I really need to do something with this shit, it's not like I write in it anymore >_>

THANK YOU STEVEN JOHNSON, THANK YOU.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson27jul27,0,1432940.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

http://www.wnct.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WNCT/MGArticle/NCT_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783337916&path=


WAY TO GO PETA!!!

fucking idiots.

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/06/14/0057205.shtml?tid=146&tid=3


fucking NICE


preach it jobby

StoneApassionata: man
Dan10846: ?
StoneApassionata: we had a crazy night last night
Dan10846: lol
Dan10846: do tell
StoneApassionata: well
StoneApassionata: kara and i went out to treasure island where scott lives
StoneApassionata: to play some poker
StoneApassionata: then we went for a walk
StoneApassionata: and like
StoneApassionata: i tried to jump up and clack my heels like a leprechaun and fart at the same time
StoneApassionata: and i couldnt do it
StoneApassionata: and we kept walking
StoneApassionata: then totally out of the blue
StoneApassionata: scott who is like 6'4
StoneApassionata: and 200+ pounds
StoneApassionata: just jumps up, clacks his heels, and farrrrts
StoneApassionata: it was so funny
StoneApassionata: anyway
StoneApassionata: that day, I bought scott a present
StoneApassionata: he's a pirate
StoneApassionata: and we were in walgreens
StoneApassionata: and I bought him a real eyepatch
StoneApassionata: so he has this eyepatch
StoneApassionata: and we were on the bus back from treasure island and hes wearing it
StoneApassionata: and this guy is just like staring at him, totally freaked out
StoneApassionata: we had to switch busses at the transbay terminal
Dan10846: ????
StoneApassionata: and scott ended up sitting next to this asian lady
Dan10846: 'cus he was wearing an eyepatch?
StoneApassionata: yeah
Dan10846: lol
StoneApassionata: haha
StoneApassionata: and she kept like
StoneApassionata: looking over at him
StoneApassionata: trying to figure out what was wrong with his eye
StoneApassionata: then, he just casually reached up
StoneApassionata: and switched the eye the patch was on
StoneApassionata: it was sooooo funny
StoneApassionata: she just got this totally disgusted look on her face
StoneApassionata: and refused to look at any of us again
Dan10846: hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
StoneApassionata: then
StoneApassionata: this crazy guy gets on the bus
StoneApassionata: and starts telling everyone loudly
StoneApassionata: to keep their eyes on their opponent
StoneApassionata: and hes not their opponent
StoneApassionata: etc.
StoneApassionata: so, our stop comes up
StoneApassionata: and the guy is ranting
StoneApassionata: and as scott steps off the back door
StoneApassionata: he turns
StoneApassionata: and looks directly at the crazy man
StoneApassionata: and hes glaring at him with this one big blue eye
StoneApassionata: and very deliberately
StoneApassionata: he reaches up, and switches the patch to the other eye
StoneApassionata: and glares with that eye
StoneApassionata: BLEW this guys fucking mind
StoneApassionata: he like
StoneApassionata: didnt know how to react for like
StoneApassionata: 8 whole seconds
StoneApassionata: and we were ten steps away
StoneApassionata: when this guy came barelling off the bus
StoneApassionata: and like, he jumped out of the seat and tried to get out of the back doors just as they were closing
StoneApassionata: and they closed on his head
StoneApassionata: and he just charged through like a rhino
StoneApassionata: RUSHES up after us
Dan10846: LMFAO!!!!!!!!!
StoneApassionata: and I was like "oh, yes, he's gonna freak out on scott, and then scott will get to use some of his bok fu"
StoneApassionata: instead
StoneApassionata: he rushes up with this busted cellphone
StoneApassionata: and a little magnet
StoneApassionata: and hes like
StoneApassionata: MAGIC MAN!
StoneApassionata: MAGIC MAN!
StoneApassionata: as he chases up to us
StoneApassionata: and he takes out the magnet
StoneApassionata: and hes like "look, look here, look at this"
StoneApassionata: "the magnet"
StoneApassionata: "the magnet stick, see"
StoneApassionata: and he kept trying to stick it to things
StoneApassionata: and it wouldnt stick
StoneApassionata: wouldnt stick to his cellphone
StoneApassionata: he was like "the magnet stick"
StoneApassionata: *tries to stick it to a pipe jutting out of the wall
StoneApassionata: *magnet falls
StoneApassionata: "the magnet stick"
StoneApassionata: *tries to stick it to a lightpost
StoneApassionata: *magnet falls
StoneApassionata: "shit, but what it goan stick to??"
StoneApassionata: *tries to stick it to a garbage can
StoneApassionata: *magnet sticks
StoneApassionata: *teo and scott keep walking
StoneApassionata: he looks up and is like
StoneApassionata: "HEY CMERE"
StoneApassionata: "OH
StoneApassionata: "YOU DON WAN LEARN?
StoneApassionata: "FUCK YOU DEN"
StoneApassionata: "YOU DON WAN LEARN?
StoneApassionata: and scott goes
StoneApassionata: "NARRR"
StoneApassionata: and the guys like "FUCK YOU DEN, YOU DON WAN LEARN"
StoneApassionata: and a connecting bus was just pulling up on van ness
StoneApassionata: and we had to run to catch it, which we did
StoneApassionata: so were riding along on that bus
StoneApassionata: and most of the people get off before our stop
StoneApassionata: its one of those double length busses, right?
Dan10846: oh my god dude
Dan10846: right
StoneApassionata: with the bendy shit in the middle?
Dan10846: uh huh
StoneApassionata: so, we're the only 3 people on the back of the bus
StoneApassionata: and theres one like
StoneApassionata: little old lady in the very front seat
StoneApassionata: the guy is driving along
StoneApassionata: stops at a light or something
StoneApassionata: starts again, and from our right, scott, kara, and I
StoneApassionata: hear WHACK
StoneApassionata: on the bus
StoneApassionata: and automatically I'm like "OOHHHHH"
StoneApassionata: and the drivers like "what happened??"
StoneApassionata: and I was like "I think you just hit that guys door"
StoneApassionata: "he cant close it"
StoneApassionata: and the drivers just like
StoneApassionata: driving along like whatever
StoneApassionata: and im looking out the back window
StoneApassionata: and this dude is mad pissed
StoneApassionata: and the door to his uglyass suv is all half crumpled
StoneApassionata: and hes all trying to shut that shit
StoneApassionata: and hes like slamming it as hard as he can
StoneApassionata: and it keeps bouncing open
StoneApassionata: and for whatever reason, he had a walker next to him
StoneApassionata: a few blocks later
StoneApassionata: he catches up with the bus
Dan10846: !
StoneApassionata: and hes driving along side the buys
StoneApassionata: *bus
StoneApassionata: and his dome light is on
StoneApassionata: and his door is like
StoneApassionata: flapping in the breeze
StoneApassionata: and hes trying to shout at the driver
StoneApassionata: and the driver keeps telling him to meet him at the end of the line and that he has to call the police
StoneApassionata: and the driver asks us if we'll stay on till the end of the line
StoneApassionata: and hes like kinda scared
StoneApassionata: that this guy is gonna like shoot him
StoneApassionata: so we stay to the end of the line
StoneApassionata: and the guy never shows
StoneApassionata: but we talked it over
StoneApassionata: and it was pretty clear that it was the guys fault
StoneApassionata: because it hit the BACK half of the bus
StoneApassionata: when, if it had been open before the bus came through, it would have hit the front, because they travel along the same line, you know?
Dan10846: u huh
Dan10846: *uh huh
StoneApassionata: and we looked at the side of the bus, and there was a ding where the door had hit an ad on the back
StoneApassionata: and a little scrape where the bus had kept going
StoneApassionata: and that was it
StoneApassionata: and the guy never showed
StoneApassionata: so we gave our names and numbers to the driver
StoneApassionata: and he just took us home
StoneApassionata: and that was our night xD
Dan10846: wow
Dan10846: thats intense dude
StoneApassionata: it was awesome


and that about sums up our night

xD

I am listening to Rob Zombie.


