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THIS POST from more than a year ago spawned an additional thought this weekend: because "grown" is no longer a necessarily desirable state to be in if you're younger than a Baby Boomer, then not only is "half-baked" free from its previous stigma, it's a state approaching norm-hood.

I'm not sure I know ANYBODY my own age who's "together". Or maybe they're "stealth together", showing a few "half-baked" traits to keep up the image but unwilling to own up to being "adult".

As for me, the haircut and the "real job" will still have to wait a while.

FP
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Anybody else notice that money now comes with an expiration date? "Best SPENT by January 1, 2010"?

It's even on the nickles and dimes.

FP
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It's a rare day that I can say that I experienced something "new" to me when it comes to weather. Just about an hour ago, I saw it hail for the first time. The "stones" were only about the size of wheat or maize grains, and they melted quickly after they hit the ground.

I've avoided the President's speech tonight. Not because I dislike him, but because I doubt there is anything I can do for my own interests even if I take a side in the fights ahead. Besides, the arguments these last so-and-so months since he took office, and even before, have just made me wish for my time as an apolitical--which ended longer ago than I care to admit.

Statements I'd like to make to the political strategists and their candidates/spokespeople:

1) Just because you're on "my side" doesn't mean I have to love you.
2) Just because he's not on "my side" doesn't mean I automatically hate him. (Mind you, specific examples are rarities these days.)
3) "My side" doesn't always have my interests in mind--and I expect a lot of folks on "my side" would sell my interests down the river to get votes. Or for WORSE reasons.
4) Get the sports terminology out of war, the war terminology out of sports, and the terminologies of BOTH out of politics. The only once-and-for-all resolution in politics is death, and there has been so much of that lately that any talk of war should either be silenced or it risks being followed up with actual bloodshed. We're in the same place now that our nation was in before Ruby Ridge, David Koresh, Columbine High School, and the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. What's so funny about wanting law and order, established justice, ensured domestic tranquility, promoted general welfare, the blessings of liberty and some professional integrity?

Tepid 5:06

May. 7th, 2009 10:09 pm
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"Don't underestimate the Republican AND Democratic national parties' ability to provide an unending supply of scumbags to replace those voted out of office and perpetuate the status quo for their big-money masters."
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...Are A Pain.

NPR's Peter Sagal on childhoods past and present, and the influence Lord of the Rings and other such romances have had on his development.
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The Acai Berry Trade Promotes Child Abuse.

It does. Look up the lyrics for "Linstead Market".

PS: I really hate the jingle for the Create Network.
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Expand...As It Was... )

ExpandAnd As It Is )

The second video is a teaser for this weekend's RBAR in Portugal.

PS: It has come to my attention that if an ordinary LJ reader accesses my page he/she will see advertising on the sides. I find that deplorable, as I don't get any benefit from LJ for the advertising, beyond my free hosting. If I switched to Plus, then I'd get more features but have to condone seeing ads myself. As I don't think I can afford a Paid account at the moment, it's something I can do nothing about. Pardon my venting...I just found it a nasty surprise. I apologize to all my regular readers and ask them to bear with me.
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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of July 3, 2008

Beginning in 1951, the U.S. government regularly set off nuclear bombs in the desert 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Most of the 1,021 explosions occurred underground, though for 11 years some were also done in the open air. Tourists used to flock to Las Vegas to watch the mushroom clouds, which were visible from that distance. As far as we know, the detonations ceased in 1992. Also as far as we know, the unusual lifestyles of Las Vegas's inhabitants are not the result of mutations in their DNA caused by radioactive contamination. Let's use this scenario as a departure point for your own personal inventory, Sagittarius. What dangerous or tempestuous events from your life are now safely confined to the past? Are there any lingering consequences from them? If so, what might you do to heal?

Too often in my life I was treated like somebody else's fireworks detonator...them pushing my buttons for their hope of an entertaining blast of anger or emo or madness. Looking back I still hate that to a very great degree. What's worse, the conscious effort I made to insulate myself from that kind of human behavior has only helped on a limited number of levels. I can handle myself, but I don't know whether it's because of growth or burnout...and whether I am still weak enough for someone else's abuse to lead to a chain reaction. Maybe I can go the rest of my life without a clear answer to this issue...but for the sake of my future, there is a part of me that wants to look in the silos and count the warheads that are still there. And if so, have enough of them permanently dismantled to ease my mind.

FP
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My mother listened to this episode of Radio Lab while I was out of the house yesterday, and had to tell me all about it when I returned. The part about how brain matter itself differs between the pathological liars and everybody else was very interesting to her. The way she told me about it, she said she recognized that I must have had the development of my gray cells overwhelm the development of my white cells early on in childhood, and that's why I'm so horribly honest and have real problems with dishonesty and guessing games. And probably why I'd get so angry at anybody who had the gall to put me on.

It's a shame I learned about that so late. Man, what if those twerps who gave me the run through in High School figured out that I was wired to say what I meant? What would they have done? I mean, the whole point of them investigating me was because they thought I had something to hide, and I couldn't prove I didn't!

I'm having a real problem with that right here and now.

It's hard enough to absolve myself. I doubt I could ever absolve them.

