I didn't mean that, blog, I love you, blog

FUCK THIS BLOG

Yeah I guess they are for now.


Now, a post.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

Global warming? WE'RE ALL Gonna die.

Hmm......

This is a good colour scheme I have here. White is hard on the eyes after a while.

If the entire Earth was an artificial alien moving platform, orbiting as it normally would and with stuff growing on it but with an engine instead of a core, would you still love it like you do now? Please rate on a scale from "Yes" to "No" and answer in complete sentences.

Remember when I said that my allergies were under control? I lied. NOW they're under control.

Or are they?

Ok, here's something that's actually somewhat true and/or meaningful:

Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, and lying to cover up those weaknesses isn't going to do any good for anyone. The only possible utopia is one in which everyone can not only live together, but share with each other every aspect of themselves as intimately as they would in the almost fantastically unique case of "true love", but due to everyone's own feelings of insecurity and their insistent censoring of thoughts, their own personal walls stay in place, and their whole closeted, personal sense of the "world" retains intact, and thus, their sense of identity and individuality. Thinking for yourself is not necessarily the same thing as being yourself.

Based on my years of experience from working at the grocery store, I'm pretty sure the only difference between organic onions and regular onions is that organic onions are smaller and constantly have fruit flies buzzing around them.

How is smoking pot any different from eating candy? Neither of them are physically addictive, both of them are psychologically addictive. Both of them have no benefit other than to activate reward pathways. One of them is the desire to taste something delicious set off by generations of evolution, and the other is the desire to taste a delicious state of mind set off by your apathy with your current state of mind, so the only argument that remains is whether or not naturalism is more "valid" than chemical interactions, and that's just retarded.

If you had two small moving platforms that you could tie around your feet, would you use them? Where would you go with them? Please answer in complete sentences.

Back to school throw rugs.

Allergies

1. Contact with allergen.
2. Foggy headedness, immediately after for up to a few hours - this worsens depending as to how strongly I was reacting before the contact. If I was perfectly healthy, skip this step.
3. Coming Up (or Down?!), anywhere from half an hour to several hours (12+) after exposure, for a few hours (2-5) - a period where I feel very irritable, tense, anxious, and/or insecure, but at the same time I'll also feel somewhat confident and euphoric, but only at the very beginning of the reaction. Of course, the confidence doesn't really make up for the anxiousness, so it's not really apparent. Around this time is also when I'll feel like I really "need" weed, because not only do I know that I'll be getting worse soon, but t
4. Hives, instantly to up to 24 hours after exposure - They'll start as small red dots surrounded by a ring of pale skin. They'll get larger and the paleness will go away over the next few hours. During this time, the irritable and anxious feelings from the transition period will intensify and the euphoria will become totally absent.
5. Rebound, 12+ hours after exposure - Shifting neurotransmitter levels give me a huge range of emotions if the reaction is strong, much less so if it's not, however they're almost always above a somewhat thin layer of annoyance, futility, "sense of impending doom", or anxiousness. Symptoms can include excessive talking, excitement, paranoia, feelings of insecurity, euphoria, difficulty in using memory, difficulty in performing physically demanding tasks, fatigue, lowered stamina, tiredness, apathy, and a bunch of other crap. If you look up "histamine abundance" on Wikipedia, pretty much all of those. Generally, though, an increasingly strong foggy headedness as the reaction goes on, and a decreasingly strong irritability.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until I "finish reacting" and the hives and irritability are no longer climbing. This whole thing can take anywhere from 12 hours to a couple of days. The closer I am to the end, the more tired I'll be, and the more paranoid I'll be of another reaction (obviously). Repeat step 2 if I'm still working out previous reactions.
7. I get my bearings. I get the sense that my body was hibernating, or under attack, or just plain sleeping up until this point, depending as to how long I've been reacting for. Around here I'll notice all the things that need to be done that I haven't, which is sometimes stressing. This step is obviously absent if I get attacked again before this.

Allergies work in waves, depending as to how much I'm reacting to something, building up and up and layering on top. Lately, though, this hasn't been the case, I've been much more under control. Go me.

Allan we should hang out soon, whenever I call you you never call back! What up with that.

