[comment I made in Lethal OD's facebook 09/08/2010:]

Part of Jung's realization about synchronicity is that (regardless of confirmation bias) the fact that your brain and subconscious have noticed a pattern and it has drifted up to conscious realization is the significant part. In other words, it is an internal, not an external phenomenon. The significance may all lie within the subject's interpretation of the pattern he/she is noticing, and not the coincidence itself -- however unnerving. (Just like the famous example of the scarab beetle.)

Of course, all that being said, I think that there is a blurred line between quantum mechanics and solipsism -- perhaps more so than most would like to admit. The unnerving part, not being the solipsism, but the quantum mechanics, which describes our universe in terms that humans can only begin to partially grasp and describe mathematically.

michaelodwyer brought this comic to my attention, which he felt "conveyed more of Darth Vader's tragic figure than all three of the prequels combined." While I certainly agree with the sentiment, the first thing that floated through my mind when I looked at the last panel was for Darth Vader to break into a Shakespearean soliloquy which would read as follows:

'Alas, poor C-3PO! I knew him, Stormtrooper; a fellow fluent in over six million forms of communication, a most excellent droid; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those metal lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your protocol now?'

[I imagine that many of you found it somewhat odd that Michael O'Dwyer was whisked off to a teaching position in Korea on such absurdly short notice, but few of you have guessed at the unsettling truth that lies behind his sudden disappearance...]


The Tuesday night before his departure Katy & I dropped by michaelodwyer's house. The dwelling was preternaturally dark as we mounted the stairs, and I became instantly wary when we were not accosted in the usual fashion by the two family dogs at the door, which had been left wide open. Dr. Ray, one of the household cats, eyed us curiously as I entered the darkened house.

Then I saw it! There on the floor of the kitchen, staring up at me with empty eyes, was my friend Michael O'Dwyer! Nothing but dry skin remained, as if he had been deflated like a party balloon from a gruesome carnival! I stared in shock and horror. Katy looked at me wide-eyed, as if unsure of what she was seeing.

Suddenly a man-size form, with strangely jointed appendages darted out of the shadows in the corner of the room, and – as startled as I was – Dr. Ray hissed!

“Do not be alarmed!” spoke the fungal lobster-ish creature who had, until recently, worn the visage of Michael O'Dwyer. “I have merely molted off my human pseudo-skin, and I am currently waiting for my shell to completely harden.” All trace of the characteristic stutter occasioned by his human form had vanished, blending naturally instead into the strange buzzing-clacking voice of his true shape.

“Whew, sorry OD,” I said addressing the giant lobster, with great relief, “For a second there I thought you had dissolved or something.”

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[Miðgarðsormr says: Basically, a Danish chemistry professor named Niels Harrit co-authored a scientific paper with eight others where they discuss findings involving analysis of dust from the 9/11 building collapses. They discovered microscopic red/grey chips in their samples which they strongly suspect to be a non-conventional nano-thermite. In other words, there is now real, tangible evidence that controlled demolitions may have been used in the collapse of the Twin Towers and/or WTC7. This was published in April of this year, and I have not heard a whisper of this report in any major news outlet. I am shocked, appalled, and horrified beyond anything I have encountered in years. Even if this is eventually disproved, it needs to be addressed, it needs to be discussed, it needs to be shouted from the rooftops! Perhaps the most telling statement comes from Harrit himself, when asked about why he researches the 9/11 attacks,
"First, I am opposed to crime, and second, when my 6 grandchildren ask me, 'Grandfather, which side were you on?' I will be able to answer them, 'I was on your side'."]



full .pdf of report available here.


nontechnical summary here: http://stj911.org/press_releases/ActiveThermiticMaterial.html]


Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

pp.7-31 (25) Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen
doi: 10.2174/1874412500902010007

Abstract:

We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.

Keywords: JScanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, Differential scanning calorimetry, DSC analysis, World Trade Center, WTC dust, 9/11, Iron-rich microspheres, Thermite, Super-thermite, Energetic nanocomposites, Nano-thermite
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark.




please discuss!!!!!

Project Pitchfork, tonight @ Elysium, Austin

covm, michaelodwyer, and myself will be there



Peter Spilles

Order of events:
1. Picked up cat (krieg_weasel) after getting home from a run to the old place and set cat down in kitchen.
2. Pixel, in kitchen eating.
3. I walk to the back of the house and shut the door to the baby's room. Pixel does not follow me or sneak past — she is too busy eating.
4. Approximately one hour later, I hear yowling coming from the back of the house. Sound is not coming from our bedroom. Open door to Éowyn's room, which is still closed. Pixel comes running out.
5. I have serious "WTF?!" moment.


Warning Do not name your cat "Pixel" after character from a Heinlein novel — quantum tunneling through walls will ensue.


(But, at least she did not wake up the baby.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my fellow Walpurgis-nauts!





Apr 29th — blessure
Apr 30th — maradydd & aprman
May 1st — and, of course, yours truly


By the way, I am officially getting younger starting tomorrow.
*begins furiously gluing his telomeres back together*
Ha! Take that F. Scott Fitzgerald!




( 'Faust und Mephisto' & 'The Vision of Faust' -- fairly large images, tasteful, but possibly not work-safe??? )

The monstrous, 80-meter tall pigicken, which has been pinpointed as the probable source of avian-swine flu according to Associated Press reports. World Health Organization officials warn that it is "...radioactive, breathes fire, and likes nothing better than to step on hysterically fleeing Japanese businessmen."


Seriously, wtf?! The way CNN and all the other news channels have been covering this, one would think that the swine flu had just crashed a jet into a skyscraper and killed 3000+ people. Is it really that slow of a week in news? My advice -- do not let the news media fnord you.


link stolen from brother-in-law (zombienought):
http://shouldibeworriedaboutswineflu.com/

rockers to/die/for split
"Finnish rockers TO/DIE/FOR have split, citing years of battles with promoters for their decision to disband..."


Normally I am not one to be excessively spiteful, but in this case...
HAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Hilarious, and slightly disturbing, parody-- Enjoy!]