Allen Mockery

01:10 pm: AN open letter to Senator Ted Stevens
At this point, most of you know that I've got a job being an assistant network admin over at this private college. As such, I feel pretty confident that I know a few things about technology. (Since I haven't, you know, been canned yet.) You can disagree if you want, but the point is that I am obviously far, far more knowledgeable on the subject than say... The Esteemed Senator Ted Stevens. Normally I would laugh, hysterically laugh, and then cry at the stupidity clearly on display here, but since this is *my* senator talking I feel compelled by a greater force to go through this damn thing point by point and address it in the mad, mad hope that he'll actually read it and learn something. Hold me. This will get ugly.

"Now--we have consumers who use this internet, and we have commercial users who use this internet."

This, at the outset, basically makes no sense at all, and you have to listen later in the clip to figure out what he's talking about. What he should have said is that there are people who are using the internet for low-bandwidth activities like web browsing, email, and instnat messenger activities, and then there are those who are using it for more intensive things like movie downloading. The current phrase is wrong in a number of respects that I won't get into, but the point is that the number of what he calls "commercial users" is small--very, very, very small. If I understand him right, he's talking about people who are buying movies and downloading them over the internet. (I say movies because he does; obviously, well, obviously to anyone with a working brain, it's not just about movies but also podcasts, music, etc.; movies just get picked on because of the large filesizes.) Due to a number of factors, however, the number of people buying movies and then downloading it is in fact very, very small. Almost all of the high-bandwidth trafic is in fact, free trafic. I'll expound on that later.

"(a quote from the Tribune) Most of the companies who oppose net neutrality do so because they feel that the speed and capabilities of the internet are being improved on their backs."

So don't improve it then, and watch Google roll out free wireless for everyone. (I think it's a ridiculous possibility, myself, but I'm saying it because everyone else is.) I have zero sympathy for ISPs who don't wannt to roll out fiber because it's too expensive. They're already giving us ridiculously high prices on bandwidth (Well, GCI is at any rate), so yes, they can afford the goddamn fiberoptics. That's the beauty of Capitalism--if you don't want to do it, someone else will, and then make loads of money because they're the only one doing it so people have to use them to get their highspeed. Don't like it? Try and make a better network. The system works.

"There's one company, you can sign up and have a movie delivered to your house. Daily. [...] But you pay for that, right? That service is now gonna go through the internet, and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and order your movie and guess what, you can order ten of 'em, they're delivered to you, and the delivery charge is free. Right?"

Wrong. I'm assuming that he's talking about Netflics here, and if I'm wrong than it really doesn't matter because that's not the issue. You in fact do pay for "shipping". Every month you pay for shipping, in the form of the monthly subscription that you already pay to your ISP for ot access the internet. The internet is not already free, you dumbasses. You pay the ISP (too much, I reiterate) to get access to the internet that the traffic is delivered on. If you want your trafic delivered to you faster, you pay a higher price for faster internet service. It's a DIFFERENT business model, sure, but the business model EXISTS, and exists just fine thankyouverymuch.

"[an email] was sent by my staff at 10:00 in the morning on Friday, I got it [Tuesday?]! Why? Because it got tangled up with all of these other things that are going on over hte internet commercially!"

What I think his point is, if I can translate it from bumbling moron into English, is that emails are more important than movies so they should be given higher priority. Which is great, only throttling bit torrent won't make your email go any faster you freaking stupid monkey. The only emails that get slowed down are freemails like hotmail and yahoo, and that is because of the massive amount of people who use their servers to send mail all the time. If you want your email sent faster, get a better email address, jackass. Gmail is free, and there are plenty of paid email hosting services that move plenty fast. Yeah, paying extra for priority email, what an amazing concept that I just totally came up with two seconds ago oh wait no I didn't it's the way the internet has worked for ten years you RETARD!

"The people who support [net nutrality] are the people who want to use the internet for the end use of their profit, not the consumer."

Aaaah. And finally the crystalized view of his argument becomes clear to me, the shimmering cold lake on the horizon of the baron, featureless wasteland that represents the esteemed Senator Ted Stevens's intelligence. What he's saying is that content providers are making money off of the content that they are providing, without paying the ISP for the service of providing this content to the customers on that ISP. Meanwhile consumers--who don't need to use the internet for high bandwidth activities--are being disadvantaged because these evil corporationsTM are hogging all the bandwidth. It's a very well-worded argument that I have just extracted out of the almost-incoherent rambling of the esteemed Senator Ted Stevens; it is therefore a shame that it is completely wrong in almost every respect. Allow me to express this disappointment, in the form of heavy bricks. To your face. *WHAM!* *WHAM!* *WHAM!*
As I said above, you already pay ISPS for the privilage of using the internet. Similarly, the content providers pay the ISP for the privilage of connecting to the internet and using the iSP's webspace and bandwidth for the downloads. This is true, no matter who you are; if you're Google, you pay an ISP to get on the internet and if you are Alex McFlipworth from a filesharing network you pay an iSP for the same thing. Content providers are not getting a free ride on anything, and I wish that ISPs would stop pretending like they are. Because they are not. EVERYONE pays for bandwidth. Even freaking Microsoft. The hilarious thing about this is that even if this weren't true and huge companies were piggybacking on the internet just, I dont' know, because they're big and evil or something, you'd still be totally wrong. The consumers have spoken, sir, and they are overwhelmingly for net nutrality. I, for example, do not make a single cent of profit off the internet. As a matter of fact, since I pay for the internet--like everyone else--I make negative money off of it. Yet, I am still supporting net nutrality. Why? Because it's just common sense to do so and if you don't you're either stupid, or being slipped bribes by the telecomunications industry. So which is it, Mr. Ted Stevens?

"I think the result will be if we go your way instead of paying 30 dollars a month for broadband it will be 50 to 60, it will restrict it, I think that's why the world has turned against this. They have not done it."

You sir, are not only wrong, but dangerously wrong. Please do me a personal favor, and fatally injure yourself on a sharpened household implament. The world has not turned against this. The exact opposite is true, in fact, as the US is the only assbackwards place in the entire world suggesting this insane idea of 'net nutrality.' As for your claim that broadband prices will go up, you are wrong and they won't. Or if they will, it won't be because they have to, it will be because they want to play screw the consumer games. Er, more than they already are. I could mention that most people are already paying $50 for broadband, but that would be nitpicking. North Korea has speeds ten times ours for a fraction of our price, and they seem to be doing just fine. China may have loads of censoring, sure, but they also have cheaper and faster internet than us, and far, far more subscribers to deal with. This whole idea that ISPs can't guaranty the service they provide without charging us more for it is insulting horseshit.

"Imposing a heavy-handed regulation before there is a demonstrated need is wrong."

What do you call AOL's blocking of the EFF, Mr. Stevens? What do you call Comcast's "accidental" blocking of craigslist? How about their blocking of the standard ports of WinMX file sharing program? What about the countless reports of Bit Torrent and Skype trafic being filtered or choked by ISPs, despite their lying to the contrary? IF those aren't demonstrated needs I don't know what are.

"I don't have to have that kind of speed they're talking about [...], but people who are streaming 10, 12 movies at a time, or a whole book at a time, [...] those aren't you and me, those aren't the consumers, those are the providers! And those people are using the internet as a delivery service, rather than using it as the concept of communication."

