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Uh oh. I think I have a crush on a girl on my fencing team. Help.
Yeah. According to facebook.
And she's the kind of person who wouldn't hesitate to be out if she weren't.
*cries a little*
The more you suppress what you're feeling, the more your feeling wants to get out. goodluck with you dude.
The statement below false.
The statement above is true.
Hey at least you don't have a crush on your manager *cough*
(that's very unprofessional of me)
You know, it really can't be helped. or actually, let me rephrase that. You don't need help. It's just part of life... kind of like puberty. It'll pass. (or at least I'm hoping)


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This is my first entry.. finally got something to talk about, well sort of. I'm totally in the closet and so it's kinda funny, coz I was at the shops with my sister and we were looking around and I had my jumper on and I said
"Shit, it's hot".
and she turns around and looks at me and has this confused/semi - disgusted look on her face and says
"Did you say, she looks hot?"
I paused for a second in slight shock because it was a scary moment that she was so close to sort of knowing, but I just told her what I had really said and she turned around going back to what she was doing..
It was a really weird situation because it caught me by surprise and I was almost tempted to say "Yep sure did". I wish the expression on her face wasn't so freaked out!
a friend once said to me " oh and he said so what lesbians drink dr pepper then???"" - this was about a friend- to which i responded- "he said that!! but i dont drink dr pepper " i tried to recover but from then on i think she has had her eye on me...lol
"If you love someone, tell them for hearts are often broken by words left unspoken"
1 in 3 women think of having sex or experimenting with other women
"Should I smile because we're friends or frown because thats all we'll ever be?"
cnn* :)
Yeah unfortunately i know how you feel, my parents are totally opened minded when it comes to others but if they were to ever find out their precious daughter was not so all american god i don't know what they would do, which sucks. So i am right there with you with the looks thrown our way, solidarity sucks ( in this situation)
Dreamers often lie.
I once unthinkingly agreed with a straight guy that the girls in the show our music department had just gone to see were pretty hot... (see my journal for the full funny details...). And two days ago I told my crush that she wasn't straight. Those were the times when I spoke before thinking, and thus couldn't resist. But oh, all the words and comments left unsaid, all the opressed thoughts...
Ack. I'm getting disgustingly poetic. Sorry about that.
Being closeted has its entertaining moments.
:)... Very funny story. Do you think your sister might suspect it on some level?
I'm out to my mom but not my dad, and we were talking the other day about this TV show he likes, and he goes, "...His friend is this cop, who got shot, unfortunately. But she's okay. She's a lesbian, you'll be happy to know." And I was like, "Oh, cool! -- Wait. What?"... Yeah... It was funny...
"When that sonuvabitch puts his hands on her, you should tell yourself he's putting his hands all over you"

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A few scary moments, but no major incidents on day one at Silverstone as the drivers found their feet at the British Grand Prix circuit. BMW Saubers Robert Kubica was the pacesetter, while Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher once again found themselves neighbours on the timesheets.
Robert Kubica, third driver, BMW Sauber (1st, 1m 21.082s):
It was a good Friday and we have done a lot of tyre testing. I think our performance after the Barcelona test last week looked pretty okay. We saw there we were quite strong on long runs and today has confirmed this. The tyre choice will not be easy, but we have a lot of data. We are now going to analyse it, but the track conditions are very different now to when we were here a month ago. It was not really quick today, so we have to take into consideration that the grip will improve and decide on the best tyres.
Giancarlo Fisichella, Renault (2nd, +1.212s):
I didn't really get much of a feel for things today - I only did one timed lap, had a spin at Stowe, and then a (software) problem that kept me in the garage for the rest of the session. We are not worried though: the problem will be fixed for tomorrow, and we have done a lot of testing here as well so we know the circuit. Obviously, conditions are quite different to what we saw in testing, but Fernando's work means we know the direction we need. So not really a busy day for me - but we are still confident of being competitive.
Alexander Wurz, third driver, Williams (3rd, +1.218s):
I am sure everyone will say the same today, but the circuit is different to the conditions at the test here. Nevertheless, we tried to be analytical today and not become too worried because the lap times were slower for everyone, so we just continued with the programme and tyre choice work. At the same time we did some set-up adjustments so we have got some information from all three cars and now we just have to bring that information together tonight. Today was certainly not the easiest Friday I have had, but thats life and we will keep on pushing.
Anthony Davidson, third driver, Honda (4th, +1.228s):
"We had a good day in terms of getting through our planned programme and learning about the two different tyre options that we have here this weekend. I feel I did a good job today in making things run as smoothly as possible and getting some really valuable data to look at tonight. I'm confident in the tyre choice for the weekend already and the car has had a nice balance all day, so overall it's been a good Friday."
Jarno Trulli, Toyota (5th, +1.355s):
"We probably had a bit more work today on set-up than some of the other teams because we haven't done any testing here at Silverstone this year. There was not much grip out there and we tried different tyres in order to understand which direction we should take. We still have a bit of work to do on setting up my car but in general everything went well. The new TF106B raced in Monaco and after our strong Barcelona test last week this will be the first time we can race it at a high speed circuit. What brings a smile to my face is the weather. You never know what to expect here but the sun suits us fine."
Felipe Massa, Ferrari (6th, +1.394s):
We worked mainly on comparing the two available types of Bridgestone tyre.
Unfortunately, the track was very dirty and so it was quite tough to find the right car balance immediately, but that was the same for everyone. Now we must analyse our data to be as well prepared as possible for the rest of the weekend.
Fernando Alonso, Renault (7th, +1.521s):
I had a lot of oversteer on every run today, and although we improved the car, we still haven't got the balance we want yet. It is also windy out there, which makes the car inconsistent from corner to corner. So it was quite difficult to drive, but I think the situation was the same for everybody. Lots of people were spinning off the circuit, so it seems the hot conditions have caught everybody out a little bit. With the balance problems we had, it is hard to say too much about the performance - but we are in a good position on the times, and we know the car can be quick here. So I am looking forward to improving the set-up overnight, and a good qualifying session tomorrow.
Michael Schumacher, Ferrari (8th, +1.743s):
Its a bit difficult to judge the situation after these two hours of free practice: tyres, fuel levels and work schedules are all different and they all have a bearing on performance. What we can say is that it is very tricky as the track is still very slippery. Thats why so many, me included, went off track. We have to look carefully at the data to understand the situation, taking into account the wind, which also played its part today. There is no reason why we should not be competitive here too. Last weeks Barcelona test was very encouraging, so we can be confident in our ability to fight for the win.
Mark Webber, Williams (9th, +2.017s):
It was a pretty uneventful day and we managed to work through everything we needed to. Obviously the track is very different from when we were here for the test, but thats the same for everybody, so well work on that tonight. The tyre comparison with Alex went well and we now have some good data. Today wasnt so bad actually, it all went ok. Hopefully, well continue to enjoy the good weather tomorrow and well keep working our way towards the front.
