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2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 09,June,2004 | Two groups of experts, two different focuses, one common theme: avoiding Humanicide in the 21st century. Number 1: A 'dream team' of the world's top economists (including three Nobel laureates) met a conference called the Copenhagen Consensus to determine humanity's current priorities. Through a cost benefit analysis, based on the premise of a spare US$50 Billion budget, they were tasked with determining what humanity's most important 10 action agenda items are. The results include: 1. Control of HIV/AIDS - US$27 billion 2. Target malnutrition through food supplements - US$12 billion 3. Trade liberalisation – US$Political Will to forego excessive greed 4. Malaria control - US$13 billion 10. 'Climate change proposals, such as the Kyoto Protocol, were rated at the bottom of the list. The economists favoured more modest proposals, and said that Kyoto demanded high costs for benefits that were as yet difficult to estimate and hundreds of years away. They said, however, that climate change was not an issue that should be ignored. ' Read more… Number 2: According to a panel of some 60 British climate-change experts (through the national UK Foresight programme) who recently released a report called 'Future Flooding,' ( project website , full reports ) London should start an 'orderly retreat' to high land, now! Describing global warming as a human induced 'weapon of mass destruction' they present that it is far more important, and thus inherently more immanently destructive to humanity, than other WMDs. They anticipate that it is highly likely that 'up to 4 million Britons' will have their homes flooded, and the cost will rise from '$2.6 billion a year to $52 billion by 2080.' They note that most of the reports most dire expectations will occur before 2050. They suggest many measures which could alleviate the raising sea levels, but are clear about recommending that the UK government move to much higher ground (at least as far as the ocean levels are concerned;).( In the news ) Ouch. Think I'll go get some of this , move to my sisters rural highlands property and sit back to watch the show of a species -- all within my life time, and possibly yours -- aren't we lucky?! Urgh...and I wonder why my inspiration gets thumped to the ground some times... |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 08,June,2004 | Sometimes, when the work piles up, and you know it was drawn to you through promises of great ideas and brilliant delivery methods, you realise that your inspiration has taken a tragic fall into the ground. Ouch. Oh mind, my muse, where art thou? urlLink Fallen Inspiration... (Oh, and disclosure warrants that I mention my mum owns this painting by Australian artist urlLink Kim Nelson (heaps of good pics online btw), not that she has it with her in the Solomon islands where she's working at the moment, so I'll borrow its beauty and recast its meaning so she gets value for money while away...) |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 07,June,2004 | Is Margo Kingston our version of M Moore? Check out her latest book write up: 'Margo Kingston, one of Australia's most fearless political journalists, thinks it's crunch time for Australia. Not Happy, John! is a gutsy, anecdotal book with a deadly serious purpose: to lay bare the insidious ways in which John Howard's government has profoundly undermined our freedoms and our rights. She doesn't care whether you vote Liberal or Labor, Greens or One Nation. She isn't interested in the old, outworn left--right rhetoric. What she's passionate about is the urgent need for us to reassert the core civic values of a humane, egalitarian, liberal democracy. Her clear-eyed dissection of the Howard government - simply the most electrifying and enlightening forensic foray you're ever likely to read - shows precisely HOW WE CAN ACT TOGETHER NOW TO TAKE BACK OUR AUSTRALIA. 'She rages, she hammers, she explains - but most importantly she CARES' - Phillip Adams |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 05,June,2004 | An interesting blog for tose interested in American politics.... Heres a taste from ' Deal With It! ' 'American Suicide? The Washington Monthly has just published a very important article in my opinon. Titled Creative Class War by Richard Florida, the piece details the impact Bush and the Radical Right's culture war on the most creative sectors of our population is having on the willingness of foreign scientists and other highly skilled people to immigrate to the US. It also describes the harm paranoid immigration policies are doing to the ability of the best foreign graduate students to attend American universities, damage that has already led to the shut down of major research projects.' |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 03,June,2004 | 'The 21st century can’t be a continuation of the 20th. We’re too close to too many edges for that. In the 20th century, the market triumphed over all. It defeated communism, leveled national boundaries to trade and brought material abundance never seen before. But the market’s triumph was accompanied by huge unpaid costs — bills that are now coming due. Of these, the most momentous are those owed to nature and the poor. The 21st century must not only pay these bills. It must, at the same time, solve two systemic problems: How can we share a crowded planet with billions of other humans, other species and ecosystems? And how can we improve the quality of life for rich and poor alike? The unbridled market can’t solve these problems alone. It needs a counterpoise with a different calculus. The ideal counterpoise isn’t, as many thought in the 20th century, the state. It’s the commons .' |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 29,July,2004 | urlLink RIP |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 27,July,2004 | Howard's bullshit is unstoppable, and most the country just won't know enough, given our media aren't up to any actual critical thinking and reporting. Try http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1164189.htm'>this story from the ABC today: The Prime Minister has attacked Mark Latham's ability to handle foreign affairs, accusing the Labor leader of making careless and immature comments against Australia's national interests. The Opposition says John Howard has resorted to cheap politicing. The future of a $5 billion gas project in the Timor Sea is in doubt, unless a maritime border dispute between Australia and East Timor is resolved this year. John Howard says those negotiations have been undermined by Mr Latham's promise to restart the talks, if Labor's elected. 'This is another example of his ill-thought out approach to foreign affairs, he hasn't thought through the consequences,' he said. Labor's mining and energy spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon says the Government has mishandled the talks. 'The Government's bullying approach towards the East Timorese Government is causing these negotiations to stall,' he said. The next round of negotiations is scheduled for September. Labor says it would give particular weight to the United Nations Law of the Sea in negotiating a sea boundary with East Timor. Now, what's interesting is that the delay has no effect whatsoever on the $5 Bn Woodside 'Greater Sunrise' project – it can go ahead regardless, when it's finally due to start in several years time! The ONLY difference will be which country gets what split of the royalties. Perhaps, as Crikey report, the private project complaints have more to do with the fact that a certain board member is on the Liberals fundraising committee for Victoria? Maybe not, but... 