Mr. Senator, whether you like it or not, the internet is a content delivery system. Whether that content is video, audio, or text, it is still content. Let me try and explain this to you. Conceptually, there is no difference between an email, a Wikipedia entry, or a book. There is no difference between a Skype call, and a podcast. How do you tell the difference between a textbook and a fiction book? Er, you charge someone out the ass for the textbook, okay, bad example. How do you tell the difference, conceptually, between the sixth Harry Potter book and the Encyclopedia Britanica? The content is vastly different, however the delivery system is still the same: words on paper. This is clear by the concept of a "web page." The web page has text on it, first and formost. However, imbeded in that web page can be all kinds of things. Anything from images, to java script code, to embedded audio, to movies. All of that can be put onto the same web page. And you access this web page exactly the same way you would access another, simpler, more "educational" web page. The only difference is the size. This is something you clearly do not understand because you are laboring under the delusion that downloading 12 movies is the same as downloading a book. 12 movies (assuming you're talking about Hollywood features) could range anywhere from 2 to 20 gigabytes. Downloading a book ranges from .1 to 2 megabytes. Do you know the difference between a megabyte and a gigabyte, Senator? I would guess from your previous rant that you do not. The difference, however, is even more academic than this. How is the internet supposed to know the difference between a 200-megabyte porn flick and a 200-megabyte news video? The delivery system is the same, the content's size is the same. The content's, well, content, is all that is different. And what you are asking is to have the internet just sort of magically know what is "important" and what is not. And that, with all due respect (which is nill, because you have political power and seemingly no guiding intellect on how to use it), is ludicrous.

"Maybe there is a place for the commercial net. But it's not using the place that the consumers use every day."

Senator Dorkass, the "internet consumers" are the same people who are downloading this "commercial" content. Furthermore, if we're just going to limmit this to a discussion of movies, because that's what you seem to want to do, then commercial content is in fact a very, very, very small percentage of the internet trafic. If you were to open this up to software you'd have a better argument what with the hundred-megabyte game patches Valve loves to push onto people, but you didn't, so I'm not. Due to the fact that movie studios have their heads up their fucking asses, the ability to legally download movies has been basically nonexistent up until around early this year. As a result, the people are not downloading these movies legally... they're downloading them illegally. My own personal opinion of the Kazaa file sharing network aside, if ISPs *really* wanted to take the load off, they would report the people downloading movies to the FBI and have them arrested. Thereby removing them from their network. Working with the existing laws to find a solution. But, mysteriously, they're not doing that. Instead, tehy're trying to institute more laws that directly benifit them and indirectly benefit everyone else in some strange way that nobody can actually explain. Like America doesn't need more stupid and pointless laws already. Why are they doing this? They want more money! Shocker! Rather like you, esteemed Senator Ted Stevens, who took $71,250 this election cycle in donations from these telcos wanting the bill to protect net nutrality shot down (source: www.opensecrets.org). Wouldn't you say that's a conflict of interest of some sort? (I could point out that the amount of financing for your reelection that is coming out of your several hundred thousand-dollar pockets is 0, but that would be mean.)

In conclusion, everything you have said on the subject of net nutrality shows an appalling lack of understanding of basic internet fundamentals. Appalling because you, being the chairman of the committee dealing with this issue, have a responsibility to educate yourself on simple concepts like "how the internet works." It is clear, however, that any attempts you may have made to do so have resulted in--forgive the regression into Dick Gebhart-speak--a miserable failure. Therefore I respectfully demand as a constituant of your district that you remove yourself from this position of trust and power until such time as you obtain the necessary requisit knowledge to debate the issue intelligently. If I said even half of what you said at my job, I would be fired, because in real jobs where real people actually really work for their living, it is necessary to have a clue what you're talking about in order to be a good worker. You do not, therefore, you are ill-suited for your 'job.' So, please, do us ALL a favor, and get out. Your constituants, your fellow members of congress, the constituents of other districts--in fact, everyone who is not a cable or telephone company shill, has spoken on this issue--and they are for net nutrality. How's about you start doing what you've been elected to this representative republic of ours for, and fucking represent the people of this country?

11:34 pm: You are not innocent.
I'd like to make something perfectly, undeniably clear.

I'm a pretty easy going person, all things considered. Even to a fault; someone whom I regularly converse with getting me pissed enoguh to actually yell at them to their face is a thing that is so rare it is almost nonexistent. I've never ignored anyone online who wasn't a robot, amd I'm so disgustingly submissive that I'll let unreliable people (*cough* Nate!) 'borrow' my things and let them keep it weeks after they said they were going to and not mention that they were late, or that they took things without asking me as long as I actually get it back, in the end.

But there's just one thing that I will not stand. I absolutely, positively, unconditionally will not tollerate being lied to, for any reason. Oh, dont' get me wrong--if you're a basically unreliable person, I won't care, because you can't blame a cockroach for being a cockroach. But if you call yourself a friend of mine, then you'd better not be lying to me because otherwise oh, are you going to be in for a surprise. Apparently, the fact that I deal straight with people has been lost on some of you. Someone who should really know better has been laboring under the mistaken delusion that she can go out of her way to deceive me and that when the inevitable penny drops I'll just roll over and take it like I take everything. Rest assured that this is not and never was the case; as a result someone I once called one of my closest friends is now far from that. I am up front with everyone I talk to and hold nothing back, and I expect the same in return. So if any of you lott have something I should know, tell me now. Because of this person, I've been forced to change the way I deal with people, so I appologize in advance if anyone gets offended at me for not excepting a single claim at face value anymore. But quite frankly, if she'd do it, anyone of you could, and I'm through with being taken for granted. This is the only time I am going to bother saying this: if I discover you've been backstabbing me, I will no longer associate myself with you. Period. End of story.

PS--in a similar vein, if you're someone who doesn't actually like me very much but just sort of listens to me when you have nothing better to do (Megan, i'm looking at you.) I advise you to stop wasting both of our time and just tell me to fuck off. A one-sided conversation is idiotic, and I'm not bothering with that anymore either.

01:46 pm: Adventures in homosexual firearms
So I'm IMing with Erin (who is, for the record, teh coolest being in teh universe, about five times cooler than you you lowly scum reading this) and she came upon This ah... "gem". Erin's sterling response was: "I dont' know any girls gay enough to carry that." Intrigued, I went on a jaunty, er, jaunt through my IM list, to see if I knew anyone who might not be caught dead holding such a fabulous piece. Let's watch the results!

11:00 PM beccalove2005: I dont know any PERSON gay enough to buy that.
11:00 PM beccalove2005: And I know some VERY gay men.
11:01 PM beccalove2005: Richard Simmons isn't gay enough to buy that.

11:12 PM Jeremymia: Wow, this is a pretty gay gun.
11:12 PM Jeremymia: I bet it goes "zzzap!" when you shoot it.
11:12 PM Lysander: Haha.
11:12 PM Lysander: See, I told you.
11:13 PM Jeremymia: Told me what?
11:14 PM Jeremymia: Tell me or i'll zzzap you!
11:16 PM Lysander: That it was a very, very gay gun.
11:17 PM Jeremymia: Nothing that kills people can be that gay.
11:17 PM Jeremymia: But as far as guns go, yeah, it's pretty damn gay.

