| Nader & My life |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|04:22 pm] |
Seems my last post was in July of last year. Go figure.
I read this article about Nader's role in the 2000 election, that is being written about in the context of his re-entry into the race for 2008. I'm considering voting for him, if only because I support most everything he wants. Not like he'll win, but hey, a viable candidate for me.
"Asked on Sunday how he would feel if he were responsible for, say, the election of John McCain over Barack Obama, Nader said, "If the Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=63125288
Otherwise, what's new? I'm annoyed that I cannot attend a LAN party this weekend because of class, since I'd have a good chance of winning money. I'm unemployed, and have been for a month nearly, because the fuckers accused me of stealing from them. (P.S. Don't work for Shell or any gas stations) I'm graduating in June, and getting married. I've got an original-ish concept for a graphic novel in development, wherein I'm trying to write it all down now and next quarter.
Other than that, my life is awash with World of Warcraft and Team Fortress 2. The two games of my life. I hope Hillary loses Texas and Ohio today, but I doubt she will. I also made a how-to video on Wegame.com that was new. Hope to try something like that again sometime.
For those few who continue to watch my LJ, hi. |
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| So it's july, and it's hot |
[Jul. 10th, 2007|02:01 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | copy center | ] |
| [ | music |
| | buzzing copiers | ] |
So I've been on and about for awhile now, but not really talking much. I'm mostly trying to get a job elsewhere, preferably a second night job, and have been writing. I've got about 3 pages or so of ideas for where to take Part 2 of my manuscript and am reading "Purgatory" by Dante Alligheri to get some ideas about how I want it to progress. My usual poetry has been popping up, of course, and in it is mostly the worried wanderings of myself living in the world I'm in.
I've been reading through all Roland Barthes' work, having finished "Pleasure of the Text" & "Writing Degree Zero, I'm now working on "Elements of Semiology" and "The Space of Literature" by Blanchot. They're all pretty decent looks into linguistics and the way of writing and understanding reading. Decent critical theory to read up on at least.
Other than that, I've mostly been playing WoW every night or so, working my way into heroic dungeons at long last. Still playing a little bit of BF2 to get my FPS fix. As I do love medic-ing around, as well as some support classing. Hopefully I'll have a new job and can save money to go to PAX in late August so that I can see bands, play games, and just enjoy the game developing world.
Dunno. Just trying to get by as best I can. |
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| Spring Cleaning |
[Mar. 30th, 2007|10:41 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | WORK | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The hum of copiers not moving | ] |
So, back and forth the life does flow. What am I up to, for those of you who don't read this, I wonder.
I got my job back this week and it looks like my boss still really wants to hire me on more than full time this summer if possible, since he's trying to set up a network of sorts for the copiers. I don't see it working out, since this school never seems to update its hiring policies or try to make jobs go by easier by using technology. I hope it works out and that he can just plain hire me, so I at least have one constant tedium in my life I can be happy to have (one other non tedium excluded).
I've got class next quarter, of which will probably bore my socks right the hell off. If this doesn't get you rip-rearing to go, I don't know what will. Class schedule is pretty strange too. 9am-11am Mon, Tues, and Thurs, with continuing class from 2pm-5pm Tues and Thurs. There's a 3 hour break there for no good goddamn reason. I dunno what the shit I'm going to be doing in that time, but I doubt it'll be going home. Maybe I'll learn to use it to read for class, who knows. Waking up before 9am every weekday will start to suck, I know that much.
I'm waiting to continue DnD with Rick next week, of which I expect fully to eventually die to a whole string of types of undead in the world. The biggest being a Vampire named Strahd, of which my character is unaware of at this time. We're pretty fucked, but I hope for a 4th party member to be admitted to the game so we might live. I played a 20th level character with Yhs yesterday and that was different. Definitely a challenge with only two people, as well as finding a reason to live in the world at that level. I guess it's something different and challenging though, so that's good.
Beyond that I haven't been writing much, mostly just stressing and waiting for the class stress to make me want to write again. My deviant art seems to move along okay, and I got a letter of rejection from an Only Revolutions contest I did awhile back. But eh, free stickers at least. I really should start sending stuff to publishers, but I don't want to focus on that while in class, best to wait till the summer. Maybe by then I'll have the extra money for postage and food.
It'd be nice if one of the places I applied to while I was outa work got back to me, but I don't see that happening. It'd probably kill me working night shifts anyway, but a man can dream..
