transmothrajae lethe (he/she/they) is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and gadabout. Also, something he calls a "behavioral artist." (Not sure.) She has plans. BIG plans.
Among the things that he has done for a laugh are minor fractures, cuts, scrapes, and various scabs. Though she's quick to point out that they're no imbecile, we're fairly certain that he thinks the word means some kind of medieval pharmacist.
This is her latest home on teh internets - where jae stores their swear words, when they're not hurling them at the sun in vain.
OMFG why didn’t anyone tell me about this!? Westboro Baptist Church apparently has its very own movies site! It’s hilarious and sad at the exact same time. The music videos are priceless! Why on earth do people like Rev. Dr. King and the Kennedys get shot while Fred Phelps is still walking???
To my mind, there is nothing better than the idea that THIS is all there is, that there is no afterlife and no ultra-benevolent (yet strangely, fiercely jealous) Super-Grampa waiting to scoop us up in His arms when we die; that WE are responsible for what we do with our lives and how we shape our future as a species and individually. The idea that this is our one chance to get things right just makes life that much more important and special and precious. To me, life is sacred and holy enough without superstition or outdated ideas regarding how things work.
I also don’t see any problems with the idea that we are a wonderful accident of nature (which includes, but is not limited to, life). There is tremendous beauty in chaos.
And here’s a philosophical question hardly anyone ever bothers to ask:
We think of time as a line on a graph representing the space-time continuum. We know that we can move in any direction in space. There is, theoretically, nothing really stopping us from moving in any direction in time, either, if time is a fourth dimension (as has been repeatedly suggested by theoretical physicists and philosophers alike). So… we if move “backward,” aren’t we then uncreated? Does the flow of time alter god? Does god become cruel and sadistic depending on which direction s/he/it is facing? And does that, by definition, blast into smithereens a whole lot of god’s “omnipotence”?
p.s., i used to be a hands-waving-in-the-air-for-some-reason zealous Christian as a teenager. I even destroyed my Duran Duran records over it, strangely assuming that Jesus was so egotistical that he only ever wanted to have songs all about himself. Thank [ ] i’m reformed now.
To my mind, there is nothing better than the idea that THIS is all there is, that there is no afterlife and no ultra-benevolent (yet strangely, fiercely jealous) Super-Grampa waiting to scoop us up in His arms when we die; that WE are responsible for what we do with our lives and how we shape our future as a species and individually. The idea that this is our one chance to get things right just makes life that much more important and special and precious. To me, life is sacred and holy enough without superstition or outdated ideas regarding how things work.
I also don’t see any problems with the idea that we are a wonderful accident of nature (which includes, but is not limited to, life). There is tremendous beauty in chaos.
And here’s a philosophical question hardly anyone ever bothers to ask:
We think of time as a line on a graph representing the space-time continuum. We know that we can move in any direction in space. There is, theoretically, nothing really stopping us from moving in any direction in time, either, if time is a fourth dimension (as has been repeatedly suggested by theoretical physicists and philosophers alike). So… we if move “backward,” aren’t we then uncreated? Does the flow of time alter god? Does god become cruel and sadistic depending on which direction s/he/it is facing? And does that, by definition, blast into smithereens a whole lot of god’s “omnipotence”?
p.s., i used to be a hands-waving-in-the-air-for-some-reason zealous Christian as a teenager. I even destroyed my Duran Duran records over it, strangely assuming that Jesus was so egotistical that he only ever wanted to have songs all about himself. Thank [ ] i’m reformed now.
OK, so i’ll admit two things.
1) that i have not updated my WordPress installation, nor fixed the PHP in my totally custom theme to work with PHP5. This is a major headache for so many reasons, not least of which involves time. That’s why it looks super ugly right now.
2) that i have not created a web site in many moons. This means there are a lot of things which i have not yet had to deal with extensively. I’m talking to you, IE7, and your diabolical hasLayout bullshit.
Right now i’m working on a web site for an old friend who has a desktop publishing business. It’s a WordPress site, because that means she can update it herself and not have to pay a schmuck (hello!) to do it for her. So i’m making a theme that matches her design, and it’s not been easy.
Thanks to every single goddamn iteration of Internet Exploder rendering pages completely differently than the others, because of wildly varying degrees of standards compliance, there are now so many bugs to work around that it’s actually no longer fun to make a web site.
