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2008-10-09T20:03:57Z

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User Pic

2008-09-20T13:56:20Z

After about a thousand years, I've uploaded a user pic.

Tears of Dew

2008-08-30T20:32:21Z

Fog clouds up
the morning sky
masking the soul
of whipporwil's cry
Proud hawks wheel
as the mouses scurry
rabbits twitch and hop
in their slow hurry.
With the brush of wind
tree branches cry
tears of dew, tears of dew.

Grass is at it's greenest
in the blueness
of early morning light,
dew becomes a
thousand mirrors
reflecting this day's
emergence from night.
Flowers open their faces
to the morning light
and with the brush wind
shudder, shiver, and shake off
tears of dew, tears of dew.

Riding on the Wings of Icarus

2008-08-30T20:31:42Z

The passing of night
is marked by the mourning dew
The world slowly weeps
in the softest light of blue.

The day comes on slow
creeping until it's yellow and white.
The harshest glares always comes
from those closest to the light.

The melting of his wings left burns
upon his arms, back, and head
The great hubris to challenge authority
is what caused Icarus to be dead.

Don't soar too close to the sun
Don't stare directly at the light
Only dare to fly your highest
under the cover of darkest night.

The trail of wreckage
can be followed in the sky
The trail of billowing smoke
Gives to peace its lie.

The trees shudder now
in the briskest of wind
carrying the breath of death,
punishing those who have sinned.

Don't try to outshine the sun
Don't try to be the one that bright
Only dare to shine your brightest
under the cover of darkest night.

Wrap night around you like a blanket
to protect your bones from cold
take shadow deep into your heart
to keep you from being too bold.

Stoop those shoulders
and lower your eyes
don't dare to let the truth shine
that you see through their lies

Don't try to question
Don't try to think for yourself
Only dare to speak in whispers
even under the cover of darkest night.

psychosnail @ 2008-08-28T21:58:00

2008-08-29T02:02:55Z

The Haze at the End of Days
~
The haze's over the city
shrouding the setting sun
Masking the churches
and the trees.
Smoke hangs between
the ribs of fading leaves,
while copper topped domes
and skeletal fingers
struggle to breathe.
Proud spires stand
unbending in the unrelenting
shadow of day
waiting to thrust
their feeble lights
through the darkness
of impending night.
Clouds mate with ash
and the dirtiest rain
waits to dance
with the fall
of night.

Fractures
~
In the orange of refracted night
birds dance on the edge of day
strengths fading with the fall of light
silently ending all they had to say.

As the darkest of blue limps home
they catch a wing into a nest
where amidst the words of a poem
they find their final rest.

Even darkness can only turn red
into black for the shortest of whiles
so no matter how much they've bled
they always wear their longest smiles.

In the gray of these earliest days
the world mourns the innonce of night
lost forever to this jealous haze
darkness is fractured by an angry light.

Lost forever to this jealous haze.
Darkness, if fractured by the angriest light.

random reviews

2008-06-09T11:17:54Z

Saw Kung Fu Panda on Friday. Funny movie. I laughed, repeatedly.

Went to Michigan's Adventure. Rode their new roller coaster. It was good, but Cedar Point still has better ones, but it is easily the best that MA has to offer.

Bought a book on Python. Hopefully I'll use it.

Overheard - Beard

2008-06-05T03:28:05Z

"Hey, I like your beard!"

"Thanks, the wife didn't want me to grow it."

"No? Why not?"

"She doesn't like 'em. In fact she told me to shave it off. I told her, 'Hey, I don't tell you what to do with your facial hair!'. So yeah.. I've been sleeping on the couch for a month now."

The Wembly Woods in Derbenshire, v1

2008-05-24T08:19:47Z

Deep in the depths
of the Derbenshire
Lie the wicked wicked
woods of Wembly
Where underneath
both leaf and bough
only darkness
is not afraid to tread.
What is it about
these awful woods
that terrifies
everyone so?
That's just it
no one exactly knows.

Rathmore Chaos

2008-05-05T14:14:21Z

Without googling.. do you know what Rathmore Chaos is?

Rathmore Chaos is a feature of the moon Europa. A "jumble of broken up ice." via io9

What are you, a bunch of boyscouts?

2008-04-13T11:35:22Z

Seen while playing Call of Duty 4 online, "Are we playing CoD or are we re-enacting The Rocky Horror Picture Show? It is awfully campy to be former."

Spears and Arrows

2008-04-11T23:13:45Z

Today I was attacked by a man wielding a spear with a garden hose attached.

I lost about a pint of blood and now feel like crap.

Gundelburg

2008-01-30T03:53:48Z

Have I ever told you the story of Inspector Gundelburg and the Hooker Street Strangler?

82 Hours

2008-01-14T20:46:53Z

In the 82 hour period from when I got to work on Friday till I left today (Monday) I was at work for 41.5 hours.

Walton's Letter

2007-12-27T13:05:44Z

My Dearest Walton,

If you are reading this it is a happy day. It means the executor isn't
completely incompetent. I'm sure you've already been notified that you
are the chief benefactor of my will. The whole of my main estate and
three quarters of my fortune. The other nineteen houses have been
given, with an appropriate portion of the remaining inheritance, to
what various family and flunkies I felt to have been of sufficient
worth to be deserving of my largess.

You may ask yourself, and if not you then there are surely others who
will, what makes you deserving of the lions share of my earthly
treasures? You who constantly fought me? You who couldn't go a week
without picking a quibble out of jealousy or spite or both? You who is
directly responsible for the failure of three costly ventures? Why
you? You can tell all who ask whatever you want. Make up some lie,
which you've always been so good at, about how despite our differences
I held you in the highest regards.

