Every once in a while, you come across something that is just brilliantly designed. This is one of those things.
I have little to say, except bravo to Knife Party, and yes, sadly the topic of the video is as prescient in 2006 as it was when they wrote it in 2003.
Thanks to Younghui for the heads-up.
I wanted to wait for a bit before writing about this, to avoid writing something silly while getting caught up in the hysteria. Also, I had decided a while back that this wasn’t going to be a geek blog, but, geek that I am, it’s time to break the rules.
This is a week that shook up the computer industry, because, after Apple’s move to Intel chips earlier this year, this week they officially endorsed the running of Windows on their hardware with the release of Boot Camp. This is certainly a Big Deal™, for more reasons than one, and I’ll toss my opinions into the fray, having been a Mac user for 13 years now.
Just read this story about a woman in Florida who reported that she was gang-raped by a bunch of “French men” in her apartment complex.
The men denied her story, and probably would have been in some serious trouble, except for the fact that they had a videotape of the incident, which they showed to police, and it ultimately helped to prove that the alleged gangrape was really just your garden-variety gangbang.
I remember one time in college I spent an evening alone with a girl who I later found out had wrongly accused a guy of rape. This scared the shit out of me, because the thing about this is, as a guy, if that happens, your reputation is totally screwed, and no one will ever believe your side of the story. Luckily, nothing happened with this girl, and after I found out what she had done, I just avoided her.
So, the moral of the story is: if you’re going to engage in some crazy perverted sexual escapades with someone who you think might regret their actions, be sure to keep your camera on. Hell, it might increase your excitement a bit anyway to perform for the camera, and later on you’ll have evidence that might just save your reputation.
If you plan on a future in politics, though, you might just have a catch-22…
I have to confess, sometimes I can spend an embarassingly long time doing the stupidest things. For instance, the other day, I was standing in a drug store near my apartment, and I was agonizing over a very difficult choice: what kind of dryer sheets to buy. Ten minutes into this adventure, after having examined my choices up and down, resolution still seemed so far away.
I was beginning to get desperate, and a little paranoid about the people around me. That woman behind the counter…sure, she seems to be concentrating on her phone call. But what are they talking about? I can make out some Spanish, though I don’t really speak it, but could she be talking about me? “You won’t believe this guy here in the store right now. He seemed cool enough when he came in; he smiled and said hi, but he’s been standing in front of the laundry detergent and dryer sheets for a long time now. I’m starting to get worried. Maybe he’s just stalling until his friends get here and they’re going rob us. Maybe he has some kind of sexual fetish for the bear on the Snuggle fabric softener bottle. He’s so weird.”
Clearly, I needed to find a solution before she hung up and called 911.
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Walking down Second Avenue today, and overheard this lovely gem. Three guys were walking down the street, and one of them was apparently regaling the other two with tales of his new girlfriend.
guy: …yeah, but this new girl, she knows what time it is. Right now, everything’s cool, but I told her if she make one mistake, she’s out!
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
This little article popped up today via CNN.com.
You can read for yourself, but to summarize in a nutshell: some guy’s girlfriend was having an affair, bringing her lover back to an apartment she shared with her boyfriend. Unfortunately for her, she was talking while with her lover, and his parrot began repeating things she said, like “I love you Gary.”
Apparently it took the guy a while to notice that his parrot was mimicking his girlfriend’s voice, and realize that his name was not in fact Gary, at which point he confronted her about it and got a confession. He dumped the girl, but the funniest part is that he had to eventually give up the parrot, because it wouldn’t stop saying Gary’s name, doing its best impression of his ex-girlfriend’s voice.
This story has made me appreciate that my cats can’t talk. The last thing I need is my pets revealing my secrets.
According to a BBC article, Wong Kar Wai has been chosen as the president of the jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
He apparently released a statement which contained an amusingly Wong Kar Wai-ish quote: “Every town has its own language. In Cannes, it’s the language of dream.” Mm-hmm…
Anyhow, I had to steal their AFP-credited picture and place it here, because…well…is it just me, or is sunglasses and cigarette part of the required Hong Kong director uniform?
Seriously, very glad to see him get some well-deserved attention. I admire him for his talent, but I also admire him because he doesn’t really play by the rules, and he is mostly self-taught. People who don’t travel with the herd, and succeed in spite of it are deserved of acclaim.
Welcome to my new blog. I’m just setting it up now, and I will be migrating old posts from old blogs in the future, just so it’s all safe and sound in one place.
I’ll comment on anything and everything here that happens to strike my fancy; so it might seem a bit on the schizophrenic side at times, but what else do you want from a gemini?
This BBC article gives some sense of reassurance to someone like me who is constantly frustrated by people’s desire to see what they want instead of what is right in front of them.
Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley: “facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them”.
The environment is obviously a tremendously important topic for human beings, mostly because we are self-centered and wish to remain alive. So, we have decided that we all need to be keenly aware of maintaining the earth in whatever state is perfect for our life systems to function — oops, sorry, the proper PR line is — “we all need to save the planet”.