At least I move out of my place the 14th down the road quite a ways into a nice little apartment where the roommate is amazing and the dishes can be my own instead of covered in filth. Gotta get started making a list of all the things I'll need to add to the place and put it on the fridge.. Things like blenders, vacuum cleaners, couches, etc. Maybe even a bed or a dresser eventually. I'll burn that productive bridge when it comes. |
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| Happenstance |
[Mar. 18th, 2007|04:08 pm] |
Total copy-paste job.
So I got 42 pages written for my Winter 2007 manuscript. It turned out alright, I think, and I intend to work on it further when I have the time. For now, I just have to go take another class and deal with that.
I get to see Explosions in the Sky in concert May 5th, so I'm looking forward to that. Beyond that, I'm losing my mind trying to figure out where I'll get the money for surviving if my job falls through. Here's hoping it doesn't turn into shit. |
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| My other Emu is an Ostrich |
[Mar. 1st, 2007|04:33 pm] |
This isn't really safe for work, or school such, for those reading there, but this is a news report about "emo kids". Apparently they post about it on their "web-blogs" and cut themselves, plus they've some sort of point system to delineate how fashionable they are.
Shocking. Won't somebody save me. |
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| I'm out |
[Feb. 26th, 2007|04:21 pm] |
So I'm 21 at 5:55pm EST today. I'm tired as hell from work, of which the copies just keep coming. I wrote up some notes on my two books, which're due in well, the end of the quarter, but have to be done sooner than that. Hopefully I can turn them into finished essays which don't suck too bad. It's going to be hard writing about interesting concepts in linguistics, since there are not that many to me, at least I think so.
I've been seeking out a second job still, applied to Staples today online, and I've got a doctoro thingy tomorrow to deal with. Hopefully life will continue with its bonum perpetua that has been going on. I just bought this today with some birthday cash. I really can't afford to use the money on such an item, but I really should spend the money I'm given as a gift for gift-use at least. It should be a fun thing to learn, at least. I'm still rolling over what to do next quarter.. I'll probably end up taking this modernist class on shitty writers of the early 20th century, but eh, it'll be credit. I doubt I'll be able to get another contract letting me continue my paper I've been working on all quarter, or any other ideas I have in mind. I think a class might be a good break from all this, actually, since I really don't want to come up with another idea and plow through it next quarter, I think.
Here's hoping. |
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| War & Universe |
[Feb. 5th, 2007|11:31 am] |
Two things while I'm at the puter at work.
Dave, at work, showed me this new game coming out soon that is dice and board related. It looks pretty interesting, with a rather simple d6 system and a lot of little tokens. It oughta be intriguing to play if he buys it. http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/PDF/toirules.pdf
Below is a inquiry by Scientific American into what the universe is expanding into.
( Where is the universe expanding to? )
Also, I'm fecking tired as all hell. |
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| Boston Hair |
[Feb. 1st, 2007|02:51 pm] |
So there was some bullshit news story yesterday, just google "boston bomb" to get the gist. There were basically Cartoon Network "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" moon men in LED lights. The two guys who did some advertising for it around town were caught and gave a hilarious interview.
Check it out. Hair is important, dammit.
Cartoon Network also apologized as it had nothing to do with it. |
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| Positing Inquiry and Politricks |
[Jan. 23rd, 2007|01:20 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Precious Fathers - Praire Train | ] |
The idea of getting a vasectomy is increasingly alluring, if only because I don't see a reason to have kids, nor do I want any. It looks as if I have to be 21 (which I will be in february) and a resident of WA to get it done for free, so unless I get some money piling up (yeah right) there's probably going to be another 2 years till I can get it done, since I can't become a resident while attending college.
The residency legalese is amazing, but confusing when I think of the following concept: You can't become a resident if you're still in college, because they'll think you're just here for education and not helping as a resident of the state. You can become a resident by marrying someone who is already. The question becomes that: What if you're a student, marrying a person in state? It's like a loophole inherent to the system, but it seems completely outlandish for it to be plausible of course.
I dunno. Just musings, as it were. I still got awhile till I can say I'm a resident here, though it'd be funny applying for it early.. going "Well, I don't intend to improve upon this state when I'm a resident anyway, so why make me wait?"
