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Jul. 4th, 2009

*nervous*

My friends...I made a post on ontd_political on LJ.

I'm wonder if I might get flamed.

I think I need to get reamed once just totally flamed in order to get over this 'fear' of people not liking me.

Jul. 3rd, 2009

WTF?!

Sarah Palin quit as governor.

Mom thinks she is going to be the next Chairman of the GOP. I think it has to do with her memoir book coming out and the profits of it.

But watching this clip on HuffPo I gotta wonder if she is running with a full set. The video is six and a half minutes long and most of it is rambling and bambling about doing what is right for Alaska and blah blah blah.

It didn't make a lick of sense.

I'm still shaking my head in what-the-fuckness of this resignation video.

Is more dirty laundry about to come out and she is heading it off by quiting?
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vids post for lack of a better title

Freedom Glory Project is a music collaboration of several well-known artists with ties to Iran. By going to their website you can download a copy of the song and find out more information about the group and dates they are playing.



"Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name"
written by Johnny B

Performed By:
Johnny B (Lead Vocals/Guitar)
Ali Eskandarian (Lead Vocals/Guitar)
Raam (Lead Vocals)
Esfand (Daf/Vocals)
Doug Wright (Bass)

Poetry read by Shoja Azari
Written by Shamloo


lt's a silence the lonely know
in the fire the rainbows grows
you can push it down my friend
it will come up ten fold again

we will erase your name, we will show no restraint

how much blood must be shed
on the streets of unrest
we will bleed as long need be
that river will remove you from history

we will erase your name, we will show no restraint

you have robbed us for many years
but we have saved every last tear
we have suffered all of your hate
and now we march down to your gates

we will erase your name, we will show no restraint

Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name
Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name

you think your power is secure
when you startle us with the threat of war
but fear has its limits too
we are no longer scared of you

we will erase your name, we will show no restraint

we will burn your temple to the ground
we will tear all your prisons down
your gallows will be set for burning
just before one last hanging

we will erase your name, we will show no restraint

Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name
Freedom, Glory, Be Our Name

now we give you one last chance
to do what's right and to let us dance
or the hand of fate will become a fist
a force your thugs can not resist

The fields where soldiers practice their killing
can be a spread of green grass
where the boisterous rainbow children may dance
while the one who beams with
ultimate command
will merely be a smile
(Written by Shamloo)

Shoukoeh Azadi Ba Mast





July 4th is tomorrow, the anniversary of the day our country was forged. As we celebrate let us remember all those around the world who dream of a world in which they have freedom, glory be that name. There is plan for those of us who support them to release green balloons into the sky among other ideas.

I'm planning on attaching to them to signs that say either "Free Iran" "Where Is My Vote" "Sea of Green - it's what the movement is calling the momentum of public support - with some streamers.

Virus Spam Scam WARNING!!

An anti-piracy group that widely uses illegal methods and works for big companies is trying another one of their dirty tactics.

Monkey Defenders MediaDefender is sending spam e-mails to people that it thinks might be involved in sharing files online in torrents. I say might, because it looks like they are just sending it out to whomever on the internets.

First they accuse you of this activity, threaten to sue/turn you in and as proof of your 'illegal' activities they have a file attached that you download that is supposed to be a log of your 'illegal' torrent behavior. It's a virus.

Targets of the scam receive an unsolicited email purporting to come from notorious anti-piracy company MediaDefender. The email, which is simply addressed “Dear User!” claims the individual has been monitored on any of several torrent sites while engaging in anything from copyright infringement, through to simply browsing the sites.


Threat characteristics of ZBot - a banking trojan that disables firewall, steals sensitive financial data (credit card numbers, online banking login details), makes screen snapshots, downloads additional components, and provides a hacker with the remote access to the compromised system. Creates a startup registry entry. Contains characteristics of an identified security risk.

Savvy Internet users will hopefully realize the email is a scam fairly quickly, but hardened file-sharers should smell a rat even earlier due to the omission of demands for money.


Like most savvy net users you can tell it's a scam. But there are those who might be tempted to see what it really says or are worried about prosecution. Never fear. The 'real' ones use extortion methods.
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Jul. 2nd, 2009

Comprehensive Sex Education and other interesting news

This is just another reason why I want to live in Sweden.

I wonder how they are on freedom of speech? Manga porn...stuff like that?

federal judge on Thursday overturned guilty verdicts against Lori Drew, issuing a directed acquittal on three misdemeanor charges.

