Yeah. Woudn't it have sucked if it was a black guy.

Another new guy got hired today. The Asian guy population just went up!

2-3 years!? We could all change a lot by then. You might not be able to recognize any of us! Um... Who am I kidding we'll still be in the same condition you left us in. Maybe a little bit fatter, maybe a little bit balder (hopefully just the guys!) but essentially the same.

Jesse, you are going to folk fest, right? i'm feeling rather abandoned, my ff friends didn't get tickets, because they spaced on the fact that passes tend to sell out early on. now, granted, i'm not going to cling to you the whole time, like some annoying parasite, but it'd be nice to know i'll have someone to hang out with.


and... folks, i'm a little (lot) terrified. i'm starting my project this week, heading into the forest to do solely my work, not just "oh, as an afterthought, since we're here already, i'll do some stuff" but full-on "this is me conducting research" aaaaaaaa! so, if i seem out of sorts, if you see me, don't worry, once i stop freaking out, things will get back to normal. so, um, see you all in 2-3 years!

I never felt so fucking old before. Well I am. Gah!

stupid fuckin comic. Last night I had a dream that I was at the exhibition and there was this all-day uno tournament being held there, and it was down to like 6 finalists (they played one-on-one, round-robin style). Two of them were Beck and Leo, and they had already won $250 each for being finalists, but if either one of them got 1st place they'd win something like $250,000 for having the most points. But I was talking to them during an intermission between the final rounds and Beck is like "aw, fuck it. I'm tired. I've been playing uno all day. I'm happy with the $250." And they just left the tournament and I'm like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!???". But apparently (according to them) I "just didn't get it".

usually I don't find penny arcade funny... but I kinda like this one...

It has something to do with the difference between ISO-8859 encoding and UTF-8 encoding. Regular HTML uses one, and Javascript uses another. If you refresh the whole page, the weird script disappears. I tried to fix it earlier, but apparently it didn't work. Perhaps I'll try again later. I consider myself to be rather lazy on that front. (Though, curiously enough, I'm not so lazy on the kill-vs.-catch-and-release-a-bug front.)

FROM VICE MAGAZINE:
EDIT: PARAS LOOKS LIKE YOU GOT SOME SHIT TO FIX - LOOKS LIKE SOME OF THE TEXT THAT I COPIED FROM VICE AND PASTED PASTED TO THE MESSAGE WINDOW IS BEING CONVERTED INTO WEIRDASS SYMBOLS

"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
A public Masturbate-a-thon, the first ever to be held in Europe, takes place in Clerkenwell, London on 5 August 2006. Masturbators ask friends, colleagues and loved ones to sponsor them to raise money for AIDS charities, in order to take part. The amount raised is determined by how many minutes participants take to masturbate and / or the number of orgasms they achieve.  You can also get sponsored simply for having the “courage” to turn up and participate.
Look guys, this kind of shit may wash in San Francisco, but not over here. It’s going to be like the recent Japanese flood that killed 15 people, but a flood made out of un-tested, possibly HIV-ridden semen and vaginal secretions (A.K.A. love juice).
We decided to call up organiser Tony Kerridge to ask WTF he was playing at.
VICE: This is disgusting. Won’t everyone get covered in jizz? Some people can shoot, like, metres. 
Tony: Well the spaces are quite big, so that really shouldn’t happen. It’s something that people have got to be respectful, if you like, of other people’s space. I mean, this is a solo thing. Although there are group rooms, it’s a solo exercise. We’re asking people not to invade other people’s space also and get too close. There will be monitors to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Are people going to be partying and stuff?
No. Safety is our principal concern, so we don’t want people coming in there who have had a drink. It’s not appropriate. We will have private cubicles, but there are also group rooms, men-only space, a women-only space and a mixed space.
Are there any visual aids on offer? 
Yes, we are discussing that at the moment, but yes, certainly there will be.
Great. What will you do with the oceans of left-over jizz cascading all over everybody like the fountain scene in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita? Do people have to clean it up?
No, we’ll dispose of it. We want to keep the areas as hygienic as possible. We’ll produce paper rolls that will be laid out on the couches. Basically, we’ll ask people to respect the fact that other people are using the space as well.
I read that you’re not allowed to fake an orgasm. How can you tell if people do or not?
Erm…it’s difficult; not so difficult with men, but with the ladies, yes it is. We’re using people with medical backgrounds, so I think it will be possible for them to tell. We’re relying on people’s good faith and if someone wants to take part in this, it’s pointless to pretend.
Will you be doing a drugs test? Coke can make you last for days, so that’s cheating.
No, we won’t. It’s not an Olympic sport or governed by that vigorous standards. You know, if somebody’s dropped a Viagra or something like that, then that’s their business. I think the record in the U.S. is something like 6 hours and 32 minutes.
Ok, well is there any chance of getting lucky if we come down?
No, if you try to, we’ll ask you to leave.
See www.masturbate-a-thon.com for more."


Ahhhhhh [INSERT NAME] all that money you spent on going to BurningMan when really your life long ambition could have been met at the 'Thon. shit dog.

Well, that's all there is to buddhism. I think each reader just interprets the writings and figures it out himself. Keep your eye on the broad horizons, no?

As for cosmic relationships, I can't see any. All I know is that the world is full of chaos and misery. People must band together to bring a semblance of consistency in a crumbling world. My only hope in a such a wretched idea is that we can take actions to ensure the survival of humanity until some of us are able to figure a means to end the suffering and introduce the beginning of 'heaven' on earth. Perhaps it is arrogant to believe that it is man who will bring about this change, but that's the picture in my head and I'm stickin' to it.