Just canceled my profile on MySpace
If you had me added on MySpace, you may now find me on Facebook, Mugshot, or Teens on Linux.
If you had me added on MySpace, you may now find me on Facebook, Mugshot, or Teens on Linux.
Apparently, this MIT student was nearly shot for wearing a sweatshirt with a breadboard and a bunch of LEDs on it. From Declan McCallugh’s blog…
An MIT student named Star Simpson was apparently picking up a friend at Boston Logan airport and wore a sweatshirt with a breadboard and some LEDs and a 9V battery. She had created it for a student career day.Big mistake. She was nearly killed by police (armed with semiautomatic weapons that some jurisdictions prevent law-abiding Americans from owning) who surrounded her. State Police Maj. Scott Pare actually told the press that she was "extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used... She's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."
Not helping your case, Major Pare.
What kind of idiot would do that? I mean, really. Here is a picture of the sweatshirt…

First of all, that looks nothing like a bomb. Secondly, if it looked like a bomb at all, what kind of idiot terrorist would walk into an airport with a bomb taped on their chest like that?
You can help pay for this girl’s legal charges by buying a t-shirt here.
Let me borrow yours.
My English teacher gave me the most 5th grade writing assignment in the history of 5th grade writing assignments. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve had this assigned to me in the 4th/5th grade.
I have to write a poem about ‘my favorite hero.’
I have the same teacher for World History, and before this she told us to use the Christian Bible to ‘debunk’ Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, two of which are technically not religions, but rather a way of life.
My biggest problem with that is that you’re trying to debunk other people’s beliefs that they have held just as long as you have been thumping your grandfather’s leather-bound bible. And you’re using that very bible to do it. IN A HISTORY CLASS.
The worst part is that I can’t report her because it’s a Christian school. I should try…
UPDATE: I did the poem. I put it on Google Docs here.
What in this physical world do you value? Who do you love? Who or what can you not live without? What are you strongest beliefs?
Think about this for a while…
Now… What would detract from that value? What would take away your love? What would push you beyond your strongest beliefs?
Think about this for a minute…
Some day, this will be nothing. There will be a day when none of this will matter. There will be a day when it’s all worthless. Everything will be worthless. Nothing you before held close to you will even matter.
All there will be is fear. Fear of other humans whose only goal is to stomp all over you and leave you lifeless in the streets. And then you will want to do the same to them. Hell, if you’re going down, they’re coming down with you.
Where will such hatred begin?
Fear. Fear of other humans whose only goal is to stomp all over you and leave you lifeless in the streets. Oh, and what can we do about this?
Nothing. We’re human. Humans are hideous beasts that are too paranoid and proprietary for their own species’ sake. And there’s no man on earth who can fix that. We will be our own demise. The fall of humanity began shortly after humanity itself did.
Depressing? Yes, very. But I’m not wrong, am I?
So back to our question. What in this physical world do you value? Who do you love? Who or what can you not live without? What are you strongest beliefs?
Whatever these may be, keep them. Treasure them. They’ll be the last thing you have before your species collapses down upon you.
Making fake GroupHug posts. Here’s my latest:
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I am sexually attracted to computer mice, and nothing but. I’m 40 years old and never had sex and have never been sexually attracted to anything until I saw a commercial for an Apple ][ computer. I was in love with the mouse it came with. That single button… that nice long cord protruding form the end and straight into the computer… Nowadays, I find the ergonomic mice from Microsoft to be a bit more attractive, especially the corded ones. I like the cordless ones too, but there’s just less to do with them…
I have never told anyone this before, as I have no living relatives or friends. Just my mice. All 42 of them.
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I’ll update you if it goes through.