| each day, the goal, is to experience something new. |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|07:00 pm] |
LIFE, my children.... is all about experiences. do you want to know what the meaning of life is? i'll tell you.
your purpose here on this earth and in this lifetime is to experience as MUCH as you possibly can before you die and learn from those experiences.
that is the way of things, if you didn't experience things, you would not grow, and if you do not grow, then you are not furthering the grand scheme.
now just wait... before you get excited, experiences can be anything. they dont have to always be pleasant experiences. they can be unpleasant experiences. BOTH are useful and the more of them we have the better we become.
TO THAT END, i'm excited to report that i have just had the experience of being robbed.
yes, that was one experience that i had not yet had and was probably overdue to experience. not the most pleasant of experiences, but one that was most likely inevitable. i can take solace in the fact that this experience could have been a hell of a lot worse than it was. oh, it's going to suck ass and i'm going to feel this for a while, but as robberies go i probably got off as good as i could have.
the list is as follows, or as i have been able to determine over the last hour and a half:
- drill (was just about broken anyway...) 30.00
- TV (this was the bad one... ) 46" samsung lcd flatscreen, 1400.00 (i'm still paying newegg about 600.00 on it.... d'oh... )
- keltec .32 caliber pistol - 350.00 (technically was rubberella's)
- colt 1911a1 .45 caliber pistol - THIS is going to hurt. this gun was my grandfathers and could have seen action in korea. i have no clue the value, possibly 1500 - 2k or more.
- a safe holding various important papers and passports including zhane's babyteeth. he'll lose more...
- wii and controllers - thank god they aren't in such tight supply anymore. altho.... dont know when i'll be able to get another one... probably is okay cause of the next item on the list...
- wii GAMES - yeah, that's awesome. thank god i put them all into a convenient cd wallet.
- and for the piece de res8istance (sp?) my Autographed Picture of anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lechter. .... yeah... they took my pic of hannibal... they left the playboys that were on the same shelf (as the 45 and hannibal) but they took hannibal and left the playboys. dunno about that one. oh by the way, glas, i still have your playboys...
BUT, on the good side, all the computers are here. the vmedia computer is still there although it has nothing to send it's video's too at the moment... digital camera was laying out... still here... all the fish are alive... i'm alive... grandma picked up zhane so he doesn't really know yet... probably just as well, boy was watching too much tv as it is... lawnmower still here... and wouldn't you know it, they left AAAALLLL My liquor, so i'm going to go through my liquor now, and relish in yet another experience onthat grand road of life, and try NOT to think about all those times that rubberella mentioned that we should get renters insurance. causa eyou know what, we probably should have. but hey... i guess that's another experience i'll have this week, YAY!!!
Valis.
on the depressing side, i missed my chance to shoot my first robber. damn. let's hope there is a next time! |
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| Going at a mile a minute... |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|05:07 pm] |
It's not as if I don't want to go to the Springs downtown, or stay at this end of town and maybe play chess for a couple of hours, but it's going to be deucedly difficult to get away any time soon.
The bag for the day includes two short items that came in over the transom from a good client plus three items (3800 target words) that I promised for today. There remains a review of my science fiction assignment, which at this point ought really to be classified as leisure time activity.
It should because it's painful to think of this particular aspect of the job as paid work, which is not to say I'm complaining about the rate, just that going through and making the story sound like a story without betraying the principles of good translation is pretty time-consuming.
Rewrites are not part of the normal despeckling process in my neck of the woords. After all, there isn't much craft - or at least I don't feel any - in writing:
Systems are leak tested at a pressure of 230 kgf/cm2. On the other hand, what about this:
He placed the tiny red dot of his sight directly on the unkempt gray fur of the creature's low forehead and thumbed the selector of his rifle to semiautomatic fire. That one took me a while, but I'm sure there are other ways to cast that sentence. And there are many more where it came from.
But it won't get done while I'm posting to LJ, will it?
Back to work!
Cheers... |
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| What Kind of Decade Has it Been? |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|08:23 am] |
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So I'm watching a re-run of The West Wing on the Bravo channel. It's the last episode of the first season, "What Kind of Day Has it Been", the one which ends with the assassination attempt on President Bartlet and his body man Charlie Young, and had first been broadcast in May 2000.
All through the decade, as the Bush/Cheney administration committed one bad act after another in the name of the United States, a lot of us watching wished we had the fictional Josiah Bartlet as President rather than the unfortunately all too real George W. Bush.
