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privacy is for people with something to hide
Monday, March 15th, 2010
How predictable the follies of the sons and daughters of Adam. How typical the seeds of their transgressions. How obvious the symptoms. Would that we did not blindfold ourselves, so much more readily would we anticipate our disappointment.
Contracts 4:18
Transparency has been on my mind lately. It’s something we demand with ease from institutions and public figures, but not our peers. We call out media outlets, corporations, and governments for their doublespeak then turn around and use it with each other. Tim and I talked about how the threats of shame and violence probably contributed to the rise of proto privacy rights or at least the rise in the clamorers for those rights. Understandable. The general lack of transparency, however, among individuals – especially regarding our desires, valuations, and fears – often among those closest to us is simply jarring.
The whole mess strikes me as doubly odd given our obsession with the unknowability of the other. Defending a right to opacity helps alienation along its little path, inevitable or not.
I guess the quote from Contracts isn’t actually about opacity. I’m didn’t think that the Book of Contracts even had whole sentences in it (with the exception – maybe – of the very beginning). I’ll have to go to the source on this one.
The rest of the dogs are here. Or also on Facebook where everyone has already seen them.
Also the Yukon.
New life was breathed into threebyfive today. I say that once every two months during periods in which I betray my laziness. At least it’s prettier now, instead of totally nonfunctional.
Incase you hadn’t noticed, everything is now justified.
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two thousand ten reading list (awip)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Yesterday, I finished off Harry P and the Deathly Hallows during my interview. I’m not great with evaluative commentary, but I’ll say the entire series is well worth a read. Also, Wizard People, Dear Reader. Also, Snape killed Dumbledore.
After spending the past two weeks with my nose in a book, I realized what an atrocity it is that I waste a good couple of hours every day not reading. Therefore, potential 2010 reading list:
- The Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
- The Dream of Perpetual Motion – Dexter Palmer
- Murphy – Samuel Beckett
- Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
- Moby Dick: or, The Whale – Herman Melville
- The Digging Leviathan – James P. Blaylock (and the rest of the trilogy)
- Additions:
- The Barrytown Trilogy – Roddy Doyle (Cormac)
- Reading in the Dark – Seamus Deane (Cormac)
- Motorman – David Ohle (Tracy)
- Goodbye to Berlin – Christoph Isherwood (Tracy)
- The Boy Who Set Fire – Mohammed Mrabet (Tracy)
Before I start on those, I’m reading Mike Carey’s Lucifer, courtesy of Ericat.
So far, so good.
If anyone has any suggestions or vetoes, let me know. I hunger. I have appetites.
Don’t worry Shakespeareans, the Amazon links are only for reference. I wouldn’t dream of ordering from anywhere but Kit Marlowe & Co.
Harry Potter said right into Ron’s soul, “You know what we are, baby? We are wizards. We are finally what we were always going to become. We are wizards, and the world better get ready because I have just begun.”
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his manners need refining
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Max Riffner’s Drunk Elephant Comics
My drunk elephant sketch finally arrived just before yesterday’s game. Hanks depiction above is pretty analogous to my day. Not drunk – anxious with fists clenched, which sucks because I have blisters on every finger where I picked up the hot baking sheet of waffles fries last night.
Current Employer #1 is currently holding my paycheck, and Current Employer #2 never pays me on time anyway. Rent is due in 7 days, and I still owe @jondowner $500.
Prospective Jobs A and B – both of which I had phone interviews with last week – have not gotten back to me at all. The interview, complete with tests and lesson plan presentation, for Prospective Job C is tomorrow. My sweater vest is prepped and ready.
We’ll be talking about compound words.
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orwellian shakedown
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Tim is here.
Actually, he’s staying at Rachel’s tonight, but I have all of his stuff. Custody will be mine.
Phone interview with TFA on Thursday.
News back from Unity at the end of the week.
NYCTF interview next Tuesday.
It’s slowly becoming a real possibility that my future could hold a legitimate, full-time job.
I also eat crimini mushrooms and had guacamole at the restaurant last night.
Sometime last/this week, everyone decided to take ill and hole up in their rooms for a few days. This behavior is unacceptable, and all will be present and accounted for on Sunday under pain of pain. Chris Dane Owens has made the Unbreakable Vow.
Tonight was our first Eos game in weeks. Due to a last-minute dropout, Will rolled up another character and defended us while simultaneously wielding the cleansing flame. The campaign feels fresh. I’m digging the setting more this time around. Might also be excited about playing someone who pretty much just cuts things in half and teleports around the room.
PAX is closing in and the pressure is on – just a little – to make sure I’ve got enough money for a smooth trip + my normal monthlies. I wanted to sneak a few parts onto the Pake while Erica wasn’t looking, but it might have to wait until April.
3:47am – the prince’s bed
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dress up your vacuum
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
I cut the tip of my finger off.
That “sweet vignette” is due to the Samsung’s flash, not my wicked PS post-processing. Bro.
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this just happened
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
We’re like the Lunts.
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doing things to david’s mule
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
This is when I like seeing a girl on a bike. Fully clothed and throwing a barspin.
Since moving to Brooklyn, I’ve wanted to hit up the Peel Sessions on Thursdays, but I am a total pussy. Every tiny Korean girl on Fixed Gear Girls is 140% more badass than me. That goes without saying I guess. Maybe Matt Mispagel will move to New York, and we can do wheelies together.
This afternoon, I had an interview for a job.
Later, I ate chili and watched Appa get heartbean. DM talked about his droopy sash.
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la belle chat sans merci
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Entirely unsure as to how I ended up reading Keats today, but it happened.
Further confusion persists regarding where the rest of my day went.
We all work for someone.
I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful — a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sigh’d fill sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
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how did you get in my bed
Friday, February 12th, 2010
seriously, you were what – hiding inside a pillow case?
Everyone cross your fingers. I don’t want to say for what yet. Lord Sauron has many spies… many spies with many eyes. Just keep ‘em crossed.*
The past week has been a boon. Cloud 9 the whole time. It started about 25ish minutes into Lobo on Friday. Waking up in amazing early light on Saturday. Sunday, all of it. Shower. Nap. Snacks for dinner. Commonwealth on Monday. Snoday Wednesday. Intermittent Harry Potter throughout. It may have something to do with my new girlfriend, Dinah.
I do hate Foodtown now, however.
I play against robots.
Why is there wrapping paper in my bed? Whenever I end up at my place alone, I get confused as to when I’m supposed to go to sleep.
*Even if you were born with crossed fingers and have to wear special gloves.
Like the mighty fist of God, armageddon will descend upon the city of Los Angeles.
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