Merry Fucking Christmas.
Yup. Humbug.
Just enjoyed a nice evening walk. 37f / 2.7c Glass of Bulleit in my hand. I was literally laughing at the novelty of an inflatable Santa standing next to a Frostie of the same stature, when, all off a sudden, the lights faded. Santa fell to his nylon knees while Frostie melted like a sail dropped of the wind. That's what it's become.
Novelty.
People fighting and trampling for shiny shit. Crap made on the other side of the world by people who don't give a fuck about you. They don't hate you, but they care for you as much as the stoner droppin' empanadas at the local Taco Bell. Just your average everyday complete and total indifference.
Fuckin' Air Jordans. Hey Mike, you cool with that? Puttin' your NAME on something people punch and kick and bleed for? You are either truly sad and disappointed, or you are a dick. I don't know. Honestly, I carry an average everyday complete and total indifference when it comes to you. No offense, I guess. If you find it offensive, I don't care.
Yeah, people knocking a door off the hinges for patten leather basketball shoes that are technologically obsolete, yet cost more than current high performance footwear.
Just stupid. Santa Claus is dead and nobody really remembers Jesus.
I say we start a new holiday. Merry What-Ever-You-Wanna-Celebrate Day. Let's make it the first weekend after New Years. Find or start a party. Don't come to mine. That way, there's always a weekend party for those years when X-Mass and New Years fall on Wednesday's. Nobody really wants to throw down on a Wednesday. Gatta have that weekend slot.
There, done. Start planning.
I am beginning to see more and more people do nice things, but it is still so far in its infancy. From assembled volunteers all the way to the random high five from a stranger that lifts the spirits of a lonely soul, there is more now than there used to be... but it still ain't enough.
It's not revolution that is needed. No, its evolution. I still remember getting happy about the extra long coiled phone cord for the kitchen (which is where the only phone in the house was). Then, remember when you could turn off the phone so it wouldn't interrupt your modem? I have an iPhone. With it, I can - right now - call a random international number and speak with someone anywhere in the world that has a cell phone, or land line for that matter. Then we can exchange images in real time, and Skype shortly after.
We are on the cusp of the technological revolution. As soon as humans began to smelt, the industrial revolution began. Now, look how far we've come in such a short time, and it's only getting faster. Airplanes didn't exist at all when you grandmother's grandmother was a teenager.
-side note-
Oil and coal still keep us there, simple because we haven't built an array of turbines/solar/hydro/new tech/etc, that can handle what we currently consume.
well... that will change shortly.
Whether we run out of oil or kill a shit ton of ourselves with war, the the current volume dependency will wain one way or another.
I digress.
This is a time where I could shoot video right now, and have it up for the entire world to see in a matter of minutes. Technology is becoming the accountability tool of the masses, and not just against governments. People video so many things, we've no choice but to be honest with ourselves and tolerant with others. The world is going to force everyone to be cool about it whether we like it or not.
...and that is evolution.
A fifteen year old is more connected with the world right now than ever. That child is learning about accountability. They are seeing how others are doing wrong. They understand oppression, for what it is in all of its forms. They see it. They hear it. They are growing up experiencing first hand, not learning from a book compiled from story's of those who journal the events. When there was unrest, riots, mobs, and revolutions, it was days before the world knew what was going on. Never mind the fact that the information was coming from just s few sources. Now, you get to watch the youtube video of the girl in the blue bra within an hour of it happening. There is no editing, filtering, time. You might as well be standing right there, powerless to do anything to help her.
The images of pepper spray. The videos of police assaulting protesters. The videos of the Black Block attacking police. It's there. You get a certain feeling when you see those.
That feeling is called empathy.
Empathy is the slayer of tyranny.
12.25.2011
12.05.2011
#676
Don't really know about his policies, ideals, and theories, but I know he can call some people out. I can only imagine if Carlin was here to see it. Hicks, sure. ...but Carlin's take on this shit would be out of this world.
I do think he would be better received with an occasional "fuck" or "cock sucker" every once in a while. Kinda gets the juices flowin'. Gives a little down home passion. How cool would it be if in one of the debates he looked at Gingrich and said, "How about all that tax money you took from the American people? Or was that Fanny Mack and Freddie Mai? Newt, you're a fucking cock sucker."
