Tia Fisher

That girl has most random comments. Some of them crack me up.
"My favorite baseball team is anyone that plays against my grandfathers".
"I just realized I don't like drama movies. I'm all the drama I could ever need".

Orson Scott Card

As a kid I read "Ender's Game", I think we all did. And as true to kids in that age era I sympathized with Andrew Wiggin.
Every kid wants to hear stories of revolt against the adult structure. All kids dream of the day the toy store opens it's doors and yells "Have at it". Getting 1 up on the people who push you around all day is every mans desire.
It also sets the stage, that even at a young age, we are ALL anarchists! An unsullied mind fights the perceived established system. Every child swears he'll be kind to kids when he/she is grown. As a kid in 8th grade I longed for the day when I could tell the thumb pressing my nose to the grindstone that they could go to you-know-where.

Didn't you?

... Don't you still?


I just re-read "Ender's Game" and I was blown away.
I saw the entire picture through Graff's eyes.

Inadvertently or through genius, Scott Card paints humanity in a way very few do.
What defines us?
What dictates the next step in evolution?
What changes us to the next step of higher sophistication?

Survival. Survival and violence.
Empires ranging from the invention bronze swords to GUI's. We have proved our dominance over each other with superiority.
BUT, we've been the dominant species since Adam (or since we learned tools and fire).
There is nothing for the human race to be superior over.

So, we fight ourselves and violence becomes our definition as a species. The people who have forced the next evolution have done it against their own kind.
If we were all scientists studying the human species, we would come to the conclusion that the smarter we get the dumber we are. What other species kill's it's own kind? What other species exults those best at it?
It would appear that the person who would wipe the earth clean of humans would be the greatest among us.


Back to Scott Card.
In Ender's Game Graff erases all lines in the fight for survival. In his shoes I would do the same... as would you.

Question is: why?
In the new "Day the Earth Stood Still" the U.S.A. responds to a alien attack in true human fashion.
We see something and we use violence against it. When that doesn't solve our perceived problem we resort to the next human trick: more violence.

Read "Flux" by Scott Card.
The man is one of the few people in the modern age who is able to look into the human soul.
Swift had it right!
It is possible to justify man, it is impossible to justify mankind. I know God agrees with me on this one.

On a separate note; whenever a author talks about what they view as their greatest work, you are guaranteed to hear pure drivel.
Authors never realize their greatest pieces. Makes you wonder if all genius is accidental.
Books authors proclaim is their best piece is usually one of their worst.
Take "The worthing saga" by Scott Card, or "The drawing of three" AND "The wastelands" by King, the "Silmarillion" by Tolkien or the "Conan collection" by Jordan
Give me an author's biography. Pick what they claim is their epic contribution to humanity.
Never read it and you'll be better off for it.

Self-company

Fame! You can be famous as famous can be,
with the whole world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.

I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.

All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone will be something
you'll be quite alot.

Random Info: the NFL has a salary cap on its players, so most get the majority of their salary in a "sign up" bonus. Cincinnati Bengal's Carson Palmer is the '08 highest paid Q-Back with 13.5 mil a year. The big fat guys standing there playing meat shield max out at 5.1 mil.
A punter (guy who makes 1 kick every 1/2 hour) max's out at 5 mil a year (Chris Kluwe), while David Beckham (famous kicker??) gets paid 5.5 mil. (the highest of any MLS player).
Moral: play football, drink beer!

Ghetto breath mints

These pics haven't been photoshopped

Redneck fire detector

Why pics

Igor at his finest (struggled to resist posting it ... resistance is futile) .. All your base are belong to us?

The difference between men and women

New stills from the new wolverine movie ... Liev Schreiber will play Sabertooth ... AND ZOMGZOMGZOMG Ryan Reynolds will play Deadpool !!!!!1!!
...I can now die happily

He always knew having a kid would come back to bite him in the ...

Shot from photo shoot vs. how it came out on the magazine

"I have nothing interesting to say; I should blog about it"

All I play is W.o.W. so my gaming reviews have gone down the toilet, all I do is fund raise so anything else to share is also gone (a.k.a. writing). Still you click, you chuckle (except for Igor who snorts), you move on. 5 minutes well spent.

poops and titters

The new PSP Billboards in L.A. I was impressed

The silhouette is made by that trash mound.

Your I.T. guy in R.L.

Look how many cops they called.

EPIC FAIL!!!

This sign is from a food court in a mall near the Beijing Olympics.
Google translator fail!

The GREATEST way to ruin your buddy's pic.

Hardcore emo stuck in his mom's minivan

Ultimate lonely. Look at all the girls NOT sitting next to him

This one cracks me up. Look at the tied up dude nonchalantly strolling past in the back

Fail.

Digg

Loving it

I love how as they were touching her up they accidentally forgot to add eyeliner.... no they got that one. Maybe it was the freckle they forgot to add.... Ahh, right... they forgot to add her leg!!

Smbc

So lame I actually laughed.

Photography convention

There was thousands and thousands of artists and all the good ones cost cash. I believe photography is more than good cameras, lighting, and the perfect angle.

L337 photographers have imagination sk1lls!!
High speed shots FTW

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