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Beautiful.

boredkitteh — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:44:04 +0000

I couldn’t not share this.

Girl, You’re So Groovy
Monday, September 7 2009 – 12:39 PM
by: Tycho

I.

She had trawled iTunes for the worst sort of music possible to accompany the process, music in quotation marks, “Meditation Trax” where the waveforms of synthetic pan flutes and the built-in Casio drums compete with one another to abrade the tissue of the brain. She would never choose this kind of music under any other circumstances. She is buying it because she has to. This music is appropriate. Even she resents it.

Customer service always matters.

boredkitteh — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:35:28 +0000

I am obviously having major problems with my self-hosted site. Essentially… It won’t connect. At all. If it does it crawls like snails.

I had it hosted at a place called Quantact. They provide virtual machines – basically it’s as though I had my own linux box and was setting up and hosting my site from there. They also handle DNS which is fantastic – the free DNS sites are alright but I find them sort of annoying to deal with.

Not entirely a surprise.

boredkitteh — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:34:45 +0000

There is an episode of CSI called “Grave Digger” – it was the finale of the fifth season. I was affected for weeks after watching it. It still gets to me to think about it. One of the CSIs, Nick Stokes, was kidnapped and buried alive for the duration of the episode. The episode was disturbingly well done.

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Battlefield God.

boredkitteh — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 15:45:00 +0000

My friend Matt instant-messaged me a link this morning. It was to a site called Battleground God. The tagline is, “Can your beliefs about religion make it across our intellectual battleground?” It’s a series of questions who’s scores are not related to a right or wrong answer, they’re determined based on whether or not it’s consistent with your previous answers. Are you consistent in your beliefs. There’s three possiblities for “scores” on each question. One, you answer consistently and continue. Two, you take a direct hit. This means you’ve answered in a way that is in direct contradiction with a previous answer. Three, you bite a bullet. This means you’ve answered in a way that most would find “strange, incredible or unpalatable.” This, as they state, is based on their opinion of what is considered normal, and leaves more room for disagreement than the direct hit does, because your view on normal might differ from theirs. In that fact, some of the questions and answers can seem hypocritical, since, for example, they talk about following inner conviction. If your answer is in line with your inner conviction and you stated that you follow such things, then regardless of what society thinks, you’re consistent. Which is what the point of the whole thing was in the first place. But it’s all based on perception, and it’s written from the writer’s perception, and therefore falls into their rules. Either way, clickety click, I entered the battlefield.