Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Vader Haters

He may not have a heart, but at least a funny bone.

Political Radar: Cheney's Dog Darth Vader for Halloween

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Celebrity Death

Aww, sad.

Robert Goulet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

:-/

:-/

NBC Developing THE OFFICE II!! -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

I've made a tiny mistake

I left the lights on again. I never learn.

Department of Public Safety | PCC

Monday, October 29, 2007

What am i doing??? I've changed. I don't know who I am anymore. Is this a regression? No; there is no such thing as de-evolution. The function can not have multiple x coordinates. Am I doing it rite? I don't even know anymore.

MySpace.com

Mimivirus

I found this interesting. Curiosity always gets the best of me.

Mimivirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

e-crush

I have a virtual crush on this girl.

MySpace.com - Rai - 19 - Female - Springfield, Missouri - www.myspace.com/seducing_chaos

http://sacreddarkness.deviantart.com/

xkcd

Damn you, xkcd! You are just too damn cute sometimes.

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

Saturday, October 27, 2007

LegoRobot comics

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Now playing: J.J. Johnson - Misterioso
via FoxyTunes

Not Krakatoa

It was the Rodney Dangerfield of volcanic eruptions.

NPR : Mount Tambora Eruption Hardly Known

Friday, October 26, 2007

Still Alive

This Was A Triumph
I'm Making A Note Here:
HUGE SUCCESS
It's hard to overstate
my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.

But there's no sense crying
over every mistake.
You just keep on trying
till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are
Still alive.

I'm not even angry.
I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data
make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are
still alive.

Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else
to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa. . .
THAT WAS A JOKE. HA HA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway. this cake is great.
It's so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
When there's science to do.
When I look out there,
it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are
still alive.

And believe me I am still alive.

I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.

I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.

While you're dying I'll be still alive.

And when you're dead I will be still alive.

STILL ALIVE

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The Cake is a Lie

Anyway, this cake is great, It's so delicious and moist.

Hints, Allegations and Games Left Unplayed...: The Cake is a Lie

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Finally done

Time: 4:04

And I just now see this...

Hopefully I don't crash on the commute! It is now the time that girl said she had to wake up. Go figure.

Legend of Osiris and Isis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

some ideas

I'm sinking!!

Exploring the Theme of Mortality

One of the functions of myth that we have discussed, is
that they “reconcile us to tragedy and death”. Choose one myth we have read as
your main focus, and discuss what key lessons this myth seems to be offering
about the nature and reality of death. To what extent do these lessons seem to
be culture-specific, and to what extent to they continue to speak to us as
human beings? Be sure to support your discussion with specific examples from
the text.

Definite Afterlife with set instructions to achieve it

Osiris becoming the Lord of the Land of the Dead

Horus becoming an intermediary between life and death, the
living and the dead

Instructions towards death, grief

Relationships between parents and children

Vengeance

Death is inevitable, cannot be defeated

Some compromise with death can be reached

Danger is everywhere

Balance: establishment of order and justice

Threat of attack upon civilization, tyrants

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Television News Survey Final

I did not feel anymore informed
after watching CBS Evening News than I did before. Perhaps this was due to my
consumption of radio news broadcasts, or the perceived fluffy nature of Katie
Couric’s delivery of what should be hard news. It could be due to the mandatory
consumption of said product, but I left unsatisfied.

I enjoyed the pieces that were not done by Katie Couric. Though she left the Today
Show more than a year ago, I cannot dismiss the fluffy morning show
demeanor she exudes. She seemed to appear primarily for transitions with the
largest stories being covered by a different correspondent, with a few passing
stories presented by herself each lasting about a minute or less. Every story
she presented made me wonder, is this really the most important story she could
be covering? Perhaps it’s just me, but her presentations lacked a certain
weight, or gravitas, that I have come to expect from the news. Katie’s downy
delivery makes me yearn for the thick eccentricity of Dan Rather; even Satirist
Stephen Colbert has a more satisfactory delivery. I implicate myself as a
sexist, but she seems to lack any authority in her presentation even as much
Barbara Walters manages to convey. Perhaps Walter Cronkite has spoiled us.

