if someone says "see you next year" to you today, i give you full permission to
punch him in the stomach.
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added a full list of links today. even wrote a nice little
php/mysql admin piece for it, but you don't get to see that. also, the
href="/about/">about page was updated a few days ago.
remember that gimmick sitcom writers rely on when they can't be bothered to write a new episode, so they recap the best-of highlights by having the family gather around the sofa and say things like "hey Theo, remember when we all dressed up and lip synced to that old jazz record?" which is promptly followed by a clip from that episode? this of course means you can skip this episode without missing anything.
yes, this is exactly like that.
best/worst
backpacking through europe
the entire blogging while backpacking through europe thing was fun. and probably more interesting than anything else on the site.
highlights: Titty Twister in Munich, underground gaybars in Florence, rocking in Rome, paragliding over Interlaken Switzerland, getting sick of meeting people, celeb and nudebeach watching in Cannes, pickpockets in Barcelona, bullfights, new alter-ego: Gus - the lovable chimney-sweep, live sex shows in Amsterdam, Tool concert in Zurich, hot european girls, Deconstruction punk tour, back home.
amusing (maybe)
math dorkyness
for myself
pseudosexual
apni toh jaise taise
thodi aise ya waise
apni toh jaise taise
thodi aise ya waise
kat jayeyegi
aap ka kya hoga, janaabe aali
aap ka kya hoga
apne aage na peeche
na koi oopar neeche
apne aage na peeche
na koi oopar neeche
ronewaala!
na koi rone waali, janaabe aali
aap ka kya hoga!
i'm an independant publisher, i can have my own damn awards
album of the year:
TOOL - Lateralus
it hasn't been out of the cd player since may 16th.
movie of the year:
Ghost World
i saw a lot of movies this year, and most were okay. this is the only
one i really liked. Steve Buscemi is my hero.
book of the year:
non-fiction:
Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
fiction:
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
to my friends, i apologize for citing passages from "fast food nation"
every time you went to McDonalds. and yeah, i'm aware Kavalier & Clay was released last year, but a finer work i have not read this year.
tv show of the year:
Seinfeld reruns
tv really sucks lately. sure i've seen that episode of seinfeld 10+
times, but it's still better than everything else on. the only non rerun series i
watch any more is King of Queens.
website of the year:
dooce.com
it's the only website on the internet that doesn't suck. really. the
entire internet.
***
on behalf of the winners, i gladly accept the awards and for them i thank God; the extended members of their posse, but especially Little Ray-Ray and
their homegirl Shantay; me for giving and accepting the award; the estate of
Liberace; their rehab counsellors; Britney Spears' breasts; and most of all, the
little people, err, i mean the fans.
this following is an excerpt from the fascinating book
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140296476/deftonecom">Zero
: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
assume:
a = 1
b = 1
since a = b, then
(eq. 1) b² = ab
a equals itself, so:
(eq. 2) a² = a²
subtract eq. 1 from eq. 2:
(eq. 3) a² - b² = a² - ab
factoring both sides gives:
(eq. 4) (a + b)(a - b) = a(a - b)
now divide both sides by (a - b) and we get
(eq. 5) a + b = a
subtract a from both sides we get
(eq. 6) b = 0
but we set b to 1 at the very beginning, so this means that
1 = 0
so what's wrong with the proof?
cnet: One
in four looking for God on Net
i think i saw God on irc last year. he logged on to #warezguild as
gG0d and asked for a halflife key. he was kicked and banned before i
could ask him about the meaning of life.
but just a few weeks ago, i was at the arcade and i saw that GOD had
the second highest score on pole position. i'm still not quite sure
how ACE got a higher score than the omnipotent one!
happy festivus to all! in case you don't know what i'm talking about,
summarizes it's origin.
the following is what i've listened to today in winamp, and what i'm listening to
right now. hit refresh in a few minutes.
because i know you really, really care.
update: fun's over now...check out the playlist...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was very good. Elffie McElfferson's* new role wasn't even that distracting.
i liked the part with the ewoks in the forest. and i couldn't believe Sauron is actually Frodo's father! didn't see that one coming.
aka "Fuck Naomi Klein"
"i want to be part of a brigade or a guild or a foundation. too bad i don't believe in anything."
A Brand Called You, Tom Peter's pitch to move from corporate guru to Anthony Robbins clone, is now over 5 years old. Tom encourages all of us to analyse our "brand promise" and create an "essential" snap-shot of our corporate value.
"You're every bit as much a brand as Nike, Coke, Pepsi, or the Body Shop. To start thinking like your own favorite brand manager, ask yourself the same question the brand managers at Nike, Coke, Pepsi, or the Body Shop ask themselves: What is it that my product or service does that makes it different? Give yourself the traditional 15-words-or-less contest challenge. Take the time to write down your answer. And then take the time to read it. Several times."
15 to 25 words or less. Logos are optional.
if you're a girl, and you call your girlfriends "dude", you really should stop.