11:11 PM Lysander: Anyway, tell me you girlie girl you, woudl you buy this?
11:13 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: mwh. couldn't take it hunting
11:17 PM Lysander: But, i mean.
11:17 PM Lysander: That gun, it's kind of...
11:17 PM Lysander: A little bit...
11:17 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: and it's pink. blergh
11:17 PM Lysander: Thanks.
11:18 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: sorry but pink? who wants a pink gun Oo plus with all the mother of pearl stuff? sounds like it should be in a case with people going ooooohh, awwww, at it.
11:19 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: much rather have a nice smith'n'wesson or colt
11:19 PM Lysander: That was the sexyest thing anyone has ever said to me in...
11:19 PM Lysander: Oh, about an hour, or so.
can i say? pain killers = loopy
11:20 PM Lysander: You could say something along the lines of, holy crap is that fucking thing gay.
11:21 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: well.. yea. it is. kinda. but more like the kinda gun someone who wanted a gun to match their car/poodle would buy
11:21 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: a yuppie gun
11:26 PM Lysander: Dear God in Heaven, does such a thing exist as a neon-pink poodle?
11:26 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: yes
11:26 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: yes they do
11:26 PM PalmerAlaskanGrl: and they scare me
11:26 PM Lysander: :(

Lysander: Hey, you're gay, right?
EMythrandir: huh?
Lysander: Tell me, would you buy this:
EMythrandir: no, for multiple reasons
Lysander: Do you know anyone else who would?
EMythrandir: Not really

Inpassinggod: Hey, know any gay people?
Faintblueafterglimmer: My best friend is bi, why?
inpassinggod: would your best friend buy this?
Faintblueafterglimmer: haha
faintblueafterglimmer: ew
faintblueafterglimmer: no she wouldn't

inpassinggod: You live in the south, as well as being bisexual.
Inpassinggod: Tell me: would you, or anyone you know, buy this?
Adventurous_Mel: no.

11:37 PM Jack's wasted life: Hey, do you know any girliegirls?
11:38 PM Phache: why?
11:38 PM Jack's wasted life: Would any of them buy this:
11:38 PM Jack's wasted life: www.impactguns.com/store/725327601876.html
11:39 PM Phache: haha id buy that....
11:39 PM Phache: but i dont knwo any girls
11:39 PM Phache: taht ar einto artilery
11:39 PM Jack's wasted life: ...
11:40 PM Phache: hey a guns a gun
11:40 PM Jack's wasted life: That is not "artilaryt."
11:40 PM Jack's wasted life: That is "a reject from teh Lillith faire."
11:40 PM Phache: fuck it my fingers are cold im not acurate on ths keyboard
11:40 PM Jack's wasted life: Heh, i'ts okay, I'm fucking it up too :P
11:41 PM Phache: fuck iv shot musketas, m5s Uzis, implacement machine guns
11:41 PM Phache: and iv found out
11:41 PM Phache: they all shoot bullets
11:41 PM Phache: what the gun looksl
11:41 PM Phache: looks like*
11:41 PM Phache: dosnt matter
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: It's .22 ammo though.
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: A friend of mine shot a dying raccoon in teh head with one.
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: And it didn't die.
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: He shot it four times.
11:41 PM Phache: didint say i would buy it
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: And it still didn't die.
11:41 PM Phache: ist alsmot 200 bucks
11:41 PM Jack's wasted life: He had to hit it with a shovel.
11:42 PM Phache: hhat hats funnt
11:42 PM Phache: funny*

Sarah Rennolds: Hey, I know a lot of girls who would buy something like that to shoot their husbands with.
Drew: But it won't even kill somebody!
Sarah Rennolds: EXACTLY.


So, there you have it. No one, in the entire universe, is gay enough for a gun like this...

Except for a 17-year-old death metal guitarest.

Who knew, eh?

07:12 pm: Write congress!
There is a sickly, disgusting thing growing in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Actually, there are several. But I"m going to try, if I can, to limmit myself to one. I'm talking here about the move spear-heade ATNT, Comcast and Vorizon, it is called a two-tiered internet. What these companies want to do, esentially, is get paid twice--once by people who sign up to the ISP--and again, by websites and content providers such as Bit Torrent--for the 'privilage' to use their ISP. They want Google to pay them to use high-speed internet. If these companies get their way, they'll be able to deligate websites that don't pay for 'premium' access to slow, slow-loading zone. As much as it pains me to sully this journal with a patition, much less a patition from move on dot org. I'm absolutely sick and fed up of these greedy cocksuckers paying government to do whatever they want. It's congress! We voted to give them the power to represent us! So please, let your voice be heard--call your state congressmen, write them a letter, send them an email. Or if you're too goddamned lazy to do any of those things, sign the stupid patition:http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/index.html

02:27 pm: Adventures in obscenity
The Hart Dynamics Ultralite rack has caused me to utter the word "cunt" more than any object, person, or event, in the history of my life.

That is all.

08:18 pm: What did I do?
?: So, Jessica was being a douche last night. She thinks that my hatred of [rehab] is because withdrawls, I told her to ask you if she doesn't believe me, and she said we're both [and this is a direct quote], "law breaking idiots and assholes to boot]
Drew, the Silver Stud: Hah hah hah hah hah hah ha hah.
?: So I asked how you were a law breaking asshole and she's just like "well I don't know"

I had a very long, and also very whiny entry on this subject here. I am now deleting it, because I've talked to her about it. I find that talking to someone about something that's annoying me is preferable to writing a stupid Live Journal entry about it. In a way, this is a shame, as the entry I'm deleting had Nate being crushed like a tuna can in it, and we all know how much fun that is to read about. Sae la vi. SO now, I'll say just a few things.

, don't assume that because I agree with someone on something, I agree with that someone on everything and do everything the someone does. Thinking "he hates A because he's doing bad thing B and since you agree with him you must also be doing b and are therefor just as stupid" is not only insulting to me, but is jumping to a LOT of conclusions. Both of which are somewhat irresponsible.

07:30 pm: Nisch hast
So, I haven't updated in a while. This is because, simply, not much is happening. I could talk about the test everyone took a month ago that I'm taking now because, literally, the teacher forgot to send it to me, or that now that I've done it I can't print it because my mom apparently bought me an empty ink cartridge, butI can already hear the Drew's Army of Doom stretching out on their beds and snoring. Instead, I'm going to go down the line of a list of things I hate. Y'all ready? Here we gooo!

I hate...

people who ask other people to open doors for me. Seriously, people do this. Look, if you want to help open a door for me, that's cool. I would really rather you didn't, but if you wanna, go crazy. But you're, what, opening the door for me by proxy? That don't work. This goes double for someone who is a figure of authority like a teacher or a principal or something. That really bugs me because what's the other person going to do, say no and get in trouble? Then that person resents me for just standing there.

I hate...
As a corilary, people who try to do things for me when I am better at doing them then they are. I get ambushed when I go to the cafeteria by staff who get my order wrong three times, insist on walking me to the soda machine because I, I don't know, might get mugged or something... and then force me to go back because the one thing I actually -could- use help on is the one that they forgot, so now I look like a primadonna.