I had forgotten about this: early in the episode President Bartlet is called down to the White House Situation Room as a U. S. fighter pilot flying a combat air patrol over the southern Iraq no-fly zone has been shot down. There is a short argument about whether to try diplomacy with the Iraqi government first or to launch an immediate military rescue mission. Bartlet notes there is a $14,000 bounty for shot-down U. S. aircraft, and an additional $14,000 reward for the capture of U. S. aircraft pilots. He orders that negotiations be attempted but also that preparations for the military operation begin immediately, for launch as soon as possible. As he gets up to leave, he warns the man who had argued for diplomacy only, "If that pilot is captured, I'm invading Baghdad."
Yeah. How'd that turn out? |
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| Yo Momma’s so fugly Voldemort won’t speak her name |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|08:15 am] |
So, despite having picked up a horrid summer cold, I am still determined to go to the 12:01AM showing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tonight.
In honor of that, twitter had a “yo mama” style contest, and here are the honorable mentions in all their wizardly glory:
JanetVarney: Yo momma so fat the Sorting Hat put her in all four houses
chris8675309: Your momma so fat, she looked in the mirror of Erised and saw a ham
PeterVRules: Your momma’s so old she gave Nicholas Flamel his first handjob
chris8675309: Yo mamma so nasty, the order of the phoenix was “stay away from that bitch”
chris8675309: Yo mamma so stupid, she thinks Sirius Black is the soul station on satellite radio
sarazafar: Yo mama so fat she tried to eat Cornelius Fudge
dino_rider: Yo mama’s so ugly the Dementor’s Kiss was swapped out for a hearty handshake and a promise to give her a call sometime.
reppocs: Yo momma so black, she’d probably get sorted in to Ravenclaw and would be a minor character at best
bradheintz: Yo mama so nasty, Dobby wouldn’t take her sock
Burnaway: Yo momma so skanky, even her patronus got knocked up
chompychomp: Yo mama so stupid, she drowned in a pensieve
Dick_M: yo momma so dumb she thought that she could talk to snakes if she put parsley on her tongue
dtejano: Yo mama’s so masculine, she makes Dumbledore go, “DAAAYYYUMM!”
habcous: yo mamma so nasty, every pair of her panties has the Dark Mark
HakSolo: your mom is so fat if she confronted a boggart it would morph into a treadmill
finnigan37: Your mama’s so nasty she got naked and turned @The_Real_Shaq into @The_Shrieking_Shack
dantelfer: Yo mamma so fat, she has to enchant her panties into a portkey to get out of a chair
dantelfer: Yo mamma’s cooch is so nasty it has its own house elf
dirk_funk: Yo mama so fat it takes two boggarts to shape-shift into her
Kingdaddy1773: Your family is so poor you have to bus in from Narnia every morning
MarioEGarcia: yo mama so poor she went to Honeydukes and put a chocolate frog on layaway
melgotserved: Yo momma’s so fat she got stuck in the Floo Network
melgotserved: Yo momma’s so fat her wand is a Slim Jim
MikeDrucker: Yo’ Momma so fat she joined the Death Eaters ’cause she was hungry
MikeDrucker: After she’s done being skanky, yo’ momma hides her tramp stamp by saying “Mischief Managed”
MsJG: Yo Momma’s so fugly that even Voldemort won’t speak her name
nicofopolous: Yo Momma’s so muggles she gave my hog warts
nthornton: Your momma’s ass is so saggy, she’s being sued for copyright infringement by Neville Longbottom
paulscheer: Yo Mamma is so fat that even the Dementors can’t suck out her soul in one sitting
phirm: Mama so nasty, everybody call her “She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Naked”
phirm: Yo mama so fat you couldn’t find her pu**y with the Room of Requirement
PinheadX: Yo mamma coochie so hairy it look like she ridin’ a Nimbus 2000 backwards
TheonetrueCams: your mum’s P#$$y is like the Slytherin common room, it smells foul and its always full of snakes
TheonetrueCams: Yo Mum is just like a Dementor, always looking for some “Serious” Black
Taborifica: Yo momma so fat even her Quidditch robes have stretch marks
randbot: yo mama so fat, when your parents have sex yo daddy gotta cast “accio vagina”
Originally published at Prosthetically Hip. Please leave any comments there. |
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| KITTEH! |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|10:50 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | steve | ] |
| [ | mood |
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| [ | music |
| | Linkin Park "we divide" | ] |
Still cleaning the apartment- I'm tired of it looking like somebody broke in. Stupid work schedule.
