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Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Torture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPyTFvJDfc&NR
This video is ridiculous. O'Reilly completely ingores the being stripped and put in a freezing room component of the story. Not to mention he completely ignores the woman's point.
This video is ridiculous. O'Reilly completely ingores the being stripped and put in a freezing room component of the story. Not to mention he completely ignores the woman's point.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Fight Club Quote
Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off. - Fight Club
Yeah, I guess that's one way of looking at modern reality. An endless spiral of consumerism in which we work tirelessly to chase after material possessions which are only temporary. We exist in perpetual debt. We owe money til the day we die. Our houses, cars, college loans, anything and everything worth having and significant is bought on credit. We're up to our eyes in debt and it's NECESSARY on a societal level. Infact it's normal to take a part of this. If you refuse to, you're the abnormal one.
And while I guess that's all good and valid, there's another way to look at it entirely. The system of debt, is an intricate economic dynamic. In which we all help each other off of good faith. Everyone owes everyone, in that way we're all helping each other. And then I remember that the banking community is making money off of the interest of it all. And so it still goes back to exploitation. But it's fun to dream that in some way Modern America isn't about leeching, but symbiotic existence.
Yeah, I guess that's one way of looking at modern reality. An endless spiral of consumerism in which we work tirelessly to chase after material possessions which are only temporary. We exist in perpetual debt. We owe money til the day we die. Our houses, cars, college loans, anything and everything worth having and significant is bought on credit. We're up to our eyes in debt and it's NECESSARY on a societal level. Infact it's normal to take a part of this. If you refuse to, you're the abnormal one.
And while I guess that's all good and valid, there's another way to look at it entirely. The system of debt, is an intricate economic dynamic. In which we all help each other off of good faith. Everyone owes everyone, in that way we're all helping each other. And then I remember that the banking community is making money off of the interest of it all. And so it still goes back to exploitation. But it's fun to dream that in some way Modern America isn't about leeching, but symbiotic existence.
Law of Large Numbers
Hang in there. I know you saw the title and thought, oh dear god, he's gonna math geek on us. And thought about surfing away immediately. Hold on. I promise you there's something entertaining and rewarding at the end of this.
(That reminds me of a sub-story. In Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of the Universe" he describes the Big Bang theory, black holes, singularities, and all of the other odd physical phenomenons theorized by modern-day cosmologists. He does so with only 1 equation throughout the entire book, e=mc^2, because he claims that for every equation he includes within the book, the number of people who read it will half.)
Back to the topic at hand. The Law of Large numbers states that with enough chances, any event with a possibility of occuring will. Lets say there's a... .00002% chance that something will happen, and there's about 6 billion chances of it occuring. That means 6 billion instances where it could occur. 6 billion * .00002% is equal to 1200. That means on average about 1200 of those 6 billion chances, that thing will happen. There's 6 1/2 billion humans on the planet.
No matter how rare or odd an opinion or circumstance may be, out of the six and a half BILLION people on planet earth, chances are that there are a few people who resemble it. It's fun to think about some of the more ridiculous scenarios. Here's a few for you.
There's someone out there who...
- Finds Giraffes sexy (guess there's hope for Elvaan after all)
- Thinks the world is still flat (probably a lot of them)
- Lost their virginity in a nursing home (I won't specify what age they are, it's funny no matter how you look at it)
- Is convinced that Elves live under their dwelling
- Enjoys Carrot Top
- Believes they are an alien
- Thinks they can cast magic
- Lost their genitals in a tragic nude-cooking accident (possibly involving a meat grinder)
- Finds this funny.
(That reminds me of a sub-story. In Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of the Universe" he describes the Big Bang theory, black holes, singularities, and all of the other odd physical phenomenons theorized by modern-day cosmologists. He does so with only 1 equation throughout the entire book, e=mc^2, because he claims that for every equation he includes within the book, the number of people who read it will half.)
Back to the topic at hand. The Law of Large numbers states that with enough chances, any event with a possibility of occuring will. Lets say there's a... .00002% chance that something will happen, and there's about 6 billion chances of it occuring. That means 6 billion instances where it could occur. 6 billion * .00002% is equal to 1200. That means on average about 1200 of those 6 billion chances, that thing will happen. There's 6 1/2 billion humans on the planet.
