"I like baking, happiness and giving..." (Mostly On Tuesdays)

just typing random words

to make you think randon thoughts


extrajudicial execution

utopian socialism


The present has beginning/history/context/precautions/memory/


I don't overstand...

Our convenience is worth the suffering of others??


Easy to learn, Impossible to master

Do oppressed sub-groups always have to fight it out amongst themselves to confirm which sect is more genuine(ly f*&ked), like rats in a barrel or is it crabs?

Isn't it weird that the first name of the new Prez of Ukraine is Petro? When they have so many issues with Russia and the petrochemicals gas petrogas petroleum oil gazprom pipelines extortion, I mean negotiation.

Seems that the followers of Sonny and Cher have split into opposing groups over a thousand years ago, which are causing many violent clashes currently in the Middle-East.

Better to have it and not need it, rather than to need it and not have it.

F%#Kface Von Clownstick builds ostentatious buildings with his name on the side.




 

Sweatpants 3005 etc.

Gidday! It's me again back with some peripheral nonsense or a list of stuff and things, ya know?

The Premise:

Don't watch television!


But if you do, watch these:

• Housos
• Brickleberry
• Hello Ladies
• House of Cards
• This Week Tonight
• Game of Thrones
• The Daily Show
• Parks & Rec
• Blackadder
• Rake

Or maybe I have lately and that's the point I'm trying to make?

Why don't my post titles ever have much relevance to the actual post?

Don't bother trying to come up with possible answers in the below comments...

Unnecessary Provocation(s)

Hi, how are you?


I'm fine, well I'm not really but overall I pretty much am... anyway I have been listening to lots of music as usual, but unlike recent usuals I have been getting back into hip hop and related type stuff, not sure where it all started from again, but was looking up lyrics on rapgenius and one song or album would sorta lead on to another... and I've also chucked in a few old ones that I just redownloaded cos I didn't seem to have them on my lap top and the old CDs that Tim mass-pirated are almost 15 years old, so not up much if I could even find their scratched-up spooled asses...


Recent listenings or downloads (I mean purchases...):


Albums:

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Nas - Illmatic + Life Is Good + Hip Hop Is Dead
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Blackalicious - Nia + Blazing Arrow
RJD2 - Deadringer + Since We Last Spoke
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising + AOI 1 + 2



Singles:

Got a Girl - Did We Live Too Fast
J5 - The Way We Do It
Nas - Ether + Last Real Nigga Alive
Big Sean (feat. et al) - Control*
A$AP Rocky (feat. et al) - F**kin' Problems*





*not my usual jam as quite commercial/mainstream... which I'll get sick of quick, but for a wee thrill...








Oh I finished all of the books by the way, he needs to get writing on the last 2 asap!

• Who is Jon Snow's Mum?
• What happened at Summerhall?

How to Start an Argument...

My opinions on drugs and abortions are kind of the same...

they may not be for everybody, of course no body should be forced into them through peer pressure or otherwise, but if someone really, really wants them or believes they need them, why should they be stopped from having it because of the opinions of others, who have nothing to do with them

I may get firebombed in my pyjamas for saying this, but pro-lifer's only seem to give a shit about a foetus till it's born and then they don't seem to give a fuck about poverty or alive kids suffering.

It is a complex issue, but how far can you take it?
alive at fertilization...?
every sperm is sacred? Jizzy...
words are wind
but basically it's her decision, not mine or yours
but hey I'm sure some old book purportedly from a few thousand years ago, would be far more relevant to base your modern day opinions on...

Drone Strikes

Back on that cut and paste fiasco drama maintenance scam again errybody...

If you wanted originality, hit up one of these other fine posts kicking around yonder

There are many and more, telling you little and less...