That would be some funny shit. ...but I guess this is all we get, and it is, in fact, pure comedy.
still wish he had said cock sucker... just once.
This got me thinking about some stupid video of some douche crying about cutting himself. Throw a punch you nancy. Shit. Sure, I feel sorry for the kid, but after years of being picked on? At what point do you finally decide you don't care if you get your ass beat, you're gunna punch that fucker ringht between the eyes next time he utters a word at you, because he absolutely deserves it.
Am I alone here? Look, we all have been picked on. All of us. We all pick our noses and beat off too. That's reality. Maybe it only happened once or twice, but everyone has been fucked with at some point and you pussed out and walked away when you didn't want to. But hell, what will it take to toughen this dude up? That's where it needs to start.
You've seen this image. The question that comes to mind now is, the police said they resorted to pepper spray because they felt they were surrounded. They were. But they were surrounded by spectators, not people really wanting freedom. Not people willing to fight for freedom. If those people were going to do something, and there was more than enough of them to do it, they would have subdued Officer Pike, as well as held back all the other police until everyone calmed down. ...even if it took a couple days.
They are afraid. They've been bullied and not fought back every time. They don't even run. It would be like a lion king being killed by a rhinoceros while his pride stood by and watched, casually. As casually as watching your neighbor water his flower garden. They are spectators.
Take a fucking punch. Seriously. Then shit will change. These thugs are still a little human. Check the chick second from the left.
Yeah. She's is holding back. She wants to belly laugh in that Storm Trooper suit until it shakes right off. That muther fucker has his ass feet from her face, just on the other side of the barbed intimidation fence. He don't give a fuck, and that is funny. ...and she knows it.
(picks snagged from here. you should check them out. link cred: ian)
I do think he would be better received with an occasional "fuck" or "cock sucker" every once in a while. Kinda gets the juices flowin'. Gives a little down home passion. How cool would it be if in one of the debates he looked at Gingrich and said, "How about all that tax money you took from the American people? Or was that Fanny Mack and Freddie Mai? Newt, you're a fucking cock sucker."
That would be some funny shit. ...but I guess this is all we get, and it is, in fact, pure comedy.
still wish he had said cock sucker... just once.
This got me thinking about some stupid video of some douche crying about cutting himself. Throw a punch you nancy. Shit. Sure, I feel sorry for the kid, but after years of being picked on? At what point do you finally decide you don't care if you get your ass beat, you're gunna punch that fucker ringht between the eyes next time he utters a word at you, because he absolutely deserves it.
Am I alone here? Look, we all have been picked on. All of us. We all pick our noses and beat off too. That's reality. Maybe it only happened once or twice, but everyone has been fucked with at some point and you pussed out and walked away when you didn't want to. But hell, what will it take to toughen this dude up? That's where it needs to start.
You've seen this image. The question that comes to mind now is, the police said they resorted to pepper spray because they felt they were surrounded. They were. But they were surrounded by spectators, not people really wanting freedom. Not people willing to fight for freedom. If those people were going to do something, and there was more than enough of them to do it, they would have subdued Officer Pike, as well as held back all the other police until everyone calmed down. ...even if it took a couple days.
They are afraid. They've been bullied and not fought back every time. They don't even run. It would be like a lion king being killed by a rhinoceros while his pride stood by and watched, casually. As casually as watching your neighbor water his flower garden. They are spectators.
Take a fucking punch. Seriously. Then shit will change. These thugs are still a little human. Check the chick second from the left.
Yeah. She's is holding back. She wants to belly laugh in that Storm Trooper suit until it shakes right off. That muther fucker has his ass feet from her face, just on the other side of the barbed intimidation fence. He don't give a fuck, and that is funny. ...and she knows it.
(picks snagged from here. you should check them out. link cred: ian)
4.17.2011
#675
Who's to say this all hasn't happened before?
The time since the last ice age is said to be 20,000 years ago. With that in mind, we don't have any solid record of history at all, in any shape or form, from 6000 years ago and before. None. Dinosaurs became extinct 65,000,000 years ago, cuz we have a few fossils and bones and shit. How many ice ages did they go through?
