but I'm doing it anyway:
johari me bitches!
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post your Ramen recipes here:
Ramen lo mein:
ingredients -
some sort of oil (eg. vegetable oil)
frozen or fresh veggies of your choice
1 package of ramen
preparation -
sautee veggies in oil until good and sayteed
cook ramen noodles as directed on the package
drain noodles
add noodles and ramen flavoring package to veggies in the pan, stir in the flavoring
serve hotttt.... sizzlesizzlesizzle
Ramen spaghetti:
ingredients -
1 package of ramen
ketchup or spaghetti sauce
preparation -
cook noodles as directed on package (don't add the flavor packette unless you're feeling daring)
stir in ketchup/sauce
serve hottt...
add your recipes in the comments...Current Mood: ramen tunes: noodle |
I just heard a caller on talk of the nation, a self proclaimed republican and fiscal conservative, criticize the president. He said that we can't have all of these proposed tax cuts along with the excessive spending. FUCK YEAH!! It's about time conservatives realized that the fiscal practices of this administration are anything but conservative. It's not big government, it's enormous government! Ideals aside, this administration is ironically not very conservative at all. Just a little hypocritical and shady.Current Mood: public tunes: radio |
I've been inspired to write about writing in blogs and livejournals and whatnot... but only because I'm procrastinating from studying for prelims. It's amusing how on forums such as Fark they bash blogs and ljs as useless and meaningless. I suppose most selfrighteous internet jockies don't realize the actual function of such communities which seems somewhat ironic since that demographic pioneered this medium. Anyway, Jean's been reading through my past entries and overanalyzing them and I figured I owe her something new to overanalyze... It seems that many people don't realize that for most of us livejournals are..... journals. I don't post hoping that random people happen across my entries and are floored by how profound and deep they are. My goal isn't to have a substantial readership. My targeted audience is my sister, brother, and a few friends. I live far away from these people so this a convenient form of communication. Lj is a medium in which I can write and look back upon and see what I was thinking May 7, 2003. It's a place where my family and friends can catch up with what I've been up to or thinking or writing. Silly selfrighteous internet jockies...Current Mood: clap clap clap tunes: Clap your hands say yeah - the skin of my yellow country teeth |
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May. 12th, 2005 @ 12:47 am
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Ever have moments of profound self awareness? Try for one a day. Keeps you on your toes. At first they sort of knock you off your axis. Like from the A to the B, or even the C. It's these times I'm in awe of so many things, like Lady Slippers. It's strange how it ebbs and flows and I drift from complete understanding to total confusion and back again, and usually I'm in some transitional state along the continuum. Today as I was sitting on a gravel bar out in the field I wondered how strange it is that every living entity kills, and mutilates with their sites set on sex. Isn't that strange? Yet we never think about that, but all in all isn't that what life is a bout? Take advantage of other living entities... break them down, break carbon-carbon bonds for energy, use energy for anabolic processes, reproduce (sexually in many cases). What a violent vulgar world, right? I mean, look at insects. I was watching a swarm of midges in a sunfleck on the bank of the stream and they were in their typical swarm pattern.... "and this is sex" I thought to myself. Swarms are all about sex. In fact the entire adult life stage for most insects is about sex. And when sex isn't involved, usually the insect is preying or parasitizing or hyperparasitising something. I looked at my turkey sandwich... unrecognizable pieces of dinosaur descendent... weird!! My belt... a strip of cow. ...But this isn't violence or vulgarity... it's harmony. Everything in the world is dependent upon everything else at some scale. No piece could function in complete isolation. It's amazing that we are able to experience this extremely rare set of conditions where matter interacts in such complex ways that self awareness arises. I don't understand how people don't just walk around in awe of the world and universe and our particular situation the entire day...
Lance is yelling at me... better go see what's up...Current Mood: hearts of oak tunes: we can be happy we can be happy... underground |
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It's a good thing our borders are secure agains people such as the Buena Vista Social Club and the former Sandinista leader Dora Maria Tellez, a woman who helped overthrow Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza.
I mean, these musicians and scholars are obviously threats, and we wouldn't benefit whatsoever from learning about their culture or past experience.
Mar. 22nd, 2005 @ 08:59 am
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there's a whole lotta walkin' to do?
Mar. 13th, 2005 @ 09:55 pm
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You are Tater Tots. Go get your own!!
Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 11:50 am
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You are Napoleon Dyanamite and a buttload of gangs
are trying to recruit you.
Which Napoleon Dynamite character are you?
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Feb. 28th, 2005 @ 11:48 am
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...ain't so secure...
So I just heard a few interesting statistics on the proposed reform for social security. Now of course I have a conflict of interests... being the bleeding heart liberal I am I can't support anything the Bush administration wants to do, yet being anti-establishment reactionary that I am, I would like to have the government less involved in my finances.
Seriously though... On Fresh Air today, the first guest was all about the new plan and the second guest was against it. Now here is my take on it. With the system in it's current state, eventually it'll be paying out more than it's taking in, lose money and have cash in bonds or something, which the government doesnt' have money for anyway. This will happen sometime around 2042. After this time, the government will be borrowing money against something, I don't know what, in order to pay off 73% of every dollar it promised. This isn't good. Both analysts agreed that this is the situation (although I may have butchered it a bit, but you get the idea). The funny thing was that the two analysts dwelled on different facts. The one supporting Bush's plan basically said... the system is not sustainable, we might as well fix it now instead of later. That makes sense to me. Why the hell not. The second analysts (against the new plan) had an interesting statistic. Bush's tax cuts over the past 4 years are about equal to something like 2% of the GDP, while the necessary funds to fix the financial shortcommings of social security are equal to about 0.7% of the GDP. Hmm... so basically 35% of the total amount of the tax cuts would have solved this problem?
I am really out of my realm discussing Federal finances and stuff... so if anyone can set me straight here I'd appreciate it. I mean... this was either a really fucking stupid move, or a brilliant one on the part of the current administration. Stupid because the budget was balanced and social security was working fine 4 years ago, or brilliant because they worked the system and got elected on tax cuts the first time around, consequently fucking over social security, and then won on that issue the second time around. wow. How funny.
Feb. 17th, 2005 @ 07:34 pm
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Seeking wedding date to my sister's wedding...
(in light of Kari and Kyle's past entries I figure this might just work. I mean, hell, I'm not looking for a spouse).
Ok, I wasn't going to take a date to my sister's wedding, because why should I. I don't need to go looking for someone to take just so I'm not alone, right? But now she's asking where my date is... Maybe I need a date to avoid ridicule.
better yet... nevermind, I'm not in the mood to deal with not getting any responses to this post... fuckers!!
...er, I mean... nevermind, I'm not in the mood to deal with the tons of responses I'll get to this post. I'm tired of having to beat all you hot girls off with a stick (no, not like that sickos)
Feb. 9th, 2005 @ 11:01 am
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Jan. 24th, 2005 @ 09:18 pm
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Yeah, global warming is totally not happening...
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/
http://www.acia.uaf.edu/PDFs/Testimony.pdf
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/01/24/climate.change.ap/
I don't get it. I just don't get why congress and our "fearless leader" are so worried that social security is in a "state of crisis", or why it's so important that the institution of marriage is under attack, yet the ecological ramifications of the blatant carelessness of our country as a whole isn't a problem at all. I suppose it doesn't matter in the long run (as I've said before) since every species on the planet right now is bound to go extinct sooner or later. The earth will still be here.
An amazing planet, where life exists. Bacteria are pretty damn cool, there just won't be anything here to appreciate them. I mean... things that can use Sulfur as a terminal electron acceptor are pretty fucking cool... epsecially when they can turn around in an oxic environment and use reduced sulfur as an electron donor... but I digress (They'll still be around). So if these reports are right... so what, we'll loose some of florida and other coastal cities. Fuck 'em. I don't live there anyway, and I'd like to be a bit closer to the beach.
...It's funny, though, how these issues that people are so worried about don't really mean shit in the face of permanently altering the global ecosystem. Crop failure, famine, crazy weather... well, maybe the neighbors won't care that the two guys who live nextdoor are fucking and getting full benefits with dental to boot if they are preoccupied with scavenging for food since the farmers that had been paid to throw corn away by the government not more than 10 years ago are now stuggling to get semi harvestable crop. It's not the extimate of 400ppm CO2 that's new. We've known all along that the CO2 concentration was increasing at this rate for sometime (at least eveyone in the scientific community and environmentalists and oil companies and anyone who has been involved in research). The only problem is, those with the money and the connections to the mainstream media, and more recently the whitehouse, have been able to spin it as... get this... a theory. Just like evolution. Hell, it's only a theory. Well... and the consequences of this increase in CO2 concentration have been a point of debate too... well, now we have a better idea. But hey, the current administration isn't quite sure... maybe we should just wait out the 10 years and see if it really happens. Then we can be sure. Hey, maybe we'll see some negative feedback... famine, sea level rising, and crazy weather may help take out those on the coast in particular... and you know... I bet the people on the coast in general consume a lot more than those who are less well off further inland... so maybe it'll curb global warming a bit... oh wait, there's that whole threshold thing. Sucks... Well, at least those H2's will be able handle nature throws at them... that's what those commercials say right?
Jan. 24th, 2005 @ 09:03 pm
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PRETZEL BOMB 2005
author: Nova
remember when Dubya nearly choked to death on a pretzel?
Remember the incident where Mister Prezuhdent almost choked to death on a pretzel?
Mark your calendars:
PRETZEL BOMB 2005!!!
Mail one grab-bag-sized bag of pretzels to the White House on January 14th, 2005.
mail it to the following address:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
...Or better yet, hand-deliver your bag of pretzels at the inauguration protest!
Jan. 13th, 2005 @ 10:22 am
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theologians
don't know nothin'
'bout my soul
Jan. 4th, 2005 @ 12:10 am
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New York was great. Jean is the hostest with the mostest... and the mouses.
...and Wilco and Sleater-Kinney were absolutely amazing... but not in that order.
And I have the awesomest cat ever... (I'm training him to be a ninja but that's top secret so if you tell he'll kill you). He's got the bowstaff skills down... not sure about computer hacking though.
...aight... that's about it for the lamest journal entry every... But hot damn. I just have to say it one more time... New York was amazing (not sure what was different this time around. It's not like I haven't been there before... well, actually maybe it was the crazy british guy that pushed the trip over the amazing threshold... this needs further analysis...)
Jan. 4th, 2005 @ 12:08 am
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damn, it's been a while since my last post. Too bad I'm tired to write anything worth reading.
Well, I guess that whole teaching intelligent design in Pennsylvania thing is pissing me off. I think it's pretty funny how people that don't understand some aspect of science can say "hey, we don't believe that so you must teach the thing we believe instead." I know I've already touched on this... but it's so rediculous. It would be like if I said I didn't believe in microbiology and they should teach the theory of warm fuzzies and cold pricklies as an alternative to the theory that bacteria cause sickness... or something like that. I mean, it's totally rediculous. ...Or how about this one... I don't believe in the first law of thermodynamics, cause afterall it's only a scientific theory, not "fact", and I think they should teach the alternative theory that matter and/or energy can be created or destroyed. I mean, has anyone ever proven you can't create matter? Doesn't god create matter? you can't prove god doesn't exist therefore it's a valid theory...
sheesh... I'm glad I don't live in PA. I would get into so many arguments. No offense to anyone by the way. I'm not bashing God, I'm bashing people that don't realize you can't call hypotheses that can't be experimentally tested "scientific theories." These people would all have flunked out of basic science class yet they are shapping the science curriculum for our children? WTF??
...damn, I'm barely coherent today. Must be the trying to articulate myself on two hours sleep thing.... time for a long long nap. Later suckas!!
.....oh yeah... I'M GOING TO SEE WILCO ON NYE!!!!!!!11!1!11!!!!
JEFF TWEEDY IS THE MAN!!! AND NELS CLINE IS PLAYING WITH THEM... IT'S SO COOL I'M JUST GOING TO CONTINUE TYPING IN CAPS...
...ALL DAY
...JUST WARNING YA
Dec. 16th, 2004 @ 01:51 pm
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