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Paper

If anyone has a copy of the following paper I would really appreciate it if you sent me a copy (please)

"'You've Got To Be Fucking Kidding!': Knowledge, Belief and Judgement in Science Fiction" by Steve Neale.

Wheels of Fortune

At $652,000 (344,000), the Ferrari Enzo was this years most expensive car
The $440,000 Porsche Carrera GT reaches speeds of more than 200mph
The $440,000 Saleen S7 can travel at speeds of more than 200mph
For $357,000, the Mercedes-Benz Maybach 62 comes with a DVD player and
refrigerator

What am I?

You Are a Liberal Republican

When you tell people that you're Republican, they rarely believe you. That's because you're socially liberal - likely pro-choice and pro-gay rights. You're also not so afraid of big goverment, as long as it benefits people and not politicians. You are the most likely of any Republican type to swing over to the Democrat side sometimes.

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Yea did one of those online 'which xxx are you' tests today and got the above answer. Not really sure how to respond to it though. I guess technically its right, but I really hate hate hate to think of myself as a republican.

TheTimes

TheTimes not TheNYTimes deserves a huge thumbs up in my book. They recently moved away from a subscriber only format to one where anyone can read their stories.

Granted it does put a 'euro-centric' view on the news they report, but on the whole, I would rate it more highly than a lot of the newspapers here in the US. For the record I subscribed to their service for a few years.

go read a new spin on some of the events happening in the world TheTimes

This has got to be one of the weirdest emails I have recieved recently....not sure if its spam cause its from an email address I know. There was no website, no attachments, no links...nothing to give me cause to believe it was spam...

Subj: removed
Date: 11/17/2004 14:41:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: removed
To: removed

washington, dc is to liyng what wsiconsin is to cheese. ah, summer, what power you have to mkae us suffer and like it.
i must govern the clock, not be governed by it. any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
pecae is not the abesnce of cnoflcit but the presence of creative alternatives for resopnding to confilct - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. the achiveemnets whcih scoiety rweards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
i'd rather go by bus.

Things you'd like to say out loud at work.... (edited to reflect syracuse)

1. I can see your point, but I still think you're full of shit

2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. It could also be the massive amount of cheap imitation Tiffany jewelry you are wearing.

3. How about never? Is never good for you? Try callin up more than 5 minutes in advance

4. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter. Just because you are in Newhouse doesn’t mean crap you’re still fair game

5. It sounds like English, but I can't understand a damn word you're saying. Try going back to the basic ESL course that Syracuse offers

6. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth. An Occlusive trauma dressing also fits in this pretty well.

7. just because the person you are talking to on your cell phone isn’t right next to you, doesn’t mean you need to scream into the phone to make them hear.

8. This isn’t an office. It’s Hell with fluorescent lighting and bad BO (try walking into the MadLab on a Friday night)

9. Just because your daddy is a lawyer from Long Island still doesn’t mean your shitty fake ID will get you into a bar bitch.

10. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant. I’ve got larger issues to deal with than a shitty grade I gave you on a paper.

DailyOrange speaks about Savage Love

Well I'm glad. Appearantly I didn't make as much of an ass out of myself as I thought I did after talking to a reporter from the DailyOrange. Any way heres a link to the article that they wrote about Savage speaking last night

LINK
if it asks you to enter an email address, just use blah@blah.com

or for the lazy people check the extended entry.
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Though Dan Savage had only just met Justin Welch, he already had a recommendation for the junior public relations major - stop smoking.

"If you see him smoking anywhere on campus, you have my permission to slap him," Savage said.

But it's OK for Savage to tell Welch to improve his health - he's in the business of advice. Last night, America's most popular sex columnist dispensed his wisdom in Goldstein Auditorium, in a speech sponsored by University Union Speakers, the First Year Players, Asian Students in America and Pride Union. Savage, whose column, "Savage Love," appears in more than 70 newspapers worldwide, organized the evening as one big question and answer session, reading questions off note cards as well as taking audience queries.

Savage brought a homosexual perspective to the heterosexual relationship, saying that the main problem in most of the latter is the general lack of communication. He said a partner is no good if the couple can't discuss its sexual issues. People are worried about making themselves vulnerable to people they're having sex with, but that if they don't make it clear what their sexual needs are, they're never going to be satisfied.

"You have to make yourself vulnerable to someone you're having sex with to begin with," he said, "so you might as well go for the whole vulnerability piñata and just smack it down."

Sexual satisfaction is something that takes communication - and cooperation from both parties involved, Savage said. One woman questioned what to do about her boyfriend who refused to go down on her, to which Savage replied women have to insist because if no man ever performed cunnilingus, no woman would ever perform fellatio. He also said the any man who is homophobic is essentially misogynistic, since homophobes hate gay men for the fact that they act like women.

Savage does find it reasonable for women to take good care of their private areas, making sure things are trimmed and smell clean. He said there's no better person to tell you there's something stank going on than the person whose nose is wedged in there.

"Anybody who doesn't want to bury their face in your genitals is nobody you should date," he said.

As part of a gay couple, Savage said he and his partner have taken on more "traditional" family roles; he goes out on tours and writes his column while his boyfriend stays at home with the couple's 6-year-old son. Savage's boyfriend does his laundry, and when there's something to be killed in the basement, Savage takes care of it. He said this relationship model isn't necessarily heterosexual, and it's something that just happens when one becomes part of a family since it's hard to have a polyamorous family with kids.

"It's kind of funny because we can wear these roles sort of in a humorous way - wear them lightly, because they weren't imposed on us," he said. "It was a free choice for both of us."

