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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
11:05 pm	Skeletons in the Closet And finally, everything worked out just fine Christmas was saved, though there wasn't much time But after that night, things were never the same... Each holiday now knew the other one's name And though that one Christmas things got out of hand, I'm still rather fond of that skeleton man So, many years later I thought I'd drop in, And there was old Jack, still looking quite thin, With four or five skeleton children at hand Playing strange little tunes in their xylophone band And I asked old Jack, "Do you remember the night When the sky was so dark and the moon shone so bright? When a million small children pretending to sleep Nearly didn't have Christmas at all, so to speak And would, if you could, turn that mighty clock back, To that long, fateful night? Now, think carefully, Jack Would you do the whole thing all over again, Knowing what you know now, knowing what you knew then?" And he smiled, like the old Pumpkin King that I knew, Then turned and asked softly of me, "...Wouldn't you?" Happy Halloween, everyone. Enjoy the festivities. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Friday, September 8th, 2006
1:15 am	Odd Observation.... So I was looking at labels earlier... Hornsby's 1-12 oz bottle 170 k/calories 9g sugar Dr. Pepper 1-12 oz can 140 k/calories 40g sugar 30 more calories for the alcohol, but *31* more grams of sugar for the Dr. Pepper? From this, I can only conclude: Beer is healthier than soda! Drink on, friends....drink on. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
1:53 pm	Well, now I'm *really* interested.... Apparently, one of the songs on the soundtrack of the new Transformers movie is called, "The Death of Optimus Prime"...anyone else curious? What I really want to know....is it prostate cancer? And will he transform into a coffin when it's all over? These thoughts and others like it brought to you by the Pepsi Farmers of America. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
12:12 am	Well, apparently I've been gone long enough to have gathered the inertia required for a nudge or two...how rude! You guys want a post? May as well give them what they want... I've been working a lot, and sleeping. And trying to finish a piece that was meant for my guild leader about eight months ago. Christ, that time flew by. We'll be switching back to our normal schedule for work, so things should be far more laid-back and easier to deal with from now on. Been trying to get things cleared up in my room enough to convert it back into the electronics haven it was before things got so chaotic, and I think I've nearly got enough room cleared in the garage to put my punching bag back up and shove an arc-welder in the corner. Oh yeah, I got a set of welder's goggles, too! Score another for the goggles! Other than that, I've really just been trying to sort things out. Mostly, I seem to be having an issue concerning my nihilism...the same question that nags and tears at all nihilists; "Why bother if it all returns to nothing?" The answer, of course, can be found by no other than the one who asks the question; any other answer, even if it's the same as the one reached by the questioner, is simply too impersonal to be taken seriously. I won't bother you with the details and complications in my own answer, but I think I still have a few more steps in that particular struggle before I can even justify my own existence, much less begin to redeem that existence from the fiery bowels of apathy and entropy. Perhaps apathy and entropy could lay off the mexican food. In a related issue, if a nihilist finds a purpose, are they still a nihilist? More importantly, if the spiritual can have a crisis of faith, can the secular have a crisis of doubt? Off to bed, I have much to do in the morning. As always, if any of you wish to talk to me, anytime, just give me a call. If that fails to work, there's a knuckles-signal on top of city hall, if you turn it on...well, nothing will happen, but it'll look cool. And cause I was tagged by a tofu whom I will not name... Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Phoenix Rolls Mmmm...sushi that melts in your mouth like chocolate...and it's cooked! Literary: Thus Spoke Zarathustra For the cranky hermit in all of us. Well, maybe just me. Audiovisual: Dune I shouldn't have to explain anything by Frank Herbert. Musical: Lords of Acid Repression. Don't bring it up again. Celebrity: Can't think of any, sorry Not the celebrity type Now I tag:- jesuscat ravenessasashes silvix galadriel3 and midnightmyst to complete this same Quiz, Its HERE. Current Mood: calm (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 9th, 2006
