| More on Pro Evo |
[May. 7th, 2007|09:03 pm] |
From the first paragraph, on page 11: "Our Milky Way, at its widest, has a diameter of over 900,000 trillion kilometers. Een light takes 100,000 yeras to cover this distance, despite it's unimaginable speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. The Earth is situation approximately 250,000 trillion kilometers, or 27,000 light years, northwest of the center of the Milky Way."
Bobby, and everyone, answer me this: First off, are these measurements even remotely correct?
Secondly, how would there be north, west, or northwest in space? I thought Earth had directions due to our axis at the poles and the magnetism at the poles causing our magnetic compass needles to spinny spin spin... am I wrong? Seriously Bobby, comment please. |
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| Pro Evo |
[May. 7th, 2007|08:54 pm] |
So I look at my living room table today and I found a shrinkwrapped copy of a book called Pro Evo. Pro Evolution - Guideline for an Age of Joy. Written by Tomotom Stiftung. And, check out the introduction card included:
The enclosed book, PRO EVO, comes to you as a free gift.
The author (1911 - 2001) discovered in the 1950's a new, simple and reliable guideline for human thought and action, oriented on cosmic evolution.
The discover was decisive in his own life, bringing him joy, fulfillment and success.
Grateful, he wanted to share his ideas.
He published his discovery and set up a Foundation.
This book he wrote is sent to you as a free gift from the Foundation.
May the guideline be as helpful in your life as it was in the author's!
Apparently some shmuck from Hackensack NJ sent it out in bulk, seeing as a web search for the author's name or book title comes up with a number of blog entries and forum postings about recieving this book randomly in the mail.
Sounds to me like cultist bullshit, but I might read it for shits and giggles. And out of spite, I might just leave it in a certain very Catholic friend's mailbox at work just to piss his white ass off.
P.S. If you do a search on this book, somewhere out there someone transcribed some of the comments on the back of the book. Honest to God, this is one of most retarded things I've seen in a long time. |
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| Vonnegut |
[Apr. 12th, 2007|12:06 am] |
So Kurt Vonnegut has passed away. I mean, he was old and all, and showing his age in his speech (kind of like Harrison Ford, he's been talking like really old for a while too). I just hoped I had the chance to meet him once before he kicked it.
Looks like I'll have to wait to croak and see if there's an afterlife if I'm gonna meet him.
Maybe I'll read my Vonnegut books over the next few weeks.
Cheers to the Mark Twain of our time, and let's hope the torch gets passed to me. |
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| New Userpic. |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|11:20 pm] |
Pic ungraciously ripped from YTMND. This gif represents one of my favorite episodes of YTMND (season 5 episode 9, My Half-Acre) and possibly one of the best dance sequences ever put on the small screen.
Hands down.
Speaking of, since Bobby and Marie got me Scrubs season one for Christmas, I've watched it all once, and watched disc one again entirely tonight. And at the time I turned it off, there were 2 more episodes on Comedy Central, both of which were watched.
It's been a long and lovely addiction. I just wish I were more satisfied with season 6 thus far. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 18th, 2006|02:30 am] |
I guess I'm pretty normal, but looking at the Schizo bit--
Many believe that schizotypal personality disorder represents mild schizophrenia. The disorder is characterized by odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and individuals with this disorder often seek isolation from others. They sometimes believe to have extra sensory ability or that unrelated events relate to them in some important way. They generally engage in eccentric behavior and have difficulty concentrating for long periods of time. Their speech is often over elaborate and difficult to follow.
Symptoms of Schizotypal Personality Disorder:
* Odd or eccentric mannerisms or appearance
I like bold colors and I'm always expressing myself physically somehow or another. I feel it's more like acting.
* Superstitious or preoccupied with paranormal phenomena
Definitely not.
* Difficult to follow speech patterns
Because as compared to some others my vocabulary is advanced.
* Feelings of anxiety in social situations
Depending on the situation, yeah. I can't doubt that one.
* Suspiciousness and paranoia
Nothing more than the usual, patriot act, etc...
* Odd beliefs or magical thinking
I like the idea of magic, or that certain things have a magic to them, but I'm not casting spells in my basement.
* Appears shy, aloof, or withdrawn to others
Sometimes aloof, but not always shy or withdrawn.
So I guess I'm pretty normal. Shucks. |
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| Manhattan |
[Nov. 18th, 2006|02:11 am] |
So today I met Sara, and we went around Manhattan looking for cheap toys and comics. It was fun. I met Patton Oswalt at midtown comics, he was buying a stack of comics. I think I said Awesome like 3 times. He's cool. :D
Then headed out to Ruby's for Jo's birthday. Had margaritas, Megan got me a shot, didn't get drunk but it's better that way. Reminisced about old IKEA times with old crew.
Tomorrow? I go see Marcus walk for the first time. Hurrah! |
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| Stuff of Life |
[Oct. 21st, 2006|10:09 pm] |
Currently working on a comic.
