One of Us

Last night i watched lost over and my friend Jess's house. He and his roomates have a weekly Lost and Taco's night. it was awesome! Thanks again andy for the tacos and Jess for the computer stuff.

Here's some of my scattered thoughts i posted on the Lost message boards today regarding last nights episode.

Juliette
what is so bad about Juliette's past and what she knows about the island that would make sayid want to kill her? so far, what we know of what she knows seems pretty noble of her. trying to save pregnant women.

Either she's lying just to make the others seem more sinister and mysterious or theres a lot more she knows that we dont know yet.

3 years deep on the island and she's still arguing with ben about wanting to go home... i dunno, she seems pretty ready to become a lostie. "we just wanna go home, that make you one of us"

cant figure out the whole Ben plan thing yet. i just dont see what ben has to offer her now that the sub is gone that would make her so loyal to him still.. she's already been "marked" and banished hasn't she?

she needs to realize ben is playing her. she must know where they went.
i dont get all the secrecy.. at this point, with no answers i wouldnt trust her with anything.

the phrase goes... "if i tell you, i'll have to kill you" .. not "you'll kill me" shit thats like saying "just kill me"

now that Claire is OK Sayid and Sawyer need to lay the smack down. screw pussywhipped jack... he's being played anyway.

if you want to gain peoples trust just saving Claire (cleaning up the mess they all know you made in the first place) isn't enough. you need 100% disclosure.

if the mere notion of her having the key was enough for the fans to suspect her as a spy then why, when she straight up tells jack she faked being banished, does he still trust her and why didnt kate and sayid lay the smack down on both her and jack.

Locke should have waited for them to get in the sub before he blew it up.

i thought it was funny that before last night everyone was saying that Juliette handcuffed herself to kate and wasn't gassed at all. but this was only a guess based on her having the key. i was a big proponent of the "Juliette was gassed and just happened to have the key" theory but last night they pretty much said word-for-word

"i handcuffed my self to kate and pretended to be gassed"

ok end of that debate! lol


Jacob
when ben says something about having "...faith in Jacob" this furthers my belief that Jacob is some kind former leader or founder of whatever they do who is long since dead who has gained some kind of god or prophet status that they worship or look to for guidance.

Jacob worship is like their religion sort of.

all the others constantly asking themselves WWJD?... what would Jacob do.

about Jacobs list, and "Jacob brought me to this island" maybe the list is like a type of "10 commandments" not necessarily a list of peoples names. just a list of things that make you a good person. not really proof that Jacob is a person living on or off the island.

and as far as bringing to the island. I'm sure there wasn't a guy named Jacob driving the sub.. the spirit and way of life offered by Jacob brings them there. but for Juliette it was just a new job. which kinda makes me think that the pregnant women thing is just a side problem for the others and has nothing to do with their main reason for being on the island. thats why Juliet's recruitment seemed kind of last minute and dire.

why Juliet seems like a reluctant "other"


Ben's Plan
The Others are there to create some kind of isolated utopia that utilizes some sort of special property that the island has. but as long as no children can be concieved and born on the island they cant achieve this. This is why they need Juliete. Juliete wasnt part of the big plan of the island but they need her to complete it.

i think Ben knows something Juliette hasn't realized yet about Claire's birth and Sun's potential birth that has made him(or Jacob the almighty) feel they are ready to cut themselves off from the world. or he's just gone nuts and thinks he's the new Jacob.. or he figured out/thinks that in order to create new life they must sacrafice their lives. for example. The Birth of Aaron caused his Tumor.. Life Death Dark Light...

he's systematically setting things into motion that end up making them one step closer to being isolated.

Convinced Locke the numbers didnt do anything leading to the hatch blowing up

Got patchy to let locke try to beat the chess game leading to the explosion of the FLame and the procurment of the C4 that was used to blow up the Sub.

after typing that.. seems like Locke is somehow involved wither as someone Ben thinks is special or who ben is convincing is special in order to manipulate him.



so thats that.. the next episodes from here till the end of the season are supposed to be killer and reveal a lot about what the hell is going on.

i'm sure it wont be enough info tho... as usual.

Two Minute Naked Space Rides!

