I.A.I. The Old

The Onion A.V. Club - Aaron McGruder

2005-11-23T11:13:00.000-06:00

The Onion A.V. Club - Aaron McGruder Ok, follow the link and look at the picture of the dude. Don't read the text because it will ruin my stupid joke. Ok, so, believe it or not, Aaron McGruder is not the newest R&B star the girls are wooing over. He is a cartoonist. Yep. Of course, his comic, The Boondocks is a crude political comic with art that has dissolved into cut and paste. It's because he's busy making the Boondocks TV show, which will premiere on Adult Swim. And the picture continues to confuse.

del.icio.us most popular mp3s: The worlds most inaproprate mashups.

2005-11-13T11:46:00.000-06:00

del.icio.us, which is properly spelled in anoying lowercase letters, is the most popular site for what is known as social bookmarking. It's where people post links to things they like on a page simular to a blog and anyone can look there to see things that that user likes. Anyway, this page <del.icio.us / popular / system:filetype:mp3> is eccentually a list of the things liked the most by nerds who inhabit that site. The number one spot seems to be whatever version of a popular (outside the internet, that is) song has been redone in the least aproprate matter.

For example, in the order of popularity:

London Symphony Orchestra/ Super Mario Brothers Theme - I feel sorry for the musicans who had to play this song while thinking about the years of music theory and classical training have lead to, well, this. It's awesome in it's own weird way, though, if kinda sad.
Jim of Seattle/ Windows Sounds, Concerto Style - Ok, so it works. But I think that I've heard enough of those sounds already, thank you.
Arty Fufkin - Gorrlaz vs. Gwen Stefani/ Hollaback Girls Feel Good - Why must the awesomeness of Gorrlaz be horribly mashed with the annoyance of Gwen Stefani? That's like putting bushel sprouts in a cake.
Jimmie Jammes - Guns and Roses vs. The Beatles/ Sgt Peppers Paradise - If you thought the Gray Album was sacrilegious, this is pure heresy. Heck, I liked the Gray Album but I hate this. God, I can't even listen to it. Next.
Unknown - Snoop Dog vs. Huey Lewis/ Drop It Like It's Huey - Like number 3, the clashing styles really clash here.
Hard-n-phirm/ Rodeohead - The best of the moody rock band Radiohead done in silly bluegrass. You know, after hearing bands like Coldplay, Radiohead front man Tom Yorke admitted to having an identity crisis. Here's to hoping that he never hears this.

Even though most of the stuff there is really bad, a few songs stick out as very good.

Modest Mouse/ Paper Thin Walls - "It's been agreed that the whole world stinks so no one taking showers anymore." Ehhhh.

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Categories: PopCulture, Music

The Veterans Day assembly was a day early, the post a day late.

2005-11-12T20:15:00.000-06:00

Last Thursday my school had a Veterans Day assembly that ended up as an odd collision of several different world views. First off was a speech from the principal written by the vice president. It was suprisingly basic and simple and filled with common bush words like Freedom and American. Then came the unofficial counterpoint argument from one of the oddest charicters in my school, a fiercely liberal, freckled Indian who is allergic to the sun. As you can probably guess, he isn't exactly popular. His speech had a lot more more complex language than the Vice President's, but most of it ended up as kinda embarrassing. He also talked about how veterans preserved capitalism, another odd statement from a guy who has a Che shirt. He ended with a comment about solders fighting for the unalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and some vague threat against the current presidential administration taking that stuff away.

Then came the band, who had a very good song that with a break in the middle for a little speech. It was about the kind of love solders show in the selfless act of risking their life for another. It was awesome.

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Vice President's Remarks at a Remembrance Ceremony for Veterans Day

Che Guevera From Wikipedia

Categories: Politics, StuffThatHappens

The riots in France: The problems of ten years ago, today

2005-11-09T10:47:00.000-06:00

The folowing has been shamelessly copied from the Chicago Tribune editoral article France in Flames. It's quoted instead of just a link becasue I don't know when the Tribune will take it down or put it under a subscription only licence. Oh, and it's very good.

France's glory is the city center, the stuff of travel books and postcards, where society's movers and shakers stroll on well-tended streets, dine in cafes, soak up centuries of culture in museums. But France's shame is on the city's outskirts, toward the end of subway lines, where impoverished immigrants, including Muslims of African and Arab descent, often congregate in characterless apartment blocks, out of sight and out of mind.

The society's split--the glory walled off from the shame--can no longer be ignored in the wake of the riots now sweeping through France.

The tumult began after two teens were electrocuted Oct. 27 at a power substation in a Paris suburb, Clichy-sous-Bois. Some in the neighborhood claimed police chased the teens, a charge denied by authorities. A spark literally became a fire, and rioters torched 15 vehicles in the area that is home to African and Arab communities.

Violence has spread to other areas and cities, fed by resentment among young men, fueled with flames that engulfed thousands of vehicles and terrorized neighborhoods. One man has been killed. Hundreds of people have been arrested. There has been some organization by the rioters--Internet blogs and text messages. There has also been a copycat quality. The more incidents have been televised the more other incidents have taken place.

The French government has reacted with spectacular ineptness, losing control of the streets. French President Jacques Chirac remained above the fray and out of touch until he finally spoke Sunday and told the country: "The law must have the last word."

The breakdown in law and order may have appeared days in the making. It wasn't. More like years.

Resentment has long seethed among some on the outskirts of French cities, especially among young men, the offspring of immigrants, desperate for jobs and respect in a society that has offered too little of either. France has grappled with issues of poverty and housing, made real efforts to improve the lives of its poorest people. But it has failed to successfully integrate immigrants from African and Arab countries, leading to disillusionment.

There was a brief, flicker of hope in 1998 when France saw itself as a melting pot, as the French national team, composed of players from diverse backgrounds, won soccer's World Cup. The people in the city and its outskirts were united. But that triumph, and that hope, have long since faded away.

France isn't alone in facing difficulties of assimilation. This is a wider, European problem, felt in countries such as Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, where immigrant groups congregate in neighborhoods and often remain separate and apart from the wider society. Assimilation lies at the heart of the European Union's ambivalence about extending membership to Turkey, a Muslim country. Europe cannot ignore the Middle East, cannot ignore Africa and cannot ignore the migration of people across the globe.

For now, though, it is France that rumbles with unrest, rumbles as shame collides with glory. The riots will eventually stop. Torched cars will be hauled away. But the wounds in the society will be harder to heal.

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Oddly enough, the first thing I thought of when I heard of the French riots (sadly from the Boing Boing article about it that contains a stupid and pointless joke in the first sentence) was the Rodney King riots from 1992. Apparently Europe has the same pockets of poor that America has been struggling with for years.

I used to see the ghettos of the United States and call America a two and a half world country, since these little third world countries seemed worlds away from the richer parts of our country. But, I'm sad to say, this is looking more and more like the norm for developed nations, and that's just shameful.

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More on the Rodney King Riots from Wikipedia

Signal Vs. Noise has a clear and easy to understand editoral on the France riots

Categories: Politics

About the site redesign: OH YES I DID!

2005-11-01T22:16:00.000-06:00

It is weird typing this, because just a week ago I claimed that I was done changing the site, but I went and did it anyway (but, sadly, not a week later like predicted). But the change is pretty big, but I like it a lot. The menu moved to the bottom along with the nav-bar stuff (minus the button to flag me for deletion, but whatever. i probably won't start talking about my sex life here because it is rather non-existant). And, with the nav-bar gone, you can actually print my posts and it doesn't look weird. The mini-blog has a new name and a new, more prominent position because it's nice to put something actually updated where people can see it I'll just link to the articles there so people can find it.

In a way, I see the simplicity of the new site as it's beauty. There are very few sites that have such a basic format that I stick out by being so simple. I mean look at the majority of xangas and myspaces where it is normal to have ridiculously small text on backrounds that make it hard or impossable to read. So consider this to be a rebellion against bad web design! Charge!

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Ok, that was retarded. But only mildly.

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Categories: SiteCrap

Baby Got Back covered in hilarious way: Yes, I'm doing more rap stuff.

2005-10-30T10:27:00.000-06:00

Wough, wait what was that? If you weren't here on Saturday you'll never know!

Anyway...

For all you people who liked that folk Straight Outta Compton from a couple weeks back will probably like this version of Baby Got Back. Just a hunch.

Boing Boing: Nerd folksinger covers Baby Got Back

Most of this songs awesomeness comes from it's creepiness, most of which is transferred over from the original lyrics. It's not really mean, just really dirty. Reallllllly dirty.

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From the singer's, Jonathan Coulton's, site:

This week is a cover of Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-Lot (note: he is not an actual knight). Had to activate the whole team for this one - guitar, mandolin, banjo and even some shakers and tambourines and other things lying around the house. I've wanted to cover this song for a long time, because it is excellent - there's a wonderful message in there for those of you who have big butts. In the proud tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my album "Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People."

Categories: PopCulture

Minblog back

2005-10-27T22:03:00.000-05:00

Yep, for like three days. Why am I posting that here? God only knows.

Sorry for the lack of I.A.I.-ness, something awesome tomorrow.

Mini blog is acting weird

2005-10-25T19:15:00.001-05:00

Sorry, but I don't know why links on the miniblog aren't working. I'll look into it. For the meantime, just click on the date to get to the link

Where's my money?

2005-10-25T14:04:00.000-05:00

Dude, some math nerd dude looked into the recent perchance of Weblogs Inc. (for a lot more than they are worth) found out a way to calculate how much a blog is worth based on some stuff. My blog is worth $3,387.24.

Sorry to end a posting drought with this, but dude! That's more than a dollar per visitors I've had! For a blog that can says dude three times in a post!

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Categories: Geeky

Boing Boing: How much is your blog worth?

Philosophy of Modern Pop Songs Four: So what if it's not a philosophy.

2005-10-20T16:09:00.000-05:00

Song: Jesus Walks
Artist: Kanye West
Lyric: They say you can rap-about-anything except for Jesus/ That means guns, sex, lies, videotape/ But if I talk about God my record won't get played, Huh?

Now for the hit rap song, Videotape: I can record things on it, yea!/ I can pull the black stuff out of the top, holler!/ George Bush doesn't like black people./ Oh yea, George Bush doesn't like black people.

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Boing Boing: Katrina: Kanye remixed, "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
Ok, that statement has little truth (A better one would be "George Bush Doesn't Care About Anything"). It still kicks ass!

Don't know what I'm talking about?
Boing Boing: Kanye West: "George Bush doesn't care about black people"

Categories: PopCulture, Philosophy, KanyeWest, Music

I apologize (wink wink) for not updating I.A.I.

2005-10-19T22:14:00.000-05:00

Sorry that I've been kinda neglecting this site. It seems that marching band continues long after people stop caring. But don't worry, a new Philosophy of Modern Pop Songs tomorrow!

I.A.I. Links: You really should look at this stuff.

2005-10-16T22:06:00.000-05:00

Findory
It can read minds! Of course, it uses this power only for good. Also, I insulted it in my old blog ( only to apolgise for it later).

Wikipedia
An esylopedia for the people, by the people. This includes nerds who write long essays on OS Tans.

Idle Thumbs
The eternal struggle between the mecha-goose and the balls kneeing robot.

The Onion
Might make you cry.

Fluxblog
Songs by lesbians, effeminate men and brits.

Firefox
Ripping Internet Explorer a new one. Also, it's the one that blocks all the schmutz.

Bloglines
Lets you read sites with feeds (like I.A.I.) in one place, which is muy awesomeo.

Daily Minute of FOX NEWS
Site I used to do. For, like, two weeks. Good two weeks.

The webcomics I read

Cause' I'm weird like that.

Profile and stuff (About Me)

Questions no one has asked but I will answer anyway. Why? Because I can.

2005-10-16T22:02:00.000-05:00

What is this crazy thing?
A post in which I tell people about my site, I.A.I. (it's full title is the self depricating I Apologise for the Inconvience, but I got sick of that name so it's the acronym from now on). I will likely do it in too many words, so yea. And if you just what to say "hi" do so in the comments.

You are?
Noexes

No, your real name, not some stupid user name.
Sorry, man. I'd rather not tell you. I like having a little privacy about the things I write.

What kind of user name is Noexes, anyway?
One that no one else has, that's for sure. I got it from taking the band name "inxs" and morphing it into the opposite of it's meaning. It's not "noxs" because I thought the band was spelled inexes. Yea. The added Es make it pronounceable, though, so it's all good.

So, you think that excesses are bad, or something?
What ever you say, made up man.

What the heck do you do here?
I write about anything I want.

So you blog?
I hope not, I really hate that word. Yea, I'm married to the title it by using Blogger, but I can't take something called a blog seriously. It's just the way it rolls off a tongue, kinda like dude. While this site is definitely not anything of great importance, I don't want to call it a blog. Just call it a web site.

When do you post things on here?
I relish in the fact that this site is controlled solely by me, so there is no posting schedule. I do post things here somewhat regularly, so it's not totally dead.

What kind of stuff do you post here?
I relish in the fact that this site is controlled by me, so there are no guarantee about what I put up here will be like, but a lot of it is about music and politics. I mean, those are so similar, you know? Other posts are taken from things that happen to me.

What's with the political stuff?
I write about anything I want, and sometimes I want to write about politics. I'm a Democrat if anything, but mostly because they do less stupid things (in other words, fodder for the Daily Show). And I just noticed that I've started most of the sentences in this thing with I, but it's all good.

Why have you repeated you phases in your answers?
I don't know, to drive home my points maybe? That sounds right.

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What's with the line of hyphens?
I'm separating the geeky stuff from the rest. Yea, I don't even know why I'm writing this stuff anyway.

Your grammar awful all the time?
My grammar sucks, I know. Any readability on this site comes from the ridiculous amount off effort I put in revision. Even after all that it's not that good. Part of me just wants to say "It's my site, so bug off!" but the rest feels kinda weird about it. If you see something you think I should change just tell me to edit it in the comments. That would be awesome.

No ads?
Like I said, this site is controlled totally by me. The last thing that I want to see is an "Ads by google" thing breaking my white background zen.

Controlled totally by you? What about comments?
I don't get many comments, so it's still mine for the most part. And I can respond to these comments or delete them anytime I want, so it's still technically mine. I want people to comment, and take some of my site from me, but they haven't. Come on people.

Speaking of comments, where are the Trackbacks/Linkbacks?
They don't exist. I tried getting the blogger version working but it wasn't to be. I don't think many of my readers know how to use that stuff, so it's not a loss.

What's that Creative Commons thing on the bottom of the page?
Anouther way people can take my site away from me. It's under a creative commons license, and just an attribution one, meaning that you can copy and change my stuff and publish it in any way as long as you tell people where it's from (http://noexes.blogspot.com, if you need to know). That would be awesome.

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I'm having trouble getting around the site. What is up, man?
Heres something I wrote a while ago for you people. Hope it can solve your problem:

The Feed links go to to my RSS/XML/ATOM/whatever thing. It's kinda complicated but click on it anyway as this feed stuff can do pretty cool things. The other links are kinda self explanatory so I'll wimp out and let you see what it is.

The daily recomended dosage is a collection little posts, usually links, that aren't important enough to get their own main post. Still worth reading though, and it has an archive and feed as well. Click on the date of the post to comment on it.

The archive is a collection of links to pages with everything I posted for one week for the entirety of me doing this stuff, allowing you to read all of the stuff I've written. It's a helpful tool for masochists.

The category links go to pages in del.icio.us that list links to posts on a certain topic, either something general like "Politics" or something specific like "PricklyCity." The general ones are found at the bottom of the page and the more specific ones can be found by clicking the "more" link on the left hand side. I think this whole category thing is called folksonomy, but I'm not sure what Folksonomy means. All I know is that is has nothing to so with Woody Guthrie. This was set up using this system from freshblog.

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You talk a lot, don't you?
Shut up man, you ask too many questions.

Why marching band sucked.

2005-10-16T21:36:00.000-05:00

Considering the number of anger surrounding marching band this year it's worth knowing that Alstadt kinda knows just how much people have hated this year. I talked to him during finals and he asked me how I felt about not winning finals. I was all meh, saying that I was sad that all that work and no big reward kinda sucked, but meh (in truth I was more devastated than I thought I was going to me. i went into the finals anusement thinking that it doesn't matter if we win or loose, but when we lost I was kinda angry). Then he asked me how other people felt. And, well...

I salute all the seniors, who had to put up with all the COMPLETE S--- alstadt and silder have given us this year.
The only good thing about marching band is the people you meet. After that, i have lost a lot of trust from alstadt and silder.
Damn, i'm ready to punch one of them in the face.
I'm siding with the naperville north kid, it's way cooler over there marching band wise. (link)

Let's just say that I told him people were not liking marching band, but I didn't say shit. And I gave him a little list of why that went something like this:

We were overworked. For example, last year at band camp we got just about every night off to mess around camp, and that was the exception this year at camp. And we got a few breaks at after-school practices and they always ran late.
The constant criticism. I mean, we warm up and two seconds in all we already are already getting a lecture on all that we are doing wrong.
The fact that the staff act like the band is more theirs than ours. There was one day that some of the Staff hurd the constant complaints about band and we were told "How dare you." They apparently put so much work (more than us) into this show that we should just go with the flow. I told him that we have school, collages and assorted teenage crap to deal with, so we're probably more stressed than them.
The many changes to the show. Actually he mentioned this, which may have partly been because he read "I stomach band." No seriously, Nick Atkins printed the thing out and showed it to everybody including the directors (anonymously, thank you).
The student leadership was not as good as years past. Katlin, I love you but you really shouldn't conduct.

The good news is that he actually offered a good explanation of why he worked us so hard, which lead to the complaints, which led to the bad attitudes and which led to changes (but didn't lead to Katlin not being all that good, but oh well): the show length. Seriously, it was eleven minutes compared to last years seven. He says that next year the show will be shorter. So, yea. Then he got on his knees and pleaded with me to come back. Not really, but yea. So come back.

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Categories: MarchingBand, StuffThatHappens

I.A.I. micro?

2005-10-10T16:29:00.000-05:00

I now have a miniblog! Look for it at the bottom of the right side bar.

Why? Why not! Ok, that's a good reason.

Since when has amber been a color?

2005-10-10T13:09:00.000-05:00

Ok, so lets say that this kinda creepy blading guy left a convience store, opens his trunk and yells at some kids in there, then speeds off. Believe it or not, he's not abducting them! Apparently this guy, Web Wilson, was telling his own kids, who had crawled into the trunk through a hole connecting the back seat to the trunk, to get back in the back seat. He sped off kinda fast because he was not used to the car he was in and hit the gas too hard. But wait, it gets funnier:

One laugh Wilson got is the blonde woman witnesses described in the front seat of Wilson's car. "That blonde woman is Wyatt, my 11-year-old son," he said.

