Category: stardate

• I ate 10 sushi once and was still hungry
• The next time I ordered 12 sushi, and that was too much
• I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the optimal number of sushi to order
• It took a while before it occurred to me that I was variably hungry

SHAC: sigh
SHAC: i think we were planning to take one of the kids to see winnie the pooh that day
BRAIN: I think I’m working on the product release
SHAC: its christians vs. mayans
SHAC: who can get their product to market first
BRAIN: it’s a tough product
BRAIN: many have tried to deliver
BRAIN: no one has yet succeeded

XUXE: wow, leader of the largest neo-Nazi organization in the U.S. was just killed by his 10 year old son…
BRAIN: does that make him leader now?
XUXE: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! dude when i saw this headline a script started unfolding in my head. that would be such a great twist! despite his upbringing, the kid is born good and is compelled to patricide – but then people turn to him to fill the leadership vacuum and his evil DNA comes out from the power trip… internal struggle ensues! which way will you go, young neo nazi prince?
BRAIN: “a children’s movie by xuxE”

California boy charged with murdering neo-Nazi dad

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A 10-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murdering his neo-Nazi father in the family’s Southern California home in what prosecutors say is an extremely unusual case because of the child’s age.
Riverside County prosecutors decided to charge the boy with murder involving the use of a gun after reviewing the facts surrounding the early Sunday morning shooting of Jeff Hall, a 32-year-old plumber who had carried a swastika flag and led rallies outside a local synagogue and day labor site.

It’s a good season for it apparently.

I know some people are feeling conflicted about killing bin Laden. We are a culture of peace, etc etc.

But the reality is: we live in an empire. Our entire way of life is predicated on this. Some people don’t like it and decide to kill us for it. They know we will fight back, they accept it. If bin Laden thought he would get away forever, he was just stupid or crazy, and he was not a stupid guy. Crazy, maybe.

If we as citizens are so upset that we ordered someone killed, why aren’t we upset BEFORE we devoted billions and billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives to execute? Or for that matter, why aren’t we mindful of the exploitation necessary to run our air conditioning on a hot day, or the air conditioning in the server rooms required to run the internet? That’s a lot of under-market oil right there.

I find you can avoid a lot of angst if you just tell the truth to yourself. Just feeling guilty about it doesn’t help anyone.

I suppose this might wake some consumers up and they’ll come around to being more mindful of the sacrifices of others required to maintain their lifestyle.

But I doubt it.

Looks like a college classmate of mine, “ikiru,” died recently. I didn’t know her real well, but she was an interesting lady.

Ikiru had a lot of zany projects going; I remember at one point she had a “plantation” in Hawaii.

Born Deborah Anne Ziegler, she became Euphrasia Lavette Alzena Guri Scientia Ventura Ikiru Alvera Ganbatte Gelasia Curvilinearjky van Bezooijen.

The last part was the last name of her husband, who I think was at this point an ex-husband. He was interesting too, but I haven’t talked to him in years (even online), so to respect his privacy I won’t mention anything else about him.

BL: C and i were working on the main form page, we wanted the files to be pushed live and Andy was not there so we are waiting for his return
BRAIN: ok. and once it’s pushed live… will it work you think?
BL: its a possibility
BL: its one of two possibilities i guess

er, thanks!

Yesterday on the way to the cafeteria I saw a hummingbird sitting on the path. He was so tiny I crouched to look at him… up close he looked pretty pissed off. He had sand on his beak.

Coworker Danielle was passing by and was enraptured by the hummingbird. I figured I’d see if he was still there after lunch, and if so I’d call someone. I left for the cafeteria… on the way back he was gone.

Hours later Danielle was standing in the hall looking at the skylights above Marketing, 2 stories up. She looked bummed. “I am such an idiot” she says.

