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A good bit embarrasing for a carpenter*chuckle*

 

A few items, first, to give context; My time at home is spent in the 'yard'. I go indoors, if needful or feel like doing so. It is a shelter, useful in heavy rain, or to sleep, though I am often to be found sleeping in the yard (oftimes in the roomy tent), with one or all of three dogs aside me, (and me covered in misquito repellent, if not in the tent, lol). I have a small camper trailor, and rent the property and a larger trailor. This larger trailor and the source of my current injury, became over the years a storage area. (for awhuile I did not live here, but kept the place.) In the hallway of this place was a hole in the floor that I ignored; I walked over it. I did not fix it. (deliberate not so blind spot?)

 

Yesterday afternoon, this bit of 'reality' and I met closely, intimately. LOL  Me left leg all the way to me arse did go thru the floor and the leg through the piping underneath. After everything stopped moving, and I ascertained that nothing was broken, merely bruised and torqued,   I laughed at meself, here I am , a carpenter stuck up to hir arse in the floor of an area of hir own lair!

 Needless to say, a bit sore, and lesson learned *chuckle*

 

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I just took two quick shots from my window:

 

 

They are gonna play marches out there as often as they can until tuesday. The big parades are gonna take place in front of my window. It's the Schützenfest! The same festivity every year where everything looks exactly the same every year, everything sounds exactly the same every year and which makes me almost lose all sanity every year because of the fucking marches. What you see there is not real military but ordinary people who for some reason wear uniforms . They are doing that because they have always done so every year in the summer. They even have a king and a queen. The king gets his title by shooting at a wooden bird with a gun.  There's never as much drunken yobbishness happening on the streets as when it's Schützenfest. These people must assume that everybody in this place enjoys it the way they are doing it, as loud as they are doing it and with all the limitations for traffic. In a few minutes the first parade will start which is gonna go on for several hours. I hope I don't lose my mind.

Just added this for an even better impression:

Hmm, what will the Japanese come up with next?

When I first heard about Realdolls a few years back, I figured it would only be a matter of time before they started putting robotics in them.  Well, as far as I know they still haven't, but I have just heard about AI Robotics, a Japanese company that has started to make androids.

They are currently taking pre-orders for Perfect Woman, (I wonder how much feminist backlash they will face?) a female android that can apparently be taught to clean and cook (would you trust it?)  Can they be taught to kill? (Scary prospect).  I don't know if Perfect Woman has the same kind of sex enabled technology as Realdoll, but if it doesn't, its only going to be a matter of time before the two technologies meet...

Aside from the films Stepford Wives, Bladerunner and AI coming up in my head as I think where this is heading, I'm also thinking of the magical possibilities of these things.  If they really can clean and cook and perform other household chores, then I can see it won't be long before every household has one, or two.  Thoughts of the Matrix and Terminator also come to mind at this point.

But by the time they are in mass production, using them as a physical basis to house servitor spirits may become and attractive prospect.  After all, the ability to build slave lifeforms that did the sorcerors bidding was largely what the creation of homunculi was all about.

One last thing, for the heterosexual woman and gay men of you, apparently a male version of the android will also be available soon.  I wonder if they'll make it look like Data.  I dare say some will dress them up that way if they can...

Thanks a lot for your opinions on the goat pics. 

I quickly proceeded in doing the proof reading and layout for "Prometheus´ Tod" so it seemed likely to already design the cover as I was once logged in to my publishers´ server today. I uploaded all files for the book today which means that it should be available via Amazon and bookstores in about three or four weeks. For some reason Baphomet in his 'revolting' pose with a red background kept popping up in front of my mind's eye so I decided to make this the cover design. I think it looks quite cool. All logged in users can have a look at a preview of the book cover which is in PDF format here: http://network.kiamagic.com/zeitl0ch/files/-1/29/preview_10194516_27148_cover_5b2213a470.pdf

Do you like it? Sorry for most of you that the book will be in German. Anton has already asked me once about translations. At the moment I lack contacts to foreign publishers and the next obvious step for me will be to try and trigger some public interest in Germany first. If the book can find an audience I might see if my publisher can help me with an English translation. I know Feather speaks a little German and maybe somebody else of you does, too. If you think your German is good enough to read a German novel, maybe you can find a way to purchase it outside Germany (perhaps via Amazon). At least my first book "Zeitlochs ewige Abenteuer" is being advertised on a Japanese page as I saw.

