Sunday, September 23, 2007
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Kill for Jesus
These are all real pictures drawn by real kids. This is encouraged by the parents. The goat (FYI) when it appears, is this particular church's kid's metaphor for a coffee-drinking atheist. I wish to fuck I was making this up.
Burn the atheists! How cute.
By Liam (8): Future fired highschool teacher.
Not really violent, but nonetheless disturbing as fuck:
By Earl (12): Future suicide.
This kid will probably end up killing us all someday.
By Kevin, 15: Future OBGYN that makes the news.
Go to church or die! Drop that coffee demon!
By 17 year old Chrono: Present douchebag.
If you are asian, gay, jewish, or like ragae, you're going to hell.
by anonymous, Future unemployable IT professional.
This kid thinks that the shimp guy from Futurama is real ... as real in fact as unicorns and africa.
by Carolyn, 15: Future unsatisfied wife of 50 years to a man she hates.
Holy shit. Kill them all jesus! Nuke the fuckers.
by Katie, age unknown: Future live-in-fear-of-anyone-ever-ever-finding-out lesbian.
I'm not sure what this kid's point is. I do know that he and his parents are idiots.
By Sean: Future GUY WHO ALWAYS TYPES IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE IT MAKES HIM RIGHT BECAUSE HE MEMORIZED THE TERM 'POLYSTRATE TREES' TO USE OVER AND OVER AND OVER WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF GEOLOGY TO APPEAR SMART AS THE RESIDENT 'CREATION SCIENCE EXPERT' ON THE WWW.3000YEAR-OLD-EARTH.COM FORUM, FOR WHICH HE WILL BE THE SOLE MODERATOR AND ONE OF 9 USERS, EVER.
This picture sucks. T-rex had two fingers douchebag!
By Jimmy, future drug addict
Coffee: satan's choice
By Alice: future chronic trivial pursuit loser
OMG!!! AN ATHEIST ON THE LOOSE! CALL THE COPS!SHOOT HIM SHOOOT HIM!!!!
by Jenny, age 9: Future attendee of the G.W. Bush Memorial Library and it's 7 or 8 books.
What a confusing method. I thought they were AGAINST hallucinogenic drugs and homosexuality? Whatever.
Keith, age 9: Future hated father.
Kill! Kill! Kill!
By Judy, age unknown: Future fundamentalist nutjob.
If you love Jesus, you get to grow a full beard by age 7.
By Richard, age unknown: Future guy who can't seem to get his shit together after learning at age 16 his life has been a lie and you can trust nobody.
For more totally awesome, hate filled and ignorant bullshit, go to their stupid website.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Holy shit I made a blog that someone might read someday, but I doubt it.
http://bryanherp.blogspot.com
It's about all the snakes and other shit I find when I'm out avoiding all the douchebags I have to tolerate in life. By 'douchebag' I mean anyone that's ever at a gas station or on a road at any time. People at work are exempt because I hide in my office all day and never see anyone.
Secondly look at how awesomely I fucked up pasting the DIGG.COM button into my blog. I don't really suck that bad at HTML or thinking in general, I just fail to give a horsefuck about it.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Potomac Accord
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we come into a town we don't know, or maybe one where we have seen the area around the venue before... some awkward bands show up who sometimes look at the ground, or sometimes want to know what the best rock venue in your town is to play so they can set up their event there. we watch maybe a handful of small nervous and innocent people show up, but neither of us really talk to each other and we carry our weighted equipment past them and are sometimes brushed by the often disinterested and desensitized sound-man or door-man who quotes us the process of calling the night complete, but isn't interested in a conversation or sharing experiences and stories... you really cannot blame them though, they've submitted themselves to the company of total strangers nightly who are gone more quickly than they arrived, but we try our best.
we carry our stuff in, often in a rush to set it up and set back to a cold drink and rest on a wooden chair with hope that maybe someone will show up...
↑ less ↑we toss our experiences out into the public every single night possible with hope that someone may understand the message... we play to a room more often filled with smoke and clatter than conscious people, people who go home and forget the names of the bands, forget the instruments that composed the sounds, forget how far they may have come, and sometimes even forget the evening entirely... but they may have had a good time. you then carry your weighted equipment out the door, maybe down some narrow, dark, aging steps. sometimes all of this in the freezing rain when you have forgotten your jacket, or the soaking rain and the van smells like mildew, rust, and aluminum... cramming your wet bodies and your wet guitars into it...
but then there is one person who comes up and tells you something you will never forget for the rest of your life, and you realize that you have seen and experienced something completely unique to that particular evening, and it is beautiful. you realize that you have crafted something ambitious, personal, evocative, and to your personal life even maybe revolutionary.
in that moment the rain flows like stanzas from an aged poem handed to you on a piece of paper from someone you just met in a town, on a street, you had never known...