Strangely, the most entertaining part of the broadcast was unintentional. During a segment
about the drought in the Southeastern United States an interviewee stated,
“Unfortunately, drought is the Rodney Dangerfield of natural disasters. People
don’t take it seriously until it’s too late.” Apparently, the drought ‘don’t
get no respect’; it was the fourth longest story. The longest story was
about the presidential election, which is still a year away, and made use of a
colorful board game as a representation of political caucus. This was a
colorful and enriching method to convey a foreign concept to its viewership. I
would not say that the Evening News
is infotainment, although somewhat sensationalist, because when I look for
entertainment I generally search for something that is uplifting, lighthearted
even, and not talking about the nuclear ambitions of supposed rogue states. I
would further disqualify it from being infotainment for the lack of information
I felt I received during the broadcast, although this was because I acquire the
majority of my news in the morning and my routine does not apply to everyone,
although the visuals were quite stark in some cases. Images of lakes with less
than ten feet of water were much more alarming than imagining what those last
ten feet look like. It raised the issue from something I was aware of to
something I was alarmed of.

I had a roommate who used to tape commercials he found entertaining, like HeadOn and
Gieco commercials, and then watch them over and over. This was annoying; he
would quote them like they were shiny gems of pop culture. The advertisements
in the CBS Evening News were not entertaining; perhaps I wasn’t their target
audience. In fact, I am sure that I am not in their target demographic, but I
doubt they would have been funny to anyone. As far as I can tell, there is
nothing funny about vitamin supplements or erectile dysfunction. I found the
commercials much less funny than the actual news segments, but any news story
that makes a reference to Rodney Dangerfield is gold, so its not really a fair
comparison.

The targeted demographic was, as I gathered, old. The
longest story was about presidential caucuses, the second about a health scare.
The advertisements were primarily dominated with pharmaceutical commercials for
ailments afflicting the elderly or aging or similar products like vitamins and
fiber-filled cereals; the news stories also seemed skewed toward this audience
with their higher voting turnout and lower immune response.

Finally, I found it odd that there was no coverage of Iraq.

Damn it hard!

Damn it!

Procrastination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Procrastination and mental health

Procrastination can be a persistent and debilitating disorder in some people, causing significant psychological disability and dysfunction. These individuals may actually be suffering from an underlying mental health problem such as depression or ADHD.

While procrastination is a behavioral condition, these underlying mental health disorders can be treated with medication and/or therapy. Therapy can be a useful tool in helping an individual learn new behaviors, overcome fears and anxieties, and achieve an improved quality of life. Thus it is important for people who chronically struggle with debilitating procrastination to see a trained therapist or psychiatrist to see if an underlying mental health issue may be present.

Severe procrastination and/or ADD can cross over into internet addiction or computer addiction. In this instance the individual has a compulsion to avoid reality by surfing the web or playing video games (see Game addiction) or looking at online pornography (see Pornography addiction). Although these are relatively new phenomena, they are being considered as psychiatric diagnoses by mental health professionals.

I'm procrastinating by looking up procrastination

Damn it!

Procrastination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Physiological

Research on the physiological roots of procrastination mostly surrounds the role of the prefrontal cortex. This area of the brain is responsible for executive brain functions such as planning, impulse control, attention, and acts as a filter by decreasing distracting stimuli from other brain regions. Damage or low activation in this area can reduce an individual's ability to filter out distracting stimuli, ultimately resulting in poorer organization, a loss of attention and increased procrastination. This is similar to the prefrontal lobe's role in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), where underactivation is common. [3]

To: Danger

Amazing

They do it again!

Lethal Injection Ban Leads To Rise In Back-Alley Lethal Injections | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Rough Draft

Television News Survey

Derek Allen

G02484779

Journalism 201/Speech 228

Fall 2007 9:00-10:00

Galizio

October 24, 2007

Does the program fulfill the broadcaster’s responsibility to inform U.S. citizens? Is the program of a high quality? Can citizens learn much about the state of the world by watching such a program? Based on the advertisements, what appears to be the targeted demographic? Does the program represent infotainment? Or is it a “serious” new program? Feel free to comment on issues you believe are relevant to the assignment. Include page numbers, a two to three page analysis.

Introduction

I did not feel anymore informed after watching CBS Evening News than I did before. Perhaps this was due to my consumption of radio news broadcasts, or the perceived fluffy nature of Katie Couric’s delivery of what should be hard news. It could be due to the mandatory consumption of said product, but I left unsatisfied.

Quality

I enjoyed the pieces that were not done by Katie Couric. Every story she presented made me wonder, is this really the most important story she could be covering? Perhaps it’s just me, but her presentations lacked a certain weight, or gravitas, that I have come to expect from the news. Katie’s downy delivery makes me yearn for the thick eccentricity of Dan Rather; even Satirist Stephen Colbert has a more satisfactory delivery. I implicate myself as a sexist, but she seems to lack any authority in her presentation even as much Barabra Walters manages to convey. Walter Cronkite has spoiled us.

Entertainment value

Advertisements

I had a roommate who used to tape commercials he found entertaining, like HeadOn and Gieco commercials, and then watch them over and over. This was annoying; he would quote them like they were shiny gems of pop culture. The advertisements in the CBS Evening News were not entertaining; perhaps I wasn’t their target audience. In fact, I am sure that I am not in their target demographic, but I doubt they would have been funny to anyone. As far as I can tell, there is nothing funny about vitamin supplements or erectile dysfunction. I found the commercials much less funny than the actual news segments, but any news story that makes a reference to Rodney Dangerfield is gold, so its not really a fair comparison.

The targeted demographic was old.

Observations

Katie Couric does not have gravitas[D1] . Light and fluffy like a morning show, superfluous. She seemed to appear primarily for transitions with the largest stories being covered by a different correspondent. There was no coverage of Iraq.

[D1] Define gravitas

News Log data

Program:	CBS Evening News
Date:	16-Oct-07
Time:	6:30-7:00pm
Segment #	Description	Time
1	Intro	1	:	0	0
2	Health piece about an antibiotic resistant "superbug"	3	:	2	0
3	Real estate story, an "economic warning"	2	:	0	0
4	Weather report: California sandstorm	0	:	2	0
5	Weather report: Southeast drought	2	:	0	0
6	White House meeting with the Dalai Lama	0	:	3	0
7	Vladimer Putin's visit to Iran	1	:	1	0
8	Coming up next	0	:	2	0
9	Advertisements for Swanson Broth, Preparation H, Aricept, Levitra	2	:	3	0
10	Story about presidential caucus dates	4	:	4	0
11	Coming up next	0	:	1	0
12	Advertisements for Caduet, CVS/pharmacy, Veramyst Nasal Spray	2	:	3	0
13	Developments in the Jena 6 case	1	:	5	0
14	Story about a drug bust at JFK airport	0	:	3	0
15	Coming up next	0	:	1	0
16	On tomorrow's broadcast…	0	:	1	0
17	Advertisements of Mucinex Nasal Spray, Plavix, Centrum Silver, Total ceral, local news	2	:	4	0
18	Story about injured football player Kevin Everett	0	:	2	0
19	Story about advances in prosthetic limb development	2	:	5	0
20	Sign-off	0	:	2	0

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

I love...

It's not lupus! Everytime...sigh..

House - Encyclopedia Dramatica

Portal: The Flash Game

Portal: The Flash Version

Friday, October 19, 2007

Happy Snake

I love Happy Snake.

Happy Snake is happy.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Forum guide to getting your non-gamer wife to play

Once upon a time, I was on top of the world! 40% of all gamers are female anyways. I wonder where they all hide...

City of Heroes Official Forums

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

A Noble Effort!

I just saw a Facebook group called "Stop the Utah Puff" or something similar which I don't care enough about to verify intricacies. I suppose it is a noble effort as the hairstyle, correctly referred to as the pompadour, is pretty atrocious. Puff? That's a dragon, of sorts, not a haircut. I'd tell them, but I doubt they'd learn.
"For women, the hairstyle has become marginally popular again in the
first few years of the twenty-first century. It can be created by
ratting at the roots of the hair on the sides of the pompadour towards
the top of the head. Then the hair is combed up and over the ratted
hair, off the forehead, the front up in a curl straight back, and the
sides pulled back towards the center."

Pompadour (haircut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well Formed Error

Well Formed Error, a message I saw displayed in the corner of my browser while my ForcastFox add-on tried to load, would be a decent band name IMOHO. Did I use that right? Uncertain!

Another strange occurrence just occurred as I was walking to the library post my journalism class where we watched a cool video and I felt goofy. <awk> I saw an old cohort of mine from that cub scout day camp I worked at so many years ago. He recognized me, I did not until after he had passed me, but I managed to shuffle out a gutteral 'hey' in haste. It was Sharkbait and I feel bad that I don't know his real name. Maybe it was Kevin or something...