Reason being because it would criminalize what would usually be a breach of contract in website TOS.

Wu also doubted that MySpace provided sufficient notice to members to hold them responsible. If a user didn’t read the terms of service, the judge asked prosecutor Krause, could they still be charged with violating them?

Krause struggled to respond to Wu’s questions, emphasizing that not every terms-of-service violation would be prosecuted as a crime. In Drew’s case, he said, there was sufficient evidence to suggest that she knew what she was doing was wrong.

But Wu disputed this, pointing out that the government’s star witness — Ashley Grills — had testified that she never read the terms of service before clicking on a button agreeing to them.

Wu and Krause circled around each other for several more minutes before Wu finally announced that he was granting the defense’s motion to acquit.


Penguin Parents Won’t Chip In to Help Handicapped Spouse

Why you can't keep your foot out of your mouth?

Using ingenious experiments to reveal the brain’s hidden machinations, Wegner and others have found that our brains expend steady, conscious effort to avoid talking about ex-girlfriends on first dates, sending putts off the green, or letting slip the real reason you were late for work.

But when our conscious minds are stressed and preoccupied — by, for example, a desire not to screw up — a subconscious process devoted to guarding against the mistake slips through. Unwanted thoughts pop into the forefront of your mind.


New Class of Black Holes Discovered.

DOJ formalizes probe of google books settlement

The New York Times and others are reporting that DoJ has written to the federal judge administering the settlement, which gives Google the right to digitize not only works in the public domain but protected works, for a fee, unless content owners opt out, and a huge cache of what are known as “orphan” works — books whose copyright status isn’t clear.


Green Lantern lands comic con premiere and facebook sweepstakes

To sweeten the pot, the comics powerhouses have launched a Facebook promotion to get Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman nuts on board with a time-honored hero just landing his first dedicated film. Interested parties can power up widgets on their Facebook pages, which need, like Green Lantern’s iconic ring, to be continuously recharged to satisfy eligibility for prizes like a Playstation 3, 40-inch 1080 LCD HDTV and a Blu-Ray version of the film. Of course, if they don’t feel like recharging their lanterns, they can also goof around with the widget’s peripheral content, which includes a personality quiz, Green Lantern IQ test, videos, news, and downloads.


Bulwer-Lytton Contest Salutes ‘09 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writing Disasters

Every year since 1982, the English Department of San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a literary battle royal that challenges aspiring hacks to compose the opening sentence of the worst novels imaginable.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the contest’s namesake, was a noted author and politician who coined famous phrases such as “the great unwashed,” “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword.” But, he also opened his novel Paul Clifford with the infamous clunker, “It was a dark and stormy night.” So, the contest bears his name.

Geek Battles

I was reading up on wired (they have articles on Iran and other important things like TPB sell-off - I'm still in shock, I never used them but they were icons!) and I found this interesting article on the GeekDad blog, Great Geek Debates: Kirk vs Picard.

I grew up on TNG it was what introduced me to Star Trek. Picard and Sisko were the captains I knew and loved. So when I finally saw TOS I was, to say the least, disappointed. It was like watching MST200. I felt like I needed to be on acid to watch it. And those SKIRTS!

So my money's on Picard. But overall, I gotta go with Sisko.

Btw, I think you should read the article, at least the comments.
There are arguments between Picard being a coward because of his constant diplomatic approach and caring about people's feelings and killing the most people in his crew because of his involvement with the borg and later being turned into one and Kirk being a womanizing idiot who just jumps into battle all the time.

All of this started because a few weeks ago , , got an idea to start do a post on Top 10 ways to Provoke a Geek Argument, it spawned a sequel and now a series.

Is it alright to feel shameful that I only know about half of the stuff they arguing about because I don't know programing language of any sort, I wasn't real hip on sci-fi/fantasy books or games?

How is it then I can call myself a geek?
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The Pirate Bay Saga

Oh my god.

This thing just keeps more and more soap worthy.

So first there is the sale happening at all. Then TPB says that the site will stay the same, but that it will decentralize its operations. Then I read on some news site that the company that bought it (which takes possession of the site in August) will take TPB legit. Yep, no more freebies from TPB. It's going to be the new sold out Napster...which will make it the new iTunes. And the guys are getting hounded on twitter by their loyal fans.

