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| Pres. Debates ... |
| 09.30.04 (9:59 pm) [edit] |
The main thing that I have to say is that the best thing that the debates give a glimpse into the men themselves.
In my opinion the idea is to get the feel of who's the most trustworthy out of the two.
Now, a side-note ... I have dealt with liars, scoundrels, and greedy people in depth. The situation was that I tried to form a business with my freinds. I was the creative end of a amatuer video game company. It started off where I had the controlling vote on how the company was ran. And, it seemed that I had a mutual agreement on that. Soon afterwards, 3 others of the group teamed up against me to wrest control of the company. These three were my freinds.
Now, this was a period of a few months. At the time I was naive and didn't realize what my freinds were doing until they had their seeds in place. When I did realize, they had their "system" set up. So, I had to go to a lawyer to protect my intellectual property.
Now, why do I bring up this up? When I realized what was going on, I tried to reason with the others before going to my lawyer myself. They tried to reason back with me, defending themselves. Then they attacked me by calling me a thief and a liar (WHICH I AM NOT).
Since I knew they were lying, they have given me a good model and feel to detect a liar. Changing the subject, never actually answering the question with specifics, bringing up random allegations, going back on one's words, playing with the words of the other person, rephrasing what the other person said, etc. I recieved it all.
John Kerry is a liar.
He did all the above in the debates. Plus I got the gut feeling. You don't trust a liar. Never do that. It's stupid.
It's not the textbook answer. Hollywood would shun the thought. But I feel that it's the most logical way of choosing a President. You find the man who you think has the highest morals.
After all, it's always better to trust a honest idiot than a smooth liar. At least you'll know when the idiot screws up.
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| "Happy Tree Freinds" and computers ... |
| 09.27.04 (4:42 am) [edit] |
I'm short on time (as always), but, here's another mini-review. (please tell me whether or not you enjoy reading these things. I get a lot of hits, but I'm not sure if you like me reviewing all these random things.)
Anyhoo ...
http://www.happytreefreinds.com" title="http://www.happytreefreinds.com" target="_blank"http://www.happytreefreinds.c...
There's a delightfully morbid website called Happy Tree Freinds. In case you're not familiar, it hosts a series of cartoons featuring adorable little animals that get horribly killed. It's akin to the very gross episodes of Itchy and Scratchy (although those seem a little tame when compared to some of the episodes).
Anyways, if you're a seriously messed up f-er you'll enjoy it. Just remember that you shouldn't eat anything before viewing.
in other news, my old computer kicked the bucket (that's why I haven't posted in a couple of days). I'm just lucky that they were able to salvage the memory from it. What does that mean then? I'll be getting a new computer! YEAH!
Since I'm poor, I'm probably just gonna blow a lot of money and start off with a top of the line mother board only. Get one with the new PCI express, new case, all the goodies that are mother board related. (I haven't looked into it yet, but I'm hoping to get an AMD64 variant.)
Idea being that the big mother board will be able to withstand the next few big computer upgrades (whatever those may be). Then I can add a DVD burner, graphics card, sound card, video card, etc. when I get the money to over the next few years. Woot.
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| "Some Like it Hot" and the Game Boy SP |
| 09.24.04 (8:24 am) [edit] |
I saw the old classic "Some Like it Hot" yesterday. That's the most I've ever laughed at an old film in ages (it's up there with Dr. Strangeglove and Duck Soup). Jack Lemmon pretty much steals the show with his antics, but it's still an sweet movie.
In case you're not familiar, the two male main characters are down on their luck and broke when they witness a mob shooting. So, in order to escape the mob, they join a band heading south, an all girl band. With Marilyn Monroe being the signer, a good number of funny scenes ensue.
So, yeah, I give it 4 flying leaps or whatever. Go see it. I'm gonna buy it myself.
one other qucik note is that I finally got my hands on a Game Boy Advance SP. That thing kicks! wooo!
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| Different Opinion |
| 09.22.04 (5:21 am) [edit] |
Something humorous I got in the mail
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A different opinion about the upcoming election, you might be familiar with this guy...see if he can help you decide...
I am a senior citizen.
During the Clinton Administration I had an extremely good and well paying job. I took numerous vacations and had several vacation homes. Since President Bush took office, I have watched my entire life change for the worse. I lost my job. I lost my two sons in that terrible Iraqi War. I lost my homes. I lost my health insurance. As a matter of fact I lost virtually everything and became homeless. Adding insult to injury, when the authorities found me living like an animal, instead of helping me, they arrested me. I will do anything that Senator Kerry wants to insure that a Democrat is back in the White House come next year. Bush has to go.
