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  1. JamesSavik
    Colossus - the Forbin Project (1970)
     


     
    the Andromeda Strain (1971)
     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajIliPFHk4
     
     
    ____________________
     
    I challenge some of our younger members to watch these movies and see what your parents/grand-parents were thinking about 40 years ago. You might be surprised as some of the themes have remained the same.
  3. JamesSavik
    Saturday I saw something that I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would see: Atlas Shrugged on the big screen- in a full theater. It was amazing. They did a very good job with it. Placing it in the near future amid soaring energy prices, a collapsing economy and clueless politicians colluding to make their friends rich and to punish anyone else made it... chilling.
     
    Guess what? The Gulf is open for deep water drilling again. Guess who is first in line to do the drilling? An American company pumping our own oil you would think? No. You would be wrong. Petrobas- the Brazilian oil company in which George Soros is heavily invested. You remember George don't you? Euro-trash billionaire who is always f**king with American elections? It appears he finally bought one.
     
    Despite all the talk of America drilling its own oil and investing in America, O'bumble the crook has shown his true lieing, liar colors. You think Bush was an oil robber-baron? Obama just made his invasion of Iraq look like the work of a rank amateur. Obama managed to redistribute more wealth with the stroke of a pen than Bush managed with a war. I can't understand how people can be so blind. He's selling the country short, making his donors rich and setting us all up for great fall. He's for the people all right. You just better be clear on which people.
     
    You think the Brazilians will do any better than BP when they f**k up?
     
    I'm packed and ready anytime John.
  4. JamesSavik
    This one goes out to the one I love
    This one goes out to the one I left behind
    A simple prop - to occupy my time
    This one goes out to the one I love

    Chorus:
    Fireaaahh
    (2x)

    This one goes out to the one I love
    This one goes out to the one I left behind
    A simple prop - to occupy my time
    This one goes out to the one I love

    Chorus (2x)

    This one goes out to the one I love
    This one goes out to the one I left behind
    Another prop - has occupied my time
    This one goes out to the one I love

    __________________________

    Last in my REM renaissance- I'm tuning up for an eighties tale. You've gotta get it right in your head you know. Only it won't be anything Disney would do.
  5. JamesSavik
    That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
    Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
    world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
    speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
    down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
    hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
    breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
    crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
    common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
    own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
    reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
    light, feeling pretty psyched.

    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

    Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
    return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
    blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
    light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
    this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
    a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
    and I decline.

    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

    The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
    Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
    Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
    slam, but neck, right? Right.

    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it.
    It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...

    (It's time I had some time alone)
  6. JamesSavik
    The Influence of Sea Power on History 1660-1783 by Mahan is certainly one of the most influential books of modern history.
     
    The period of time that it covers- the Napoleonic War, American Revolution showcase the rise of British seapower and its limitations.
     
    It has been read and studied by generations of officers at military academies and has influenced military men and politicians serving under numerous flags.
     
    The doctrine of one huge battle to own the sea lanes won the first World War I for Britain and lost World War II for Japan.
     
    If you are a student of history, you no longer have to find an ancient copy in a library or on e-bray. Dover has a reprinted edition.
     
    Dover is good about that- they reprint classics in all sorts of fields so that they can be had by anyone who is interested.
     
    This is one of the great history books. It's influence is still being felt across the worlds oceans.
  7. JamesSavik
    X-Ray Emissions from Perseus Cluster Solve a Dark Matter Mystery
    Source Link:Daily Galaxy

    Galaxy clusters are millions of light-years across, and most of their normal matter comes in the form of hot X-ray-emitting gas that fills the space between the galaxies. The Japanese X-Ray space satellite Suzaku explored faint X-ray emission of hot gas across two swaths of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster and made a discovery that solved a vexing mystery.
     
    "Understanding the content of normal, bayronic matter in galaxy clusters is a key element for using these objects to study the evolution of the universe," explained Adam Mantz, a co-author of the paper at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The most well known baryons are the protons and neutrons which make up most of the mass of the visible matter in the universe, whereas electrons (the other major component of atoms) are leptons.
     
    Clusters provide independent checks on cosmological values established by other means, such as galaxy surveys, exploding stars and the cosmic microwave background, which is the remnant glow of the Big Bang. The cluster data and the other values didn't agree. NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) explored the cosmic microwave background and established that baryons make up only about 4.6 percent of the universe. Yet previous studies showed that galaxy clusters seemed to hold even fewer baryons than the amount shown in the WMAP data.
     
