Triple F

So, I was going through Dooce’s archives, and ran across this post. Now, granted, I don’t quite meet the requirement of being in a committed relationship, but here’s my list of Five Fame Fuckers, in no particular order:

1) Matt Mitcham
2) Jeremy Sumpter (and yes, he’s legal)
3) Michael Phelps (a bit tall, but damn does he look good)
4) the Hamm twins (they’re identical, so they count as one in my book)
5) Mark Knopfler, circa Sultans of Swing

who’s on you’re triple F list?

peanut butter jelly time, military style

what happens when they don’t have anythin better to do:

sadly, i did something similar, only instead of doing it in a desert, i did it while ghostriding a friend of mine’s car. embarassing, i know.

admitting their weaknesses

sorry for posting twice in one day, but now that both mccain and obama have announced their veep candidates, there’s only one conclusion that can be made: both veeps play to the weaknesses of their running mate.

with obama’s choice in biden, you can tell that at his core, he knows that he’s not fully prepared. with biden, it makes it seem like he’s better prepared since he’s got someone who’s been in the senate for alot longer than he has. and with the connections that biden has, those surely could (and possibly will) come in handy come november or beyond.

with mccain’s choice in palin, you have a woman who is young, relatively new, and can be seen as a counterweight to obama’s whole message of change. it helps silence those who say that he’s too old, or that he’s “overqualified” for the job, however i don’t think that people will catch the bait that he’s trying to put out. i think that, by november 5th, having her on mccain’s ticket will ultimately benefit her moreso than him.

basically, what’s happening is that they’re trying to reshape the public view that is held for themselves. obama wants to look like the catalyst of change with an experienced right-hand man, while mccain is trying to somehow remain relevant in today’s politics. i have a feeling though, that both veeps will pose doubst and create consequences for their repsective camps.

Iraqi Dance Party

here’s what the Army does when it isn’t looking for bin Laden:

murphy’s law of camping

1. Any stone in a hiking boot migrates to the location of maximum pressure.
2. Remaining distance to a given campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.
3. Number of mosquitoes at any given location is inversely proportional to the volume of remaining repellent.
4. The probability of finding a latrine is one over the number of poison ivy plants per acre.
5. The square feet of level ground available for tents equals the degrees from horizon of the setting sun.
6. The need to urinate at night increases in direct relation to the hour past midnight, layers of clothing worn, occupants in your tent, and inches of rain since sunset. Curiously, it increases in ‘inverse’ relation to the outside temperature.
7. The ground under shoulders compresses without sunlight while the ground under feet expands.
8. Rocks and sticks rise above dirt when irritated by tent flooring fabric.
9. Feet expand when removed from hiking boots. The same law applies to tents and tent bags, clothing and backpacks, and sleeping bags and stuff sacks.
10. Backpack strap widths decrease with the distance hiked. To compensate, the weight of the backpack increases.
11. Average local temperature increases with the amount of clothing packed.
12. Tent stakes come only in the quantity ‘N-1′ where N is the number of stakes necessary to stake down a tent.
13. Fuel in sealed bottles spontaneously evaporates.
14. Fuel in stove reservoirs evaporates 10x as fast as fuel in sealed bottles.
15. All available humidity and moisture will congregate on match heads.
16. If no match heads are in the vicinity, all moisture will congregate inside waterproof clothing.
17. The one new tent on the trip that leaks will be yours.
18. The side of the tent that leaks will be your side.
19. All food assumes a common taste and color when freeze-dried.
20. Divide the number of servings by two when reading the directions for reconstituting anything freeze-dried.
21. When reading the instructions of a pump-activated water filter, ‘hour’ should be substituted for ‘minute’ when reading the average quarts filtered per minute.
22. A backpack’s weight load migrates up and back the longer it is in motion.
23. All tree branches in a forest grow outward from their respective trunks at exactly the height of your nose. If you are male, tree branches will also grow at groin height.
24. Swiss Army Knife toothpicks and tweezers evaporate open contact with air.
25. Rain happens.
26. Waterproof clothing isn’t. (However, it is 100% effective at containing sweat).
27. Non-stick pans aren’t.
28. Waterproof matches aren’t.
29. One size fits all don’t.
30. Anything bug-proof isn’t.
31. A backpack’s weight is not affected by the amount of food eaten out of it.
32. The minimum temperature rating for any sleeping bag raises as the external temperature lowers.
33. Ropes holding bear bags stretch.
34. The loudness of an animal at night grows as the size of the animal shrinks.
35. The sun sets 47% faster than normal when setting up camp. It sets another 28% faster if rain is eminent.
36. Of a 25% chance of rain, 100% will fall in your campsite.
37. When hiking, you take half as many downhil steps as uphill.
38. 95% of a backpack’s contents could have been left at home.
39. The 5% left at home will be needed.
40. The memory of misery approaches zero as the memory of joy approaches infinity.

