KindaGamey

The two winners come from chris this time. I got nothin.

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Beautiful Symmetry

I’ve only ever found two blonds attractive in my lifetime.
One’s a celebrity and one is just a person.

(Oh wait, I forgot about Hayden Panettiere from Heroes, but I’m not even sure it was legal to find her attractive. I’m over it now so that doesn’t count anymore. There was the sweetest little non-professional video of her in a courtyard with a photographer just messing about with an old crooner song in the background, but damn if I can’t find it anymore. If I could link to it I would of course. Everything else is processed trite bullshit.)

Anyway, Number Six, Tricia Helfer, from Battlestar Galactica is one of my blonds.
And she’s a cyborg which is even better.

The only sexual experience with a blond I’ve ever had was an unfortunate story about the last two remaining naked people in a hot tub and what inevitably happens when the male member is boiled like a hot dog. I didn’t know about that particular side-effect at the time, and I used everything but a fire poker trying to stuff the little fellow where he didn’t want to go, but luckily I shamefully called the poor girl many many years later and told her about the article I’d just read about sex and hot tubs. I think I was drunk at the time. How embarrassing.

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Quotes from an email:

Dates dates dates. Yeah, I gave up on the date thing because it seemed to be that all that nervousness and squirming uncomfortableness was because the date itself was about two people trying to get to know each other better by pretending to be someone they weren’t! So fake!

I’d much rather be friends and then shift gears. Or do something casual like hang out at Racine’s and talk over some bevvies. So much more honest.

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Other men see a beautiful woman and they think, “Damn! I want that!” and I see the same woman and think, “Keep that harpy away from me! I bet she’s hideously ugly on the inside!” I don’t mind an attractive face, of course, but if the mind isn’t attractive then no configuration of skin and bone can budge me. I don’t like the victoria’s secret catalog.

Quoting: KindaGamey

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http://www.lawoftime.org/content/welcome.html

To change human consciousness, one preliminary step is to change the human macroprogram – the calendar. The most practical application of the Law of Time is the Thirteen Moon/28-day calendar. With this elegant tool, the Law of Time lays the foundation for the reformulation of the human mind – the coming of the noosphere. But this is only the beginning of the adventure in time.

http://www.cosmicparadigm.com/Marks_Corner/

If you do not fully appreciate aspects of this material reality, how can you know what it is you wish to avoid? Someone who has experienced eating burnt food is in a better position to say that they do not wish to consume it again, than someone who has never tasted burnt food. Furthermore, it is impossible to avoid many aspects of this 3rdreality, because you are immersed in it. Better to recognize it for what it is, and experience it; then discern what you wish and what you do not wish.

Seeing this world though the eyes of one who loves the experience is most appropriate. Love the life you are leading. Savor these moments, each and every one of them, those that appeal to you, and those that do not. Learn from the experiences of each. Feel what it is like to love, what it feels like to fear. Learn to distinguish between the two. After you have figured this out, help your brothers and sisters to do likewise.

Scholars and Rogues » Sundays with Uncle God-Momma: the Boy Buddha

Tathāgata
“one who has thus come, one who has thus gone, one who has found the truth”
wiki

Ram is not the Buddha. For one, placing a definite article in front of the word “Buddha” is misleading. The man we refer to as the Buddha (aka Sakyamuni, aka Siddharta Gautama) was/is the Buddha for this age, but there have been an incalculable number of Buddhas and there will be an equal number in the future. A better name, and the one which Gautama used to refer to himself, is Tathagata. Unfortunately, the meaning of Tathagata is ambiguous. Depending on how the translater wants to break the word apart, it can mean “one who sees reality as it is”, “one who has gone to suchness”, or “one who has arrived at suchness”.  Suchness can be replaced with “thusness” if that clears things up for you.  And sometimes the whole grammatical issue is end run by translating Tathagata as “one who abides in suchness/thusness”.  The ambiguity is intentional and, i would argue, fundamental to Buddhist philosophy. More importantly, Gautama reached enlightenment, meaning that he liberated himself from samsara (the cycle of birth and death) and the maya (illusion) of this world. In other words, he would not reincarnate.

