| Hehee, last updated 49 weeks ago. |
[10 Jun 2009|08:24pm] |
So! I have a new poota, yet i managed to remember my password! It makes me able to play fallout 3 - the poota that is, the password is for here.
Life's normal. There's been a new Cabralian placed on this planet. Olivia.
Any questions can be directed to this invisible brick wall, which though emotionally accepting and omnipresent, cannot speak.
Hey, another big thing is the Economoney. Maybe I've been playing too much Fallout after reading technical analysis. But still, the debt in the US is stupid, overleveraged and oversold. Betting on future profits, then selling that on to even bigger retards with ever bigger upwriting and on-selling - In my mind that constitutes fraud, and in this case it's a national scale. I think the US is going to become the NAU before the end of '12. Australia should be good unless america defaults on it's foreign debt. That would mean that China pops.
The whole end of the Mayan calendar thing relates to a new beginning. The cycle starts again. The choice for humanity is between Ego and Wisdom, which will colour the next Age. Everyone knows the excesses of the Ego, even if some examples constantly surprise us. Wisdom is difficult, yet I pray for the wisdom of humanity as we grind toward a new beginning.
Night!
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[03 Jul 2007|02:37pm] |
Job interview today. Customer service call centre stuff. I was totally late. :(
Best toy ever - wee remote controlled Helicopter. Only flies for about 5 mins, then recharge for 20, 6AA batteries.
$40 at Fat W
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[09 May 2007|01:27am] |
I am re-employed. Back at Fat W, full time, day shift.
My car has finally received a long overdue tune up. No longer shall i bitch and whine endlessly of the ineffectualness of my shitbox. Naturally, it cost me all but $15 of my financial blanket. Luckily see above and insert weekly pay for solution.
Hooray! i'm a wage slut again?
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[10 Apr 2007|01:29am] |
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Life is so fucking unsatisfying.
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| Religion vs Science - yes, i'm going there. |
[22 Mar 2007|11:31pm] |
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Why? Penn & Teller's Bullshit!
Alright, with our given religions - Christianity and Islam - every rational person realises that there is just some CRAP written in the holy books. That if we/they were to take everything seriously, on face value - well, there would be a whole lot less religious people in public. Most of them would be in jail. Unless you live in Iran (it's only Persia to those who would tell the ayatollah to fuck off, but they do their best not to).
Here's a couple of comparisons:
Science deals in repeatable, provable, peer reviewed Fact. Religion gives us Dogma(Religious doctrine proclaimed as true without proof).
Science is progressive. Religion is static.
So, can we agree that there is a Culture of religious people ignoring certain aspects of their holy books because they know in their hearts - that some of it is Crap. Indeed, Most people of any given religion do not believe completely in their holy books, yet they probably don't even know it.
It's not supposed to be taken literally. This is the most common argument you receive when you ask an authority, or a rational believer. Where are the believers supposed to draw the line? If YOU aren't going to stand up for every aspect of your holy text, how can you expect non believers to even listen to your moral judgements?
I have news that may come as a shock to the rational believers - the people that wrote your holy book, DID intend for it to be taken literally. Mohammed DID intend for his followers to kill non muslims, ancient hebrews DID want to stone to death disobedient children (thugs and drunks).
Thanks to our middle eastern descendants, and helped along by the confused yet faithful of the west (Copernicus, Newton, Einstein) - We have Science. Science can be broadly defined as the art of procuring Fact (Truth is far more elusive). While there are aspects of science which are unclear, they will eventually be stripped bare and replaced by theories which more closely resemble Truth than their predecessors.
To doubt your religion is to invite your given authorities to explain why you should have faith nonetheless. To doubt science is to encourage more comprehensive study of the questioned phenomena - even to provoke change.
In science, there is no luxury of discarding facts you feel to be irrelevant. In religion, discarding dogma is Necessary to living in our society. Within the realm of science, you cannot 'believe' a piece of metal into being a noble gas, or a plastic - you CAN use physical techniques to decay a metal atom into a noble gas, and to make a plastic using a metal.