In the meantime, here's a picture of my cat.
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| It's still Monday... whew! |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|09:18 pm] |
The day went by pretty quickly... too quickly, actually, if you ask me.
The item due this morning went out on time, whereupon I turned to on the last 2500 words of the science fiction assignment. In the meantime, Galina went shopping to address some to-do items that need completion.
My conversation with Feht yesterday shed light on a number of issues, and I took frequent breaks during the day to look at my fledgling collection of stamps, and to also address some to-do-items that have been begging to be put out of their misery.
The sci-fi is complete, and Galina is reviewing the text as I type this entry. Then it'll be my turn to go over the translation, but I'm not at all sure I'll be able to (more accurately, that I want to press myself to) finish the job tonight and send it off. It is, after all, due on Wednesday, so there's time enough to send it off tomorrow and still "overdeliver."
My Denver client sent more work, so there's something on my plate again, at least enough to keep me busy though tomorrow.
Cheers... |
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| America kicks ass - in spite of, not because of, the government |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|11:22 pm] |
Ladies and Gentlemen: Life in the the United States of America, 2009.
Wired News: You and your son built your rocket in your garage with your own cash?
Paul Breed: Correct. It’s basically been a father-son effort, and we’ve done 98 percent of the work ourselves. We got some help from local rocket fans, and hired someone with help with the FAA regulations.
Two guys and a few interested amateurs can design and build, in a garage, a rocket that will reach outer space. With pocket money. For fun.
But in order to deal with the government ... ah that's where your brighter-than-average engineer duo must hire a specialist.
Update: edited for clarity.
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| The most dangerous thing in the world ... |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|11:19 pm] |
Fred.
Near my barracks in Parris Island was a sign, “The most dangerous thing in the world is a Marine rifleman.”
If it had said “an ambitious colonel” it would have come closer to truth.
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| the internet is coming to get you. |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|08:28 pm] |
add one cheap hand operated kitchen appliance.
throw in one disposable microphone wearing pitchman.
cook in internet oven until done.
wait until golden brown, and until, you have...
Slap Chop. (rap... remix)
and now i must replay, cause i just like it.
Techno remix, Bill O'Reilly, DO IT LIVE!!
Valis
new motto : "yeah... take it bitch." |
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| But why . . . ? |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|05:08 pm] |
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So, looks like I'll be ceasing my smoking habit as soon as this summer semester has ended. |
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| For the Record |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|02:59 pm] |
I hate this.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) orbolus does not speak for me. orbolus is and has been banned from this journal for many months, from the moment her/his intentions became obvious. orbolus is a stalker and troublemaking sockpuppet trying to create Drama between other parties and me of the "let's you and him fight" variety. I don't know what the other parties are saying behind Friend-lock. It's irrelevant. I'm not playing.
I dislike intensely having to make this public post, particularly since I doubt I will be believed by those who most need to hear it.
orbolus, GO AWAY..
This is all I will be saying on this subject. |
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| The Monday Morning Video #10: "A Tribute to Space" |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|06:03 am] |
This is the Monday Morning Video, tenth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
This morning the music is "Vertigo" by U2, and it was recorded loud so adjust your volume before you start, and the theme of the video is "A Tribute to Space", to all the amazing things we used to do, and could choose to do again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4jD9zsUA7w |
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| Is your child O.D.D.? |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:32 am] |
(actual update to come soon...ish)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder
Diagnostic Criteria
1. A pattern of negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four (or more) of the following are present:
Note: Consider a criterion met only if the behavior occurs more frequently than is typically observed in individuals of comparable age and developmental level.
1. often loses temper
2. often argues with adults
3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
4. often deliberately annoys people
5. often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
6. is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
7. is often angry and resentful
8. is often spiteful or vindictive
2. The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning.
3. The behaviors do not occur exclusively during the course of a psychotic or mood disorder.
4. Criteria are not met for conduct disorder, and, if the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are not met for antisocial personality disorder.
If the child meets at least four of these criteria, and they are interfering with the child’s ability to function, then he or she technically meets the definition of oppositionally defiant.[1] |
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