Storm & Cars

Dragon!

I got a new dragon! A friend gave it to me for graduation. I couldn't put him with my others cause that area has filled up, so I put him with my shot glasses. According to the box, he is a fire clan dragon and is "deadly and dangerous."

Light

We must talk in every telephone
Get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
And in the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing

While my mother waters plants
My father loads his guns
He says death will give us back to god
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean

We must blend into the choir
Sing as static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be one
We must run, we must run, we must run

We must hang up in the belfry
Where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
And in the caverns of tomorrow
With just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge

And then we’ll get down there to the very bottom of everything
And we’ll see it, we’ll see it, we’ll see it

Oh my mornings coming back
The whole world’s waking up
In the city buses are swimming past
I’m happy just because
I found out I’m really no one

Real ID

This shit's really getting scary. I'm starting to think of Soviet Russia whenever I read the news. We all need to be more educated about this. The Senate shouldn't be able to pass a bill that's barely been discussed and that's attached to other bills. Of course bills for Tsunami relief and giving money to our troupes in Iraq and Afganastan are going to pass.
"The act also calls for new National ID cards which will be essentially driver’s licenses with new, federally mandated information including, but not limited to, biometric data stored in machine-readable areas. Databases of cards will be shared between states and with the federal government." Gizmodo's article
So um... what's to stop people from using that machine-readable technology to steal identity? What's to stop the private industry from selling our information to anyone they want? EVERYONE'S information will be in databases linked in a seamless network all connected to the federal database. The ID will require actual addresses, not PO Boxes, so what's to stop people from attacking judges and cops in their homes. And it's not like this stuff can't be easily faked so terrorists have their own ID cards. And then... what was the point?
So here's a great site that was also mentioned on slashdot where you can fax your senator: http://www.unrealid.com

I Did It!

yep, i'm officially a college graduate! and of course to celebrate, i drank away my brain functionality. woohoo!! i have since recovered ;) well now i'm onto the age old question of... "now what?" i'll be figuring that out for the next few months. wish me luck. and now, so you haven't accomplished nothing in reading this... here's a picture of my drunk roommate's handiwork...

Lucifer

today i read some interesting things. i'm not going to say what i was reading, but some of you may know or figure it out. i learned where the name "Lucifer" actually came from. in roman mythology, Lucifer was the god of air and enlightenment. It was also the name of the star just before the rising sun. In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." St. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. it all makes sense, religion has always discouraged thinking for yourself and doubt. i could go on...alexandria...

Have a Picture

and now a picture to break the monotony... something will break it soon