This is what happens to you when you accidently open the air lock to open space in the space station in your underwear. courtesy of damninteresting.com

When the human body is suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, a number of injuries begin to occur immediately. Though they are relatively minor at first, they accumulate rapidly into a life-threatening combination. The first effect is the expansion of gases within the lungs and digestive tract due to the reduction of external pressure. A victim of explosive decompression greatly increases their chances of survival simply by exhaling within the first few seconds, otherwise death is likely to occur once the lungs rupture and spill bubbles of air into the circulatory system. Such a life-saving exhalation might be due to a shout of surprise, though it would naturally go unheard where there is no air to carry it.

In the absence of atmospheric pressure water will spontaneously convert into vapor, which would cause the moisture in a victim's mouth and eyes to quickly boil away. The same effect would cause water in the muscles and soft tissues of the body to evaporate, prompting some parts of the body to swell to twice their usual size after a few moments. (i can handle that!) This bloating may result in some superficial bruising due to broken capillaries, but it would not be sufficient to break the skin.

Within seconds the reduced pressure would cause the nitrogen which is dissolved in the blood to form gaseous bubbles, a painful condition known to divers as "the bends." Direct exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation would also cause a severe sunburn to any unprotected skin. Heat does not transfer out of the body very rapidly in the absence of a medium such as air or water, so freezing to death is not an immediate risk in outer space despite the extreme cold.

For about ten full seconds– a long time to be loitering in space without protection– an average human would be rather uncomfortable, but they would still have their wits about them. Depending on the nature of the decompression, this may give a victim sufficient time to take measures to save their own life. But this period of "useful consciousness" would wane as the effects of brain asphyxiation begin to set in. In the absence of air pressure the gas exchange of the lungs works in reverse, dumping oxygen out of the blood and accelerating the oxygen-starved state known as hypoxia. After about ten seconds a victim will experience loss of vision and impaired judgement, and the cooling effect of evaporation will lower the temperature in the victim's mouth and nose to near-freezing. Unconsciousness and convulsions would follow several seconds later, and a blue discoloration of the skin called cyanosis would become evident.

At this point the victim would be floating in a blue, bloated, unresponsive stupor, but their brain would remain undamaged and their heart would continue to beat. If pressurized oxygen is administered within about one and a half minutes, a person in such a state is likely make a complete recovery with only minor injuries, though the hypoxia-induced blindness may not pass for some time. Without intervention in those first ninety seconds, the blood pressure would fall sufficiently that the blood itself would begin to boil, and the heart would stop beating. There are no recorded instances of successful resuscitation beyond that threshold.

Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes without suffering any irreversible damage. The human body is indeed a resilient machine.

Holy crap! naked 2 minute space rides, $400!

fuckity fuck fuck!

The CAD program we use at my job is a piece of shit. the company that makes it is a piece of shit. theres all these bugs and issues with their software and they've sent us two upgrade CDs and it doesnt fix shit. The latest one we got today says it "fixes some foreign language issues and works with Windows Vista" I'd like to also mention here that the paper labeled CDR they sent it to us on says "compatible with Windows XP and Mac OSX.... " anyway, foreign language issues? who the fuck cares!

i want a program that fucking works and for them to come through on promises. their shit sucks so bad that their support forum has been shut down. you know how most programs ctrl W closes the window? well they changed it to Ctrl F4 two versions ago and that STILL doesnt even work. there used to be a ctrl H to fill a block with a crosshatch which i uesd all the time. the new version you have to manually go to the pen menu and select "hatch". how is that an "upgrade" but, ctrl B to fill with a solid color which no one uses because it looks like shit is still there. these problems are just the tip of the iceberg, and somewhere near the bottom of the iceberg is the fact that no one uses this program so we have to convert every thing we get from or sent out to clients. thanks for nothing you cock licking pieces of shit.

A logical person would say that maybe we should use another program. the problem is, I KNOW we should. because AutoCad (the other program, the one i took a class for) IS the industry fucking standard.. but you have to remember where i work. NEWlogic. not better logic or just Logic... its NEW, different, unorthodox, basackward Logic. trying to get them to switch to AutoCad has been an ongoing battle for 10 years here. The Boss likes Graphite. The Boss likes his OS 9.0 mac and Illustrator version 6, case closed. just like everything else.

here's an email he sent out a while back..

