A blog by Dave, the SFReader webmaster.
They are fighting an ideological battle for each other's soul. They are both two sides of the same coin: Two individuals who, because of a horrible day in their lives, became insane and decided to take on the world and remake it in their image. The joker was a shitty comedian with a pregnant wife, a nice guy. On the day his wife died in a random accident he was bullied by mobsters into committing a crime, fell into a vat of chemicals and ended up alone, in pain, and scarred for life. ...
First, if you think you might kill yourself, read The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus. If you're coming to grips with someone's past affections for someone else (or someone called you a West Briton) read "The Dead", a short story by James Joyce. If you hate your shitty office job and staring at your cube walls make you crazy, read Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris. If you think you're the worst fuck-up in the world read Jernigan by ...
Money equals power and freedom. Be very careful about that for which you trade your freedom and power. I choose not to hand over mine for knick-knacks like an iPhone, Tupperware, gold wedding bands, an electric clothes dryer, matching luggage, designer sunglasses, or chrome wheels. I don't live to have, I live to do. I have never spent $50 on a coffee table book with photos of the Costa Rican cloud forest, but I have been there, carrying my gear in an old ice chest ($3 at Goodwill) ...
Young Tai-Lung. Wants to become Dragon Warrior. Wants the scroll. Why, exactly? Not to be a super villain at first, of course, but because power, and his skill at martial arts, is the only thing that impresses his sensei and surrogate father, Shi Fu. He sees the title and scroll as one of many things that, to phrase it a bit coarsely, will purchase his father's love. The furious passion in his training, his devotion to the skill and craft of it, all as part of the goal of becoming a God in his father's ...
Art, regardless of medium, reframes the context of its message in ways that are uncontrolled. If you want to succeed financially as an artist, look at who succeeds as political opinion and economics writers: those who suck at the teat of various corporate backed think-tanks. Typically, these are right-wing like the Heritage Foundation. There are some left-wing ones out there as well. But the underlying message is: Fall in line politically, and we'll send a revenue stream your way. ...
It's a complete and total lie that storm troopers are inaccurate, and it ignores the relevant details of the events. To prove that they are, in fact, crack shots, watch the opening sequence in A New Hope. Here we have a number of stormtroopers charging into a narrow breach into heavy fire, yet they are able to gun down more rebel soldiers in cover than they take in casualties! This is not amateur night here--this is stone cold killers, destroying their foes mercilessly. They are so ...
[Seems as though the Internet has become]... a constant, daily parade of people trying their hardest to get some kind of validation, some kind of attention. It's pathetic. I've always been suspicious of most people overall but this swarm of people with what appears to be a true hunger for attention and this deep neediness for validation...it should trouble people. But so many relate to it that nobody feels comfortable standing up to call it out. Much less calling it out when it occurs ...
I think that Valve is one of the few entertainment companies that has started to realize that digital distribution demands a complete rethinking of the rules of economics. The issue at hand is, traditional business models are based on some constant rules that simply don't apply when the good being traded is digital. Namely, the laws of supply and demand. A digital good has what is essentially an infinite supply after an initial production cost. And while a content provider can manufacture ...
I could not agree more. There is this weird mentally, especially on circlejerking places like Reddit, that somehow you deserve to have all the things you want. That you deserve that awesome woman or man that you only dare to stare at from a distance. That you deserve the great body, healthy skin, perfect job, high pay, amazing holidays, the new computer or your dream fulfilled. Well, guess what: You don't. There is no one in the universe that looks at you and says "well, you ...
Had the meet today, I weight in last night at 6:00. I dropped 8 pounds over the week to weigh in at 181. So I dropped about 4 pounds of actual weight then fasted weigh-in day to drop the final 4 pounds. By this morning I was back up to my walking around weight of 185. I managed to hit 1,000 pounds total, but didn't set any personal bests: Squat 300 - good 325 - good 345 - good Bench 220 - good 235 - good 245 ...
Updated 04-20-2010 at 12:36 PM by Dave
I took the plunge and signed up for a local powerlifting meet. I?m still not sure if I?ll attend, since that day has ended up being a perfect storm of activity: Invention Convention for my son (he won at the school level; this is for districts) Volleyball tournament for my daughter (at least it?s local) Powerlifting meet So, three places to be, one day. Still wondering how the logistics will work. Nevertheless, I?m proceeding as though I?ll be there. I?ll be in the ...
For the most recent family movie night, we watched Tooth Fairy with Duane Johnson (the movie start formerly know as The Rock). We enjoyed the movie and I think it hit it's traget audience (older kids to young adolescents) pretty well. Predicatable, but a good lesson at its heart, and some laughs (even for the adults). But, as a life long devotee to fitness and exercise, the film bothered me. It bothered me the same way I got bothered by the depiction of muscular, super in-shape movie ...
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