Now, now there is talk of the sale being linked to insider trading

The acquisition for $7.8m (SEK 60 million) came as a huge shock to most people familiar with The Pirate Bay, as GGF promised that when it takes over the site it will eliminate illicit file-sharing - the base upon which The Pirate Bay achieved its worldwide fame and enabled it to gather millions of loyal users.

Indeed, most indications point to GGF being only interested in three things - the Pirate Bay’s domain name, the users and the revenue they can generate from them.

However, according to a report, the news of the acquisition didn’t come as a shock to everyone. Indeed, accusations are being made that some individuals knew what was about to happen and took the opportunity to try and cash in.


The day the sale took place Peter Sunde discussed the future of TPB.

Currently the site is down after suffering a minor DDoS attack, and TPB’s TiAMO told TorrentFreak that the site’s load balancer had crashed .

Peter says running Pirate Bay has resulted in ‘bad pay’, i.e minus SEK 30 million in fines - incidentally an identical amount to the cash payment part of the deal with GGF.


In addition, BBC did this report on how the GGF (the gamer company that bought out TPB is changing policy to have the file sharers make money.

In an exclusive interview with the BBC, GGF's Hans Pandeya said that the only way to beat illegal file-sharing was to make something more attractive.
"We are going to set up a system where the file-sharer actually makes money," he said.
According to Mr Pandeya, GGF's chief executive, the business model for The Pirate Bay would be that it continued to be a file-sharing site. The only difference - at least in terms of content - would be that the files would be hosted legally, rather than stolen from copyright holders.


Torrentfreaks' review of it is a bit more critical.
GFF told us that most of their recent comments to the press were nothing more than “corporate bla bla.”

So let’s take a look at some of the bla bla that surfaced in the past day, to see if it makes any sense at all. Here are some of the key proposals.

1. The new Pirate Bay will put a halt to illegal downloading.
2. The Pirate Bay will compensate rights holders who publish their content on the site
3. The Pirate Bay will pay users for sharing files.

This sounds very impressive but, to put it mildly, it raises a few concerns.

It’s basically the same as saying that iTunes would pay its users to share music. When GGF has to pay both file-sharers and content providers they will undoubtedly have to raise huge sums money from a third party. So what is going to bring in this cash?

Ads of course! GGF is predicting to sell ads like no other website in the world has ever done. They told BusinessWeek that they hope to make as much as $672 million a year from advertisements.</blockquote>

The thing is the sale isn't finalized yet. There is still four more weeks.
So is this another TPB stunt?

In other news the RIAA has launched their vile guns towards UseNet provider.

The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday said it has won a copyright-infringement suit against Usenet.com, a site that lets newsgroup users share documents, music, and other files.

The federal court ruling in the Southern District of New York was handed down Tuesday. The RIAA had sued Usenet.com, a longtime online newsgroup provider, in October 2007.

Usenet.com works differently than many file-sharing sites in that it stores content on servers and makes it available on-demand. Other sites use a peer-to-peer architecture in which content is downloaded from people's computers on a network.

Jul. 1st, 2009

Go Green for July 4th!

This is a call out to all Americans (and other nationalities if you use to do this as well). Wear green to show our solidarity with the Iranian People on our Independence Day.

This is their civil rights movement and they need us to keep the demand for them strong. By showing our support for the Iranian People we are putting pressure on their government to listen to it's people. Movements are taking place from within so all our green pride is not for nothing.

Things are changing! Albeit slowly, but they are still changing.

The Iranian people need to know that we still care about them (since it seems the MSM has moved on other stories) and are willing to help them.

There is a T.E.A. Party happening in my town on July 4th. I do not want to let those nutso neocons still my holiday and its symbolism away! Let's show them that Independence Day is beyond political movements and meanings it is about FREEDOM and those who are willing to attain it, protect it and maintain it!

This day is for everyone who desires Peace and Freedom!












http://www.flickr.com/photos/30950471@N03/sets/72157620466531333/show/


...anyone know how to embed a flicker sideshow? I got a sideshow graphic novel that was made as a sequel to Persepolis.

Jun. 30th, 2009

WTF?!!!

The Pirate Bay has sold out to a corporate entity.

Supposedly nothing will change and the money from the cheap sale (~ $7.8 million) will be used for a fund for
The profits from the sale will go into a foundation that is going to help with projects about freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openess of the nets. I hope everybody will help out in that and realize that this is the best option for all. Don't worry - be happy!


Also on the heels of this news (besides the fact that we can now buy stock in The Pirate Bay) is that they will stop hosting and tracking trackers and use a third-party one.