The Potomac Accord, St. Louis MO"
A very good CD, I must say.Thursday, August 2, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » African Women’s Blog Critical of Resident Evil 5 Trailer
GamePolitics.com » Blog Archive » African Women’s Blog Critical of Resident Evil 5 Trailer
Retarded. Zombies can only be white, even in Africa, or else you're a racist.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Top 10 reasons that the internet is retarded
I am on the internet all day, nearly every day. It's ridiculous. All day I click on shit that I don't care about, like "Top 7 shitty movies of 1996" and "9 Worst action figure accessories". Time to make my own list.
The Top 10 Reasons that the internet is complete bullshit.
Reason 1: myspace.com
Reason 2: One of those titles I click on but don't read after I do. Golf.
Reason 3: i never capitalize letters anymore or use proper punctuation .,...... and nobody else i know does either
Reason 4: I'm an accomplished artist and designer, yet my blog looks like horseshit, and I don't care.
Reason 5: this is boring. i quit.
Here's a starwars toy I found in a creek over the weekend. Look at my wet pants.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Waterrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
ESA Portal - Water, water everywhere - on an extrasolar planet
Water, water everywhere - on an extrasolar planet
Scientists report the first conclusive discovery of the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System.
The discovery was made by analysing the transit of the gas giant HD 189733b across its star in the infrared.
Giovanna Tinetti, ESA fellow at the Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris, and colleagues from around the world, used data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. They targeted planet HD 189733b, 63 light-years away, in the constellation Vulpecula.
The planet was discovered in 2005 as it dimmed the light of its parent star by some three percent when transiting in front of it. Using Spitzer, Tinetti and the team observed the star, which is slightly fainter than the Sun. They watched its starlight dim at two infrared bands (3.6 and 5.8 micrometres).
Had the planet been a rocky body devoid of atmosphere, both these bands and a third one (8 micrometres), recently measured by a team at Harvard, would have shown the same behaviour.
Instead, as the planet’s tenuous outer atmosphere slipped across the face of the star, the starlight absorbed showed a different, distinctive pattern. The atmosphere absorbed less infrared radiation at 3.6 micrometres than at the other two wavelengths.
“Water is the only molecule that can explain that behaviour,” says Tinetti.
The presence of water vapour does not necessarily make it a good candidate in the search for planets that harbour life. “This is a far from habitable world,” she adds.
Instead of a rocky world like Earth, HD 189733b is large, about 1.15 times the mass of Jupiter. Located just 4.5 million km from its star, it orbits it in 2.2 days. In comparison, Earth is 150 million km from the Sun; even Mercury, the innermost planet, is 70 million km away.
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Transiting exoplanet HD 189733b, in the infrared |
HD 189733b’s atmospheric temperature is about 1000 Kelvin (a little more than 700°C) or higher, implying that the significant amounts of water vapour in the atmosphere cannot condense to fall as rain or form clouds. The temperature would have to be about five times lower to form clouds of water vapour or rain.
That does not mean the atmosphere is sedate, however. The planet is gripped so tightly by the gravity of its star that one hemisphere constantly faces the star, heating the planet only on one side. This probably generates fierce winds sweeping from the day-side to the night-side. “There are a thousand things to learn about these planets,” says Tinetti.
Although, being a gas giant, the planet is an unlikely candidate in the search for life, these results increase hopes for the detection of water on other rocky planets, which astronomers hope to discover in the near future.
France‘s COROT mission, in which ESA participates, is expected to detect dozens of transiting gas giants, and has been working so well that it may also detect nearly Earth-sized worlds.
Atmospheres of rocky planets should be much more tenuous, so they will have to wait for future space telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, before they can be investigated.
Further into the future, the mission Darwin is expected to be proposed to ESA in the context of the Cosmic Vision Programme, its launch proposed sometime after 2018. A constellation of four spacecraft, Darwin’s goal would be to find and analyse atmospheres of Earth-sized planets, looking for telltale signs of water vapour and other gases that might betray life on those worlds.
