You know what would be great? If the really bad Russian BDSM videos in Paddles had 60's Batman effects. When someone gets caned you could show the word "WHACK!!" on a bright yellow background. That would be neat ( Read more... )

There was a good article on torture in last Sunday’s issue of the Times.

The article is better than most on the topic.    It acknowledges that, given enough time and a skillful interrogator, torture is unnecessary and counter productive.

However, the author makes the assumption that some torture is necessary in time of war.  He then explores ( Read more... )

I have this overwelming urge to carve my two favorite geometric proof of the pythagorean theorem into someone's buttocks, one on each cheek.

I think I can find a proof that sqrt(2) is irrational, but that doesn't involve too many curves.

Does that make me a sadist, or a geek?

Big deadline at work for today, so I spent a lot of the long weekend working.  And, of course, today I find out that the project has been delayed.  Typical ( Read more... )

In hindsight, there are three things I would have done differently yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm late to work this morning, so I take a cab.  He's trying to squeeze between a couple of badly parked cars that are blocking the road.  Typical New York taxi manouver.  However, there just isn't enough space.  He ends up knocking the rear view window from one of the cars ( Read more... )

Headed over to Flagg's interogation workshop on Saturday ( Read more... )

After a bit of thought, I've decided to repurpose this live journal ( Read more... )