More movies need to include scenes of Tom Cruise playing an out-of-shape jewish asshole dancing to shitty hip-hop.

Note the astounding lack of keywords that other reviews might have included:
- jungle
- fake
- Ben Stiller
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Jack Black
- black
- face
- guns

... because none of that matters. 

That I am awesome. I was so prepared to stew in my own pathetic nature, but I decided that tonight is awesome. I am sitting in an empty house, climate: comfortable. I am wearing my jujutsu pants, which are also comfortable. My belly is full, I have a Pandora radio station set to acoustic guitar, and I am reading science fiction.

Later tonight ( Read more... )

Ok the title of the post was a bit of a misnomer.  Really, this post is about limits.  I want to know the limits of the mind's ability to shift the functions of the brain.  I am painfully aware I dicked around with various assumptions in that statement.  I want to know how "I", in all its philosophical implications, can influence the levels of ( Read more... )

How not to parachute more cats:

http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/AboutRMI/G96-01_ParaCats.pdf

http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/07/moores_beach_monster.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=toplink

And nothing cool ever happened there since :-P

OMG this is so fucking candy-ass.  After getting online to see what options are out there for purchasing electric cars, I see that the enviro-blogosphere is going apeshit about the bright future ahead of us.  They name ten different manufacturers, all of whom have vehicles "in development" and will come out "next year" or some fucking horseshit ( Read more... )

Well I think
as designers
we realize that design is a signal of intention
but it also has to occur
within a world
and we have to understand that world
in order to imbue our designs
with inherent intelligence
so when we look back
at the basic state of affairs
in which we design
we, in a way, need to go
to the primordial condition
to understand the ( Read more... )

I just make cool ass LJ icons referencing the most geeky subdivision of nerddom ever.

There's a quote in The Sparrow something along the lines of, "If your body was someone else, you would be guilty of assault ( Read more... )

So I realized that I should probably update a little bit about the person I've become as of late. I feel like in the last year, I've become more narrowly focused. Refined my interests, my interactions, my mental processes. Whiddled away certain emotions, or perhaps they have morphed into other ones ( Read more... )