Showing posts with label nerd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nerd. Show all posts
September 10, 2009
June 11, 2009
i can die happy
captured: 05.2009
i met tom robbins...awhile ago but still! i was so fucking happy. he's my favorite author of all time. i rode in the elevator with him & i was so excited i couldn't even speak or even look at him.
i met tom robbins...awhile ago but still! i was so fucking happy. he's my favorite author of all time. i rode in the elevator with him & i was so excited i couldn't even speak or even look at him.
June 1, 2009
May 28, 2009
May 25, 2009
would you like to tap this?
captured: 05.25.09
all the ladies want me. can't you tell, bitchez? put it in another window to see its full beauty.
May 18, 2009
May 14, 2009
April 25, 2009
April 12, 2009
the truth about life love & the cosmos
(museum studio)the images used are from the hubble telescope. it just proves how beautiful our world is. i took astronomy last semester (8 hours, lab & lecture, every monday) & it was one of the most interesting courses i have ever taken. it's such an interesting subject, i feel so enlightened knowing how the universe works. astronomy has completely raised my conciousness & it also helped cement my atheism, which is a subject that i'll save for later because i can talk about it for hours & also completely offend a lot of people.
we♥it
sometimes i like to pretend that we heart it is actually called we hear tit. in my humble opinion it's a lot better that way.
vs.
February 27, 2009
February 24, 2009
comet lulin
comet lulin (it looks like a little green apostrophe to observers on earth) is going to be passing by planet earth. unlike other comets, for example halley's comet, that you can see every few decades or so, seeing comet lulin is seriously a once in a life time opportunity because after the end of march or so it will keep on traveling further & further away from us. i can't wait to see it tonight! i'm going to try to watch it until i can't see it anymore. here's a map of where & when you can see it in the night sky:
February 12, 2009
outlaws as wolves
(from vargr: the institution of outlawry)
The association of outlaws and wolves is very strong in the Germanic cultures. The Old Norse word vargr (OSw: varghær, OHG: warg, OE: wearg ) has been translated in a number of ways, and several Indo-European root words have been claimed as its source. These include *wergh (“strangle”, via the Germanic *wargaz) (8) and the Germanic “wacrer” (to wander). The latter is the root for the modern English word vagrant. From the fact that the major component of outlawry was banishment, this last option seems to be the most likely source. Those who transgress against society are forced to wander from their homeland.
After the Christianization of Northern Europe, an additional aspect of being outside of the faith as well:
_Vargr_ is the same as _u-argr_, restless; _argr_ being the same as the Anglo-Saxon _earg_. _Vargr_ had its double signification in Norse. It signified a wolf, and also a godless man.(9)
One author holds that the association between wolves and outlaws seems to be a later phenomenon particular to the Norse cultures: …it is only late, and mostly in Norse, that vargr (cognate with warg) acquires the meaning "wolf" along with "criminal." In Old English, wearg means almost exclusively "criminal" or "accursed being." (10)
In Anglo-Saxon lands, the term “wolf’s-head” became an accepted term for criminals (11). This connection itself is not so simple as it may seem. At first view, it seems to be made due to the similarity in temperament between wolves and criminals. However, deeper meanings to this connection have been suggested. Some authors have suggested that the condemnation of an outlaw as vargr is a symbolic pronouncement that the man is now a wolf, and is worthy of strangulation (12).
Thus it is well seen that Sigi has slain the thrall and murdered him; so he is given forth to be a wolf in holy places , and may no more abide in the land with his father (13)
Völundur, Egill and Slagfinnur, the third son of Ívaldi, chose to become outlaws, and travelled all the way to the northernmost edge of the world, to Úlfdalir (Wolf-dales), where Gods never go. (14)
One author has suggested that there is also a symbolic connection between the transformation of men into wolves, and the feminization of men through the practice of Seidr magic and in playing the passive role in sodomy. The term ergi, may have applied to both of these receptive roles (15).
The association of outlaws and wolves is very strong in the Germanic cultures. The Old Norse word vargr (OSw: varghær, OHG: warg, OE: wearg ) has been translated in a number of ways, and several Indo-European root words have been claimed as its source. These include *wergh (“strangle”, via the Germanic *wargaz) (8) and the Germanic “wacrer” (to wander). The latter is the root for the modern English word vagrant. From the fact that the major component of outlawry was banishment, this last option seems to be the most likely source. Those who transgress against society are forced to wander from their homeland.
After the Christianization of Northern Europe, an additional aspect of being outside of the faith as well:
_Vargr_ is the same as _u-argr_, restless; _argr_ being the same as the Anglo-Saxon _earg_. _Vargr_ had its double signification in Norse. It signified a wolf, and also a godless man.(9)
One author holds that the association between wolves and outlaws seems to be a later phenomenon particular to the Norse cultures: …it is only late, and mostly in Norse, that vargr (cognate with warg) acquires the meaning "wolf" along with "criminal." In Old English, wearg means almost exclusively "criminal" or "accursed being." (10)
In Anglo-Saxon lands, the term “wolf’s-head” became an accepted term for criminals (11). This connection itself is not so simple as it may seem. At first view, it seems to be made due to the similarity in temperament between wolves and criminals. However, deeper meanings to this connection have been suggested. Some authors have suggested that the condemnation of an outlaw as vargr is a symbolic pronouncement that the man is now a wolf, and is worthy of strangulation (12).