Sex Magic

The fundamental premise of sex magic is the concept that the sexual energy, or libido, of the human organism is the most potent force it contains, and harnessing the unique states that arise through sexual activity provides a special experiential conduit for the transcendence of nominal reality.

Idea to help the environment #063: One of the first things that come to mind is buying recycled paper products. I am lucky because the grocery store I go to carries recycled paper napkins, towels and toilet paper. Are these any different than what one normally buys, you might ask? I have no idea.

Idea to help the environment #055: IS ETHANOL THE ANSWER TO OUR OIL PROBLEMS? DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO MAKE IT AT HOME?

Idea to help the environment #056: UTILIZE SOLAR OR WIND TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY. CAMOUFLAGE THE TOWERS AS BIRDS, BOATS, TREES, CLOUDS, ETC.. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE IS A TOWER IN NEW YORK DRESSED UP LIKE A PINE TREE

Idea to help the environment #057: Plant a tree and help prevent global warming

SUBSECTION C: Automobiles

Idea to help the environment #058: WHERE THERE IS TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON HIGHWAYS, FOR EXAMPLE THE CONNECTICUT TURNPIKE (I95), ALOT CAN BE DONE, CHEAPLY AND QUICKLY, BY INSTALLING ENTRANCE TRAFFIC CONTROLS, I.E. STOP SIGNS AND TRAFFIC LIGHTS THAT OPERATE DURING RUSH HOUR.

Idea to help the environment #059: Refrain from using your brakes, please!

Idea to help the environment #060: Do not leak oil from your car. Routinely check your car to make sure it is not leaking oil.

Idea to help the environment #061: Do not use seperate cars. Carpool instead.

Idea to help the environment #062: Air is damaged by car and lorry fumes, and power stations create acid rain which destroys entire forests and lakes.

END SUBSECTION

Idea to help the environment #054: We are like caterpillers contemplating pupation. No longer will I chew on cabbage leaves, no longer will I spend my time moving around on the underside of foliage. From now on I will recycle ALL of my foliage.

Idea to help the environment #047: Turn off all your computer, printer, and photocopiers when not in use.

Idea to help the environment #048: Unplug cellphone, camera and other battery chargers when charging is complete.

Idea to help the environment #049: Turn down your thermostat 1° C

Idea to help the environment #050: Buy fruits and veggies loose, and not in plastic bags.

Idea to help the environment #051: Use reusable cloth bags for shopping; keep them in your car. Don’t know where to fin one? We sell them at our store!

Idea to help the environment #052: Strive to buy only recycled products

Idea to help the environment #053: Avoid supporting fast-food restaurants.

Oh no, I can't let this blog go to waste! So what AM I up to?

* Getting job soon, calling on Monday

* Trying to get a hold of Allan (fix your cell, dammit)

* Trying to get a hold of Simon (need weed)

* Haven't done dishes since Tuesday

* Woke up at 6 pm

* Allergies being stupid still, don't know why (maybe the hamsters)

Ok that's all

Here's a radical idea: I think anything that makes the majority of people a criminal is stupid.

Let's combine the blog and the wiki so we have a wiki that different people will use as a blog

Play this

http://www.secrettechnology.com/gamegame/agame.html

Also Winterbells if you haven't already

I've been smoking entirely too much pot lately

Here's some slightly different Buddhist crap

http://www.cs.ru.nl/~henk/BP/bp2.html

What is a Blog???

Confused yet? Don’t be - its really quite simple. To put it as simply as possible - a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Have a look at the main page of my blog at here for an example. for a different example you might like to look at this one (another of mine).

Ok - now you are a seasoned blog reader - you’ve seen two already at least.

Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.

Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. Lets examine a couple briefly.

Archives - You might look at the front page of a blog and think that there is not much to them. A few recent entries, some links to other sites and not much else. However its worth knowing that there is a lot more going on under the surface that might initially meet the eye. For example in addition to the main page of this blog - at the time of writing this post there are over 520 other pages or posts below the surface that I’ve written over the past few months.
When I write a post like this one it goes to the top of the front page. As it gets older and as I add more current posts it begins its journey down the page until it disappears from it. This is not the end of its life however, because it goes into the 'Archives' of my blog. It sounds like a dusty dark place but its really just like a filing cabinet that is easily accessible in a couple of ways. You can read my ‘archives’ simply by looking on the ’sidebar’ (over on the left of this blog) at the ‘archives’ or ‘categories’ section. There you will see links to all my old posts which you can access either by category. You’ll see a category for ‘Advertising’ - click that link and you’ll see all my old posts on the topic of Advertising with the most recent at the top and the oldest at the bottom.