Sincerely,
Saddam Hussein
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| Life is Beautiful with a lack-luster date |
| 09.21.04 (8:00 pm) [edit] |
Well, I finally went on a date that I got from the dating site that didn't totally suck. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't the best date I've been on, but it didn't make me want to gore my eyes out with a rusty knife.
So, she lives 45 minutes away from me. Decent looking, not really my type though. Anyways, we ate icecream, alright. We go to her house to watch "Life is Beautiful." I sit on one end of the couch, she sits on the opposite end. 10 minutes into the movie, she's out cold.
not a total loss though. First time seeing the show.
I'm short on time, so I'll just say everyone needs to see it. Awesome movie.
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| Man on Fire, Wendover Air Show, and older women |
| 09.19.04 (4:33 am) [edit] |
Well, First off I saw Man on Fire a couple days ago. I'm pretty sure that's the best revenge movie I've ever seen. What qualifies it as such?
1) The directing style was EXTREMELY interesting. I liked.
2) The director is extremely good at setting up the emotional states so that you actually feel really mad at the villains. This way, you actually feel mad enough at the villains so that when they get their end, you feel glad.
3) The villains get their just end, and then some. Which is very cool 'cause you don't feel any sympathy for the jerks.
So, yeah, it's rated R for quite a bit strong violence and a bit of language. Watch it if you're desensitized.
That and I saw an air show out at Wendover yesterday. Wendover is one of the stateline communities between Utah and Nevada that's set up strictly for gambling. Bassically a glorified truck-stop. It's a 3 hour drive across the vast salt flats (basically a salt marsh minus all vegitation), so I normally wouldn't go there unless there was something special to do.
Anyways, the air show was pretty good. There was a vicious wind, so a number of the older planes didn't make it off the ground. (one of which was a russian MIG, so that stunk.) But, the newer planes did some fly-bys, and the stunt pilots went up anyways (even when they really shouldn't have). So, yeah, the air show was really cool. Got to see some late WWII era planes pull off a stunt show in the windy weather similar to what the Blue Angels do (they were team Lima Lima). So that was sweet. Also got to see a woman go up in a tiny solo flyer, that thing was nuts. Able to rotate 420 degrees in 1 second. It even did a summersault in midair (not a loop, an actual end over end roll). Just incredible.
So yeah, that was worth it.
Just real quick, here's something else kind of eerie that happend. I suscripe to an online dating site since I never actually have time to do the normal process of dating (going to social spots, etc.). Anyways, the site I suscribe to is actually pretty clean cut, so there's rarely any uber crass sex striken people on there. Clean crowd there.
Anyways, so you know the set up. What happened is that I got hit on by 2 older women. They were both divorced and like 43-46 years old. That's like twice my age. It looked like one of them had a son that was almost as old as I am. I mean, they weren't run for the hills ugly, but that age difference is just WEIRD. I mean, it's like one of them would be hitting on her son's freind. *shudder* ick.
So yeah, crap happens.
Still, it's been a nice couple of days. So, hooray for me.
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| Hero |
| 09.15.04 (4:01 pm) [edit] |
I saw the newish movie Hero just a couple of days ago. That is an EXTREMELY good movie.
In my opinion, the fight scenes were more enjoyable to watch than were the ones in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (which appears to be the movie of choice people are comparing it to).
Of course, comparing it to Crouching Tiger is a bit unfair, seeing as how the only excellent thing in Tiger was the fight scenes. Honestly, the story in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon wasn't that great. HOWEVER, the story in Hero is good enough to stand on it's own without the fights to back it up.
The main thing that sets this movie apart from anything else on the market is that it's easily the most cinematagraphically beautiful movie out there. There's just an artistic beauty and elegance that is in everything visual contained in the movie. Even so much so that it oft-times outshines the fight scenes (which is really saying something.
So yeah, go see it.
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| Resident Slug? |
| 09.13.04 (6:47 pm) [edit] |
Just thought I'd pass along a gaming rumor I heard.
As you may know, capcom practically owns SNK. They've invested a lot and have revitalized the company (which explains the Capcom vs. SNK games, they latest one I REALLY don't care for).
Anyways, here's the rumor: The two companies are looking at swap the gameplay designs of Resident Evil and Metal Slug for a couple of installments.
What that would equate would be a survival/horror type game with the cast of Metal Slug, and a cartoony sidescroller shoot 'em up with the cast of Resident Evil.
It could actually work. But that'd be pretty nuts. Hope it's more than a rumor.
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| Alias |
| 09.13.04 (5:00 am) [edit] |
Well, my oldest brother (the smartest one of the bunch) and his wife have been hooked on alias for a while. Then they got the brother who's still living at home with me hooked on it. And now they got me hooked on it.