No matter how rare or odd an opinion or circumstance may be, out of the six and a half BILLION people on planet earth, chances are that there are a few people who resemble it. It's fun to think about some of the more ridiculous scenarios. Here's a few for you.
There's someone out there who...
- Finds Giraffes sexy (guess there's hope for Elvaan after all)
- Thinks the world is still flat (probably a lot of them)
- Lost their virginity in a nursing home (I won't specify what age they are, it's funny no matter how you look at it)
- Is convinced that Elves live under their dwelling
- Enjoys Carrot Top
- Believes they are an alien
- Thinks they can cast magic
- Lost their genitals in a tragic nude-cooking accident (possibly involving a meat grinder)
- Finds this funny.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Life is short
No it's not. I want you to stare at the clock now. Stare for a minute. Good. Now if you still think life is short, I want you to go back and stare for five minutes. And if you still think life is short, shoot yourself in the face. Then it might've actually been for you.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Omega/Ultima talk + cool ways to die
Warning, this is a typical self-involved vaccuous blog post full of details that you don't want to hear about my existence. Read no further if you aren't interested in the mundane pointless details of this hopelessly self-important moron's life.
(Or it was until I decided to take it in another direction. Kept the header cause it's a message to all of my friendly blog-neighbors.)
Listening to music at 2:35 EST. School early tomorrow. Can't sleep, drepssed, never can when I am. Just kinda lay there in a bed for a long time tossing and turning, comtemplating all of the things that're bothering me. So I decided instead of wasting my time in bed, I'll waste my time here.
Beat Ultima & Omega today with Xenedra, Sabriel, Alveen (on Lyre), me (on Alveen), Muirnin, and Kiyoumi. RDM, BLM, PLD, WHM, WAR, WAR. People say you can't beat O/U with a Paladin but we did well enough and didn't shell out for ridiculously expensive medicines like Vile Elixers. Fights basically went like this.
Mammets were easy. Sabriel tanked all of them while we pulled off 1 by 1, initial hate setup. I think we got out of that with 37 minutes to spare, no deaths. Transmogrification is a pain in the ass. We handled ourselves well there, I think.
Went into Omega with 35-33 minutes left, I don't remember exactly. I got hit with a guided missile crit for like... 800 damage or something obscene like that, managed to live though. DDs chipped away at Omega well while balancing hate. We got him down to 4% before wiping. Screwed up on the CCBs though, Sab went right after the first CCB'r went, so we lost some time there. If that hadn't happened, we might've won on omega without wiping at all. Muir went down before she could get much use out of her 2 hour too. Not quite sure what happened there, I think that tied into the CCB mistake.
Got up to kill Omega, waited off weakness, and charged in. That was on the verge of disasterous, because he got magic-shield up right in time for Xene's burst so that did 0 damage. The wars managed to bring it down without anyone dying, and we went onto Ultima with, I think, 22-18 minutes left, I don't remember exactly.
Here we did really well for the first 60% or so again. Then we had more trouble with getting CCBs out at a good time. So we wiped around 33% or so. The last bit was fairly easy, we had enough CCBs to immobile it and it dropped very quickly. Muirnin got the killshot. I just wanted to say a bit about individual performances here, for the hell of it.
Sab (pld) - Kinda rough on the CCBs (but it wasn't entirely his fault), but he was tanking this BC as a Paladin which admittedly much harder. He did very well. Used blinding potions on Omega and straight-tanked Ultima. He made the mammets a cinche too. Omega was a bit rougher than it was for my group that had a NIN, but I think he took Ultima easier than I did on NIN.
Muirnin (war) - Did very good with sharing hate with me. Between the two of us we took quite a few blows from Ultima & Omega to give Sabriel time to catch his breath. Her rampages kicked ass which help us take down Ultima quickly at the end, and like I said, she got the killshot.
Alveen (on Lyre as WHM) - She did a very good job healing on the last attempt. Attempt before she kinda messed up a bit on Ultima which resulted in us wiping cause Sab got 1 hit. Can't blame her though, her connection goes wild sometimes, and her performance was flawless other than that. Very good with the status healing for certain, considering she kept a PLD alive (which is supposed to be extremely difficult for this fight), I'd say she deserves some praise.
