Hey girls. How goes it? Well I am pretty damn sure I will make it up for Turkey day weekend, assuming my car is finished. It was supposed to be finished yesterday, but, they think tuesday at the latest now. Yee Ha. 26 days without a car. Its like the days of SD, only I can still get around town fairly painlessly. Man without a car in SD you were stranded.

Rule! I am getting sick. Sore throat, post nasal hell, and body fatigue. Chopper suck balls. Stupid Plague.

Atlas Shrugged, a premature review: Okay I am 1025 pages into a 1075 page book. It is the longest book I have ever read (In word count). The text is so damn dense. Small ass font, smaller line spacing. The story is cool in some ways and totally preposterous in others. Basically it is about a future period (No year is ever given, although one gets the idea that it is many decades, if not hundreds of years shot off from the 1950s) that takes place in the US. For years the global community of the world had been slowly crumbling at the hands of incompetent "humanitarian' politicians and public apathy. The whole process is a self defeating cycle of education and philosophical redevelopment that leads to less and less capable citizens and more idiotic politians. In some ways I can see hints of ideas gained from 1984.
The entire book takes place through the main character Dagny Taggert, a strong willed industrialist that represents all that is 'bad' in this society (I.e. ambition, logic, lack of compassion for your fellowman, self reliance, Passion, love of ones work). The book is full of moronic characters at the helm of a country and a few ultra pragmatic calulating business people that try and save society from itself and these politicans bent on driving self interest out of people. What is really freightening is Ayn Rand actually has a cult following of people that believe in her highly individualistic views, and the total FUD that is spoon fed to them throughout the book. Claiming that those that believe in charity and helping the fellow man are ultimately self-destructive to society, that one should live only for his/herself. In many ways I agree, but not to the disconnected almost cold view they take. These ideas seem likely to be fueled by fear seeded in Ayn Rands mind born of the politics of the time. The seed of the degradation of society, in the form of the 1950's hardline conservative anti-socialism political clime. The book was completed in 1957. Ripe for the influences of the red scare and republican anti-social progam governments. As if the New Deal was some sort of Evil idea that led to a loss of quality of life. Ironic. The whole book does have a some good poinst about strong indiviualism over group concerns. That the will of individuals is the best force, the only force, to drive the strength of world politics and economies. To a certain extent I can agree with some of the ideas, but uninhibited individualism often leads to corruption and unabashed explotation such as was very prevalent in the early industrial revolution period. Something completely ignored in the book while celebrating the industrialist. It is great in theory, but no one is as pragmatic and "fair" as the individualists in this book. People have too many flaws. Worst part about the book... Character monologues. So damn long! Often a charcter will be talking with a another, then go off on a 3-5 page monologue stating the same thing over and over just in different words. If I wanted that, I would ask my Father for a lecture. One Monologue is 60 fucking pages long. What did it say? Not a damn thing more than the collection of monologues that preceeded it in the pages before it. The book probably could have lost about 180 pages in unneceassry character speaches and still conveyed its point. Also, the weakness and sillyness of the antagonists in this book are so irksome and often beyond moronic. The ultra logical and calculating indiviualist is a bit rediculous too. I guess I would have made a lot of changes in this book. Then again that is probably why Ayn Rand was likely fairly wealthy before she died, and I am not. All in all it isnt that bad, but it probably is not worth it, too aggravating at times. I just do not understand how some people get so ga-ga over this book. I could think of quite a few books I would recommend instead. Grade:C

Rudy, I am an iRC brat. One of these days we should converse via iRC for old times sake. I tried several times to see if you were on line, but, you werent.

I am going to sleep.

Hello old chaps! This is really your friend Michael, using Jon's picture! I hate Johnny and also black people!

Dammit Jordan!

Quit raping jon. And let the poor guy play his computer!

Anonymous
Rights activist

that pictures not really me. This is an anonymous rights activist

hey, this is jordan. i don't let john use his computer while he's at my house. i can use it though.

IFGS IRC

How you been dude? At Jordan's house, eh?

Check it out:

IRC HELP

If youre on a PC, the easiest program to get is mIRC (Some dude named Mirco invented it! He was are best friend, rememebr!?)
On a Mac, get either IRCle or MIRKO'S BRAIN!!!1
Yeah- its pretty easy to figure out. Once you got a program installed, you pick a "SERVER" to connect to from a list- for us, its MAGICSTAR.NET, and then it gives a list of channels that all start with # . Type in #theactionteam and it will connect you to it and its like we're all in teh same wordl!

2001- still reading it. Fuckin' awesome! All the pre-Hal shit was really good- the Hal portions are eh- I wasn't too into HAL in the movie either- cool shit!

GURPS IRC
How do you use IRC? I have no idea.

What the fuck is with Mike? And Ryan? Do those pricks even like us anymore? Jesus Christ. Seriously, it's pretty asinine to not even let us know that you're ALIVE, dickfaces. Fucking well blog you cunts!

Simpsons stills pulls one off once in a while. That's a pretty sweet reference right there.

Just remember the words of Dave: Don't cross the Nazis!

Irc: Magicstar.net Channel: #theactionteam

Comeon gang- i know some of you guys got broadband, so at least you can be idling there when your online.

:(

Good Simpsons- crazy about that NoF-X refrence! Ha! See ya gang!

The Simpsons

Say what you will about their rise, decline, apex, or your apathetic outlook on the show altogether, but this sunday's episode featured a memorial wall that was erected in rememberance of all the lost students on field trips. The was was reminiscent of the Vietnam Memorial, and Willie was told to add Bart and Lisa's names to the wall due to episodic craziness. But anyway, the scene where Willie is infont of the memorial taking a hit from his boot-flask before chiseling two more names to the enormous wall, we get to see some of the names on the wall -- two of those names were El Jefe and Fat Mike....

I wanna be like Mike!

http://anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html

I'm Always Game

- Hangin' out on the weekends is good for me! We can play lots of NHL 2002 on the Gamecube while listening excitedly to both Strung Out and the Descendents! You know where youc an reach me! But anyway, yeah, I'm always game for some weekend fun, just give me a ring!

- Yeah, I hear that the Xbox Live! is neat too. I saw it at Fry's today and I'm just not sure I want to drop another $50 bucks, and then more for a game that works with it, you know? Time will tell. And I totally agree with the chatty headset, though there MUST be a mute option somewhere on the thing...

- Mon - Fri post 8pm works for me as far as rockin' out, I know Ryan is good after about 8.30pm, no idea about Jon and his crazy drinkin', Janice, Jordan, JP, Work, jackass watchin' schedule though. Of course, I have no new material, but can dredge up and re-work some more of the old stuff Ryan, Wayne and I have done. Always good for a quick song fix.

- I know I am really preaching to the choir here, but never, ever buy a game called G.I. Combat. This is the next game by one of the Close Combat geniuses and it is no better than the moisture shot forth by Vanessa's rear-end.

X-Box Live

Any of you guys try it out yet? Talked to a dude who has it, and he says so far its pretty sweet. For the MechOlympics and for Unreal Championship, theres tons of dedicated servers, so you can basically find a nice ping. The main thing that sounds lame to me is the voice chat shit- I REALLY don't want to hear these peoples voices.

Anyways, I work Monday-Friday for the time being, so I'm free on weekends if you guys wanna try hangin out soon- I call you Jon, but you are always at Jordan's House (down the street from Van Damme's House.) WSEET!

-3/4 Past Dead