Ok. So this really pisses me off.
In short, Walmart has decieded to not allow 'racy' men's magazines to be sold there. Not that I shop Walmart for men's magazines.... WTF?

I have two problems with this. For one thing, what is Walmart's deal with censoring things. They sell guns at some Walmarts- but yet found Nirvana's In Utereo CD offensive because of 'Rape Me'?
They act like they are the voice of God and everything moral in the US. Where do they get it that they need to censor what they have in a store, when it's nothing that needs to be censored, but yet- they carry the Bible, which has some pretty racy stuff in it. Blowing up cities with trumpets (Terrorism), Crucifying people (toruturing jews?), a hating gays, people not wearing underwear and just wearing robes, prositutes, and shit like putting people in lion dens?
Ok, that's a little extreme, but Walmart is just too fucking consevative.

My other rant, is that about women's magazines. So Cosmo gets to stay? "50 ways to make your man say ah....", "Fake an orgasim today", "Larger Breasts Now", "Lose 10 pounds in 1 day" (amputate you own arm for that one). BTW, why is it that we always hear of men having to amputate body parts when they get stuck in the woods, and women's bodies being found dead under rocks... I thought they had a higher threshold for pain or something. Anyway. So why do the women's magazines get to rule, when Maxim gets kicked out?

Ok, Maxim == Cosmo for Men!

Yea, i know these are lame, but they are fun if you have a few minutes...

Disorder | Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: Moderate
Antisocial: Low
Borderline: Low
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: High
Avoidant: Low
Dependent: Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive: Low

URL of the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
URL for more info: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html

I guess I'm not so bad after all....
One of my ex gf's was pretty far down in hell.

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | High
Level 1 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | Low
Level 4 | Very Low
Level 5 | Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Very Low
Level 7 | Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

Seriously... I wonder sometimes. What the fuck is wrong with me. I have stopped playing games and wasting my time like that, but now- I read about 5 web pages non stop just wanting more information all the time. I used to read books nonstop, but I just haven't found one recently that trapped me asides from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and the Harry Potter series. I mean I used to read like a book ever other day, and these were 800 page books!

Now I read www.slashdot.org, www.cnn.com, www.harmony-central.com, http://duc.digidesign.com and Tomshardware nonstop. I don't know if it's filling some insecurity in my life or what. I also check my email way too much, but never get anything important. I also check in on friend's journals (Hi Stella!) a good bit.

It just seems like something is off in my life. I want to get things back on track, I know there's things that I need to do. Get a job, get some scholoarships, study, etc... I am just not doing it. Perhaps I just need to unplug my router for a while or route everything to /dev/null....

I have some sad news. Fred Rogers (Mr Roger's Neighborhood) is dead.
I can't believe it. As a young child, I watched Mr Wizard's Workshop, Reading Rainbow, Mr Roger's Neighborhood, and Sesame Street constantly. I don't think my TV was ever on anything but PBS!
I think this is truely sad, he was so entertaining to children, and to many adults helped make them who they are today.

Ok, so after 20 Sushi rolls, some Pad Thai of my gf's and 4 slices of Sashimi (raw sushi), I decieded to go to my friend's party at Harvard...
All I had to drink were 3 shots Vanilla Vodka, and a Sex on the Beach.
30 minutes later- having a good time talking, etc...
45 minutes later- wondering if I am understandable
1 hour later- Dancing in a large group
1 hour 30 minutes later- hugging to toilet
3 hours later - get to bed, and stop hugging the toilet...
Next morning- still feeling very sick. Threw up again twice. Walked back to Harvard Square, got on Red Line, to Green Line... Fell asleep and felt sick until late monday...

Lesson - Sushi and Alchol don't mix. I have drank far more than that, but never been sick like that EVER!.

We need to make a decision as Americans. The rest of the world should make this decision too, although perhaps not the same one...

