Archive for November, 2005

Love Dolls and Lesbian Lit

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

These are two totally awesome ads that my coworker saw when he visited my site the other day that I thought I’d share for their hilarity factor.

I wonder what he’s been browsing at work?

Vermont: Population…Less Than Basically Everywhere

Monday, November 21st, 2005

I’ve posted the pictures from our trip to Massachusetts and Vermont in the photos section so go check em out.

Vermont is an interesting place. It’s nice to look at and it’d be cool to have a summer place there, but I don’t think you’d want to live there. With a huge population of about 608,827, Vermont comes in next to last in a list of states by population. Wyoming is a close last with about 493,782 people. To give you an idea of how sparsely populated the state is, there are approximately 630,000 people living in the Raleigh, Cary, and Durham. Let’s say you wanted to buy a CD and you lived in Vermont. You’d have to drive to the state’s largest city (Burlington – population 39,148) just to find the one Best Buy in the state, or you could use the intarweb.

They had opened a Big Lots near Montpelier and I think the entire town was there for the grand opening.

It’s also quite backwoods despite being part of New England. Most people never associate hicks with the northeast, but trust me, they certainly exist. Check out this nice abode. Vermont is also about 97% white. So that might be a good place for Lamb and Lynx Gaede and their mom to move to.

So all in all, a cool place to go see, but you’d get really bored really fast.

Hile Hitler And So Forth

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

This is probably the last thing we need. 13 year old Nazi twins, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, who sing songs about white supremacy. With blonde-haired blue-eyed teenagers singing fun lyrics like, “Aryan man awake, How much more will you take, Turn that fear to hate, Aryan man awake” how can we go wrong!? They have a couple of mp3′s on their website (http://www.prussianblue.net) for download. I was curious so I listened to them. First, they’re not good singers. Second, it doesn’t sound like I would expect White Nationalist racist propaganda to sound. I guess maybe I’ve just come to expect a harsher, more death-metal quality to my hate music.

It was just as surprising to find out that there’s a record label dedicated exclusively to pro-white propaganda, Resistance Records. You have to wonder how far you’ll really get in the business world catering to such a (hopefully?) small demographic.

The best part though is that their dad brands his cattle with a swastika. It kind of makes you wonder if you’ve ever eaten any Nazi-burgers doesn’t it?

Blog Moderation Proposal

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Blogging (if you’ll excuse the word) has become increasingly prominent on the various internets as I’m sure everyone has noticed. There’s a problem inherent in the upstart of a vast number of blogs…quality. Generally, as the number of blogs increases, the average quality of the Blogosphere (again, sorry) decreases. The sad part is that it doesn’t seem to be a proportional decrease either (i.e. – the bad blogs are far worse than the good ones are good).

Writing a blog is, by it’s nature, very self-indulgent and self-aggrandizing. For the majority of people this usually means one of two things (sometimes both): (1) you think everything you have to say is incredibly deep and has profound philosophical meaning; or (2) you think people actually read your blog and, because your wit is matched by no other, are sitting on the edge of their seats eagerly anticipating your next brilliant musing. In my particular case, I like to think these two ideas are ludicrous. If you’re reading my blog to gain insight into something, I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place. I also have no illusions that anything I have to say has any significant cogent value.

To remedy this issue, I think it would be a good idea to implement some kind of moderation system on people’s blogs to help prevent an overabundance of posts that have nothing interesting, intriguing, funny, or of any other consequence to say. It’d increase the quality of the writing if nothing else.

I’m not saying I’m not guilty because I know I am, but I’d like to be moderated on occasion just to keep me in check. Someone to say, “Hey dude, WTF…” when you write something stupid.

So basically, I think we should try to keep it moderately interesting…and for God’s sake, let’s keep grammatical and spelling mistakes to a minimum. It’s hard enough to follow what some people are saying without having to wade through grammar problems. But seriously, we should try and improve the quality of the blogs on the internet. Maybe I’m way off, but I don’t think anyone cares that you had a sandwich, some chips, and an apple for dinner while you watched Desperate Housewives.

So next time I write something totally lame, someone please let me know so I can try to improve the quality of my writing and keep it interesting.

Javascript Memory Game and Solar Flares

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

I was bored today so I wrote a memory game in Javascript. Check it out here. I’m gonna add a high scores thingy tomorrow.

Also, here’s some advice on how to survive solar flares if you happen to be caught in one next time you’re on the Moon.