Life, the universe, and everything

Moderation

2010-06-13T01:56:00.003-05:00

Everything needs to be done in moderation. Work? Yep. Sleep? Yep. Fun? Yep. If you overdo one, the others end up starved for time, your life falls out of balance, and it gets a lot less fun. The key is to enforce this balance no matter what.

Curious

2010-01-26T03:04:00.002-06:00

It's curious, sometimes, to be on the other end of situations which one's been in before, but always on one side. It's slightly discomforting, but wildly eye-opening, like seeing the Milky Way for the first time, and realizing that all your previous viewpoints were not just incorrect, but in fact completely irrelevant on the global scale of things. Some situations commonly seem simple and easy, but being in one on the other side really opens eyes, though not always in a cheerful way..

Poem

2009-10-25T22:11:00.002-05:00

I arrived here last summer
For a job and a new life.
But of course there was one bummer:
Lonelyness hit like a knife.

Work was good, the weather - awesome;
But of course one problem stayed.
I still lacked a girl (a tossum).
Sadness on my shoulders weighed...

I set out to go and find her -
I would not just sit and wait.
But I found no one to match me
such, perhaps, was will of fate?

Over time my hope grew dimmer -
Afterall, I'm just a man.
Still I look for just a glimmer
Of who reignite my passion can.

Years it's been since my search started.
To the day I see no end.
I have grown quite fainthearted.
Who could broken heart such mend?

"Optimism," my friends still tell me,
Is the key to happy life.
But who can be optimistic
Living in a state of strife?

I dont know this story's ending
Though I wish I had a clue.
One could say it is still pending
Now I wait here, just for you...

Changes

2009-08-19T18:47:00.002-05:00

Sometimes it's hard to believe that some of the posts on this blog as late as last year were written by me. There are many things said there that I would not say today, and many left out that I would. I always thought I would not change, and try to stay the same, but, saddening as it is, I changed a lot over the last year and a half. Life outside of college takes its tool I guess. On the positive side, life is great, and fun!

Current song stuck in my head: The part at 2:29 of Czardas by V. Monti [DO NOT click the link - the song WILL get stuck in your head].

Possibilities

2009-08-19T01:43:00.001-05:00

Everything is possible if one really wants it. My goal this week is to prove that. I shall...

2009-05-31T05:24:00.002-05:00

Just saw breakfast club for the first time.
Brought back sad memories form HS and college.
Damn, I feel old :-(

Need to do something stupid or irresponsible tomorrow - just to remind myself i'm not 30!

Curiocity

2009-05-27T03:12:00.002-05:00

I wonder how much cheesecake one can eat in a day? How much is too much? How much is unhealthy? :)

Time

2009-04-16T16:39:00.002-05:00

Been a while since I had posted here, but after rereading some of the older articles I see the usefulness of this, at least to myself. It's a very nice log of the changes to my ideologies and through processes over these few years. Some of the things I read on here I barely believe I could have written. It is amazing just how much I have changed, even though all this time I thought I was pretty constant.

Life is going on. I'm steadily approaching the 1-year mark of working here at VMware and it's not too bad. I visit my [former] university often, to hang out with friends, and I am very sad that after this semester this will no longer be possible, mostly due to the fact that they are all graduating soon. Most are moving to Chicago, but some to other states, and even countries.

Overall life is not too bad. Looking forward to this weekend...for 1700 bucks for the ticket, UIUC better be fun!

Hm

2008-09-28T02:23:00.001-05:00

I wonder why i have a weakness for Russian girls. Probably because they are the only kind of girls who are both exceptionally smart and stunningly beautiful. Pity there are so few of them around here :-(

Thoughts

2008-07-07T03:45:00.003-05:00

I am not happy. This is a realization that has hit me a few days ago. I miss college. The way things were: he way I could just walk a block and be at a bar full of people my age. The way I could walk a few blocks and be at a friend's house for some coffee. The way how the first thing you do when waking up on a Saturday morning it to say hi to the girl sleeping next to you and attempt to remember her name. The way you always swore off drinking, and yet ended up in the bar the very next night. They way you'd go singing through the streets with your friends, and be drunk enough to find the USSR Anthem an acceptable song to sing aloud at 3 AM. The way that if you were depressed, you could call one of many friends who lived nearby, and go for a jog, or have some tea, or just sit and talk about life.

