Thanks to brennan.X (the Zombie BMEgirl) and Johann (the Hanya design), we are sending the two shirts below off to press first thing on Monday (along with the contributor shirts too with luck). The shirt color for Johann's is still up for debate. I'm thinking black on a slightly off white shirt — feel free to make your opinion known in the BMEshop forum.
Thank you again to the many fine artists on IAM that have helped make shirts for BMEshop — we couldn't do it without your help!
Rob took this picture of me about ten minutes after breaking my wrist on Phil's ATV. Well, on the ground to be precise — the ATV just helped me get there faster, and in style. But I'll say again: I'd do it again. Or to put it better: I will do it again*. While I look pretty damn unhappy in the picture, I was fun.
When that picture was taken I was in pretty enormous amounts of pain (that's why I look weird in it, plus the mud of course), although because of the endorphin rush it didn't really bother me… And in hindsight, it's probably the pain rush that got me so drunk. By the end of the night I was utterly trashed, even though I'd drank not even a dozen bottles (at the previous summer's BBQ I drank a 24, including strong 8% – 9% beers).
A very wise man recently said to me,
Do you think that when Christ is lying there and they're nailing the nails in he's saying, "Oh man, does that hurt!"? He's probably looking at the guy who's nailing him with absolute compassion. He digs why the cat's doing it. What he's stuck in. How much dust covers his eyes. Why he's got to be doing it.That's the way it is.
He said the night before, "Well, tomorrow is the big trip. Yeah - right - these are the nails. Wow! Look at that!"
Am I who is being pained? No! That's the thing. Once you know that then: Pleasure & Pain, Loss & Gain, Fame & Shame, are all the same. They're all just happening.
Anyway, maybe that'll help me think about TOS related things. On the good news front, a friend of mine offered to lend me his Ferrari 355 to enter BME into the Gumball 3000. I wouldn't be there since it's in the US this year, land of prisons, but it will be IAM-er manned if it happens. The car is a little dated, but still awesome:
Of course, if my friend comes along, then we can enter his Lamborghini which would be even cooler. Seriously, how fun would that be? Tearing down the highway in a Lamborghini Diablo with a big BME logo emblazoned on the hood?
Hello, my name is Shannon and I'm a ten year old boy.
First, I really want to get a copy of the MindCandy DVD, but their page got slashdotted so it's offline. The only good thing about that is I got a nostalgia kick from the “NAID WILL RISE AGAIN” banner on one of the mirrors. But seriously, why can't these servers handle the load? I've been slashdotted and I've been farked and never had a problem…
The crazy script that's life today:
Bush: Iraq is in violation of the UN, he kicked out the weapons inspectors in 1998.Iraq: Well, you pulled them out, and they weren't inspectors, they were the CIA.
Bush: If you don't let them back in and obey the UN, we'll invade!
Iraq: Ok, ok, we'll let them in.
Inspectors: We haven't found anything yet, Iraq appears to be largely disarmed.
Bush: That's proof! If you can't find weapons, that means they must be hiding them! Britain and the US know it, too bad the UN doesn't.
Britain: Well, actually, we don't have any evidence either. Please wait to invade until we have evidence.
Bush: Who cares. We're invading with or without evidence, and with or without UN approval. You might think that makes us a rogue state, but let me make things clear. Me and Ashcroft have one thing to say to any who doubt us: WE REPRESENT GOD, YOU FUCK.
Inspectors: Honestly, we haven't found anything.
Bush: We know that Iraq bought aluminum tubing, that can be used to make nukes!
UN Nuclear Agency: No, those tubes aren't for that. They're for rockets.
Bush: He'll use those rockets to launch chemical attacks on our troops!
Worrier: If you're saying Saddam has chemical weapons, won't our boys be in danger?
Bush: No! We're giving them all experimental vaccinations, don't worry.
Military: Well, actually we don't have enough to do that.
Bush: Yeah, but we've got the best medics in the world. Let's Roll!
Military: To be honest, we don't have enough medics either.
Bush: I'm sure we can pay a private contractor to do it for us.
Worrier: But we can't pay for the war already!
Bush: No worries, Iraq has oil. We'll use that to pay to invade them.
Worrier: I hear that North Korea has nukes that can incinerate Los Angeles. Why are you focusing on Iraq?
Bush: Don't worry, we've got the missile defense shield.
Scientists: Well actually it doesn't work… But no worries, we'll just skip the testing phase, so hopefully no one will figure it out until it's too late.
India: Hey, we just got some nuclear missiles too.
Pakistan: Small world! We did too. What a wonderful world this will be! We're naming ours “Ghauri”, after the Muslim warrior that defeated India in the 12th century. Bring it on!!!
Other than that, I recommend checking out Jon Cameron Mitchell's the sex film project… Maybe there are some folks here who'd like to usher in what may well be the future of filmmaking.
Did you know that IAM users are currently consuming about 40 gig of data on the server? Did you know that as of about eight months ago I've dedicated more development hours on IAM than any other single software project I've ever tackled? Did you know the IAM server is the most expensive server I've ever purchased?
Did you know I really love this fisheye lense?
