Democrats Force Secret Senate Session

And this is coming right after the Miers controversy, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh……………………………snap.

ROBOCOP

This was one of those movies that are just so terrible that, even if (or simply because) they are action/drama thrillers, you just laugh almost the entire way through, LOL.

It reminds U.S. and Canadian audiences of just how far we’ve come from the utterly horrid pop culture of the earlier 1980’s (although we *can* say that this one is worse…..I’ll let you all be the judge of that).

Quotable quotes:

“I’d like to buy THAT one!”

“You are in direct violation of SEC. [insert random number here]. You now have 15 seconds to comply”

“Madam, you are suffering emotional shock.” er….something like that. We roared in insane laughter as soon as we heard those words, though.

Go see the movie when you’re stoned (and go read http://sydlexia.com afterward), ya heard?

Tonight: birdies and fursonas, as promised.

Right now, I’m about to write a 5-page paper on some shit from Augustine’s Confessions.

*thinks of Usher*

http://www.rathergood.com/elephant/

No, not that!

OK, what I learned is that when crap flash is seen without sound, 9 out of 10 times it will make you want to shoot your eyeballs out, as in the above.

Oh, and I’ve considered changing my fursona again.

Its an eagle.

OMGWTFBBQLMAO!

No, seriously, it is. And for personal reasons.

I’ll elaborate in the next post.

altmagic_topic – Alt.magic
altorisha_topic – Alt.religion.orisha
altpagan_topic – Alt.pagan
altvoodoo_topic – Alt.religion.voodoo
altwicca_topic – Alt.religion.wicca
amodwicca_topic – Alt.religion.wicca.moderated
apmagick_topic – Alt.Pagan.magick
goddessing – Goddessing
hippywitch_blog
moonmeadow_farm
pagan_sojourn
radgoddesstheo – Radical Goddess Theology
the_wildhunt – Jason Pitzl-Waters
osn_syndicate – One Starry Night

More to add later, I’m tired.

Oh, and about the computer, one of the dudes from last night helped me with rebooting the laptop in safe mode (press F8 and so forth). Then, much later on, came to find out that I now had a problem with the powering cord for the laptop (and it had run out of juice). The main blue power-up box keeps on shutting down, and I think that I can attribute the absence of power to some glitch that allowed me to pull a socket for the plug from out of the box, thus rendering it useless.

So now I’m **definately** without a computer….heh, this sucks.

More in another post, peace out.

Oldie but goodie from Village Voice

Loaded a bad .logonxp file last night at least an hour and a half prior to the party on Greek Row. Image was nice, but OMG! There are no names to click! So….I’m without a laptop for the time being. Back to Goodman again…. (I KNEW that something was gonna go wrong!!!)

Well, that party that I told you (androgynism) about….well, forced by the accidental chocking of my laptop (I mentally dwelled upon it for half an hour), I followed one of the suitemates up to Greek Row, only to wait at Tri-Sigma for a good hour since they weren’t finished with getting the set-up done at Chi Phi (the frat that everyone else in the dorm is being initiated into, except for me [not a part of any] and a high school friend of theirs who goes to ITT but stays in our suite….VG freak he is, lol). Then, come around 10 in the PM, I walked over to Chi Phi, and it was amazing…..downstairs’ walls were covered almost **entirely** in black plastic strips; plus, the downstairs bathroom was covered in blood and bits, lol (made me even more nostalgic for my digital camera…argh…).

However, the party, as many people came (and there were at least a hundred or two in there, all dressed in the most assortable costumes, the majority of them drunk), didn’t go all that hot. The entirety of the place (even the immediate outside) was filled to the brim with denizens, and, except for a Fanta, a 7-Up, two veggy burgers and two meat burgers, I didn’t get anything out of it except a longing for the bed and the computer.

So, I left at around 12:30.

Didn’t get high or anything (forget alcohol…I’d never touch it on a sensible basis due to family history and shit)….what a waste.

Anyway, I’m gone down to TP’s for the night, won’t be back till tomorrow afternoon. Oh, and sorry lordsathien, no AMV’s tonight, I’m afraid, because of the aforementioned.