    New images from the Suzaku of faint gas at the fringes of the nearby Perseus Galaxy Cluster have allowed astronomers to resolve this discrepancy for the first time. The cluster, located about 250 million light-years away and named for the constellation in which it resides, is the brightest extended X-ray source beyond our own galaxy, and also the brightest and closest cluster in which Suzaku has attempted to map outlying gas.
     
    "Before Suzaku, our knowledge of the properties of this gas was limited to the innermost parts of clusters, where the X-ray emission is brightest, but this left a huge volume essentially unexplored," said Aurora Simionescu, the study's lead researcher at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University.
     
    In late 2009, Suzaku's X-ray telescopes repeatedly observed the cluster by progressively imaging areas farther east and northwest of the center. Each set of images probed sky regions two degrees across - equivalent to four times the apparent width of the full moon or about 9 million light-years at the cluster's distance. Staring at the cluster for about three days, the satellite mapped X-rays with energies hundreds of times greater than that of visible light.
     
    From the data, researchers measured the density and temperature of the faint X-ray gas, which let them infer many other important quantities. One is the so-called virial radius, which essentially marks the edge of the cluster. Based on this measurement, the cluster is 11.6 million light-years across and contains more than 660 trillion times the mass of the sun. That's nearly a thousand times the mass of our Milky Way galaxy.
     
    The researchers also determined the ratio of the cluster's gas mass to its total mass, including dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 23 percent of the universe, according to WMAP. By virtue of their enormous size, galaxy clusters should contain a representative sample of cosmic matter, with normal-to-dark-matter ratios similar to WMAP's.
     
    Yet the outer parts of the Perseus cluster seemed to contain too many baryons, the opposite of earlier studies, but still in conflict with WMAP.
     
    To solve the problem, researchers had to understand the distribution of hot gas in the cluster, the researchers say. In the central regions, the gas is repeatedly whipped up and smoothed out by passing galaxies. But computer simulations show that fresh infalling gas at the cluster edge tends to form irregular clumps.
     
    Not accounting for the clumping overestimates the density of the gas, which is what led to the apparent disagreement with the fraction of normal matter found in the cosmic microwave background.
     
    "The distribution of these clumps and the fact that they are not immediately destroyed as they enter the cluster are important clues in understanding the physical processes that take place in these previously unexplored regions," said Steve Allen at KIPAC, the principal investigator of the Suzaku observations.
     
    Goddard supplied Suzaku's X-ray telescopes and data-processing software, and it continues to operate a facility that supports U.S. astronomers who use the spacecraft.
     
    The Hubble Space Telescope image at the top of the page shows NGC 1275, the galaxy located in the center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster. The red threadlike filaments are composed of cool gas suspended by a magnetic field. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage, ESA/Hubble Collaboration.
     
    Image below record X-rays with energies between 700 and 7,000 electron volts in a combined exposure of three days, are shown in two false-color strips. Bluer colors indicate less intense X-ray emission. The dashed circle is 11.6 million light-years across and marks the so-called virial radius, where cold gas is now entering the cluster. Red circles indicate X-ray sources not associated with the cluster. Inset: An image of the cluster's bright central region taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown to scale. Credits: NASA/ISAS/DSS/A. Simionescu et al.; inset: NASA/CXC/A. Fabian et al.
     

     
     
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    Notes:
     
    There are several very spooky facts here:
     
    1) the size of this field is massive- big enough to park galaxies in with space left over.
     
    2) X-rays are very high energy EM. Only Gamma rays are more energetic.
     
    3) Hydrogen and Helium don't emit X-rays: not enough quantum levels. Carbon is the next most common element in the ISM and when it is emitting X-rays, it has been energized to a stunning 277 MeV (mega-electron volts). Those energies exceed particle energies from a supernova. Only elements that have been fully ionized can emit x-rays.
     
