Knowledge gets in the way of wisdom. So it seems. As this world progresses further from the recesses of our earlier incarnations, the margin for error and failure of discretion seems to have decreased. Many of the mistakes and anomlies have lead to not so desirable consequences. We believe ourselves invulnerable and invincible, piercing the very skies, only to be blasted down in a fall of blazing, not-so glorious glory. There are many things wrong in this world, and I suppose many things that are right, I'm only beginning to see things in both/as either.
In other news... L.E. Modesitt Jr. writes good books. ;p Mostly fantasy. Maybe I'll talk about it later.
The latest (WotD) section is as it is in most others that go by the same name, and I've taken the definitions from dictionary.com. They are mostly words I have seen, and would understand when in context, but otherwise would have little idea what its definition is. Don't ask me which of the definitions best suits the context in which I first saw the word used. Truthfully, I cannot say; it could be any of them.
Word of the Day
con·sum·mate
tr.v. con·sum·mat·ed, con·sum·mat·ing, con·sum·mates
1. a. To bring to completion or fruition; conclude: consummate a business transaction.
b. To realize or achieve; fulfill: a dream that was finally consummated with the publication of her first book.
2. a. To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.
b. To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.
adj.
1. Complete or perfect in every respect: consummate happiness. See Synonyms at perfect.
2. Supremely accomplished or skilled: “Sargent was now a consummate master of brushwork” (Roberta Smith).
3. Complete; utter: a consummate bore.
Note: lead in latin is plumbum.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
sometimes being pacified sucks.
All talk and no work makes a peon angry and berserk.
Am I unobservant or what? For the first time, I realized the license plates on cars up here in Toronto. All of the newer 7 character ones Start with AXXX 000, where X's are letters and 0's are digits, and the older ones are generally in the 900 XXX series. Goodness gracious.
Anyway... what can one do when confronted with something meant to be an insult constructed out of stupidity and ignorance? Generally, it is far easier to say something without support than to counter it without support. Other than having to explain yourself (what use would that have on one who would make such asumptions), insult them back in much the same way or hit them upside the head really hard, which I've heard to be looked down upon by the authorities. One could also turn their insult right around. I'm not very good at that, though I do not mind terribly much as I see insults not to be insults unless one thinks them applicable. Though it would be well-deserved and most applicable if one were to do so. No matter. Once he was done trying to rouse a response from me, he decided to bother one of the IT people, who soundly dealt with him, of which he had no response. Though it was not an insult that was meant to bite, he was merely being playful. Only after some time would I find something suitably insulting that would work with his poorly formulated attempt at an insult.
If all the axes went off to war, who would chop the firewood? Something along the lines. Wit is more productive when used to make one laugh not at the expense of others.
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire [95]
Am I unobservant or what? For the first time, I realized the license plates on cars up here in Toronto. All of the newer 7 character ones Start with AXXX 000, where X's are letters and 0's are digits, and the older ones are generally in the 900 XXX series. Goodness gracious.
Anyway... what can one do when confronted with something meant to be an insult constructed out of stupidity and ignorance? Generally, it is far easier to say something without support than to counter it without support. Other than having to explain yourself (what use would that have on one who would make such asumptions), insult them back in much the same way or hit them upside the head really hard, which I've heard to be looked down upon by the authorities. One could also turn their insult right around. I'm not very good at that, though I do not mind terribly much as I see insults not to be insults unless one thinks them applicable. Though it would be well-deserved and most applicable if one were to do so. No matter. Once he was done trying to rouse a response from me, he decided to bother one of the IT people, who soundly dealt with him, of which he had no response. Though it was not an insult that was meant to bite, he was merely being playful. Only after some time would I find something suitably insulting that would work with his poorly formulated attempt at an insult.
If all the axes went off to war, who would chop the firewood? Something along the lines. Wit is more productive when used to make one laugh not at the expense of others.
A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire [95]
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Fill 'er up.
"One of the reasons i joined korruptro is of the no language filters."
... It is like a smoker who only works somewhere simply because they are allowed to smoke. Although that situation would be much more understandable.
Pubic Hubris. Too bad it doesn't have that great of a ring to it. What I mean it to be is the cliche trend that teenagers think they know better than their parents as so exemplified in Zits.
