We Lack A Title

Something free

2011-02-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

Remember how you
Looked at all
Those photos of you
in San Francisco?
How funny your face looked back then.
I was twelve, maybe - or ten?
But, anyway it was a time when
I knew not of hurt and darkness.
Dark like the dense and thick
shadows that you wade through
now that you are not scared.
No, you used to be
So much more different.
Before I knew she,
and I suppose - before I knew me.
In a past without myself
keeping time in the present
looking back
and collapsing the future
so that it's all the same
moment of nostalgia.

I Want to Learn Code

2010-11-17T01:44:00.000-08:00

I'm pretty sure apathy is killing the world. Every time I ask someone a decisive question and every time someone asks me one the most common answer you'll hear is "anything" or "maybe" or "I don't know", but said in a way that really means "I don't care."

I know I do it, but I don't like it. It's basically me not exercising my right to choose. Or it's me choosing to not exercise my right to choose. I don't know, I'm getting confused

Also, I just watched "The Social Network" and it really makes me want to be a programmer and do cool stuff with green text on a black background.

The movie itself was alright.

The Experiment

2010-10-30T14:48:00.000-07:00

I'm looking at the garden wall
They're tearing it down
We thought that it'd never fall
That our theories were sound

They're painting over the stars
The statues are all gone
I have a job selling cars
Taking money feels wrong

It was a noble experiment
It didn't last very long
It was deadly, it was inefficient
We were probably wrong

Is there a word for a couple little miniparagraphs of fiction like this?

2010-09-20T15:00:00.000-07:00

(first draft warning)

The first thing they all notice is the grease in my beard.

Not the mithril sword I pulled from the jaws of a dead crocodile god.

Not the tattoo on my shoulder, burned into the skin so that I could pass unnoticed among the silent citizens of the silent city of Shehm.

Not the scars on my hands, not the jacket of dragonscale, not the shield spattered thick with runes in fifteen dead languages.

No, they look at my beard, and they make a face, and then they ask, can you cook?

Do you have a steady job? (Apparently, questing adventurer doesn't count.)

Will you remember my birthday?

Could I meet your mother?

Would you describe yourself as a spiritual person?

And they look at me all squinty and wistful, and I know they're saying "maybe, if he cut off that beard, and cut off that tangled hair, and got rid of those awful tattoos..."

And I'll see them the next day while I'm watering my horse and strapping on my pack. They'll be flirting with a certified public accountant, looking up at his gold-rimmed glasses and his soft face that's never seen a blade forged by anyone other than Gillette. And I spit and mount my horse.

Tavern wenches ain't what they used to be, I can tell you that.

The Most Powerful Being in The Universe

2010-09-09T08:43:00.000-07:00

Oh, why hello there.

My name is Senisa and I am the most powerful being on the face of the Earth.

You may be wondering, 'why is the most powerful being on the face of the Earth using an outdated 4g EEE PC with a tiny-ass keyboard instead of some spruced up gigantic monster of a machine in the sky?'

Well, you see, the answer is simple.

My machine is in the shop, and the celestial bodies of Heaven don't like that there's a tiny subnetbook threatening to claim number one portability and convenience in place of their regular netbooks and laptops.

The celestial bodies are kind of stubborn. They don't like change.

That's why the angels in heaven are still eunuchs or completely sexless instead of being equipped with the proper, ehm... equipment...

Sorry to disappoint you.

Anyway, I'm here to threaten the your species, mankind, into extinction.

It may seem harsh, but it's for the better. Trust me?

It's mostly because you guys are really, uhh... well... you're not following Occam's Razor.

You're creating multiple entities unnecessarily. That's not good.

Making things way more complicated then they need to be, very much not good.

Comment: A note I wrote over a year ago; found it poking around my computer. I have no idea what I was talking about.

OHMYGOD

2010-08-31T04:15:00.001-07:00

I'm so pretentious D:
SAAAVE MEEE

The General Theory of Relativism

2010-08-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

This goes out to Glenn Beck.