Kiyoumi (RDM) - Very prompt with dispel. I don't know how well he did keeping refresh up cause I was a melee and never got it, far too busy doing my own thing. Good with the backup heals (at first he was a bit stingy with them, but he adjusted on the subsequent attempts) and debuffing. The manaburn patch with magic resistance really hurt his 2 houring though, chainspell now is more of a detriment than a help.
Xenedra - (BLM) Good timing on the stuns on Ultima's nuclear waste to breath attack. Don't think she ever once pulled hate while doing constant damage. That's incredibly important, especially on Omega considering that if she pulled hate and a guided missile was fired, it would've taken out all of our mages in 1 hit. She displayed a lot of restraint and at the same time really helped our forward momentum. Good with CCBs too, no mistakes.
Me (losing runs on SAM) - During the losing runs I kinda felt like SAM wasn't doing that hot. It really wasn't, Muirnin was definitely outdamaging me on the Weapons. Yuki never broke 300 damage, whereas rampages could do from 300-700. The one place SAM really shined though was during the mammets, I had hate for good on those. Meikyo was very disappointing. Don't think I made any real "mistakes" SAM just isn't any good for this one because /nin gimps us pretty bad at that level.
Me (winning run as WAR) - Granted I have no experience playing war/nin past level 37 or so, I think I did pretty well. I didn't bother keeping ichi up during the mammets, cause mages had plenty of MP and our goal was to just take stuff down asap there without having anyone die. Kinda sucked not having a Haubergeon, but it's on my account which I can't access right now so there's nothing I could do. Sipahi body sufficed well enough.
Rampage did crazy damage, but that's not really anything related to my skill, but Alv's gear she put on her for the run and her 6 axe merits. I put myself at the end of the CCB order so I didn't really have a chance to screw that up. I feel I could've done better if I had more experience with the job.
Overall it was a good run, but it just goes to show that O/U isn't as hard as people make it out to be. Many mistakes were made on our winning won and we still won with 8 minutes left on the clock. It's pretty hard, but I think SE could still make a harder and still "fair" BC for ToAU.
Kind of sucked for me though, didn't really get to Rp after like everyone else and we had to cancel the weekly RP event just to do it. But I don't even have access to my account right now so I guess it doesn't really matter.
Wanna sleep, wish I could sleep. I'd say something trite like, "depression sucks" here but it'd be an obvious attention grab seeing as how the statement is self-evident.
For some reason the topic of coolest ways to die comes to me. Here's 10 in no particular order. Here's a homework assignment for you guys, YOU number from best to worst. I'm too lazy to copy & paste all of that.
1) Like I was talking to someone earlier about, I often think about randomly running my car off the road for seemingly no reason. It amuses me, police officers trying to determine cause of death or just what was going through my head when I did it. They'd never figure out that I just randomly decided to run my car off the road for absolutely no reason. That amuses me.
2) Suicide in school. I don't think it'd actually bother any of the other people in your class. Do it right before finals too. People can claim to be mentally stressed out as a result or psychological damaged. Who knows, maybe your death will help someone pass a class they would've otherwise failed. There's some meaning.
3) Kill yourself in any way you want and leave a cryptic suicide note and a trail of clues that links you to a political scandal and makes the police question whether it was suicide or an orchastrated murder. I've always wanted my own conspiracy theory.
4) Human experiments. Grab a bunch of household products and start doing what the labels tell you not to. For the domestic rebel in you.
5) In some way that hurts American Idol (god I hate that show).
6) Write Maddox a horribly contrived and sensitive piece of mail claiming to be his biggest fan while poking each and every pet peeve you can. When he rips you a new one in response, kill yourself, make sure you state that you're doing it for him so that he no longer has to suffer your existence. Seeing his website get shut-down would amuse me.
7) Lighting yourself on fire in public. Yeah, I know, this one isn't original, but I have to admit those Buddhist monks had the right idea.