Interesting. It was insofar a regular day of school, when during lunch, one of the teachers came down and told us to evacuate the premises due to something causing people to cough in the foyer. So... we all merrily jumped out of the warm building into the not-so welcoming low temperatures that preyed upon pedestrians - slight exaggeration, it wasn't too cold. We stood out there for many a minute, listening to people play their instruments (unlucky kids) and just talking amongst ourselves. We were then called off to the parkette, because you know, there's no better place to spend a friday afternoon than at a park, eh? With 600 of your schoolmates. So anyway... we had our attendance done and according to our emergency action plan with UT/OISE, we promenaded down the street a couple blocks into the South Auditorium of the Oise building and made good use of their seats. To keep use entertained, the teachers told some embarrassing stories and we watched a UTV production (the video yearbook) of when the SVI's - grade 12's - were in FI - grade 7. There were many recognizable faces and events, but some not so much. Bowling? We didn't get to do that, and I'm in SV. Gosh, a lot of these things aren't possible in the UTS of today, as we have seperated from UofT and have lost their insurance plan, meaning we do not have as much freedom as before, because UTS has to be wary of greedy parents or students who want to make it to Stella fame. So yeah... that was fun. The tests haven't come back from the labs, but there were rumours of a gas leak in one of the stairwells. Some say chlorine (trace amounts), others say pepper spray. Man and de. (Ancient greek for those not tuned in)
And... in more recent news, I found a Yoyo. I've never been able to play with one of these successfully. It'd just go down and stay down. I walked the dog and it decided to take a nap. So... I decided to try my hand at it again after however many years it has been... and I could actually get it to come back up. How amazing. A lot of things seem like that. You try and try again, and you don't succeed. But set it aside for a century and pick it up again, and you find that you're able to do it!
For my more obscure titles, I'll be explaining them. Both for my reference and yours.
Fill 'er - filler. I have nothing to say
Fill 'er up. - referring the gas leak. I did not know how to add an allusion to leaks. Oh well.
... It is like a smoker who only works somewhere simply because they are allowed to smoke. Although that situation would be much more understandable.
Pubic Hubris. Too bad it doesn't have that great of a ring to it. What I mean it to be is the cliche trend that teenagers think they know better than their parents as so exemplified in Zits.
Interesting. It was insofar a regular day of school, when during lunch, one of the teachers came down and told us to evacuate the premises due to something causing people to cough in the foyer. So... we all merrily jumped out of the warm building into the not-so welcoming low temperatures that preyed upon pedestrians - slight exaggeration, it wasn't too cold. We stood out there for many a minute, listening to people play their instruments (unlucky kids) and just talking amongst ourselves. We were then called off to the parkette, because you know, there's no better place to spend a friday afternoon than at a park, eh? With 600 of your schoolmates. So anyway... we had our attendance done and according to our emergency action plan with UT/OISE, we promenaded down the street a couple blocks into the South Auditorium of the Oise building and made good use of their seats. To keep use entertained, the teachers told some embarrassing stories and we watched a UTV production (the video yearbook) of when the SVI's - grade 12's - were in FI - grade 7. There were many recognizable faces and events, but some not so much. Bowling? We didn't get to do that, and I'm in SV. Gosh, a lot of these things aren't possible in the UTS of today, as we have seperated from UofT and have lost their insurance plan, meaning we do not have as much freedom as before, because UTS has to be wary of greedy parents or students who want to make it to Stella fame. So yeah... that was fun. The tests haven't come back from the labs, but there were rumours of a gas leak in one of the stairwells. Some say chlorine (trace amounts), others say pepper spray. Man and de. (Ancient greek for those not tuned in)
And... in more recent news, I found a Yoyo. I've never been able to play with one of these successfully. It'd just go down and stay down. I walked the dog and it decided to take a nap. So... I decided to try my hand at it again after however many years it has been... and I could actually get it to come back up. How amazing. A lot of things seem like that. You try and try again, and you don't succeed. But set it aside for a century and pick it up again, and you find that you're able to do it!
For my more obscure titles, I'll be explaining them. Both for my reference and yours.
Fill 'er - filler. I have nothing to say
Fill 'er up. - referring the gas leak. I did not know how to add an allusion to leaks. Oh well.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
thoughts on the throne.
