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| 06:35pm 31/08/2009 |
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I have the sudden and powerful urge to track down Thomas Friedman and murder him horribly.
'World is Flat 3.0' my ass. |
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| 07:57pm 21/06/2009 |
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Terminator:Salvation had enough plotholes that you could drive Optimus Prime through the lot of them.
My brain was physically hurting by the end of it. The only thing that could have saved it was Summer Glau doing high kicks, and we didn't even get that. |
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| 09:22am 20/06/2009 |
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Suddenly, I have horrible sympathy for all those serious history majors that took thier lessons to heart. |
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| 02:16pm 07/05/2009 |
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Man. I damn near cried whenever I walked out of my last English 315(Science Fiction) class today.
That's one class I'm definately going to miss. |
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| I need a title? |
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| 08:04pm 30/04/2009 |
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I have a new toy. Posting from it, actually - a Nokia n810. Quite literally, a linux-powered touchscreen pc you can keep in your pocket. If nothing else, it'll make an awesome ebook reader. |
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| 11:26am 10/04/2009 |
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I'm begining to suspect that my brain was forcibly keeping my body in order through sheer, ungodly, force of will alone. As damn near the minute I finally submitted that thrice-damned Finance Project, my body crashed, and crashed HARD.
Oh, well. Atleast I have nine days of vacation to recover, and that was the second to last big project due this semester. Now I can just hope and pray it's what my finance professor wanted as far as data goes. |
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| Random thought. |
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| 03:26pm 23/03/2009 |
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The best part about Battlestar Galactica being finished is it means I survived it's fandom.
Yeesh. |
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| 03:31pm 22/02/2009 |
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After having the same skin/theme in Opera for, oh... years, come to think - on the order of three different versions, from 8 to 10 Alpha, I've finally switched over to a new theme.
I've never really given it any thought before, but Opera really does blow away any other browser in terms of sheer customization options. If nothing else, the sheer amount of themes/skins you can get and install easily is pretty obscene. |
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| 02:14pm 26/01/2009 |
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You know, it takes one hell of a Professor and one hell of a college cource to utterly blow away all your preconceived notions of a time period in American history in a single span of fifty minutes.
I'm having fun this semester. |
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| 12:43pm 12/01/2009 |
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Klan Klein is 18 meters of pure love.
That is all. |
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| 09:04am 07/01/2009 |
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Does this topic veer too close to politics? I'm honestly not quite sure.
But if the numbers in this article are correct(I could check, but it's 9am in the morning, and I'm lazy), that doesn't exactly paint a rosy picture of the future of the NYTimes as a viable business.
I'll freely admit that I don't like nor trust journalism(all of it, not just the NYTimes), as I follow the precept never to trust anyone who's trying to sell me something, which journalists are. This doesn't mean that I'm a raving nutter who doesn't beleive whatever gets put into print, but as an amatuer writer and prolific reader I like to think that it's easy enough to pick out words and terminology that can bias an article, which occurs in spades.
If the NYTimes does go under in a serious, vacuum-implosion kind of way, I'll likely be dancing a jig. Not because of any sepecific vitriol housed for the NYTimes as a whole, but because it'll be a clear enough message to those that remain that it's time to shape up or ship out with the rest of the garbage. The message to those that'll listen will be clear; If this can happen to the NYTimes, then it can happen to you. No one is safe. Which means it's time to suck in that gut and work out what you need to survive and prosper in this new age of cheap digital media.
Fanciful musings aside, I don't think that'll be the end product of the doom and gloom forsayings(If I'm wrong, I'll be very surprised). The NYTimes is a rather large institution with likely alot of old money behind it, which means it'll likely get an influx of funds from somewhere to prop it up just enough to toddle through whatever issues percolate to the surface in the coming years.
If it doesn't, though, then things get interesting. |
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| 08:56am 16/12/2008 |
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Yes, for the curious, I am in Winter Park, Colorado.
