colors of the spectrum," asking that she not wear black clothes or eat meat. This book also factors greatly in must-believers' conjectures among the computer networks. Perhaps, some suggest, the mathematical breakthrough that Kramer and his father developed caused Kramer (and the van he was driving) to "vibrate" out of visibility, just as happens in the "Celestine Prophecy." This inability to discern reality from fiction has manifested itself repeatedly since I started paying attention to this case. Stories from popular fiction -- like "The X-Files," are being used to "explain" Kramer's disappearance.
Kathy Kramer, Philip Kramer's sister, has been getting unsolicited letters from self-professed "psychics" pin-pointing her brother's location using map-dowsing -- the "psychic" lays out a map and suspends an object from a chain or string and, depending upon the movement of the object, one pretends to discern where the missing person or object is. One such "lead" which came through the mail was from Austria and it stated that her brother was the victim of an accident yet was alive and being worshipped as a deity among the Pechanga Indians on a reservation outside of Los Angeles. Kathy Kramer went to talk with the tribe's council yet they knew nothing about her missing brother.
This brings us back to Representative James A. Traficant Jr. He has twice asked for a federal investigation, citing Kramer's reported mathematical breakthrough and his work with the MX missile as cause for national security concerns. Traficant states in his request to the FBI that it's not unlikely that the research Kramer was working on was such that a foreign power might have "abducted, apprehended, compromised, or somehow brainwashed" Kramer. He even suggests that it's possible domestic agencies could use Kramer's "extraordinary knowledge for nefarious purposes." The FBI, for its part, at first rejected the suggestion for an inquiry yet has reversed itself, stating "It's a known fact there are rouge nations like Iran working on nuclear weapons who could use someone with Taylor Kramer's knowledge to make long-range missiles. Just because it's a remote possibility doesn't mean you shouldn't investigate it."
Because of Traficant's request, some believers in either the alien abduction theory or the foreign/domestic government kidnapping theory have suggested that Traficant will be the next to disappear if he doesn't stop asking questions.
The "fact" that Kramer has finally created a "Star Trek transporter" doesn't seem to be worthy of debate by some of the believers I've talked with, interestingly enough. To "prove" the "undeniable fact" that Kramer successfully created a matter transmitter, I've been told that the electrostatic photocopier is a "case in point." When I express my ignorance at how this proves Kramer developed a matter transporting technology, I'm usually ignored or told to "stop acting stupid." Doubtless there are connections between these two amazingly useful technologies, yet I can't help but question how the obvious existence of photocopiers proves the existence of matter transmitters. Perhaps the existence of one amazing machine is "proof" that any amazing machine one might dream up is possible.
So what about faster-than-light communications? Dr. Milton A. Rothman, former professor of physics at Trenton State College and former research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, covers the reasons why physicists don't expect to find undiscovered forces allowing anti-gravity devices, faster-than-light transportation and communication devices, and ESP, in his book "The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and Understanding the Reality of Science." Dr. Rothman states that for such things to be possible, a new particle responsible for carrying a new force would have to be discovered yet were such a particle to actually exist, it would have been inferred by experimentation long before now. Dr. Rothman states, "The conclusion to which we are forced -- unsatisfactory as it might be to many -- is that we cannot depend upon the discovery of new and radically different kinds of forces in the future to help us go faster than light, to hold vehicles suspended in midair, to make objects move by directing thoughts at them, or to transmit messages telepathically. We must make do with the forces that exist." [Reference 3]
Dr. Rothman also covers must-believer's arguments to the contrary when it is suggested that science has been wrong before and thus the possibility of faster-than-light star travel or communication is still possible. (What New Agers disdainfully call "the conventional wisdom.") "What makes this argument invalid is the fact that it is based upon a myth. The idea that all theories are temporary is simply not true, even though it is believed by a great many people. The reason is, as we have shown, that we do know some things for a certainty."
Several things are certain in Philip Kramer's case. Kramer obviously believed that his mathematical breakthrough was going to put his life and the lives of his family in danger. It's also certain that if Kramer ever surfaces, either dead or alive, the conspiracy theories and conjecture as to the "true story" will continue for a long, long time.
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January 22nd, 2006 • 7:14am ] |
Bleeding Through "The Truth" sucks dick.
So do you, come to think of it.
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January 7th, 2006 • 3:32am ] |
I miss back in the day.
But there are some amazing people in my life right now.
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January 3rd, 2006 • 5:07pm ] |
And I only got this because of Ashley. She's way smarter than me, and most of you.
9x3=27, Right?
That includes the two dollars the asshole bellboy stole.
Then they each have a single. 27+3=30
It's all worded to trick you. We got busted. I seriously IMed this to a doven or so people and nobody got it, but her. So, Ashley, I don't like you anymore. lol.
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Three men walked into a hotel one night and asked the clerk for a room. The clerk told the men it would be thirty dollars, so each of the men handed over a ten. They ventured on to their room for the night. The hotel clerk felt guilty for overcharging them, because on most occasions he only requests twenty five for a room. He abruptly requested the bell boy take back five dollars to their room. On the way to their room, the bell boy decided that he would take a tip from them without them even knowing. He concluded this would even out the wages for the men to have returned. In that he would give each one of them a single dollar back. He then journeyed on and handed them the three dollars in return......So if the bell boy retuned a dollar to each of the men, then that significantly means that each of the men only paid 9 dollars for the room. Although, when adding all three mens payments together (9+9+9) it equals an amount of 27 dollars. Then you replace the two dollars the bell boy took out on a tip and you have 29 dollars....So where is the other dollar?