Now Wilson doesn't have to worry about his wife, Angela Farley Wilson - a Met tennis champion - and her well-known tennis family getting all of the media attention.

"CNN. How funny is that?" he asked.

Actually, to answer your question, not that funny. Let's put it in perspective:

Earlier Friday, police were criticized by the family of 20-month-old Aliyah Myrick for not issuing an Amber Alert about her disappearance until 3 a.m. Friday, six hours after her mother called police to say her estranged husband had grabbed the girl and ran. The child was found dead about 10 a.m. Friday in a Mount Auburn park.

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From the Enquirer (I know what you're thinking, but it's the Cincinatti Enquirer)

Boing Boing: Suspicious-looking, but innocent, events led to Amber Alert

Categories: Politics

Notice that I never say Samuel's name the same way twice

2005-10-09T22:07:00.000-05:00

Few movies deserve to be called masterpeace, and Snakes on a Plane will not get that label. But dude, Snakes on a Plane! Snakes! On! A! Plane! With Samuel L. Jackson! Yet this movie has a history behind it. Yes Snakes on a Plane was won by a great struggle, about getting it called Snakes on a Plane. New Line was about the devalue the artistry of this movie by calling it the generic Pacific Air Flight 121. That's not cool. But good ol' Sam doesn't like that, and you don't F--- with Sam L. Jackson!

From Collider.com:
Beaks: One of those films that you’re working on right now is… well, it’s called Pacific Air 121—
Jackson: Snakes on a Plane, man!
Beaks: Exactly.
Jackson: We’re totally changing that back. That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.
Beaks: Snakes on a Plane! That’s everything!
Jackson: You either want to see that, or you don’t.

You either want to see that, or you don’t. True dat, Mr. Jackson, true dat.

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The plot of Snakes on a Plane from Wikipedia.

An assassin who wants to kill a witness in protective custody opens a crate full of deadly snakes on a flight across the Pacific Ocean. (links kept in place because they are just so random)

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All I have to say is that shirt would look awesome on a fat guy (Overcompensating).

Collider talks to S. Jackson

Defamer on this, becasue Defamer is awesome.

Categories: PopCulture

God told me to write this post. That is a lie.

2005-10-06T19:39:00.000-05:00

President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq …" And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.
- Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister

First off, here is the link to the BBC article on this,

God told me to invade Iraq, Bush tells Palestinian ministers

And the Boing Boing one,

God told Bush to go to war

Spot the difference. You know, I'm disappointed in Boing Boing, they're usually better than this. Actually, I'm disappointed with both. This quote is huge holy crap, but there's a chance that this is totally made up. Actually, even if the BBC was fooled it's a huge holy crap. But, I have to say, a mission from god is the best reason for the war I've heard so far.

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Categories: politics

I stomach band!

2005-10-05T22:01:00.000-05:00

Lets say that a kid is being taught how to tie his shoe, and lets say that he is being taught by my marching band directors. First they teach him how do the overhand knot method and all is good. The kid thinks that everything is cool, that this is how he is going to tie his shoes forever. Then next week the band directors teach him the over-sole, triple twisted knot version, which, for whatever reason, wraps around the leg three times. Actually, I'm sorry, two and half times.

Then the directors take the kid to shoe tying competition. The kid gets excited about the chance to show off his mad skills, until he finds out that he will be using a new method called the underfoot tuck the day of the show. So the kid messes up at the competition and gets kinda bummed. The only reason the kid goes on is the promise, delivered in a three hour speech, that the band directors will teach him the new movements and he will get it right and he will be the bestist shoe tier in the world! And he does learn the new method and fells pretty good about it.

Of course, this is only until the band directors teach him the athletes-foot-killer/round-the-ancle method the day before the next competition. Then the kid complains about it in his blog.

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Categories: StuffThatHappens

Yea, I said it!

2005-10-03T20:33:00.000-05:00

Let be put on record that I really, really, really, really, really, (*breathe*), really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, well kinda wait no, really, really, really, really, really, don't like the song "My Humps" by the Black Eyed Peas.

That is all.

Famous people are weird.

2005-10-03T19:10:00.000-05:00

Nicholas Cage has named his son after Superman, giving him ol' super's kriptonan name Kal-El. Kal-El Cage.

You know, if his cousin Sophia Coppola has a son she should name him Lex and the two kids can have epic battles with one another on live television.

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Oscar Winner Cage Becomes Father Again (abc)

Info taken from Boing Boing , which you should be reading.

Categories: Link, Kal-ElCage

"You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." - Bill Bennett

2005-09-30T17:00:00.000-05:00

Are you pissed that he said that? I am. Not for the reason that everyone is angry about, that he thinks that they should do that. For example, here is what he said next:

That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down.

I'm not pissed that he said any of this crap, mostly because it is true. If there are less unwanted people then there are less people who commit crimes. Big surprise! Now here is why I'm pissed that he said that, something he said earlier on the radio show where the first comment happened:

I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics [is] that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well [I don't think that statistic is accurate].

Ok, so abortion doesn't lower the crime rate except when it does? Hubawha?

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The wonderfully harsh response to the remarks

The authors of Freakonomics respond

Categories: Politics(avoid), BillBennett

You know, if "Bigot and Proud of It" ends up on a shirt I expect a cut.

2005-09-29T20:08:00.000-05:00

This T-shirt slogan, from the ever entertaining RightWingStuff.com, is so hilariously odd that I feel obligated to post it here. First off, it forgets that the goal of an argument is to persuade who you are arguing against. If someone calls you a bigot then you are obviously not getting to them, the only place that you're winning is the world inside your head where you're always right (tell our president that I say hi). Secondly, it apparently doesn't realize what the definition of bigot is. So, here it is (in correct dictionary formatting as an attempt at mockery):

big·ot(bĭg'ət)
n.

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

[French, from Old French.]

Now here are some of the other shirts on the site.

(quote on lower left by Pres. Ronald Regan)

I'm sorry, but these people are bigots. And proud of it.

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Shirts from RightWingStuff.com

Definition from the liberal pigs of Answers.com

Categories: Politics(avoid), RightWingStuff.com, ConservativeT-Shirts

No one commented to say what the heck! I feel so alone...

2005-09-25T14:40:00.000-05:00

Anyway... here's the continuation of this list.

6. Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse/ Interlude - Remeber the gray album? Anyway, this track uses clips from the oddest song from The White Album (which says a lot), Revolution 9. Once again, Wikipedia can explain this better than I can. You know, when I first heard of people doing weird things to I Beatles album I thought is was sacrilegious. Now I see that that's really in the spirit of the album.

7. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/ Over and Over Again (Lost & Found) - I stumbled across this band from the site of some weird indie dude who is crazy about them. Me, less, but I like it enough to keep it on my playlist. I find the vocals to be a bit too messy, but some people like that.

8. Lushlife - Kane West vs. Beach Boys/ Get Em High - Anouther mashup in the vein of the Gray Album? Oh yea! I like this one better than ol gray though. This remix, called West Sounds, is much simpler than Danger Mouse's almost overbearing mix, letting you actually hear what Kane is saying. This song especially shows the zen like minimalism of the album, the only major background being an awesome hornline that turns what was once a fist beating chorus into something tuneful. About smoking dope, but still.

9. Beatallica/ We Can Hit The Lightz - Yep, a metal version of We Can Work It Out that is about beating people up. This song is better for a laugh than a listen, but hay, it's awesome enough.

10. Junior Senior/ Take My Time - Having a song from Junior Senior on my playlist is very masculine, thank you very much!

Bouns Track:
Ok, so this song didn't show up on random but it's worth mentioning.

Bill Cosby/ Dope Pusher - Starts out kinda stupid with Bill preaching to kids some stuff about drugs that, from what I've heard about drug sellers, isn't true ("A dope pusher can sell you any kind of drug you want!"). It gets awesome, though, when the funk beat starts and things just get awesomer from there. (thanks Waxy.org)

You know, in retrospect this list contains a lot more drugs, rap and violence than I expected even though most of it was faked. I think this post needs some good vibes to balance out the bad.

Breathe in, breathe out.

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Picture from mdu2boy and flickr

Categories: PopCulture

Not an exciting conclusion!

2005-09-25T12:04:00.000-05:00

(Fourth of series on the comic strip Prickly City's response to hurricane Katrina. First is here.)

Sorry for not posting this yesterday, I was kinda busy.

Oh man, the coyote got up! The weird allegory for Katrina is officially over without anyone saying something really crazy. Or mentioning poverty or the incapability of FEMA. Oh well.

Anyway this comic is hardly a surprising since it's saying basically the same thing that the Republicans (A.K.A. the ones to blame) said after the hurricane. Of course, they blamed the local government for poor planing at the same time, something that Prickly City did earlier this week. Yep.

Bonus Sunday Comic!!!!

Repeat after me, AWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Ok, that was mean.

Anyway, it's time to stop ripping this comic a new one. Unless he says something really out there, this is the end of Prickly City on I.A.I. It's almost sad.

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Prickly City plays the blame game with the New Orleans government.

Categories: Katrina, PricklyCity

Double Strip Day.

2005-09-23T14:54:00.000-05:00

(Third of series on the comic strip Prickly City's reponce to hurricane Katrina. First is here.)

You guys get a bonus strip today! Why? Cause' I forgot to post one yesterday!

