THIS is a man who inspires me to emulate his passion. I feel akin to his raw style. I've tried to be a manipulator, a dominator, a pleader, a logician, a magician. But in the end I am left with only myself; a no-good wise guy who gives good advice and makes bad decisions. Sometimes all ya got left is honesty, and sometimes that's what makes for the ( Read more... )

I consider myself mostly past significant religious and philosophical debate, yet I still yearn for the company of those fringe personae who stimulated me so much in my younger life.

... Maybe it's time to start questioning again.

My friends, I have used the Zeitgeist tag for years now, but I want to take a moment to say that YouTube has now managed to take a well-earned #3 spot in "THIS IS MY ZEITGEIST SONG" list.

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#2 is Dan Meth's "Internet People."

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#1 will remain Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

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I've been commenting on reddit lately, but occasionally I want something for my long-term archives ( Read more... )

It started with this.

(2:11:15 AM) infintysquared: Yeah, there's some software on which you really need a class to train you.
(2:11:33 AM) Zoopy Mac: Oh, pff, no. Me and art programs get along fine.I dig, but music programs are all over the place with UI. Fortunately I'm adaptable because I've been doin' that for years on multiple software ( Read more... )

Yesterday I auditioned for the park district's one-act play, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." I put my name in for the part of Einstein, because I knew I could do a decent German accent and could pull enough intellectual bluster to make it believable ( Read more... )

Remembrances:

When I was nine, I was a huge turtle-head. Had the whole bedroom set plus the framed poster on the wall, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness was the worldbook that got me into dice-RPGs ( Read more... )

This video has been passing around my friends, it's demonstrating a new coating that's both hydrophobic and oleophobic to an amazing degree.

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So yeah, amazing stuff. But the guy who sent it to me was SO FUCKING BLOWN AWAY that you could break the rule of "Things put in water get wet." I just had to pull the 'My generation is awsomer than your ( Read more... )

I was cruising /r/busking, and a Grade 12 student popped up doing Busking as the topic of his research project. He asked to interview a few of us, and a few of us volunteered.

... I wound up writing the kid a five and a half page essay. When I do that kind of thing, I feel it's probably worth saving for my archives and sharing further.
Here are ( Read more... )

Memories are bubbling up this morning, and it seems to be storytime. Here's what I wrote as a Facebook comment reply, but it'll get clipped because it's too long for a Facebook comment. So here it is on LiveJournal, where it's an average-to-short post. Hooray, social context ( Read more... )