Oh the fucking shame.

http://hartford.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/66795671.html

haha, w00t.

thanks gothcow

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050417


>_>


hah

today's blast from the past.

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Atom Bomb of Sweet Reason.

Get yours.

oh man.


think I just had it.


the big idea.

http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/downloader.asp?file=/downloadsnew/cj_43925.wmv

I would like everyone to take a moment to watch this, and listen to what is said.


I want you to think very, very carefully about it.


And about what you would be willing to do, for your country, for yourself, for your principles.


I'd like to remind you all that armed resistance to tyrrany is the heart of this nation, and it's foundation. People seem to forget that.

Think about what the word "terrorist" means, and how that meaning has changed since 9/11.

I think that sometimes it's easy to forget, even for those of us opposed to the action, that when we're bombing the hell out of some nation across the seas, we bomb not only military men, but also families, civilians, women and children.

It's easy to become inured. It's easy to become distracted in today's noisy, noisy society.

Do you ever wonder if, somewhere over there, there is someone just like you, or your friends...someone who has the same thoughts, emotions, fears? Someone who has hopes and dreams just like you, someone who's struggled with the same battles you have? Some 20-something kid just trying to get by, just trying to make his way in this world, like the rest of us.

And if sometime tonight, some anonymous plane is going to drop a fucking bomb on his or her house, or the house of his neighbors or loved ones?

Do you ever wonder that?

I think this is something important for all of us to keep in mind, whether opposed to the action, or in support, I think the consequences need be known, whether you think they are worth the supposed "goal" or not.

I know some people think this video, and the related letter are mere "propaganda"...do you ever wonder...what if it's not?

I think the term "propaganda" presents an oversimplified view, and even provides a bit of misdirection...

This is more than simply "us vs. them"

There is more than one group involved here. Not everyone who lives in Iraq is a terrorist. Not everyone who is not a terrorist in Iraq wishes to lie down whilst their home is attacked. To a small band of weak, cowardly zealots, terrorists, I say: "Fuck you.".

To the rest of Iraq, specifically to the armies in Iraq, fighting and dying for their home, to repel this invasion, to do what they think is right, for their country and their people, I say Godspeed. You who stand in the face of impossible odds, you who stand though loss is almost certain, you who resist with every breath, hope or none, I call you brother, and you have all the love I have to give, regardless of what your views may be, and how they may differ from my own.



I'm not in a moral position to say that this war is "right" or "wrong". I know we were attacked, and I don't have an answer as to what should be, or should have been, done.

I do know this:

Regardless of your views on whether or not this war was neccessary, regardless of your feelings on the bush administration, you should be able to appreciate that this is war, and war is hell. There is nothing pretty or cool, or fun about war.

People are dying. Every day. And I think that anyone, even those that think this action is neccessary, should be able to respect that. I hold respect for those whose views differ from my own on the neccessity of this war, I understand that not everyone feels the way that I do, and I can respect that.

It is the people who are gnashing their teeth in a sort of xenophobic glee, those who are enjoying this, that cry for more, that both frighten and infuriate me.

"Bomb the shit out of them!" "fuckin' sand monkies" "turn it into a parking lot"

How many times have you heard those phrases and phrases similar?. I encourage you to look very closely at these people, these people around you who espose these values, and truly wonder and examine what sort of men they are.

In war, there are always two sides.

But a true soldier always respects his adversary...always.

War should be a last resort, a product of irreconcilable differences, entered into with regret by both parties, for anyone who has any intellect and any knowledge of history knows that war is hell.

War is not a pissing match. Not a way to show off, not anything good. Not a fucking excuse for putting goddamn magnets on your gas guzzling SUV.

I'll repeat: War is not a pissing match.

