| 7/12: Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament - New York City, NY (McCarren Park) |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|11:32 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Michael Jackson - Beat it | ] |
Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament happens Sunday, July 12th, 2009, rain or shine.
One random travelling weekend only, the Seattle Cardboard Tube Fighting league will be hosting a back-to-back weekend tournament: Saturday in Philadelphia, PA and Sunday in New York City.
Its a free family event. It is recommended that only children above the age of 5 participate.
Location:
McCarren Park (Where exactly in the park is TBD, stay tuned!!!)
Entry Fee:
FREE to the public!
What to bring:
Water, cameras, video cameras, name tags & positive social attitude
Attire:
cardboard armor, costumes are encouraged.
All tubes are provided by the group.
No outside tubes allowed, liability and cost are the drivers for this ruling.
Tubeduel.com
ninja@tubeduel.com
Phone:
###-###-####
Follow us on twitter.com/_CTFL_
Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195782255050
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| 7/11: Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament - Philadelphia, PA (Near Philly Art Museum, Rocky St |
[Jul. 6th, 2009|11:26 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Michael Jackson - Beat it | ] |
Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament happens Saturday, July 11th, 2009, rain or shine.
One random travelling weekend only, the Seattle Cardboard Tube Fighting league will be hosting a back-to-back weekend tournament: Saturday in Philadelphia, PA and Sunday in New York City.
Its a free family event. It is recommended that only children above the age of 5 participate.
Photo courtesy of Cardboard Tube Fighting League
Location*:
Open grassy area across the street of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (the Rocky Steps)
Latitude 39.964485° North - Longitude 75.179197° West
Google Maps: 39.964485, -75.179197
When:
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
13:00
Entry Fee:
FREE to the public!
What to bring:
Water, cameras, video cameras, name tags & positive social attitude
Attire:
cardboard armor, costumes are encouraged.
All tubes are provided by the group.
No outside tubes allowed, liability and cost are the drivers for this ruling.
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*Alternate Location:
Fairmount Park
Poplar Drive & Kelly Drive
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Tubeduel.com
ninja@tubeduel.com
Phone:
###-###-####
Follow us on twitter.com/_CTFL_
Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=94379397035
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| Personal Blood |
[Jun. 23rd, 2009|11:16 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Subtle - The Mercury Craze | ] |
{Facebook status excerpt}
I have ultimately decided to embrace the new half-sister... only as a recipient, I shall always welcome a potential organ donor.
However to ruthlessly spite his philandering, womanizing father, I won't provide the half-sister an organ should she ever need one.
Consider us even. |
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| No wonder you're upset, she's lovely... |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|10:48 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | New Order - Regret | ] |
{Facebook status excerpt}
I'm generally timid around women. This probably stems from my father. My father is a major reason why I didn't feel comfortable courting/dating any women around in the Pacific Northwest; I unnervingly feared I'd be dating a relative ;-(
I thank Todd S. for helping him express that. |
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| I saw this day comming... crawling out of the woodwork |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|08:30 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | Not Surprised | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lovage - "Anger Management (Why Must God Punish Me)" | ] |
{Facebook Status Excerpt}
I found out this morning I have a half-sister; about his age living in Montana. For the record I never trusted father to begin with. No surprises. So much for statusing about his great weekend in Seattle watching Air Sex, Fremont Solstice Parade and free Moore Theater & free watermelon with good friends. ;-\ |
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| The Dark Knight Allegory |
[Nov. 2nd, 2008|11:28 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Craig Armstrong - Ruthless Gravity | ] |
Joker = Osama bin Laden
Harvey Dent = Barack Obama
Batman = George W. Bush
Who said batman was a hero?
Its explicitly stated that he's a vigilante in that film and by the director, Christopher Nolan.
The series is revised as realistic, a vigilante fighting injustice, despite how he's perceived by the public.
In The Dark Knight
Batman does the following:
-illegal extradition of a suspect in a foreign land, Hong Kong. (extraordinary rendition)
-illegal cellphone wiretapping to find the joker (homeland security violating civil rights)
-torturing suspects for information
-(lots of property damage)
-not well liked by the public
Batman breaks the law, to fight injustice.
Good or bad way, there's a strong comparison.
It does not matter how I view GW, what I'm arguing there's an blatant allegory in the film.
The only sad part with this allegory is the assumption of Obama as White Knight/Harvey Dent will fall from grace.
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| Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament - Washington D.C. |
[Jul. 14th, 2008|09:50 am] |
As of May 2008, I'd become an organizing co-founding member of the Seattle Cardboard Tube Fighting League Chapter.
The founder, Robert Easley, relocated to San Francisco and established a new chapter there. Since his departure, the Seattle group has been working at expanding Cardboard Tubefighting to other locations.