Soon I will publish my novel "Prometheus´Tod". I decided I wanted a goat on the cover because in the book the story is told by the devil. I recently saw a perfect goat at the "Kinderbauernhof" ("children's farm" - something like a small zoo with farm animals) near where I live. It had a very thick beard and a lot of fur, seemd to belong to another race than the typical middle-european goats. Today I went there with a camera but the pen where I had seen it was empty. So I had to take photographs of some other goats I found. I guess that special goat could be back on sunday when the most visitors come. I think I'll go and take another picture of that one, then. Now I want to set up a little contest on which goat will be the one for the cover. I would like you to comment on them like the jury in "Idol" or "Next Top Model". Because I am Occulture's only true equivalent to Heidi Klum (she hosts "Germany's Next Top Model" - OK, I might not be married to Seal, but to seven of them instead, HarHar!) and because I am the one who will publish the book I reserve the right to comment myself and to make the final decision. However I am willing to seriously consider your opinions and I think it would just be fun playing the jury. OK?

Here's the first candidate:

LILLY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Lilly! Lilly, you're very young aren't you? I have the impression the camera still scares you a little. You didn't want to look at the photographer, did you? Now, Lilly. We're seacrhing for a DEVIL, you see? I have the impression you're just a little too fluffy and white and cute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, but I have to admit, Lilly, that at your second attempt you developed your very own way of being creepy. So you get some of my respect for that. But I am still not sure if this is the kind of devil we want. OK?

Next One:

PAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, Pan! You step in front of a camera convinced that you're a professional. You have the greatest self esteem of all candidates. But I think the only postive thing I can really say about the picture is that you seem natural. Let's look at the next one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here we can see your self esteem and vanity again, but the pose is not quite what we wanted to see. You think you're beautiful but I think you lack anything demonic and that is what we need. Alright? Sorry, but I don't think you're gonna make it.

And last but not least:

BAPHOMET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baphomet, I say it openly, you're my favourite! The expression of revolt you show here tells us you're the one who really gets the idea of being the devil. You show so much passion on that photograph it's just unbelieveable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baphomet, you know what you're doing. Just bluntly showing off your pentagram shaped head like this is what we need here. If we digitally improve that picture a little this could really be the one. There's just one thing about you that bothers me a tiny little bit. We'll see it on the next picture, too...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem I see is that despite your apparent age and experience you still don't know what to do with your ears. First the right ear goes down and then the left ear goes up. I am not yet sure if this will be a problem. We'll see...

I have just agreed to become a staff writer for key64.net and to celebrate I've just written my first article there as staff.  Of course I once used to be a regular contributor of the old site, key23, and I had one article published by key64 already, but it still feels special to me, so I'm mentioning it anyway...

So this first article is Know Thyself, and it is somewhat of a expansion upon a central theme to my blog Sorcery and Comfort.

I have written a new blog entry on my serpent website.  A sort of write up of Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple 

http://serpent.antonchanning.com/blog/liber-malorum-children-of-the-apple/

Want to pimp your KIA Profile page with custom backgrounds and your own choice of colours?  Well now you can.  I've just finished writing a post on the forum about how to do just that.  As you can see, I've already included a custom background on my own profile.  Feel free to ask questions if you get stuck... :)

Read the post here: http://network.kiamagic.com/mod/vanillaforum/vanilla/comments.php?D 

I just thought I'd test the ability to add video content, in this case imported from YouTube.  Looking through my YouTube favourites, this one seemed somewhat appropriate...