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ABOUT zwarg.blog CATEGORIES MAIN ARCHIVES 1999(14) [+] 2000(3) [+] 2001(4) [+] 2002(18) [+] 2003(159) [+] 2004(108) [+] 2005(126) [+]United States vs. Iraq
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Monday, July 28 2003
DARPA Does It Again. The headling "Pentagon to start futures market for terror attacks" in the newspaper immediately caught my attention. The Pentagon, the symbol of the military force that is the United States. A market, a trading place, bazaar of goods, services, and information. The military is hoping that everyone ELSE in the world will do their research for them. This gives me a great idea. Next: "Zwarg replaced by internet robot." That will be the next headline in our company newsletter. Oh, wait, we don't have one. Well, in the inaugural issue, it will discuss how my duties have been assumed by this robot, which can be controlled by anybody on the internet. Of course, there will be time-sharing, so that one user cannot use the robot all day, and let other people assume my duties. Spread the love around, you know? Wednesday, July 23 2003Shooting Two Hairy Men. Well, hopes are looking up for the Iraqi people again. Our good guys got their bad guys. The devil twins (okay, they're not twins, but still...) were killed in an attack on a residence in Iraq on Wednesday. What great rejoicing. What wonderful news. More casualties by an abrasive and arrogant occupier. I wonder what kind of effort is being put into this lousy two-bit manhunt. For example, if you had 1,000 people well trained, and searching for this Hussein character, you'd think that they'd be able to find him sooner rather than later. HOWEVER, if you took those same 1,000 people, and asked them to start rebuilding the infrastucture of a country that has been crippled, you'd also think that they'd be able to fix up the country sooner rather than later. Right, so like I was saying: why keep the poor schmucks down? You'll get more brownie points if you ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE. Even I know that. Monday, July 21 2003Operation Arctic Submersion. So I got back from Alaska last night. About ten days of silence, quiet, no reference to any war, or any politics. The best ten days of my life, and the wonderful void that came with it. The lack of super-stimulus that follows us around these days. Billboards that electrocute your retinas, commercials that make you want to vomit, radio stations that are offensive to listen to. I didn't set out to do it. I didn't think that I would be ever placed into a situation where I might be capable of doing so. But I was, and I did. I might have, actually, which may be scarier, because there's still an element of doubt. I think I saved one of my friend's lives. And I don't call myself a hero or wave some kind of huge flag. It's something that you live with on a daily basis after that fact. I can't imagine the burden of living with the knowledge that you had taken a person's life. If this feeling is so fulfilling, then what kind of trump would you feel like knowing you had extinguished something so unique and precious? I don't know but maybe all the soldiers today do. Monday, July 07 2003The Shipping News These are the ships that I pass by on my way to and from work. The listing is grouped by day. First is the name of the ship, then the city or home port, then the morning or evening commute hours in which I observed the ship at the wharf. The fewest ships that I have ever observed is one, while the most I have observed is six. There is one round trip, the Manulani. I'm assuming that it went to Hawaii and back in the time that I've been documenting the arrivals and departures of these great steel beasts. Counting Ants. After a recent protest in San Francisco, they decided to fly over and photograph the protests, in order to count the number of people there. I guess last time, when they lied about how many people were there (reporting 50,000 instead of more realistic 250,000) they got kind of nervous, and called in the experts. I guess if you've got a hell of a lot of time on your hands, you can try to count them all up as well. Frame
1 - City Hall to McAllister and Market. Twelve Nuts In A Can. Well, I guess this puts a cap on it, I couldn't really agree more with this guy. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/07/hsorensen.DTL It's basically an analysis about how our leader recieves commands from God. Thoroughly horrifying, if you ask me. This man is hoping to relieve tensions in the Middle East between two groups vying for the holy land. And he thinks his commands from his God are any better or more justfied than the commands from the other's God? No use praying, it's all written now... Thursday, July 03 2003Ship Log Entry OOCL Hong Kong, Hong Kong - AM Ship Log Entry NYK Lodestar, Panama - AM, PM Ship Log Entry Maui, Honolulu - AM |