Because the constitution protects the right to free speech, maybe? Anyway, the big problem with this strip is that it looks like the coyote blames Bush for the "dust devil" happening, something that many conservatives really believe the left thinks. Yet those who blame our fearless leader for it only blame him for the response. I guess that mentioning something that stupid makes who you are arguing against look like a fool in areas where they are not, which boosts how intelligent you look in comparison. That's the entire purpose behind false campaign ads, one of the reasons our democracy is crumbling.

Ah, the conservative and the liberal find common ground in hate for government bureaucracy! Isn't it beautiful?

...

Ehh, not really.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for something crazier to happen. Just tomorrow left!

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Categories: Katrina, PricklyCity

The Guce is on FIRE

2005-09-22T21:03:00.000-05:00

Was Guce really all that good? Yes. Yes Guce was.

Music/ makes the people/ say what the heck?!!?

2005-09-21T20:31:00.000-05:00

Some people like making up weird things for people to do on their blogs, and one the things I found is to list the first ten songs that play when you set your player on random/ all songs. I will now do this prompt, but I have to warn you: this may or may not be made up.

1. Nina Gordon/ Straight Out of Compton - Oh man, this is so good that I would of faked it in here anyway, but it honestly showed up as the first song played on random. This version of the notoriously profane and disturbingly violent becomes something entirely different when covered as a simple and vary beautifully sung folk song. About shooting people. Awesome.

2. Chick Corea/ Lifeline - Hea, Jazz! Jazz Lab Combo! Copied this CD onto my computer after getting it out of the library. Hurray for free music!

3. Scissor Sisters, The Beatles, George Michael and Aretha Franklin (a remix by DJ Earworm)/ No One Takes Your Freedom - A beautiful Beatles ballad, a bad eighties song and one of the best female vocalists of all time? Sounds like a recipe for success.

4. Crazy Girl/ Kick Yo Booty - The next "Who Let the Dogs Out," here to annoy you now before it (might) hit it big. (notice, the Mp3 on the site I linked to has been taken down by now. That is the nature of Fluxblog)

5. Chad VanGaalen/ Echo Train - Anouther Fluxblog, this one recent enough to still have a working link, or at least have one for now. Reading it's description it seems like it's a sad song, but listening to it I can't really tell why because he mumbles a lot. I might read the lyrics sooner or later to find out what he's depressed about. The music, though, works really well.

Six through ten later.

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Categories: PopCulture, Music

El continuación!

2005-09-21T19:42:00.000-05:00

Continuation of this post.

Ok, so I still don't know why the coyote hasn't gotten up yet. And it still says exactly what you'd expect a conservative to say. Where is the crazy, anger inducing statement! Where's an "euthanasia is hip"? He still has the rest of the week, though, so stay tuned.

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Categories: Katrina, PricklyCity

It's worth noting that even this stip has said less than nice things about Bush.

2005-09-20T21:26:00.000-05:00

Chances are you've heard of political comics that invade the normal funnies like The Boondocks and Doonsbury. Probably in response to all of those strips a political cartoonist, Scott Stantis, started drawing the comic shown below, named Prickly City. It was recently added to the Chicago Tribune, so I've been reading them pretty regularly. Not because it's funny, I just can't look away. First Scott misquoted Ted Kennedy and made a joke about his bad driving. And that it killed someone. That stip was not printed by the Chicago Tribune, even though the Tribune would suport a colony of bacteria for president if it was the Republican candidate. Then during Terri Shivo he, well, read the Wikipeda article if you need to know.

And then, after the hurricane, Scott did this strip:

Exactly what you'd expect from a conservative, right? Entirely disaffected and blind to the real issue (even though it's somewhat true). Then this happened:

Honestly, I have no idea what Scott is thing to say here, other than the Homeland Security crack. He already said the the people stuck in New Orleans didn't get out of the way due to their own stupidity. Is he saying that they stayed there out of their own stupidity? Is he that out of it?

Tune in tomorrow for more copyright infringement and the exciting continuation.

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Prickly City's official description from it's website:

A small town in the American Southwest... everything in the desert is designed to prick you, wound you or eat you. What better metaphor for 21st century Earth? PRICKLY CITY is a comic strip about the friendship between Winslow, a coyote pup, and Carmen, a straight and narrow kind of kid. PRICKLY CITY offers a conservative perspective on political and social events within an ongoing storyline. As Carmen might say, "We may not be correct but we will always be right."

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Wikipedia: Prickly City

Categories: Katrina, PricklyCity

Gitmo

2005-09-19T21:04:00.000-05:00

Sprol.com » Why Guantanamo Bay?

This is a facinating history of Guantanamo Bay that really shows just how messed up the place is.

Arrggg! Avast!

2005-09-19T16:18:00.000-05:00

Today is official talk like a pirate day! Yarrrr! It's only kinda retarded.

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Wikiperdia: International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Categories: Geeky

(untitled)

2005-09-18T21:58:00.000-05:00

I have found the bizzaro me!
We Apologise For The Inconvenience

I don't know what it's about, but dude!

Weird wikipedianess.

2005-09-18T16:55:00.000-05:00

Ok, so when I went to the Wikipedia page for Goth to get it for the last post I was greeted with this image as an example of a goth.

Look at it now just a few minutes later and you find a picture that's a little less demeaning to the whole goth thing. Ah, the Internet.

For those who are keeping track...

2005-09-18T16:47:00.000-05:00

...Marching Band had it's first competition yesterday. This is a call for celebration, even though we got third out of, like, five. For, you see, our drum major didn't go off time during the whole show! While it is not a good sign when she's off so often that when she does get it right people are dancing in the streets, I still say good for her. Secondly, our band directors finally admitted that the show that they designed for us is ridiculously hard. To quote, "This show is crazy, and we were crazy to write it." I honestly believe that we would have placed second or even first if the show wasn't so close to impossible.

But the good news is that I think the insaneness of the show makes it more entertaining for the audience. Compare us to, for example, the people who won overall. This is the band that always wins these competitions even though their shows consist of hardy hardly any marching, or even movement at all, except by the freaking ballet dancers. The music is slow and melodic, beautiful but depressing. Since marching bands are known for being energetic and powerful (it's on a football field, for Christ's sake!), seeing what's practically ballet in a marching band show is somewhat off putting and feels empty. The tone of their shows, and the fact that they wear all black, has given them a reputation as mysterious people of the night (this is even funnier when you consider that they are from a catholic school.). Ok, so they're talented and their show is flawless. And, even though I don't know anyone from the band, I'm sure that the band members are good people. That doesn't mean I have to like their show. At all.

Anyway, judging from audience reaction, our show is fun to watch despite the fact that only half us can play our music. It's going to be something else when we get right.

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Categories: StuffThatHappens

Holy Crap!

2005-09-12T20:28:00.000-05:00

HOLY CRAP!

Georgia's poll tax

And um... holy crap! I thought this kind of stuff would of been over years ago, but apparently not.

Site crap

2005-09-12T19:26:00.000-05:00

I think I've settled in on the final look for I.A.I.. No graphics except for the NavBar and whatever I put in my posts. I've heard that leaving the NavBar causes the site to not be valid XHTML 1.0., but I have no idea what that means. I got rid of that weird tattoo thing in the upper left. The only reason it survived this long is that I didn't know how to remove it. Individual categories are now liked to on the main page, so they are actually useful. Same with archive, which I update manually. I think it;s better the way I do it, but whatever.

All I have to say is that I'm kinda proud that I took this and turned it into the thing you are looking at right now through pure fiddling. I have no experience with html, css, xml, xhtml, cxml, pearl, js, glgl, MySql ajax or whatever other acronym is in use right now. That's less a good thing about me and more the fact that that services like blogger make everything so damn easy. Scratch that. They make everything physically passable and then I can make everything work through pure too much time on my hands. The site is exactly how I want it, though.

Anyway, I'll probably change everything by next week. Just a warning.

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Categories: SiteIssues

9/11

2005-09-11T14:05:00.000-05:00

Today is weird for many reasons. For example, it the anniversary of the greatest day of my parents life, their wedding. And the anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history. Even though the horror of the day we are remembering has been eclipsed a greater horror who's wounds are still fresh, that is not to say that 9/11 is irrelevant (nonexistent people who don't care about 9/11: you should!).

Anyway, my thought now are drifting to that day four years ago. I didn't know what was going on until after school, but I had a feeling. Some kid in my school ran through the hallways during passing periods singing, "We're all gonna die, We're all gonna die..." in a sarcastic manner. What a jerk.

Anyway, my thoughts and prayers are with the victims of both tragedies. May you find peace.

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Categories: StuffThatHappens

I'll try to ROFL you but you may only get TAKSed

2005-09-10T22:24:00.000-05:00

I just started using an IM again.

My AIM screenname is Noexes, and if you wan't to talk to me on something else just tell me.

That would be awesome.

I drink this stuff only out of curiosity. It may kill me.

2005-09-10T21:37:00.000-05:00

Maybe you've heard of this stuff. It's vitamin water. Let's just say that it not just a coincidence that it looks like medicine.

I've noticed a group of girls in my school that always drink this stuff, as the school put a drink machine filled with this stuff in after they banned soda (the soda machines are still there, rotting our teeth before and after school). These are the same people that don't know why I drink Dr. Pepper, despite the fact that is crafted by the gods. Will the ladies and I ever find a common ground in the drink world? Will Hollywood ever make a movie about minorities that isn't actually about white people? Will there ever be universal health care in America?

What is the meaning of life? Why is grass green? Why is 50 Cent's vitamin water grape?

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A movie about minorities that is actually about a white dude.
The New Yorker - THE MORAL-HAZARD MYTH: The bad idea behind our failed health-care system.

