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| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
mharpold8
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4:23p |
THE EVIL HAS FUCKING LANDED Guess who has the new Testament with inhuman guitar wizard Alex Skolnick back with the band for the first time in like 15 goddamn years?  |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 |
womanonfire
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12:42a |
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| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
dr_rik
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10:37p |
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deathboy
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11:36p |
THIS IS ABOUT AS COHERENT AS I CAN MANAGE RIGHT NOW. Vote me. |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 |
happyinmotion
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9:56a |
Manly stroking of chins
We've found someone who is keen to take all the wood off our hands. His plan involves winches, trucks, cargo nets, hiabs, big fellas with single syllable names and assorted other hefty kit, all of which he has. So yay! I don't have to spend next week getting rained on.
There are, of course, several drawbacks to this change of plan:
a) I don't have an excuse to buy a chainsaw. *cries*
b) All the people who were planning on puting their backs out helping themselves to our huge pile of wood? You'll just have to find another way to get sore and blistered. Sorry about that.
Of course, this does mean that I'm free this weekend and next, and will need consolation for the loss of the chainsaw that I never had.
Console me! |
| Friday, May 9th, 2008 |
dr_rik
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9:52p |
The Reality of Facebook
Originally published at www.olpin.net. You can comment here or there. |
fortysevenbteg
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5:18p |
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fs8gbe
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4:54p |
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deathboy
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9:24p |
prickly heat My god it's warm today. Not baking, insta-tan stuff, but the sort that makes me sleep-walk the whole week in a heat-haze. The sun has gone down and I'm still sweating like a paedophile in a playground. BUT, the week hasn't been bad, I think we're actually making a family outting to the Scientology demo tomorrow, and booze and music will rear their head this weekend. I seem to be #5 on the great LJ popularity contest, still only snapping at jameth's heels ;) That said, it was #6 yesterday, and I'm a handful away from #4. Five days to vote, kids! VOTE ME!In fact, as it's the weekend and my LJ has never been categorically safe for work, I feel it's only fair to display this excellent campaign banner, gifted me by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ebolagrande and featuring the talents of animesexbomb:  Now, go and do as the nice lady says (come on! I only need another 200 votes ;)) I'm trying to think of hilarious antics for my laughable campaign, but it's just going to be "write stuff on your cock" or "give away more free music"... too hot. cannot brane. (Any ideas for great campaign memes or (christ) policies gladly accepted.) More lucid content to follow*. Send ice-lols, I'm melting. * yeah, right. it's friday evening, I'm drinking, I think the word "cunt" is likely to make an appearance. |
gordon_r_d
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7:44p |
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gordon_r_d
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7:33p |
Rambling at home now (because the previous post was written in the shop)
Other half of Simon's birthday stuff arrived. *sigh of relief* and my Ladytron bundle has shipped *dances* should be the bundle with the signed 7" hopefully.
Got couple of cheap CDs with leftover food money (I allocate a certain amount a week for food and that, but often get left with a fiver or so at the end of the week), got AC/DC - Highway To Hell and The Clash - The Singles for a fiver each.
I finally found an ice cream van in GTAIV. It has several different tunes which get faster the faster you drive. Racing along to a bellchime version of "Flight Of The Bumblebee" is my new addiction. My two saved vehicles in my parking space are currently the ice cream van and a bin lorry.
I hope to see Iron Man this weekend. I may even attempt it and Speed Racer in the same day, train times and stuff willing. |
fortysevenbteg
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2:18p |
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spazhammer
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7:08p |
i got the new feeder album.
i've always had a soft spot for them ever since seeing them in rock city basement a million times when they felt like the house band there back when i worked on the bar.
the new album makes me smile. it seems more energetic than recent stuff. itll need some more listens, but its looking promising so far. "tracing lines" sounds weirdly familiar too :)
so, what you got planned for the weekend?
(btw, its popnight tomorrow) |
rinku
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1:42p |
subcultures and their dangers
I think subcultures in general shouldn't be trusted. My experience with them and with seeing their affects on others is that they are forms of cults, except less organized, with no charismatic leader. But they're nonetheless parasites on people's minds and time. I'll mention a few.
I_am_carrie is in the Inu Yasha fanfiction subculture. She spends up to 10 hours a day talking to other fanfiction writers, reading fanfiction stories, writing them, entering contests, moderating communities of fanfiction contests and stories, and so on. Since entering it it has absorbed her life and her life now revolves around it.
Newedition was in the Objectivists subculture; it too absorbed much of her time and beliefs, until she finally managed to escape. Unfortunately she escaped into the 9/11 conspiracy theory and natural health & medicine subcultures, but at least that's an interesting change.
The same is true for many other people I know: Miyu and the elegant gothic lolita fashion subculture, charbile and the furry subculture, etc. etc. -- it just consumes most of a person's time with very little given back to them in return.
