In honor of accepting a new corporate position over the long Holiday weekend I present:
The “Ministry of Information” scene from Terry Gilliam’s genius masterpiece Brazil. This was by far one of the premier movies to ever make a juicy and not unindented impression on my formative mind.
Joyous….
How this has managed to survive Youtube’s 10 minute rule I have no idea. But here is the full 30 min adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic “Peter and the Wolf” created by Suzie Templeton, whose award winning piece is surely one of the most beautiful and thought out variations I’ve come across. Devoid of distracting narration, it relies on the inherent structure of the score and the emotive qualities of the animated medium to depict Peter’s tale. Truly wonderful!
Today being my first day off in a while, I am finding it totally necessary to straighten up my living quarters before I can properly relax. Of course, doing more work is the last thing I want to to on my day off. So therefore, in my usual fashion I found it necessary to consult the internet before doing anything. I found this video to help motivate me to clean my room before I can go out and play.
I recently experienced voluminous amounts of pain that followed with several hours of suffering. (warning, slight amounts of exaggerating told in this post) It was the second time I had encountered this degree of pain however, it lasted much longer then expected. While at work a couple of Fridays ago, I unintentionally ripped out a piercing while applying make-up. I was in a bit of a rush to just freshen up my face before going into a meeting when I wasn’t paying attention and ripped out my nose ring. At first the pain did not hit me. I was more or less dissatisfied with what just took place to realize that my nose was bleeding and pain was sheering.
When I finally realized what I had accomplished I began to feel the sharp pain in my nose and throbbing sensation in my stomach from the shock. I know this might sound a bit exaggerated but if you have never experienced ripping out a piercing then it would be best to just take my word for it.
I attempted to insert the nose screw back through the tiny hole for over two hours. Mind you, resting in between and disinfecting the area after messing with it. (Nose screws are virtually impossible to screw back in unless you have taken a course on it!) With today’s technology, I decided to consult youtube for the expert demonstrations. Thus, what got me wondering if this was a generation gap? Why am I not able to get the screw back in my nose being that I am almost 30 years of age and these emo/hipster kids are able to accomplish this with voracious behavior? See for yourself how purely easy they make it seem…
Needless to say, I ended up back in my piercer’s chair that afternoon to have her insert the nose screw. To much of my surprise it took her about 20 minutes of struggling to get it back in and even had to manupulate the jelwery a bit to fit. At last, its safe and sound back where it belongs and I’m more careful these days. But still can’t help feeling a bit old or just nose screw retarded…heh.
Music video from the Aquabats, very funny!
Speaking as a minor webmonkey, who hasn’t heard a great deal of this bandied about?
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
What we’re looking at here is a passage from a 1944 sabotage manual. How many of us haven’t had the experience of having our brightest ideas referred to a committee? BoingBoing points us to an excellent excerpt regarding what it is to truly misdirect one’s opponent. The frightening thing, for me at least, is that these techniques crop up pretty much daily in my realm.
Link (warning! pdf!)
