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| User: | still_just_me (2207584)
This isn't where I parked my horse...
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| Name: | Brian |
| Location: | Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1983-01-29 |
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| still_just_me | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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Under Construction.
Maybe.
| | | | | | | | Ratner's X3 is definitely not love | |
Some quotes I like
I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey.
— Guillermo del Toro
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
— Thomas Harris
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
— Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
— Mark Twain
Second Life said it stopped charging a tax on items created by residents after avatars fashioned in the images of American revolutionaries recreated the Boston Tea Party in the virtual world about three years ago.
— Yahoo! News
Build a man a fire and you'll warm him for a day. Set a man on fire and you'll warm him for the rest of his life.
One thing I have learned in a long life: That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike. And yet it is the most precious thing we have.
— Albert Einstein
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
— Bertrand Russell
We humans are like a newborn baby left on a doorstep, with no note explaining who it is, where it came from, what hereditary cargo of attributes and disabilities it might be carrying, or who it's antecedents might be. We long to see the orphan's file. Repeatedly, in many cultures, we invent reassuring fantasies about our parents — about how much they loved us, about how heroic and larger than life they were. As orphans do, we sometimes blamed ourselves for having been abandoned. It must have been our fault. We were too sinful, perhaps, or morally incorrigible. Insecure, we clung to these stories, imposing the strictest penalties on any who dared to doubt them. It was better than nothing, better than admitting our ignorance of our own origins, better than acknowledging that we had been left naked and helpless, a foundling on a doorstep. As the infant is said to feel it is the center of its Universe, so we were once sure, not just of our central position, but that the Universe was made for us. This old, comfortable conceit, this safe view of the world has been crumbling for five centuries. The more we understood of how the world is put together, the less we needed to invoke a God or gods, and the more remote in time and causality any divine intervention had to be. The cost of coming of age is giving up the security blanket. Adolescence is a roller coaster ride.
— Carl Sagan
Favorite [Stuff]
Chopped into bite-size pieces and alphabetized for Her Pleasure
 | Audioslave, Avenged Sevenfold, Between the Buried and Me, Boston, the Darkness, Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses, Lords of Acid, Metallica, Nightwish, Pat McCurdy, Powerman 5000, Queen, the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonata Arctica, Stellastarr*, Styx, System of a Down, Tenacious D, Van Halen (especially 'Van Hagar') ...Hey, you know what? Anything with a lot of guitar. |
 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Batman: the Animated Series, the Colbert Report, Conan O'Brien, the Critic, the Daily Show, Drawn Together, Family Guy, Firefly, Futurama, Ghostbusters, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nova, Reboot, Scrubs, Simpsons, SNL from 10-25 years ago, South Park, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Venture Bros., X-men |
 | 28 Days Later, Aliens (as in "2"), Almost Famous, Amadeus, Apollo 13, Back to the Future trilogy, Big Trouble in Little China, Blade Runner, Braveheart, Cannibal: the Musical, Collateral, Commando, the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Dead Poets Society, Dr. Strangelove, the Emperor's New Groove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Evil Dead trilogy, Fight Club, Fist of the North Star, FLCL, Full Metal Jacket, Ghostbusters, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, Good Will Hunting, the Goonies, Howl's Moving Castle, the Hunt for Red October, the Incredibles, Indiana Jones trilogy, Iron Giant, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Kinsey, the Last of the Mohicans, the Last