Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Lamosity Can I say something? "Myth Busters" is FUCKKING LAME!!! 10:40:16 PM    comment [] Radio Crappage Just in case I forget it and my drive dies. My Radio 8.0.8 userid is 0105907. I.O.N, my machine just hung up on me and won't boot back up (iBook). I thought it had kicked the bucket, but after a leaving it turned off for a little while, I was able to boot it back up. So I copied about 6.5 Gigs worth of stuff to my external disk. Hopefully the Lacie won't crap out while I try to get a replacement drive. I think Radio is the jinx. Every time I use it, the drive or my laptop dies. Not sure if its the Radio, but it crashed when I tried to wake radio up.. so there.. it prolly had something to do with it.. but then again my ibook is crapping out and I think its because of the "security" updates. I think its really asinine of Apple that we have to pay 179 for panther and another couple hundred for tiger. Apparently, there is not direct upgrade path. W.T.F ??? 10:29:35 PM    comment [] Top 25 Most Recently Played Name Artist Mosul Muslimgauze This Could be a Good Thing - Jan0505 LninYo The Boogie Man Song Mos Def Freaky Black Greetings Mos Def War Mos Def Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles) Feat. Minnesota Mos Def Blue Black Jack Mos Def The Rape Over Mos Def Close Edge Mos Def The Panties Mos Def Sex, Love, And Money Mos Def Ghetto Rock Mos Def Intro Mos Def Pres. Medina Green Excellence Mos Def Pres. Medina Green Modern Marvel Mos Def The Easy Spell Mos Def Sunshine Mos Def Rock With You Michael Jackson Remember The Time Michael Jackson Pretty Young Thing (Demo) Michael Jackson On The Line Michael Jackson Off The Wall Michael Jackson Monkey Business Michael Jackson Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson Lovely One Michael Jackson 4:41:49 PM    comment [] This could be a GOOD thing I finished Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies the other day. Very interesting read. Its just amazing and mind boggling. He calls Cheney an Asshole, but not in so many words. Apparently, on 9/11, Dickie, his wife, and rice and some aides were in some bunker and Richard Clarke kept calling the bunker, but someone would hang up on him as soon as he heard Richard's voice. so he called up the second time and an aide picked up. Richard asked "Who was that asshole who just hung up?" and the aide told him "It was Vice President Cheney". Long story short, I think its amazing that something as horrific as 911 has happened, but Dick was still playing some games pulling Rank or some shit like that. And it also sounds like Richard Clarke was actually running the show and coordinating the response from the situation room, as these pillars of the government saved their asses in a concrete bunker somewhere. What is ironic is that Richard Clarke is actually not such a "bleeding heart" liberal or anything, which is pretty much a term that most wrong wingers generally use to attack their even mildly liberal opponents. He's actually a regular hawk! ("No to Kyoto" type) But even he seems like a towering genius and a posterboy for moderation when compared to the idiocy and hubris of the PaleoCons surrounding (and insulating from reality) the idiot who they won't let alone even for a moment. Its almost as if an invalid had been made to take charge of the Caliphate while being controlled by the Pashas. The problem is that the Republicans have been hijacked by the NeoCons and are just in frikkin denial now. I just saw a book by Pat Buchanan which basically claims the same thing. How's that for Irony Mr. Buchanan? Finally to get out-maneuvered in the most humiliating of ways. Bravo Wolfowitz, Bravo Rumsfeld, Bravo Perle, (Bravo Wolf Blitzer? Bravo Rupert Murdoch?) I still tend to believe that these are the final days of the American Republic. Oh Well... The King is Dead. Long Live the Pashas! 10:53:25 AM    comment [] The trouble with.. ummm... wait a minute.. Alireza has a link to a very interesting sounding book. By Richard W. Bulliet titled The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization Due to the kind of Islamophobic monoculture of the books that is now the monopoly called Chindigo, I probably will NEVER find it in the local indigo. Even though Irshad Manji's fecalistic book still adorns their shelves (agenda? oh no.. how could Heather have an agenda?) Maybe the Toronto Reference Lib will get a copy. Until Heather Ricemann takes that over too (private library? we need market competition in libraries.. bring on the monoculture of ideas) for a very convenient price. Anyhoo, here are some exerpts: On "clash of civilizations" "Civilizations that are destined to clash cannot seek together a common future. Like Mathews´ Islam, Huntington´s Islam is beyond redemption. The strain of Protestant American thought that both men are heir to, pronounces against Islam the same self-righteous and unequivocal sentence of [OE]otherness´ that American Protestants once visited upon Catholics and Jews." On "what went wrong" "The idea that people in the Middle East once embraced the goal of becoming like Europe and hoped that by adopting European ideas and institutions they would someday experience all of the liberal values we recognize in the Europe of today is nonsense. It assumes a historical outcome for Europe itself that no one even in Europe could have predicted." On "why do they hate us" "Those who advanced the Japanese occupation as a model for postwar Iraq seem to have baseball, Hello Kitty, and Elvis impersonators in the back of their minds rather than headscarves and turbaned mullahs. . . . Like latter day missionaries, we want the Muslims to love us, not just for what we can offer in the way of a technological society but for who we are -for our values. But we refuse to countenance the thought of loving them for their values." On Islam´s ideological shortcomings "Jim Jones, David Koresh, and Meir Kahane do not typify Christianity and Judaism in the eyes of the civilized West but those same eyes are prone to see Osama bin Laden and Mullah Muhammad Omar as typifying Islam." On Middle East studies "The founders of Middle East studies ignored recommendations that they focus on contemporary Islam and focused instead on Middle Easterners trying to act like westerners. There weren´t a lot of these, just as there hadn´t been a lot of converts, but the conviction was strong that those few would be pioneers in bringing western modernity to the region . . . The people we supported as agents of modernity became tyrants." In other news, I put another hold on Edward Said's book "Orientalism". they frikkin made me wait for 4 months and then called me up when I was out of town. Now the lady said that there were 4 ppl ahead of me, so I asked here to renew the hold. Lets see how this pans out. 10:30:05 AM    comment [] wow! If this doesn't blow your mind for at least a couple of minutes, I don't know what will. hint: A couple thousand year old animation on a clay jar. Actually its pretty amazing. And now that I've read about it, I wonder why more potters didn't do it? I mean you have the circular motion of the vessel, the design that can be animated right there, why did it take until a century or so ago to realize the animation principle? beats me. 1:28:51 AM    comment [] podcasting rant rant rant drift drift drift tangent tangent tangent Note: to see more of these gems, go to Podcast.Net. Some of the ones I listend to tonight are below (Winer's actually I listened to thru my radio aggregator) dave winer: doesn't really _sound_ like an asshole. I don't remember why I was so pissed off with him (oh yeah, his tyrannical and stingy behaviour towards paying customers) But he sounded nice enough? I listened to his Dec 30 Podcast. He kept drifting and bitching about iPod. Most of his gripes are actually quite true. iPod is a bit of a pain in the arse if you ask me. This is why my next media player is going to be an 80GB archos which I can also use as a PVR to go. You should check it out really. Jay and Bob : (or something like that). These two guys are canadian. I could listen to any asshole morning show from here to winnipeg and getter better value for my iPod hd: then these two. The format is basically "Two guys trying to act smart, and laughing out Lout (LOL?) at each other's lame-ass comments." Well. Well done guys. Now fuck off because I'm not comeing back to your lame-ass podcast. Tame Bear: This guy is in the philosophy section and pretends to be a bear (puts on a husky voice and all). I listened to his christmas story, bu had to stop when he started mentioning a log of people puking and shitting in a small hotel room (his family got diarrahea in N'Arlenz) I think the last sentence I heard was ".. and the bathroom became home for both vomit and diarrhea.." and I Just about ralphed myself. Good thing quicktime plugin allows you to shut-it-the-fuck-up. phew! Net Girl: Well, 2 minutes into the podcast, the self proclaimed net "girl" announced that her daughter was going to get married to some yonge man. And I'm thinking .. "Shouldn't you refer to yourself as the Net Lady?" or "Net Woman". Well, the Netgirl just finished her monotonous monolog. I was typing this entry so I didn't really pay a whole heck of a lot of attention. Okay, this whole podcasting thing is kind of weird and whacky. Very democatizing. I'm thinking of doing it myself. But mine will be anonymous because I intend to rant and rave and cuss A LOT! One thing is that everyone is trying to sound like a fucking Radio "personality". Enough with that Shit. We want to hear some food chewing, some real farting, some coke snorting and some fucking noises. Huh? how about that? Effin-Podcasters. YOU SUCK!! P.S. I don't think many people will like my podcast. I just wanna fit in.. why is it soooo hard! ?? 1:09:43 AM    comment []

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