Speculations that new groups will emerge are Wichita, Kansas, Pensacola, Florida and Washington D.C. etc, etc.
The next summer event is scheduled as follows:
Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament - Washington D.C.
"Washington War Dance"
Location:
Washington D.C
@ The National Mall, Between the
Smithsonian Institute Building &
National Museum of History.
Latitude 38.889629895456146° North
Longitude 77.02585458755493° West
When:
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
3:00 pm
Entry Fee:
Free
What to bring:
Water, cameras, postitive attitude
Attire:
cardboard armor, costumes are encouraged.
Business suits are also highly encouraged for this event.
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| Tiger Woods |
[Jun. 17th, 2008|04:40 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | tiger woods golf | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | Slightly Vicious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jason Webley – Eleven Saints | ] |
Tiger Woods won again.
Congrats for him being utterly successful. I have nothing against him personally.
Except he plays golf. ha!
It must have been an extremely slow day for that to be the top story. |
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| Meta-Meat |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|08:55 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  nerdy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | America – Sister Golden Hair | ] |
I'm going to coin a phrase to-day.
I call it META-Meat.
 Image via Wired.com
Remember it very well. |
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| Best modern essay ever |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|04:39 pm] |
School Vs Education by Russell Baker
By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education and be ready to enter school. If the child has been attentive in these preschool years, he or she will already have mastered many skills. From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments. From watching his parents, the child, in many cases, will already know how to smoke, how much soda to mix with whiskey, what kind of language to use when angry and how to violate the speed laws without being caught.
At this point, the child is ready for the second stage of education, which occurs in school. There, a variety of lessons may be learned in the very first days. The teacher may illustrate the economic importance of belonging to a strong union by closing down the school before the child arrives. Fathers and mothers may demonstrate to the child the social cohesion that can be build on shared hatred by demonstrating their dislike for children whose pigmentation displeases them. In the latter event, the child may received visual instruction in techniques of stoning buses, cracking skulls with a nightstick and subduing mobs with tear gas. Formal education has begun. During formal education, the child learns that life is for testing. This stage lasts twelve years, a period during which the child learns that success comes from telling testers what they want to hear.
Early in this stage, the child learns that he is either dumb or smart. If the teacher puts intelligent demands upon the child, the child learns he is smart. If the teacher expects little of the child, the child he is dumb and soon quits bothering to tell the testers what they want to hear. At this point, education becomes more subtle. The child taught by school that he is dumb observes that neither he, she, nor any of the many children who are even dumber, ever fails to be promoted to the next grade. From this, the child learns that while everybody talks a lot about the virtue of being smart, there is very little incentive to stop being dumb.
What is the point of school, besides attendance? The child wonders. As the end of the first formal stage of education approaches, school answers this question. The point is to equip the child to enter college. Children who have been taught they are smart have no difficulty. They have been happily telling testers what they want to hear for twelve years. Being artists at telling testers what they want to hear, they are admitted to college joyously; where they promptly learn that they are the hope of America.
Children whose education has been limited to adjusting themselves to their school's low estimates of them are admitted to less joyous colleges which, in some cases, may teach them to read. At this stage of education, a fresh question arises for everyone. If the point of lower education was to get into college, what is the point of college? The answer is soon learned. The point of college is to prepare the student no longer a child now to get into graduate school. In college, the student learns that it is no longer enough simply to tell the testers what they want to hear. Many are tested for graduate school; few are admitted.
Those excluded may be denied valuable certificates to prosper in medicine, at the bar, in the corporate boardroom. The student learns that the race is to the cunning and often, alas, to the unprincipled. Thus, the student learns the importance of destroying competitors and emerges richly prepared to play his role in the great simmering melodrama of American life. Afterward, the former student destiny fulfilled, his life rich with Oriental carpets, rare porcelain and full bank accounts, he may one day find himself with the leisure and the inclination to open a book with a curious mind, and start to become educated. |
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| Jury Nullification - public service annoucement |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|10:05 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | justice served | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Justice - We are your friends | ] |
Here's a Right you may not have heard of - Jury Nullification (google it)
Your Rights As A Juror
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As any one of us may be called to be on a jury at a criminal trial, it is important to know this fundamental right:
The jury has the right and duty to judge THE LAW as well as the facts of the case.
In other words, even if the facts show that the defendant is guilty of the charges, if the jury believes the so-called crime is not a crime in reality (e.g. most traffic, drug, tax statutes), then the jury can simply find the defendant NOT GUILTY.
This is judging the law and the jury has that right. It is our last protection against tyrannical government.
Why is this being spread on the internet? Because the judge WILL NOT tell you about this right, and the defense attorney will be reprimanded if he tries to tell the jury.
Please spread this message by email, messages, bulletins, wall posts, etc...
Thank you! |
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