Comments - Not all blogs use comments - but most do. This blog is not a monologue but a conversation. You can give me feedback on almost everything I write simply by clicking the ‘comments’ link at the bottom of each one of my posts. This will take you to a little form where you leave your name, email and a link to your own blog if you have one as well as your feedback, comment, critique, question, essay on why you love my blog, promise of money…. etc). Try it now. Scroll to the bottom of this page, click ‘comments’ and fill in the blanks with a little introduction to yourself.

A great way to learn about blogs is to read a few. Leave some comments, ask questions and bookmark your favourites. An even better way to learn about blogs is to start your own. Ok - you might be laughing at me now - you think you are not web savy enough to have your own site? You wouldn’t know where to start? You don’t know how?

My Secret

Let me share a secret with you - three years ago I knew nothing about blogs, I had never used the internet for anything more than email, surfing and chatting to friends and I could only barely do any of that! But one day I discovered a blog and after surfing from one to another (blogs tend to link up to other blogs a lot) for a few hours I was hooked and wanted to start my own. I found that there are free blog services that almost anyone could set up in a matter of minutes. Really it is that simple. Literally millions of people blog from around the world. Its not just something for young people, or geeks, or cool folk, or Westerners, or even for people with their own computers - instead its something virtually anyone with access to a computer and the internet once or twice a week can start up.

Are you still confused? Would you like more information? Below are a few helpful articles on the topic - there are many more on the web - just do a search on your favourite search engine. Otherwise shoot me an email using my ‘contact’ button with your question and I’ll do my best to get back to you.

Rebecca Blood has written a helpful history of blogging for those who are interested in learning more about the blogging evolution over the past few years.
Harvard Law has a helpful article titled What makes a Weblog a Weblog
Trudy Schuett writes a good article title What is a blog and why do we need one?
WordPress: Introduction to Blogging
If you are new to blogging and want some hints on how to get started - keep an eye on my Blogging for Beginners Page for more ways to explore blogging.

What is a Blog?

So what is a Blog anyway? This is a question I am asked every week via emails, conversation and Instant Messaging chats. If you’re reading this you may well be asking the same question.

There are a number of ways I could answer this question ranging from the broad to the highly technical.

Here are a few definitions from other much wiser people to get us started:

‘A weblog is a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser.’ Source

‘A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.’ Source

‘From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source

‘A weblog is kind of a continual tour, with a human guide who you get to know. There are many guides to choose from, each develops an audience, and there’s also comraderie and politics between the people who run weblogs, they point to each other, in all kinds of structures, graphs, loops, etc.’ Source

‘A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.’ Source

‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.’ Source.

Some reasons why God doesn't exist

* Cancer
* Junk DNA
* Allergies
* The pile of spaghetti code that is the brain. Seriously, if you know anything about it at all you know what I mean. It's not exactly efficient.
* The appendix. Sure, it plays a role in the immune system or whatever, but if you're more or less exactly the same without it as you are with it, then God's obviously a big jerk.
* Tailbone. I don't care if your ass would fall apart if we didn't have it, you can't tell me that that's the best possible way to keep it together.
* This website
* The part about religious people all believing different things and all of them being wrong
* Scam artists not being struck down by lightning
* Everyone else who deserves it not being struck down by lightning
* Cocaine is a plant that God intended for us to use
* Allergies again, because seriously, what the hell
* Everyone having different ideas as to what constitutes something being "clean" or "unclean"
* Everything I've ever learned in Biology
* This book
* If God made the universe, then where did God come from (and don't tell me that "God has always been" because that's no different than saying "the universe has always been")
* Relying on faith in a god is no different than relying on faith in astrology or numerology or in the lottery
* There's absolutely no good reason to believe in a god
* It doesn't make any sense
* Seriously, what's wrong with you people

The main problem with stealing internet is that other people use it too. See, what we really should be doing for the internet is just have InterHubs laid across the city, around which anyone can connect to the internet for free provided that they have wireless. This service would be paid off by the mad amounts of loot the government would be making by regulating drugs and prostitution.

