December 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”
– Alexander the Great
September 2011
3 posts
It has been brought to my attention by a Korean friend that today (and by that I mean the 28th) is “Confucius’ Birthday”. Brief googling uncovered several conflicting reports, but most seem to put it near the end of September. The only Chinese lunar calendar date I could find is the 27th day of the 8th moon (which, this year, was the 24th). But, hey, Jesus’ birthday is made...
It just occurred to me that, eventually, we all become orphans.
May 2011
1 post
“Celebrating Bin Laden’s death in the street seems unwise. Maybe this bloodshed...”
April 2011
4 posts
“Ist es nicht besser, in die Hände eines Mörders zu gerathen, ale in die Träume...”
– Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra
“”It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from...”
– U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds.
Above and beyond.
I went to thepiratebay today and was greeted with the possibility to answer some research questions about filesharing. I would suggest anyone interested in the topic go complete the survey. However, I fear they may have gotten more than they bargained for when they asked me the final question:
“Please give us your own comments on the topic of file-sharing, especially how the situation in...
“The first kiss is very special. It’s where you go from being a stranger to...”
– Betty Draper (Mad Men Season 3, Episode 8)
March 2011
3 posts
Rango
When it comes to animation, it seems to me that most people are of two opinions. The first is that it is for children. The second is that if there is an animation that isn’t for children, it is some form of hentai. These two assumptions are bolstered by the fact that the majority of people’s exposure to adult animation comes from encounters with fat, sweaty otaku.
If I had to...
A Draconic Heritage
Though I am generally loathe to blame anything on video games, I think that they may be the source of the problem. The basement on Riley Circle had this awful redorange, shag carpet. It started at the stairs and moved down into the darkness of the windowless room. There was a bar immediately at the bottom of the stairs, an equally awful relic of the time the house was built in. But this...
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...”
– E. M. Forster
February 2011
1 post
“‘In some remote corner of the universe, glimmering diffusely into...”
– Nietzsche
January 2011
1 post
The Only Difference Between Swimming and Drowning...
“Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26, and we were of that disposition.” -Rob Morgan (High Fidelity)
It really is quite amazing that any of us ever get anything done at all. Sometimes I am overcome with a kind of ass-clenching terror. You know, the kind of terror you felt as a young teenager at the moment you...
December 2010
1 post
“Alas that the merciless day did not destroy me sooner, before I devised with my...”
– Empedocles
November 2010
2 posts
Saw 3D
The Saw series represents a very interesting dynamic of American cinema for me. In undergraduate I took a class on Postmodern literature theory and the professor and I had multiple discussions about the draw of the Saw movies. He maintained the position that they are effectively just some kind of strange torture/gore fetish. I disagreed. My position is that they are basically trivial ethical...
October 2010
10 posts
The Social Network
I’m just going to begin by saying that I have no idea how much of this movie is fiction or how much reality. I don’t care and neither should you.
Eisenberg and Timberlake really steal the show I think. In the case of the former, we get the sense of intelligence and exacerbation that we saw hints of in Zombieland, but unleashed in a character that is a very lovable asshole. Whether or...
The Only Difference Between Honey and Vomit is...
A little boy stood swatting bees with a broomstick as they obliviously bore homes into his. Their brothers’ death did not dissuade them, so the Harbinger of Death kept swinging. Finally, the bees were gone and threat of invasion no longer bore upon him. Then he proudly bore their broken, little bodies beside his mother’s deathbed. She cried when she saw the bees. The boy still misses...
It's not the homegoing with the ladies I'm...
If home is where the heart is then we’re both shit out of luck; But while I’m just riding coach, you’re sitting in first class, my dear. With me, it’s a multiplicity of homes that keeps me confused and wandering. If home is where the heart is then we’re going to have to appoint you, I fear, the homeless paragon, the bridge burning coach. You’re sitting in first...
I didn't retain the meter, but...
Delete or not delete - that is the question.
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous comments
or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
and, by deleteing, end them.
To quit, to stalk no more - and by a stalk to say we end
the heartache and the thousand social shocks
that Facebook is heir to - ‘tis a desocialization
devotely to be...
Easy A
While my attraction to the movie maybe somewhat inflated by my near obsession with 10 Thing I Hate About You (which is subsequently the result of a teenage relationship), Easy A is really a good movie. It pays self aware homage to it’s predecessors from directly showing clips from many greats such as Farris Bueller’s Day Off, Say Anything and Breakfast Club to including “Bad...
“Since, however, in this philosophic and critical age such empiricism can...”
– Kant, on Hume’s Empiricism
A bird
with clipped wings can sing, but no longer fly.
Can you make a drought out of rainy weather?
September 2010
3 posts
I am...
continually baffled by many things, including but not limited to the following:
1. The therapeutic effects of both sweet tea and being yelled at, both in conjunction and disjunction.
2. My inability to read/follow directions.
3. Why things go well for me. By all accounts they shouldn’t (i.e. I don’t believe in God or luck and I’m a shitty guy so that takes karma out of the...
I share...
a kitchen with a Korean guy. He offered me a beer tonight and we started talking. All the sudden he gets up and says we need “beer food”. I was expecting pretzels or nuts. I got dried cuttle fish and octopus.
“Daily dose of Alabama: My bus driver is driving barefoot. War Eagle.”
– krunkmastaFLEX
August 2010
7 posts
At times
I find waiting for the bus more like waiting for Godot.
“In case you were missing AL, a little nigglet punched me in the ass at the...”
– krunkmastaFLEX
Clearly,
Japan missed the memo that explicitly stated that capris are for girls.
Day 1
So, instead of just telling you about all the boring things that I did today (like walk almost 10 miles all around Manoa Valley), I’m just going to sum up my experience with some simple declarative statements.
This was the first thing I saw when I stepped outside this morning.
I miss squirrels. Yellow is the new black. In the Safeway up the street the wine, beer (including 40s) and...
July 2010
7 posts
http://weldbham.com/secondfront/2010/07/26/bsc-tax-... →
1 tag
It’s hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock.
1 tag
A thought
The only difference between a romantic boyfriend and a stalker is permission. And sometime even that distinction proves useless.
1 tag
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of...”
– Francis Bacon
Nerd Rage - A conversation
Me
So i just submitted a rtj on RPOL for a freeform bleach game
and this asshole dming it sends me back a message telling me “I don’t know whether to feel amused or depressed because you can’t do the basic math to calculate you characters age.”
So i broke my foot off in his ass.
Assumptions: Character born on earth in 1945.
Character died in 1990 and went to soul...
Aphelion
Feeling a bit distant today?
Today at noon the Earth was at the furthest point of its orbit away from the sun for this calendar year. So we are all slightly more surrounded by cold nothingness than usual.
June 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
http://rackjite.com/archives/4560-VIDEO-Daily-Show-... →
January 2010
5 posts
Usually I don't feel sorry for prisoners, but... →
You should have seen it coming.
I am generally amused by pot/kettle situations. However, the issue of music piracy just gets my blood pressure up. News flash music industry, capitalism. Someone (the internet) has figured out how to deliver your product for a lower price (the best price - fo’ free). The internet killed MTV too, at least all the parts involving music videos. It was inevitably really. Non-digital media is...