I hate...
Whoever it was that decided anorexia, buleemia and obeecity were diseases. (Hey, while we're making up problems, I got one: I can't spell worth shit. Can I get my tax lean now?) Only in America is "I don't wanna eat!" considered to be a disorder. We already have a name for "hunger strike disease", it's called suicide. Which is already retarded enough [see below]. We don't need any more stupid waste of time "conditions". If you are actually so obsessed on your image that you are deliberately throwing up perfectly good food in an attempt to impress your slutty gynmist friend, see a fucking psychologist. Not for the upchucking, for your total lack of self asteme that is as obvious as it is unhealthy. As for obeesity, if you want to eat whatever the hell you want, you've got two options: get off your fat ass and excersise, or stay on your fat ass and enjoy it. Life is not without sacrifice.

I hate...
Christians in places of authority. Look, nothing against Christians as persons, but believing in religeon is like a celebration of turning your back on common sense. The one and only exception to this is Flannery O'Conorr, and she's dead. But if you're just doin' your own thing, you know, being Christian, hey great. Way worse things you could be doing. I may not agree with all your morals, or your reasons for them, but I think we can all agree that "rape is bad" (unless you're, um, yeah) and the like so as long as you keep it to yourself, hey, it's all good. I don't even mind it if you try to convert me, honestly. I'm always up for a good debate, as everyone who knows me should know too well by now. Where I draw the line is when you use your position of authority to impose your morals on other people. My x works at a newspaper and her editorials on homosexuality keep getting censored by the piece of shit running it because "people wouldn't agree." Say what? Since when is getting people to agree with you the point of an editorial? It's an opinion piece. If you don't want to read someone's opinion, don't fucking read it, jackass. School administrators enforcing Christianity on students angers me. And don't even get me started on Palestine and Israel. I'm absolutely overjoyed that the pope is a Nazi. Now if any Catholic starts whining, yes, whining at me because I dare to support the death penalty for rapists, murderers and copyright lawyers, all I have to say is "Your pope is a Nazi. Shaddup."

I hate...
Racists. Only humanity could come up with a concept so brain-dead idiotic as racism. It literally is the stupidest thing to hate someone for I've ever, ever seen. I hate racism more than anything else in the world because although murderers, well, murder, although rapists mentally and physically scar people for the rest of their lives, Anne Coulter is still stupider than most rapists. Which is pretty sad, 'cause a lot of rapists are pretty damn stupid. Special bonus points go to the ones who try and force the blowjob. I don't hate them, I just laugh.

I hate...
lincoln Park. What a pathetic, worthless waste of a perfectly good recording studio. Weh, waahhhaa craaaling iin my skiiiin! I'm so incredibly depressed by the millions of dollars i'm getting from my record sails I'm gonna write pseudo-rap music to get more for fueling my crack adiction!

I hate...
People who feel the need to update me, their mom, the vykker's cat and anyone in Instant messenger range on how their life is going through their screen name. I don't care--No one cares. Why should I give a shit if u saw this realy cute guy at a party last night!? Why do you people do this!? I've got my eye on one girl just so that when she decides to finally end it all I'll find out about it by the lyrics in her custom status message.

I hate...
Freedom Scientific. JAWS, the program I use to read my screen--can be yours, for the low, low price of $1300! These are the people who used floppy disks for their authorization scheme until 2004. The people who haven't had a single useful feature since 4.51, released oh, 3 years ago. And they expect me to pay an extra $200+ per useless upgrade with features no one cares about. Yeah, great, thank you for giving me the ability to assign custom labels to a specific line on http://www.blahblahblah.com/blahblah.cgi?page=1andamp;pg=1andblahblah-_-_djadfjwjz?izjeraquix, meanwhile I can't read PDF documents. One is just slightly more useful than the other, okay? the PacMate--you know what? I've ranted about this completely useless product before so I'm not going to again. Y'all get the idea.

I hate...
Yahoo! Inc. I don't THINK I've ranted about them on this journal, but suffice it to say that any company who's idea of stopping pedophiles from running wild on their chat service is shutting down their ability to make havens for themselves and forcing them into the rooms where the actual kids are, needs a solid Bogie punch in the teeth. At the fucking least. Blargh, this was supposed to be fun, but there really isn't anything funny about child rape.

I hate...
Since we're on the subject lately, people in Florida who buy beach houses. And then whine that their oh-so expensive property got raped by a natural disaster. Listen, DUMBASS, hurricanes pummel the Florida coast almost yearly. If you've been living there long enough to own a house, you know by now that the beaches of Florida is where hurricanes will go to flatten your stupid ass. Anyone who suffers from such an acute case of fuck-the-common-people as to build a hundred million-dollar home in the way of a hurricane quite frankly deserves to have the useless thing torn down, destroyed, and redistributed to the four winds; and anyone who then whines, piteously and pathetically, that she had no idea and that the government had better replace the cost of her house which was, of course, 3 million dollarstee hee! Deserves to have her useless self torn down, destroyed, and redistributed to the four winds along with that stupid fucking house.

I hate...
People who say they're going to kill themselves. Bullshit. How do I know it's bullshit? Because you've spent ten years working on that appearance and you and I both know you're not going to let the $4000 in makeup tools go to waste on a decomposing fleshbag. If you want some attention from me, fine. Walk into a room, or open up an IM window--with me, even! I'm cool with that--and say, in 48-point font if it makes you fel better (especially to me, because I won't notice so you'll still look just as intelligent) "I WANT SOME GOD DAMN ATTENTION HERE!!!" Then I'll be happy to discuss with you the things you find so freaking important and un-live-able. But don't pull that bullshit just to get some attention. That's insulting to the people who, you know, actually have problems worth listening to that need to be talked out of it, as opposed to you, who wants to be talked into it.

I hate...
People who actually commit suicide. There is no problem that bad. Okay? None. The only time I'm committing suicide is when the zombie plague starts. And before then you bet your ass I'm buying a shotgun or two to take some zombified housewives out first. Hell, even if the entire city turned intollerant fuck-brained Republican I'd still at least go out in a hail of bullets. No problem can be solved with a bullet to your own brain. It just creates more for all the people who have to live with your dead ass. It's an act of pure selfishness, and if you weren't dead I'd probably slap you in the face for being such a thoughtless asshole. No matter what's wrong, no matter how hard or in-solv-able a problem is, there is always one way out better than death. Always. Because when you die, people are going to miss you. Even if they never knew you, they will still miss the potential gift to society you could have givven, but didn't, because you were too wrapped up in your own life to think about other people.

I hate...
People who make these whiny-ass pointless journal entries. Stop bitch and do something, you worthless yuppies. If you put half the energy you did into writing these pointless rants as you did into actually trying to make a difference, the world would... well, it probably wouldn't be a perfect place or anything, but it might have made Linkin Park a little less popular at lest...

01:15 am: Japanesus? And he's black? WTF?
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03:27 pm: People are a problem.
As probably... um... none... of you know, I listen to a show on ACB Radio called "Main Menu." It comes on once a week for about an hour, and it basically serves to keep me up to date on onovations in the field of blind-friendly technology. (it's how I found out about the cell phone stuff, for instance.) Just recently they did a show that's basically just a recording from a national showcase in Vegas (...yeah, I thought that was funny too, but let's move on) where someone who is herself totally blind who works at Microsoft came to talk about accessibility in Windows Vista. This woman has, incidentally, the best title i've ever heard of: "technical evangelist." That's so self-mockingly true, man. Actually there were some genuinly funny moments, like near the beginning, when she addressed the room at large and asked "How many of you have used Microsoft Narator?" a pause. Everyone burst out laughing. Narator is its own punchline.