So I was sitting, as is my usual business and having nothing else to do, my thoughts gravitated to a reason happening in my life. Our washing machine had recently broken down, and forced us to either hand-wash them or wash them at our grandfather's place. A worker came and made an inspection, and determined that it would not be worth or while if we were to replace it due to the costs beign near on par with that of a new one. And I thought about something said to us in Economics class that in order for us to live in the opulent throw-away society that we do, someone must pay that price. And that comes in the form of sweat shops and such. So instead of buying the replacement parts and continuing to use our old one, we're going to, or my parents are going to buy a new one. And then I thought of how it was in our past, or not really my past, but the past of humankind. There was nearly always a class system of sorts in place, where the poor had to do most of the dirtywork that we would rather not do (intentional - it still applies to the present). But still, the majority of the people, or most everyone would not simply throw something away, but would instead take it and mend it. But I suppose this was before complicated machinery and such things one would be hard-pressed to repair themselves, but it still applies.
This train of thought chugged me back to an episode of Babar I had watched. It was of Babar and his family going to this town of toys, and spending their time there. This utopia quickly reverted into a dystopia as the robot who ran the place would put the toys into a un-maker of sorts if they became less than perfect (physical imperfections or things like not being huggable anymore). This was all due to the robot being told by his creator (who flew away shortly thereafter) to keep everything the way it was - perfect. So he (mistakenly) took it as a sign to make sure everything was perfect and did what he did as was explained earlier. This is all rectified soon enough, as one can expect in a children's TV show.
This again brought me to see the similarities between that episode and the Mirrodin block. In the storyline, a newly made planeswalker, Karn (a golem) has created Argentum, an artifact plane. In his homeworld, one of his probes, the Mirari has been used and abused and ends up devastating much of it. So in an attempt to redeem it, he gave it intelligence and called it Memnarch. So he left and made Memnarch the steward of the world. And in an attempt to live up to his planeswalker father-figure, he brings life to the plane from other planes in the Multiverse. He learns of Karn's ascension to planeswalkerhood, where a planeswalker as well as a ship with planeswalking capabilities (who had consciousness for a bit) were destroyed in a bid to destroy a great evil god, and out of their deaths came the planeswalking abilities of Karn. So he decides to bring one with the planeswalker spark to a great catacylsmic event (the birth of a fifth, artificial moon) where she'll die and Memnarch will gain planeswalking capabilities. But this is all prevented by her with the planeswalking spark and Karn as he comes back.
No point to my story, really. Just nifty how things can be so similar.
This train of thought chugged me back to an episode of Babar I had watched. It was of Babar and his family going to this town of toys, and spending their time there. This utopia quickly reverted into a dystopia as the robot who ran the place would put the toys into a un-maker of sorts if they became less than perfect (physical imperfections or things like not being huggable anymore). This was all due to the robot being told by his creator (who flew away shortly thereafter) to keep everything the way it was - perfect. So he (mistakenly) took it as a sign to make sure everything was perfect and did what he did as was explained earlier. This is all rectified soon enough, as one can expect in a children's TV show.
This again brought me to see the similarities between that episode and the Mirrodin block. In the storyline, a newly made planeswalker, Karn (a golem) has created Argentum, an artifact plane. In his homeworld, one of his probes, the Mirari has been used and abused and ends up devastating much of it. So in an attempt to redeem it, he gave it intelligence and called it Memnarch. So he left and made Memnarch the steward of the world. And in an attempt to live up to his planeswalker father-figure, he brings life to the plane from other planes in the Multiverse. He learns of Karn's ascension to planeswalkerhood, where a planeswalker as well as a ship with planeswalking capabilities (who had consciousness for a bit) were destroyed in a bid to destroy a great evil god, and out of their deaths came the planeswalking abilities of Karn. So he decides to bring one with the planeswalker spark to a great catacylsmic event (the birth of a fifth, artificial moon) where she'll die and Memnarch will gain planeswalking capabilities. But this is all prevented by her with the planeswalking spark and Karn as he comes back.
No point to my story, really. Just nifty how things can be so similar.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
something trivial
Well, that was a quite a revelation. While playing trivia, one of the questions that came up was:
[19:11] <kidechizen> 2. TV/ Movies: Born Dec 31, 1937, He starred in this movie: The Good Father - 1986?
And to my surprise, the correct answer (which I got) was Anthony Hopkins. Ain't that nifty. And speaking of coincidences:
[19:06] <Salus> I meant to type Haha. and it came out GG.
My reason for laughter was a ridiculous guess in trivia.
[19:51] <kidechizen> You're on fire!
[19:51] * kidechizen hands I a cold beer for getting the last 3 questions!
[19:51] <Salus> Haha.
[19:51] <I> i'm on fire
[19:51] <Salus> Alcohol + fire.
[19:51] <Salus> Nice.