Those who believe so are chaff, and I submit to you that they are the true terrorists of our age. The mindless arrogent, small men of inconcievable savagery and selfishness, greed, cowardice, and above all, dishonour. Not only those in office, but the zombie masses who crowd our streets, and choke our communities with their sickness.

I watch this administration, and I am wary. I see echoes of things past, and I am concerned.

I do not see that now is the time for action.

I do not believe that this country has yet crossed the fine and dangerous line into true eradication of the constitution and the values on which it was founded.

Yet.

I don't know what the future holds, I don't know where time will take us, or how our current situation will be resolved.

I cannot say that the future holds the end of America as we know it. It seems dangerously close to me.

I can say this:

I will be watching.

And should the time come, I will stand.
I will fight, regardless of death, chance or trial, for that is what is right.

Should the time come:

I will resist.

I will take arms, and I will stand, as a man, as a citizen of the United States of America. I will stand for my country, I will stand for my countrymen. I would fight for the values that this country was founded on. I would die for the values this country was founded on. They are more important than I am, they are more important than any one of us is, and they are more important than any specified number of us is.

It is those who think that they are more important than these values that are the enemy, and the poison that sickens our nation.






Disagree? if you would like to read an opposing viewpoint, you can find one here.

Date:	2005-03-31 10:59
Subject:
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	Chemlab - Suture

JuggerBackdrive: he doesn't deserve the name pirate
JuggerBackdrive: even if he is pirating butts

JuggerBackdrive: I sometimes dance to the music they play
JuggerBackdrive: they live below us
StoneApassionata: lol
StoneApassionata: LOL
JuggerBackdrive: it is a very energetic STOMPING dance
StoneApassionata: HAHAHAHAH
JuggerBackdrive: all over the house
JuggerBackdrive: there is this one great loose board in the floor that is extra loud
JuggerBackdrive: XD


hahaha, scott.

http://members.cox.net/epsil0n/uhmm.wmv

AW.

JEAH.


GO.

WATCH.

LIVE IT.

LOVE IT.


thanks gothcow

.
( god I love CJ )

you know what?


I'm sick of listening to people whine and bash easter.


fuck off, for christs sake...just because you're not christian doesn't mean it's really so clever to talk shit about their religious holidays, and there's no really good excuse for fucking WHINING that the holiday exists.


an adult might be like "ok, i dont follow their dogma, i dont believe in their book, but this is a holiday thats supposed to be about hope and rebirth and new life, and that's a spirit that I can embrace, and that's cool"


instead I hear "OMFG EASTER AER SO GAY" "OMFG WTF TEH HIPPY LOLOLOL"


dude, I can understand if someones pissed about the COMMERCILIZATION of the holiday, and the subsequent bastardization, and what have you, but to be like "omg easter is such bullshit" or to make a bunch of unoriginal, hackneyed, halfassed jokes about it is so fucking stupid and childish.

I'm not even christian, and I'm fucking irritated, just because it's stupid and hypocritical and intolerant and ignorant, and most importantly, piss fucking annoying.

and what I think irritates me the most is when people think they're being clever..or maybe "edgy"

It's not even offensive. It's just annoying. And the worst sort of annoying, annoying by gaping stupidity.

Newsflash: You people look like fucking handjobs.


choke.

mm, rendery

www.transistant.net/skullspinrender.avi



...I need to stop procrastinating on this UV work :/

just about done with the modelling, finally. Threw out a quick spin playblast...

www.transistant.net/skullspin2.avi

and a wire: www.transistant.net/skullspin3.avi


shit..I just spotted some flaws I need to fix. Oh well....still really pleased with it :p


now...the texing :-x



and...it looks like I may have to model the jaw and all the teeth for the jaw as well -_-


I really hope not, but I prolly will :p


oh well...if I do, it'll give me the chance to do some really cool stuff with the finished model, so I'm not gonna complain too much ;D

here's hoping for successful completion! xD


UPDATE:
I have no idea how the hell I'm gonna unwrap this thing. oof.