3:29 am	Curiosity... So, it seems like just about everyone has an MMORPG addiction. WoW, EQ, FF11, GW, DAoC...whatever. Has anyone else ever wondered whether there are triskaidekaphobic gamers with accounts filled with level 12 characters? Just asking. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, May 22nd, 2006
6:20 am	Every man, his own messiah. Exodus 34, 17-28 17. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 18. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 19. All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 20. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. 21. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 23. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. 24. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. 25. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. 26. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 27. And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. 28. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. In the bible, Moses goes up Mt. Sinai and speaks with God, who gives Moses two stone tablets (Fellow creators the creator seeks, who write new laws on new tablets!). A bit later (it's rather longwinded...it's a big book) he casts down these two tablets, shattering the words of God as he finds his chosen people worshipping a golden calf made by his brother, Aaron. He goes back to the mountain and pleads with God for forgiveness, and God commands him to bring him two more tablets, with which to etch the word of the Lord. These two tablets, by the way, are supposed to be the treasure held inside the Ark of the Covenent. Anyway, so God tells him to bring him two more tablets, and the preceding verses are what comes about. What? Wait...! No...no mention of adultery...No mention of honoring thy parents, or taking the Lord's name in vain. There doesn't even seem to be a mention of murder in this set of commandments. That's my puzzle for this morning; I wish to know why the traditional decalogue is thrown out (apparently by God himself) for this set of commandments that deal with things that, quite honestly, I don't give a rat's ass about. However, this brings about a second thought...doesn't Christianity (and Judaism, technically) look so much more appealing when you take this new set of rules into account? Murder, debauchery, and deceit doesn't seem to matter as long as you keep your damn leaven off the sacrificial blood. I suppose that would make sense, I personally believe that murder, debauchery and deceit have been the ways of the church anyway. Ah, organized religion...Such a scar on the face of an otherwise rational species. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, March 13th, 2006
1:30 pm	Online post-it.... Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. --Ambrose Bierce (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, March 10th, 2006
3:40 pm	"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal it's sex. I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be fertile." --Ogden Nash, "The Turtle" What struck me as amusing about this is that I actually found it on the flavor text of a Magic card o_O I just thought it was odd and amusing, and I kinda want to pull out my pens and make a poster out of it...hence, it goes here so I don't forget. For my own amusement Giant Turtle 1GG Cannot attack if it attacked last turn 2/4 Fallen Empires (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
6:10 am	I just listened to a televangelist speak about how the power of Jesus, the power of God, can overcome diseases...can cure viruses and bacteria, that faith in the Lord is stronger than the fear of sickness. However, is not disease and sickness merely a manifestation of God? If everything in the universe is God, doesn't that mean that meningitis and AIDS and Ebola and the common cold are also God? I have seen relatively little of the world, but I have seen an HIV cell photographed and enlarged to the size of a book page. How many of you have also seen such things? Out of everything in my life, perhaps that is what would make me believe in God most, that tiny little cell, urchinlike and spiky, sharp and wicked, a wonder of the microscopic world. This single cell can do more damage to a human body than any blade, can cause more pain than any implement of torture mankind has yet devised. If you wish to put God in all things, remember that "all things" includes your demons, your sickness, your sin. If the universe is one with God, God is sodomy and prostitution and greed and polygamism and murder, massacre, even, as surely as he is respect, love, patience, humility, healing, and faith. IF GOD IS VIRTUE, GOD IS VICE. This is why I dislike late-night TV. Current Mood: annoyed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
