The Great Move-In Generation

It occurs to me that all the futuristic images of the super-duper green living that are being propagated as the vision for our future are as useless as the grim variety of the baked-and-smogged supercities if we don't act.

As we fail to meet our energy demand, one of the things that will have to change is where and how we live. Hours-long commuting will have to go rather soon. People will have to move closer to work or work remotely. Well it's not just any place where you'll be moving in. You'll be moving in with other people. That's right, creating living space requires enormous effort and energy. That means moving back in time - to the times when there were such thing as two-person house.

So this got to be the image to get the lazy America moving. Crowded living room, no personal bedrooms, and forget those long showers. It's either this tomorrow or go greener today.

Driving Visitors

I installed Google Analytics script into my blog and see how many people stop by, and from where (that information comes from your IP address which can be located down to about a city). The first shocker is that I get visitors from all across the globe and from all over the North America. No major cities in the US, just a single hit from Los Angeles.

No one really comes back, and I conclude that they come with blogger's "Next Blog" feature or something similar. In fact when I use it a lot myself, I get a spike in visitors. Looks like a way to give a little boost to traffic! I wonder how did you get to this page yourself.

Greenest Of Them All

The Bush Administration's unparalleled financial, international and domestic commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is delivering real results.

EPA Administrator Dave Johnson

That's right, bushies are trying to hijack the environmental issue. How could he physically open his mouth and say this bullshit? On the second thought, that's a white house appointee right there. If they spend a day without trashing some rule protecting our planet, that's unparalleled commitment right there. Sort of like a day without a pretzel.

University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus was partially evacuated for a bomb threat today. No bomb was found. Talking to people who guarded the police line, the rumor is that this was there were five bomb threats across the nation yesterday alone. That's right, maniacs from across the country are vastly stimulated by all the attention the VT story has got. There's not a mention of the bomb threats on any TV network.



There is however a mention of Cho Seung-Hui's final video. It is not on YouTube yet, but you simply got to go and watch it on CNN's front page. See how this dickhead compares himself with Jesus. Christians will scream that this proves that he was touched by devil, or some sort of bullshit like that. What this really illustrates is that Christians tent to be crazy, certainly not less than the average folks. Which they would deny 'cuz that would put an interesting light on all the divine revelations. Oh never mind.

This Week's Best Video

The Virginia Tech was not a nerd, but a plain-out psycho. He wrote plays so sick that he was removed from his class and taught one-on-one by his English teacher, as told by the CNN. What an utter bullshit.

As the story goes, the teacher informed the University administration, but they said the dude was protected by the first amendment. Nonsense, they just did not want to deal with it. He was not writing it elsewhere, he was writing this as a class assignment. Class assignments are graded. Why couldn't he collect D's in his courses and drop out?

Instead, she went for the trouble teaching him one-on-one, so that other students would not get terrified by his crap. He'd sit there in sunglasses and give her one-word answers. What is this some fucking kindergarten? If the student refuses to perform, is not learning and his presence in the classroom does not benefit anyone else, that student moves on to try himself elsewhere, perhaps with greater success. That's what's called a college dropout.

Why did they keep him? That's because the college system has been completely pussified. The faculty are pussies, the students are pussies and of them biggest pussies and the engine of it all are student's baby-boomer parents.

Faculty are supposed to represent school's academic and moral backbone. Imagine a University in which each professor has a "veto" right - he or she can expunge a student from the school, with no cause, once in his or her carrier. Or make it once in a decade. Or add the condition that that professor must have had that student in his/her class. Now imagine that was your school. Puking already? That's because you a total pussy, as well. With all and any explicit and implicit limitations (peer pressure first of all), this would mean that students have to have some self control, and the sole thought of that is unbearable.

Similarly irresponsible was the administration, not ready to deal with the problem and hence not ready to be held responsible for its decisions. Similarly the professor, with all my condolences, was simply doing a sort of damage control and trying to just get this guy through, quite unsuccessfully.

C'mon, admitting a mentally ill person to a university is the same as taking a physically disabled person on a sports team. Utter nonsense, that is. That's what "dis-ability" means. You can certainly be a fulfilled individual, but you are not able to do just any activity. For example, epileptics should not play certain computer games or risk severe attacks.

The shooter's identity is known, and he's a foreigner. South Korea named Cho Seung-hui was studying English and yesterday he went ahead and killed a bunch of people. It is interesting how the White House is on board of all this. Asians will undoubtedly be hated for this, even though there certainly are no school shootings in Korea. That's because everybody hates nerds.

For A Little Relaxation

Here's an amusing clip, I first found it on Daniel Thompson's blog. Instruments are 3D animated. The motion literary makes them come alive, and that's your original meaning of the word!. They did it so well, each instruments' character stands out - and that's quite a deed.

Your Friend Will Take You Down

Be afraid, be very afraid. Here's a piece from a mass email sent out by a vice pres of a big ten school, titled "Today's tragedy at Virginia Tech":

Unfortunately, the best planning and preparation in the world are sometimes not enough to prevent random acts of violence. That is why it is so important for students, faculty and staff to pay attention to their friends, their surroundings and observe appropriate security protocols. If you observe potential risks to safety and security, please don't hesitate to report it to the University ... Police Department by calling 911.

That's right, this morning's bloody massacre is a "random act of violence", and that's your fault. You haven't been watching your friends, buddy, and you did not obey the "security protocols", whatever that shit might be. Watch them. Be suspicious. Be formal. Obey. Only police can help. You cannot prevent it. You may not think.

Fuck that shit. I have a friend at Virginia Tech. Is this his friends who did it? Did he not not obey some fucking protocols? Go shoot yourself.

Deadly shooting at Virginia Tech, 33 dead

Virginia Tech woke up to gunshots this morning at quarter past seven. An account of the story is on CNN. The horror of the people barricading themselves from the shooter must have been unspeakable, and so the sadness of the parents and the loved ones. Read on once you have digested the story.

The suspect was a stereotypical Asian nerd gone postal (perhaps after pulling an all-nigher?):

"He was, I would say, about a little bit under six feet tall, young looking, Asian, dressed sort of strangely, almost like a boy scout, very short-sleeved light, tan shirt and some sort of ammo vest with black over it."

Isn't this story a little deja vu? Yes, even though this is the record shooting so far. The tech college kids are ahead of the high-schoolers, and of college shootings an Asian pinhead is ahead of them all. Nothings special in all this. Thirty tragedies is as bad as twenty. Extensive media coverage will bring attention of the future psychos. "Nucular" safety measures in schools and now perhaps at universities across the country will help to spend the money but wont stop future killings. America looses its memory and forgets its way. The way to dig down to the cause, to remedy if the cause cannot be fixed, and at all times to remain efficient and sincere about its goals.

After all these years, there is no explanation of why this happens. No studies are made public, there isn't a good public discussion. All that's said is "the boy had a good heart, we would never imagine; wait now that we think about it, he was a little wacko". Perhaps the truth is just too hard to swallow. What's even harder to swallow is the public that does not demand the answers and just tugs along - till the next time. If this incident gets a wider attention, some stupid PC story will be made up to make us happy. After that, it will be PC-illegal to question the cause of the shootings at all.

People seem unwilling to join about the cause. They either feel guilty or take it as entertainment. To help raise the awareness and keep the memories alive, there really got to be a ribbon for this. So that was my take on it.