Anonymous Canine

Tough Things to do

2005-11-29T23:08:00.000-05:00

What a day.

Tough things I had to do today:

1) Realize that the cute chick who smiles at me a lot was just being nice (besides, anyone who turns down seeing Boris' Kitchen because they "might be bored"... nuff said)
2) Realize that "I'll consider it" really is a very nice way of saying "That's nice, but no thanks"
3) Acknowledge that when your date for the evening doesn't answer her phone, or return your call regarding where your meeting it means you've been upstood
4) Accept that some women just aren't going to be interested in you, and the best thing you can do for them is to wish the happiness wherever they may choose to go.

Back to square one once again. Damn you chinese fortune-cookie fortune and your lying eyes!

Politics

2005-10-23T15:51:00.000-04:00

Since most of you who read this will probably find this interesting (atleast for a visit or two), I present:

King-Makers

My Post!

Enjoy

Weee!!!

2005-10-23T15:49:00.000-04:00

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
anonymouscanine goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Werewolf.
baelarion gives you 18 dark blue evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
lordameth gives you 14 teal grapefruit-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
queenitsy gives you 18 blue orange-flavoured gummy bats.
quirty gives you 12 softly glowing cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
second_batgirl tricks you! You lose 39 pieces of candy!
anonymouscanine ends up with 23 pieces of candy.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

BK For Life

2005-10-08T12:24:00.000-04:00

So, last night I went to the Boris' Kitchen Old Shit Show.

I'm not going to write a review (did think of that though), because most of you have probably seen all the sketches they did. (quirty you may be out of the loop, but I can fill you in later).

It was great to see everyone. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed them all, and it was nice to see that they missed me too. The Freshmen were really good. queenitsy and baelarion, the troupe is in great shape. The place was packed! They couldn't fit everyone in! People were standing in the hallway!!! It was incredible.

There were a number of other graduated Borsians. And it was great to see all of them again too.

Apparently some of the Freshmen have already learned The Happy Dance. :-)

Remembering that which shaped our lives

2005-09-20T22:43:00.000-04:00

Interview with creator of Oregon Trail

'Nuff Said. Click the link. I know you will.

For my American Studies/Baseball fan friends out there

2005-09-19T22:53:00.000-04:00

Alright, so I'm wathing the Football game this evening. And they have a special interview with the commissioner of the NFL. Here's the quote as I remember it:

Interviewer: So, I hear that the players are also contributing [to the Katrina relief fund]?
NFL Commissioner: Yes. The players have really stepped up to the plate. We've raised over a million dollars already.

So, what really bothers me about this:

Its during the FOOTBALL game, the FOOTBALL league commissioner, talking about FOOTBALL players. AND HE MAKES A BASEBALL METAPHOR!!!

Is anyone else bothered by this?

Driving without a horn is like being a mute in an argument

2005-08-30T22:43:00.000-04:00

So, If one observes dogs, and their attempts to verbally communicate (i.e. barking), one realizes that even with a limited set of expressions (variations on barking) they can communicate certain ideas very well. There's loud bark and growl (for expressing anger, or warning of danger), the quieter single bark for attracting attention, and the continuous excitement barking (the guests are arriving).

This seems very analogous to how people use their horns when driving in traffic. There's the long extended honk (as a form of shouting at stupid drivers), the quick short honk (for getting attention of others), and the repetitive celebratory post-sports-game honk.

Cookies!

2005-08-29T22:38:00.000-04:00

Food for thought:

Which cookie tastes better?:

1) The cookie that's still in the cookie jar, on top of the fridge, and unattainable?
2) The cookie in your hand that is all yours, but you may have to fight others to keep
3) The cookie in the hand of another, which you must steal away from him/her.
4) The cookie on the ground, which another has discarded and you won't have to fight to get.

Prayer for the Sea Anemone

2005-08-17T22:45:00.000-04:00

Prayer for Sea Anemone:

Protect the Sea Anemone, for she is too easily fooled
In her constant search for the right fish,
When the boy prods her with a stick, she charges
Believing she has found her fish, she pulls with all her might
When the boy leaves, there is only the anemone left
Ages pass before she can relax to search for fish again
Protect the Sea Anemone, shun the boy

Mixed Metaphors

2005-08-04T21:36:00.000-04:00

So, this afternoon I was thinking to myself. I only really have a vague grasp of a what a mixed metaphor is. I wish I had a good concrete example so I could really wrap my brain around this concept.

A few hours later as I watched a taped episode of The Daily Show:

"The thing with Islam is, that they don't have a Pope, who would say 'Hey! That's not Kosher'. Not that he would say that..."

I feel better now.

Interrogation of the Temple Spirits

2005-08-03T22:27:00.000-04:00

Bruised and battered I entered the temple doors.

"Why have you resisted my entrance so? Why have you tested me so?"

