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Life, the Universe, and Nothing...

2006-03-28T19:59:00.000-08:00

Upon reflection, I've discovered I agree with a statement made by George Carlin:

"I don't think I could commit suicide if my life depended on it."

WebComics anyone?

2006-03-01T19:31:00.000-08:00

I thought I might share a few o' my favorite web comic episodes with e'eryone at large.

At PVP:
Time for your wife
Working order
He's a machine
Crush it

At EXTRALIFE:
The Matrix is full of idiots
Soap on a Pope
Hairy Potter
First IM

At Ctrl+Alt+Del:
"Compensation"
"Like Butter"
"Just To See If It Would Fit"

At Bunny:
More drinks...
...would've made it one
The Orange Bunny...
...to consult the family tree.

And, of course, Order of the Stick:
Head for numbers

A Short Wisdom

2006-02-25T15:23:00.000-08:00

"Well, I wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."
-Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart), Harvey

Quizzicals II

2006-02-24T09:17:00.000-08:00

You're Nny! You're psychotic and kind of evil, but

somewhere in there is an emotion. Good luck

finding it.

What Johnny the Homicidal Maniac character are you?
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Cast Away

2006-02-20T22:01:00.000-08:00

I feel as if I’ve been put in the proverbial brig. No, better yet, I feel marooned. I’ve been reduced to a common scallywag, a number in a multitude if you will. It’s not a place I like to be. It is not a place I’ve deserved. Well, here’s a tip and a draught to wishin’ for better days.

In commemoration o' the day...

2006-02-13T22:05:00.000-08:00

I found another o' these ol' things layin' 'round, so bein' as it's about love and all, I thought it might be appropriate for today...

Ecstasy

Love rends you thought from thought.
Love binds your will and mind.
Love releases your sanity.
Love kills you from the inside.

Love fucks up your judgment.
Love rides you like a disease.
Love stews your emotions.
Love kills you from the inside.

Love shows you pain and suffering.
Love gives you loss.
Love takes away from you.
Love kills you from the inside.

Love exposes your secrets.
Love brings self-hate and denial.
Love hurts you.
Love kills you from the inside.

Love encompasses simple ecstasy.
Love, I would not live without.

~by William L. Grapevine

For lack o' anythin' better I share...

2006-02-10T23:13:00.001-08:00

Dreaming

I see a face as the mist clears from my mind.
I see you there, smiling.
The sun shimmers on your silken, porcelain skin.
Your smile casts back a light all it’s own,
dispelling of shadows and mists alike.
I raise my hand to your beaming face,
brush the soft feather skin of your cheek,
feel the rose there flow into me like a warm rain.
It fills me with hope. I wish never to wake,
to stay in this realm if dreams, with you.
I look into the deep pools of your eyes,
and I see my reflection staring back at me.
And I realize I have already awakened.

~by William L. Grapevine

Quizzicals

2006-02-07T18:54:00.000-08:00

Aye, I've jumped on the wagon as well...

Your Social Dysfunction:
Schizotypal

You display social deficits and oddities of thinking. Your perception and communication are similar to those of a schizophrenic.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

Not so Jolly Roger

2006-02-07T18:07:00.000-08:00

I sit here. Me head does hate me. It sits throbbing without a pulse, dully placed at the base of me skull. There is no sharp pain, there is no spreading if the pain. It just sits. I just sit. And I've discovered that at least two types of spirits and a nice stout do nothin' for it. The pain stays. Arrrgh...

Mistress o' mine

2006-02-05T12:03:00.000-08:00

So I've been adjusting to this new (un)life. I find it interestin' just how mundane all existance can really be. My Mistress flits hither and yon, visitin' me near daily. Her turnin' me doesn't seem to have much impact on me life in general, I just frequently feel her in my head, as I guess is a sire's wont. Funny how you be havin' a bite and a drink one second, talking to a pert lass, the next you be under her spell and drained of life. Truth be told, I were a habitual night-owl the way it were. This change to need versus habit suits me well.

Oh, an' for those who be film fans such as I, I thought I might add a trail to a site I frequent when I wish to peruse the latest viewin's.

What be a brick for?

2006-02-02T11:53:00.000-08:00

I've found another film in my wanderin's that I've found to be of interest. So I thought I'd share.
Brick is about a young man who finds that the girls he loves is dead after she calls him, panicked for help. Given only a few choice words from their short exchange as leads, he goes looking for what happened - detective noir style. (That'd be the hook for me, love that noir)

El(ectr)ocution

2006-01-30T15:17:00.000-08:00

Well, I found what this 'elocution' thing be...er...is. It is a way o' talkin' like the normal brainwashed populus en masse. However, me - pardon - my instructor seems to have been trained during the Inquisition, and has enjoyed persuing his career path since then. It' s been... shall we say, painfully enlightening. At times, wet sponges are amazing conductors of ..um.. encouragement.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November

2006-01-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

I've found a site in my wanderin's which caught me eye with it's tagline,

People should not be afraid of their governments.
Governments should be afraid of their people.

