April 2003 Archives

"If you can do something about it, why worry? If you can't do something about it, why worry?"

--Indian Proverb

My new AIM screenname is "LaEsperantisto"

Well the score is 87 to 85. The Author has officially overtaken The Commentators in the number of posts made to this blog. We're coming up on the big 100 though.

It's amazing how many people are online between the hours of 9:00 PM and 12:00 AM.

Escribo en tres lenguajes aquí. Me gustan lenguajes, porque lenguajes son interesante y entretenimiento. Escriban con me!

¿Donde están tus comentarios? Escriban, por favor.

La populoj deziras scii la panakiranton de la elekto. Do... la oficistoj de la sofmorklaso por '03-'04 estas: Adamo Andersono, prezidanton; Domoniko Makojo, vicprezidanton; Paŭlo Clemo, sekretariinon (kalemburo en esperanto); kaj Lindsejo Baŭltuso, trezoriston.

"And it was just like yeah, the tribe."

--Sadie Belica, while giving a presentation on a book in English, per. 4, C. Wood

While sitting bored in English listening to a 30-minute presentation on a really boring book, I came up with a new acronym for the Quote of the Day. It is "quotd".

Mi havas venko!! Ha har!!

La elekto de la prezidanto de la sofmorklaso estas min. Mi devas diri min estas poka zorgo. Mi ne zorgas tial mi scias min malgajnos (estas eblo), sed mi suferas pokan senhavecon. Mi ŝatas mian katon. Li faras ĝeno mian pupitron ĉi tie. Amara kato estas li.
Malgraŭ miaj zorgoj, morgaŭ mi bone diros, aŭ mi faros mian plejn bonon (se nenio plu). Populoj diris nur bonajn aĵojn hodiaŭ. Iuj komisiis min, ke si konis neniu ne balotos min. Mi espaeras ilin estas korekta! La rezultoj publikiĝos ĉi tie, morgaŭ. Adiaŭ!

Ĉu nenio da mia enskribigoj meritas via komentojn?? Ne estas agado mian l'blogon.

As none of my competitors are likily to see this, here is the full and current format of my speech for class president. Gone is the slang, after being deemed innappropriate (for its potential to have multiple subliminal and misconstruable meanings).

Hello, my friends and acquaintances! You have all clearly come, bribed by the prospect of missing class, to celebrate this grand democratic tradition by electing your leader for the next year. Indeed this is the role that I hope to acquire through your wise selection of a sophomore class president.
First of all, let me direct your attention to the past 6 or 7 months, in which we have braved the slashing of 24 days of our school year and the destruction of our sports programs; a tragic time indeed. For those of you unaware, I have appeared in print in the Oregonian and on radio multiple times vouching for the end of these abominable absurdities somehow. Obviously the role of a student leader is not specifically to run around dictating the way budgets are to be made, but, as you can see, I am willing to go out to any limb to preserve the will of the populous.
Now, on to matters of more immediate importance to you, such as dances or the sanitation—or more accurately, lack of sanitation thereof—of the school's bathrooms. Bathroom sanitation, is, well... very important to me. However, it does not take someone of intelligence to know that all most of you really care about are dances. I shall not lie: my reputation does not include the title of "party junkie," or even really "party goer." Nevertheless, I can tell you that our dances are in need of some kind of revitalization, for two reasons: 1) So they are not banned outright by the administration, and 2) So that more people can be attracted to them, thus increasing the amount of cash flowing into the school's bleak coffers. This additional money could manifest itself in a number of ways: maybe one more computer in the library, or maybe just a bathroom or two that is a little bit cleaner.
And so, although I may be crushing your need for entertainment by doing so, I must declare the end to this speech.

Preamble
By the declaration of The Author on this day of April 25th, 2003, this constitution is now in effect. It's purpose is to provide a general foundation for all operations. The primary goal of the Constitution of Adams Blog is to protect the goals of the site: for The Author to communicate with the world, for free exchange of ideas, and any other somewhat decent thing you can think of. So, because I am tired, here is the text of the constitution.

