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| Damn it's been a while! |
| 02.14.04 (10:45 am) [edit] |
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Well, happy V-day to all of you out there. It's been quite a while since I've been on... way too long. School is killing me this term and I haven't been doing anything but it and being sick and worn down. I feel really guilty for ignoring my blog, especially since one of my classes is web... LOL, go figure! I hope to be resuming regular posts at least three times a week... :wink:
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| ok, here's an actual post from me... |
| 12.16.03 (4:25 pm) [edit] |
I've been having this toatlly hard time posting lately, at least of anything other than surveys or news and sh*t. I think it's because of the holidays. The holidays always trip me hard and this years even worse.
Since my surgery my paychecks have all been half of normal and we're waay behind on bills. I know my gf can budget better than me, but it still is stressing me out becuse I like to be in control and I just can't do it on this little cash. I talked to my dad and he just said, "well, I said I'd pay you $500 a month if you were in school full time, but your daughter has to live here. Looks like you've got some things to think about"
Bullsh*T!!! They taught my daughter to tell me that I was going to hell for being gay last year and they think I'll just hand her over so I can pay some bills?!?!?! no f-ing way! Not when it takes us weeks to calm her down at them saying they could raise her better after just seeing them on a weekend...
--can you tell I'm just a little upset?
Plus knowing I'm jobless in 2 days doesn't help even if it is for the better... anyone have some prozac???
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| oh shit!!! |
| 12.16.03 (4:12 pm) [edit] |
~whatever
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| **all I want for xmas is some smart dust** |
| 12.16.03 (3:44 pm) [edit] |
wow, what's this??? super smart dust that can be your own sort of super small neural-type network for whatever you want...? Wow!!! I want one! Only problem is right now this smart dust is slightly bigger than dust... like the size of a pringles can!
"Smart dust refers to devices the size of a grain of rice. No one has built such devices that small yet, but that's the goal -- probably five to 10 years out. Each one of these devices will be armed with a computer chip, radio transmitter and some type of sensor. Smart dust techies are calling the devices motes...
The motes are supposed to work together to make decisions. ''That's the grand vision of the technology,'' says Alan Broad, Crossbow's chief engineer. ''The sensors will not be dumb but will collaborate.''
read full story [url=http://www.usatoday.com/usato...]here[/url] ...
way, way cool!!! I think I would get some and sprinkle it [i]EVERYWHERE[/i]!!! ha! let my daughter tell me she hadn't been in the candy bowl then!
But, just like all the cool happy applications for something like this, it also makes the paranoid me very very afraid... what if my employer decided to use it to see how much time I spend at my desk or if the government wanted to use it to see when people were frequenting a place they didn't like so they could bust the most people at once...
maybe I don't want smart dust after all... nah, I'd behave myself, I promise! :twisted:
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| LOL, I'm Gambit! |
| 12.12.03 (12:10 pm) [edit] |
You are Gambit!
You are a fierce fighter and a good friend to have.
Your preference for solitude and your
attractiveness make you very intriguing to
those you meet. Unfortunately, close
relationships are few and far between for you
because you often have trouble opening up to
others.
Which X-Men character are you most like?
brought to you by Quizilla
Funny thing is, it sounds a lot like me...
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| rampant xmas commercialism |
| 12.11.03 (3:11 pm) [edit] |
"rant"
Speaking of being laid off over the holiday season... I am almost glad it's coming while I'm jobless and broke as hell.
(oh, and for those of you who are upset that I took the "christ" out of christmas, please don't lecture me. I just don't see how a holiday that has become so skewed from it's origonal intent can still be considered a religous holday, hence, no "christ". You might celebrate it as a religous holiday, but look around, I rarely hear people tell the story I was taught as a child about it and I doubt you will either.)
Ok, now that I got that out. We had a big discussion at work about this and needless to say, I got flamed. We're having a holiday celebration and people were wanting to dress up as Santa and call it a Christmas party. Well, being one of the ones in charge, [i]and[/i] having friends in our group who are Muslim, [i]and[/i] being half-Jewish [i]and [/i]knowing we've been having diversity tolerance issues in our group the last few months, I thought that would potentially be an HR nightmare... so I brought up that even though I don't consider it to be a religous holiday others in our group who are other religons might and might have a problem with a work event based around a religous holiday.
Holy crap! It was like I had just admitted to being the spawn of hell... Even the non-religous and non-xtian people were going off on me about "how dare I say something like that" and "of course it's a religous holiday". Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a holiday that is so concerned with buying and getting and stuff and bigger and more and all of that isn't about any god at all except maybe the god of excess.
I wish it was different, no matter if you believe the story about the miracle baby and all of that or not. A holiday of giving should really be about giving and not all the greedy pretentiousness that the media is trying to teach us and our children. When I see children that think this season is only about getting stuff it makes me heartbroken. When I hear my family of origin worrying more about how a gift will look to other people instead of how the person who is actually receiving it will feel, it makes me heartbroken.