1:08 am	Go buy The Plucker....no, seriously. So, there are a few lessons that I've learned over the years that I wished to preserve, and these little tidbits of knowledge are important enough to me that I really don't think I could write them down in my hard-copy journal without getting out my calligraphy pen. I'm lazy as hell, so instead they will reside here. - Don't worry about tomorrow. By all means, think about it, but don't bother worrying. - Money is important, but it's not everything. It's possible to be rich and unhappy, or poor and happy....strive for rich *and* happy. - Monsters really do live under your bed. As long as you believe that, then your mind stays creative. - Hope and fear both equally cloud your judgement. Fear is the mindkiller. Hope is the heartkiller. - A little blood goes a long way. - A little ink goes a long way. - Within every person is the seed of a hero, a messiah...a god. - Tell the angel and demon that sit upon your shoulders to fuck off. - Death is nothing to be afraid of. - Human beings are notoriously stupid...why would you worship a god that rejoices in it? My god would feel ashamed that so few of his children ever wake up... - Everything can be salvaged, cannibalized, repaired or broken down into useful components. - Venus flytraps have the right idea...make your prey come to you. Now, if you'll excuse me, my cheesecake calls to me. Current Mood: calm (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 5th, 2006
7:57 am	Alright, so...I know I'm a bum and never update. That's okay, cause I have a level 66 necromancer with 22 AAs. I think. Maybe 23. I did a lot of killing, I don't remember just how many I ended up with last night. This morning. Whenever. Anyway, my post is really just to let everyone know that I'm not dead. So, there. I'm not dead. Must sleep. However, reading this over, at least I'm not drunk. There's no, "Shit, my head hurts. Wait...who the hell is that? At least she's kinda cute, but why's she in my bed?" or "Damn, what happened last night?"...no, there's "I'm tired, and I don't know how many levels I got..." SUCH A GEEK (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
7:53 am	You know you wanna share your opinion! Alright guys...I need your help. As most of you know, I have a Necromancer on EverQuest, whom I love very much. Unfortunately, she lacks a last name. Now, what I need you to help me with is the selection of a surname for this character, and I'm kinda stuck as to what to use. Here are your selections. Her first name is Csarrean. So, we have.... A. Section (Which seems to be popular, but I think it's a little cliché) B. Kaiserschnitt (German for the same thing...means "Emperor's Section") C. Matrecaesus ("a matre caesus" - latin term meaning, "cut out of his mother") D. Sepsis E. Anaesthesia F. Asklepios (first mythological character to be delived such, by Apollo) G. Rustyblade H. Something deriving from a tribute to Ines Ramirez Perez, the only known woman to have ever performed a CS on herself and lived...unfortunately, I can't really come up with anything, so if you feel that's appropriate, figure something out. Anyway, it's something you all should at least look up, she did it by drinking rubbing alcohol and using a kitchen knife. Now that's gutsy. Gutsy. Heh. So....Come on, comment with your vote, or suggest a new one, or tell me that I'm a horrible, horrible person (but you still have to vote). Current Mood: bouncy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
4:56 am	Alright, so I caved and bought the new EverQuest expansion, Depths of Darkhollow. It was thirty dollars. THIRTY! And I, honestly, don't feel gypped at all. From what I've seen, they finally came up with a high-quality expansion for a game that, when you think about it, has the most real potential of any MMORPG out there. First, you can now use "Spirit Shrouds" to change into monsters of varying levels and classes. I ran around with Misty as a level 5 berserker basilisk to help her level. And I got about 10% of a level for my 45 necromancer while I did so! ROCK! Also, they added entire missions as monsters, like the one I did earlier with Owen, Tish and Thena as we ran around and rescued a dark elf as orcs. Yeah, orcs. And got both nice experience and a kickass set of boots for Tish. They've begun updating the models and graphics, so that everything is looking crisp and realistic and kinda spooky sometimes...the new models for the spiders look menacing. I'm certainly pleased. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 9th, 2005
