Some cool things I’ve found January 15, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , add a commentOne of my clients is a breaker (that’s a type of dancing Grandma, ie. break dancing, popping and locking…)
HERE‘s a video of him on 3rd street.
Flickr is a great photo sharing site, and this bloke has used it to create something interesting. Called 50 people, he uses tags to collect 50 pics of a thing, then merges them. just check it out. How 50 people see a candle is my fave.
There is a commercial for Munich that quotes Ebert.
” Spielberg didn’t have to make this movie, but he needed to.” If someone could explain to me how that sentence would be meaningfully different from, ” Spielberg didn’t need to make this movie, but he had to”, then I could stop thinking of that as a really stupid sentence. Was Steven required to make that movie, or not…?
and THIS is just cool.
Mr. Taiwan
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , 1 comment so farI have a love/hate relationship with airports. For example, I LOVE those moving sidewalks they have. I feel like I’m moving at incredible speeds on them. I HATE airplane food however. I love take off, but I hate 15 hour plane flights.
One thing that could be done to improve coach flying would be to curtain off the business and first class areas. After a long, cramped flight, the last think I want to see on the way off is the luxurious and spacious upper class areas I was too poor to afford. It’s psychological torture for poor people… 🙁
At any rate, I’m in Taipei now. I’m staying the “night” with a friend of a friend. (I say “night” because it’s 9:20am for me right now, but it’s 1:20am here.) So safe and sound. See you soon. Oh MaX, having probs implementing your new pic, btw. Log onto aim or sth!!!
Today is a bad day January 11, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , 3 commentsIt started out with a ticket for 45$ simply because I was too careless to read the sign… booo…. so I went and paid that. Then I returned the 650$ phone/pda combo that the salesman SWORE was wifi capable…. Guess what it wasn’t… and I STILL don’t have a phone… Then in an attempt to upgrade my xbox for it’s trip to asia, I broke it. Then in an attempt to upgrade another one, I burned myself with a soldering iron… and the stress of upgrading it is a pita. Then traffic sucked, as usual…
But I’m about to eat a good dinner and watch Lost and relax, so maybe this day can redeem itself.
This is not anyone’s fault January 8, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , add a commentSo don’t blame others and please Don’t blame yourself. I may be presumptuous in assuming anyone will do this at all, but it’s pretty common.
I have a disease, and I was/am? clever enough to plan all this out so no one would know.
Hell, I’m not even sure this is My fault. I believe that the universe, conforming to scientific principles, operates as a formula, in a sense… So the entire path of the universe, its entire history, is already written. It’s not that some greater power wrote it all out. It’s that… if you have a series of dominoes, no matter how complex you create the series, we know that knocking the first will cause the last to fall. There is no free will, and there was no other option.
What’s really sad is that I would’ve liked to have sat down and talked with many of my friends before I went. But because I know that some would try and stop me, I was/will be? unable. If I plan well, I may be able to speak to one or two and leave enough time to ensure my death.
In order to get around this, I am telling my friends that I’m leaving the country for a year to go backpacking. This allows me some small measure of good-bye.
Save the Rainforest January 7, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , 3 commentsThere are some sponsors who claim they will save 11 square feet of rainforest if you go HERE and click on their link. I’ve been doing it everyday since today. Check it out!
Pat Robertson is an @$$#073 January 5, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : News , add a commentReally, the guy needs to be kicked in the groin. After calling for assassinations, telling people they were shunned by god for their political views and letting us all know that he is insane (biography HERE) the guy now has the balls to say that Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine retribution. Why? Because he wanted to give the Palistinians more land. Someone tell the media to Please stop giving this guy attention. Then I won’t see his story and give him More attention.
Pix and Tix
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Fark has a lot of photoshop contests over the year. They recently released their best of, and I picked my favorite 3, shown above. If you like the last one as much as I do then you read WAY too much H.P. Lovecraft. LOL, I used to have Cthulhu as my handle before AkumAPRIME.
In other news, I have my ticket to Taiwan. I’ll be gone from 1/14/06 – 5/23/06. I will be in Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore and then idk yet. 🙂 YAY. idk 4 the win!
The Book of Jhereg – Steven Brust
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Books , add a commentAs opposed to invoking the name of Roger Zelazny, Brust was instead praised by him. This is a compilation of three books in a series of at least 9. It tells us the story of Vlad Taltos, a great schemer, mercenary and boss. Really a great series, I recommend it, and hope to re-finish it before I leave.
American Gods: C+
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Books , 2 commentsNeil Gaiman invoked the name of Roger Zelazny in his For section. Why he did this, I can only speculate. But by doing this, he staked a claim. He stated that his book, would live up to the name of the great Zelazny, and it just didn’t. His characters weren’t as full, his story not as complex or opaque. That’s not to say it wasn’t a decent book.
If Tiger Woods called a hole in one, then no matter how amazing a drive he has, if he doesn’t get that hole in one, he fails. Don’t name your son Winner, and don’t invoke the name of great people before you do something. It just invites you to stand in their shadow.
I will give you one passage I felt was particularly good:
” I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen – I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is ging to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink in the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve in to madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the comon cold like the Martians in War f the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last centry were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that Jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck, I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I beliveve in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to life, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happenes when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” She stopped, out of breath.
If Neil Gaiman hadn’t invoked the name of a Giant, I would have given it a B-. But because it was a little slow, the characters a little obvious… There was one plot twist I didn’t see coming but… it just wasn’t enough. I won’t be reading his sequel.
Balloon accident resolutions January 1, 2006
Posted by AkumAPRIME in : Life , 2 comments
The start of a new year. This always entails fresh starts, new beginnings, and other redundant cliches. My New Year resolutions are simple enough:
1) Don’t bite my nails (which I’ve started to do again after a year or so).
2) Keep in shape.
3) Destroy the bastard who hit and run me last night! Oh let me explain that one. I was driving with friends to a bar for NYE, when I switched to the left lane. Due to a red light, I couldn’t fully merge, so I was half way in, stopped, when I hear a screeching and feel an impact on my left side. I grab my camera (god I love you camera) and snap a photo. I wave the guy right to exchange info, and turn right, when the bastard takes off. By the time I flip a U, he’s gone. BUT, I got his picture!!! He was probably drunk and scared, so he fled, but I filed a police report, and, as you can see, I got a perfect picture of his plates. Memorize the plate, and if you see him, give him a wink for me.
Other than that, it was a wonderful NYE. Balloons fell from the sky, fireworks were launched… 2006 is, I hope, going to be a wonderful year for all of us.
In other news, Xmas pictures are up as well as New Years.
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