The thing I hate most about religion in politics – besides the fact that it's unconstitutional – is that it's a form of moral absolutism.

There is nothing in this world worse than moral absolutism. Ignore the slight hypocrisy in that statement and just bear with me for a minute.

Moral absolutism is the belief that you have the Truth. The Truth with a capital T. The Truth that is so overridingly and obviously the Right Answer that anyone who opposes you must be an idiot at best, actively evil at worst. The Truth that is so pure and right that anything done to advance it can't be anything but pure good.

Moral absolutism is a dark path to follow. Do you know where that path leads?

It leads through an archway topped with the words ARBEIT MACHT FREI.

It leads to My Lai, to Guernica, to the gulag, to Srebrenica, to Abu Grahib, to the labs of Detachment 731, to the Twin Towers, to the Somme, to Darfur.

It leads to fascism, to communism, to the Inquisition, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to the KKK, to the Baath Party, to the Branch Davidians, to the Khmer Rouge, to the Taliban.

It leads to Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Ayatollyah Khomeni, Joseph Kony, and Bomber Harris.

It's a dangerous road.

Take everything with a grain of salt. And never, not for even one second, think so arrogantly as to believe you have the Truth.

we'll do it again

2010-05-16T07:58:00.000-07:00

"If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it." - Fight, Smash, Win Street Sweeper Social Club

Imagine the world as a restaurant. The setting is irrelevant, it could be at the end of the universe for all I care.
If you don't sell your soul for a profit, then there's no place for you here. You don't get a table, a seat at the bar, a passing glance, even, if you fail to turn up with bags of aspirations. Not the pure, childhood ones, just. Lots of them. Preferably borrowed from your culture. Dress code is strictly high echelon prison overalls. As you bite into your steak, you try as hard as you can to inhibit any acquiescence into something deeper, because thoughts are crimes. Doesn't matter what they are about. As you surround yourself in this atmosphere of paradoxial boom-and-bust paranoia, remember to clap when the band ends their set. Follow all convention, wash your hands as you leave the bathroom, dab politely at the end of your perfect smile, remember to tip the waiter, and don't forget to write to your parents when you get back home.

Fear

2010-03-26T19:19:00.000-07:00

Hey.
I'm bad at endings. Endings are hard. Endings don't make sense, they're scary. They loom up at you and then pounce. I don't like endings. Finishes aren't a relief, they are anxiety-causing, horrible things. You get all sad that whatever happened before is never going to happen again. At least, not the same, anyway. So, you slowly start hating everything in the middle, but you catch yourself, because you find out that you just hate the end, not anything else.

It sort of makes me afraid of beginnings too. I'm scared of beginnings because I'm scared of unfinished symphonies. I'm bad at endings, I don't want to go there, I don't want to go to beginnings.

That's why you have to jump into the unknown sometimes.

Scary stuff.

WE MUST BE PREPARED

2010-01-01T23:39:00.001-08:00

DAMMIT!

http://senisa-eotw.webs.com

Comments and suggestions welcome.

Them Goldurn Terr'rists

2009-12-17T11:34:00.000-08:00

WARNING: The first segment of this post should not be read by the gullible or those who can't take a joke. The second and third, though, are serious.

1. I always find it amusing that the first to jump into criticism and hatred and murderous rages at suicide bombers are the conservatives. After all, don't the bombers want the same things they want - religious government and education, the repression of women, and the destruction of America's freedoms? I bet if Osama bin Laden was a Christian, he'd be a hero in Alabama.

2. Additionally, here in Swissy the racist People's Party (nice oxymoron there, by the way) used an offensive saying by some Islamic guy to promote its anti-Muslim views. It was something along the lines of "Any country that puts its affairs in the hands of women cannot be successful". It was supposed to demonstrate that Muslims hate feminism. Well, instead it reminded me what the last first-world nation to give the vote to women was.

3. Barack Obama said he wanted to extend a hand to Muslims. Maybe he'd better start by not smiling and grinning alongside Hu Jintao, whose government kills them.