    4) Whatever is powering this galaxy-cluster sized cloud is so powerful and so energetic that we don't even have a theoretical model for what it could be. It is existing at an energy level that we can only describe as "God-like".
  8. JamesSavik
    Task Force Hammerhead
    1st Carrier Division
    Fleet Carrier Saratoga
     
    Two Weeks out of Epsilon Indi
     
     
    The stress of two weeks navigating the great fleet through the galactic halo was taking its toll on Danny. They had managed to make great time. They had made a little over forty-five thousand light years in a series of long jumps and had managed to do it without losing a single ship. Even Admiral Bassett was impressed and had sent his compliments to the whole navigation staff.
     
    Behind them the great glow of the Magellanic Clouds were receding in the distance. Ahead was the forbidding black void of intergalactic space with the vast spread of the Milky Ways spiral arms beneath. Few human eyes had ever seen the galaxy from this vantage point.
     
    Thankfully Admiral Bassett had ordered the fleet to stand down for replenishment. Even now the big war ships of the fleet were filling their fuel bunkers from the tankers attached to the fleet. There was no rest for the wicked. It was just the break that Admiral Tanaka was looking for so his pilots and deck crews on the carriers could run exercises.
     
    Now that the big task force had nothing but clear space ahead of it, the jumps would only get longer and the calculations more complex. Even with the great staff, banks of state of the art computers and all the coffee that he could drink, it was a heavy burden to bear.
     
    Hundreds of ships, thousands of men and billions of Alliance citizens lives were riding on the success or failure of the fleet. It had to get through. It had to win. Though it had not been stated Danny surmised that this fleet were lost, it would take years to replace it and decades to replace the personnel.
     
    With the stand down order in place, Danny ordered a trio of junior officers to stand watch and keep an eye on things. He took a couple of glances around the big, spacious flag bridge of the carrier and went off duty.
     
    As he wandered off to the officers mess, Tom appeared at his elbow. Danny said, "Being the CAGs deputy, I figured you were about to get busy."
     
    Tom said, "Even a CAG has got to eat."
     
    The pair made their way through the cafeteria line and ended up quietly having a meal. As Danny looked around the room he could tell that everyone was exhausted.
     
    Tom asked, "You as beat as you look?"
     
    Danny simply nodded. "These jump evolutions are murder. All we have time to do is get a fix on our new position, and then plot the next jump. We're making great time but most of us are dead on our feet."
     
    Tom said, "Same here. We've had our pilots in simulators constantly. The engineers and deck crews have been going balls to the wall. Everybody is dragging ass."
     
    Danny said, "I just need some time in my rack."
     
    Tom said, "Me too. Hey, you asked me once about the enemy."
     
    "Yeah."
     
    "Do you still want to know?"
     
    "Of course."
     
    Tom said, "Finish up. I've finally got something that I can show you."
     
    When they finished eating, Danny followed Tom to his office in the Air Ops suite. Saratoga's Air Wing were nicknamed the Diamondbacks after a fast and mean snake from old Earth. On the main bulkhead was a stylized rattlesnake wrapped around a royal flush in diamonds. Tom and Danny passed dozens of pilots and deck crewmen in their rainbow-colored vests that announced their department. Red for ordnance, White for safety, Blue for avionics, Gold for propulsion and so on.
     
    When the arrived, Tom closed the door and took a data crystal out of locked drawer in his desk. He put it in a reader and switched on a holographic display over his desktop.
     
    Tom narrated the images that were appearing: "Five years ago when the enemy first appeared there were only a few models. They did not use missiles or fighters at all and had relatively short-ranged fusion based weapons. These are the eight models that appeared over Pacifica."
     
    Eight strange-looking boxy shaped ships appeared in the display. They were all rendered to scale with the smallest just larger than a fighter up to big ugly titan sized monster that was a couple of kilometers long. They all had code names for flying creatures: Yellow Jacket, Wasp, Hornet, up to largest a Pterodactyl.
     
    Tom clicked the control and two new beasts appeared. "After a few months of getting clobbered by our missiles and fighters, these bastards appeared."
     
    The two new types were labeled Drone-A and Archer.
     
    "The Drone-A was the enemies first answer to our fighters. There have been more since and every generation gets more capable. Our pilots can generally take them out at ratios up to four to one. They can fly and fight but they can't handle a good pilot with instincts."
     
    "The Archer is a little slice of hell. It's a frigate sized ship that's completely sold out as a missile platform. It has jump capability and can carry twelve anti-ship missiles so a swarm of these things can be deadly. What the enemy likes to do with Archers is set ambushes. They'll park in a strategic position like on the outskirts of a system and just wait until you are inside their engagement envelope."
     
