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04:08 pm
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Westradamus
Batman: "Nobody wants war."
Robin: "Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours."
Batman: "Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years."
source
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11:49 pm
[Link] | Oh
GOD
I love Vaarsuvius!
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10:58 am
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I don't know how I scored so low on "gloomy"
( I'm going to Hell. Specifically... )
Current Mood:  devilish
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10:56 pm
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It's funny because it's my life
Background: He's just imagining her
Tags: comics
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01:16 pm
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Title goes here
Last night I had a dream where I was participating in some sort of adult-baptism ceremony at my old church. Partway through it occurred to me that I'm an atheist, and what the hell am I doing at church? (I have this sort of dream every couple months, although I've never been at the center of the ritual before.) Normally I leave as soon as I come to this realization, but I am one of the 3 people being re-baptized (or whatever it is), so I'm trying to figure out how to leave without causing too much of a fuss. But I realize I have to get out of there fast, because I could not in good conscience swear the vows they would ask me to swear, and that would be a hell of a lot more disruptive than me just getting up and walking out.
At this point in the ceremony, the officiant asks people to volunteer what their greatest fear is. People start chiming in, and I try to decide what mine is. My first thought is "Being wrong." I think that compared to most people, I really hate being wrong, so I try to have as much information as possible and think things through thoroughly before stating my opinion. But I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong (again, I think I'm better than most people about this) if I'm confronted with new information or a different interpretation that makes more sense. My second thought was "Hurting people." But that didn't fit either. It's certainly something that upsets me, and I try to avoid it if possible, but there are too many situations where I'm willing to hurt people, badly even, to be true to myself or another.
At this point I am awakened by my phone, thus freeing me from my dream-dilemmas. But in the few minutes before I fall back asleep, my fatigue-befuddled brain examines the last bit my dream over and over. "Not being true to myself" is another wrong answer that seems promising at first. Again, being true to myself is something very important to me, that I take great pride in, but there's no fear involved. One, while I might make minor compromises, especially in moments where I have to make a quick decision, I'm not at all concerned about having a major breach of integrity. Two, even if I were to fail myself and have a major breach in integrity, it wouldn't necessarily impact other people. My actions could certainly harm other people and/or demonstrate that I was wrong, but those would fall under the two previously-discarded categories. Then it came to me all in a rush. Each of these things was related, but not what was at the center.
My greatest fear is failing those who have put their trust in me.
Current Mood:  somber
Current Music: VNV Nation - Saviour
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08:03 pm
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Available through Sunday...
Neil Patrick Harris vs. Nathan Fillian in a 3-part musical by Joss Whedon.
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11:29 pm
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I need to learn how to do this (SFW)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b12_1214215739
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01:34 pm
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Book review: Hunter's Run
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09:23 am
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I'm not fooled either
Tags: comics
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12:28 am
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My new favorite acronym
IQOQI: Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation
(Pronounced "ee-ko-kee".)
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06:59 pm
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Quotes that remind me of me 6
"He was too inhibited to just lay it out there, and too honest to try to say it in euphemistic code. He was too self-conscious. He was too chicken. There was an awesome power in sex, he wanted it to go right."
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Fifty Degrees Below
Current Mood: shy
Tags: quotes
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11:52 pm
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Gorram "LiveJournal cut" won't work
Current Mood:  sleepy
Current Music: Blink 182 - Time to Break Up
Tags: quizzes
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10:13 pm
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Tonight's "Holy shit I'm old" moment
I'm the same age my parents were when they had their first child.
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12:15 am
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The mere existence of this video makes me happy
http://www.gbh.tv/music.videos/utahsaints/somethinggood08page.html
Current Mood:  something good is coming
Current Music: Vivaldi: Four Seasons
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04:00 pm
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Learning hurts (other people sometimes)
Today at lab I learned that my hands are more heat-tolerant than those of some of my labmates.
Tags: lab
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01:14 am
[Link] | Walking home tonight in the spring(ish) air I recall walking home in the bitter cold and wind and I am stuck more strongly than ever before that each day that ends never comes again.
Current Mood: introspective
Current Music: Aqua - Turn Back Time
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07:32 pm
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08:57 pm
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Why I love my brother
(Link NSFWoK)
(8:46:51 PM) Fan91785: shoulder-deep
(8:47:17 PM) roidesfoux: like this?
(8:47:18 PM) roidesfoux: http://imagechan.org/img/img.php?id=110
(8:48:27 PM) Fan91785: WHY?!
(8:48:31 PM) roidesfoux: lol
(8:48:37 PM) Fan91785: WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!
(8:48:47 PM) Fan91785: WHY DID YOU HAVE A RESPONSE?!
(8:49:14 PM) Fan91785: WHY IS YOUR RESPONSE ANIMATED?!
Current Mood:  ROTFLMAO
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01:32 pm
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11:17 pm
[Link] | "'But if nothing we do here has any guarantee of lasting, if even the best gestures have only a slim chance of outliving us - is there any reason not to just give up?'
'Every reason in the world,' Rudd said. "We're here and we're alive. It's a beautiful evening, on the last perfect day of summer...Now let's go down there and make the most of it, while it lasts.'"
-Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice
Current Mood:  hopeful
Tags: quotes
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