TerraVirtua: The World According to Tim

Voynich Manuscript (posted: 2009-06-14 12:41:20)

this is for rick. posted here because i cant figure out where it is i should be sending stuff to him this week :)

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Tarawa cleanup efforts and recovery of the lost (posted: 2009-06-11 10:18:26)

after watching the "Return to Tarawa" documentary (see prior post) i was so disgusted and pissed off that i contacted Leon Cooper to find out where i could send donations, or how i could help. his response:

Thanks, Tim
No money, please.
To help..ask your friends and relatives to ask their friends and relatives to write to their representatives in Congress, demanding that the Department of Defense send teams to identify and recover the remains of thousands of Americans who still lie where they fell--in Papua New Guinea, in the Philippines, in the Solomons. In the Marianas and in Tarawa.
Please help me and many others who are demanding long overdue action by our government.
Leon Cooper

and thats exactly what i intend to do. i encourage the readers of this blog to do the same. these men, and their families, deserve better.

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Return to Tarawa (posted: 2009-06-08 22:10:04)

this is an environmental cause i can get behind. and god damn our government for letting those men go unaccounted for beneath heaps of garbage.

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god DAMNIT! (posted: 2009-06-03 07:18:22)

Mood: Frustrated

Ok so I've decided I needed to start working out again, especially because I gained some weight when I quit smoking... and I decided to start going in the morning, because its so fucking busy every goddamn evening.

So I pop out of bed this morning and head straight to the gym. I'm thinking, its 9am. How busy could it be? Most people will be at or on their way to work.

Fuck no.

Its WORSE than in the evening. EVERY GODDAMN ELIPTICAL had someone on it. All 30+. Seriously. Oh oh wait, there's ONE that isn't taken! I rush over to it and get my shit ready... which is when I notice that the bookstand is broke off on this one. Nowhere to put my kindle. MOTHERFUCKER. Now, does even ONE of the assholes on the 4 machines on either side have a book or anything else on the bookrest?

Fuck no.

Sigh fuck this shit, I'm just going to buy a gym-quality eliptical and be done with it.

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ridiculously good deal on a 22" HDMI monitor (posted: 2009-06-02 20:44:11)

just a heads up...

ASUS VH226H 22in Widescreen LCD Monitor 2ms 1000:1 300 cd/m2 Glossy Black Retail

its $160, plus another $20 off with a mail-in rebate...

i think im going to actually have to get one of these, even though i already have a 22" LCD, because i want the HDMI input for any future gaming console i might buy...

[edit:] ok so i havent priced LCD monitors since i got one two years ago... seems theyve come down a lot. this is still a good deal, but probably not a "ridiculously" good deal. also, it seems like it may have some resolution scaling issues, although those should be taken care of with the correct setup in your video drivers. also, read reviews first. caveat emptor, dont blame me if your monitor sucks, and all that good stuff.

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does this shit actually WORK? (posted: 2009-06-02 14:20:06)

seriously. does this make anyone anywhere want to run out and buy a jar of miracle whip? yeah man, im totally a rebel, i like shit LOUD! and tangy! i identify with this image, miracle whip is the sandwich spread for me!

what the fuck...?

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Hancock (posted: 2009-05-31 20:47:17)

ok so "hancock" finally came to starz, and i finally got a chance to watch it. ive been wanting to see it since it came out, but just kinda forgot about it... and amazingly, nobody ruined it for me.

what i dont get is, why was this movie so thoroughly panned? i dont recall talking to anyone who liked it, and the few reviews i read were all negative... but i thought it was outstanding. i just dont get it.

one thing is for sure: making a movie or tv show i like is the kiss of death. i am definitely NOT the target audience for ANYthing that anyone wants to be popular with the masses.

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what is racist? (posted: 2009-05-28 12:12:18)

does this statement qualify as racist?

"I would hope that a wise white man, with the richness of his experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a hispanic female who hasn't lived that life." -me

how about this one?

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." - Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor

im pretty confident that were *i* the supreme court nominee and made such a statement, id have no chance in hell of being confirmed. in fact, id prolly be run out of the country on a rail.

so how is it that sotomayor can be a straight-up admitted racist (supported by her record on the bench) and get nominated to the highest court in the land? how is it that a judge who is on record stating that the role of the circuit court judges is to make policy and legislate from the bench gets nominated to a position that is obligated specifically NOT to make policy or rule based on "empathy" but solely upon the text of the constitution?

i have a feeling im about to have another one of those "filled-with-HORROR-and-disbelief" moments over sotomayor, one like when the messiah won, and again when he was actually inaugurated... and again when he nationalized a major auto manufacturer... and again when... oh hell, i ought to be used to it by now, right?

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