( Some DA Comment on Politics of Nihilism ) |
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| Worry & Workmanship |
[Jan. 20th, 2007|10:37 pm] |
Ugh. I gotta go put in some night time applications at the end of next week because I need a second job big time. My income is basically equal to my bills right now, so it's a real bitch just trying to cover them all at the right time. Luckily my parents pay for part of my car and my grandma still sends me cash for groceries, which actually get put onto bills most of the time. Be nice to ween myself a bit farther from all that, but I spose they want to help, so I can't turn em down just yet, especially since I need it.
I'm thinking of working in Jack-in-the-Box if only because it isn't some sales place like retail shops nor some basic shop like Ace Hardware or Wallgreens. It's relatively simple, albeit complex initially, and presumably even I can learn how to cook crap or push in button combinations to delineate their order amounts. We'll see, I spose. Guess I'll have to apply at Arby's and perhaps Taco Bell as well, just to have other options. I want Jack's if only because they're open 24 hours and I'd be okay working 5-12 or 12-8 late hours for them. That, and I like their food and appreciate their local franchise kind of service.
Just another thing to worry about, since I've been turned down from every job I've ever applied to. My two "jobs" I've had were work-study related, so they'd have hired just about anyone, long as they got their shit turned in on time. Luckily I'll be in one of them for another year, then if I'm real lucky, it'll turn state-job if they hire me on full-time. I'm betting my luck is shit on that goal though, but I can hope I spose.
Still gotta write more for my contract, and I'm not reading nearly fast enough. It's all going alright, but I'm kinda running outa forms from the Oulipo Compendium, at least one's that're useful in a "more than just an exercise" kind of methodology. Guess I'll have to fall back onto some previously ventured into literary forms eventually, like sonnets, haiku's and acrostics. Anything to make me maybe figure out something to write about.
Them's the worries. I've got a bag to share if anyone's living too nice. |
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| Politicapathy |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|05:46 pm] |
So I wrote something for the Cooper Point Journal, school newspaper here, and doubt it'll get published. Then again, they do tend to throw most any opinion in there. Anyways, figured why not throw it up here, so thar she blows.. in all it's apathetic political glory.
( The whole she-bang ) |
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| The Sun Rocks; No Duh |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|04:00 pm] |
So I was reading Qwantz, aka Dinosaur Comics, today and discovered Ryan North, the creator, musing about how much light it would take to throw a dude into a wall. And sure enough it only took a day for his fans to throw science back at him about how much it would take.
Behold the Light Cannon Equations.
From his web site:
"Alex Rea and Chris Berry to the rescue! Stating their assumptions clearly, and with a judicious application of Science, including the rare Stefan-Boltzmann Constant, we discover that we only need the light emitted by 4.7x10^-15 of the total surface area of the sun in order to throw a dude into a wall! This is excellent. This means our sun is capable of throwing 2.13x10^14 dudes into a wall at the same time! Our sun rules!"
Ah, how I adore science. Found a poetic form today adopted from Jacques Ben's "3-1-4-1-5" pattern where the syllables in the successive verses follows pi to the 13th decimal place. I think a partial example is done by Ian Monk in Sestanagrammatina for Michelle Grangaud. It's a rather neat way to use mathematics in conjunction with structural poetics. I'm trying to find one that'd work alright for internet-webcam/esque kinds structure. I may have to settle for some divided variant of the speed of light, or the equation that results in its' amount, to discover a structure that may better encompass the underlying fabric of the content being discussed.
But yeah, anyway, I'm up the 6 page point and coded part of my philosophical ramblings I put into the piece at work today. We'll see whether I can figure out a way to start reading shite soon. |
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| The 10th Dimension |
[Jan. 11th, 2007|01:36 pm] |
So I was in the middle of writing something for my contract and got distracted. Check out this for a look into a kind of superstring-esque idea of physics. It's sort of Carl Sagan meets Brian Greene, as far as physics ideas and explanations go. Not too shabby though, albeit simplistic.
Imagining the Tenth Dimension |
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| Life Revolutions of Ruin and Oohing |
[Jan. 5th, 2007|12:59 pm] |
Welp, got zee contract starting next week, wherein I write a buncha shite each week and meet up to something or another. Oughta be interesting, long as all my books come in on time. Been in presence for a day or dayhalf, turned inside out by my fuzzy mind gone to comply. Beyond that, luckily all my bills might actually get paid, so somebody out there's gonna be happy about that, damndable companies. Hopefully I can maintain my writing, which I oughta be able to, but the amount of material on something I've already had some closure on might be an interesting thing to figure out how to write.
