Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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10:57 am - axiomata of the moment
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1) After reading about the "problem of the many" (admittedly while chugging mead) I got really pissed off, reminded of how terrible the experience of trying to take philosophy courses @ school was. Wah wah we don't understand semantics or the difference between Theory and Truth. Wah wah everything needs to have some kind of magickal ~*ESSENCE*~ or else nihilism wahhhh I thought abandoning theology was going to let us discover the same sort of absolute certainty for ourselves wahhh... oh hey nine hours have passed.
Philosophy as an academic discipline is like the world's most annoying wikipedia talk page.
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2) Considering recent changes to facebook, to the new version of Mac OS, and from what we've furtively glimpsed, the next commercial Windows release, I note that it appears developers now just do whatever the hell they want & engage in aggressive PR to convince consumers no, really, this is what you want or failing that this is what you SHOULD want, were you not LIVING IN THE PAST; GET WITH THE TIMES GRANDMA. Fortunately, most people are weak-willed enough that the second strategy is enough to create a reasonable amount of doubt regarding where the desire originated.
Modern consumer-electronics marketing has the same underlying ethos as date-rape, and it's basically Steve Jobs's fault.
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
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8:42 pm - a land defeated, suffocating slowly
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The mist that issues forth from the cracks in the world has the sweetest fragrance, doesn't it? I don't know, I really do hate people who lose their minds breathing it in and then going home and poisoning themselves trying to put the experience on their mantlepieces, but at least hatred is an emotion, you know? I'd rather loathe someone and respect them than just be constantly disappointed by their lack of commitment to anything beyond mediocrity.
Fuck all these serfs and clerics and petty nobles. Fuck the surrealistic feudalism our forebears are leaving behind, and which our peers grimly imbibe like Lethean water in their thin, sweet wine. Looking Out for Number Zero, every One.
Now Summer's fallen early, here, lying prone and sweaty over the sticky valley, and can barely hold itself together over its morass of narcissistic nostalgia. You can see its festering skin peeling off like old paint in the stagnant moisture. As cruel as the living may be, I don't know if I can stand hibernating with the local ghosts any longer. And it's not like they're any better, really; it's just easier to pretend you're whatever you want when you're static, adrift. They fear judgment, and so the better parts of them atrophy and fade. The air is thick, the soil irradiated with this, this choking fear, muted into a quiet anxiety that's almost beyond perception, whipped into the Municipal Soul until it's all the color and consistency of muddy porridge.
I dream, myself, of the kiss of the sharp rocks that lie beneath this waterlogged soil.
I could listen to this song all night.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
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10:08 am - reason #209458 why I love Dwarf Fortress and its playerbase
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Dwarf Fortress Forum Poster 1: "What is the most useless,
counterproductive, piece of crap item that can be made/aquired?"
DF FP 2: "Mod the game such that you've got at least one undefined
material; for instance, make a creature that references body or
tissue plans that don't exist. Then, make a craft or something from
that tissue. You can get items that are useless, like all crafts,
and are also worth negative several million, or even billion,
Urists. You don't get much more worthless than something that puts
your created wealth at far less than 0!"
DF FP 3: "Huh. Starting a subprime mortgage workshop does seem
pretty dwarfy, come to think of it."
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
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9:14 am
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011
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11:45 am
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
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7:38 pm
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People's selfishness and apathy is simply exhausting. Back to the trees; back to the seas, with thee, little beasts, who warrant not Prometheus's gifts.
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
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8:13 pm - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1971)
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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
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10:41 am - [dream] bad, bad emo
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First thing in the morning:
M: "I dreamed there was this terrible pop-emo band called 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret'."
N: "What were they like?"
M: "...what do you mean?"
N: "...well, what do they sound like?"
M: *struggling to make cohesive sense, laughing* "...I was going to say, their Monopoly piece is the little silver bull."
N: "Fortunately I'm also still half-asleep, so that makes a lot more sense than it should."
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12:12 am
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First song of the motherfucking year: motherfucking Wall of Fuckin' Voodoo: Mexican Fucking Radio.
(IN)AUSPICIOUS TRANSMISSIONS ALL DAY LONG, BABY
last.fm says we are supposed to have sex to this(?)
huh.
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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11:23 pm
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This is what it looks like when someone has the courage to speak from their convictions. Even under great duress.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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2:17 pm - mix cd quandary
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It's so difficult to make a mix CD that works. I can't force myself to get used to something of such an unnatural length - I still instinctively default to making mixes that clock in around 60, 90, 100, or 120 minutes. And they're really good, and I don't want to pare them down. But making a 2-disc set for something that's not fully 130-140 minutes long just seems wasteful, and you have to put the break between "sides" in a ridiculous place. WHAT TO DO
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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10:39 pm - this pretty much says it all
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
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8:17 am - obligatory cablegate post
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I would just like to point out to the rest of the world that there's absolutely no reason to do any of the questionable things the US government tells you to do, since you can basically destroy us with a few years of trade sanctions at this point.
Thank you.
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
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2:10 pm
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wahhhhh we can't openly abolish freedom of the press yet wahhhhhhh
don't worry, fascists, you're winning new, cowardly hearts and minds every day.
We'll see how you're doing when the baby boomers start dying off, though.
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
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6:01 pm - thanksgiving minus bethel
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
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8:27 am - want
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Sunday, November 7th, 2010
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6:46 pm - vinyl mantis clock itinerary
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1) I forgot to set my clock back. This is great. I have an extra hour to rest, now.
2) The only things I remember from my dreams are the phrase "he's like the Paganini of crayons!" and the knowledge that the first syllable of the proper Name of the North American mantid entit(y/ies) is "Heg-" or "Cheg-" or "Xeg-". An ejective voiceless fricative, I guess? I'm having a hard time finding where it's happening in my mouth while trying to utter it - the tongue doesn't appear to be involved. Kind of an unvoiced palatal "r" that ends up sounding like IPA "x?" There are one or two other syllables. Probably two. But I don't know them.
3) Chris Swanson keeps showing up in my dreams, but I can't remember in what capacity.
4) Having just finally finished the last H.P. Lovecraft story known to me that I hadn't yet read ("The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath,") it really seems odd to me that Lovecraft wasn't sold on "The House on the Borderlands" because it was too sentimental for his tastes. Hmm. Well, nobody makes sense, really.
Remember to block dem cookies, kids!
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9:50 am
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Well, so much for waiting for the overpriced house I was in love with to come down in price. It sold like two days after that fucking state consitutional amendment referendum passed. Great. So much for the inevitable and necessary crash of the real estate market in this town.
I read that something like 56% of the state's lost revenue from the last flat property tax cap fiasco went directly to realtors. What a shock.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
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2:43 pm - ALSO do want
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10:50 am
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