A random person in NYC said:

"You know what? I think all them zombies are racist mothafuckahs. You notice they always eat the brotha first? What are we, covered in mothafuckin' chocolate? Do I look like a fondue fountain? That's some bullshit."

Overheard in NYC

One very odd complaint about the new phone

Once in a while, if I shut off the phone while it's vibrating, it sustains that vibration until I turn the phone back on again. Just now I decided to see how long the little bugger would go if I ignored it, and it was still going after a fifteen seconds. Maybe the next time I'm trying to kill the battery on it I'll try to trick it into going into über vibrate again! That's me, turning weird quirks into upsides!

Ugh. Whatever happened to the depressed cynical me? Damn these silver linings!

Religiosity

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/25/us/0226-nat-webRELIGION.jpg

Personally, I don't think a survey of 35,000 people is nearly large enough to really show the statistically accurate trends of modern religions, but this is from the NY Times, so it's sorta telling. Kinda. Makes me wonder if the majority of their polling wasn't done in so-called blue states really.

bad news for me

Got my first "no" response from the publisher yesterday. My short story has been declined for their anthology. However, it wasn't just some "story bad, fuck off" mail I got, it was a personalized letter that included some suggestions on how to gussy up future submissions if they are to be considered. That implies that he wants me to submit again, which is an upside. I still haven't talked to FBO yet, but I'm sure he'll have words of wisdom for me. And possibly other publishers to submit the story to... See? Upsides. :)

Last.fm

Pandora Internet Radio is the greatest Internet radio station ever. I love it. Of course, it's been blocked at work.

Motherfuckers. Or, somewhat more entertaining to say: Monkey feathers!

I had been looking around, but more or less gave up and just listened to di.fm for months. Though Techno is great, and I do like some of their other stations, I really missed having punk, hardcore, and other assorted unspeakable metals to listen to at work.

Enter Last.fm! They recently made it possible, through the advertising method, to make all of the songs in their very impressive library available to listen to! Now, Last.fm vs. Pandora comes out Pandora winning on most levels. However, since I can listen to Last.fm at work, it's currently the work winner.

Much like Pandora, you give last.fm a band and it starts to pick out other bands it thinks you'll like. The music picks are usually good choices, only missing once in a while. The only advantages that I see Pandora having is that you don't need to download things to set up stations and that Pandora seems to have a lot more obscure and indie music whereas Last.fm concentrates more on popular music. However, listen at work, yadda yadda.

So if you wanna listen to bands that are like Tool, Bad Religion, or Dethklok for the truly strange (like me), try out Last.fm! I bet it works with popular music too, but I don't know what music is popular, so you'll have to try that one for yourself.

the title says it all

The Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Massacre

"A perspective on the pledge" by someone other than me

The Atheist Ethicist is one of my favorite bloggers. Sometimes what he writes is very heavy on the philosophy side, which even I can't always slog through, but lately he's been writing a very telling series called "Perspective on the Pledge". The base idea is to consider the words "under god" in the pledge and why they should be removed, but rather than putting it in terms of theist vs. atheist, he puts it in terms of race. As an amateur writer I enjoy things like the style of his characters and whatnot, but the important part is how he makes his point on why the words "one white nation" in the pledge is just plain wrong. I've compiled as much as I could find of this story below. Why it starts with episode three I'm not entirely sure, and if you look carefully, it also has two part sevens, but hey! It's good reading.

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Three

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Four

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Five

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Six

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Seven

Perspective on the Pledge: Part Eight

my current favorite lolcat

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little bit a juxtaposition

Obama's music video.

McCain's music video.

Hopefully it's obvious to you that one is for real and one is fake.

it's like karma or something

I won the blocks football pool for the Superbowl, much to the amusement and irritation of my fellow coworkers. I didn't even watch the game. I was busy doing everything in my power to make my next D&D character as bad-ass (and confusing) as possible, which took all damn night, when I got the call explaining that, not only was the game on, but also that I was inline to win the pool. Very strange. One nice part is that I played the absolute minimum bet, so my payout for the game was rather damn good. However, the best part was that this payout will offset my recent vehicular woes rather nicely, allowing me a little more leeway for the month. Strange luck or karma, I'll take what I can get. Go... one second... Giants? Yes, they won. Go Giants!

I never thought I'd ever have to say that.