To wit:
I have a floating element, followed by a fixed element, on the page. Unless i take out the float, the fixed element completely disappears in IE7. WTF. But when i remove the float, the layout goes all wonky because IE7 measures things differently. Which means i’ll have to bugfix that, which will no doubt screw things up in IE6. Did i mention that IE8 will probably make all of these endeavors even more stupefyingly, insanely complex?
All because Microsoft has got to buck the convention and do their own thing… which i would normally applaud, if it wasn’t so idiotic a thing to do when we’re dealing with a medium which exists on so many different platforms that standards are an absolute necessity.
So fuck you to Microsoft, yet again.
And seriously, to all of you cavepeople who are STILL using Internet Exploder… why? Why, why, why???
Unfortunately, the XBox is dead. Just when we brought home used copies of Skate and Beautiful Katamari.
Fortunately, Holly aced her very first practice for the maneuverability test.
Points if you got the reference.
Am i the only one who hates the new Cure single “Freakshow”? That has got to be the most grating, irritating song ever recorded. And i LOVE LOVE LOVE The Cure.
Grr.
Well, the puncture wound on top of my thumb is nicely infected. I’m going to find someplace to treat it before it gets worse. I keep checking my inner arm to see if a red stripe appears along the path of my blood vessels which would indicate blood poisoning, which is not incredibly likely at this stage.
Unfortunately, i’m not insured, so this will cost more than i can probably afford right now.
Next time you’re railing against socialized medicine, think about me. If you’re truly committed to fighting universal health care, then i want you to wish with all of your might that i had died today from the infection spreading to my bloodstream.
My damn dog bit a hole clean through my hand. He’s taken to stealing random objects while we’re asleep or not looking and bringing them to bed, guarding them like Cerberus or something. Even when he doesn’t have a lighter or a stapler or a pen or cigarette roller, he still refuses to let daddy into bed without a snarling, growling, snapping match. It’s funny, because he’s bitten me pretty good before, and i truly am kinda scared of his tiny little razor-sharp teeth – especially when i’m entering the bed in my cotton boxers – but now i know for sure that my fear is not unfounded. I deserved it this time, though. I made a fist at him and was a little aggressive this time.
Damn, it hurts! He gouged me down to through the muscle on the top, between my thumb and palm, and cut on the first thumb joint on the bottom. The blood pooled up real dark and thick and it filled up the first bandage after a few hours, but i really didn’t bleed a whole lot. I probably could have used maybe a stitch or two, but there’s no reason for that. People have survived much worse injuries, and i might even get a cool scar out of it.
Oh, and i got food poisoning from Milano’s last night. So today wasn’t my day.
Oh, and happy birthday to my dad!
In which the writer does a lot of boring whining about how much people don’t like him, again
Wow. Today i wrote what i thought was a genuinely hilarious comment on Digg (regarding a car made by BMW which has a cloth outer skin instead of metal or fiberglass), and it got buried by a 1 to 8 margin.
This kind of thing happens all the time, and i don’t understand why. It’s frustrating. I’m not looking for validation or anything, i just thought i’d share some laughs, and it just seems weird to me that only one person out of nine would find what i wrote funny. I don’t normally comment on Digg, but i thought of something reasonably clever to say, so i said it. I’m fully aware that i may in fact not be the Incredible Boy Genius i’m always making myself out to be, but seriously, i know funny, and that was good shit.
I know i shouldn’t take it personally. It’s just that this sort of thing happens all the freaking time.
One time, when i worked at Powertel in Florida, i was walking toward a group of co-workers, about six or eight people. I had just been promoted to a sub-supervisory position, and these were my peers in the same position. They were all laughing their asses off. When i got closer and some of them saw me, they all suddenly got super quiet and scattered. I never knew what the hell that was all about.
Things have always been like that for me.
Once when i was very little, a big burly biker friend of my stepmom picked up a kitten that was running around (which i had sort of symbolically claimed somehow), and he threw it at the wall real hard, killing it. He roared, laughing his fat head off. He obviously enjoyed being mean to me. That’s one of many reasons why i hate outlaw bikers to this day.
Online, i’ll post a question or anecdote in some forum, and watch as every single thread gets read and responded to but mine for days on end. Usually, after a couple of weeks trying vainly to bump my topic every couple of days, i’ll just give up.
