scoobdog

Walk it off, champ.

September '03.

Not quite, but close. I'm at 14 and half right now. The earliest ASMBers will be turning 15 in a about a month and a half.

GREs suck. Good Luck!

Well, to really be verbally offensive takes a whole lot of creative work, so no, I don't usually try. Sometimes I get inspired, though.

Only 13?

Eh. She was all right.

Give me your rain, bitch.

Indeed. There is something symbolic about the way the crash both literally and figuratively dehumanized the deceased.

Pretty much. Looking at dead bodies is a rather macabre exercise in artistic license. The body is an inanimate object, so it takes some kind of context to elicit any feelings for the deceased. It's hard not to quantify the promise that is lost by an eighteen year old dying, but there is something of a scale to it: how does one feel more empathy for an eighteen year old who, let's say, is murdered in a botched robbery versus Nikki? Granted, the sight of a decapitated body is rare and poses its own problems.

I dunno. It's not necessarily that I fault her for getting into the crash, just that it's hard to be disturbed when you know she had to have seen it coming. It changes how you see the corpse.

I don't even remember that and it was in my back yard.

Unfortunately, when our internet goes down, so do our phones, email and remote access. So, internet down days are almost guaranteed to be completely unproductive, which only makes the lack of internet fun time even worse.

About that, I don't really see how us stockpiling weapons that we will likely never use as much different than paying for half a million soldiers in a standing army during, say, a two century period of peace. It's something of a modern (read: capitalistic) perspective that "if you build it, they will come" when it comes to creating war machines, when, in reality, the skirmishes themselves tend to be generated as normal part of human interaction. What tends to cloud that perspective is the means by which catastrophic failure is administered. Today, its the the threat of a nuclear holocaust; in the 2nd Century BCE, it was a massive barbarian coalition - in either case, panics are/were generally an opportunity for over zealous military commanders to build a complex that fortified the martial industries. At the turn of the 20th Century, there was a unique situation that actually contributed more to the worldwide nature of the conflict more than the fruits of the Industrial Revolution. In particular, the fact that most of the industrialized countries drawn in to World War I were colonial powers tended to extend the theater of the conflict across continental boundaries. If it wasn't a direct conflict between colonies with competing masters, it was the influence of European combatants on neutral countries on other continents due to trade (which became global because of colonial expansion). Much is made of the new, deadly machines introduced and refined for this global conflict (tanks, portable automatic firearms, chemical warfare, and, to a limited extent, combat aircraft), yet it was the fact that the battles involved so many intercontinental players that contributed the most to the deadly results of these conflicts. Furthermore, World War II would not have happened if these same global conflicts had been properly resolved prior to the rise of Hitler. That being said, we have a long memory when it comes to war. Just about everyone living today was born after the collapse of the colonial system, and that tends to color our perspective when it comes to the nature of conflict. We still see war as being a global event even though it always has been a series of perpetual small scale skirmishes. Intrinsically, conflict has always been a general-use balance between marginalized groups and society as a whole, so it should be no surprise that conflicts continue to happen even though we're supposedly in a time when the fear of global war haunts us into believing that war of any type can't ever happen again.

I would hope not.

Perhaps the highly unusual global campaigns of the first part of the twentieth century have changed some people's perspective, but smaller counter-insurgency actions have been the norm for the vast majority of human history. That book sounds stupid.

I was going to say Happy Birthday, but I didn't bring any awesome memes.

She was only 46? Fuck.

Posted this before...

Oh shit...

I remember a guy that used to think he had the best stuff. One day he crossed the Bay Bridge with an army of plumbers, Raider fans, and lesbians with Down's Syndrome babies... and he passed into legend.

No, it doesn't. The fat has nothing to do with searing the meat properly, as in not coating it with that foul looking shit you call a rub.

Which is why I like to make my cats and dogs assholes like me.

There is no fucking way that even Guy Fieri could taste that and not gag. It doesn't even look like meat, just like spice covered fat.