Intelligent Design ignores scientific evidence of evolution, and fills in those created gaps with the term Intelligent Creator. This is not a scientific position. There is NO viable test which can CONFIRM OR DENY the existence of an intelligent creator Because of the facts which have been discarded. Intelligent Design is Dogma surrounded by scientific words - i'll speak no more of it here.
Lets have a go at christianity - singularly the religion with the most secular division - why? Because of the variation in what the sects accept in faith vs Dogma. The Exclusive Brethren for example believes that the outcome of political elections is ordained by god - but that doesn't stop them from trying to sway that outcome with propaganda. They also do not believe in the use of modern media - but they use computers (if it's only rented, then thats ok) and they even read the bible - sorry, but books are still a form of modern media - Especially the bible!
I have no desire to claim that religion is false. However, I have nothing wrong in claiming that organised religion as we know it is Dangerous. I have no moral compunction against claiming that the holy books promote prejudice, racism, and anti-social behaviour.
Most importantly, ample evidence from all over the world points to religion as being the biggest cause of War, Persecution, Oppression, Murder, and Pain - all in the name of God - and against the rational thinking of free minded people.
I'm absolutely finished with religious nutjobs trying to impose their beliefs on our society I will NOT live in another Iran.
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[16 Mar 2007|01:20pm] |
Fuck, people piss me off.
City drivers: hope a building falls on your suv ass.
Taxis: indicate or i will kill you one day.
Cops: Hope you take one in the ass for all that you took out of mine.
well, that covers the past week.
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| Society ploy. |
[04 Mar 2007|11:49pm] |
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Have all religious extremists (including creationists and new age wackjobs) be labelled officialy as mentally handicapped. Limiting their active responsibilities so that they don't have to distress the real world. They're just special.
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[13 Feb 2007|02:05am] |
Late night ABC -
Walk softly, Stranger.
So worth it.
Most of you know that i have contributed to yet another humanoid on this planet.
His name is Xander.
His mum hates me cause i'm a dick.
She's right.
Here's to the future?
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| Damnit! |
[11 Jan 2007|12:11pm] |
Lost my job on monday. My three month review came up and i just wasn't good enough.
My car rego ran out on monday also.
On saturday my mum's thug of a husband tried to kick my ass. His daughter's dogs are staying with us, requiring the gate near my door to be closed. After doing some yardwork i took some shit to the tip and left the gate open. When i got back, mum and gary had a go at me then left - well he came back with just one thing on his mind. I was sitting on my sofa, he just kept shouting and stepping closer and i thought - no way, he's gonna flip. So he went for a grab at my throat and it was on. We had a standing wrestle before backing off, i brought up my hands and went in. More wrestle, but this time i got him pinned on the sofa but in a bad position - good enough to put a couple of elbow slaps into his face. This is the point he became rational again. Minor words and he left. Through this the fucker threatened to kill me, beat me senseless, yada. I didn't have any threats for him, no provacative words to inflame the situation - he was just intent on slapping me around a bit. I didn't lose my head.
So i have a couple of bruises, big gash on my leg from colliding with the table at some point. Mum and Lynne agree that nothing like that will happen again, or there will be drastic measures.
Somehow through all this i have a pretty good outlook on things.
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| Salvage Mission part II |
[30 Dec 2006|09:45pm] |
Woken early to siblings filling my house and reminding me of the obligation to help tanya and alan move a bunch of their shit from one place to another place which is much more full of shit. Even his parents were complaining about the sheer volume of shit.
Stash:
1 massive server cabinet!
1 air con/dehumidifyer
2 p3 poota's one confirmed to work.
1 desktop box of some p3 sort, dunno.
wireless keyboard and mouse's
boxes of screws and nails
one unused pop culture spell book.
So this thing popped up from meetupcom about a fae gathering. i didn't remember asking for notifications about fairy meetups but hey, sounds like fun. It's on the third somewhere called engadine?
