No hits for "fucking love egg nog" on google! can you fucking believe that?? Well, I just have to say that I fucking love egg nog.
Saturday, January 3, 2004this page is my enemy:
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Friday, January 2, 2004
tetrapods made out of legos.
Tetrapods are gigantic concrete jacks that the Japanese government pays construction companies to build everywhere. Almost any beach you go to will have huge stacks of them everywhere, theoretically to stop erosion. They're incredibly ugly and obnoxious. They put them everywhere. The more of them I saw, the more infuriated I became.
Thursday, January 1, 2004I was just reading THE BIBLE and noticed that George W Bush totally fails to follow the words of JESUS:
Blessed are the merciful,George W Bush is not merciful. George W Bush is not a peacemaker. George W Bush believes in a tooth for a tooth, not in turning the other cheek. George W Bush does not love his enemy. matthew 5 - the beatitudes, Jesus' famous speech.
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Saturday, December 27, 2003So what I want you to do is I want you all to imagine two shapes in front of you. I wish I had a slide but of course this is radio. One of them imagine is a shattered piece of glass with jagged edges, the other is like an amoeba, it's got undulating curvy shapes. And one of them I'm going to call a bouba, and the other is kiki - which is which? Now the amazing thing is 98% of people will pick the shattered piece of glass with the jagged edges, and say oh that's a kiki, and the undulating amoeboid shape, oh that's a bouba, even though they have never seen the shape before.great cog sci lecture
Friday, December 26, 2003double o cuatro - do you know any other kennings for the year? One memorable one is "the nine sickle" for 97.
Hwæt', that all-purpose starting word of Old English poetry, has endured a number of different translations. I have seen 'Ay', 'Lo', 'Listen', 'So' and 'Now', but I propose a new word: 'Yo'. Both 'hwæt' and 'yo' are used to draw attention to the speaker so as to initiate an oral performance, and translating the first word of Beowulf with an interjection evoking modern African American pop culture would put readers in mind to see likenesses between the literatures of these two oral cultures. One generic similarity appears between the medieval Germanic flyting and modern rap music. The flyting is difficult to define and often difficult to identify; but for our purposes, we will consider it as a verbal exchange of boasts, insults, or some combination of both, delivered in a stylized, rhetorical form.link
Friday, December 19, 2003I went to "the onion holiday party" the other day. They had a couple comedians up on stage and one's voice was very familiar. Turns out it was the guy who played Ben on Dr Katz. I love that voice. Then one of those guys who progressively records more and more loops, while the old ones are on repeat, until there are like 10 different things going on at once. He was good. Then David Cross from Mr Show came on for a while.
Then the walkmen came on, they were great. Then Yo La Tengo. They played a bunch of old covers, sounded totally different than when I saw them before. Didn't play any album tracks until the very end.
They were in the middle of a song when suddenly, the lights flashed down and the music got all fucked up. Everyone looked around for a second confused, and then there was a loud bang and some lights and a speaker fell down from above the stage and hit the drummer! Then the bassist fell down and guys ran in and started putting him on a stretcher. Then David Cross jumped on stage and started doing play by play of Ira Kaufman having a heart attack, them all being taken off stage and then dying in the ambulance. Then they came back on stage dressed as angels and played their last song. It was great.
Behind the stage there were a bunch of paintings of jesus and nature scenes, but they didn't cover it completely, and you could see there was one part where you could see the letters "Dea" really big. You could see part of the next letter, and I had actually gone through all the letters trying to find what it matched to, but I couldn't decide. It could be a d, but that would be too morbid, even just having Dea up there is weird cause it references the DEA. So after Yo La Tengo "died" and came back, all the pictures fell down, revealing a copy of the onion article "37 Record store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster". Of course! It was so obvious, yet so great.