Skiing is painful. But not, apparently, painful as snowboarding.
It was -15 f the other day, and here I am, tromping around in the snow, sweating my fool head off, ski jacket unzipped. And it only plans to get warmer. (Of cource, as soon as it warmed up past 0 f, it started snowing. Go figure.)
Of cource, I've been told that typically it's best to approach skiiing whenever you actually take the occassional break, as opposed to running full out from 9am in the morning to 12:30pm in the afternoon.
Oh, well. And here I am, planning to go torture myself again today. |
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| 09:22am 12/12/2008 |
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mood: Why is there snow on the ground?
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It snowed.
Alot.
I make jokes about how that fluffy white stuff is a myth, but snow isn't a completely foriegn concept to Louisiana as a whole. Just, rare as chicken's teeth. When weather projections make mention of snow, typically it involves 'snow mixed with rain, more sleet', or snow coming down and not staying, or a quarter of an inch staying on the ground.
Such was not the case. Over 6 inches of snow fell, on the ground, that thursday, resulting in a closed college, power going out(and still out as a I write this), and people in general freaking out. I also became educated in the mysterious act of 'driving through a snow storm', as I was well and determined as all hell to take my bloody history final that morning. It was, needless to say, educational, and my professor let me take the final, too, despite power going out and the college being officially closed that day.
The real irony about all of this? I'm heading to Colorado this sunday to ski all next week, and this proved to be the perfect opportunity to test out all the nice ski gear I had justed picked up. Needly to say, I was toasty warm in my brand new ski jacket, while everyone else was... not.
I've never seen this much snow before in my life. And next week plans to beat it. |
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| 06:45am 11/12/2008 |
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It...
It's snowing.
WHAT THE HELL. |
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| 11:05pm 03/12/2008 |
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Ugh. A 4 page(double space) paper with 6+ references. All written in a span of two and a half hours.
I'm never doing that again. Ever. |
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| 11:04pm 03/12/2008 |
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As a random note to whomever, if you ever get a chance to play the visual novel Ever17 - The Out Of Infinity, do so. It's utterly ruined me for other visual novels, as I'll never find another one as good as Ever17. |
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| Massive Pwnage. |
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| 05:43pm 28/11/2008 |
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I find this bit from here utterly hilarious. What's better, it's said in utter sincerity and seriousness.
The movie created a spot of controversy last February. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this year's Best Picture Nominees and wrote that they were "ignored, unloved and turned down flat by most of the same studios that ... bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to 'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,' a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic."
Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote: "Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind ... Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers."
Reading this, I was about to observe that Schneider can dish it out but he can't take it. Then I found he's not so good at dishing it out, either. I went online and found that Patrick Goldstein has won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement.
Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks.
But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" while passing on the opportunity to participate in "Million Dollar Baby," "Ray," "The Aviator," "Sideways" and "Finding Neverland." As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
- Roger Ebert |
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| 08:50pm 12/11/2008 |
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I loathe politics.
But this is more of a history lesson, regardless.
One of the comments, for whatever reason, that gets tossed around by people from other countries regarding the American political system is that we predominately are focused upon a two party system. Often this stone is cast with the insinuation that relying on a two party system is somehow limiting, or a failing of some invisible factor. Now, putting tossed spears aside, the question is a rather curious one, which does deserve an anserw; Why, exactly, does the United States have the majority of thier politics focused within two seperate parties?
The solution: It's a cultural development spawned from the Civil War. I'm perfectly serious. Measure the election that took place before the civil war occured, that elected Lincoln(and, in turn, spawned the war itself). There were FOUR serious canidates on the ballot, all of whom took a sizable chunk of thier respective supporters. All the presidential elections after the civil war? Only two parties are ever present.
So, should anyone from another country ever post this question to you, you now have a reply to give them. As for the factors that caused this cultural development? Ah, that's another good question... |
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