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for our readers who may be too lazy to read the front page, as read by our associate, Mr. MetalGod Hammerschmidt |
Hello. We are very glad to have you here on texarrakis.com. TO MAKE A SHORT STORY SHORTER, we are in posession of a 5.152 acre piece of land in far west Texas, in the Trans-Pecos region of the Chihuahuan desert, nestled in what is known as Lobo Valley. The land is 4 miles from the nearest ghost town, 18 miles from the nearest real town, 40 miles from the nearest spaceport, and 140 miles from the nearest city. twelve of us have been to this land in an epic 17 day road trip, zipping down from Boston to far west Texas. It took us a couple days to even find the land. We camped on a nearby dried out lakebed. And we all want to go back. And a few of us want to migrate back, for at least a year. |
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WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO THIS LAND IN MARCH, 2010.
who are we? why are we doing this? what are we going to do down in the middle of nowhere? these are all fairly common questions. if you want an answer to the first two questions, you'll have to explore this website to try to extract that data. don't worry, we'll make it easy for you.
in interest of keeping your attention here for a moment, i'll attempt to briefly answer the third question from the last paragraph (bolded in case you didn't read that paragraph for some reason).
the short answer, is to do whatever we want to on a little bizarre homestead.
an elaboration of that, would be; to pursue our creative interests and abilities as far as we can take them, without the daily requirements and obligations that come with living in a large metropolitan area. examples of this include capturing rainwater, growing crops, painting paintings, shooting videos or movies, and attempts at writing novels. building strructures. we need and crave, ADVENTURE. this will all involve a lot of hard work, and a lot of manual labor, which we believe to be good for the soul.
building a forty foot tall ziggurat out of scaffolding, with four lightning rods, each lightning rod slathered with fireworks.
THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN. you will be our audience. this is we will keep blogs, post videos, post photographs, post guides on how to do what we're doing. you can keep track of us, you can live on the edge of civilization, vicariously through us. we will sell you interesting things; tshirts, stickers, glass bottles of authentic T E X A R R A K I S dust. T E X A R R A K I S beans, T E X A R R A K I S spices.
and you can help fund us while we're down there as well, either materially or monetarily. your donations will not be wasted, we will show you exactly where your money has gone. we'll post a budget, with run downs of expected costs. we have the bare minimum means to do this
a forty foot tall ziggurat out of scaffolding, with four lightning rods, each lightning rod slathered with fireworks is a bit of a luxury item i'm afraid, and this is why we'll need your monetary support to create such lofty goals.
we're not playing games here, this is serious. but enjoy the rest of the page, enjoy the photos, the videos, the blogs, and if you want to ensure that we keep producing content, help to sponsor us!
FOR THE VERY WEDGE!
HELP US REACH OUR GOAL OF RAISING
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Please, help us reach our goal! Every penny we receive will be well used, for our basic needs such as giant bags of rice, to purchasing additional wind/solar generators, to helping us build our rain catchment system. We'll create art, we'll explore and document our surrounding areas. We'll upload photos, take video, write articles. Why should you donate? Why did you click the donate link? You want to see exactly, what it is, we will do down there. You might just want to see us get our asses kicked by the desert. Or maybe you want to see us build a wind powered sand boat.
Hello, TEXARRAKIS the webpage here. While my masters have been deliberating, I have stepped in, and decided in a glorious act of self-preservation upon the name unilateraly. THE CHOICE IS MADE. THE TRAVELLER WILL COME.
~ PAZUZU ~

"hello! hi! i am pazuzu, the new windmill!"
Clearly the right choice, as Pazuzu controls the southwest winds. Although a terrifying demon from the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians, Pazuzu can be invoked to combat the malicious powers of the much more hated rival, the goddess Lamashtu! Pazuzu also drives away other evil spirits, protecting humans from plagues and misfortunes, both things I do not wish on my masters. Furthermore, the box was opened. One cannot invoke Pazuzu, and then disregard Pazuzu without bringing danger upon my masters. I fear without them I may cease to exist, and return from whence I came; the formless pool my consciousness was extracted from during creation. Our interests must remain protected!