Have a date on Friday with a girl I met in Manhattan. Interesante.
Just finished watching the Breakfast Club. Even edited, it was a great movie. I always forget that I like it. If only there were something as insightful for the current generation of kids to look towards.
Every day I'm a little less satisfied with the direction we're headed in.
Today's form of social protest: getting under the covers and hiding.
Shatner and Spader on Boston Legal: Too much very intentional homo-non homo innuendo, I think performed intentionally to fuck with Shatner's character. But I swear to christ if someone writes Shatner/Spader Boston Legal slash, and it comes across my desk, I'll put a bullet in my brain.
Best birthday ever. Read about it on my myspace. http://www.myspace.com/aylakat |
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| Death and Dying and Stuff |
[Oct. 4th, 2006|12:37 am] |
So I was looking around the internet tonight trying to find some pics for a new userpic and I thought "well what about Asia Carrera?" Well I stopped by asiacarrera.com and looked at her bulletins page, after all, I admire Asia and I like to read her blog...
Two things I didn't know:
She had another baby
Her husband died
I thought it was so incredibly sad, that Asia's husband passed away in a car accident in June, she was pregnant with her second baby when it happened. It was ridiculous reading her bulletins page, she had an entry about a secret box her husband kept with "important stuff" in it that he never let her look in and when she looked inside she found shitloads of mementoes from their first dates and engagement and their vacations, stupid shit, the kind of shit you keep when you're in love.
It's sad. It's like Walter and Katie sad, it's like Steve Irwin sad, anyone leaving babies behind.
I mean, here's a woman I admire very much so who left a business she once dominated to pursue a domestic life, who now is suddenly faced with being a single mom of an infant and a toddler and she can't go back to work in her old career...
I guess life does some fucked up shit sometimes. |
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| meeting girls |
[Sep. 22nd, 2006|01:10 am] |
so elysa found someone else... keyword: bummer
i mean we only dated a couple times, but christ almighty i actually liked her, and that's damn rare.
fuck. I'm NEVER getting laid, am I? |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 2nd, 2006|10:24 pm] |
And in the end, everyone goes to see Cher.
What started as an episode of The X-Files I was hesitant to watch this episode, the Post Modern Promethius, because of it's silliness and because it was shot entirely in black and white. I didn't get the immediate allusion to Frankenstein nor did I know until tonight that the episode featured Elaine's boss from Seinfeld, the guy who seems like he should be but isn't Barry Bostwick. That guy.
I have to say, it was frequently amusing and had a delightfully happy ending, which is unusual for the X-Files. There was something terribly adorable about Mulder and Scully dancing together to Cher while The Great Mutato was dragged on stage by the queen herself that had me gleefully giggling.
I guess it's notable for me because despite the seriousness of most episodes (even the ones with a light humorous overtome) don't end with something that causes a smile.
And in the end, everybody goes to see Cher. Wouldn't it be the best ending to most of life's mysteries? |
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| Lookalikes |
[Aug. 3rd, 2006|08:14 pm] |
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I'm convinced that Ryan Reynolds, Ryan Gosling, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar are all the same person. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 7th, 2006|09:07 pm] |
What is it with men on websites putting up ugly lop-sided half retarded pseudo badass pictures of themselves as if this will ATTRACT women?
I mean, after nearly a year I decided to join another dating site and here I get shitloads of ugly black men trying to be gangsta, shitloads of black men overcompensating by wearing suits, skinny skeevy white men who are "SUCH NICE GUYS" I'm sure they want to cut me open and remove my organs, white guys wearing MADD GETO clothing with these scowls on their faces as if they don't come from Middleclasswhiteboyville, and a general racial assortment of ugly motherfuckers who look so fucking droopy they need facelifts at 25.
And why, pray tell, have I only found ONE HOT ASIAN?
EDIT: LOL. If RAJMAN4LUV wants me to believe the stone hotty wearing the leather jacket in his photo is really him, he should take the copyright logo off the bottom left corner. *le sigh* |
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| Help me Dr. David Thorpe. You're my only hope. |
[Jul. 5th, 2006|10:07 pm] |
Man, I know I never post, but I just had to share this.
From SomethingAwful.comm by Dr. David Thorpe:
When does a band "sell out?" It is even a viable term?
-Satisfaction Guaranteed
A band has “sold out” when their fans no longer get feel like part of an elite clique. This generally happens when a band attracts interest from a major label, who provides them with a higher recording budget, which results in just enough polish to make the band acceptable to a slightly wider audience; unfortunately, the better production generally reveals the band’s basic lack of musical talent, which hipsters could previously not see because it was hidden behind a blurry cloud of “lo-fi.”. What hipsters once assumed were “fractured pop songs” are revealed to simply be “bad pop songs,” and the hipsters aren’t smart enough to figure out why their favorite band suddenly seems to suck way more than before, so they blame it on “commercial production” and this mysterious and ephemeral force of “selling out.”