Thursday, December 18, 2003I spent years working for groups like "Evangelicals for Social Action" -- trying to get Christians to follow the Bible's teachings about justice and mercy for the poor, and the "Evangelical Environmental Network" -- trying to promote a stewardly care for God's creation. In that work I would frequently encounter rapture-maniac Christians of the LaHaye/Bush variety who seemed genuinely to believe that any such efforts to make the world a better place were contrary to the will of God as they understood it.link - amazingly great analysis of "left behind". via boingboingTo such people God's will was for the world to spiral downwards into chaos and ever-increasing suffering. Such a view leads these Christians to pursue the opposite of what Jesus taught. It is, in one word, "Anti-Christ."
Monday, December 15, 2003
Sunday, December 14, 2003BLESSINGS of the FEMALE BREASTS The Song of Solomon is an allegorical poem about sex, written by an unknown young girl and man to women of Jerusalem, Israel.By today’s standards the “Song of Solomon” is a book of pornography, and not suitable for adolescents to read.
This twenty-second volume of the King James Old Testament Bible, is for those eighteen years of age or older to study.
Preachers use the Song of Solomon’ eight chapters for secular, sexual and simple anatomical counseling.
It has not been proven Solomon wrote this book, also the name God or Lord is not mentioned in it.
Due to its secular content, many scholars question its right to be in the Holy Bible.
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When men look upon a girl’s ample soft BREASTS, it is with happiness and should be.
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SON 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of SPICED WINE of the JUICE of my POMEGRANATE.
Sunday, December 14, 2003
The most amazing fact about pomegranates is that 365 seeds are consistently found in the fruit. This is always true, just like 365 days occur during a yearsong of solomon, from the bible:3 Your lips are like a crimson thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil. 4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses; on it hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors. 5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.Pomegranite: Woah this does bring back memories. It is an understatement to say this is awkward to eat. The rankings for all the fruit listed on this page do /not/ take into account ease of eating (or peeling) which is why the Pomegranite scores so highly, but it would certainly score lower if this factor was taken into account. You open the thing up and there's an inedible 'pulp skeleton' with loads of small seeds roughly on the inside. So where's the fruit you may ask? Well, believe it or not, the fruit is contained in a very small 'bag' around each seed. So all you have to do is take out each seed and painfully bite around each one. It's a bit like eating hundreds of tiny plums! Taste is a cross between redcurrant, cherry and orange. If microsoft ever designed a fruit, the Pomegranite would surely be it.
Sunday, December 14, 2003physics movies Really amazing animated physics charts. Go up a dir from there for a whole bunch more.
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Q: How many moves ahead you read before you play a move? A: Usually professional players, including me, read around 100 moves ahead. But that's not the case for every move. First select 10 candidate moves and then read ahead for each of them. After reading ahead 20 to 30 moves for a candidate move, one could reach a tentative conclusion like "this is a bad shape" or simply "this is not it." At that point, I stop any further reading for that candidate move and look for another. This is a process of elimination that ususally leaves one or two candidate moves. For each of these final candidate moves, I read ahead about 100 moves. This might surprise amateur players, but the more difficult thing is not reading ahead 100 moves, but deciding which of the final cadidate moves gives a better result. .... The most painful moment is when I realize that I am on the wrong way a few move after my original decision. That gives me an agony beyond description. People call me "Stone Buddha" for my lack of facial expression during games. But you will notice some changes in my face when I am in a bad situation. You have to look at my face carefully...
interview with Lee ChangHo, the strongest go player in the world He makes a good point that reading ability is the most important element of go. A lot of american players suck at reading and want to focus on fuzzy stuff. But like chess, ultimately go is a computation and there are no guidelines for playing outside of what works. The really interesting part of go is that there are so many general rules for how to play which do work well, until you get to the very highest levels. That's totally unlike chess; there seem to be very few general guidelines for chess beyond "control the center" and "take profit". Go has hundreds of rules about what is good shape, opening theory etc that kind of fit in between the actual rules of the game at the low end, and the ultimate game at the other end, which is just computation.
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Displaying a colorful gamut of emotions combined with revealing personal secrets, which always works nicely to get to know new people in the West, is utterly useless here. So as a good gaijin with the best of intentions you come away with a flea in your ear for a couple of times and get looked at as if you come from Mars, before you learn that in Japan 'doing something' together is the social cement that builds and maintains friendships, and that words and emotions can almost be dismissed as accidental.The story of Catalin Taranu, a Rumanian guy who gets into go seriously at age 16 and ends up going to Japan as an insei and becomes 5p. He went from kyu levels to 4dan in 1 year. Starting at age 16 is incredibly late for someone who's risen as high as he has. His comments about will and mental power in go are also interesting.