I got to talk to my dear friend Peter last night and that was wonderful. We decided that I rank a 7 on a scale of physical attractiveness, and I suppose that's all right..

Monday, October 15, 2007

Schadenfreude

My favorite part of most reality shows is that only one person can win. I could care less about that, but it implies that there are many, many losers. The Bachelor happens to be on. I kinda that about it. Remember Joe Millionaire? I enjoyed that. It was a phenomenon, which looks kinda crappy actually.

The money quote of The Bachelor tonight: "When I screamed 'I love you Brad' I got embarrassed because I meant it" ZING!!!

They are so catty! hehe

Weird thing

I got this weird thing with citing sources. I don't know who to blame, but it's getting kinda gross..

Always

You know what always trips me out?

When lips and speech are just
slightly out of sync. I spend like 5 minutes trying to figure out if
I'm going to crazy, waving my hand in front of my face, testing my
reaction times, testing other people's reaction times (because there is
always that slight chance that I have entered bullet-time and am moving
through time slightly faster than everyone else). Once I deduce that
they are not synchronized and I am not taking crazy pills, I will then try to figure out if it is ahead or behind. IT BOTHERS ME SO MUCH!!!

It
makes me want to become an amatuer ventriliquist. I would just talk out
of sync all the time, just to mess with people. It'd be great fun at
parties.

Oh, apparently text messaging is an epidemic. Thank
you, Brian Williams. "In most states, driving under the influence of a
keypad is legal." Oh, it's as bad as booze! Ugh...

Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Ultimate Showdown

Life is weird.

I should be doing homework right now, but I need
a breather. The assignment is to review 3 independent games, and some
of them are just awful. I just played one inspired by The Ultimate Showdown,
titled The Ultimate Showdown, and it was far from ultimate. I'm
listening to the song to flush it out of my system. It's a catchy song.
I enjoy it. It's no Chocolate Rain, but that song is amazing in it's depth and breadth.

Now I'm listening to that. Oh, the circles!

Anyways,
I was put in an awkward situation today. I missed a (nonexistant) memo
for a group project and was the only one to show up at the scheduled
time. The distance alone caused me considerable lamantation!
Exclaimation! I'm typing fast, because it's interesting or is
it..whatever. Angels cry and shake their heads in shame! So catchy!

Anyways,
I hadn't read all the reading but figured it would be better to just
show up with some rather than none. I get there, no one else has come,
or will, and his roommates are there in the living room and I'm all,
hey, what's up, trying to not show my discomfort around new people.
Turns out, they weren't that new (well, the baby they had was new,
newish) Babys are awkward. I just smile at them when they look at me.
What am I supposed to say, cute baby, even with all that drool and
face-goop? Oh, look, your child is playing with hazardous objects. I'm
not there to play with the baby.

After a while, my group-mate's
room-mate asks me what high school I went to. Apparently, they were
familiar with it and some people I knewish. I mean, some are still on
my internet friends lists, but when will I see these people? Who knows!
Do you know a Brandon? I know a Brandon. Brandon Stark?
No, I know a Justin Stark. And then it turned out that I knew one of
his room-mates through Justin, who knows everyone, and that she had
actually talked to me before on Aim. It was weird. Super-weird. I am
super-weirded out by my peers having offspring (which was very common
in idaho), but I'm superweirded out by everything. I think that's
enough for now.

Seriously, totally tripped me out, like some minor character making an appearance like 5 seasons later. OR FOR THE SERIES FINALE... ZOMG WTF!!!

Damn cats!

Damn cat's stupid tail all over the keyboard! Just closed my word document! Saboteur!

Something weird

Something really weird happened to me today. It was weird. I shall explain later. Perhaps.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

All shirts are the same

Where else have I seen this shirt? Maybe here?

Friday, October 12, 2007

Old Kinderhook

Am I total nerd that I find entomology interesting?

