1. I visited the library again today.
2. My new favourite way to choose what CDs to borrow is to scan the rows and pick out whatever catches my fancy based on a minimal 1-to-5-second glance.
3. Today's haul: (track names in spoiler tags) Lumsk - Det Vilde Kor
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «1. DISET KVÆLD
2. OM HUNDREDE AAR ER ALTING GLEMT
3. HØSTNAT
4. PAA HVÆLVET
5. LAD SPILLE MED VAAR OVER JORDEN
6. DUTTENS VISE
SVEND HERLUFSENS ORD
7. I - Min Kærest er som den
. . . if some of the people we label as being insane are actually just tuned into a different reality that exists simultaneously to the accepted consensus reality? If that's the case, then our condemnation of these people says more about us than it does about them. It is a symptom of our fear of the unknown.
Actually, I'm starting to be convinced on a deeper and deeper level that we really do create our own reality through our beliefs about what is real. Our perceptions aren't really a one-to
The part where Carl's watching TV and there's an infomercial on, except you only hear the audio. I didn't get the joke at all. But then today, just by chance, I'm watching a Best of [Failsite] video that shows that exact same failed infomercial.
PIXAR wins an Internet.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered.
If this noble and courageous man had been allowed to live, the world might well be a very different place today. Sadly, his story just goes to show that one person alone cannot hope to change the world.
He is departed, but the ideals that he stood for live on.
= disaster Removed.. Not even well-made disaster Removed.. Just... BAD disaster Removed. We aren't going to use words like that when describing a movie, ok? -Kohaku.
I mean, this is just from what I've heard. You won't catch me going to see that film. Really. Thanks, but no thanks.
Tl;dr: HOLLYWOOD CONSPIRACY TO STEAL OUR SOULZ.
EDIT: Oops. Sorry, Kohaku. I wasn't thinking.
If it has to be one side or the other, then I'm with Brutaka. But much as I disagree with Helryx's way of thinking, I hope Greg comes up with a non-sucky way to resolve the showdown that doesn't involve a massacre. :/ I'm a little puzzled as to why Axonn is in favour of killing their world. But Tuyet being on the right side for the wrong reasons is perfect.
Tren Krom in Lewa Nuva's body is my favourite character gimmick in a while. Possibly even cooler than upgradified Brutaka.
If I go to "Entry Options > Edit" and toggle "Add entry as: Published" from there, it doesn't bump the entry. While this may save me the trouble of adding original dates back in, there is a funny speedbump in the IPS database that throws up an error message when I hit "Submit changes."
Just FYI in case you ever need to make use of this little quirk - or avoid it.
Some of you have taken the time to express concern over the sudden vandalization of my blog and profile. Thank you for your concern. No, I was not hacked, fortunately. That was all done by me. Or, shall I say, me under the influence of something as dangerous as any harmful psychoactive substance: severe depression. It was what I might describe as an attempted overdose; I wanted to feel as miserable as I could, and all that black energy that I fed into myself demanded an outlet. Hence my blacked-
Episode goes online tomorrow. I'm so watching it. And I never watch TV.
In other news, BCii's 4srsblag has taken a turn for the deadlier. I dunno what to do about that. It's like it has a life of its own now.
Current mood: :fear:
Mouseover texts are still flashing for a microsecond and disappearing. This bodes ill.
Update: Looking at software called WipeDrive. That should do the trick. DIE MALWARE DIE!
Update II: WipeDrive is top-notch, conforms to the Department of Defense standard, and costs $39.95. Active@ KillDisk is free and should be plenty good enough.
Update III: Just as I thought: wiping the hard drive does nothing. Am now considering going hardcore and flashing the BIOS. As soon as I figure out how to
That's what I've had to do with my computer. What a chore.
It turns out that the Trojan horse was indeed wreaking its destruction deeper than the level of the OS itself. I figured that out when my keyboard and mouse started going all balky and fritzy under Ubuntu. I have now backed up my files, reformatted the hard drive, reinstalled Windows, and begun the process of restoring everything else. Ubuntu is next.
If that didn't kill the sucker, I don't know what will.
I've been feeling really homesick lately.
(My mother is turning 50 soon, and I'm mentally preparing to write her a letter. By hand! And snail-mail! )
Not only missing my family in Vancouver, but my real home as well.... somewhere far, far from here.... likely much closer to the great central sun of the Milky Way, I would think. Yeah. Really.
In other news, I'm hearing encouraging things about the prospect of an imminent public announcement on the facts about your E.T. visitors. That'll
Windows XP is no more. Thank the Trojan horse. My mobile Internet connection is gone along with it, but at least the public library has an open WLAN.
Ubuntu is great, sure, but it's still a pain to get used to a new operating system and get it all tricked out with codecs and drivers and software so it'll do everything I need it to do. I really, really hope the virus isn't affecting Ubuntu The guy sitting next to me in the library says it's not possible for a Windows EXE file to run under Ubun
The phone company disconnected my phone, so for now, Internet is my only com-link to the world. The trouble is that my computer seems to be on its deathbed, due to some nasty, deep-level virus that commandeers over 90% of the processor, masquerading as "System idle process." Normal background processes are all shunted aside and denied memory space in favour of this metastatic monstrosity. Even now, Firefox is running entirely without images. That includes all toolbar and tab icons, down to the l
I went to Q's place today. He had "Keetongu" with him, who was visiting our town, Oulu, from where he lives, all the way across Finland. I took my self-MOC and my winged scarab along with me to show them off. We had tea, hung out, and talked LEGO for a couple of hours. Q took pictures of my MOCs together with some of his stuff on his desk, then a picture of me and Keet posing, and then I snapped a couple shots of Q with his Eagle mk 3. (I didn't have my camera - couldn't find it at the time I wa
More depressing philosophy. =D
I've often found myself thinking along similar lines, how profoundly inadequate are our symbolic modes of expression, i.e. language and art, when compared to the naturally occurring, genuine, living article they attempt to define and represent.
The symbol ought not to be preferred over the true presence and direct experience of that which it represents, of which it is the merest shadow.
The map ought not to be mistaken for the path itself.
Art = artif
What if, one morning, you woke up in a parallel universe that was identical to this one, except that in 2000, the LEGO Company had scrapped the original concept for BIONICLE and taken a completely divergent path to the present? What might your LEGO collection consist of? What might they have come up with instead? Would it be as cool as what we have now? (Or even cooler?)
Insert blatant fanboy/girl wish-fulfillment fantasy here.
Also LEGO FSM. 8D
Superstaffie can has superbad staff.
NO U
This MOC is a combination of ideas from a Dark Hunter MOC, a previous MOC of this character, and ToM's own self-MOC (v.1, v.2).
Not much to say that it doesn't say for itself.
Uhm, you might be interested to know that I singed my eyebrows and beard in the course of the photo shoot. Don't play with matches, kids. Do as I say, not as I do.
I got tired of the movie theme. Hope to have new blog art sometime soon, as the old sidebar splash JPG is old and winter is just about here. I'm thinking something dark, akin to the style of photography on my BBCC55 entry, in keeping with the time of year and, incidentally, my current mood.
E-dubya, aka Casablanca, has asked a question of his readers that I thought I'd ask as well: do you read this blog? How do you find it (faves, RSS, tracking)? And any thoughts on what I bring to it? Pleas
