The Adventures of AccordionGuy in the 21st Century
Need to catch up on this when I have a chance.
Friday, December 28, 2001
Thursday, December 27, 2001
Sunday, December 23, 2001
CAP ALERT
Now with more than 40 mathematical equations in every movie review!
I don't know what it is about fundementalism which completely deadens the intellect to such things as allegories, fantasies, and the like, but it's really annoying. He also compares J.R.R. Tolkien to Satan which is also really annoying.
Now with more than 40 mathematical equations in every movie review!
I don't know what it is about fundementalism which completely deadens the intellect to such things as allegories, fantasies, and the like, but it's really annoying. He also compares J.R.R. Tolkien to Satan which is also really annoying.
Friday, December 21, 2001
School district upholds decision against rat
This is the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever read. Put the picture in the darn book!
This is the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever read. Put the picture in the darn book!
Thursday, December 20, 2001
Pravda.RU An American Populist: PRAVDA.Ru interviews Patrick Buchanan
"Why is the West dying? First, for a simple reason, its people are dying. There is not one European country, except Moslem Albania, where the population is not stagnant or falling. In not one European nation are women having enough children to keep the nation alive. In some twenty European nations, there are already more burials than births, more caskets than cradles."
"Why is the West dying? First, for a simple reason, its people are dying. There is not one European country, except Moslem Albania, where the population is not stagnant or falling. In not one European nation are women having enough children to keep the nation alive. In some twenty European nations, there are already more burials than births, more caskets than cradles."
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
A Chip ID That's Only Skin-Deep
"The bottom line is, when people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they're more open to new approaches," said Keith Bolton, Applied Digital's chief technology officer.
No, he's not a fictional George Orwell character.
"The bottom line is, when people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they're more open to new approaches," said Keith Bolton, Applied Digital's chief technology officer.
No, he's not a fictional George Orwell character.
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Touring Information for Kurt Elling
Is it just my eyes or does that page look 3-dimensional to anyone else?
Is it just my eyes or does that page look 3-dimensional to anyone else?
Monday, December 17, 2001
This I knew, but I think they're woefully misrepresenting the Victor Dog.
Take the Corporate Mascot Test at Willaston's Lounge!
Take the Corporate Mascot Test at Willaston's Lounge!
Saturday, December 15, 2001
Friday, December 14, 2001
All this, and daikon radish! Theme of Kobe-chan
Very cool! I got props here for my song!!!
"As well as having a theme song, Victor Lams wrote a song called "Hooray for Kobe-san!". You can download it at Victor Lams' website. I downloaded it recently, and it was the funniest thing I'd heard all day. XD"
So, thank you very much fellow Kobe-san Fan! You have made my day for it seems that all those hours I spent last January putting that song together have not been all for naught.
Very cool! I got props here for my song!!!
"As well as having a theme song, Victor Lams wrote a song called "Hooray for Kobe-san!". You can download it at Victor Lams' website. I downloaded it recently, and it was the funniest thing I'd heard all day. XD"
So, thank you very much fellow Kobe-san Fan! You have made my day for it seems that all those hours I spent last January putting that song together have not been all for naught.
Bonfire Films of America presents G I G A N T I C (A Tale of Two Johns) | A film by A.J. Schnack
Already looks like a winner!
Already looks like a winner!
Thursday, December 13, 2001
Saint Edith Stein
"The darker it becomes around us , the more we ought to open our hearts to the light that comes from on high."
"The darker it becomes around us , the more we ought to open our hearts to the light that comes from on high."
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
Russian Archives Online
A nice collection of former Soviet-Union propoganda. It's kind of like reading propoganda for cancer or heart-disease, though.
A nice collection of former Soviet-Union propoganda. It's kind of like reading propoganda for cancer or heart-disease, though.
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
Salon.com News | Bush to withdraw from ABM treaty
Sorry to blogpoach, but here is additional indication that on SOME websites there is no fact/value distinction in how they report the news.
Please note: the 1972 AMB treaty was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union (not Russia). The Soviet Union collapsed ten years ago. The treaty should've been dissolved at that time (along with every single nuclear warhead on the planet, in my opinion).