I had a job offer, that would have allowed me to stay on campus, work in Champaign, and enjoy all these benefits of college life. I made the right choice my instead taking a job in California. The correctness of this choice will become apparent in two or three years, but until then I am doomed to spend nights like this one unable to sleep, reminiscing, and being sad.

You know that guy at the bar? The thirty-something-year-old guy who is clearly not a college student, but still hangs out at the bar. The one who everyone thinks is creepy, and nobody knows why he does it. I think that now I get him. These three years of college have been amazing, and now that I am done with them, I just do not know what to do, and where to turn for excitement and happiness. After all the crazy nights at the bar, all the crazy parties, and even the nights spent studying useless facts life seems dull. Adults (as I guess I get to be called now, that I am no longer in college) do not go drinking randomly every weekend, and do not get drunk, do not sing aloud outside, and rarely wake up in other people's beds.

I do not know how I shall get used to this new dull life, and so far I am quite lost as to what is so fun and exciting about it. But now, more than ever, I understand what every college kid has heard everyone tell them: "college years are the best of your life." I want all that back. I want to go out drinking randomly, I want to live within walking distance of all my friends, I want to go back to college!

2008-04-25T17:36:00.004-05:00

Life always has ways of doing something unexpected. Just when you think you have it all figured out and are ready to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labour, something new pops up. Again you are busy taking care of it, hoping that in the end it will pay off and you will be able to rest. Of course this reset never comes.

Well, my life is like so, as well. i finally announced my resignation of new PalmOS development. it was very fun, but I just have no time for it now, and I have no idea if I will later on. The only thing I hate more than no free time is disappointing those hundreds of people who impatiently await my next product release. I guess i'll still develop in free time, but probably not as busily.

My classwork is going terrible. One me and a lot of work! Well, on the positive side, there are 3 days of school left, and after that finals. When that is done all that is left is the sunny skies of northern California, a pool and relaxation. I can barely wait.

On a personal front, well a lot of stuff is changing, as always. There are never any constants, and i guess that in itself is a constant of sorts.

It is very exciting, though that even though I am leaving this place, many people will come to visit me. I'd hate to have to start all over yet again in another place, and I'm glad I will not have to.

Well, this note is mostly just for me. I lately found myself reading this blog's older entries, and wondering just how differently I thought back then. So I decided to keep updating it, so that in 3 years i may read this, and realize how much I have changed and how idealistic and naive i was, much like what i think now while reading the old entries.

2007-12-31T19:42:00.000-06:00

Hope lives on...

2007-09-01T23:38:00.001-05:00

A bucket of whisky. :-)

2007-09-01T23:20:00.000-05:00

Two parties and two frats later: szymon's long black took

wow

2007-07-27T17:57:00.000-05:00

I want a girl, who's this smart:

Seen this so many times:

It's been a while

2007-06-22T00:35:00.000-05:00

So it's been a while since i bothered to write here. I am now in California and working at VMWare. School starts on the 22nd of august, and I have a trip to Toronto to hang out with the 'rents and Dudorovs. After that, off to Chicago to see friends. Then back here till the 10th of August. Apartment rent starts August 16th, and i plan to be there by then.

-
D.

protest...

2007-05-02T00:15:00.001-05:00

2007-04-30T17:48:00.000-05:00

See, in other countries, being intelligent isn't a big turn-off to women, in fact, they're actually are attracted to intelligent men because they want to be with someone who can provide for them with a good career.

American women, are turned on by tattooed, motorcycle-riding men with shaved heads who don't work and physically abuse them. America in general is extremely anti-intellectual. Notice our preoccupation with "sports" like professional wrestling, and with Creationism.

