Schism Matrix

I'm now attempting to avoid letting this build up so much, and as this has been a week of cool stuff, here's one of these posts

• Victorian Pac-Man strip


• Flowchart for 'Small talk with a web designer', which also occasionally unfortunately applies to us generalised computer folk as well...


• Doctor Who themed cat poster!


• Oh Xkcd, you do temp us so with strips on fetishes and Gödel


• Results of the Register doing a competition for a sign about old people

What's new?  I will answer my own question.  The weekend was a busy affair, moving Allison in to her new place, discovering a cafe paradiso, taking rush trips to Target with F1 pit crew precision, acquiring a new watch (specifically, a Lego Darth Vader watch), Fables 75, a two night visit from Sister, learning of the 360 price drop, graduating my roommate also into the position of computer accountability partner, who thereby frequents my room to cancel the 18 hour WoW download I subsequently restart upon his exit.  If he can do this for 14 days, I'm out of the woods.  And I've decided Spore looks pointless.

One strangely poetic moment was discovering Mitsuwa, the Japanese department store.  It's very authentic, and hasn't undergone all the dreadful Americanization I'd feared.  Walking through the aisles, seeing Sapporo Poteto, Puchyo, and Ramune, and miraculously rediscovering the curry I'd last said a tearful goodbye to in Osaka, gave me a warm sense of connection to that most standalone segment of my life.  The best I can describe it is like living fully, dying, being reincarnated elsewhere under different conditions as a totally different person, and then finding something from your former life. Or it's like Aaron Carter's "How I  Beat Shaq," where he dreams he beats Shaq in a game of one-on-one only to learn it was all a dream when his mom tells him to go to school.  "But if it was a dream, and if it wasn't real.... then how'd I get this jersey with the name O'Neill?"  ......  It's just like that, I say.  

Continuing with my reading of gender-aware fiction, I'm plowing through Ursula K LeGuin's Hugo-award winner, the Left Hand of Darkness, about a visitor to an alien planet, Gethen, the populous of which is 4/5ths of the time lacking gender, and then during "kemmer" can acquire sexual organs of either gender and gain the ability to reproduce for a short time.  They see static gender identity as perverted and profane.  And they don't have war.  LeGuin's on to something.  Most of the book's actually about an inter-continental political intrigue, by the way. 

A formula that will be on the test:

Re-watching Spaced > not re-watching Spaced

What did I tweet today?

• 19:08 Lazy Saturday. What does that even mean? #

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Писец, купила себе строгие брюки, ботильоны какие-то на высоченном каблке, сумку кожаную!!!  Хоть на духах оторвалась Хиппи физ называются, вроде прикольные))
А вчера были на Пушке с Дэном, Элвисорм и еще кем-то. Потом фото выложу из серии "мои друзья дебилы", может и сейчас ваыложу не знаю.
С утра как посмеешься потом все так лень.
А еще сегодня собрались на винзавод и мамулек. Жизнь ключом бьет

Just as Intention and Lowliness, Kavanah and Shiflut, lead to Stillness and Silence, Damam and Hacah, Damam and Hacah lead to Action and Words.  Action is Ritual, and the Hebrew word 'Asah best describes it.  Words are to Prophesy, Naba'.

'Asah is the Hebrew word for "to do, fashion, accomplish, make" and can mean "to do", "to work", "to make", "to produce", "to deal (with)", "to act", "to effect", "to prepare", "to make (an offering)", "to attend to", "to put in order", "to observe", "to celebrate", "to aquire (property)", "to appoint", "to ordain", "to institute", "to bring about", "to use", "to spend", "to pass", "to be done", "to be made", "to be produced", "to be offered", "to be observed", "to be used", "to press", or "to squeeze".  Basically, if it's an action, it's 'Asah.  A Ritual is an Action done as an act of worship.  Ritual comes out of Stillness, out of Damam, and leads to Kavanah, Intention.

Naba' is the Hebrew word for "to prophesy" or "to be under the influence of divine spirit".  Words spoken out of Silence are Naba'.  Naba' are the words of the Divine spoken through man.  This leads back to Shilflut, Lowliness.

-ken-

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10034455-71.html
dig the John Cleese rip:
"It was as if Mr. Gates relished the thought of rectifying some of his own miscalculations of the past, while Mr. Seinfeld simply sleepwalked a little like John Cleese through the post-Fish Called Wanda part of his career."

• 15:59 Ah, busses on home game days. Packt like sardines in a crushd tin box (i should listen to that song) #
• 16:58 One of my neighbors is playing "The Flight of the Valkyries" on a horned instrument that I can't for sure place but sounds like a trumpet. #
• 17:00 It has to be a trombone. I'm kind of tempted to go find out. #

LT.

An update on health and whatnot:

Spent today cleaning with The Babe while I recovered from last night's little alergic reaction and infection. We got the kitchen and bathroom cleaned out, moved a bunch of boxes to storage thanks to a kind neighbor, and discovered we didn't have to clean the entire place since these are roaches rather then flees.

I've now taken the new antibiotics, it's been about an hour or two and my eyes aren't swollen shut. This could be a good thing.

Now I'm in the mood to go out to eat with The Babe, we haven't had a Date Night in ages and I've missed her what with her training and my illness. Now that I'm feeling better I think it's time for a little night on the town don't you?

Stay Classy Children!

OMFGWTFF and especially LOL: actual discussion about Sarah Palin's actual responsibilities as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska:


...The story about Wasilla’s relatively enormous debt burden that Palin left the town with from her time as mayor has to give Palinites pause. If the idea is that she can do for the federal budget what she did for Wasilla’s, the possibility that she might well become President at some point in the next four years is unsettling. We are indeed, as Peggy Noonan quoted, a nation of Wasillas, and this is even more true when you consider our tendency to spend money we don’t have. Yes, Sarah Palin really is one of us when it comes to getting irresponsibly buried in debt – or, in this case, getting other people irresponsibly buried in debt. Mind you, this is the same mayor whose town received $27 million in earmarked federal funding, and thanks to her projects the town is now $20 million in debt. In carrying out some of those “actual responsibilities” Palin talked about on Wednesday, it seems that she made a hash of things in her drive to have a hockey rink/athletic facility built in the town. Because of what appear to be avoidable blunders (in particular, the failure of the city to sign the appropriate documents relating to the purchase of the needed land), the result for the town came in the form of higher costs, litigation, considerable lawyers’ fees and a pile of debt (...) In addition to the considerable amount of debt that Wasilla’s voters took on with the bond issue to pay for the facility, costs from the project continue to mount (...) After Palin left office, the town finally acquired the land through eminent domain. The property had already been purchased by someone else while the town dawdled in finalizing the deal with the Nature Conservancy, and in order to settle with the owner the town had to pay more than $700,000 extra plus interest for the same parcel of land that they had originally negotiated to acquire years before. Remember that this is one of the major accomplishments (sic) of Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor.


-- Daniel Larison, Eumonia, "A reformer with bad results"

Paint over exercise- you take a picture as a base and paint it all over as the original or with modifications.

Digital acrylic with Artweaver. Paint is a medium I don't like to work with, but digital painting is pretty awesome! ^^

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Let the snickering begin!

And as a bonus:

My new desk is awesome, but it is quite a bit taller than the old one. Now I need a new office chair so as to be in an ergonomic position whilst typing (I just finished hooking everything up last night). Of course that will mean I will be substantially higher than the TV, the armchair, etc. I feel like this could turn into an escalating war of furniture height, and I will end up with my head scraping the ceiling.