God, I'm bored. My computer is busted currently, so I can't play the MMO that I've been in love with for a couple months now. Currently beset by voices, most of which are angry or disgruntled. I'm angry about politics, of course, and people being so incredibly ignorant that it makes me somewhat ashamed to be a human being. I try to combat this by ( Read more... )

Captain Lou Albano died today at the age of 76. He was, or course, a famous wrestling manager, but he also played Mario in a live action TV show, and is well known as Cindi Lauper's fake dad from that one video. I think Gawker.com wrote the best epitaph ( Read more... )

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I would like to officially lodge a complaint with my fellow American citizens ( Read more... )

I had a long series of dreams last night about Cathy... sort of. Okay, the person in the dream was representative of her, but it looked nothing like here. It definitely wasn't a dream that made sense; there were elements of Star Trek, racing, and witchcraft. What I recall most vividly is the feeling of interpersonal contentment shattered by sudden ( Read more... )

Alright, two things:

1) What's with the sudden backlash against manned spaceflight? There was an article on Gawker about how we should cut funding for NASA so we could put it towards social reforms, citing that we get nothing from what NASA does. Similarly, tonight's guest on the Colbert Report talked about how manned spaceflight was pointless, ( Read more... )

I'm suddenly less ok than I have been, lately. I was laying in bed a couple nights ago, unable to sleep for the thought stream, when I came to the realization that I want to fail. I'm so deathly afraid of trying and failing that I would rather just fail by default, I guess. I'm caught in this fallacious thought pattern that if I can't do something ( Read more... )

Happy belated (it was yesterday) birthday to one Nikola Tesla. For those not in the know, Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors of the 19th and 20th centuries. He's responsible for Alternating Current (our current electricity standard), fluorescent lightbulbs (those twisty ones we use now), remote control, hydro-electricity, lasers, radar ( Read more... )

Catching up on my vast backlog of Penny Arcade reading, I came across this sentence fragment ( Read more... )

Richard Nixon on abortions, c. 1973:

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.”