sometimes shows exist only because of the desire to make use of a metal soundtrack.

I think one of the most important skills for any budding programmer to obtain is the ability to recognize a potential one-off error before it becomes bothersome.

I am working on this plan, so that I can run This. Today was my second walking day, and I walked for 30 minutes in a light rain. I feel more energetic than I've felt in a while, even as parts of my life fall apart. The mind and the body are connected, I have been sedentary in body and spirit for a while, so now I'm breaking into a run.

my sister challenge me to join her in a 5k run in September. I accepted the challenge. Today I walked for 30 minutes at an aggressive/assertive pace. I do that 2 more times this week, and next week I do similar, gradually trading up walk time for run time. In 4 months I'll only be running. I'll work on endurance and a little speed until the day. She can run a 11 minute mile, and I aim to finish within 1 minute of her. She's been doing this for a while and has youth and practice behind her. Also, she participates in triathlons. All I have at this moment is will. Think I can accomplish this? Place your bets.

Apparently conservatives can also do nude protests. Who knew?

"The Pearly Gates" is familiar to anyone who's had dealings with Christianity. Beyond those gates, lies heaven's kingdom. But why are they needed? You can't get to heaven without being "called." Saint Peter working as an elaborate doorman doesn't make sense, if you are judged, you are judged by god. There would never need be an old man with a giant book. So that leaves one to wonder, if you can't get there accidentally, then there is no reason for the gates to exist to keep people out. And if they aren't there to keep people out, then perhaps they're there to keep people in?

Created by Train Horn

disturbingly low pitched for only the under 25 set to hear. Very annoying. I am 36.

Quantum Sheep

Theorizing that one could time-travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Lamb Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Sheep. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the Quantum Accelerator, and vanished.

He awoke to find himself in the past, suffering from partial amnesia and facing a mirror image that was not his own. Fortunately, contact with his own time was maintained through brain-wave transmissions with Owl, the project observer, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Dr. Beckett can see and hear. Trapped in the past, Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, making light of that once which once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next sheep will be the sheep home.

Rideback
About 30 years into the future some revolutionaries of one flavor or another took over the world, but that's just the setting. It would seem that the revolution as such, is over, at least, as far as I've gathered from the first episode. The main character is an n generation ballet dancer who damaged herself in her first solo bit, and has apparently cast that life behind her. There is a new type a motorcycle that is sort of a cross between a Mech, a motor cycle, and I guess, a Segway. The device, and the anime for that matter, is called a "Rideback" - because one of the riding positions is basically riding on it's back. The girl, by the by, seems to have a talent for riding the thing, but you were expecting that. I know I was.

I would like to see more and plan to give it a few more episodes.

Sora o Kakeru Shoujo
In a somewhat more distant future, it seems that what dregs of humanity still live on earth are basically seen as throwbacks and hippies. The real action is in space. Cars transform into space craft and back into cars. Almost anywhere you would want to go involves going though 3 or 4 transport mode transformations. As far as it goes, it's well done, and seamlessly plucks the transport analogies from our day to day lives and transforms them a few hundred years forward. But, if that were all there were to it, it would be boring. This universe has R2 units. But they are cute floating potato people. And possibly biological. So there is a massive and psychotic space colony, with a somewhat bent AI with the same voice as Grell from Black Butler, and a personality only vaguely shy of Excalibur from soul eater. Also Psychic cops that are trying to arrest you one minute and helping you the next. And a girl with a cat ear hat who is is the sort of person who doesn't take shit from brick walls. Also, and this may just be me, but I think everyone in the anime is a lesbian. Even the guys.

Add to it an opening theme by ALI PROJECT, which might be enough of a reason to watch the 2nd episode right there.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Moderate
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Low
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

if you entangled a relatively obscene number of heavy hydrogen atoms with a relatively obscene number of hydrogen atoms, used half in a fusion bomb and half in 99 red balloons, would setting off the weapon cause anything interesting to happen with the balloons?

how about if you entangled half of the hydrogen atoms with the other half of the hydrogen atoms?

would this even be possible?

I'm shocked. Shocked.

Numerical superiority just doesn't match superior training and equipment.

according to this my journal is ESTJ flavored. Which is slightly different than the INTP I generally score in these sorts of things. Hmmm.

ESTJ - The Guardians

The organizing and efficient type. They are especially attuned to setting goals and managing available resources to get the job done. Once they´ve made up their mind on something, it can be quite difficult to convince otherwise. They listen to hard facts and can have a hard time accepting new or innovative ways of doing things.

The Guardians are often happy working in highly structured work environments where everyone knows the rules of the job. They respect authority and are loyal team players.

I was a relief worker working in central asia. Something had happened to get me there, I guess, but I don't really know what. While I was there there was a nuclear explosion- minimal yield probably ~ 1 megaton. It didn't happen precisely where I was, it was far enough away I was only aware of a warm wind.. which may have just been drama. There were leaves blown and a distant thunder. I heard a voice, in English- I think it was perhaps supposed to be Ahmadinejad. "Strong enough to reach across borders but weak enough to cause mainly economic damage," then something dramatic about the nuclear age being upon us, or something. I was outside, and not hearing it, per ce, it was more narrative, like how a director might splice in the scene. I was in a somewhat creepy amusement park- well maintained but with a strange flavor when it happened. A few minutes later I heard another rumbling sound and people were panicking- I mean they already were but as news of what happened filtered throw the crowd well. And then it started flooding. I climbed on top of a ferris wheel to escape (the "horses" looked like little boats) - and some people had the same idea, and others were just swept away. I learned, I don't know in what context, that a dam had been destroyed- by the nuclear weapon or some other or though indirect action, I never learned, but the water was a result of that. It was Obama's presidency, just a few weeks/months into his first term. I remember seeing a scene where bush was saying to his wife that he was thankful that this didn't happen on his watch. The dream wasn't judgemental of Obama as president, it was just a raw fact of timing. Afterward, some weeks/months later, me and my SO- didn't recognize her so I assume even I wasn't me, were on some talk show, and she said something to the affect "maybe they just hate us."

the whole thing was.... unsettling.

Tetris + Physics = a tower building game?

with google.

or don't. Either or.

I voted, walked a little over a mile in total to do it. No line.