really great … you guys should definitely check out the res of her stuff some time if you haven’t already
Monthly Archive for December, 2004
meaningful ? maybe … impactful ? without a doubt
another thing, be sure to check out the different projects going on at number27.org [such as the previously mentioned vorn project, really interesting stuff .. wordcount is very great, definitely check it out ; and the word count conspiracy hilarious shit , very cool ; tenbyten is also really cool .. i really like number27 and their stuff … underneath of their very nicely polished flash interfaces are really clever ideas and revealing views on “us” … again definitely check it out
really great contrast ..
yea htose are definetely shoes up there .. very cool gradation l/r
very cool ..
a floating village of a sort , really like those kinds of small island hump things in the sea, they definitely look very nice .. seen them in too many bond films to count …. the pic doesn’t look to great downsized here but if you click on it, the full size version is pretty impressive imho ; the floating village things are really cool
great stuff …
mOAS wasn’t bad, won’t be bad .. considering the missed classes,etc.
things like this always remind me how ridiculous [and how much i hate] bureaucracy
met the ambassador for grenada, in a townhouse/theembassy [don’t anything by that, considering that size of the country and the fact that 90% of all physical structures that existed on the small island were no longer standing physical structures as of hurricane ivan] he was a lot of fun … his aide person kept on feeding him keywords whenever he started to stumble which was amusing because she was being discreet but the room was pretty small so almost everyone could hear the echo, also he received a couple phone calls in the middle of sentences, then again i’m surprised that we met him you know considering the state of affairs in grenada and all … he was definitely amusing used an awful lot of analogies .. lol : “if grenada were a car, it would be a write-off” [re: insurance writeoff /etc]
caucusing was fun as always, tend to meet a lot of really interesting people in these things and then some that are less enjoyable
mr green showed and that was relieving because that made me not the most senior yrbk person there and thus no longer the least bit responsible for making sure that the mOAS pic takes place .. charlotte would have been pissed if i had forgotten which i would have
lol in the beginning when all the head reps were giving their ridiculously boring speeches and everyone was totally tuned out and i was watching the yellow balloon slowly float about [because of the air vent, i later discovered] i noticed that the person speaking was rhyming and i thought it was hilarious that he had a pair rhyming sentences [not having heard the contents] some people about the room started to wake up and look confused .. people started to laugh … then i realized that i was continuing and that this guy was in fact rhyming the names of all the member states of the oas, that was ridiculously great and he mentioned cuba too which he wasn’t supposed to ,which only made it greater still … that was probably the only reason i didn’t fall asleep during the thing and i almost resent the guy for that .. but i mean it was definitely the only one of them that anyone listened too … it was pretty great [anything outside of the ordinary is great when things get to be that monotonous for that long] but we’re over with that and my committee could be worse, considering its the most burdened with bureaucracy .. there are some chill folk
ridiculously amazing shot … definitely worthy of your clicking ; completely natural shot with absolutely no modification, … completely pure, definitely amazing .. the trial and error that was involved, i can only imagine … photographer says 60 and he definitley got lucky considering how incredibly clearly the shoe came out, you can see so much detail on the suede-like texture its amazing
… sorry, i liked this one alot
yea well i hear now that us air craft have been using napalm-equivalent firebombs on iraqi soldiers [and quite probably civilians looking like soldiers] … this a really not good thing, incendiary weapons have been used in pretty much every us military conflict since wwii most notably so in vietnam and they are without doubt very inhuman(e) of a way to die.
they basically involve incinerating [hence the name] anything within range of the impact in an enormous fireball of a sort, causing quite possibly the most painful means of death, burning alive or worse yet suffering from ridiculously painful yet not-yet-lethal burns for an extended period of time, often after being blinded … this is no bunsen burner burn or painless soldering iron burn, this is like existing-within-a-fireball-for-an-extended-period-of-time burn, very very strong flesh burns all over … anyone who i’ve told about matt and the gasoline exploding about his head, its like that except without the luck and jet fuel rather than the cheaper kind of petrol , not good …
the pentagon refers to the “remarkably similiar to napalm” devices used in iraq as mark 77 or ‘firebombs’, they involve a shell filled with a large quantity of kerosene-based jet fuel, instead of the benzene/gas mixture used for napalm, inevitably the impact ignites the very flammable contents in a somewhat controlled manner thus allowing the fireball to be spread out over a larger area and to also endure a short while …
experts have said that the distinctive fireball and very strong smell [of burning flesh and fuel] have significant psychological impact upon the victims
a few quotes re:this
col. randolph alles of marine air group eleven
“unfortunately, there were people there because you could see them in the (cockpit) video … It’s no great way to die.”
“the generals love napalm .. it has a big psychological effect.”
john pike, a defense analyst from globalsecurity.org [relatively nonpartisan for the record]
“you can call it something other than napalm, but it’s napalm.”
normally i would not disgust you folk with this sort of a very detailed description of war technology because war technology is bad technology [ just for the record a silenced walter ppk is not war technology its 007 technology and thus does not fall under the same generalization ] but some things, i think, really need to be understood in detail to be really understood properly and i think this is one of them … if you didn’t read the stuff above its perfectly alright and quite certainly understandable, but i just felt it was … important or significant, but yea it is most definitely not a good thing …
thought this one was cool, too … not nearly as much as the one bellow but still cool, its been sitting in a list of things that i had wanted to blog but was too lazy to write descriptions /etc