Categories: StuffThatHappens

I have nothing to say.

2005-09-09T16:37:00.000-05:00

Boing Boing: Katrina: "Rape, murder, beatings" in Astrodome, say evacuees

LA Weekly: News: After the Deluge: Baghdad on the Bayou

DenverPost.com - Evacuees' stories are moving, but fence isn't
(note: highly inappropriate flash add.)

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Categories: Katrina

From the fan shaped hole - Sept 9

2005-09-09T16:03:00.000-05:00

Boing Boing: FEMA cozies up with Pat Robertson

Ok, for those who don't know, this Pat Robertson guy prayed for a vacancy on the supreme court so Bush could fill it on his television show The 700 Club. A year later Sandra Day O'Connor calls it quits. Shortly after the supreme court shuffle Pat preyed for another vacancy. And, aaa...

Now he's asked for someone to assinate the President of Venezuela...

I guess prayers are more powerful over the television.

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On a mildly related note...
Pat on Wikipedia

Categories: Katrina

Big Ol list of stuff I read.

2005-09-08T21:59:00.001-05:00

More from the fan shaped hole.

2005-09-08T21:59:00.000-05:00

Boing Boing: Bush and dad land a whopper in NOLA
(Don't worry, it's photoshoped)
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Daily Kos: UPDATE 7: "Go F--- Yourself, Mr. Cheney!" - WaPO's got it.

Usually I don't like random cursing, but this is less than random. (link to movie from Crooks and Liars)

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Categories: katrina

Why?

2005-09-07T19:17:00.000-05:00

You should know by now that I see the federal government's responce to Katrina as awefull, the refused donaions and forgoten people in the convention center as a huge black spot on the administration's record. While all that is still horrable but it's just stupidity. But now there's this.

Stock U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead
Boing Boing: Katrina: LPFM station for Astrodome blocked

This is not just some bad dicisions. This is just evil. Give me one good reason why this is happening and I'll shut up.

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Categories: Politics(avoid), Katrina

Sometimes something makes so little sence you have to post it. Like... under pentaly of law.

2005-09-04T17:10:00.000-05:00

This is an actual page from an actual blog that I stumbled upon.

Life

Life i hate it so much. What i believe is that this thing we call life is hell! And that if we mess up or do things bad or wrong we are reborn to do it all over again, but the right way! If we kept doing the samething wrong we will be reborn over and over until you do it right. And once you finally do that you die and go to heaven instead of getting reborn again to this 'place' called earth or should hell on earth. This is my belief and it always will be!!! Since i am here telling you all of this i am guessing did something bad in my former life, so i have go through the torture of living again.
posted by Parvati at 6:02 PM

1 Comments:
Anonymous said...
John Brummett: Partisan hack? I beg your pardon
My name is John. I am a blog-surfer. I am about to allow myself to be engaged by a right-wing ... Here's what he wrote: He freely admits to being a "Republican hack" himself, and his only problem with me -- well, his biggest problem with me -- is that I won't admit that I am a "Democratic hack.
Hi there, I enjoyed visiting your blog and will certainly bookmark it for future reference as well as telling my online friends.
I have discovered a series of handy insurance directories on the subject of Home Insurance (Home Insurance a link to a spam site): Why not check it out and bookmark it for future use.

3:08 PM

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Link spam on wikipedia

Categories: links

The most dangerous button on the internet.

2005-09-04T15:16:00.000-05:00

Today I did something that the blocker people want me to call "nextblogging." They like making up words apparently. It's clicking the "next blog" button in the left hand corner of a blog page in an effort to see some random blog out there. I don't recommend it, but here are the three things I learned from it:

Depressed people write really bad poetry.
I may possibly be the only blog that can write about Katrina without cursing (is pissed off a curse word? whatever.).
Mothers of three that usually use their blog to upload pictures of their dogs have political opinions.

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Categories: StuffThatHappens

Oh, and this is the 100th post! Do I win a prize?

More to piss me off

2005-09-03T22:49:00.000-05:00

Boing Boing: Al-Cajun? Army Times calls NOLA Katrina victims "the insurgency"
It is easer to kill people when their their not people, but an insurgency. Not desperate Americans with nothing to loose.

Daily Kos: Unforgivable
Daly Kos does have an unavoidable, and occasionally annoying, left spin, but he's right.

Daily Kos: More BushCo Tragedy Fakery?
The worst part about this is that the stunt has an odd similarity to a something Arnold "The Govenator" Schwarzenegger pulled when having road workers drilled a pothole in the street so he could fill it in later. This just involves people living in a hellhole with feces smeared on the wall instead of those sudden, uncomfortable jolts when you are driving your car, burning up that $3.15 a gallon gas. (And then there's this)

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More as it hits the fan.

Categories: katrina

More Katrina

2005-09-03T13:31:00.000-05:00

It has hit the fan. It has engulfed the fan. The fan is crushed under the weight of it. And more is piling on.

It being, of course, Hurricane Katrina.

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It's becoming more and more obvious that the government completely screwed up here. They should of known that this was going to happen. The relief effort has left thousands of people without food or water in total pig sties, and some people couldn't help even if they wanted to. Then they start to act like things aren't as bed as they are (Then there's this)

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I would not be surprised if someone loses a job over this. And then news anchor Anderson Cooper starts doing what I've wanted some newsman to do for years. And Kanye West blurts out the greatest candied moment in TV history (link to movie) (even though one of the things he refers to something that's nothing to get angry about...) I hate to say silver lining but it's about time someone spoke up.

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Categories: Katrina

(untitled)

2005-08-31T18:43:00.000-05:00

Images of Hurricane Katrina Flooding
Boing Boing: Watch out for phony Katrina aid scam websites
The Interdictor

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Categories: Katrina

Lazy link post 1

2005-08-28T17:59:00.000-05:00

This picture is from the anti sit archives. I like this picture because it looks uglier than what ever damage sitting on the planter would of caused. Actually, it looks uglier than it would have looked with no planter there at all.

(Thanks boingboing)

School ~after dark~

2005-08-27T09:32:00.000-05:00

After three emotionally draining days back at the grind I just shut down. It happened after the first (horrible) football halftime marching band show. I had to walk back through the empty school to grab a Spanish book out of my locker. In the basement where my locker is I just froze and lied down in the empty school hallway. With 20/20 hindsight I realize that I could of gotten some horrible disease from the dirty floor. Only half the lights were on so the usual ridiculous brightness of the school was replaced by a oddly comfortable dimness. It was pretty cold down there, almost uncomfortably so, but I had just spent the last hour marching in a wool uniform so I didn't mind. It was so odd and empty, made more creepy by the feeling that people are going to come bursting out of the classrooms any minute. I kinda liked it though.

Either way, I'm never going there after hours again.

Categories: StuffThatHappens

Going from doing nothing worth something to doing something I care nothing about.

2005-08-23T17:27:00.000-05:00

Unless the teachers go and strike on us, school for me starts tomorrow. In celebration of this, um..., not bad event I'm going to predict the mindless routene that my day will consist of.

I predict a massive headache around eleven thirty A.M. that will not go away until I fall asleep seventh period.

I predict a total for thirteen awkward conversations that consist of the question "What did you do this summer?" folowed by the answer "Nothing" or some other varation of that event with simular meaning.

I will likly see a total of nineteen makeout sessions in the middle of the hallway, slowing down the alredy congested hallways.

A total of three of those couples will still be together in three weeks.

While this is unlikly, I will award extra points to the school for preforming a swich up and one of the makeout couples is gay. I'm not counting on it though.

May god save us all.

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Chicago Tribune | Naperville teachers consider strike

Categories: StuffThatHappens, School

I go to the dentist purely for the comedy value.

2005-08-23T17:20:00.000-05:00

Dentists have this kind of exorcist vibe about them. They painfully pull the demons out of the unclean mouths of their patients. Then they give grave warnings to end the evil sins of eating candy and not brushing your teeth. I think that my dentist is trying to get rid of that image of dentistry. He gives chocolate to his patients when we leave, Yoo-hoos and Snapples as well (And wine for the over twenty-ones, most of which are about to drive home). It's kinda ridiculous, like he's trying to make sure that we all get cavities and keep him in business.

Now he has gone and conquered the business next to his office and expanded his practice. I think that half of that new space was used for the huge waiting room. It's all silver and black and oddly sci-fi, kind of a feature cathedral of dentistry. Perfect for the kids. The same thing goes, in a sarcastic way, for the soft classical music pumped through the speakers. Kinda surreal when a metal pick is in your mouth. And to make things even more weird this hangs on the wall:

Yes! Dentistry is touching God! Through the mouth!

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Categories: StuffThatHappens, Dentist

One time at band camp: Shaving cream, dirty floors, ultimate frisbee and complex inter-dimensional physics.

2005-08-22T15:40:00.000-05:00

After a week of busting my rump at Marching Band camp I discovered three things:

1: While the theme music for Silverado is awesome to play, it doesn't make up for the fact that the title segment for the movie is just plain boring.

2: It is possible to travel between parallel universes.

3: When your legs hurt is not a good idea to play ultimate Frisbee.

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I learned number one during one of the most painful required funs I have ever experienced. On Friday night the band directors corralled us into the dining hall to tell the band how proud they are of us. I think one of them got something in his eye. Then they locked us in the main lodge to sit on the dirty floor and watch Silverado. The room and speakers seemed to be designed so the fewest possible number of people could hear what was going on. The reason for this confinement was so that we weren't free to roam after dark. Last year some kids, most of which have quit band, burned drill charts. Give teenagers an inch... Thankfully the directors forgot to guard the doors on the lower floor. I escaped by saying that I had to go the bathroom down there and just waking out.

