Oh man I’m totally going to be like this, come December
Posted on | September 2, 2010 | No Comments
I was totally like this after my wife and I got engaged. “Can’t you see that I’m engaged?! I am getting soup and I am engaged!!!”
And then after the wedding, “Can’t you see that I’m married?! I am eating soup and I am married!!!”
And then after we found out we were having a baby, “Can’t you see we’re having a baby?!* We are cleaning up the dishes from our soup and having a baby!!!”
* Granted, this one is easier as time goes on, because I can just keep my wife around as a sort of increasingly larger and larger, physical asterisk. Sort of handy.
And now for some levity: St. Elmo’s Fire
Posted on | September 2, 2010 | No Comments
St. Elmo’s Fire via pacalin: capncarrot
Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Vanity Fair
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | No Comments
Link: Sarah Palin the Sound and the Fury | Vanity Fair:
Sort of a biopic of Sarah Palin as a person.
I have a hypothesis that there is a shadowy hidden political party that knows no allegiance to any set of ideologies. It’s more of an emergent entity driven by millions of people and their media consumption. This entity drives a lot of people to and fro in an essentially chaotic pattern. There isn’t much rhyme or reason because it’s constructed out of a feedback loop — a loop seeded by consumption of itself.
For example: Television tries to show something to catch a person’s interest. Person may watch that thing for any number of reasons. That person is affected in some way. This may influence or alter future Television watching. Now expand this to books, movies, radio, twitter, blogs, etc. It’s not that media is bad per se, it’s that it is treated uncritically by and large and not viewed as a self-referencing and self-reinforcing entity. It should be viewed in the same way as a corporation; e.g. Media has a will to live.
Link: Look at this man. Do you love him? I do.
Posted on | September 1, 2010 | No Comments
Look at this man. Do you love him? I do.
Look at this man. Do you love him? I do. I really do. I commend these people. I laud them. And I do, in all honesty, I hope they continue to fight their version of the good fight, whatever that is.
It’s hard enough to find something that you believe in. It’s very easy to be jaded and to believe that nothing you can do really matters. After all, how easy is it to look at a country of 307 million people and say “You are one of I”? It’s a gigantic country, and easy to feel threatened by way of feeling forgotten.
Perspective. I do love my brothers and sisters in all their many forms. I’m glad these people feel they’re a part of something. However misguided I think anyone is, they’re still people and worthy of love. Even the angry hurtful ones.
Is your place in prison?
Posted on | August 31, 2010 | No Comments
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,” he wrote, “the true place for a just man is also a prison.” The essay inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. in their struggles against injustice and through them, countless others.”
A list of a few people with the courage to stand up for their beliefs.
I typically dislike lists like this because they basically build you up to feel great about humanity, but then there’s no takeaway, or the takeaway is so obtuse you can twist it to support whatever idea you hold dear. I guess that’s the part that really bothers me.
So I’ll provide you with a context: this list makes me look at my behavior and think, “If I went to jail for my convictions, would Gandhi tell me I was a dumbass for doing so?”
Update: The phrase I was looking for was: Sociopaths go to prison for their convictions, too. There’s a lot assumed in the “going to jail for something you believe in” idea. Make sure your idea is actually a good one. Better yet, ask yourself if your idea is actually a bad one.
Bike Tricks
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
They see me rollin’ they hatin’.
Link: The myth of the "pre-baby body" | Offbeat Mama
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
Link: The myth of the “pre-baby body” | Offbeat Mama:
I wholeheartedly approve of this message.
As a father, one of my jobs is to support and encourage my wife to believe this. The idea of ideal body-shape is bullshit. Health is one thing, but how you’re naturally built and naturally grown is something entirely else.
It makes me sad to see people go through a life-change and then try to reclaim some mythical, idyllic past self. You get pregnant, your body changes. You turn 40 your body changes. You have gastric bypass surgery, your body changes. The key points are that you were never as lean and fit as you think you once were, and there is no ideal shape that everyone is going to fit into.
And the corollary: change is always happening. How you are now is how you are, and it is a result of everything that has gone before and gone into molding you. Buying into your own myth of your previous self is like trying to press Ctrl+Z on your person.
Just remember: it’s all forward motion — there is no “undo button” for your life.
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