-Grishnakh

2007-04-15T10:34:00.001-05:00

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

-Grishnakh

2007-04-14T11:00:00.000-05:00

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

- Ernest Hemingway

2007-04-02T22:44:00.001-05:00

"To summarize, the people who want to lead the government, are, by virtue of wanting to lead, the least qualified to do so. To summarize the summary: people are a problem."

-Douglas Adams

quotd again

2007-03-30T10:03:00.000-05:00

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor

Santa....

2007-03-27T13:36:00.000-05:00

It is no wonder that Santa is always so jolly...he knows where all the naughty girls live.

Mac ad spoof: Linux

2007-03-24T03:00:00.000-05:00

Click the links to view:

#1
#2
#3

quote of the day

2007-03-23T22:50:00.000-05:00

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

Positiff

2007-03-22T00:00:00.000-05:00

Statement: The greatest barrier to creativity is a lack of boundaries
Proof: Pushing the envelope is really what creativity is all about, or at least it's a driving force for many people. No boundaries means no envelope, no envelope means lack of purpose.

2007-03-14T00:04:00.001-05:00

Stupid people elect government that will protect them from being stupid.

Smart people are too few to make a difference in elections and in most cases have figured out that fighting all this is a waste of their time when they could be making money somewhere and ignoring the whole problem.

2007-03-01T11:44:00.001-06:00

Председатель:   - Любовь - это болезнь, потому что требует постельного режима.

Врач:           - Какая же это болезнь, затрачивается столько энергии!
                 Это работа !

Инженер:        - Какая же это работа, если самый важный член стоит ?
                 Это процесс !

Адвокат:        - Какой же процесс, если один делает, а другой берет ?
                 Это взятка !

Коммерсант:     - Какая же это взятка, если оба удовлетворены  ?
                 Это искусство.

Артист:         - Какое же это искусство, если нет зрителей ? Это наука.

Профессор:      - Какая же это наука, если самый плохой студент может,
                 а я нет ? Это сделка.

Еврей:          - Вы меня извините, но какая же это сделка, если вкладываешь
                 больше, а вынимаешь  меньше ? Это убыток.

2007-02-24T02:47:00.001-06:00

"Just because it tastes bad does not mean i will not put it in my mouth" -Tracy

2007-02-24T01:46:00.001-06:00

"ow, it's in my eye!" -Tracy

2007-02-16T10:26:00.001-06:00

"No matter how much, too much is never enough!"

2007-02-10T02:28:00.001-06:00

Get euro trashed party volume three :-)

2007-02-10T02:26:00.001-06:00

Euro trashed volume three :-)

2007-02-09T22:36:00.001-06:00

Szymon with glowsticks

Amazing song...

2007-02-05T13:11:00.001-06:00

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth. But trust me on the sunscreen…

A throught-provoking take

2007-01-30T15:22:00.001-06:00

In Tennessee, a guy sees a sign in front of a house: "Talking Dog for Sale."

He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a black mutt just sitting there.
"You talk?" he asks.

"Yep," the mutt replies.

"So, what's your story?"

The mutt looks up and says, "Well, I discovered this gift pretty young and I wanted to help the government, so I told the
CIA about my gift, and in no time they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies eight years running."

"The jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger and I wanted to settle down. So I
signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security work, mostly wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings there and was awarded a batch of medals. Had a wife, a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired."

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.

The owner says, "Ten dollars."

The guy says, "This dog is amazing. Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?"

The owner replies, "He's such a liar. He didn't do any of that stuff."

Definition of the day

2007-01-26T02:00:00.001-06:00

Amoebit: Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply and divide at the same time.

Yet another quote of the day

2007-01-23T01:45:00.000-06:00

"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

2007-01-21T17:17:00.000-06:00

Foggy

2007-01-21T14:22:00.001-06:00

Snowman (people nearby for size comparaison)

wow, amazing

2007-01-20T02:58:00.001-06:00

well, it IS a new an INNOVATIVE idea...
=> [LINK] <=

quotd #whatevr

2007-01-14T06:30:00.000-06:00

Warning: This device contains matter, which is known by the state of California to cause warpage of space and time.