2:27 am	You scored as General Grievous. </td> General Grievous 83% Anakin Skywalker 67% Chewbacca 61% Obi Wan Kenobi 44% Darth Vader 44% Clone Trooper 42% R2-D2 42% Yoda 42% Emperor Palpatine 36% Mace Windu 33% C-3PO 31% Padme Amidala 31% Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? created with QuizFarm.com Hell Yes. And because I've been tagged at least twice: ::RULES:: This is a game of tag. You have to answer the questions below and then TAG six of your friends. SET 1: List 3 things that bug you - things that others may find trivial. 1. Being called, "Nigga" 2. People bitching about things without exactly knowing what they're really bitching about 3. People trying to talk on their cell phones and do other things when they're completely incapaple of multi-tasking SET 2: List 3 things that make chocolate even better. 1. peanut butter 2. ice cream 3. women SET 3: List 3 things you'd rather be doing than playing a game of LJ tag. 1. watching Res. Evil 2 2. playing EverQuest 3. bitching about the customers at the arcade (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
5:11 pm	Let's face it, Ash....you knew it was coming When a GUY is quiet, Not a single damn thing is running through their mind. When a GUY looks down, It means he's just tired. When a GUY is not arguing, He is wondering why the GIRL is no longer arguing. When a GUY looks at you with eyes full of questions, he wonders, "Does this make me look fat?" When a GUY answers "I'm fine" after a few seconds, he had to try to keep the Cheez-Whiz down. When a GUY stares at you, he's probably looking down your shirt. When a GUY lays on your chest, he's probably looking down your shirt. When a GUY calls you everyday, he's probably looking down your shir...or, I mean, loves you very much. When a GUY wants to see you everyday, he needs to get out more. When a GUY says "I love you", he means, "don't kill me, but I did something stupid". When a GUY says that he can't live without you, he really likes your cooking. When a GUY says "I miss you", no one in this world really knows what the hell he means. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
4:41 am	Alright, so I've been cleaning my room most of the night, and here are just a few of the odd, interesting things from my past I've exhumed from my bedroom: - Raewind Ashley's original character sheet (Yeah, the elf from the vamp game) - The first pic of ash I ever owned, with her friends from Cali and her wearing the EVIL tee - An LCD keychain version of Joust - An LCD watch of "Super Mario Bros. 4", complete with a headphone jack, that might actually work if I tried to fix it - A heart off of the carnations they sold up at Kerr for Valentine's Day with a note from Arianne - My Order of the Arrow handbook from Scouts - The original Jumper Pak that came in my N64 (wtf?) - My hard-copy backup of my AIM friends list from when I used the handle MorrigansMinion - Part of the first Biology PAK I had to do with Collin - A strategy guide for MTG from Stronghold (which was what, like....'99?) - The instruction manual from my Neo-Geo Pocket All of this amuses me quite a bit...unfortunately, this all came from my dresser, I haven't even gotten to the big bookshelf/desk I have. That'll be loads of fun (though I must admit, I am curious as to what treasures it hides inside it's cluttered interior). Also, like the rest of you, I went ahead and took the Changeling test. My results are as unsurprising as the others: Sluagh. You tend to be solitary, and that is just fine with you. Moldy texts, ancient secrets, bring them on. You have no qualms with asking a spider to aid you, and you know a lot more than you will ever let on. It feels like no one ever understands you though. What Type of Changeling Are You? (Now Including Pictures for Each Kith) brought to you by Quizilla Current Mood: tired (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 22nd, 2005
7:58 pm	So, I come back from work this evening and take a shower. In this shower, I remember an old woman screaming, "The devil is here tonight!" right after a drive-by up at Fun-Plex, and a few things begin to addle my feeble little mind. Then, I come to a few conclusions. The internal monologue went as follows: The devil is such a silly concept, especially how he's portrayed in today's stereotypical protestant paradise. When I heard such nonsense, the first thought that occurred to me was that such things are not caused by some has-been angel, but by envy, lust, wrath, greed, gluttony, sloth, and pride...all things that are divinely human. Besides, using Christian mythology as a base, the devil would be (depending on the set of beliefs) attempting to gather souls to his cause to storm heaven, or try to keep human souls from "enlightenment" and rejoining Our Heavenly Father, or perhaps he just wants company in hell. There are many theories. Whatever. In any case, this would assume human beings have souls, an issue that I have problems accepting. Let's assume that I die, shall we? Then, let's assume I get into "heaven" (again, I don't care how unbelievable it is, it's an obviously hypothetical scenario). So which Me is