    Tom went on to show the enemy had fielded at least thirty-two new models over the course of the war. Those that performed well appeared in increasing numbers. The ones that did not were destroyed and not replaced.
     
    When Tom finished the presentation, he asked, "From what you have seen, what does that tell you about our enemy."
     
    Danny said, "He's smart. He's adapting his available technology to the battlefield. I hesitate to say that he's evolving but from what I just saw that's exactly what it looks like."
     
    Tom said, "It's funny you should use that particular word. It's the same word the scientests and line officers have been using about the enemy. He is evolving and getting more dangerous with every new generation of weapon system that he fields. That's why we're here. From what we've seen of this enemy, the clock is ticking. Either we handle him now or in a few years, we won't be able to handle him at all."
  9. JamesSavik

    Socrates' Gad Fly

    By JamesSavik,

    < LULZ
     
     
    In any community of like minded people, there is a serious problem: they are LIKE-MINDED. Discussions invariably reach the same conclusions, the facts are all agreed upon and rarely challenged.
     
    The danger involved is that such a once dynamic community faces a serious danger of becoming static. Anyone who has a dissenting view is an idiot. Dissent itself is discouraged and shunned.
     
    The truth becomes lost somewhere in the sickly sweet goo of good intentions called political correctness and we talk in codes where words like men, honor and truth are replaced by people, customs and beliefs. That which is special loses its uniqueness because we find new, non-threatening, homogenized, sanitized language because we might inadvertently offend someone.
     
    Well- you know what? SOME PEOPLE NEED TO BE OFFENDED. SOME PEOPLE ARE EXTRAVAGANTLY, EMBARRASSINGLY AND EGREGIOUSLY FULL OF SHIT. TO ALLOW THEM TO SPREAD THEIR POISON UNCHECKED AND UNCHALLENGED FOR FEAR OF OFFENDING THEM IS COWARDICE.
     
    This is where we need a gadfly. A small buzzing creature that finds a weak place in your arguments and lies and stings the living shit out of you.
     
    Granted: for some people being a troll is just an excuse for poor manners and bad behavior.
     
    Trolling done right, as a Socratic gadfly to sting the consciousness and prod the psyche to see beyond the conventional wisdom, we need that sting. We need that bite. We need to know that there are horizons and truths beyond the end of our nose and the edge of our sweet, gentle village.
     
    There is a wide, wild world out there filled with things that challenge and even threaten us. To ignore it is a mortal peril of stagnation.
     
    Not every gadfly's objective is to get you to see the other side. When it is however, it's a good idea to think first and then tell him he's crazy.
  10. JamesSavik
    Study: Tiger Poo Effective Pest Repellent
    03/10/2011
    Source Link: Animal Planet Blog
     

     
    Researchers in Australia have discovered that the smell of tiger feces is a great deterrent for crop-chewing creatures like goats and kangaroos. The idea is that the smell of a predator nearby will keep these animals away from certain plants.
     

     
    A team of researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia spread tiger poo collected from zoos near the feeding troughs of goats and found it to be the most effective repellent. It was even more effective when the tiger had been fed goat.
     
    (editors note: Oh yeah. That's repelling me.)
     

     
    "There's not only a chemical signal in the feces that says 'Hooly dooley, this is a dangerous animal'; it's 'Hooly dooley, this is a dangerous animal that's been eating my friends,'" explained Peter Murray, associate professor and study leader.
     
    Researchers believe a synthetic tiger poo smell could be created and turned into a commercial product.
     
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    Oh my God! Can You imagine the size of that tiger? >
  11. JamesSavik
    You can't turn on the TV or go on the tubes of the internets without running into the crackhead formerly known as Charlie Sheen.
     
    After regaling us with tales of "socially" using crack and talking his way into getting fired from a shitty shit-com, he's now suing everybody in Hollywood not playing along.
     

     
    I make no secret of being in recovery. In fact I help other addicts if I can. It's part of the 12 steps that Charlie THE CRACKHEAD is too good for.
     
    To be perfectly honest, we dread crack heads. Of all the junkies that we have to deal with, they are by far the sickest mother f**kers you'll ever have the sorry experience of meeting.
     