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Article 1: Governing The Author

Section 1: The author of all entries in Adams Blog shall be The Author, who, at this time is Adam Anderson, and who will remain Adam Anderson until an amendment is made governing the identity of The Author. In cases of extreme emergency where The Author cannot fulfill the the duties of Authorship, the Auxiliary Author shall have power to perform all operations needed to ensure operation of Adams Blog.

Section 2: The Auxiliary Author shall be chosen by The Author, and his identity shall be kept secret to protect his or her identity.

Section 3: The duty of The Author is to carry out the tasks of Authorship, which are:
1. To post entries to Adams Blog on a such a basis as to not leave the majority of readers wondering about the fate of The Author.
2. To respond to readers' concerns and questions with reasonable and truthful responses.
3. To call into action the duties of the Auxiliary Author.
4. To perform all tasks of maintenence to ensure the functioning of Adams Blog within the power of The Author.
5. To deal with violations of this constitution in ways which are not only reasonable to the Author, but also to the readers of Adams Blog.

Section 4: The powers granted to The Author are:
1. The power to censor or delete posts which do not conform to the rules regarding the conduct of comments.
2. The power to write about whatever subject he or she wishes, as long as it conforms to the rules regarding the conduct of entries.
3. The power to redesign the site of Adams Blog in such a way which is pursuant to the attractiveness/usability of the user interface.
4. The power to create amendments to this constitution.

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Article 2: Governing the Reader

Section 1: For all applicable purposes, a "reader" is defined as one who reads any words off Adams Blog.

Section 2: All readers have the following rights:
1. The right to read whatever they wish on Adams Blog.
2. The right to write whatever they wish in the form of comments on Adams Blog, provided the comments comply with the rules regarding the conduct of comments.
3. The right to contact The Author in the form of email at his current address: adam@appmagic.com.

Section 3: No legal act shall affect any of the rights of the reader.

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Article 3: Regarding the Conduct of Entries and Comments

Section 1: The definition of an "entry" is a passage of text written by The Author or The Auxiliary Author on Adams Blog using MovableType.

Section 2: The definition of a "comment" is a passage of text written by anyone as a response or comment to an entry.

Section 3: The conduct of entries and comments are as follows:
Subsection A: Neither entries nor comments shall contain:
1. racism
2. sexism
3. discriminatory remarks based on an individual's sexual orientation
Note to Subsection A: Such things cited above have no purpose.
Subsection B: Mild vulgarity is allowed if it is not in English, or adds significantly to the meaning of an entry or comment.

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Article 4: Criminal Behavior

Section 1: Criminal behavior is defined as any conduct visible in any way on Adams Blog preventing the free communication of relevant ideas. This includes:
1. impersonation
2. violations of the conduct of entries and comments
3. destruction of legitimate information
4. disturbance of the stability of Adams Blog

Section 2: Criminal behavior will be punished as The Author sees fit, while the most extreme punishment possible is a complete and permanent ban of the offender's right to communicate in any way, shape, or form on Adams Blog.

"'Yes,' said Martin, 'I have travelled in several provinces. In some you find half the people are fools, and in others you find them much too subtle. There are some parts of the country where people are simple and stupid, and others where they pretend to be witty. But wherever you go in France, you will find that their three-chief occupations are making love, backbiting, and talking nonsense.'
'But do you know Paris, Sir?' asked Candide.
'Oh yes,' said Martin. 'I know Paris. You will find all sorts there. It's chaos, a mob of people all out for pleasure, and scarcely a soul who finds it. At least, that is how it appeared to me. I stayed there a short while: soon after I arrived I was robbed of all I had by some pickpockets at Saint Germain's Fair, and spent eight days in prison on suspicion of being a pickpocket myself. After that I took a job as a printer's reader to earn enough to pay my way back to Holland on foot. That is how I got to know the Grub Street hacks and every corner of the whole warren of intrigue and fanaticism. I am told that there are some people in that city noted for their good mannars; I wish I could think so.'"