I cried to the keepers of the holy place.

"Because of your wisdom and your ignorance!

" Your pursuit of wisdom has brought you to this point. You began your quest for knowledge shortly before the beginning of the end. You planned to gain the knowledge to work towards preventing the failure and destruction of all that you held dear. And over the following years, you gained a great deal of knowledge. However, that knowledge came too late.

"The World has ended. The remains of the destruction are all around you. All of your kind have been destroyed, betrayed by your very own tribe. The future of all is in question, and you know nothing of this. You have been blind to the apocalypse which has occurred under your very nose. The day of judgment has come and gone and you have been completely unaware! You have sidestepped prophecy."

Images of chaos swirl all around. Great monuments of triumph are torn down, colossal fractal webs of organization are sliced to strands, and a poison seeps across the world, tainting everything. Even the mightiest of defenders are subject to its toxin. Few resist, and even those are quickly shouted down by the infected. This venom is ubiquitous, it is the venom of Fear.

"What would have had me do? Given up my quest for wisdom? Joined the warriors who fought so valiantly? What would I have accomplished? Most likely I would be lying dead with all the others, or worse been poisoned with the others and found myself fighting AGAINST what I believed in?"

The Keepers remained silent

"Now I am alone, the last of my kind. But one survivor of a lost world is better than no survivors. Though I may be the end of the line for my kind, at least I can tell our story. While we may die out in the material world, at least we shall have immortality as our wisdom is passed on. Perhaps in time I may come across another who, like me has escaped a rightly deserved doom. Either way, I have what tools I have, and now I learn to use them for purposes other than they were intended."

"That is the reason you were permitted to enter"

The Joys of water

2005-07-23T14:13:00.000-04:00

Thanks to the ever enlightening nexus of webcrawlers that is Slashdot, I've come across some amazing videos.

Remember playing with water-balloons as a kid (or even an adult)? If you watch closely as it explodes you can make out a ball of water, which quickly breaks apart (hopefully because of collision with a friend).

Well, NASA scientists, in their ever love of finding excuses to study interesting things, have decided to reminisce of their childhoods and explore water balloons, this time in Zero G.

Links:

Water balloons in Free Fall:

Website

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

Water balloons in normal gravity:

Website

Video 1
Video 2
Video 3
Video 4

I love the way that the water stays glooped together. Its very surreal. Kind of makes you imagine creating larger and larger balls of water. (Can you imagine a spherical swimming pool?) Final Fantasy fans will hopefully get the Blitzball Reference.

But what if you add more water? What would a real water world be like? Nothing but water? (No rocky core). Voyager touched on the idea in Thirty Days (pic). Naturally they missed the opportunity to explore a wonderful idea.

Anyway. Some fun food for thought :-)

Lunar Goddess is honored once again

2005-07-20T23:16:00.000-04:00

http://moon.google.com/

On the closest zoom you can almost barely see the landers. Well... not really but you should try it anyway :-P

Tears

2005-07-14T07:13:00.000-04:00

How many tears to mourn an elder,
and all the wisdom and experience lost?
How many tears to mourn a child,
a lifetime and a future destroyed?
How do you explain the tears,
to the stranger who does not understand?

How many tears for the lost security,
and comfort and peace?
How many tears for the destruction,
of the order, we worked so hard to create?
Will there be tears left for the villain,
who made it all come to pass?

What the hell is wrong with this town?

2005-06-21T22:57:00.000-04:00

What the hell is wrong with this town?

Tonight is the 21st of June.
Tonight is the summer solstice, the shortest night of the year
Tonight is a full moon.

Where the hell is everyone?!

I went to the caern (or, where I think it is), and there was nobody there tonight. Where the hell is everyone? Its one of the most important nights of the year and its a full moon to boot. Any self-respecting garou would be at a caern tonight. Where the hell are they? There weren't even any kinfolk there! What has come over this town that a night like tonight would be so completely ignored?

Hell! Even the black spirals worship on a night like this.

Something is seriously wrong. >:-( !

2005-06-14T01:00:00.000-04:00

Its a work in progress (no real textures on it other than the glass), but I'm proud nonetheless.

The Caern

2005-06-14T00:49:00.000-04:00

Well, my guide wasn't able to make it, which is probably for the better. I had forgotten how out of shape I was. So, while I still haven't found the Caern, I at least got a little exercise. I was really surprised at the number of spirits there. I would never have thought there'd be that many. Most of them went about their business as you might expect them too.

The confusing part though was the number of dog spirits which were so surprised to see me, and how cautious of me they were. I wasn't sure if it was for my protection or theirs...

Finding a local Caern

2005-06-13T18:58:00.000-04:00

Well, I'm not moved, and settled. Not completely unpacked, but that's not surprising, I'll probably not finish unpacking until sometime in July.