     
    Sometime they preach about how God will fix everything, make a pass at everybody in the room, steal something and we never see them again. That's my favorite kind of crack head: the kind I never have to see again.
     

     
    Sometimes they are so f**ked up they just can't make sense if they could pay for it. They've done so much they're borderline psychotic. They babble, talk to themselves and wander around. This kind will drop a few loose teeth and wander away. They always end up in prison. It's the only place that can handle them.
     

     
    Finally we have the supreme bullshit artists: the manic crack heads like Charlie Sheen. They think they are bigger than God and bullet proof. None of the rules apply to them. They are sexier than stallions and usually rich enough to stay in rock until it kills them.
     
    These f**k-tards are the most annoying bastards on the planet. And regardless of how many people love them, how many people clean up their messes, how many people cover for them, give them alibis or enable them, they are all going down the tubes and they are taking anybody that hangs on to them with them.
     

     
    Look away. This is going to end badly. Only a fool would care when they don't care about themselves.
  13. JamesSavik
    Check it:
     
    I Corinthians 13:
     
    4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
     
    8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
     
    13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
     
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    Does that sound anything like the gospel according to Westburo?
     
    No. Those or the passages that they routinely ignore. This is why they fail. It's why so many big suburban mega-churches fail. When they gleefully pronounce eternal damnation on people, they forget the very spirit of the religion that they supposedly embrace.
     
    For them it becomes about money, power and prestige when it is really about the humility of a carpenter that never wrote a book, owned a horse, contributed money to a politician and certainly never went to speaking engagements on a leer jet.
     
    Forgive them father for they know not what they do. Now they have more in common with the Roman soldiers that actually crucified him than the followers of Christ.
  14. JamesSavik

    been a long time

    By JamesSavik,

    I finished my first week of work in a permanent job this afternoon. It's been a long time since I knew where my next check was coming from.
     
    Don't get me wrong. Contracts can be fun- if you can get enough work to survive. It's feast or famine and way too much famine.
     
    I don't make the same hourly rate but I'll make much more over the long haul because of consistency. No weeks (or months *shudders*) in between.
     
    It's so good to go home for the weekend and know the job will be there on Monday.
     

     
     
    Maybe I'll even mellow out because the stress of uncertainty is no longer there.
     
    I wouldn't count on it.
  15. JamesSavik

    Big Time Win

    By JamesSavik,

    I'm FINALLY back in the big time.
     
    All of those certifications that I earned have finally paid off.
     
    I start Monday as the Systems Administrator for a mid size law firm.
     
    After years of working contracts, I've got a REAL job again.
     
    Not to worry. I will continue to write.
     
    I have a new story coming out for the Spring Anthology that I think will be pretty good according to my beta readers.
     
    That story has me developing another several stories set in the seventies. I've dusted off Operation Hammerhead and Broken.
     
    Things are FINALLY heading in the right direction.
  16. JamesSavik

    What hell looks like

    By JamesSavik,

    My cousin was diagnosed with terminal cancer last summer. We have tried to keep in touch as best we could but we got word last night that it was only a matter of hours.
     
    I drove my Mom to Pascagoula, MS this morning and arrived at the hospice where my cousin is staying for her last days.
     
    As soon as I entered the place it was like stepping into hell. There were people in various stages of excruciating death in every room. The first sound I heard was a man screaming for morphine.
     
    It turned my stomach.
     
    This is supposed to be compassionate care? I mean Jesus. What would these people do to their enemies?
     
    I have been around the dying before. I have looked into the blank, empty eyes of those who know their hours are numbered. This was something different. These weren't young people fighting to live against grievous injury or illness. These were elderly people who were looking forward to the release of death.
     
    My cousin was so bad off that she didn't even know that we were there. She was so emaciated that she only weights 70 pounds. The cancer had broken out in blotches on her skin.
     
    What the f**k is this? What kind of religious fanatic bullshit is it that says that you have to suffer as long as is medically possible before you die so they can milk your insurance as long as possible?
     
    What kind of ghoulish morons think that it would be murder to give someone in such a state a little too much morphine so that they can simply go to sleep and be released from the pain?
     
    There is something badly wrong with health care. This is it. It is in the hands of the hypocritical oath that decrees that dying patients should suffer as long as their insurance holds out.
     
    This is hell. We are all in danger of ending up there unless we have the good sense and strength to eat a bullet and save ourselves and our families the misery of modern medicine.
     