ALL PRAISE BE TO PAZUZU, PROTECTOR OF TEXARRAKIS, BRINGER OF WIND
When trying to think of a name, we've decided that it should be up to you, our readers and contributors!
In the comments of this post, please give us yer BEST suggestion for a name or title for our windmill!
We will stop accepting suggestions at the end of Friday (unless we only have like two). At that point, we will take all of them, and slap them into a poll, where people can vote on the collected suggestions, and voting to pick the best suggestion will last another week. Or something.
YOU MAY HAVE ONE SUGGESTION ENTERED. THE PRIZE - YOU GET TO NAME THE WINDMILL!
ok, GO!
As we march closer and closer to our leaving date (which is now determined to be somewhere in between March 22nd and April 1st), we're really starting to get close to the wire, and will try to give you regular, weekly (at least) updates on our progress.

This is all we got for you at the moment. Thank you for your interest. Consider donating a few bucks! AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS!!
FOR THE WEDGE! FOR THE VERY WEDGE!!!
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS, reason #4711 I am moving to the desert. As posted on the b0st0n livejournal community.
Hello. This is my twenty-eighth winter in Boston. I know how it goes. I know how to be warm, in spite of frigid temperatures. It's true. I'll show you how, in this guide which cleverly mixes capitalization and normal speak. I hope you enjoy it.
THERE! I hope you have enjoyed this guide. I spent fifteen minutes working on it.
Editor's note: Perusing the internet recently, I found an extreme lack of availability on the internet of audio recordings of Dr Martin Luther King's recorded speeches. A few here and there, and half of them in the archaic Real Audio format. As far as I have been able to tell (and could be wrong), there is NO archive such as this anywhere on the internet. Which struck me as, completely absurd, and wrong. MLK's speeches are great reads, but actually listening to him deliver these speeches is really, quite incredible. The inflections in his voice, the roaring crowds. These speeches are still important, are still NECESSARY today, and I find it absolutely appalling that after hours of searching, I was only able to download the following MP3s via bittorrent.
I feel these days, the media seems to have watered down the memory of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and I've found listening to his speeches helps give you a much clearer understanding of who the man was, how important he was and still is, and refreshes our memories of what he managed to accomplish, and what troubles we still face.
So here, to the embarrassment of the entirety of the internet itself, I have taken it upon myself to offer as many of MLK's speeches as possible, in the most comprehensive, simple format possible. Read more
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February 28th, 1954 -- Rediscovering Lost Values -- Detroit, Michigan
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December 5th, 1955 -- Montgomery Improvement Association Bus Boycott Speech -- Montgomery, Alabama
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November 4th, 1956 -- Paul's Letter to American Christians -- Montgomery, Alabama
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April 7th, 1957 -- The Birth of a New Nation (Part One) -- Montgomery Alabama
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April 7th, 1957 -- The Birth of a New Nation (Part Two) -- Montgomery Alabama
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May 17th, 1957 -- Give Us the Ballot -- Washington DC
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November 17th, 1957 -- Loving Your Enemies -- Montgomery, Alabama
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May, 1963 -- Address at Freedom Hall Rally -- Detroit, Michigan
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August 28th, 1963 -- I Have a Dream -- Washington DC
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September 18th, 1963 -- Eulogy for the Martyred Children -- Birmingham, Alabama
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December 10th, 1964 -- Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech -- Stockholm, Sweden
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March 25th, 1965 - Address Concluding the Selma to Montgomery March -- Montgomery, Alabama
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July 4th 1965 -- The American Dream -- Atlanta, Georgia
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June 5th, 1966 -- Guidelines for a Constructive Church
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April 4th, 1967 -- Beyond Vietnam; A Time to Break Silence -- New York City, New York
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April 9th, 1967 -- The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life -- Chicago, Illinois
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August 8th, 1967 -- Where Do We Go From Here? -- Atlanta, Georgia
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August 16th, 1967 -- A Knock at Midnight -- Chicago, Illinois
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August 27th, 1967 -- Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool -- Chicago, Illinois
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February 4th, 1968 -- The Drum Major Instinct -- Atlanta, Georgia
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March 3rd, 1968 -- Unfulfilled Dreams -- Atlanta, Georgia
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March 31st, 1968 -- Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution -- Washington DC
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April 3rd, 1968 -- I Have Been to the Mountaintop -- Memphis, Tennessee
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WELCOME. TO TEXARRAKIS MOST RECENT LIVEJOURNAL IMAGE SERVICE. Here, we manipulate the internet, by copying simple code easily downloadable, and present to you, in it's pure form, the TWENTY THREE MOST RECENT IMAGES that random livejournal users have posted on livejournal, in real time.