What if the earth's elliptical orbit was actually growing in average diameter by say, one centimeter per hundred years? If earth has completed billions of laps around the sun, while the sun pulses - changing the actually distance from the surface, never mind that it is growing - how long would it take to spin out of control and be sling-shotted into deep space? We don't have the technology to know yet. We didn't have public cellular phones forty years ago. People did not believe we could fly a hundred and fifty years ago. It was thought preposterous. Three hundred years ago you'd be a witch, and they would kill your ass.
So what am I getting at...
What if for the last few million years, humans get to a level of technology the same as where we are today? ...in between ice ages of course. Some make it much farther than we, and some not so much. If there is one thing we know the powers that be are good at, it's keeping secrets. Who's to say there wasn't some satellite from before the last ice age that was still spinnin' around the old blue planet. Could be that's how a lot of this technology came so quickly, because seriously, flying was easy. No one took the time to look. They were bicycle builders in Ohio that were probably on a long bicycle ride and just started looking at how birds were able to fly.
I digress.
How about oil? How do we know that the huge deposits won't refill in 40,000 years if we stopped pumping today? We don't. We've only used oil pumped out of the ground for a hundred years or so. Hell, no one used it three hundred years ago. We have no idea what the next fuel du jour will be, but it won't be oil based. Keep in mind, we've known of electricity for less than 500 years, and at that time, land with oil seeping out of it was crap.
Look at Route 66. It was THE way across the Midwest to California. There are parts of it now that are dirt, and rutted, and crappy, and terrible. Look at how cheaply structures have become. Everything is made cheap compared to years ago. When someone built a home out of stone 500 years ago, that mother fucker was meant to last. Now we use stone facing, cheap pine studs, and chalk between two pieces of paper. How many stone structure out west has lived through a hundred years of tornado's? How many trailer parks? Cheap. Shit will just fall apart if un-kept for twenty years. Want proof? Look at Detroit. When the Romans built their roads and buildings, they made them to last. However, they wouldn't last an ice age.
Let me remind you, the last ice age ended 20,000 years ago, 400 times the amount of time we have actual recorded history, and there have been many before. We think we know about the ice ages of the last 650,000 years, which is 130,000 times the amount of actual recorded history and one tenth of the time until the dinosaurs strolled around.
We don't know shit.
Like I said, who's to say this hasn't happened before?
Science says the first human to wander from home and populate the earth came from central Africa. That would be a fun place to be during an ice age, don'tcha think? As beautiful as the Appalachian Mountains can be in winter, you won't find me there hangin' out under a glacier. No one is living in that. Now how do you grow all this damn food to feed all these people when half of the Northern Hemisphere is under fifty feet of ice? You don't. That's when a bunch of people get really hungry, then they go away.
How do we know that after each ice age, the natives don't get cabin fever and start moseying off to other lands for new adventures?
...and every once in a while, when they get just enough time, they invent ipads.
The time since the last ice age is said to be 20,000 years ago. With that in mind, we don't have any solid record of history at all, in any shape or form, from 6000 years ago and before. None. Dinosaurs became extinct 65,000,000 years ago, cuz we have a few fossils and bones and shit. How many ice ages did they go through?
What if the earth's elliptical orbit was actually growing in average diameter by say, one centimeter per hundred years? If earth has completed billions of laps around the sun, while the sun pulses - changing the actually distance from the surface, never mind that it is growing - how long would it take to spin out of control and be sling-shotted into deep space? We don't have the technology to know yet. We didn't have public cellular phones forty years ago. People did not believe we could fly a hundred and fifty years ago. It was thought preposterous. Three hundred years ago you'd be a witch, and they would kill your ass.
So what am I getting at...
What if for the last few million years, humans get to a level of technology the same as where we are today? ...in between ice ages of course. Some make it much farther than we, and some not so much. If there is one thing we know the powers that be are good at, it's keeping secrets. Who's to say there wasn't some satellite from before the last ice age that was still spinnin' around the old blue planet. Could be that's how a lot of this technology came so quickly, because seriously, flying was easy. No one took the time to look. They were bicycle builders in Ohio that were probably on a long bicycle ride and just started looking at how birds were able to fly.