'Given that Greater Sunrise is not slated for development for many years, a two month delay in negotiations for the federal election is hardly a shattering blow. And Latham has not said the developer would have to pay a greater percentage in revenues. The suggestion is that Australia will reduce its share and increase East Timor's. Why would Woodside care which country gets the royalties? Interestingly, Woodside chairman Charles Goode is a director of one of the Melbourne-based Liberal Party fundraising vehicles.' And besides the friends game of politicking, it seems eminently sensible that the UN laws be followed, and that Australia follow through on its rescue and development aid to date and allow the extremely poor and hassled tiny country to get something to support itself with – otherwise another failed state on our door step is directly our responsibility, and our problem. Bloody Howard, bloody idiot. And don't even get me started on Downer's stuff ups over the past few weeks. God! |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 27,July,2004 | Man, can this guy speak. If you missed his US Democrat Convention speech, you really should track it down ( text , vision (via NBC - on rght top of page there's a free video selection, click through until you get to Bill's full speech). Here's a highlight that speaks to me (emphasis added): 'We Americans must choose for President one of two strong men who both love our country, but who have very different worldviews: Democrats favor shared responsibility, shared opportunity, and more global cooperation. Republicans favor concentrated wealth and power, leaving people to fend for themselves and more unilateral action. I think we're right for two reasons: First, America works better when all people have a chance to live their dreams. Second, we live in an interdependent world in which we can't kill, jail, or occupy all our potential adversaries, so we have to both fight terror and build a world with more partners and fewer terrorists. We tried it their way for twelve years, our way for eight, and then their way for four more. By the only test that matters, whether people were better off when we finished than when we started, our way works better-it produced over 22 million good jobs, rising incomes, and 100 times as many people moving out of poverty into the middle class. It produced more health care, the largest increase in college aid in 50 years, record home ownership, a cleaner environment, three surpluses in a row, a modernized defense force, strong efforts against terror, and an America respected as a world leader for peace, security and prosperity. More importantly, we have great new champions in John Kerry and John Edwards. Two good men with wonderful wives-Teresa a generous and wise woman who understands the world we are trying to shape. And Elizabeth, a lawyer and mother who understands the lives we are all trying to lift.' |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 25,July,2004 | From the ABC this morning, good news for ' no-fta .' Here's hoping it gets a close hearing from Latham, and the voters respond accordingly, voting him in! A poll of 10 marginal federal electorates shows only 27 per cent of voters approve of the Federal Government's planned free trade agreement with the US. The poll commissioned by the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union indicates 12 per cent of voters want Parliament to reject the deal and 53 per cent think it should be re-negotiated. The union's national secretary, Doug Cameron, told Channel Ten the ALP should take heed of the poll and block the proposed deal. 'The issue for us at the moment is that Mark Latham has indicated that he will give consideration to this after the Senate inquiry,' he said. 'We want to hold Mark Latham to his word on that and we believe he is a man of his word. 'We want him to give consideration to all of the issues that have been raised in the negative on this agreement.' Accordingly, there was a well paced response by Latham when questioned about his current stance: 'Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham says he is still waiting for a Government response on the appeal mechanism for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) before making a decision on the American free trade agreement. Mr Latham says a Senate committee is still waiting for the Government's response before it can report back to Parliament. He says only when this democratic process is completed can he make a reasoned decision.' |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 22,July,2004 | It just keeps getting better as we get closer to the election this year... now urlLink this guy has a real sense of humour, character and integrity to boot! His mission? urlLink Liars For Howard campaigns in support of John Howard's right to lie to the Australian people ON ANY ISSUE big or small. We call upon all fellow Liars to follow our cause. Our Prime Minister needs to know he has your support during an election where Mark Latham will try to make truth, honesty and accountability in government a key campaign issue. |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 21,July,2004 | It will be interesting to see if this puppy gets up an running without being hit by someone's car;) urlLink urlLink www.newmatilda.com.au |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 16,July,2004 | I'm recovering at the moment. Recovering from six months of hustle and bustle, recovering from a weekend of drinking red wine and trying to focus on creating a workshop with Allen, recovering (hopefully) from my curious lack of clear direction as a 'futurist,' recovering from my conditioned habits of oppressive house standards, recovering (as ever) from another degree of naivety about the reality of political power and demands of our collective social systems dominated by money, recovering from a distinct lack of interest in surfing the web, finding the world amusing or engaging… recovering that is, from a motivational malaise of perpetual disconnect, where every effort seems to deliver nought towards relieving the chocking feeling around my neck, recovering slowly, step by step, a deeper sense of life, to savour it, before its inevitable debt. Most people I know don't live. Not really. They just unconsciously react. Their mind stumbles behind their experience, like a dumb kid brother, figuring out, justifying and imagining what it could all be about... but never really there, here, for the moment – enough that is to relieve the feeling from around their neck. Personally, I'm in recovery...it could go either way;) Perhaps I should return to the usual news snippets broadcast? And leave the morbid prose for those better equipped? ;) |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 16,July,2004 | Well, they're urlLink officially investigating the Labour party, and claiming that Latham has his own dirt unit up and running (on Howard of course) because of a link in a Labour newsletter to the urlLink Howard Lies site (shock horror, a politician lies? What?!) The site has recently undergone a huge makeover btw. The main legal issue is the publisher wasn't named, and thus is breaking some electoral commission related law, and yet, they can't do anything about it, legally, because they don't know who the publisher is! Gotta love old laws dealing with new technology;) In the mean time, why not look at the fully legit, and openly named, and highly credible sources contributing to this little site – urlLink Defeat Howard! (Latham doesn't need a dirt unit, so many other Australian's are doing it for him – all we need now is a media who isn't under the rodents spell, and willing to ask the questions, that for example, are posed urlLink here by Margo Kingston (author of urlLink Not Hapy John! ) . PS - Yes, the political rants will continue right up until the election, so that my little opinion gets shared with as many people as possible - which, if you can't guess, is, 'for god's sake (and everyones!) don't vote liberal this year - vote anything else!!! |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 15,July,2004 | As a futurist, I'm not going to comment (unless you ask me in private for a fee, or wait until I've actually read the book;), just link instead.... This blog is by the authors of a new book, on the future of Australia...'Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future' Here's an extract from the Australian news paper... At least they've go the publicity on a roll;) All that is, except for the website , which doesn't work yet - good on ya Aussies. One idea for your future, get the website to work;) Why is people talking about futures, and doing so from very well to very bad, always seem to miss the practical bloody obvious? Geezzzzz. |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 13,July,2004 | People from Perth and Brisbane, a new internet date, and some random girls met through a house mate of mine have kept my weekend busy, drunk and expensive. Oh, and largely away form the computer for a change. Except of course, for my addiction to Kings of Chaos , which can be played okay at 4 in the morning while trying to eat some sobering up foods -- Gra explains the addiction isn't just a whim -- its got full on teeth that hook you really quickly (go on, join my army , a new age begins tomorrow -- clean slate, perfect chance to get in and whip some foreign geeks army to shreds;) In light of anything meaningful to say, I notice that Cyzilla has a neat little rant on Moore's 9/11 ... I agree mostly with his take. |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 07,July,2004 | Well, sometimes my heart gets warmed by what I hear is going on in the US of A. Many people thought that Moore's new film wouldn't really have an influence, nor would anyone but die-hard lefties really go and see it. Well, here's some stats that might put those two stance sinto quetsion... * 'More people saw 'Fahrenheit 9/11' in one weekend than all the people who saw 'Bowling for Columbine' in 9 months.' * 'Fahrenheit 9/11' broke 'Rocky III's' record for the biggest box office opening weekend ever for any film that opened in less than a thousand theaters. * 'Fahrenheit 9/11' beat the opening weekend of 'Return of the Jedi.' * 'Fahrenheit 9/11' instantly went to #2 on the all- time list for largest per-theater average ever for a film that opened in wide-release. Read more about Moore's first wild week with Fahrenheit 9/11... |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 05,July,2004 | This site , one for all Australian's to review, is serious, well done and straight to the practical point. I seriously encourage any Aussie to have a look - just in case you have the slightest thought of voting Liberal this year. 'We believe that the heartless, selfish and opportunistic policies of the Howard Government have reached such levels of depravity that there can be no more important or urgent goal for any caring and concerned Australian than the resounding defeat of the Howard Government at the forthcoming federal election. It is our further belief that the damage to the psyche of Australian society by the continued existence of the Howard Government is such that the defeat of this Government requires the utmost priority.' [ Read on... ] |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 01,July,2004 | I thought it, I talked about it, people tld me about it, and finally someone is going to make a fw Australia's feel better baout it, nd others, not so good about it.... 'John Howard Lies. We all know it. It's about time someone said it. So we are here at JOHNHOWARDLIES.COM .' urlLink The Liar Supreme... ' This website catalogues the lies, distortions, untruths and misrepresentations that John Howard and his Ministers have peddled to us. It's time to stop the rot and expose John Howard's Government for the liars that they are. Check it out and let other Australians know the truth.' |
2,362,981 | male | 27 | Consulting | Scorpio | 04,August,2004 | I don't know what our other house mate did, but last week our illustrious dancer housemate Nikki, up and went north for a while. On the weekend, our intrepid techie Graham demanded I get through my hangover and drive him to the airport - he was heading north too apparently. I check my diary today, and lo and behold, I'm committed to driving the coast road north from Melbourne to Bega and then on to Canberra tomorrow. I too head north. I wonder if we'll all come back? If the house will be here? Will all the lights and fans be left on, dishes pilled high and fridge be empty if we do finally return? And as I write this, remnants of my mothers voice, infected with the calm overtones of her last cal from the Solomon Islands over a month ago, reminds me 'Trust.' Yeah sure, but what did our poor scientist house mate do? Was this an experiment? At any rate. I'm outta here – slow blogging lately anyway. I've been stuck in the thought pattern burning pointless fighter fuel, reckoning every issue I spot to blog is so obvious, others will surely know about it by now, and simply don't. I've been writing though, its just not online yet (work stuff, like the new pages on this site ), and I've been reading (not work stuff – yeah!), and oh yeah, drinking and socialising… it feels like hard work afterwards, let me tell ya. Have fun guys… I might come back in a bit... one last insight into my life - I had a full on duck try and f*@k my hand in a dream the other day. I pushed it away gently. Needless to say, I have NO idea what the heck that was about. But such has been my experience of the past few weeks…I hope your's is more coherent and meaningful;) |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2003 | I need an idea . I need an idea now. I need to write, to produce a world I can be proud of. I need a cornerstone, an inspiration, an IDEA to anchor everyhting around. Where is it? Come out, come out, wherever you are... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2003 | Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework Homework |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2003 | DOOM. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2003 | Life is wonderful and difficult and full and confusing. Does this work? |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2003 | Here I am. So, this is the internet, huh? Nice place. Storing my soul in HTML...okay. While practicing spanish. Not hard at all. So, I'll get started now. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 21,June,2003 | IT'S HERE! |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 20,June,2003 | dothis = new Date() month = dothis.getMonth() month = (month * 1) + 1 day = dothis.getDate() year = dothis.getFullYear() document.write('Today is ',month,'-',day,'-',year,' ') |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 20,June,2003 | So, the Jai is in his waiting for the Potter book. It is not yet arrived. Thus, Jai is running outside every five minutes and chasing after delivery trucks...anyway. 90 minutes 'till my first driving lesson. Should be fun. No, not fun, what's the word... painful. That's the word. Stay inside, lock your doors, authorities have the situation...well, go ahead and panic then. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 20,June,2003 | Results for 'Jai' on google pictures: More later :-} |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,June,2003 | Peace in. Humza's party roxored my boxors to a great degree. And there was much rejoicing. :-D In other news, TECHNOLOGY HATES ME. Evidence: (1) Comcast's email-server seems to have died, or I've screwed up my computer and killed Outlook. (2) The javascript on my blog isn't working (3) I have to take Health over the summer Wait , you say, health class doesn't have anything to do with technology! Oh, but how wrong you are. If we lived in a society where technology had advanced to the point where either [a] there would be no need to teach everyone all this silliness about disease, death, and how to avoid it or [b, the better alternative] technology made everyone smart enough to render such classes obsolete . So, grrrrrr. I hate Faulkner. Hate hate hate hate. Maybe I'll grow to like him, but this has yet to happen. But, at least I've started. I will NOT repeat last year, under any circumstances . So, yay, I suppose. Driving class tomorrow, 1-3. Stay off the roads, I'll be reading HP5 at the same time. 39 minutes left! Yayfor centerage. Peace out. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,June,2003 | LalalalalalalalalalalalaBOOM. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 17,June,2003 | What kind of moron would use their blog to learn Javascript? :-D document.write (' This Is Red Text ') document.write (' This is blue text. ') RightNow = new Date(); document.write('Today's date is ' + (RightNow.getMonth()+1)+ '-' + RightNow.getDate() + '-' + RightNow.getFullYear() + '.You entered this Web Page at exactly: ' + RightNow.getHours() +':' + RightNow.getMinutes() + ' and ' + RightNow.getSeconds() +' seconds') |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 17,June,2003 | Exams. Panic. Chem and pre-cal tomorrow. No time to blog. Wasting time. Amillion formulas and numbers are eating each other in my head. I should have studied more. Nothing else matters. I really need to re-spiff this. Adieu! |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2003 | My little sister is begging me to help her build little toy buildings, but I have to work, so I'm doing the only thing that makes sense: I'm blogging. Yay! |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2003 | I wonder if they'll let me keep it like this? Yes, using your friends website to make your own blog more interesting does win. Suzi is cool as is the current correspondence. I need to email the Alcove more. I need to win that short story contest to validate my worth as a wroter. I need to do something to validate my worth as a human being. I need to get better at typing so i can wrote my ideas at a speed comparale to that at which they come out. I need to brush up on my x/ht/xt/other consenents tuck before 'ml' and get that webpage done. I need to get ready to work. I need to get my liscence. I need to need. Backscratchers are nift. This si a spiffy site. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2003 | And music descended upon the land. And there was MUCH rejoicing :-). |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2003 | |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2003 | Damnit! Damnit damnit damnit DAMNIT! One lousy line of code... And that's why I'll get a B on on CP final. AND IT'S A STANDARD LEVEL CLASS! Jai is angry at himself. Jai is going to program himslef to death over the summer. Jai should be studying Spanish so that this doesn't happen to him tomorrow. The end. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 28,June,2003 | My dad's friend, Greg, just died. I didn't really know him, but I met him once or twice. We went to Cancun with him and his family. Real nice guy. Had three kids, about my dad's age. He worked for my dad, but it didn't really seem like they had a boss-worker relationship. It was more like two friends who did work together, but differently. Or maybe I'm just waxing romantic. I feel numb, cold all over without any notiable change in temperature. I don't feel devestated or deeply depressed, just numb. My dad is taking it hard. He never cries. He needs hugs, a return on all the strength and support he's lent me since I was born. I can't imagine what he's going through I've never lost a friend and I don't want to know what it feels like ever. My dad starting talking about his own death, what I have to do. We joked, it helped him, along with a few drinks. I don't want to talk to anyone for a while. God, I can't imagine how my dad is feeling if just seeing him makes me feel this way. The dead don't grieve, they suffer no loss. It is the living who mourn, the living who are the victims of death. They shed tears for their own loss, because befriending someone is about slightly blurring the edge between you, so part of you becomes them and part of them becomes you and when they die its like a little bit of a piece of you falls into the earth and you weep. And they weep for the world, for the loss of that person which the world so deserved to keep. Love is loss. If you love that which will be lost, then mourning is just a part of love, a phase. I like the picture I put in my last post, it's comforting and serene and peaceful and good. I want to dissolve on a bed of flowers. All's stony, everything is further apart. I don't know I don't know I don't know. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 26,June,2003 | An acting studio just called and offered a free audition. It is mst definately a con of some kind, but this free part requires none of my parents' money, so I might go just to practice auditioning. Sleep.... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 24,June,2003 | urlLink Do I have too much Birdhouse on this blog? |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 24,June,2003 | So, the Potter is finished (two days ago) and it was good, but the plot seemed insubstantial. Driving class is done ! Yay! Laura's gone...I miss her...:-(. But it's But it's okay! Soon, a John and a Meg and a Jai will go to the zoo, and all will be well. urlLink |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,December,2003 | PastJai: You didn't post for nearly half a year, you reailze that? PresentJai: Shut up. And now for the blog. Um, where to begin. I don't know. But I still know html! W00+! Today's song is: Everything Right is Wrong Again, TMBG |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 20,December,2003 | urlLink Treasury Secretary Joh Snow reads Olive, the Other Reindeer ! ! Random office party last night. I got caricatured as a hippy. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 01,January,2004 | So, just finished the New Year's party. Awesomeness. Reuven and John and Willa and Sam and Sharon and Laura and Correll and Joshwithawierdlastname, who is throughly geeky and therefore approved of. Today's food addative is: invert sugar . |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 05,March,2004 | Too many deadlines... I have four tests today, and two of them are in Spanish, and I fel ready for about none of them. And Anika is angry about lackage of Shakespeare being-at. Rightfully so. But this weekend will be goodish, and such. Note to self: exercize... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 02,March,2004 | Long story. Portfolio and AP exam registration just got much harder. Just...argh. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 11,June,2004 | So today I met with my EE adviser, Mr Taylor, who pointed out that my paper could use some of those, whaddya call them, oh yeah, SOURCES. I should get on that. Apparently his mom went to high school with Dukakis. I wonder if he was a hall moniter, and if so did he let bullies out between periods to beat up and steal lunch money? *kicks self for rim-shot political joke* Then I went to Madame Johnson about my self-evaluation, but didn't have the proper form type dealy, so I had to go into the IB office. Then I left the IB office with the wrong form and did't want to go back in. Then I went in and discovered that the form was in a room that shouldn't have been gone into at that particular moment. Then I left the room and resolved to avoid it for the next several months. Now I just wasted ten minutes trying to get rid of Josh, who is an asshole. He slept to friggin' 2'o'clock today, hence my carrying in the disgustingly heavy things my mom got home, for thirty minutes, by myself. Now he tries to wrest (yeah, I said 'wrest'!) the computer from me so he can misspell words to his friends. Grrrr. It'd be a shame if some of his files went missing...Anyway, my mom says I get to keep it for another hour. So, back to my day...oh, right, being at school for an hour. Eventually I got back to Madame Johnson and she gave me the requisite forms, and hopefully she won't flunk me for forgetting to turn this in two days ago. My mom picked me up and set forth to Wallmart, or possibly Kmart, or Targetmart, or some giant box filled with cheap merchandise. Tess and me played catch with a giant bouncy ball in the luggage isle while my mom got various stuff for the imminent Costa Rica trip. Then I went home and did nothing for several hours, and by nothing I mean play sim games from the mid-90's. \/\/00+. At some points my mom brought home the aforementioned obscenely hevy rugs and I failed to wake up Josh despite my best efforts. Then I remembered the colassal mass of papers scattered about the attic and tried to tame some of the more highly evolved stacks, but eventually gave up. Then I came back to the computer and wrote this. Fascinating stuff. I gotta get started on that Long Fuse... *your mom has a short fuse! Oooooooo...* Yeah, I deserve that mental bitchslap. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 11,June,2004 | June 11, 2004: The last day of any school related activites and the day I start paying attention to my prro neglected blog. After I finish this. Curse my procrastinatory spirit. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 19,June,2004 | Gmail: the more accounts you give away, the more you have. We should really put these guys in charge of the economy. Googlenomics! Anyway, seven invites available. Post here if you're interested. I'll just give them all away unless I get more than seven requests. urlLink email me for more information. EDIT: ALL ACCOUNTS TAKEN AS OF 7-10-04 8:38 EST |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,June,2004 | Sam's pary was fun, though my fun was temporarily interrupted as Correll nearly convinced me that I'd have to retake all of my driving classes. A thurough scanning of the MD DMV site has convinced me that he links of sties. Whaelse...those numbers are still happy. Yup. Bouncybouncyweeee. Gotta get packing for Costa Rica...it's funny, my overall situation hasn't changed over the past 12 hours, but the relief of knowing that I won;t have to retake those god-awful classes just fills me with joy...so much better. Happiness=d(Situation)/d(Time) On the upside, my sudden burst of anxiety prevented me from ordering anything from CmDonald's on the way home...my dad's an idiot for getting drive-through at midnight. And for picking me up late. I need to go study for my learner's renewal tomorrow. -Jaiwithapermit |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,June,2004 | John's site is back up, along with urlLink quotes ! |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 17,June,2004 | Numbers determine my value as a person. That being said I'm very happy with today's numbers and am now going to dance for awhile. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2004 | Random thought: I have to make a mobius pancake one day...Keep thinking about that... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2004 | I feel like the yellow line down the middle of a long-deserted highway, whatever that means. I think. Listening to 'experimental Film' and drawing little video clips in my mind. Happiness. An hour of seesaw conversation on the phone is happy and depressing and confusing and ends up depressifying, so I mope. But better now. Packing for Costa Rica almost done and driving arrangements for Sam's party done with the MC, fer shizzilous. That reminds me, I need to email him a clever Your Mom joke...one second... There we go. Phone call...Yay! See that little blurb about the earlier conversation? It was depressing and is now all better. Life gets...let's see...four-and-a-half points. Right, the point of this post that gives it a title. I can't think of any commentary that would make it any more amusing than it already is, urlLink so just click , why don't you? |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 16,June,2004 | I ran across urlLink this on Maddie's blog, and it reminded me of the quotes list awesomeness of my school, circa 2002. So I went looking for it and found that John's site is down. And I was only there last week... I neeeeeed those quotes. Anyway, enjoy Maddie's math teacher. He's neatorific. |
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961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 15,June,2004 | In TCOm we sang a song about Turing machines to the tune of 'Daisy, Daisy', or whatever the creepy song HAL sings in 2000 is called. Turing, Turing, give us your closure do...Anyway, I'm feeling kinda dazed right now. Laura just came over for our only date for the next month and I;m thirsty. Coherency is for wusses. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 15,June,2004 | I now have FIVE invites available...if anyone slightly desires one, just give the word. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 15,June,2004 | urlLink Not really syllables today... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | Feeling grimply. My day: 3:30 - Wake up. Tired, but can't sleep. Somehow uncomfortable in a way I can't put my finger on. 4:00 - Give up on sleep, decide to face the world on four hours of it. Get up, do dishes, eat brekfast, check some blogs read some history and some other books (Amazon delivered yesterday). 9:00-10:00 - Clean out 1/2 of the garage. Apparently this has something to do with the kitchen and new cabinets. Meh. 11:30 - Leave with dad for library to copy and turn in Costa Rica forms. Waste about a dollar on my inability to work a copy machine. 12:30 - Arrive at school with forms and copies in tow. Building services guy at door says school is closed till three, I can't even go to the mail room for a second. Go to movies and catch snippets of 'Stepfod Wives' And 'Day After' instead ('Stepford' is a great wry comedy). 3:00 - Arrive back at school, which is still totally deserted. Call Laura, who's also having a sucky day. 3:05 - Building services lady sneaks me in to school. Get to ride in elevator and turn in forms. 3:25 - Catch bus, call mom who tells me to get off at Rockshire and head down to the pool. 3:35 - Arrive at pool, told to wait an hour for practice to end. Decide this is a bad idea and walk home instead. 4:25 - Almost home, meet some kids selling lemonade for a quarter. Awesome and cheap. 4:30 - Arrive home. Eat and drink dinner. It's raining. Rain is good. I wish I could be a raindrop, that'd be neat. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | ...so I decided to do a life-determining quiz thingy too. And I was happy because it listed pretty much every profession I've ever considered. Introverted (I) 56.76% Extroverted (E) 43.24% Imaginative (N) 52.27% Realistic (S) 47.73% Intellectual (T) 56.41% Emotional (F) 43.59% Easygoing (P) 61.9% Organized (J) 38.1% |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | The profile editor broke, so I'll just have to ignore that silly acronym and other annoyances until it comes back. Mrrrr. urlLink This could be neat (click!). |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | Anyone want a Gmail account? I've got three invites as of today. All those seeking Gmail accounts are encouraged to apply. Comment or urlLink email . EDIT: All three acounts have been offered to people, pending acceptance. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | Well, I can't sleep. I've been waking up all night and I finally gave up. This is a bad time for insomnia to get going again. Mrrr...Maybe I'm just used to the IB sleep scheduele, that is to say not sleeping. Last night my mom was trying to plot out Josh's high school career. Selected quotes: 'Pre calc - is that a math credit?' 'Would physics count as a science?' I'm open to any suggests for new last names:-)? |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 14,June,2004 | They Might Be Giants are the greatest band ever. The Brothers Chaps are the greatest animators ever. The Brothers Chaps are directing a video for Expierimental Video, TMBG's new single. Life is good. Ignore earlier post. :-). I'm too happy to contemplate my shallowness. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | PCTYS is supposed to go away after a few days, but it keeps coming back. I miss it. So much. I need far better vocabulary to describe...no, the English language was always weak anyhow. Now, I feel - I don't know, sensory deprived, like everything I feel has been cut in half. I miss waking up and seeing people who I really enjoy being around, people who are smart and wierd and funny and overt and don't bother with any of the ill-concieved social customs that get bolted onto every other aspect of life, like complimenting people you don't like and carrying on empty conversations for hours. And more and more I find myself doing just that, rambling on to people because I want to feel good again. I want to be surrounded with laughter and inane jokes and people being happy. And instead, I'm spiraling into cliches. Heck, even blog rants are cliches. And complaining about blog rants in blog rants. Ad infinitum. And what, you may ask, triggered this rash of teenage hormone-driven angst? John's blog, specifically the archive from August 2003. I was reading this becuase I couldn't think of anything better to do. So I did. And it was talking about Tom and George and Maddie and Sarah and me in all caps and how awesome all were. And I realized that that was the peak of my life and it is now gone. Yark, I'm growing for overly-muchful angsty. Some fakeful words'll upper me better. Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia is not edible, Nostalgia is not edible, Nostalgia is not edible. Nostalgia, nostalgia, Nostalgia in not edible. You can NOT eat nostalgia... (Which is a good thing, I suppose) |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | I've done nothing of merit today. This depresses me. I will try to evade by depression by procrastinating. This will make everything better. |
