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"Conservative populism is largely fake, Liberal elitism is largely real" - Anon (some radical socialist I read online, but don't remember his name)

It's a great quote, and underscores what has been excised from American political discourse, ever since Woodrow Wilson demolished the IWW.

amp23 has a really good rant on a not related topic (except insofar as everything is really related, in the world of true history)
read it here

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: Metallica - Master of Puppets

Whenever people unite, agree and subsume themselves into a group, this is when humanity degrades terribly. They may have horrible goals, they may have seemingly wonderful goals, but it is during this phase that all the damage is done. It is when people are scattered, bitter and cynical, left to their own devices and skeptical of every ideal, that they are healing and rebuilding the world.
Sadly our inability to percieve the lag of time and how it works allows demagogues and their idealist dupes to convince us otherwise.

There is a third path but most people are definitely not ready for it, from what I have experienced. This is the path of optimistic cynicism. To know that there is no great unity, but that we are beautiful in our disagreements, and we all have something to say to each other. To be non-violent because you know that you might be wrong at any moment. To know that we will never merge and become God, but that it is unnecessary because Tat Tvam Asi, and we are doing it the human way and we wanted it to be so. I don't want to make the whole world agree with me, I just want to find people who are sympathetic and understanding of the greater truth that there are many good roads (even though not all roads are good).

Current Mood: "We all disagree here"
Current Music: Jason Lytle - I Am Lost (And The Moment Cannot Last)

So far I've found techniques for processing the sadness components of my low cycles, a sort of centering in time that makes it into an exquisite tragic pain/joy of existence type of feeling that is easy to tolerate and almost enjoyable. And I'm figuring out how to get past the guilt by marking the past off as a sort of film, making it grainier and less saturated so I can really intuitively grasp that it was literally someone else who did these things.
The future still haunts me though. Fear and shame are still difficult for me to deal with. But by conquering these other two demons of my cycle of pain, it's given me some sort of basic clue on how to approach the rest.
I can't formalize how I do these things yet, and so I can't really teach them to anyone yet. But give me time, just a little more... and I will get through the membrane separating myself and everything I need... to do.
Anger hasn't been as much of a problem for me since beginning my transformation... It flares up but doesn't linger, where there used to be endless painful storms of rage. In fact what wrath I have is much more focused on the immediate, more of a righteous indignation at those who cause others pain. I love the world and everything but it disappoints me sometimes, as one's children often do.

I had a delightful grilled tuna and baked potato lunch today with lemonade spiked with mint to drink. It was a good thing. I wish I could convey through this post how lovely this song is. I hope you're all doing well right now and I miss you all.

Current Music: Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters

Dealing with Verifone is always like pulling teeth. Why do they hate their customers so much?

Current Mood: working

What am I looking forward to? This:

And what might save us, me and you, is if the Muslims love their children too.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. -- Thomas Merton

What a voice!

Current Mood: impressed

Harrison Ford is 67 years old.

I kind of love this image for so many reasons (thanks to

autodidactic for OP):

http://pics.livejournal.com/ineffabelle/pic/000a15g0

thanks to

polyanarch for the link.

Current Mood: hopeful

Randal pulls off another great one:
http://www.xkcd.com/641/

Current Mood: amused

if you like lil bebehs and lil cute pets, and the combination thereof, prepare for a cute assault, class 1:
Pets and Kids

"We're out looking for Zero-day torrents today! Don't stop till you find some .isos, damnit!"

Current Mood: yarr?

(1:10:06 AM) annamnesis: this is the funny thing though
(1:10:21 AM) annamnesis: most "christians" seem very defensive about their beliefs
(1:10:35 AM) annamnesis: even though most people in the US are "christian"
(1:10:53 AM) annamnesis: I think they're trying very hard to convince themselves.

"Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."

This might be the cleverest thing the J man ever said.

Current Mood: let he or she who hath wisdom, reckon

an oldie but a goodie:

"There are somewhere around 90,000,000 gun owners in this country. That number is 30 times bigger than the entire Chinese army. Armed civilians here outnumber all “law enforcement” and military personnel by a huge margin. The American people CANNOT be ruled by brute force alone, not by any foreign power, not by any local gang, not by anyone on this planet."
- Larken Rose

best headline ever:
Prison van crash...Adviser resigns...Volcano explosions

I saw a bird today, and said "you don't know it, but you're the word". I looked up at the sun and said "today's your day".
I am in an incredibly good mood.

that is all.

Current Mood: ecstatic

I still wonder why they haven't made the movie version of A Canticle For Leibowitz.

Ow. My stomach is getting kind of oogy and I still have 3 hours of work left. Boo. :(

Current Mood: nauseated

UGH WORK ON SUNDAY WAS FUCKING ROUGH.

Someone's whole Point of Sale system sort of died on them, and I spent all day working on it, instead of doing what I needed to do today.
I did get a bonus out of it though, so fuck it.

