January 2010
P.S. it's 2010 now for me.
My goal this year and onwards: dramatic discipline training.
Looking forward to doing Tumbleton 52 with you all!
The fireworks display that's televised by RTL5...
Seriously?
*groan*
At least the firewo—PRETTY LIGHTS OOH SHINY!!
December 2009
"Fertilizing your crops"
Edward Schillebeeckx: 1914–2009 →
Most of you will be familiar with this phenomenon: an uncle in the family that isn’t actually blood related, but everyone calls them “uncle” anyway. Typically, this special kind of…
Of Course It's Not
Me: Ah, here's your other Dreamcast. *reaches for it*
Dot: eh, it's not going to have Chu Chu Rocket in it.
Me: Well you don't know unless you look.
Dot: It's not going to be in there!
Me: *unwraps the cables around it and opens it*
Dot: …
Me: *holds up Chu Chu Rocket disc*
"Conquering the Romans."
(via frageelaytwit)
This. This is why I am friends with you fine people.
“These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they...”
– When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”? - Avatar - io9
I think this point has already been made elsewhere.
But seriously. I think these movies are much more about white guilt than a secret continual desire for domination. Lots of white people think of our culture, historically, as...
I was going to write an open letter to Opera... →
Review: Avatar →
Writer-Director James Cameron spent five years developing the technology with which to produce his childhood dream project, Avatar, and with it has come enough hype and press to bring the skeptic…
Kryz asked: "What does “formspring me” mean?"
Well, this is an easy one: I really don’t know. Other than being the website’s given slogan, it seems meaningless to me.
Ross asked: "How much do you dislike Zooey...
Dislike is a tricky thing with me. For some people, my dislike towards them is brief, minimal and fleeting—say, a rude person in line behind me or an obnoxious slowpoke in front of me—yet for others, my dislike can be so deeply rooted, persistent and powerful that their face will be better off if they never meet me.
To explain how much I dislike Zooey Deschanel, we must first understand the scale...
Am I just not getting this whole formspring thing?
If you want to ask me anything, you should just use the Answer field at the bottom of this post.
"Scrolling Past The Fold"
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Please Scroll →
timoni:
Truth
Flawed truth.
5 tags
The longer I am in the Netherlands again, the more...
Aren’t English words, that is.
Avatar →
Writer-Director James Cameron spent five years developing the technology with which to produce his childhood dream project, Avatar, and with it has come enough hype and press to bring the skeptic…
Browser Size →
Handy utility by Google Labs which overlays a map indicating what percentage of users can see what part of the website without scrolling. Short URL: http://farukat.es/p364
Every time I consider seeing Avatar,
dielaughing:
coyotesqrl:
love-and-radiation:
rosasparks:
I remember James Cameron directed it.
Every time I consider seeing AVATAR, I remember that Kevin Costner directed it and called it Dances with Wolves.
Every time I consider seeing AVATAR, I remember Peyo created it and he’s not getting any credit for it.
Every time I consider seeing AVATAR, I remember it’s about Smurfs.
Every...
Pastebot: the Clipboard Manager for your iPhone →
Ever since Copy and Paste made it to the iPhone, people have cheered and celebrated its implementation. Okay, perhaps the holiday season is making me exaggerate, but it’s been a warmly welcomed…
Command line is my bitch.
I curse at it regularly in frustration and thank my lovely girlfriend for not being a bitch.
(she’s flying here tomorrow, yay!)
Cold Content Farm →
Great writing by Jay Hathaway. Love this line:
Writers don’t “create content,” they fucking write.
Short URL: http://farukat.es/p362
faith and agnosticism
thunderdolt:
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Atheism takes more resolve. Atheism requires that you denounce deity. However, it SOUNDS better than the cumbersome “agnostic”, and requires less explanation. Fewer Americans can define agnosticism. “Knowing not to worry whether some deity will smite you and enjoying, appreciating and caring for this wonderful world that has so much to offer” is atheism if you’re not worried...
