Spirit of a goddess
Body of a model
Mind of a genius
Mouth of a whore
Arms like a mother
Heart of an angel
Timeless
Strong, yet so fragile.
I love you.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
If I Can Remember How To Hate, I Can Remember How To Love
I remember a long time ago in college I was having GF issues. So I enlisted Lizzy's advice as to how to change my situation. She informed me that the best thing to do was just ignore the gf. I thought this was incredibly odd, but nevertheless, I listened. I ignored her and then BAM, I had an in and the GF came running back and was sorry for anything she did. This really horrified me! Why do women cave in when they get ignored? It taps into something related to female issues of abandonment and resource allocation. This is why women tend to get more upset over things such as emotional cheating compared to actual physical cheating. Play hard to get, or just
ignore her, it works, and that's terrible! Women, why are you so complicated yet easily manipulated? I just don't understand.
Had an interesting discussion at work about economic models. I don't pretend to understand economics. There's only a few basic principles I understand, and most of what I've learned about economics has been derived from Freakonomics. But what we discussed related to growth not being able to be constant in any model. If the system is infallible, then of course world superpowers would change over time. This is proven true by reference to previous rulers and dynasties - Roman Empire, Ottoman, Mongol Empire, British etc. What we're seeing now is the gradual decline of Western superpowers. Economic principles have determined that growth is stagnant in these places, and that other places have to pick up the dormant slack in the market and carry on. It's all just part of a cycle, really. What I don't get is why people think that these things will last forever. Do Americans really think that their world standing will always be where it is? I bet the Romans thought the same thing, until one day, it just wasn't there anymore. Then again, the Romans could not have destroyed the world at the push of a button...
Damn it! I was just in a meeting and came up with some very good things to write about, and now that I'm back at my desk, I have promptly forgotten what I was going to say.
I read an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald (again, I need to stop reading that) which mentioned in passing the recent building of video game arcade out of boxes by a kid during his holidays. Apparently he is from a low income family, so had to attend work with his father during his school holidays. The article mentioned that if he was a middle class kid, his holidays would be overpacked with a stupid amount of activities to keep him occupied. That's the problem, if he did fall into the middle class stereotype, he wouldn't have had the time to spark his creative interest. Then again, things are also a bit tenuous with the working class, because
if kids cannot have an outlet for anything, then they will turn to crime (though I'm sure this is true of any person, it is not class specific).
From where I am, I can see the moon in a clear blue sky.
So what's the deal with this One Direction media hysteria? I laugh because they recently came to Australia and a lot of teenage girls are doing the teenage girl thing of screaming and just acting without an iota of common sense. But what seemed to be really interesting was the way in which their fans react to news of having girlfriends or showing interest in girls. Apparently there is quite vicious abuse
across social media, and directed in person to the subject of their desires. But it doesn't stop there, there are death threats and various other nasty things said. I think parents are enablers of this kind of behaviour. A lot of the time parents facilitate their children's behaviours by not setting boundaries and so on, so in the
event that one of these girls goes stir crazy and kills a girlfriend of a member of one direction, I say blame the parents. Not only that, these things are just a phase, and they will fall out of the spotlight soon. Girls will grow up and their tastes will change, and they will become just like Hanson (who are incidentally also touring Australia now, but lacked the same hysteria that they used to generate).
What I will never understand is the human default position to accept the status quo. Why do people work like they do (i.e. work jobs that they hate), to scrape together a living? The paradigm at the moment doesn't make sense. Will humanity ever rise up and seize its own future? Will people just live life and do what they want to do? It is possible, yes, but not under the current capitalist system, not unless you exploit people to manufacture things for you cheaply, when you can sell it for high prices after marketing it to idiots who think they can't live life without your product.
I've gotta say, I've been getting down with Tumblr lately and it's good! Just wish they would make it easier to find people!
Has anyone seen the prequel Star Wars films? Haha, of course you have! Do you remember Coruscant? It's the planet that is entirely made up of a large sprawling city. It's just a planet city! I think eventually Earth will head in that direction. If we keep populating the planet, it will lead to far too many people with not enough land for each person. We are seeing the shrinking of agricultural land and the expansion of cities as the country areas are slowly but surely abandoned. It's a possibility, yes, but how unsustainable would that be?
Some points to ponder!
Joaquin out.
ignore her, it works, and that's terrible! Women, why are you so complicated yet easily manipulated? I just don't understand.
Had an interesting discussion at work about economic models. I don't pretend to understand economics. There's only a few basic principles I understand, and most of what I've learned about economics has been derived from Freakonomics. But what we discussed related to growth not being able to be constant in any model. If the system is infallible, then of course world superpowers would change over time. This is proven true by reference to previous rulers and dynasties - Roman Empire, Ottoman, Mongol Empire, British etc. What we're seeing now is the gradual decline of Western superpowers. Economic principles have determined that growth is stagnant in these places, and that other places have to pick up the dormant slack in the market and carry on. It's all just part of a cycle, really. What I don't get is why people think that these things will last forever. Do Americans really think that their world standing will always be where it is? I bet the Romans thought the same thing, until one day, it just wasn't there anymore. Then again, the Romans could not have destroyed the world at the push of a button...
Damn it! I was just in a meeting and came up with some very good things to write about, and now that I'm back at my desk, I have promptly forgotten what I was going to say.
I read an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald (again, I need to stop reading that) which mentioned in passing the recent building of video game arcade out of boxes by a kid during his holidays. Apparently he is from a low income family, so had to attend work with his father during his school holidays. The article mentioned that if he was a middle class kid, his holidays would be overpacked with a stupid amount of activities to keep him occupied. That's the problem, if he did fall into the middle class stereotype, he wouldn't have had the time to spark his creative interest. Then again, things are also a bit tenuous with the working class, because
if kids cannot have an outlet for anything, then they will turn to crime (though I'm sure this is true of any person, it is not class specific).
From where I am, I can see the moon in a clear blue sky.
So what's the deal with this One Direction media hysteria? I laugh because they recently came to Australia and a lot of teenage girls are doing the teenage girl thing of screaming and just acting without an iota of common sense. But what seemed to be really interesting was the way in which their fans react to news of having girlfriends or showing interest in girls. Apparently there is quite vicious abuse
across social media, and directed in person to the subject of their desires. But it doesn't stop there, there are death threats and various other nasty things said. I think parents are enablers of this kind of behaviour. A lot of the time parents facilitate their children's behaviours by not setting boundaries and so on, so in the
event that one of these girls goes stir crazy and kills a girlfriend of a member of one direction, I say blame the parents. Not only that, these things are just a phase, and they will fall out of the spotlight soon. Girls will grow up and their tastes will change, and they will become just like Hanson (who are incidentally also touring Australia now, but lacked the same hysteria that they used to generate).
What I will never understand is the human default position to accept the status quo. Why do people work like they do (i.e. work jobs that they hate), to scrape together a living? The paradigm at the moment doesn't make sense. Will humanity ever rise up and seize its own future? Will people just live life and do what they want to do? It is possible, yes, but not under the current capitalist system, not unless you exploit people to manufacture things for you cheaply, when you can sell it for high prices after marketing it to idiots who think they can't live life without your product.
I've gotta say, I've been getting down with Tumblr lately and it's good! Just wish they would make it easier to find people!
Has anyone seen the prequel Star Wars films? Haha, of course you have! Do you remember Coruscant? It's the planet that is entirely made up of a large sprawling city. It's just a planet city! I think eventually Earth will head in that direction. If we keep populating the planet, it will lead to far too many people with not enough land for each person. We are seeing the shrinking of agricultural land and the expansion of cities as the country areas are slowly but surely abandoned. It's a possibility, yes, but how unsustainable would that be?
Some points to ponder!
Joaquin out.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Blasting Projectiles Of Hate
So it's old news that Facebook has purchased Instagram for $1 billion. This has set off a lot of alarm bells, as it is a crapload of money to pay for a company whose product doesn't make any real profit. It has recently been discovered that Facebook applications on mobiles have been surreptitiously running in the background (even when closed) to collect data from people's phones, such as through texts and e-mails. It is also no secret that computer based versions of Facebook also mine your data. Instagram collects information about users such as locations and what not. Facebook usually can't access this sort of stuff, so it would make sense to pay a significant amount of cash in order to gain even more information that your application could not ordinarily possess. Smart move! Damn you Zuckerberg! He is like an evil genius. Not just that, the Instagram folk are incredibly rich now, considering how little the development lead in time took, and how long the application has been on the market. But good on them! If only I could program! But the other can!
Had a good time playing guitar on some pretty old songs of ours last night. What's better is that they're all unfinished ideas. I think there is something there that could be worked on! In fact a lot of stuff! I've been paying attention to the lyrics of all the older stuff, and I think we have to finish stuff! Just working on one thing at a time and we can knock them over. Looking forward to playing some
of the recent stuff tonight. The other has managed to capture a lot of where I am right now.
I wish it were Friday already! I'm looking forward to just sitting on the couch with my vanilla coke and watching good game.
I've got to buy Grand Theft Auto IV and GTA San Andreas again when I get my new computer. I had pirated versions before, but since I enjoyed the games so much, I think I would be happy to pay for them, even though they won't be played very much. I want to see how they look on a high end machine. I'm listening to Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It and I'm resminiscing about just cruising around San Andreas at night listening to the House radio station and just bloody enjoying it. It's been a while since I've been able to enjoy anything.
I've also been getting back into watching movies when time permits. It's a welcome distraction from life I suppose. I'm also looking to finish the last lot of books that were given to me so I can get on to stuff that I actually want to read!
Just thinking about a hilarious story I remember from a few years back. A group of friends and I were in an overpriced pretentious lounge bar for drinks and Lazza brought up an issue of guys buying things for girls in a social setting. Now, speaking from personal experience, I am happy to buy stuff for friends, regardless of gender when out, be it drinks, movie tickets, food etc. But why do girls get
so uptight when you offer to buy something for them? They usually don't accept and will give you some money. Lazza said that her mother had told her "when a guy buys you something, he expects sex" and she stands by that. Do all girls think that? I definitely don't expect it! I'm not even thinking about it. It's not about being some white knightesque style douchebag, because I do it for all my friends. Frankly, I find it a bit insulting.
Read an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald today about piracy. The article claimed that piracy is driven by hyper consumerism. I have to say that is a point I agree with. Modern capitalist society teaches us that if we work hard, we should be entitled to purchase that which we want. However, output is so grand
it is virtually impossible to actually afford to buy the things you want (or advertised that you should have), that piracy seems like a legitimate prospect. Even factoring in inflation, stuff like music was much cheaper all up of 30 years ago. But now artists release less songs per album, but put out albums on an almost annual basis, and the price of these things has skyrocketed (let's ignore MP3 formats here).
When more artists are being promoted and the mass media basically mindfucking the public, you feel that you have to have more! So of course people will turn to things such as piracy in order to feel satisfied.
Society just wants us to have everything, but neglect the things that really matter, like personal development (if unrelated to job skills), and family time and travel. Gosh, I really need to get home and pee.
Also, if you get the chance, read this blog:
Click Me!
Randomly stumbled across it and it's a great read! Think you'll enjoy it, it's written by a very clever person who is great with words, and it's written with a lot of humour and a lot of heart.
What's that? A post without mentioning you? Yeah, you're damn right, bitch.
Joaquin out
Had a good time playing guitar on some pretty old songs of ours last night. What's better is that they're all unfinished ideas. I think there is something there that could be worked on! In fact a lot of stuff! I've been paying attention to the lyrics of all the older stuff, and I think we have to finish stuff! Just working on one thing at a time and we can knock them over. Looking forward to playing some
of the recent stuff tonight. The other has managed to capture a lot of where I am right now.
I wish it were Friday already! I'm looking forward to just sitting on the couch with my vanilla coke and watching good game.
I've got to buy Grand Theft Auto IV and GTA San Andreas again when I get my new computer. I had pirated versions before, but since I enjoyed the games so much, I think I would be happy to pay for them, even though they won't be played very much. I want to see how they look on a high end machine. I'm listening to Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It and I'm resminiscing about just cruising around San Andreas at night listening to the House radio station and just bloody enjoying it. It's been a while since I've been able to enjoy anything.
I've also been getting back into watching movies when time permits. It's a welcome distraction from life I suppose. I'm also looking to finish the last lot of books that were given to me so I can get on to stuff that I actually want to read!
Just thinking about a hilarious story I remember from a few years back. A group of friends and I were in an overpriced pretentious lounge bar for drinks and Lazza brought up an issue of guys buying things for girls in a social setting. Now, speaking from personal experience, I am happy to buy stuff for friends, regardless of gender when out, be it drinks, movie tickets, food etc. But why do girls get
so uptight when you offer to buy something for them? They usually don't accept and will give you some money. Lazza said that her mother had told her "when a guy buys you something, he expects sex" and she stands by that. Do all girls think that? I definitely don't expect it! I'm not even thinking about it. It's not about being some white knightesque style douchebag, because I do it for all my friends. Frankly, I find it a bit insulting.