A Non-Socialist-or-Fascist Revolution

2009-12-11T12:58:00.000-08:00

There is a stereotype of teens endorsing leftist policy changes, and indeed most revolutions seem to be either radically to the left or right. Being an unusual teen, I have decided to endorse an unusual but seemingly logical system of government:

ANCIENT CHINESE MERITOCRACY.

Get rid of politicians that get their position by being good speakers and deal-cutters, and give it to people who are intelligent, reasonable, and good at decision-making. Examination systems would be designed to find these characteristics, and Confucian ideas would be taught in schools.

Naturally, we'd need some sort of checks and balances to prevent a complete ogilarchy, but due to the fact that most people are naturally pretty stupid, a representative government might not be the best idea.

Thoughts? Questions? Proposed revolutionary slogans?

pressure

2009-12-09T23:53:00.001-08:00

I feel obliged to write something about the current state of my life, it seems to be the 'in' thing right now.

To be honest, I feel really placid right now, like I'm partly ignoring reality and kind of just floating around through things. I mean this in a good way, it's exam week right now and the past 3 exams I've taken I've had fun with. I wrote little notes and doodled in the margins. I try to make my teacher's jobs a little less boring.

go explode

2009-12-09T04:15:00.000-08:00

My life at the moment:
I feel as if I'm living in a Pynchon novel. Or a Kafka novel. Or Notes From the Underground. Whatever,
just any book in where the main character slowly and lucidly descends into hell, losing his/her mind in the process will do.

Yeah.

2009-12-06T01:32:00.000-08:00

I'm scared.
I always remember how my life used to be like a video on playback.
It went away for a few years.

But now it's back again. Everything that's happened the past few weeks, just feels like a video on playback.
I remember glimpses of an event, but I can' recall the emotions and feelings associated with it. The more I live in the moment the more I dissociate with the rest of life. One big fleeting moment.

Tackiness

2009-12-02T11:54:00.000-08:00

I am not an intellectual.
But I am not an anti-intellectual either.

I don't believe that life can be summed up by existential poetry or by symphonies or by Chuck Palahniuk.
I don't believe that life can be summed up by the Bible.

I don't boycott large companies or put up posters for causes.
But I turn the lights off when I leave the room, and I plan to vote on everything I can.

I don't believe that modern global culture is septic and evil and should be protested and brought down.
I don't want to be a part of it anyways.

I don't think people's essential nature is stupid and greedy.
I don't think people's essential nature is good and friendly.

I don't listen to classical music and I have never read any book by a dead Russian.
I don't watch anything by Seltzer and Friedberg.

When I try to write serious works I can never take myself seriously. I found "The Beach" to be ridiculously nihilistic and uninteresting. All my major pieces of writing have some element of over-the-top fantastic-ness.
At the same time, I can't stand to have run-of-the-mill conversations about school and other people.

I don't crave meaning in life.
I don't crave a larger TV.

In essence, I want my life to be exciting, humorous, varied and feel like a story - but still be reasonably intelligent. I don't want to save the world if it involves handing out leaflets and signing petitions, but I do want to if it involves outwitting supervillains and blowing up continents.

Maybe I'm shallow. Maybe I should be wanting to sit in a coffee shop in Boston sipping chai and composing five-line poems that form the start of a story that I will never finish. But hell, I'd rather have the coffee shop raided by ninjas, and the danger activate the superpowers granted to me by my alien grandfather so that I save the patrons (and the buxom barista) from their gristly fate, except for one guy who gets splattered in a particularly cinematic way.