In other news, anti-privacy groups will settle for $10 a song/movie but will bankrupt you in court. Such strong arm tactics. Isn't this extortion?

This aside, we are not aware of any legal action taken by any of Nexicon’s partners to back up their threats. To the best of our knowledge they don’t even have a proper license to act as private investigators which is a felony in several US states and renders the ‘evidence’ they have in their spreadsheets useless.

Our advice, if you get a settlement offer from one of Nexicon’s partners please forward it to your spam folder - after forwarding it to us first of course.


On a side note...my Israeli friend linked to 4chan's /b/ channel...

weird

Something weird is going on at twitter.

In the search function ALL of the tweets are giving the time stamp as "2 hours ago" and even on Twazzup there is an "1 hour ago." I know that can't be right because #iranelection is a VERY hot trending topic.

Do any of you got an idea what is going on?

Did we break twitter again?

Jun. 29th, 2009

San Diego the new Iran?

Okay, I know it is a hyperbole but seriously this is so fucked up you gotta question what the hell the Sheriff's deputy was thinking.

In San Diego a Democrat fundraiser was broken up by the Sheriff's department. The host was arrested and guests were peppersprayed.

All of this because of a noise complaint...before ten pm even.

HuffPo's clip on it with comments the San Diego Union Tribune piece.

The comments on the Union Tribune site...is a bit to the far right in that they say that the cop was absolutely in the right and that the liberal dems crossed the line...somehow.

Me, I figure a mixture of conspiracy (someone was upset at the rally and called up the cops to get the democrats in trouble), the woman not cooperating (the deputy should have just guessed a date and moves on, you can further look things up not to mention in this fancy neighborhood I'm sure she is 'well known' not to mention she is an older lady) and the deputy was being a prick and the people took exception to that and he decided to call in reinforcements.

I'm sure there is going to be inquiry AND the deputy will be disciplined. Still this was a tiny situation that got blown out of proportion.

ARGH!!!

Twitter failwhale appeared.

I think we crashed it again.

Damnit! I was trying to change my background and the fucker didn't want to work.

I so need a fail icon. Any got any ideas where I can get one or the software I need (and where to get it) to make one? I'm tired of messing with free paint.

*pouts*

The ONE thing I don't like about IJ, I can't figure how many vistors I have. I can't track users or any of that fancy stuff that other blogs have. Now I find I can't export this wordpress... *sighs*

I'd also like more traffic (don't know how to promote self which is why she only gets hired by min wage eventhough she has a B.A. in two fields) to my journal... Maybe even find a way to get paid for stuff (she has decided that she doesn't want to work for a living...working hurts (bad knees), hates the hours, never works out anyway, and she wants to write for a living...and still be able to play with fanfiction and graphic novels).

*crosses arms and pouts*
I don't care if I will have one or two masters and still no job. I don't want to work for a freaking profit seeking corporation...unless it's my own.

Any ideas?
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TSA strong arms comic writer

...This does not hearten me to traveling by air (I've never done so before).

A comic book writer was picked out for an extra screening search which then happened twice. He was stripped of all identification. Then it was discovered that he was writing a comic book about a guy who gets hassled by the TSA.

One of the things that greatly upsetted the agents was that they didn't think that comic books had to do with anything but superheroes.

Here are some of the more interesting comments:
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#72 posted by Mark Sable, June 28, 2009 3:41 PM
Hey everyone...Mark Sable, the writer in question here.

First, thanks to Cory (whose book Little Brother I read and enjoyed just before traveling on said trip) for writing about this. And I appreciate everyone's comments.

I figured I would try to make myself available for questions (ask away) and fill in a bit more detail.

I think IAMINNOCENT has it about right. I'm not particularly conspiracy minded in real life, although it does make for good fiction.

It's remotely possible that I was flagged SSSS because of my writing. I only mention this because I created an ARG to market UNTHINKABLE, one that might have aroused the suspicions of, say, the NSA.

But as one of the intelligence sources I used for the book put it, he would have been surprised if any of our security organizations were competent enough to make that connection.

Most likely, I was flagged SSSS for an...unusual flight pattern (6 flights in 10 days) that was full of seemingly one way trips, and that I changed a bit relatively the last minute. (Ironically, my penultimate destination was originally Prague, so I came just short of, as others have so aptly put it, "the full Kafka").

I have been flagged on occasion for that reason.