When i used to deliver pizza, i would always be surprised at how often people tried to pull dirty tricks on me with money. Like they’d try to confuse me by giving me all these bills in different denominations, and want change back in weird ratios: Bill’s paying for Pete, but Pete’s got half and I’m getting a third of the middle pizza – I’m paying for Bill’s half of the top one, but I want my change back in ones so we can split it… but you need to divide that up and give us all the change accordingly first. They’d do it much better than that of course, but it was always really obvious that they were trying to pull one over on me. I would often leave at the end of my shift actually owing money, and that’s after tips were taken out.
Whenever i’m out in public, like at a mall or something, i’ll walk around stupidly, watching concerned mothers suddenly grab their children and bring them in closer under their wing when they see me. Even if i’m not walking toward them, or looking in their direction. The looks on their faces are always the same. Even the kids get it. They all look confused and frightened, as if they’d just been touched somewhere that didn’t feel too good.
I’m awkward and people don’t like me, and that pretty much just sucks.
I guess i just can’t see the giant ‘L’ on my forehead.
Any of you bastards trained cosmologists, philosophizers, or theoretical physicists?
I’m axing because i’m not, but i think i just had one of those transcendental euphoricisms while engaging in hypersynthesis in my Excremeditation Chamber, and i want to know if it’s a) crackpot, b) duh, i repeated what others have said before, or c) possibly a new way of looking at the interdimensional spatial relationships between parallel universes.
“These worst male-bashing ads will get you riled up…”
Not me, man. Men really ARE idiots. And some of these ads are funny as hell.
Ok, i pretty much only associate myself with people who meet my admittedly high standards. So, present company definitely excluded, dudes. But other than my close friends (ok, even some of my close friends) and my online guy pals, most of the males i have known have been boorish dicks, mindless oafs, and knuckle-dragging morons. I’m talking about the “beer+fuhbaw+chicka-wings” crowd of Maxim-reading gargantuan-pickup-driving dolts. You know them. I know them. They’re imbeciles, and they’re inevitably the ones who spring to mind when Europeans think of Americans. I’ll say it right now, out loud, in a very public place: i hate those retarded jackasses. They can all go straight to shit.
“These worst male-bashing ads will get you riled up…“
Not me, man. Men really ARE idiots. And some of these ads are funny as hell.
Ok, i pretty much only associate myself with people who meet my admittedly high standards. So, present company definitely excluded, dudes. But other than my close friends (ok, even some of my close friends) and my online guy pals, most of the males i have known have been boorish dicks, mindless oafs, and knuckle-dragging morons. I’m talking about the “beer+fuhbaw+chicka-wings” crowd of Maxim-reading gargantuan-pickup-driving dolts. You know them. I know them. They’re imbeciles, and they’re inevitably the ones who spring to mind when Europeans think of Americans. I’ll say it right now, out loud, in a very public place: i hate those retarded jackasses. They can all go straight to shit.
Exploring The Creation Museum – America’s New Mecca of Fanatical Ignorance
Excellent article on religious super-fundamentalism!
In case you think the journalist is a nutcase, i have provided for you his wikipedia entry, which among other things, seems to verify rather than dispute his credentials.
Yes, i know this is old news… but i’m willing to bet that most of you still didn’t know about it.
i miss my grandparents Ralph and Paulyne and my friends Mike and Bill and Kevin and my dog Tyger.
someday, i will die too.
we may all die together, if we continue to do little or nothing about our planet, our economy, and improving foreign relations.
what’s it all for?
it will all be over, sooner or later.
Dayton’s 800-mile underground sewer system; local goth kids probably occultist murderers
http://www.whiotv.com/news/16353623/detail.html
um, okay?
Former U.S. soldier droppin’ some Truth about this bullshit war in Iraq. Do your self and your conscience and your country and your fellow human beings a favor by watching this and then doing something about it.
Dear Transmother (sp?),
You are not helpful. Stop posting to message boards as if you had anything even remotely resembling decent advice to offer. If you had anything useful to add, that would be one thing, but you are muddying up the discussion with your irrelevant (and frankly, boring and stupid) commentary. Your banter is far from insightful and in fact only serves to make it more difficult for others to find quality information.
Just stop. Seriously. You are one insipid comment away from being banned.
Incidentally, do not ask for advice any more. You get what you give; accordingly, you go home with nothing. Do consider staying there.
Cordially (at best),
Your inner monologue