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Something close to following conversation happened at the breakfast where I learned number two.

Cabinmate: Oh dude, why did you wash off the lotion in your hair already?
Moi: What?
Cabinmate: Didn't you wake up with lotion in your hair?
Moi: No.
Cabinmate: Shaving Cream on your face?
Moi: Nope
Cabinmate: What the hell...

Apparently some dudes from another cabin come into mine and pulled the prank on me. They had pictures even! The only logical explanation for the fact that I woke up with nothing on me is that they actually put the shaving cream on the me in a parallel universe. That poor dude is probably alienating all of his friends right now claiming that they pulled the prank... yet none of them did! Soon said version of me will be all alone friendless until one of his friends gets replaced with a parallel universe one. He doesn't know about the shaving cream incident so they will happily prance through the daisies together.

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During this week I felt these pains in my legs that wouldn't go away. I used up an entire bottle of ibuprofen. After the said Frisbee game I could hardly walk back to my cabin. But I did. I conquer all!

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Silverado at IMDB
Wikipedia on Parallel Universes

Categories: StuffThatHappens MarchingBand

If you're wondering what the heck that picture is, it's a sombrero. An artistically drawn sombrero, yes, but a sombrero none the less.

2005-08-12T15:48:00.000-05:00

Ok, so the second to last day before marching band camp, a week where I'll be unable to update, I give you nothing. And the next day I give you people a bad picture of a sombrero, as the theme for marching band this year is cowboys (It is as I type this sentence that I realize that sombreros are Mexican, not old western). Anyway, to keep you people entertained here are the best posts of I.A.I. since the last time I did this.

Philosophy of modern pop songs 3 (It's back, Beyoueach!!!)
For a limited time only

Drink Review
I attempt humor.

Weird Thing I saw on fox news
Short reminiscing session about my old blog.

Arrowheads, astral layers, figments, mental cobwebs, emotional baggage, memory vaults, merit badges, playing cards, and scavenger hunt items.
My fan rant about the awesome game Psychonauts. The title is actually a in-joke about the ten thousand things to collect in the game (you don't have to collect them all, but it’s still ridiculous funny anyway). By now I have played all the way through three times. Yes.

Snarking Websnark
Notice the comment by the Websnark dude. I sent him this e-mail in response, titled Snarking Snarking Websnark.
Hay, thanks for responding to my blog post on Websnark, and for being thrilled that I think that your website is stupid. Anyway, I think it's worth noting that I've changed my opinion since I wrote that. I discovered your column Feeding Snarky and I think that it's pretty good. Now Websnark, it has grown on me. I like it now. And Gossamer Commons? Total crap. Sooo, how do you like that?

Awesomeness-o-meter! Awesome!
Another attempt at humor, with a playboy bunny.

Awesomeness-o-meter 2.0! Awesomer!
If you thought it couldn't get weirder than last time...

Liberal Movies
Gotta clear a few things up. And to make fun of Canada, but mostly just gotta clear things up.
It's official: No one gets my jokes.

One minute of CNN Headline News
Empathy for a shark

Creating mashups is a very delicate procedure.
Here is another awesome mashup like thing:Look for Led Snooppelin

What's this? A post about my life? It can't be!
I got more response for taking about my sore butt than from the part that I thought would creep people out.

It's like listening to the radio after living under a rock for a year so everything is new and different, but with no moss.
THE TOFU HUT is updating again! Yay!

More Marching Band. Plus: Crying Indians!
Consider it a comeback after a posting drought. Sooo, thirsty.

See you crazy people August twenty second!

Previous best-of:
The 4-0
By the way, this is post ninety-one.

You see! This is what happens when you neglect something. It hides.

2005-08-10T21:26:00.000-05:00

I've moved my nearly empty chatterbox off the fount page. It only kept the gave from loading quick anyway. It's been moved to another page so it still exists, though. Just click on the menu link to get to it.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for a response from the mysterious peppy stranger. Show yourself!

Categories: SiteIssues

I live in fear.

2005-08-10T20:56:00.000-05:00

We live to serve the floating Denny's monolith! Anger him and it will vaporise you, puny human!
Floating Logos Project

(Thanks Findory)

Categories: Link

It's offical: No one gets my jokes.

2005-08-10T14:12:00.000-05:00

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Teddy Roosevelt (1918)

I can disagree with many things America is doing and still be her friend. It is what makes her great. If no-one is allowed to question the government, how is that any different than Fascism? How about you moving to Germany, you hate filled anti-semitic neo-Nazi! And take Pat Buchanan with you.

- Posted to "Liberal Movies" by some dude named shick. I'm as confused as you are.

This is totally awesome! Not only did he not get my joke, which I realized shortly after that people did not, but he called me a Nazi! Dude! And right after he qoted an eleqent phrase from Teddy Roosevelt.

So... Lets count the fictions in the post, shall we? The Nazi thing is number one, and calling me hate-filled and anti-semitic make two and three.

Anyway, besides those few bit's of BS I totally agree with you. I ought to move to Germany, or at least visit. Because last I heard it was democratic, industrialized nation with a stable government and good beer.

Oh, and I also agree that people should be able to criticize the government. Because anything else would be Fascism, right? I mean, the most influential democratic nation in the world never passed a law that said speaking out against the government is illegal, RIGHT? Ten years after the founding fathers broke that same law against England, RIGHT?!!!

(The Alien and Sedition Acts)

Four!

Categories: Politics(avoid)

An hourglass glued to the Internet

2005-08-09T19:54:00.000-05:00

The little anoying thing on the sidebar is the time remaining until band camp. I shiver. Not because because of the cold... but because of the fear! Ok, so camp's that bad, but this countdown clock is still kinda creepy. Or it would be creepy if it had a kind of tick tock sound making the passing of another wasted moment of my freedom. *shiver*

Categories: StuffThatHappens

Semi-desperate times call for semi-desperate measures

2005-08-07T20:12:00.000-05:00

The fine ~~idiots~~ people at guest map have changed how their guest map works so I have done some work to make it function normally again on a new page. Enjoy!

Bold New Guestmap

Categories: SiteIssues

Pocket Dictionary: $5.00

2005-08-07T18:21:00.000-05:00

Those advocating gay marriage often do so with good intentions, believing they are championing human rights. Unfortunately, their efforts push in the opposite direction. By discarding the foundations of human rights, gay marriage proponents ultimately work against those rights.

Opinion - The ways gay marriage undercuts human rights - sacbee.com

human rights
pl.n.

The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

Thanks Findory and Answers.com

Categories: Politics(avoid)

More Marching Band. Plus: Crying Indians!

2005-08-07T14:56:00.000-05:00

You know, people in my marching band keep going on about how they don't think that they can memorize their music. I, personally, don't think that's a problem. The band leaders are going to have them playing the songs over and over and if someone can't memorize it in rehearsal than they probably aren't paying attention. Wait a minute, memorization may be a bigger problem for me after all. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the show.

Song one: The Cowboys
It seems appropriate to start a show with a cowboy theme with a song called the cowboys. Brilliant. Anyway, the song is the usual John Williams: loud, familiar even when you have never heard it before and oddly lonely without a movie playing. It was also used in a Dominick's steak commercial, so it fits with the beef theme.

Song two: The Promise of Living
I officially have no information about this song (you have failed me Google), but I do know that it fills the ballad requirement for a marching show. It's easy, slow, and makes the show longer without requiring too much more work. Perfect!

Song three: Hoedown
This song is not actually called hoedown. It is called the beef song, and that is that. I hope that sometime during this song I get to yell beef and fill a deep need in my soul.

Song four: Silverado
I have never watched Silverado and I don't know crap about it (it says a lot when I'm too lazy for Google) but I must say, this song rocks. I can totally imagine some tough as nails western dude, the kind who can get shot in the gut while watching his house burn down with his wife and kids inside yet not cry, hearing this song and shedding a little tear down his cheek. It's the kind of tears Indians cry when they see pollution.

Categories: MarchingBand, StuffThatHappens

Hello random person who plotted their home on my guestmap.

2005-08-03T23:59:00.000-05:00

Pleased to make your acquaintance, Absent-Minded Jay. May your absent mindedness be cured by the passing of time.

Ah, the Internet. Where random people can awkwardly connect for no purpose at all (use of the internet #423 that causes Al Gore to turn in his future grave).

Categories: StuffThatHappens

Just a warning

2005-08-01T22:22:00.000-05:00

There might not be very many posts this week. "Why?" You ask. All day marching band practice. You know, hours and hours of work and sweat for nine minutes of niche entertainment. Whole lota fun.

Categories: SiteIssues

Why am I doing sixth conversation?

2005-08-01T22:10:00.000-05:00

1: Dude! I got into theater!

2: Ummmm, gaayyy...

1: Are you saying that all guys in theater are gay?!

2: Noooo, I'm saying that all artistically minded men are gay. Michelangelo? Total homo.

1: What?

2: You've seen the Statue of David right? Come on!

1: Idiot.

Categories: Conversation

Becasue the tagboard and comments weren't enough.

2005-07-29T17:47:00.000-05:00

Where you crazy people are

Another random doo-dad people! It's a map, you see, and you can add little points next to areas that you think deserve little points, like next to where you live and the like. Some of the stuff on that page is a little buggy, the sidebar links don't work (the "Home!" link beneath it does, though), but the part that needs to work works so it's all good. Enjoy yourselves.

