Australia Banned Guns - Now Look At It

01.03.09

Filed Under: australia, guns, news by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

Crime Up Down Under

People usually tell me that I’m full of shit when I say that guns should be legal, and gun control is counter-productive, but here are some statistics that agree with me.

Before Australia’s gun ban in 1996, crime had been dropping steadily over time. Since then, armed robbery is up 45%. In one state, gun homicide is up 300%. Banning guns certainly works.

A gun ban does not hurt people who would be using guns for this purpose. If you tell everyone to surrender their guns to the government, then we have a nation of unarmed citizens, with an armed underground crime scene, since if someone plans to commit a crime, they would not have surrendered their guns in the first place. It’s so stupid.

Gun registries are just as bad, as the article mentions. They get you to register your gun, so that they have a list of everyone who owns a gun, so they can come by later and confiscate them. Then, you are at the mercy of the state. I’m not going to turn all conspiracy-crazynow as I tend to do at times, but why even give them the chance?


Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?

28.02.09

Filed Under: history, life by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

About 4000 years off, and it’s speaking in a strictly allegorical sense, and it’s from the Daily Mail (shitty newspaper), but I found this really interesting.

Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden?

This brought forth the idea in my mind that the Old Testament, or the Bible in general, was never meant to be what it is today. What it always was was just a collection of folk legends, that were passed down through the ages. All legends have a kernel of truth inside of them, so maybe there was a kernel of truth behind the Garden of Eden. It goes well with the idea that people use gods and myth to explain what they cannot, that once the land was ruined, it was “the gods”, or “the God” punishing them, and then it was all recorded into history.

What makes this extraordinary, fuck all the religious connotations in the article, is that this is like, 9000 years before Stonehenge. This is a discovery that pushes back the timeline of human history by thousands of years. We thought our ancestors were living in huts, or in caves, tending to a few wisps of grass, and now we realise they had fucking temples.

Now I am having second thoughts about not majoring in history.


Dear, you

28.02.09

Filed Under: letter by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

You were right. You are always right.

Everything is okay. Don’t worry about anything that happened. I have already disregarded it.

I am sorry.


Emails

22.02.09

Filed Under: tech by Nick Savage with 3 Comments

I really like it when websites don’t make me choose what my username is, and tell me to use my email. It works so much better. Nickster Space is just as bad, I know, but no one registers, so it doesn’t even matter. Email addresses are unique for the entire internet. Usernames are unique for the site. Whenever I go register for a site, and I find my normal name is taken, I have to find something else. I hate numbers, so I go through my list of common usernames. This is fine for now, but when I come back to the site after a while, I tend to forget what name I used for the site, so I have to take time running through all my names. This problem is solved by a password manager, sure, but it is also solved by requiring you to login by an email. I like those sites. Display names can come after, if it is a site that requires interaction with others.


Last Resort

01.02.09

Filed Under: lyrics by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

some rich men came and raped the land,
nobody caught ‘em
put up a bunch of ugly boxes
and jesus, people bought them
And they called it Paradise
The place to be

[The Last Resort]


It all comes full circle

01.02.09

Filed Under: life, tech by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

I switched back to NetNewsWire from NewsFire. iPhone syncing is a killer feature that I need.

Netnewswire has possibly the worst Mac app website I have ever seen, but the developer is really cool, and the app is good.


Rock and Roll Boy

01.02.09

Filed Under: joco, music by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

I’m listening to Jonathan Coulton’s “Rock and Roll Boy”. I heard it when it was on shuffle, and I was like, hey, that’s pretty cool. It was disappointing, though, because it was one of those songs you just have to hear. Looking at the lyrics, or really listening to it ruins it.


The Sound

30.01.09

Filed Under: life, school by Nick Savage with 2 Comments

I decided to break my vow of not blogging for a month. I don’t know why (I do, I do).

Today was the first day of a new semester of school. I can already tell that I am going to absolutely love law. It is a continuation of the work I had been doing in history before it, and yeah, it will be awesome. That is totally the only reason why though. There is no other explanation. Computer science is computer science. Calculus is… I know I am going to hate every moment that I am in that class. Every moment. I hate the teacher already. I have had such a short temper lately, and I really don’t think I will be able to handle it. I can’t do that class. I won’t. I’m going tot have to go yell at my guidance councillor for not dropping it like I told her to.

I had a good feeling about second semester, until she, the teacher, ruined everything. I don’t know what I am going to do. I was in such a good mood today that even a 57% on my math exam didn’t upset me. I had prepared for it, but hell, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

I didn’t sleep well last night. There are two reasons why. The first is that I was both very worried and very excited for today. Mostly about law, and the people in my law class. It kept me up, just thinking about how it would play out. Secondly, I started listening to the radio. I turned it on the night before, and heard the sweet sounds of the DJ’s voice. His name is Andy Frost, and I really love what he does. There is a certain quality to what songs he plays, and his voice. Normally radio is full of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin, but I am looking for more, for deeper tracks, and that’s why he excites me. He plays different music, music I have never heard, and above all, it’s real music. There is a lot of 60s and 70s experimental music.

I can’t wait until spring, so I can lie in the grass, and listen - just listen to the web of sounds that make up the world. There are children laughing and crying, maybe someone with his guitar singing a lullaby. There is the sound of cars, the sound of the wind.

Andy Frost has helped me rediscover the Sound.


I’m your moon

10.01.09

Filed Under: lyrics by Nick Savage with 2 Comments

I’m your moon
You’re my moon
We go round and round
From out here, it’s the rest of the world that looks so small

-[joco]


package

08.01.09

Filed Under: life by Nick Savage with 3 Comments

I have a package for you.

what’s in it is a surprise.

tell me when you want it, and you can have it tonight.


don’t bother

06.01.09

Filed Under: life, quote by Nick Savage with 2 Comments

I made snow all night. =]
the busses are cancelled, don’t bother going.


Bishop

05.01.09

Filed Under: bash, quote by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

<jeebus> the ‘bishop’ came to our church today
<jeebus> he was a fucken impostor
<jeebus> never once moved diagonally”

[http://bash.org/?261501]


renovations

04.01.09

Filed Under: life by Nick Savage with 3 Comments

Well, the renovations on my house were finished today. We put new hardwood floors in, to replace the ugly carpet that we’ve had since we moved it. It looks reaaally nice. My parents brought two samples home, one sample of natural oak, and the other of red oak, or something like that. I told them the red oak, and they chose it. Now our house is covered with it. It looks like we just bought a new house, because, well, at least our family room, we also reorganized where everything goes, and the room looks like it’s about twice the size.

I went shopping today and yesterday. My parents and my grandmother bought me clothes for Christmas, and I decided to return a large portion of them. I bought two sweaters and a pair of pants. I think they’re all really nice, although one of the sweaters I’m not so sure of. I just KNOW the day I wear the pants I will get laughed at. No, I’m not taking any pictures. You’ll know when I have them on. I expect a few of my friends to make that day hell.

My dad taught me how to tie a tie today, because I was tired of him tying it for me. I have the power now to wear a tie whenever I want to.

Code Monkey think someday he have everything even pretty girl like you
Code Monkey just waiting for now
Code Monkey say someday, somehow


You’re Beautiful

02.01.09

Filed Under: life by Nick Savage with 3 Comments

http://foundmagazine.com/find/767


Null Pointers

01.01.09

Filed Under: lol by Nick Savage with 0 Comments

q1977q comments on 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once: “I once tried to access a null pointer and my dick flew off.”


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