I want my daughter to grow up knowing it's more about the meaning behind the gift than how big and how many the gift is. Xmas should be about showing love, not how to bribe santa into more stuff. Hanukkah should be about a miracle and g-d's love, not how to find a way into extra days of presents like my daughter thought when we began keeping it a few years ago.
Hannukah to me is a religous holiday, because that's how I keep it in my heart. Xmas to me isn't, because of how the family I was raised with kept it and because of the greed I see take over people when it is near.
This year we will be broke. Once again we'll be hand making gifts for our family for both holidays. This year my daughter is finally starting to understand that even if she doesn't get what she thinks she should, that mom has thought about it and tried to do something meaningful. This year she's excited to not buy a lot of presents.
It doesn't mean xmas can't be religous, but if you're going to call it that, practice it like that.
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| femme grrl update~ |
| 12.11.03 (2:27 pm) [edit] |
Well, I hate to say it, but the blog may be up and down for a while. I am without internet at home for probably a month or so and I am getting laid off as of next Thursday so I can't post from work either. :(
On the up side, I will finally be able to go back to school full time so that I might get my degree before I'm old enough to retire. As soon as Winter term starts I will be able to post pretty regularly again since I will have access to the campus computers. I hope that you will keep coming and reading even if updates will be random for a few weeks.
~ph03nix
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| Bush runs amok with Guantanamo prison camp... |
| 12.05.03 (11:13 am) [edit] |
I've heard Bush compared to Hitler, I've read about his grandfather's nazi ties, and I've read way too much about all he knew about 9/11 before it happened, but this IMHO is one of the worst I've seen so far from our White House squatter.
"A team of military lawyers recruited to defend alleged terrorists held by the US at Guantanamo Bay was dismissed by the Pentagon after some of its members rebelled against the unfair way the trials have been designed, the Guardian has learned.
And some members of the new legal defence team remain deeply unhappy with the trials - known as "military commissions" - believing them to be slanted towards the prosecution and an affront to modern US military justice.
Of the more than 600 detainees at the US prison camp at Guantanamo, none has been charged with any crime, and none has had access to a lawyer, although some have been in captivity of one kind or another for two years."
read full story [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/gua...,13743,1098618,00.html]here[/url]
Holy Hell! All I can say to this is that for a country so [i]concerned [/i] with everyone else's civil and human rights what the f*ck do they think they're doing??? How can you hold someone years without even charging them and still say your judicial process is fair??? Bush has way overstepped the line on many counts, but as far as I'm concerned he should be impeached [i]now[/i]. It's time for the spoiled boy to finally learn you can't have everything you want just because daddy'll buy it for you. Bush isn't a president, he's a school-yard bully.
Oh, and how's this... "In an investigation into the Guantanamo prison camp, the Guardian has also learned that a number of prisoners, thought to be between two and five, are kept permanently isolated in a super-secure facility within the main prison camp at Guantanamo, Camp Delta." from the same article above. Prisoners between the ages of two and five? Come on, how can they possibly be terrorists...
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| the schools are at it again... |
| 12.03.03 (11:20 am) [edit] |
You have to see this to believe it...
LAFAYETTE, LA – After a 7-year-old boy was scolded in front of his classmates and sent to a school behavioral clinic for answering another child’s questions about his lesbian mothers, the American Civil Liberties Union today demanded that the school expunge the boy’s disciplinary records and stop restricting him from talking about his family with other students.
“I was concerned when the assistant principal called and told me my son had said a word so bad that he didn’t want to repeat it over the phone,” said Sharon Huff, the second-grader’s mother. She added, “But that was nothing compared to the shock I felt when my little boy came home and told me that his teacher had told him his family is a dirty word. No child should ever hear that, especially not from a teacher he trusted and respected.”
full story [url=http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGa...]here[/url]...
The fact that this even happened disturbs me. It's not like the kid was calling someone gay to offend them, he was just stating what his family was like. What is this supposed to teach the poor child. Even more, what is it supposed to teach other kids. Are other gay families supposed to keep their kids from talking about them?
I, for one, never want to have to tell my daughter that she can't speak about me & her step-mom because she might get disciplined at school for it... All this type of thing does is re-inforce prejudice and homophobia by teaching kids there's something wrong with being gay. I can understand if parents want to be the ones to teach their kids about it, but they should already be telling their kids that not every one's families are like theirs. We've done it with my daughter... and she understands that just like not everyone's the same color or religion that not all families are the same either, whether because of divorce or death or remarriage or sexuality.
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| at least I have a while to go... |
| 12.01.03 (10:01 am) [edit] |
...funny thing is, I used to have a shirt that said "runs with scissors" :shock:
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| ~idiots abound everywhere... |
| 12.01.03 (9:28 am) [edit] |
Well, I successfully survived the Thanksgiving weekend, and when I say survived, I mean it! Saturday morning my partner and i left the apartment for a few hours and went to a friend's house for brunch. After we had been gone a couple of hours she went back home to pick up a movie. When she got back, she looked confused and mentioned that the apartment smelled like gas.