What I found strange and took issue with was not the initial flagging or even the extra screening. It was the fact they went out of their way to read the script (which I had brought with me to type handwritten corrections due the next day into my laptop).

There were plenty of documents in my bag they could have read through. And while the first page of the script did contain words like "9/11" "terrorist attacks" and "police state", it was in an extremely small font.

Regardless of how or why I was stopped, it was unnecessary of them and quite possibly a violation of my civil rights to read the script.

And let's be honest, what was reading the script going to tell them? Do you think the average TSA agent - someone who doesn't need a high school diploma for the job - knows the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas (or Hadassah for that matter?)? They don't remotely have the training to analyze suspicious reading materials.

The TSA by its own admission is only designed to stop "stupid" terrorists.

I'd love if this helped the book sell more copies of Unthinkable (and surely, the only way to really punish the TSA is to buy as many books as possible), but I'd much rather my work be judged on its own merits.


#77 posted by Mark Sable, June 28, 2009 4:47 PM
Hollt - I agree with you a grand TSA conspiracy is highly unlikely. I allow for the possibility that the NSA could have had me on some list for the ARG, but I admit it's a remote one.

My issue isn't so much that once the TSA figured out that it was "about terrorism" they read the script. I don't think they should have been looking through reading materials, and I don't think they are qualified to judge what is or isn't terrorist material.

I'm also I think understandably defensive about any accusation that the incident was somehow staged by me. I wouldn't risk my reputation for the publicity, not to mention jeopardize my ability to travel.

That said, if anyone's got any PR ideas for the remaining issues that don't end with me on a no fly list...please let me know;)


#90 posted by Anonymous, June 28, 2009 8:00 PM
I am totally going to write a script about a hot TSA woman pulling me out of line for a Penthouse forum moment, and carry it with me every time I fly.
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Tell me, why the hell do we employ the TSA? Aren't they technically NOT a part of the government and are a PRIVATE industry?

Sidenote: I need a failboat icon...

Jun. 27th, 2009

Stand By Me

It's quiet now. But underneath simmers the rage of the Iranian people. The government doesn't realize it but they have undermined themselves and have let slip the dogs of war, the dreams and hopes of true democracy, in the hearts of the Iranian people.

If Ayatollah Khamenei had voided the election, if he had done a full recount, if he had not sided with Ahmadinejad than the opposition would not have gained as much a following as it has. It is only because of the clampdown on the protesters that people around the world are speaking out for the Iranian people.

There has been infighting with the Anonymous group about their involvement with ThePirateBay over providing help for the Iranians. Now they are no longer the only ones involved. NedaNet "War, War, until victory" "Freedom Sucker"


The Governments of Arab nations, China, Cuba, Myanmar (Burma) are terrified by the uprising taking place in Iran and have censored their coverage of it.

They do not understand. It is too late to do anything. The power of the internet is in the ability of free speech and expression and we have overwhelmingly sided with the Iranian people. Politics do not matter here. Human rights and the progression of freedom cannot be silenced, not in this day and age with the information superhighway at our fingertips.




On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran.

This version of the old Ben E. King classic is not for sale - it was not meant to be on the Billboard charts or even manufactured as a CD.....it's intended to be downloaded and shared by the Iranian people...to give voice to the sentiment that all people of the world stand together....the handwritten Farsi sign in the video translates to "we are one".

If you know someone in Iran - or someone who knows someone in Iran - please share this link.
Free Download "Stand By Me"



Others that normally would not have sided in with the reformists are joining now.

Tomorrow is the 7th day of Tir, a holiday in Muslim faiths, and there will a great gathering legally allowed. We have not heard the last of these people they are planning, regrouping and trying to figure out who can lead them now that their leaders are in prison being tortured.

There is saying that the Iranians call this, it is the 'calm of the grave,' I think the better worded phrase is that this is the quiet before the storm.

Iran vids, music mashups

Montages of Iran footage/pictures and Michael Jackson songs.











Catchy tune, seems to be by an Iranian


I like the music.


Anonymous' declaration of "war" on Iranian Govt.
"The internet is watching and we do not like what we see."


I posted this before...but I didn't know it was part of Anonymous' vids.




Mousavi asked for followers to release Green balloons at 1pm to show solidarity.

Jun. 26th, 2009

leg thingy sort of opened

Remember how in April I mentioned that I thought I got bit by a spider and I was put on these horrible antibotics that made me deathly ill? Remember how I said the medicine didn't work but I was too busy to go back to the doctor and withstand another two weeks being sick for the medicine to work?