This is for the upcoming film presentd by Warner Brothers, V for Vendetta. It roughly be based on the Gunpowder Plot o' 1605, in which Guy Fawkes and fellow conspirators were found guilty o' tryin' to blow up parliment (and possibly Westminster Hall, Westminster Abby, with some collateral damage to Whitehall). I figure it be worth an eyeballin'.

Misfortune of the character

2006-01-25T14:22:00.000-08:00

It seems I were lax on me watch sometime recently. Apparently, me life and breath were taken from me by a creature I'd once thought most foul. I've come to be learnin' vampires can be right nice folk. It be rather pleasant (and som'at fun) bein' a bein' that goes against the grain 'n the increasin'ly conservative state o' our union.
There be a few minor changes, an'I hope ye all be likin' the new look here abouts.
Oh, and I e'en been offered a bit o' elocution trainin'. I don' know what for, but free is free.

Of abduction and enjoyment

2006-01-24T17:24:00.000-08:00

I were abducted for a short time yesterday, and forced to watch "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"...
Well granted, I'd seen it before and knew I liked it, so not 'forced' exactly...
And I suppose, it weren't so much being abducted as me volunteerin' to go...
All in all though, It were a right good experience. One I would gladly partake in again; me one true vice bein' the cinema.

There be fear in them eyes

2006-01-22T21:27:00.000-08:00

Y’ever have a moment of complete and utter panic, when ye be realizin’ you didn’t (or must not’ve) clicked that wonderful wee “Publish Post” button? An’ then further realize that everything ye wrote is truly and irrevocably lost? Oh, yar, then even further realize ye have less’n 2 hours to rewrite it?
I comes home from me gamin’ (yar, I be a D&D dork, hence this post), to find just this out. ’Tis enough to make ye addled for life.

Blog: Scenes From a Wasted Life

2006-01-22T20:24:00.000-08:00

I were turned here by a friend of a friend. dan has a wonderful story here. As stated in his first blog, “On Monday, I was diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder, Type I.” He be continuin’ on about how he be lookin’ to learn all he can about said topic, an’ findin’/helpin’/getting’ help from others in a similar vein. There be raw personal bits and divine insight here. This be a true life, unedited, uncut, and bared to the world.
Ms. Blood’s definitions would definitely be puttin’ this under the headin’ o’ blog. dan elucidates upon his loves, his miseries, his goals in life; his life. This be therapy as far as I be concerned. Did I be thinkin' I had enough to pour out o’ me, this’d be what I’d wish my blog to become.

Blog: The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire

2006-01-21T22:03:00.000-08:00

This site be a wonderful filter for a fantastical subject near ‘n’ dear to me heart: Horror. As a fantasy genre, that be. More to the point, it has a loose focus on vampires. The blog be quite interestin’ in it’s diversity. Carnacki (Whom I be assumin’ as the lead here) started the first two posts on personal subjects – blog style - and then jumped into a fictional series of narratives detailing the peculiar story of a vampire – a bit notebooky were ye to be askin’ me. There be an confession that the author drew heavily upon Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It continues in the filter vein from that point on, conglomeratin’ news stories, random links o’ interest and of course film reviews.

The style be very informal here, though professional for the most part. Giving overall impressions along with stories, a personal bit here ‘n’ there. Included along the sidebar be links to a glut o’ links, includin’ Horror Blogs, Horror Authors, Supernatural Investigators, Supernatural Sites, Curious Exhibits, Reality Investigators, a few book recommendations, and some interestin’ tongue-n-cheek tidbits.

Blog: Malformed Expression

2006-01-21T21:59:00.000-08:00

I be knowin’ the perpetrator of this particular blog for a bit o’ time, both (im)personally and semi-professionally. I were rather surprised to have found it at all, as we had taken a part in a short dialogue about blogs some few years back and he and I were in agreement that they were a blight on the face o’ good gossip everywhere.

Yet here we be. At least he be havin’ the decency to offer apologies to whatever audience he may be about attractin’.

Though while I have yet to be findin’ a true purpose for me blog beyond making a near quasi-interesting grocery list o’ the things I do on a daily basis, Mr. Liend were able to find a forum for his incredible imaginative rants on the state o’ life, the universe, an’ everythin’. While not yet a particularly long piece o’ work (as blogs do go) as o’ yet, it has potential to go far and be entertaining to the casual observer despite the obvious in-jokes that be inclusive. It be treadin’ water along that fine line seperatin’ the notebook style from the blog style o’ webloggin'. His witticisms be most interesting to peruse...

Save the death for the dead

2006-01-21T16:41:00.000-08:00

Jumpin' about again I found meself a second look at Dr Kuha's post from the 18th.
I be agreed on his view of the death penalty. It be too final. If you be only havin' a few seconds of pain to be lookin' forward to (as it must not be cruel and/or unusual), that's not much of a deterrent; it be too amorphous a concept to too many o' the scurvy mouth-breathers out there.
On the other hand, I do enjoy me the thought of a mild mutilation in various forms. Yes, I know that be soundin' sadistic, but wouldn't it be a bit more effective? I think people would be far more afraid of being truely branded (literally) as a criminal.