    The people that I saw today were already dead and they were in hell.
  17. JamesSavik

    My new meme

    By JamesSavik,

    Everybody seems to have a meme these days.
     
    After lots of coffee, doughnuts and revolting research into pop culture, I have come up with mine.
     
    Here it is:
     

    This XXXX business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!
     
    It come from the Hunt for Red October. The US carrier group is emperiled by the proximity of Soviet naval vessels and aircraft. The Admiral utters this line.
     
    Now for use on the internets, I use it a little differently. Like when someone attaches way to much drama to the mundane. Like furries or ponies being posted in the wrong threads of message boards that take themselves too seriously.
     
    For example:
     

    This furry business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!
     
     

    This my little pony business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!
     
     
    Use it with my blessing. Just remember where it came from.
  19. JamesSavik

    Heresy

    By JamesSavik,

    When you take a dump on something holy, when you ruin something sacred, when you make a joke of a song so beloved- that's heresy.
     
    Look- I never heard of Fergie before the half time superbowl show. I hope I never hear of that skank ever again. What she did to GNR's masterpiece Sweet Child of Mine was a crime against art.
     
    No body seems to give a f**k about offending our culture. They call us trailer trash. They make fun of our mullets. f**k'em. I got no use for their half assed bullshit. They live in their $10 a cup of bullshit double latte world, I live in mine.
     
    When you do some thing that f**king wrong, a big angry redneck such as myself should drag you out and beat the living shit out of you.
     
    Do you know how many broken hearts that song has cured? Do you know how many times someone wrapped the beauty of that song around them to keep out the ugliness of the world? Or- the times that song gave someone insight into their feelings?
     
    It's more than just a song. It's a treasure. If you cover it, do a damn good job of it. It's a hymn. It is sacred. It means more to people than you know.
     
    GNR's Sweet Child of Mine done right.
     


  20. JamesSavik

    the Place In Between

    By JamesSavik,

    Coming soon for the Spring Anthology:
     
    the Place In Between
     
    It’s never a destination. It’s a place in between tedium and suburbia. It is an impulse turn off of the daily routine; a guilty pleasure that you can feel guilty about after you feel the rush of the forbidden.
     


     

     


     

  22. JamesSavik
    A while back I was asked to comment on Wolfram Alpha. See what's there. See what I like. See if anything is missing.
     
    Never missing an opportunity to comment on anything, qualified or not, I said:
     
     
    For those who don't know or care what a bloody Green's function is, check this. It will build character.
     

     
    Green's Function, formal definition
     
    Well- today this was added to Wolfram-Alpha's data bank:
     

     
     
    My pleasure. I admire old George Green. Anyone who drops out of second grade and teaches himself differential equations is incredibly, indescribably awesome in my humble opinion.
     
    < Holy crap that's awesome!
     
    BTW... Is Wolfram|Alpha Skynet?
     

     
    Glad we cleared that up.
  23. JamesSavik
    Because I'm old enough to remember when the oldies were new.
     
    From Memphis, TN: home of Elvis and great Barbecue, I give you WEGR-FM 102.7 Rock 103.
     
    I discovered it in Memphis this week and took them home in the handy streaming audio.
     
    This is the email I sent them:
     
     
    Driving home on I-55, I could hear them all the way to Grenada and they played: Pink Floyd, ELP, Journey, Boston, Styx, Aerosmith, Foreigner. Hell- I didn't even think radio stations had albums anymore.
     
    Listen in sometime. They are doing it as well as it can be done.
     
    I need to send them a thank you note or something. Maybe a keg? Wat 2 do?
  24. JamesSavik
    This has been my single best week ever.
     
    I won a contract from a big company to roll out a change to their network statewide and replace old network hardware.
     
    It all had to take place in one week. Ten sites, state wide. No excuses. Get her done.
     
    That's what I did this week. ALL WEEK. ROAD WARRIOR!
     
    < now with 35% less kRaZy
     
    I have been all over the state. Top to bottom. From the Suburbs of Memphis to the Gulf Coast. Vicksburg in the West to Meridian in the East.
     
    I got it done where the BIG PLA-YAS did not bid because they were too big- not swift or nimble enough to get the job done.
     

     
    This is the kind of win that opens doors.
     

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