I recently came in contact with this site while reading a post on a message board about a game called F.E.A.R. Someone got confused about a certain plot element which involved a birth where the girl giving birth was only 8 years old. (The poster got the timeline wrong, the girl was put into a coma at age 8, and gave birth at age 15, which makes more sense) But then there was some debate on that topic, where everyone unequivocally stated that it was impossible for an 8 year old girl to give birth.

Then there was this link posted up and I remembered this fascinating site that I'd been to before, but not lately. The answer as to whether an 8 year old child can give birth is found here:

[World youngest pregnancy]

The site itself is a treasure trove of useful and useless facts about urban legends. Of course nothing on the internet is definitive, but caveat emptor.

Okay, this week was so busy. But good thing I got over it and I cleared my weekend for the sole purpose of relaxation (this means I canceled/failed to accept any invitations from my friends for parties/get together/dinners/dates although there weren't any dates to decline - oh well)

So I log on the computer and found out:

[George Takei (Sulu from Star Trek) Comes Out] [Another Link]

I just have a question: When do we get to see pictures of "Brad"? His 18-year long boyfriend/husband/partner of sorts? I want to see pictures so I can judge, mostly.

George Takei's website is not responding, at least not on my university's computers.

Also, more good news in the world of cyberspace:
[Flickr offers PRINTZ]

We can now order prints for delivery or pickup at a Target store, only in the US though. And we can also order books of photos as well as posters. Now, I just want to say, books full of photos. Can anyone say with me, "naughty pictures in book-form?"

I think midterms are worse than finals. Sure, you may have to study a bit more for finals, but you're given the time to do so. While trying to study for midterms, you still have to go to class and juggle the rest of your assignments. You have to contend with noisy roommates who don't have midterms at the same time as you. The days are getting shorter, and the temperature colder, and all you want to do is stay in bed.

The reason this comes up is that I've spent the majority of the last 3 days catching up with my psych readings (which I'd ignored until now). I haven't had much sleep, and I've had way too much Dr. Pepper, so I'm slightly irritable, and you people get to hear me rant.

I had written up a long post about personal experiences and other people's behaviours, but I decided to scrap it, because it was way too long and sounded like whining even to me. Instead, I've decided to include some quotes from my psych text.

Rats are very similar to humans except that they are not stupid enough to purchase lottery tickets.

The average adult has one testicle and one ovary.

We share half our genes with the banana.

It's not that gay men are oversexed; they are simply men whose male desires bounce off other male desires rather than off female desires.

I contend that nature has given males the heaviest burden of all: the burden of always having to Make the First Move, and thereby risk getting Shot Down. I don't know WHY males get stuck with thise burden, but it's true throughout the animal kingdom... It's always the male bird who does the courting dance, making a total moron of himself, while the female bird just stands there, looking aloof, thinking about what she's going to tell her girlfriends ('And then he hopped around on one foot! Like I'm supposed to be impressed by THAT!').

Mom may be holding a full house while Dad has a straight flush, yet when Junior gets a random half of each of their cards his poker-hand may be a loser. (On genetics)

What's the difference between a man and E.T.? E.T. phoned home.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks about is the condition of her uterus. (PMS doesn't actually exist; people only perceive that it does)

Corduroy pillows make headlines.

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

How weird is the English language - in fact, how weird is language in itself. It's always changing from this to that, a constantly evolving abstract organism. Although it might seem logical to think that because of mass media and the Internet (which I guess is part of this mass media) the English language would be, in a way, "standardized" because everyone will be seeing the same English in all the parts of the world and who knows, we might even get a few more members of the English Speaking club.

However, its the reverse, kind of. Because of the Internet, many new words have come into being, most of them acronyms, mispelled words, or the mismatching of two words together. "Blogging" and "LOL" (which shouldn't be verbalized into one syllable but I do it all the time, LOL!) Jargon is invading the English Language. In the future, would I feel like Shakespeare as he would have felt now? Wouldth I speakth queerly? Yeah, probably.

