Pro-America

Pro-America does not mean pro-war. Or pro-Bush. Or anti-Afghanistan. Or pro-little-flags-on-SUV-antennas.

It means thinking independently and getting better informed and filtering your news very carefully and realizing that just because one version of the American aggro attitude is currently being ramrodded down society’s throat doesn’t mean you have to swallow.

— Mark Morford

Incidentally, this quote comes originally from this article at the SF Gate. It was then quoted at Killoggs, was then quoted at Underachievers, after which it was quoted by Wil Wheaton in his weblog, where I found it. And yes — the real Wil Wheaton. The Stand By Me and Star Trek: The Next Generation Wil Wheaton. Who just happens to be one of the coolest and funniest guys I’ve read stuff from in a long time. Set aside a few hours, and poke around his website — it’s well worth the time.

Religious musings

Thanks to Casey for forwarding this my way…

Satan worship is the perfect religion. If you fuck up, you go to heaven.

— Andrew Vachss

A ghost closing his mouth after a long summer’s yawn

From time to time we meet certain companions.
We walk with them, we carry on conversations,
We sing the old songs, we play card games.
It takes time to suspect that something is fishy,
That the person at our side is merely an echo,
Of something that came before.

Now as the last leaves release their grip from the tree,
And the ghosts conclude their brief shore leave,
We must remain on earth.

Our new companion is winter.
And as we prepare to enter this new dialogue,
We light a candle,
And we hold on to our seed.
In case, by some miracle,
Spring should surprise us once again.

— Jason Webley

Read more

Quotes: OS X, iPod

The computing world needs an OS X ad blitz that would show people that Apple is alive and well in the OS business (and advertising would finally convince white people to relax around me, since they would then know that my wearing a T-shirt with a blue X on it doesn’t mean that I’m a Louis Farrakhan follower paying homage to Malcolm X, but, instead, I am a computer geek showing my OS partisanship).

— Rodney O. Lain, in his ‘iBrotha‘ column for MacObserver


The iPod certainly got a lot of attention when I showed it to people, including a Windows guy named Bill Gates. He spun the wheel, checked out the menus on the display screen and seemed to get it immediately. “It looks like a great product,” he said. And then he added, incredulous, “It’s only for Macintosh?”

— Steven Levy in Newsweek, commenting on Apple‘s new iPod mp3 player

Amusing quotes

…so I’m taking the occasional (er…did I spell that right?) chance to go poking around the web. Some of the other weblogs you can find out there are pretty fascinating. Like Time For Your Meds — if only my blog posts were this interesting.


OK, I know that Crayola had to change some crayon colors from when I was a kid. Indian Red, although they had some reason it wasn’t really about Indian people, had to go. Flesh, which really only matched Band-Aids, was a goner. But why would they add a color called Beaver?

JillMatrix.com


Oh, wow…this is really worth snickering over. I think it’ll probably end up in my quotebook, too…in the humor section. I should really send it to my friend James, too. We’ve had a running joke for a few years — I’m too goth for his ass, and he’s to punk for my ass. I think this quotes from someone who’s way too punk rawk for either of our asses…. ;)

um ya well i am like rilly board right now cuz my stepmom is a stupid bitch and she grounded me. i hate her. she is rilly fat and ugly! she always grounds me cuz she’s jellus cuz she cant get a man- except for my dad but he is like RILLY old and RILLY ugly, so he like so doesnt count. anyways, my GAY brother tom was watchin vh1, which is like suppose to be like mtv only for old people or something, and there was this thing called 25 years of punk! i was like, hell ya, i’m a punk! so of course i had to watch it! and like there was NOTHING about punk! just a bunch of gay old school bands like nirvana and the sex pistols. oh ya but guess what? i found out that the lead singer is the sex pistols is totally hot! i was like omg who is that guy with the funny shirt and tom was like that’s johnny rotten and i was like well who the fuck is that his singing is gay. britist people are like sooo gay by the way. lol. im like sooo glad im not british. anyways, tom said that he was the lead singer of the GAY sex pistols and i was like oh well his music is gay but he is hot! so i watched the rest of that 25 years of punk show. they like didnt even have anything about real punk, like blink 182 and sum 41, but oh well, johnny rotten is like so totally hot! so like i am gunna go buy some sex pistols cds, even tho theyre really gay. i mean, sometimes you have to like make sacrifices and shit. like for example, sumtimes there is a gay crappy band, but the lead singer is rilly hot, so you have to go buy their cd anyways, you know? tom was getting all mad and shit just cuz of that. i swear he is soooo gay. i cant believe we’re related sumtimes. he was all talking about some shit like music is about music not what the musicians look like. whateva. thats gay. i mean i could NOT like a band with an ugly lead singer! i mean if the lead singer is ugly its like having some UGLY GUY sing to you! wtf! who would want to listen to an ugly guy sing? ewwwwww.

jennas a punk rawker


How interesting…apparently our fighting forces shouldn’t have to put up with gays during peacetime, but they’ll make great cannonfodder. Yes, I know I said that in a very deliberately provacative way…but then, I’m just paraphrasing what the article says. Grrr.


Oh, lord…one last look at jenna’s diary…then I’ll quit. I promise.

ok so like as u no like america is like kewl n punk so like there iz a war or sumthin like that, so N E wayz, i have totalli been noticin lately, there r like, sooooooo many hott guys on the news! like, omg! its like, hottie heaven on the news, like, i swear! and like, the prezident or like boss of the world or whatever he is, jorg busch or whatever his name is, is like, SOOOOOO PUNK! i am like, totalli a republikin or whatever that stuff is now, cuz i wanna be kewl n punk like the kewl punk prezient! omg and i like totalli LUV america now. it iz like sooooooo kewl! i mean like i have got all these totalli kewl american flag shirts n stuff now! i like TOTALLI threw out my UGLY old british flag shirts! the british flag is soooooo three months ago, i swear! i am TOTALLI a patriot now! patriots rawk tha house!!!!!

jennas a punk rawker


I think that’s it for today’s randomness, though. Unless I come up with something really über-cool later on…but work’s picking up now, so that’s not all that likely. I probably won’t be back here ’till Monday…so until then….

Microsuck

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn’t suck will be the same day they start making vacuum cleaners.

— Anonymous

How Hollywood sees us

…all of you are just simple-minded dumbasses with tiny brains and limited exposure who are so used to ‘checking your brains at the door’ that your gray matter has devolved into a state of gummy disuse. You are no longer even capable of appreciating anything a notch above ‘stupid’.

— Al Brown, on the Home Theater Forum, hypothesizing on how Hollywood sees the American public

Heaven forbid that happen!

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name…without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

— Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, pg. F2)