...I should have gone back to the doctor.

It is now June and while the red spot on my leg has shrunk...it's still there and still looks bad (it also hurts when I press down on it...like something is in there). A few minutes ago I noticed a scab part was about to come off (I did this once before and it did nothing to hurt it) this time something happened.

It hurt when I pulled off the tiny bit of scab that was coming off. I'm rationalizing in my mind that it was bound to be ripped off since I toss and turn in the bed and it was bound to get caught on cloth or something and get ripped off anyways. Mom kept telling me to leave it alone and I have! It is sooo totally not my fault it came off. We've been saying for the past week that I need to go back because the thing was looking bad.

So it bled...a tiny tiny bit...but once I took pictures (see I am smart, I'm taking pictures to show the doc) I saw this white pouch/sack thingy...and now I'm freaked. Head of pouch thingy is poking through the middle of the red mark thingy. I'm now worried it will bust...

Is it a boil? Poison from a spider/insect bite? Something freaky? What?!

Why the hell have I had this for three months now and it still hasn't healed?

Is it cancer?

See, I'm freaking out.

FYI: the red spot is a little bit smaller than the size of my pinky fingernail...still it's scary.
the pictures of the red spot )
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Jun. 25th, 2009

what happened on metafandom?

I just looked at my flist today and I noticed that there was a LOT of metafandom links that had to do with warnings?

Did I miss some big blow up? Is this something to worried or interested about?

ugh

An intern from Air America got a blogger page on HuffPo and she ticked me off.

Iran Elections: Quit Turning Your Twitter Avatars Green and Do Something
If you've been on the Internet in the last week and a half, you've know: Green is the hot new color. Twitter avatars, Facebook profile pictures, Web site logos...Iran's Sea of Green has taken over the Internet. It's a well-intentioned fad, but a fad nonetheless, and it's time for it to end.

here's my reply after the other guy

...I'm a bit obsessed by the Iran Election as y'all can tell by my posts on my journal. And I know in the grade scheme of things I'm not helping out as much as other people *coughAnonymouscough* but damnit I am doing something to help people. I don't care what you (Ms. Wickman) think but even people who just turn their icons green (like several people I know on twitter and ij and lj) they are spreading the message and showing that they support this people and that is what matters. That we get more people on their side and show their support because that puts pressure on the world government and Iran.

Considering all that, I think I let her off pretty lightly, the guy ahead of me called her condescending and insulting. heh

Jun. 24th, 2009

Wipeout

God I love this show.

It's like the best of America's Funniest Home Videos meets Gladiator meets weird people. The costumes these people wear...

God, my mom was slamming her hands on the fun and guffawing, loudly.

I want to watch I Survived a Japanese Game Show, but that new NBC show The Philanthropist on at the same time America's Got Talent is on. The Philanthropist comes on at 9. Watch it on NBC.com? I guess at 9 I will be watching the Health Care special on ABC. So that means that NBC will just have to wait.

Btw, I watched Merlin, Monday night, totally awesome show. And yes I see the Arthur/Merlin pairing a mile wide. Especially when the dragon mention the whole two halves thing about them. Btw, Gwen being black and the Lady in Waiting to Morgana...and Morgana and Arthur...that's different. I'm not sure what to think of it since it seems the producers have Arthur/Morgana and Merlin/Gwen picked out...but doesn't Arthur marry Gwen and Morgana and Merlin hook up?

Also, I heard back from my professor and the head of the Publishing program. It is back to being a Masters program and no longer just a certificate program. So now I'm faced with a delimma. Do I keep with just the MAIS (Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies) or do I take the superhard Management and Marketing courses that I need to get the second Masters degree in Publishing? It is only a two course difference. But I will be, more than likely, taking both of the super hard courses at the same time since I need to take at least half-time (6 hours, 2 courses) to get financial aid.

I'm debating taking either Management 6351 Organizational Behavior or Marketing 6352 Strategic Marketing Management during this Fall with Intro to Publishing instead of taking Intro and Publication Design. But...I will also be doing an Internship during this time and in Fall 2010 it will be just the two courses.

What do you guys think I should do?

Should I go for it? Or skip it and just stick with MAIS?

Update: Mom overrulled me. I'm recording ABC and watching The Philanthropist, it's an awesome show based upon a real life person's actions.

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