This is a personal thank you to Dr. David Thorpe, for pointing out an infallible truth about the state of music. If Dr. David Thorpe got his own radio show, only to truly and fully discuss every important, semi-important, or completely unknown band to cross his path, and the world heard his powerful words, the state of music might actually be saved.
Dear God, someone get this man a book deal. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 21st, 2006|04:54 pm] |
I've had it.
I won't be done until I've either gotten my friend safely out of that department or until he gets fired.
I'm having a discussion with HR on Monday.
I'm fed up.
I just wish I could get him outside of work so I could tell him what a cocksucker he is. |
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[Mar. 15th, 2006|12:20 am] |
Dumbest episode of MONK EVER is Mr. Monk Gets Stuck In Traffic. It features the band Korn saying stupid band shit like "oh, driver got killed in an accident let's dedicate a song to him" and other similarly dumb things. It's easily the most poorly written script I've seen on this series. Garbage. Ick.
It's like it was written by the lowest common denominator of writer. This episode was as dumb as that movie, "Rolling Kansas." I feel awful that Tony Shalhoub had to act out of character so much. He's far too loose in this episode.
Bleh. |
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| Who's The Boss? |
[Mar. 2nd, 2006|08:38 am] |
Who's The Boss this morning at 8:30 featured a character named Norman. Norman was a shoe designer down in the dumps. Guess what his last (comical) invention was.
Sneaker pumps.
You guessed it, converse sneakers with heels on them.
And I'm thinking to myself, 20 years ago, when Tony Fucking Danza was the Boss, sneaker pumps were a fashion mistake.
Now?
They're ghetto fabulous.
Thanks, Gwen Stefani. I mean it. Bitch. |
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| I'm Sick |
[Feb. 17th, 2006|02:28 am] |
I came home with $350 worth of merchandise that I spent only $200 on, and all I can say is that I wish I bought Crying Freeman instead of Devil Lady.
That said, I now own World of Warcraft. But since I don't talk to Dave anymore, I'll be going it alone until I get the hang of it.
The guy behind the counter told me I'd never see daylight again. I agreed. |
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[Feb. 7th, 2006|08:00 am] |
There is not and will never be a show of this caliber ever again.
Brilliant kids show. You'll never see condom jokes on a kids show ever again.
*sigh* |
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| Happiness |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|07:51 am] |
What makes up for the previous entry?
Downloading Salute Your Shorts season 1. |
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| Really Annoying |
[Feb. 7th, 2006|07:15 am] |
I have the most annoying family in the world because they have the best timing.
This morning, after a bout of insomnia, I decided to watch an episode of Monk I downloaded.
Brilliant of course, because it's a fantastic show and it heightens my senses and then relaxes me at the end.
So I watch the episode with Willie Nelson. Sorta lame, sorta cute, and I'm up to the part where the kind murderer black lady is saying she wants a window. It just about goes into the part where Monk and Willie Nelson are at Trudy's grave.
Obviously, to those who know anything about storytelling, this is a touching part that relaxes and calms you and brings a tear because it's a very thoughtful thing to do for a dead person. I want my spouse to have Paddy Boom tap out a beat on my headstone.
Who comes into ask me something entirely unimportant? Mom. "Hey Kat." *waves frantically to go away* "Okay." (pissed off)
JUST at the moment where it shifts. The important moment. I notice these things because they piss me off.
Add to that, RealPlayer doing what it always does, desynchronizing, playing only audio and choppy video, and freezing my computer. I get hyper pissed. I try and pause to give the computer a minute to catch up. Always works, cept this time. I get pissed off and grab the button at the back of my mac mini to turn it off. On my laptop, holding that button turned it off. I hold the button. It goes into sleep. I wake it and it's still playing the song I didn't want to hear yet only the video is frozen. I somehow manage to close and reopen realplayer.
Only now, watching the video is ruined. Why? The entire flow of the video got cut off, the energy is gone, and instead of relaxing with a thoughtful memorial, I'm thinking about how pissed off I am because the flow got ruined. These things piss me off because I'm a storyteller and there's nothing that sucks more than ruining the flow.
You realize, this is not just the product of insomnia, this is a fairly common occurrence. Only difference? 60% of the time it's Gram, only 30% of the time it's mom, about 5% of the time it's Theresa calling, 3% of the time it's Tommy or Bobby calling, 2% of the time it's Dad calling, and 1% of the time it's telemarketers.
The only, I repeat, THE ONLY time I ever really see the important parts of anything are when I lock myself in my room and turn off my phone and make sure everyone in the house is asleep. This is 95% effective, the 5% counting for when Gram gets up to pee in the middle of the night (fairly unusual).
Having them not home does not work because they inevitably will come home as said important part goes on.
Having said all this, now that I'm still insomniafied, it's 7:30, the birds are chirping, and I am still not calmed down, I really look forward to moving out and not having a landline telephone. |
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