The Unmistakable Cone of Ignorance

I really should make more of one.

I need to stop buying woot shirts.. I just bought my 6th woot shirt…. i have

communist dinosaurs, robotic monsters, carnivorous bunnies, robots being up people doing the robot, a squirrel offering an acorn to death, and the monalisaur…

I’m not going to stop ordering shirts probably… but even still… I have approx 150+ t-shirts

<Nearly two years ago>

When did Americans become such mewling children?

Oh no… there’s a terrorist behind those bushes! That light up sign is a bomb!!! Won’t someone please think of the children?!?! etc.

I was just going to rant about the terrorism panic Americans suffer from but then I just saw this little gem…

http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=477125

Personally, if Fox and NBC want to show hardcore porn at 3 in the afternoon they should be able to. TV’s have V-chips and cable boxes have parental control units. Clearly parents have the tools to enforce what they want their kids to watch… why the hell is the government involved at all? Because most Americans are mewling babies who can’t take responsibility for anything, apparently. Besides if no one is watching the hardcore porn hour then no advertising will be on board so then no money will be made so the porn will be canceled. Somehow I don’t think ratings would be the issue though….

Anyways, on to the rest of this scree.

<about 2 years later>

God I started this nearly two years ago…  I’m pretty sure everything I said there still stands.  Mewling and whiney.  The latest and greatest in the great American pussifications… what to do with the Gitmo  Detainees… As Jon Stewart has said.. If we can keep the brain eating guy under lock and key, I’m sure we can handle these guys in our good ol supermaxes.  Hell maybe if we ended the war on drugs we could make room for the war on terror.  Always heard you shouldn’t fight a war on two fronts.  Not sure what that says about the war on cancer… I think we could probably keep that one and the war on terror.  Might be safer just to keep the cancer one though.  I know.. lets start with legalizing most vices. Prostitution… Legalize… Weed… Legalize…  Most other drugs… legalize.  We should probably keep the out and out poisons and potential neuro toxins illegal.  I’m looking at you heroin, pcp, crack and meth.  Coke.. you’re on the border.  Wide scale prohibition doesn’t work.  Hell even small scale targeted genies are hard to get back into the bottle.

To cut off stupidity at the knees… legalization doesn’t mean rampant distribution.  Cigarettes are legal but regulated.. Alcohol is legal but regulated.  I would envision all the other vices would fall under that category.  To the ‘but prostitution will encourage sex slavery!!!!’ people…. I’m pretty sure any type of slavery is still going to remain illegal, but now the girls and guys in the sex trade can get health care and regular check ups. (Thus reducing STD’s over all)  They can go to the police without fear when a john attacks them… cause assault is assault and you shouldn’t have to be scared of going to jail cause you got beat up doing something that should be legal.  Oooo and look at that.. we can save a shit ton of money on vice enforcement and really focus on tageting the real predatory types.

This rambling rant gets published now cause I’m tired of it being in my drafts.  I no longer care about how well written or persuasive it really is.  Citations are for suckers but multiple studies have shown that legalization of vice is probably the way to go and legalized prostitution has decreased STD rates in Nevada.

Blasted by your booby trap

I felt the blow in both kneecaps

Your eyes did shine

Your lips were fine!

And the device in your pants was out of sight…

Congress is insane, we’re all law breakers, video games cost too much, news at 11!  Apocalypse at 12!  I’ll bring the popcorn, you bring the beer.

I have just ordered a new toy . A shiney new  Kaossilator . This makes me happy.

Where am I going in life?   I feel burned out and directionless lately.   I have a thesis to do… Enlightenment will be achieved.  Not sure what will come after my thesis.   Life will happen.

I need to start lifting heavy things and setting them down again.

Covered with hope!

I just saw the Dark Knight and it was amazing.

It could be a bad sign I was most sympathetic to the Joker.

Fuck it.  Let the planets burn!

Why the fuck am I not asleep.  I was asleep but now I’m not.   Fuck this noise.

I’ve arrived in california.  In fact I’ve been arrived since last friday… thursday?  something like that ;p  Think thursday actually.  Was living in a hotel and just moved into my summer apartment on Sunday.   I started working at NVIDIA for the summer today.   Suffered through employee orientation and started to meet the people I’ll be working with.   That’s pretty much all I’ll say about that since I don’t even want to touch the issue of what I can and can’t say.  The government will put your ass in jail but a corp’ll just sue you into oblivion ;p  I kid… but I can’t discuss anything I’m doing or the people I’m working with in any detail so why bother even pussy footing around it.   I’ll just say  everyone I’ve met has seemed pretty nice so far and it  turns out I’m technically an hourly employee so after I clear it with my manager I can probably get time and half for 2 hours a day … means 10 hour days but I’ll hopefully be having fun doing it.  And it’s not mandatory … I just need to have approval to work the overtime and i’ll get lots of extra money.

On a secondary note about NVIDIA… I received my consolation prize for applying to the NVIDIA Fellowship today as well….. A shiney new 9800 GX2.    dual gpu on one board with 1gig of video memory.   It is the new top of the line flagship card.   Holy shit my current employer fucking rules.   Shame I can’t pop that sucker in and take it for a spin till September.  But damn… that was uber generous of them.  I was expected a T-shirt or a tote bag when they sent us all the email notification of a gift just for applying.

Now I sleep so I can get to work tomorrow and start in on being a non slacking productive member of society.

I start my roadtrip to NVIDIA tomorrow morning in just a few hours.  Soon I will be in Santa Clara for the summer.  I guess NVIDIA has a policy that says no blogging about my job or job activities while I work there.   Pretty standard policy.   So any summer discussions won’t be related to that.    I still have no idea what I’m going to be doing while I’m there.   Working.

and I feel sleepy.

If you were born after 1975 or maybe 1980, you don’t get social security.  I’d be maybe willing to say after 1990.  Some generation is gonna take it in the ass on this boondoggle of safety net, might as well step up to the plate on this one since ours has close to 40 or 50 years to plan for retirement.  So fuck it.  We’ll keep paying for your debts since the world basically fucked the older generations over and we’ll build a better future.  So figure 1980 + 80 years means we just have to keep it limping along till 2060 and as older generations die off without new recipients this should become a self correcting problem.

Plan better you fuckers!

P.S.  Glendale CA is awesome.