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| Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 | | 5:07 pm |
Hey, so partly due to the sensitive nature of my last post and partly due to it being long overdue, I defriended a batch of people. Either it's because you don't use your LJ anymore or we don't keep in touch anymore outside of LJ, but if you disagree and would like to be back in on this journal I update 2 or 3 times a year, just let me know, I'm assuming anyone defriended won't notice or won't care. | | Saturday, September 12th, 2009 | | 5:37 pm |
Over at RPG.net they have a forum thread of REAL Obama facts!! Bascially, it's the Chuck Norris meme for Barack Obama. Most of them are games-geeky or not that good, but some are great, so I'm making a LJ entry to share them with you and also to have them all in one place for me. Barack Obama once defeated a bear through nothing but the power of speech. That bear is now Joe Biden. -La Maupin Obama's actual health plan is to heal the long-standing rift with the virus community. -Nargun Obama would prefer to solve global warming by reaching out to all of the carbon through informative town hall meetings, but crazy oxygen molecules just keep disrupting things. -Guvmint Helper Obama can field strip an M-16 in 20 seconds and reassemble it...as a clock radio! & Obama can make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. & The last time Obama played D&D, he won. -Greg1 Obama is an oligarh. He's also the only one who knows what an oligarh is. -Lee Casebolt Obama can speak braille... in sign language. -Guvmint Helper & Lee Casebolt Obama resurrected a man in Reno, just to watch him live. - Matthew Gabbert Obama has won all Super Mario Brother games without using the Jump button. -Sabermane Obama put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp. Obama put the ram in the rama lama ding dong. Obama put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop. Obama put the dip in the dip da dip da dip. Obama was that man. You'd like to shake his hand. He made your baby fall in love with you (yeah!) - Matthew Gabbert Obama can sneeze with his eyes open. -Ginkomortus Obama's stopped clock is right three times a day. & When a tree falls in the woods with no one around, Obama hears the sound. & Sauron made nine rings for the mortal kings, seven for the dwarves, three for the elves, and one to rule them all... except for Obama. -David Goodner Obama is... and that is enough. -Mike Taylor And a couple of my own: The real reason Obama won't release his birth certificate is that in the space for "Father" is written "YHWH" in golden letters eight feet high. For decades, scientists have been struggling with some cosmological puzzles. According to the laws of physics as we know them, the universe is uniformly warmer than it should be, it's expanding too fast, and photons traveling across vast distances tend to gain energy more than they lose energy, instead of gaining and losing in equal amounts. At a loss, physicists have called this mysterious warming, growing, accelerating force "Dark Energy." However, now we know the truth: it's Barack Obama. | | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 5:03 pm |
Help make my sister internet famous!
Hey, I should've done this a while ago, but I'm remembering now. My super-talented little sister's in a web-show called Funemployed. check the videos out here, or their website here. She's the female lead, "Amy," and she is, of course, fabulous. Go click her linkzors and make your friends do it too. Give her your filthy earth moneys! Er, not that there's actually any way to give her your filthy earth moneys at the moment, but it's the principle of the thing. :) | | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | | 8:14 pm |
Real life imitates Jim Henson
Via Cuteoverload: I know it seems like an outtake from Dark Crystal or neverending story or something, but this is a real bird. OMG KYOOT And girl, who did your makeup?! :) | | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | | 5:30 pm |
Veeeeerrrrry eeeentaresting TEDtalk by a guy named Shai Agassi, who has started a new kind of electric car company called Better PlaceI'm not 100% sold on the idea yet, but I gotta admit it all sounds good on paper, and it might just solve the problems acting as barriers to wider adoption of pure-electric cars. If you don't want to watch a 20-minute video, let me sum up: Electricity is already cheaper per mile than gasoline, but a)batteries are wicked expensive and b) even with the pretty-good batteries you only get a couple hours of travel per full charge. It's like being offered a deal where you get gas at 40 cents a gallon forever, but first you have to buy a $10,000 gas tank that only holds 4 gallons. In other words, great for a significant minority, but a terrible deal for most drivers on the road. (I'm paraphrasing here, and the numbers aren't quite right, but bear with me) So his company wants to sell power to drivers, not by charging their batteries, but by owning the batteries and leasing them to drivers. You would own the car, but not any particular battery. When you park your car overnight, you would just charge it up by plugging it in, and when you need to keep driving you would pull up to a station and a robot forklift hot-swaps your battery for a charged one and then off you go. He says they'd charge by the mile, but it's not 100% clear they wouldn't be charging by the watt (or watt-hour, technically), but even with the battery-use charges, their price per mile will supposedly be equivalent to gas that costs about 1.60 a gallon, and electric cars should be significantly cheaper than comparable-sized gasoline cars, so it's a win/win for the consumer. Theoretically, at least, because it's all in the future. So like I said, great, but I wonder about the business model. A car company that sells miles like cellphone companies sell minutes is a cute catchphrase, but can you imagine a cellphone company with a geographic monopoly who has the power to make your car stop working if there's a problem with your account? Does that sound horrifying to anyone else? :) Still, put me in the "optimistically intrigued" column for now. | | Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | | 8:49 am |
Happy Easter! Easter, of course, was a goddess long before the Christians arrived on the scene. Easter, Eostre, Ostara, Astarte, Ishtar, Asherah: Cognates of her name in many languages, used for many centuries from Asia Minor to northern Europe. She shares aspects and stories with more goddesses that don't share her name: Inanna, Aphrodite, Venus, Hathor. She was the goddess of love and fertility and the mysteries of new life and rebirth for untold millions of people, and now she's almost forgotten. Of course, every time and every tribe had a different version, gods adapt to what their people need, especially in non-literate societies. Tribes steal each other's gods all the time, file the serial numbers off, put 'em up on the altar, and a sexy badass goddess is always good for the target demographic. Sometimes she's a muddy rut-goddess, sometimes a mysterious queen of heaven, sometimes a respected member of a proper aristocratic pantheon, modestly draped in layer upon layer of fabric. Still, though, some recognizeable core remains. She is the identity our ancestors (well, assuming you're of European or Middle Eastern descent, but let's not get into that) gave to the mystery of sex, to the magic that happens to the germinating seed hidden deep within the earth, or hidden inside the shell of the egg, or deep in the belly of a woman. These are powerful, fundamental mysteries, necessary for life itself. From them comes all the bounty of the harvest, all the life that populates the future. She is also the mystery of the serpent that sheds its own skin and is reborn, shiny and new, or the caterpillar that enters a chrysalis and emerges as a butterfly, unrecognizably different but essentially the same. It might be worth noting that that's exactly the sort of goddess you want on your side if you've been hung on a holy tree until you die, and now you want to be buried in a dark, damp, womb cave so you, too, can be reborn. You know, like Odin, or Horus, or Krishna (in some versions), or Pales, or... wait, wasn't there some other pagan god that did that too? It's on the tip of my tongue... It gets better. In old, old versions of the story of Adam and Eve, it's Asherah who gives the fruit of knowledge to mankind. There's a lot of conflicting discussion of this on the internet, and I can't find a satisfactory primary source, so some of this may be bullshit, but I'm forging ahead. It doesn't matter exactly what the knowledge was, or what the tree signified, it's knowledge and that's always a good thing. See, this is where I disagree with the big 3 monotheistic religions. Everybody says that leaving the garden was a fall, was a loss, was somehow a bad thing. And I can see why some would say that, sure, but I don't buy it. If you assume, like I do, that the story is a metaphor and we didn't literally lose access to a supernatural slice of real estate where nobody aged or suffered or died, then knowledge is better than any alternative. The garden, the "state of grace," is innocence, and innocence is just ignorance, and I'd always rather know stuff, even if it makes me sad and fucks me up. Or, to put it another way, the garden is stasis, existing to exist, reacting but not acting. Knowledge is the mystery of inspiration, of creation, of imagination. We don't know how it happens because it's inside the black box of our brain, hidden from view behind the sturdy eggshell of the skull. That does sound like the goddess's purview now, huh? I guess my point is, if I'm a grungy hunter-gatherer, and the goddess of fertility and creation (the workaday, small-c creation, that is) offers me the fruit of knowledge, I won't hesitate. I'll munch that fucker, swallow the seeds, kiss her feet in gratitude, and go down to the mesopotamian mudflats and build myself a fucking civilization. That's progress, baby! I'm in! Even with all the downsides and pitfalls, let's keep making that new thing. (It might be an interesting digression to discuss how because of all this human progress stuff, now we have science and we CAN see into the germinating seed and the fertilizing egg and whatnot, so the mysteries I talked about before aren't mysteries any more, but that's enough on the subject for now) So, have fun today, if you're inclined. Paint eggs, eat chocolate, maybe even fuck like bunnies, it's all good. Go to church if you're into it, or nosh a little matzoh, but maybe also take a minute to remember the goddess and the hidden magic that makes life possible. Embrace the mystery, let the magic happen, bring something new into the world. Happy Easter. | | Friday, April 10th, 2009 | | 10:38 am |
Have you seen Dork Yearbook? It's cringeingly cute. (Or should that be "cringingly"? It just looks wrong without the "e"...) I admire the brave souls who sent in their pics. | | Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | | 8:21 pm |