--Try to spot the commodore 64/128 reference)

-------8------------------(0)(O()()----=--=----()()O)(0)------------------8-------

------***{}[]{}***------

"Is it a crime to live inside every emotion"

"Asleep at the wheel of fortune"

 -Phoenix Foundation - Flock of Hearts

-------8------------------(0)(O()()----=--=----()()O)(0)------------------8-------

------***{}[]{}***------

 

"War has made states and states have made peace, but not all states have made peace equally well. Democracies are messy, but rarely devour their children; dictators get things done, but they shoot, gas and starve a lot of people along the way. When the good guys win, things get safer more quickly than when the bad guys win, but the bad guys don't stay in charge very long unless they move their societies in the same direction."

-Taken from an interview with Ian Morris (Author of 'War: What is it good for?') in the NZ Listener dated April/May 2014-

-------8------------------(0)(O()()----=--=----()()O)(0)------------------8-------

------***{}[]{}***------

Gangsta quote of the week:

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

― Abraham Lincoln (or not as the case may be)

-------8------------------(0)(O()()----=--=----()()O)(0)------------------8-------

------***{}[]{}***------

The 'Ravings' of Gary Busey:

OMG he is so crazy that he makes perfect sense!!

You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

You know what 'SOBER' stands for? It stands for 'Son Of a B****, Everything's Real!'

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

You know what 'ROMANCE' stands for? It stands for 'Relying On Magnificent And Necessary Compatible Energy.'

-------8------------------(0)(O()()----=--=----()()O)(0)------------------8-------

------***{}[]{}***------

This email and any attachment may contain confidential information. If you have received this email or any attachment in error, please delete the email / attachment, and notify the sender. Please do not copy, disclose or use the email, any attachment, or any information contained in them. Consider the environment before deciding to print: avoid printing if you can, or consider printing double-sided. Visit us online at blah blah blah blah blah

----

LOAD "*",8,1

News, News, News.

exclusive

non-informative

twenty four seven

opposing adversaries 

salacious controversy

commercial imperative

immediate reaction

waiting for nothing

mining the drama

filling the void

rating

Mansion Listening Parties

Been listening to quite a bit of random (stand-up) comedy lately
came across some new people I hadn't heard of as well as
some that I had heard of before for their stand-up or acting roles
some that I didn't realise were as funny as they really are
so here is a list of people I have recently found funny
and recommend seeking out their funniness:

David Cross

Donald Glover

Louis CK

George Carlin

Hannibal Buress

Mitch Hedberg

John Mulaney

Aziz Ansari

Bill Burr

Patton Oswalt

Greg Giraldo

Matt Braunger

Bill Hicks

Mike Birbiglia

Lewis Black

Jo Koy

Demetri Martin

Baron Vaughn

Wyatt Cenac

Kumail Nanjiani

Paintings I Done Did

Straight Illin' Yo

"Are you gonna finish that hover sandwich?"




Deltron 3030 - Event II




"Get a job! Robot."

Codes Tables

Not Only... But Also

Pete and Dud

Corpsing

Stefon

Interest Creep

It Was Predicted On a Seinfeld Episode

What's the easiest language to rap in? As in has the most rhyming words?


New subject:
Member the good old days when Kosovo tried to break away from Serbia and the Russians were all like "Small wee places shouldn't be doing that kind of breakaway shit!"

Completely different:
Then in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia were all like we'll join you, and the Russians were all like breakaway from that shit!"

Crimea river, Putin/Putout...

But I couldn't just clitocise Russia without doing the same to other big powers.
They are all self-interested to the point of aggrression>!<>!gggrrrrIUG I!!111!

The only event that could capture the attn of the whole planet (humans and sentient beings capable of abstract thought) would be the apocalypse. Or pain to ourselves.


<<<<
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes..."
~Stanley Kubrick ~
>>>>

Cut and Paste Brigade Rides Again!

[thought this was interesting enough to pillage and display here, as I think sometimes about what will be when I am gone. And I sometimes think of this blog as a bit of a record of what I thought and that it'll live on beyond me, as a portfolio of me online and stuff :] Digital immortality in an online age Wednesday, 5 March 2014, 12:27 pm Press Release: Massey University

March 4, 2014

Digital immortality in an online age

What happens to your online photos, videos and texts when you die? And will a digital archive of your life help or hinder historians and your descendants as they delve into life in the 21st century?