***
i want to be part of a brigade or a guild or a foundation. too bad i don't believe in anything.
***
quote of the day: "i think they should settle this with 5 rounds of foxy boxing"
***
people suck and that's my contention. i can prove it on scratch paper and a pen. give me a fuckin' etch-a-sketch and i'll do it in 3 minutes - the proof, the fact, the factorum - i'll show my work. case closed. i'm tired of this backslapping "ain't humanity neat" bullshit. we're a virus with shoes.
-- bill hicks
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i feel good today.
i wish some conversations could have an "eject" button, kinda like fighter pilots have.
instead of feigning interest in some long, boring story, i'd secure my safety belt, hit
the button and rocket out of there, landing safely in some park. i'd promptly discard
my parachute, put my hands in my pockets and whistle a happy tune and walk away.
and if you're someone i know, then yes, i am talking about the conversation i had with you.
i always talk about you.
if i were a work of art, i'd be a polygon of course:
more updates to polygon project:
star
star gun
star tetrahedron
platonic solid within
octahedron
metatron's cube
self aware consciousness
morrissey (singing):
i've come to wish you an unhappy birthday
because you're evil
and you lie
and if you should die
i may feel slightly sad
but i won't cry
fuck you morrissey. you know nirvana's lithium is my birthday song
oh yeah
yeahhhhhh!
today is blogging day. today i will post useless information throughout the day. maybe i'll sprinkle in some cryptic messages that mean only something to me and that just confuse you.
[7:21pm]
i almost got in an accident with a police car during the drive home. one police car coming the opposite way turned left to a side street, which was fine, there was room.
but there was a second police car behind the other one and he decided to turn left as well. i slammed the breaks, skidded a bit and just barely missed him. obviously if they had had their lights on i would have slowed down, but they didn't. fucking cops.
[4:54pm]
how i've been using moodstats:
mood: meh.
creativity: wha?
stress: gah.
telling lies: mmmmyes.
[2:53pm]
either that japanese tourist girl had no sense of personal space, or she was hitting on me. probably the former since "hitting on" involves actual conversation. i think.
[12:38pm]
producer #1: the thirteen of us began with a singular vision -- "titanic" meets "frasier".
producer #2: but then we found out that ABC had a similar project in development with annie potts and jeremy piven.
homer: who's jeremy piven?
producer #3: we don't know.
producer #4: but it scared the hell out of us, so we slapped together a cop show instead.
[12:24pm]
i haven't started winamp since i rebooted 30 minutes ago, but i've had my headphones on the entire time.
really, you needed to know that.
[11:42am]
cross-atlantic report. very nice. [via lightningfield.com, which is also very nice.]
[10:48am]
salon.com: what's wrong with the strokes?
i guess i'm one of those "music purists" who likes the music and doesn't give a shit about the hype. although, the band does act like a bunch of elitist assholes in interviews, which i like because it reminds me of axl rose and guns n' roses. anyways, they're the only new band i've liked this year. when did new music start to suck so fucking hard?
[10:23am]
christmas music is being played at work today. urge to kill...rising
[10:14am]
usually every morning at work, a group of us go for coffee at a small, quaint coffee shop across the street. today they wanted to go to starbucks for "gingerbread lattes". so i didn't go because i don't go to starbucks.
last night i saw that band that vocalizes series of words into musical tones to form cohesive, transmitted vibrations of frequency. and sometimes these series of words have clever corresponding frequencies, especially at the ends of the metrical compositions.
they also played that song with the guitars and the drums.
hi, the thoughts or opinions expressed in this guest entry are not necessarily thoughts or opinions that pinder himself holds as his own. although i think it's safe to say that YOU have to agree with me and conform your opinions to mine. you really have no choice in the matter. enjoy!
today i have been thinking a lot about the things that we take for granted and the things that some of us are actively against.
were it not for animal testing and genetic engineering someone i care about deeply would be dead. they wouldn't have even been given the chance of having a long and happy life. they have diabetes and depend on insulin to keep them healthy and on scientist's reasearch (which sometimes includes animal testing) to keep their quality of life comfortable (possible!).
how do you reconcile the fact that genetic enginerring and animal testing help people live every day as well as have unpredictable results on the environment and could be considered inhumane, respectively?
there is such a fine line between what is right and wrong and why it's right or wrong. (it's right or it's wrong and there's no way to make either one the other.... ?)
it's weird to think that i may indirecty support both, and in a way am infinitely grateful that these things happen and we're capable of manipulating nature the way we are... when in fact i wish that we didn't do that that cause unpredictable results in the environment and are harmful to animals.
ohm.
education, a step in the right direction - that much closer to the realization of ignorance
* don't be shy... i'm a porn star, kiss my ass.
no, thanks. i don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon.
but everybody wears an AIDS ribbon.
thats why i don't wear it
but you have to wear the ribbon!
you know what you are? you're a ribbon bully!
