Average U.S. adult male height is 5'9.5". If you select out the age 20-29 bracket, average height increases a half-inch, probably due to nutritional factors and increased awareness of the effects of drinking, smoking and second-hand smoke during pregnancy and developmental years. It amuses me to think my height is perfectly average, to the half-inch, sort of a Cpl. Joe Bauers phenotype. BMIdesc.weight 18.5 -underweightunder 127# 18.5 to 24.9"normal"127 to 171# 21.7"ideal" (mid-normal)149# 25 to 29... (...more)

C. Cali recommended some goa / psychedelic trance musics ("psy-goa"), starting with Fractal Glider, and from there I wandered over to DI.fm's goa channel. It's nice but it all becomes very same-y after a while. Which can also be said of gabber, admittedly. I like the tempos, and light themes compared to gabber's strong tendency toward the dark and heavy. I found DI.fm (or perhaps a since-defunct internets radio station) back in my Pepto Bismol Palace days. (Hard to think how much time has slipped past ... (...more)

It was just a matter of time before some OS advance rendered P'shop 5 totally unusable. Issues like this are why I went with the XP reverse downgrade instead of Vista on my last lappy. With the adoption of Win7/64-bit, P'shop is dead to me... but in the meantime, open-source has made some serious strides, so not only is GIMP a suitable replacement, but a Windows binary installer is available. I'd toyed with GIMPshop on the last lappy, but frankly, from a fresh install, vanilla GIMP is intuitive enough to j... (...more)

Funny how ghost's battery meter tray icon has been saying 4 minutes / 5% remaining for like an hour now.