Well I guess posts won't be more sporadic because I'm stealing internet.

Now, what to post about........





Doot doot doo de doo


Here, watch these videos from the Singularity Summit, most of them are pretty good.

I could also talk about the annoyance of using this nub thing as a mouse, but that's boring (I am using a laptop). However what I could do is link to this comic.

xkcd is kind of annoying sometimes but it does have a pretty good number of good comics, like this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one. (Fun fact: all of those except the last one I linked to while I was trying to find the laptop nub one.)



I guess that's all for now

Here's some Buddhist crap

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/cutting.htm

It's time to invade Poland.

Put on your invasion goggles.

More War on Drugs crap

http://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html

Here's a part I like:

A WARNING of the prohibitionists is that there's no going back once we reverse course and legalize drugs. But what the reforms in Europe and Australia demonstrate is that our choices are not all or nothing. Virtually all the steps described above represent modest and relatively low-risk initiatives to reduce drug and prohibition-related harms within our current prohibition regime. At the same time, these steps are helpful in thinking through the consequences of more far-reaching drug-policy reform. You don't need to go for formal legalization to embark on numerous reforms that would yield great dividends. But these run into opiaphobia*.

The blame is widespread. Cowardly Presidents, unwilling to assume leadership for reform. A Congress so concerned with appearing tough on crime that it is unwilling to analyze alternative approaches. A drug czar who debases public debate by equating legalization with genocide. A drug enforcement/treatment complex so hooked on government dollars that the anti-drug crusade has become a vested interest.

But perhaps the worst offender is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration -- not so much the agents who risk their lives trying to apprehend major drug traffickers as the ideologically driven bureaucrats who intimidate and persecute doctors for prescribing pain medication in medically appropriate (but legally suspicious) doses, who hobble methadone programs with their overregulation, who acknowledge that law enforcement alone cannot solve the drug problem but then proceed to undermine innovative public-health initiatives.

I am often baffled by the resistance of conservatives to drug-policy reform, but encouraged by the willingness of many to reassess their views once they have heard the evidence. Conservatives who oppose the expansion of federal power cannot look approvingly on the growth of the federal drug-enforcement bureaucracy and federal efforts to coerce states into adopting federally formulated drug policies. Those who focus on the victimization of Americans by predatory criminals can hardly support our massive diversion of law-enforcement resources to apprehending and imprisoning nonviolent vice merchants and consumers. Those concerned with overregulation can hardly countenance our current handling of methadone, our refusal to allow over-the-counter sale of sterile syringes, our prohibition of medical marijuana. And conservatives who turn to the Bible for guidance on current affairs can find little justification there for our war on drugs and the people who use and sell them.

* this part was from earlier: Perspective can be had from what is truly the most pervasive drug scandal in the United States: the epidemic of undertreatment of pain. ``Addiction'' to (i.e., dependence on) opiates among the terminally ill is the appropriate course of medical treatment. The only reason for the failure to prescribe adequate doses of pain-relieving opiates is the ``opiaphobia'' that causes doctors to ignore the medical evidence, nurses to turn away from their patients' cries of pain, and some patients themselves to elect to suffer debilitating and demoralizing pain rather than submit to a proper dose of drugs.




http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/basicfax.htm this is good too

BioEnergetic Intolerance Elimination

So I'm looking around google for different sites about "BioEnergetic Intolerance Elimination", the process I went through to clear my allergies. There are some sites that are (understandably so) skeptical, and there are some sites that advocate it, saying things like this:

BIE is a powerful new scientific approach that uses a simple and effective method to radically eliminate all symptoms of allergy or intolerance without the use of drugs.

Based on an ancient Chinese belief that energy runs through the body in pathways called “meridians” acupuncture is now a widely recognized health related modality. It is through these bio-energetic meridians that the brain and nervous system receive information about the state and functioning of the body as a whole. Modern electro magnetic imaging devices and radioactive tracer isotopes have confirmed the presence of these pathways.