Digital immortality describes the online digital archive of writing, photos, videos and blogs that outlive the content’s creator/user.

It’s a topic that has fascinated Associate Professor Pete Seel, who is visiting Massey University’s Albany campus from his base at Colorado State University. He is currently in New Zealand researching a book on the topic, to be published in 2015.

Hosted by the School of English and Media studies, Dr Seel will be presenting a lecture on digital immortality to students and the public in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres at the Albany campus on March 11 at 1pm.

The relatively new development of digital technology and the proliferation of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram means people are accumulating online archives which could become permanent historical records of their lives, says Dr Seel. If the user’s descendants agree to keep that content online after their death it could serve as an ongoing memorial and resource for historians, genealogists and the descendants themselves.

“Humans have sought immortality since the dawn of homo sapien consciousness, and it has been a driving force for civilization,” he says. “Today we can achieve a form of cultural immortality, dependent on power supply and digital storage, that is an aggregation of a lifetime of posted online text, photos, and now video. Could the day come when we will be able to upload our consciousness? If so, what are the implications for society if this occurs?”

Although embarrassing photos posted online may appear to live on forever, social media archives can be manipulated by users – something Dr Seel will also address in the lecture.

“If we teach our students that ‘the Internet never forgets’ as they post personal images and text online, should we also ethically teach them how to make the Internet ‘forget’?” he says.

Dr Seel was a photojournalist, and television producer-director for ten years in the US and now researches telecommunications, new media technologies, digital television, and documentary history and production in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University.

His book, Digital Universe, was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.

The lecture starts at 1pm in the Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatre 100.

For more information on upcoming lectures and events, go to the website:http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/student-life/about-our-campuses/albany-campus/campus-events/campus-events_home.cfm

Taken from:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1403/S00023/digital-immortality-in-an-online-age.htm

Unrelated Bottom of Post Query: Should I do a post about Derek and Clive?

Skin in the Game

You're a poem with feet
a story with eyes
a song with emotions
and other body parts


checked out highstreetstories ? (mainly for Chch,  NZ peeps)

Cicadas are currently making lots of noise
more than a usual summer amount
there are many around
getting all up on my deck


Is life a practical joke we'll get to appreciate afterward?


Mastermind subjects of choice:
(feel free to ask random queries on these topics or not)

• The Beatles - Post Sgt. Pepper era
• Game of Thrones - Differences btwn books and TV
• Franchised Corporate Fast food - beginnings and marketing to children in 80s and 90s
• Sexiest women on the planet (spoiler alert: you all are!)

Don't give up now, unless you're addicted.

How to P*ss Everyone Off At Once

(I can't actually control things (ok maybe some on a superficial level, but...)
I can control my reaction to things.

I find it really hard to stay in the now...

I keep flicking off to other thoughts, need to learn to be in the present more.

Better stuff is not in the past and future, it's right now.

Only a quiet mind can be in the now)

This next thought won't go anywhere/far
so not sure why I am even giving it oxygen
you'll pretty much hate it and or shout it down
or someone will pay you to do similar activities
but should people with inherited wealth be excluded from taking up public office above a certain level? As they have never really had to deal with reality, have they?
Now I can already see some flaws and exceptions to my own idea, but really all this dynasty, feathering our own nest, spoilt few, sorta shit makes people ignore poverty or just not understand that live is a struggle. But I have to admit the dudes around the bus/train station with their begging signs piss me off too. So I am a complete f*cken hypocrite, just like all of us, but at least I can admit that shit, ya know...


Who would win in a one-on-one weapon-less street fight in real life...
out of Buddha and Christ*  ???