What I really want to talk about here, though, needs a bit of context, which I will gladly provide you! This may bore some (or most... all maybe) of you but fuck it, this is my journal.

Microsoft made the decision waaaay back in 1993, that they would not compete with screen reader companies by releasing screen readers that were included in the opperating system. It's a lot like their decision not to have antivirus and spyware scanners in the system, which seems to have angered very many people--because, right, the company I want scanning my system for viruses is the same program that allowed those viruses to exist in the first place. I don't think so. Anyway, the thing that makes this stupid is that the prices for screen readers have a tendency to cheerfully flirt with the $1000 mark--which is, now, more than an embarrassingly high number of desktops themselves cost. So, people like to try and find people to blame for this, and a lot blame Microsoft, because hey, it's big and it's bad and it's Microsoft! It's a huge corporation! Get 'em!

What i'm pissed off about is something this... bitch... did durring the Q&A session. Here is what she said.

"Hi... I have a comment and then a question..."

Already, my spider sense is pinging. The questions up to this point have been edged at times but still very good, and the answers were rather informative--at one point someone asked a question with a lot of attitude that was actually a very good well-thought-out one with a good answer to follow, so I have no idea where the anger came from. But anyway. This is not a Q&C&A session, it is a Q&A session. If you want to comment, comment like me, on your lame-ass blog.

"you may or may not have an answer, but..."

Translation: "I'm going to ask the Microsoft representative a rhetorical question just to be an ass." Great.

"I just happened to be with Greg Louning (I think) in March of 1993 at CSUN when he made a call to the office--this was one of the first CSUN confrences where they were talking about GUI access--and he came to me and he said "What about the idea that we won't compete with third-party businesses in accessibility, do you think that as a reason will fly?""

The correct answer to this, in case you are wondering, is "yes, it will." I can't imagine, really, anyone being happy if Micro$oft decided to go the other way. But that's for later.

"And I said, well,Microsoft has never had any qualms before about competeing with third party businesses."

Here, she has a point. It's still an incredibly rude thing to say to someone who works for Microsoft who's job is to sell a product she has extremely limmited leverage on making, but it's still a valid point. But she continues...

"And I don't see why this should change in the field of accessibility, I dont' really see what's different. And that still holds true today, especially in the case where access for us now costs more than the computer itself. Um, i think that, this is totally, bogus, aaand, ummm, that the reasons that you guys are siding for not doing it are just, not... not realistic. Also, in that vein, if that is the tack that you wanna take, then I would suggest that you put that in your PR, instead of implying that you do provide access that you really don't. My term for that is 'image without substance.' Thank you."

My God.

Just going back and transcribing me that out for you flabberghasted me. Do you see? Do you see what you are doing to me, you people?

And you know what is worsse? Yes, there's something worse than that--after she sat down, far too many people cheered her on.

Of course, five secodns later ,the applause dies down, leaving a dead silent room with this poor woman standing at the mic having to say something back to that.

Okay, let's take this one thing at a time. First of all, it's a politeness issue. When you're sitting in the audience and you're listening to someone from Microsoft who has very graciously donated time out of a fucking OS beta cycle--which is about the most valuable of valuable times you can think of for a computer company--to come down to, of all the goddamned places, Las Vegas, to tell YOU about new stuff that's coming out of their doors, that is not the time to get on a soapbox and bitch. Okay? it's not. It's fucking not. Not at all. Listening to that I actually yelled out "what the... fuck?" I very rarely do that. That's just the first thing. The second thing is that... well... read it again. Plase? Alright, you don't have to read it again, just scan it for a question mark. Do you see one anywhere? That's funny, NEITHER DO I, except once, where she's quoting someone else. Where's the question? Come on, where is it? You said you had a question, now where is it? I wanna know your question! Oh, right, you didn't have one. You're just using the Q&A time as an excuse to spout your uninformed ass off about things. That leads to the third thing. What did she think? Did she think that by insulting the company she works for that would somehow enable her to change their business strategies? Just so you know: the answer is no, it won't. The FOURTH thing is that she's not even talking to the right person. Never mind that the person you're talking to is blind herself, and has to deal with the exact same shit that you have to deal with all the fucking time, she works for Microsoft! Burn the witch! BUURN'ER! That is so incredibly not fair.

Okay, I've dealt with all the things wrong with the context, finally, now I will deal with the actual contents of her statement, and I will do it in ways that the Microsoft person probably couldn't at the risk of provoking more idiot outbursts.

First point. Microsoft has a gaming section, an OS section, an internet browser section, a console hardware section, a word processing section, a spreadsheet section, an ISP section, a music section, an email section, an instant messenger section, actually six or seven OS sections now that I think about it, a search section, and... yeah, go down and down the line. Pretty much all of these things are things that are enough to satisfy one company all by its own. Netscape only had the internet browser for the longest time, and only in the last year or so are they tentatively moving in the direction of ISP. Yahoo's only doing ISP, instant messaging, music and search. AOL is doing a web browser, instant messenger, ISP, email, search, probably music... and AOL, it is important to note, does all of these things very, very badly. Corelle does only the word processing and so forth. Google does ads, search, instant messaging and email. These are HUGE companies that I'm talking about here, but all of these are just fractions of the things Microsoft has expanded into. EarthLink, People PC online, Net-0--these are JUST ISP companies, and yet that's enough for them, because it's hard enough to do just that, let alone anything else. At Microsoft, pretty much every day is the busiest day of your life, unless it's now and you're working on Vista, in which case tomorrow is always the busiest day of your life. And you have the gaul to say that they're not doing enough? That deserves a nice uninteligent round basic good ol' fuck you right in the teeth.

Second point. How many of you have used Internet Explorer? Baahahahahahahahaa. Exactly. Does anyone want Microsoft making a screen access program the way they made Internet Exploiter? God, no. Just, no. Please. No. Do not tempt them to do this, for the love of God and anything good in the world NNNOOOOOOOOOOO.

Third point. There is no third point.

Fourth point. You ask for included screen access support, what do you think that does to the price? That's right genius, it skyrockets. How about development cycles? That's right--they get bigger than the price.

So what you're basically asking is that they spend months and months and months and probably a year or a two making a screen reader that will have the same standards we've come to love and disrespect about Microsoft that makes the OS cost hundreds of dollars more and driving the prices of computers back up again for absolutely everybody, just so that you can have the convenience of the screen reader in the package? Hey, here's an idea, how about including Office with all versions of Windows! Sure it'll make Windows cost 300 dollars more, but it's quicker and easier to do than what you're asking, and will probably cost less money in the outrun! And it's convenient! That's what this is all about, right? Convenience? Oh, right, that's bad 'cause then they'd be bundling software with the OS and making it difficult for inovation from third party markets... a horseshit argument to begin with but it just shows that Microsoft can't win with you people.

