Why We Fight
Hikaru often says, “If neighbors cannot get along, how the hell can we expect nation-states to?” Maybe she means that peace starts at home and in the community.
Flickr Group::Unseen War
From the intro, “This group is to show the battles that toy Army men fight to keep the rest of the toybox safe.” My favorite description:
A wave of searing, burning heat washed across, driving them to their knees. Some dropped their weapons and ran, the ammunition exploding in a cacaphony of bursts in the superheated air. Others hunkered down, grim determination set on swarthy faces, sheltering in swales and on scorching hillsides…
Brilliant. Some photos:
Linkage: War/Disputes
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B.S. Detector
Back in the ’70s and early’80s, people allowed their dogs to crap just about anywhere. As a kid, you learnt how to ID the piles of poo, before you stepped in one of them. There is also verbal poo. For example:
The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral - not important.
Did you avoid stepping in it or did you soil your shoes?
I Smelt Your feces at, “i disagree with the definitoin of punk.”
Yes, yes, I know “Dark-side” implies that the opposite must exist. Anyway, on with the show. What Punk Is. By: the internet.
- HIM: we can’t be free of any of those influences (except maybe by living as hermits) what we can do is take an aggressive critical approach to the influences
- ME: what exactly do you mean by “aggressive critical approach”?
- HIM: hadn’t really though. direct questioning and/or selective rejection of the immediate sources of influence
“Direct questioning of the immediate sources of influence,” huh? WTF? “Okay,” I thought to myself, “I gotta hear this.” So, being me, I said, “This is my first exposure to the concept of ‘direct questioning of the immediate sources of influence.’” Followed by a question, “what exactly does that mean?” Now, at this point, I was expecting some long monolog. What I got instead was, honesty:
no idea, i was thinking on my feet and it seemed right. I’m not claiming deep meaning
oops, looks like someone ate their own poop.
ZeRoHer0 Steals my Thunder.
- iMorph: Okay, I am impressed. I am going to get about 2 hours and 30 minutes out of my battery. That is with Colloquy, Adium, Safari, and iPod all sucking at its teat.
- Zer0Her0: iMorph: w/ wifi?
- iMorph: yep.
- Zer0Her0: nice.
- Plazma_iBook: indeed
- iMorph: batteries need to see a “big leap” forward.
- iMorph: I want to measure my remaining time in months.
- Zer0Her0: iMorph: when i dream, i dream of riding a pony.
- iMorph: that was sweet, Zer0Her0.
- Zer0Her0: no doubt hehe. i said that to the gf one day when she was looking at this expensive dress she got SOOO mad.
- iMorph: I am going to try that on my kids.
“Ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?”
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Manky Vagina + Strong Vaginal Discharge + Heavy Menstrual Discharge = Air Freshener?
For the life of me, I could not figure out why our bathroom smelled so awful. After 3 weeks of, “Jesus, what is that smell,” I have identified the source. No, it is not a family member. When shopping for an air freshener in Japan, avoid this one. It smells nothing like lime.
No, THEM or Ms. Freud, I have never experienced the above odors in real life.
“Brenda, your brains smell so good. So rich and spicy.”
WARNING: If you are a rabid vegetarian, a member of PETA, or a loud-mouthed vegan, YOU WILL FIND THE FOLLOWING PRODUCT OFFENSIVE. STOP READING. DO NOT PROCEED! ctrl + w or cmd + w. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Homer’s love of bacon lives in every male. (There are exceptions. You know who you are.) So, let us all pray that Meat Air Fresheners (MAFs) are real. MAFs:
Imagine filling your bedroom with the alluring smell of a barbecued steak. Or climbing into your car to encounter the heavenly scent of smoked bacon.
Hungry? So am I.
Tokyo Fear.
Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Yeah, right.
Ingredients:
- Bicycle.
- iPod w/Matrix Soundtrack.
- Headphones.
- Puny halogen light.
- Partially cloudy sky.
- Dark road.
- Train tracks.
- Plan to visit Mizuho City.
Directions:
- Leave the house as close to midnight as possible for your nightly ride.
- Before departing, ensure that your iPod is strapped securely to your belt and your headphones are adjusted properly.
- Don’t forgot to attach and turn on your puny halogen light.
- Ride 10 kilometers away from home and end up in Mizuho city around 12:30 or 12:40 in the AM.
- Make your way back home. Take the only road that a) doesn’t have any street lights and b) is lined with dark fields.
- Depend on your iPod to provide a distraction.
- Don’t switch off iPod when ominous music from the Matrix emanates from your headphones. In fact, get caught up in it.
- Freak self out and pedal as fast as possible.
- Promise God anything at all, “Just get me out of _this_ one and I promise to never look at pR0n again.”
Note:
As retarded as this sounds, it was effing scary. All sorts of madness bubbled up from my subconscious, “OMG, someone is going to jump out of the field and chop you up! You are going to die! They are right behind you! Pedal faster! OMG. OMG. OMG. Why did I come down this road! Some wacky, repressed geek is going to act out his favorite violent scene using my corpse as a prop.”
/me curses the Matrix score for providing fodder for my already active imagination.
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Movie Reviews w/D.L.A. and H.Y.A.
All movies are not created equal. Some are winners, while others are losers.
The Losers
- Flight Plan: Rent it if you have nothing better to do.
H.Y.A.: Jodi Foster over acts.”
Me: I couldn’t connect with the protagonist. The villain wasn’t very villainous. Oh, there were too many contrived twists.
- JarHead: If it is ever on terrestrial TV, watch it.
H.Y.A.: …
Me: Too many messages and the characters never develop.
- AeonFlux: Rent it, but don’t expect much.
H.Y.A: Didn’t really connect with the characters. What does Aeon Flux mean?
Me: I felt sorry for the scientist in the astronaut suit. That’s about it.
The Winner!
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