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    Monday, June 29th, 2009
    5:52 pm
    What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false.

    One, plus one, equals one.

    We even have a word for when you, plus another, equals one.

    That word is love.
    Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
    10:30 am
    Here it goes again!
    Friday, May 15th, 2009
    6:23 pm
    Monday, March 16th, 2009
    7:52 pm
    Something I heard today
     In a life that's mostly froth and bubbles,
    two things stand like stone:
    kindness in another's troubles,
    and courage in our own.
    Monday, March 9th, 2009
    9:02 pm
    Disappointed.
     PETA Spay/Neuter Knowledge Quiz

    Now, we all know that PETA is one of the craziest organizations to walk the Earth (Quiet your flaming - I like animals, but you can't deny PETA is f-ing nuts.), but I was completely ready to give them credit for creating a knowledge quiz with a strip-tease theme. I mean, you're reaching a segment of the population who likes boobs. Which as I recall is pretty much everyone.

    But then you get to the end...and it's a giant tease.

    Way to go PETA, recruit new people to the cause of animal welfare, and then piss them off. You remain, the least effective psychos whose cause I happen to agree with.
    Sunday, March 1st, 2009
    9:56 pm
    Bucket List
     I saw this on a facebook page. You're supposed to mark off things you've done and blank the ones you haven't. Shall we?


    Things you have done during your lifetime:
    (x) Gone on a blind date
    (X) Skipped school
    (x) Watched someone die
    (x) Been to Canada
    (X) Been to Mexico
    ( ) Been to Florida
    (X) Been to Hawaii
    (X) Been on a plane
    (X) Been on a helicopter
    (X) Been lost
    (x) Gone to Washington, DC
    (X) Swam in the ocean
    (X) Cried yourself to sleep
    (X) Played cops and robbers
    (X) Recently colored with crayons
    (X) Sang Karaoke
    (x) Paid for a meal with coins only
    ( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
    (X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
    (X) Made prank phone calls
    ( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
    (X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose & elsewhere
    (X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
    (X) Danced in the rain-naked.
    (X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
    ( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
    (X) Watched the sunrise with someone
    (X) Blown bubbles
    (X) Gone ice-skating
    (X) Gone to the movies
    (X) Been deep sea fishing
    ( ) Driven across the United States (East to West and North to South)
    ( ) Been in a hot air balloon
    ( ) Been sky diving
    (X) Gone snowmobiling
    ( ) Lived in more than one country -
    (X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
    (X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
    ( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
    ( ) Seen the Statue of Liberty
    (X) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
    ( ) Been on a cruise -
    (X) Traveled by train
    (X) Traveled by motorcycle
    (X) Been horse back riding
    (x) Ridden on a San Francisco cable car
    (x) Been to Disneyland or Disney World
    ( ) Been in a rain forest
    (x) Seen whales in the ocean
    ( ) Been to Niagara Falls
    ( ) Ridden on an elephant
    ( ) Swam with dolphins
    ( ) Been to the Olympics
    ( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
    ( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
    ( ) Been spinnaker flying
    (x) Been water-skiing
    (X) Been snow-skiing
    ( ) Been to Westminster Abbey
    ( ) Been to the Louvre
    ( ) Swam in the Mediterranean
    ( ) Swam in the Dead Sea
    (x) Snorkled with tropical fish
    (X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
    ( ) Been to a National Football League game
    ( ) Been to an NHL game.
    (X) Been SCUBA diving
    (X) Gone Bungee jumping
    (X) Been to a third world country
    ( ) given birth
    ( ) been inside a cage with an African Tiger


    TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER WHAT IS YOUR BUCKET LIST: ADD things YOU will do.
    Found a company that does something worthwhile
    Discover something new to the world
    Enlighten someone else, about something important
    Change a life
    Save 100 animals
    Help save 1 species
    Live where I can't get home
    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
    2:49 pm
    My Deep Thoughts
     I just realized that Jack Handey is a real person. In honor of that realization, here is my own take on a great man's art form:

    Whenever I see a pro football game, I think to myself, "five of those guys are probably gay."

    Sometimes, I think about all the starving people in the world. And then I think about all the orphan babies, and I wonder why nobody does anything about this stuff?

    I think when someone compliments your wardrobe, you should say "Thank you, Father, but can we go back to mass now?" That would really freak them out.

    The most valuable gift of all is a child's laughter. That's why, whenever a child laughs, I put them in my basement and lock the door. Because someday I'd like to buy a boat.



    Okay, not as good as he is. But fun. :)
    Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
    10:53 pm
    Great Music
     We all have our favorite songs. That one little piece of music that we (and sometimes only we) just groove to completely. But there are some songs, you may like or hate them, that resonate with everyone. I think I've found a few....

    The Rolling Stones, "Paint it Black".
    Everyone I've ever talked to says they feel the whammy from Paint. Personally, I think it cuts off the bloodflow to whatever part of the brain regulates morality. If I ever have to perpetrate a massacre, this is what'll be playing. Somebody told me they brainscanned people while this played, and it caused huge brain chemistry spikes. Dunno if that's true.

    Judy Garland, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".
    Same effect, completely different emotion. I've seen entire rooms slow down and stop when this started playing. Maybe it's the Wizard of Oz tie-in from when we all were kids...I dunno. Has anyone out there not seen that movie? I'm interested in your opinion. And in how you've managed never to see that movie. What, did you go through childhood in a box?

    ...can anyone suggest a few more?