I AM TACKY AND PROUD OF IT.

on stories

2009-11-30T02:16:00.000-08:00

recently, i've been thinking about keeping a diary.

okay, you can stop laughing now.

no, really. i was remembering what i was like a couple of years ago, and then i realized that i would hate to feel the way i do about today, tomorrow, the same way i feel about yesterday. in other words, i don't want my life to be a fleeting moment, ever striving onto the future, erasing the tracks that i leave behind.

but then, i realized.

that's life.
you can't make life into a story, because then its not life anymore, its a story. you can't reduce your memories into photos or videos or words, because that's how they should be enjoyed, when they can.

the moment you start living your life as an entry is the moment you stop living your life as a life.

rather than regret the passing of time, we must rejoice with it.

or, something along those lines.

putting the pro back into procrastination

2009-11-21T23:15:00.000-08:00

I spent the past 5-6 hours watching a movie, downloading Kronos Quartet music, playing guitar, and trying to do everything except work.

What the fuck is wrong with me.

Something Has Been Bothering Me

2009-11-21T01:41:00.000-08:00

I was in English class a couple of days ago, and we were having a class discussion on this project we’re doing. It’s called the I-journey and it’s basically thinking up a story, writing up one chapter of it, making a storyline map and then giving an oral presentation about it. The catch is though, the story has to abide by these:

It has to be positive, overall (no ‘and in the end they all died’ or ‘he realized that he had lost his chance and the world would soon succumb to a fiery and/or explosive doom’)
Must be written in first person
It must include a journey from ignorance to awareness (realization of something positive)
No melodrama

The points have something to do with what’s bothering me, but they’re not it. During the course of the discussion, my English teacher (off topic, but if you want to imagine him, he’s 6’1”, 42 years-old, athletic, loud and coaches the rugby team) mentioned that one of his students from the other class was doing a story about how at first someone didn't believe in God, and then in the end of the story had found their faith and lived happily ever after (as our stories are supposed to be). This is what bothers me, the fact that the story is about finding God.

Look at it this way, if my story was about someone who started off believing in God, but later lost their faith, I wouldn't be allowed to write it (for this project), since it would be a negative story. They call it losing your faith, like something’s slipped through your fingers and you should go find it, for a reason. A lot of people (or some, I don’t know) would consider being an atheist or even an agnostic depressing, or something people should look down on. There’s stigma attached in not believing in a religion (organized or otherwise) or even of any higher being/power, though a lot of people don’t realize it.

No one ever says finding atheism, but they say finding religion. The whole concept of religion people think is faith, but that’s the basis of atheism too, having enough faith to admit to yourself that you don’t think God exists, which means you don’t lose faith if you’re an atheist, you just channel it into a different belief.

tl;dr version: I don't like how people think not believing in God is a negative thing.

/rant

2009-11-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

Your life is a book; Don’t jump to the end to see if it’s worth it. Just enjoy life and fill make those pages with beautiful memories. - Scott Greenberg

The Beach

2009-11-07T06:00:00.001-08:00

There is a beach at the world's edge, and everything makes its way there in time. The dust and debris of civilization. The sticks and bones of nature.

For here is the last beach, the edge of the world, where the waves break and the sand blows gently as everything turns to dust.

This is not the entropic, wet decay that spreads in sewers and the bottom of ponds. That, too, is life, and that too passes onto the beach. But here it is a dry crumbling. Here wood and plastic and chitin and scale bleach in the sun. Here they turn to white dust, to sand, and are carried out to sea on the wind.

The sand buries some of it. Crab shells, liquor bottles. Shoes. Stones. The wind cannot touch it there, but it does not need to. In time, the beach itself will vanish.

When the rest of the world is gone to the sea, it will be all that is left. A sandy strip. And the wind will take it, and throw it wide across the sea in a final arc of dust.

And the sand will fall and disappear, vanish into the endless expanse of the world's last ocean. The world will die with a whisper and a breeze.

All, in the end, will pass.

I Won.

2009-11-05T21:52:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to say it, mostly because it's only hitting me now.

Yep.

Quote of the Day (so that this post isn't completely useless):
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe".

Also, I like stationary shopping almost as much as I like grocery shopping. It is an incredibly enjoyable activity. You now know more about me. CONGRATULATIONS.

Instant-bul?! ISTANBUL!

2009-10-29T11:50:00.000-07:00

I'M IN ISTANBUL YOU GUYS.

I'm going to have AMAZING photos up on Flickr. So yea.
PREPARE TO BE BLOOOWN AWAAAY.

On a side note: my scarf (posing as a hijab) slipped off in one of the mosques we visited. yea.

Courtesy of Brain-Bain Click

2009-10-28T14:05:00.001-07:00

http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/turkish-star-wars/

Studies in Tension

2009-10-08T04:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.egodialogues.com/words-language/2sentences.php

Lack-structure

2009-10-04T11:00:00.000-07:00

"Why so serious?"
- Numerous people who do shitty impersonations

This post was originally going to be a collection of jokes and puns. But I forgot them, except for this: "If most people use 'the bases' as a metaphor for getting some action, do foot fetishists use yard lines?" *ba-dum-tish*

Instead, some musings and thoughts:

When anime characters go to the movies, doesn't their hair get in the way of the people behind them?

In Fantasia, do the cops use Fantasers?

Wordmakeage is funtastic.

Yes, this is all. The blog's for thoughts; this is the kind of stuff in my head. More semi-coherent post later.

(the smile)

2009-10-03T06:26:00.001-07:00

he turned over and took a good long look in his eyes and said,
"you do realize that there's no way out of here, right?"
and he stared out on the barren wasteland, the burnt trees
amidst the snow and dirt, and he thought of a good reply,
but he couldn't think of anything, honestly.

2009-10-01T03:12:00.000-07:00

So I'm going to spend my weekend huddled in a blanket crying.
Not to mention all the relief work I've been doing this week will go to waste.
Gah.

However, I was touched by how people have come together to help the less fortunate here.
I hope it happens after this.
I hope everyone will have somewhere safe to be.

2009-09-26T02:57:00.000-07:00

It's my birthday on Wednesday.

2009-09-26T02:48:00.000-07:00

I would be one of those people.

2009-09-23T23:17:00.000-07:00

I am a photographer and photographers take pictures.
I'm not very good with words, to be honest.
As with my painting, I find I can only write something well when I am hit by great inspiration to say something.
However, I can always take photos and I know I can do that well.

My new favorite thing to do with the camera is to use a small aperture, slow shutter speed, and non-rear flash in order to get photos like the third one.

I also love using fast shutter speed with small aperture and flash to get photos like the carousel one.

I also had this whole revelation about beliefs and all, but I'll post that later.

2009-09-23T05:42:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted yet.

OKAY? CAN YOU HANDLE THAT?

This man could:
http://z.about.com/d/musiced/1/0/o/8/handel.jpg

When I was thinking about what I should really do for my first post, I thought about how societies treated virgins in the past. I didn't know much, so I did some research on the Internet.

Note to self: From now on, stay away from the internet, there is some weird shit there.

Fuck that, Imma write a poem instead.

I think I know why again.
The geometry,
The logic,
The rational,
They all crushed to dust.
Leaving me with just one thing,
And I took that thing, put it in a box,
And cradled its soft glow.
And that thing was you.

out.

2009-09-07T17:34:00.000-07:00

It appears I have begun to look like the least intellectually stimulating person on this blog D:

When Zaina Goes Crazy

2009-09-07T07:31:00.000-07:00

after swearing, crying, and punching desks:

Best when played all at once at the same time.

Lack-sense

2009-09-06T08:02:00.000-07:00

"Yet with all that strangeness going on, there are still a few moments that stick out in the totally-messed-up department."
--The Nostalgia Critic

Surrealism. Some of us love it, some of us hate it, some of us blueberry. I am one of the first category. However, there's a fine line between surrealism and being (god I hate using this word) random. Here's how I define it:

SURREALISM is when you're sure there's some kind of meaning behind it, and it can be interpreted in a variety of interesting or thought-provoking ways, or at least one that makes sense as a story. Surreal works are often either highly regarded or completely despised, and often involved hallucinogens at some point in their creation.

RANDOMNESS is when things just plain don't make sense, with no storyline or hidden meaning whatsoever. These types of works are typically (supposedly) comedic and often incredibly irritating. Examine half the videos on youtube for an example.

Actually, I basically wrote this post as a semi-thoughtful bracket that I could use as an excuse to post my three favorite music videos in ascending insanity levels:

Mindless Self-Indulgence's "Shut Me Up" comes first, since it has some kind of semblance of a storyline, although the details of it are completely screwbrained.

Maximum The Hormone's "Bikini Sports Ponchin" comes next, since while it's almost as trippy as the top one it might have some kind of meaning if I knew what the lyrics meant.

The Avalanches' "Frontier Psychiatrist" is top of the list. There are no words to describe it. You must watch.

Big Vs. Small

2009-09-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Okay, so as I've told Brian manymanymany times.
I switch between the mindset of being totally detached from the world, where the world works similar to a computer program (just reacting to my inputs)
and totally being in mesh with the world.

so:

think a huge issue in this world is that too many people think they are too small to solve big issues.
I'm part of the school's environmental council and the people I am starting to get to know and work with are truly inspiring.

The president is part of an organization called PREP (Promoting Rural Education in the Philippines) Barkada (meaning group of friends/clique) and I've gotten involved through the council with The Invisible Project and Protecting Children and Families.

The Philippines Christian Foundation (aka Protecting Children and Families) is an organization dedicated to breaking the poverty cycle.
Parents of children are promised jobs of sorting and organizing trash, if they promise to send their kids to the PCF schools.
The children and families are also provided with meals and medical attention.
Many parents also work from home by making jewelery and accessories out of recycled goods such as old brochures and candy wrappers.
PCF is also building a school out of old shipping containers that hopes to hold up to 1,000 students when it opens. The structure is the largest of its kind.

Promoting Rural Education in the Philippines (PREP) is a student-run social enterprise
that aims to provide underprivileged establishments in the Philippines
with the resources they need to grant children the knowledge that they deserve.

The Invisible Project creates jobs for women and help reduce the amount of plastic bags in Manila. Women collect plastic bags and they are crocheted into bags/wallets etc.

PREP: http://prep-ph.org/
The Invisible Project: http://invisiblesisters.org/
PCF: http://pcf.ph/index.php

Thoughts About Things That I Think About

2009-09-05T01:37:00.000-07:00

Something's been on my mind lately.

It hasn't really got anything to do with current events, it's not some sort of impending issue or anything. It's just been sort of bothering me. I play video games. A lot. It's a hobby/passion, I get tingles when I think of a release date, and this thought is somewhat related to video games.

I was playing Mass Effect a few weeks ago (a sci-fi, roleplaying game, this is relevant), and after I finished it and I had a thought. The characters in Mass Effect are pretty cool, they have back stories, little tidbits of their past that they share when they talk to you according to what lines you choose to say, blah blah, yeah. But when you boil it down, their 'personalities' are just scripted lines and actions that are spat out when you click a button a certain series of times. It makes me wonder, what if we had the technology to create Artificial Intelligence that was so advanced, it'd simulate a real personality near perfectly and even create a sort of sentiency in its video game/world?

It's like, you'd be able to type in an actual response to what they say, and the character would understand and react to whatever it was you typed in correlation to what theire personalities would dictate. Video games (this isn't limited to that, it's just an easy example), would become so immensely open-ended, anything could happen, it'd almost be like an actual virtual world, completely seperate from real life, but still infused with just as much character and... randomness (because everyting's sentient, and everything that happens matters).

But then this got me thinking, if they had technology like this, wouldn't it make playing a video game like Mass Effect a little bit... inhumane? I mean, everytime you took a shot at someone you'd essentially be harming something self-aware that truly believed that it was 'alive'. Even though they actually aren't (in a sense) alive and free and able to do anything (because they'd probably be bound by certain things), would that be grounds to ban using that kind of AI just because it'd maybe eat away at your concscience? Would it eat away? Should it?

This is the kind of stuff I think about during the day :-\

2009-09-04T05:37:00.001-07:00

http://postrejects.blogspot.com

Lack-awesomes

2009-09-02T09:15:00.000-07:00

"'Is he all right?' Daniel asked.
'The usual bouts of melancholy--a certain peevishness over the scarcity of adventuresome females--'"
--Daniel Waterhouse and John Wilkins, Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

I don't know whether it was due to my exposure to lots of good female role models in the '90s TV shows I watched as a kid, or my exposure to certain awesome people along the course of my life, or some innate preference, but I have never quite been satisfied with traditional femininity.

Not to say I prefer men - my physical admirations are quite limited to one sex - but the stereotypical mental attitudes of the female are not admirable to me in any sense. Vulnerability can be cute but it's not a trait I'd want. And no subservience or child-bearing. And no having to act respectable or clean myself up or be "delicate" or moderate my weirdness and nerdiness.

So, all future parents out there, raise your girls like guys. The world will be much improved for it.

Essentially, my ideal girl would be my best friend, but with a nice body. This post is probably somehow extremely sexist, but this blog is for our thoughts. And that's my thought. Thank you.

(this was a little more serious than my usual, but it's not TOO cynical or socially relevant.)

Also, from now on I will include a quote that relates to my posts. This one is from a series of books about the Baroque era, featuring plenty of scheming, swashbuckling and science. They are awesome and you must read them now. The guy who's echoing my thoughts is Robert Hooke. (although he drinks mercury to keep his body fresh, so maybe having his support is not a great sign).

I Dedicate This Site to Thomas

2009-08-30T20:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.dumbjokesthatarefunny.com/

Two atoms are walking down the street together. The first atom turns and says, "Hey, you just stole an electron from me!"

"Are you sure?" asks the second atom.

To which the first atom replies, "Yeah, I'm positive!"

If We Continue With This...

2009-08-30T07:12:00.000-07:00

...I probably won't be contributing for a while.

This would be why:

Check It.

2009-08-30T06:09:00.000-07:00

My name is Zaina, if you didn't know.
I have a habit of having ideas for things and then not contributing to them, as you can tell.
I presented this blogger idea to the others because I love talking to them and they always have something interesting to say or write.
In my head I actually refer to them as my Brain Trust Friends.

Yesterday (Saturday) I went on a trip to the dump area of Metro Manila.
For more info:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37-mm/sets/72157622059243781/

Please don't take/copy my photos without permission :)

The Interesting Tymes of Timothy Lachtitle

2009-08-25T03:00:00.000-07:00

...is what I originally wanted to call this blog, since that was the end result of one of my nonsensical comparison-trains-of-thought in which I thought "lack-title" sounded like a name given to some farmer who makes it to the king's court. Timothy Lachtitle later went to America to make his fortune since he had no place in the class-oriented society of Britain. Or something.

I tend to have these kind of thoughts a lot.

Hi, I'm Brian, and I am less cynically philosophical than Thomas and Zaina. I also tend to have nonsensical ideas and enjoy cheesiness rather than serious thoughts and literature. Although there are exceptions.

Oh, Hey

2009-08-24T05:12:00.001-07:00

Yeah, hi.

I'm Senisa, as mentioned below. I was dragged here for no apparent reason other than Brian and Zaina thinking that my opinions might be interesting for other people to read. Thomas seems cool, I only 'met' (more like chatted online with) him last week, it was an interesting experience. We talked about smileys :D

So...

How are we going to do this?

Anybody?

At all?

I have two sprained fingers, typing is very hard.

I LOVE GROCERY SHOPPING.

That is all.

Hi!

2009-08-24T05:00:00.000-07:00

That is me, Thomas, and those are my three droogs: Brian, Senisa and Zaina. Zaina being called Zaina because she really is Zaina. So, we were sitting on the internet making up our chellovecks about what to do with our amazing repository of creativity and information and how we could channel it and work as a team, and so we created this blog.

And we collectively suck at making up a name. I wanted "Sisyphus's Plan" but NOOOOOOO!