That was a productive day.
Nov. 4th, 2006 01:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptEspecially considering I only really worked for the last hour or two of it - took the usual beating from my beta squad about my poorly-articulated mishmash of ideas. There may have been roses in all the shit, but there needed to be some shovelwork to uncover them. Hopefully, I've got the right idea going. Helped my sister celebrate her birthday today, yay, and had much fun just shooting the breeze with family over dinner. Much, much fun. Happy birthday to Himi, too.
Nov 3 was International Men's Day, apparently. And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wuglet put up her plea to remember men while forging the new gender-equal world. We've been sitting on the backburner for a bit while the women asserted themselves and wanted to take on the things that were previously not "theirs" according to the old rules. greyweirdo, always eloquent, picks up the theme and runs with it, providing suggestions on rulesets that can be adopted. Being one of the pioneers in the nonstandard realm, he's pretty qualified to talk about what will and won't work. So go have a look.
A coffee table book for your sci-fi/fantasy fan - the Art of Imagination. I suspect there's beautiful and inspiring pictures in there. Might be a good book work looking at for most of the members of FLEET and other such organizations. In terms of sci-fi slowly becoming real, the push for solar power grows ever stronger. Aided by cheaper costs and legislation requirements for renewability, we might soon be able to put a significant part of the power grid on the Sun's dime. Going from big to small, it might be soon that we're going in for T-ray examinations. Hopefully it's not going to be dangerous to be exposed to that kind of high-frequency radiation. Considering the focusing requirements of such, though, it might very well be a spot-checker, instead.
Apparently, it's not just the Catholics who are having trouble with their leaders doing things that wouldn't be very Christian. Ted Haggerd, chief of New Life church, admits to buying meth and getting a massage from a male prostitute, but denies he bought sex. Wow. That's a pretty big screwup, sir, just on the meth alone. It makes it much harder to believe there wasn't sex involved, too. I'm beginning to wonder whether Christianity will change its position on homosexuality out of practicality, owing to a large number of their adherents being homosexuals secretly. Or maybe this is media work, inflating and making it seem like everyone on the Christian camp is a user, a dealer, a pedophile, a hypocrite, or some other very un-Christian thing. Like the allegations that "faith-based initiative" money was being used to help GOP politics. Or the results of the "Art" of warfare. Thou shalt not kill still seems rather unquestioning. Even if there are provisions for "just war" or other such things, I still think that the command not to take life should reign supreme - if it's not possible to avoid the taking of life, do as little of it as possible.
Floyd fans, help me out on this one - is it permissible to talk about how all of us are just another brick in the wall, linking to that article about the Wall of Lies Americans have built to shield themselves and to imprison those that could cause necessary change? Or would that just be a reference with none of the spirit of Floyd behind it?
Beyond that, another media bit that makes me go WTF is Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed, continuing to contribute to the demonization of another party at a very young age. Children really are best left out of our politics until they're old enough to understand them well. Which means that the mother that teaches her child to say "Boo Bush!" is just as at fault as the parent who reads their child this book intending for them to believe it. That may be fixable, though, if Homeland Security gets the rule that lets them deny anyone who wants to go in or out of the country for any reason. Big honking WTF-mate here. Restricting travel is a possible first step to just shutting down the borders and shooting anyone who tries to enter.
Because I thought it wold be fun, here's a page that teaches you how to tie some knots. If that's not your cup of tea, try the Wikipedia article on knots instead.
Props due to the crafter on this particular project, creating Nintendo notebooks and watermarked paper.
And that's the groupings from me tonight. Feetball tomorrow, and then after the crowd has cleared out, I'll go watch Seven Samurai atgreyweirdo's house. Sounds like a good day to me.
Nov 3 was International Men's Day, apparently. And
wuglet put up her plea to remember men while forging the new gender-equal world. We've been sitting on the backburner for a bit while the women asserted themselves and wanted to take on the things that were previously not "theirs" according to the old rules. greyweirdo, always eloquent, picks up the theme and runs with it, providing suggestions on rulesets that can be adopted. Being one of the pioneers in the nonstandard realm, he's pretty qualified to talk about what will and won't work. So go have a look.A coffee table book for your sci-fi/fantasy fan - the Art of Imagination. I suspect there's beautiful and inspiring pictures in there. Might be a good book work looking at for most of the members of FLEET and other such organizations. In terms of sci-fi slowly becoming real, the push for solar power grows ever stronger. Aided by cheaper costs and legislation requirements for renewability, we might soon be able to put a significant part of the power grid on the Sun's dime. Going from big to small, it might be soon that we're going in for T-ray examinations. Hopefully it's not going to be dangerous to be exposed to that kind of high-frequency radiation. Considering the focusing requirements of such, though, it might very well be a spot-checker, instead.
Apparently, it's not just the Catholics who are having trouble with their leaders doing things that wouldn't be very Christian. Ted Haggerd, chief of New Life church, admits to buying meth and getting a massage from a male prostitute, but denies he bought sex. Wow. That's a pretty big screwup, sir, just on the meth alone. It makes it much harder to believe there wasn't sex involved, too. I'm beginning to wonder whether Christianity will change its position on homosexuality out of practicality, owing to a large number of their adherents being homosexuals secretly. Or maybe this is media work, inflating and making it seem like everyone on the Christian camp is a user, a dealer, a pedophile, a hypocrite, or some other very un-Christian thing. Like the allegations that "faith-based initiative" money was being used to help GOP politics. Or the results of the "Art" of warfare. Thou shalt not kill still seems rather unquestioning. Even if there are provisions for "just war" or other such things, I still think that the command not to take life should reign supreme - if it's not possible to avoid the taking of life, do as little of it as possible.
Floyd fans, help me out on this one - is it permissible to talk about how all of us are just another brick in the wall, linking to that article about the Wall of Lies Americans have built to shield themselves and to imprison those that could cause necessary change? Or would that just be a reference with none of the spirit of Floyd behind it?
Beyond that, another media bit that makes me go WTF is Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed, continuing to contribute to the demonization of another party at a very young age. Children really are best left out of our politics until they're old enough to understand them well. Which means that the mother that teaches her child to say "Boo Bush!" is just as at fault as the parent who reads their child this book intending for them to believe it. That may be fixable, though, if Homeland Security gets the rule that lets them deny anyone who wants to go in or out of the country for any reason. Big honking WTF-mate here. Restricting travel is a possible first step to just shutting down the borders and shooting anyone who tries to enter.
Because I thought it wold be fun, here's a page that teaches you how to tie some knots. If that's not your cup of tea, try the Wikipedia article on knots instead.
Props due to the crafter on this particular project, creating Nintendo notebooks and watermarked paper.
And that's the groupings from me tonight. Feetball tomorrow, and then after the crowd has cleared out, I'll go watch Seven Samurai at
greyweirdo's house. Sounds like a good day to me.