Current Mood: busy

"What it comes down to, I think, is the difference between standing up for yourself and being a bully. What I am about to say is maybe not the most popular or welcome thing to hear in discussions like this, but: sometimes you need to stand up for yourself. Sometimes something is so big and so bad that you just have to call it out, because you think making the fucked-upness of a situation or statement or wacky cinematic date rape leading to true love will help other people, maybe even the person that you are calling out. But – ah, BUT! – it actually is possible to be a total jerk about this. You can belittle people and attack them personally and fail to listen to them and score points off them. And it doesn’t actually help anyone. It just makes the cause you are presenting look like something that crazy mean people use to boost their self-esteem and justify their cruelty."
- Sady of Tiger Beatdown

I like her more and more, the more I read.

The reason why physics is a pretty solid discipline is not because physicists are particularly smarter than anyone else, they just have a much better set of mechanisms for checking their stupidity than most fields do.
The thing that makes science ... well, scientific, is the position of maximum possible scepticism that it takes toward all knowledge. If scientists start losing that scepticism, they become less and less scientific.

(Socio-biologists, for example, seem to be particularly prone to making claims way beyond what the evidence would allow)

Current Mood: contemplative

Current Mood: amused

Saw Oldboy and Chinatown this weekend.

o.0

Current Mood: Why we fight.
Current Music: Robert Pollard - Maggie Turns To Flies

ok I think this might be my favorite LOLXZIBIT yet.
( Read more... )

Watched Cloverfield tonight. It was better than I expected it to be.
( mild spoilers. )

I feel so joyous tonight!
Squirrel Girl, Milla Jovovich, Robert Pollard and Anne Clark have all played their parts.

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Guided By Voices - Christian Animation Torch Carriers

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Anne Clark - Abuse (live)

ahh how I want a ginourmous kitteh like this one:
( read moar )

Yell Incoherently and Carry A Big, Brittle Stick - Modern American foreign policy.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: THE AZOIC - Not Justified

This may be the greatest vocal piece ever composed. Very few women attempt it seriously (because the note range is for a tenor). She pulls it off big time.
It is humanity's objection to the world as it exists, and love overcoming terrible odds.
The last lyric translates to "at daybreak, victory, victory!"

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Sarah Brightman - Nessun Dorma (no one will sleep)

Directions:
"Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. "

1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Nausea - JP Sartre
5. UBIK - PK Dick
6. The Divine Invasion - PK Dick
7. The Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu
8. Illuminatus! Trilogy (cheating maybe but they were published together) - RA Wilson
9. Manalive - GK Chesterton
10. The Reprieve - JP Sartre
11. Neuromancer - William Gibson
12. Cosmic Trigger - RA Wilson
13. Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
14. Dune - Frank Herbert
15. Albanian Assignment - David Smiley

the secret is to compartmentalize.

Current Mood: crazy

there are days when work feels like the Worst.RPG.Evar.

On a hopefully not related note, if you're ever in the mood for something truly depressing, you can play the second half of Pink Floyd's The Wall first, and the first half second. Such that it starts with "Hey You" and ends with "Goodbye Cruel World".
It tells a very different, but equally coherent and much more disheartening story.

Current Mood: busy

.. and a deep-fried pumpkin filled with 84 of our potato-bacon bombs.

It seems lately that when I add interesting interests to my list, and see who else has them, I run into people I know on their friends list.
This makes me feel that I'm on the right track with my recent trains of thought, I think.

Current Mood: amused

(9:15:26 PM) x: I say we just ban endorphines
(9:15:29 PM) annamnesis: LOL
(9:15:39 PM) annamnesis: then we won't be addicted to anything!
(9:15:50 PM) x: there ya go
(9:15:54 PM) x: Hell, you guys banned trans fats
(9:15:59 PM) x: Don't tell me it's not possible
(9:16:22 PM) annamnesis: and we can joylessly pull the levers on our machines and make stuff... for some fucking reason that escapes me right now.

Current Music: Lycia - The remnants and the ruins

"You Swiss are so proud of your 500,000-man citizen militia.... But what will you do if a 1,000,000-man German Army comes marching across your border?"
"That's easy. Each of us will shoot twice, and go home."

~ A reported conversation between a German and a Swiss diplomat, circa 1939

Current Mood: amused

Ever notice how every interesting president has a scummy insider vice president? That is no accident, IMO.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: skinny puppy - morpheus laughing

Badger... Stoat... Platypus.

Google is degrading because of SEO. They were fighting it off pretty well for a while, but it seems with all the emphasis on other projects maybe their core team isn't getting as much priority? Or maybe the swarms of vultures have just gotten too large to resist effectively.

Take that, Cool Hand Luke:
Eggs
65 Hard Boiled Eggs
6 minutes, 40 seconds
Sonya Thomas

from here

Name that tune:
"Don't cry, dry your eye.
Here comes your mother with those two little guys"

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: you be the judge!

The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

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