http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:freelance217&section=today deviantART RSS for by:freelance217 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:16:11 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28263837/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28263837/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:29:46 PST Attack of the the Eye Creatures is tremendously funny.

"String."
"STRING!"
"There's a string."

I have to get in my roflcopter and go now.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28252283/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28252283/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:20:59 PST he lives in Saudi Arabia.):
Doing something akin to what Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan did at Fort Hood in Texas is only going to make the harassment worse for all the other Muslims in the United States.

The harassment is occurring because a few high-profile attacks were carried out against the US by people of who were, at least nominally, of Muslim faith. This cemented a view in the consciousness of many Americans that "Muslims are scary people who want to hurt us."

On the whole, this is not true. Most Muslims around the world are normal, peaceful people who want nothing more than the chance to live as they please (much like most Catholic Christians in Ireland and Northern Ireland). But, the image is still there in many American's minds, and it is reinforced whenever a high-profile attack is carried out by someone who identifies as a Muslim tries to hurt or kill people.

Executing an attack the way Maj. Hasan did will only cause people to feel justified in harassing people who seem to fit the stereotype of a Muslim terrorist. It makes things worse.

Now, with that said, I'll bring back one of my earlier points: Almost no-one who identifies themselves as a Muslim is going to go on a rampage and kill innocent people.
The fear people feel isn't rooted in reality, but in the news-shaped perception of reality that many people have, their fear feels like it is perfectly justified.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28026138/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/28026138/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:31:36 PDT Kinda bizarre. I think I'll get more out of it the second time I watch it.
O-P-E

On a completely unrelated note, I've got two different versions of "John Barleycorn Must Die" stuck in my head.
"And little Sir John's in the nut-brown bowl, and he's brandy in the glass. And little Sir John in the nut-brown bowl proved the strongest man at last."

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/27982512/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/27982512/ Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:24:38 PDT IT IS LIKE BEING TIED TO A CHAIR WHILE A THOUSAND BUTTHURT MORONS SIMULTANEOUSLY SCREAM INTO EACH OF YOUR EAR CANALS WHILE THE SIRENS OF A THOUSAND POLICE CARS BLARE INSIDE YOUR HEAD!!!!! ONE OUT OF FIVE COMMENTS IS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS AND MORE THAN HALF OF THEM HAVE MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!! THE CAPS-LOCK KEY IS NOT THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL IT IS A TOOL FOR CAPITALISING HEADINGS WITHOUT HOLDING DOWN THE SHIFT KEY THE ONLY PERSON ALLOWED TO USE THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL IS OCTOCAT AND HE DOESNT EVEN USE IT IN WRITTEN COMMUNICATION INSTEAD HE HAS THE GIFT OF SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS DO NOT OVERUSE THE CAPSLOCK KEY UNLESS YOU ARE IN A DESIGNATED CAPSLOCK ONLY COMMUNITY OR YOU REALLY ARE TRYING TO EMPHASIZE ONE WORD OR PHRASE!!!!
My internet voice hurts now.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/27901991/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/27901991/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:06:03 PDT
So I got started on a C'thulhu kick. Not the Cutehulhu. He's lame. But the real eldritch abomination, strike sober-minded men with madness C'thulhu.

I faved a few things and put a C'thulhu section in my faves. If you like looking at eldritch abominations and priests of the Old Ones, check it out.

Also, This. "What to say: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

EDIT
I did end up putting a Cutehulhu section in. *gag*\
/EDIT

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Which means that I'm alone for a bit... which means I'm bored out of my mind days. Evenings I have rehearsal for My Fair Lady, and that's fun, but it's only 2-3 hours a day, out of 17 awake. Yeah... Flash games only work for so long, and I'm exhausting the replayability of the games I own... I'm starting to put in self-imposed challenges (like in NWN, not using stores to identify stuff. If my character can't identify it, then it stays unidentified. Fun.), but that'll only last a bit longer.

That's my whine for today, gonna call people, see if they want to hang out/do things.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/25366720/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/25366720/ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:58:49 PDT
See everyone later,

Bye.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/24911017/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/24911017/ Sat, 23 May 2009 17:00:17 PDT
Anybody know what class the Bible is sorted under in the Library of Congress Classification for libraries?

If you want, you can go find out, but if you hold your mouse here, you can find out!

Look here if you don't believe me.
That's all for me slacking off.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/24503492/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/24503492/ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:08:33 PDT
My cat went out this morning. Not unusual, it's allowed to go in and out as is convenient for us.

What is unusual is that now, 11 1/2 hours later, no one has seen it. And our across-the-street neighbor has a pit bull, and our cat can climb fences.
There is a significant chance that my cat is now dead.

I know that
It's possible that the cat is still alive. Sometimes cats disappear for longer than a day or two (even though this one never has)
It can be foolish to get really attached to pets, as in most cases, you survive the pet, so pets just set you up for being upset a lot.

Knowing those two things doesn't help a bit. I want my cat back, and I know I might not be able to, and I want to break that dog's neck if it had anything to do with it.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/23696995/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/23696995/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:41:41 PDT th day of March.
On Friday the 13^th, nothing out of the ordinary happened.

I took the Scholastic Aptitude Test today, and I feel really confident about it. Gonna have results online by 4/7. Here's to 2400 (even though there's no way it's going to happen, because I skipped a few questions)

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/23181148/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/23181148/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:02:02 PST Hokai, so, basically, some random people on the interwebz will be absolutely shocked to hear of all the bad things that happened to me on this Friday, being the thirteenth day of the month of February:
Nothing.
Nothing.
And a bit more...
Nothing.
As is normal on a day with no school.
I hope I'm just as lucky a month from now, which will also be Friday 13, only in the month of March.
Cheers, for boring days, and mocking the significance some people place on arbitrary coincidences of calendar days.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/22330369/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/22330369/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:46:42 PST ' journals, this will be the last '' journal!
Umm... not a whole bunch else...

BYEE!!

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/22008589/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/22008589/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:04:09 PST I SAID SOMETHING IN A NOTE TO ARK IN REFERENCE TO A LJ COMMUNITY CALLED CAPS LOCK CLONE WARS. EVERYTHING ON THE COMMUNITY HAS TO BE POSTED IN ALL UPPERCASE, OTHERWISE YOU GET TO DO PENANCE WHICH CONSISTS OF PLO KOON/DAVE FILONI SLASH BUT THE NOTE TO ARK HAD LOWERCASE IN IT AND SHE WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH THE CLCW PEOPLE BUT SHE COULDN'T WITHOUT DOING PENANCE SO SHE ASKED ME TO DO A PENANCE HAIKU SO THAT SHE COULD SUBMIT THEM AT THE SAME TIME SO THAT SHE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO PENANCE FOR HERSELF AND I DID THE PENANCE BUT I'M NOT POSTING IT HERE AND YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT ARK'S PAGE WHERE SHE MAY OR MAY NOT POST A LINK TO WHEREVER IT ENDS UP ON CWCL.











YOU GO HOME NOW!!!

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21434555/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21434555/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:34:17 PST ...
...
...
OMFG IT FUCKING ROCKS THE CREOLE IS SO AWESOME AND ITS ALMOST THE SAME AS FRENCH AND ITS SO AWESOME TO SING AND EVEN THOUGH I DON'T GET TO SING MORE THAN A FEW DOZEN WORDS OF IT ITS STILL SO AWESOME I ALMOST CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

Se te nan Betleem
Yon ti kwen nan jude
Mari te f'on gason
a minui non etab
depim tou piti kon sa
men kwon istwa sa

Calmed down a bit...
I only get to sing those last two lines, the rest of the time I'm singing "Vou."
It's still awesome.
That is all.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21381344/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21381344/ Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:13:29 PST Hokai, so, basically, I'm feeling like a total Asshole, because one of my friends (who will probably recognize themselves if they read this) calls me a little after 7 and says "hey, come to Touch of Japan, it'll be fun, and a mutual friend needs our emotional support." I wanted to help the mutual friend feel better about doing the ToJ, so I said, "Sure I'll come! *click*"
Then I turn around, and find out that the keys to the only vehicle I'm allowed to drive without having my ass handed to me on a plate by my parents are gone. Along with the vehicle.
So, then I call my friend back to tell her that I can't come, because there's no way in Hell I'm riding my bike to School at 7:15PM in November, and she had just turned her phone off since calling me.
So I leave a message, but I still feel like a dick for saying 'yeah, I'll be there,' then not showing up, apparently (assuming she didn't check her messages until afterwards) with no explanation.
So....
Yeah...that's what's going on here.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21148973/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/21148973/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:20:44 PDT Hokai, so, basically, I got tagged for this thing, and I don't do them very often, but I decided to do this one for no reason at all...
The deal is, you take the questions below, and you open up some kind of media player with a shuffle function. You tell it to start shuffling, and you put the song titles (preferably with artists) as the response to the question. No exceptions, theoretically, I guess I scared my computer when I made my threat about CCR, but I still would have done what the thingy said, plus a little extra.
Oh, and tag six (6) people when you're finished and you're posting this, much as I am.

