I liked it better when it was an old Irishman whose son had recently been sent to jail. The potato-growing stereotype fits much better than with an arab in New York City. And you don't have to depend on the Orwellian "They're watching everybody " (or at least every arab) idea. But, hey. Jokes change to fit the seasons, right?
I feel like writing something, but I'm not sure what yet. I just finished reading William James' Is Life Worth Living? (not the full text of the article, of course, but a nice quote) and Jeff's latest blog entry . It really was a b
"Why is there something, instead of nothing?" A good question. I first heard it on The Daily Show, but they probably got it from somewhere else. It's Iconoclast™'s question followed to its logical limit. It seems to me that eventually you have to throw up your hands and say either "(An all-powerful) God did it," or "That's just the way it is," depending on your personal disposition. The idea of randomness in the universe seems counter-intui
Okay, I have homework I should be doing, but I'm making a short post anyway. We just had a little discussion on intelligent design creationism vs. evolution in philosophy class. A passing mention, really. But I started thinking: why is it that I assumed evolution was the more plausible answer, even though it couldn't be reproduced in a laboratory any more t
I'd be more outgoing I used to wish I was a girl, because girls were more outgoing.
Don't you wish you could go back to kindergarten and do everything over again? I never listened to good advice when I was a kid. The stuff that would have been really useful to know was over my head, anyway. Only now, at age 20, do I feel I know enough to redo my childhood properly. Ah, but that's not how it works, is it? You live, and you learn. And you don't waste time thinking about what it would be like if you could do it in the oppos
By looking at the referrals section I see that my blog is the #5 result in a Google search for "i wish i had a girlfriend lonely blog". And, without actually clicking on any of the links, it looks like mine was the first page that was really relevant to the intent of the search. I guess that's a mark of distinction. I hope the person who did that search found whate
Of course it's not plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you try to pass it off as your own work. Reposting articles without permission is something different, but still something that there have been lawsuits over. "Citing your sources" would have been if you had talked about or summarized the article, and linked to it.
Me: I don't think I'd want a pet, because they have such short lifespans. I'd be sad if it died. B: You see, you can't live like that. So true. I was at a pet store the other day, and the furry critters they had for sale there were so cute. I know my mom doesn't like rodents, but some of them are just adorable. Not having any pets is just anot
Feeling okay tonight. I found myself able to open my mouth and talk to people, which has been a problem before. I'm attributing part of it to the prozac, but I've been at this dosage for almost two months, so that can't be the only factor. Maybe it just comes in waves, and I'll be feeling crappy again next week. But it could be a sign that I'm getting better. Wou
To be a bit more civil, almost very few people have that "exeptional strength of character." That kind of what "exeptional" means. Blacks are just more likely to start out in poverty because of the extra racism-imposed hurdles their parents faced, and the hurdles that they still face makes it take even more strength of character to get out of it. I think this discussion would benefit a lot if everyone would start out by assuming that everyon
Probably most of the reason I immediately think "white" is because most of the people I know are white. That's what happens when you grow up in a predominantly white area. It's kind of a default race in my mind. I generally don't think of race much. People are generally the same, except possibly for accents and certain facial features. Certain accents get on my nerves, and certain facial features strike me as unattractive, but other than that it's
Eh. If you'd asked me in person, I'd have said the same thing. If I was the sort of person who went on television shows I'd probably have said the same thing there, too. I can't believe I'm being accused of being racist against my own race. Just curious, why did you quote the whole post if you were only going to reply to a small part of it? Not that I really wanted a reply, I'm just wondering why we need the extra clutter.
Notice how I made the comment publicly. And I quoted the sentence I was directly replying to, because it was kind of far removed from where my post would appear and I wanted to give it some context. Anyone who read my post would have already read your post, of course, so as a courtesy to people who don't like to read the same thing twice I quoted as little as possible. I'm not sure what you're getting at, though. What does the second sentence lose
if a white made this comment publically he/.she would be crusified. I assume you mean if I white person made the comment about black people? I'm "a white," if that makes any difference.
I'll bet that up until a very short time ago you wouldn't have been able to find any pictures of a five year old black girl being handcuffed by white police officers, either. And I don't know if I represent the common American off the street, but when I heard the story and the mother's response ("My baby was set up!") I pictured your stereotypical spoiled American parents who can't be bothered to raise their children and look for someone to sue whenev
I just saw an article on snopes.com about an Egyptian girl named Manar Maged who was born with (part of) a conjoined twin growing out of her head. That article contains pictures that you might find disturbing. Go look at them. I was kind of weirded out when I first saw it. I went into the artic
I lost at least an hour's worth of typing when I accidently hit the power key on my keyboard, shutting my whole computer down within seconds. I know what you're thinking: "Peter, why is there a power key on your keyboard?" There isn't. I got out my screwdriver and took the damn thing apart to get rid of it. The sleep and wake buttons a
A better idea would be to allocate some resources to educating people on what the condoms are actually for and why they should be used for that purpose. And possibly make the lubricant available seperately, if it's so useful for industrial purposes.
Well, the Drengin did reach what, for you, would have been a victory condition. In fairness to the AI, you could just declare them the winners and stop playing the game. Hand over all your planets if what you want is to be able to submit the loss to the metaverse for some reason.
You can never go wrong with Disney World. I don't care how old you are. As long as the children are old enough that you don't get stuck riding Dumbo over and over, there's plenty that you all can enjoy. Though I do think bringing along the laptop takes some of the "vacation" out of it. You hired employees that are good enough to go a week without your intervention, didn't you? Let them handle things for a while.
This makes me cry, but then this makes me laugh. Two very different emotions evoked by the same blog site, written by the same person. I tend to think of everything having a single theme, but in reality people are complex and multi-faceted. It's a l
The argument I can see would be that using company time to look at porn is no more or less wrong than using company time to, say, browse non-work-related blogs. Companies may block their employees from accessing popular non-work-related websites, but I haven't heard of anybody being fired for bidding on eBay when they should have been working.
I wrote this poem about three and a half years ago, when I was a senior in high school. I just realized that now that I have this blog I have a good place to post it. I entered it in poetry.com's poetry contest (which, strangely enough, looks like it's still going on...) and they told me it was selected to be put in a book and tried to sell me a copy. I strongly su
I recall Brad saying somewhere that money from pre-orders takes the place of advances paid by publishers for Stardock, which allows them to develope games independently.
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