It would be as if the U.S. and China signed a treaty and then after the U.S. fell apart everyone assumed that the treaty would still be valid between China and Virginia.
Sorry to blogpoach, but here is additional indication that on SOME websites there is no fact/value distinction in how they report the news.
Please note: the 1972 AMB treaty was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union (not Russia). The Soviet Union collapsed ten years ago. The treaty should've been dissolved at that time (along with every single nuclear warhead on the planet, in my opinion).
It would be as if the U.S. and China signed a treaty and then after the U.S. fell apart everyone assumed that the treaty would still be valid between China and Virginia.
Monday, December 10, 2001
MP3.com - Victor Lams
Aw yeah! My music has been played 1,250 times.
Since January 2000.
All right, so I know that's not all that impressive.
And I know I won't get my $6.73 they owe me until I've been played enough to get $50 worth.
And I know I'll have to be played about 10,000 times to get $50 worth.
So don't remind me.
Especially don't remind me that this guy has a computer sing his lyrics and he's been played 8,702 times.
But is he a novelist?
Probably.
Aw yeah! My music has been played 1,250 times.
Since January 2000.
All right, so I know that's not all that impressive.
And I know I won't get my $6.73 they owe me until I've been played enough to get $50 worth.
And I know I'll have to be played about 10,000 times to get $50 worth.
So don't remind me.
Especially don't remind me that this guy has a computer sing his lyrics and he's been played 8,702 times.
But is he a novelist?
Probably.
Sunday, December 09, 2001
Salon.com People | Waiting on the prez
So I don't want to hear anything about how I never blogged a story from Salon.com. It's a good story.
So I don't want to hear anything about how I never blogged a story from Salon.com. It's a good story.
At this early stage of the game, Walker's story, whether you consider him a traitor or if you just consider him someone who was following his dreams, seems to be the sad result of two things:
1) a young man struggling to find meaning and permanence in the pop-culture-drenched and impermanent world around him and 2) the utter failing of Chrisitan evangelization to be there for him.
But then all the facts are hardly in at this point.
1) a young man struggling to find meaning and permanence in the pop-culture-drenched and impermanent world around him and 2) the utter failing of Chrisitan evangelization to be there for him.
But then all the facts are hardly in at this point.
Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support - Report
I guess you could say that in some bizarre way you always get what you deserve.
I guess you could say that in some bizarre way you always get what you deserve.
Dreidel For One - FoxNews.com
Beneath the awful, awful pun in that headline is a rather somber and moving news story about the two remaining Jewish people in Afghanistan. Who hate each other. This would make a fascinating play or movie, if anyone's interested.
Beneath the awful, awful pun in that headline is a rather somber and moving news story about the two remaining Jewish people in Afghanistan. Who hate each other. This would make a fascinating play or movie, if anyone's interested.
Will Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Be True to Tolkien?
This is a very good article, I think, for anyone considering that question.
This is a very good article, I think, for anyone considering that question.
LETTER TO FAMILIES
Here's an excerpt:
"Among these many paths, the family is the first and the most important. It is a path common to all, yet one which is particular, unique and unrepeatable, just as every individual is unrepeatable; it is a path from which man cannot withdraw. Indeed, a person normally comes into the world within a family, and can be said to owe to the family the very fact of his existing as an individual. When he has no family, the person coming into the world develops an anguished sense of pain and loss, one which will subsequently burden his whole life. The Church draws near with loving concern to all who experience situations such as these, for she knows well the fundamental role which the family is called upon to play. Furthermore, she knows that a person goes forth from the family in order to realize in a new family unit his particular vocation in life. Even if someone chooses to remain single, the family continues to be, as it were, his existential horizon, that fundamental community in which the whole network of social relations is grounded, from the closest and most immediate to the most distant. Do we not often speak of the 'human family' when referring to all the people living in the world?"