maybe i should leave a bit of down-time before publishing

yesterday i posted about a pastor who had written a post about the Biblical references to homosexuality, as well as how, from a theological perspective it is a sin. i will admit that there was a part of it was emotion based, and could be seen as being harsh and judging.

that, however, was never my intention.

i will publicly say, as i have before, that i am openly gay. if that’s something that bothers you, or goes against your religious or moral beliefs, then i apologise. it is my belief that being gay is predetermined in the womb, whether by the work of God, or by genetic makeup. i am someone who feels more comfortable supporting an idea when there is peer-reviewed and re-tested evidence. the assertion that something exists, or is automatically unnatural because of a 2,000 year old document is one that i have a hard time agreeing with.

one’s personal beliefs, however, are no more or less legitamite than anothers. someone who believes that being gay, or performing gay acts is immoral is just as correct as someone who believes that being gay, or performing gay acts is perfectly OK.

in the end, i ask anyone and everyone to back their beliefs up with evidence, and more importantly, facts. having a moral belief is something that everyone has in common, and everyone should be able (and needs) to back their beliefs up with proof that goes beyond a reasonable doubt.

I’m not nuts enough to believe in organized religion, and here’s why

I recently found a post by a pastor that quotes a few passages from the Bible that condemn homosexuality, including this one:

“Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.” (Romans 1:26-32)

and then, there’s this one:

“Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God. That is what some of you used to be; but now you have had yourselves washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor. 6:9-11)

Pastor, I don’t know where you went to seminary, nor do I know how long you’ve been preaching, but it is clear to me that you’ve forgotten a very important, yet basic, passage from the Bible, and this is what it says:

He answered: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’” (Luke, 10:27)

It seems that you are quite capable of doing the first part of this passage quite well, however you clearly don’t have the slightest clue as to do the second. Gays and lesbians, Father, are just as much your brothers and sisters as anyone else. And yet, here you are belittling them and name-dropping God as a cover for it.

My suggestion to you, then, would be for you to re-evaluate the people you work with on a daily basis. Chances are, you work and pray with gays (whether or not you’re aware of it), so I’d suggest that you change your ways.

I hope that you learn to accept people for who they are, regardless of whether or not you agree with the way they live their lives.

weirdness

ok, so it’s currently 2:13am, and since i’m doing some ultra-late hw for tomorrow morning, i’ve got the tv on just so i don’t go crazy. during one of the spot breaks, they played a jack in the box commercial.

for those of you who don’t know, jack in the box is a fast food joint out on the west coast. i, however, am on the east coast. whatever happened to doing local spots during breaks?

alone

my parents left early this morning (around 5:15) to head out to colorado to visit my sister. they’ll be there all week, but since i’m up shit creek without a paddle because of friday’s drama, it’ll probably feel like a day.

speaking of what happened on friday, i got a call yesterday from one of the associate producers for the project saying that there’s a possibility that he won’t need the camera that he’s got signed out for wednesday. granted, that means that i won’t be able to shoot until then, but it’s better than not even being able to do it. i’m still aiming for monday, but if that fails, at lesat there’s still a possibility of wednesday.

i guess this is all for right now, i shall talk to y’all later.

SAHM (and not in a good way)

i was supposed to pick up the camera yesterday in order to do the interview for the project, but certain things got in the way.

like the fact that the person who had it on thursday not showing up until after i had cancelled the interview and gotten back home. she was supposed to be there at noon (she had signed up for studio time for then, plus she had to bring the camera back anyways), but when i left at 12:40, she still wasn’t there. it wasn’t until i had already gotten on the merritt when i got a call from another student saying that she had just walked in.

i hate it when people do this kind of stuff, and while there’s the occasional stuff that goes on that makes it impossible to keep to a schedule, but when it’s because you left the camera at home and didn’t realise it until you were half way there, then that’s just plain stupidity.

now, i get to somehow figure out another time when i can get the camera taken out (there’s only two for a class of 20 people trying to do the same thing at the same time…..not a good idea) and actually shoot the interview, then do some more b roll, and then edit it all together by the 3rd.

hopefully i’ll be able to get the light house that’s been shoved up my ass out by then.