8) Ebay Auction. Though I don't know if it'd be legal. Say you're going to kill yourself if someone doesn't buy your continued existence. I guess you'd have to make sure to clarify that
it's not slavery. If someone buys your continued existence you won't become a slave or owe them anything. You win both ways with this. If someone pays you, you're rich. If you don't get the money, you're dead so it doesn't matter anyway.
9) In someone's house who you hate. Just think of how complicated their life is about to get.
10) Pick someone and see if you can goade them into murdering you. Might take awhile, but imagine all of the fun you'll have. Make sure you leave some documents in your room or somewhere you know people will find them explaining that's what you planned all along.
Man I'm feeling morbid tonight.
Listening to:
Nothing you care about.
(Or it was until I decided to take it in another direction. Kept the header cause it's a message to all of my friendly blog-neighbors.)
Listening to music at 2:35 EST. School early tomorrow. Can't sleep, drepssed, never can when I am. Just kinda lay there in a bed for a long time tossing and turning, comtemplating all of the things that're bothering me. So I decided instead of wasting my time in bed, I'll waste my time here.
Beat Ultima & Omega today with Xenedra, Sabriel, Alveen (on Lyre), me (on Alveen), Muirnin, and Kiyoumi. RDM, BLM, PLD, WHM, WAR, WAR. People say you can't beat O/U with a Paladin but we did well enough and didn't shell out for ridiculously expensive medicines like Vile Elixers. Fights basically went like this.
Mammets were easy. Sabriel tanked all of them while we pulled off 1 by 1, initial hate setup. I think we got out of that with 37 minutes to spare, no deaths. Transmogrification is a pain in the ass. We handled ourselves well there, I think.
Went into Omega with 35-33 minutes left, I don't remember exactly. I got hit with a guided missile crit for like... 800 damage or something obscene like that, managed to live though. DDs chipped away at Omega well while balancing hate. We got him down to 4% before wiping. Screwed up on the CCBs though, Sab went right after the first CCB'r went, so we lost some time there. If that hadn't happened, we might've won on omega without wiping at all. Muir went down before she could get much use out of her 2 hour too. Not quite sure what happened there, I think that tied into the CCB mistake.
Got up to kill Omega, waited off weakness, and charged in. That was on the verge of disasterous, because he got magic-shield up right in time for Xene's burst so that did 0 damage. The wars managed to bring it down without anyone dying, and we went onto Ultima with, I think, 22-18 minutes left, I don't remember exactly.
Here we did really well for the first 60% or so again. Then we had more trouble with getting CCBs out at a good time. So we wiped around 33% or so. The last bit was fairly easy, we had enough CCBs to immobile it and it dropped very quickly. Muirnin got the killshot. I just wanted to say a bit about individual performances here, for the hell of it.
Sab (pld) - Kinda rough on the CCBs (but it wasn't entirely his fault), but he was tanking this BC as a Paladin which admittedly much harder. He did very well. Used blinding potions on Omega and straight-tanked Ultima. He made the mammets a cinche too. Omega was a bit rougher than it was for my group that had a NIN, but I think he took Ultima easier than I did on NIN.
Muirnin (war) - Did very good with sharing hate with me. Between the two of us we took quite a few blows from Ultima & Omega to give Sabriel time to catch his breath. Her rampages kicked ass which help us take down Ultima quickly at the end, and like I said, she got the killshot.
Alveen (on Lyre as WHM) - She did a very good job healing on the last attempt. Attempt before she kinda messed up a bit on Ultima which resulted in us wiping cause Sab got 1 hit. Can't blame her though, her connection goes wild sometimes, and her performance was flawless other than that. Very good with the status healing for certain, considering she kept a PLD alive (which is supposed to be extremely difficult for this fight), I'd say she deserves some praise.
Kiyoumi (RDM) - Very prompt with dispel. I don't know how well he did keeping refresh up cause I was a melee and never got it, far too busy doing my own thing. Good with the backup heals (at first he was a bit stingy with them, but he adjusted on the subsequent attempts) and debuffing. The manaburn patch with magic resistance really hurt his 2 houring though, chainspell now is more of a detriment than a help.
