Random Thoughts

[onlinebiker]

If the walking dead don' t find anything to eat -

what do they starve to?

[Pat Mustard]

Authoritarianism is better then personal freedom. Regular people don't have the intelligence to govern themselves.

Just because you're thicker than two short planks doesn't mean everybody else is the same.

[Silver]

It's usually easy for me to see the solution where others just want to add to the problem. Unless it's math, forget that nonsense.

[Fireball]

Authoritarianism is better then personal freedom. Regular people don't have the intelligence to govern themselves.

Just because you're thicker than two short planks doesn't mean everybody else is the same.

Tull said it well, "...to be thick, as a brick".

[Silver]

Might be drinking more coffee here soon. I just need to condition myself to stay awake till 4pm since I will have all day orientation Wednesday. To help that day, I will also be brining extra coffee in case I need it in the afternoon. Though, from experience, the orientation might not last that long. We'll see.

[Silver]

To battle forces which desire to corrupt seems to be the endless chore of humanity.

[Rev. Rye]

Idea for someone who's A) artistially inclined, B) has gone through a breakup, and C) has an arm good enough to destroy a mechanical object with one blow. In 1923, Man Ray created an work of art that consists of a metronome with an eye on the pendulum called Object to be Destroyed.

The original was eventually destroyed with a bullet in 1957 and remade somewhere in the area of 240 times in the years between then and Ray's death. However, Ray actually created detailed instructions for how to properly destroy it:

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

I have never found any sign of anyone following the official instructions. I don't advocate destroying one of the official copies, naturally. Especially since creating a replica is easy as just getting a mechanical metronome and attaching a photo of an ex's eye to it. But I'd be curious to see someone doing their own version of the destruction Ray specified. Since I don't see my dakimakura Alison breaking up with me, I don't plan to do so, but here's one twist I'd add: Since Ray did not specify the desired tempo, I'd put it at 72 BPM, the same tempo as this piece:



And once the soprano and the winds start wailing (about 8 minutes in), that's when you lay the hammer down.

[Silver]

Thank goodness we were able to purchase a place of our own just in time. Rent has become stupid crazy.

[Ahriman]

Fast food employees make me want to kick them in their faces.

[onlinebiker]

And you wonder why they spit in your food....



Bon appetite...