| Daaaaamn I want this! |
[04 Jun 2009|03:41am] |
Finally, some Alan Wake gameplay! And it looks FUN. And SPOOKY. It looks like all the time spent working on it is paying off!
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| KITTY ACQUIRED |
[19 Apr 2009|07:35pm] |
His name is Finlay. Everybody say hi! :)
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| Ghostwatch |
[16 Apr 2009|07:26am] |
It's in 10 parts, about 90 minutes long. If you haven't seen it or heard anything about it, I don't want to say much, only that actually believing what's happening is secondary to finding this actually kind of terrifying. It's one of those the less you know going in the better situations.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) drinky_lemur and schroedingrscat in particular, I think you two will dig where this goes.
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| A short snippet from a dream, since I should be logging these more often. |
[11 Apr 2009|12:04pm] |
I was lying at the base of a large building, in the driveway, when I heard birdsong from the roof. The birds in question were singing "Stand by Me". I backed off a bit, so that I could see what was going on up there, and on the sloped roof I could see the backs of several dogs, and a few other animals. They'd all turned out to watch this show, you see. I kind of wanted to go up there, but I didn't want to ruin it by having some human being suddenly pop out on the roof, so I decided to join in (badly, but with heart) at the bridge from where I was standing. It would at least be funny.
But no, no sooner had I done singing than I looked back up and the animals had turned into people and were jumping off the roof and leaving all annoyed that I'd ruined their show. It was quite a large building. Imagine industrial silos, top-heavy with lots of concrete and corrugated metal. The ones that jumped were landing perfectly safely, which startled me. I digress, though. Only a few of them were willing to acknowledge me, and it was usually with a snort or "whatever."
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| That UN thing. |
[29 Mar 2009|07:25am] |
So the UN passed a resolution that conflates "defamation of religion" with human rights abuses. This was a specific bid by Islamic countries to curtail Islamophobia (which is abhorrent, I mean I see the demonization of Muslims when I turn on the news, when I sit through movie previews, although I like to TRY to avoid things that are underhandedly racist) but it also seeks to legislate against things like the Danish cartoon fiasco by using really vague language like:
Urges States to take serious steps to address the contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and in this context to take firm action against negative stereotyping of religions and defamation of religious personalities, holy books, scriptures and symbols.
It goes on for a bit about the Palestinians too. Snippets and commentary here. My heart goes out to the poor Palestinians, but they don't need a UN resolution against defamation of religon. It's not the defamation that's killing them, it's explosives and guns. I understand the paranoia, it's more than a little skeevy, and more than a little biased. I mean, there's no mention of Tibet at all in this thing, and you'd think that a defamation of religion resolution would be all over that.
What's more troubling is that there's never going to be any resolution that protects secular people like me because, well, majority rule. Nobody seems to be criticizing this resolution because of its egregious bias toward religious people, instead they're criticizing it because it's vaguely anti-Western, anti-Semitic, hypocritical, an affront to free speech, and everything besides the main crux of the issue that it preferences religious people as needing protection from defamation, while non-religious people get no such protection against defamation of atheism, secular humanism, or any other such thing.
I hope this isn't a general trend for the world.
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| Rood Txen Eob Eht |
[22 Mar 2009|10:36pm] |
If you load a film in backwards, it does this.
Part 2 soon.
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| This is kinda sad. |
[22 Mar 2009|06:47pm] |
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The pastor of church in North Carolina pretends to be an atheist on the internet, saying stuff like...
"What’s wrong with killing babies? I see no problem with it. I have enough mouths to feed. I don’t get the argument and I am an atheist. Since I don’t believe in God, I don’t believe in anything characterized as good, bad / right, wrong. So, what’s the big deal?"
If you read the article, you can also read his apology, which I don't doubt is sincere. But I don't know if he quite got what was WRONG about his caricature, which is something that really bugs me. There's something really dehumanizing about the implication that being an atheist means that we have no sense of morality and are guided by our whims to do horrible things. It's also ignoring the fact that human beings are driven to do horrible things regardless of their beliefs. The Inquisition was horribly unethical, to put it mildly, and so were Stalin and Mao. To think a pastor, of all people, would find this a totally cool and ethical argument tactic to use is pretty twisted. He's in a position of authority and I would expect he'd be setting a good example.
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| More experimentation! |
[18 Mar 2009|01:14am] |
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| Phone possibilities |
[13 Mar 2009|01:46pm] |
So my contract with Telus is about to expire, and we're switching over to Rogers. Ergo I need a new phone.
Now. I have a few desires for what I want in a phone:
- A camera.
- GPS and geotagging.
- Easy and cheap (ideally free) to add 3rd party software.
I use my current phone camera a bunch, but I would use it more if it was more accessible and made it easy to upload said photos rather than keep them lurking around on the memory card.
I would get an iPhone, but I already have an iPod touch and having both would be kind of tacky. Besides, I don't believe that iPhones are the best phones on the market. I'm intrigued by these Android phones but I don't think they can do 3G on Rogers.
Ignoring the Rogers thing for a moment, does anyone have any leads on what might be a good phone to switch to?
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