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Wednesday, February 4, 2004
The new residence of my journal.
Fully customizable based on my skill with CSS, php and html. So far I don't think it's going badly. I'm thinking a full purge of all entries will occur on Saturday morning to commemorate this awesome endeavor.
Sunday, February 1, 2004
Drunken Jebus is up and running with it's new host. Once I find an appropriate journal program I'll be migrating to my own webpage.
Friday, January 23, 2004
I can get a 3.0 in one more semester. I am, to say the least, ecstatic.
Current mood: Grinning Stupidly
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
I haven't updated for a while. The raging fires of my righteous fury towards all who oppose me has been on the wane of late. This means more fruit-tastic creamy filling with less verbose calories to boot!
On the note of food, dieting is a very strange thing for me. Most people probably have trouble controlling what and when they eat. I, on the other hand, have found that it is difficult for me not to go into blind rages at the drop of a hat. The hungrier I am the more irritable I am, and let's just say that a multitude of inanimate objects have suffered mightily from my short fuse.
My mission over the last three weeks of winter break, aside from making as much money as possible working, have revolved around writing and playing video games. Xenogears, Soul Calibur and X-COM: UFO Defense have all been played in great quantities. The writing...
Well that bring me to my point. I think I'm not very good at writing. Unless I'm about to fall asleep, it takes me hours to write a few pages. This is something which has never been a problem before, primarily because I write very quickly. Lately though, I can only write quickly as I'm falling asleep. Ideas flow better while laying down in the dark. Not only that, but my vocabulary has become a source of frustration as I find myself using the same words over again, when I know so many words which are more descriptive, more applicable to the situation I wish to use them in.
Reading Don Watkins blog, Anger Management has provided a nice little source of inspiration. I'm going to begin seriously researching my characters. I've made up backstories for them, but much of what they've done or experienced I have not. That's my first step since characters/characterization is the most difficult thing for me.
Of course that's all worthless unless I write, and my worst problem is the same problem I have when programming. I write something that works, and freeze up, afraid to write any more for fear of ruining it. This is my writer's block, in its most simple form. I'm afraid to risk destroying something good for the possibility of making it great.
Sunday, January 11, 2004
9:47AM
We don't need this in America right now. We don't need a huge sum of extorted money coming from people and going right back into a non-functional health care plan sponsored as a cure-all by the government. They're playing the part of the snake oil hawker from the 19th century. There is no helath plan which can effectively cover everyone under it. This is why insurance companies exist. You can pick and choose which bits of coverage you want and pay only for them.
Alex Frasier Tytler had one of the most concise and prescient quotes on democracy at large I have ever seen.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through
this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."
Leave the money where it is, in the hands of the people who earned it. Let them use it to pay for their own health care, health care they choose to purchase. Let the good samaritans and charitable persons of the world use their money to pay for anyone who doesn't earn enough money for health care. If you didn't take so much money from these people to begin with, they'd be able to afford health care anyway.
Every democratic candidate promises the same thing. They will repeal the tax cuts and redistribute it to health care. Now everyone who has their own health care program will be paying for two health care plans. I have an idea. If we're going to be forced into giving, why don't we just have everyone buddy up with a single person below a certain income level. Then we can just give the thousands directly to them, and we'll no longer need to pay all the government workers who act as middle men. That would probably make the system 1000% more effective in it's end goal.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
"Secularism is one of the great successes of the Republic," Chirac said in an address to the nation. "It is a crucial element of social peace and national cohesion. We cannot let it weaken."
So they're revoking the right of muslims to dress as they wish. Secularism does not inhibit the rights of people to dress as they wish. This is immoral. Stop hiding under the pretense of something good and just call it for what it is. Authoritarianism.
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A presidential panel on the issue said the law was a way for the country to grapple with what it described last week as fast-growing militancy.
"The question is no longer freedom of conscience but public order,"
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Thank you Mr. Communist. Now go off and play with all the other children who think they know how to live a person's life better than that person.
The sad thing is, the muslims are getting angry, but for only one of the right reasons. They seem to not mind so much that somebody is basically saying they don't have the mental capacity to control their own life. What's bothering them is, granted a very important problem, but chances are these same politicians will be elected again. Trying to infringe a freedom seems to insult more but only in the short term. Insulting the intelligence of an entire population should be a stigma for years to come.
Current mood:  angry
So far I've gotten Calc 2 and Computer Science done and done. The only exams left to take are from my two philosophy classes. Easy-peasy Japanese-y.
I'm anxious to see my final math grade. I'm horrified by the idea that it won't be good enough.
Current mood:  anxious
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Everyone chum the waters.
Recall, if you will, the fire 10 months ago at a club that killed somewhere around 100 people. There was some kind of negligence on the part of someone, be it the band who did not think to check the safety of igniting pyrotechnics inside of the club, or the managers of the club for not alerting the band that it would not be safe.
But no! The managers of the club have been indicted because they installed soundproofing that was flammable. How could this be a crime? They made a choice to install something that wasn't completely safe, under the belief, presumably, that something would prevent people from setting it on fire. The ONLY way they could be negligent would be if they did not tell somebody that pyrotechnics were not safe inside the building. And maybe not even then.
