New Place

Well I installed a decent blog setup for my webpage. So I'll be setting it up there for now on. www.kylar.org/blog is the site.

6 for 6

I purchased Season 3 of Highlander on Friday. Defintely the best season so far. When I watched season 2 I remembered alot of the episodes that I had watched on Sci-Fi, when they used to run them. The network must have said hey bitches this is season 3 and there aren't enough beheadings going on. Make some more yeah bastards. And the complied. So far out of 2 discs every single episode has had a beheading. Just need more than 1 to get up to my hopeful 120 or so beheadings.

The Father Syndrome

I had an ephiphany the other day. It didn't hurt so I'm not sure if it's technically a true epiphany. True epiphany's are supposed to hurt like hell. I'm not sure exactly what made me think of this. Quite possibly because I was discussing my "love" life to someone. I was glossing over the old flames, when I realized something they all had in common. I'll call it the Father syndrome, I'm sure there is some kind of bullshit psychological name for it. But psychology isn't even a science bunch of namby pambies bitches. I'll define the Father Syndrome as this:

An individual whose relationship with their father is strained or non-existent. The individual is attracted to members of the opposite sex who lack a father, or also have a strained relationship with the father figure. The individual therefore will attempt to become the father figure and indirectly try to do things from theirselves that their father lack to do for them.

All my previous girlfriends all lacked this father figure, either having been divorced at an early age, or he was removed from the picture during adolenscene. I then tried to be that lacking father figure for them. It never worked out, which is good and for the best. But it's something I learned from.

My relationship with my father is defintely strained. The song the Cat's in the Cradle is a perfect example of our relationship.

Well, he came from college just the other day,
So much like a man I just had to say,
"Son, I'm proud of you. Can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head, and he said with a smile,
"What I'd really like, dad, is to borrow the car keys.
See you later. Can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then, dad.
You know we'll have a good time then."

I've long since retired and my son's moved away.
I called him up just the other day.
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind."
He said, "I'd love to, dad, if I could find the time.
You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kid's got the flu,
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad.
It's been sure nice talking to you."
And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me,
He'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.

My Own Webpage

The other day on a spur of the moment I decided to purchase hosting for my own domain. Well it finally went through yesterday. And so I annouce my website http://www.kylar.org. Of course I haven't done anything with it. Except for set up our Star Wars Galaxies Guild, the Cross-Eyed Gunmen. I may or may not move my blog there since they do have programs availible to do it.

Hypocrisy

An interesting little piece of information on the BBC made me think about things. I know thinking is a dangerous thing to do.

In the 1960s and early 70s, the United States dumped a nice little chemical called TCCD, more commonly referred to as Agent Orange. Originally used to destroy the underlying foliage of the dense rainforest. It had unseen consequences, or was it known what it would do? Agent is one of the more potent toxins to humans. It can also cause birth defects for prolonged exposure. The US dumped millions of gallons on the country of Vietnam, enough that there are still residual amounts in the environment today.

Does Agent Orange classify as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD)? What is a WMD? As defined by Free Dictionary and Wikipedia

Noun
1. weapon of mass destruction - a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
bioarm, biological weapon, bioweapon - any weapon usable in biological warfare; "they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon"
chemical weapon - chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants
nuclear weapon - a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction
weapon, weapon system, arm - any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon"
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
high explosive - a powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate

By this definition then, Agent Orange is considered a weapon of mass destruction. Growing up in the city of Frederick, Maryland. There was a famous base in Frederick, Fort Detrick, once a site of biochemical warfare. Of course many of the items created at Ft. Detrick are still there for study and "safe" keeping.

What does this really have to do with anything? America was asked by the Vietnamese to give funding for the cleanup of Agent Orange. Something we politely refused to do. When America "invaded" Iraq in March 2003, we were seeking the WMDs that Saddam Hussein was supposedly stock piling. Of course the stock piles of WMDs that we have were conviently ignored. We weren't the bad guys, we've never done anything like what Saddam has done. Of course not, compared to the US Saddam is like a child. Just look at our history, the slaughtering of the American Indians, the concentration camps for the Japanese during WWII. I'm sorry I forgot only the Germans had concentration camps.

America needs to wake up. October, 2001, a little known bill passed with flying colors through the Congress. The Patriot Act was established in response to the attacks of September 11th. What does it do? Wikipedia has an excellent summarization of it. Basically it ensures that our civil liberties, those basic tenets that the founding fathers said were our unalienable rights, were null and void. Allowing the Federal government to trample on those rights if you are suspect of any terrorist acts. Of course what is suspect? Almost anything you say against the government could be considered suspect. The penalty is jail without right to counsel or trial, nor does the government have to fess up to where you are. It also allows for the government to issue a warrant, phone tap, and other numerous violations of privacy, with little to no evidence. Say the wrong word and poof you're gone.

What does this tell us? It is time for action. It is time to change our government. It is one of our unalienable rights as a United States citizen. It does not mean a revolution, it means it's time to think. It's time to put forth your voice. Don't just vote for a person because they need that extra percentage to get funding. Don't vote for a person because hey this famous person is backing him.

Vote to change the world. Vote smart.

Accomplishment

With less than a week and a half left in this semester. Well at least for my shorten class of six weeks. Required of the class: 1 20 page paper; 1 3 question take home test worth 40% of the grade; 1 lab notebook. Well working only today on the paper I finished half of it. Tomorrow I plan to finish the rest of it. And then onto the wonderful take home test!

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You never give me your money
Your only give me your paper
And in the middle of negotiations you break down
I never give you my number
I only give my situation
And in the middle of investigation I break down.
Out of college money spent
See no future pay no rent.
All the money’s gone, nowhere to go.

Deliquency

I've been a bit deliquent with writing stuff down. Actually it's mostly been lazy. I was supposed to be working on a paper last weekend, but that went no where. I hopefully will be doing it this weekend, starting tomorrow since I decided not to go in. Man I'm freaking tired.

Here's some kick ass flash animation
Come Together

I have an Addiction

It's not masturbation. It's not porn. It's something much simpler than
that. I'm addicted to SomethingAwful. Well
specifically the forums. I spend too much time there. Reading and
re-reading the same posts. Posting somewhat witty responses. It's like
an obsession almost. I am actually glad I was introduced to SA, it
gives me great joy almost every hour that I check it. Because I do
check it that often.