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Monday, 16 November 2009
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I give up
My dad loves Glenn Beck. There is officially no hope.
"He's a smart guy who speaks the truth". No, he's a conspiracy-theorist fear-monger who has been known to mislead and fabricate.
You can not have a rational argument with a paranoid conspiracy theorist.
Add in the fact that I'm just about the worst on-the-spot person ever and you've got a recipe for disaster.
/sigh
EDIT: So during the exchange that prompted me to write this entry my dad confronted me with "Oh and I just want you to know that wherever you got your 'fact' that most doctors support a public option wasn't telling the truth because the majority don't. Whoever gave those number must be atleast as biased as anything on Fox News". For one, that immidiately gave me a hearty chuckle. Yes dad, your 'facts' straight from the mouth of Fox 'News' opinion programming must be less biased than my myriad sources. However, I couldn't remember where I had heard that so I just laughed it off and went about my business.
Then, right after I wrote this entry I decided to look and see, was I being misled? As it turns out, no, I was not. I'm going to go ahead and trust this story by NPR which cites a poll done by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in a random sample of 2000 doctors, given that there is no evidence to the contrary of that poll. So having seen this I return to my dad, smug and confident, with my laptop and the story pulled up. "See," I said, "I wasn't being misled."
At this point I'm feeling good, I know I can never 'win', but I reasonably assume I'll get a "Well ok, but that still doesn't mean it will be beneficial to the country." But no, guess what the response was! "Well then whoever came up with those numbers must have been liberal biased". And therein lies the problem. Whenever a conservative (atleast ones of my dad's ilk) are confronted with facts that contradict the preconceived narrative that Fox 'News' [sarcastic quotes used to keep myself from sounding like a total douche and saying "Faux News"] has supplied them it's always "liberal bias".
At this point, logic has been completely thrown out the window. When nonpartisan polls by a medical school are liberal biased -- when FACTS have become a co-conspirator in a left-wing plot to destroy the country -- there is no possible way to get the train of reason back on the tracks.
EDIT 2: Oh, and if you're unfamiliar with Glenn Beck here's a few clips to get you started.
Comparing Health Care Reform to Rape
Obama has a "deep seated hatred of white people", is "a racist"
Comparing health care reform to 9/11
And to end with something funny, John Stewart doing his best Glenn Beck impression.The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c The 11/3 Project Daily Show
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Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Becoming heat, becoming steam
So Dan Deacon was unbelievable live. I went in thinking his music was pretty good and came out thinking he is absolutely one of the raddest musicians ever. His music isn't exactly the traditional idea of what dance music is, but it sure lends itself well to it. So it was pretty much an hour and a half of jumping and dancing like an idiot in a mass of joyful, sweaty people. Not to mention he has some of the most fun and nontraditional crowd interaction I've ever seen. [Failed] Dance battles, human tunnels (you know, where you run through a tunnel of arms and then form a new part of the tunnel once you're through), calming therapy (for lack of a better description), and group interpretive dancing were all part of a wonderful night. The opening acts of bizarre beat poetry over claymation videos and weird neon shark people made me worried the night would suck, but it was well worth it for him. If you like dancing and having a good time I would definitely recommend checking him out if you ever get the chance.
Also, in completely unrelated news, it's weird wondering if maybe you're not quite going in the right direction. For two years I've been taking classes to get me a degree in Network Technology and now I'm starting to wonder if I should have been going for web developer this whole time. It's not like it's a huge turnaround in interests, they've both computer related, but it takes a somewhat significant difference in classes. It's always come pretty naturally but I guess I always figured that I could never cut it because I didn't have the artistic chops. Getting more work in web in my one required course has taught me it has a lot less to do with being a capable graphic designer and a lot more to do with making intuitive and enjoyable user interfaces, use of existing assets (public domain and creative commons designs), and strong and visually interesting typography choices. All of which are things which are totally interesting. Not to mention I know web designers with less skills than myself who make a decent living, so I'm sure I could be successful. I'm pretty sure though that I should focus on finishing what I started and worry about pursuing web stuffs after that. For my final project in this class I'm hoping to make a music blog type idea, which has been done a million times I know, but I'm hoping the design can differentiate it (if I can achieve my vision it has the potential to) not to mention coding the dynamic content (grabbing the most recent entries from an XML file that I can post to in an interface much like most blogs to avoid constantly messing with the HTML) would give me a lot of good experience in coding practical web content. I guess I'll see how things turn out this quarter.
Wow, forgive me my rambling internal dialogue.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
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Dear Lord it's Beautiful
So I know the last 3 posts have just been music posts, but I had to do it again, these guys are just too wonderful. Even if you didn't like the last one (I can understand how his voice could be grating) you MUST atleast try this one out. Two Dancers by Wild Beasts could be my album of the year in what has been a fantastic 2009 and judging by the near flawless "Professional Reviews" section on Wikipedia I'm not the only one who thinks so. Not to mention their album cover is wonderful.
Ahhhh, they must announce a US tour this instant!
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
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Lust for Life
Love at first listen!
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
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Lions!
"Lions make you brave
Giants give you faith
Death is a charade
You don't have to feel safe to feel unafraid"
I need to find my lion -- it's too hard being afraid all the time.
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"The night is deafening when the silence is listening
And I'm down on my knees, and I know that something is missing
Because the back of my mind is holding things I'm relying in
But I choose to ignore it because I'm always denying them
I'm a bit of a manic when it's not as I plan it
'Cause I start losing my head and then I get up in a panic
Remember when we were kids and always knew when to quit it
Are we denying a crisis or are we scared of admitting it?
I don't want to know
I just want to run to you
And break off the chains, and throw them away
I just want to be so much
And shake off the dust that turned me to rust
Sooner than later, I'll need a saviour
I'll need a saviour
It won't ever change if you want it to stay the same
I really hate it but I know it's hard to choose if you're chained
And when it's all you control cause you've got nothing else to hold
You're getting tighter and tighter, it's getting harder to let it go
I don't want to know
I just want to run to you
And break off the chains, and throw them away
I just want to be so much
And shake off the dust that turned me to rust
Sooner than later, I'll need a saviour
I'll need a saviour
Stand me up and maybe I won't be so small
Free my hands and feet and maybe I won't always fall
Save me"
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- Name: Logan
- Country: United States
- State: Washington
- Metro: Seattle
- Birthday: 5/24/1989
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 8/25/2004
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