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Voting for Obama in Oregon on Halloween.
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I fell down the stairs.
I had my ballot double-checked by a clean, sober me. It was right!
Where the fuck are you part 90: Mass Effect.
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Mass Effect is one of those games that changes the way you think about games and what they should do for you and what you should do with them. That’s where I’ve been. I didn’t know I had been waiting for the damn thing my whole life. This shit changes what your mind lets qualify as epic.
(and basically every single thing to suck about knights…gone)
I rate it a million stars. That’s a space joke.
fiction is lying is Georgia snow friendly.
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Tonight, many people in Georgia snow the biggest snow they have ever seen. Some saw it for the first time, and some were merely amused by how ridiculously retarded everyone gets when something falls from the sky.
Seriously. The roads become much like a pinball machine. Everyone talks about how they next day is already a snow day even though an inch hasn’t stuck and it’s going to stop soon. They talk about being trapped at work and having to sleep there.
It’s hilarious. Oh and certainly a bit more in a few hours than we’ve gotten the past two years.
Of course it was shitty frozen rain by the time I left, but that doesn’t matter.
“Buy the slaves and release them.”
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Could such an oddball but somehow sensible concept have prevented the Civil War? Ron Paul thinks so. After all, every other country did it without a civil war…
Driving from Illinois to Georgia, we saw someone with a Ron Paul bumper sticker somewhere in Tennessee. I didn’t think those existed in real life irlstyles meatspace.
Today the only other place on the street that was open was that huge coffee chain. Dude that is always there was talking Ron Paul with a customer.
Could an internet subculture be much much huger than the mass media portrays it? Yes. Would this be one of those cases? That question is why this is interesting.
omg hot pic of asia carrera work safe!
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007srsly u guys
not a needle/haystack type thing
Channy Awards 2007.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007The Channel101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards happened. They’re pretty good picks. I missed a couple things and it’s awesome to have them dropped in my lap.
If you don’t know what Channel101 is (or Yacht Rock or Classroom), or didn’t know what the Channies are, Channel101 is a democratic faux television station model of video production that is screened in Los Angeles monthly and the Channies are its incredibly prestigious awards.
Yeah, that’s a serious Tim and Eric explanation of Channel101. Seriously. Channel101 was created by the authors of my favorite comic book ever.
Presidential Mood Ring.
Monday, December 10th, 2007The slider on this tag cloud of presidential speeches shows frequency of word usage and obvious trends in big media politics.
The above tag cloud shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 – 2007 AD.
Terrorist and Iraq have been the biggest words the past few years (6 years of terrer!), and economy’s been big since the 70s. There’s some very telling things inside these walls of text. It’s like flash cards of four year periods.
Gratuitously overmentioning family for stupid emotional points was invented by Ronald Reagan and crew in 1986! Seriously. It became a buzzword in 1986. It’s only been 20 years. We can overcome the bullshit rhetoric in politics and be real (and still lie about it even). We did it for hundreds of years.
Have a look at Franklin Roosevelt’s third (!) inaugural address (1941) or the social security announcement (1935), or . Those are serious problems. What the fuck do we think we’re doing now? p.s. Those were real speech writers like damn. That shit jerks tears.
(found here)
Pattern Recognition: James Burke’s Crash Course History.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007If you have the kind of brain aids that makes you constantly need to feed it more things, you might be interested in oddly detailed, guided tours through history. If you’re interested in that or learning how we learned how to learn, you’ll like this:
I know some people could be sensitive and call it dry, but James Burke is a pretty serious cut-up considering his field of study, and I’ve worshiped his books for years. Note that this is part 2 of 5 of episode 1 of 10. This can be a serious fast track to general knowledge of the history of science, and is almost an eerily appropriate primer for skeptical thought and understanding of the scientific process and how it effects history, all under the umbrella of chaos! This is multi-threaded teaching and thinking.
In the closing scenes of The Day the Universe Changed, Burke suggested that a forthcoming revolution in communication and computer technology would allow people all over the world to exchange ideas and opinions instantaneously. Subsequent events seem to have proven him right. His views of the connected nature of history have also been substantiated by recent research in chaos/complexity/network theory.
Essentially anything here is going to be similar or have an even wider berth, but I definitely suggest Connections as it caused a bit of an educational revolution that logically played out to its fullest form on the internet.
Pattern Recognition: Generational Culture Shock.
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Once upon a time, rap was a hard-knocks-triumphant honor to have as a career; rap was a portrait of black, urban life overcome in America. Now, rap is winning the lottery and not even tipping your hat at the ghetto. DJ Shadow expressed it precisely with this song that explained the problem with hip hop in ‘96, “It’s the money.” (ALSO: Whatever happened to DJ Shadow? What a loss? I seriously am not sure)
I gave a bit of a rambling speech wondering how the generation currently coming of age will handle having grown up during a dudfucking rut in American culture. I was pretty tired but I think i got the idea out of my mouth (and subsequently the head for the night).
That’s the thought for today? How brainwashed was I by Mister Rogers? Anyway, I found out today that a huge reference I have made a few times was a reference to something that didn’t exist, so I responded to myself. Embarrassment aside, I’m trying to set myself straight today.
TIP: There’s a hole in my Mario Pants? TRAGEDY; AM I RIGHT? Yes.
We’ve gotten to the point where even people with shitty taste are tired of how crappy mass media has gotten this last decade. I also forgot to mention how I am seeing 2009 as being the beginning of a new era for a culture-starved and corporate-ruined country. Guess why.
News flash: Britney Spears is no Madonna.
(p.s. thank fucking god for wordpress’s autosave, but i lost all my tags)
(P.P.S. I don’t really like the band Priestess. Better make a Priestess tag just for safe keeping)
Pattern Recognition: What life doth?
Sunday, November 4th, 2007The new adult swim show for this week, Xavier: Renegade Angel is a cd-rom loaded nightmare from 1994. The show looks like cutscenes from all the adventure and puzzle games of the early 90s available on the revolutionary newish cd-rom format, or perhaps even cruder. It appears as if it could’ve been “shot” in Second Life with a shitty digital camera and then digitized (trans-en-re-enconvertificated) again for the internets.
You might recognize the voice of the dumb main character. It sounds like a few voices from one show in particular. The reason is because the show was made by the same folks that made Wonder Showzen, PFFR.
It’s tragically hip and mentally twisting.