I myself was never very absorbed in any subculture, with the possible exception of one I invented myself (the Heroists, which are a group of artists who seek to alter world culture and the future through art), but at least that's just being absorbed by something you created.
There's also the independent games subculture, but that one's kind of unavoidable because that's what I do, and even so I intentionally try to limit my time spent within that subculture -- I'm not as into it as most of the people on the TIGSource forums for instance, and have beliefs that most of them find unorthodox, such as the idea that story is gameplay, the idea that games are not just for fun, the idea that creating games just because you like creating them isn't the only valid reason to create them, etc.
Now I do think subcultures can be worth dipping into, they're interesting and often have ideas of value and you can meet interesting people through them. And if a person spent time in a subculture or two it tends to make them more interesting people. But when it reaches the point that most of a person's life is consumed by them, and when most of their thoughts and reactions and beliefs become indistinguishable from most of the other people in that subculture, I think they're more trouble than they're worth. |
dragaroo
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10:58a |
Hector! On-board Hector now for the apt scouting trip to Colorado springs! Awesome plane.  |
bigtig
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10:40a |
Drinking with buddies. So it turned out that ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) geistbear was in town. We had the evening to grab some chow together and did so. I'd not had a chance to introduce susandeer and geistbear to each other so this was a good chance. Geist was looking for a decent German restaurant in his continued quest for beer-knowledge. It turns out there is just such a place quietly tucked away in downtown San Jose. Not quite a bier garden, but dang close. They had some excellent food and more excellence on tap. It has been a very long time since I've drank that much beer. We finished up the evening at the incredible "A Perfect Finish." It's a wine, spirits, and dessert bar in downtown. I absolutely love the concept of this place, and the people who run it. It's a relaxed place to finish up a good night out and enjoy a wonderfully accessible selection of wine, dessert wines, spirits and other such delights. The visit was short, but good. I'm hoping geistbear and susandeer had as good of a time as I did. :) Current Mood:  amused |
sad_genius
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6:14p |
Clothes, Horse. I went looking for summery clothes today, since my wardrobe has traditionally remained static regardless of season, but I've recently lost a bit of weight and playing The World Ends with You has made me want to trendy around like a Shibuyacho hipster type, so clothes shopping for me it is. This is usually a fairly harrowing experience, since it is my firm belief that the UK high-street has approximately nothing for the non-chav male - I love shopping for/with girls, since there are actually interesting items to see, but the lack of anything I personally want to wear bites like a bitey teethed chainsaw when I try to shop for myself. As expected, the trip wasn't without its ups and downs - I ended up feeling fat and blobby again when a bunch of stuff didn't fit (As I'm sure the ladies will appreciate, Large in Topman/Shop equals Small in most other places), and I failed to get any shorts or vesty tops, both of which we'd initially set-out to search for. I did however get a pimp waist coat that I shall probably proceed to wear with everything, some earrings (last time I wore earings: 1998), bracelets and necklaces that should jazz up my existing repertoire sufficiently. A charity shop raid before the main shopping attack also yielded a VHS of a few episodes of Gaiking dubbed in English. After getting home, working out, eating and sitting down to compile some music for next week's holiday, I'm feeling alright, as it happens, thank you for asking. |
metalmikey666
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6:25p |
EDIT: Meant to post this somewhere else, sorry! |
fortysevenbteg
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12:25p |
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gordon_r_d
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5:16p |
Music and cop/crime shows and videogames, a bit. The Mighty Boosh are doing their own music festival this summer. Wish I could go, if only because they're going to have a wee tent set up where Naboo will read your fortune. There's a band called Dananananackroyd. This pleases me. New Ladytron single "Ghosts" is out on Monday and you should all buy it or you will be handcuffed to Jacko out of the Energiser commercials for a week. "OI!" ( Stuff on crime shows and why don't we have an NCIS game? ) Current Music: Ladytron - Burning Up |
fortysevenbteg
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12:02p |
Oh, and about that LOST
If Claire turns out to be dead, I'm going to kick a whole bunch of rocks.
Great foundation-building episode, but just how great it is will be determined by the episodes that follow...
So...who wants to split an Apollo bar with me? **break** |
rinku
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11:54a |
"Thou must also keep in mind that of desires some are natural, and some are groundless; and that of the natural some are necessary as well as natural, and some are natural only. And of the necessary desires, some are necessary if we are to be happy, and some if the body is to remain unperturbed, and some if we are even to live. By the clear and certain understanding of these things we learn to make every preference and aversion, so that the body may have health and the soul tranquillity, seeing that this is the sum and end of a blessed life. For the end of all our actions is to be free from pain and fear; and when once we have attained this, all the tempest of the soul is laid, seeing that the living creature has not to go to find something that is wanting, or to seek something else by which the good of the soul and of the body will be fulfilled. When we need pleasure, is, when we are grieved because of the absence of pleasure; but when we feel no pain, then we no longer stand in need of pleasure. Wherefore we call pleasure the alpha and omega of a blessed life. Pleasure is our first and kindred good. From it is the commencement of every choice and every aversion, and to it we come back, and make feeling the rule by which to judge of every good thing.