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961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | Finally killed off some calories. 700, according to my treadmill, but she's a dirty liar who hates fat people :-). |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | urlLink More syllables of the day! |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | urlLink So I finally get around to googling for colorblindness tests, and urlLink here's what popped up. Maps: The first three look the same at first glance, but on closer inspection I realize that Russia is a slightly different color of (red in the first map, green in the second and third) and China looks washed out in the third. The last map is just a bunch of various purples. All three dot patterns in each row look identical. The three ballon pictures look the same at first, but I can detect some sort of change in the left-most color of the foreground balloon (not the yellowish corner, but bellow and to the right of that), but I can't tell if any of them are red or green. This could mean that I have double colorblindness. Boozor. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | urlLink This is an photo from CTY 03.2. John and I are lip-syncing and dancing to ' urlLink Minimum Wage ', with an emphasis an the dancing since the song's entire two words are spent within the first five seconds. |
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961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 13,June,2004 | John apparently has some sorta livejournal type dealy. Is Hendelville part of Buttertown, or vice versa? Or maybe it just got renamed. Who would do...oh, right, the Turks. I smell Indian food a'brewin'. And the creepy sound of a pressure cooker being opened. Did most of my Costa Rica shopping yesterday. (Random: Why isn't the prefix 'yester' used more often? I should fix that.) I stil gotta get some more stuff, some osrta mosquito cage type dealy. And I should probably make some vague attempt to get in shape before partaking in hours of backbreaking hard labor. Meh. And I'd better start on that Cipro... Downstairs my sister is playing some computer games that involves lots of popping and whistle noises. Neat, by which I mean annoying. 'The Long Fuse' is the best history text we've been assigned EVER. It winseseses. Whaelse... Downstairs: 'Brunch is ready!' And away I go. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 10,July,2004 | Wake up at the crack of fivethirtyish for my veryvery first Costa Rican cold shower. I think I did pretty well, recalling the wisdom my dad had gained in India. Step one: Turn on water, full blast. Step two: Jump into water, get entire body wet as quickly as possible. Breathe heavily. Step three: Turn off water. Step four: Apply soap and shampoo. Step five: Turn on water full blast again and jump back in, rinsing off everything. Anyway, I survived and was rewarded with breakfast, by which I mean COFFEE. Good stuff. No rest for the weary, though: We soon backed up and boarded our beloved bus to travel to a city to buy various stuffs (water and sportsdrinks for me, a bunch of water for everyone, and Laura got this neat candy type dealy). Then we walked over to this little town square where school children were performing dances and instrumental music and singing and other happy things. Was the happy. We sat around for about an hour before returning to the bus where we were issued really nifty little rice candy thingys. I pocketed mine, promising myself that it would be a reward for finishing the infamous hike to the rainforest station, which we were informed was 'not up all the way. It's down all the way and then up all the way.' Yikes. So we board the bus again and set of for a few hours until we get to this little town next to the mountain with a restaurant dealy. The only thing I remember was the hot peppers, which I ate and pretended to not be bothered by while I downed a full glass of water and another of juice to cool my mouth off. Then we returned to the bus for a short trip to the beginning of the trail. Our big luggage was thrown into a truck, which would go ahead of us while we hiked with our backpacks. The hike actually went pretty well. The scenery was beautiful (understatement): expansive stretches of green in every direction, majestic cascades of rock rising out of the earth, mountains that vanished into the clouds, waterfalls we could walk across, and an assortment of brightly-colored wildlife. The weather wasn't too hot or windy or humid, and the trail got more interesting as we went down (and up) it. I think I owe my dad's side of the family some thnaks for the centuries of evolution that went into producing good uphill-hiking genes. Yay! Near the end of the hike we got our first real taste of Costa Rican Rain. It's kinda like Costa Rican driving in that it's insane, unpredictable, fast, dangerous, and common. But it felt good after a few hours of hiking. Finally got to the rainforest station, 5 rooms in a little structure in the middle of a cloud forest,after one last really big hill. We unpacked into our rooms (Correll, Aubrey, Cris Conroy and me shared a room) and relaxed/dried off for a bit. Ate dinner a few hours later and then went on a night hike, where we saw crabs, bugs, frogs of various colors, and heard some monkeys. Turned in for a good night of sleep. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 09,July,2004 | Um, speaking of Day One, here's a rough sketch of what went down in the last few hours before life went CostaRicancentric. I got up at...don't remember, except that it was later than I planned. Soon realized that since DMV closed at noon, any hope of getting my permit that day was lost. Would have to wait a month. Soon thereafter, I realized how much preperation I had to do for Costa Rica - and how imminent Humza's party was. Heavy hearted, called Humza to tell him I couldn't make it. But he seemed okay, and I'm sure whatever his mom cocked more than cheered up the party. At this point, Costa Rica takes over my life. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 09,July,2004 | Well, calling this 'Day One' is a little sketchy, since I'm not really sure when the day before this day ended and this one began. Anyway, thanks to my unwavering dedication to time-management skills and organization, I was scrambling to get packed right into the last minute. With hours to go dad took me to the Home Depot for a few last supplies and a neat 14-piece knife tool dealy for my host dad. Getting home, the next 8 or so hours are spent picking out clothes, sealing them in ziplock bags, grabbing equipment, running through checklists, gathering documentation, double-checking things with my parents, getting last-minute advice, desperately trying to recall what little Spanish I knew, unpacking, repacking, and cursing paperwork in general. By the time all was said and done it was about 1:30 am We had to be at Reagan at 4:30 am, which implied leaving the house at 3:30 am. With two hours to kill, I decided to make a mix tape for the longish bus, car, and exist times that were said to pepper the loose schedules of these trips. In between playing CDs right next to a tape-recorder, I cleaned up the debris from my frantic packing frenzy. Around 2:45 the tape was done, so I decided to grab one last hot shower. Went ahead and did the whole Morning Hygene Routine (tm). Went downstairs to find my dad watching some unsuccessful mid-90's film in which Keanu Reeves plays the son of Satan, a lawyer. Had a breakfast of rice and reheated Indian food before my dad and I set off for the airport. I was the first one there (for once) and discovered something peculiar about Delta flights: They don't offer any sort of check-in until 5:00. Three cheers for planning. Anyway, it isn't too long before Laura, then Mr Leary and his son, Mike, and the rest (Correll, Aubrey, Chris, Melissa, Erik, Kristen, other people whose names escape me right now) to show up and wait for the counter to open. Anyway, we get checked in, do the security thing, and settle in the terminal for a good, early-morning game of apples-to-apples. Boarding begins on-time :-D. Because I have a weird seat thing, I do some on-plane swapping with