CNN and its war against terrorism?

This is probably the 4th consecutive day thay I open the cnn.com first page and all I see is the Al-Qaeda's training for killing, biological weapons, simple explosives, etc. I am seriously considering not ever reading CNN anymore. Why? Obviously this is a very strong propaganda for the forthcoming attack on Iraq. Even if it was not explicitly announced that Al-Qaeda's mass destruction weapons are coming from the so called "axis of evil", it would definitely be a deduction that would be made in the public's subconscious.

Now who thinks that usage of chemical weapons is that bad? After all, Iraq has already tested it quite so many times against Iranian troops during the war and at least once against its own Kurd citizens at the same time. 5000 civilian casuality is not that much if it happens in a distant Kurdish town called Halabche in Iraq, it's just the whole population of the area, what's the big deal?? It's even less interesting to know that Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq "re-establishing?" political ties between Iraq and US around the same time that UN inspectors reported the usage of nerve gas against Iranian troops by Iraq. Hard to beleive that the first purchase that Saddam made after "re-establishment" was helicpoters that were allegedly used in the chemical attack on Halabche. Only part of the deal was first opposed by Senate, but carried out anyway.

Wanna read more boring stuff about weapons and wars? Take a look at this article.

Evil Plan (tm)!

Your objective is simple: Destroy the Earth.

Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure

Stage One
To begin your plan, you must first traumatize a superman. This will cause the world to sense a grave disturbance in the force, paralyzed by your arrival. Who is this unholy menace? Where did he come from? And why does he look so good as an elemental?


Stage Two
Next, you must disintegrate the Internet. This will all be done from a floating fortress, a mysterious place of unrivaled dark glory. Upon seeing this, the world will weep uncontrollably, as countless hordes of winged monkeys hasten to do your every bidding.


Stage Three
Finally, you must unleash your unholy weapon, bringing about an end to sanity. Your name shall become synonymous with slaughter, and no man will ever again dare interrupt your sentences. Everyone will bow before your overwhelming will, and the world will have no choice but to worship the ground you walk on.

Check out for yourself!

Oh yeah, thanks to this bitch for directing me to the focus of my true calling (and this sentence).

An Englishman might describe the game of cricket in this manner:

"You have two sides; one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out including the not outs, that's the end of the game!"

Found on an old tea towel in St. Albans, England, 1983.

MAS has a passionate (angry?) post on the subject of affordable housing. I am just renting a room right now, and the vision of becoming a home owner is way far. But take a look at the page 8 of this article (PDF format, you may find the HTML format using google to search for "system dynamic housing"). I just quote two very small parts:

"Urban Dynamics argued that low-cost housing was a double-edged sword for making urban conditions worse."

"My point was "too much" housing meant that there was too much for the economy of the area to support."

The founder adn pioneer of System Dynamics is Jay W. Forrester.

OK, suburban housing, whatever.

What the hell is going on in space?
When Denis Tito paid 20 million bucks for a trip up there, I thought, it's his own earned or stolen damn money. Now the 'NChimp (or 'NStink as Emin3m calles them) whoever is planning for it. But this time, he is not paying for it. A TV producer is looking for sponsors to pay for him. and they want to make a 6 episode program out of it, with a 2 hour special of launching and Lance in space (sounds like Lloyd in Space, doesn't it?) and a concert after his sorrowful coming back to the planet. And the crooks have already started the propaganda for it by not paying the Russians. They have already at least 4 sponsors providing them with between 5 to 15 millions and they are not giving the Russians share yet, just so that find a spot on stupid CNN.

One of my friends is going home and I'm stuck here. :(
OK, I'm not stuck, but I don't wanna risk getting out because if I can't come back in, I will have lost more than 3 better years of my life for nothing. Seriously, what would you have done if you were in my shoes? Thanks God, I visited home last summer, otherwise I would have killed myself by now. Anyways, these days I am a little bit less busy so I have enough time to grieve and listen to Dave Matthews Band.

Haddock has quoted someone in his (persian) weblog:

"The guy I thought was nice, but too boring (when I was younger) is the guy I'd kill to have today. He's loyal, he's sweet, he's a wonderful father/husband, has a beautiful home, his own business. I craved excitement when I was younger, but now I am older, wiser (??) and more settled, and what was boring to me then is perfect for me now.

I wanted a party animal when I was young, now I want a stable, mature individual."

The Goddez has given a thumb up to my blog. Or at least that's how I read it. Thanks!

Back again
I am updating this after sometime. Well sleeping only 3-4 hours a night and working your butt off the rest of the day isn't that much compatible with maintaining a journal (and enjoying it). Anyways, it's over as my advisor just called from D.C. expressing his and everybody else's consent with the whole group work. Now I can take a breath before heading to the next task. As a matter of fact this next one is not that bad, but still...

Sweet
I've been scouting the Geisel library to check out the second season of the Sopranos, but as soon as it was returned someone else beated me and I was just pissed off. Today, I checked it online and much to my surprise it was available. I thought I can check it out later today, but then remembered that it must still be wanted by lots of people. So I just walked there and took it. When I was getting out of the FVL room, a guy passed by me but turned back a few steps further and said:"Isn't it a coincidence! I was just going to check those out. Is that the second season?"