FP

Hate Speech

Jan. 7th, 2008 12:05 am
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Just after dinnertime, we got an automated phone call--a recorded tirade from some fire-and-brimstone evangelist Christian pastor. The actual content of the message isn't worth repeating and he delivered it with so much anger and bile he could have melted down the phone's earpiece.

If we had Caller ID on the phone, we would have had the organization sued for hate speech. I mean, what if we were Jewish or Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist? It is sectarian harassment! I find it particularly galling as my parents are active participants in their own church, and had they heard this lout themselves they would have been insulted.

I think I'm going to copy this blog to the local newspapers. I believe in freedom of religion more than I believe in religion itself, but this matter is way over the line.

FP
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And Mr. Ask-A-Ninja delivers a tirade that is nunchuk full of wisdom about the Writer's Guild Strike.

Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.

FP
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What good is Common Sense when what you need is Actionable Intelligence?

FP

Part II

Dec. 16th, 2006 09:45 pm
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All of a sudden, I feel the need to vent about guilt trips. Just a little while ago, we were listening to Garrison Keillor's radio show, and they had a skit on in their long running series about a man named Duane and his clingy mother. Well, in this episode she was laying on the usual guilt trips and I turned off the radio because I no longer felt amused.

I wouldn't say that I get more than my fair share of guilt trips from people. But I have received plenty in the last ten years.

Lately my father has been trying to drive me to look for work...and in fact, I have been looking. But this is a lousy time to try to find a job. Plus I have an obligation that needs to run its course before I'm eligible to apply for steady work.

At my last job, my boss kept trying to get me to move away from my parents. She didn't understand that I'm living in the same house with them because they perpetually want me around. And I doubt whether I have the skills to live on my own. And at this stage in my life, what's the point in starting a household of my own? I'm no catch for a batchelorette. Keeping up with the Jones has never interested me.

In American terms, I'm pathetic. In Global terms, my cup runneth over. I don't meet anybody else's standards...and I guess I don't meet my own either.

I hate guilt trips. But I heap myself with them too. It's a bad habit of mine, I guess.

FP
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One of two stories concerning Japan's Otaku, and
another, both presented on NPR today.

My mother and I talked at length about the underlying situation that leads to such lost generations. I said, "If you set your standards too strict, you only breed more misfits." That and "the only test that really counts is how well you get along with others." We both agreed that it is the one failing of No Child Left Behind...the concept enforces thinking within-the-box, when it was thinking-outside-the-box that made America a great invention culture for so long. We need to be better creative thinkers...and we need to be better citizens. No Child Left Behind doesn't address either issue.

I was one of the withdrawn, introverted types...and I guess I still am, with good reason. I've been a misfit pretty much all my life. Why should I go out all the time and try to impose myself on strangers? Why should I believe that there is somebody out there for me, when all the evidence I see is to the contrary?

But at least I have more slack here to work with than somebody in my same situation in Japan. They have a load more social baggage to carry. Americans don't have that problem because we're mutts. We're the people bred from those kicked out of everyplace else. America is at its best when we remember this and tolerate our differences, recognize that being diverse is a strength.

Did I mention that in Sci-Fi, I hate homogenized alien societies? I guess that's one thing that keeps me from being a Trekkie.

More to come.

FP
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Hey.

I had to get out of the house and go somewhere before the weekend, but I couldn't decide where I wanted to go. So I rolled a die. 4 equalled Sevierville, and so there I went.

There, I found that the Dollar General stores restocked their Bandai DVDs, so I bought three:
The Big O first season #3
Gundam 0080 #1
The Red Spectacles, a live-action movie from Oshii that unleashed the Hellhounds Police on an unsuspecting culture. I kinda liked Jin-Roh, although I must have been the only one to watch it on the big screen in Knoxville.

Since they've restocked, the hunt is back in season. I've appended the shopping list I keep in my wallet, but this time I'll try to concentrate on completing sets I've already started (Big O first season, Argentosoma, Stratos4, G-Gundam, Gundam W, and the Gundam OAV serials) rather than take on additional series I don't have (Gundam TV, Ronin Warriors, Banner of the Stars, etc.).

One product I wish was available to consumers is the DVD case that can hold multiple disks. *Pulls out Microsoft Works Suite 2006 package* Look at this case! Holds five disks in the space of two regular DVD cases! If empty cases like this were available to consumers I'd buy them and consolidate my stock. But no! All the electronics and office supply stores carry are regular size and thin DVD cases, which are no improvement. I can't even replace the mutilated DVD cases I have for The Aviator or My Fair Lady, because they both are special two-in-one cases.

Sorry for the rant, but this is what happen when I roll a die. Get used to it. :)

FP

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Hey.

First the addenda: I figured out what I was doing wrong re the LViewPro. So the color is coming back in my life.

Now, the rant: Phishers...you are TWITS. You're a few brain cells short of a pair. May your monitors hypergauss themselves in your faces.

I don't have a Paypal account.

I don't have an eBay account either.

You wouldn't guess in a million years what bank I do business with...and how about this? They DON'T EVEN KNOW my e-mail address! So they would never ever e-mail me about anything. So I am never going to so much as let you have the time of day from me.

There's no phish up my creek, so take your paddle and shove off.

FP

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