Throb

War is stupid

The history of the (current) conflict in Iraq in red dots:

This lives here.

Look at the second guy's face

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Quotes from conservative fucknuts sitting next to me right now

"Stop the gravy train."

"You gotta learn how to be everyone's friend."

"Their brains are deteriorating, that's why they're watching those shows."

"These Seattle people.. they're going to realize that the future is in the eastside, they're going to move there eventually and that money is ours."

"You know what, in my mind, I'd rather have them gay."

"Don't mix it up, man, that guy doesn't like to lose."

"Gettin' paid larger."

"But. Can you pay your mortgage on that (and pay your old lady her subsidizing)?"

"I'd prefer to buy my own land and let them fuck up."

"The dumbest, most innocuous guy wins... why is that?"

This is super interesting, but I have to go back to not listening to you now.

T'other Dylan

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Spring has sprung

Just for the record, tomorrow arrived a day or two ahead of schedule. Don't you think?

Found!

My friend in Brazil found me from my Orkut profile!

Mario was an exchange student my parents put up for a year or so when I was a kid. He sent some cute pictures of us together:

I'm the blond kid having some kind of seizure in the foreground. That's Mario on the left, my older brother Ben in the back.

I remember a couple of things about Mario in particular: He was a bit of a ladies man, took the local high school by storm (he said "I am a girl scout, I like to scout for girls!"). Anyway, so nice to hear from him!

Crazy Planet

Cartoons from one of my favorite blogs. I particularly like the name of the protagonist.

Random pics on my laptop right now

The devil's in the details

I watched you facetilt, speedfilmtime
moveme 'rupting disneyblossom

lovetrance deathflirt firecrackerdreambeauty

Caught snakedance growingyou ci'cadian
Riskward lifeboogie crotchthrob relent'ittle

Dug your shedskin newburst
into candleflicker
pulsingheat emberglow

Watched your rehatchbeforebegintual
Regad your rebirth
antirandom heatseeker
Grokked your monologue, I think

I'm proud of you

Sheepshit you riskstate permafrost
Composted blindface zygotemonkey you;
mozarted potent triggered repeatsynchtimes of
cannonized lovegiving fatherprune opensun

Venturisqueezed you free outwardcycle
into unstatic mefreedom
cubansmoked
while you nailed your ubertests
and your
come to sacredcows

Love to see you fly babe
like I love you do

Making up for lost time

Haven't had much time to blog lately, but in the interest of time, here's a quick update on what's going on in my version of the world:

A) Politics

The president seems to think nuclear proliferation is a good policy given the fact that we're too overstretched to attack Iran. He has the brains of a domino.

B) Love

[Morning Throb censored this post]

C) Work

Cingular Video was released into the wild. My cronies and I had a lot to do with it. I'm proud of this and am aggressively dancing in the turbulence of this bullet.

One of the cool things that happened was this: a document I created that we used to internally keep track of things ended up being structured well enough that a developer used it as the core of a secondary monitoring system. Made my day. I know this may sound like nonsense to most of you, but really, stuff like this makes it feel like I'm building a blossoming sponge, which isn't as gross as it sounds.

D) Movies

Apparently there's nothing interesting out right now. A Scanner Darkly isn't coming out until July. Bleh. Do me a favor and let me know if you know of something delicious that's out now or coming soon. I need me some passive entertainment loving and I still can't commit to television.

I think the Professor's short film is coming to SIFF soon, I'll let you know.

E) Other Entertainment

Going to see the Degenerate Art Ensemble on Saturday night. All other social plans are largely irrelevant. This may be contributing to (B).

I guess Mogwai is coming to town soon, should be cool.

F) MetaThrob

I'm changing my link policy: clicks here don't open in new windows anymore. It's too much work and it feels like I'm being a jerk to folks who don't already carefully manually override such behavior by using decent browsers.

I'm thinking of making a secret offensive Jello Biafra + porn blog of some kind that my mom doesn't know about, but I don't know how to do this anonymously without it costing me money.

G) MySpace

I've decided to cross the line and customize the stylesheet for my neglected MySpace page, bringing me 2% into line with the hippest 16 year olds in the world and fully disaligning myself with an editorial I heard on the radio recently which claimed that such customization called you out as Gen Z.

This hasn't happened yet, I just have a rainy day plan. And I'm not giving you a link if you don't have it already, there's nothing interesting to see there yet anyway. I'm going to compose a piece of plays-automatically music specifically for that space. Maybe when that happens I'll tie the world together.

H) Will start making lists with numbers like the rest of the world.