Why I Support Obama
I couldn’t agree more with Andrew Sullivan’s reader. I also am 21 years old, and support Obama. In fact, I donated to the Feburary 12th Obama money bomb. Normally, I would never consider donating to anyone, and never donated to Ron Paul (even though I like RP) because it just didn’t seem right.
Obama is my candidate of choice, because having him as president would make me proud to say “I am an American” again.
UNIX Sex Jokes
Today I found this gem pure nerdiness:
updatedb; locate; talk; date; cd; strip; look; touch; finger; unzip; uptime; gawk; head; apt-get install condom; mount; fsck; gasp; more; yes; yes; yes; more; umount; apt-get remove –purge condom; make clean; sleep
I laughed. And then laughed again.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules for Writing Fiction
Boy, even when I leave an article in the control panel for Dro to post on Sunday, nothing happens. Anyway, here it is:
My dad sent these to me a few weeks ago. I had never heard them before and thought they were very good rules for writing, and I was surprised to find that I was violating about half of them in my novel. I’ve always believed in number 6, particularly since one of my favorite authors is Orson Scott Card and he puts many of his characters through the most hellish mental and moral situations possible, and it always creates excellent characters. I figured I’d post these rules here for your reading pleasure. Maybe you are a writer yourself and like me have not come across them before.
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
The Subjectivity of Wine
Here’s a funny story that I saw on Reddit today, and proves two things I’ve always believed:
1) Wine is bullshit
2) Wine-tasters are bullshit.
“Experts” are given two glasses of the same white wine, one of them with red food-coloring so it appears to be red wine. Will the taste-testers notice, or will they just babble on about stupid reasons why the “red wine” is great? Read more
What I Did Over My Internet Vacation
My brief respite from teh interweb, and all that came with it.
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While You Were Watching Virginia Tech
129 people were killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. I wouldn’t mention it, except that the article is very well written. The last sentence also made me laugh:
It has just been revealed that the gunman was an avid fan of online ’shoot em up’ game, Counter Strike. He was cheating throughout the ordeal and had aim-bot + wall-hack on. Oh and he also listened to Marilyn Manson
Jack Thompson: Please note that they are being sarcastic. Thanks.
VT Shooting: Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?
First, I will extend my condolences to the families and friends of those who died in this tragedy. If there’s some longshot chance that you haven’t heard about this story by now, here’s a primer:
At least 33 dead in rampage at Virginia college - MSNBC (fuck you, CNN)
A gunman killed 32 people in two shooting incidents Monday at a college in Virginia in one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. The gunman also was killed, and at least 15 other people were injured.
Now that that’s out of the way, it’s time to figure out who is responsible for this and sue the pants off them! FOX News was quick to jump on the Blame Bandwagon, bringing the ever-loved and reputable Jack Thompson on the air. Guess who he thinks is to blame?
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