--Voltaire in "Candide"

In ancient times a Germanic tribe named the Vandals sacked Rome and looted the Italian Peninsula. Today we use still use the word "vandal" to describe someone of such detestable character as to willfully destroy or deface public or private property. In a sense we are comparing them to extremely violent and disruptive peoples... which they are, I might add. I have suffered the unprovoked wrath of these obnoxious malignants. My posters for my bid for class president were torn off the wall, spat upon, and thrown on the floor, while I was left to stare suspiciously at a very large poster vouching for someone running for class treasurer, which had been placed in the former location of mine. (I'm not sure if that sentence was grammatically correct.) There is a very large outrage that has grown among a great number of people, due to this unsportsmanly act. I stress that the perpetrator of this act is still unknown, and it may have not even been one of my opponents; nevertheless, suspicion is raging among the masses.

There seems to be a decline of activity on this site. Strange.

"I'm scared. I am scared."

--Dane Gatewood, candidate for Sophomore class president reflecting on his chances of losing.

"You want punk rock??!!! I'll give it to you!!!! You want hip-hop??!!! I'll give it to you!!!! You want classical or country??!!! I'll stick my foot up your ***!!!!"

--Ben DeMarco, in his speech for student body president of Wilson. He will take office next year.

Well, I must say I have been feeling a bit guilty. I've recieved multiple requests that I not write in Esperanto in this blog, and yet I still do. Then someone commented that my writing here was very pompous. Considering that I write with usually only my personal enjoyment in mind, I didn't really care at first. But then I realized that people might be finding my "pompousness" obnoxious or offensive. And then, being a bit alarmed, I realized that writing with only myself in mind was a bit selfish, and so I have proceeded to write this entry to clear my conscience so that I can feel better (Oh, how ironic that is!). I am therefore conducting a poll, modeled on modern standardized tests, to determine whether people find my style of writing to be a) bad (i.e. obnoxious, offensive, or otherwise despicable), b) good (i.e. noteworthy, amusing, or otherwise commendable), c) of such a style that does not provoke comment (i.e. don't care, I need sleep, who cares?, etc.), or perhaps a better choice: d) do not understand what you mean by "style of writing." In order to participate, simply post a comment to this entry with your letter of choice. You do not need to put your name. Thank you.

As the author of this blog, I have determined the adequate punishment for the Evil_Spoonman's impersonatory remarks. For the 10 days he will not participate in any way in any computer games, and will use only the MS-DOS command-line prompt for all of his computing needs. I realize that this may cause some confliction with school, therefore the punishment may be postponed until the summer of this year. Anyone who knows the Evil_Spoonman will likely agree that this is a harsh punishment that is well-fitting for the crime.

Esperanto, Esperanto, amara Esperanto... Mia hundo estas freneza. Mi fartas tre ajna. Estas la dek-ok de aprilo, dumil tri. Mi uzis "estas" tro multa. Tre multegan lernejlaboron havas mi faras je la sabato kaj dimanĉo. Sed mi morgiaŭ iros concerton ĉe Rido Kolegio. La prezentaĵo estos kun klasika muziko.
Hodiaŭ estis enuiga tago. Mi skribis testo en biologismo (Ne demandu. Mi ne povis la traduko de "biology" Esperanton, tial mi faris ĝi.) kaj ni tre malrapide marŝis en fizikeducado; estas granda malŝparo da horo. Skribi en Esperanto estas multa laboro, tial mi estas laca. Ĝis!

People have commented that this blog is losing popular appeal by my writing in Esperanto. Ha!

The truth has come about!! The Evil_Spoonman is our culprit!! He is responsible for this horrible slew of impersonage. The staff here at Adams Blog is contemplating a punishment. Believe me, it will be a cruel one!!!

--The Staff

The deadline for a halt to, and confession of all impersonations is fast approaching.