Double click to post a little marker where you are comfortable telling us as somewhaere close to where you live. Zoom out for more of the world (you know, my many international readers) or zoom in for a better view of people who know me outside this blog. If you wan't to tag somewhere other than were you live just to point it out, feel free.

Thank you MyGuestmap

Categories: SiteIssues, Guestmap

It's like listening to the radio after living under a rock for a year so everything is new and different, but with no moss.

2005-07-29T13:14:00.000-05:00

THE TOFU HUT
Fluxblog

These links here are the two most awesome things on my blogroll. They are MP3 blogs, lists of MP3's their authors like and a few words on them. Not everything they have is good, but all of it is interesting and every once and a while it's something awesome. What's odd is that all this is about as illegal as Grokster, I mean it is file sharing without permission from the copyright holder, but the music industry knows about these sites and has yet to do anything about them (Hell, the Fluxblog guy gets paid by some label for, well, doing something like what he does on his site). These sites do take down the music after some time so they do stay on the good side of the labels, but it's still in the gray area legally.

Note: TOFU is currently not updating because of some kind of hosting/he's busy problem, but it's still cool.

List of a bunch of other MP3 blogs from TOFU.

Mmmmm, Hot Coffee

2005-07-27T15:06:00.000-05:00

Dear Sen. Clinton:

I'm writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious "Grand Theft Auto" series.

I'd like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has captured the attention of millions of kids — a game that instills aggressive thoughts in the minds of its players, some of whom have gone on to commit real-world acts of violence and sexual assault after playing.

I'm talking, of course, about high school football.

Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over
Via Slashdot, Boing Boing and just about every other geek site in the known universe.

Todays ~random moment~

2005-07-27T13:10:00.000-05:00

I read a user review on media critic that called a movie

Well made. Moving.

But aparently not moving enough to warrent saying anything else.

How 'bout greatest Luxembourgian?

2005-07-26T23:41:00.000-05:00

You might that heard that The Greatest American, as chosen by the definitive authority of a blind Internet poll, is Ronald Regan. Yep, over George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. This is because, you know, ending communism (except in the most populated nation in the world) is a greater good than ending slavery. And in the same vain, selling missiles to an enemy is not as bad as having an affair with your slave. Anyway, I dare anyone to name the The Greatest Canadian with out looking it up (No, it's not Wayne Gretzky. He's number ten). Can't? Don't feel bad. I bet no one in Canada knows who Ronald Regan is.

Cheat sheat

Todays ~weird things~

2005-07-26T16:09:00.000-05:00

Have you noticed that:

Google's new RSS-a-lisious MyYahoo clone has "Ask Yahoo!" as a content choice but not the Google Blog?
Martha Stewart would make a good bond villain?
That widgets are not worth it?
That eventually all of my posts will dissolve into self-deprecation?

Now you can get all the lazy link posts on one page!

2005-07-25T16:21:00.000-05:00

Check out the catagories link on the site of the page. Yep, I'm filing my posts now, so you can see related posts by clicking on the links at the bottom of the post or look for a certain catagory on the del.icio.us page. Why? Because I like crap like this. Also, only recent posts will be filed cause I'm not up for all that work. Now you may wonder why I'm going through all that work yet I can't tell you. That information is only given on a need to know basis.

Also note that all this crap is thanks to this guy: Freshblog: Using Greasemonkey & del.icio.us for categories in Blogger.

It must be the milkman!

2005-07-24T19:15:00.000-05:00

More and more people are beginning to believe that Apple (the company who make iPods) are monitoring iPeople everywhere, watching their every move and location gathering intelligence about it's users. It is now becoming a strong belief across the net that the FBI also have some involvement in the matter.

iPods suck! -- ANTI-IPOD -- Rise against this cult! The truth!
You see, the mp3 players are manufactured by Apple, who is a pawn of the government, and the government is in bed with those damn crows!
(hubawha?)
Stolen from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

I giggle uncontrollably.

2005-07-24T14:51:00.000-05:00

An afterword, worded wordily, is a word that proceeds another word. With only one exception, every word that has ever been spoken can be considered an afterword. Afterword: an afterword is a word that is spoken after another word. Since every word that has ever been spoken with the exception of one word is an afterword, what is really significantly more interesting is an anti-afterword. There has only been, and will only ever be, in the history of the universe, 1 anti-afterword. The really ironic thing about the antiafterword, is that it was arguably 'anti-afterword'. See antiafterword

Wikipedia:Revenge of Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think he forgot crappy blogs.

2005-07-23T23:31:00.000-05:00

After a decade of evolution, investment and growth, the Internet is still primarily used to find pictures of naked women and to learn how to cheat in videogames.

Web Users Are Just Chasing Cheesecake - Forbes.com
On a related note, have you heard of WORDCOUNT? Check out QUERYCOUNT at the bottom of the page.

Also note that the last word on WORDCOUNT is conquistador. Awesome.

Remember: Bill Gates is smarter than you.

2005-07-23T23:24:00.000-05:00

Notice: Geeky post.

I'm not going to be like every other blogger and mention the stupidity of the next version of Window's name. Wait... oh crap.

"Don't kill animals in shelters! Kill them in farms! "

2005-07-23T23:15:00.000-05:00

"Activists and watchdog groups are trying to stop us from selling you anything we want to sell you." Much better to say, "These groups are trying to prevent you from buying anything you want to buy." Then it becomes a matter of sustaining freedom, protecting individual rights and keeping the prairie of consumer choices unfenced.

The Story Behind a New York Billboard and the Interests It Serves - New York Times
(Free registration, use BugMeNot)
Thanks Findory

What's this? A post about my life? It can't be!

2005-07-23T22:13:00.000-05:00

Yes it true!

My dad took me bicycle riding today on Chicago's lakefront. I have to sore butt to prove it. You know, besides the back breaking effort, my dad taking an obscene amount of pictures and the shirtless joggers who, well, needed to, was kinda fun. There was this soccer tournament on this miniaturised fields that sprawled over a park like weeds, even, I swear, up a hill. The fields were trampled to dirt from all the playing and with all of the tan Latinos (and Corona beer caps littering the field) I caught myself calling it Fútbol.

Further up the path was a small fire charring one of the lawns (the short, dry grass didn't amount to much of a flow. The fire department was there to put it out along a guy with a peace of plywood stamping out the flames. A few other bystanders poured their water bottles on the embers. Kinda futile, but whatever. My dad, of course, went to take some pictures and left me with the bikes. Oddly enough while I was alone some weird guy with a pinwheel cap rode his bike right up next to me. Unfortunately his shorts were purposely tucked to make sure that they revealed as much skin as possible. I fear that he saw me as fresh meat. Anyway, he joked that he could put out the fire with his pinwheel. I told him, in the most apathetic way I could, that that probably wouldn't work. He suggested that it might if it was spinning fast enough, and then rode off sadly.

Afterwards I rented Shaun of the Dead. Awesome movie.

So, that's my day.

He's probably exaggerating it. A little.

2005-07-22T23:52:00.000-05:00

Notice: Geeky post.

"Statements about 'Oh, the PS3 is going to be twice as fast as an Xbox 360' are totally meaningless . It means nothing. It's surprising that game customers don't realize how it treats them like idiots. The assumption is that you're going to swallow that kind of system, when in fact there's no code that has been run on both of those architectures that is anything close to a realistic proxy for game performance. So to make a statement like that, I'm worried for the customers. And that we view customers as complete morons that will never catch on and that we're lying to them all the time. That's a problem because in the long run, it will have an impact on our sales."
-Gabe Newell - Head of Valve, creators of Half Life

Next Generation - "Your Existing Code? Throw it Away"
It is worthwhile to note that the Nintendo Revolution will not have the problems that are discussed in the article. Just a note.

I'm Sorry for the Inconvenience

2005-07-22T11:31:00.000-05:00

A Kaldi's short Macchiato with a Starbucks-like chocolate muffin costs just 6.50 birr, which is under a dollar and pricey by Ethiopian standards. A similar pick-me-up at a Starbucks in the United States would cost more than five times as much.

Along With That Caffeine Rush, a Taste of Seattle - New York Times

Creating mashups is a very delicate procedure.

2005-07-21T17:32:00.000-05:00

Liked the Gray Album from before? These are a few songs in the same vain as old Gray there. I guess I should warn that some of these tracks contain Bad Language (one of them for comedic value, though).

DJ Earworm Music - I heartily recommend "No-one Takes Your Freedom" but the rest are good as well.

Consider it a natural consequence for the Beatles songs being kept so tightly under copyright (no legal music stores and the such):
Boing Boing: Incredible Beatles mashup mixes 40+ different tracks - one of the ten million links here probably still works.

Boing Boing: Notorious B.I.G. meets Frank Sinatra

Not a mashup but great none the less:
Boing Boing: Joan Baez-esque cover of NWA's Straight Outta Compton

One minute of CNN Headline News

2005-07-21T10:42:00.000-05:00

This minute is from a series of short reports that start off every Headline News program

Republicans throw a hissy fit over an art piece called Tanks to Mr. Bush currently on display in, believe it or not, a courthouse. Get the ACLU on the phone.

A sewage spill in Lake Tahoe, described in great detail by the on screen text as "Stinky." Requisite video of people in full body suits cleaning the crap up.

In a moment that feels designed just to anger PETA, they report on the catching of a shark for the Monster Shark tournament. You get to see it pulled out of the water in all it's fishy glory, thrashing and looking scared as Hell. Anyway, even though it was the biggest it didn't win because they missed the deadline to turn in their catch.