non-GlobalWorks-oriented adults to get next to Laura, where I fall asleep upon takeoff. Get to Atlanta, get off plane, go to next gate (same terminal:-D) and lay down for a short nap. Just as I'm getting comfy, I realize that I don't have any of my tickets or documentation on me. If I had a bit more sleep I would have paniced, but instead I just ran back to the arrival gate, boarded the plane with a security guard, grabbed the documents from the pouch in front of my seat where I had left them, and raced back. I get to board the plane, switch seats, and fly asleep again. I'm pretty sure there was a bad in-flight movie at some point, and I vaguely recall some sort of lunch happening. We land at the San Jose airport four hours later, wait in long customs lines, grab our bags (there was a short drama as Laura though her bag had been lost, but it came out a few minutes later), get on a cool little bus-dealy with extra folding seats (Laura, Aubrey, Correll, and me sit in the back, I think) and get our first taste of Costa Rican roads. The United States has traffic laws. Costa Rica has traffic suggestions. You know, little tips like 'stay on the right side of the road' which you may take or leave as you please. But you get used to the oncoming trucks after a while. You know that scene with Harry Potter on the crazy Knight Bus? Like that, only with Correll instead of a shrunken head. We get to the bed and breakfast, lug in our luggage (this is the first time I realize how big, unwieldy, and awkward my blue-or-purple duffel bag is) and hang around. Aubrey, Correll, and me marvel at the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles covers on the bunkbeds and comment on the innaccuracies portrayed in the turtle's colors. Cards are played, suns are setted, dancing lessons are foisted upon us (I can dance, and by 'dance' I mean 'fail'), food is served (as is my first taste of Costa Rican coffee), more cards are played, and the extra two hours we've gained en route are spent just generally hanging around. Correll, Aubrey, someone else, and me were engaged in some sort of football (American) at some point. Sad. Sleep is welcomed. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 09,July,2004 | Costa Rica: Finished. So I suppose now it's my sacred duty as a blogger to post a play-by-play of the past three weeks, lest my massive global audience spontaneously combust in anticipation. Just look at how many comments I've gotten:-). Some of the neatest stuff is the most recent, but I'll be getting to that later. I'll probably refer to Laura's ultra-detailed dairy for more detail later, but this'll do for now. Day one starts on next post. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 11,July,2004 | Erm..gotta do actual work tomorrow... Today: cleaned room, unpacked, saw F9/11 and part of Spiderman, ate Sushi, internetted. Yeah. Not the most productive thing ever. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 23,July,2004 | Hot dogs. It all started with hit dogs. Specifiaclly the hot dogs that my brother Josh had left in the microwave without cooking, without a plate, allowing fun little hot dog juices to spill all over the microwave. When my mom opened the microwavve to see this, she was oderately upset and told Josh to clean it up. Despite having done nothing but watch television all day, Josh refused and quickly got into a shouting match with my mom. It escalated to the point where my mom slapped Josh, at which point Josh yelled 'Go ahead, hit me again! huh?' Without thinking and overcome with anger, I walked over and hit Josh upside the head. A scuffle between him and me ensued, ending when he landed a good punch on my face. I took a step back, trying to figure out what to do next, but Josh had stopped fighting. My mom started yelling at him because now I would need stitches. 'Why? I'm not cut.' I said. She corrected me. Josh's punch had opened up a nice little laceration below my left eye. Josh was sent to his room and I got cleaned and bandaed up. I cried - it wasn't that my face hurt (a punch in the face actually hurts surprisingly little) but I always cry after fighting. Badness. Anyway, I got over it and got a bunch of ice in a bag on my face. My mom thought that I needed stitches, but I thought the cut wasn't that deep. The next few hours (say, 5:30-7:30) were spent going about normal life with a bandaid and a patch of ice. Anybody who was in the Alcove IRC thingy - that was this time. When my dad got home and looked at the cut (which was still bleeding) he was afraid that it would leave a permanent scar if left unstitched. My dad insisted on bringing Josh along to the hospital, so the three of us packed into the car and went. On the way there my dad said he probably would have opted for the scar because it's 'cool to have scars'. The wait at the hospital was short and everyone was really friendly-likeish. I got a vision test (I'm reguarly 20/30, but the eye above the cut actually improved to 20/25 in some bizzarre, Marvel-comicsesque injury sort of way). Asked how I got the cutbruise I told them that I had hit someone's fist with my face. They actually said that they could press charges for assault, but I declined. The surgeon (a nurse) was really nice, although dismayed to learn that my brother had gotten stitches just two days earlier (see 'Stitches and Scores'). We were out of the hospital less than an hour after we walked in and went for ice cream before heading home to sleep. My three stitches come out Monday, and I currently have a black eye. Feeling better and life is back to normal. Re-applying for permit tomorrow, going to TMBG with John, Reuven, and the other mammals, and possibly seeing Laura on Sunday. Almost makes me forget that my mom's sister's are arriving Sunday night. Any and all comments welcomed. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 22,July,2004 | A Nerd! Your quest for knowledge makes you blissfully unaware of things like fashion and pop culture. You are the smartest person in every room you walk into. You have a hard time approaching members of the opposite sex, but that's okay, because you'll most likely become a millionaire some day and finally get that cheerleader or sexy chess team captain to go out with you. urlLink What Kind of Social Outcast Are You? brought to you by urlLink Quizilla |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 22,July,2004 | I'll bet you didn't know that a poll option is exactly one foot long. Anyway- Why are you taking this poll? You could be doing kidneyloads of more productive things at the moment, but you're taking this little quiz dealy. What gives? Conformity Compliance Obsession with silly polls Last wish of a dying child The virtual coffee and donuts afterwords It's all a horrible misunderstanding Liberal Media Fighting the Man Working Undercover for the Man Overabundance of Spare Time This urlLink Poll by jaiwithani urlLink Click here to view results |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 20,July,2004 | Boooored. So bored, tears streaming down my face, would-be-thrilled-to-see-something-colorful bored. Every color looks grey, gravity feels bigger, the sky is lower, I don't know the sun bored.Yeargh. Got up at 2 am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. Stayed up and watched spiderman2 instead.*sips coffee*Now I'm at work and have absolutely nothing to do but type this on one o' them fancy er-go-nomical keyboards. 8 minutes until I have to change the Cds again. Umm. umm. Gotta think about something. Made an LJ account just because everyone else has one and I'm a conformist pussy. Yeah. Wanna syndacate this blog over there, hafta see howda do that. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 19,July,2004 | My results on an obscure and silly online quiz are important to you. You're whats her face! You must be a nice girl, just watch out for those possums! urlLink A Homestarrunner quiz - Which TEEN GIRL SQUAD girl are you? [good pictures, trust me] brought to you by urlLink Quizilla |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 19,July,2004 | Guess who's brother actually cut himself witha pair of scissors? Justin! Now, you may say to yourself, 'Well, that's understandable enough, anybody could accidentally slice a finger or hand while trying to cut something.' Well, Justin wasn't cutting anything.In fact, he was walking. To the bathroom. And he somehow managed to slip and slice the top of his left wrist. Smoothmuch. Anyway, he had to go in for three stitches, whereupon I was picked up from work (work being somewhat close to the hospitaling). So, I arrive home to AP scores, which was quite the mixed bag. Of the four scores, two were roughly what I expected, one was below, and one was above. But I passed, so life can go on. Five days to the TMBGing... Everyone I know is on the livejournal. My lack of conformity really does make me feel inferior. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,July,2004 | How awesome is my job? I should be working, but I have no more actual work to do, so I've been essentially ordered to goof around (and get paid for it) for a few hours. Woooooooooot :-D. I'm valiently trying to be useful by copying CDs to the network, but all I have to do is put in the disk and wait for 5 minutes while it copies it. Speaking of which, I think its time for a new disk...There we go, I now have 5 more free minutes. Anydirection, I suppose I should do something useful for anyone who bothers to stumble into my neck of the hundred-terabyte wood of blogs. So: Use urlLink Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. Just trust me on this. It's not at all complicated, it automatically blocks all pop-ups, it has tabbed browsing (unbelievably awesome), it's prettier, it's really customizable (I use Gmail and Winamp extensions, a prettyful skin, and a nifty RSS feed), and most importantly IT'S VIRTUALLY IMMUNE TO VIRUSES (unlike the insecure and extremely virus-prone Internet Explorer, which the Computer Emergency Response Team has denounced). Did I mention that it's up to 80% less evil? It's true. There was a study. Oh, use urlLink Winamp 5 for all things media. It's worth it just for the visualizations. :-). Dance instead of walking. Inventicize wordlings whentime feelsgood. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,July,2004 | Happy Mondaytime. Absolutely nothing terribly interesting at the moment, but I guess I'll have to be doing the work thing soon. Yurmk. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,July,2004 | urlLink This Land . Best political humor around, both sides. 'You're a UN pussy, and yes it's true that I kick ass!' 'You can't say 'nuclear', that really scares me. Sometimes a brain can come in quite handy. But that's not gonna help you, because I WON THREE PURPLE HEARTS!'... 'You got that botox!' 'But I still WON THREE PURPLE HEARTS!' Might as well reccomend most of the Daily Show archive, starting with urlLink Delayed election . |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 18,July,2004 | Life: Pretty good. I like the new job I started last week. This font: I'm not liking. Gonna have to fix that. There we go. Bradley Hand ITC. Good stuff. So, my job. I'm basically a lackey in the IT department...I need to eat breakfast. This post to be finished in a bit... That was funesque. For the third and finalish time, IT lackey==good. Pay is said to be excellent and I keep finishing work faster than they can find it. I've been building computers since Thursday and have about , um, 15 so far. This is awesome. I'm getting paid to hang around computers and fix other people's tech problems. It's like being at home, only better. And they have cooler LCD screens and always-available bad coffee. And the occasional pie. My bosses are Jay Victor (to avoid confusion, everyone now calls me 'Jie' except for Jay, because he doesn't speak in the third person to himself), a twenty-something hockey player, IT guy, maker of bad jokes, and neat freak, and John Lee, who might or might not be a urlLink supertaster . Old guy, lame jokes, fun. There's also this guy named 'Kevin' but I haven't really seen much of him and he's never really given me anything to do. Anyway, it's a good job and it gives me stuff to do (and when it doesn't I'm supposed to goof around online, Jay's orders). Oh, got to date yesterday. Well, not really, but I got to pull weeds with the Felleys for a few hours. Eh, CAS hours are CAS hours. And I got a really good dinner and brownies afterwards. And Monty Python watching. TMBG should be coming soon. Lemme check on that...Holy Close Relation of Excrement!(tm) it's on Saturday! I gotta get back to urlLink John on that... That's all I can think of right now. I gotta finish that Costa Rica posting... |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 26,July,2004 | urlLink ABS |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 01,August,2004 | urlLink Little Bluebird of Chaos |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 01,August,2004 | urlLink Guess who has 3D glasses? This guy! Did you know that winamp visualizations can be viewed in blue-red lens 3D! Drugs for my eyes!!! In other news, Mongolian BBQ has been had last night with Sam, John, Willa, Ilana and JP. Afterwords there was random walking, bookstoredness with musicsuchness (whereupon I acquired a Spine - 3*bleem points for the reference). Then there was ice cream and a lively debate with a Nader signature gatherer which ultimatley included Woodorw Wilson, the Bull-Moose party, Asian colonialism, tax policy, the nature of choice, the ultimate significance and purpose of voting, and such. Then John and I debated Lizzie's proposal to send 'feminist missionaires' to third world countries promoting equal rights and societal treatment for women, which John though might amount to cultural imperialism. The debate promtly collapsed when John made some atrocious metaphor about 'coating an entire tree with pesticide but leaving one bee-hive on one branch untouched'. On the upside, Willa still loves us both. This morning there was violence at the office where John's dad works. Apparently there's blood and the reporter who was supposed to be there isn't. His mom blames the AP. Heh. One bit of positive news: I just ordered 20 bags of coffee. Oh, and I got my paycheck. And I have 3D glasses. |
961,402 | male | 17 | Student | Aquarius | 07,August,2004 | test |
3,314,896 | male | 15 | indUnk | Taurus | 31,May,2004 | I'll be leaving to Ashland,Oregan tommarow soooo.....dont bother me with e-mail or AIM[which i'm not using right now anyway] please, no use trying, and yeah, thats pretty much what i needed to tell you folks....hmmm, but here, for YOUR AMUSEMENT: urlLink if there isn't a link on your screen above this text well then you just suck.... CURRENT MUZIC: The Coral-The Coral |
3,314,896 | male | 15 | indUnk | Taurus | 25,May,2004 | As you may have noticed I've been putting down: CURRENT MUZIC: ________ This only means what music i'm listening to at the moment. I usually play music to clear my thoughts and it helps me get in the mood for anything really. I could listen to Utada Hikaru before a date, or NOFX or the Pillows before going to hang with friends, or even some Classical to liven thigns up before going to a B'nai Mitzvah! Hell, music is great for anything and everything, people please, listen to MORE music and give a thought to something besides Linkin Park, ok? Thanks, I kneeeeww you'd understand. CURRENT MUZIC: ?????-?????? |
3,314,896 | male | 15 | indUnk | Taurus | 24,May,2004 | As you might be able to SEE i posted my other journal up at thee top! Please check it out if you want to know nothing of me....i really want to post some pictures so let me try: ummm, look i'll do it later OK?!?!? that's what you wanted to hear right!?!?? I knew it arrrrrgh!!!! CURRENT MUZIC: MSI-Bed of Roses |
3,314,896 | male | 15 | indUnk | Taurus | 23,May,2004 | today i'll tell you guys about something called school. Mine is a big hulking structure of plaster and metal, Tehiyah Day School. It's a Jewish school, and with this comes good things AND bad things. I've listed these for you in a handy pack: GOOD POINT:You can get away with crazy shit and no one does anything. BAD POINT:You can't do anything normal or you will be punished. GOOD POINT:The kids are nice and sheltered. BAD POINT:The kids are all white and sheltered. GOOD POINT:All meals are healthy and vegetarian. BAD POINT:No MEAT in school meals. GOOD POINT:No extra classes. BAD POINT:No extra classes. as you can see, my school is a piece of crud, thanks for reading folks! CURRENT MUZIC: Gary Newman-Cars |
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