Nice indeed. :p
[19:55] <kidechizen> 5. What sea creature uses its chest as a table while floating on its back?
[19:55] <I> THATS HAX
[19:55] <Salus> :p
[19:55] <Salus> otter
[19:55] <I> sea otter
[19:55] <kidechizen> Winner: I Answer: sea Time: 7.016 Streak: 1 Points: 240 WPM: 5 Rank: 2nd
[20:19] <Salus> crude oil
[20:19] <I> crude oil
[20:19] <kidechizen> crude oil
[20:19] <kidechizen> Winner: kidechizen Answer: crude oil Time: 12.281 Streak: 1 Points: 75 WPM: 8 Rank: 4th
What a cheat. :p Keeps happening too.
[21:52] <kidechizen> 197. 'You get a shiver in the dark, it's raining in the park ...' What's the Dire Straits song title?
[21:52] <Salus> shiver in the dark
[21:52] <Salus> diver in the shark
I like that. :p
[19:11] <kidechizen> 2. TV/ Movies: Born Dec 31, 1937, He starred in this movie: The Good Father - 1986?
And to my surprise, the correct answer (which I got) was Anthony Hopkins. Ain't that nifty. And speaking of coincidences:
[19:06] <Salus> I meant to type Haha. and it came out GG.
My reason for laughter was a ridiculous guess in trivia.
[19:51] <kidechizen> You're on fire!
[19:51] * kidechizen hands I a cold beer for getting the last 3 questions!
[19:51] <Salus> Haha.
[19:51] <I> i'm on fire
[19:51] <Salus> Alcohol + fire.
[19:51] <Salus> Nice.
Nice indeed. :p
[19:55] <kidechizen> 5. What sea creature uses its chest as a table while floating on its back?
[19:55] <I> THATS HAX
[19:55] <Salus> :p
[19:55] <Salus> otter
[19:55] <I> sea otter
[19:55] <kidechizen> Winner: I Answer: sea Time: 7.016 Streak: 1 Points: 240 WPM: 5 Rank: 2nd
[20:19] <Salus> crude oil
[20:19] <I> crude oil
[20:19] <kidechizen> crude oil
[20:19] <kidechizen> Winner: kidechizen Answer: crude oil Time: 12.281 Streak: 1 Points: 75 WPM: 8 Rank: 4th
What a cheat. :p Keeps happening too.
[21:52] <kidechizen> 197. 'You get a shiver in the dark, it's raining in the park ...' What's the Dire Straits song title?
[21:52] <Salus> shiver in the dark
[21:52] <Salus> diver in the shark
I like that. :p
back away
To measure one's ability to accomplish a task, must one take into account their willingness to perform said task in addition to their capabilities? If one were quite able and competent in doing it, that only matters if they are willing to carry it out (although one could be made to do so). Something to that end - that neither can be solely independent of the other. Just a little nothing I was thinking of.
So I was watching a Zellers commercial the other day, and lo and behold, there it was, a Furby, the likes of which I had not seen for awhile. I remember my parents buying us two (for the four of us) and we played with them until they ran out of batteries, then they came to be mere shelf-ornaments. Not even, they are on the lowest shelf in some remote corner of our family room. Same goes with Tamagotchi (although I had mine confiscated, I believe, or someone stole it or I lost it, the last being the most feasible), and that's about all. Never got into that Pokemon craze, partly because of our lack of a Gameboy as well as cable - which is good, Pokemon only lasts for so long while imagination can keep on going for some time. Magic still holds true as a cool game though, how many years has it been? 8 or 9.
Trifecta : with data unprovided, our marks will be divided!
Salus : I guess we will just have to make do, ack, Victor needs help with question two.
Trifecta : this event quickly becomes mired, i think it would be best if these papers were fired
Trifecta : you should join the freestyle battle. =P
Salus : Such a war I do wish to join, for your glory I do not wish to purloin.
Salus : Too many people talking about math. :(
Trifecta : my glory? what glory? my honour lies broken, bloodied and gory.
Salus : Would that be the work of the goshulak, who likes to eat cheese with his mulak?
Trifecta : indeed it is he, he whose name begins with a "P".
Salus : Paul Atreides? I thought he resided somewhere among the Pleiades.
Trifecta : no, twas not him to which i referred; the one whom i speak of, sour cream on his perogies, i think he prefers.
Salus : Methinks thatst thou hast loose thine touch, for some of thine word choices rhyme not much.