It's a TV production, yes, so there are some downtime in the soap-operatic drama sequences on occassion. But, if you've played Metal Gear Solid, they aren't any worse than that. (In fact, they're probably better since they don't go on about how nuclear power is the root of all evil.)
Anyways, Alias is an extremely good program for coming from TV. It's got some pretty good fight sequences, and the story line is extremely interesting. The thing that impressed me the most is that there's a good number of plot twists that really do succeed in catching me off gaurd, and a couple of those completely off gaurd. (that's saying a lot. I usually can pick out those things ahead of time.)
Of course, it is pretty violent for a TV program. There's a bit of stuff on there that's borderline R-rated. If you're like me, and haven't watched television much the past few years, you'll probably be surprised at it. It's still good though.
So . . . yeah. Go watch Alias.
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| Equilibrium |
| 09.11.04 (7:41 pm) [edit] |
I just finished watching Equilibrium. Extremely good movie. I'm strongly thinking about buying it.
One thing though, it's not Matrix. I got a bit peeved when the people referring this movie to me said that "ya oughta see it! it's got fight scenes like the matrix!"
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Thanks to the heinous crappers that are known as Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolution I now really don't like the matrix. Too much, too fast, too crappy. (watchowskys did to their little emprie what Mike Eisner has done, and is doing, to the Magic Kingdom.)
Anyways . . .
Equilibrium is more based on the older stuff from the orwell days and Fareheight 451. You know, the dark sci-fi of old. The premise is that after a 3rd world war, humanity realizes that the source of hatred, war, and violence stems from humanity's sense of emotion. So, they set up a society where people can't feel. They consider the price of not feeling happiness a sufficient price for not having war or feeling sadness. To ensure this works out, they have police officers to make sure "sense offenders" are promptly punished.
How it's not matrix? there's no sensless 5 minute rave/orgy, the psychological/philosophic al actually serve a purpose, there's no Keano Reeves, there's no DBZ fight scene, and THERE'S NO BULLET TIME!
So there, it's not matrix. It's just dirivitive of the material that helped inspire the matrix.
Anyways, it's intriguing stuff, and the fight scenes are good. Good cinematography. Plus it has Christian Bale in it (who's gonna play the next Batman).
So . . . woo. Go see it if you don't mind rated R movies.
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| punisher re-hash |
| 09.11.04 (8:30 am) [edit] |
hmmmm . . .
not much to say today . . . ohwell.
I saw the punisher again, or, at least all the action sequences before my brother returned the DVD back to Blockbuster. The fight scenes in there were really tight. Of course, the fight with the Russian almost justifies seeing the movie by itself. Also, it's nice to see that they didn't dumb down the Punishment. As in "well, he can't KILL them, let's just have him turn in the villains to the authorities because killing people is bad." Nope, they let the punisher stat true to his character and beat the living snot out of the villains, humiliate them, and give them what they deserved: death. hooray!
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| Venom! |
| 09.10.04 (12:14 am) [edit] |
I bought the first volume of the new Venom comic. (issues 1-5). That stuff rocks! It is extremely dark, creepy, sinister, and fun. Plus the cartoonish pencils work perfectly in bringing out the ferocious nature of the black simbiotic alien. Very creepy, I'd easily reccommend buying it.
Also . . . if you're brave enough . . . here's a couple of music videos for ya. (clean content, but it's just plain weird)
http://www.hellonetwork.com/demo/toysclub/video.asp?speed=hook300" title="http://www.hellonetwork.com/demo/toysclub/video.asp?speed=hook300" target="_blank"http://www.hellonetwork.com/d...
http://www.myprecious.us/ballad_of_bilbo_baggin s.php" title="http://www.myprecious.us/ballad_of_bilbo_baggin s.php" target="_blank"http://www.myprecious.us/ball...
and, that'll do it for today.
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| I like your comments |
| 09.09.04 (9:06 am) [edit] |
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Just thought I'd remention that I appreciate any comments or feed-back that I get from these posts. I'm gonna try my best from now on to respond to all the comments I get.
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| Does Evil exist? |
| 09.09.04 (8:58 am) [edit] |
Edited mildly:
It's a faux story that's supposedly attached to someone famous. I deleted said person's name.
However, it does make you think in case anyone tries to give you this lame arguement.
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A university professor challenged his students with this question – Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor repeated.
"Yes sir," the student again replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists. And therefor, being bound by the principal that our works define who we are, God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course cold exists. Have you never been cold?"