QOTD 18

2007-01-11T00:52:00.000-06:00

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- H.H. Munro

2007-01-07T03:51:00.000-06:00

Wow, I never realized what a vengeful person I am...
However, some times in life demand it...

look at the hat...

2007-01-01T16:58:00.000-06:00

Joke

2006-12-29T03:44:00.000-06:00

There was a new comedian trying to get into the business. A long time comedian took him aside and told him, "We have a convention every year, that I'd like to take you to. It will help you understand the business."

Great, thought the young comedian.

The convention was at an old abandon theater. Thousands of old comedians were there. Each one would get on stage and simple say a number. Some people in the audience would laugh, others would groan.

"I don't understand, what are they doing?" asked the young comedian.

"Well see," said the old comedian, "every joke that anyone can ever come up with has already been told. We accepted this fact between ourselves years ago, so we've simply numbered them. We each take our turn getting up on stage and simply reciting the number to save time."

Suddenly, the old comedian busted out laughing..

"What's so funny?" asked the young comedian.

"629,876! I love that one!"

So the young comedian steps into the spotlight, thinks of a random number, and slyly intones into the mic: "14925".

He scuttles sideways into the wings, shattered by embarassment. He asks the old comedian "did I pick a loser?"

The old comedian leans over, and whispers out of the side of his mouth "no, Groucho used to kill 'em with that one".

Young comedian: "why'd I bomb?"

Old comedian: "TIMING."

Finally some wiseacre from Hoboken gets his turn on stage.
He looks at the crowd with trepidation, and speaks slowly into the mic, "902,187."

The crowd stares blankly at him, then erupts into riotous laughter.

The young comiedian quizzes his mentor, "what was that about?"

The older comic, wiping a tear from his eye, replied, "We haven't heard that one before!"

Wiki says:

2006-12-29T03:43:00.000-06:00

According to a study by Paul Bell, published in the Mensa Magazine in 2002, there seems to be an inverse correlation between intelligence and religious belief. Analyzing 43 studies carried out since 1927, Bell finds that all but four reported such a connection, concluding that "the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold 'beliefs' of any kind." A survey published in Nature confirms that belief in a personal god or afterlife is at an all time low among the members of the National Academy of Science, only 7.0% of which believed in a personal god as compared to more than 85% of the US general population.

QOTD 17

2006-12-24T02:56:00.000-06:00

So you can't become an expert without experience. However, you can have experience without becoming an expert.

2006-12-17T13:48:00.000-06:00

Haha

Space tourism

2006-12-16T01:09:00.000-06:00

So the FAA posted the requirements for space tourism. The medical requirements are curious - a candidate mus be able to do:

1) 100 push-ups in 3 minutes
2) run 2 miles in 8 minutes
3) low blood pressure
4) BMI in lowest 20% in population
5) level 3 physical fitness test
6) ability to hold breath for 1 minute with minimal blood pressure change
7) minimum 20 minutes average sexual stamina from vaginal penetration to completion

Now please tell me what #7 has to do with anything, unless you're having sex in space

2006-12-13T00:43:00.000-06:00

shark = new Shark();
laser = new Laser();
laser.setType( TypeFactory.createType( "Fricken" ) );
shark.getBodyPArt("head").mount( laser );

2006-12-07T20:50:00.000-06:00

Aaaaaaah!

QOTD 12

2006-11-24T01:24:00.000-06:00

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

strange...

2006-11-20T23:35:00.000-06:00

I eagerly awaited the break as my brain was melting from school. I thought it was just what I needed. I was mostly wrong. All I really needed was a three day weekend. Now I feel ready to finish the semester...

