Aiel's Blog

So long, and thanks for all the fish...

{ 07:49, 2008-Jan-23 } { 5 comments } { Link }

Alpha Mike Foxtrot.

Moving to Vox.

Peace,
Aielman

ATTENTION: Trackbacks Need To Be Disabled.

{ 08:14, 2007-Nov-9 } { 2 comments } { Link }

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Latest MeMe borrowed from Libertine

{ 02:38, 2007-Nov-6 } { 2 comments } { Link }

Meme of the Week
01:38, 2007-Nov-6 .. Posted in daily life .. 4 comments .. Link

1) What is your favorite TV show?
Hmm...hard one. Tossup between Dexter and The Shield
2) What one word in your opinion describes you?
3) What is your favorite CD at the moment?
Don't have one
4) How many contacts are in your cell phone?
232
5) Favorite rock song?
No way to narrow it down to just one.
6) Favorite sandwich?
A fresh Publix Cuban sandwhich.
7) What characteristic do you despise?
Disloyalty
8) Language you would love to learn?
Interesting question...it's always been one of my "if you could have 3 wishes" to be able to read, speak and understand all languages/dialects. But If I had to narrow it to one, I guess I'd go with Spanish.
9) Do you throw your clothes away or donate them to charity?
I wear them out
10) Hot Dog or Hamburger?
Depends on the hot dog. If it's just a normal dog, then Hamburger every time. If it's a Chicago dog, or we're stretching the meaning to include brats, then the hot dog.
11) Favorite vacation spot?
My bedroom.
12) Do you participate in group discussions or just sit and listen?
Participate is probably too weak a word...dominate is probably closer, heh.
13) Where would you retire to?
It will depend on where my kids are living.
14) What was your most recent memorable birthday?
They're all memorable in that I tend not to remember them, heh.
15) Favorite sport to watch?
Football, or Formula 1
16) Favorite saying?
Can't think of one at the moment.
17) Are you a morning person or a night person?
Late night person. When I don't have to work, I naturally gravitate to a night schedule, going to bed just before sunrise.
18) Do you laugh out loud or keep it in?
Heh...I was once asked to quiet down at a theater for laughing too loudly at a comedy.
19) Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us?
Nope.
20) What did you want to be when you were little?
A fighter pilot, when I was very young (this despite the fact that I hated roller coasters and got sick on the merry go round) and A Navy SEAL after the age of 11.
21) Favorite sweet tooth item?
I'm not a sweets person...I prefer sour actually. But I guess cheesecake would be my favorite "sweet."
22) Favorite flower?
Rose
23) What are you listening to right now?
One of my minions talking to another minion.
24) Do you wish on stars?
No
25) If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Black.
26) Favorite food to cook?
Itallian.
27) Favorite wine?
Not much of a wine drinker
28) Favorite soda:
Diet Coke
29) Favorite beer:
Harp or Guiness
30) Favorite liquor?
Glenmorangie 18 year old
31) Favorite restaurant?
Macaroni Grill
32) Hair color?
Brown
33) Siblings?
Two Brothers
34) Favorite days of the year?
I don't really have a favorite days of the year...I like most holidays where I don't have to go to work.
35) What was your favorite toy as a child?
The toy guns got the most play. We played army all day all the time. As I got older, my bike and my boogie board were my favorites
36) Summer or winter?
Winter...in the tropics.
37) Hugs or kisses?
Yes please.
38) Chocolate or Vanilla?
Either.
39) When was the last time you cried?
Last time I watched Saving Private Ryan.
40) What did you do last night?
Surfed the web a bit and watched part of The Godfather.
41) Favorite scent?
My wife's
42) What are you afraid of?
Widths
43) If you could be any profession, what would you be?
Chef or Custom Car/Bike builder...If I was 20 years younger and didn't have a family, a SEAL.
44) Who knows you better than anyone?
Minda
45) Popcorn?
Movie popcorn with extra butter.
46) How many keys on your key ring?
18
47) Favorite day of the week?
Saturday...I don't work...and I don't work the next day either.
48) Favorite 80's Song?
I don't think I could narrow it down to one.
49) How many cities have you lived in?
Kind of depends on how you define "city." NYC, Endwell NY, Chicago IL, Cleveland OH, Lakewood OH, Euclid OH, LA CA, San Diego CA, Wilkes Barre PA, Palmerola Honduras, Canyon Country CA, Northridge CA, London England, Jacksonville FL, St Petersburg FL, to name a few.
50) Do you think your friends talk about you behind your back?
Probably.