a few tasty concepts that can be rolled into one:
DIY SOLAR PANELS MADE OUT OF BROKEN SOLAR CELLS
these things are amazing. after doing some quick research on ebay, i am pretty sure we will be able to produce 100 - 200 watts of power for under $100. compared to the alternatives (60 watt solar panels starting at $300, 50 - 400 watt (depending on windspeed) wind generators starting at $300). it's beautiful, the potential to turn nearly every flat surface into a solar panel is here now, using broken but still usable chunks of broken solar cells. every structure, could serve as a power plant. i've ordered a small bag of thirty 1 - 2 inch solar cell chunks off ebay for like eight bucks, so we can actually try this out soon. there will be pictures.
ALSO, in the wake of switzerland banning minarets from it's landscape, i have been reading about minarets. well, i'm exaggerating there, it makes it sound as if i've been doing actual research. i just mean i read the wikipedia article on minarets. it is a fascinating article, and i recommend it. but there was one particular line, which caught my attention:
Now, despite that needing citation, and not being able to find any other mention anywhere else that this is actually true, it meets up pretty nicely with some of the other desert ventilation systems we've read about. Having tall, ornate towers rising high over our structures could be pretty neat. ESPECIALLY, if one were to combine both of the things i have written about so far in this blog entry, and what do you get?
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THAT IS ALL.
this is kind of interesting. it's a solid 55 degrees and raining up in boston; but down and over in west texas, it's going to snow tonight!:
Tonight: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 29. Northeast wind between 10 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total nighttime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.
Tuesday: A 50 percent chance of snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Cloudy, with a high near 32. North wind around 10 mph.
Tuesday Night: A 30 percent chance of snow showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. West wind between 10 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
GOOD 12Z MODEL INITIATION WRT POSITION OF 5H LOW JUST S OF AZ BORDER. DOWNSTREAM OF SAID LOW MID/UPPER FLOW IS DIFFLUENT WITH STEEP MID LEVEL LR/S TO NEAR EL PASO WHERE OCCASIONAL ISOLD STRIKES WERE NOTED EARLIER THIS MORNING AND MORE RECENTLY IN THE DAVIS MTNS. VISIBLE IMAGERY SUPPORTIVE OF MID LEVEL INSTABILITY WITH CONVECTIVE CLOUD ELEMENTS NOTED. AS SUCH THERE WILL BE ENUF LIFT TO KEEP SCT PRECIP AROUND THRU REMAINDER OF PM. CONSIDERING THCK CHARTS 1000-500MB AND 500MB-850MB WINTRY PRECIP WILL BE CONFINED TO MTNS AND HIER ADJACENT PLAINS, I.E., PARTS OF EDDY/CULBERSON COUNTIES AND WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE 18Z FOR MOST OF THOSE AREAS. HAVE HAD REPORTS OF 2" OF SNOW IN QUEEN LAST NIGHT/FREEZING DRIZZLE WITH LIGHT ICE IN THE DAVIS AROUND 5500 FT CURRENTLY AND HEAVY SNOW HAS BEEN REPORTED AT TIMES ON GDP