2006-11-05T23:43:00.000-06:00

Жил был один менеджер по продажам. Пошел устраиваться на работу. Долго ли коротко ли резюме рассылал, а как-то пришел в одну контору на собеседование с генеральным директором. И шло у них собеседование шесть часов. Уже и директор взмок, и менеджер три раза воды просил. А все никак не могут договориться. Начинали с двухсот баксов в месяц - а уже за два с половиной килобакса спорят, и проценты, и бонусы, и какие-то еще там спортзалы, мобильные связи, обеды, подъемные, страховки, отпуск, командировочные, машину служебную, ноутбук, кучу всякого менеджер себе выбил.
Сдался в итоге генеральный директор, все условия выполнил. Все, что менеджер просил - дал.
Приступил менеджер к работе, и за первый месяц увеличил продажи втрое, потом вдесятеро, потом в сто раз, потом вообще все в конторе продал, включая мебель, канцтовары, секретаршу - мужикам в баню, базу данных клиентов - конкурентам, а самого шефа - налоговой.
Потому что это был сцуко очень хороший менеджер по продажам...

Math jokes

2006-11-04T15:59:00.000-06:00

The quote board, again

2006-11-01T02:48:00.000-06:00

A direct quote from Liya

2006-10-28T17:03:00.000-05:00

Where's my life going? I have no idea. A month ago I would have given an answer to that question without even thinking, now I am not so sure. Things are not the same. Somehow something is different. I cannot identify it yet, but something is just not right with my life right now. Surely I have nothing to complain about, I have anything I could possibly want. That, however, is part of the problem. What's the fun in getting things to go your way, if it is so simple? What can one do to make life meaningful?

quotd 14

2006-10-26T00:23:00.000-05:00

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

What CS421 does to people

2006-10-23T21:40:00.000-05:00

This is what CS421 does to people:
Igor: "How the fuck do you accumulate type constraints?"
Me "Oh c'mon, haven't you ever accumulated type constraints before?"

2006-10-23T14:49:00.000-05:00

Cool

2006-10-23T00:40:00.000-05:00

Nice homework, huh...?

2006-10-22T05:26:00.000-05:00

hehe

2006-10-17T02:10:00.000-05:00

Remember: There are only two tools in life. WD-40, for when something doesn't move, and should, and Duct Tape, for when something is moving and it shouldn't.

2006-10-16T21:59:00.000-05:00

This WAS a modem...before Aleks microwaved it

Bartenders

2006-10-16T16:21:00.000-05:00

By request a slight modification from the last one(i like this one better yet):

:-)

2006-10-14T04:18:00.000-05:00

"V chicago do huya huyni" -(c) max bobrovsky

:-)

2006-10-09T17:03:00.000-05:00

There are only two things in this world that I am sure of, death and taxes, and we just might do something about death one of these days.

2006-10-09T02:07:00.000-05:00

Top is what i wrote. Bottom is what someone wrote in response.

2006-10-08T14:28:00.000-05:00

Bella...

QOTD 11

2006-10-07T22:15:00.000-05:00

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

!!!

2006-10-06T00:24:00.000-05:00

Party pics

2006-10-06T00:23:00.000-05:00

:-)

Did you smile today?

2006-10-05T01:52:00.000-05:00

It says "Did you smile today?"

2006-10-03T13:54:00.000-05:00

Nice grading huh...?

2006-10-02T12:43:00.000-05:00

Protest of teachers in front of the alma mater.

2006-09-30T17:20:00.000-05:00

"Our experiment used the carrier suppressed return-to-zero differential quadrature phase shift keying (CSRZ-DQPSK)*1 format and ultra-wide-bandwidth amplifiers."
-NTT

2006-09-23T21:57:00.000-05:00

Someone left me an interesting note on the white board on my door. :-) THe quote above the line is mine, but everything below the line is not.

2006-09-21T15:17:00.000-05:00

Easy math. Hehe...

2006-09-19T16:00:00.000-05:00

The line to 'chipotle'. Wow

2006-09-17T02:04:00.000-05:00

This is the resataurant on top of the tallest building in Bangkok (and in fact the highest restaurant in the world). Seems nice. I wonder what dinner at such a place costs?

2006-09-13T11:52:00.000-05:00

do you really?

2006-09-10T21:18:00.000-05:00

"Lighten up" is the asshole's excuse for being an asshole

2006-09-10T01:03:00.000-05:00

The table, as it is now. And yes that IS the chem i should be doing right now lying there...