[Fanboys and overdogs muscling into English language]

Also, I saw this on my University's blackboard site. It's about the future of music. Hopefully not.

[Young Singers Spread Racist Hate]

Sad, huh?

And lastily, this is the best game ever. Try it with your friends. You're going to love it.

[1000 Blank White Cards]

PS. I loved Almost Like Being in Love. I stayed up last night just to finish it and I might even read it again. It's one of those guilty pleasures I am allowed to indulge in because I don't do it often. Now I'm starting, A Son Called Gabriel which isn't as good as Almost Like Being in Love but I'm not suffering either. We'll see how it goes.

The next Common Grounds meeting will host the guy with the weird high voice who works at Temple Health Empowerment Office (which I thought about volunteering at, by the way). According to Tom, the President, it's going to be a "hoot". I prefer to hold my judgement until after I have the presentation on sex safety.

When I told Alex this he said, "So, is Tom your boyfriend or something?" with a touch of hate in his voice. Apparently Alex dislikes Tom a great deal because Tom is a flamer. And I shouldn't hang out with him. This is coming from the guy who likes to sit with me on park benches and elbow me once every two seconds when a hot guy walks by while trying not to look stupid doing it.

"No, Tom's not my boyfriend. We just sit next to each other in class and stare into each other's eyes and trade secrets. Then I come over to cook dinner with him. That's all." I answered. I think either Alex vomited a little in his mouth or he felt jealous. I think it was both.

I'm reading Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger. It's a story between two kind of different guys who fall in love. It begins in high school (via boarding school - I think) and they meet again when they're older. The story is formatted in a unique style - in letters between people or drafts or journal entries. It's intersting. Anyway, one of the journal entries was really funny. I'll quote it for you.

REAL LIFE vs. THE MOVIES

Breaking Up in the Movies

Boy #1: This isn't working out, is it?
Boy #2: Sort of not, huh?
Boy #1: You can't say we didn't try.
Boy #2: We sure did. Besides, we're still best friends.
Boy #1: Forever
Boy #2: This is terrific pasta.

Breaking Up for Real

Boy #1: Are you asleep?
Boy #2: Does it sound like it?
Boy #1: I'm sorry about the tuna fish.
Boy #2: It isn't the tuna fish! It's the last six months!
Boy #1: You're an asshole.
Boy #2: Let go of my cock.

Yeah, its a funny book. I like it.

Here's looking at you, kid.

I've come to realize that one of my greatest talents is my ability to waste time. I've been sitting here for 4 hours, doing absolutely nothing worthwhile, even though I have plenty of important things I should be doing. Helping me out is my good friend addictinggames.com.



Today, I spent some time with Unlock and Drivers Ed. If you like Unlock, one of my favourite mind games is The Dark Room. And I can't mention time wasters without mentioning TextTwist, to which I've lost a good portion of my life.

Today I discovered "Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes". A couple of the things on the list I disagree with - either because of laziness or I just don't find them a "design mistake" as much as a "design preference".

1.) Titling posts - Yeah, sure. Giving each post a title does enhance the qualit of the post. And maybe I will do that. But sometimes titles don't give the post enough justice. Which goes onto my second mistake - according to the piece...

2.) Mixing Topics - Okay, I do talk about a myriad of things. So do a lot of blogs. A bunch of successful blogs talk about a lot of things. Memepool.com, megnut.com, peterme.com. Just to list a few. However...

3.) Domain Names - I hope to one day have a personal domain. Due to financial costs and the lack of good ideas for a domain name I haven't done it yet.

likeabox.com - Sigh.

Eh?

Pfft.

Ha ha ha, very funny kenny.

I shall post something a bit more substantial. We all like downloading stuff from the internet, or at least that's what I assume. So I discovered this site which contains news items related to that endevour. Most is about legal challenges and new technologies and software that is related to the fun field of Peer 2 Peer:

Slyck.com

This site was once one of the links on that site, and I thought it was interesting. Mostly about economics and the web-economy, but maybe someone will find it fascinating. (another blog alert!)

