Forty-Fifth Birthday

forty five years ago there was 32 inches of snow on the ground, and my mom had to wade uphill to the hospital to bear me.

They sucked me in.

Facebook Junk:

http://profile.to/egyptoid

Blogging Maniac

Peter Pan! I just got a bajillion whiny emails saying I have not updated this since Paris Hilton was in jail... You would not believe how much more of a drama I could make that. Not just a second one..

I am totally exhausted with an awfully big adventure, hoping you haven't found other blogs, just generally being the life of the party to my employer, my day is passing in a blur from dawn to I see my darling's 10000 text messages. I am not being a whinging Pom or anything. but never say never.

I won't promise anything to you but I will blog about it when I find my way home. Fully! Until my paycheck dawneth..

Grace of God

the Korean man in San Diego, who lost his entire family...

• did not blame the military pilot for what was an accident.
• wished that the pilot would not suffer for his mistake.
• complimented the pilot for his military service.

all these comments made while his wife, babies, and grandmother were laying dead ...

Later he said this:

"I know there are many people who have experienced more terrible things," Yoon said. "But, please, tell me how to do it. I don't know what to do."

Since he had already had the composure and selflessness to make the first three statements, 

I'd say he's alreay on his way.

Mantra ?

Lets strive for the free speech that liberals used to believe in, 

Permit the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, 

Enjoy the personal freedom that America used to believe in.

and Believe in them like they're here today.

A Prayer for the Survivors at Mumbai

We are all Lubavicher today

Star Spangled Banner

thanksgiving is the premier American holiday.
Be thankful we haven't had another September 11th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOQWAKnB1Q

Thankful for the US Air Force

So: we are up in the mountains at about 0100 hrs looking for a bad guy that we thought was in the area. Here are ten of us, pitch black, crystal clear night, about 25 degrees. We know there are bad guys in the area; a few shots have been fired but no big deal. We decide that we need air cover and the only thing in the area is a solo B-1 bomber. He flies around at about 20,000 feet and tells us there is nothing in the area. He then asks if we would like a low level show of force.

Stupid question. Of course we tell him yes.

The controller who is attached to the team then is heard talking to the pilot. Pilot asks if we want it subsonic or supersonic.

Very stupid question.

Pilot advises he is twenty miles out and stand by. The controller gets us all sitting down in a line and points out the proper location.

You have to picture this. Pitch black, ten killers sitting down,dead quiet and overlooking this about 30 mile long valley. All of a sudden, way out (below our level) you see a set of four 200' white flames coming at us.

The controller says, "Ah-- guys-- you might want to plug your ears".

Faster than you can think a B-1, supersonic, 1000' over our heads, blasts the sound barrier and it feels like God just hit you in the head with a jack-hammer". He then stands it straight up with 4 white trails of flame coming out and disappears."

Cost of gas for that: Probably $50,000
 
Hearing damage: For certain
 
Bunch of Taliban thinking twice about shooting at us: Priceless

Happy Thanksgiving !

Engineeringly Ept

Are you an Engineer ?
how well did you do on this pop quiz ?

1: What does a camshaft do?

2: What is a vertical flyback interval?

3: What role does expansion play in refrigeration?

4: What does an address bus do?

5: Timed delay of arrival is the basis of what common technological service?

6: What is the role of a CCD in a digital camera?

7: Name any spacecraft now in orbit around anything.

8: What does TCP/IP stand for?

9: What is the purpose of a torque wrench?

10: name any two active elements (from the periodic table) used in the workings of the plasma TV?

Egyptoid got extra credit on 7
and E. knew 1,3,6,8,9
but E. guessed 4,5
E. unknown on 2,10


the Rebuilder got 2 of them, maybe 3 of them wrong.

How Not To Be A Blogger

Generating Content is a Plus


"" UPDATE III:

Sexist patriarchal oppressor Vox Day offers a list of suggestions for women bloggers who want to be taken seriously:

• 1. Have at least half a brain and demonstrate that it actually functions by not writing egregiously stupid stuff.
• 2. At least 75 percent of your posts should have nothing to do with you or your life.
• 3. Don't post a picture or talk about your romantic life, your children or your pets.
• 4. Don't threaten to quit blogging every time anyone criticizes you.
• 5. Learn how to defend your positions with facts and logic instead of passive-aggressive parthian shots fired off as you run away.

No. 2 and No. 3 are the real deal-killers for a lot of women. There is a remarkable tendency of (some) women to imagine that other people are interested in their narrow personal concerns. This tendency expresses itself in the phenomenon of gossip, as well as in that unreadable literary genre, the feminist memoir.""

Well I havent done any stats on my blog. It started on the Katrina adventure,
delved into politics and religion, so whats left.
Actually much energy goes onto my gaming blog, regrettably.
but that is actual content.

Work Work Work

Bicoastal
I work both sides of the York and the James.

People Problems

MANILOSIS (n.): 1. A disease which causes the afflicted person to cite the disagreeing political viewpoints of others, and react to the disagreement by eschewing any juxtaposition between them and himself, perhaps out of the fear that his arguments will be revealed as insubstantial or logically tenuous if challenged.

