| Dwit |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|10:16 am] |
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Dear Dumb Dongs,
Right now, go give $35 to Oxfam. You
know you just spent at least twice that, just in the past
week, just on shipping fees on that crap you bought
off the net for Ixmas. (Poppers.) |
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| FUN SYMBOLS |
[Dec. 17th, 2009|02:03 am] |
Dear Log,
▽ ☆ ★ ☆ ~ ♪ ■ ● ❖ 「 」 『 』 《 》 〈 〉 【 】 〖 〗 〘 〙 〚 〛
。 , 、 : ? ! |
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| burros |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:07 pm] |

This is what it looks like when nyxie and I communicate. |
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| Better one? Better two? |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|04:32 pm] |
Dear Log,
«Hiragana was developed for speed, whereas katakana developed to be small.»—Wikipedia entry: "Kana"
...and...
«Hiragana developed from man'yōgana written in the highly cursive, flowing
sōsho style; katakana is based on pieces of man'yōgana, and was developed by
Buddhist monks as a form of shorthand. In some cases, one man'yōgana character
for a given syllable gave rise to the current hiragana equivalent, and a
different one gave rise to the current katakana equivalent; for example, the
hiragana る (ru) is derived from the man'yōgana 留, the katakana ル (ru) is
derived from the man'yōgana 流.»—Wikipedia entry: "Man'yōgana", section "Development"
If true, interesting!
Meanwhile, the entry "hentaigana" is not as interesting as I expected.
However, YOW! |
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| Zam! Dead! |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|06:31 pm] |
Dear Log,
Most Bible-y people's idea of Bible is from not reading any
of it; and instead from either being spattered by weird
single-sentence huffing in now-unintelligible King James
English, or by hearing "Bible stories"— Namely, the
stories that proper people consider proper to read— as
opposed to the totally batshit ones. The other day, I
opened a Bible at random, just to xerox its layout, for my
Museum Of Book Layouts To Steal Someday, and came across a
pretty damn weird bit.
Since all of the existing translations seem to suffer from
"problems of voice as well as expression" (to lapse into
Freshman Comp-ese), I shall perform my own translation:
All the believers were a group that thought and felt the
same. There was no private property, only communal
property, shared, and nobody was needy.
(The Apostles continued with the big job of wonderfully
telling everyone about how Jesus was executed but came back to
life and appeared and disappeared.)
Occasionally, people in the group who owned land or houses,
would go sell it, and hand the money over to the Apostles, who
passed it back around. For example, there was a Cypriot
Levite named Yosef (nickname: "Barnabas", "The Convincer"),
and he sold a field he owned and handed the money over to the
Apostles.
But once, a man named Ananias and his wife Saffira, also
sold a piece of property.
With his wife knowing all about it, Ananias kept back
part of the money for himself, but brought the rest
and gave it to the Apostles.
Then Petros said, "Ananias, how can it be that Satan has
so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy
Spirit and kept back some of that money? You
got it, you had it, and you could do
whatever you wanted, so why didn't you give it
all to us? This isn't even lying to men, it's
lying to God!!"
Ananias heard this and dropped dead on the spot.
Everyone was terrified.
Some young guys came and disposed of the body.
About three hours later, his wife Saffira came in, but didn't know
what had happened.
Petros:
"So, what you gave us, that's
all you got from selling the land?"
Saffira: "Yes, all of it".
Petros: "How could you be an accomplice in offending the
Spirit of the Lord?!? Turn around- see those guys at the
door? They just buried your husband AND YOU'RE NEXT!"
She dropped dead on the spot.
Some young guys came and disposed of the body- they put it next to
where they buried her husband!
Everyone was terrified, and when the story got out, even more
people were terrified.
END OF FUN BIBLE STORY.
Bible coordinates: Praxeis (Acts)
4.32 to
5.11 by NIV numbering. |
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| seriously just stop |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|08:14 pm] |
Gems from the rant the entire Starbucks was subjected to until I asked the guy to give it a rest already, which at least quieted him down to "one table" volume:
- Mental illnesses are called "disorders" and not "diseases" because they're not real like cancer
- You can tell they're not real like cancer because you can't detect them in a blood test
- Ritalin is chemically identical to methamphetamine
- Eli Lilly changed the color of Prozac so they could extend their patent
- Because 25% of studies show that people respond to placebos ("sugar pills! SUGAR PILLS!") we can't tell if any brain meds do what they say
- Longitudinal studies of psychiatric drugs are all either three or six months long, so no-one knows what happens long term
- They're not "side effects", they're just "effects" because the drugs cause them
- Drug companies lobby the FDA to declare something a disorder so they can sell drugs to treat it
and on and on and LOUD oh my god you'd think he was giving a speech. Which he was, basically, because you could tell that it was very well-rehearsed.
I feel sorry for the woman he was sitting with, whose participation was basically going "uh huh", "yup", "mmhm" for about 45 minutes straight. What's weird is that the guy did know some things about what he was talking about, weird details like lithium side effects and the name of some of the psychiatrists who developed cognitive behavioural therapy. He just had a, uh, interesting set of conclusions. A loud set of conclusions.
Gah. Getting involved in things like that always shakes me up a little. Writing down the stuff he was going on about reconfirms that he was full of it, at least. |
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| Hapax |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|01:17 am] |
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| | Talking Heads- Crosseyed and Painless | ] | Dear Log,
I was asked today: "I don't suppose you're a notary public, are you?"
Sadly no. |
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| Put it on posters. |
[Dec. 6th, 2009|01:14 am] |
Dear Log,
From an email I just wrote:
I want to tell the world:
"Kids, don't make the mistake I did– Stay in school, and don't leave until there's an orgy!"
Word. |
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| Getting it right. |
[Dec. 5th, 2009|08:25 pm] |
I had a thingy in my to-do list to post an excerpt from a Dharma talk given by Edward Espe Brown, the cook at Tassajara Zen Center and author of the Tassajara Cookbook and Tassajara Bread Book. But I'm listening to the talk now, and there's really no one sound bite I can cut things down to.
So instead, here's a link to the whole thing. Listen to the whole thing if you want. It's a little slow-moving at first and might be a bit too Buddhist for your tastes to begin with, though.
The stuff I was going to post about starts at about 16 minutes in, where Ed starts talking about relating to food, but the best part is around 17:50:
This is also something about your heart. Because most of us get involved with getting it right. I want to do it right. Because if I did it right, and it came out the way it should, nobody could criticize me, nobody could question me... but getting it right is different from what you love. But the context is so much of it. Download and give it a listen, it's at an easy enough pace that you could listen while doing something else.
I have that "getting it right" problem. That's certainly related to what sent me back to school a couple of years ago, and it's something I have to fight all the time on the cello and on the cushion. What experiences am I missing by trying to make sure mine mesh with what's supposed to be happening?
Also, if you listen, you'll find out what happens when an American Zen teacher ventures into an Apple Store in San Francisco. |
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