Example 1- "I see you're a pedophile Mr. Jones. How did I know? Well you do have that symbol branded into the side of your neck."

Example 2- "Well, I wasn't sure I wanted to apply here. I mean that mark on the back of your hand pretty much tells me that due to your discrimination pratices during hiring, I'm not really sure I want to work for a company that can't just be open to true talent."

Yar, I never said they be great examples. Just interesting ones.

Here there be monsters

2006-01-21T15:52:00.000-08:00

I took me a quick pass through Ayleen's blog ...College Life..., and while perusing her personal file I were reminded of her fondness for Beowulf. I thought I'd leave a note here for her that there be a film or two acomin'. One this spring an' another be coming sometime next year(around the 21st o' November). It makes me brain tingle to be thinkin' who be the first to tell her about it, or will she be findin' the links on her lonesome?

Thar be Blood on me mind

2006-01-20T13:39:00.000-08:00

Aye, I've finally caught up on me readin', an' much to me dismay, I be torn as to how to take the scratchin's of Ms.Blood. I found the information within her volume to be redundant and elementary to me personal knowledge. Mind you, this be comin' from a (61/2 year) student of the Digital Design/Multimedia major at our fair learnin' institute. A majority of what be said in Ms. Blood's book I were almost required to be knowin' before I enrolled so long ago. On the positive side this be sayin' that the information be time tested and true. On the other side o' that, anyone who's been on the internet for any major use is likely to be knowin' these things afore reading her book. You may count me a naysayer, and point out that this book be good for a younger/less experienced crowd then. I say nay. Bits of the language between those covers is far above what the standard highschooler's general knowledge be and - to me experience - this means more work than many are willing to put to the task of lookin' up the proper knowledge.
This all be pointin' to the fact that Blood's book be good for the the technological inexperienced (or inept) college student. Aye, I agree. With the turn the world be takin', I see fewer and fewer o' them filin' through the ranks though. Especially since a majority o' colleges be updatin' their technologies at a sea rats pace.
As the tech be expandin' the world be growin' smaller says I.

Lazy days aboard

2006-01-20T07:56:00.000-08:00

There be nothing more frustratin' than a day on ship without any work to be done. I get's here and find I gots nothin' to be doin'. Arr well, me mates be here, so it be not a total loss.

Late nights and long days

2006-01-18T21:59:00.000-08:00

Late to bed and early to rise be makin' a man surly, hurly burly, and's ill advised.
Today be one o' the days that test the type o' person one be. I rose at 4 (after being up 'til 1) and saw me fine beauty off to the physician to have her pearly whites cleaned (she had quite a trip ahead o' her). Due to lack o' the jollyboat she took, I were forced to wait 'til me mate were leavin' port and hitched a ride. it were a long, if pleasant, day on ship, then home again to me long night o' work. If I were weary to me bones yesterday, me marrow is likely in revolt now.

Logbooks and laughter

2006-01-17T21:03:00.000-08:00

These two days have been hard on me weary bones. I spent most o' Monday workin' on me mate's logbook, and after the tussle w/ that bilge-sucking thing I finally got it working proper, but I tell ya it nearly fed the fishes it did! I just be joyous that me own logbook be in such proper condition, else this blog'd be sorrier for lack of it's use.
Today wasn't nearly as punishin' as yest', yet as wearyin' in it's own. Mostly workin' the ship, as is me joy. Though this evenin' I had a jape or two w/ the mate who lives atop me residence and her sister before goin' down for bed here. All said and done it has been a good day.

ARR!...and fierceness too...

2006-01-15T20:45:00.000-08:00

I've rolled some bones and had me weekly repreive from reality. Me buckos and I emerged victorious, though the Master of Games be a harsh master. Our crew was out numbered by quite a figure, and despite the hateful nature of a me rolls, we were able to overcome the odds placed before us. When we left off for the night our crew were scarred and worse for the wear - but had left no quarter - and submitted to a well deserved respite.

Jollyboat crusade

2006-01-14T19:43:00.000-08:00

I set out to port today with one of me mates. She and her whelp were lookin' to get a new jollyboat. We'd been expected this to take a mite bit o' time. I were greatly pleased to find a pleasant merchant directly; no less, one willin' to take in her old jollyboat for partial payment on the new (though a bit used) one she found to be to her likin'. She has a wee bit o' pillagin' to do by the end of the week, but then it be hers.

Back to me life at sea!

2006-01-13T14:28:00.000-08:00

Yar, I've finished me first week back on ship. Me thinks this voyage shall be just fine to me likin'. I've yet to pick me crews, but there be time yet for such things. While I only have two this time about, me financial backers seem quite the agreeable sort. This pleases me greatly as I've had me share of misbegotten financiers who've deserved to be taken under Moses' Law.

This be the first title for me blog.

2006-01-13T08:25:00.000-08:00

This be the first content me blog be havin'. This be a test, just'r test! Har, har!