Read an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald today about piracy. The article claimed that piracy is driven by hyper consumerism. I have to say that is a point I agree with. Modern capitalist society teaches us that if we work hard, we should be entitled to purchase that which we want. However, output is so grand
it is virtually impossible to actually afford to buy the things you want (or advertised that you should have), that piracy seems like a legitimate prospect. Even factoring in inflation, stuff like music was much cheaper all up of 30 years ago. But now artists release less songs per album, but put out albums on an almost annual basis, and the price of these things has skyrocketed (let's ignore MP3 formats here).
When more artists are being promoted and the mass media basically mindfucking the public, you feel that you have to have more! So of course people will turn to things such as piracy in order to feel satisfied.
Society just wants us to have everything, but neglect the things that really matter, like personal development (if unrelated to job skills), and family time and travel. Gosh, I really need to get home and pee.
Also, if you get the chance, read this blog:
Click Me!
Randomly stumbled across it and it's a great read! Think you'll enjoy it, it's written by a very clever person who is great with words, and it's written with a lot of humour and a lot of heart.
What's that? A post without mentioning you? Yeah, you're damn right, bitch.
Joaquin out
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Waiting For Catch-Ups That Will Never Come
Just now realising that I've lost all my guitar-related bookmarks and my guitar pro files! Damn it! But at least that is other people's music, it's not as important as my own, which are safely dropboxed away. I'll regain them slowly, as I get my new computer and sort my crap out. Have also just recently got into Tumblr, which is apparently where all the cool kids took off to after Twitter became too mainstream. The other has made a tumblr theme which is used by an absolute stash of people, and the other is still nice enough to give them tips on how to change the theme to suit their needs. Tumblr is a hard platform for a new person to use, but I'm sure I'll get used to it, as I did with Twitter.
The weather around here has taken a turn for the worse lately, and I just want to stay in bed and not leave. It's just damn freezing, and I hate it! I can take the heat, but the cold is another thing entirely.
Girls who smoke. Can't stand them. It's not just the unhealthy thing, it's the smell and the fact that it's a pervasive influence everywhere you go. Always have to take cigarettes with you. Have to have a break for a cigarette etc. Not only that, it alters the way people look. It tends to hit women harder, as you can always tell who smokes just by looking at their skin. All smokers look older than they really are, and that's a shame, because it's only going to get more pronounced as people get older!
Why can't I get over this? You stupid bitch! You would be the first one telling me to grow up and get over it. Well fuck you! You are the one who cut me out of your life. You are making less time for me, deliberately. I can do the same thing to you. It doesn't mean I'll stop thinking about you, but maybe some time in silence will vindicate me. I fucking HATE how you came and turned my life upside down. You made me question everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. Who I am, what I believe in. What I wanted. And it was you. And nothing else. Ordinarily, that would be great, but not when it happened.
That's enough ranting for one night. Joaquin out.
The weather around here has taken a turn for the worse lately, and I just want to stay in bed and not leave. It's just damn freezing, and I hate it! I can take the heat, but the cold is another thing entirely.
Girls who smoke. Can't stand them. It's not just the unhealthy thing, it's the smell and the fact that it's a pervasive influence everywhere you go. Always have to take cigarettes with you. Have to have a break for a cigarette etc. Not only that, it alters the way people look. It tends to hit women harder, as you can always tell who smokes just by looking at their skin. All smokers look older than they really are, and that's a shame, because it's only going to get more pronounced as people get older!
Why can't I get over this? You stupid bitch! You would be the first one telling me to grow up and get over it. Well fuck you! You are the one who cut me out of your life. You are making less time for me, deliberately. I can do the same thing to you. It doesn't mean I'll stop thinking about you, but maybe some time in silence will vindicate me. I fucking HATE how you came and turned my life upside down. You made me question everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. Who I am, what I believe in. What I wanted. And it was you. And nothing else. Ordinarily, that would be great, but not when it happened.
