jiveturkey

In my neverending attempt to not mug myself.

3.10.2005

Untitled

Unbodied

3.09.2005

Link

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-04-chimp-attack_x.htm

Oof

I forgot what working with directors is like. Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride. But boy was it a long practice today. Hence, the title: Oof.

" Wutch you talkin' bout everyone. "

Noice

The school system is evil. But no one realizes it.

3.08.2005

Beheld

I'm sick. I'm recovering.

I can't think of many nouns that start with J.

But I can think of a person I know. Her name is Josie.

If there's one thing I've learned from knowing Josie it's that one shouldn't worry about what other people feel about him or her or how someone else will react to what one does. Sometimes I think she doesn't realize that she's on the receiving end of this philosophy more often than most. :)

I feel ever so happy that she visited my blog. Ever so happy.

3.06.2005

Sycamores and other trees.

I'm coming down with something. I'm dizzy and my thraot hurts. But I received a haircut today and amm looking quite studly.

Oh boy am I getting into this college basketball thing. So many upsets! What fun.

3.04.2005

Weekend

Things I've done today:

Played Cven Co-op.
Learned and played Cribbage.
Built model compounds.
Had some fun tests and quizes.
Read some more of 1984.
Felt desperately in need of some comments.

It's a shame no one besides Tom has found this site yet.

3.03.2005

I'd like to buy a 'T'

From our friends at www.IMAO.us

American Civil Liberties Union lawyers on behalf of athiest and non-Christian Americans are petitioning the Supreme Court in a new crusade. Emboldened by their success at removing the small gold cross from the County of Los Angeles seal. The group has rallied around the notion of removing the 'cross looking' letter from the English language since is bears resemblance to the familiar Christian symbol.

Alber Whie, an ACLU counsel, who legally had the letter moved from his name earlier this month and doesn't pronounce it either, speaks on behalf of the ACLU.

The American Civil Liber-ies Union feels i- is a viola-ion of sepera-ion of church and s-a-e -o con-inue -o include Chris-ian symbols in governmen-.

Our pe-i-ion is -ha- the le--er in ques-ion be s-ricken from all public names, places, governmen- buildings, and cons-i-u-ional ins-i-u-ions and replaced wi-h -he secular non religious dashmark. In o-her words 'Montana' would become 'Mon-ana', President becomes Presiden-, 'Texas' will s-ill be 'Texas' because i- has a capi-al 'T' and no- -he offensive lowercase varie-y.


Whie also asked that the media stop calling this effort a "crusade", for what he said were "obvious reasons." He added he felt a compromise could be possible if the lower case 't' were simply flipped upside down.

Fake News from spacemonkey, brought to you by the letter '-'.

3.02.2005

RRRReading

I'm curently reading 1984 by George Orwell.

As I am now reading this book ^^^ after seeing Brazil and reading A Brave New World I feel immersed in Anti-Untopian like thinking. If you get a chance, read Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (he wrote slaughterhouse five) It's the best story of its kind ev er. (space intentional)

3.01.2005

A Sharing

I felt the need to share this with you from Opinion Journal's Best of the Web:

It's a classic job interview question: What is your biggest flaw? You're not supposed to say "I have issues with authority" or "Sometimes the urge to embezzle gets the better of me," but rather to engage in a bit of self-flattery. The classic answer is "I push myself too hard." Still, you have to be careful; you don't want your puffery to be so blatant that it's ridiculous. If you said, for example, "I have too much integrity," surely a prospective employer would laugh you out of his office.
But columnist Leonard Pitts says just that about President Bush--and apparently he really does mean it as a criticism. Pitts picks up on the story of Bush "friend" Doug Wead's tape-recordings of private conversations in which the president-to-be comes off quite well. The columnist quotes from a New York Times story on the topic--"The private Mr. Bush sounds remarkably similar in many ways to the public President Bush"--then explains why this troubles him:

I'm thinking specifically of the invasion of Iraq and the oft-repeated claim that Bush intentionally misled the nation into war--a claim I've never been able to buy. Yes, he and his aides gave us facts that turned out to be fictions. My problem is that I think Bush believed everything he said, mainly because he wanted to believe it. And that if he misled anybody, he misled himself, first. In its way, that's scarier than a lie, suggesting as it does an unwillingness or inability to question beliefs once formed.
So according to Pitts, it's not that BUSH LIED!!!! about Saddam Hussein's weapons. It's not even that he made a mistake (a mistake pretty much everyone but the most ardent Saddam partisans also made). It's that he made an honest mistake. Bush's biggest flaw is he just has too much integrity.

Barne and Noble

I had some fun at Barnes & Noble today. I purchased 1984 and Ender's Game. I also purchased a cd, The Streets - Original Pirate Material.

I've used all my money. But packing lunches is always fun. So is reading and listening to music.
I'm soo above comments. I can't wait untiol someone actually goes to my site and finds a link to this thinig!