urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita kyo_yamashita kyo_yamashita 2009-12-21T17:55:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:8192 2009-12-21T17:55:07Z 2009-12-21T17:55:07Z Klingon Children's Choir Merry Christmas to you all! In honor of the Holiday Season, here is the classic, heart-warming story for the whole family...<br /><br /><lj-embed id="2" /><br /><br />I wonder if they're hiring? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:8000 2009-11-23T15:36:54Z 2009-11-23T15:36:54Z Splendora - "This Is My Stop" <a href="http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Daria-DVD-Plans/13010">http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Daria-DVD-Plans/13010</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/kyo_yamashita/pic/00001z2g/"><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/kyo_yamashita/pic/00001z2g/s320x240" width="316" height="240" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now, if they can just get "Cyber 6" on DVD. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:7816 2009-11-13T18:26:01Z 2009-11-13T18:26:01Z The Brilliant Green As I approach my 5th decade in this existence, I am finding numerous things to be true...<br /><br />*People that were assholes when I was younger are still assholes now that I'm older.<br /><br />*Being with the same woman for 30 years is awesome.<br /><br />*The ratio of people who think for themselves to stupid people appears to be the same now as when I was able to first notice it when I was 20.<br /><br />*It is soooo wonderful to see one's children become adults and they are intelligent, independent, creative, and loving. <br /><br />*Being a non-standard blockhead of a male annoyed the hell out of people when I was younger. Now that I'm older, it appears even more that society expects me to be some sort of twit with a stick up my ass. Well, I'm not going to apologize. I am still just fine with thumbing my nose at the conventions and expectations that men are supposed to be. If anything, age has set me in my ways even more. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:7460 2009-08-05T20:20:23Z 2009-08-07T18:08:51Z James Taylor, for some strange reason DOWN IN THE TOMB<br />(Up On The Roof)<br />© M. Bloom 8/09<br /><br /><br />When this old world starts a-gettin’ me down, <br />and people are just too much for me to face. <br />I'll climb way down to the base of the stairs<br />And all my cares, just find a resting place<br />(Down in the tomb)<br />In the tomb, it’s peaceful as can be<br />And there, the world above can’t bother me<br /><br />Let me tell you now<br />When I just feel like I’m dead on my feet<br />I’ll go down where the air is dank and sweet<br />I'll get far away from the maddening crowd<br />And all that frightful noise up in the street<br /><br />In the tomb’s the only place I know<br />Where you can find contentment down below<br />Down in the tomb<br />(Down in the tomb)<br /><br />At night the tomb’s as quiet as can be<br />And darling you can share it all with me<br /><br />I keep a-tellin’ you<br />That right down there in a plot below ground <br />I found a paradise, dark as a womb<br />And if this old world starts-a gettin' you down<br />There's room enough for two<br />Down in the tomb<br />(Down in the tomb…) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:7225 2009-07-07T15:57:55Z 2009-07-07T15:57:55Z Faun - Wind Und Geige The family & I will be attending Faerieworlds 2009, in Eugene, Oregon.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.faerieworlds.com/">http://www.faerieworlds.com/</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:7027 2009-04-09T17:10:45Z 2009-04-09T17:10:45Z Laid Off Blues <table width="350" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"><tr><td bgcolor="#EEEEEE" align="center"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color:black; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>You Are a Cougar</strong></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><center><img src="http://www.blogthingsimages.com/whatbigcatareyouquiz/cougar.jpg" height="100" width="100"></center><font color="#000000">You have more strength than most people, and with it, the ability to inflict a lot of harm.<br>Your power gives you confidence, and you find leading others to be easy.<br><br>You believe that you need to the best, and you are very driven to excel.<br>Most people immediately admire you, but some people feel very envious of your abilities.</font></td></tr></table><div align="center"><a href="http://feeds.blogthings.com/whatbigcatareyouquiz/">What Big Cat Are You?</a></div><br /><br />Whereas I like the species selection, I have some disagreements with their descriptions. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:6694 2009-02-25T15:15:36Z 2009-02-25T19:50:20Z Eensy Weensy Spider If you re an Arachnophobe, DO NOT click on this.<br /><br />If you are an Arachnophile (like me), you'll love this...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/">http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/</a><br /><br />*Place mouse cursor over spider to move it around.<br /><br />*Place mouse cursor on a leg to drag spider around by the leg.<br /><br />*Place mouse cursor where you want a bug & press space bar (or click left mouse button twice) to materialize bug. Spider will home in on the bug(s) and eat them. <br /><br />Enjoy! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:6547 2009-02-19T21:29:38Z 2009-02-19T21:29:38Z Meat Loaf "Wasted Youth/Everything Louder Than Everything Else" A bit of background is needed here...<br /><br />*My Wife is a Registered Nurse. She has all of the traditional nurse's "war stories" about every kind of bodily fluid the human body is capable of emitting. And, all sorts of predicaments that said fluids can appear in.<br /><br />*My Son's first job was as a Stable Hand at a ranch that uses horses as therapy for children with autism, cancer and other problems. One of his favorite comments is "I can honestly say that I've shoveled horse shit as a job"<br /><br />So... Yesterday, after dinner, I was zoned out in front of the computer and an energetic conversation between my Wife & my Son drifted into my attention... They were arguing. They were trying to top each other in the grossest thing each of them has had to do in a job. It quickly drifted (deteriorated?) to a bragging match about how much shit & piss they've each had to deal with. The conclusion (at least to my ears) was that my Wife won with the most bizarre situations she's had to face, while my Son won with having to deal with the most volume.<br /><br />Such is the topic when great minds clash in my household. :-) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:6273 2009-02-02T01:46:21Z 2009-02-02T01:46:21Z MythBusters Marathon My wife has a display of her art over on the Elfwood web site...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elfwood.com/art/c/y/cythtor/cythtor.html">Cythor</a><br /><br />Stop by for a spell. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:6088 2009-01-13T17:53:28Z 2009-01-13T17:53:28Z <div class='appwidget appwidget-qotd' id='LJWidget_1'> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div style='border: 1px solid #000; padding: 6px;'><p>What is your first reaction when someone says "I need to talk to you"?</p><p style='font-size: 0.8em;'></p><br /><p><input type="button" value="Answer" onclick="document.location.href='http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?qotd=744'" /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.livejournal.com/misc/latestqotd.bml?qid=744">View 505 Answers</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div><!-- end .appwidget-qotd --> What is it that they want from me and whose benefit is this for? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:5790 2008-12-02T00:53:26Z 2008-12-02T00:53:26Z The Faces "Stay With Me" I don't like "Twilight."<br /><br />The books are a badly written first-person attempt at a romance novel, but wind up being unbelievable crap with attempts to justify deviant behavior as normal and that (in the later books) physical abuse is okay. The only redeeming value I see is that readers might be inspired to seek out better written material in a similar genre. While I don't like the author's rewrite of the vampire/werewolf genre, I will support the author for trying something new in this regard. I leave it to the reader if this works for them.<br /><br />The movie... Is a teen-angst romance movie. The screenwriter actually improves some of the material from the book. My opinion is more "ho-hum", as I'm not drawn in by this kind of film. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:5526 2008-11-05T21:50:34Z 2008-11-05T21:50:34Z Damn Kenny G "O'Christmas Tree" Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the<br />black flag, and begin slitting throats.<br />-H.L. Mencken urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:5199 2008-11-05T17:06:29Z 2008-12-02T20:05:00Z Joan Jett On The Brain The U.S. now has a leader who is educated, articulate, and is less corrupt than the current representative of those who did poorly in school/business/life.<br /><br />Let's hope that things improve. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:4956 2008-09-18T15:24:15Z 2008-09-18T15:24:15Z If the American people ever allow private banks to <br />control the issue of their money, first by inflation <br />and then by deflation, the banks and corporations <br />that will grow up around them (around the banks), <br />will deprive the people of their property until their <br />children will wake up homeless on the continent <br />their fathers conquered. <br /><br />- Thomas Jefferson urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:4756 2008-08-07T15:53:56Z 2008-08-07T15:53:56Z Hammerfall: "Blood Bound" And, in return for the use of her Valkyries to Odin, Freyja was given first choice in choosing the fallen. Her allotment of The Chosen was half.<br /><br />Like in Valhalla, the Warriors of Freyja's hall, Fólkvangr, spent the day in combat to prepare for Ragnarok. However, in the night, the Chosen Ones would not only participate in a feast, like the chosen of Valhalla, but would also be given the Valkyries of Freyja as bed partners. In the morning, the Chosen would be healed of all wounds received the day before and the Valkyries would have regained their virginity.<br /><br />You will be missed, my Brother. But, Fólkvangr has recieved a new axe man & Freyja herself will welcome thee. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:4434 2008-07-14T04:07:13Z 2008-07-14T04:07:13Z Joan Jett Kakistocracy...<br /><br />1. Government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power. <br /><br />2. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.<br /><br />3. 1829, "government by the worst element of a society," coined on analogy of aristocracy from Gk. kakistos "worst," superl. of kakos "bad" (which is perhaps related to the general IE word for "defecate") + -kratia "rule of," from kratos "strength, power, rule". urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:4132 2008-06-25T16:51:09Z 2008-06-25T16:51:09Z In My Mind Playing: Sheryl Crow <b>On Liberty, Freedom And Rebellion</b><br /><br />"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom,that it must steal in upon them by degrees and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes in order to be received."<br /><br />— David Hume, 1742<br /><br />"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."