--Feel free to answer below.--

List of The Seven (New Gods)

Father
Mother
Maiden
Crone
Smith
Warrior
Stranger

Sounds Right Now

Albums I might be listening to currently:

• Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise Up Ghost
• Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
• Deltron 3030 - Event II
• Childish Gambino - Because... The Internet
• Arctic Monkeys - AM
• Grand Analog - Calligraffiti
• Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
• The National - Trouble Will Find Me
• Cage The Elephant - Melophobia
• Arcade Fire - Reflecktor 

Films I might have seen lately:

• The Invention Of Lying
• The Descendents
• Now You See Me
• A.C.O.D
• Her
• Mad Bastards

that is all

Over the Ditch

Aussie Trip-

-18th Jan - 1st Feb 2014:

Vic:

Wyndham Vale, Geelong, Fort Queenscliff, Port Lonsdale, Kensington, William's Landing, Flinders Street Station, Laneways, ACMI, Belgrave, Ballarat, Williamstown, Queen Victoria Markets, Flagstaff, Docklands, Brunswick, Werribee, Footscray

Qld:

McDowall, Tamborine, Mt. Tamborine, Skywalk, South Bank, Queen Street Mall, Maloolaba, Maroochydore, Mudjimba, Marcoola, Noosa, Ettamogah Pub, Southport, The Spit, Chevron Island, Broadbeach, Surfer's Paradise, Robina, Fortitude Valley,

-the end-

A Few Quick Snippets...

Just back after a few weeks travelling around on holiday, ahhh the memories...

and those two little words: "breakfast buffet" (just at the end we got a teeny bit decadent...)

Pre-Xmas Rape-Culture Rant-Fest

Where do journalists and photographers get their food from when their filming diasterporn and starving people?

Or is that a really stupid question?

Other types of porn I have come across that don't involve naked people:

• foodporn
• cloudporn
• architectureporn
• tortureporn
• wordporn

is the whole world is getting slowly* pornographied? Or just ex-disney stars?

Weird how people use the 'logic' in cases sexual assault and rape of 'well what was she wearing?' or 'well she was hanging out at night having fun, what did she expect? tut, tut..'

but your never hear someone say after a burglary "oh what do they expect, with that big flash house out in the open for anyone to see" or when a car gets stolen: "did you see how big those wheels were? that's just asking for trouble, if you ask me" ...and we didn't.

_________________
*relatively speaking

Sly Grogger

I could spend a whole lifetime trying to read every book I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to listen to all the music I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to study all the theories I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to learn all the histories I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to understand all the religions I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to view all the internet I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to hear all the stories I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to see all the art I could...
I could spend a whole lifetime trying to pack everything in...

and I still wouldn't know how the universe started...
and I still wouldn't get through it all..
and I still wouldn't respect my own opinion...
and I still wouldn't know everything...
and I still wouldn't be the greatest...
and I still wouldn't know what happens when we die...

doesn't mean it's not worth trying though...
doesn't mean I can't plow on...

just 'cos I won't figure it out, won't stop me giving it a go...

Utopia25

Famous Last Words

"I am just going outside and may be some time."
- Captain Lawrence Oates


Such is Life.
-Ned Kelly



"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
-Humphrey Bogart

Numeric Deductive Logic Puzzle

Our automated process relies heavily on manual intervention...


looking inward instead of skyward, with the only real Heaven a clarity of self, not some pearly gated community


rise to vote sir
race car
taco cat
level
bob
I

Baby Carrots

been listening to the most recent album from Editors
called "The Weight of Your Love" (sounds cheesy but it's not)

and like the following quotey snippets 

(as well as many other aspects of the album)...

I'm a lump of meat

with a heart beat...

The radio said we're in for a fall

the TV said nothing at all...

I don't trust the government

I don't trust myself...

The tissue and bone

my soul has on loan...

Nomadic Tube

I learn random new things everyday... but unfortunately forget some of the old lessons I learned (or learnt? fuct if I know the correct usage in that exact context).

Random out of context quotes, that could be sarcastic but they aren't really meant to be:

All men must die (well women do too, as well as all other living things, all things must/shall pass, etc...)

Be the change you seek (don't tell us about it, if you ain't doing it yo'self bro and broettes)

Justice delayed is justice denied (if you have to wait half a lifetime to get what you deserved, then the moment has already passed, but we humans do love to overcompensate and eventually witch-hunt but only many years after we have let something go on horribly without protesting in the slightest. Go us!)