We need to make a concious decision about what kind of world or country we want to live in. Do we want to be Safe, but have few rights and liberties? Or do we want to live in a world that's free, and potentially a little dangerous.

Would you rather have all your bank records exposed to the goverment, your phone calls, your travel, who you talk to, and what you read, all scrutinzed for potential crimes- but feel that you are safe...
Or would you rather live in a world that's potentially a little dangerous, but you are your own person- and your personal information is your own, and your business is your own.

Our forefathers have died, and our grandmother cried to give us the freedoms that we have today, but are quickly losing... Would you rather have the potential of dying? Or be free?

We need to make this decision, and let the people choose, because it affects the people- not the government's lives...

Ok, so why in the world can't a student wear a T-Shirt that says that Bush is a Terrorist? Can't people protest war and killing in a peaceful way by wearing something? What's next, no anti-war ribbons? No papers on it? No speach about anti war allowed?

This seriously pisses me off. I think this is in the lawsuit area for discrimination. If you point out certain students, and say that can't wear something, because it expresses their opinion in a valid, way... well, that's just screwed up. They dont' tell the Arab girls they can't wear the funny clothing.

There's so many things that I wanna do in life. Any ideas or suggestions?

Learn to Make Sushi (and Sashimi)

Own a House

Have a really nice home theatre

Own a recording studio of small size

Be a major record producer that makes Puffy and George Martin look bad (to see those 2 in the same sentence pains me)

Learn to Sail

Get an old Porchse

Race it on track

Get a PhD in something... or at least an MBA

Learn to Play drums

Own a place on St George's Island

Have a nice guitar collection

spend at least 6 months bumming it in Europe backpacking and staying where I can for as little money as possible

Build my own house

Invent something cool

Have ONE kid

Get a HUGE CD/Record collection

Buy a Library and put all the books in a huge room (a la beauty and the beast)

Have a nice little wine cellar

Yea, it's alot of money things, but some things like backbacking and stuff aren't. Alot of goals, but it's alot to work for. I really wanna be a better cook as well. I love being around people and entertaining. I don't want an expensive car (the old porsches aren't so bad priced, cheaper than most new cars). I don't care about a huge pool, or a Rolex watch. Sure I would like to shop some nice places, but really- it's about having a good time and being able to learn. And if I could ever learn how to program a little better that would be cool too!

Hmm, kinda upset that I didn't get into the MP&E department at Berklee. Kinda sucks. I am gonna go to the department chair and see if I can sqeeze my way into the synth department to get things set straight, and my schedule back on course.

Hey all. If you are moving to Boston and looking for a place to live- I have something for you. I normally hate to advertize stuff online, but I really gotta move.

I have 1 bedroom of a 2 bedroom apartment in Brighton, Mass (right beside Boston) that I need to sublet. Actually, I want to terminate my lease, and transfer it to you!

The place has a Kitchen with new fridge, gas stove, microwave, etc.
The living room is a good size, and we have a couch that we can put in there, but for now it's taken apart and stored. There's a HUGE bathroom. Umm, and then there's your bedroom, which is a good size. I fit alot of stuff into it.

Freshly painted a little over 3 months ago. Good landlord. Laundry in building. Heat and Hot water, and gas, included. It's 700/month for you.

The apartment-mate is Adam. He's a nice guy. If you have any question, just email me.

Ok, so Google can indeed suck at times. When I searched Harry Potter MUD, I got nothing really, but after I looked on MUDConnector or whatever, I found like 5. So I guess I don't need to work on one and get sued anyway. :)

So, I have thought that I needed to do two things before I started on a Harry Potter MUD, well actually 3 now that I think of it. The Last being to incorporate in some way to shield myself from British lawsuits :).

Basically, I need to get back on c++ and plan out the game some before I start coding.

One of the problems in the planning is when to place the MUD in the chronology of Harry Potter. I am thinking that if I placed it in the years after Harry Lived, and Harry entered Hogwarts, that would leave room for expansion as the books continue- but not mess with the 'plot' too much. Doing it while harry was in hogwarts would be crazy and next to impossible I am thinking- and after is pointless since I would have to scramble to rewrite everything as soon as book 5 is out.

Of course, you would play as a student in the game. I can't think of any other way to do it, since the whole thing is from that perspective. You could have different races (even though not that many are actually students at hogwarts) such as Human, Giant, Centaur, etc. Might have to do some more thinking here...

For 'Classes' you could have the four schools. Maybe I could introduce even a new 'secret' school at Hogwarts or something. I dunno. Each school would have their own abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Obiviously Slythern and Gryphindor are the most fleshed out so far, but Rowling has left enough for the other two to be filled out well.

I would like to write a Harry Potter MUD. I have played many MUDs, and Coded in Perl/CGI/C++ on and off for a few years. I feel that a Harry Potter based MUD would be a fun and exciting one. There are problems of course, but nothing that's too big to overcome, except perhaps IP issues- but I have never seen a MUD have a problem with that.

Ok, this isn't my normal thing to post here.. but I saw it, and as a cat and dog owner I thought that it was pertinant to post. It's not written by me, but credit is at the bottom. Please be good to your cats, and pay heed to what the author says. Too many times have I had to use my brakes and stop for cats. Luckly I haven't hit one, but I have came really close. I don't even think that I have hit a squirell, but have almost gotten in a few accidents avoiding them.

"Plea to Cat Owners
To an Unknown Person:

I killed your cat on Sunday. I didn't mean to kill him. He darted out in front of my car, and there was nothing I could do. I suspect that I feel more guilty than you do--you who let him wander freely, wander so innocently near the road.

You may have told yourself that a cat needs to live a "natural cat" life. A cat is a wild creature, you probably said to yourself. A cat needs to hunt, to roam, to live an adventure. You wanted him to experience those things. You wanted him, apparently, to experience rain and cold.

You must feel it important that he experience the dangers posed by dogs, by other cats, by disease. By cars. You must for some unfathomable reason have been certain that he would never try to cross the road--or perhaps consider the road to be part of the adventure equation.

I'd have to come to your house to tell you how sorry I was. But I couldn't--he wore no collar, no identification tag. You probably felt that to put tags on him would have burdened him, hindered him, endangered him.

You must have assumed that he would always find his way home, that he would never wander so far as to be lost or injured. Or perhaps you just decided that you wouldn't want to know if something awful happened to him. That was how much you loved him.

"Well at least if he was hit by a car, he went quickly...," I can hear you saying. I ran back to where he lay in the traffic- twisted, still alive, raising his head as the cars whizzed over him, waiting helplessly for the next impact. I managed to get him--still alive--to a veterinarian. Your cat died frightened and horribly injured on my wife's coat on a grate over a stainless steel sink.

I sincerely wish that you had been in the room with us. I'm sure that you so loved your cat that you would have wanted to say that you were sorry. After all, this was the fate to which you consigned your cat when you let him wander.

I don't know who you are. I suspect that you easily persuade yourself that missing your cat is all right--that he just wandered too far, and has been taken in by some kind person. Perhaps he'll be home tomorrow or the next day.

No. Your cat died and it was a horrible and entirely avoidable death. I hope that you have no other cat. That you have no dog.

I suspect that, if you do, that other cat will roam as well. I suspect that your dog--unleashed of course--will (perhaps, you know, just ever so rarely) wander into the road. And if they aren't killed by some other hazard, someone like me will inadvertently hit them while driving by, and that dog or cat, like this cat, will die in someone else's arms.

And it will, of course, be the fault of that driver. Not your fault. Of course not your fault. Oh, how much you love the last one.

Written by Dane County Humane Society Board Member Dennis Anderson for THE CAPITOL TIMES Newspaper, Madison, Wisconsin
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