Jaster's Log

Let it be known that I would like to officially voice my support for the Governor of Wisconsin. However, I will be unable to attend any form of formal support protest at their capital because, unlike the teachers of Wisconsin, I am not unionized with taxpayer money to cover any rampant and irresponsible expenditures during my absence.

This is cross-posted (as in, these are not my words, so let's not get copyright confused here) from here as some may not bother clicking the link:

These are surveyor symbols... like what you'd use on a map.



And compare:



These are crosshairs:



And a bullseye:



The sort used on the DLC map:



The Freepers were all over this in March.

I think a lot of people owe Sarah Palin an apology.

So I found something cool you guys may think is nifty. It's called the Google Ngram Viewer.

Essentially, they've gathered more than 5.6 million books since the year 1600 and imaged them into their databases. This allows you to search by words from certain time periods to measure their usage and popularity. For instance, did you know that the word "snowman" didn't take off until 1935? And you can search the books the words were found in to check how they were referenced.

( Click here to see a sample image. I cut it because it's quite big.Collapse )

First snow of the year, today, November 5th! *squee*

This is more or less copied from my Facebook status today, with some slight tweaks as I don't have a 400 character limit here:

"So apparently today we're to wear purple to 'help the fight against homophobic bullying.' Without trying to sound enormously crass, shouldn't we just be against bullying period? I approach this from the same mentality in using a plaid ribbon this month instead of pink. Why does one type of bullying/cancer somehow need more attention than countless other cases/diseases?

It's almost the same mentality that makes a 'hate crime' against race worse than and needs a stronger punishment than violence in general. Hate is hate, guys. Why waste time dissecting it?"

I think I'll wear a plaid ribbin every October. Whenever someone asks "What's that for?", I'll respond with "I'm aware of STUFF. Stuff kills millions of people every year. Please spread the word on stuff."

You know, I'd figure I wouldn't be discriminatory and focus on just one thing out of thousands of cancers and diseases. I'm a nice guy like that.

The first page of Friends' entires is entirely about this Facebook/Twitter mess.

That is all.

"Rise up, Sir Peter Wolf's-Bane. And, whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword."

The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe

"Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."

The Problem of Pain

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Mere Christianity


(also, my birthday today. hurrrr...)