Murphys law #1225: The rubbish/trash/garbage/refuse/waste (collection) truck, will only come early on the days you forget to put it out the night before...

The best hobbies are the ones that take us away from our primary occupation (we are all keen to do the opposite of what we usually do, give other stuff a bit of a try.)


Almost finished number 3 part 2, but I won't spoil it for you.

Hyper Corporate Neo-nonchalance

Dropping truth bombs to the choir...


Fiscal Environment
Inter-connectivity
Report Realisation
Transitional Arrangement
Change Mandate
Collaborative Alignment
Collective Impact
Expectation Management
Structural Reposition
Strategic Disestablishment

Innate Sense of Justice

Why did almost everyone wear a hat at the start of the twentieth century?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare

http://www.flickr.com/photos/1913strike/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World



http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/1913-great-strike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Great_Strike

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/1913-great-strike/background



If you don't like posts that are just a list of links to wikipedia and other informational type material, then this obviously wasn't a post for you. But that's fine, I don't do this every time, so feel free to not click on the above or whatever it is you were thinking of doing next anyway, as you are really what matters in your world.. (don't try to deny it!)

Digital Penetration

When did the book of face go from being:

the place you shared your pics while you're on an overseas holiday (circa. 2007 or wheneves)...
to the place where your parents hang out and play crappy games...
we're we the last/only generation to do anything special?

or will we be unlucky enough to get a great war and a great depression all mixed together?

Nah I'm totally joking, there's always some crazy shit going down somewhere
but our history books tend to focus on what we want to hear...

half truths become accepted wisdom, e.g. that America won WW2 for everybody
but I think the Russians should get more credit for doing that, if you check the body counts...

but just because I've said that doesn't mean I'm any sort of apologist for Russian politics
e.g. their laws and stance on non-heterosexuality or the way they have 30 Greenpeace dudes jailed...

or all the terrible shit that went down under Stalin and all the other power hungry mofos
that made communism so bad, that it 's no longer presented as a valid option in the Anglophile world

The subtle implication in the media and society is that if you consider socialism an option you're lazy
and your gonna waste all of the hard working peoples money on your frivolous needs...

In the Philippines (I almost accidentally wrote Philadelphia, Freudian slip?) right now post disaster
we've seen it on the news, we want to give them stuff, but nothing is getting there fast enough...

food warehouses and other caches of things edible are guarded against looters/the starving
why can't they just have that stuff now? the donations that come in will be worth far more

what we want to give them won't get there for a long time, they should just have what's there now
the owners mustn't think they will et paid or money is more important than people?

the GFC was caused by the bigwigs, but was really only really experienced by the working-class and poor
oh well, that seems fair enough when you consider the quality of mainstream entertainment (<--sarcasm p="">
end of ramble

Bubble 'n' Squeak

Reality is broken

Participation Bandwidth

Guilt vs. Shame

Art = aesthetic representation of human endeavours?

Reaffirmation of existence

Fixed it all

Self-Learning Algorithm

is it just me?

or...


has the internet gotten a lot more vile and toxic? since... well whenever it was nice, I guess...


If you get bored...

try to imagine that there are apparently over 100 billion galaxies in the known universe...

more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches in the world...

more locusts in a colony than humans on the face of the earth...

and other astounding shit, that defies any frame of reference...

can't even fucken imagine..

or just watch this: (-L=-I-N-=K-)

Angstasy Ganstasy

Stuff you already should have known, but apparently I didn't:

I no longer have control over the past, as that is by very definition the past.

It has happened, already and cannot be changed
no matter how much I regret it or stew about it internally
but what I do have control over is my current reaction to said events
actions or inactions of the past
how I view it, what I give importance to
the myths I make, the facts I break

I can totally control how I act right now, if I choose to...
So the question is: will I? Choose to make the best of the now
or let the past act as an excuse to prejudice my thoughts?
and convince me that I can't do what I want to

because at one time previously I didn't do, what I now believe I should have
but really have no way of independently verifying if that decision would have created
a distinctly better scenario of life, or merely have created other challenges
anyway

Gardening Leave

If we all had the opportunity to flourish, would the world be a better place?
Or do we always eventually find a way to control and enslave the lives of others?