While Savage isn't allowed to marry his boyfriend in his hometown of Seattle, the adoption of the couple's son is recognized. However, he said, if the couple were in Oklahoma, their son would be considered a ward of the state, since Oklahoma doesn't recognize gay adoptions, even those of other states. Savage feels gay people need marriage rights for this very reason, and said kids raised in same-sex households are healthier and better adjusted than those raised by straight couples.

"No gay couple ever got drunk one night and adopted," he said.

Savage also said he has no pity for evangelical Christians who complain about liberal city elitists. He said people in "red states" insult liberals for looking down their noses at conservatives and being unpatriotic, but the minute people in "blue states" tell rural people not to marry their sisters, it causes an uproar.

Savage himself caused somewhat of an uproar among audience members, who laughed wildly at his quips and anecdotes.

"He had a very frank and upfront way of speaking," said Maureen Watkins, a junior English and textual studies major.

"He was absolutely hilarious," said Henry Simonds, a graduate student studying computer science. "A lot of my friends read 'The Onion,' and I'm actually surprised more people weren't here."

Before the age of e-mail, Savage said he would receive letters explaining peoples' genital diseases in graphic detail. He would tell these readers to go to a doctor, since he's certainly not able to prescribe medicine through a newspaper. Now that the information age has arrived, however, Savage encounters another problem - digital photography.

While on a flight, Savage opened his downloaded e-mail and was horrified to discover a picture of a penis with a big sore on it. Since he was in coach, he was smashed up between two people, who were equally as shocked by the image on his screen - as was the flight attendant who thought he was looking at pornography.

"But no, I write a sex advice column," he said to the flight attendant. "It's in newspapers - people send me pictures of their sores."

I bit the bullet an ended up going to see Dan Savage speak tonight at Syracuse and I jotted down some quotes that he made during his speech, which was actually a 2 hour question and answer session. I got my copy of Skipping Towards Gomorrah signed

“He (referring to the host) has been smoking pretty badly lately for a vain guy with pretty hair. I give you my permission to slap him if you see him smoking…”

“That’s not to say you shouldn’t fuck sluts. That’s what they are there for”

“Ladies…if your not comfortable with that (in reference to head I think), get a lesbian”

“He can eat every pussy at an SPCA meeting and people will never believe that he is straight” (in reference to how women can be ‘lesbians’ in college then once they graduate become straight, however men if they suck a dick or two will always be ‘gay’)

“Who better to tell you that you stink than the guy whose nose is wedged in there” (in reference to why some guys refuse to please a woman orally)

“How do you get it out of your system? Hunt. Conquest. Hunt. Conquest. Hunt. Conquest… and hopefully get it out of your system before you die” (in response to why guys sleep around I think)

“It is supremely easy to get laid if you are guy and willing with have sex with anything…It’s a bathhouse staffed by very willing volunteers”

“You can overindulge yourself in anything. Spinach, Twinkies…Internet Porn”

“America needs to pick the type of gays it is going to hate” (In reference to how people are accepting of gay couples who ‘act like straight couples’ and go to things like PTA meetings or those who go to gay pride parades and wear sequined halter tops and have bondage parties)

“Gay people don’t get pregnant by accident. Straight people get drunk and fall down and get up pregnant all the time”

“Mary Cheney walks on stage and then this Mac Truck pulls along side her…how do they sleep together?” (Discussion about the Cheney family)

“If I were a lamb would I rather be fucked or be killed?” (About his favorite guest he had on a radio show. The guest married his horse, also the same guy who taped the ONLY unaired Jerry Springer Show.”

You lying sack of shit. Its over. I repeat, ITS OVER!

Currently Listening

Currently Listening to:

Burnside Project "Cue the Pulse to begin"
Kreo "Burn for You"
The Faint "Take me to the Hospital"
Real McCoy "Run Away"
Motorcycle "As the Rush Comes"
Keane "Everybody's Changing"
Kate Ryan "Only if I"
Kylie Minogue "I Believe in You"

Sidecar:

* 2 oz Cognac
* 1/2 oz Cointreau
* 1 oz Lemon juice
or
* 1 oz Brandy
* 1/2 oz Triple sec
* Juice of 1/4 Lemon

Obviously shaken with ice and then strained into either a cocktail glass or a martini glass.

Its a WWII era drink (if I recall correctly). Ill dig up its origins when I have the motivation to.

plans for saturday night just fell through :-(

Fuckthesouth

This was an interesting rant that I ran across. Curtosy of fuckthesouth

Fuck the South. Fuck 'em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they'd stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

No, No. Get the fuck out. We're not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don't get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I've been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.

Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What's more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don't think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn't be so fucking arrogant if I wasn't paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you're the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

The next dickwad who says, "It’s your money, not the government's money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they're red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we're-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you're ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that's ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we're fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you're fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that's a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don't talk about religion as much as you because we're not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you're too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain't us up here in the North, assholes.

Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

And no, you can't have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.
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I'll make a response to this in my next entry

Ill be one of the first in line to complain when SCORE dosn't work correctly, but ill also be one of the first inline to praise the registrars office when they actually do something correctly. After 5+ years of using score and all its glorious crappiness I am pleased to say that the transition to myslice went wonderfully. The longest part of my registration today was when I decided to launch IE.

It was gloriously simple. I wonder how its going to react when the undergrads get a wack at it in the upcoming days (today was only for grad students).

Happy news: I finally have an ATM card that works correctly :-) iPod charger arrived so I have an iPod again. Painting coming in the mail in a few days :-p
Thanks to everyone who has been the victim of one of my mood swings lately, you're all understanding, thanks

one word: Disapointed.