listening to this album now. by rammstein. pretty good stuff. loved dalai lama. its a really dark song about the fear of flying (dalai lama has it...so the name!!). Check this site out http://herzeleid.com/
It has really good translated lyrics for all rammstein songs. It helps appreciating the depth of darkness to which these guys descend to. who could have guessed that the cheerleader type song 'moskau' from this album actually compares the city to a whore who reveals her beauty only if you pay (-:
also learnt that rammstein got their name from the town Ramstein which is a US airforce base in (former) west germany. what caught the fancy of these morons from the former east: it was the site of a horrible airshow disaster involving the US airforce leading to 80 deaths. i should have guessed as much.
in other news: the pope has called gay marriage evil. isnt he the same guy who "declared" in the 90s that the earth does indeed appear to suck. wait a minute...they just said they were wrong to punish galileo, not that they are wrong. helped me decide which side of the fence i am in.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
a few links
1. Ever skipped a webpage just because they ask you to register? help's here. http://www.bugmenot.com/
2. thebreakthrough.org/images/ Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf This is a hardhitting article on today's environmentalism and how it misses the big issues and thus dooms itself.
3. http://www.econot.com/index.html Read "Death by environmentalism" and the author's manifesto. Do this if you want to know the arguments used against environmentalism. a good website written by someone who seems to have a brain (unlike those who want to keep to SUVs and just mouth off against environmentalism).
4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487741,00.html
News article about how some guys working at London's intl petroleum exchange used their fists on protestors from greenpeace (-: found it funny for some unknown reason.
1. Ever skipped a webpage just because they ask you to register? help's here. http://www.bugmenot.com/
2. thebreakthrough.org/images/ Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf This is a hardhitting article on today's environmentalism and how it misses the big issues and thus dooms itself.
3. http://www.econot.com/index.html Read "Death by environmentalism" and the author's manifesto. Do this if you want to know the arguments used against environmentalism. a good website written by someone who seems to have a brain (unlike those who want to keep to SUVs and just mouth off against environmentalism).
4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1487741,00.html
News article about how some guys working at London's intl petroleum exchange used their fists on protestors from greenpeace (-: found it funny for some unknown reason.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
we talk
was in orlando for a conference. ASHRAE to be specific. stayed in a nice hotel inside Disney downtown on taxpayer money. sweet.
the conference was a multi-session one. meaning there are more than one session going on at the same time. so you pick and choose what you want to hear and attend. Talks that are about 15 minutes long summarizing years of work (-:
I got into this discussion with one other attendee (student) about the volume of research presented and who if anyone benefits from getting so many speakers together in one place. Its sad but true that most people speak/write/perform without anyone listening/reading/watching. Take this blog for example. Or any blog for that matter. What is the idea behind blogging. Something for me to read and remember 20/30/50 years from now? Or is it communication to people whom i know? I dont know. I do it cause its a good thing to do. Or so says the evil empire and its minions. There has to be a better way to communicate than one-sided speaking/writing. or is there? I dont know and i am dead tired. I go and dutifully hit the sack in 2 minutes.
the conference was a multi-session one. meaning there are more than one session going on at the same time. so you pick and choose what you want to hear and attend. Talks that are about 15 minutes long summarizing years of work (-:
I got into this discussion with one other attendee (student) about the volume of research presented and who if anyone benefits from getting so many speakers together in one place. Its sad but true that most people speak/write/perform without anyone listening/reading/watching. Take this blog for example. Or any blog for that matter. What is the idea behind blogging. Something for me to read and remember 20/30/50 years from now? Or is it communication to people whom i know? I dont know. I do it cause its a good thing to do. Or so says the evil empire and its minions. There has to be a better way to communicate than one-sided speaking/writing. or is there? I dont know and i am dead tired. I go and dutifully hit the sack in 2 minutes.
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