more war shit: bbc on the fake private lynch rescue

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what up nerds. the matrix runs un*x. ssh, nmap. via linuxsecurity.com

there’s this article over at the the american prospect about debt in america and how student loans are beginning to overburden lawyers, doctors, and the average, run-of-mill liberal arts major with an undergraduate degree (me). it’s interesting stuff, though i didn’t read the whole thing, because my attention span is like, i don’t know, short, in fact, so short, that i can’t even finishing spend enough time finishing that sentence where i was going to compare my attention span to something short. feel free to make up your own comparison, and also, if you read the end, let me know how it ends.

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what the fuck is up with freddy garcia, man? homeboy’s ERA is through the roof, and as an ace, a 3-5 record is some BULLSHIT! out the door! git!

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and the poseur that i am, i only recently heard of this and only because i saw that article in the stranger, but i skipped the actual stranger article and went straight to the site: www.departmentofsafety.com the site has a good design, and the place looks pretty badass. i’m sure matt’s got something to say about that place. matt? and resident linguist james may be interested in the department’s noam chomsky connectionand maybe he’ll let us know what universal linguistics means to him.

through that place, i found daseinfirm.com, which, if you paid attention last week, is indeed a reference to heidegger’s field theory of being, dasein. now go tell all your friends that you’re smarter than them. dasein firm did local record store sea level records over in echo park in the socal, good stuff, nice simple designs. incidentally, dear nora is going to be there next thursday at 7. free, suckas.

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my belkin wireless router crapped out on me a couple nights ago, there’s like 40% packet loss on that fucker. need to do some studying to see if i can figure out what’s wrong with it. i got friday off, so expect (hopefully) a report from E3 sometime, though jason is MIA right now, since i was supposed to meet him for dinner but he never called….

i’m glad they killed the iloo project because vindicate personalities would definitely be crapping all up in that flat screen action.

posting IM conversations is such a cop out for a post, but this one is relevant, i promise you.

Rick: i’ve been playing xbox at work during lunch
tim: do you like it?
tim: what game?
Rick: damn straigh
Rick: t
Rick: halo is all we have
Rick: but it’s great
tim: jason is down here for the e3. is your bro?
Rick: yeah , i think he is
Rick: he graduated
tim: is he working?
Rick: i went to the ceremony
Rick: not yet…
tim: was it like a video game?
Rick: there were more bad haircuts at that graduation than i’ve ever seen anywhere in one place
tim: that’d be cool if the class moved towards the podium like space invaders, and the profs had to give out the diplomas quickly.
Rick: haha
tim: nerds w/ bad haircuts.
Rick: they need to have a 5th year that’s like a finishing school
Rick: “How to talk to girls”
Rick: “Matching Your Clothes”
tim: haha, totally. they’d never graduate.
Rick: The 5th year is the hardest
Rick: forget everything you’ve learned
tim: real life skills.

so e3, right? if things go well this week, i’ll be meeting up with jason and going to e3 myself, though it’s only for “industry professionals,” and i give out a lot of shit about being a nerd, i only do it because i’m one of you! video games! lots of them! if i can pilfer my sister’s digital camera, i’m not gonna promise anything, but yes, i’ll try to get some pics.

mariners need a double play right now, so i’m gonna go hex ellis burks. YES! it worked. it so worked. i’m pretty badass with hexes.

goddamn, this general tso’s chicken is giving me fuckin’ heartburn and it’s not even spicy. that’s the equivalent of drinking beer and not getting drunk, but having a hangover in the morning. bad news.

and though i know jonas covered this a couple weeks back, newsradio is finally going to make it to dvd, and if the planets align, i’ll be able to work on it and it will be out by christmas (or even my birthday!), per the sony email they sent out: “Thanks to those of you participating in the TV poll. Based on the overall selections, we have now planned to put out a number of the titles chosen. Please look for The Tick, Soap, Newsradio, Dilbert and more to be released on DVD later this year. Thank you again for your selections, your opinions matter!”

i don’t much care for soap, though benson is okay in my book. i caught a couple episodes of the tick, wasn’t too impressed, would much rather have the cartoon, and i never was interested in dilbert, except for that episode where matthew was obsessed with dilbert and dave arranged for scott adams to meet him, though it wasn’t really him.

and yeah, ’round sept, 24 Season 2, Alias Complete 1st Season, Futurama Volume 2 all come out, and the 3rd season of the simpsons comes out in late august.

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you know, at least for the track, “i been riding with the ghost,” songs: ohia sounds like a hunk of poo dripping from your older brother’s factory installed speakers of his ‘74 el camino.

also: my tongue is telling me there’s a significant amount of msg in this chicken. luckily for me, i have the factory installed asian immunity to msg-induced headaches.

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ben is right, nba street vol. 2 is off the rack. bobbitto is a welcome addition, i recognized his voice right away when i saw the commercials, but only because when 411 vm toured the zoo york offices he made a prominent appearance. when i fired it up, “reminisce” came on, too. that’s the shit.

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get your nerd hat on. when are YOU going to see reloaded? huh, huh, huh?

you did this to yourself. i will show mercy, and throw in a couple extra tracks. have a great weekend, and enj-j-j-j-j-oy.

bionics, ON!

damn, the mariners got worked tonight, by david wells nonetheless, the drunk mustachioed fatty bandit. granted, the yankees were hitting like no other and they’ve been pretty unstoppable this season despite jeter being out and giambi hitting like a little girl; but damn, 16-5? ah, whatever.

anyways, no existentialism post today, seeing as most of you probably didn’t get through half of yesterday’s post because you fell asleep half way through or just plain lost the will to live. hell, i couldn’t even get through the post.

instead, here’s a picture of all the mutants residing in the continental united states. notice the large concentration in the midwest/great lakes area. i don’t have any explanation for that, though last time i was in cleveland, i saw two cops cruising in their patrol car smoking some fatty boom batty blunts. gawd, have you seen this dumb ass “urban dictionary“? no, but seriously, they were just cigars, and that’s not really a picture of all the mutants in the US, but that ending hella dragged, didn’t it?

i headed over to the sony pictures lot this evening to check out a screening of daddy day care my sister hooked me up with. the movie was all right, but the sony studio is ill. we snuck around after the screening and peeked into the sound stages and poked around outside the happy madison offices. i saw the new golf cart they’re stoked on parked outside. i actually haven’t seen that video yet, ’cause the computers at work suck. anyways, steve zahn and jonathan katz were the funniest parts of daddy day care, eddie murphy just isn’t getting any funnier (though i have to admit, he and owen wilson were pretty funny in i-spy).

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fuck that, dude. can you imagine being sucked out of a fucking plane?! remember that shit in what movie was that, what, like one of those mars movies or something, or something with an alien in it, fuck, i don’t know, but someone, or something got sucked out of the spaceship through a tiny crack in the window and like, vaporized or something. jesus christ if that wasn’t the most inarticulate shit i’ve spewed today.

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all right, all right, lastly: do you have any requests? i mean, i’ve gotta get some music back up in herre (ha!), what do you want? if no one suggests anything (like that’s you’re frickin’ job, right? i mean, I’M the one who’s supposed to be providing the content here), i’m just going to put up a track by boston and leave it at that. and i don’t even like boston.

who am i kidding, i love boston.