Microsoft isn't the problem, morons. Freedom Scientific is the problem, for rolling out their unacceptably shitty software at their unacceptably inflated prices for with unaceptably low standards. The pacMate. Right, they expect me to pay $4500 for a Pocket PC with JAWS on it and a braille display for a screen. Oh, that's assuming you don't want a modem or ethernet connuctivity or bluetooth or wireless internet or more storage (from the two flash card slots provided) than the 128 MBs of easily-corruptable memory... all of which cost hundreds of dollars more? Um, how about, NO.

02:15 pm: An incredibly stupidly long LJ quiz
This isn't as good as it could have been because it didn't register Hopium, Pinback or Wanderer, and I had to give up on a lot or say "yep... nope..." to more. But eh, whatever.

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02:45 pm: Whooooa...
Hey. Hi. Wass goin' on?

So, yeah. Haven't updated in w while. This is because, as anyone who knows me should know (and that should be you if you're reading this) my life just isn't that interesting.

I have spent the weekend at a friend's house who lives an hour away, which I didn't erally get until we were in teh car so I ended up staying three days when I thought it would be just one. Oooops. While I was there, I learned three things: 1. Never have pets. 2. Never have children. 3. Never get married. With these three maxums well in mind, I shall continue through life!

Acting class today was... how do I describe it... oh hell, freaking weird.

We're all doing monologues, right? I think I have mentioned this a time or two. Well, now we're doing an excersise with them called Nwe York New York. Where, basically, people are milling around and you're doing your monologue, and you have to engage somebody's attention without MAKING them pay attention. YOur responsibility as a miller is to walk away as soon as you don't feel like it's genuine.

I am a bit of a prrfectionist. No, really--it's true. Anyway, so my problem--which the acting teacher saw through right away, was that I was paying more attention to impressing the class by showing off that I had my lines memorized than actually, uh, delivering a good performance. So after that, usually they run teh gauntlet--where you are supposed to run around the room ten times and then deliver your monologue while you're copletely out of breath and winded from the running. This, obviously, would in my case leed to the type of hilarity that is only amusing to watch if the characters are drawn. Or are Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, or Michael Moore. Anyway, so they did a different excersise with me called Prison Guard. In this case, I startd off at one end of hte room and was being dragged to the other side of the room by two of the students, where I would be burnd/drowned/hung/something stereotypically bad. My job was to deliver such a stirring performance with a monologue that they had to stop and listen. (by which I mean the teacher would stop them to listen.)

...It was... strange.

I'm trying to figure out just how to describe it, because it's still a haze to me. After it was done the teacher said that whenever I started getting an upper hand I would relax and start to mess it up again, but I think really it was more a combination of me being confused as to what was going on at a few points and the fact that I was so distracted and out of my ellement I would forget huge swathes of my lines (which was the point). That being said though, I am not what my lit teacher would call an unbiased narator, so take that at face value. It was very fun, anyway, and I got a hug afterwards. :P

After that I went to lit class and um... didn't talk very much about Raymund Carver. Now i've got hoework piling up and that idiotic music class to go to in a few hours, so I will be off. Chao!

08:02 pm: The lonesome cry of the Sony fanboy...
"I don't care if PS3 doesn't have games for it in ten years. It's the only next-gen console not for fucking faggots."
--James Bernoski.

Thanks for that, Worm. Your maniacle, frothing-at-the-mouth unthinking fanatisism will ensure that the PS3 will be an underproduced un-motivated pile of shit that will be the only thing you'll ever buy in ten years even though by that time we'll have figured out how to throw much better hardware into SPACE by then. You're like a pathetic little girl with pom-poms screaming "So-ny!" You make me sick.

10:37 pm: Waaaah!
Today was a lot of the same yesterday except for two things.

1: I had three classes to deal with instead of 1, plus an online quiz.

2: my dad, as has been docuented in a previous journal entry which has subsequently been deleted, snors like a god damned muel. As a result of that, plus my new radio, and cable tV, and the afore-mentioned hitchhiker's guide DVD... I only got oh, two and a half hours sleep last night.

So I got up and we went to an IHOP. I had a stack of five chocolate chip pancakes, and hash browns with chese and unions, nnd bacon... which is currently sitting in my fridge because by the time I left i ofmgwtf AUUUUUUUU. After that I went to my acting classs and read off my monoluge from Jack and Jill--I dont' mean to brag or anything, but it was plain that I really took the whole room by surprise with my 110% intensity. Finally! I've been waiting for that chance now for almost three weeks. Bah. Anyways, so after that I talked too much at lit, and slept not enough at (bleuuuugh) music class. Then I spent a stupid amount of time messing with my GPS, getting more "points of interest" in ther eso that now I can't walk anywhere without there being 30 or more of them within a quarter of a mile, breaking my flash card, and bying a512-MB thumbdrive for $30. Anyway, now dad's gone on, and I'm left to... uh...

09:30 pm: Weeee!
Had acting again today... nothing much happened, really. One thing I Thought was neat though was that she had us explain three things about hur characters in our monologues to the person oposite us, and then had each of us take turns explaining what our characters were like. It was weird because the latter one was really a lot deeper than teh first one. ANother brain-bug-y thing weddid was near the end of class: we "stood" dignified, "felt" sexy, and "counted" some weird thing... the point of which was that we were more interesteing to watch counting something than we were teh either other two ones because that was more real. On a lighter note, my response to feeling sexy was to just stand how Inormally do; "Hey, I feel sexy all the time!"

After that I ran around town with dad, getting a new bank account set up and buying more crap--most of which is boring, but now I have some crackers, and cookies, and, oh yeah, a fridge. W00+. And an inflatable matress, but none of you care about that. Well, none of you give a damn about any of this so I don't konw why I bother, but, whatever. So ah. GOt my TV up here so now I have cable. Once again--W00+. I still need to ask about getting another chair into this room, though. That and getting my ethernet jack activated. Even cooler is that along with the cookies (given to me by my dad's girlfriend--along with Magnolia, Some Kind of Monster, my very first Metallica album (the S&M disc, which is also my favorit one ever--it got stolen by Nate-Chan, but it's the principle, dammit), the Breakfast Club, the Evanescence concert set, Chasing Amy, Spiderman I (collector's) and II...) I got the Hitchhiker's Guide movie DVD. Up yours, biotches. ...Seriously, my dad's girlfriend is like, teh absolute coolest person ever. She makes me feel bad just by existing because she gives me so much crap for like no reason at all. It's absolutely insane. Oh, one more thing--I've gotten ahold of one song by Placebo. I think I like 'em.

09:58 pm: go GO GOGO!
Woooo things are getting insanely busy. Okay, so, my dad's coming up to visit for hte next couple of days--so I'm getting all my stuff done early. So I jsut spent hours reviewing one chapter and reading through a whole second one, trying to get Access Bridge installed even though it seems to hate me and won't download,so that I can chat with my discussion group, writing two or three opinion papers... and I haven't even done my lit class stuff yet. >_< Other than that, hmm...