Okay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Childblock

"Mommy and daddy love you; they just want you to get in your own bed"

My
parents put up one of those child barriers in their room. A baby
blocker, if you will, that parents sometimes use to confine their
offspring to specific parts of the house or prohibit free movement into
others for concerns of safety, sanitation, and sanity. Adults can
easily step over, but children must construct elaborate Rube Goldberg
contraptions and ziggurat structures to overcome them. He likes to
stroll into their bad in the late night and often wets the bed. I find
it amusing. I bet he'll knock it over or break it somehow before the
weekend is over. He's crazy affectionate towards them, boarding on
creepy, in my ambivalent opinion. He wanted to cross the wall tonight
just so he could "give mom a hug". Kinda sweet, I suppose, it still
made me LOL. Being this jovial when my family so isn't corrupts me into
a hyena, braying and giggling at silly things. I talk all high and
weird. Weird. I'm kinda liking this, however short-lived and artificial
it turns out to be.

Okay, so the child-gate thing isn't that funny, but it could be. We'll see when he trips on it tonight.

The Eye of the Storm

I love listening to Chocolate Rain. Mr. Zonday's other work is not as impressive, although I do enjoy the occasional Tayroll. Hilarious! Every time! A much friendlier prank than the meatspin, which I shall not link or mention again.

I figured out what it is. I'm in the eye of the storm. And it's hilarious. Perhaps it's indicative of some greater neurosis, but lately, my families altercations have been comedic. Even the slight ones, like my parents arguing over whether to watch Friday Night Lights or Las Vegas and the domestic hierarchy of television the decision entails, have yielded laughs out loud, or at least little contained giggles (LCGs for short). Maybe it's the corruption of the lulz.

I've lost my train of thought.

So..

I'm done for now (have to use the bathroom. Perhaps will continue later.

Danger

I couldn't resist changing my preferred name to Danger.

Im-Pressed

I wish to witness:
Extreme ironing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Overheard

I just overheard my father say,

"Well, wait to go, Kirsten. You made my daddy cry."

I look forward to a day when a spouse may make my own father cry. Perhaps often. Would it be wrong that I become so easily enamored by women with a mean streak?

Now hearing: "Mom, I'm dying. Mom, I'm going to die...Oh, I'm dying"

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Guidebook

Extensive. Comprehensive. A cry for help.

SIRC Guide to flirting

Proteans

“Human flirtation involves sequences of gestures and expressions not
unlike the courtship dances of birds and other animals that we see on
wildlife programmes,” says the report.

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Solved: flirting code that baffles the boys

Interesting

I love how wikipedia summarizes. It's wonderful. Spark-notes for all!

Seduction community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Yikes

The headline is Study Ties Marital Strife, Heart Disease

Wired News - AP News

Wholesome

I just got out of my journalism class. We shared our media log reflections, which I had posted here last night after finishing it. I felt like such a weirdo. I seemed to have spent a considerable amount more time on mine than my peers did. I got maybe 4 hours of sleep because of it, and some weird dreams when I slept in my car earlier, but I'll get to that. I felt like a total loser reading my paper. I don't listen to music or watch movies or read; it is my socialization. I'm listening to Chocolate Rain and I apologize for my fragmented thoughts. It is so catchy! And fragmented is the only way they come. I cannot claim to feel good about my paper, but it did make them feel bad about their own, embarrassed one even. Certainly not my intention, although they seemed to enjoy it, laughing at comments about being that Don't tase me, bro! guy and my candid reflections of how incredibly unhip I am with my grand total of 22 MySpace friends. I shoved my foot quite forcefully into my mouth when the query what media don't we like was proposed. I started going off about ABC's fall lineup, which is terrible. I wish I hadn't of done that, I thought it was going really well up until that point. I'm not a very competent speaker, even when reading a simple paper I wrote, I tend to stammer and trip, to my embarrassment. I'm even worse when I haven't written anything down. I just spin my tires in the mud, so I don't comment much in class. If the instructor asks me to elaborate, I'm dead in the water. It's easier to blend in.
Given that there was such a consensus that MySpace is the new black perhaps I will add some of the people from my journalism class in as MySpace friends! Because I really have a lot to offer..
In reality, I don't support many Disney products, with perhaps Pixar movies being an exception; although they do pimp those children's toys pretty hard. Shamelessly, in fact. A whole seven years after the last episode of the franchise, although they are offering free shipping. Apparently, they are making a new one. I liked Patrick Warburton as the voice of Buzz Lightyear better than Tim Allen. But what can I do? I am but a lowly consumer whore.

I've put some effort in not attracting attention with my nondescript wardrobe, but today I got pegged as wholesome. Wholesome. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I certainly don't feel wholesome. Kinda sweaty, really. But I am wearing several layers.