Samurai, Laughing Boy, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Lord of the Rings, the Man Who Knew Too Little, Moulin Rouge, Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, No Such Thing, Office Space, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pleasantville, Predator, the Princess Bride, Princess Mononoke, Quills, Real Genius, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Serenity, the Seven Samurai, Shaun of the Dead, the Silence of the Lambs, Spiderman 2, Stand By Me, the Thing (1982), Tommy Boy, Transformers: The Movie, Tron, True Romance, the Truman Show, V for Vendetta, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, With Honors |
 | 1984, Brave New World, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Fahrenheit 451, a Game of Thrones, the Grapes of Wrath, the Great Gatsby, Harry Potter anyone?, the Innkeeper's Song, IT, Kingdom Come, the Last Unicorn, Leaves of Grass, the Making of the Atomic Bomb, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, a Prayer for Owen Meany, the Scar, Sherlock Holmes stories, Sin Boldly!, Slaughterhouse-Five, a Small Good Thing, Snow Crash, Sourcery, the Things They Carried, a Wind in the Door |
* You weren't supposed to look down here. "Stellastarr*" is just the name of the band. But I like to think they intended this sort of thing to happen. |
| Memories:: | 10 entries |
| Interests: | 137: 80s, [adult swim], akira kurosawa, all of your bases, amendment i, and going to clubs, and talking to friends, and watching movies, anime, aqua team hunger force, atheism, atomictoy.org, batman, being a doubleplus crimethinker, being completely fucking awesome, being hella irish, bill murray, black mage, books, caffeine, calculus, calvin and hobbes, chess, china miéville, college, comics, conversing, cowboy bebop, creativity, cyberpunk, cynicism, democrats, doing-the-"shawshank redemption"-when-it-rains, doug stanhope, dr. mcninja, dungeons and dragons, eau claire, eddie izzard, emulators, family guy, fantasy, fight club, fist-of-the-north-star, flcl, foo fighters, free software, futurama, george r. r. martin, gnu, gryffindors, h.l. mencken, half-life, having mad skillz, heavy metal, hef, homestar runner, homestarrunner, honesty, honor, humanism, immolating "jane eyre", intellectual narcissism, intelligence, iron madness, it's "nausicaä" goddammit, jon stewart, joss whedon, journalism, lasers, late night talks, laughing, liberalism, liberals, living, lots of bands, loyalty, m*a*s*h, mad science, marriage rights, mathematics, megatron, metal gear solid, mr. pibb+red vines, mr. t, nausicaä, nausicaa, neon genesis evangelion, nietzsche, ninjas, nuclear disarmament, nuklearpower.com, optimus prime, penny arcade, peter s. beagle, philosophy, physics, ps2, queen, quoting dr. weird loudly, ravenclaws, reason, reproductive rights, science, science fiction, scrubs, seanbaby.com, siege weapons, smashing pumpkins, south park, speculative fiction, starcraft, steampunk, swords, system of a down, tenacious d, terry pratchett, the daily show, the flying spaghetti monster, the real ghostbusters, the simpsons, thought provoking, thunderstorms, transformers, transhumanism, tyranids, uwec, vampire hunter d: bloodlust, vampires, venture brothers, video games, voldemort youth of america, walter payton, warhammer, warhammer 40k, web comics, women of negotiable virtue, writing |
| Schools: | Abbotsford High School - Abbotsford, WI
Chippewa Valley Technical College - Eau Claire, WI
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United Kingdom
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire - Eau Claire, WI
Xavier Institute for Higher Learning - North Salem, NY
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| Mutual Friends: | 51: angelgrl131, anwserman, arwen_17, bastet_723, bearr, bigscarypanda, butters_tim, cleolinda, corwinok, crawenwaru, delmoth, djmedieval, dsmerz, goferblitz, groundbyground, imthedarkcyde, iwasntlistening, jedisnon, k_timebomb, kidfloh, kylej, lechevalierseul, lunchboxgurl069, m0nkee, meus_ovatio, mistressindi, notasfatasmike, odontomachus, panickybagel, pokey21, puceangel, regatoni, saanjun, sangriawine, sariel_t, seanorange, sevenofspades, sgtgoose, skaloop, socratic, takhys, tcpip, tim_has_a_lj, tr3zeppelin, trae_dorn, vicki_poo, vinnie_tesla, world_rim_walke, worldtrekkeds, wukikimonkey, zoethe |
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| Account type: | Basic Account |