Hey,

I'm trying to review some drawings. I can't open Illustrator drawings and Graphite drawings anymore now that there have been upgrades.

Let's stop upgrading software unless there is a really good reason to do it.

I have two computers that work just fine. I'd rather not spend the money to buy new software or a new computer yet.

I have Illustrator 6.0. I think other people are using older versions as well.

The Boss

kill me now.

spam space

when you have a myspace profile pic like this..

you know messages like this have to be spam.

also, it says "in a relationship" on my profile.. damn if you're gonna spam someone at least do some research. i mean you pretty much know they are spam already but unless this bitch likes retard mutant, science experiment, crank-mouthed freaks, this is most definitely spam. god i hate spammers.

get a fucking life.

skateboard art show my ass

my friend does graphics for a not huge but very well known and connected skateboard company. He found out about a big "skateboard art" show in NY near him that they were sponsoring and asked to be a part of it. They got him in, so now that its up and running, he sent me the link.
Most of the artists are good and are more or less graffiti artists with a career now. It pisses me off almost half of them are just design companies or clothing companies or highly paid graphic artists that don't really need the exposure. One entry is by KRINK. a graffiti ink and pen company. WTF are they doing in there?

Mike Giant and Shepard Fairey are big names in counter culture, graf, tatt and actually do skateboard art and their boards for this are kind of lame .. maybe its in protest to how shitty this pathetic excuse for an art show is.

and the real hide chapper.... Theres a fucking POET and a god damned WRITER for a magazine?!!!!!!!!!!!!! who the fuck's dicks did they suck to get in there? they arent even artists let alone skateboard artists. who the fuck gave them a deck to draw on?

Theres a million real ACTUAL ARTISTS that they could have got (like me!) and they put a fucking Poet in? yes a poet and her "skateboard art" is a handwritten poem on the board. what a fucking insult. the magazine writers deck is half red and black with letter stickers you use for your mailbox you get from the hardware store.
its just a huge cocksuck capitalizing on skate culture. these people arent skateboard artists. theyre just assholes.

I dont want to downplay the quality of all of these people's work or products. They do what they do very well, it just seems like an excuse to pimp out skateboarding not as an art form or a sport but as a backdrop for a commercial. this art show, to me, has nothing to do with skateboarding or art and is using skateboarding as a kichy jumping off point to promote something else. In a way i almost feel like my buddy's stuff is there just to promote the company he's designing for.

I'm really irritated by this. maybe its partly because i'm jealous or bitter but I think there are a lot of great artists that they could have included in leu of poets, phototgraphers, ink companies, magazine writers, punk singers, and clothing designers. maybe i'm talking out of my ass. i dont know who most of those people are but this is just my kirknoggified knee jerk reaction to this.

if your in the area go check out my buddy Alex Dukes stuff. toilettown.com
if the show has a cover charge dont go. email Alex and send your money to him or buy his art directly.

Good Friday my ass.

I have to work today.
......................................look at some pictures.

this was in our loading dock this morning. FedEx, delivering Praise.

that cluster of buildings on the left in the distance is San Quentin Federal Maximum security prison. i think charles manson is or was there for a long time.

its hard to see but this retard just doesnt get it. they have a Oakland Raiders sign where their license plate should be. but to even it out they stole someones '07 Registration tag and stuck it on there. what a fucking moron. typical Raiders fan.

this guy was stocking up for the summer. all he can carry's worth of $1 frozen Banquet Meals.

here's the exit for San Quentin

that white blob coming from the driver side is some dudes feet chilling because there was some construction holding up traffic forever.

another San Quentin sign

that blurry city scape in the background is San Fransisco as seen from the San Rafael Bridge. on a clear day you can see the city in the middle the bay bridge on the left and the Golden Gate on the right.

me too

i was waiting for the Telle Tubbies to come out here.

here's some shots of the san rafael bridge. (sorry jess if this reminds you of your commute)

some doodle time fun..

ok have a happy easter! here's a festive piece i did a while ago.

