...That I have lost a friend but gained far more respect for myself than I've ever had before today. If there is anyone else in the world that has publicly denounced themselves as much as I have I'd be surprised. I don't always know what the right path is. I don't even consistently do what is right even when it's plain and clear. I can hate ( Read more... )

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It’s strange how we cannot completely rid ourselves of the desires to communicate, to be understood, to be admired, to be loved. These things have no significance in modern life yet we’re still drawn to them all the same by biological obsolescence. As I rock back and forth sitting in my bed I want so badly to detach from what I once felt so ( Read more... )

There’s a certain pointlessness to human interaction at times when no words serve to comfort and all advice merely illustrates what you should be doing but cannot. 

On a whim yesterday I was looking around online and was relatively excited to discover that Reason 4 has come out.   I had already been doing some tooling around in my 3.x installation yesterday working on something of no import and it was just the motivation I needed to do some housePCcleaning.  There is nothing really new, and nothing special.  ( Read more... )

War President

It's hard for me to look at the large version where I can clearly see the faces.  I get three seconds in and I just have to turn away.  Imagine if that's how we feel what it must be like for those who actually recognize one of them.  Be sure to read the "artist's statement" as well.

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First read:
Terror goes digital. With Canadian help

It's long but you really ought to read it in entirety.  This was linked by The Inquirer which was in turn linked by BroadBandReports this morning.  The very first BBR comment concluded:
We are in a war, and the "free speech at any cost" advocates are still living in the 18th century and are incapable ( Read more... )

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In Los Angeles, a service exists whereby viewers, in return for a monthly subscription, are paged every time a pursuit is being shown.
I share a genome with these turds?