Looks like the hummingbird was just stunned, recuperated on her desk, and was now trapped in the office with the glass ceiling. This bird crippled Marketing for 2 hours, ladies were crying, etc. I set up a ladder with some Hawaiian Punch on it, but he wouldn’t come down. Eventually he got too tired to fly and got herded towards the door… Danielle fed him sugar water through a coffee stir.

Today during a meeting we saw over a dozen police cars and motorcycles racing towards our complex. “Get down on the ground!!!” we hear… looks like someone was running from the police and was about to be “tazed.”

Courtesy of Salon – What’s behind the “worst music video ever”?

This is becoming like the “The Room” of pop music. Like “The Room” it’s pretty darn bad.

I’ve noticed a frightening trend recently: the word “Elite” is becoming a loaded word. The problem is many people these days confuse being good at what one does, or even just being competent, as being “elitist.”

Picture a very stupid, self-righteous person demanding “You think you’re better than me!?” There is a culture of laziness and willful stupidity creeping across America.

Many who voted for disgraced President George W Bush did so because he “seemed like a regular guy.” Because they were averse to being led by someone who thought he was better than them. In my opinion this is not a good policy! I want someone smart to be in charge.

• it is not okay to not bother trying your best.
• It is not okay to be foolish and expect others to respect you.
• It is, in a very real way, un-American.

This country was founded on idealism and enterprise. It’s sad to so many turn away from that.

Vatican threatens new China bishop with excommunication

The Vatican has threatened a bishop with excommunication after he was ordained by China’s state-backed Catholic Church without papal approval.

I wonder if people will actually notice this one. Maybe next they will just declare a new Chinese Messiah. It will be a new Chinese Christianity; it could be a state religion where the Vatican is a pretender throne.

No one seemed to care when China did this with Tibetan Buddhism (the plot of Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun”).

Basically, China’s Maoist government got tired of having a religion that competed with the state, so they exterminated Tibetan culture and ran the Dalai Lama out of the country. The government then appointed a new religious leader of Buddhism.

Does your black Kleen Kanteen seem… different… somehow? The top
feels different when you put it on? The scarring in the black paint
is a different pattern? It’s now a DIFFERENT VOLUME?!

I may be crazy (!) but I am pretty sure my black metal water bottle
has been replaced with a near-duplicate. I think it happened sometime
over the weekend shoot either at 15 Romolo or Spec’s.

I know this seems like a test in-theme with the movie (this bottle
looks exactly the same as the old one but somehow it’s not the same
one) but – if anyone normally uses a black Kleen Kanteen, and noticed
that in the last week it changed ever-so-slightly… we should switch.
The top on mine had a metal liner.

Completely unrelated in every way:

When people with Capgras Syndrome see a friend, spouse, or themselves
in a mirror, they believe they are seeing an exact double or an
impostor.

Sometimes, people with Capgras Syndrome even believe that inanimate
objects — like a chair, watch, book, or lamp — have been replaced by
exact replicas. If people own a pet, the pet may be seen as an
impostor, a strange animal roaming through their lives and homes.

Capgras patients are often so disturbed when they see a doppelganger
in the mirror that they remove all mirrors from the home. The
syndrome, named for French psychiatrist Jean Marie Joseph Capgras,
afflicts thousands of people in the United States.

Consider these two true stories:

A 37-year-old woman came into the office of Carol Berman, a
psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center, with a strange
complaint. She had returned to her house recently to find a man
sitting on her couch. He was familiar, sort of, and he was wearing her
husband’s clothes. But something didn’t feel right to this woman. She
felt a strange kind of emptiness when she looked at him. She was
struck by the very deep sense that her husband had somehow been
replaced by this strange man.

A student at the University of California, San Diego was severely
injured in a car accident. After several weeks in a coma, he regained
consciousness and seemed to be doing fine. But according to V.S.
Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at the university, when the patient’s
mother came to see him, he exclaimed, “Who is this woman? She looks
just like my mother, but she’s an impostor! She’s some other woman
pretending to be my mother.”