2. The irrational prognostication that known political disagreements, will everlastingly remain the only matters of discussion, coupled with an equally irrational sensibility that politically-differing individuals cannot be friends.

3. The delusion that showcasing this disease and the suffering from it, is in fact the manifestation of some kind of ethical or philosophical principle.

4. The insistence that political agendas that would, if enacted, by design have profound effects upon the lives of everyone, must be deliberated and refined only in the presence of some.

There is no known cure. There is thought to be some hope for the afflicted, but the patient has to want to change.

I disagree, the cure is consistent winning friendship. Hate and delusion are over come by good deeds and insistence on the positive truth.

Lame Humor 307

How about a mennonite carpentry crew called "strict constructionists"

Repairing the Broken

From An Elementary School Teacher..

He came to my desk with a quivering lip,
The lesson was done.
Have you a new sheet for me dear teacher,
I've spoiled this one.


I took his sheet all soiled and blotted,
Gave him a new one all unspotted.
And into his tired heart I cried,
Do better now, my child.


I went to the throne with a trembling heart,
The day was done.
Have you a new day for me dear Master,
I've spoiled this one.

He took my day all soiled and blotted,
Gave me a new one all unspotted.
And into my tired heart He cried,
Do better now, My child.

A new day, a new beginning. Ask anyone who's gone wrong,
you'll know what a thrill it is to be told you're forgiven.

via Ravi Zacharias

Spring Break Was Boring, Did Homework Instead of Partying

Department of Peace Studies,

Old Dominion Univ. Thesis of Modern Polity

In the works of Burroughs, a predominant concept is the concept of patriarchial sexuality. It could be said that if Derridaist reading holds, the works of Burroughs are reminiscent of Mapplethorpe.

The main theme of the works of Burroughs is the paradigm of precultural sexual identity. An abundance of theories concerning not, in fact, narrative, but subnarrative may be found. Thus, Sontag’s model of conceptual discourse holds that narrative comes from communication, given that art is equal to sexuality.

In the works of Burroughs, a predominant concept is the distinction between destruction and creation. Foucault promotes the use of modernist objectivism to analyse class. But Lyotard uses the term ‘conceptual discourse’ to denote the rubicon, and some would say the futility, of neocapitalist reality.

In Naked Lunch, Burroughs deconstructs Marxist capitalism; in Junky, although, he affirms constructive nationalism. Thus, the characteristic theme of Werther’s[1] critique of conceptual discourse is the bridge between sexual identity and class.

La Fournier[2] implies that the works of Burroughs are empowering. In a sense, Debord suggests the use of the neocapitalist paradigm of consensus to challenge class divisions.

The rubicon, and hence the collapse, of constructive nationalism depicted in Burroughs’s Port of Saints is also evident in The Ticket that Exploded, although in a more dialectic sense. But the subject is interpolated into a that includes sexuality as a paradox.

Many theories concerning modernist objectivism exist. It could be said that the subject is contextualised into a cultural paradigm of reality that includes reality as a whole.

An abundance of discourses concerning the role of the writer as observer may be revealed. However, Bataille promotes the use of constructive nationalism to deconstruct and read sexual identity.

2. Lacanist obscurity and neosemiotic Marxism

“Society is elitist,” says Foucault. The primary theme of the works of Burroughs is a self-fulfilling paradox. Thus, modernist objectivism holds that language serves to entrench sexism.

The main theme of Hamburger’s[3] essay on preconceptual objectivism is the dialectic, and subsequent genre, of semanticist sexual identity. Therefore, in Naked Lunch, Burroughs analyses modernist objectivism; in Port of Saints, however, he examines constructive nationalism.

If the neocultural paradigm of discourse holds, we have to choose between constructive nationalism and Marxist socialism. In a sense, the premise of neosemiotic Marxism states that society has intrinsic meaning.

3. Burroughs and constructive nationalism

If one examines neosemiotic Marxism, one is faced with a choice: either reject modernist objectivism or conclude that academe is part of the futility of reality. Baudrillard uses the term ‘material narrative’ to denote a mythopoetical reality. Therefore, any number of constructions concerning modernist objectivism exist.

“Consciousness is dead,” says Derrida. Marx suggests the use of subdialectic discourse to attack class divisions. It could be said that several desublimations concerning the economy, and some would say the futility, of textual class may be discovered.

“Sexual identity is part of the collapse of language,” says Debord; however, according to Tilton[4] , it is not so much sexual identity that is part of the collapse of language, but rather the genre, and eventually the collapse, of sexual identity. The primary theme of the works of Burroughs is the role of the poet as participant. But Sontag promotes the use of modernist objectivism to challenge class.

The main theme of Abian’s[5] analysis of neosemiotic Marxism is not narrative, but prenarrative. Constructive nationalism holds that sexual identity, perhaps ironically, has objective value, given that Baudrillard’s critique of postcultural deconstruction is invalid. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a that includes consciousness as a whole.

The premise of Marxist class implies that narrative must come from the collective unconscious. However, Sontag uses the term ‘neosemiotic Marxism’ to denote the paradigm, and subsequent fatal flaw, of textual language.

