Archive for June 2006

June 29, 2006

Or was it?

8:20 pm | Sci/Tech | Thoughts | Comments: 24

I started up myspacing again. Sue me. At any rate, what I love about myspace is it’s so crapped up that every 3rd page load or so it encounters an error that is purportedly sent to the myspace technical group. I send about 100 errors to the myspace technical group just checking to see if I have a message. Those are busy people.

You know how on 9/11/2001 planes hit the World Trade Center towers, a field in Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon? There’s a good possibility we’ve been misled. I’m always up for a juicy conspiracy theory, and I found one recently. A while ago somebody in France put up a website called Hunt the Boeing. The website raises questions about the validity of the claim that the Pentagon was hit by a plane. I think that anybody who looks at the pictures of the Pentagon impact must conclude that there was no plane. Instead, the conjecture is that the Pentagon was hit by a missile that day.

Even if it wasn’t a missile as such, it’s obvious that it wasn’t a Boeing 757 with 80 tons of jet fuel. It wasn’t a plane at all. Why were we told it was a plane when it clearly wasn’t? Anybody’s guess, I suppose.

June 26, 2006

The World’s Game

9:13 am | Sport | Comments: 12

Perhaps the most baffling thing about this backsliding country of mine is its aversion to the game of Football. No, not that one, the real one. The one they’re playing over in Germany right now. Well, the U.S.A. isn’t playing there anymore after their dismal performance. America doesn’t give a crap about Football, and it really shows. We were eliminated from the World Cup by Ghana? A country of 300 million people can’t scrape together enough soccer talent to beat a country with a population hovering just above 20,000? That’s absolutely ludicrous. The U.S. is getting behind in pretty much every sport these days. We’re not the best at Baseball anymore. Baseball! Thankfully, none of this matters. If it did, America would be more doomed than it already is. As it stands, America is free to be crappy and lackluster at nearly everything it does, including soccer, border protection, and car-making.

June 10, 2006

I’ve Looked at Life from Both Sides Now

11:28 am | SIO | Weblogging | Wisdom | Comments: 7

Allow me to be the first to wish SIO a very happy second birthday. The festivities this year are somewhat subdued in comparison with last year, but the party hat is back! This past year has brought many moments of various emotional extremity: joy, love, melancholyitude, and sheer terror. College has passed; the long, dark winter of work awaits me. The lines go very deep now; I always try to think 12-15 moves ahead. Many, many moves are to be made in the near future, all leading to the ultimate goal. Not killing kings and queens and bishops, though that might seem desirable for the moment. What’s the goal, you ask. Isn’t that the question mankind has been asking since we all became enemies of God? I think it is, though I have the answer. Tell me, Mr. Deadman, do you have the answer? Repent and believe! Glorify God and enjoy him forever. Life isn’t so complicated when you look at it though the lenses of eternity. If this is a recurring theme in my weblog posts, then I have been successful. Many happy returns.

June 5, 2006

What the Deuce?

5:02 pm | Random | Comments: 4

Having resolved not to let SIO be smothered under a putrid pile of spam, I have today taken action to fight back against the digital hooligans. SIO’s second birthday shall not be tarnished by the cloak-and-dagger underhandedness exhibited by the spambots roaming the internet, which have already claimed the life of the grand and glorious RandomChat. (or did they?)

A month ago (or thereabouts) I became hooked on a T.V. show. I don’t feel bad about getting hooked on a T.V. show because the last T.V. show upon which I became hooked was Party of Five, many years ago (it had Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lacey Chabert, and Neve Campbell… how could you beat that?). Now it’s all about House. The only reason to watch House is the main character, House. I like House’s completely sociopathic personality alot, but I wouldn’t like it quite so much if it weren’t Hugh Laurie playing him. I’ve seen so much of Laurie that he almost feels like a buddy of mine; it wouldn’t matter what movie or T.V. show he was in, when I see him it’s almost like we start where we left off, like a good friend you didn’t talk to for years then made contact with again.

Most of this comes from having watched Jeeves & Wooster about a million times per episode (as well as having read the books thoroughly). House is basically an smart American Bertie Wooster that went to Medical School and subsequently decided he didn’t need the human race. Some people think I’m getting a bit too into House, as evidenced by the fact that periodically I stump around the house with a cane that Evie found somewhere. They might be right, but I don’t care. I’m off to Blockbuster to get the 3rd installment of Season 1. Differential diagnosis, people. What’s wrong with me?