Since we don't have any gas lines in the whole complex, I went home with her and sure enough, it smelled like gas. We went and explained the situation to our manager who looked at us like we were crazy, but reluctantly came to see the problem. He definitely agreed that it smelled like gas but couldn't figure out where it was coming from.
We knocked on the neighbor's door to see if they could smell gas too, and when they opened it you could small it coming out of their apartment. Finally, after a lot of questioning, they admitted [i]they were cleaning car parts in their sink with gasoline and degreaser!!! [/i]And they had kids running around smelling that all morning?
The worst part was, they didn't seem to even believe they were putting thier kids in danger of possible brain damage, or asphyxiation or any of the other myriad of hazards they were creating! Hi, I smoke... what if I had lit a cigarette? The awful thing is, they had to have been doing it for a long time for the fumes to get so strong in our apartment from it... and they had all their doors and windows shut...
Some people should just [i]not [/i]breed...
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| the end of the internet as we know it? |
| 11.26.03 (2:14 pm) [edit] |
"The future of the Internet could depend on the outcome of the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society in December, where government leaders from over 60 nations are expected to convene. The chief topic of debate will likely be who exactly governs the Internet, which has spawned two dissenting viewpoints: The United States, Europe, and other English-speaking countries want private industry, in the form of U.S.-based ICANN, to continue its management of the Internet's infrastructure, while developing countries favor the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as Internet governor. ICANN and ITU's conflict over Internet governance has been percolating since the Internet was created, and the summit will be where the issue finally comes to a head."
[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/...]read whole article here[/url] ...
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| who could've seen this coming... |
| 11.26.03 (10:42 am) [edit] |
Are you Addicted to the Internet?
L33T H@x0r (81% - 100%)
You live and breathe the Internet. You rarely leave your computer(s) for fear of going through withdrawl. You are beginning to say "lol" and "brb" in verbal conversations and you haven't seen your friends face-to-face in months if you don't count their web cams. Maybe it is time to back away from the computer slowly and go get some fresh air? The Internet will be here when you get back!
The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Quiz Me!
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Well, ask any of my friends and especially my grrlfriend and they'd have to agree with this. They don't seem to understand why I log-on while the coffee is brewing at 5am, check messages during my first cup, email my homework after my shower while I'm still dripping, chat my dad in Cali and am still late for work everyday...
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| Man Charged With Bias Crime for Girl’s Killing in Newark |
| 11.26.03 (10:38 am) [edit] |
This is so sad, to think that a grown man thinks he can kill someone for turning him down because she's gay. Hi, Do I go around killing straight womyn that I think are beautiful just because they like men instead, NO. Besides, I have known straight women who have given the "no thanks, I'm gay" line to especially persistant men who just couldn't listen to no. Not that this girl was doing that, and not to say that's a good thing but would you really kill someone for not dating you because they have a different sexual identity than you have???
Besides the fact that she was 15 and he is 29. Can you say potential statutory rape??? What an asshole!!!
It's truly a sad, sad world...
Read about it [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/1...]here[/url]...
:evil: [i]some people's kids...[/i]
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| Microsoft threatened by Open Source! |
| 11.25.03 (11:48 am) [edit] |
Well, it's about time. People are finally realizing that M$ is not the only way to go and that open source is a completely viable option rich in benefits.
"Traditional software companies see open-source software as a growing threat to their business, which is based on proprietary products: Microsoft is so concerned that it has launched a wide-ranging campaign to show the public that its Windows OS cannot be matched. The open source movement is being promoted at this week's Apache Software Foundation conference, ApacheCon, being held down the road from Comdex." ...[url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com...]read the rest here[/url] ...
Personally, having used M$, Mac and Linux, I think the most reliable thing I have used has been Linux. I have way less problems (except that all my friends who want to use my computer whine about not having M$ Office) :roll:
Ha! Linux is here to stay!!!
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| a new day~ |
| 11.25.03 (9:34 am) [edit] |
Well, I don't think I will get much published today. I am still quite a bit sore from my surgery. Still hurting and trying to work is an interesting thing, but then someone has to... :?
I'm starting to get tired of work. I like my job and who I work for, but I just don't want to get up in the mornings and do it anymore. Maybe it's just an effect of all the Vicodin's leaving my system. I don't really want to do much of anything right now. I mean, come on, here I am, at work, with work or even homework to do and all I'm doing is blogging. How motivated is that?
Maybe it'll go fast... maybe I won't hurt so bad by lunch that I have to go home again today. (That sucked! Going home early just to lay on the couch in pain was not a fun time off work~) ...at least I can wear sweats since everything else hurts.
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