2006-09-09T20:53:00.000-05:00

"Uronili vodku na pol, otorvalili mishe ruki" -Daniel

2006-09-09T20:43:00.000-05:00

Pizdatiy tort

2006-09-07T23:44:00.000-05:00

Domino pyramid.

Only time...

2006-09-07T20:35:00.000-05:00

Who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?... only time
And who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?... only time

Who can say why your heart sighs,
As your live flies?... only time
And who can say why your heart cries
when your love lies?... only time

Who can say when the roads meet,
That love might be?... in your heart
and who can say when the day sleeps,
and the night keeps all your heart?
Night keeps all your heart.....

Who can say if your love growes,
As your heart chose?... only time
And who can say where the road goes
Where the day flows?... only time

Who knows? Only time
Who knows? Only time

QOTD 10

2006-09-03T11:36:00.000-05:00

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

QOTD 9

2006-08-31T20:40:00.000-05:00

"The best years of your life are like ... so not the best..." -Tanya

Political thought

2006-08-30T07:41:00.000-05:00

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

idea

2006-08-29T02:22:00.000-05:00

When the weight of the world has got you down,
You don't want to live your life...
Work to do, and smiles to fake, and boredom every night...
Well, don't give up just yet, cause there is hope still left for you,
A hope of smiles and happiness and life....

[...]

2006-08-22T12:47:00.000-05:00

So many people on the quad...

Translation

2006-08-16T16:28:00.000-05:00

Why does "Democracy and Freedom", when translated from political slang to English become "Power and Money"?

hehe

2006-08-16T15:28:00.000-05:00

Committee, n.: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

thought

2006-08-15T16:31:00.000-05:00

What people need to understand is that the current administration is not trying to secure the liberty of their respective countries. They're trying to secure their own power and the power of their paymasters (the big multinational corporations). They're intentionally turning both countries into fascist police states, step by step.

I'd say the U.K. is in the lead on that one, but only by a small margin.

The worst thing about it is that once you lose your liberties in this way, you almost never get them back except through bloody revolution, which is something that can no longer succeed thanks to the technological situation (which concentrates much more killing power in the hands of the government than it did back in the 1700's when most of the democratic revolutions took place). That means the loss is essentially permanent.

Enjoy what freedom you have left. It won't last.

quotd 8

2006-08-15T16:19:00.000-05:00

Any time you disagree with the latest reduction of your civil liberties by government, it must be because you are hiding something. If you disagreed with the tactics of Joe McCarthy, it must have been because you were a pinko. If you don't want your phone calls listened to, you must be a terrorist.

quotd 7

2006-08-14T16:26:00.000-05:00

"Do I use the lips or the toungue?"

-Tanya

quotd 6

2006-08-13T23:33:00.000-05:00

Force has no place where there is need of skill. -- Herodotus

"Life" - a poem of one-word ideas.

2006-08-10T17:20:00.000-05:00

Колыбель. Пеленки. Плач.
Слово. Шаг. Простуда. Врач.
Беготня. Игрушки. Брат.
Двор. Качели. Детский сад.
Школа. Двойка. Тройка. Пять.
Мяч. Подножка. Гипс. Кровать.
Драка. Кровь. Разбитый нос.
Двор. Друзья. Тусовка. Форс.
Институт. Весна. Кусты.
Лето. Сессия. Хвосты.
Пиво. Водка. Джин со льдом.
Кофе. Сессия. Диплом.
Романтизм. Любовь. Звезда.
Руки. Губы. Ночь без сна.
Свадьба. Теща. Тесть. Капкан.Ссора. Клуб. Друзья. Стакан.
Дом. Работа. Дом. Семья.
Солнце. Лето. Снег. Зима.
Сын. Пеленки. Колыбель.
Стресс. Любовница. Постель.
Бизнес. Деньги. План. Аврал.
Телевизор. Сериал.
Дача. Вишни. Кабачки.
Седина. Мигрень. Очки.
Внук. Пеленки. Колыбель.
Стресс. Давление. Постель.
Сердце. Почки. Кости. Врач.
Речи. Гроб. Прощанье. Плач