Below are the most recent 5 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
mycroftholmes	1:14p	G-20 climate conference: "fuck the poor!" Clearly, the junk science of climate change is in no way linked to a desire for the west to mantain economic hegemonoy. Certainly, governments' efforts to silence any questioning of the issue is because they are committed to Saving The World. Right? Yes, let's set limits on what India, China, Africa, and South America can produce and develop. After all, it's not like most of their citizens are living in abject poverty with little to no access to electricity or medicine, transportation, potable water, and a varried food supply - things that we developed countries enjoy because of our industry. Let's hold the 3rd world to limits that we ourselves don't even meet, tell Africa they can only have a power plant if it meets ecological regulations that quintuple the cost of construction and maintenance, thus making it unattainable, and of course, preventing economic development. All in the name of "science" that we are told not to question (pardon me, but isn't that the very essence of the scientific method?) when those very scientists are guilty of hiding and distorting their data. (My favorite bit in one of those leaked emails, other than "OH GOD THERE IS A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT - DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING!" is the bit where one of the scientists explains how he manipulated reports to hide this past year's cooling trend. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
mycroftholmes	10:20a	Writer's Block: Go it alone Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children? Do you think this ostracizes people who would be perfectly content to remain single and/or child-free? Is this pressure worse around the holidays? View 1369 Answers Ohhhh wow. Child-free wank on the writers' block question. LiveJournal - We Know Drama! Well who am I to resist? Of course there's pressure to be in relationships and have children. It's built into our DNA - the most basic purpose and impulse for any form of life from an ameoba to a human is to procreate. And sure the pressure can be annoying. Hell, I'm irritated when my relatives give me shit about not being married yet, and I -want- to be. First, I need a girlfriend. But then there are the "Childfree" lot. Certainly, not every person who chooses not to have kids is represented by the ridiculous whining and wank spewed by the CF crowd. But oh, they are out there. What cracks me is how childish these child-hating adults are. (See childfree andcf_hardcore ). A particularly delicious irony is how so many of them are big fans of child-oriented stuff themselves - video games, childrens' books and movies, and so on. These people squick out in disgust at children (see "EWW A KID TOUCHED ME" and under the cut below) and consider themselves somehow superior beings to the "moos" whose "crotch droppings" and "sprogs" infest our world. They're child-free, you know, like drug-free or fat-free. They gag in disgust at the thought of a few minor stretch marks ruining their oh-so perfect little figures. They particularly hate when other people are nice to children. Here's a great comic by headtripcomics on the subject More and more, it seems, I meet men and women in their 20's and 30's who absolutely abhor the very thought of having children and cooly talk of their self-described hatred of all children. Personally, I think this is a symptom of the fact that fewer and fewer people ever fucking grow up in the first place. ( A Childfree member rants about a 'shitling crotch dropping' who got the first Harry Potter book in stead of her. ) (19 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
mycroftholmes	5:54p	Writer's Block: Top ten playlist What is your top-ten song list? What was it when you were a kid? Is there any overlap? View 620 Answers Earliest memory: 1. Tchaikovsky - "1812 Oveture" (when my pre-school teacher asked us to bring in our favorite album, this is what I brought) 2. Khachaturian - "Sabre Dance" (Dad would bounce me on his knee to this) 3. Wagner - "Ride of the Valkyries" (...and give me airplane rides to this.) 4. Crosby Stills Nash & Young - "Marakesh Express" (known to me as "the train song") 5. America - "Horse With No Name" (I was confused why they were allowed to say "ain't") 6. Dukas - "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (Micky Mouse's bit in Fantasia) 7. Elton John - "I'm Still Standing" (this was very popular during the first vacation my parents took with me and still reminds me of it any time I hear it.) 8-10 ??? Around age 10: 1. Divorak - "New World Symphony" 2. Greig - "In the Hall of the Mountain King" 3. Tchaikovsky - "1812 Oveture" 4. Saint-Seans "Bachanalle" from Samson and Delilah (orchestral version) 5. Holst - "Mars" 6. Vivaldi - "The Four Seasons" 7. Wagner - "Ride of the Valkyries" 8. Beethoven - "Fur Elise" 9-10 ??? Today 1. Divorak - "New World Symphony" 2. Beethoven - "Ninth Symphony" 3. Nightwish - "Ghost Love Score" 4. Rush - "Far Cry" 5. DreamTheater - "Learning to Live" 6. Transatlantic - "Duel With the Devil" 7. Symphony X - "Communion and the Oracle" 8. Kamelot - "Somewhere in Time" 9. Sebilius - "Finlandia" 10. Saint-Seans "Bachanalle" from Samson and Delilah (orchestral version) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
mycroftholmes	10:36p	New wheels on the block. They are cripled, but not gay. In other news, the government of Norway voted A-Ha's 1980's nu-wave hit "Take on me" the best piece of music of Norwegian origin for the past 50 years. it gets better around 1:25 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
mycroftholmes	3:50p	Writer's Block: Sense and sensibility If you could keep only one of your five senses--taste, touch, smell, sight, or hearing--which would you choose and why? Submitted By chibikanada View 1018 Answers My instinctive answer is to say sight, because I'd still be able to interact and communicate without too much trouble. Lacking the sense of touch would not negate my ability to write. I could learn to read lips and sign language far more quickly than I could learn to read braille. But without the sense of touch, statistically, I'd be dead before too long. I do not recall the name of the condition, but there is one in which people cannot feel pain, or perhaps -any- physical sensation. It's a condition a very tiny percentage of babies are born with, and sufferers rarely live past age 6 or 7 as the lack of pain-reflex causes them to injure themselves so badly. Perhaps, as an adult, I would be more prepared to watch out for this kind of thing than a child. (Comment on this)