Just in case you weren’t aware of it, she was indeed a complete raging idiot whose contributions to intellectual thought and theory are exactly on par with that of the great spiritual leader that warned us of the dangers of disembodied alien energy creatures and galactic space overlords that haunt us today after our ancestors failed to blow them up in a volcano laced with hydrogen bombs.
In other words, the tenets of Objectivism are complete hedonistic bullshit and a license for deeply selfish people to piss upon their neighbors. Her teachings if you strip out all the crap that is strategically designed to make it look ‘good’ boils literally down to survival of the fittest and the belief that sheer unadulterated selfishness is a virtue. If Scientology’s belief system is basically a shitty Doctor Who plot from 1971, then Objectivism is basing society’s moral code on Survivor’s All-Star Season. Also, fuck John Galt.
Found on the Stranger Slog. It’s simply made of awesome.
Found by Warren Ellis, creepy Wil:
That may be game, set, and match. She mad a big deal previously about a peace-keeping flight to Bosnia in the 1990s, and that she came off of the airplane under “sniper fire” and having to duck and hide with Secret Service agents. That is, until CBS News found video footage of her walking off of the airplane with Chelsea Clinton, Sinbad, and Sheryl Crow, waving to people and basically saying, “LOL! We’re in Bosnia! Hai people!” This is just like Vanilla Ice getting “cred” by claiming he was shot in the ass. Hillary is working overtime now to give this to Obama.
Credit to Andi for the realization that Hillary Clinton = Vanilla Ice.
Yes, the subject basically says it all. This is just what the United States needs to repair our good name with the rest of the world. A disinformation agency!
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A celebrity photo has led a former president to send a threatening letter to a local restaurant owner. On Tuesday night, President Bill Clinton demanded that a Manhattan restaurant remove a picture of his daughter Chelsea.
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Slow news day, I suppose… “She does let her hair down. Once at a party Blacker threw, Condoleezza Rice kicked off her shoes and started dancing. Wanting to show his partner how firm Rice’s behind was, Blacker postulated that if he aimed a quarter at her butt, it would bounce right off like a rocket.”
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Want to hear Wil’s keynote that I mentioned he did at PAX yesterday? Go here. How did it open? Ha!
“Thank you. My name is Wil Wheaton, and Jack Thompson can suck my balls. This keynote has been rated MA by the ESRB.”
Go listen! Andi also has pics of us and Wil up…
We had a great time at PAX today. Wil Wheaton delivered a killer keynote speech, that I mentioned here before. We got to chat with him briefly afterwards, and he took a picture of Andi’s three volumes of his books (we’d bought his new book from him at the show). I coined the phrase “Wheaton trifecta“. w00t!
Wil has a post up here about speaking at PAX (he’s the keynote). I want everyone that reads this if they’re at PAX, to give this man a standing ovation. Seriously. This guy is functionally one of our idols for a whole subset of geek culture. Why? Simple: When it was him up there, in that sweater, on The Next Generation, each and every single one of you–every one!–thought to yourself:
“That could be me…”
If you deny it, and you were around Wil’s age or slightly younger from when he did Star Trek, you’re a liar. Yes, you know you are. Support the guy that gave you that fleeting moment of joy when you were 10, or 13, or 16. This will be my first chance to see Wil (or anyone in person, from Next Generation, for that matter). They opened my eyes to the ideas of science fiction more than anyone else ever had before that. Yes, even more than George Lucas, who is technically science fantasy. Not only all that aside, but for the people like me, and you, Wil is one of us. There’s a reason why his first book was called Just A Geek.
We support our own. We don’t let them hang out to dry. Time for geek action. Standing ovation for Wil Wheaton, Seattle. Standing ovation.
Tonight, our friend Jakob flies into town, and tomorrow, Rebo does, for the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. That means in two days I’ll be making two trips down I-5 to SeaTac airport and then two more as they fly out on Sunday and Monday. People from work have been staying home and and working remotely because of the massive I-5 construction. This’ll be my first foray into it. Wish me luck…
Notes from a session at BarCampBlock this weekend, presented by Michael Schwern. The discussion included tact filters, Warnock’s dilemma, and the literalist fuckhead syndrome.
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Mike Wieringo passed away yesterday from a heart attack, at only 44 years old. Story here. Jesus…
As transcribed in the early period of the ’00s, by Andy “J Metropolis” Khouri (w00t, thank you Wayback Machine!); note this is from before we were actually married, and still lived in Connecticut:
Andi:
Andi doesn’t even know where she came from. Her long term memory was lost in a bizarre celery accident, and most of the night she was soft-spoken and shy, keeping to herself and reading comics in the corner. (except when she was making out with other chicks).
Mine:
Joe — or “Joe Sizzle,” as he is known — actually created the internet. He explained this to me in a very clear, unslurred voice, and he did so for many hours. I honestly did not have the mental capacity to grasp exactly how he created the internet, but trust me, he did. It’s his, and we all owe him a little piece of our souls. I hope that by honoring him here, he will forgive me for my sins and allow me to continue using (abusing?) his property. Before Joe created the internet, he was a regular little kid in 1950s Colombia, riding his scooter around town with a slingshot in his pocket and a twinkle in his eye. On October 25th, 1955, Joe was struck by lightning. He survived, and there was absolutely no change in his body, behaviour or in his thinking. On October 25th, 1956, Joe slipped in the shower and hit his head on the toilet seat and lapsed into a coma for forty years. On October 25th, 1996, Joe woke up with the idea for the internet, even though by then it had already been created. It’s a real shame. Today Joe lives in Connecticut with his girlfriend Andi and lots of comic books.
Brad Fitzpatrick is leaving Livejournal.
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Sheer cajones and cool. Go see. If you don’t know who Kevin Mitnick is, read this.
From this post, about this image, more here. They’ve begun Photoshopping the guy:
Went to see s7rangers on Capitol Hill, that was a lot of fun. Live semi-improv theater in a big house, where basically you’re watching an absurdist feaux episode of the Real World. On the way up we were in a taxi coming up Harrison Street and saw Jameth and Huzzband walking the other way–the wife, before me, and she says “Hey is that…?” and we both scream JAAAAAAAAMES at the top of our lungs… and he and Huzzband stare at us like WTF? Who is that? Then I remembered that I’d never met Jameth IRL, and the taxi driver didn’t stop because he was too busy singing along to PURPLE RAIN in his thick Arabic accent.
Then we ended up at Beths. I ate five eggs. Ugh.