it? Is it the Me that was uncorrupted as a child? The Me that was shy and reserved in middle school? The Me that was always up to mischief and blasphemy in high school? The Me that fell in love with Mary? What about the Me that cheated on her? Or the Me in fifty years, old and cranky and with a pin in my hip the size of a crocheting needle? You get the picture...why would something so eternal and "spiritual" as a soul be constrained by something as material as the space-time continuum? Anything truly spiritual would be outside such bounds, outside our very borders of Causality. Spiritual is neither Cause nor Effect. Spirituality is not Sin, or a man who lays dying from an already-dead tree, or a pentacle drawn to praise and call on the elements. I will not claim to not have a soul. That spark of life is certainly there, but it is not subject to the laws and regulations of this realm, not going to rest eternally in Heaven or Hell or Valhalla or Purgatory, not in the middle of some cosmic tug-of-war for prizes unknown. It is not a lot of things. It is, in the end, not mine. And someday, I will have to give it back. I think it's time to get out of the shower. And now, as I type this and continue to think about it, I realize that I should have stayed in the shower. Also: I posed a question to a Harry-Potter loving friend of mine, maybe someone can give me an answer; If you fill a copier with hemoglobin and ink toner, do you get Half-Blood Prints? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
2:36 pm	Good times... Went to the GBH show last night at the Engine Room. The first three bands sucked, but when GBH came on, there was a far more...lively crowd. I have so many bruises I'd be hard-pressed to count them, caught a crowdsurfer's hand in my eye as he was trying to jump off the stage, took a cigarette to my upper arm, and jumped off the stage myself...twice. That, however was mostly Vera's fault; she yelled something at me that I couldn't understand a word of, I asked what she said, she yelled it again, then grabbed my leg and practically threw me onstage. Damn, that was fun. The suggestion came up to go to a Dropkick Murphy or Flogging Molly or some other random drunk irish band's concert; I can't wait. Current Mood: bouncy (Comment on this)
Monday, July 11th, 2005
6:06 pm	Somewhere between subtlety and sodomy So...bought a new mp3 player, 30 gigs. On the way home from work today, it played 4 Garbage songs in a row while on Shuffle. Assuming my math is correct, the probability of such things is 1:167422.29....just amused by it. Perhaps I should go buy a lottery ticket >_< Anyway, working as always...got to run my Awakening scene with my new Mage. While entertaining, the open-endedness of Mage kinda bugs me, there're almost so many possibilities it's suffocating. And to get everyone in that Christmas In July spirit, I present a carol for all of you...unfortunately, I doubt the lot of you are appreciative of anything as sublime as a christmas tree, so I think a chorus of "O Yog Sothoth" might be more appropriate. O Yog Sothoth, O Yog Sothoth, We worship you, O Yog Sothoth. Who's Santa Claus, who's Jesus Christ? We worship Yog 'cause he's not nice. We'll celebrate with some stray dog, Which we'll carve up and serve to Yog. O Yog Sothoth, O Yog Sothoth... We beg you, do not eat us. My new daggers, for those of you that haven't seen them yet, look like this. Current Mood: cranky (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 4th, 2005
6:23 pm	Fast Food Madness So, I worked this morning, then Misty came up to the arcade. Played DDR for a bit, then headed to Taco Bell...These are some of the randomness that ensued. K: Ya know what they should do? They could make a restaurant like this themed after the Matrix...Call it Taco Neo. Their slogan could be, "Think outside the One" M: *blinks* Where do you come up with this stuff? K: I really don't know. I think even God's up there goin', "*shrug* I didn't do it"...Alright, I'm lying. Really, God's up there going, "*Ba dum da dum* do do, do do *Ba dum da dum*" M: Alright, I don't even want to know where you get this stuff K: God nods to Jesus, Jesus makes some hand gestures...there's a lightning bolt, and then there stands Shaggy, singing, "It Wasn't Me" - - - - - Then later, she talks about having to explain bukkake to a friend of hers... K: Humans have such odd tastes... M: How so? K: Well, have you ever seen like, a pride of lions having a bukkake party? I didn't see that shit in The Lion King. If there had been, maybe it would've held my attention longer. M: ...uhm, okay K: "Aren't ya achin' *yum yum* For some bacon *yum yum*..." Yeah, it was an eventful day. Anyway, gonna go watch Collin get his Sith ass handed to him by some overpowered Jedi on KOTOR. Current Mood: amused (2 Comments |Comment on this)