Just in case you thought this blog was getting too political.

2005-07-20T20:52:00.000-05:00

$150,000 tuition and 4 years of a college education. His greatest achievement.

Boing Boing: homebrew gigantic Gummi Bear
This is a bigger achievement than you think. With Swedish Fish bigger than the average Gummi Bear (and Gummi Worms bigger than them) this puts bears back to their rightful place in the food chain.

Surprising? No. Funny? Yes.

2005-07-20T20:50:00.000-05:00

In one poll, only 9 percent were able to identify William Rehnquist as Chief Justice after he had been on the court for 17 years. More people were able to identify Judge Wapner of the People's Court.

Wonkette - The People Squeak

More site changes

2005-07-19T23:49:00.000-05:00

I put back up the NavBar. Why? Hell if I know. I kinda feel like the sky is falling on my blog. But the good news is that I just put in the Metempsychosis Comments Hack 1.03 and the Farrago Recent Comments Hack 1.03 so now my blog has a reasonable comments system. So... enjoy. I like this system better than Blogger's default, but I don't like that it's scrunched over onto the side like that. But whatever, it's all good.

Gotta clear a few things up. And to make fun of Canada, but mostly just gotta clear things up.

2005-07-19T22:07:00.000-05:00

In case you were confused about the movies post I should clarify, it was satire. All of the movies listed were pro-American; I attepted to prove that not all of Hollywood was out of touch with America (still, only five movies...). So, no need to move to Canada, it really isn't all that great. I mean, half of it's congress isn't elected by the people and the person on top is still the queen of England. Yep, those wusses aren't even sovereign.

These people MAKE YOUR CARS!

2005-07-19T22:01:00.000-05:00

My sister has been living in japan working for a pharmaceutical firm for over ten years now. She said the Japanese celebrates Christmas by eating KFC chicken. Apparently the resemblance between Colonel Sanders and Santa Klaus has mislead them to believe the Jolly St. Nick would jump down the chimney with buckets of delicious fried chicken.

Boing Boing: Hilarious Passion of the Christ poster in Japan

Don't worry, it makes more sense later.

Liberal Movies

2005-07-18T14:44:00.000-05:00

Let's take a look at some of the movies the liberal, bleeding heart, anti-American, Hollywood jews have made recently.

Batman Begins: American philosophy of redemption wins out against the fundamentalist Islamic philosophy of kill all the sinners.

National Treasure: Goes gay for American history.

In America: Irish immigrants find new, better life in America.

Team America: World Police: Spends more time riping liberal, bleeding heart, anti-American, Hollywood jews then anything else.

America's Heart and Soul: Title says it all

Movieland is such a magical place.

2005-07-18T14:27:00.000-05:00

You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

20 Things That Only Happen In Movies - Nostalgia Central
Stolen from Grumpy Gamer

Awesome-o-meter 2.0! Awesomer!

2005-07-17T21:08:00.000-05:00

To be judged before the internet: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (More popular on the Zeitgeist than Kelly Monaco)

A part of the government: -19 (dang shifty eyed feds! don't trust im')

Areal pictures of hurricane damage: +16

Provides detailed information about the weather: +13
... that is used less than information from The Weather Channel: -2

Alerts for hurricanes and other severe weather: +16
... that interrupt reruns of Seinfeld: -9
... which I hardly use because I live in the Midwest: 0
... which is in the middle of a drought: -22

Sorry NOAA, you only get a score of -7. Not surprising, you're automatically uncool for being a part of the MAN. He's always keeping the populous down by providing detailed radar images. Radar: always watching.

Why think up your own political opinions when you can just take a perfectly good one from someone else?

2005-07-16T18:41:00.000-05:00

What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.

Karl Rove's America - New York Times
Ha! I knew conservative were like communists. You know, the C thing.

(Hate the registration? BugMeNot.com)

2005-07-16T18:23:00.000-05:00

Excessive jewelry or stylish clothing from labels like Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger are forbidden, and so is watching television, listening to secular music (even Bach) and reading unapproved books or magazines.

Gay Teenager Stirs a Storm - New York Times

It's not what side of the debate is right, it's what side is crazier.

Thanks Findory

Awesomeness-o-meter! Awesome!

2005-07-16T16:58:00.000-05:00

Some random line from the last post has inspired me to create this crazy machine. Don't get too close or it may chop your finger off. Anyway, how about the top gaining person on the Google Zeitgeist?

To be tallied: Kelly Monaco

Hot: +20

Won an Emmy: +5
... a Daytime Emmy: -7

Playmate of the Month award: +7

Was on Baywatch: +3
... after actually being a lifeguard: +2
... and being hot: +20

Somewhat graceful wardrobe malfunction while on Dancing with the Stars: +8

Winning Dancing with the stars as an underdog: Awesomeness of this depends on who you ask, so +2 for being an upset winner.

Having a Wikipedia Entry: +10
... with a detailed list of every appearance in Playboy Special Editions: +5

Awesomeness score of 75 somethings! You know, something HOT.

Snarking Websnark

2005-07-16T16:31:00.000-05:00

Notice Geeky Post: May cause blank stares and boredom. Not really, but whatever.

If you have looked through my blogroll, and I know so many of you have, you may have noticed a blog called Websnark by Eric Burns. Unless the first line of this post didn't deter you I can't recommend it full heartedly (but since you are actually reading this then knock yourself out). For you see, I stumbled upon this site by a link from PvP to a post talking about the intricate relationships between the characters of that webcomic. Yep, PvP. For some reason the oddness of this site didn't strike me; most of the posts are like scholarly studies of Pee Wee's Big Adventure (ow! stop that irony club!) with a few candid moments sprinkled in. I stayed on past discussions of why Eric used to read Megatokyo but doesn't anymore and how Ground Protection Fault pulled a First and Ten, even basically a lecture on why infinite canvas webcomics suck. I even knew what half of that meant! So, yea. I still look at the site's stuff now and then but I usually skim past most of it.

But that doesn't mean Eric Burns is not awesome. For you see, the popularity of Websnark, at least in the elitist webcomic community, allowed him to start writing a comic called Gossamer Commons and get a pretty talented guy to draw it. It's awesomeness makes up for the anti-awesomeness of Websnark. I can't really describe it without making it seem kinda stupid, but it involves faeries. Faeries that can KILL YOU!

Update:

Notice the comment from the writer dude. Cool. I sent him this e-mail in responce:

Hay, thanks for responding to my blog post on Websnark, and for being thrilled that I think that your website is stupid. Anyway, I think it's worth noting that I've changed my opinion since I wrote that. I discovered your column Feeding Snarky and I think that it's pretty good. Now Websnark, it has grown on me. I like it now. And Gossamer Commons? Total crap. Sooo, how do you like that?

Crazy changing stuff

2005-07-16T13:53:00.000-05:00

Not necessarily because this is the fiftieth post, but anyway, my site now looks a little different. A little. Less needless crap. It's cool.

Yes, a magazine called The Economist mentioned wheatgrass and world domination

2005-07-16T00:21:00.000-05:00

Thus, at a recent “factory tour”, the press learned that Google's engineers, in an average month, consume 2,300 lbs (1,043 kg) of chicken, 1,600 lbs of coffee beans, 500 lbs of pasta, and 112 lbs of wheatgrass. They also heard about the sock collections of certain executives. At an event for equity analysts in February, Google did roll out the “CFO”, but he was the chief food officer (ie, chef), Charlie Ayers, who talked about his grilled pork tenderloin. The chief financial officer was there somewhere, but did not actually give a presentation.

Google | What a lot of wheatgrass

Stolen from John Battelle's Searchblog

Also... EPIC 2014

Remember, when google takes over the world it's stockholder's deaths shall be quick and painless.

"I feel like Batman or something," he said.

2005-07-15T12:39:00.000-05:00

The mysterious, ubiquitous and eminently destructive graffiti artist known as Borf was arrested yesterday after waging a months-long campaign that may have been intended to enlighten Washington, but mostly just confused us.

The Mark Of Borf...
who is a dork.

Thanks Findory

The late late post

2005-07-15T00:28:00.000-05:00

Okay, so no posts in the last twenty-four hour period. Big deal. It's a part of my rehabilitation program. It, um, failed. Anyway...

You can probably guess what I've been doing all day.

Now, good night.

Arrowheads, astral layers, figments, mental cobwebs, emotional baggage, memory vaults, merit badges, playing cards, and scavenger hunt items.

2005-07-13T22:28:00.000-05:00

Have you ever noticed how obsessed the internet is with monkeys? I mean, do a google search for monkeys and you get 7,760,000 results, but search for the most incredibly awesome thing ever and you get only 766,000 results, the most incredibly awesome thing ever being Psychonauts. No seriously, it's that good. And it's sold, what, two copies? Holy crap. Tim Shafer, you are a wondrous curse. Grim Fandango got a game of the year yet still managed to sell so badly it basically shut down Lucas Arts's adventure game department. And now Psychonauts has pushed the company that took the huge risk of publishing your masterpiece straight downhill. And by masterpiece I do mean masterpiece. Let's take a look at some of the comical banter that takes place in the game:

Raz: A madman is stealing all of the kid's brains in order to build a gigantic death ray to take over the world! And the only one who can stop them is you and me, Lili.

Lili: Oh my god! Let's make out!

Awesome!

Where to buy these awesome games (which you really ought to do):
Grim Fandango
Psychonauts