Thus it is well seen that Sigi has slain the thrall and murdered him; so he is given forth to be a wolf in holy places , and may no more abide in the land with his father (13)
Völundur, Egill and Slagfinnur, the third son of Ívaldi, chose to become outlaws, and travelled all the way to the northernmost edge of the world, to Úlfdalir (Wolf-dales), where Gods never go. (14)
One author has suggested that there is also a symbolic connection between the transformation of men into wolves, and the feminization of men through the practice of Seidr magic and in playing the passive role in sodomy. The term ergi, may have applied to both of these receptive roles (15).
happy 200th birthday darwin!
i'm not kidding when i say that his outfit is fucking sweet. love the hat, love the cape, love the beard, love the theories...
January 3, 2009
mill on the ability to be happy
Whoever supposes that this preference take place at a sacrifice of happiness - that the superior being, in anything like equal circumstances, is not happier than the inferior - confounds the two very different ideas of happiness and content. It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect.
-john stuart mill's utilitarianism 1861
-john stuart mill's utilitarianism 1861
November 25, 2008
great-grandmother
san francisco is in my blood. my grandmother was born there, she lived through the san francisco earthquake of 1906.
6 reasons mustahce are sexy awesome
jezebel wrote an article on 6 reasons why mustaches are not sexy, i completely disagree (i also think that eugene hutz & jason lee look hot with 'staches). while mustaches aren't my favorite type of facial hair (beards!), some facial hair is always better than no facial hair in my opinion. here's 6 reasons why 'staches are sexy...or at the very least totally awesome:
6. sasha baron cohen as borat
5. friedrich nietzsche
4. salvador dalí
3. dennis hopper in easy rider
2. jesse f. keeler from death from above 1979
1. daniel day lewis as bill the butcher & daniel plainview
more on mustaches:
6. sasha baron cohen as borat
5. friedrich nietzsche
4. salvador dalí
3. dennis hopper in easy rider
2. jesse f. keeler from death from above 1979
1. daniel day lewis as bill the butcher & daniel plainview
more on mustaches:
November 20, 2008
personal opinion on the big 3 bailout
my opinion: let them go bankrupt. they (the big 3 automobile manufacturers - gm, ford & chrysler) have been dying for years now. injecting taxpayer money into a corpse won't bring it back to life. these companies have been poorly managed by corrupt, money-grubbing ceo's who make more in a year than i will probably make in my entire life. why don't we ask the upper management of those corporations to reach into their deep, fat pockets & bail their own selves out? i agree with senator dodd who said these companies are "seeking treatment for wounds that are to a large extent self-inflicted". there's so many reasons as to why these companies are failing but probably one of the largest reasons is that no one wants to buy their crap. whether we like it or not we live in a capitalist society. if a product can't compete in the free market then that product needs to be changed & these companies are not willing to change. they want more money to keep on doing the same old thing that got them into the situation in the first place. the big 3's products are not desired by consumers & what about the bailout will make consumers begin to desire those products again? nothing. instead of wasting our nation's money (money that we don't actually have & a quick reminder - our country's debt is as of writing this is $10,667,681,498,581.38 - yes, that's 10.6 trillion dollars) we should be investing in creating new jobs for these workers, we should be investing in companies that are burgeoning, like companies that produce alternitive energy for example. why lend money out if we're never going to see it again? the money we're lending them will only get them through 2009. what about next year? & the year after that? maybe we can just call it a xmas present & every year we'll just give them $700 billions as a gift.
if our country likes being a capitalist country then we have to act like one. spending our nation's money on private industries is socialist & if we want to be socialists then we should just buy out one or all of the big 3 companies. then if the nation owns the company and if government can manage to save them from their impending doom then when they do start making money the money will eventually go back to where it originally came from (us, the u.s. taxpayers).
even if i thought that bailing out these automakers was a good idea, treasury paulson has broken my trust once before (remember the last bailout, the one that was called "the second-largest bait-and-switch scheme that history has ever seen, second only to the reasons given to us to vote for the invasion of Iraq". & there is no way in hell i'm going to give him the oppurtunity to break my trust again. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
(on a sidenote: i'm neither a capitalist or a socialist. i'm not advocating for either. i think both have their individual pros & cons. maybe i'll talk about that more later...)
more on the big 3 bailout:
if our country likes being a capitalist country then we have to act like one. spending our nation's money on private industries is socialist & if we want to be socialists then we should just buy out one or all of the big 3 companies. then if the nation owns the company and if government can manage to save them from their impending doom then when they do start making money the money will eventually go back to where it originally came from (us, the u.s. taxpayers).
even if i thought that bailing out these automakers was a good idea, treasury paulson has broken my trust once before (remember the last bailout, the one that was called "the second-largest bait-and-switch scheme that history has ever seen, second only to the reasons given to us to vote for the invasion of Iraq". & there is no way in hell i'm going to give him the oppurtunity to break my trust again. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
(on a sidenote: i'm neither a capitalist or a socialist. i'm not advocating for either. i think both have their individual pros & cons. maybe i'll talk about that more later...)
more on the big 3 bailout:
- Big 3 bailout alone won't save U.S. car industry
- Why not let Detroit's Big Three go bankrupt?
- Big 3 automakers plead for piece of the pie
November 15, 2008
carl sagan on god
"Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others — for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein — considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws."- carl sagan's broca's brain 1979
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