To you, and only you, I will bestow the truth of why you have come
into such good fortunes. It is because falling from your current
relative squalor is not sufficient revenge. I boost you up only to
make your fall all that much more satisfying. The fact that I'm dead
and cannot enjoy your eventual suffering will not decrease the
embarrassment you have and will bring upon your family name.

I know about the ghastly crimes you've committed. Furthermore, I have
proof. Enough proof for the good King's Courts to throw you from this
Earth and into the depths of Hell. You are the only one who knows this
proof exists. I've hidden it about one of the 19 minor estates left to
others in my will. If you can find the proof and dispose of it before
the someone else finds it, then perhaps you deserve your freedom.

If not, I look forward to shaking the hand of your headless corpse
when you come to join me in Hell.

Sincerely,
M.

The Wheel of Time rolls on

2007-12-11T02:42:00Z

A writer has been chosen to write the last and final novel in the Wheel of Time.

A Fascinating Read

2007-12-01T09:06:40Z

I wish I knew of a book that discussed the history of social justice. A book about how our species has handle social equality through the ages. The forces that have guided us in the right and wrong direction. It'd have to be written by someone with a good grasp on history, sociology, economics, and politics. "Leaps and Bounds while Peddling Backwards: The History of Social Equality" Or something like that.

Games

2007-11-20T11:06:21Z

These four games have been taking up all my game playing time
Metroid Prime 3: Corrupotion
Super Mario Galaxies
Konquest
The Ur-Quan Masters.

Network Craziness

2007-10-28T11:27:04Z

Right now I'm typing this on a vista laptop running a firefox profile stored on an smbfs share on my ubuntu box. It takes a little bit to open up firefox, but oh well. Of course it wouldn't work away from home, but the laptop doesn't travel much.

psychosnail @ 2007-10-24T21:23:00

2007-10-25T01:24:35Z

For me, inspiration is a lot like sneezing. You can't control when it is going to hit. While you can kind of control the direction, you can't control the spray. While you can fake it, it is almost always easy to tell it isn't the real thing.

News

2007-10-12T21:16:17Z

"No news is good news."

There are two possible interpretations of this statement.

1. The lack of news is good news.
2. There is no news that is good news.

Let's discuss these in a what was first be last and last be first fashion.

Firstly the last, that's awfully pessimistic.
Lastly the first, that's not inherently true.

Wii Review - Tiger Woods 08

2007-10-11T03:42:08Z

I've been playing a lot of Tiger Woods 08 for the Wii the last several days. This is my review: My shoulder hurts. Make of it what you will.

Baseball

2007-10-07T10:44:03Z

Eventually I plan on getting a baseball video game and when I do I am making a team with the names from the Who's on First sketch by Abbott and Costello. The team Costello is supposed to be playing for is the Yankees, but I might just make a new team, the Abbottown Costellos.

Line Up:
Catcher: Today
Pitcher: Tomorrow
1st: Who
2nd: What
3rd: I don't know
SS: I don't give a darn
LF: Why
CF: Because
RF: Maybe.

They don't ever name the Right Fielder. According to Wikipedia there is a board game that has the Right Fielder being named Nobody. They also speculate that the Right Fielder is Costello, but it says he plays Catcher in the sketch. Another possibility according to Wikipedia is that the Right Fielder is named Naturally. Which comes from a misreading of the play.

I think Maybe would work well.

Costello: Okay, do you know the Right Fielder's name?
Abbott: Maybe.
Costello: Maybe you do or maybe you don't?
Abbott: I do, Maybe.
Costello: Well, are you going to tell me?
Abbott: Maybe.
Costello: Who's in right field?
Abbott: Who's on first!

Wii Collection

2007-09-25T01:44:25Z

My Wii Collection slowly grows.

In rough order of purchase
Wii Sport - Came with System
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes - Part of the birthday present that was the Wii.
Super Paper Mario - Saw someone playing it at Gamespot, had to get it.
Wii Play - Basically bought it for the controller that came with it.
Mario Party 8 - Good game.
Call of Duty 3 - Looking forward to Call of Duty 4.
Madden 08 - The controls are a little odd
Mario Strikers Charged - Bought same time as Madden, BOGO deal. Awesome fun.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - These last three I just got, part of a Buy 2 get 1 free.

Grease Monkey

2007-08-26T12:29:56Z

I'm such a dork. I just wrote my first Greasemonkey script. The online library catalog for the local library doesn't use cookies so you have to log in a million times, which is really annoying. So I looked at some other auto log in script and adjusted it for my purposes.

Chicago

2007-08-19T12:34:45Z

I had a business seminar in Chicago so the wife came along to hang out afterwards.

The main highway into town was a little tore up and traffic was bad. We moved along okay on the way in, until the thunderstorm and pouring, absolutely pouring rain hit. We made it alright. The drive down took about 3 hours, including a stop for food and gas. So the traffic wasn't too horrible.

Food review. A food court is a food court, no matter how fancy the mall. Chipolte's is a lot like Qdoba. Their idea of mild salsa is diced tomatoes. Not a fan. We tried to stop at popeyes, but they didn't have any buns. How do you not have buns? White Castle, do yourself a favor, do not eat White Castle. It tastes much the same it looks, bad.

The cool thing about the mall that was attached to the hotel was the Lego Store and the various cool lego sculptures on park benches.

The drive home was the worst thing about the trip. It took us three hours just to get the border of Michigan. It was insane. Way too much construction.

We're going back in a week and a half and taking the kids and doing the whole tourist thing.

Note to Indiana and Illinois Department of Transportation. Every hear of a rest stop? You might want to build some.