post fahrenheit

well, i just saw fahrenheit 9/11 and it was pretty good. i mean it was the typical michael moore film, but hey i'm a liberal who feels similar to moore so i liked it. plus i hate bush so i liked it. the suprising thing for me was the number of people there. the theater was filled to capacity. as many people there as for shrek 2. admittedly shrek was being shown on 10 times the number of theaters, but still it was suprising to see the theater packed. it was also suprising when the man sitting next to me broke down in tears when the war footage was shown. it was very gruesome, but i think it is footage that we as a country need to see. we've bought into the smart bomb, pinpoint accuracy line so much that we tend to see war as just watching bombs explode from a distance without seeing the aftermath. i think it's good for americans to see the carnage that is war, especially when we are the country waging the war of choice. remember that some estimates of civilian casualties in iraq are as high as 10,000. so you can see how good the pinpoint accuracy is. for me the funniest part of the movie was watching shrub landing on the aircraft carrier to the theme from the greatest american hero. the lyrics are just so fitting, especially "it should have been someone else".

i hate gw

i really hate this administration, and there are too many reasons to talk about, but i'll try.

(paraphrasing coming up cuz i'm too lazy to get the real quotes)

wolf-o-shits : the reporters in iraq are too chickenshit to cover the good stories and instead print rumors.

dickhead cheney : go fuck yourself (and the republicans are the family values and decency party)

whole admin : there was too a link between al-qaida and saddam (of course it wasn't about 9-11 and they don't seemed to have helped them, just met with each other a few times)

bush : i've created 2 million jobs (yeah, but you still have a net loss of jobs, a huge fucking deficit, and ceo salaries growing at 5 times the average rate)

it's times like these that i wish the dc sniper had been picking better targets, because i've got a list of people for him.

all this venom and i haven't even gone to see fahrenheit 911 yet, imagine what i'll be like later today.

of course maybe i'm just having a back day because my battery died yesterday and i don't have the metric tool between 1/4 and 5/16th that i need to replace the battery. and i had a spider fall on my head today as i was walking out my door, so now i'm having phantom aches and pains imagining that the spider bit me and i'm going to die or at least be very sick even though i have not a single bite. or maybe it could be that bush is a stupid fuckhead.

firing

will someone please fire this man? or better yet, let's fire the whole damn crew in november.

supreme sidestepping

gee, you'd a thunk it was an election year with the clever way the supreme court sidestepped the "under god" pledge issue. come on, get some fucking balls, eh? it's not like the justices are elected. aren't you getting paid big bucks to address the tough issues? then address them, don't find a way to get an extension on your term paper and go drinking instead. it makes me mad when thiis kind of thing happens about issues that seem very clear to me. like:

flag burning - this is protected speech

under god - this is unconstitutional, even when it's on money

gay marriage - this should be legal, and why is anyone afraid of this?

drugs - these should be legal; great source of tax, less crime, fewer od's

creationism in public schools - once there is real scientific support(never) then i say "teach it."

sex education is school - i mean come on, do i really have to talk about this? just look at the average age a girl loses her virginity in the usa(15.8) compared with the netherlands(17), and the lower incidence of std's in europe. (by the way, the netherlands, and most of europe, has very extensive sex ed programs.)

death penalty - killing is wrong, whether a person does it or the state does it. the death penalty doesn't work as a deterant, costs more than life imprisonment, is racially biased, and has been carried out on innocent people. how many more reasons do you want?

so, when is the supreme court going to stop dodging the issues on technicalities, grow some balls(or i don't know, what is the equivalent female anatomy? ovaries, i guess) and stand up and deliver. (of course the last time they delivered it was the election to shrub, so maybe they should just hide away like the cold frightened penises they are.)

oh and on a lighter note:

mother of all gravity games (linux only)
LBreakout2 (linux / win32)

tough love

i realize this is a few days late, but this is how we treat people at guantanamo bay(nytimes, free reg etc). nice to see the government is consistent in their denial of abuse. and our intelligence is consitently bad as well. scary to think that the fbi is willing to ignore all good evidence to keep someone in jail.

so reagan has died, and the whole nation seems to be in mourning. i don't understand it, i mean nixon was almost as crooked as reagan and he got nowhere near the attention when he died. but i guess even in death the teflon president's nonstick lives on. now all that's left is to watch the republican party try to hitch shrub to reagan's casket, and get pulled to another term.

so it's official, i have lost 20 lbs. now if i can only keep it off for 6 months my parents will have to buy a ticket for me to come back and visit them. here's a chart of my weight loss:

so anyhow...

well i guess it's been awhile since i've written anything here, so i guess i should start again. this weekend i was in santa babara to play ultimate, and here are the photos. i think a good time was had by all, even though we went 1 - 6. we had a lot of people who were going to a tournament for the first or second time, and it's really hard to adjust to tournament speed, so as a result we lost at least 1 game that we would have won at the end of the tournament. i think i'm going to start telling people that i play soccer, as it's much easier than explaining what i play everytime(no it's not disc golf, and it doesn't involve a dog, or tricks).

so i've been listening to an early release of anchorhead's new album, and i would just like to go on record as saying that it is very good. the two songs that have stuck in my head since the first listen are 'first time' and 'little white church'. first time hits a little close to home though. :) the rumour is that this will be an open source release just like their last album, but ya'll should just get yer pocketbooks out and buy the album once it's available. for that matter, you should buy their last album too if you haven't already. i'm always amazed that real country music is being saved by punk rockers.

speaking of music, agnula is a completely open source live cd audio workstation, that runs linux, jack, and a whole slew of audio apps. and here is a howto for building a solid state linux audio workstation.