Saturday, January 28, 2006
The Free World
One of the rules for our University dorm;
"No sex after 11 pm on Weekdays"
You wonder why not, because if they're going to do it at 10:50(which is more probable for students who drink and party over sometime like 8 or 9) they are going to make all the noise and bump their way into your mental subconscious so that by 11 when they have to "stop" you'll be mentally scarred for the rest of the night. That's if you are home, if you're smart, you'll get the hell out of there.
"No sex after 11 pm on Weekdays"
You wonder why not, because if they're going to do it at 10:50(which is more probable for students who drink and party over sometime like 8 or 9) they are going to make all the noise and bump their way into your mental subconscious so that by 11 when they have to "stop" you'll be mentally scarred for the rest of the night. That's if you are home, if you're smart, you'll get the hell out of there.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Community, Online Forum/Bulletin Board, Censors
I have a major overhaul planned for the direction and vision of this online journal/blog/opinion.
My plan is to keep it, but link it to a main directory of my liking (a website) and to add features in the website that can be accessed through the page here as well as on the website.
The website that I want to make will link to other addends like a bulletin board/forum that spawns from an article linked to by S'CAN-IRANIC in his post on Farid Pouya's Global Voices> Blogologue>Community based idea. I do think that it is a waste of time and patience if you are living in a third world country like Iran to continue to try (and often fail) to upload/view hundreds of frequented blogs and newsblogs daily on a 12/kbps internet speed connection and zapped censorship rules. I was tired and constantly fueling my hatred of the internet by the amount of time that I spent tapping my fingers waiting for a site to come up and finding it hasn't been updated and other mishaps. Why not take steps to eliminate the hassle and juggling of time wastedXenergy expelled for failed information retrieval and opt for online solutions that interconnect and or display the writings of agreed authors on a board/thread in simultaneous time and space, and also allow for comments and links, giving them personal space but in a way that would allow communities like Global Voices to expand in its sphere of influence geometrically...
I do have a few questions and notes;
Are forums/bulletin boards easily censored, can it be made to use search engines like Google boards, where the community could not be censored as easily?
There needs to be some consensus of authors, I can't be the only one writing and reading the forum/bulletin board
There is the webpage that links to Iranian blogs but that is heavily censored in Iran, so no good.
And it does show which blogs have been updated recently, but again, heavily censored page.
I think it would definitely reach out beyond the scope of the blog, allowing people to sign up as members and post articles/comments/links/webshots of their own to the more popular bloggers without forcing them to make and retain blogs of their own.
An excellent team of web designer/programmer monkeys would be required too...unless we find an already easy-use/apply server that hosts these types of communities..
My plan is to keep it, but link it to a main directory of my liking (a website) and to add features in the website that can be accessed through the page here as well as on the website.
The website that I want to make will link to other addends like a bulletin board/forum that spawns from an article linked to by S'CAN-IRANIC in his post on Farid Pouya's Global Voices> Blogologue>Community based idea. I do think that it is a waste of time and patience if you are living in a third world country like Iran to continue to try (and often fail) to upload/view hundreds of frequented blogs and newsblogs daily on a 12/kbps internet speed connection and zapped censorship rules. I was tired and constantly fueling my hatred of the internet by the amount of time that I spent tapping my fingers waiting for a site to come up and finding it hasn't been updated and other mishaps. Why not take steps to eliminate the hassle and juggling of time wastedXenergy expelled for failed information retrieval and opt for online solutions that interconnect and or display the writings of agreed authors on a board/thread in simultaneous time and space, and also allow for comments and links, giving them personal space but in a way that would allow communities like Global Voices to expand in its sphere of influence geometrically...
I do have a few questions and notes;
Are forums/bulletin boards easily censored, can it be made to use search engines like Google boards, where the community could not be censored as easily?
There needs to be some consensus of authors, I can't be the only one writing and reading the forum/bulletin board
There is the webpage that links to Iranian blogs but that is heavily censored in Iran, so no good.
And it does show which blogs have been updated recently, but again, heavily censored page.
I think it would definitely reach out beyond the scope of the blog, allowing people to sign up as members and post articles/comments/links/webshots of their own to the more popular bloggers without forcing them to make and retain blogs of their own.
An excellent team of web designer/programmer monkeys would be required too...unless we find an already easy-use/apply server that hosts these types of communities..
Notes
The daily entertainment provided, free, by the people around me.
1- Someone I live with temporarily puts her cell phone inside the washing machine, accidentally, and then, thinking to get the water out, puts it in the dryer (clank!clank!)
2- Going Fishing? Someone else, high school friend, wants to go fishing with the rest of the "friends". She puts the inflatable boat in the water and it starts to sink, she seems perturbed by that fact seeing that her uncommonly common sense told her to fill the little boat's inner tube-lines with water.
3- At a relative's house, you are cooking dinner as a favor and cleaning house, and watching a fashionista design her work on the "evil box". The father asks you to turn the television off, and informs you that these kinds of shows are not allowed in the house. Then, you witness not once, but twice and three times, the words "stupid, idiot, moron, dummy, baby, fudgeface" from the mouth of the household children in front of the whole family...I suppose it's okay to the father because they make him proud by using adjectives frequented by conservatives all over the world to whitewash terms like asshole, shitface, and fuckeface which will inevitably join the childrens' vocabulary once they realize what kind of hypocrisy those words hide.
1- Someone I live with temporarily puts her cell phone inside the washing machine, accidentally, and then, thinking to get the water out, puts it in the dryer (clank!clank!)
2- Going Fishing? Someone else, high school friend, wants to go fishing with the rest of the "friends". She puts the inflatable boat in the water and it starts to sink, she seems perturbed by that fact seeing that her uncommonly common sense told her to fill the little boat's inner tube-lines with water.
3- At a relative's house, you are cooking dinner as a favor and cleaning house, and watching a fashionista design her work on the "evil box". The father asks you to turn the television off, and informs you that these kinds of shows are not allowed in the house. Then, you witness not once, but twice and three times, the words "stupid, idiot, moron, dummy, baby, fudgeface" from the mouth of the household children in front of the whole family...I suppose it's okay to the father because they make him proud by using adjectives frequented by conservatives all over the world to whitewash terms like asshole, shitface, and fuckeface which will inevitably join the childrens' vocabulary once they realize what kind of hypocrisy those words hide.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
California
Friday, January 06, 2006
personal ode to Winter
I had a big nose, the hole was shut closed, And I had a big finger, with which I could pick her, but lo and behold, she was shut up with cold, and I had nowhere else to fit her.
"l one Li"
There are no poets or their words to describe the realization of this emotion, and when the words do come, they scatter out of the bleak existence they represent in the mind that holds such feelings as being made of lowly and overstated symbols...