Sunday, December 14, 2003link - this site is like dictionaraoke, but instead of using computer generated voices, he takes snips from pop songs for each word. So you type in anything and hundreds of little snippets sing it back to you. Nice. Via memepool.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Nice job. US maps with county borders but no state borders are great.
Who knew there was so much going on in Idaho?
Indeed.
what was the debate that decided these county names? When's the last time in the us when a county or a state border changed?
don't get it. Little rabbit dolls from japan that cost like 60$. Also they're mummies.
Some good engrish. Which will win out, Engrish or Japlish, to refer to Japanese English? Engrish seems better.
That looks fun.
Trashcanman.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
A modest metropolitan area (roughly 500,000 people) named after some of my favorite music, especially the works and members of Genesis, whose albums Abacab (1981) and Duke (1980) are my two favorite albums by any artist.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
MoveOn Org's party night. Last week they sent out a bunch of DVDs to people, and today those ppl opened up their houses to anybody who wanted to come and watch the movie, "Uncovered", about the Iraq war. I went to one in hoboken. It was good, it was nice to talk to people about how terrible and corrupt Bush is, instead of constantly seething with rage and only hearing about it on the internet. The link is to the most awesome flash thing I've ever seen, a nice zooming map of the united states that's just perfectly done.
Sunday, December 7, 2003
I go to Sam Sloan's page sometimes and wonder, is he schizophrenic? He claims to be a chess grandmaster and have 8 children and many wives around the world. He claims that he argued a case before the US supreme court, and that one of his daughters was kidnapped and is being held by a christian cult. I don't know what to make of it.
Sam's Beauty Contest for FIDE Female Chess Players, Photos of Japanese Female Go Players - The 16 top ranked players. I looked him up and someone named sam sloan really did get a lot of votes in a USCF election. Also someone of that name did argue before the US supreme court. Also I wonder what program he uses to organize his pages, I want it.
Sunday, December 7, 2003
Jorn Barger has been found. I was wondering why he hadn't updated robot wisdom in a while.
Friday, December 5, 2003bookmarklets
bookmarklets are fucking awesome.
up a directory moves you up a directory in the hierarchy of the site you're viewing. good if someone hasn't put backlinks.
increment finds the last number in the URL of the current page and increments it.
decrement finds the last number in the URL of the current page and decrements it.
linked images opens a new window in the background that has all the jpg images inline.
linked images is particularly useful - if somebody's linked 50 thumbnailed jpgs from a page and you don't want to click on them all, just click this one and a new page of goodness opens up.
also it's useful for snooping people's directories. none of them work from here, but drag them to your little personal toolbar that's probably already filled with crap.
Friday, December 5, 2003
High School Girl Uniforms divided by school, and by which subway line you're likely to see them on!!!
Friday, December 5, 2003
arty pictures of japanese schoolgirls. so amazingly wonderful. the us is very different, the only high school age girls you ever see here are on tv. but in japan you see hundreds every day, because everyone's gotta ride the same train.
Friday, December 5, 2003
UMBRELLA CLUB The first rule of umbrella club is you don't talk about umbrella club. The second rule of umbrella club is you don't talk about umbrella club. Third rule: when you forget your umbrella, you take someone else¡Çs. Fourth rule: When someone else forgets their umbrella, they take yours. An epic journey of self-discovery and cultural awareness.- funny stuff about Japan.
Friday, December 5, 2003
At first I was going to make fun of cosplayers a lot, to compensate for watching some anime lately. But I don't think I will.
Yatta Boys. When I was in Japan I saw this show documenting these guys appearance on some shitty late night talk show, that one with the guy who used to be on the man show. It was sad to see them being made fun of.
so gross
so I used to play this game a lot, like obsessively. I'd seen a picture in a magazine that someone got a time of 1'59" 99/100 on this one track, "mute city". So I played and played and eventually got down to within a tenth of a second of it. Then once I got 2 minutes flat, and that was the end.