And since pleasure is our first and native good, for that reason we do not choose every pleasure whatsoever, but ofttimes pass over many pleasures when a greater annoyance ensues from them. And ofttimes we consider pains superior to pleasures, and submit to the pain for a long time, when it is attended for us with a greater pleasure. All pleasure, therefore, because of its kinship with our nature, is a good, but it is not in all cases our choice, even as every pain is an evil, though pain is not always, and in every case, to be shunned. It is, however, by measuring one against another, and by looking at the conveniences and inconveniences, that all these things must be judged. Sometimes we treat the good as an evil, and the evil, on the contrary, as a good; and we regard independence of outward goods as a great good, not so as in all cases to use little, but so as to be contented with little, if we have not much, being thoroughly persuaded that they have the sweetest enjoyment of luxury who stand least in need of it, and that whatever is natural is easily procured, and only the vain and worthless hard to win. Plain fare gives as much pleasure as a costly diet, when once the pain due to want is removed; and bread and water confer the highest pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips. To habituate self, therefore, to plain and inexpensive diet gives all that is needed for health, and enables a man to meet the necessary requirements of life without shrinking, and it places us in a better frame when we approach at intervals a costly fare, and renders us fearless of fortune.
When we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal, or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood by some who are either ignorant and prejudiced for other views, or inclined to misinterpret our statements. By pleasure, we mean the absence of pain in the body and trouble in the soul. It is not an unbroken succession of drinking feasts and of revelry, not the pleasures of sexual love, not the enjoyment of the fish and other delicacies of a splendid table, which produce a pleasant life: it is sober reasoning, searching out the reasons for every choice and avoidance, and banishing those beliefs through which greatest tumults take possession of the soul. Of all this, the beginning, and the greatest good, is prudence. Wherefore, prudence is a more precious thing even than philosophy: from it grow all the other virtues, for it teaches that we cannot lead a life of pleasure which is not also a life of prudence, honour, and justice; nor lead a life of prudence, honour, and justice which is not also a life of pleasure. For the virtues have grown into one with a pleasant life, and a pleasant life is inseparable from them.
Exercise thyself in these and kindred precepts day and night, both by thyself and with him who is like unto thee; and never, either in waking or in dream, wilt thou be disturbed, but wilt live as a god amongst men. For in nothing does he resemble a mortal creature, the man who lives in immortal blessedness." - Epicurus |
fortysevenbteg
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11:55a |
Gulp..
I have this sinking feeling that I just ate a fruit fly.
Oh god, strike me dead... |
bofhcam
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4:40p |
Today improves just a little bit more over yesterday. This is good.
I've been for a run (6km, 24 minutes again), done some finishing work on the
approximately 170 Perl modules I have to install and basically written a lot
of good emails.
Last night was interesting. We all met out on one of the grassy public areas
in town and lazed around on my blankets eating the pizza Keith and I went to
order. I learned a new thing or two which was a tad odd but when I think
about them rationally they mean nothing, which is as it should be. Once a few
people had wandered off we decided that watching a film on the laptop on the
grass probably wasn't going to work so the remaining people wandered back to
Cormac and Steph's to use a large widescreen laptop. I'm afraid I fell asleep
before then end as I'm wont to do these days but rallied enough to make my way
home in the balmy night air.
I'm out in a boat again this evening and then not on Saturday.
However I think I will turn up and run alongside the boat as bank party in
case there are any nuggets of wisdom to be gained. I'll also get a chance to
watch my own boat in action to see how everyone else is improving. It turns
out that while five of the squad are in both races and all the training
sessions between now and Sunday afternoon, I'm not one of them. No Sprint for
me on Sunday and, as I said, no place for me on Saturday either. Still, I do
get to do the x2 2.6km Head course on the Sunday morning. That should be
enough. Despite not wanting rowing to be my life and being glad that it's not
I am a little disappointed that I haven't been selected for both races. It
makes me think that perhaps, as per usual, I'm not as good as others in the
boat. I would like to be down in the 7 seat a bit more as I really enjoy it a
lot there (and frankly think I do my best work when I am). I guess cox and
coach just don't see it happening.
Life goes on and there's an awful lot more to it than having a big stick in
your hands and trying to slide backwards through the water as fast as you can. |
2049live
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10:27a |
I'm the boom king
Didn't realize the Flight released their self-titled album last month.
So, 9.99 later, it's now on me iPod.
It's not a ticket to their show at the Chicago Theatre, but it'll have to do. |
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