A lightweight hand held device is used to transmit a low electronic frequency (5 microamp) directly onto various acupuncture points (without the use of needles) on the body to stimulate and clear any blockages in energy. During this procedure the client is exposed to the allergenic substance in glass vials. While the blockages are clearing, the body’s cells are literally being reprogrammed to recognize the allergen’s frequency. When this non-invasive and painless procedure is complete, the body will no longer see the allergen or intolerance as a threat when exposed to it, therefore no longer producing any adverse reactions.

Sounds too good to be true, right? And yet, it's not. The receptionist at the chiropractor's office I went to, which was also, coincidentally, where the treatment sessions took place, was cured from her asthma in a single session, and cured completely from her environmental allergies over four sessions, and I heard about another kid who was cured from his anaphylaxis to peanuts over a six month or so span. That's incredibly impressive! But even still, I was skeptical, right up until I started getting treated for my allergies. Over the course of a few months I've been cleared of allergies that I've had for nearly my entire life. I'm eating eggs again, which I haven't been able to do since I was 5 years old, I can smell the grass clippings from lawnmowers without gagging, and so forth, and yet every word of it sounds like bullshit.

During a session, I'll lie down, and an allergen will be put on my abdomen. Then, this metallic/plastic electronic contraption will be placed on certain points across my body: four across the bridge of my nose, with two spots on each side, one spot on each big toe, one spot on each little tow, and one spot roughly in the middle of the upper portion of each foot, whatever that's called. Now, another baffling point here is that the allergen can be inside several layers of plastic, glass, whatever, it doesn't matter, so long as it's touching me. I asked my allergist why this works, and she said that it's because the vibrations pass through it anyway, but this doesn't make any sense at all to me. For one thing, how do you define a vibration in something such as a banana, secondly, why would a banana be setting off vibrations, thirdly, how does an electric charge "clear my meridians" and let me be able to eat them again, and fourthly, how does it pass through plastic? Maybe I just need to read up on some quantum physics, I don't know.

If I start buying into vibrations, then I'll have to buy a grounding stone for next time I meditate, and if I start buying into energetic pathways, I'm going to need a crystal to align my chakras.

Yum, tostitos

Oh, and I got my plane ticket. It's on the 4th, not the 3rd. Expect updates to be more sporadic after this point.

Idea to help the environment #038: Low flush toilets

Idea to help the environment #039: Stop smoking

Idea to help the environment #040: Big businesses + schools - lights off at night

Idea to help the environment #041: Smaller homes, vehicles

Idea to help the environment #042: Less animal testing.

Idea to help the environment #043: Self-educate on better environmental choices. So far you're doing a great job.

Idea to help the environment #044: Straw - bale construction - do more

Idea to help the environment #045: Do not use pesticides or insecticides.

Idea to help the environment #046: Become a cave man

Subsection A: Conserving Energy

Idea to help the environment #016: Lower your home thermostats!

Idea to help the environment #017: Use the kettle to boil water for cooking, instead of heating a pan on the stove. Not only will this be more efficient, but it generally takes less time too!

Idea to help the environment #018: Do not use your dishwasher / tumble dryer /washing machine uneccasarily.

Idea to help the environment #019: Switch all electrical appliances off at the plug instead of using the 'standby' function. During standby the appliances are still using electricity, and astonishingly, this accounts for 6% of all electricity usage in the home!

END SUBSECTION

Idea to help the environment #020: Encourage bicycling.

Idea to help the environment #021: Work with farmers to check on irrigation and water use.

Idea to help the environment #022: Stop WAR - it increases the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, destroys habitats, and complete ecosystems and kills organisms including humans and complete ecosystems. War machinery such as armoured vehicles/tanks spew out greenhouse gases

Idea to help the environemtn #023: Trade items you need

Idea to help the environment #024: Use both sides of your paper.

