now supports the built-in camera on my iMac.
the computer may now help us obsessively catalog our books and movies (and to a lesser extent, our CDs)
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
breakfast rant
this story prompted this
morning's arrgh. read that the oil companies were running astoundingly stupid ads to defend against "An Inconvenent Truth" and thought at first "ha! let them" but then it occured to me that the oil companies have infiniate amounts of money because of the dickweeds in the bush administration.
What's next?
when the CIA breaks into your house just to look around, they get to poop on your chest.
the rationale is that the public was upset about these "sneak and peek" searches, so now they "leave a message", stinky as it may be.
morning's arrgh. read that the oil companies were running astoundingly stupid ads to defend against "An Inconvenent Truth" and thought at first "ha! let them" but then it occured to me that the oil companies have infiniate amounts of money because of the dickweeds in the bush administration.
What's next?
when the CIA breaks into your house just to look around, they get to poop on your chest.
the rationale is that the public was upset about these "sneak and peek" searches, so now they "leave a message", stinky as it may be.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
goodness over dominance
ow. the cheese! maybe I should eat breakfast.
it occured to me that the classic prayer postures --- head down, palms together, elbows resting on some surface --- that bowing towards Mecca bowing looks (to my eye trained not at all in the Islamic traditions) very much like child's pose.
that, along with remembering something from The Screwtape Letters-- about posture (and prostration?) being important in prayer.
That said, my back's acting up again, and the desktop devotions came to me.
a few side notes:
1) I'm not sure if Bush is the antichrist, but, if you're the least bit familiar with the antichrist mythos, 21st century american imperialist christianity sure has the smell of it.
2) on spirittuality vs religion -- one screams over-soft and passive-aggressive -- the other screams outwardliy manipulative, directly controlling, and has enough knee-jerk connotations to cripple a centipede. Despite that, I think I'll go with "Personal Religion" over "spirituality"
3) Go check out Penn Jilette's very well thought essay on "This I Believe" about athiesm. It makes me all weepy-eyed recollecting it. It shows that Athiesm can make a damn fine cup of co^h^h^h personal religion.
4) Todo: go back and replace my ctrl-h's with strikeouts.
it occured to me that the classic prayer postures --- head down, palms together, elbows resting on some surface --- that bowing towards Mecca bowing looks (to my eye trained not at all in the Islamic traditions) very much like child's pose.
that, along with remembering something from The Screwtape Letters-- about posture (and prostration?) being important in prayer.
That said, my back's acting up again, and the desktop devotions came to me.
a few side notes:
1) I'm not sure if Bush is the antichrist, but, if you're the least bit familiar with the antichrist mythos, 21st century american imperialist christianity sure has the smell of it.
2) on spirittuality vs religion -- one screams over-soft and passive-aggressive -- the other screams outwardliy manipulative, directly controlling, and has enough knee-jerk connotations to cripple a centipede. Despite that, I think I'll go with "Personal Religion" over "spirituality"
3) Go check out Penn Jilette's very well thought essay on "This I Believe" about athiesm. It makes me all weepy-eyed recollecting it. It shows that Athiesm can make a damn fine cup of co^h^h^h personal religion.
4) Todo: go back and replace my ctrl-h's with strikeouts.
starting the religion
or maybe just a subcult. anarchists for christ, or something like that. The basic teaching of this here jesus type is "I am the son of god, and so are you, and by the way you're really god, too."
as part of this new 21st century "religion" for wage-slaves (but not exclusively for wage-slaves) we have the first set of activit^h^h^h devotions: the "feel alive at your desk cycle": one: love the floor. two: bask in god's love, or the glow of the interweb, whichever floats your dingy. three: bow to your screensaver.
in my next missive, I will describe these stret^h^h^h devotions.
as part of this new 21st century "religion" for wage-slaves (but not exclusively for wage-slaves) we have the first set of activit^h^h^h devotions: the "feel alive at your desk cycle": one: love the floor. two: bask in god's love, or the glow of the interweb, whichever floats your dingy. three: bow to your screensaver.
in my next missive, I will describe these stret^h^h^h devotions.
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