The Long Tail

And to satisfy the gay quota (token gay item): Swervemedia.org It's a local gay newspaper from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Lots of interesting articles on gay issues and stuff.

With this post, I've now officially lost my blogger virginity. I'll post something more substantial later, when I'm not supposed to be writing a lab report.

I went clubbin. It's supposed to say "Saturday". I'm tired. It was my first time clubbing. Definately not my scene and there are other ways to meet guys. But I did have fun and I might go again because I enjoyed the company. And going with people makes things more fun, I assume.

12th Air Command - Saturday

It's a sad day, indeed. However, it's effin' halarious. This is gay duck rape. Yes. Apparently, its not uncommon. Well, its not uncommon for duck rape (with each other) but its farily uncommon for gay duck rape.


So, I was at the mall today when I saw this booth for the Motorola Video Phone - OJO (of course, its like Spanish for "eyes" but we American superiors pronounce it with a hard "j" instead of a soft "j"-"h" sound but we're better so whatev."

Yes, I'll call you. On my video phone. <3 cerberus. I love it.

I have been informed that there is an AOL CD archive and trading. Shit, some CD's are actually worth something. Makes me want to see if my CD's are worth anything. Because I have a bunch of AOL CD's.

I'm pretty much in love with this guy. I go to Defunker.com and BustedTees.com only to look at pictures of him. And then I save it on my computer and my Google Desktop thing cycles through the pictures I have on my computer and enjoy his pictures popping up from time to time.

It's a sad infactuation.

Normally I don't like redheaded guys but this guy is different. I am a brunette/jet black hair kind of person myself. But how can you resist him? Just how? C'mon, even he doesn't know!

Anyway, taken from Kottke.org I've come upon the Flickr category of Cameratoss. It looks fun and it looks very good. I wonder if its easy to reproduce and do myself. Apparently, you set your camera to long exposure and toss it up at some random light source. But I have a feeling that its going to be tougher than naught. And leading to another subject, I think I've fallen in love with Flickr. Photography is awesome and some of the photos are Flickr are breathtaking.

Just Keep Refreshing 

I totally agree?

Holy crap, 1,667 words is about four standard pages in MSWord. And I copied and pasted that thirty times and it came out to be 102 pages, 50,010 words. Wow, thats a lot. I think I'm going to put it in several documents spread out or at least make frequent backups to my gmail account. Hm...let's see how many MB's this monster document is. 440 KB, which isn't too bad. I thought it was going to be a lot more.

Just 19 more days. Right?

Whoosh.

Well, Picasa2 posted these pictures chronically backwards but I guess you just have to bear with it. Deal man, deal.

Anyway, today I went to Philly's OutFest. It was awesome. So, here are the pictures. I hope you enjoy and be sure to comment on each and every one of them!


Very cool guy dancing to a hot techno beat supplied by Shampoo.

Tyler and Laura making out in front of the protesters. I don't like that guy in the picture though, he should have walked slower. 

Going down. 

Penis-shaped bagel eating contest. Joe didn't win. 

More heels. 

High Heels contest. This person had mismatched heels. Very funny. 

That guy in the blue t-shirt with the two guys hold hands (in the lower right hand) is hot.  

More protesters. The purple banner are the protesters of the protesters. Queers Bash Back! Although "bash" has a bad connotation, its suitable here. Very suitable. 

Joe ripping up a "What the Bible really says about Homosexuality" pamphlet. Boo protesters. 

Gay Christian Chorus. They're okay. 

Protesters. Very interesting. 

This is when I first entered the block party. Just taking a general picture. 