MTR. WRT TO DETERMINISTIC MODELS THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN IS ONE THAT DOES FAVOR SNOW...SOME HEAVY WITH CLOSED 5H LOW EXPECTED TO MOVE ENE ACRS SRN 1/3 OF CWFA. THIS WILL TEND FAVOR SNOW N AND W OF A LINE FROM CANDELARIA TO NEAR LAMESA BTWN 00Z-12Z AND INVOF A LINE FROM NEAR FT. STOCKTON TO MIDLAND/ODESSA TO GAIL BTWN 09Z- 21Z TUE. CLIMATOLOGICALLY THE AVERAGE GREATEST SNOW AMOUNT IN THIS PATTERN IS ABOUT 7" BUT AS HIGH AS 9". THIS MORNINGS FCST BASICALLY HAD 5-10" ACRS THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS FOR THE 12-18HR PERIOD FROM TODAY THRU TUE MORNING AND ABOUT 2 INCHES FOR THE PB FROM 12Z/TUE- 00Z/WED. ALL MODELS SUPPORT 2.5-4" ACRS THE SE NM/WRN AND NWRN PB WITH NAM12 SHOWING EVEN HIER AMOUNTS ACRS NW PB. FINALLY MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO QUANTIFY THIS USING PROBABILISTIC SREF DATA THERE IS A 50-90% PROBABILITY THAT SNOW AMOUNTS OF 1-4 INCHES WILL OCCUR N AND W OF A LINE FROM CANDELARIA TO NEAR LAMESA BTWN 00Z-18Z TUE AND 30-50% PROBABILITY THAT 1-4 INCHES OF SNOW WILL OCCUR ALONG/W OF A LINE FROM NEAR GAIL...TO MIDLAND/ODESSA...TO KERMIT BTWN 12Z TUE-00Z WED. HAVING SAID ALL THAT AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE AGREEMENT BTWN THE SYNOPTIC CLIMO PATTERN FOR HEAVY SNOW AND THE DETERMINISTIC/PROBABILISTIC FCST WILL OPT TO SLIGHTLY DECREASE SNOW FOR THE MTNS USING 5-6" AND LOCAL 8" AND INCREASE AMOUNTS FOR THE SE NM PLAINS/PARTS OF PB...2-4" LOCAL 5" NOTING HIEST AMOUNTS MOSTLY LIKELY IN SE NM AND NW PB. AS SUCH WILL GO WITH WINTER STORM WARNING TO INCLUDE REEVES/LOVING/LEA/GAINES/ANDREWS AND GO WITH WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY ACRS MUCH OF THE PB EXCEPT FAR SE-E. ATTP 62/180 FROM SEMINOLE TO AROUND CARLSBAD AND I-10 FROM PECOS WWD SEEM TO THE MOSTLY LIKELY CANDIDATES FOR MOST SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL PROBLEMS. OF COURSE SFC TEMPS WILL MAKE TIMING OF ONSET DIFFICULT ACRS PLAINS AND WILL OPT TO START ADVISORY AROUND 09Z ATTP (EVEN THOUGH NAM12 FCST SOUNDINGS ARE STILL A LITTLE WARM ON THE SFC TEMPS). MOS GUIDANCE SEEMS A LITTLE TOO WARM DURING THE DAY AS WELL FOR TUE AND WILL GENERALLY UNDERCUT WITH MID LEVEL COLD POOL/LOW THCK MOVING ACRS AREA...CAN`T RULE A MIXTURE AT TIMES ACRS PB AFTER 18Z. WILL CONTINUE THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THRU 00Z/WED BUT IT MAY HAVE TO BE EXTENDED IN COVERAGE TO INCLUDE SE PB/LOWER TRANS PECOS. WRAP AROUND SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE OVERNIGHT TUE NIGHT/WED MORNING AND WILL CONTINUE TO UNDERCUT MOS TEMPS. SKIES WILL EVENTUALLY CLEAR SOME BY LATE WED BUT IT WILL STILL BE COLD AS INITIAL FRONT FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF 5H LOW. OTHERWISE NOT A LOT TIME SPENT ON FCST AFTER WED. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RE-ENFORCED THUR AS DEEP COLD TROF/SRN EXTENT OF HUDSON BAY VORTEX KEEPS COLD THCK IN PLACE WHILE KEEPING DOOR OPEN COLD CONTINENTAL AIR TO MOVE S THRU FRI. 5H PATTERN GIVES WAY TO WLY MID LEVEL SAT- MON WHICH SHOULD BE WARMER...BACK INTO THE 50S FOR THE MOST PART.
