Hmmm...

no work shinnanigans today, i actually did what i was supposed to do. make wonderful posters for labs! woooooo. i was told i should write security books for kids cause of my posters. the last one was fun. it has great m$ clipart in it. i was listening to a song from the layer cake soundtrack and it said don't think about all those things you feel, just be glad to be. maybe i should do some packing.

New Instructions

I wonder how many people will follow these ^o^
Step 1: Place pointed end in mouth.
Step 2: Jump down stairs

Holistic

The word of the day is Holistic:

1. Of or relating to holism.
2. 1. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
   2. Concerned with wholes rather than analysis or separation into parts: holistic medicine; holistic ecology

I started listening to the audiobook of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and so far I like it. Of course, it's really cool that it's read by Douglas Adams. I have also learned today that for an iPod to do it's bookmarking and speeding/slowing down that it claims to do for audiobooks, the files have to be converted to AAC and then change it to m4b instead of the normal m4a. That's a pain. Plus I forgot to change my settings to do AAC instead of Apple Lossless... so even though it makes m4a's, it didn't work and I had to start over. Yay for Apple...

Madagascar

we just saw the movie! it's pretty funny. i love the monkeys. they were gonna fling poo!

and i got a book... it's cooooooooool. Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communication. It's like a text book sorta, but it's got the history of cryptography, and like, tons of kinds of cryptography. starting with heiroglyphics! maybe i'll start encrypting my blogs and see if anyone can read them. hmmm... i think it's time to go read that book some more.... and find out what the word "clandestine" means....
ahhhh, here it is: adj : conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods

excellent

racoon face!

the racoon that lives in the tree

What kind of world do we live in when I can blog from my phone?

wooo!

i got my wonderful thing in the mail saying i am officially graduated!!! beautiful

brainbuster

Now for the latest edition of what doesn't belong...

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

some words

i wanted to read his mind, but all i saw was some dry leaves get larger and larger, then shatter like miniature fireworks beneath his shoes.

i was driving home today, tonight. focusing on only the road and the streetlights, i could pretend i was anywhere. the whole way home it comforted me. highways and streetsigns are universal language.

our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual

"But souls that of his own good life partake,
He loves as his own self; dear as his eye
They are to Him: He'll never them forsake:
When they shall die, then God himself shall die:
They live, they live in blest eternity."
-Henry More

lightning

i saw some amazing lightning on the way home. a couple streaked clear across the sky. i wish i could take pictures of that... even when people and their tediousness bore me, the weather never ceases to amaze me.

Computer Mod

my computer is useful. two drawers hold what will eventually be a firewall (i haven't installed anything yet, but it will probably be OpenBSD) and the top drawer is holding all my extra computer pieces. of course i took pictures...


bottom drawer
middle drawer
open middle drawer
open bottom drawer
CD open
holes in side

The Butterfly Effect

i watched that again tonight. it was the first time i watched it since i saw it in the theatre. i don't care what anyone says about ashton kutcher's acting, i think that's a really good movie. that's all