Rubens Barrichello, Honda (10th, +2.022s):
"It was quite a straightforward Friday for us today. We worked solidly through the two sessions without any real problems. We do need to improve the balance as I was happier with it earlier than I was this afternoon, but we will look at the data and work on that later today. Hopefully we can keep moving forward through the rest of the weekend."
Ralf Schumacher, Toyota (11th, +2.032s):
"It was slippery out there today which made life a bit difficult for all the drivers and a lot of cars spun. At least we managed to keep the car on the track and we made it through our programme without problems. We still have a bit of work to do on the set-up side but hopefully the grip will become a bit better as the weekend progresses. The first time I tested a Formula One car was here at Silverstone ten years ago. They've changed the circuit since but I still enjoy racing here and I like the track lay-out. We still have some work to do to reach the level of performance we would like but we should hope for a strong result here."
Robert Doornbos, third driver, Red Bull (12th, +2.058s):
That was a disappointing day, the worst this season I think, which is a shame at the home race for the factory. We had some mechanical problems this morning, so I wasnt able to complete a timed lap. This afternoon the set-up of the car just wasnt there and we had to do too many things in a short period of time, so thats why we were not very competitive. I wish the guys more luck for the coming weekend.
Tiago Monteiro, Midland (13th, +2.112s):
"Im very pleased with our work today. The car was very well prepared and the team was really on its game. We did a really good job of focusing on our set-up programme, making adjustments while on the same set of tyres, and when we thought we had it figured out, we switched to the new ones. Well, there was such a difference in the level of grip that I made a mistake in the Abbey chicane and almost lost the car! Its a shame because that one-tenth could have put me in ninth position. Still, its very encouraging to be so close to the pace here. Now we need to keep our cool, work hard tonight, and come out strong in qualifying tomorrow. Im really looking forward to it!"
Juan Pablo Montoya, McLaren (14th, +2.117s):
"We tested at Silverstone at the end of April and gathered a lot of data, but obviously its quite a bit warmer today. The balance of the car was not perfect, but we still have practice tomorrow to solve this. We managed to complete our planned programme where we focused on tyre selection with Michelin, but we are still not 100 per cent sure what direction we want to go. The Free Practice session tomorrow morning will give us more of an idea of where we are compared to the competition."
Christijan Albers, Midland (15th, +2.417s):
"Overall, I think we had a pretty good day. Its a shame I couldnt use the new tyre set as I wanted, but everyone did a good job and the car was quite nice to drive on this circuit. We put in some reasonable times although I have to say that I believe we could have gone even faster if we hadnt encountered a technical problem in the second session. Its nothing major, so it should be resolved in time for tomorrow, and hopefully well be able to improve on our qualifying performance."
Giorgio Mondini, third driver, Midland (16th, +2.447s):
"We tried some new aero parts on the car today that seem to be working well, considering our pace. I had a spin in the first session that limited my tyre programme a bit, but we were able to get the required data and I think were on the right path to making the correct choice. The progress we are making is very clear and everyone on the team seems very motivated. Lets hope it continues throughout the weekend!"
Jenson Button, Honda (17th, +2.625s):
"We've been having very strange track conditions here today and in particular it's very windy, which is causing problems for a lot of the drivers. The balance is not too bad although there is certainly room for improvement, so we'll see what the data tells us this evening."
Jacques Villeneuve, BMW Sauber (18th, +2.668s):
On the first run the first two laps were quite quick on what is normally a very slow beginning to a race weekend, so it is promising. Then I think we destroyed the rear tyres, so we need to work on the set up. Despite this I think we will be all right.
Nico Rosberg, Williams (19th, +2.734s):
It has been very difficult to set up the car today, because track conditions are pretty different from our last test here. The track was quite green and it was very windy which affected the cars behaviour a lot. By the end of the day though, it was going much better having tried a few options that improved the car, so I am quite happy about our progress today.
Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber (20th, +2.813s):
Driving here on the Silverstone circuit is always fun. We have had a trouble free practice so far, and now we will work on improving the balance of the car as it is a little nervous at the rear.
Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren (21st, +2.833s):
"As usual we were conserving tyres and didn't want to put too much mileage on the engine, so we were not planning to do a lot of running today. However a fuel pump problem meant that we didn't complete our short programme, but as we have been testing here we have a lot of data to work with. Tomorrow is when the action really starts and hopefully we should be able to put in a good showing."
Vitantonio Liuzzi, Toro Rosso (22nd, +2.930s):
Quite a good day, but we still have some work to do on the handling of the car for tomorrows qualifying, as we seemed to struggle a bit when running on new tyres. As for race pace its not too bad and we still have tomorrow morning to try and improve.
Christian Klien, Red Bull (23rd, +3.076s):
Its very windy out on the track today so it was difficult to drive. The wind had a big effect on the car through the high-speed corners and we struggled with down-force. As a result, I spun in one corner and damaged one of my tyres. That meant I had to use a second set today, so Ive now lost a set for the weekend. In the second run, we improved the car balance a little, but it was still difficult to drive. You couldnt really work on the set-up that much because tomorrow there might be no wind, so it would all be different all over again - but no wind will definitely mean better balance.
Scott Speed, Toro Rosso (24th, +3.085s):
From what we have seen today and looking at the times, its clear we are going to struggle a bit this weekend. The car is working well, its got good balance but we just dont have the power down the straightaways. Although its much hotter than we expected, there are no problems on the tyre front. My spin? For some reason, I had a big problem with stability on rear brakes. I hit the brakes and suddenly I was facing the wrong way. So we still need to improve our rear end stability a bit.
David Coulthard, Red Bull (25th, +3.310s):
We seem to have more oversteer, compared to when we tested here. Obviously, weve got more to come when we start unleashing engine modes and so forth, but obviously, were a lot further away than we were relatively on day one in Monaco.
Neel Jani, third driver, Toro Rosso (26th, +3.584s):
Its a very special weekend for me as Im driving in both F1 and GP2. In the morning session, everything went well and we seemed to have reasonable pace, even on old tyres. This afternoon, I was doing a long run and at one point I took a trip through the gravel, but we still got the tyre comparison done and got some useful data.
Takuma Sato, Super Aguri (27th, +4.788s):
We had a sensor issue during the morning session so we only completed a few laps and one timed lap. We had a smoother run in the beginning of the afternoon, but we had another chassis problem on the car. Although we completed our tyre test programme there maybe a good chance that our information may be misleading, so I will have to rely on the other two drivers data. We shall now work with the information that we have as a team for tomorrows practice session.
Franck Montagny, Super Aguri (28th, +5.166s):
We did not run this morning and this afternoon we encountered a few problems too. We had a lot of snap oversteer and it was very difficult to calm the car. We did not find a good set during the sessions, even though with new tyres the car was a lot better for sure. My attempts at quick laps were also not clear of traffic, so we unable to gauge the speed of the car here, but it is definitely a difficult track for us, so we have a lot of work to do before tomorrow.
Sakon Yamamoto, third driver, Super Aguri (29th, +6.826s):
"It was my first time to drive the Super Aguri F1 Team car and it was fun! I was able to feel the car and I think keep consistent runs during both sessions. The car is a little bit hard to control, but I enjoyed my first day very much. I was able to learn a lot from these two sessions and I am looking forward to the next Grand Prix."


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GDC 2011 Hands-On: Face Raiders and AR Games on Nintendo 3DS
by Keith Sadler, posted on 04 March 2011 / 1,710 ViewsThis week at GDC 2011 I was able to preview a couple of the pre-installed software titles included with every new 3DS. Here's the lowdown on Face Raiders and AR Games.
Face Raiders is an augmented-reality title that involves taking a picture of a friend using the stereoscopic cameras on the front of your 3DS. The game warps your face a bit and places it on these floating villains. The game places these little villains all around you using augmented reality. They come at you from all angles, so you have to use the camera to find them and shoot them. It's surpisingly more entertaining than a blazé description of the events would suggest. Seriously. People see you shimmy around going "Pew Pew!!" and they take the 3DS away from you so they can do the same thing! Ok, so not everybody went "Pew Pew!!" but if you can, you should. It adds to the gameplay somehow. Aligning the face, the eyes and mouth, to the on-screen reticule so that the 3DS knows what your face looks like was honestly more difficult than shooting at the floating faces, but the PR dude was very patient with me.
Will this be something that sells 3DS'? Probably not. Will every one of your friends want to try this at least once? Absolutely yes. Ok, let the 'Face Raiders' jokes begin. At least Nintendo changed the name from "Face Ace". Heh.
AR Games, another augmented-reality title, was one of those, "Wow," moments that don't happen to jaded gamer journalists very often. Everybody that picked up a 3DS with AR Games and aimed it at one of those yellow cards said, "Wow" as if they were taking turns, as if it were some meta-game.
The user pulls out one of the yellow AR cards (seen in the header), mine was 'Archery,' and puts it on a nearby flat surface like a table or something. Point the camera at the AR card and the 3DS will help you get situated. This was actually a very easy process. The card and the table the card was resting on both "unfolded" into a virtual archery range. You move the 3DS to line up a reticule in order to shoot the targets. As the levels progress, the game becomes a lesson in prepositions. Targets can be anywhere a cat can go: inside, outside, above, or below.
Nintendo wasn't able to comment on how many AR cards would ship with or what the availability of more AR cards might be after launch. AR Games will absolutely impress everyone who picks it up. That's a guarantee.


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ActionScript 3.0 TouchEvent: Guaranteed Mobile Speedup
I suppose old habits die hard, especially when those habits still work. (Some programmers are fond of saying, If it ain't broke, don't fix it! and the similarly dull-witted proverb, Don't re-invent the wheel!) Well, with mobile devices, you'd better think about breaking old habits, and I put myself at the top of the dullard list for taking so long to make some adoptions. One of the first changes to make when creating mobile apps is to use the TouchEvent instead of the MouseEvent. In working on a game, I merrily kept using MouseEvent until I noticed that my apps kept getting stuck in the mud when I put them on a mobile device. So, I decided to give TouchEvent a try. Naturally, I couldn't test in Flash Pro CS5.5; so I had to wait until I launched it in my iPhone. When I did, the difference was night and day. The sluggishness disappeared.
The good news is that MouseEvent and TouchEvent classes work pretty much the same as far as programming them into an app. I have no idea what's going on with either under the hood, and I shouldn't have to concern myself with those issues other than to know that one works better with mobile devices than the other. To get started, we'll take a look at the sequence for setting up for TouchEvents, and while almost identical to MouseEvent, there are programming differences. First, though, click the Play button to see the little testing app on your computer. You can also download the Flash 5.5 Fla file and Client class by clicking on the Download button.
As you can see it's a simple little app to move a "Samurai" character left and right; up and down. The buttons are in Japanese, and if you read Japanese, you'll realize that the characters look like a first-grader's attempts to learn how to write in Japanese. (Feel free to make some better simple buttons using Japanese characters and send them along with any comments you may have.)
Possible Controversy: After I had finished this post, I ran across the following:
In it is a note of caution:
Note: Listening for touch and gesture events can consume a significant amount of processing resources (equivalent to rendering several frames per second), depending on the computing device and operating system. It is often better to use mouse events when you do not actually need the extra functionality provided by touch or gestures. When you do use touch or gesture events, consider reducing the amount of graphical changes that can occur, especially when such events can be dispatched rapidly, as during a pan, rotate, or zoom operation. For example, you could stop animation within a component while the user resizes it using a zoom gesture.
That certainly makes sense, but I found that even using TOUCH_TAP, it was a quicker and far more responsive than listening for a CLICK event. There's only one way to resolve this issue; try it yourself with a mobile app on a mobile device–any one you want. Use the Comment section to report what you've found. The sample app is as good as any for a trial, but feel free to create one of your own choosing.
As Chico Marx remarked in Duck Soup, Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes? Believe your eyes and give it a whirl!
Just the Right Touch
Setting up the TouchEvent includes three imports:
- import flash.events.TouchEvent;
- import flash.ui.Multitouch;
- import flash.ui.MultitouchInputMode;
That contrasts with the single MouseEvent import required when using the mouse event. However, prior to using the TouchEvent class you have to set up your mobile context with the following line:
Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT;
That statement focuses the input mode to touch instead of a mouse event. I was unable to get the TouchEvent to work without the statement; so, don't forget to include it in your program.
Finally, you need an event listener, and it has the same format as a mouse event except you use TouchEvent. Also, instead of using CLICK, use TOUCH_TAP, as the following illustrates:
With that knowledge, you're all set to set up an app using TouchEvent.
Many Ears; One Handler
One of the big memory hogs in programming, especially noticeable in mobile devices, is event listening. Each event listener sets up a series of operations that have to keep listening for an event. Having a single event won't help, but it's a step in the direction of having a single listener (which will help). The following Client sets up an example of using the TouchEvent. All of the buttons are SimpleButton objects and the background is a big Sprite. Likewise, Sam3 is a Sprite that you can move around using tap on your mobile device.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 | package { import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.display.SimpleButton; import flash.events.TouchEvent; import flash.ui.Multitouch; import flash.ui.MultitouchInputMode; public final class Client extends Sprite { private static var leftBtn:SimpleButton=new Left(); private static var rightBtn:SimpleButton=new Right(); private static var upBtn:SimpleButton=new Up(); private static var downBtn:SimpleButton=new Down(); private static var bkground:Sprite=new Background(); private var sam3:Sprite=new Sam3(); public function Client() { addChildAt(bkground,0); setControls(); setSamurai(); } private final function setControls():void { Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT; upBtn.x = 825,upBtn.y = 19; upBtn.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_TAP,moveNow); addChild(upBtn); leftBtn.x = 740,leftBtn.y = 106; leftBtn.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_TAP,moveNow); addChild(leftBtn); rightBtn.x = 873,rightBtn.y = 105; rightBtn.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_TAP,moveNow); addChild(rightBtn); downBtn.x = 825,downBtn.y = 202; downBtn.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_TAP,moveNow); addChild(downBtn); } private final function setSamurai():void { sam3.x=(960/2); sam3.y=(640/2)+100; addChild(sam3); } private final function moveNow(e:TouchEvent):void { switch(e.target.name) { case "instance11": sam3.y -=5; break; case "instance1": sam3.x -=5; break; case "instance6": sam3.x +=5; break; case "instance16": sam3.y +=5; break; } } } } |
I set it up to be viewed from a landscape perspective because of a larger project I'm developing. Also, as you can see in the moveNow method, there are no "brakes" on the movement, and so the character can move anywhere, including right off the stage. Currently, I have a nicely working global movement system set up using a State Pattern, and I'd like to integrate both local and global movement into a single movement. Not only would this cut down on the number of listeners, but it would also provide a more interesting game. Figure 1 shows how it looks on an iPhone, and I'd like any feedback if tried on Android or other non-iOS devices.
You also might want to swap out the TouchEvent for a MouseEvent and try it again in a mobile device. You'll find that it gets "stuck" after a few clicks. As always, we're interested in your comments and feedback.


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Could this American Airlines rebrand be the image overhaul it needs?
What might become of American Airlines when it emerges from bankruptcy? As the airline considers modernising its polished silver livery, designers have been rethinking what the carrier could look like if it rebranded itself.
American Airlines is going through a lot of change, as it tries to pull itself out of bankruptcy.
With new aircraft, including 787 Dreamliners on the way to replace its aging fleet, the airline is also looking to possibly update its dated livery.
One of the main reasons is because the polished aluminum look that we have long associated with American Airlines can't be achieved on the 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which is largely made up of composite materials (carbon fibre reinforced plastic). The airline's first batch of 787s are due to arrive in 2014.
Earlier this year, American Airlines posted an image of a 787 plane (featured below) in a grey paint scheme, which it has used before on A300 aircraft.
Whether or not the carrier will keep its livery intact, or go with a grey or metallic silver paint on its 787s is still up in the air, but the idea has inspired a flurry of designers to come up with their own versions of what a new, rebranded American Airlines could look like.
Last year, ad agency Victors & Spoils set a brief inviting creatives to design a new look for the airline, with the promise of $1,000 (£630) for their 10 favourite designs.
Designer Anna Kovecses was awarded for her work, which shows what happens when retro meets American Airlines.
Kovecses redesigned everything from the airline's boarding passes to a mobile app and the look of the airline lounges.
While slapping a new brand image along a fuselage and on every seatback cover and napkin is one way for an airline to be remembered, would it be enough to convince you to fly with them? Drop us a comment below.


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Melmoth (hyperpost 2)
A revised and improved version of this essay is in my book Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! – hardback, paperback, PDF Kindle (US), Kindle (UK), all other ebook formats
Biography lends to death a new terror – Oscar Wilde
Melmoth, the sixth and shortest of the separate 'graphic novels' that make up the work Cerebus, is, at two hundred pages, described by its author/co-artist Dave Sim as a 'short story', because it takes so little time to read in comparison with his longer, more obviously dense works. Melmoth is a huge departure from everything that Sim had done before in Cerebus, not advancing the plot of the main series at all until the epilogue, but rather telling the story of the death of Oscar Wilde through the letters of the friends who were with him in his last days.
On the surface Wilde may seem a strange subject for Dave "the feminist/homosexualist/islamofascist/Marxist conspiracy are reading my mind when I masturbate" Sim, but Melmoth is the work of a very different Sim to the one we have today – a man who had recently contributed a story to Alan Moore's GLAAD compilation (a benefit comic to attack anti-gay laws in the UK), and who dedicated this work to a cousin of his who had recently died of AIDS. And Sim treats the subject with the respect that it deserves.
After the emotional climax of Jaka's Story (still, to my mind, the single greatest graphic novel ever created, by quite a long way) Sim had a year to kill before getting back to his gigantic political-religious conspiracy plot, and so he decided to keep the title character sidelined (Cerebus himself had not appeared for a year at the start of Melmoth, having gone off to buy a bucket of paint at a crucial moment and missed the climax of Jaka's Story), having Cerebus appear for a handful of comic relief pages each issue, completely catatonic after the shock of Jaka's Story's ending, while Sim told the real story – the story of the death of Wilde, drinking himself to death under an assumed name in exile.
And it's done beautifully. Other than some dialogue in the early pages, every detail of the story is taken directly from the letters of Wilde's friends Robert Ross and Reginald Turner, both dialogue and caption narration, with the only changes being the replacement of real-world place names with their comic-world equivalents (and the letters are reproduced in full in the end notes). We see Wilde slowly dying, starting off with him clearly ill but able to walk and converse, and ending with him emaciated and incoherent. Along the way he's clearly trying to pretend, to himself as much as his friends, that he's OK, but he looks visibly more distraught in almost every panel, as the realisation of his imminent death hits him, while also so tired he clearly almost welcomes death.
With little in the way of real writing to do, the story has to be carried by Sim and Gerhard's art, and luckily they were both at their peak here. Sim, in particular, while he's not doing the formal experimentation of earlier or later stories, manages to use an art style that is distinctly his own but also very strongly hints at Wilde's contemporaries (some panels look to me exactly like Beardsley, though he denied any influence when I asked him about it in a chat on the Cerebus mailing list).
But it's the fact of Sim not writing – as such – this story (about a writer who's no longer able to write), that points to its deeper 'message'. As much as Melmoth is about Wilde, in the wider context of Cerebus it's about the impossibility of writing a true biography.
While Sim has always used real people in his stories (Mrs Thatcher, Mick 'n' Keef, Groucho Marx), Wilde is the only person who has become three separate characters in Cerebus. The character of 'Oscar' (no surname) appears in Jaka's Story and, it's later revealed, is the narrator of the bulk of the story. At the time of Melmoth's publication it was left ambiguous as to whether that Oscar and the one here were one and the same, though they're physically dissimilar ('Oscar' was a baloonish caricature, while the Wilde here is a far more naturalistic drawing) and Wilde (in one of the few bits of original dialogue here) praises "Daughter of Palnu" (the book-within-a-book written by Oscar in Jaka's Story). That ambiguity was later cleared up by an appearance of 'Oscar' in a couple of panels, still alive, but at the time of writing Sim thought the ambiguity an entirely good thing.
A third Wilde, under the name Lord Henry Wooton (to whom many of Wilde's anecdotes, and Sim's own pseudo-Wildean epigrams, are attributed), appears several times as well in Cerebus, but Wooton is a creature of text – he's never drawn, we never see him, he's just written about and talked about, and we draw our impressions of him from what other people say he said.
And this is the real crucial point about Melmoth, because what it's really about is only apparent in the context of the wider work of which it's a part, although some clues are given in the foreword and appendices to the collection, where Sim says:
Each biographer selects those elements of Wilde's life he finds pertinent and, not incidentally,which reinforce whatever thesis he brings to the story.
It was only when I began drawing the last day, together, of Ross and Oscar Wilde that I became suspicious of his narrative…The fact that Reggie and the nurse had been asked to leave (I asked the nurse not to exist myself) meant that Ross was free to describe their good-bye in any way he saw fit
Sim was very deliberately fictionalising a narrative he already regarded as unreliable. But to understand why, you have to look at Jaka's Story and Mothers And Daughters, the two longer graphic novels that come either side of this story. In Jaka's Story, almost everything we think we're being told in flashback turns out to be a novel written by 'Oscar', based on stories told him by Rick, who heard them from Jaka, who may be lying or misremembering herself – the supposedly-omniscient narrator is in fact giving us third- or fourth-hand fictionalised versions of the truth (except that there is no truth, of course, because it's still a work of fiction). The one character who contradicts Oscar's version, though, Jaka's old nurse, is such an obviously-biased person that her word can't be taken as truth, either.
Meanwhile in the next story, Mothers And Daughters, David Victor Sim introduces three new characters – two of whom are, like Henry Wooton, only known through text. The first is Viktor Reid, who is friends with Wooton and who lives through a very-vaguely fictionalised version of the early-'90s comic scene. The second is Victor Davis, who writes and draws a comic called Cerebus, and whose views on women made the majority of Sim's readership disappear, and who makes public in the text of the comic the extra-marital affair of at least one prominent then-married comic writer, among other indiscretions. And finally there's 'Dave', a voice from the void who, in the couple of panels at the end of the story where he's seen, looks like Sim, and who can converse with Cerebus and has complete control over his world (the similarities to Morrison's Animal Man climax are probably due more than anything to both having seen Duck Amuck).
So Sim is almost using Wilde as a 'fiction suit' – both as a foreshadowing of the big scene fifty issues later where 'Dave' and Cerebus finally talk, but also as a way of reifying the view Sim took until he got a religious component to his mental illness – that there is no single truth, but a plurality of part-truths, and all we can do is examine everything that's presented to us and try to see things from as many angles as possible.
Wilde's death is also, of course, the half-way mark of Cerebus, and Wilde's death – estranged from his family and most of his friends, his reputation in tatters, incoherent and unable to write – is presumably meant to mirror Cerebus' death at the end of the full 6000-page story, with Cerebus dying 'alone, unmourned and unloved'. One can only hope that Sim's own rejection of nearly all human contact won't lead to the same fate for him, no matter how much he may appear to wish for it.
Because for all that Sim's work at its peak argues there is no true truth, there still really was a man called Oscar Wilde, he really did die in a manner something like the drawings in this book, and as the book makes clear, it wasn't romantic, it wasn't poetic, it was a lonely man rotting away from the inside. And it's a tribute to the book's strength that for all its cleverness, its fictional setting, its deliberate lies and misreported facts, and its larger point, that truth still comes through and makes us care for a man who died more than a hundred years ago, represented by a few ink lines.
A quick Cerebus link
I'll be continuing my Cerebus posts sometime soon (tonight or tomorrow) but before I do, I thought everyone should go and read/re-read Andrew Rilstone's look at the last issue ,which says a lot of things I want to say myself. Especially this bit:
And by the way, Dave. Damn right I am a liberal. I read your comic precisely because I am a liberal. Where 'liberal' is defined as 'one who believes in freedom, and in particular, the freedom of expression.' One who believes in pluralism, different viewpoints, and listening to opinions other than one's own. One who has contempt for what you say, but will not only defend to the death your right to say it, but will actually read it, and recommend that other people do the same.
Hail, Dave Sim. Greatest living comic book creator, and total asshole.
Why An Aardvark?
I would really appreciate feedback, especially from my politically-aware female readers, for this and the next few Cerebus posts, even if you don't know anything about Cerebus. I am very aware of my white male privilege, and I am talking about works that are incredibly problematic in every conceivable way, but for which I have an absolute adoring love. I could *very* easily fall here into being That Bloke, and I don't want to…
This is part one of what will, I think, be a three- or four-part series on Cerebus. I've noticed a number of comic bloggers recently start talking, rather cautiously, about Cerebus as one of the great comics again. For a long time very, very few people have publicly stated a liking for Dave Sim's 300-issue story about an aardvark, and it's gratifying to see that, now the series has been over for a few years, people are slowly starting to put it in its proper perspective.
For those of you who don't know about comics, the problem with Cerebus is that its creator, Dave Sim, is incredibly, unbelievably misogynist. His widely-publicised views are so repellent that many people absolutely refuse to even consider reading his comic work, because they don't want to give money to anyone who espouses those views (a stance I can absolutely understand – I boycott Nestle, try to boycott Coke, and where possible given their near-monopoly on public transport in this city I refuse to give money to Stagecoach (whose CEO has donated money to groups teaching creationism and trying to get rid of homosexual rights) so I quite agree that this is a perfectly reasonable stance to take). Others, less reasonably, refuse to admit that there could possibly be anything good in the work of someone with such repellent views.
For many comics fans, this misogyny is the defining feature of Sim's views and work – a view not helped by the vocal coterie of online fans he has who seem to think that making public claims that women should be denied the vote, or going on to Gail Simone's message board and calling her a fat cunt, are ways to increase public respect for Sim's work.
But Sim presents a more interesting case than most for discussing whether it's possible to separate the artist and the art. In the first place – and it's a minor point – he's not the only creator of the Cerebus comics. Gerhard, the background artist, has never supported Sim's views (though he did, until relatively recently, tacitly support Sim-the-person) and did a huge amount of work which does deserve reward. In fact at the moment I think he's getting all of the money from current Cerebus sales, as Sim is buying out his share of Aardvark-Vanaheim, their publishing company.
Also, Sim apparently lives a spartan life with little or nothing in the way of luxuries, and gives very large amounts of money to charity, so your money is very unlikely to be of any benefit to him anyway.
But these are minor points. The main question, in my view, is to what extent Sim is responsible for his own views. This is a trickier question than it might seem. Most comic fans just know of SIm as a misogynist, but this is primarily because the vast majority of people reading the comic dropped it after issue 186, where Sim first advanced his then 'thesis' that women were soul-sucking voids destroying the 'inner male light' that was the basis for all creative work and all civilisation.
And reading that essay, or some of the others he published around that time, it is quite possible to see Sim as just a misogynist arsehole, and even to see how he might have come by his views 'rationally'. He was an intelligent man, but not particularly educated, and very interested in Big Ideas. Almost all his social life was based around comics fans and creators, who are a self-selecting group that is overwhelmingly male and (at least in the circles Sim was moving in, people like Rick Veitch, Chester Brown, Neil Gaiman and so on) more intelligent than average, while most of the women he socialised with were his girlfriends, chosen primarily for their physical attractiveness. You can see how someone in that situation could come to the conclusion that women are just less capable of thought than men. (This is not – NOT – to say it's a defensible conclusion. Just that it appears to be one that one could come to while still remaining more-or-less rational, given Sim's circumstances).
But having dropped the comic, most people didn't see the evidence of Sim's increasing mental deterioration. Sim had had a spell in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1970s, and later claimed that he spent most of the 80s 'faking' 'normalcy' – acting normal to fit in, while secretly holding many of the opinions for which he was later ostracised. He also, for the whole of the 80s and much of the early 90s, smoked *huge* amounts of cannabis.
Even without knowing these facts, though, it's apparent in retrospect that SIm's views on women are not the aberrant and abhorrent views of an otherwise rational man, as they appeared when he first went public with them. Since that time, he has announced that he has found a secret hidden meaning in the King James version of the Bible (and also in the Koran) which 'proves' that all of history is a conflict between God and a transsexual demiurge who is the YHWH of the Bible and lives in the middle of the Earth. This demiurge also caused the 2004 tsunami as a result of Sim revealing the 'truth' in his comic, as well as possessing many people around him and making them think he was mad. Sim also gave up masturbation because he believes YHWH gives psychic powers to women, which they use to read men's minds while they are masturbating.
A typical example of Sim's 'reasoning', from Collected Letters 2004, Vol 1:
I think YHWH's contribution back in the early 60s was Peter, Paul and Mary. I mean it is a way of looking at Christianity; seeing Peter, Paul and Mary as the three cornerstones after Jesus. Of course, being YHWH her point was; if you have Peter, Paul and Mary, what do you need Jesus for? I think this amused God a great deal – to the extent that he countered with John, Paul, George and Ringo. Paul, of course,was actually James: James Paul McCartney. So John and James were the leaders of the band, like the sons of Zebedee, John and James, the brothers Boanerges, the sons of thunder[…] So it was a good joke that on the cusp of becoming famous John and James had ditched Peter, Pete Best, the drummer since this is basically what the biblical John and James had attempted to do with Peter the apostle[…] Now, having ditched Peter, that meant that you had three kings or a Ring of Stars (Ringo Starr)[…]The Beatles were the template that attracted their own disciples, the Rolling Stones, which was another play, in my view, on the fact that there had been a pool of disciples for the two Jesus'. There was Peter, Cephas, the rock or stone, but he rolled back and forth between the two Jesus'[…]
Both bands, by the way, noticed the James and John connection and were led to wonder: in that case, who was Jesus? The conclusion was Brian Epstein. Which conclusion, I think, led to the premature demise of the Beatles manager and the exiled member of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones. And, of course, later on Monty Python with the financing of George Harrison incarnated the viewpoint[… etc ad infinitum]
Now, I have no formal psychiatric qualifications so wouldn't want to speculate publicly on what diagnosis, if any, someone would give Sim based on this kind of thing, but I've had a lot of experience working with people with mental illnesses (I worked as a nursing assistant on a psychiatric ward for a couple of years fairly recently) and I'll just say that this stuff sounds awfully familiar.
So how responsible is Sim for his views on women, and to what extent are they even 'his' views, as opposed to 'his illness" views? Does that question even make sense? Should one boycott his work for his views, or would that be punishing someone for their mental illness?
This wouldn't matter were Sim's work the kind of 'outsider art' one normally associates with this kind of statement – reading Sim's writings, one would get the impression that his work would be the comic equivalent of Wesley Willis or Wild Man Fischer or at best Charles Manson's music – interesting far more for what it says about the mental state of the creator than for any quality of the work. But the fact is, Sim is the single most talented comic creator I've ever known of. I would take Sim's work over the complete work of *any two* of, say, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Chris Ware, Eddie Campbell, Darwyn Cooke, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, J.H. Williams and George Herriman. No exaggeration.
So, can I possibly justify promoting work by someone who considers many – most – of the people I know, love and admire to be literally Satanic and subhuman? Or can I justify *NOT* promoting work that would significantly enrich the lives of those same people to a great extent?
I'm very torn about this… but I'm going to go ahead and look at Cerebus as a whole work over the next few days…
Linkblogging for 17/01/09
I'm still far busier than I expected this week, so I'm still behind on my email correspondence – apologies to those who've emailed me recently.
Anyway, in lieu of a longer post, here's some links:
Debi writes about Thomas Hariot – the most pioneering scientist you've never heard of.
Bobsy shows us his pants.
Over on Lib Dem Voice they're talking about what the 'liberal attitude to immigration' should be. Some of the comments there make sense, but some are horribly, nastily racist. Let them know what you think…
People buying tube tickets will soon be automatically giving their consent to be searched by transport police. Well, that's one more reason for me to avoid That London…
An interesting post about the Einstein/Bohr dialogue about quantum physics.
Cerebus: A Diablog continue their reading of the greatest comic series in history.
Andy Partridge discussing how Jack Kirby influenced one of his songs. (Surprising, because Partridge has always struck me as more of a DC person, and here he's talking about Ant-Man. Still, it's another example of XTC and comics, two of my favourite things, overlapping).
Free comic stories by Rick Veitch and Mark Evanier and Tom Yeates and some others.
And pillock has an excellent post on From Hell.
Linkblogging for 06/01/09
I'd hoped to do another proper post today, but exhaustion is getting the better of me (for some reason I didn't sleep last night, and I've done a couple of longer-than-normal days at work this week). I also owe p(il)lo(c)k at least two comments and an email, which will have to wait until I'm coherent…
From the Grauniad – Vicar has 'horrifying' statue of crucifixion removed from church:
"We're all about hope, encouragement and the joy of the Christian faith. We want to communicate good news, not bad news, so we need a more uplifting and inspiring symbol than execution on a cross."
I'm sure I've heard that before…
Amypoodle at the Mindless Ones has an absolutely astounding extrapolation of one panel from Batman #666, detailing the Joker of the future. Which reminds me, I must get back to my own thoughts on Batman – it's been a little while again…
The great Rick Veitch has been posting drawings over at his blog. Here's one of his dream comics (and I *must* write about those, too, at some point) involving Alan Moore, while here is Dave Sim's cubist period.
The blogging platform Livejournal has just sacked half its staff. This is a shame, as LJ is in many ways the blogging platform/social network with the most possibilities, but it's been consistently mismanaged for years – there's a reason I've stopped using it, and rarely even look at my friends list any more (a shame as there are actually some great people on there, some of whom I've linked on my blogroll).
Kevin Church has an excerpt from 'Marvels 3
And finally, there's the Convention On Modern Liberty, which I would be promoting even were my mate Dave not organising the Manchester branch of the event (although watch out for the page if you're on a slow machine – there's a ton of embedded Youtube videos that slowed my old laptop down so much I had to drop to terminal mode to kill the browser). This looks like the biggest conference on human rights and liberty issues in the broadest sense for decades, bringing together every major group and publication from the liberal left and libertarian right. The main partners are NO2ID, Amnesty International, Liberal Conspiracy and Unlock Democracy, but everyone from the TUC to the sodding Countryside Alliance of all people is involved, by way of the Grauniad, the Fabian Society, Private Eye and the Campaign For An English Parliament. I may even go down to That London for this rather than go to the Manchester event – it looks like it could be a major, major event.


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Return of Monster Mommy
I had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. It contained a lovely balance of family-time, me-time and adult-time. When I woke up on Tuesday morning I felt refreshed and renewed. My vessel was full and, surprise, surprise, I enjoyed being a mom. I spent the next couple of days ogling over my children, marveling at how quickly they're growing and feeling pride in their intelligence and good looks. I felt uninspired to write here because I just felt so damn satisfied.
I should have known it wouldn't last.
What this week has shown me is that I am only a good mom when I'm at the top of my game. God forbid, however, I am tired from lack of sleep, or suffering from a Zyrtec hangover, or have PMS, or am stressed beyond repair, or just feeling like plain old shit. God help the rest of you if there's any combination of the aforementioned ailments. That's what happened the other day.
My allergies have been hell so I took a Zyrtec the night before. Have you ever tried this medicine? It's absolutely wonderful for ridding your body of allergy symptoms but for me the hangover was worse than drinking a fifth of tequila. I even took the pill before bed, assuming any side effects would be long gone after a good night's sleep. The problem is that I didn't have a good night's sleep, and hadn't had one in a few nights (thanks to the pesky allergies and being periodically kicked throughout the night by a restless two year old). So I woke up in the morning feeling like I'd been hit by a truck. On a positive note, I wasn't sneezing. Being so exhausted changed me as a parent. I started off cranky, praying that coffee would help, but after three cups I was now cranky and jittery. I had absolutely no tolerance for my children. Their fights became insufferable; their demands for food and drink felt like bondage. I kept telling them to go off to college already. The worse I felt, the more their behavior deteriorated. I couldn't do it. I didn't want to do it, but what choice did I have?
If I had a real job, you know, one that paid and required you to get out of your pajamas, I could call in sick when I felt bad. I might even treat myself to an occasional "mental health day." On grouchy days I could check out; ignore my co-workers and pretend to be entrenched in work. I could skip lunch and go for a long walk or do something for myself. When you're a stay-at-home Mom, however, there are no sick days. There are no coffee breaks, no checking out. You have to be ON all day, every day. It's like I'm acting in a Broadway production of my very lame life, over and over and over again, and the reviews are not rave.
I don't say this to complain. As a matter of fact it's highlighting for me the importance that I need to come first, as difficult as that sounds. I started this journey a couple of months ago as I really want to enjoy my time with my kids when they're young, and truth be told, I wasn't enjoying it. I'm realizing that for me, this is only possible when I have true balance in my life. That means taking care of myself, getting sitters, reaching out to friends, taking real breaks, getting out of "kid-world" and spending time with grown-ups. When I was down and out, I should have called my in-laws and dropped them off for a couple of hours so I could take a nap. I should have begged a friend to help me out. I should have done something to address the fact that I felt like a zombie but once again I sucked it up, thinking I was being some sort of martyr. Who suffered? My kids. Instead of the fun, kind mom they'd gotten used to over the past few days, they were faced with monster mommy, whose face is scary and demeanor is positively frightening.
I hereby renew my pledge to put myself first, at least some of the time, as I begin to truly understand why this is so important. I will continue to strive for balance in my life, everyday if possible. I will not be afraid to ask for help, even though sometimes it's the hardest thing in the world to do. I will not be a martyr. My kids might not like it at first, but when monster mommy has been permanently banished, I'm quite certain they'll thank me.
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Okay, okay – technically speaking, you can legally take source code from a GNU GPLv2 licensed software (with various stipulations of course such as keeping the license of the new product as GNU GPLv2 and providing the source code) so code taken from a GNU GPLv2 software is not necessarily "stealing". But hey, if I called it "borrowed" would you have clicked on the title to read this post? =P.
So, why am I mentioning all this? Because Microsoft has pulled their new Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, aka Windows 7 netbook installer, because of allegations that WUDT (Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool) contained code from ImageMaster, a GNU GPLv2 licensed open source software. At his blog Within Windows, Rafael Rivera Jr. reports:
While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector's output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.)
Now as I already mentioned, the issue is not really the fact that Microsoft took code from ImageMaster. The source code of open source software are there, after all, to be used and improved upon. The problem is rather, if Microsoft did in fact take the code from ImageMaster, as far as I can tell Microsoft did not abid by the conditions set by the GPLv2 license which says if you use the code of a GPLv2 licensed software, you must
- Keep the license of the resulting software as GLPv2 also;
- Provide the source code for the resulting software.
Yikes indeed. I bet Google is going to have a really nice Thanksgiving this year, haha. What are everyone's thoughts on the matter? Feel free to express below.
[via PCMag]
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Why does everyone want to screw the best companies??? Microsoft did not steal source code! You can't steal from open source software! If the developers didn't want others to use their code, they wouldn't have make their software open source!!! This is almost as absurd as malwarebytes accusing Iobit of stealing their database.
When I ran the program it actually came up with a message stating: "Installing Image Master API v2 for Windows XP and Windows 2003 (KB932716-v2″
@gmon: to gmon: the code wasn't "stolen". You have missed the point. As a programmer, I have used code from many different sources, and have let others do the same to me. The point being raised is about intellectual rights, that is, in other words, recognition. One must give credit where credit is due. Sharing of knowledge is what Open Source is about. It allows developers to achieve greater depth and breadth in their programming, and allows the little guy to compete against giants.
Is Windows 7 now in the Public domain ?
I remember reading in some T.O.C. that open source code may be copied and used by others as part of another product, with the proviso that all the source code of the entire product must then be provided for the benefit of the community.
Something new to pray for tonight ! !
Yes, indeed, let's fire the dude who probably just took the code to make life easier, without really thinking about it …
Why bother actually writing code when you can just steal code? Hopefully whoever was responsible for this was fired.
Serves Microsoft right. Microsoft catches people who infringes on its software via BSA, but it infringed on the open-source rules itself. What a bummer!


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for my film class, our final project is a film inspired by memories
(shots are taken in pitch black rooms, lit only by a flashlight held above the camera)
(black screen)
1: have you ever eaten a peach?
(shot of a man biting into young-looking flesh)
2: no.
(black screen)
2: never. no, I really don't think so.
(a hand holding a peach)
(black screen)
1: do you have brothers or sisters?
(close up of a man's navel)
2: a twin.
1: is he like you?
(black screen)
2: what do you mean?
(the camera explores a man's body : his arms, his chest, his legs, and settles finally on the navel)
(black screen)
1: the youth, i understand. but why so many when you can have all of one?
(sheets moving with people hidden underneath.)
(black screen)
2: actually, i think i may have had peaches, they were the kind that were diced with that kind of syrup in it, like a fruit salad. it was okay. i don't know why you like them so much. either way, i don't like fruits very much.
(mouth biting into a peach)
(black screen)
(text : they make me sick, you make me sicker)
(black screen)
(shot of a man biting into young flesh)
2 : i suppose... every one of them brings something different and that makes it a whole. but i know you're the only one that loves me.
(black screen)
people who have been here for a while will guess what this is about...
yay now i just have to do a storyboard
and start my 850 word essay about women in macbeth that is due in 10 hours :p
xo xo teen mermaid princess
UPDATE: should i say FUCK THIS to my Macbeth essay? I think so.


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Michael Russo has covered the National Hockey League since 1995. He has covered the Minnesota Wild for the Star Tribune since 2005, after 10 years of covering the Florida Panthers for the Sun-Sentinel. He uses "Russo's Rants" to feed a wide-ranging hockey-centric discussion with readers, and can be heard weekly on KFAN (100.3 FM) radio and seen weekly on Fox Sports North.
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Mike Yeo has been grumpy after more than a few losses this season.
Add Sunday to the list. The Wild started slow, fell behind 2-0, got two quick goals from Eric Christensen to tie it up in the third period....
... and then mistakes and what Yeo called a lack of effort resulted in another loss.
Afterwards Yeo went pretty frontal. He said there were five or six Wild players not playing hard enough to win. He said, as healthy bodies come back, he's going to play guys who want to play hard. With the playoffs no longer really in the picture this year, Yeo is clearly trying to set a tone to be taken into the off-season.
Here are a few of Yeo's comments:
--On the team's slow start: "It's a little bit maddening to be honest with you. We owe our fans good games here. This is too many games in a row where we have come out flat in our own building."
--On whether everybody played hard: "We had a lot of guys but we didn't have everybody. And we're playing against a team that has 20 guys out there playing like they need to win. We had a handful of guys who let us down tonight."
--On what he'll do about that: "The nice thing is we have one extra body now, and potentially another one on the way. And we're going to be playing guys that want to play hard.''
Clayton Stoner would be the one healthy body back; he returned to action Sunday. The other? Yeo didn't specify, but it could be Mikko Koivu or Cal Clutterbuck.
I would say the Wild will have a pretty demanding practice tomorrow.
Other observations from tonight:
--Erik Christensen looked like a totally different player than the one we've seen since a trade brought him here. Afterwards he talked about how much rust he had to work off after spending most of the season as a healthy scratch with the New York Rangers.
--I didn't think goaltender Matt Hackett had a chance on three of the four goals scored tonight.
--Stephane Veilleux got his first point since rejoining the Wild, and it was his 100th career point.
--Defenseman Tom Gilbert got an assist, his first since coming here in a trade. He is a plus-3 in his last two games.
That's about it for now. Mr. Russo will be back with the team tomorrow.


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But what else have I inherited that's not so obvious? What diseases or illnesses am I predisposed to? Am I overly sensitive to certain medications? Do I have any ancestral links outside of Europe? Am I really related to Phyllis Diller as my paternal grandmother said?
I've been contemplating these questions since reading an intriguing article by Mashable's Campaigns Editor, Lauren Drell, "Why Mapping Your DNA Could Save Your Life" over a week ago. Personal DNA test kits are now available for $99 (plus shipping) through the company 23andme. When I first learned about DNA genotyping years ago, I always assumed it would be cost prohibitive for me. Now, it sounds too easy! One only needs to send a few milliliters of saliva. No blood samples!
According to 23andme, their service will provide health and ancestry information from both the maternal and paternal lineages. Customers will learn the statistical risks for various illnesses/diseases, drug responses, traits and family history details. The personalized results will be available online within 6-8 weeks of returning the kit with periodic updates as researchers expand their knowledge base.
Why am I so fascinated with DNA genotyping? I enjoyed studying genetics in high school and in college. I remember predicting inherited traits by diagramming genotype combinations with Mendel's Punnett squares. My interest may also stem from my medical background. Not only do I wish to learn about my own health risks, but I also like that my participation will contribute to research. I believe this is the future of medicine.
Additionally, I have been interested in my ancestry ever since working on a family tree in my sixth grade social studies class. Some of my family ancestry has already been researched and documented in a variety of family publications. I've not had much desire to delve further into those particulars. However, I'm curious to learn what DNA genotyping may uncover about my origins.
What's giving me pause about doing this? I have to admit it was my husband's initial reaction when I told him about this service. He's a bit skeptical by nature and questioned the reliability of the company. So, I took some time to research the company and read online reviews. I couldn't find much to discredit the company or to deter my interest.
The other night, my husband and I listened to a review of 23andme's DNA genotyping on a podcast he frequently listens to called, Oh No, Ross and Carrie. Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy are self-described "curious investigators" who explore the scientific validity of various claims. Both of them participated in the Personal Genome Service® and deemed the genotyping worthwhile for the curious! Now, he's interested!
DNA genotyping may not be for everyone. There is a chance of learning some unexpected familial or health-related information. Some people express privacy concerns. That's a valid issue given that digital databases can be compromised. But, many of us shop online and routinely give out personal information. Not much difference to me. Federal law does protect the results from being shared with third parties such as employers or insurance companies.
For me, any knowledge I obtain about my health will empower me to make informed decisions in the future. I am a strong believer in preventative health. I know that both environment factors and lifestyle choices impact my health despite inherited predispositions! I can take steps to decrease my risks of contracting certain illnesses/diseases in consultation with my medical practitioner.
I do believe I will order my DNA genotyping kit, spit and mail (along with one for my husband!). Time will only tell if I actually discover whether Phyllis is a relative or not. And, even if I don't learn the truth about this piece of family lore, I may discover some other distant family member, famous or otherwise!
How about you? Are you interested in your genetic story? Would you want to know what disease processes you may be at risk for?


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Kean to make way for Flinders
Hartlepool loanee Jake Kean will return to parent club Blackburn if Scott Flinders can prove his fitness over the coming weeks.The 19-year-old goalkeeper, who has kept nine clean sheets in 19 games, arrived at Victoria Park in September to cover for Flinders after the Pools number one suffered a broken thumb.However, boss Mick Wadsworth will re-instate Flinders to the starting line-up if he comes through the next few weeks with no ill-effects."Jake has been brilliant for us and still has a major part to play during the rest of the month," Wadsworth told the Hartlepool Mail."But we've got two outstanding goalkeepers in Scott and Andy (Rafferty) and I think Scott will be ready at the start of February."And Jake knows that. He's been absolutely fantastic but we have to put faith in our own."
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