I digress.
How about oil? How do we know that the huge deposits won't refill in 40,000 years if we stopped pumping today? We don't. We've only used oil pumped out of the ground for a hundred years or so. Hell, no one used it three hundred years ago. We have no idea what the next fuel du jour will be, but it won't be oil based. Keep in mind, we've known of electricity for less than 500 years, and at that time, land with oil seeping out of it was crap.
Look at Route 66. It was THE way across the Midwest to California. There are parts of it now that are dirt, and rutted, and crappy, and terrible. Look at how cheaply structures have become. Everything is made cheap compared to years ago. When someone built a home out of stone 500 years ago, that mother fucker was meant to last. Now we use stone facing, cheap pine studs, and chalk between two pieces of paper. How many stone structure out west has lived through a hundred years of tornado's? How many trailer parks? Cheap. Shit will just fall apart if un-kept for twenty years. Want proof? Look at Detroit. When the Romans built their roads and buildings, they made them to last. However, they wouldn't last an ice age.
Let me remind you, the last ice age ended 20,000 years ago, 400 times the amount of time we have actual recorded history, and there have been many before. We think we know about the ice ages of the last 650,000 years, which is 130,000 times the amount of actual recorded history and one tenth of the time until the dinosaurs strolled around.
We don't know shit.
Like I said, who's to say this hasn't happened before?
Science says the first human to wander from home and populate the earth came from central Africa. That would be a fun place to be during an ice age, don'tcha think? As beautiful as the Appalachian Mountains can be in winter, you won't find me there hangin' out under a glacier. No one is living in that. Now how do you grow all this damn food to feed all these people when half of the Northern Hemisphere is under fifty feet of ice? You don't. That's when a bunch of people get really hungry, then they go away.
How do we know that after each ice age, the natives don't get cabin fever and start moseying off to other lands for new adventures?
...and every once in a while, when they get just enough time, they invent ipads.
2.27.2011
2.13.2011
#674
If there is one thing I can not stand, it is bullshit. Over the last week or so, I have been dealt more bullshit than usual. This culminated into Valentine's Day, which is probably one of the biggest rackets of bullshit around.
Fuck you Valentine's Day. I do not need to show my love to my wife any more today than I do any other day. If I didn't love her, I'd be fuckin' gone. I promise. ...and if she didn't love me, ditto.
Now, let's go back in time and touch on a couple things without divulging the retard culprits. My hope is that you will learn from their errors, before you learn the hard way like they did.
If you are in line, you are not in charge. You are in line to meet with the person that is actually in charge. Giving orders just pisses everyone else off... because they are in the same line as you waiting to meet the person in charge. You are not them.
When in Rome, follow the rules or you will be thrown to the lions. Rome doesn't give a shit about you. ...and when Rome tells you that contrary to your beliefs you are not special, don't tell them you are Germanic with an expectation things will change for the better. They won't.
Nobody really cares what you do for a living any more than you care what they do. Trust me. Keep this in mind when meeting someone for the first time. It could save you.
Just a couple of things to think about while tumbling toward your end. Let's work together to not make it any more troublesome than it needs to be. Thank you.
Fuck you Valentine's Day. I do not need to show my love to my wife any more today than I do any other day. If I didn't love her, I'd be fuckin' gone. I promise. ...and if she didn't love me, ditto.
Now, let's go back in time and touch on a couple things without divulging the retard culprits. My hope is that you will learn from their errors, before you learn the hard way like they did.
If you are in line, you are not in charge. You are in line to meet with the person that is actually in charge. Giving orders just pisses everyone else off... because they are in the same line as you waiting to meet the person in charge. You are not them.
When in Rome, follow the rules or you will be thrown to the lions. Rome doesn't give a shit about you. ...and when Rome tells you that contrary to your beliefs you are not special, don't tell them you are Germanic with an expectation things will change for the better. They won't.
Nobody really cares what you do for a living any more than you care what they do. Trust me. Keep this in mind when meeting someone for the first time. It could save you.
Just a couple of things to think about while tumbling toward your end. Let's work together to not make it any more troublesome than it needs to be. Thank you.
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