Xenedra - (BLM) Good timing on the stuns on Ultima's nuclear waste to breath attack. Don't think she ever once pulled hate while doing constant damage. That's incredibly important, especially on Omega considering that if she pulled hate and a guided missile was fired, it would've taken out all of our mages in 1 hit. She displayed a lot of restraint and at the same time really helped our forward momentum. Good with CCBs too, no mistakes.
Me (losing runs on SAM) - During the losing runs I kinda felt like SAM wasn't doing that hot. It really wasn't, Muirnin was definitely outdamaging me on the Weapons. Yuki never broke 300 damage, whereas rampages could do from 300-700. The one place SAM really shined though was during the mammets, I had hate for good on those. Meikyo was very disappointing. Don't think I made any real "mistakes" SAM just isn't any good for this one because /nin gimps us pretty bad at that level.
Me (winning run as WAR) - Granted I have no experience playing war/nin past level 37 or so, I think I did pretty well. I didn't bother keeping ichi up during the mammets, cause mages had plenty of MP and our goal was to just take stuff down asap there without having anyone die. Kinda sucked not having a Haubergeon, but it's on my account which I can't access right now so there's nothing I could do. Sipahi body sufficed well enough.
Rampage did crazy damage, but that's not really anything related to my skill, but Alv's gear she put on her for the run and her 6 axe merits. I put myself at the end of the CCB order so I didn't really have a chance to screw that up. I feel I could've done better if I had more experience with the job.
Overall it was a good run, but it just goes to show that O/U isn't as hard as people make it out to be. Many mistakes were made on our winning won and we still won with 8 minutes left on the clock. It's pretty hard, but I think SE could still make a harder and still "fair" BC for ToAU.
Kind of sucked for me though, didn't really get to Rp after like everyone else and we had to cancel the weekly RP event just to do it. But I don't even have access to my account right now so I guess it doesn't really matter.
Wanna sleep, wish I could sleep. I'd say something trite like, "depression sucks" here but it'd be an obvious attention grab seeing as how the statement is self-evident.
For some reason the topic of coolest ways to die comes to me. Here's 10 in no particular order. Here's a homework assignment for you guys, YOU number from best to worst. I'm too lazy to copy & paste all of that.
1) Like I was talking to someone earlier about, I often think about randomly running my car off the road for seemingly no reason. It amuses me, police officers trying to determine cause of death or just what was going through my head when I did it. They'd never figure out that I just randomly decided to run my car off the road for absolutely no reason. That amuses me.
2) Suicide in school. I don't think it'd actually bother any of the other people in your class. Do it right before finals too. People can claim to be mentally stressed out as a result or psychological damaged. Who knows, maybe your death will help someone pass a class they would've otherwise failed. There's some meaning.
3) Kill yourself in any way you want and leave a cryptic suicide note and a trail of clues that links you to a political scandal and makes the police question whether it was suicide or an orchastrated murder. I've always wanted my own conspiracy theory.
4) Human experiments. Grab a bunch of household products and start doing what the labels tell you not to. For the domestic rebel in you.
5) In some way that hurts American Idol (god I hate that show).
6) Write Maddox a horribly contrived and sensitive piece of mail claiming to be his biggest fan while poking each and every pet peeve you can. When he rips you a new one in response, kill yourself, make sure you state that you're doing it for him so that he no longer has to suffer your existence. Seeing his website get shut-down would amuse me.
7) Lighting yourself on fire in public. Yeah, I know, this one isn't original, but I have to admit those Buddhist monks had the right idea.
8) Ebay Auction. Though I don't know if it'd be legal. Say you're going to kill yourself if someone doesn't buy your continued existence. I guess you'd have to make sure to clarify that
it's not slavery. If someone buys your continued existence you won't become a slave or owe them anything. You win both ways with this. If someone pays you, you're rich. If you don't get the money, you're dead so it doesn't matter anyway.
9) In someone's house who you hate. Just think of how complicated their life is about to get.
10) Pick someone and see if you can goade them into murdering you. Might take awhile, but imagine all of the fun you'll have. Make sure you leave some documents in your room or somewhere you know people will find them explaining that's what you planned all along.
Man I'm feeling morbid tonight.
Listening to:
Nothing you care about.
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