I would think the blame would rest fully on the band, who brought pyrotechnics into the building without checking if it would be safe or not. If they asked and were told that it was safe, then they would be absolved of responsibility since they were mislead. Maybe some argument could be made that they should have checked themselves, but I would say the blame would rest fully on the person who lied to them.
Current mood:  disappointed
Saturday, December 6, 2003
I don't expect people to make decisions based purely on logic. i don't expect people to become calculators, weighing what is most useful or best for them. I simply ask that they accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions, no matter what the reason, source, motivation or intent. Is that truly so much? I hope not.
Current mood: distressed
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Clean you aaaaaaaair.
Wait, I think I meant head; it's the same principle either way.
Russia has decided the Kyoto pact hurts its economy. Stop. hold on a second. You mean a government enforced business restriction harms economic growth? NO FUCKING WAY! I refuse to believe it. Something based on very little scientific evidence that forces companies to meet arbitrary environmental standards that cost a fortune to implement prevents them from making a large enough profit margin? You gotta be shitting me.
The Andrei Illarionov says: "The Kyoto protocol places significant limitations on the economic growth of Russia."
It took them long enough to decide on that particular issue, considering they've been dicking around with the pact for 2 years. Nearly 3 now in fact. Of course, the fact that the companies have to foot the bill for something the government is pushing is the equivelant of extortion. But don't mind that. The fact that the companies didn't even have a real say in the signing of the pact makes it the equivelant of economic rape. But who cares? They're evil, greedy capitalist fuckers anyway. They deserve to get beaten up a little now and then, take one for the team. They don't actually help anyone; they just take their money.
Note to Self: Journal layout needs help. Old Style says DNR.
Current mood: There's no emoticon to describe my FURY!
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
I'm gonna change tacks with the ole' journal here. Mr. T is helluva tough, and I've decided I want to be a champion like him when I can.
Now the journal is going to be political almost exclusively, and I'm gonna throw the competition helluva far, in honor of Mr. T.
Monday, December 1, 2003
When it's endorsed by a guy name Sudsy Monchik.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Monday, November 24, 2003
Well Megatokyo has done something interesting. It has deviated from roughly half of the relationship-based media that ever came out of Japan in that the main protagonist expressed confidence in his own feelings. Now it has come into line with a certain side of relationship series. I'm interested to see if he'll fall into the same banal trappings again like I thought had been happening up until now, or if he will again deviate and become something truly intriguing.
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Despite being expanded, improved, and generally made better for its debut on the PC, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic somehow received a 9.0 rating versus its 9.5 rating as an X-Box release.
I think that's a rather interesting circumstance. I personally think it says something about the difference of quality of the average PC game vs. the average console. Possibly the reason no PC game has ever been given a 10.0 on IGN, yet several console games have. But then again, maybe I'm just an elitist PC asshole who happens to enjoy consoles too.
Current mood:  amused
Friday, November 21, 2003
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Right now I have two bits of real homework. One is Project 6 for my computer science class. This one is a beauty because, no matter what grade you have in the class, if you fail to turn it in you fail the class. Lovely. Luckily I'm not having any trouble with it currently.
The other is my essay on abortion which I think is going pretty well. I'm going to go write three little blurbs for Jebus now, to be posted on a later date.
Current mood:  contemplative
Monday, November 17, 2003
I discovered last night why DrunkenJebus wasn't working. I had neglected to update the nameservers when I changed hosts. This would also explain why my email refused to work.
Anywho, I called Reese a few nights ago at 3AM because her away message told me to. I woke her up, which was endlessly amusing, and still is. People are so adorable when they're really tired. I need to call her back at a more normal hour.
Moving on to the overarching "bitching" aspect of my journal:
I am writing a term paper for my low-level Philosophy of Morality class. It is about abortion. There has been great anger generated over my view within my discussion group, mainly due to a large concentration of supremely spiritual people who clench tooth-and-nail to the few mediocre arguments for the existence of a human soul.
To say the least, while my paper is not permitted to be long enough to be a complete rebuttal to every side, I certainly hope I can cover that particular aspect of the argument; at least in passing.
I suppose I'd be inclined to state my views on this subject should anyone ask, but for the time being I think this is enough until I've actually written my paper.
Monday, November 10, 2003
I honestly can not believe anyone in Russia thinks this would ever be considered a good idea.
How fucking STUPID can these people possibly get? Become a eunuch if normal displays of affection seem immoral to you. Sex should result in execution.
Current mood:  annoyed
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Well I pissed my girlfriend off royally today, and I feel pretty bad about it.
To make a long story short, my friend Erik has been getting a lot of really weird search engine searches leading to his blog. Namely searches for a porn site about black guys and white girls. I, stupidly enough, had my curiosity piqued and took it upon myself to figure out the why of the how.
Needless to say, I forgot to mention it to her this morning. I had promised her I wouldn't look at porn, so when she saw it on my computer this afternoon, she was justifiably angry.
All I can really do right now is say that I'm sorry, and I know that isn't enough.
As an aside, the smiley for distressed most certainly does not look distressed...
Current mood: distressed
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