Acting was a lot of fun today, despite the fact taht I was a tad late--again, GRR. We did a fun little improv game today where we both picked up a random object from a grab-bag, were instructed to go to a specific part of hte stage (it was up to us to figure out what up-stage left was, which was the point of hte excersise) and then try and use that part of the stage to sell it. I got a smallish box that was taped shut and was too heavy to be just empty; before me had been a small box and a snow globe. "Hi!" I said in my best mock hustler voice (which is really funny, no really, it is, just trust meon this one guys) "I know you've all hread of the big snowglobe and the little box, but have any of you ever considered the possibilities in... the medium-sized box?!? It's got all the benefits of the small and large box put together! Where you can store anything inside it that's not big! Or small! By it today for $19.99, plus $386473965.35 for postage and packing, since we get these boxes all the way from Alpha Centori!" Later I reflected it would have been more amusing if I had expounded on teh aesthetic beauty of having abox full of things you can't identify as it's taped shut, but alass I did not think of it in time. Ah well, it was a lot of fun to do and watch, anyway.

Lit was pretty cool too, we talked a lot about Earnest Hemingway's _Soldier's Home_ and Faith somebody's something linking the assassination of archduke Frank Ferdinan to her lovelife. Erm.

Music was... errr... music class. Not much I can say about that. More of hte same, really, althoug hnow I have tactile pictures of variosu notes on the musical staff--so I won't fail my class after all! Ex-celleeent!

Yup... thatt'll about do it for this update. Stay tuned, folks! Or not, who am i kidding. You probably just got this page from doing a google search on "aesthetic dad Sentorai soldier." You suck. Idiot.

09:18 pm: Blah.
Today was... annoying.

Got up at 11:00 in teh morning for my class at 11:30, spent 35 minutes struggling with my printer to print a monologue for it (becasue if I know myself I konw that I will forget a solitary piece of paper with ridiculous ease if I do not have it in my hands at all times) and had to wait another ten minutes waiting for hte bus that took another five to get to the building and then spent another two getting to class. Aiiiaugh. Anyway, fortuantely I didn't seem to miss much, except I need to put a HEADER ON IT. FOrtunately I don't appear to be the only person who made that blunderbus of a [Dick Gebheart] miserable failure [/Dick Gebheart] so I can at least wollow in misery with other people for a while. After that I went back to my dorm, deleted the hundred or so messages I'd gotten since my subscription to the Braille Note user list (many of which were quite foolish), then got wasted.

Actually, I lie.

I did, however, hang around the proximity of people who were getting wasted, at which point I sat through blah blah goes to White Castle (horrible), sat around watching That '70's Show for an hour waiting for food to arive (I had two boxes of fries, yippee) and got taken back in teh middle of Titanic (also awful), fifteen inutes too early to catch teh dessert menu opening up in teh cafeteria. Now I've got to delete more eail, troll these morons some more, check out this very distrubing "rent my daughter" website, eat somegoddamned food and, oh yeah, read a short story for English class tomorrow.

12:31 am: Maybe it's time for an upgrade?
http://phonearena.com/htmls/compare2.php?compare%5B%5D=1232&compare%5B%5D=692

Son of a bitch, I'm already obscolescent. I--I oculd have been with ACS! I could have bypassed Celular fucking One entirely! NOOOOOO!

07:38 pm: And annnOTHA thing!
I now have sSkype Any readers of this, my name on there is AllenMockery. Please do that thing where you do the clickity clack of hte keys and the adding of the names, if'n it please you.

07:24 pm: My motivation to troll the SOADfans.net message boards
Good evening, fellow viewers. As a few of you might have started to notice by now, I am a bastard. I am not an asshole--I am a bastard. There's a difference.

About a week ago, I was looking around the SOADfans.net website scoring some System of a Down concert downloads and things when I saw this thread about a newspaper article. In that newspaper article, this very annoying dad made an extremely scathing review of "bonding the musical gaps" between father and son. I won't go into the details here except that he has this truly astonishing disdain for basically every kind of music that has been made ever since 1980, and by astonishing, I mean very disappointing coming from the context that the type of music this guy liked as a kid was, wait for it, Hendrics and the Stones. I mean... the dude could not have gone to one of those concert without being stoned off his ass, and here he is refering to SOAD fans--as a whole--as "drugged-up greasers of the worst kind." Which, yaknow, is really selling druggies' propencity for badness short in my opinion. So this was a very stupid and very ill-informed and very insulting and above all else very snooty gods-damned newspaper article. We can agree, on that.

However, the reaction of the people reading was... slightly unbalanced. They started writing letters to the editor, that no one could take seriously, and I know that at least one of them wanted to get the guy fired. I mean, we've all entertained notions of doing that but--come on. Really. We don't want that. So I attempted, in my usual way, to correct the error of their ways...

Well, it didn't work out too well. The thing about SOAD fans is that, well, a lot of them are drugged-up greasers of the worst kind. Yes, I said it you giant baskets of inflated self-worth, anyone who's going to use "yo" and refer to someone as "da shit" on the fucking internet with no trace of sarcasm is a sad, sad man, and deserves to be lambasted... everywhere, really.

But that night was the night I read about all this crazy shit going down in New Orleans, and I thought jesus, while I'm having a stupid mudslinging contest on an internet message board, people are getting raped and murdered on a horrifying scale, right in my own country. So after that I really didn't have the haart to continue. (I did, however, ban myself from Game FAQs, a deliberate choice I have yet to start regretting in any form whatsoever.)

SO, that was the end of it. Hey, I've got a life. No, really--I do. Anyway, so I just hadn't really gotten the impatous to go back... until, I had this charming little conversation with one of the people I was yelling at, who has inexplicably decided to add himself to my AIM and MSN, and then not talk to me.

It's really quite endearing and delightful... well... let me read it for you!

*** Begin session

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:15:07 [Drew, the Silver Stud] ...Which one are you?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:15:30 [Eli] your fuckin dad that who

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:17:26 [Drew, the Silver Stud] O... kay.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:17:52 [Drew, the Silver Stud] You owe me $150000 in backed up child support payments. Cough up, bitch.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:18:36 [Eli] haha your a bastard maybe thats why your such a dick

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:19:51 [Drew, the Silver Stud] ctually, my problem is that I suffer from too-many-dads-itous.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 05:22:50 [Drew, the Silver Stud] So anyway, was there any particular reason why you added me other than to cuss me out at random moments?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:56:19 [Eli] pretty much

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:56:35 [Eli] i really dont like your atitude for the other soad fans

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:57:04 [Drew, the Silver Stud] What's wrong wit hit?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:57:40 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I didn't like what they were doing, and said so.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:57:50 [Eli] just please dont have rude comments against the others, i will not bother u if u complie

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:58:24 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I'm not the one who said I went down on horse cock or whatever those foolish insults were taht I've already forgotten becasue they were stupid.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:59:09 [Eli] because u pissed me off going against the others who didnt do or say anything wrong

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:59:37 [Eli] yea what i said was dumb but u 'started it'

Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:59:41 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I don't really think I could have said what I said any other way. I thought that what they were doing was wrong, and it was giving fans of SOAD a bad name becasue they were trying to do it in teh name of SOAD or some similar foolishness.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:00:02 [Drew, the Silver Stud] WHich poster were you?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:00:06 [Eli] it was not stupid

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:00:47 [Eli] it is the rights of united states to have activism

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:00:58 [Eli] of united states people*