peace,
Aielman

It's only a rights violation when it happens to someone you like.

{ 02:57, 2007-Oct-13 } { 11 comments } { Link }

A comment on Wil's blog brought to mind something I wanted to rant about a bit. Since the comments that particular thread were already straying far and wide, and because I haven't posed in awhile, I figured I'd just start a new post.

thebigp said:

"It's half assed, half baked right wing politicians bending over for the religious right just because they scream louder than those of us who actually value our civil liberties.
"

This made me think of an incident last week with Rush Limbaugh.

Now before I mention this, let me preface this by saying that I think Limbaugh is a blowhard and an embarrasment to his party. I almost never listen to him, and if I do it's because I'm out and about in my car which doesn't have cd player so I can listen to E's wonderful mix cd, so I have talk radio on.

In any case, out of curiosity, were "those who actually value their civil liberties" valuing them much last week with both the Senate and the House took time out of their schedules of running the country to repudiate a talk show host for excercising his right to both free speech and free press?

I mean, i really can't stand the guy, but then again, i can't stand Garafalo any more either and I would never dream of asking my congressman to compose a house resolution to condemn her for being a shrill whiner.

However...in the House, Representative Mark Udall, from Colorado., who is running for the open Senate seat in his state, authored a resolution condemning Rush Limbaugh for comments on his show.

In the Senate, the Senate Majority Leader announced that Democratic leaders had drafted a letter to Mark Mays, president of Clear Channel, the parent company of Limbaugh's broadcast, calling on the network "to publicly repudiate these comments that call into question ('antiwar soldiers') service and sacrifice, and ask Mr. Limbaugh to apologize for his comments."

A few small problems here.

First of all, I was listening to Limbaugh on the day called into question. He didn't call into question the sacrifice of soldiers who've gone on to protest the war. He called into question one fake soldier...a man who is spending 5 months in jail for false claims about his service in his short career as an anti-war activist.

So what they were busy complaining about didn't happen.

Second of all, why is congress condemning a private individual for excercising not one, but two of his civil liberties...that of free speech and freedom of the press?

Lastly, why is the Senate trying to interfere with a private citizen, who's broken no law, by contacting his employer?

Where are the civil libertarians so focused on the right to bare tits in prime time? Where's the outcry of the stomping of our freedom the watchdogs of our rights are so concerned about when it's something the Bush adminstration is accused of, but seem to have turned a blind eye when congress blatantly interferes with a private citizen excercizing his rights?

John Murtha, a member of congress no less, gets to outright call innocent Marines murderers and baby killers before they've so much as stepped foot one into a courtroom, and he gets no rebuke or even a slap on the wrist.

But a blowhard radio jock is accused of saying something and he gets a rebuke from both houses of congress?

Fairness doctorine here we come.

peace,
Aielman

Survey MeMe - stolen from Wil, who borrowed it from Chica

{ 03:46, 2007-Oct-4 } { 3 comments } { Link }

Feeling even less inspired than Wil, so here's his meme that he borrowed from Chica's meme....

Define normal using approximately ten words.
The collective average. Safe...and often, to someone like me, boring.

Would you frame someone else if your friend committed murder?
Depends on the murder, the friend, their motive, and the person available for framing. For instance...I'd frame a friends abusive, wife beating husband for the murder of a pedophile that my friend killed for abusing her son.

But in general...no.

When is killing justified?
In self defense...in defense of others...or when you need to rid the world of someone who is a drain on the communal oxygen and nothing more.

Is older always wiser?
If it was, we'd have better members of congress and better presidents.

Is body structure a good indicator of personality?
Not at all. I'm fat, but I'm sure as shit not jolly.

Is choice of clothing a good indicator of personality?
Not necessarily...and certainly not just an outfit. You can get an idea over time. But one day, and you may just have hit laundry day or something.

Is choice of friends a good indicator of personality?
Not unless you a large number of them. I have old friends that never grew up that don't tell you a helluva lot about my personality...and others that do.

Are more and more technological advances good for mankind?
I agree with Wil. They are neither good nor bad, in and of themselves. It's how they're used that determines the good or ill to mankind.

Between male and female, which is the weaker gender?
Depends on what attribute you ascribing weakness to. Men have the edge in some things...women in others.

Do you believe in karma or predestiny?
I believe they exist, but not for all things, and neither are absolute..

When you discover that you are angry, what do you do to calm yourself?
It depends on how angry, and over what. Sometimes I just yell about it, and it's basically over with. If I'm really pissed, I can get explosive with the anger and break things if noone is around to get it out...or I'll tune people out and turn on some loud music and listen to it, while I read something until I calm down.

If I'm really enraged, I just bottle it up for awhile...because I can get dangerous when that happens, so I just hold it inside until it fades.

Luckily...it don't hold onto anger for too long...so no matter how mad I get, it's usually over quickly.

When you are sad, what do you do to make yourself feel better?
Usually don't do much of anything. I generally try to keep it to myself unless I'm alone. If I'm sad in front of my family, it tends to be contagious, so I don't like to display it. It's an emotion that pretty easy for me to control.

Do you need a significant other in your life?
No. But I prefer it.

Have you ever truly loved?
I truly love several someons as I write this. I think it's impossible not to truly love someone if they're your child and you look into their eyes the moment they are born.

Is it okay for you to show weakness?
It depends on what type of weakness, to what extent, and to whom you will show it. To an enemy? Never...not unless I'm showing a weakness to draw them into a trap. To someone I trust or love, only if it won't undermine their trust in me. I wouldn't for instance, show weakness to my children...because right now they need to believe in the infallibility of their father.

For a man, it's difficult to show too much weakness in most things to most people because it undermines your relationship with them. Not always, mind you...some people can be trusted with the knowledge that you can be weak about certain things. The same is true for people who are in command in their profession. You can't show much weakness there either, or it can undermine your authority.

Is revenge always the answer when you are wronged?
.

Is revenge ever the answer?
Sometimes. Depends on the situation.

Is everyone like an open book to you?
Not hardly. If people are like books, open or closed doesn't much matter in my case...I tend to be dyslexic.

Does your IQ mean much?
It does to me in terms of judging myself. I hold myself to a certain standard because I know my capacity to learn. But other than that, no, it doesn't mean much. I know some very wise people who don't score to high on intelligence tests, but apply themselves fully. And I know some geniuses that are dumber than a can of spam.

I grant you three wishes.
1. Limited immortality for myself and my family (something similar to the Highlander type...the kind of immortality where you never get sick, you heal from almost any wound. but there's a way to die if you really want to check out)...there's too much I want to do that I won't have time for.
2. Enough wealth to not only have fuck you money...but to be able to have an affect on the world on a large scale in a positive manner.
3. True eiditic memory with 100% total recall. If you could remember anything you read, see or hear perfectly, you could learn every language, remember every detail, and potentially be able to communicate with anyone, not to mention never having to look something up twice.

peace,
Aielman

Testing, Testing, 1,2,3...

{ 03:53, 2007-Sep-29 } { 7 comments } { Link }

Check 2...Check 2...2...2....

....Virgil Brinkman is back on the air....

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