Chase your dreams or run from your nightmares?
Or pursue glory and find ruin...

If only it was all like the fairy-tales and not so much like the horror stories.

Current rebellion gets commodified and sold back to us in future
(Che Guevara lunchbox and matching t-shirt anyone?)

Something To Fill in Space...

Something to fill in time...

Paradox-of-the-day-society-monthly-newsletter-annual-outburst-millennial-excerpt:

The only thing I'm sure of is that there's nothing that we can be sure of...

To be sure, to be sure.

The art of nothing

the Tao of nothing

the desire of nothing

the thrill of everything

cogent and acerbic

What's your anchor? Your rock? Your thing that will last for eternity?
Is it your soul? Or something outside yourself you attach thoughts to?

I'm far better at posing questions than answering them.

Exceptions listed below in the comments section:

neva eva

I have never...

given birth
broken a bone
had a filling
got a tattoo
been to Africa
tried cocaine
stolen a car


faked an orgasm
died

Two Random But Not Too Random Lists I made

Unrelated but related?


Jake's puppies:

• Charlie
• T.V 
• Viola
• Kim Kil Whan
• Jake Jnr.

Stark's Direwolves:

• Shaggydog
• Summer
• Nymeria
• Lady
• Grey Wind
• Ghost

Don't let the dragon, drag on...

Title Goes Here

If your so great... then why haven't you become disillusioned by the state that the world is in?

My life is a series of pointless tasks, that I give meaning to... but most of the time I quite enjoy them.

But when I don't enjoy it, I find it hard to cope with... guess I didn't deal with enough pain as a child?

Hopefully I have dealt with enough in the intervening years, to set myself up for a pleasant time later on... 

Well it makes me feel better to think that anyway... to a certain extent. 

I guess you can tell when you're tricking yourself?

Maybe sometimes the placebo effect is the best thing for you.

Feeling good just makes you feel good...

But if you cheated to make yourself feel good, it might not last as long.

Guilt is personal, shame requires an audience.

But if other people are just upset with you for no reason, fuck them!

If they wouldn't be happy whatever you did, why should you change for them?

I guess we still do though, projecting an image ourselves we want them to see.

I'm the most self-conscious person I know.

It may not sound like it: but I do leave the house and function as a semi-normal person.

Wearing my conformity on the outside and hiding away these thoughts anonymously.

The winning argument will never be uncontested.

Even the most gallant revolutions, will cause suffering for some...

(then eventually get hi-jacked by zealots).

Pessimism? Realism? Self-delusion?

I think I'm trying to do the right thing, but maybe that's just for selfish reasons too?

There are still people I want to apologise to/reconnect with, but that first hurdle is stopping me.

I think I should, but when it comes time to do anything, status quo wins again...

Pro:crasti-nation-alisation-zone-ification!!

One tiny piece of information can totally change my mood.

I'm intrigued by statistics, jigsaw puzzles and lego.

I want to build a castle, but I think that is due to the book I'm reading...

Maybe if I set myself a deadline, I will have to do it...

Did That Just Happen?

Objectivity is an assumption...

Collective realisation...

Time is a measure of change..

Change is constant...

Enlivened convalescence...

Duck, duck, duck... Motion man.

It's Obvious, clouds of smoke. Vadim.

Twerk That Shit

Righteous Anger

We could make sure that everyone has food...

but it seems like in the process we get too worried about 

potentially restricting the rights of people to own all the food

and make as much money out of it as they can

cos somehow production is more important than consumers?

Society seems to be set up for those that set it up...

I wonder what the weaker groups would want.

I must be a dirty commie...

Is it? not so much... what you do, but the reason that you do it?

Principles are great until reality conflicts with them.

Selective Morality

Why does it seem to me like:
  drug crimes carry harsher penalties...
    than sexual abuse and violent ones do??