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:01:09 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Half of them wanted to get the guy fired for daring to write something they disagree with, and the other half wanted to talk to the author but couldn't so they were settling for talking to the editor, which is... pointless.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:02:01 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Just becasue you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:02:19 [Eli] not really, letting someone know of this is not pointless, and most of the people u had rude comments about didnt say anything wrong

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:02:41 [Eli] o you really know soad dont u

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:02:55 [Eli] they encourage stuff like that

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:03:17 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Letting them know what "I was insulted"? I mean, pretend you're the editor and you receive an email from someone saying that they didn't like being slagged in an article someone else posted. What can you do about it?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:03:48 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Encourage what? Trying to get people fired because they wrote an opinion? I dont' think so.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:03:54 [Eli] what ever just dont go against inocent people who should be your friends

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:04:08 [Eli] they encourage ACTIVISM

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:04:23 [Eli] serj has a fukin activism organization

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:04:50 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I think eh people I was rudist to were the ones that weren't even saying anything. I mean, really--if oyu're going to take the time to post on a message board you could at least make it worth something. I get annoyed really badly when people do that.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:05:20 [Drew, the Silver Stud] They encourage acvtivism. Not random activism.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:05:36 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Crap like that is what gives activism a bad name. Hair-trigger activism.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:05:41 [Eli] what ever, just keep your opinions to yourself that u so want others to do

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:06:04 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I never said they should keep their opinions to themselves. I don't want that.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:06:38 [Drew, the Silver Stud] In fact, I was actively encouraging people send in stuff to be included in the "letters to the editor" collumn of the newspaper.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:06:38 [Eli] everyone there is gonna be people with opinions like that so why fight it

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:07:04 [Eli] i get pissed off with people think they are btter than everyone else

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:07:12 [Drew, the Silver Stud] That's the logical way to do that. That's why they have letters to the editor, so that the public can speak regarding stuff they're read and have it given equal space on the page.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:07:40 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Because it's what I do. When someone's doing something dumb I feel the need to point it out.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:07:59 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Especially when it has the possibility of reflecting badly on me.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:07:59 [Eli] well your just a asshole i get it

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:08:13 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Am I the biggest asshole?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:08:25 [Eli] yes u are

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:08:30 [Eli] i was an asshole to u

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:08:44 [Eli] u were being one to a group of people

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:09:52 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I'll kill your rock 'n roll.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:10:02 [Eli] huh huh

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:10:42 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Well, it's kind of hard to say "you're acting like idiots" any other way than "you're acting like idiots."

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:11:06 [Eli] fuck of

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:11:06 [Eli] f

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:11:20 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Hey, I'm trying to be civil here.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:11:31 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I've been extraordinarily civil, I feel, thorughout htis entire conversation.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:12:10 [Eli] what eevr i dont feel like discussing it anymore

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:12:49 [Drew, the Silver Stud] For the record, I stopped posting in that thread becasue I read news of what was going on in New Orleans, and I felt like crap for carrying on like that while people were shooting each other in one corner of my own country, so I just let it slide there.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:12:58 [Drew, the Silver Stud] ...So you tell me to fuck off?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:13:15 [Drew, the Silver Stud] That's not very polite of you. And after you've been telling me to be nicer, too.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:13:23 [Eli] thats right FUCK OFF

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:13:39 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Way to be hipocritical.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:14:09 [Eli] guess so

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:14:10 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I'm just starting to think you might have half a brain and then you pull this garbage. "fuck off" indeed.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:14:33 [Eli] dude go away

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:14:40 [Eli] i have the last word

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:14:52 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I mean, if you can't even take the effort to be nice to someone while you're telling that person to be nice, what's the bloody point?

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:15:08 [Drew, the Silver Stud] "Fucking cockwipe--you need to be nicer! Fucknugget!"

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:15:23 [Drew, the Silver Stud] That doesn't really work, erm, everywhere.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:15:30 [Eli] ooooooooooo i a fuck nugget

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:15:52 [Drew, the Silver Stud] Er, no, I wasn't talking to you, I was ipersonating you.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:17:01 [Drew, the Silver Stud] In fact, thanks to this conversation, I've decided to be a more frequent poster on the boards.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:17:19 [Drew, the Silver Stud] I could have gone the rest of my life withotu ever coming back, too.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:17:45 [Drew, the Silver Stud] But nope, now you'll jsut have to deal with me being smarter than you at you. GG.

Saturday, 10 September 2005 07:18:52 [Eli] has changed his(her) status to Offline

*** End session

The only thing I can add to that that I haven't already said, is that the dude is still signed into AIM.

07:58 pm: So... hi.
I was going to update yesterday, but I didn't. I was going to update two days ago, but, I didn't. SO, I'm updating today. Hooah.

Wednesday--the only class I had was acting. W00+. I got totally psyched up to do my monologue, then got told we were doing it the next day. Said next day we uh... sat around on mats and talked about our monologue selections. Uh, I don't mean to be a heel here, but it's two weeks into the college semester... aren't we going to, uh, act at some point?

The other classes are really boring; lit is lit and plain, and the music class is continuing to suck all that is ass. On the other hand, I've got a note-taker who recognizes just as much as I do--the result being that she turned me into the jackass sniggering to his buddy in the back.

Two days ago, I ran into Jamie. So, apparently, this totally awesome ch1ck was living in my town and knew me in Elementary school who's frends with Erin and Megan and NO ONE TOLD ME! God, you people, what the hell is wrong with you? Megan, I'm looking at you. Hmmhm? You reading this? YOU SUCK. I HATE YOU. And call me tonight, you sexy you. 738-2492 Yeah, that's right all you bastards, you call me too. I'm desperate for love! ...ANyway. So anyway, she'd apparently been looking for me--yes, ME--ever since she got to campus, and just ran into me this Wednesday. This confuses me. See, I am, yes, a most itroverted person. I go to classes, and I go to dinner. On very very occasion, I got oo (gasp) lunch. Then I spend the rest of my time held up in my room, starting fights on message boards and chatting on instant messenger with various internet celebrities--or, at least, as close to celebrities as I consider getting. Anyway, so I don't make many campus appearances. However... well... every one I make is... kind of hard to miss. First of all: I'm blind. That alone makes me stick out. I have weird eyes and a big stick. That makes me stick out like a thumb with a bleeding papercut right off the bat. But it's not as though I go to any lengths to hide or anything. Far from it--everywhere I go I'm drumming, singing, quoting lines from Red VS. Buue to myself and generally making all the heads turn and the ladies swoon and yadda yadda yadda. Really, it would be hard for me to draw any more attention to myself without compellign someone to call the police. So how she could spend a week and a half looking for e and not having even the vaguest idea of where to find me until she plopped right down next to me is... well, it's somewhat bizzarre. But I digress, as I often do.

Today was spent, uh, going to the arts building prepared to murder a druset, only to be told that I'm not allowed to use it unless I'm taking drum lessons, and failing to go to a meeting of Theater on the Rocks because I couldn't find the green room and instead... Hanging around in teh lobby, and being accosted by a small child. At which point I said cheerfully, "I hate small children!" loudly. In front of hte small child's mother. And then left, whistling.

Then I went and, uh, looked for more mischief to start.

Eh, it wasn't a total loss; I did spend a couple hours playing the entirity of System ofa Down's _Mezmerize_ on the piano. That was seriously too much fun.