McBreakfast Re-hash

I've complained about this before but i got reminded of it again today. Meg said she wanted to get a Jack N the Box hashbrown. and at 11:00 she very well could. i dont know how much they cost there by themselves but if its anything like McDonalds, which she couldnt go to because they are breakfast Nazis that only serve McBreakfast till what is it, 9:30? 10:00? either way, its 11 and they're knee deep in 99 cent double cheeseburgers. which makes no sense because a single cheeseburger is 1.09 or something. is the burger patty marked up so much on everything else they can just hook and extra one up for a loss of 10 cents? maybe they use "The Big One" meat with shit in it to cut the extra cost. who knows but another thing that really pisses me off about their breakfast is the dollar menu. awesome, you can get a sausage mcmuffin with no egg for $1. a regular with-egg sausage mcmuffin is like 1.80 by itself, so the egg is 80 cents? eh reasonable i guess but a sausage McGriddle with egg is a little more than that i think. so how can they sell the same thing, without egg for $1 as well? are they ripping you off every time you get a regular mcgriddle with egg? wtf mcdonalds? (BTW if you were curious "Apple Dippers" is 5 apple wedges in a bag for a dollar.)

Also on the dollar menu is "2 apple pies". this is a super deal.. TWO pies for a dollar. but the downside is if you only want one you cant get it. so, get this. they also have the hashbrown on the dollar menu. the one that seems to be just thrown in as a bonus on the value meals (which is another math mind fuck i dont want to go into now) but for some fucked up reason, this deep fried piece of shit costs 1.29 or something. First of all, why put it on the DOLLAR menu if it costs more than a dollar.. and secondly, why the fuck does that piece of crap cost more than a dollar? it seems like it should only cost 49 cents or something. if thats not a scam and a half to coax you into getting the value meal i dont know.... so, back to the pies. sometimes i have coffee already and dont want the value meal and to save money i get the $1 mcgriddle but still feel like i should have the hashbrowns, but i cant because i'm morally opposed to paying that much for it. so i opt for the pies but really only want one and end up feeling like a fat ass when i open the 2nd pie box and shove it into my face.


So, now i'm all horny for McBreakfast after writing this and cant get my fix because they are already flipping shit patties. It's fucking 11:00 people, its STILL morning. man you'd think after all these years (and a nice scene in Falling Down) they'd get a clue.



but alas! i can go to Jack in The Box, where they have gotten a clue and serve breakfast all day! they dont have McMuffins or McGriddles but they do have their one-of-a-kind signature breakfast sandwich, the Breakfast Jack. simple ham egg and cheese on a bun. perfect. They do have other more fancy breakfast sandwiches but for some fucked up retarded reason they put mayonnaise on them. who the hell wants mayo on eggs? Fucking white people kill me.

drag racing scrapers

if this trend isnt retarded enough, now we have this.

fucking christians.

i'm pretty harsh on christianity. sorry. but it just seems retarded to me. So then there is Easter. a lot of people forget Easter is basically a holy version of night of the living dead.

here's my "easter" drawing. i did this a while ago but its that time of year again.


an artist was showing a sculpture of naked jesus made out of chocolate. the christians complained and got him shut down. what is more Easter than a life sized chocolate naked jesus? i hate it when people get all pissy about shit. yea so what you dont like it, change the channel.



shit like this makes me want to do a painting of jesus getting ass fucked by satan in a Ronald Macdonald costume and dead angels with bloody crotches laying around them. its my right, fuck off.

coming soon.

its a SWARM!

megs sister was doing yardwork and heard a weird noise like a motor of a car or something but flying over head. then she saw the shadows. she looked up and the sky above her was thick with a swarm of bees! "close your windows!" she screamed "BEES!" we looked out the window and saw this.

the whole street was filled with bees. craziness. as we gazed in awe we notice they were thinning out. then we heard megs mom yelling from the back yard. we looked out our back window and the swarm had moved right over us into the back yard. we could see them flying over us through the skylight. then they were thick, buzzing, filling the whole space between our house and the bushes and fence.

and a close up.

here's a video i shot from my bathroom window. its kinda crappy, but you can hear the bees buzzing.

the swarm moved into the neighbors yard and eventually settled in their tree to start a new hive.

god save the queen.