Wee Bella is doing excellent. After the stay in hospital monitoring food reactions, she doesn't appear to have as many allergies as thought, Hooray! So she eats normal food and runs around and is the cutest! sometimes she twirls till she falls over, it's funny and cute at the same time!
New years eh? i plan to wander into the city and smile at people. Sms me if in the area of city and surrounds.
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| ok. new lj posting layout is ghey. |
[19 Dec 2006|07:59pm] |
however, in other news. nothing.
What now? I feel like i'm sitting at a red light in life. Or in a pen just outside the slaughterhouse.
My job is alright, i got my share option info today. It's just stagnant.
Maybe i'm retarded from watching American Splendor - one of the best, fragtastic movies i've ever seen.
You know that line in billy joel's Pianoman - 'I know that i could be a movie star / If i could get out of this place. yeah. I feel that i'd be good at something that i haven't found yet. meh
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[01 Nov 2006|08:23pm] |
Been pretty depressed recently. Funnily enough it was a family dinner that made me realise why. Lynne's bday today, we went to lakis? restaurant in balogwlah, Macedonian-ish food - tasty.
I'm not talking enough. Saying enough words requiring thought - in a day. Why not call someone just to chat? Don't know what to say.. never have.. I don't know how to call someone and just chat, it shits me. So, i need to get more words out of my system - at the moment i'm maybe going through 1000 words a day or less.
You know what i fucking miss??!! B.B.S. Bulletin Board System. There was little more to it than chat, text games (battlemaster! what a king), and low res pics of cindy crawford. The chat was the best though - now, of course i've tried messenger (hate it, fuckin msn), icq (wtf is with porn bots on there?!), trillian (yeah thanks, you wont work why?), and irc chat - which is so impersonal that i Want to impersonate someone i'm not and fuck with the mutants. Back then typing at the speed of thought was a necessity, especially during trivia games. My language centers were all concentrated at making my thoughts written as they blossom. It cost about $20 a month to dial up, and that gave you X credits, which were spent by the minute logged on. I had a 2400 bps modem - the snazzy people had 4800's. Trivia earns you credits if you're the first to spell the answer correctly.
Adventurer's Realm, or AR in public. A handful of random folks splattered across sydney.. Cres, whom i see oddly often at goth clubs. Mills, or miwwsibabes, who is now Milsah on 'ere. I was Rabit first, after my kender side - then Sniper, cause i saw the shorts (not the movie until years later) One shot, One kill, No mercy. it rocked, okay? Rowan was Unbeliever. Lynne was Dookie, a handful of nerds in her year were involved. The only person/girl i knew when i came to manly high in my year was Brie. There were a bunch of people i never met like Tas, i played Magic the Gathering with Mystique(boy, though i often forgot and hit on him) and Dalamax. I was priveliged enough (at a shy 14) to caress Firemistress's fine stockinged leg at a movie meet. I got my first hickey from Cassiel, who had capped vamp teeth - that was cool, she was gentle. Gutboy, though shorter than Rowan and myself, could pin us both before we knew what happened - even approaching from opposite sides, no contest. Killer pool shark too.
erg. i'm so bored i'm reliving the old days a decade ago. listened to bill hicks in the clean room today, will again tomorrow. i'm on egg duty till further notice. time to sleep.
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[23 Oct 2006|09:57pm] |
ggm ggbjut8 4 , c bvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
9nxsxd
was what Isabella had to say. My very first full responsibility dadddy experience - mum went out for pharmacopaeials (wacky set of vowels that) for said Bella, and pizza. Most of an hour, an experience for both of us - her being without, me being with.
By the Goddess, thank lj for the script updates!!...??!!! When we sat at the poota (after trying again to play The SNES Console!((she just wanted to swap controller's constantly)) after typing that above, she found the 'back' button on the 'advanced' keyboard, and i thought, after managing to log in quickly while she was amused with the remote - that her first typings on a poota with me as her mentor, were lost :( Not so!
I guess i haven't really gone into much detail about my daughter and all that. I try to see her at least once a week. despite the fact that i do very little but waste my own time on this planet, i seldom meet that criteria i've set for myself to be a credible father. mmmrrr. i want to be at my prime when i'm being a father, and i dont feel that way most days. i'm an emotional coward, and thats not alright.
