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[Mar. 28th, 2009|12:15 pm] |
I can't watch this enough times. |
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[Nov. 4th, 2008|06:59 pm] |
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Every time Obama gets a state, drink. |
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| even more politics |
[Oct. 19th, 2008|05:03 pm] |
The ultimate slur in American politics
When a John McCain supporter at a recent rally said she didn't trust Obama because he was an Arab, the senator replied: "No. He's a decent family man."
While pundits have expressed anxiety that the white electorate may feign support for Obama while secretly voting for a white candidate, no one is even bothering to pretend they would ever vote for a Muslim. Or even want a Muslim to vote for them.
I thought this was interesting. It's racism that's going on in front of my face, and I never really thought about it.
Also:
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[Oct. 17th, 2008|07:52 pm] |
In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.
By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.
Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.
It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed.
..then, at the dawn of the eighties, a fledgling arcade game company called NAMCO would stumble across the transcripts of these events, and the rest -as they say- is history. |
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| Thing for which there should be a word of the day |
[Sep. 9th, 2008|08:06 pm] |
(That is, (Thing for which there should be a word) of the day. Damn ambiguous grammar.)
The feeling of awkwardness when you have already said goodbye to somebody, but then, for whatever reason, see them again shortly afterwards (in restroom, elevator, etc.). |
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| My favorite Obama quote of the moment |
[Sep. 9th, 2008|01:14 am] |
"Don't be fooled... I know the governor of Alaska has been saying she's change, and that's great. She's a skillful politician. But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up."
Palin doesn't know what words mean. |
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[Aug. 14th, 2008|10:41 pm] |
Today I found an ant colony in a flashlight in our closet.
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| Mochi wa oishii desu. |
[Aug. 4th, 2008|06:40 pm] |
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Today at work I suddenly and intensely remembered when I tried mochi in Tokyo. I clutched my mouth at the memory; an almost painful feeling rushed through my saliva glands as they got a completely unexpected message from my brain that they need to prepare for the most delicious flavor imaginable. I had to sit there in shocked pleasure for a moment at the memory of trying it, and how blown away I was, and how Kiyo and Makoto were laughing about how much I liked it. |
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| In case you didn't know |
[Jul. 19th, 2008|02:52 am] |
If any Joss Whedon/Neil Patrick Harris/Nathan Fillion fans want to watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog while it's still free, you should probably do it before midnight tonight tomorrow. It's pretty cool extremely awesome.
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