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1:54 pm.

/dance! woo! i say woo!
all woe and worry begone from these bones!
all sin and sickness are banished!
i say, i say WOO, boy!

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11:29 am.

"wax on. wax off"

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4:11 pm.

i'm never sending another letter again, i knew them fuckers was out to get me.

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10:39 am.

i've had this snippet of nursery rhyme running through my head for the past few days:

There was a little girl
Who wore a little curl,
Right in the very middle of her forehead;
When she was good,
She was very, very good,
And when she was bad, she was awful.

and despite the feminine pronoun, this is, in my head, about me.
mainly cuz i do often wear a little curl right in the very middle of my forehead. not because i wear white pinafores and skip merrily to and fro.

those are just coincidences.

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Time:

11:01 am.

making trigonometry simple!

i still don't get this (but im not much of one for much), but doing away with Sin and Cos seems to be cool as it eliminates the rounding inherent in - my new favourite term - transcendental variables.

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3:29 pm.

a little from column A and a little from column B

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9:34 am.

QUICK QUIZ!! NAME ALL THE ELEMENTS!!!

preferably while pimping gilbert and sulivan...

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Subject:	this is from something that i dont know, but i find humourous nonethless
Time:	3:17 pm.

"I have half a mind to join a club,
and beat you over the head with it"

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7:13 pm.

this song is pretty damn awesome!
a remix of Kayne West's "gold digger" and a play on his by now famous quote "george bush doesn't care about black people"

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3:42 pm.

( more paitings, warning 800x600ish )

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1:49 pm.

the mayor of new orleans tells it like it is, quite powerful. VERY much worth a listen.

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Subject:	why yes, i am feeling apcolyptic today! thanks for noticing :)
Time:	12:02 pm.
Music:	Do Make Say Think - Fredericia.

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

-- William Butler Yeats

and for good measure:

Ozymandias

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed,
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Time:

11:19 pm.

The basis is the - rather banal idea - that bush is a puppet put in place by "the powers that be", take that as you will. But yes it does presuppose the conspiratorial idea that there is a "THEY".

The reason being that there is a dramatic shift in the way we live our lives necessary. We are running out of oil, if we haven’t peaked yet, we soon will. Soon being the next 3 years, after which travel will become prohibitively expensive and the suburban lifestyle will become untenable and to do so they are quite literally destabilizing the globe; Inciting rage on both sides of a conflict to create a de-stable world, a world amenable to change. Not only amenable to change, but will have changed. So to do this, they put a puppet in control and set him to war, even which is in the end is a defense of the lifestyle of his country.

Not the will of the people, not by any means; a war of an old ideology really. But nonetheless in the end the lifestyle which we people in the west is entirely dependant on oil as it stands. Like it or lump it that lifestyle is coming to an end. To continue there needs to be change and there needs to be a plan, which in a manner necessitates the idea of positive "THEY" instead of the generally conceived negative one.

Though this change of life could serious necessitate ALOT of people dying. cities are not going to be practical to live in if there is no oil to get strawberries cost effectively from California to Toronto, not way to get ANY food into cities at least not cheap enough to be affordable. The cost of living in cities will escalate to such a point there could be social disorder correctly directed at the government which in - no word of a lie - tried its best to defend this way of life for the people. Not only will we not be able to get food from place to place cost effectively, we won’t be able to produce as much. We use a lot of petroleum based fertilizers to increase crop yield.

This could lead to such situations as general discussed by people like Alex Jones, people being herded into compact cities under martial law and freedoms will be severely curtailed to maintain what in the popular vernacular nowadays called ironically "freedom", order really but that’s a semantic argument in the end. Also in some nominally "conspiratorial" documents there is a mention of a reduction in population by 1/3 globally - even higher perhaps - by something like the year 2025. As cruel and heartless as it sounds this may be necessary for survival, not out of any malice but by sheer point of fact. There is not enough food being produced to maintain the world’s current population, so people will die, which is cruel to me to state so bluntly. What’s worse is what I’m going to say is that most of the people to die will be largely poor and largely minorities.

part of the reason i mention rioting and population control is that in the next few days, happening almost certainly right now, in the streets of New Orleans we are going to see - at least by example - quite literally men in black ski masks battling with marauders in the streets. this will be used by people to decry the lack of civil rights in America at least on the fringes. this is honestly what i think could happen in another incarnation in cities as food runs out and power and infrastructure fail.

Now again, the question remains what will the reshaped country will look like, to really judge my earlier presupposed "benevolence" of these actions. But changes along these lines will become evident over the next few years, but I don't really see things getting better for at least the next 6 months to a year. This really does push us closer and closer to an event that needs to happen, will happen no matter what we like.

We are at peak producing capacity and demand is growing daily. Every oil field that we have tapped has gone through a peak cycle in its lifetime production, peak oil is a fact. Indeed I have read that oil reaching peak domestically is part cause of the "gas panic" of the 1970s (though I don’t know much about this to truly back it up).

( disclaimer )

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Subject:	picture from inside the superdome
Time:	9:51 am.

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Time:

3:25 pm.

apparently the "blood for oil" argument is now a valid one

though i must say i do like the phrase of "terrorist extremist", how long before we get to XTreme Terror!?!

XXXXTREEEEEEEEEEEEME

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12:42 pm.

im getting kinda confused.

I remember Netanyahu being - in the early 90s - a moderate to Sharon's hardliner stance. which leaves me very confused given Netanyahu is taking a much harder line than sharon is.

i could be vastly mistaken, but if anyone has any info on this, share pls.

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2:05 pm.

free opera registration codes
happy big 1-0

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4:06 pm.

( 100 sexually titled names of cities and places in England )
68 gets my vote, in fact it makes me titter
from

mulletslayer

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2:32 pm.

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Time:

3:28 pm.

back in the days of MP3.com i found this band called Moonboots, who had a song "Astronaut at Sea" - subtitled "Would an astronaut lost at sea be an appropriate metaphor for being in love?" - which i adored completely and have consistanly done so for the years - 5 or so - since finding. i dont remember any other tracks.

but the song came to mind again today and as the mp3 is long gone i decided to dig around: and lo and behold!. so i banged on into their ftp and grabbed the album, which i thought was pretty damn cool.

shame the albums blows so far.

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