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I'm not used to having people mad at me. At least not for a legitimate reason. All I can say, is I'm sorry. If I can do anything to make up for it, I will.
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| New Years was sweet |
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January 1st, 2006 • 3:11pm ] |
Except that I drank way too much, and acted a fool.
Fuck it, when don't I?
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December 29th, 2005 • 4:42pm ] |
So. Things are ok.
Work sucks, and I guess I still won't get my first check until Wednesday. Which kind of sucks, because I want to get a lot of belated Xmas gifts, that I just did not have the money for. Luckily, my old job called me today, and said they need a little help tomorrow afternoon, and Saturday morning. Cash, the same day. At least I'll have some New Years money. Which brings me to my next point. A resolution. I think I am going to make two. One, I want to get in better physical shape. Two, I want to find a girlfriend. A real one. I'm sick of girls that don't last. It's lame, and immature. Not to say I am mature, I mean, I still laugh at fart jokes.
The whole not eating meat thing is going awesome. Not a drop since. Unless you count the fact that I still eat pizza, after I pick the pepperonis off. I think there might be some kind of juices in the cheese. Oh well, close enough. The smoking thing is going well too. The only ciggarette I had was the other day at Ram's Horn. But Sandy made me. Seriously, she had a gun to my head.
I don't really know what else to talk about. On New Years, everyone that invited me to a party, I am going to at least stop by. Whoever is having the best time, is where I will do the countdown. I think that this year, I wont get drunk and punch some guy while wearing 2005 "star" glasses. It was pretty funny, though.
Well, night kiddies.
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December 24th, 2005 • 10:40am ] |
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1)Rob
2)The Magic Chef
3)Bobby
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1) MorethanMediocre
2) Rob is your God
3) Local 927
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) Brains
2) Brawn
3) My sweet chops
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1) My fat
2) My scars
3) My hair
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1) Greek
2) German
3) Pimp
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU:
1) Lonliness
2) Failure
3) STD tests
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1.) Phone
2.) salad
3.) crutons
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1) Gucci
2) On Broken Wings shirt
3) Jeans
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE BANDS OR MUSICAL ARTISTS:
1) Metallica
2) Bury your Dead
3) Elvis Costello
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS:
1) Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
2) Olivers Army - Elvis Costello
3) Vanilla Sky - Bury Your Dead
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP
1.) Compassion
2.) Honesty
3.) Heartbreak
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order):
1) I love Gwar
2) My truck is white
3) I'm a virgin, till I'm married
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE PREFERRED SEX THAT YOU LIKE:
1) Good TEETH
2) Eyes
3) Hands
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1) Music
2) Spening loot
3) Sleeping
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1.) Poop
2.) Get my check
3.) Take over the world
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING/YOU'VE CONSIDERED:
1.) Musician
2.) Fireman
3) Pimp
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1.) Phoenix
2) LA
3) Italy
THREE KID'S NAMES YOU LIKE:
1.) Robert Victor Jessmon IV
2) Trish
3) Secret
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1.)Control the world, or at least a large group of people (seriously)
2.)Be rich
3) Have the perfect family
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A BOY:
1) I work with metsl
2) I'm a ladie's man, j/k
3) I am a computer geek
THREE WAYS THAT YOU ARE STEREOTYPICALLY A GIRL:
1) I wear eyeliner sometimes
2) I like to cuddle
3) I... pee sitting down?
THREE CELEB CRUSHES:
1.) Reese Witherspoon
2) Dane Cook
3) Johnny Depp
THREE PEOPLE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW:
1.) Everyone
2.) Seriously
3) My whole friends list
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December 19th, 2005 • 2:28am ] |
I was at the party store today. I paid with a $50. My change was $41.41. I thought to myself, "I should play that in the lottery."
I never play the lottery, so I didn't say anything. Then the cashier says, "You should play that for the evening game." Since I was already thinking it, I was cool with it.
I played 4141 two way, which means 1414 could win also. So, I just checked the numbers. They came up 1313 today.
I was pissed.
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December 18th, 2005 • 8:48pm ] |
I'm getting rid of all of th useless people in my life. If you don't hear from me, or I seem like maybe I don't want to talk to you, just quit talking to me. I'm sick of keeping people in my life who really don't give a shit about me. So, I'm sorry, but Fuck You. If you have a problem with this, feel free to discuss it, but don't bother if you are going to be offended by my brutal honesty.
<3 Fuck off.
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December 17th, 2005 • 1:13pm ] |
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| Vanilla Sky |
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December 8th, 2005 • 3:58pm ] |
Every mile makes me feel so far away. You are the only thing that helps me sleep at night. Another city and I tell you that we're on our way. I know I used to think that you were by my side. You have changed and I know that so have I. This is the only way for me to say good-bye. Another week and we'll be in the same bed at night. If that's too far from now I'll have to cut my ties. Just because I'm so alone; doesn't mean I can't miss home. I'm tired of crying, tired of sleeping alone. If this is how you want it, I am moving on.
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