Idea to help the environment #025: Walk more

Idea to help the environment #026: More vegetarian lifestyle

Idea to help the environment #027:

• Lights off

Idea to help the environment #028: Air dry your hair, not blow dry, or blow dry it in the wind

SUBSECTION B: LOBBYING

Idea to help the environment #029: Lobby municipality to increase the number of bus routes to provide better service to areas that are not well served, i.e., including outlying communities

Idea to help the environment #030: Lobby municipalities and governments for increased bike and walking paths between communities so people can safely, healthfully commute to work and school

Idea to help the environment #031: Lobby municipalities and governments for more green space

END SUBSECTION

Idea to help the environment #012: create electricity by plugging the nation's exercise bikes into the national grid

Idea to help the environment #013: Play geocaching

Idea to help the environment #014: Collect aluminum cans and sell them for mad profit

Idea to help the environment #015: Be like him

Idea to help the environment #007: Having healthy vigorous discussions with workmates.

Idea to help the environment #008: Careful about how processed the food I buy is, reducing packaging.

Idea to help the environment #009: Getting there on step at a time.

Idea to help the environment #010: Long live the green movement, and it's people, and may we continue to multiply, and enhance our technological improvements.

Idea to help the environment #011: The world will save its self through gia.

Idea to help the environment #002: Adopt a piece of the Earth, like a park or a street corner, and keep it clean.

_{Idea to help the environment #003:} REMOVE TOLLS ON HIGHWAYS. THEY CREATE POLLUTION AND GAS WASTING TRAFFIC JAMS.

Idea to help the environment #004: PUT SOLAR PANELS ON LAMP POSTS AND TELEPHONE POLES, ADDING ELECTRICITY TO THE POWER GRID.

Idea to help the environment #005: INFLATE TIRES PROPERLY.

Idea to help the environment #006: I am changing my shopping habits, avoiding things that come in plastic bags. I am glad to see compostable plastic bags arriving. I buy `loose` if I can. I am recycling more and composting more. I think many people are also doing more which is good. I try to imagine if say there was no rubbish collection. The government should do that maybe, Have an experimental period with no rubbish collection, but then they would also need to deploy the army!

Idea to help the environment #001: flying cars that run on sun light can make the world less polluted

So I'm going back to B.C. on the 3rd.

This is good.

Lost is stupid

It's a stupid show about stupid people in stupid situations, and also the dialogue is stupid. But at least the special effects are good, it helps to convey how shocking the scenarios are (they're not shocking, they're stupid)

This is you

I turned up the volume until I couldn't hear the music any more, only the pulsing drone of my eardrums rupturing, and I was left in a shitty and desolate world that seemed devoid of meaning or life.

Lists

Sometimes, when I'm bored, I make lists.

Top TV Shows

1. Mystery Science Theatre 3000
2. Arrested Development
3. Clerks, Animated Series
4. The Venture Brothers
5. Wonder Showzen
6. Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
7. Futurama
8. King of the Hill
9. The Simpsons
10. Stella
11. Azumanga Daioh
12. House, M.D.
13. Dexter
14. South Park
15. The Powerpuff Girls
16. Invader Zim
17. Spaced
18. Red Dwarf
19. Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

Top Bands

1. Shpongle
2. Arctic Monkeys
3. Ladytron
4. VNV Nation
5. The Strokes
6. Younger Brother
7. Bad Religion
8. Hallucinogen
9. Shulman
10. Sound Tribe Sector 9

More Vaguely Positioned Top Bands, Sort of Better to Worse

- Mr. Bungle
- Scissor Sisters
- Pink Floyd
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Hybrid
- KMFDM
- Michele Adamson
- Boards of Canada
- Eat Static
- Negativland
- The Vines
- Poe
- Entheogenic
- Prometheus
- J Viewz
- 1200 Mics
- The Killers
- Violet Vision
- Alice in Videoland
- AFI
- The Beatles
- The Black Keys
- Dido
- Assemblage 23
- Interpol

I should point out that my top tv shows and bands are not necessarily in order of how good I think they are, but rather how much I like them. Although, of course, how good they are is generally a factor!

top psychedelics in terms of recreational value:

1. lsd
2. 2c-b
3. mdma
4. mushrooms
5. 2c-i
6. amanitas
7. 2c-e

honourable mention: nitrous

top psychedelics in terms of practical value (entirely subjectively):

1. mushrooms
2. lsd
3. 2c-e
4. 2c-b
5. 2c-i
6. mdma (mdma is very good but only for the right situations, it's not so much of a "tool" as it is an emotional healer. in that sense i'd likely place it as #1)
7. marijuana

DRGUS DRUGS SUDUSR GFDDRUG SFD DSU GU R USU DRGb

top eight devices used in star trek to get past a complicated problem:

1. main deflector array
2. sensor array
3. plasma relay
4. warp coil
5. replicator
6. phase modulator
7. graviton emitter
8. transporter buffer

top disruptions of internet activity:

1. quicktime
2. pdfs
3. typos
4. java

best uses for peanuts:

1. peanut butter
2. eating
3. throwing

I'll update this post as my mind changes, probably.