    (PS - Honorable mention to Iz for his version of Rainbow. Is it the shoes?)
    Monday, February 23rd, 2009
    2:36 pm
    U.S. to send $900 million in aid to Gaza

    This is why we're tanking. Someone once told me that if you considered a corporation as an actual person (the literal definition), that person's actions would declare them a sociopath. In the case of government, we have a class of representatives who all went to the same schools (and frequently come from the same families). In this hypothetical world of incorporate entities, our government is intensely inbred. It is becoming more and more apparent that if you were to consider ourgovnerment as an actual person, that person likely has six toes.

    With the hypothetical person their condition is funny (or sad, if you're taking the analogy more seriously), in the case of our real entity we have a mutant who controls the military, the prison system, and the police. And they use this to take your stuff. Not to mix my metaphors, but that sounds a lot like a Disney villain.

    So, what's my point? My point is that in a fiscal environment approaching 10% unemployment (CA figures), our government is sending a billion dollars of our money overseas to rebuild someone else's house. The only interpretation I can make of this event is that this is a very loud declaration of "I'm smart, I'm important" which, although no one who hears it believes, is uttered by a dangerous enough mutant that the rest of the room is going to avert their eyes and pretend not to notice.

    Let's increase some more taxes. I think Georgia was giving us looks, and I heard that Croatia told France we're not smart.
    Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
    8:03 pm
    Directly copied from Beth's thingie, I'm just gonna separate them into "read" and "not-read" categories, with some comments. The 'Y' and 'N' bits are hers.

    Read:
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (awful, just awful.)
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (given)
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (I caved.)
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Did not like.)
    6 The Bible (Silly, spiteful, and contradictory, but still necessary.)
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (GREAT)
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Y
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy N
    13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller N
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Why is hamlet seperate?)
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (because I'm gonna kill jfk.)
    19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger N
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (and I told Mrs. Aguilera reading this would never help me.)
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens N
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy N
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Y
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Y
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Y
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Y
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (When I was about 12.)
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (Strangely, I *loved* this as a kid)
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Y (this is a duplicate of #33...)
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Y
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Y
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Bleah.)
    52 Dune - Frank Herbert (Good, then bleah. But God-Emperor was awesome.)
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Y
    58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (READ THIS BOOK !!!!!)
    59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time N
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck N
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (creepy factor...rising...)
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Another awesome book. Read it so you know when it's being ripped off.[hint-a lot])
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Not as good as advertised)
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie N
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ("Is it a whale?" "Let's mutiny". I just saved you two days.)
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Please sir?)
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Y
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Y
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce N
    76 The Inferno - Dante (Dante was kind of a whiny, petty, loser.)
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Y
    87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White Y
    91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Y
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Y
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle N
    97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas N
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (I read the whole series! Twice!)

    Not Read:
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Y
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Y
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Y
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier N
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Y
    17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk N
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot N
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell N
    26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh N
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy N
    34 Emma - Jane Austen Y
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen Y
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini N
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mais N
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden N
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown N
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez N
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving N
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy N
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Y
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan N
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel N
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons N
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Y
    55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth N
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon N
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez N
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt N
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold N
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy N
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding N
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson N
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome N
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola N
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray N
    80 Possession - AS Byattn N
    82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell N
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker N
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro N
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert N
    86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry N
    88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom N
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton N
    93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks N
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams N
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole N
    96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute N
    100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Y
    Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
    9:51 am
    IM is Fun
     A conversation I had earlier today:

    >>>: I'll be worried when you say "Nothing says love like a good whipping."
    Me : I have said "whips are okay within the bonds of a loving relationship"
    >>>: WOW. I have an AWESOME mail man!

    That is all.
    Monday, February 16th, 2009
    11:22 pm
    I just got to write a paper about Fight Club as an enlightened portrayal of male and female sexuality.


    Sometimes I love being in college.
    Sunday, February 15th, 2009
    10:02 pm
    How many?
     Check this out.

    It makes me Oogozly. (Oogozly(adj): A word I just made up to describe the condition of being so attracted to someone that the phrase "attracted to someone" is insufficient for the description)
    Friday, February 13th, 2009
    3:25 pm
    Thursday, February 12th, 2009
    6:57 pm
    Thank you, Scifi channel...
     I almost forgot this one until I flicked channels across Serenity tonight.

    "If I'm gone for more than two hours, you take this ship...and you come, and you rescue me. I mean it."

    My favorite line ever.
    Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
    12:02 am
    Einstein said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

    Tom Robbins said, "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

    And John Adams said, "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."


    What do these have in common?
    Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
    9:16 am
    I Love Portal
     Just finished playing Portal, a game from the old half-life people. It was awesome.

    But the real reason for this post is to pose a question which occured to me while playing. Why is it so much more creepy when you take out a robotic gun turrent and, instead of just dying, it cries "I don't blame you"?

    *shudder*
    Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
    8:42 am
    This will be interesting, since I only have ~4 livejournal friends
     The first FIVE people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. Just for YOU.

    This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

    - I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
    - What I create will be just for you and no two pressies will be alike.
    - It'll be done at some point this year (2009). No guarantees when exactly since I want it to be a total surprise!
    - You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
    - I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

    The catch? You have to repost this in your own LJ. We can all make stuff and make someone's day a little bit brighter!!
    Saturday, January 17th, 2009
    8:36 am
    Why I love Leverage:

    Tim Hutton: "Did you just kill a guy with an appetizer?"
    Christian Kane: "I dunno.....maybe."
    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
    10:15 am
    ?
     What's scarier...that this exists, or that I kind of think it's a good idea?
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