Are you male or female?
Pilate's Dream- Jesus Christ Superstar

Describe yourself!
Hey Tonight - CCR

What do people feel when they're around you?
Have you ever seen the rain? - CCR

Describe your current relationship.
Street Fighting Man - Rolling stones

Where would you like to be now?
On The Border - The Eagles

How do you feel about love?
Cookies and Whiskey - Amanda Richards

What's your life like?
Bad Moon Rising - CCR

What would you ask for if you had only one wish?
Paranoid Eyes - Pink Floyd

Say something wise. (this one's gonna be "Bike" by Pink FLoyd, I can feel it..."
All I Ask of You - Phantom (PotP)
(Or not...)

If someone says "is this okay?" you say,
Up Around the Bend - CCR
(this is making my library look like there's nothing in it besides Credence Clearwater Revival...)

How would you describe yourself?
Susie Q - CCR (GAH!!!)

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Long as I Can See the Light - (Guess...) CCR

How do you feel today?
It's already over - Amanda Richards

What is your life's purpose?
Commotion - CCR (DAMMIT!!!)

What is your motto?
Those Sweet Words - Norah Jones

What do your friends think of you?
Good TImes, Bar Times - Led Zeppelin

What do you think of your parents?
Lodi - (You may recognize the band name...) CCR

What do you think about very often?
Proud Mary - CCR (F**k this. Next time, I'm hitting 'next' until something else pops up, then listing both)

What is 2 + 2?
The Temple - Jesus Christ Superstar

What do you think of your best friend?
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen (oh, god)

What do you think of the person you like?
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin

What is your life story?
Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath (The most restful song I've ever heard)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Hands Held High - Linkin Park

What will you dance to at your wedding?
War Pigs - Black Sabbath

What will they play at your funeral?
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

What is your hobby/interest?
She's Got Balls - ACDC

What is your biggest fear?
Bring it on Home - Led Zeppelin

What is your biggest secret?
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

What do you think of your friends?
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin (I promise, iTunes is WRONG!!!)

What will you post this as?
What is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin

*edit* a lot of these songs, I don't listen to a whole bunch, so I don't really know what they way, thus I left no message.*/edit*
*edit2* Forgot to tag!!!
*/edit2*































]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/20018473/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/20018473/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:28:25 PDT Hokai, so, basically, I just got back from summer camp yesterday. This is the first time I've looked at my watch list...
...
...
HOLY SHIT!!!
381 Deviations, 208 Messages
It's unlikely that I will be doing a whole bunch on dA for a while besides checking my deviations. Greetings to everyone I know who has noticed that I was gone for seven months.

Everyone I go to school with, see you in a few weeks, I know not what classes I may or may not have with you.

Out for now,
Freelance.

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/19084881/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/19084881/ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:14:22 PDT Hokai, so, basically, tomorrow I'm going off to be a Boy Scout Camp counselor for 7 weeks, the first of them being a week of staff preparation.

As I am going to be a staffer at a Boy Scout camp, I need to be a positive role model for all the little morons who will swear like sailors, then rush off to tell their leaders when I say "piss" after smashing my finger. No, I'm not bitter.

But enough about that. Those little morons are the minority, and for the most part, it's really fun. I get to sit on my hard, uncomfortable wooden throne, and tell the boys to read stuff, and then ask them questions about it, and expand on what the book says so that (for many of them) I get to have the experience of seeing them understand what I was trying to teach.

It's bunches and bunches of fun, but before I get to teach the little blighters, I get to have a week where we make the camp presentable to all the people who will freak out and start killing people if there are branches that you might trip over if you had .25 inch² footprints and you were trying to hurt yourself.

I have a lot of stuff that I don't like about camp, but there seems to be enough that I do like that I'm going back to do it again.

A few of the good friends that I made there ended up not being employed this year, probably in part because the camp director is a most unpleasant Mormon woman who shows discrimination against people who are outspoken in not being Christian. One of the girls I worked with who wasn't in a position where she needed to talk to scouts a lot, and thus couldn't very easily offend them with the beliefs that she didn't talk about without prompting.