Strange Idea for a game: Audio-Only, In the Pit
http://kotaku.com/5093783/in-the-pit-trailer-+-no-video-card-required

Not sure the delivery is that good. But the idea is pretty solid.
I’m surprised I hadn’t thought of it first.

Attractive Girls Union Refuses To Enter Talks With Mike Greenman

http://xupacabras.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/fotos_de_corpos_pbbw_nudes_photos/

Beautiful nude photos.

http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/23/future-green-design-technology/23-futuristic-skyscraper-food-farm-designs/

Incredible designs. Be sure to go forward and backward through the gallery.

2008 March : Net Surrealism: Original Oil Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek

He creates art from the internet.

Building 7

Star Wars Kid

12-year-old already 7 feet tall

Gadgets-751645.jpg (JPEG Image, 500×666 pixels)

That right but in reality wages never increase quite as much as does inflation.

And the economy is designed so that banks can rely on a 3% annual growth rate so that they can issue long term loans at fixed rates, at least in the old days. If interest rates or inflation are volatile banking becomes extremely risky.

So monetarism was designed to make banking as reliable as running a casino.

Quoting: loose cannon

Q: Is a conspiracy site a place that people come to in search of spiritual guidance?

A: Actually, there seems to be a common theme in the conspiracy world. The evolution has gone something like this:

1* Watch a documentary or talk to someone who knows:
- You discover the truth about 9/11, inside job! omg!
2* You realize that other things we’ve been told throughout history and by our government and institutions are bullshit.
3* You get angry and bitter and want to fight against the lies. Fight the power!
4* You get despondent that you can’t fight such a large organized force and that people are such sheeple:
- apathy, depression, sadness, lack of will, lack of a desire to participate in the bullshit system. You drop out emotionally.
5* You discover spirituality to fill the void and return purpose and meaning to the situation, to return power to you.
6* You realize that you have the power to consciously co-create the world, and you start using your spirituality to do just that, on a global scale and on a tiny, tiny local scale – just being pure honesty to those around you and seeing how it affects them.

It’s pretty fantastic actually.

And how odd that 9/11 started something like that? Did someone know that would happen? Do they call them the Illuminati because through discordia they will illuminate us all? Or did the indomitable human spirit rise above the greed and selfishness of our time? I dunno.

Quoting: KindaGamey

The Hang Drum
Look it up. Seems like they are very hard to come by because the Swiss company that makes them only makes 500 a year:

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My buddy Eric that I had the telepathic experience with and who I haven’t seen in like 14 years (I swear I’ll make a youtube vid eventually and tell you the story) has a blog:
http://ericstotles-agora.blogspot.com/

He and I went to the Yes Show at the National with my brother.
(We were listening to YES when the telepathic experience happened.)

I’m sure he’d appreciate it if I linked here:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

I prefer Zeitgeist: Addendum‘s The Venus Project myself as I agree that we need to leave monetary systems completely behind (Eric would probably argue they stole most of the ideas from Marx) but I’m certainly willing to give this a read.

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Evil Genes:
Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend

http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Genes-Hitler-Mothers-Boyfriend/dp/159102580X

Video here (click, might want to fast forward till Barbara starts talking.)
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9618&SectionName=&PlayMedia=Yes

In “Evil Genes” Barbara Oakley argues that the immoral behavior of Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, and Slobodan Milosevic has a genetic basis.  She argues, further, that certain dysfunctional personality traits, such as narcissism, vindictiveness, and black-and-white thinking, are often found in politicians because these traits are advantageous in achieving political success.

NPR: Bill Ayer’s on Obama

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97112600

The name of former anti-war activist William Ayers was brought up twice in an attempt to discredit Barack Obama during the recent presidential campaign — first by Hillary Clinton, and then by the McCain campaign. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin accused Obama — who served on two nonprofit boards with Ayers — of “palling around with terrorists.”

The accusations stemmed from Ayers’ involvement with the Weather Underground, a radical group responsible for bombings on the New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972. The federal case against Ayers was dismissed in the early 1970s.

Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist.

Cellphone Pics?

I have two favorites today:

My brother lost the key to his bike lock and it was sitting outside The Village for ages. They tried everything to set it free. A girl friend of his got a guy with an angle grinder to come and release it for his birthday. They said sparks were shooting all over the street and cars refused to pass by.

And this one, which is hilarious to me: