I Know Kung Fu

Fearless: great martial arts movie or greatest martial arts movie?

Lazy Afternoon

Just when I thought I had nothing to blog about, I find this [maybe NSFW].

I want a Wii.

Shiny New Coating

So I switched the blog over from Blogger to the new beta. Since the template had to be converted I just decided to redo it. It looks pretty.

Addendum

I told Alex I'd post this:

Joe Wojciechowski: dude
Joe Wojciechowski: have you seen facebook
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA got to it
Joe Wojciechowski: oya
Joe Wojciechowski: i must be the only person who likes the new homepage
Alex Van Valkenburgh: i don't really care one way or another about how it changed
Alex Van Valkenburgh: you can kill every one of the things it says you did, anyway
Joe Wojciechowski: yeah
Joe Wojciechowski: it's really dumb
Joe Wojciechowski: this is true 1984
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA?
Joe Wojciechowski: facebook introduces a feature that, essentially, shows in gory detail exactly what you're putting out there on the internet
Joe Wojciechowski: and people want to revert it back to when they thought they had some semblance of privacy
Joe Wojciechowski: even though all of the privacy settings are 100% the same
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: "oh noes suddenly people can see all the public stuff i'm doing on the internet"
Alex Van Valkenburgh: yeah, it doesn't show you anything you couldn't find out before
Alex Van Valkenburgh: not like "sent a private message to ___"
Joe Wojciechowski: the main complaint is that now it's "too easy" to find stuff out
Joe Wojciechowski: huh?
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: so why sign up
Alex Van Valkenburgh: it should be like "this dude viewed pictures of this chick for an inordinately long period of time, leading to only one conclusion"
Joe Wojciechowski: what's the point if you're going to make changes for your friends to find out, but want to make them dig for it
Joe Wojciechowski: why not just say "you did X"
Joe Wojciechowski: because you did
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucker
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucking idiot
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: god
Joe Wojciechowski: just pisses me off how hypocritical people are
Joe Wojciechowski: and such a large portion of the userbase, too
Joe Wojciechowski: they're perfectly fine using a social website just as long as nothing they do socially is posted
Joe Wojciechowski: ok
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D

That basically says it.

Democracy In Action: Facebook and Privacy

I suppose that a false sense of privacy is better than none at all: Facebook has altered its privacy settings to allow people to put whatever in and take whatever out of their newsfeeds they want. I for one won't be altering mine, and it's kind of unfortunate that people will be forcing other people to dig through their profiles again to see what's going on. Once again, the privacy settings Facebook has implemented add no privacy, it simply rearranges your stuff back to when it was hard to find (when you had the illusion of privacy). If that's your bag, congratulations, you do not understand the point of a social networking website.

Hopefully most people will just turn off the timestamps and be done with it.

Spamalot

Starting a few months ago, there's been a glut of spam coming to Case email addresses (seemingly some spambot crawled and discovered case-campus at case.edu). The funny thing is, it's not spam - just random stupid emails with image attachments. Here's an example:

Subject: NASA
From: Felice Stanford (hkb@sjol.net) to case-campus

His soul may pass out of his bodywithout having any consciousness of the fact. This need of the soulis the desire to know the fundamental truths and meaning of the Universe.
And all the evils to which these twin monstershave given birth will perish with their begetters.
These two functions are sometimes found together present in one and thesame individual. Philip frequently uses the symbol of the Rose inspeaking of the Sangreal jewel. His birth, death and resurrectionrepresent the seasons.
It is quite true that executions were not carried out during the Feasts. THE SCATTERING OF THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTOn which day was the Lamb sacrificed?
This gave him theactual vision that he carried with him to his dying day. Now youknow the time at which it all happened. Now youknow the time at which it all happened. It was brought to Joseph by the Spirit of the Christ Himself. John hathtestified to all of us; that he hath seen this take place. It is possible that the narrative about Moses in Exod. The early converts to Christianity were most of them persons ina humble position in life. Inthe ordinary course of events they would not have been taken out beforethe nine days were ended.
It is possible that the narrative about Moses in Exod. The spiritual signs which come into the world come of necessityin material shape. And if the Spirit so wills it, more maybe given to anything that is precious to it.
This need of the soulis the desire to know the fundamental truths and meaning of the Universe. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particularpaper edition. We may conclude that the Two Tables ofthe Testimony are part of his work for Moses. It is a holyrelic and it carried with it much of the human and Divine association ofthe Christ.
We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particularpaper edition. The spiritual signs which come into the world come of necessityin material shape. His birth, death and resurrectionrepresent the seasons.
We may conclude that the Two Tables ofthe Testimony are part of his work for Moses.
Ye see the symbolof this in my own land in the Death of Narcissus. In moments of great emotion, Thought may create a reality greaterthan action can.
I have told you what happened at the Last Supper. Ye do know the Word that now be in the Holy Writ:THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS.
The Spirit is not matter as is the body of a man.
The spiritual signs which come into the world come of necessityin material shape.
Strangelyenough, it reappears in our own day.
Bezaleel and Aholiab are mentioned as being inspired. Christ was sent into the world tofulfil His course as all men must. Elisha asked for a harpist, and as this minstrel played,the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha. Now as to these two functions needed for the Visitation of the Spirit ofKnowledge and.
Strangelyenough, it reappears in our own day.

Ok.

I am very tired. THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS.

Headache

There are three simple steps to defeating a mid-day headache:

1.) Food

2.) Caffeine

3.) Drugs

Mix copious amounts of the above and intake rapidly for relief.

It's Really, Really Big

Hot damn, do I want one.

Another one, that is.

In other news, classes are boring and I have homework I'm avoiding.

In more other news, lots of idiots are up in arms over the recent Facebook changes since their perceived privacy has been blown away like the thin veil it was. More on that later.

Success Story: Or, How I Learned to Love Blogging in Class

what's she talking about