She was Wiccan, and one of the nicer people I met at Baldwin. However, she didn't take any crap from people who told her that her religion was inferior to the one that they espoused. One such person was the camp director. She didn't say it to "Jenny", but Jenny heard "Ashley" pretty much saying that people who aren't Christian are immoral, degenerate, etc, pretty much not worth the air it takes to let them keep breathing. That didn't make Jenny happy.

As I said, the camp structure and the people at it have some flaws. But there are people like Jenny who make it worth it.
Like my Wrangler buddies, who try to get me to come down to the corral, and I don't go, because I hate horses.
And my Nature buddy, who speaks with varying accents to throw people off.
And my Cook friend, who makes people do stuff so they need to wash their hands again. And again. And again. (Don't touch his back when he opens his arms for a hug! He's not going to hit you when he goes in for the sack-tap! Don't help him 'bother' people, PPP style!)
And my Archery buddy, who DMs for our D&D adventures.
And my Life-guard buddies, who try to throw me in when I go to the lake, because I used to be a life-guard.
And my Handicraft buddy, who tells the scouts not to finger-carve, even though thumb-carving sounds wa-a-a-a-a-y cooler.
And my Ranger-buddy, who used to be in the corral, but now gets to drive around, and carry a radio.
And my Commy buddies, who get pwned at ninja-water-pistol-fighting.
And my Gun buddies, who radio back when the lifeguards yell at them without a radio.
And my TP buddy, who gives me stuff to eat when I give her money.
And my Commissary buddies, who give the scouts I watch over food, so they don't come to my tent and beg. (sorry, my 'tree'

Then there's a few of the reasons I almost didn't come back: Mormon director's kids. She refuses to discipline them, and no one else wants to, because, you know, she's our boss, and if we piss her off my telling off her kids, we tend to catch hell a lot more often. So her kids are complete brats, and run around destroying our stuff, and then say sorry with smiles on their faces, and then do some more destruction.
So... Camp has some good things, and some bad, and I just hope that this year, probably the last year I'll work there, will have a lot more of the good than the bad. If not, then I won't need to worry about it getting any worse, because I'll have already written the camp off as a place that I'm never likely to work for again.


So, to anyone that watches this with regularity, feel free to spam, because I won't be here to tell you to stop. Just be sure to keep it to topics that I'll be able to read through without needing to conceal it from my dad, who doesn't like this site merely because of the first part of the compound word that is its name. He doesn't like unorthodoxy.



~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18859596/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18859596/ Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:42:15 PDT Today is my birthday, and I got a few things, but one thing that I did get was...
A phone!
I got a Samsung slider phone, and it is wonderful and epic and squee. I've only added a few numbers to it yet, but that is what I will be doing as soon as I finish this post.
Yippee!!

]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18805058/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18805058/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:24:15 PDT

Well, not quite.


Living in Oregon pretty much means that if something is wild, it's very difficult to get it to not grow in your garden. Well, my dad decided to do something about the weeds sprouting up in the gravel near our strawberry patch:

Burn them.

He got out the propane torch, fired it up and burned everything weed-ish to cinders.

He didn't tell me about this, and when he sent me out today with a pressurized can of RoundUp to get the weeds that he couldn't burn, because they rested on flammable stuff, my neighbor saw me: "So he sent you out with the Agent Orange!"

Me: "Lolwhut?"

So, I go around and I spray all the plants on the bark dust, and the potting soil (because Willamette Valley clay has, like, 0% plant nutrients, and it keeps water like a plastic bag, so plants not put in potting soil have rotten roots after about 1 winter... It's amazing that anything DOES grow, let alone that EVERYTHING grows), and a few bits on the edge of the lawn, because RoundUp does kill grass, but not as badly as broadleaf plants.

Then I go on to the gravel. And there are a few Uberweeds that have, since yesterday, sprouted in the furnace-blasted earth that composed my first path. Then I moved over about 3 feet (a little under twice the length of the nozzle of my sprayer) and started again. There was NOTHING.

That's not true. There was one dandelion. With a dark brown stem, and black leaves. I take a quick glance at the rest of the gravel, and spot several weed corpses. All looking about the same as the dandelion, which made me happy, because it meant I was done spraying.

I walked over to my neighbor, and started talking to him. He mentioned what I had just assumed, that my father had indeed "Come out with the Napalm, and sent you with the Agent Orange."
Fun stuff.
Smirks and Chuckles,
Freelance













]]> ~freelance217 http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18231865/ http://freelance217.deviantart.com/journal/18231865/ Thu, 08 May 2008 18:27:12 PDT here!

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Listening to: Rush - Far Cry
via FoxyTunes

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