August 2008

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Prayer and Power

Sunday, August 31, 2008 | No comments

What happens when you semi-jokingly, mostly-seriously call on legions of right-wing Christians to pray for rain to interrupt the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention? God—in all his wondrous, mysterious power—shits all over you. My heart goes out to Louisiana residents—they have had it truly rough—but I believe that if there is some “higher power,” that this is his little way of telling that fundamentalist base of theirs that what they’re selling isn’t properly spiritual, religious, and especially not Christian.

I am not feeling particularly well today. Last night was a weird night and it got pretty sloppy. So sloppy, in fact, that I will openly declare it the most intoxicated I’ve been thus far without getting sick. I haven’t really eaten, which I should. I’ve had water, coffee and a cup of chocolate milk all day.

Suddenly, I’m not really up for writing anything down.

Sometimes…

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | No comments

…the city looks like a face with bushy eyebrows.

One Out of Four Ain’t Bad

Monday, August 25, 2008 | 1 comment

…right?

Thanks USPS!

Oh, Hey…

Sunday, August 24, 2008 | No comments

This is what I get for the radio silence.

I forgot to mention, that class that I took over the summer? The one that I was praying for a passing grade in? Well, I came away with a shiny, even B. Thank you, Professor Humphreys, for not robbing me (I’ll explain some other time). I’ll give you a good review on RateMyProfs. It’s the least I can do—y’know, besides the three-thousand dollar bill.

Sunday, Ugly Sunday

Sunday, August 24, 2008 | 1 comment

Today it poured. When I woke it was sunny and warm, but then it quickly took a turn for the damp.

Being Sunday, PostSecret has been updated, fulfilling all of our weekly desires for insight into the sordid psyches of strangers. Below is an old secret sent in and posted over a month ago, maybe many months now:

And even more secretly than that, I personally chose to believe this was made by all of my friends two years ago. I’m back in Seattle after a vacation, and I’m (mostly) happy.

What else is back, you ask? The link to PostSecret on the left, by popular demand and also because it’s awesome.

War All The Time

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 4 comments

Today was my first full day back in Seattle. I know that I have been very quiet lately, and there are probably reasons for that, none of them clear to me. I was going to write a big thing about being at home my parent’s house, but nothing that has come out of me for the last little while has sounded worth writing. So here’s some bullets.

  • In urban-residential Seattle, there are no bugs. I forgot crickets existed until I was on the back deck of my parents house at dusk.
  • New England is oddly and unbearably humid in the summer. My parents house has bad airflow, which does not help the matter.
  • People from Massachusetts are rough around the edges. The less your around them, the rougher they get. It is likely that I become harder to deal with for them, too.
  • Your perspective shifts constantly. I’m learning this all the time, and always surprised by it somehow.
  • My time with old friends and family is precious and these people are truly treasures.

And here’s one of the few posts actually worth reading on the Slog (though I read it every day anyway). An excerpt:

In our minds, we need to sharpen the choice in this upcoming election—between a man interested in using belligerence and the strong arm of war, military and government to sustain an unsustainable reliance on a dwindling resource and a man trying seriously to work on the alternate.

The New Boss, Geometry Wars and Media Mash-Ups

Monday, August 11, 2008 | 1 comment

I have to go to work, like, now and today I have the daunting task of training my next boss. Yes, that’s right. One of my many higher ups is not working today and tomorrow, so I basically have to explain to her what it is I do and how I do it. Needless to say, I’m a little nervous about the prospect of this but it will likely be just fine.

I have resigned myself to the thought, despite all the videos and tips and such, that it is not in fact legitimately possible to attain a score of higher than 150,000 in Geometry Wars. It just isn’t.

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Home Alone

Saturday, August 9, 2008 | No comments

Everyone is on vacation, so I have the apartment to myself.

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We Will Get What We Deserve

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 | 3 comments

I’ve gotten myself all worked up today, reading blogs about the McCain and Obama campaigns and now I just can’t help but post about it.

Via Politico:

New book: Obama a lefty, not a reformer
The first serious negative biography of Senator Barack Obama casts the Democratic nominee as a fake reformer and a real liberal. 

“The Case Against Barack Obama,” by National Review’s David Freddoso, blasts Obama for failing to take on the Chicago machine, for listening to “radical advisors,” and for backing “doctrinaire liberal” causes from teachers unions to abortion rights.

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His thesis: “It’s not that Obama is a bad person. It’s just that he’s like all the rest of them. Not a reformer. Not a Messiah. Just like all the rest of them in Washington. And just like all the other liberals too.”

As in “all those dirty liberal hippies that fight to make America energy-independent, create new jobs, preserve the environment, fight for people’s civil liberties and to make our cities more livable, etc.” Those liberals? Right.

And wait, so whoever said that Barack Obama was ‘The Messiah’? Oh, right.

Conservatives need to start figuring out who is saying what, and fast. Obama is not playing the race card on himself. John McCain is the one using double-speak and flip-flopping.

I’m just curious as to who is supposed to be the more evil candidate here: the one actually outlining his stances (though he has been forced to shift some of them, with good reason), or the one who has been spending the American people’s time and money comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the latter of whom it turns out actually has a more viable energy policy than “that wrinkly white-haired guy.”

In other, really fucking depressing news, did anybody hear about that unprovoked Canadian beheading? It’s been making me really fucking sad (not to mention scared) all week.

Today’s Revelatory Discovery

Friday, August 1, 2008 | 1 comment

It is possible to download and play the original Doom on Xbox LIVE AND play it in multiplayer! Cooperative and deathmatch! Do you know what an unbelievable turn of events this is for me? I had never played Doom over the Internets when it was released, and it probably is not commonly played online anymore. The fact that I can do this not only fulfills a childhood dream, but also it will be hella fun.

Commence mockery… now.