10000 spoons and all u need is knive
Monday, February 28, 2005 »
That's what lights my fiyaaa
Monday, February 28, 2005 »
WHY IS OZZY OSBOURNE'S "HELLRAISER" STUCK IN MY HEAD. Oh god I have been hearing the same five seconds of song for the last two hours. It's not a song that was on the alarm clock playlist this morning, let alone one I can remember the last time I heard. Or even voluntarily listen to. YOU KIDS AND YOUR MUSIC!!
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I am re-stealing it back, PALIDOR
Tuesday, February 22, 2005 »
Best MetaFilter comment about Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick getting hacked:
See, the problem is I wanted Hunter Thompson's cellphone to get hacked and Paris Hilton to kill herself. Damn it all!
-fenriq
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That's a five-stroker
Sunday, February 20, 2005 »
From last week's Daily Show: Stephen Colbert on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's much-hyped Gates in New York:
"The Gates is a triumph of contemporary installation art, each gate redefining its section of the park as not a public place for private reflection, but a private place for public reflection. Juxtaposed with the barrenness of midwinter, the Gates posits a chromatic orgy. This riot of color achieves a rare re-defamiliarization with the nature of place-time, the what-ness of our where-ness, no longer framed... I'm sorry, I've run out of crap."
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LAME
Friday, February 11, 2005 »
What is with this WEAK weather? Whenever Weather.com lists something like a 90% chance of rain, I expect that to apply to every moment of the day. That is, at any given minute, there will only be a 10% chance that I will look up and see clear skies. Based on the last several times I've seen 80-90% predictions, they should be interpreted to mean that there is a high probability that I will wake up and the ground outside will be wet. WEAK. Also there will be people walking to class, most of them not even carrying umbrellas. Of course, the ones who are will flip them open at the slightest sign of precipitation. What is wrong with you people? It is water. WEAK.
Completely unrelated: I could probably watch this all day.
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Quota complete!
Monday, February 7, 2005 »
For years I've wanted one of the new dining commons fat glasses to round out my collection. (Even though the previous pieces of my collection have all been destroyed.) Well, today I found one just sitting on the grass as I was walking home. So now it is mine!!
What I actually meant to update about is: In general, I dislike the idea of guns and I'm creeped out by gun nuts and the like. However, I do like the idea of marksmanship as a hobby or sport (provided participants are not said gun nuts), and so I was glad when a Point Blank cabinet arrived in the university arcade last year. However, I am definitely freaked out a lot by the number of girls who come into the arcade and play Point Blank like it killed their family. The Point Blank machine is right next to Capcom vs. SNK 2, so when I'm in there I'm able to observe a good number of people playing it, and there's a dramatic difference between the males and females I've seen play. The guys will stand there and fire away at the screen and are generally pretty casual about it. That's not to say they're detached from the experience; they just never appear to get too worked up. The girls, on the other hand, hold the gun two inches from the screen and hammer on the start button between rounds like they also have to beat the guy playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 a couple machines over. Then, when the smoke has cleared, they enter in their initials and make a beeline for the exit.
The more frenzied of the two today was impressive to watch since she was doing pretty well, but I was glad to see her leave. Partially it was because I could feel the insane tension she exuded and it was unpleasant, but also I was half-fearing that she would next turn her attention over to my machine, and I probably wouldn't have lasted through more than one round, what with all the terrified whimpering I imagine I would have been doing.
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Dr Pepper tries furiously to catch up with other CSDs
Saturday, February 5, 2005 »
I saw this at IV Market today and had to try it out. The new flavors are even less noticeable than Dr Pepper Red Fusion, or whatever that was called. I can't wait till next year when they come out with Extreme Dr Pepper Milk 'n' Pickle.
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I WILL BURY YOU
Friday, February 4, 2005 »
Something of interest for all you self-loathing LiveJournal users out there: With the help of the Morganism, I've set up a syndication feed so now this blug can get all up in your friends pages. I've been witnessing it in action for less than an hour, so I can't say if it will have any side effects. Also, I don't know why it only wants to display a few lines of each entry at the moment, or whether comments will carry over to here (I doubt it), but it's OK, because eventually I will lose interest in solving these problems. Finally, it appears that when you add the feed your friends page will be DOMINATED with a month's worth of entries, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Tae-bo uppercut
Friday, February 4, 2005 »
As of yesterday at around 1:40 PM, I emerged from my second midterm in three hours. Since then, I've been enjoying being able to concern myself less with Jackson Pollock and Joel Schumacher and more with, uh, Jon Stewart and Rock Howard, I guess. I also got paid earlier in the week and don't expect any major academic projects for a while, so I expect several hundred more bullets are in order.
Other stuff going on: Origin Story is finally off to the printer, although it's going to take a little longer than expected since they're all bogged down with orders from over the holidays. At least I got the Website up on schedule. There may not be any content yet, but there is definitely something resembling a Website.
Also: The iPod that my brother donated to me appears to have finally died. It may just be that the software's crashed somehow and I just need to perform some magic recovery trick, but the battery on the thing is so old that I'm not incredibly hopeful. So, I'm actually considering buying a new one to replace it. I think I could definitely survive on 20GB (I've been doing fine with just 5 for over a year), but an extra $100 for double the capacity and the dock is tempting. I just need to decide on something ridiculous to have engraved.
Last thing: Speaking of iPoddery, does anyone know someone who received a tangible, working iPod out of that freeipods.com scam thing? I'm only asking because I just saw the same group has a new site up for a free Mac mini, which is not something I have a pressing need for at the moment, but I don't think I'd have any trouble finding something to do with a free one.
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The Superhuman, day 10 (midterm)
Friday, February 4, 2005 »
The prompt:
What to do when man, as we knew him when God the father knew best, is over, man? Without a divine witness out there how are we going to find meaning for (and thus endure) our suffering? There's always the way out of rest in peace. On the way out: here's looking at you, kid. But what if man's being "over" means that we, as transhumans, are on the way to the superman? What affirmations would this prospect herald and require? Consider these shifting conceptions of humanity within the grid of valuation. The will to meaning or distinction animates intelligent life by introducing a conflict between two frames of values—between, on one hand, the distinction between good and bad and, on the other hand, its transformation, via the defense of splitting and revenge, or doubling and getting even, into the opposition between evil and good. Explore this conflict as elucidated between Nietzsche and Freud, in Batman Returns, and in at least two of the various excerpts or clips assigned for and projected in class. Please give consideration to the political contexts or contests within which we engage in the thought experiment of the superhuman.
Don't worry, I definitely wrote about the X-Men. I didn't have time to work in Last Action Hero, unfortunately.