And, my thoughts on the Miers withdrawal: even if she is a Bush ally of sorts, I say “more power to her”. If anyone can (at least try to) withdraw themselves for even a little bit from the drama that is the US government and its politics (where’s Westminster when you need it?), or even let the gossipmongering public that they will not involve themselves with such bullshit, be it from the so-called “right” or the so-called “left”, they earn my increased respect in the long run.

I mean, seriously, when can pundits **ever** STFU?

But then again, we’re talking about the UNITED STATES here…

More in another post, peace out.

A third update to AIM Triton Beta since I first DLed it.

Went to Stardock and got back Theme Manager, LogonStudio, DesktopX, WindowBlinds, and Bootskin. Let the harddrive crashing commence yet again…

Plus, remember that drama thread at ? Well, His Worship the Lord Mayor of that community, husker_fox, came by to look at the damage. Here’s his thoughts.

Also syndicated Wincustomize’s RSS: wincust_news

And finally, before watching Mel Gibson, Patrick Stewart, and Julia Roberts in “Conspiracy Theory” up to around 4-ish in the AM, I suddenly dared to question my fursona and its form. So, I ask you all:

Based on your individual experience with me, do I resemble a feline or canine more?

More in another post, Peace out.

Which you feel that you could’ve skipped almost entirely?

I just had that one today. I could say that this wasn’t a good day to live, but then I wouldn’t have known why this day sucked so badly, right?

Eariler, I tried out Quintessential Player, another MP spinoff from an older Winamp source code (it was v.5, I think). Looks quite decent (and shiny) for a media player, should work it a bit more often (and maybe, just maybe, getting rid of Winamp, post-AOL).

Trying to convert as many folks on my YIM and AIM to Gmail/Google Talk as possible. MSN…I’m thinking of getting rid of it and deleting that account with them. Twas better when I first started out with them last year, but now I get this feeling that none of the people on my contact list even know/remember me, let alone talk. I’m not going to name names, but yeah…so long to them.

I’ll be at the (pre-Halloween) movie night at TP’s on Saturday.

Also, remember that word that I shared in a post from a few days ago? BODYHACK? Well, now I’ve replaced it with “Soul in a glass”. Project that I’m concocting, so stay tuned.

More in another post. Peace out.

__adambosworth – Adam Bosworth

battellemedia – John Battelle

adamcurry_rss – Adam Curry

alex_bosworth – Alex Bosworth

bokardo_rss – Joshua Porter

cedric_beust – Cedric Beust

doc_searls_blog – Doc Searls

evhead_atom – Evan Williams

forrester_li – Charlene Li

francis_ocoma – Francis Ocoma

grassroots_dg – Dan Gillmor

jason_shellen – Jason Shellen

eclectic_mayhem – Ben Darnell

joiito – Joi Ito

justin_frankel – Justin Frankel

leo_blog – Leo Laporte

joelonsoftware – Some guy named Joel

firstdraftrss – Tim Porter

mark_cuban – Mark Cuban

martinsargeant – Martin Sargeant

neville_hobson – Neville Hobson

nick_bradbury = Nick Bradbury

matt_cutts_blog – Matt Cutts

seth_godin – Seth Godin

newmarks_door – Craig Newmark

newsosaur – Alan D. Mutter

massless_org – Christopher Jason Wetherell

peterhoskins – Peter Hoskins

raelity_bytes – Rael Dornfest

russellbeattie_ – Russell Beattie

scoble_wp – Robert Scoble

steve_rubel – Steve Rubel

susanmernit – Susan Mernit

xenomachina – Laurence Gonsalves

zawodny – Jeremy Zawodny

wingedpig – Mark Fletcher

weinberger_rss – David Weinberger

therssblog – Randy Charles Morin

persistentnfo – Mihai Parparita

Will fill up more sooner or later (want to get most of these off of my friends list).

Hot water’s off, so I’m still impatiently waiting for a chance at the shower. Argh….