"Are you a mormon?" A peer asked. I responded, "My family is." Was that the correct response? I think about things too much.

I can't believe...I made an LOLcats joke when we were discussing in our little group! WHAT HAVE I DONE??!

Oh, you are such a fool, Derek. Such a fool.

I also completely confused the Rock Creek and Capital Center campuses in my head, so I didn't ride the bus like I had planned, but since I had already left my house I got to Sylvannia early and got to catch some Z's. I'll have to make arrangements for next time. Again, supporting the above thesis.

Media Log: The Rumination

Twice a week I shuffle between classes to edify myself. Seven days a week, I am a media junkie. Each morning I graze on the singsong tones of NPR’s Morning Edition that flutter down into my dreams. Some mornings I listen intently to Steve and Renée, others are marked by a poignant sensation of déjà vu. Cartoons augment Saturday mornings with siblings; days beginning with ‘T’ will feature a silent commute and television in the evening. I’ll listen to the Rick Emerson Show, if time allows, or watch an odd episode of The Office on DVD, but the majority of media devotion belongs to the Internet. The twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth were no exception to this habitude.

I come from a religious family that uses a special brand of DVD player that skips scenes deemed inappropriate. I can count the number of rated R movies I’ve seen on my hands. I received a rather awkward assignment in the past week that involved watching media coverage from a 24-hour news outlet; I don’t have cable. I only have twenty-two MySpace friends, perhaps because I am a late adopter (although I have failed to adopt a trendy iPod at all). I haven’t set my radio to a commercial music station since my family made the leap to country music formats, although I will still listen to my extensive jazz collection when I have work to attend to. I would consider myself a media anomaly.

I have not found the college environment to be a significant variable in my media consumption nearly as much as other factors such as work and social schedules. Even as I write this reflection, I continue to check my RSS feeds for updates and browse Wikipedia between paragraphs. While some assignments provide me with excuses to listen to music, which I would not make otherwise, I would not consider classes to be the most substantial affect on my media consumption. I have noticed that my movie intake has decreased dramatically since I became single again and the corresponding free time has been relegated to other forms of media, primarily electronic entertainments with a slight increase in television engagements (possibly due to a new fall schedule).

I am very much entertainment oriented. Whatever medium, I hate the feeling stagnation that accompanies boredom. There is always some information conduit that can be tapped. Fortunately, most of the entertainment I desire can be procured through a series of tubes if I happen to miss the original broadcast. This applies to my favorite television and radio productions, as well as music, movies, and games if I sought them over peer-to-peer networks. I subscribe to a multitude of feeds through my customized Mozilla Firefox browser so I can be certain to check the latest updates of my favorite sites or avoid looking at outdated sites. I constantly reference various online encyclopedias and dictionaries as references when writing both assignments and weblog postings.

One of the most amazing applications of media is the ability to unite people in a common experience, whether watching a college student get tased, a presidential debate, an anticipated book release, or musical event. With so many diversifying venues to choose from, it becomes more difficult to choose which to invest in. Ultimately it comes down to content, but the medium greatly affects the freshness, which I value. Due to my distractible nature, I find both novels and movies difficult to appreciate without an invested interest. I enjoy the Internet and radio because of their flexibility and rapid responsive to a dynamic world at a pace television and print cannot match. I also find the static nature of most popular music to be restrictive. Reading and television require more resources to process to the fullest extent than both the Internet and radio that better facilitate multitasking and can be enjoyed both passive and actively. The Internet, and the radio to a much smaller extent, can be enjoyed both as an audience member and active participant. I would also afford music some of this comfort, but because I listen to it so infrequently and the prohibitive costs involved in consuming and producing music much less so. I must disclose that my favorite entertainment comes from the television as The Office, which I enjoy enough to schedule my week around. But the episodes are only new once (though always awesome), however, the Internet is almost always accessible and new. I also dislike commercials. And The Office is available online, with deleted scenes. Delicious.

Monday, October 08, 2007

Speaker City and More

I'm sure it's just a coincidence. They're drawing on the same inspirations, right? I mean, how many cow bell variations can there be? Compare yourself.

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Saturday, October 06, 2007

Gold!

I would like to donate to the NAQA.

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Friday, October 05, 2007

By G.O.B.!

I was looking for a midi version of the song by the same name and found:

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN