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    Friday, July 4th, 2008
    marzipan_melee
         		5:38p
    In 30 days I delete this. Or whenever I get around to it.

    Anyone who wants to keep in touch other than LJ please comment with your contact information if I don't already have it (cell number, email, mailing address, etc.)I promise to screen all comments so only I will see this info, but if you are still worried about it, just email me at lollipopstandoff@gmail.com

    I'm just kinda tired of livejournal. I don't have time for it. I guess I am also just not really that interested in sharing my life with the world anymore. No offense to anyone that does, but after years of being conscious of the fact that I am a private person and that sharing things about myself with people who arent worth my time is a bad thing, I am finally changing it. Myspace will probably go too.

    It is silly to admit but for the longest time I thought I could make friends with people that are really worth it on the internet, instead of most of the assholes I know in real life. Truth is you are most likely not ever going to find an honest, dependable, caring, trustworthy person on the internet. They are hard enough to find in real, everyday life. Everyone wears a mask, and the masks are much more elaborate on the internet because they are much easier to don when you are looking through a computer screen. I have met some truly wonderful people on the internet but it seems like for every awesome person I meet I come across a billion assholes.

    Anyways...yeah. Last post and stuff. On to a new chapter!
    Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
    hachihyaku
         		1:49p
    I don't get it
    I am back to searching out things to be outraged by. It's like I'm addicted to being offended.

    How do you guys do it? Do you just ignore people who disagree with you? If I instead searched out only opinions identical to mine, wouldn't I be ignorant?

    How do you know what's going on in the world without living your life in a state of permanent outrage?
    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
    one_user_less
         		10:08p
    the red thread of fate
    an invisible red thread
    connects those who are destined to meet
    regardless of time,
    place,
    or circumstance.
    the thread
    may stretch
    or tangle,
    but it will never
    break.
    one_user_less
         		5:24p
    i bought myself a little black dress, some stiletto ankle boots, and a snuff kit

    the kind you see on girls who were designed by rachel zoe
    Thursday, June 26th, 2008
    hachihyaku
         		12:21p
    The worst accident I ever seen
    Last night I saw the most disturbing show ever.
    I've seen Man Behind the Sun, I've read 120 Days of Sodom, I've listened to Whitehouse, and this was worse than any of those.

    "Britain's Worst Teeth."

    I shall speak of it no more.


    EDIT:
    I come home today after work, and my Pad Thai leftovers are getting a little old, so I put them down the disposal. Never, ever put rice noodles down a disposal.
    It clogged the sink, so I went and bought some Drano and poured that down the sink, but it still didn't unclog, so I had to take apart the pipes under the sink and clean out the gunk myself (where did the water go? Into a bucket, and all over the floor), and then it took an hour to figure out how to put the pipes back together again, and then the PVC collars that hold the pipes together all were old and cracked, so I bought new ones, and it STILL is leaking and not working. I still don't have a working sink. Well, the sink works, but the drains don't, they just leak everywhere. My landlord is nowhere to be found, his idiot son is next door but he'd probably turn my pipes into a bong or something, and if I don't hear from him by Monday I'm calling a plumber and taking it out of the rent. This will cause him to then care, when it's too late, just like always.
    Oh, and my hands are all cracked and peeling, because they're covered with Drano.

    EDIT 2:

    So it turns out the son's big talent is plumbing, and he actually fixed half of it. One side of the sink works, at least. They're supposed to come out tomorrow and fix the other side.
    So I'm about to open a High Life in celebration that they're not an incompetent as I thought they were. (I have this new appreciation for Miller High Life. The first time I got it it was $3.50 for a 6 pack, and lo and behold it actually tasted good. It's like my college days when I'd be able to get drunk for three bucks by drinking Natty Ice.)
    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
    hachihyaku
         		7:25p
    Day 1
    First day of classes today. It turns out that getting up at 5.30, walking three miles, and then teaching for four hours straight is exhausting. (Note: "Exhausting" to me used to mean "makes me go to sleep." I am only now grasping the difference between mental, physical, and sleep exhaustion.) I felt like I ran a marathon and it was only 1.30. Like, I'm ready to to go bed right now and it's not even 8.00.

    (I never really thought about it, but I've been using a period instead of a colon or dash for times and dates since high school. I have no idea why I started. Right now it's 7.28 pm, and the date is 6.25.08. Just a tidbit of info about your neighborhood hachi.)

    I have been a nonsmoker for somewhere around five months. I don't remember the exact day I quit, which probably surprises people. It was somewhere in very late January.

    I need a name for a band whose music sounds like CDs full of white noise skipping. I just found "Orbital Mind Control Lasers," but it's kind of long. Ideas from last weekend included "Mordent" and "The Kibosh." Any ideas?
    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
    hachihyaku
         		4:01p
    An idea (Permanent media, loss of context, and Elmo Saves Christmas)
    Idea:
    Permanence degrades the power of experience.

    When Star Wars came out, people stood in line to see it fifty times. Why? It was never coming out on DVD, they'd never be able to download it, and unless a theater or TV station decided to play it, they would never get to see it again. Their experience of seeing Star Wars is necessarily different from mine. I rarely go to movies, because it's not worth ten bucks to see something once that I could see a hundred times at home for free. But if I knew that (say) Iron Man would never, ever be released on DVD, that I had to see it now or I'd never get to see it again, I might think about going to see it. By being put on a permanent recording, Star Wars (or any movie) loses its context.

    For hundreds of years, symphonies played mostly pieces by contemporary composers. And if you wanted to hear, say, a Beethoven piece, you had to wait until someone decided to perform it, which was once or twice a decade. Now, I can listen to it whenever I want. And nobody pays any attention to contemporary composers any more, because the repertoire has already been established.

    In collectible card game terms, nothing ever "rotates out" of our collective consciousness. We as a race never forget anything the way we once would have, because everything is permanent. "Stravinsky's Rite of Spring" is no longer a piece of music, it's a CD. "My Fair Lady" is less a musical you go to see, than a DVD you can watch whenever you want. The value of a live performance is measured by how close it approximates the Platonic ideal on the CD or DVD, rather than by how good it is.

    Recorded media takes all the context out of anything recorded on it. You can listen to Gregorian chants in your bathroom, or to Don Giovanni in your car.

    It's like Elmo Saves Christmas, but instead of Elmo wishing for a Christmas every day, it's us wishing for a Star Wars every day.
    Elmo learned that if every day is Christmas, Christmas doesn't mean anything.
    If I can watch Star Wars whenever I want, does it lose some of its meaning as well?



    I start work again tomorrow. By the sound of the above, I really need it.
    Monday, June 23rd, 2008
    bluek33
         		11:22p
    I turn 25 in half an hour. so odd.
    hachihyaku
         		10:17a
    So, one cool thing about firefox 3
    1. Select a paragraph. (As in most Windows things, you can select a whole paragraph by triple clicking it, which is something a lot of people don't know.)

    2. Drag it somewhere.

    I don't remember the old Firefox showing transparent copies of things you moved. It works on pictures, too. Totally useless, and a waste of space in the program, but neat. (It even increases the transparency of the ghost copy in proportion to how far from your pointer it is.)
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