I've already spent some time getting the lay of the land. Local supermarkets, local library, local movie theater, and of course, the search for the local wildlife and Caern. I did manage to find this last one surprisingly. Or, at least I think I did. There's a local lake (its actually a reservoir). All around it are the signs and markings one would expect, but there doesn't seem to be one.

I also haven't been able to find any neighbors either. A local kinfolk is the only one who's answered my calls. She's going to take me to explore the reservoir this evening. (She doesn't know anything about any local caerns, and her Lore knowledge is effectivly non-existant.)

2005-05-29T00:42:00.000-04:00

I faced many challenges today.

Some I solved with Brains

Others with Brawn.

Wednsday, I will solve them with beer!

today I moved heavy boxes (brawn), negotiated who will take what room (brains), and wed I will move even more things, but will recruit assistance with offers of beer

2005-05-08T21:42:00.000-04:00

Once again I stand in awe of the weaver and her servant Google.

So, I couldn't remember what room my exam was in tomorrow morning. So I hit up google:

Search for "brandeis exam room"

Boom, exactly what I needed.

2005-05-08T21:20:00.000-04:00

"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." ~Charles H. Spurgeon

There are few things that make me happier than knowing I bring happiness to another.

Better than you found it

Leave each place you go better than you found it. Leave each person you encounter better off for having seen you.

Leave each circumstance you experience better as a result of your involvement.

Make each day better because of how you've lived it.

-- Ralph Marston

Words to live by.

Summoning the long forgotten Nintendo spirits

2005-05-01T01:54:00.000-04:00

So, I was in the process of practicing some spirit summoning rites, when I came across a spirit which I'd thought was long forgotten from this world.

Duckhunt.

Which you may remember was a rather famous game for the original Nintendo Entertainment System.

Well, I had a little fun, and ported it into an osciliscope and a PIC microchip.

I hope you all are amused.

Duckhunt on an Osciliscope

2005-04-29T17:47:00.000-04:00

I have my towel.
I've resisted the urge to panic.
Heading out to dinner and what should hopefully be a great movie.

2005-04-28T00:53:00.000-04:00

And thus begineth the quest for housing in the real world. Went in search of housing with friend, and while we were unsuccessful in actually arranging to look at anything today, it made me feel a lot better. Tomorrow we are scheduled to actually look at places. (One of you has e-mail regarding this.)

I'll be nice to start really feeling independant and no longer a Cub.

Oh, and btw, for those of you who may not have noticed: The new line of fetish material has arrived let the call to hunt begin.

The Importance of Communication

2005-04-26T00:15:00.000-04:00

Three important quotes:

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." - John Donne

This one deals with the idea that nobody is ever truly alone. Humans are social creatures. They don't function well without interaction with other creatures. As a result, in order to function well with humans, one must be skilled in the simple, yet sometimes overlooked skill of communication. All too often, humans themselves overlook this, and fail to communicate well with one another. Most often this comes in the form of assuming certain ideas have been communicated without truly ensuring that it has.

There's one very very simple way of doing this. Be blunt. If you want to express idea A, don't express ideas B and C in the hopes that the person will realize you are thinking about A. Say it! Say it bluntly! If you say A, then nobody can claim they didn't realize that's what you meant.

The world would be a better place if people were more open about what they thought.

"people are people because of other people" - Saying of Shona People of South Africa

This is similar to the previous quote. The idea is that people are not defined in and of themselves. You are defined by your interactions with others. Who do you keep close as friends? Who to you consider your pack members? Who do you avoid? People are defined by other people. Nobody is a person in and of themselves.

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein

This one has a very simple purpose. The previous two quotes were serious. And I figured I'd amuse myself with a bikini image. Really though, the idea ties in with the idea of what about yourself do you show others? What do you hide? (Yeah, I know I'm stretching here).

Oh, and people need to learn to understand math, or they may never realize the beauty of what's hidden behind the statistics/bikini.

If its worth doing, then its worth doing again.

2005-04-25T11:31:00.000-04:00

If you're gonna start playing with a new set of toys, then you might as well try out all of the toys available right?

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Introductions

2005-04-25T11:13:00.000-04:00

The above cartoon is from the New Yorker, to steal someone else's disclaimer:

The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20)only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law of the United States as defined and stipulated under Title 17 U. S. Code.

Comes from University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication

I figure this serves as a nice introduction to people. If you can't figure out the relevance then... well... you're either illiterate or lazy. Either way you're on your own.

That's about all I'm going to tell you about myself. The rest you're going to need to figure out on your own.

Further Comments:

I make no promises about the frequency, honesty, quality, or length of posts, nor for response times on comments.
This, for now, is purely experimental. So if you're gonna friend me, don't be surprised if I don't reciprocate. Though, I'm interested in meeting other glaswanderern if there are any out there.
Forget not the rule of three, and power of the pack.