swing life away

not exactly, but i’ve been liking rise against’s “prayer of a refugee” a lot lately.

monica revels in lameness on halloween night, deciphering the superfluously opaque physics textbook.

despondency

why does despondency strike right before my midterms?

i was so sleepy today. so lethargic. couldn’t keep my eyes open to study.

oh well. i’m not going to do spectacularly anyway.

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more stuff…

just from reading blogs:

machines changing votes from obama to mccain in west virginia; comments, this one by sylvok:

I group of students at my old high school (of 4000 students total) hacked a voting machine (Which they use for the real elections) and put in 3000 votes extra for a freshman (for SGA) without even having access to the machines longer then the time it took to vote.

If I can remember correctly they bought one of the cards that the machines use and just switched the real card out with their fake one.

Because the local government figured that the machines were secure, NO ONE FOUND OUT TILL A MONTH AFTER THE ELECTION. This was last year in Virginia.

voter suppression has already begun, which is undeniably illegal (voting rights act of 1964).

Between reports like that and the vile, racially-charged garbage that’s been coming out of the McCain camp and his supporters of late, it really does feel like we’ve been forcefully transported back to a darker time in American history. Or, more accurately, the venom and bile that’s been mostly simmering under the surface all along is boiling up thanks to McCain, Palin, and their surrogates stoking the flames.

john mccain’s racism and why it matters

on a lighter note, i think i’m left-eyed

w.t.f.

i’ve reading some of “my guantanamo diary” by, and so the fact that the us drops charges against 5 guantamo prisoners is of interest to me.

Dismissing the charges allows to Pentagon to avoid deadlines set by the Military Commissions Act to bring the men to trial.

“The way to stop the clock and get a new clock is to dismiss the charges and start again,” said retired Air Force Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor who quit in October and later testified about alleged political interference in the military trials.

what. the. fuck.

isn’t it unconstitutional to be charged for the same crime twice?

reddit is a pretty neat site

from “IQ is strongly related…”

boredidiot: You were downmodded not for any self-proclaimed facts, but lack of credibility and the arrogance in which you delivered it. If you don’t understand that, your “emotional IQ” is obviously at a “functionally retarded” level.
strobeflashlight: Seeing as I scored in the 99th percentile of the Voight-Kampff test it’s more probable that it’s your penis that is “functionally retarded” than my neo-cortex.

from National Review says Obama’s deceased mother would’ve aborted him, were it legal at the time. What the FUCK is wrong with them. (original article)

tmoracca: My email:
Subject: Former Sperm Ed Whelan
Haven’t we all not been aborted? It’s a crime we can’t capture all sperm “who” have ever left testes and raise each and every one to be a God-fearing, M16-wielding Christian.
…Innocent little spermies. We grieve for you all who have lost your lives in vain or in masturbation.

escapegoat:

The really pathetically serious problem with National Review’s discourse is this:
* Nearly
* generally
* perhaps
* even if
* very possibly
* “I haven’t found any statistics”
* “indirect indications suggest”
* “may actually believe”
* “may be very lucky”
* may owe
* ought
Nearly all farm animals hold conservative social views, as they generally adhere to practices and values of previous generations. Perhaps pasture animals are more inclined to wander from this norm, but even if there is some small bovine faction dedicated to the violent overthrow of the government, they are very possibly strict constructionist cows who see this as essential to a restoration of constitutional rule. I haven’t found any statistics to suggest that cows are more prone to philosophical idealism than any other farm animal, but indirect indications suggest that herd-associating ungulates in general and Bos Taurus specifically may actually believe in America and the Rule of Law every bit as strongly as we do. We may be very lucky if they make a surprise move to stampede the polls; we may owe them for saving Democracy itself. We ought to be proud of our American cows.

also, i think it’s interesting that there is a uw suicide club on facebook. i think it is even more interesting that everyone in it (that i can see) is asian.

my saturday

failed to get up in time to go to the ess field trip. in my half-asleep state, i was panicking slightly, as to the point where i was thinking rationally. there was no way i could get to the ess building in less than ten minutes, much less put my clothes on, grab something eat, brush my teeth, etc. the thought of spending three hours in a van going to central washington was the determinitive deterrent. i needed more sleep, so i feel back asleep for the second time that morning.

it looked like i would get the chance to register, i thought. i called my mom and we went to renton. at the elections office, i learned that my previous registration actually went through, presumably after i found that i was unable to check my registration status online. weird. i couldn’t remember my dorm’s zip code, so it looks like i’m going to the polls nearest to my house: cherry crest elementary. i went to school there, and i remember adults coming to our school on election day to vote. full circle.

my mom told me vote ‘yes’ on proposition 1000, the legalization of medical euthanasia. let’s just say, my parents aren’t shy about their mortality. a parent talking about how they’re going to die can be distressing to a kid, but i’m used to it… heh.

i went to the u-village and spent some quality time in barnes & noble until it got dark. i read ‘in the jungle’ by jim butcher, and i started reading ‘orpheus lost’ by janet turner hospital, which was really good.

spending time in bookstores is a favorite past-time of mine, i have found.

russell brand

and interview of russell brand on the late late show. british dude. hilarious because it is completely random.

depressing

i was jumping around links on wikipedia after finishing the rape of nanking by iris chang, and was led to youtube for a trailer of the american-made movie. there were comments made by japanese users (judging by their usernames and the fact that they also wrote in japanese) that flatly deny the massacre ever happened. it’s quite sobering to see how the denial of a historical massacre persists to do this day, and to see the ignorance with your own eyes on a familiar website like youtube is certainly depressing. it becomes inconceivably depressing when you realize that the comments follow real footage of the japanese occupation.

damn, reading all these vitriol and racial denigration on youtube is depressing. ughhh.

state of affairs

1. ah, screw cse! (was never fond of the course anyways…)

2. i’m sad that work won’t be the same without tim. i’ve only known him for two weeks (8 days), but i’m definitely going to miss him. he was so amiable. i walked with him to his bus stop and waited with him for a while. it reminded me how important it was just spend time enjoying the company of your friends.

3. i got two hugs today. both were awesome. the first one was from tim and the other one was from my dad ten minutes after the first one. my dad gives incredible hugs.

4. ess 101 lab = group work. not cool. god damn, i’ve been in engineering classes for too long, i forgot how exasperating the intelligences of regular people can be… so, i’ve given up on the notion of getting a 4.0 in that class. screw cse, screw ess… screw grades!

5. i have a serious dilemma with voter registration. the deadline is monday. about a month ago, i registered with one of those clipboard people, and nothing ever came of that (what’s the point of soliciting voter registration if you don’t see their registrations through??). so i have to go to the county elections office in renton and register *in person*. renton, argh. their office hours are very limited. i have to choose between missing our first chamber music club meeting on friday, missing my first ess extra-credit field trip on saturday, or missing an hour or so of work on monday, the day of the deadline. how close should i cut it? should i even bother at all? i really don’t believe that my vote is going to make a difference, but it would be a nice feeling to know that i took part in putting a better president in office.

seriously… why does last-minute registration have to be so difficult? i know that it’s my own fault that i procrastinated so much, but i honestly thought the clipboard papers would do something. whatever happened to the motor voter act, anyways? i was disappointed that they didn’t offer to register me to vote when i got my driver’s license. everyone should be defaulted the right to vote when they turn 18. i know that if i end up not voting, it won’t be because i didn’t want to, but because the system was too inflexible to accommodate a busy and procrastinating student. = (