1: Cook your own food (in bulk, in advance of the week)
2: Find cheap or free ways to entertain yourself (books, more art than normal, learning a new hobby)
The path to financial emancipation.
Also give me all your money for safe keeping.
In order for books to be cheap, you really have to be somewhat undemanding of what those books are.
(Bargue Drawing Course...I know $90 is not a bad price for you but you're still too expensive goddammit.)
Also maybe you should hit up Ray Kurzweil and ask how those 'you never have to eat or poop again!' nanobots he's always bleating on about are coming along, that could save some money.
I was thinking fiction books. I got the whole dune series for $1 at the local used book store.
I'm really glad I didn't pay much for them.
And one of the perks of living in Georgia is that I have access to millions of books at most libraries. PINES
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edited August 2010
I've got a kindle app on my ipod, you can find a lot of free books for download on there.
I hate library books, the due date makes the reading of said book feel like homework and therefore something to be ignored. Plus my library is kinda out of the way and never has anything I want.
I use the library for books and movies. They have what I want most of the time, but it's a university system so maybe it's a little better stocked. Still worth a shot though.
Edit: I promise that I made this post before it showed me your post and I didn't totally ignore you.
My roommate is watching Dragonball Z at an incredible volume for some reason and laughing loudly (actual enjoyment, not ironic). Maybe I should go to the library to escape this...
It just feels so much cozier to have my painting in my lap while I work on it. Of course, then the feeling gradually becomes various forms of discomfort.
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Do you ever draw a character that looks like such an enormous jerk you just want to punch him in the face?
I do it all the time, I must have done about 100 character drawings that are not finished because said character is creeping me the fuck out.
Are they similar to real life jerks that you are unconsciously trying to find a way to safely punch in the face?
The things I draw usually make me giggle.
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edited August 2010
No they just look weird, I'm going for cute and cuddly but they end up looking....well...disturbing.
This latest one looks like a cross between a southern dandy, a hardcore pedophile and someone from a beatles cartoon.
Is the movie trying to tell me I'm a bad person by siding with sam jackson one-hundred percent? Was I supposed to be wrong for cheering for the only realistically minded person, in a movie full of naive idealists?
I'm not usually very in touch with what the common population mindset, did this movie divide alot of people's opinions?
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edited August 2010
I dunno.
My old college sweetmate sided with Jack Nichelson in that movie where he's crazy... so anything's possible.
I haven't seen it, that's the one where Sam Jackson just tortures the crap out of a guy to find out where a bunch of time bombs are set, right?
I dunno what it said in the movie, but it's my understanding that in general, torture generally doesn't yield accurate information, especially under a time limit where the person being tortured knows how long they need to hold out before it would be over. They can either hold out and say nothing, or just lie and waste everyone's time until the clock runs out. I remember a guy went on the Daily Show that was like a former head of CIA interrogation or something like that, that had written a book on how counterproductive torture is as a way to get information under any circumstance.
I mean, yeah, there's bombs out there and the stuff that works (ie: winning over the detainee over time), isn't going to be very viable in a short time frame, so maybe you can justify doing it on a, "well, maybe something useful will slip out, we could at least give it a shot" basis, but generally if you're in that situation and that's your best and only idea, you're pretty much already fucked, and are probably better off devoting your resources to working with the information you do know is solid.
As much as I like 24 and when Jack Bauer says stuff like "I bet you don't think I can stuff this towel all the way down your throat. But I can.", I'm like "HA HA RIGHT ON", I'm not going to pretend that sort of shit is actually going to get you anywhere in real, not-24 world.
I haven't seen it, that's the one where Sam Jackson just tortures the crap out of a guy to find out where a bunch of time bombs are set, right?
I dunno what it said in the movie, but it's my understanding that in general, torture generally doesn't yield accurate information, especially under a time limit where the person being tortured knows how long they need to hold out before it would be over. They can either hold out and say nothing, or just lie and waste everyone's time until the clock runs out. I remember a guy went on the Daily Show that was like a former head of CIA interrogation or something like that, that had written a book on how counterproductive torture is as a way to get information under any circumstance.
I mean, yeah, there's bombs out there and the stuff that works (ie: winning over the detainee over time), isn't going to be very viable in a short time frame, so maybe you can justify doing it on a, "well, maybe something useful will slip out, we could at least give it a shot" basis, but generally if you're in that situation and that's your best and only idea, you're pretty much already fucked, and are probably better off devoting your resources to working with the information you do know is solid.
As much as I like 24 and when Jack Bauer says stuff like "I bet you don't think I can stuff this towel all the way down your throat. But I can.", I'm like "HA HA RIGHT ON", I'm not going to pretend that sort of shit is actually going to get you anywhere in real, not-24 world.
The message of the movie isn't so much about the effectiveness of torture, its more about the limits and morals that could be broken in an attempt to get a result. It's not about IF the information is useful, its about what the characters would do to get there.
And frankly speaking, if it was revealed to me that a nuclear attack in my area was stopped because they interrogated a man by peeling the skin off his screaming children, I would say it was entirely justified. Not that it was good or moral or I'd be able to do it myself, but I'd be damn glad they did it and it ended up saving my ass from radioactive death.
And if a nuclear attack went off and it was revealed that some moral idealist decided to step in and put a stop to something that would have stopped said attack because of some moral highground(again, not about the validity of the information. this is a yes or no scenario), I would be upset with the fact that they didn't go as far as they could have (if i was alive).
One man's life (or the life of his friends and family) does not have the same worth as the live of several millions. The movie essentially puts the two in front of the characters and audience and says "alright, sacrifice your own morals and humanity, destroy this man and his family, and you will save these millions of people. Or do the "right" thing, stop the interrogation, and destroy the millions of people."
The "good guys" pick the later because they didn't have the stomach to cut up a couple of kids. Hell, they didn't even have the stomach to WALK AWAY and let the guy who was willing to do it. Those actions stated that those two children were worth the lives of three cities.
No, they are not.
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I guess it's generally assumed that average-to-attractive girls who are completely normal never play video games, or even use the internet.
We are clearly too busy cooking 10 meals a day for our husbands and childrens and doing all the laundry. And crying into Ben & Jerry's while we watch Lifetime.
P.S. my friend's mom records shows on Lifetime every now and then...most of the shows/movies follow a clear "mens are violent and bad, but this heroine is totally confident and wins at everything, in spite of the bad mens" and also a lot of "middle-aged female fantasy" scenarios that seem straight out of those godawful romance novels with a beefcake on the cover, all up in the lady's business/skirts.
I'm all for "yay ladies" and such, but...when it's completely one-sided like that, it's completely unrealistic.
Also human men are naturally stronger than human women, I don't care what any hyper-feminist has to say, it's fucking biology. Biology does not allow for perfect physical equality, you asshat.
[edit] sorry I rage a lot on this subject. RAAAAAGE
In other news, I can't believe it's August already. I feel unful-summer-filled. Living in Savannah for three years hurt my cold tolerance, though. :P Swimming was difficult for me this year.
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edited August 2010
I'm highly unfamiliar with the online game community, I was familiar for a moment until I realised 80% of them were huge fucking jerks, then I started accelerating towards being less familiar.
As for the online girl thing, the majority of girls I've seen who play video games are super hot.
And ND confirms my theory that Lifetime movies are not entertaining to anybody because they are dull formulaic bullshit.
I agree with you a lot, NightDragon! I'm in no way a feminist. I just think it's moronic when people act like assholes for the sake of acting like an asshole.
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I was thinking fiction books. I got the whole dune series for $1 at the local used book store.
I'm really glad I didn't pay much for them.
And one of the perks of living in Georgia is that I have access to millions of books at most libraries.
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edit: 9.6 million books
I also get the UGA library, which is enormous.
I hate library books, the due date makes the reading of said book feel like homework and therefore something to be ignored. Plus my library is kinda out of the way and never has anything I want.
Edit: I promise that I made this post before it showed me your post and I didn't totally ignore you.
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"ahhh my neck hurts"
"oh no I rested my hand in a wet part"
"ugh my legs fell asleep again"
The solution to all of these things? Get off the floor and paint with an easel like a big girl. I need to learn to do this
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Also then you can still paint on the floor.
It's a subject pretty thoroughly covered in my book "Painting with an Easel is for Jerks"
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I do it all the time, I must have done about 100 character drawings that are not finished because said character is creeping me the fuck out.