Here's an excerpt:
"Among these many paths, the family is the first and the most important. It is a path common to all, yet one which is particular, unique and unrepeatable, just as every individual is unrepeatable; it is a path from which man cannot withdraw. Indeed, a person normally comes into the world within a family, and can be said to owe to the family the very fact of his existing as an individual. When he has no family, the person coming into the world develops an anguished sense of pain and loss, one which will subsequently burden his whole life. The Church draws near with loving concern to all who experience situations such as these, for she knows well the fundamental role which the family is called upon to play. Furthermore, she knows that a person goes forth from the family in order to realize in a new family unit his particular vocation in life. Even if someone chooses to remain single, the family continues to be, as it were, his existential horizon, that fundamental community in which the whole network of social relations is grounded, from the closest and most immediate to the most distant. Do we not often speak of the 'human family' when referring to all the people living in the world?"
Friday, December 07, 2001
ESPN.com: MORESPORTS - Alleged pirates claim self-defense in Blake death
I'm still staring at this story and asking myself: "This happened in 2001? Priates!?"
I'm still staring at this story and asking myself: "This happened in 2001? Priates!?"
AU Press Release -- November 29, 2001
An update from some who have forgotten (forgotten/made-an-industry-out-of-spouting-off) that any so-called "separation of church and State," intended by those who put together our Bill of Rights (and the phrase itself appears nowhere in the Constitution) was intended to protect the church from the State (these were, to some degree, people who had left England because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs). The idea that the Imperialist State which taxes and punishes with impunity would need to be protected from someone who wants to put the Ten Commandments up in a classroom is only an indication of how much some people fear being reminded of their own mortality. Especially since the entire notion of individual liberties like freedom of speech, et al, did not exist until a fundamentally Judeo-Christian worldview took hold which upheld the fundamental dignity of humankind. People forget that some of the first people who tried to create a separation between church and State for the reason of protecting their faith (as well as their lives) were the early Christians. Try telling Nero Caesar that there's a division between church and State and that he's not really a god. A lot of Christians tried to do just this and a lot of Christians were crucified, beheaded, or killed in the games.
So I do not think that the AU is truly looking out for anyone's best interest here -- not even their own. One of the things I have learned is that some people just really hate to be confronted with the truth or with the permanent issues of God, Freedom, and Immortality. Confront someone with an unwelcome fact and don't be surprised if they take your head off just because they don't want to hear it. Yeah, it's mature. But such is the prevailing ideology these days: If I don't want to hear something, there's no reason why I or anyone else should have to hear it. We're reduced to a nation of spoiled, rebellious teenagers but what are you gonna do?
Honestly, what else can you say about a group which calls itself a "watchdog group," and every group which shares an opposing point of view is a "religious-political extremist group," or a "regime."
Not that I'm going too vehemently to defend any Fundamentalist Christian group, because I believe that they are to no small degree fundamentally flawed in regards to their interpretation of both Scripture and the role and authority of the Church. Oddly enough, though, I was recently called a Fundamentalist Christian once, though. Even though it was meant as a pejorative term, I did feel a little honored because I know a lot of Fundamentalist Christians and they're some of the most courageous, stalwart people I've ever met. Either way, I had to laugh.
What it comes down to is this: you better damn well know yourself and you better damn well check to make sure that whatever it is that you believe and attempt to get others to believe is not just something you've made up to cover up your own personal faults or intellectual or moral shortcomings (such as: I don't have the character to hold religious beliefs therefore I should never ever have to be confronted with religious or ethical questions). As I am to no small degree a libertarian, it makes me very angry when people do this: they shouldn't have to interfere with my life or my personal freedoms to cover up for their own inequities.
An update from some who have forgotten (forgotten/made-an-industry-out-of-spouting-off) that any so-called "separation of church and State," intended by those who put together our Bill of Rights (and the phrase itself appears nowhere in the Constitution) was intended to protect the church from the State (these were, to some degree, people who had left England because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs). The idea that the Imperialist State which taxes and punishes with impunity would need to be protected from someone who wants to put the Ten Commandments up in a classroom is only an indication of how much some people fear being reminded of their own mortality. Especially since the entire notion of individual liberties like freedom of speech, et al, did not exist until a fundamentally Judeo-Christian worldview took hold which upheld the fundamental dignity of humankind. People forget that some of the first people who tried to create a separation between church and State for the reason of protecting their faith (as well as their lives) were the early Christians. Try telling Nero Caesar that there's a division between church and State and that he's not really a god. A lot of Christians tried to do just this and a lot of Christians were crucified, beheaded, or killed in the games.