Notes for editors:
The findings appear in the 12 July 2007 issue of the scientific journal Nature. The original paper, titled ‘Water vapour in the atmosphere of a transiting extrasolar planet’, is by G.Tinetti, A.Vidal-Madjar, M-C. Liang, J-P. Beaulieu, Y. L. Yung, S. Carey, R. Barber, J. Tennyson, I. Ribas, N. Allard, G. Ballester, D.K. Sing, F. Selsis.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
For more information:
Giovanna Tinetti, fomer ESA fellow at Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris, France; currently at University College London, UK
Email: Giovanna @ apl.ucl.ac.uk
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Institute d’Astrophysique de Paris, France
Email: Beaulieu @ iap.fr
Jonathan Tennyson, University College London, UK
Email: J.Tennyson @ ucl.ac.uk
Fabio Favata, ESA Coordinator for Astronomy and Fundamental Physics missions
Email: Fabio.Favata @ esa.int
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
DRM-free at last.
A step in media as important as the first compact disk and arguably as much as the opening of iTunes itself; DRM (Digital Rights Managed)-free music has been released from EMI on iTunes.
I have a hard time getting my friends excited about this, and it's confusing as to why. It might seem to someone who doesn't yet purchase music online like some technical nerd-blabber that doesn't hold any water in their life. The argument, however, is the same as my pleas to out-of-state friends to get an email address of their own back in 1995. It may not effect you, yet, but it will.
What are the immediate benefits? Tons, many, too many to list in the short time I have to list them.
That it finally and truly puts all artists, from basement borrowed-bass bands to the most commercial, corporate jingle out there on the same level? That's a good one.
How about the ability to freely put any music you want on any music player/computer you want, kicking the digital age into full blossom. That's good too.
That they're finally realizing they CAN'T STOP pirating, so it's now and finally embraced as part of the marketing plan, and songs will gain favor the same way viral news does? Awesome.
That a HUGE company like Apple is adapting to what indie startups like snocap and payplay do with the indies, validating the business model once-and-for all? Slick.
That Rolling Stone will finally, fin-the fuck-finally stop putting Aerosmith, the Stones, R.H.C.P. and The Beatles on covers. I still won't subscribe to that auto-erotic blowjob of a publication, but it's a start.
Right now it's just EMI, but once the their marketing department emerges from the new glossy iTumes PLUS pool and says "hey, it's not that cold.", stand back from the edge a bit unless you want to get wet. Atlantic and Columbia are pretty fat these days.
Here's a good place to start. If you get some, email it to a friend. It's ok now.
Monday, May 28, 2007
26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
If you've got the time, which you probably do right now, go down the list and think of an instance where each has come out in you. If you skip one, that would be part of one, so go ahead and use that tendency.
26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Hotmail still blows
I, like many, used Hotmail as my first email account. That was back in 1996, before we had choices and Microsoft ruined it. I've moved on to gmail, but still use it as a lightning rod for spam. Every once in awhile, however, I log in to round up the 10/1000 legit emails and inform them that I've changed email addresses.
So now Hotmail has implemented a ton of ajax and other stuff they never would have done if gmail hadn't forced them to do so. So now I'm logging in for the first time in awhile to see what's there. I thought I'd write about it as I go, to see if Hotmail actually has something to compete with now.
Here it goes. Oooo... Look at all the reflections. It seems fast enough. The first few pages of email have been processed.
Uh oh. It's stuck. I got an email from Live Journal that isn't loading, due to something at 'h.live.com' that doesn't want to join me. I'll wait.
3 minutes? I'll keep waiting. I want to see this.
6 mins. Fuck. Reload.
Waiting ...
Fuck it, it doesn't work. Who gives a shit anyway. If I posted anything at all on Live Journal it's most likely just making fun of some techno kid that wishes there were a legit reason to wear a trench coat to his job at Staples. Email deleted, moving on.
A co-worker added me on a Facebook account I forgot I even had. There's a link to check it out. Click. Nope. I'm again caught in a perpetual load. Delete.
This happens two more times. Lame.
So Hotmail is still shit. 40% of the email I wanted to see didn't work. That's not good. I guess I kinda could have guessed that, so there's no point to having written any of this. Sorry.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Mom blames Satan for burning baby in microwave | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Mom blames Satan for burning baby in microwave | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
... not too crazy, considering our current President believes that we're at war because God told him to.