The other students in the class snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Every object in the universe is susceptible to study when it transmits energy. Heat is energy, and heat is what gives matter energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat and therefor a complete absence of energy. At that temperature, all matter becomes inert; incapable of atomic movement. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel as heat is removed from a body. The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You can not, instead the amount of light present is measured. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said we see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
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| The Orwellian Doctor visits. (and venom!) |
| 09.08.04 (9:20 pm) [edit] |
No one likes going to the doctor. I didn't mind that much when I was a kid. But I never went that often, I was too stupid to realize implications, I actually liked having sick days because they gradeschool teachers were bound by law to give you your homework, and all the doctors typically used was a rubber mallet and a stethescope.
But now, I really hate the doctor. With some health concerns that basically came out of nowhere, I've made a good number of trips to lab. That takes up a lot of time that would otherwise be spent studying, working, playing vid games or drawing. Missed time I hate.
Obviously, if something does go wrong and I need to take sick days, I recieve zero sympathy from school and work. The University teachers wouldn't give a rat's ass if the whole class decided to not show up during the semester (so long as they got the paycheck). My boss at work is an anal retentive clean freak dick, he ain't gonna be happy if I miss more than 2 days. (heck, he ain't happy if I miss 2 hours to see a doctor).
In addition, now that I'm on my own insurance, every medical complication skimpens my chance to stay on a good coverage plan. If it does turn out that I have a major condition, they'll put me in a high risk category and say "SCREW YOU BUCKO!! Give us our cash!!"
But then, the part I hate the most is the cold technology of it all (I'll get to that in a second).
Scenario of today: The doc told me I need to get an ultrasound on my heart to see if everything was alright. So, I'm in the room with the technician and he's preparing the paper of notes.
He has his happy courteous doctor face and says "so, whatcha in here for?" (stupid question, he's a frickin' ultrasound technician . . . )
I tell him that I've been having some chest pains, and he smiles, nods his head, and takes notes. Then, I mention that I've noticed a pattern in where these pains happen. He stops writing, gets this look of "OH MY GOSH!" :shock: And the furiously scribbles some notes on the page. I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open thinking "ok . . . what the heck?"
He reverts back to happy doctor mode and says "alright, take off your shirt and lay down facing the machine." That's normal enough, no worries. 5 seconds later, I have 3 electrical diodes sticking out of my chest, the lights go dim, and mr. mad scientist is sitting there rubbing a geled camera pen against my chest staring like a maniac at his little screen, frantically fiddling with little nobs on the keyboard.
silence
nothing
not a bloody word.
just the clicks of the machine, and the chaotic SCHHSHHCHHTHUMPTHUMPSHCKK SSHHH!!! of my heart beat at different frequencies. I'm waiting for him to say something, but he isn't.
5 minutes pass, then he sees one particular vaulve. He stares, records. watches the video loop for about a minute, listening to all the different frequencies. And he doesn't tell me a bloody word about what he's doing. He then goes to the next slide showing all four chambers. he stares. thinks SILENTLY. Then outlines the chambers.
I'm getting the suspicion that there's something horribly wrong and he doesn't want to tell me. But I'm afraid to ask 'cause he'd probably pull out some sort of radial bone saw.
Well, the 13 minutes of silence pass. The technician reverts back into happy mode, then says "well, I'll hand you a towel so you can wipe yourself off. Then you can put on your shirt and go," with a tone of "you poor son of a bitch."
Before he goes I'm like, "so wait, when will I get the results back? How did the test go?"
"We'll study these results, then mail them to your primary health care provider. He'll call you when they're in."
GREAT! Now I get to assume that heart could pop at any second, whilst I wait for a call from my doc! WOW!!!
So . . . I didn't write this to say "woe is me. I have such bad health!" The message I meant to put accross is "I HATE THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE! NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS THERE!"
Just felt like getting that off my chest.
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| Elections 2004 |
| 09.07.04 (9:14 am) [edit] |
Now then, here's another thing I got in the mail today:
Consider this when you vote.
The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know him, and those that don't! Think about it!
Kerry gave a big speech last week about how his faith is so "important" to him. In this attempt to convince the American people that we should consider him for president, he announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3.
Of course the speech writer meant John 3:16, but nobody in the Kerry Camp was familiar enough with scripture to catch the error. And do you know what John 16:3 says? John 16:3 says; "They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me."
The Spirit works in strange ways.
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| web server |
| 09.06.04 (5:32 am) [edit] |
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Well, I finished a line art yesterday . . . but I don't have ftp access to my server. So I can't post it. sad.
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| Finch Concert |
| 09.05.04 (8:21 am) [edit] |
I went to a Finch Concert yesterday. Wooooooo!
I was a little dissapointed though. They played a lot of new stuff, which was cool, but they didn't play a number of their best songs from the old album. (namely Project Mayhem.)
Something else that surprised me was that the 2 opening bands that I heard were actually really good. They were Conterfeit and Recover.
Still, since it was only 12 bucks, i enjoyed the concert. Woo!
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