Well, here’s what I’ve been trying out:

Shareaza P2P Client – great P2P client. Trillian-like in its approach to the Gnutella, Bittorrent, iMesh, and Ed2k networks, but, just as most bloggers have described Trillian, Shareaza only provides a semblance of P2P unity to those three networks. You’re OK with Gnutella and iMesh on Shareaza, but come Ed2k, there are so many snags that you run into (plus, from the very getgo, you are immediately notified that you don’t have any working server.met URLs [those files which allow you to access Ed2K, in the same way as how GWebCaches allow you to access the Gnutella network and whatever is on there – the more of either URLs you cover, the further access to files you’ll receive]; truth is, there really aren’t any working server.met URLs at ALL). Furthermore, Bittorrent is obviously something that I don’t want to get into due to the constant hindrances which I’ve received in the past with trying to search or properly aggregate torrent files (almost exclusively on an http basis as there simply isn’t any way to search/aggregate them outside of such). Therefore, the problem that I see with Shareaza isn’t actually the client at all: its the fucking disunity and disfunction between protocols that I am simply FED UP with. I honestly don’t care about Bittorrent being all that and a bag of chips, or how many search engines there are for Torrents: if I can’t seek for it in a P2P client like I would with Gnutella or any other network, then its not worth my time. Furthermore, what the fuck is up with EDonkey?! Forget this: I’ll stick to Gnutella and iMesh until those other two networks can get themselves straight. Thus, Shareaza is OK, but it could be better if the other two protocols weren’t so fucked up.

Last.fm – I’ll get back to you all on this. However, my advice so far: both the player .exe and audioscrobbler plugins are screwed, so your Windows (whatever version, expectedly XP) won’t install either (MyLast.fm doesn’t get any further, either). Instead, DL the ZIP archive of the player, which has a version that your system will allow for installation.

X-Chat – Great IRC client, would be more enjoyable if I wasn’t raised upon IM so much (such has practically rendered me oblivious to IRC or anything IRC related). Now if only they allowed for search and aggregation for IRC rooms from WITHIN IRC.

More in another post. Plus, I’m still considering setting up a new blog at Blogspot or Typepad and discontinuing this one. I mean, LJ is the best at what it does, but I’ve seen that, while Blogspot is far more conducive to the Blogosphere phenomena that has arisen within the past year or so, LJ is more of a balance between blogging and social connecting, and as such, most of the blogging and resulting commentary on LJ is primarily socially-oriented: I guess you can call LJ a “blogging BBS” of sorts.

However, there are some times that I want to get my thoughts out on a specific subject, one which I know isn’t going to win the commentary or appeal of most of the folks who are watching this blog. Thus, at those particular times, I honestly wouldn’t want to worry about a dearth of commentary or response. Therefore, I have decided that I will set up a new blog outside of LJ in the near future (which, of course, I will syndicate for LJ). I will most likely retain this one for social connections, blog syndications, communities, and posting about stuff which I know will engender a response of some kind.

Peace out.

K, now I know that I’ve been annoying some of you all with my summarizations of the future, the past, and what not. SO, I’ve decided to step away from them a bit in order to announce a few tidbits.

1. Just applied for a US$100 emergency loan check from SunTrust (via the school) for personal needs and expenditures (such as washing clothes and shit). Check comes on Monday.

2. Just got stoned for the third time last night; the buzz, the euphoria, the temporary deprivation of inhibition, all of that (plus the feeling of astral elevation!) and more…..like I said before, I need to do that more….

3. Currently looking around the Blogspot universe for interesting feeds to syndicate.

4. Just saw Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Touch of Satan. Amazingly WTF?-worthy, but, IMHO, we could’ve done a bit better with a bit less of that “third-party” dialogue.

5. Last trip down to tiger_paw_atl‘s house in South Atlanta was enjoyable, personally (I met donryu, atmanryu, and drake_tigerclaw as well). Wassup, ya’ll!

6. New idea: Search for IRC from inside IRC, just as you can search for http pages in http clients.

7. I have a fucking Myspace. http://myspace.com/raynevandunem

8. Last word: BODYHACK.

A-town down!

PS: lordsathien was there, too. Thanks for the heads-up. Anybody else?