<br /><br />— Thomas Jefferson<br /><br /><br /><b>On Warfare And Conflict Resolution</b><br /><br />"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."<br /><br />— Robert A. Heinlein, from <u>Starship Troopers</u><br /><br />"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them."<br /><br />— Sun-Tzu<br /><br />"Everyone has a plan…until you hit them in the mouth."<br /><br />— Mike Tyson<br /><br /><b>On Being A Warrior</b><br /><br />Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn't even be there,<br />Eighty are just targets,<br />Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle.<br />Ah, but the one,<br />One is a warrior,<br />And he will bring the others back.<br /><br />— Heraclitus, <u>The 4 Soldierly Values: Courage, Competence, Candor, Comittment</u><br /><br /><b>On Strategic Considerations</b><br /><br />"No one starts a war–or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so–without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it." <br /><br />— Carl von Clausewitz<br /><br />"If you concentrate exclusively on victory, with no thought for the after effect, you may be too exhausted to profit by the peace, while it is almost certain that the peace will be a bad one, containing the germs of another war." <br /><br />— B. H. Liddell Hart<br /><br /><b>On Death</b><br /><br />"You do not greet Death. You punch him in the throat repeatedly as he drags you away."<br /><br />— Anonymous urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:3985 2008-06-23T15:56:00Z 2008-06-23T15:59:10Z Fans & Air Conditioner "If God had intended us not to masturbate he would've made our arms shorter. "<br /><br />"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. "<br /><br />"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."<br /><br />"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist"<br /><br />"This country is full of nitwits and assholes. You ever notice that? Nitwits, assholes, fuckups, scumbags, jerk-offs, and dipshits. And they all vote!"<br /><br />"First I had a heart attack. Then Richard Pryor had a heart attack. Then I had a heart attack. Then Richard BURNED HIMSELF UP! I said, fuck that, I'm gonna have another heart attack!"<br /><br />"In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told.<br /><br />Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!<br /><br /><br />But He loves you.<br /><br /><br />He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy shit!" urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:3760 2008-06-10T02:20:23Z 2008-06-10T02:20:23Z Tyr - "Regin Smidur" And, I'm not even an Artist (or Art-eeeest). :-)<br /><br />I got one a year, or so, back so I could view art in categories labeled as "Adult." I guess I qualify as an Adult (sort of). I also wanted to be able to converse with assorted people I know there. <br /><br />Anyway, I updated it today with a User Pic, Favorite-Art pieces, and updated my Personal File.<br /><br /><a href="http://kyo-yamashita.deviantart.com/">http://kyo-yamashita.deviantart.com/</a><br /><br />Unless I post photos to my Gallery, I doubt I'll ever have any art there. I guess I am using DeviantArt as another type of LiveJournal, with pictures. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:3410 2008-05-20T02:46:14Z 2008-05-20T02:46:14Z T-Rex/Marc Bolan If there is one thing that has puzzled, baffled, and saddened me the 47 years I have been alive...<br /><br />Why do some people, who have done nothing wrong and give to the world, die young and usually in painfull ways... While those who (IMHO) do deserve a painful death live long to do their evil? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:3171 2008-03-27T03:45:50Z 2008-03-27T03:45:50Z Concrete Blond "He was one of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind, never considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."<br /> <br />-Hunter S. Thompson urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:2872 2008-03-27T03:31:59Z 2008-03-27T03:39:32Z Deep Purple One more online comic I found through the artist's Deviant Art page...<br />"Head Trip" by Shinga.<br /><br /><a href="http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/index.html">http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/index.html</a><br /><br />The adventures of Mallory & her family. Stories are about anime, gaming, family, and... Umm, the ways we deal with our first impulses of being under stress. While I can say I haven't done anything that Mallory has, I can be honest and say that I have been tempted at times. :-) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:2801 2007-08-08T02:56:49Z 2007-08-08T02:56:49Z Queen The current online comics I'm reading are...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/">Girl Genius</a><br />A "steam punk" fantasy about a mad scientist.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.metro.co.uk/nemi">Nemi</a><br />A Norwegian comic, this is the site for the official English translation.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sinfest.net/">Sin Fest</a><br />Tatsuya Ishida's comic of society, love, sin, the divine, & sex.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.penny-arcade.com/">Penny Arcade</a><br /><u>THE</u> online comic about computer games and the industry that makes them. They even poked fun at the computer game company that fired me during a mass lay-off. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:2326 2007-07-14T14:33:09Z 2007-07-14T14:33:09Z Pink "When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."<br /> -Edward R. Murrow urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:kyo_yamashita:2201 2007-02-12T00:10:51Z 2007-02-12T00:10:51Z "Myth Busters" on TV “Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”<br /><br />-Thomas Jefferson