I don't know if I'm ever going to get into photography as a hobby, or even take another course in it, but I thought of a cool project I'd love to do someday: Advertise for couples or romantically-involved moresomes who are willing to be photographed nude together. Assuming you're in a big city or college town and you actually get takers, make each model fill out a questionaire something like this: 1: What is your favorite color, or a color of personal significance? Please also pick an alternate in case (one of) your partner(s) chooses the same one. 2: What are your favorite parts of your partner's body? Try to come up with at least 3. Then have them take their clothes off and use stickers, cloth, colored tape and/or self-adhesive dressings in their chosen color to cover up the chosen body parts of their partner. Only after everyone's covered/colored "their" parts of their partners do you pose them and photograph them. I think it could lead to some very interesting photographs, not least because a lot of people are going to pick eyes, and therefore cause their partners to be blindfolded with colorful swatches. Also, at least one person's going to be a smartass and say "Everything!" and get their partner mummified. Mwa-ha-ha-ha. It gets even better with multi-partner groups, because then the marking becomes a map of different partner's particular bits of interest. When multiple partners choose the same body part, perhaps 50/50 striping of the two different colors would work. It could be really fun to see what partners agree upon, and what they don't. Also it might be nice for someone with many loves to be covered with overlapping layers of colors indicating hir loves' desire. Kinda encounter-group ritual-y. Oh well, I don't think any photographers read my journal (though at least one model does!) but I hope I or somebody else makes this happen someday. | | Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | | 11:30 pm |
I don't know anyone in the manitoba/north dakota area, but if any of you have loved ones there, I hope they're safe. It's going to be a bad flood, and I hope the barriers and evacuations all go according to plan. My thoughts are with the people who will be homeless after tonight. | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | | 5:21 pm |
I know we all like to make fun of how bad Legend of the Seeker is (even though I... can't... stop... watching... it!), but it could be worse: | | Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | | 11:17 pm |
I will not be afraid of wimmins
According to my Itunes, I haven't listened to Dar Williams since April of 2008. That's... that's almost criminal. I'm ashamed. How did it come to this? Anyway, I'm listening to her now. | | Friday, March 6th, 2009 | | 9:56 am |
Saturday Morning Watchmen is pretty great. Just to bring you back down after the funny link, did you hear about the nine-year-old girl in Brazil who was raped by her stepfather and impregnated with twins? The Catholic Church did. Their response to this tragedy? They call the little girl a murderer for getting an abortion. Ayup. | | Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 | | 11:13 am |
| | Monday, March 2nd, 2009 | | 1:57 pm |
I think the sarcastic font is a great idea, and give it my official endorsement. No, seriously, I mean it. No, really! Honest! Oh, man, this is exactly why we need it. | | Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | | 7:40 pm |
From Head Trip Comics: If you don't see an image above, click this link for the comic in question. Apparently it's not working for some people? It's just an image tag, but maybe their site blocks loading images on other pages or something. Disclaimer: I still haven't' seen or read any Twilight products. I base my horrified amazement entirely on hearsay. But if it's anything like I've heard, that's enough. | | Monday, February 23rd, 2009 | | 4:10 pm |
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I thought the Oscars were surprisingly watchable this year. I didn't fast forward nearly as much as I expected to. Baz Luhrmann's musical montage about musicals sucked balls to a surprising degree, though. I was also slightly surprised that Heath Ledger and Eartha Kitt weren't in this year's Big Downer Montage of Dead People. Weird. | | Friday, February 20th, 2009 | | 9:12 am |
| | Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 | | 11:30 am |
Amanda Palmer is Sexy
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So hardcore fans presumably already know, but Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls fame) has posted the videos for her "Who killed Amanda Palmer" album on her youtube channel.There are nine in a series that make a somewhat disjointed little movie which is strange and dark and interesting, (although if you don't like her music you don't need to bother watching all nine) plus the video for Oasis which is both very dark and very silly, and Leeds United which is sorta postmodern cabaret fabulous. Anyway, if you've got not-quite-an-hour to kill and Amanda Palmer does it for you, the first video is here, and don't miss the epilogue which is very cute and a good happy-goth chaser to the gloomy videos. Enjoy! | | Friday, February 6th, 2009 | | 7:51 am |
Best. Cursing. Ever.
"Ok. This is now mad. I am stuck in a lift on the 26th floor of Centre Point. Hell's teeth. We could be here for hours. Arse, poo and widdle" - Stephen Fry, on his twitter. So adorable. I love that man so much. |
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