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October 02, 2005
Sometimes I wish this was a spoken medium, rather than a written one. Yeah, there are podcasts and so forth, but you as a listener still have to click something. I can't just assault your ears on a whim. The way I want to. GREASE! CHEESE! ZEPPELIN RULES!!! JESUS WANTS TO GIVE YOU HEAD!!! ARGH! MFrglkBLBURBLE! FAK! FAK! I mean, that's hardly satisfying, is it? October 03, 2005
Idle Brains
October 07, 2005
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October 09, 2005
So, I decided to kill myself with a shotgun for the good of humanity, and because I lacked dairy products. As a final request, I wanted my remains put into a brand - name Ziploc bag and buried somewhere in Appalachia. On a lark, I translated my suicide note into French, using an AI translation bot. Using the same bot, I translated the French into German, and then back into English. I got: I must mine explode let head. I make this in the name of whole mankind, and, because I am outside of the cheese. If you mean bodies would find, please all becoming lumpy it in a bag of Ziploc of the indication name does not collect one of these cheap imitations and any part in Appalachia bury. Well, when I saw that, I decided that it didn't make much sense to kill myself. So, I wrote a declaration is support of life! This, I asked the bot to translate into Chinese, then back into English: I want to live! The life is the best all matters, no matter my edible cheese. Therefore I invest my hunting rifle, is full with the solution housing! Clearly, I made the right choice. October 10, 2005
Idle Brains
Unless, of course, it's true, in which case, I for one welcome our new tectonically powerful overlords. October 17, 2005
Idle Brains
October 23, 2005
The site's been down since Wednesday due to server trouble at my hosting company. Not that I would have written anything anyway, due to brain trouble at my skull. Performance for both the site and my brain continues to be a bit spotty. With luck, the hosting company will get things running smoothly next week. Not much I can do about the brain, though. October 24, 2005
Idle Brains
October 25, 2005
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Idle Brains
October 26, 2005
Idle Brains
Observing the "2,000 dead soldiers" event, Andrew Sullivan characterizes the positives in the Iraq campaign and the broader war. I've arranged his points into a handy bullet list, thus:
He then writes, The fact that the administration has made countless, terrible errors in the aftermath of the invasion and miscalculated badly on how the Baathists and Jihadists would fight back, should not distract us from these underlying realities. Given the positive results he describes... what, exactly, are the consequences of these "countless, terrible errors?" Does he believe that we could have achieved more positive results? That we could have achieved the same results sooner? Or, perhaps, with fewer flag - draped caskets? I asked him these questions, but haven't heard back from him just yet. I probably won't... I offended him in our last e - mail exchange by suggesting that his animus towards the administration, as reflected in his snarky tone and his frequent use of the kind of rhetoric he claimed to despise in 2001 - 2002, was motivated by Bush's betrayal of him as a gay man. Later that same week, he wrote: Maybe the fact that I once truly did buy into this makes me more jaundiced today. I really wanted the man to succeed; believed he could; and, given the stakes, I felt it was almost irresponsible not to support him in the war and defend him from his worst and least principled critics (most of whom still make me retch). If so, filter my current negativism through the prism of my previous enthusiasm. Maybe I'm over - reacting. Probably be a coincidence, although I'm sure he'd never admit that I might've had any influence on him whatsoever. But there you are.
[I'm still having some server side Perl issues. For the moment, Comments will throw an error when you post them, but they'll post to the site after I run Rebuild Site from the Movable Type console.] October 27, 2005
Idle Brains
If your hand hasn't gone bad yet, necessitating its removal by chainsaw, and if you can find a printer that will output onto human skin, you can put together your own Necronomicon. [Via boingboing.] October 28, 2005
Idle Brains
October 30, 2005
Mr. Sullivan on the New York Times' reliability on Thursday: If the New York Times' version is correct (a big 'if' these days), then it seems to me to be a pretty horrible scenario for the president. And, Mr. Sullivan using the New York Times as a sole source on Saturday: The president plans no changes, no major staff shake - ups and hopes to weather the storm. Not surprising, but maddening for anyone who wishes this country well. What a difference a couple of days and an agreeable source makes. I promised myself I wouldn't keep posting things like this. But he makes it so easy... October 31, 2005
Idle Brains
Sure, Iran can have nukes, why not! What could possibly go wrong? Meanwhile, knee - jerk idealists like Cory Doctorow continue to believe that Iran is just a misunderstood democratic jewel in the desert. I would like to see Mr. Doctorow explain how this: Iran has one of the only condom factories in the Middle East, and actively encourages contraception as a means of family planning. is somehow more significant than this: We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo - Saxon civilization... we must make use of everything we have at hand to strike at this front by means of our suicide operations or by means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them. I'll wait.
It is appropriate, on this All Hallow's Eve (during which I will be hiding from the children, or shooting them, depending on how I feel), to tell more tales of the vicious life - sucking Cyborg Chomskybat! Read, and be chilled by the thought of a walking pustule so infected by language that he is no longer human. Gives me the willies, it does. 
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I think the moonbats have finally taken over at the New York Times... this really goes beyond the regular sort of tin foil hattery we've come to expect from the Formerly Gray Lady.