So today I read the article in the Oct. 10th issue of TIME magazine about gay teens in modern day America. To tell you the truth, I think I hyped it up too much for myself. I thought it was going to be this powerful statement on how gay youth are overcoming hardships and it will interview various gay youths from across the nation and all. But...instead the article focused on a group called Exodus which tries to convert gay youths to the heterosexual path again. I mean, its good to mention it but not a point to go on about it for 2-3 pages. Not necessary. At all.

However, the good parts were interesting. Like, for example, the Point Foundation is a foundation that gives scholarships to open gay students who have faced hardships coming out. That kind of makes me wish I experienced more hardships (aside from my family thinking is a phase) when I came out but then again, I don't since it must suck a lot. So they deserve the money to go to college.

There are at least 3,000 Gay-Straight alliance in U.S. schools. Too bad there's not one at my high school. But good thing there's one at my college. Sweet. It's weird that some middle schools have Gay-Straight Alliances too.

In the 1960's, the average age of first same sex attractions were reported to be at 14 and 17 for boys and girls, respectively. However, in the 1990's the number dropped to 10 and 12 years old for boys and girls, respectively. I don't really remember when I first started having same-sex attractions. It's just natural that you don't really record the moment in your head.

The new gay attitude: "I only fall in love with guys, but I'm not 'gay'." Which is total bullcrap. They're just afraid of attaching a label to themselves. It's that, once you declare yourself gay you don't necessarily have to fit all the gay stereotypes. Even if other people expect you to. When I first came out as homosexual, so many people were surprised because I don't act gay (although I do hate dodgeball and kickball - I love soccer). Just because you have sex with guys and you're a guy doesn't mean that you will automatically pick up a purse and talk with a lispe. You're still who you are. Whatever. You, period.

Links from the article:

YoungGayAmerica.com
OutProud.org
ChadzBoyz.com - G-rated pictures of young men. Hey, they mentioned it in the article, I swear.
Facebook.com - Not really a gay guy meeting place. It's a place where you link your college e-mail address with a profile and you can meet people from your college or from other colleges. In fact, I met most of Common Grounds (Temple's GSA) from facebook.com before I began school so its useful.
Inqueery.com - EW

Books mentioned:

The New Gay Teenager - by Harvard University Press
Rainbow Road
YGA Magazine
And Then I Became Gay: Young Men's Stories
Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would - SIGH
Advocate Magazine

Movie:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Yesterday/Today there was a NYC bomb scare at Penn Station. I heard on NPR or some radio station similar to that the the authorities are advising the people not bring their baby carriages and extra luggage to the station. I just think its weird how he's advising against baby carriages but I guess he has to take all things into consideration.

Do we give up a few rights to remain alive? Or do we have all of our rights and have a chance of dying (sooner than we would naturally, of course)?

Brave New World - A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Who had the free time to type this whole thing up? I have no idea but everyone should read it. A very good book. I think the best Utopia book - although The Giver comes close.

Gay Teens Coming Out - TIME Magazine's issue on gay teenagers in modern day America. I shall have to pick up this copy soon. If not now.

These Temple school computers have crappy mouses. Someone should clean them. That someone is not going to be me.

Today I realized that taking my laptop into my bathroom is easier and more worthwhile than I had imagined. So while sitting on the john I can browse the interwebs very easily (or in today's case - burn CD's while browsing the interwebs). I thought it would be cumbersome but we have a little stool for my little brother to brush his teeth and that is where the laptop rests. No, not on myself. Freak.

The Right Way to Go About AIDS Education - If only everyone, every organization went about this way then many more people would have the fear of God instilled into their very souls and stop poking each other with their love sticks.

Linkbunnies.org - It's good, I swear.

Philadelphia Wireless Project - Um...it sounds like a good idea. But I want my Interweb free. If possible. Plus I don't live in Philadelphia so I can't really benefit from the $10 monthly fee so I guess I'll just have to stick with my at home DSL for about five times as much. Oh well.

PSP Lust - I want a PSP. But I hear rumors of a PSP harddrive too. I lust for that even more. I just like the browser capibility. I hate the battery life. But if they improve...I'll still hate the steep price tag.