Weekly

2001.08.20.22.39 (Monday)
0082 - BCE


Do you care about your genes? Do you worry about passing them on to the next generation? Or is it your ideas that matter more? Are you concerned with bettering the lives of the people who are already here, setting right the things that have gone wrong, expanding people's minds? Or do you want to bring more people into the world in the hope that you'll die before things get too bad and they can sort it out?

A Level results? A whole load of us got them just a few days ago. I got a B in Computing (right on target) a C for English Literature (disappointing as I'd been expecting a B, minimum) and an E for Mathematics (amazing, seeing as how I'd only been able to answer half of the final exam paper). So that's 19 points total, including the 3 points I got for my Media Studies AS Level last year (another disappointment, but my own fault for not revising). My first choice, wanted three Bs (24 points) and my second choice, my insurance, wanted only 18 points. So I assumed I was going to my second choice, filled in my student loan application form appropriately, and sent it off. Only to get a letter from UCAS the next day, telling me that my first choice were offering me a place. Hoo-hah? You are correct sir!
    Then I went online, to check out the UCAS site. Apparently it had been posted on the 13th that I'd been accepted by my first choice. Why did no-one tell us we could just use the site?
    Want to see where I'm going to live? I rented a helicopter and took a photograph. It is attached.

Had enough of my pointless waffling? Good for you. Go read some wholesome parodies instead, courtesy of Pat, Cass and myself (though my parodies aren't really parodies, more pointless waffles) at the Storytime website I knocked together last week.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greywater/storytime/

My comic book library returns also. I doubt most any of you bothered to read the old version, but have a look at this new one. Not only does it have shiny new information (because you really DO care who the assistant editor of Transmetropolitan 32 was (Jennifer Lee)), I've also bothered to write a description of every single one of the 107 different titles it contains books of. Funny ones. Honest. Go see.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greywater/library/

Tch, I should just give you the main address and let you click on the bits of the apple yourself.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/greywater/

Saw The Bandit Queen last week. Badness concerning caste system, sexism, exploitation in India in the latter half of the last century. Good film. Afterwards felt totally angry about the bad stuff that happened. But then thought; hey, most people aren't very nice, so let them go hog-wild with the killing, so long as they don't kill me.
    But this won't work. 1939 etc. So, for purely selfish reasons, I propose we form an armed militia, rent a helicopter, fly to Afghanistan, slaughter the entire government, stick some people we trust in charge to sort out the mess of human rights that is currently going on over there. Fly to another country where badness is happening. Lather, rinse, repeat.
    It's not too far away to matter, and we do have the right to judge another society. Forget that whole "they've got a different culture and we should respect it" platitude. If a government suppresses and kills its own people it is a bad government. And bad governments should be hit until they're good governments. We have the means to stop them. So stop them we must. Else we shouldn't complain when the same happens to us and no-one helps.
    Okay, so maybe slaughtering the government would be hypocritical. But I never said do as I do, just do as I say.

My bad-film-paraphrasing-fu knows no bounds! You recognise that semi-quote? Email me the title of the film, and who produced it, and I shall send you the well wishing of your choice.

Listen up kids; I got suspended! I know it's old news (from January of this year) but it still amuses me. And that my parents never even found out? Makes it even funnier.
    However, remember this: "Don't throw school computers out of windows!" That's some good advice. And to scare you into following it, look at the attached scan of my face. See what happens to people who don't follow this advice? Do you see?! Yeah. So pay heed. Else next time it could be you in my scanner.

-Caleb