I've got some form ideas already, so we'll see what's what.
Some book stuff..
( 'Because without him/her I am
only revolutions of ruin.' ) |
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| Bored and Movie Review Time |
[Dec. 31st, 2006|01:36 am] |
So many movies. I've watched quite a few this winter break, even more than I'm mentioning here.
I watched Children of Men, which I got a screener of recently and hadn't seen. It was a bit typical in terms of plot. It felt a lot like 28 Days Later, if only for the setting in England and how it just throws you into the story, with no explanation really, as to how everyone's infertile (since they don't know either) or who most of these people or organizations are. Clive Owen acted really well, and the main pregnant chick did a decent job. The Operative of Serenity, Chiwetel Ejiofor, was in this film and did a decent job as a prick. Beyond that, it had some surreal moments once or twice in the film, namely Michael Caine as a pothead hippie which was awesome. It's an okay flick, worth seeing I suppose, but it tied together an eerie sense of current political problems with a sci-fi demeanor of adventure rather well.
I watched One Flew Cuckoo's Nest, which I hadn't seen. It was decent, glad to see where all the "mental institution" films of today got their inspiration. It was interesting to see Jack Nicholson being thoughtful, or at least a good an actor as he was at the time of the film's creation. Danny Devito was also shown looking unusually short, I mean I know he's short, but sometimes ya just never notice due to the way he's shot in modern film. All in all a definite classic, with Nurse Rachet as probably the biggest bitch I've ever seen, surprisingly well acted throughout the film as someone who would not relent. I believe Jack's character called her an "unrelenting cunt", accurately so.
I watched Seven Years in Tibet, which I have seen before, but which I never cease to enjoy. It has Brad Pitt, whom I love in any film. It has part mountain climbing, part WW2 POW escapes, part survival amongst friends whom one cannot live without, and part war with the world which seeks to invade a peaceful land. All around an interesting film and based off a real person who lived and experienced what occurred in the film.
( Thought ) |
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| Explosions in the Page |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|03:28 pm] |
So I'm at work, writing a set of poems to this. It's a free album, so get it while it's old and decaying. I'll probably edit in some parts of my stuff in time.
( Behind the cut )
ps. These are the only Explosions in the Sky lyrics I know of, but they caught me off guard tonight:
'Have you passed Through this Night?' from their album 'Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever'
"This great evil - where's it come from?
How'd it steal into the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we mighta known?
Does our ruin benefit the earth, aid the grass to grow and the sun to shine?
Is this darkness in you, too?
Have you passed through this night?"
pps Speaking of Great evils
so it would seem that Saving Private Ryan could've been made better, if it had music from EitS. |
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| Eccentric? Never |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|03:32 am] |
| [ | music |
| | Gregor Samsa - Young and Old | ] |
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
- Edith Sitwell
saw this on my quote of the day, felt almost right. |
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| Obama |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|12:03 am] |
" In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?
John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here, the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't think about it, or health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it.
That's not what I'm talking. I'm talking about something more substantial. It's the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs; the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores; the hope of a young naval lieutenant bravely patrolling the Mekong Delta; the hope of a millworker's son who dares to defy the odds; the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too."
An Hour with Charlie Rose: Barack Obama
I'm watching this at the moment, thought the skinny kid line was neat.
He said something like 'It isn't that there aren't good economic ideas out there being given, it's just that the people in power don't have the political will to act on those ideas. Look at Kennedy, he said "we're going to the moon, in ten years" and had the will to give them a chance'
"'That's how I grew up: respectful, but not particularly religious'" Seems his mom was an anthropologist who brought him to all sorts of religious institutions to share the wealth of knowledge they had, rather than to share their faiths. Rather hilarious here, to see him not fall into Charlie Rose's attempts to keep him on religion. "Back to Herald Ford..." he falls right back into politics, then weaves back into "The black church is less judgmental" which is an interesting way to go about it.
"Secularists are much more interested in morality and ethics than the right wing make them out to be."
oy, Obama is growing on me. A lawyer politician who says that faith is not amenable to proof, that you can be religious in office and not be speaking to god and letting him influence your social politics. His politics are logical at least, which I'd say his upbringing and education have created.
"i'm not opposed to all wars, i'm opposed to dumb wars. i oppose wars based on ideological terror" |
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