If you could have a moving platform that went from one point to another, where would it go?

Mine would go from my house to the grocery store. It's too far to walk.

Pot makes you hungry

According to this FDA report, medical marijuana is not approved of because a) it's a Schedule I drug, which means that it has no medical value, and b) there are other medications out there to treat the things that marijuana advocates claim that it does.

What stellar logic we have here! I mean, it's Schedule I, so it's obviously dangerous, unlike the lower schedules. It was probably put there for a good reason. Besides, we don't need marijuana because we have other drugs that do the same thing. I mean, real medicine is safer and more effective than smoking anyway. Furthermore, with medical marijuana, we'd have all sorts of people getting high for every condition, right? And that'd just be dangerous. We can't
let that happen.

Let me put this another way.

Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, with no medical use.

Marinol is a Schedule III drug, with medical use.

Marinol is THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.

The Gateway Drug Theory is really retarded

It’s not a gateway drug because people who are interested in drugs to begin with will end up experimenting with them, and marijuana just so happens to be one of the more benign drugs out there, so they’ll often start with that. What if there was no marijuana? Would overall drug rates be lower? Of course not, that’s retarded, because it doesn’t affect the number of people who want to experiment with drugs. And what about alcohol, why isn’t that a gateway drug?

I probably look like a big dumbie to the two or three people who clicked on my link from that one d00d's blog, just copying and pasting like that, but this is my blog and these are my rules... if u don't like it u can F#@* OFF!!!

In retrospect I have no idea why I put this down as my site when I commented. Maybe, deep down, I just want people to notice me?

[17:11] <dave2away> fungahhh
[17:11] <dave2away> i think the gateway drug thing is pretty true
[17:11] <Fungahhh> why
[17:12] <dave2away> well maybe you're right though
[17:12] <Fungahhh> yeah, i am
[17:12] <dave2away> people who choose to use marijuana are more likely to use other drugs
[17:12] <Fungahhh> marijuana doesn't MAKE you want to do harder drugs
[17:12] <dave2away> if I forced somebody to smoke pot they probably wouldn't be like "now for LSD!"
[17:12] <dave2away> no, I know
[17:12] <Fungahhh> you don't get bored of the high, and seek stronger things, like heroin
[17:13] <dave2away> but I do think that if I hadn't started smoking pot I wouldn't be asking you to mail me LSD
[17:13] <Fungahhh> if you're interested in drugs to begin with you'll probably start with marijuana! or alcohol, but that's legal, so who cares
[17:13] <Fungahhh> well, ok
[17:13] <Fungahhh> i guess it does give you a sort of taste for the psychedelic experience
[17:14] <Fungahhh> my gateway drug was dxm
[17:14] <dave2away> i think it's unfair to say either way "yes it is" or "not it isn't"
[17:14] <Fungahhh> well, ok, it CAN happen, but so can every drug to every other related drug
[17:14] <Fungahhh> it's incredibly stupid to single out marijuana
[17:15] <dave2away> not really, because marijuana is so easy to get and pretty cheap and pretty acceptable and not very dangerous
[17:15] <dave2away> it's a pretty good starting point
[17:15] <Fungahhh> right, well, that's a coincidence
[17:15] <Fungahhh> dxm made me want to try mushrooms
[17:15] <dave2away> hence it's popularity
[17:15] <Fungahhh> the marijuana just kind of happened along the way
[17:16] <Fungahhh> actually i think it was only like, a week before
[17:16] <Fungahhh> but anyway
[17:16] <dave2away> your argument would be a lot stronger if you weren't such a druggie yourself
[17:16] <Fungahhh> you can't really make the gateway drug argument for tobacco and alcohol because there aren't really any drugs like them
[17:16] <Fungahhh> right, well, that just makes me more knowledgeable, right?
[17:17] <Fungahhh> i mean sleeping pills are a lot like alcohol, but who the hell would jump to those after getting drunk
[17:17] <dave2away> it makes you a perfect example of the contrary to your argument
[17:17] <Fungahhh> it doesn't make anything i've said any less true
[17:17] <dave2away> just more ironic
[17:17] <dave2away> anyway though
[17:17] <Fungahhh> well, sure, but that's beside the point
[17:18] <dave2away> it's very difficuly to say WHY people do things
[17:18] <dave2away> but we can say "oh, person did drug A, then did drug B"
[17:18] <dave2away> maybe they didn't do drug B BECAUSE they did drug A
[17:18] <dave2away> but regardless
[17:18] <Fungahhh> no, i know why people do it... but it's still dumb
[17:19] <dave2away> really? you know why people move on to other drugs?
[17:19] <dave2away> why every person does?
[17:19] <Fungahhh> also, saying that what i'm saying is wrong or whatever because i'm a druggie is like saying erowid is wrong because they're all druggies, which a lot of people do
[17:19] <Fungahhh> no i meant, why people use the gateway theory
[17:19] <dave2away> i'm not saying you're wrong! i'm just saying you're hilarious
[17:19] <Fungahhh> fair enough

