As a comm major, I've had classes for over three years now on how to give a speech. None of the advice I've ever gotten, the principles I've studied or the theories they indoctrinate us with was as good as reading this article.

K.

Federal court overrules FCC fine, saying, "Sometimes a nipple is just a nipple." All that months of hooplah is hereby ruled overly-histronic and repudiated as hype and more fizzle than sizzle. Also, smoking is bad for you, nicotine is addictive, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened.

       I'm thinking of starting to write a serialized story online. Something I'd do a couple of times a week, right now, probably more as school drops off and then back to a couple of times a week as it picks up again. I'm debating between running wordpress GPL on incubbus.com (and getting my favorite sysadmin ever to set it up for me, if i can contact him, hinthint), or finding an online place to host it for me. Wordpress.com might work, or I might just make a separate LJ account or even a community. I also want to be careful that it is separate from my offline life and not easily associated with me for professional reasons. Anybody have any ideas or suggestions? I'd really like to be able to have various pages about characters, history, timelines, details, as well as have a sequential format for posted stories so that people could jump to the most recent one, start in the beginning or pick up somewhere in the middle. Something that would automatically archive and list them for me, so I'm not writing a lot of HTML (and don't have to learn CSS), and can just focus on writing.

       I worry that I don't really have a lot of dedication, I tend to hop around and my interests have the lifespan of a housefly, leaping from one thing to the next without rhyme or reason. I am utterly passionate about the Holy Roman Empire one minute, and theoretical supra-light speed propulsion the next. Vikings war with exotic alien slave girls and obscure alchemical formula and global political theories and developments in human enhancement in my mind. I spend more time reading about religions that died a thousand years before I was born than I should while taking 18 credits and then the next week I'm reading about Russian mafia wars in the 1990s in Israel. Or Australia. Or Berlin.

K.

Melissa and I saw The Dark Knight last night. WOW, what an incredible movie! One of the best I've seen all year, and I've seen a considerable amount of movies thus far. The crowd was also great... I love opening weekend crowds, they are so much fun to be a part of!

My thoughts:

- Movie stayed pretty cohesive all the way through.
- Acting was overall very solid.
- However, by far the best acting goes to: Heath Ledger.
- Wanted better acting from: Aaron Eckhart.

GO SEE IT NOW!

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
- Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'

...six (long) months!

I can't believe I haven't updated since January.
More importantly, I can't believe you guys stuck around on my F-list for so long w/o as much as a "I'm still alive" post.

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x&o.

Some things that I enjoy:

1. The sound of a fan running as I fall asleep.
2. The fear of possibly not making it to the surface after diving deep into water.
3. The line in Blood Meridian "The blood of a thousand Christs".
4. People who unknowingly could easily be characters on Metalocalypse.
5. Slightly slushy Mountain Dew that has just been removed from the freezer.
6. This video:


Things I dislike:

1. That raspy whiskey drinking voice that every female radio DJ seems to have (did someone tell them it's hot or something?).
2. When babies keep trying to unplug things from power outlets.
3. When the temperature doesn't drop as the sun goes down.
4. People too dumb to realize when infomercials aren't really talk shows discussing an amazing product/medical discovery.
5. Martial Arts training that doesn't consider things like a broken bottle to the eyeball.
6. Having enough money but not enough time.

       A University in Pennsylvania did a study recently, involving 6000 dog owners. The top 10 most dangerous dogs and a summary of the original article follows.

K.