Trifecta : oh don't start with me now, most noble anton; for in this great word war, i am but a pawn.
Trifecta : divided we fall, but united we stand; so send your rhymes to the conference, and give our forces a hand.
Trifecta : =P
Salus : That is one course I would like to make, but this math hath all my time take.
Salus : I'm cheating. :p
Trifecta : not really.
Salus : I blame all my grammatical errors on antiquated language.
Salus : :p
Trifecta : *cheating? what of cheating doth thou speakest of? the only cheater among us is that foul simu ... fluv. =\
Salus : :p
Salus : tough love.
Trifecta : ergh.
Trifecta : i kept thinking "dove", but that made no sense.
Salus : He wears white sometimes?
Salus : :p
Salus : , oops there goes my rhymes.
Salus : *go
What weird kids we are at UTS. I hope they don't mind.
So I was watching a Zellers commercial the other day, and lo and behold, there it was, a Furby, the likes of which I had not seen for awhile. I remember my parents buying us two (for the four of us) and we played with them until they ran out of batteries, then they came to be mere shelf-ornaments. Not even, they are on the lowest shelf in some remote corner of our family room. Same goes with Tamagotchi (although I had mine confiscated, I believe, or someone stole it or I lost it, the last being the most feasible), and that's about all. Never got into that Pokemon craze, partly because of our lack of a Gameboy as well as cable - which is good, Pokemon only lasts for so long while imagination can keep on going for some time. Magic still holds true as a cool game though, how many years has it been? 8 or 9.
Trifecta : with data unprovided, our marks will be divided!
Salus : I guess we will just have to make do, ack, Victor needs help with question two.
Trifecta : this event quickly becomes mired, i think it would be best if these papers were fired
Trifecta : you should join the freestyle battle. =P
Salus : Such a war I do wish to join, for your glory I do not wish to purloin.
Salus : Too many people talking about math. :(
Trifecta : my glory? what glory? my honour lies broken, bloodied and gory.
Salus : Would that be the work of the goshulak, who likes to eat cheese with his mulak?
Trifecta : indeed it is he, he whose name begins with a "P".
Salus : Paul Atreides? I thought he resided somewhere among the Pleiades.
Trifecta : no, twas not him to which i referred; the one whom i speak of, sour cream on his perogies, i think he prefers.
Salus : Methinks thatst thou hast loose thine touch, for some of thine word choices rhyme not much.
Trifecta : oh don't start with me now, most noble anton; for in this great word war, i am but a pawn.
Trifecta : divided we fall, but united we stand; so send your rhymes to the conference, and give our forces a hand.
Trifecta : =P
Salus : That is one course I would like to make, but this math hath all my time take.
Salus : I'm cheating. :p
Trifecta : not really.
Salus : I blame all my grammatical errors on antiquated language.
Salus : :p
Trifecta : *cheating? what of cheating doth thou speakest of? the only cheater among us is that foul simu ... fluv. =\
Salus : :p
Salus : tough love.
Trifecta : ergh.
Trifecta : i kept thinking "dove", but that made no sense.
Salus : He wears white sometimes?
Salus : :p
Salus : , oops there goes my rhymes.
Salus : *go
What weird kids we are at UTS. I hope they don't mind.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
tentative tendencies
A fresh start, a new beginning, a new day? Not yet. I shall see how much flexibility this blog allows one. Previously, I have used the MSN spaces, which was decent, I suppose, although I had had no previous experience with blogs. Got some things going, the puns rolling, the source of which has seem to dried up, and generally got some good feedback. Though I had no real content in there, or so I would like to think.
So today was like any other day, but unlike any other day, it was not as good. Computer Science was fine, though the queue class gave me some trouble (figured out I was spelling it wrong "queu", probably because of that darned The Noob episode). English was okay - it's always an interesting class. And that's about as boring as my day was.
[22:38] <Uenohai> Any idiot knows that
[22:38] <Salus> I'm sorry I'm not an idiot.
I do not understand how such a phrase came to be so widely used.
the old hen house.
So today was like any other day, but unlike any other day, it was not as good. Computer Science was fine, though the queue class gave me some trouble (figured out I was spelling it wrong "queu", probably because of that darned The Noob episode). English was okay - it's always an interesting class. And that's about as boring as my day was.
[22:38] <Uenohai> Any idiot knows that
[22:38] <Salus> I'm sorry I'm not an idiot.
I do not understand how such a phrase came to be so widely used.
the old hen house.
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