That's enough ranting for one night. Joaquin out.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Killer King
The computer is finally up and running after being repaired. Only a few days more until I have my new comp. The annoying thing about having a computer failure is not just the general loss of data, it's the crap I should have backed up that I forgot to! Things like my bookmarks, game save files and my warm up file for guitar! Damn it, I have everything else backed up except for that. I've also lost my blognotes, which just consisted of a few updates to the Joaquin Rate List (JRL). But it's just those little things, you know! I should have dropboxed things like that. Oh well, takes the loss of this to make me realise what I need to do with the new comp.
However, being without games is not so much of an issue, I don't play that much these days anyway. If I didn't have to give my computer to my parents, I probably wouldn't have bought a new rig. I'm just annoyed by the latest updates to software that I've used. Let's take Winamp! Why the hell does the latest version not play WMA? You sons of bitches!!! This would not have happened if Justin Frankel was still in charge! Nullsoft, you are now crap. Why would an audio player not play very common audio files? I'm going to have to find an older version of Winamp now, in order to play some of my other songs. Also, iTunes!! Apple, you motherfuckers! My computer was stuffed, so I had to reinstall iTunes! SO WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU LET ME JUST ADD
SONGS TO MY iPHONE WITHOUT HAVING TO RE-SYNC MY ENTIRE LIST TO THIS iTUNES?! Goddamn, I just want to put one song on there, and for that, I will have to lose and then re-add all my songs to my phone. Incredibly retarded system.
Apologies for the lack of posts over that long weekend, but without a computer it is just too time consuming to type out posts on Blogger+ on my phone. Then again, I didn't have much to say, I was feeling incredibly sick, and I'm sure I'm coming down with something now. Also apologies for the lack of formatting. Typing stuff up on notepad and then sending it to my phone makes it look good on notepad, and possibly on a mobile format, but definitely not on a real computer monitor!
Damn it! I had some good ideas to write about over the long weekend, but of course I cannot remember them now. I'll get a new blognotes going, though.
Argh! I just want to see you so much, just so I can tell you that I hate you. I hate you so much. And we talked so much about how you cannot really hate that which you could not also love. And how true that is for you and I. Wow, the things I would tell you. Yikes, I was reminded of the B&B all that time ago. That was a wonderful day, I wish it had lasted for longer. We totally trashed that bed. I had
no sleep that night, I didn't care. Gosh, who would have thought that my life would be over before I hit 30? And still some years to go. I suppose writing is cathartic at least.
I'm too tired for any more of this.
Joaquin out.
However, being without games is not so much of an issue, I don't play that much these days anyway. If I didn't have to give my computer to my parents, I probably wouldn't have bought a new rig. I'm just annoyed by the latest updates to software that I've used. Let's take Winamp! Why the hell does the latest version not play WMA? You sons of bitches!!! This would not have happened if Justin Frankel was still in charge! Nullsoft, you are now crap. Why would an audio player not play very common audio files? I'm going to have to find an older version of Winamp now, in order to play some of my other songs. Also, iTunes!! Apple, you motherfuckers! My computer was stuffed, so I had to reinstall iTunes! SO WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU LET ME JUST ADD
SONGS TO MY iPHONE WITHOUT HAVING TO RE-SYNC MY ENTIRE LIST TO THIS iTUNES?! Goddamn, I just want to put one song on there, and for that, I will have to lose and then re-add all my songs to my phone. Incredibly retarded system.
Apologies for the lack of posts over that long weekend, but without a computer it is just too time consuming to type out posts on Blogger+ on my phone. Then again, I didn't have much to say, I was feeling incredibly sick, and I'm sure I'm coming down with something now. Also apologies for the lack of formatting. Typing stuff up on notepad and then sending it to my phone makes it look good on notepad, and possibly on a mobile format, but definitely not on a real computer monitor!
Damn it! I had some good ideas to write about over the long weekend, but of course I cannot remember them now. I'll get a new blognotes going, though.
Argh! I just want to see you so much, just so I can tell you that I hate you. I hate you so much. And we talked so much about how you cannot really hate that which you could not also love. And how true that is for you and I. Wow, the things I would tell you. Yikes, I was reminded of the B&B all that time ago. That was a wonderful day, I wish it had lasted for longer. We totally trashed that bed. I had
no sleep that night, I didn't care. Gosh, who would have thought that my life would be over before I hit 30? And still some years to go. I suppose writing is cathartic at least.
I'm too tired for any more of this.
Joaquin out.
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Patricia Heaton has Ray's wife on Everybody Loves Raymond is ridiculously sexy.
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