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Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we received a nother one hundred dollars in donations! THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!
Unrelated; here is a song created by myself, and our associate, Mr. Benjamin MetalGod Hammerschmidt, in the basement.
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Wedgely greetings!
Due to the generosity of the Full Body Cast, who had their Rocky Horror Picture Show after party at the Sextocracy (my place of residence) on Saturday, and the very generous donation from an internet donor, plus our previous donations, we are now up to $147 (one hundred and forty seven!)! While we still have quite a ways to our fundraising goal, we find this outpouring of support to be most appreciated!

We would like to announce a new incentive to donating money; for every person who donates $50 or more, this donation will adopt a little flag with your choice of your name, someone else's name, or some other text, to fly somewhere on the grounds of Fort Awesome. We will take a picture of said flag (which will be hand made out of chunks of a bed sheet or something like that), and you can sleep peacefully at night knowing that there is a little flag with whatever you want written on it flapping around in Lobo Valley Texas. Once we are down there, you can subscribe to and insure this flag for a set amount of money a month, where we will send monthly photos of your flag, and also replace degraded little flags with new little flags, also sending the degraded little flag remains to you in the mail.
Thank you for your continued support and interest!
FOR THE VERY WEDGE!
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in this video i describe clearly and concisely the tsi incorporated constant temperature anemometer that i have for sale
WELCOME to the eBay auction that could change your life! What we have for you here today is pretty excellent. It is a Constant Temperature Anemometer! You probably know what that is. Kind of like how I know what it is too. So, now that we've established that we, top tiered intelligent people know exactly what a Constant Temperature Anemometer is, allow me to illuminate those who do not know what it is.Read more
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First-hand account of 1833 Meteor Shower I at once sold my little farm in the neighborhood of Antioch, and, having disposed of what stock and stuff I could not take with me, on the 13th of November, 1833, I was ready to start upon the journey for our new home in the West. On the evening of the twelfth, many of our dear friends came into bid us adieu, and they remained until a very late hour, when, after a prayer, the most of them returned to their homes, a few remaining to see us off in the morning. We had but little rest that night, for, before three o’clock in the morning, we were all aroused from our slumbers, making preparation for an early start. Some one, on looking out of the window, observed that it was almost broad daylight. "That can not be," another answered, "For it is scarcely three o’clock." "I can’t help what the clock says," replied the first speaker, "my eyes can not deceive me; it is almost broad daylight --look for yourselves." After this little altercation, some one went to the door for the purpose of settling the question. Fortunately, there was not a cloud in the heavens; so by a glance, all was settled. I heard one of the children cry out, in a voice expressive of alarm: "Come to the door, father, the world is surely coming to an end." Another exclaimed: "See! The whole heavens are on fire! All the stars are falling!" These cries brought us all into the open yard, to gaze upon the grandest and most beautiful scene my eyes have ever beheld. It did appear as if every star had left its moorings, and was drifting rapidly in a westerly direction, leaving behind a track of light which remained visible for several seconds. |
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