One more day.

[silveradept]

Wow! Tomorrow's my last day of work. This is a frightening and interesting development. It means that the summer period of worry is over, and that the final climb for the graduate degree begins. (Also, that the final debts from college will pile up. Yay, job-finding and paying back. Or something. Either way, progress made.

Tomorrow, I'm going to let annonthemoon pack her stuff up into the tubs we bought today. Hopefully, it all compresses night and right and we can get her out, and then figure out some way of sending her on her way. Even if it means that she stays on a little longer until someone can drive her home.

Rummy calls critics cowards. More "if you're not with us, you're against us" rhetoric. Plus, cell phone data, even when erased, can be recovered.

China's taking notice of global warming - since they've been hammered by nasty weather for a while now. And if China's admitting to dealing with it... that means we'll still deny it, perhaps even moreso now that the Commies are adherents. Speaking of China, they like keeping their culture around. Even the nearly three-hundred year old brothels.

On the opposite end of that particular spectrum, a case is being heard about a girl claiming to have been stabbed in the eye and other places with scissors because she likes to listen to AC/DC and metal. As I said yesterday, the pressure to conform can be enormous, whether it's conforming to the norm or conforming to the acceptable rebellion against the norm. Speaking of mass conformity and culture, one person's truths about McDonald's, in Photoshopped Flickr signs.

On the topic of things that probably don't mix well together, pretty girls on a background of destruction, using a sex doll raft for anything other than a flotation device, and, apparently, Quidditch and the fifth Harry Potter Movie. Can anyone confirm/deny this last one, as I'm not entirely sure that it's serious or from a good source. Something that does mix well, though, are threesomes and Christian living. Go check it out, it's all there.

Something more modern in nature, although I'm not sure how satirical - Youth Against Sudoku. Sounds like it's another thing promoting a sedentary lifestyle and rigid, logical thinking above activeness and creativity. Perhaps, but then again, I think of Sudoku as a diversion to whittle away a little time when in a lull, not an obsession. Those would be console RPGs, thankyouverymuch.

Peeking into Google's ideas, this article helps people to understand why Google's kicking as much arse as it is. It's because Google does things different - from giving lunch to the employees to using customised kernels and software and delegated as much of the drudge work to automaticity as is possible.

A neat exercise to think about, and then be glad of, and then realize the message and get cheesed at the oligarchs that style themselves the RIAA over - What if making ramen was like making music?

Fractal icons. Those are pretty. Signs of life in the storm's aftermath. Some of those are not so pretty. Icons of Mo Willems's Pigeon. Adorably cute.

Last day of work tomorrow. And then comes the whole class thing. Here's hoping for an easier year than the last.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Regarding Rumsfeld's remarks: Keith Olbermann offered an impassioned rebuttal on his Countdown show. You can watch it over at Crooks & Liars (http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/30/keith-olbermann-delivers-one-hell-of-a-commentary-on-rumsfeld/#more-9932). Excellent work.

I was also quite surprised to see that a gathering of some 300 to cheer Bush in Salt Lake City were joined, peacefully, by some 1000 against (http://extras.sltrib.com/tribphoto/Gallery.asp?ID=43159&PubDate=2006-08-30&GID=ANTI%5F0830), including the mayor.

[silveradept]

That's pretty good. Were the 1,000 against sent off to a "Free Speech Zone" blocks away from the President, or were they actually able to stay somewhere near the President and protest peacefully?

[yarha.livejournal.com]

pretty girls on a background of destruction

Whoof.

Yarha, Whoofing

[silveradept]

Yeah. And the photographers are probably wondering "Were you paying attention to the scene of destruction, or were you looking at the girl in the white shirt?" The girl emits an SEP field that covers the background, I'd suspect, for most people.

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

...the "sexinchrist" website broke my brain.

[silveradept]

Awww. But it does prove that if you look at it just so, then the Bible could be said to endorse a whole lot of things.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

The cell phone article is a bit scary, to be honest. I wonder if having the cell phone tech remove all your data makes it "safer" or if they only do it the fast way too?

The thing with that building in China, is that sure it's a former brothel, but should a building built in the 1700's really be destroyed, at least from a historical point of view? I don't mean nesc. reinstate the brothel, but I also don't think they shold tear down a 300 yr old building just because it was a brothel.

What is this world coming to that a child gets stabbed for her musical preference?! sheesh.

MuggleNet (http://www.rupertgrint.net/?section=first) confirms it, and they're pretty much the bible of the HP movies. I'm a little annoyed by this move because the quidditch games are really important in Book 5 -- you see Ron gaining confidence on the pitch, the whole "Weasley is our king" story line, Gred, Forge, and Harry fight with Malfoy and get their "lifetime ban", and Ginny really starts to prove herself on the pitch. *sigh* one more reason to half-hate the movies.

the inflateable doll can only be used as a floatation device? what? Although, the guy really ought to get bonus points for being able to shag an inflateable doll in "choppy water" where he seemed to be the only one able to hold onto his doll...

I think it's kind of sad that people need to write articles based on the bible to show that their chosen behavior is an OK thing...on the other hand, that article does lean more towards WOMEN getting all the fun out of a threesome, so more power to us?

Sudoku is as old as me? Interesting. I agree with you, though I don't and probly never will be able to play it, I see it more as a time distractor while waiting at the doctor's office, or commuting on the train, as opposed oto something that zaps all your free time...besides, isn't that what the internet and video games are for?

The ramen article just amused me, and sort of shows how ridiculous the whole RIAA thing really is.

Glad you like the pigeon icons :D

[jokermage.livejournal.com]

I thought he called us "fascist appeasers"?

[silveradept]

Well, he probably did at some point. And now we're cowards, too. The insults tend to be flung about without care or consistency checks.