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Why are good friends so hard to come by these days...

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This is the quite possibly the funniest blonde joke I've ever read.

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ridiculously enough, these are some of the most insightful quotes I've read in a long time:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Trey_Parker_and_Matt_Stone

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I am not, by any means, educated enough to argue about why our government system is awful and why I, in general, dislike republicans. But I do read enough to justify my opinions, and occasionally others say exactly what I wanted to say:


"The current Democratic party is Socialist, to the extent that they favor using public money to provide services to people that private companies could have provided - like health care, education, construction, retirement benefits, etc.

The current Republican party is Facist, to the extent that they favor using public money to benefit large corporations and their leaders, and they collude with the media to keep the public in a misinformed frenzy.

I'll take Democratic Socialism over Republican Facism ANY day."





"many Americans truly, honestly believed that Bush was the better candidate

What does that have to do with anything? Many Americans believed Ross Perot was the better candidate, but nobody argues that he deserved the job or - if he managed to force his way into office - that we should shut up about it.

I voted for Bush for various reasons

Ahh... now I see where you're coming from.

The fact is, about a half-million more Americans voted for Al Gore than for George Bush. As for who was more partisan, consider the relentless smear campaigns carried out against Bush opponents Anne Richards ("she's a lesbian!"), Al Gore (everything you can think of from "he claims to have invented the Internet" to "he grew up in a fancy Washington hotel"), and John Kerry (the Swift Boat liars).

Consider the shenanigans carried out in Florida in 2000 that exposed the weaknesses in American democracy and showed just how open to abuse the system is. The Republicans were simply more partisan, beating on the system without regard for the spirit and principle of the rules to get the result they wanted.

Consider the (more subtle) shenanigans in the 2004 election, particularly in Ohio, where voters in Democratic districts had to wait as much as 8 hours to vote and had their right to vote challenged in massive numbers by Republican partisans at the polling stations. This was made possible by Republicans in the Governor's office and Republicans in control of the election. Voters in Republican-leaning districts did not face these modern-day Jim Crow measures.

Now, consider all the shady stuff that's so difficult to prove - it took years just to get logs from these electronic voting machines, and they're FULL of suspicious data. Consider the 11th-hour "correction" in the voting data on election night 2004 - we're asked to accept that the exit polls were way off for the first time in history, and somehow the numbers jumped just enough in just the right places (all at the same time!) to put Bush over the top. Yet anyone who talks about this is smeared as a "nutjob"...

Who is more partisan? Republicans. One of the great failures of the Democratic party in the last 5 years has been to underestimate the ruthlessness and lack of principle on the part of the Republicans. Anybody who claims "well, both sides do it, everybody is partisan these days, a pox on both their houses" has either not been paying attention, or has drunk the Republican kool-aid."



"George W. Bush is a symptom of what's wrong with the US today, not the cause."


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Alright this is long overdue, but I've reconfigured my proxies. There are now two different ones:

http://tempest.shacknet.nu/cgi-bin/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl

This one is running off my personal server. In theory, it should be unpassworded if you access it from within CFB, although I haven't been at school to test it yet. If you need the password in order to use it for something else, just let me know and I'll give it to you.

Here's the second one:
http://www.wdgrp.com/cgi-bin/cgiproxy/nph-proxy.pl

Same thing applies to it.


As usual, please avoid using these proxies to download movies, videos, or porn. I do periodically check the logs.

Love, Geoff

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"Albertsons" brand ice cream tastes like ass.

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I got my letter from the National Merit Corporation today saying that I am a finalist.


I'm very relieved. Not so much because I'm a finalist, but because now my mom is finally starting to calm down.

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assuming you have't taken the time to read through these recently, I think it's high time you do.

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Cale knocked down my street sign. So we taped it back up.

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"Not often enough" topped the list of complaints by men in all four countries while the main complaint of wives was not enough romance.


I enjoy the sweet, sweet irony of these two complaints.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-02-10T124017Z_01_SEO172317_RTRUKOC_0_US-SEX-ODD.xml



Also, here's some of the insightful comments from slashdot on an article about japanese suicides:

"I once read that in the Nazi death camps, suicide was very rare, but in the month after the camps were liberated a large number of survivors took their lives.

What I mean to say is that suicide is an act undertaken by those who are physically in good shape but psychologically and philosophically shattered. When you're starving, you think only of getting the next bite of food, and the thought of killing yourself is remote. When you have the time and mental capacity to ponder nihilism, that's when you take action. I think that would explain the third-world/first-world difference; there is not more misery in the first world, but the misery that exists is more conductive to suicide."


"Actually more girls attempt to commit suicide than boys in the US, but more girls fail because they tend to eschew more gruesome and reliable methods."

"That is because there is a distinct difference between wanting to kill oneself and wanting the world to THINK you wanted to kill yourself, aka a call for help. The numbers are also skewed somewhat because many young girls attempt suicide on more than one occasion, whereas if you are successful that pretty much means it is your last attempt.

Many women kill themselves in violent "reliable" ways, they truly wanted to die, and of course many of the women who took a bunch of pills truly DID want to die, but most who slash their wrists in a very shallow way or who take pills are really making a call for help. They do not truly wish to die and so should be differentiated somewhat from actual suicide attempts that failed (such as botched gunshot wounds, many people attempt to shoot themselves without realizing the parts of their brains which are actually essential, that should most certainly be considered an actual attempt)."


http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177161&threshold=5&mode=thread&commentsort=0&op=Change

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Here's the last ten calls I've made from my phone:





And here's a picture of Carl and a Quizno's Sandwich, courtesy of Jon:




And here's a sexy picture of me editing:



Also, here are some cool shots of the lighting design I do for Maximedia:
http://tempest.shacknet.nu/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=1060

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I really want to get mad, and just go off on someone. Or something. You know? Just get all worked up and yell and say all the things that have been pent up inside me for years.


But I'm just not that mad at anything.

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