She has a veritable plethora of food allergies, and i do mean veritable. The last list i saw was four pages, and more have been added since. In a couple weeks, she'll go into hospital to have her allergies strictly monitored.
Besides that! She's the cutest. ever. Ever! She's coming along to a housewarming on the fourth, cause like, no one has met her. Other future venues may include a party near you! Book now.
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[15 Oct 2006|08:43pm] |
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Today i helped my sister Tanya move, she's the one you might not have met before. Well, move their office to their home, which is already overpacked. turns out they have a 4'11" tall by about 2 x 3 metres attic, anyway.
Payment was Salvalge. Alan collects and builds various tinkering pieces (home-made rail-gun, which at the prototype stage was able to launch a bearing off a table... roll off a table.) He has Crap. Interesting Crap. I'm a sucker for it. Old poota bits, capacitors from russia, satellite dishes, crap, and Crap.
Salvage Invoice
1 Satellite Dish ~1.5m D
1 Mini UV flashlight (black light)... damnit, broken
1 Executive chair, squeaky - now fixed (was about to buy same one today for 120)
1 Bevy (and i do mean bevy) of Crappy old alchemical glassware.
1 Hand lens ! what a random find, i thought it was a petri dish!
1 Farenheit thermometer, faded - mercury, yet to be calibrated
1 chunky optical mouse 4btn, sucks up my other usb port :( but :)
$20 fuel
Dinner
This starts to become a rant here...
Holy Crap, Booty! I lift stuff and get fuckin Booty! I get experience points for this for sure. maybe 350 to 450. i dont keep track of this stuff, but i know roughly what level i'm at, i think -
Level 4 - 5 Man
Level 2 Scientist
Level 2 Nerd
I suppose now is a good time to explain a random yet recurrent meme in my head. That of Leveling Up. Being a somewhat american and therefore coddled youth, struggling to figure out quite what made you better at something than someone else - sure, it was there, but how do you measure it? Good ol' D'n'd gave me that scale. Recently, the whole 3rd ed thing with the epic and prestige and all, gave that scale proper breadth. Then you just have to be resonable about your achievements - every Man gets level 2 for free for surviving to 20 regardless (Women are usually at least level 3 just for learning shit about men, and then there's subclasses). I've done good acts along the way, rarely taking the spoils for myself - but haven't done much else. at 26 i've trained for a few years in various jobs, so all up i'm about level 9. Nerd levels are hard, because there's a lot of grime on the wheel of life to absorb into a whole.
Oh, and that whole hit points per level thing.. totally not in there - taking a club to the head puts you on the ground, i am under no illusions.
hmm... Do you want me to level you? i hope i don't offend.
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| New Boot Capacity Record!!! |
[15 Oct 2006|07:35pm] |
3 bodies used to be the standard i used. But now, with utter certainty, i can say:
"Yeah, it'll fit, i can get a satelite dish in there"
wtf am i going to do with a satellite dish? i've been thinking making a seat, beanbag style.
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| Hermetically sealed from humanity again.. |
[04 Oct 2006|02:04pm] |
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I want to get a picture of me at work, have no camera. Blast!
Listening to Regina Spektor, i didn't have an idea what i was getting into here - i've only heard one song on the radio. !! What a gorgeous voice! What cute songs!! She's like a mix of Sheryl Crow and Suzanne Vega, with a spice of Bjork and Sarah Mclachlan... mmm... spice.
yes, besides weighing things, all i have in my days in the egg is music. yesterday was Portishead, Aqua Bats, Bowling for Soup and randoms - today, it's pure Freezepop vs miss Spektor. What should tomorrow bring? Belly? Elastica? help me out here people, i can't think for myself constantly!
Did anyone else get drunk and watch romy and michelle?
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| is it friday yet? |
[28 Sep 2006|02:40pm] |
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boredboredboredboredboredBOREDboredbored...
wtf?! i don't have anything on friday anyway...
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