So I looked up the game again yesterday for the first time in years, and found the high score table. Turns out there's a big "scene", and people had even sent in their pictures!
There appears to be a fzero player type:
is that a bong in the background?
over 50% have spiky hair. under 50% are smiling, although most of them are close.
Suggesting that the US should split up into two parts might be treason, and I'd never commit treason - but I do think that if it did, the south would immediately self destruct, and the rest would be so wonderful.
doesn't that look nice?
pictures from that japanese sketch comedy show "warai inu" = laughing dog. a lot of their costumes would go over really well at burning man.
koizumi, prime minister of Japan. He's a cool guy, apparently he speak great english and is super charismatic too.
don't get too happy or self confident though - it's people like you that put jesus on the cross.
everyone is pierced!!!
a leftover image from my "holy fucking shit" search.
this is so great.
Thursday, December 4, 2003Gianna G is the new queen of the internet. She has a very playful attitude without a touch of shyness. She comes to the web with a very shapely body and breast that will have your mouth watering.LINK
Thursday, December 4, 2003FLCL - a really awesome show. Watching it makes me feel like I do when I watch Jackass and they're riding shopping carts into bushes. Movement in FLCL is similarly violent but pleasing. Watching it makes me feel like a superman. Lots of things flying while rotating in slomo. I just watched an episode where a moped cuts off some cars and they all start flipping while flying forward, then the moped knocks a kid into the air and he's going towards a girl, right before they hit it goes into a "first kiss" kind of zoom-in eyes glistening closeup. I don't know what it is but it really works.
The main character often extrudes robots out of his head.
Also the music is good.
Friday, November 28, 2003
Something awful is great.
Thursday, November 27, 2003
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003WFMU Schedule commented by me.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
This is from a japanese sketch comedy show. For part of the show they'd put on these awesome costumes and play various games, with a different celebrity judge each week. One game involved having to follow a rhyme pattern in time. The central person would say a 3 syllable word, then the next person would have to follow with 3 syllables of what it'd sound like - the game took into account the awesome array of sound words in japanese. If you messed up the judge would buzz you and you'd fight, either by explaining your creative interpretatin or claiming that you were talking about one of the homonyms, which there are tons of in Japanese. If you lost 3 times you'd have to do "batsu game" which is like a dare in truth or dare. Something like sing a stupid song.
In another game, 6 people sat around in a circle. After saying a beginning rhyme, at any time any one of them could say "one little sprout" while raising their hands. Then anyone else could say "two little sprouts", until they'd all said it. If you were the last one left you lost. BUT, also if you talked at the same time as anyone else, you both lose. So you want to go early, but you have to balance that. It was an interesting game.
yes.
nice beard jesus.
apparently a map of wind change... can anyone actually read this map? those little tornado zones look fun.
china's provinces are more evenly distributed than those in the US. don't have those silly straight lines.
baja is a big peninsula.
I bet there's ferries going across it. I notice how ciudad insurgentes is right next to ciudad constitucion.
sweet
Just cause a lot of republicans are impressed with this doesn't mean it isn't really fucking cool.
nice false color.
fucking cool.
washington dc.
Can you name these countries?
um, ok. the one one the left looks cro magnon.
We made it to mars!
The moon is fucking cool
We made it to the moon! Can you believe that? I mean look how shitty computers were in the 70s, it's just amazing. That must have been so fun. I could have just picked up moon rocks and thrown them around for hours. That game where you throw one rock up and then try to hit it with another while it's still in the air would be fun. Also it would have been fun to get a sense of how rocks behave without friction.
Sweet, sweet moon.
god damn.
so many aliens.
I would be tempted to only write words that have those crazy long descending lines. It looks really fun.
I looked for itunes top 25 playlists but I couldn't find any. amazing.
at first i didn't notice, but why has this guy blocked out the name of his ipod? weird.
This is mine.
I'd like to see an animated version.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
