The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:33 am Post subject:

creative sentencing, i guess...

wouldn't the better thing be to charge him with assault where applicable and otherwise let the market sort it out?
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That's yours."
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:40 am Post subject:

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captaincabinets · Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:57 am Post subject:

okay I just accidentally went to the first page of your ramblings, where it seems that you don't have a cellphone. Is this stil the case? If so, (1) kudos, and (2) please elaborate.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

If I could encourage you to use LinkedIn a little more, I am now talking to GSC Game World (STALKER) about working on some of their upcoming projects. We also picked up another assignment from Sarbakan through a contact via LinkedIn.

It's handy!
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:22 am Post subject:

i will peep linked in later this week when i have some time off. if i make it

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:

Honouring and commending an apostate and hated figure will definitely put the British officials [in a position] of confrontation with Islamic societies," Mr Hosseini said.]
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:58 am Post subject:

In one grating passage, boys are encouraged to carry a handkerchief, among other things, for "offering one to a girl when she cries."
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

one of the more interesting things about the american political landscape is how people who would not hesitate to call the vast majority of the country "redneck religious bigots" or "right wing scumfucks" etc will hesitate to call the above "hillbilly retards." or make excuses for the obviously heartfelt and sincere religious devotion to punishing apostasy.

but this is a very old trend with regards to rushdie, who has always - and i do not exaggerate here - been treated with a mixture of contempt and cautious sidestepping by much of the american lit studies left (har har as if there were anything else going on there?) even after translators were murdered and the berkeley bookstore was firebombed.

though i think i've posted about this before, but whatever totally lame -50 to all involved. the best part is if he had been pissing on jesus it would have been cool. and if he had been a lesbian in a wheelchair literally pissing on someone else dressed as jesus and taken photos of it, he'd be the chair of a performance studies department in the SUNY system now.

shit, putting it that way he lucked out.

but yeah long boring story short ideologues are fuckfaces and free expression shouldn't be limited to making fun of christianity or having a seven-category sexual identity. duh.

also i think this lady is wrong too.

in other news my ladylove is in tulsa looking through jean riis' personal letters and we've ((i.e. mostly her) come up with some awesome book/website project to do but, again due to the left-ocracy in the lit world, she has to wade through a bunch of nonsense first before being able to do something like, you know, original research. her diss has to be filtered through a bunch of layers of largely nonsensical and inapplicable lit theory, and that makes her sad. which makes me sad, since i am largely a puppet.

eh, i get pissy about but expecting things to be any different than they are is expecting the sky not to be. i sometimes forget we are all scorpions and squirrels sometimes.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

this story cannot be real.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject:

there were pictures of the metal guy in a swedish website's version.

seryogin · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

too bad they couldn't underwrite pansonic or something, you know, useful and good. depriving the world of a chronically underemployed pizza delivery boy seems downright sinful.

unrelated:kill bill is such a fucking great pastiche i want to wear it to bed.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject:

the best thing about summer in my area is the hipster baby sales, where they put all their cds and fun books on the block because someone couldn't bag it.
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

dude i have bad taste in film. mine are never boring. there is no real characterization. it is nothing but action action ACTION all night long.

sin city was pretty.

i also really admire certain clint eastwood films quite a bit.

and i'm about to watch over the top, which is basically citizen kane + arm wrasslin'.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:12 am Post subject:

social sanctioning is often fatal.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I often keep a hat near me, in the event that I need the power of a diesel engine.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject:

the question "can i make a dish so spicy even i cannot eat it" has been answered and the answer is maybe. intentionally i mean. this batch of chili paste i got is like, 3x spicier than the last batch. wtf, food maker?

man i walked four about four hours today. it was nice. and nothing like a trip to the big and tall shop to remind you that ice cream is not a breakfast food.

tomorrow i hope to get up stupid early (6 ish) and walk across the brooklyn bridge. and maybe through chinatown and then up to the f train. or maybe a round trip. dunno.

when peeps come to town and they don't want to get their drink on, i try to encourage them to take long walks instead. it don't always work. it's the ideal way to learn about where you are visiting, really, beyond peace corps or something.

bored last night and did this:

http://dhex.org/audio/dhex/jeight.mp3

i've also gotten no love for my ambient mix. and i figured out why. including that time machines track.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject:

this is the best anti-drug-war ad i've ever seen.

quoth i:

Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

man i did about 9.5 miles today, across the bridge, down to the financial district, looking for a fucking coinstar machine. hung out in the park a bit by the bridge on the way back. didn't get hit by anyone thankfully, which sort of cemented something:

yeah the nypd is bullshit on the whole parade permits thing in the city, but why are so many cyclists such obnoxious fucking twits?

and now something we can all agree upon:

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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject:

so bloodlines is basically a really good game that wasn't finished.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

what the living hell?

oh:

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

watch michael savage video, drink, rinse, repeat.

people, man. people.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:46 am Post subject:

http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

basically smart middle upper class kids move to facebook and the hoi polloi go to myspace. i've never seen facebook (just to continue my no cell phone using, tv getting rid of being a total fucking dick about selective media consumption thing) but myspace is an aesthetic nightmare from which humanity is trying to awaken. this converges with danah boyd's analysis, as guidos and hoodies are also aesthetic nightmare.

man, part of me thinks i should pursue the whole e-ethnography thing but i'm never going to pass anyone's political litmus tests.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

speaking of litmus, an associate of mine has been attempting to come up with a value neutral analogy for abortion. an interesting - if futile - task, but he's come up with a very interesting set. out of the three this is the most value neutral i think.

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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:02 am Post subject:

yeah i don't claim to know a lot about any of that stuff. which is probably, again, my loss, but i have bad focusing issues so i never bothered with myspace, etc, back when all my friends in bands were wetting themselves over it. i couldn't even be bothered to sign up. probably just another boat missed, etc, but it seems more like the equivalent of a crowded bar filled with people who make their own clothes but shouldn't. this may or may not be elitist, but who the fuck cares? (the elitism thing doesn't ring so very hard anymore since so many people are so willing to denounce huge swathes of the population due to political/social affiliations.)

this is interesting:

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so. His five-year study shows that immigration and ethnic diversity have a devastating short- and medium-term influence on the social capital, fabric of associations, trust, and neighborliness that create and sustain communities. He fears that his work on the surprisingly negative effects of diversity will become part of the immigration debate, even though he finds that in the long run, people do forge new communities and new ties.

i think truth is a far better god than politics, but of course i would think that. (hegemon, hegemon, heresiarch)
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dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

well, his fears aren't unfounded. but people will always find fodder to support their politics, whether true (or relevant) or not.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:

granted, but his long-term findings seem to cancel that out. (i haven't read the work yet, but i will.)

and furthermore, one would think this would either temper stances across the board (har har har) or, what would be more desirable is a reframing of the understanding of society, family, community and all that jazz. it is changing. families are far smaller, unrelated networks are getting larger and periods of long ethnic and cultural change always result in odd things that were not as they were before. is it gross? yes. is it not fun to live through? often. does it leave open the danger to populist, nationalist and authoritarian movements? yeah, usually.

are there any other alternatives? none that i can see.

i was not particularly impressed by bowling alone (it was kind of a thing when it came out in some circles) but i think his notion of community involvement is somewhat overblown and old-fashioned. but his research seems to be largely solid, even if his conclusions sometimes puzzle me.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject:

a borges biography review.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

also are folks going to be around for the boredoms 77 drummers thing on july 7th? i am getting there early even though i hate waiting a lot. also going to regulate the fuck out of some interstate commerce and probably get really drunk afterwards.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

oh great maybe we'll have another blackout and i won't ever get home tonight hooray!
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

oh yeah not safe for work too

edit bah

http://horribletattoos.blogspot.com

http://horribletattoos.blogspot.com/2007/01/muscle.html
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

Gloria and I (and some friends) are planning to go to the Boredoms show. you apparently need to RSVP here in order to go.

dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject:

fuck well here's hopin'.

sorry i blew you off monday, btw, but i didn't get back til late and was pooped.
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Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

hey, no problem, i figured something like that happened. anyhow, i ended up getting a call later asking me to come in for an interview early Tuesday morning so i probably couldn't have come out for too long anyway.

dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:46 am Post subject:

well, how'd it go?
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:06 am Post subject:

dude, ron paul namechecked lysander spooner on fox news. i'm pretty sure the eschaton is here.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

also i can't find anyone to go to today is the day with me in september except my friend brian who will probably have a session that day anyway.

man that brings me back to high school.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/NoTreason/NoTreason_chap3.html

dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

In his dissent on a recent free-speech case, Justice John Paul Stevens wades into the war-on-drugs debate, comparing modern-day pot smokers with "otherwise law-abiding patrons of bootleggers and speakeasies," during the prohibition era.
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: