coyotemike

Minimalism is not what is cracked up to be. I miss all kinds of shit.

As I've told you before you don't live in the right spot-this is a consumer nation. Buy!! Buy!!! Buy!!!! Don't bother doing laundry - Buy new clothes!!!! American CEO's are counting on you!!!!

I hate it when I have trouble with my post.

Posting where? Your journal? Blogs? Groups? Boards?
Because I have lost at least one post in 'Everything SG' since I returned.

Enjoy Lebowski!

into: individuality, tattoos, fairtrade coffee, microbrews, foreign booze, organic food, Slow Foods

ok...what is a slow food...like BBQ or pot roast...things that cook slowly?

I'm sure you do sugar ♥

Congratualtions on the agent. If he wants a biography give him a biography. You got plenty and you'll see it more when you start putting it on paper.

I'm still hoping that the youger generations will be more conscious and proactive.

Wikipedia article on biblical hermeneutics This may be a good starting point. Hermeneutics is an analysis technique used in a number of disciplines, the specific aim is the understanding of text. It is very much in the tradition of poststructuralism (e.g. Derrida, Foucault, etc...).

Fine work, that story. I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier.

So, I've got to ask, which do you prefer: having your article fade into obscurity, or having Stockulita hijack it to be filled with excessive amounts of stupid?

Hehe, thanks.
I lurk the CE board a lot and the videos are quite appropriate

Just wait until someone posts a HRC is VP thread

Why wouldnt I? Maybe I just didnt want to seem like some whacko randomly adding people

The "friend purge". I do it from time to time. I try to keep up on everyone's blog and hope they comment on mine, they get the proverbial ax.

a) Hit the Random article link on Wikipedia till you find a place you can bear to go to.
b) Research three interesting things to do there. Your definition of "interesting" is key.
c) Go.
d) Have fun

Just drive in a direction you haven't gone before. Some of my best vacations have been the least planned.

I'm with bald_eagle on the problem with cell phones. I think it just provides greater evidence of who has poor manners and/or common sense. I also think that while the advent of cheap digital cameras has brought a group of really annoying people that need photos of everything in their life, it's also responsible for a real jump in the popularity of photography as an art form, and I think anything that gets people interested in art is a good thing.

But the thing I really have to take issue with is your opinion of video games.

That's really unfair, and indicative of a gigantic PR problem that video games have. Like all forms of expression, 99% of video games are steaming piles of crap. But unlike other forms of expression, the vast majority of the publicity focuses on the crap. The news never talks about the number of trees wasted on Danielle Steele or James Patterson, nor do they talk about how Uwe Boll should be shot for crimes against film.

But there's a hefty handful of video games out there that I think have really furthered the medium as a way to tell a story. The Myst series ranks pretty high on the charts, developing a universe and cast of characters worthy of Tolkien, and encouraging some pretty complex thought, both logical and philosophical, along the way. The Metroid Prime series tells its story in a mostly passive manner, but it leaves enough tantalizing bits of information lying out in the open that it fosters a drive to learn more (and by more I mean everything). Eternal Darkness is the video game equivalent of The Martian Chronicles, interweaving a series of vignettes into an overarching story. And then there's the largely unheralded group of video games making some pretty serious political statements. There was one flash game (I can't find the link right now, unfortunately) where you play a TSA screener trying to keep up with the rapidly changing list of what is and isn't allowed through the security checkpoint while the line gets longer and longer. Hilarious, and a really effective way of getting a point across.

My point is this: I have no doubt that video games are not for you. Not every medium is right for every person (I, for one, just don't get performance art), but I think you're making a pretty gigantic leap in being so entirely dismissive of video games.

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