The things I draw usually make me giggle.
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This latest one looks like a cross between a southern dandy, a hardcore pedophile and someone from a beatles cartoon.
she used the burn tool to literal death
I am biting my lip so hard I might be bleeding
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I...know the feeling.
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I see the burn tool
its dead
its dead on her photoshop its like why didnt you stop pressing me whyyyy
Is the movie trying to tell me I'm a bad person by siding with sam jackson one-hundred percent? Was I supposed to be wrong for cheering for the only realistically minded person, in a movie full of naive idealists?
I'm not usually very in touch with what the common population mindset, did this movie divide alot of people's opinions?
My old college sweetmate sided with Jack Nichelson in that movie where he's crazy... so anything's possible.
I don't care if he calls a million Code Reds.
I dunno what it said in the movie, but it's my understanding that in general, torture generally doesn't yield accurate information, especially under a time limit where the person being tortured knows how long they need to hold out before it would be over. They can either hold out and say nothing, or just lie and waste everyone's time until the clock runs out. I remember a guy went on the Daily Show that was like a former head of CIA interrogation or something like that, that had written a book on how counterproductive torture is as a way to get information under any circumstance.
I mean, yeah, there's bombs out there and the stuff that works (ie: winning over the detainee over time), isn't going to be very viable in a short time frame, so maybe you can justify doing it on a, "well, maybe something useful will slip out, we could at least give it a shot" basis, but generally if you're in that situation and that's your best and only idea, you're pretty much already fucked, and are probably better off devoting your resources to working with the information you do know is solid.
As much as I like 24 and when Jack Bauer says stuff like "I bet you don't think I can stuff this towel all the way down your throat. But I can.", I'm like "HA HA RIGHT ON", I'm not going to pretend that sort of shit is actually going to get you anywhere in real, not-24 world.
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All because I got into a random queue as a DPS and was still in my tanking gear
Get a life
Like the heavy machine gun guy in tf2- he's not fat but ppl call him fatty.
I'm flabbergasted.
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The message of the movie isn't so much about the effectiveness of torture, its more about the limits and morals that could be broken in an attempt to get a result. It's not about IF the information is useful, its about what the characters would do to get there.
And if a nuclear attack went off and it was revealed that some moral idealist decided to step in and put a stop to something that would have stopped said attack because of some moral highground(again, not about the validity of the information. this is a yes or no scenario), I would be upset with the fact that they didn't go as far as they could have (if i was alive).
One man's life (or the life of his friends and family) does not have the same worth as the live of several millions. The movie essentially puts the two in front of the characters and audience and says "alright, sacrifice your own morals and humanity, destroy this man and his family, and you will save these millions of people. Or do the "right" thing, stop the interrogation, and destroy the millions of people."
The "good guys" pick the later because they didn't have the stomach to cut up a couple of kids. Hell, they didn't even have the stomach to WALK AWAY and let the guy who was willing to do it. Those actions stated that those two children were worth the lives of three cities.
No, they are not.
the fuck
It appears they actually accused her of being fat.
Which is much less cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=307jRiE6t5I
We are clearly too busy cooking 10 meals a day for our husbands and childrens and doing all the laundry. And crying into Ben & Jerry's while we watch Lifetime.
P.S. my friend's mom records shows on Lifetime every now and then...most of the shows/movies follow a clear "mens are violent and bad, but this heroine is totally confident and wins at everything, in spite of the bad mens" and also a lot of "middle-aged female fantasy" scenarios that seem straight out of those godawful romance novels with a beefcake on the cover, all up in the lady's business/skirts.
I'm all for "yay ladies" and such, but...when it's completely one-sided like that, it's completely unrealistic.
Also human men are naturally stronger than human women, I don't care what any hyper-feminist has to say, it's fucking biology. Biology does not allow for perfect physical equality, you asshat.
[edit] sorry I rage a lot on this subject. RAAAAAGE
also high-fives for the internet+gaming ladies.
As for the online girl thing, the majority of girls I've seen who play video games are super hot.
And ND confirms my theory that Lifetime movies are not entertaining to anybody because they are dull formulaic bullshit.
You go girl.
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