So I do not think that the AU is truly looking out for anyone's best interest here -- not even their own. One of the things I have learned is that some people just really hate to be confronted with the truth or with the permanent issues of God, Freedom, and Immortality. Confront someone with an unwelcome fact and don't be surprised if they take your head off just because they don't want to hear it. Yeah, it's mature. But such is the prevailing ideology these days: If I don't want to hear something, there's no reason why I or anyone else should have to hear it. We're reduced to a nation of spoiled, rebellious teenagers but what are you gonna do?
Honestly, what else can you say about a group which calls itself a "watchdog group," and every group which shares an opposing point of view is a "religious-political extremist group," or a "regime."
Not that I'm going too vehemently to defend any Fundamentalist Christian group, because I believe that they are to no small degree fundamentally flawed in regards to their interpretation of both Scripture and the role and authority of the Church. Oddly enough, though, I was recently called a Fundamentalist Christian once, though. Even though it was meant as a pejorative term, I did feel a little honored because I know a lot of Fundamentalist Christians and they're some of the most courageous, stalwart people I've ever met. Either way, I had to laugh.
What it comes down to is this: you better damn well know yourself and you better damn well check to make sure that whatever it is that you believe and attempt to get others to believe is not just something you've made up to cover up your own personal faults or intellectual or moral shortcomings (such as: I don't have the character to hold religious beliefs therefore I should never ever have to be confronted with religious or ethical questions). As I am to no small degree a libertarian, it makes me very angry when people do this: they shouldn't have to interfere with my life or my personal freedoms to cover up for their own inequities.
Kinko's is a very attractive place to me, and I think that that is because of my love for all blank media: blank CD-Rs, printer paper, blank Digital-8 video cassettes. I love the possibility of spontaneous creation and then having something tangible to hold afterwards: something actualized. Kinkos is the place where you can take in a CD-R and come out with anything printed in color. That's very exciting to me.
Thursday, December 06, 2001
Tuesday, December 04, 2001
Sexy Santa 2001
Call me old fashioned, but MSN's turning of Christmas into a "sinsual," holiday is pretty much just asking to have the Wrath of God brought down upon their collective head, in my opinion.
So keep your eyes on those XBox sales, Microsoft.
Call me old fashioned, but MSN's turning of Christmas into a "sinsual," holiday is pretty much just asking to have the Wrath of God brought down upon their collective head, in my opinion.
So keep your eyes on those XBox sales, Microsoft.
They Might Be Giants: Better Living through Better Music
Where you can download TMBG videos if you're patient.
Where you can download TMBG videos if you're patient.
Do not mourn the blog for what it is (which is still pretty cool!). Rather, celebrate what it was and what it will be again.
Monday, December 03, 2001
Sunday, December 02, 2001
The next time we twenty-somethings start talking about how much our job sucks, we'd do well to recall the life of these poor workers, in age our peers but in every other way some of the most pitiable people I've ever heard of.
More Ginger details may be coming
Okay, so it's not THE people mover, but A person mover. Like some sort of climbing scooter or something with a good sense of equalibrium.
You know, anti-gravity boots would be a lot cooler.
Okay, so it's not THE people mover, but A person mover. Like some sort of climbing scooter or something with a good sense of equalibrium.
You know, anti-gravity boots would be a lot cooler.
CBS News | The Wizard Of IT | Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:00:07 EST
Did you know that this whole IT thing has been going on for almost a year? And now, after all the hype the biggest thing they could come up with is the people mover?
Did you know that this whole IT thing has been going on for almost a year? And now, after all the hype the biggest thing they could come up with is the people mover?
We saw Legally Blonde last night. I had been worried that the dialogue in the novel I'm writing seemed stilted, or artificial, or fake and unrealistic. After seeing that movie, and realizing just what a big hit it was, I'm no longer worried. I would include some of the choice bits here but I've been able, thankfully, to forget most of them. I sure hope Reese Witherspoon sees another good role after Election.
Saturday, December 01, 2001
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