daily link   Thursday, October 30, 2003

Say what you want Jenn but NASA is amazing.

Remember when I made, and you agreed with, this comment?

NASA is worth every penny if only as a foil to all of the small thinking that dominates politics, news... our daily lives. At times it seems like we've done such a thorough job of screwing up this world that the only comfort can be the knowledge that it's all relatively insignificant.

There is no doubt about it. This is just cool.

And it's all ours, the American People and the World. No copyright to worry about here because we all own it. Good government, the thrill of discovery and the pure reward of contributing to Humanity is the answer to the copyright debate. Anyone who doesn't understand that gets what they deserve, on both sides of the argument.

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If I had any readers I'd feel bad about wasting your time with posts like this but that's not something I have to worry about.

There now I snagged the first trackback too. Good luck today. Don't forget to go through and make that list Heather and give me a call as soon as you get a chance so we can go over it all again.

I want a copy of the list of stuff too!

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Upcoming Events & Other Stuff:

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Tomorrow

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MacWorld Expo Jan 2004

San Francisco. Tuesday January 6, 2004
Keynote by Steve Jobs 9am Pacific Time.

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Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in theaters.
December 17, 2003

I have tickets for 8:25 pm, 12/18/2003.


Simpsons Halloween Special
Treehouse of Horror XIV(Start of a new season of The Simpsons)
8:00 pm EST, Sunday, November 2, 2003


Apple releases OS X 10.3 aka Panther with Release Events at Apple Retail Stores. 8 pm - midnight, 10/24/2003

World Series Game 6: Marlins at Yankees
7:30 pm EST, 10/25/2003



Post Queue

A post queue is a quick little list of items I want to post and maybe (but not always) a description.

If you see something that looks interesting to you, click on the link and send me an email. I'll post about items that you're interested in before the others. Another original and super fantastic idea from robreed.net and GoGoHappySunshine :O)



Reaction to Apple's Jan 6, 2004 Expo Annnouncements

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Movie Review: "Big Fish"

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PC Buying Advice

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Which Linux Distribution Should I Choose and Why?

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Are Computers From Apple Really More Expensive?

A Quick Comparison Based on Current Pricing and Specs.

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The problem with online communities...

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Post Queue: Picky little comment about Dave Winer's ThinkPad purchase.

I don't know why but this guy pisses me off. Well to be fair... I know exactly why ;O)

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Movie Review: "Bend It Like Beckham"

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Movie Review: "Deep Impact"

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I don't want to be the OTIS guy I saw at Starbucks today, 12/17/2003.

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Why I hate Boston's Museum of Science, and why you should too.

votes: 1

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Why Apple's concept of a "Genius Bar" in their retail stores makes absolutely no sense.



Movie Reviews

First I need to explain
the system I use to rate movies.

Now with all that out of the way... it on to the reviews:

-- The Matrix Revolutions



-- View From the Top


-- Head of State


-- X2 X-Men United


-- The Matrix Reloaded


-- Finding Nemo


-- Bruce Almighty



This is my Thank You Bubble.

Thank You, Heather Martian
Thank You, Jenn Martinelli
Thank You, Mac OS X/BSD UNIX
Thank You, The Magazine Industry

Thank You, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Family Guy (How'd you get so smart?)

Thank You, Boston, after Syracuse and Buffalo I needed you desperately.



This is my Thanks for Nothing Bubble.

I know it's crass. These things are important to me but also I don't want to waste a lot of time on most of them.
Whether I write them down or not I carry them around in my head so why not just write them down.

Thanks for Nothing, RELIGION for thousands of years of oppression; ignorance and outright stupidity; seemingly limitless death, violence and destruction; hate and isolation. Real hope, even salvation doesn't carry so high a price.

Thanks for Nothing, Microsoft
Thanks for Nothing, Apple Computer/Steve Jobs
Thanks for Nothing, the Boston T
Thanks for Nothing, Boston's Musuem of Science

Thanks for Nothing, SUNY Buffalo/The SUNY Buffalo Classics department (by the way if anyone from SUNY Buffalo sees this please take me off of your alumni mailing list.)

Thanks for Nothing, Harvard University, for being irresponsibly short-sighted in every way that doesn't mean more money for your endowment or padding for your reputation. There are more important things.

Thanks for Nothing, George W. Bush (Thanks for Nothingr father too). For ruining America at precisely the wrong time.

Thanks for Nothing, Ronald Regan you brain dead piece of shit, for helping to ruin my life by making me fear for my future and the world around me when I was growing up.

Thanks for Nothing, My parent's generation for passing on your inadequacies, self-doubt, fear... and not much else. Your children are your responsibility. It's is your obligation to pay for their education because their future is your debt. If you are so vain as to think that in a world of 6+ billion people there is some need for you to procreate then you had better be prepared to pay the price.

Thanks for Nothing, The Republican Party, for taking advantage of the general population's stupidity to your own advantage.

Thanks for Nothing, the Democratic Party, for being too incompetent to figure out how to help the general population in spite of our collective stupidity.

Thanks for Nothing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, for taking out your frustrations over your pathetic movie career on this country.

Thanks for Nothing, California (see Thanks for Nothing Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Thanks for Nothing, The people of Boston and Boston politics, for doing your best to ruin a truly great city.



Quotations

You're not as smart as you think you are.
- Me

The Museum of Science is a shit-pit and I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that Harvard is killing babies to pad its endowment.
- Me

Success in life is about managing a continuous series of small failures.
- Me

I prefer all of my human interaction in magazine form.
- Me

Hold onto your grudges.
- They are a part of who you are.
- Your life and your experiences don't make any sense without them.
- They represent real knowledge gained.
- At times they're all you have that's of any value. Don't give them away.
- Me



Good Deeds I've Done

If I do any I'll post them here. Don't expect miracles ;O)



The Score

Listen up everybody. I've decided to start keeping score.

You may not even realize that you're playing (I won't tell you. It's my only advantage).

[ Life vs. Me ]

Life: 32
Me: 0

More info: Life gets 1 point for every year of my life to this point.

+1 point because I'm unemployed.
+1 point because my apartment is awful.
+1 point because I have fewer than 3 friends.

[ Dan from Liverpool High School vs. Me ]

Dan: 0
Me: 1

[ Jenn's horrible friend Stacie vs. Me ]

Stacie: 0
Me: 1,000,000



Music I Like

Ben Folds : Rockin' the Suburbs

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