January 2012
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Simon and Mal from Firefly describe my 2011
Simon: Are you always this sentimental?
Mal: Had a good year.
Simon: You had crippling fatigue and depression, broke a laptop, and wore out your couch.
Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough.
“This is like one of those buddy-cop movies where you’re the hard-nosed FBI...”
– “α”, in season 1, episode 12 of Dollhouse
December 2011
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Dear tumblr,
ileftmyheartintokyo:
Do my messages go through? Does my queue work properly? Do I receive spam? No, no and damn yes. Did ALL THESE happen BEFORE I even knew about Missing E? They fucking did. Don’t blame others for your crap. Stop being lazy douches and get your shit together, kthxbye.
PS: Fuck you.
PPS: I ain’t uninstalling shit.
I love you.
WARNING: Unsupported browser add-on "Missing-E"...
Dear Newest Anti-Depressant Prescription,
Please suddenly become +100% more effective. Actually, any percentage of effective would be welcome right now.
Thanks
—Jack
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Oh, joy....
Filling out disability paperwork. Having to not just admit, but advocate for, things I’d rather not accept or acknowledge.
Break here for those who don’t want the f-word on their dash.
I was in a fucked-up state of mind anyway. I suppose this is as good a day to have to do this as any.
I am comforted by the thought of how small we all are compared to the Universe, and therefore,...
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Today I need a filter that only shows me kitties and puppies and bunnies and sunsets and good people. I am having a hard time generating the will to live in the face of politics, the economy, global warming, haters and trolls.
Note that I have left unspecified whether this filter should apply to just the Internet, or the world as a whole. I’ll take what I get.
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The liberty of local bullies →
I have often remarked in the past how libertarianism - at least, its modern American manifestation - is not really about increasing liberty or freedom as an average person would define those terms. An ideal libertarian society would leave the vast majority of people feeling profoundly constrained in many ways. This is because the freedom of the individual can be curtailed not only by the...
I just spent 20 hours in bed. Woke up still tired....
My son is with his grandma and grandpa, playing in the snow in Flagstaff.
I’ve had some coffee, but I may end up going back to bed, anyway.
I should probably take all those medicines first that I have been prescribed for fatigue and depression, huh?
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“Cartoonist Chester Gould drew his comic-strip character Dick Tracy based on...”
– Jack Holt (I) - Biography
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Another fine parenting moment
O and his friend: Let's play with the Nerf guns!
Me: Okay, but you have to pick up all the bullets when you're done.
O: Let's play with the guns without any bullets.
O's friend: Yeah.
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The best part of today was not that he loved his presents, nor the happy dance that he did when saw some of them, nor even that he let me take a nap this afternoon while he played a computer game. The best part was that somewhere in the middle of playing with him, he and I had spontaneous conversations about what he wants to be when he grows up, and why his mom and I are not together. That last...
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It worked for a few minutes
Me (picking up Legos): I guess you've got enough toys. Santa doesn't need to bring you any more.
O (playing): Huh?
Me: Look at all the toys. You've got plenty. It's okay if Santa doesn't leave anything this year.
O: Oh, I know what you're trying to do....
Me: I'm trying to get you to clean the floor!
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He's the mature one. Apparently.
Me: ♫ Jingle Poop, Jingle Poop, Jingle All The Poop 🎶
O: Really, Daddy? Really???
“Science may be hard to understand. It may challenge cherished beliefs. When its...”
– Carl Sagan in The Demon Haunted World (via l3li3l)
Rambling
Our condos have a lame little area the kids call “the park”.
When my son first asked if he could go to “the park” by himself, I was confused. What park? There’s no park nearby.
Even as a playground, it’s pretty lame.
There is a slide and two swings, surrounded by that playground covering that is obviously made of recycled tires, ground into tiny pieces.
But...
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Dear NASA,
coyotesqrl:
Please rename your Orion program, because every time I see a headline about it I momentarily think it’s referring to the older, aborted Orion program from back when NASA had balls, boldness, and budget.
It’s as if Yugo started selling cars again but named them all Testarossa and Modena.
N.B. Jack, this has nothing to do with your awesome son. In fact, he deserves better. He...
rinaedin asked: ALL OF THE HEARTS. ALL OF THEM.
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Fox Mulder in a red Speedo.
Search results for Stevie.
yesigrok:
What more needs to be said?
They’re all under the cut. You love me.
Read More
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“We can learn to compassionately contain pain, as we would hold a precious,...”
– Freedom | OM Times Magazine
(via in-the-middle)
jesus, born of an illegal immigrant →
If Jesus were born today, it would have been undocumented and gallingly political, just as it was 2,000 years ago. He would have to be born to a minority people, an oppressed, exploited and mistreated people. He would have to be born in deprivation, in humiliation. He would have to be born in the context of kenosis, of self-emptying. Jesus would have to born in circumstances that would deprive...
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I treated myself to a pulse oximeter so I can obsessively measure my heart rate and oxygen perfussion.
I am not at all happy about my resting heart rate today. It was fine yesterday.
I have a doctor’s appointment first thing in the morning tomorrow.
I have a new treadmill being delivered later tomorrow. I need to lose about 30 lbs before I even try to run again.
I have some...
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I would really like to complain some more about...