I can smell your path as I smell fresh, dry air on a summer day. There is still time for you to get out of this without facing my wrath of words in my upcoming proclaimation of guilt. This can be achieved by providing your name, a confession statement, and a promise of never again comitting such a despicable crime as impersonation. The deadline for this is the same for the ultimatum of stopping all impersonations.

With annoyance,

Adam Anderson (the author)

I know where you come from fool!! Haha!! The impersonator is from Australia, and is using an IP address registered in Melbourne. I am convinced that this is culprit, but more info is neccessary before I can make my proclaimation of guilt.

The culprit cannot survive for long now; I have found their IP address!! (Unless of course their not using a static IP, but heck, I'm an optimist)

I have fought back against this cruel series of impersonations of myself and the venerable Maxwell Fritz. In a joint movement, we have purged the message boards of any illegitimate comments (and some legitimate ones that wouldn't make any sense without the illegitimate ones). Do not think that because impersonation seems so easy, that one can succeed with it. I must remark that the impersonator is truely brilliant in their creation of highly convincing comments that look genuinely like something that myself or the venerable Maxwell could have written. I do not mean this as a compliment, but rather as a mark of warning to both readers and writers alike. With the assistance of the community of this blog, I believe that we can cease the activities of the culprit before the deadline for confession arrives and I am forced to shut down portions of this site.

Impersonations are continuing, and to the best of my knowledge they are not being authored by the evil_spoonman. I must ask that all impersonation of anyone halt forever by 23:00 Friday, April 18th, 2003, or all portions of this site where impersonation of anyone has and does take place will be shut down immediately and indefinately. I give you my gravest thanks.

I got back from the state Model UN conference yesterday. It was very, very cool. We kicked the US out of ECOSOC, passed a resolution that provided free anger management for world leaders and world peace bumper-stickers for cars and pack-animals, and I got in trouble for giving too many long speeches. How could there be anything more fun?

Thanks to Maxwell Fritz!! He set a message board site and gave me the html to incorporate it into this site. With some tweaking, I removed the ads from the html, and voila! It's here! Under the "links" sidepanel, there is now a link to a message board. Thank you again Maxwell, and happy posting.

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

--Ghandi

Mi venas trans nova dupersonan pronomon je l'interreto hodiaŭ, ke mi ne antaŭe vidis. Ĝi estas la 'ci'. 'Ci' estas simila je "thou" en Anglo. Mi ne kredas ke 'ci'n estas ofte uzi.

Mi havas peton. Mi ofte estas confuza pro personoj ne skribas iliajn nomojn kie si komenti. Estas vera, estas personoj ke ne ŝatas doni ilian informon al l'publiko, sed mi estas kurioza kiu venas ĉi tiu ttt-ejon. Ĉu estas Esperantistoj? Ne probable. Se vi povas komenti en Esperanto, bonvolu komenti. Ho, mi estas do soleca kun ne persono kun kiun diri.

http://www.ucomics.com/nonsequitur/2003/04/05/

indeed

Another book that is really good is "Candide" by Voltaire. Pretty funny.

Bonaj novaĝoj estas tie! Vij estas komentinta tre, kaj estas farinta min tren feliĉan. Do, mi dankas vijn. Ĉi tiu blogo havas kvindek-ok komentojn. Skribu pliaj komentoj en l'blogo. Estas tre bonega, aŭ en mia malformala Esperanto, "estas dolĉega, mia vir'!"

There some people in this world who think that Esperanto is an utterly useless language that nobody speaks. On the contrary, I would like to point out that the movie 'Incubus' (1965) was filmed entirely in Esperanto and stars William Shatner. It was recently rereleased on DVD.

"... war is stupid."

-- Claire Davis

Never fear!! I have not died, and my love of my so-called "social experiments" has not waned. For the record, I am in the midst of planning another social experiment, but I cannot reveal what it is lest I taint the subjects of it. However, the result will be ready by late April, and they will be presented in this forum. Until then, I cannot budge any knowledge of it to even the closest of my friends, for fear of ruining my entire machination.