I'm so sick of Ontario

Acidophilus makes you hungry

It's funny how often the best medicine isn't used. Sometimes it's a matter of paranoia over their abuse potential, sometimes it's just ignorance.

One example that comes to mind is acidophilus. Because a) it's marketed as a supplement rather than a medicine, and b) it's not necessary, in the same sense that an antibiotic is necessary to flush out an infection, or morphine is necessary to help deal with pain, it's simply not used in hospitals, despite clear and obvious advantages to its use.
Antibiotics do this thing where they kill off helpful bacteria as well as harmful bacteria. The most pronounced effect of this is in the GI tract, and in fact it's very common for people after going through a long haul with antibiotics will have a lowered appetite, lowered immune system, etc., and there's no doubt that acidophilus can help with this. While it's routinely recommended in some countries it's really not as mainstream it should be (at least in Canada).

I feel like going into this in more depth but I'm getting foggy headed again so I'll save this for later.

House of Leaves

Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.

I hate phenylephrine

Phenylephrine or Neo-Synephrine is an α-adrenergic receptor agonist used primarily as a decongestant, as an agent to dilate the pupil and, to increase blood pressure. Phenylephrine has recently been marketed as a substitute for pseudoephedrine, (e.g. Pfizer's Sudafed PE) but there are recent claims that oral phenylephrine may be no more effective as a decongestant than placebo.

I tried using this stuff recently and it literally did nothing at all to help my congestion. In fact, I didn't notice any effects of any kind. But, I suppose that's the price we have to pay, to keep meth off of our streets.

I took more later and DID notice an effect beyond placebo, but its ability as a decongestant is pretty terrible. Buy oxymetazoline instead. It's not particularly great either but it's better than this crap (the stuff I was complaining about a couple of posts down).

The engine has a couple of extra features such as light switches and moving platforms, making this game the hardest of the trilogy.

Can you guess what game this is.........?

I bought a nasal spray decongestant thing and it hardly helped at all!

Seriously, man....

My eyes are really red and itchy and I can't stop sneezing

http://www.jolomo.net/atlanta/movers.html

It's the first Google result for "moving platforms".

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5793/getinlinehk6.gif

The thing that gets me about this ad isn't just that it's laughably horrible, it's that it WORKS. Flashy colours, big text, and feelings of inferiority ARE enough to push someone into getting a Mercury account.

I have to use the blog up as much as I can while there's still novelty

This is probably going to be a bit of a vague question but any help is much appreciated. I've been wondering how friction would allow you (A Player Character) to stay on a moving platform while it moves without sliding off (I assume it's friction that does this anyway). I can't get my head around it.

Do you think that platform games are named after moving platforms?

I don't.

Frist psot

Hi.

Don't expect me to update this with any sort of regularity, I'll just add to it whenever I feel compelled to, inbetween my usual bouts of allergic foggy headed muddy itchy irritable crap.