The masculine/feminine distinction prevalent in Burroughs’s Naked Lunch emerges again in The Ticket that Exploded. In a sense, many discourses concerning constructive nationalism exist. One cannot forget the influences of Ayn Rand on the dialogue.

Sargeant[6] states that we have to choose between modernist objectivism and the presemiotic paradigm of consensus. Thus, the characteristic theme of the works of Fellini is the role of the reader as observer.

Foucault suggests the use of capitalist theory to deconstruct capitalism. Therefore, the subject is contextualised into a that includes truth as a paradox.

Postdialectic nihilism suggests that art is capable of significant form. But if constructive nationalism holds, we have to choose between capitalist materialism and predialectic textual theory.

The premise of constructive nationalism states that expression is a product of the masses. Therefore, Lyotard promotes the use of the neocultural paradigm of reality to modify and analyse sexual identity.

4. Modernist objectivism and dialectic desituationism

“Consciousness is responsible for class divisions,” says Derrida. The subject is interpolated into a that includes truth as a totality. It could be said that Marx suggests the use of constructive nationalism to attack hierarchy.

Bataille uses the term ‘modernist objectivism’ to denote a postcapitalist whole. However, the primary theme of Bailey’s[7] analysis of dialectic desituationism is the difference between culture and class.

Prinn[8] suggests that we have to choose between Baudrillardist hyperreality and subcultural capitalism. In a sense, the subject is contextualised into a that includes art as a totality.

5. Burroughs and Marxist capitalism

The characteristic theme of the works of Burroughs is the role of the reader as participant. The primary theme of von Ludwig’s[9] critique of dialectic desituationism is not theory, but pretheory. But the subject is interpolated into a that includes language as a reality.

If one examines constructive nationalism, one is faced with a choice: either accept textual Marxism or conclude that the task of the observer is deconstruction, but only if art is distinct from consciousness; otherwise, Foucault’s model of constructive nationalism is one of “predeconstructive dialectic theory”, and thus fundamentally used in the service of sexism. Dialectic desituationism holds that the establishment is part of the collapse of art. In a sense, Sartre promotes the use of the postcapitalist paradigm of context to modify sexual identity.

Debord’s model of modernist objectivism suggests that reality comes from communication, given that dialectic desituationism is valid. It could be said that an abundance of theories concerning the role of the poet as writer may be found.

Sartre uses the term ‘modernist objectivism’ to denote not desublimation per se, but subdesublimation. Thus, several theories concerning constructive nationalism exist.

If modernist objectivism holds, the works of Burroughs are modernistic. However, Derrida uses the term ‘constructive nationalism’ to denote the defining characteristic, and eventually the futility, of conceptual class.

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1. Werther, Y. M. K. (1978) Subcapitalist Deappropriations: Modernist objectivism in the works of Tarantino. Harvard University Press

2. la Fournier, M. ed. (1989) Textual theory, Marxism and modernist objectivism. University of Michigan Press

3. Hamburger, K. U. (1971) The Genre of Expression: Constructive nationalism and modernist objectivism. Loompanics

4. Tilton, V. T. A. ed. (1989) Marxism, modernist objectivism and neocultural narrative. O’Reilly & Associates

5. Abian, L. Y. (1978) The Vermillion Key: Modernist objectivism and constructive nationalism. Yale University Press

6. Sargeant, S. ed. (1992) Modernist objectivism in the works of Fellini. University of Oregon Press

7. Bailey, J. B. P. (1981) The Futility of Society: Constructive nationalism in the works of Burroughs. O’Reilly & Associates

8. Prinn, T. ed. (1973) Marxism, conceptual narrative and modernist objectivism. And/Or Press

9. von Ludwig, W. D. (1984) Reading Derrida: Constructive nationalism and modernist objectivism. O’Reilly & Associates

Crazy Dog Owners

CrAzy DoG OwneRs that give the rest of us a bad name. Nearly every square inch of this ladies car is covered in Corgi crap. Each of her Corgis is named in a tribute, including those passed on. Ai yai yai. thank goodness this is a free country.

Books of the Month

Second Half of Psalms, 76 - 150

Birthday of Mine

The Rebuilder turns 44 today.
Later today my mum will call me,
and remind me for the 43rd time how much
snow was on the ground that fateful day in the 60s.

Picture of Mrs. Rebuilder:

no better present I have.

Truth in the Bio Dept.

Answers to a Biographical Quiz:


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Remember, No Cheating.

HEADLINE: ONE BOY'S LUNCH MONEY FEEDS THOUSANDS !!!

Support for future weeks came in: from Warren C . Ron H. Allen C. Kevin C. Many thanks from me and those helped.

Photo shows that week's meals served tally on the Virginia unit's kitchen. That's an average of 7OOO meals per day. Food was only part of the story. Each day you could see:

40+ houses & yards cleared by chainsaw crews.
70+ loads of laundry done (for relief workers &  the needy without power)
10+ houses and drives cleared of mud and flood debris.
30+ families given clothes, toiletries, bottled water, snacks to take.
90+ people taking showers (for relief workers & the needy without power)
90+ people receiving counseling from chaplains


all that food and work was donated, folks.