It has been a good run, but I'm switching to Tumblr: http://virindi.tumblr.com/.

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard full movie.

Re-watched Hot Coffee. Amazing documentary about how seemingly intelligent people are so easily fooled by Corporate PR - to their own severe detriment.

Corporate PR: woman spills coffee on herself while driving and sues McDonalds for millions! Court system broken!
What really happened: McDonalds had been warned 700 times that their coffee was too hot and their cups too shit - keeping coffee hot increases its shelf life and cheap cups also increase profits. An old lady (who wasn't driving) had the cheap cup disintegrate in her lap from the heat of the coffee and spill on her lap. Here's the picture of her burns: http://imgur.com/IQh5Cyu. She only won medical bills + $400,000.

The documentary carries on with example after example, and then shows that because so many people (read: asshole idiots) were so easily fooled by Corporate PR that now Civil Lawsuits are no longer a way to force Corporations to refrain from their general asshattery or can be used as a victim to seek justice.

New bike = tighter pants.

I love how children's reactions to situations are basically what we do as adults in our minds.

Home from team camp. Mt. Diablo and Mt. Hamilton, the latter a seven hour day. Two month off season is not making things easy. Racing starts next weekend and I'm still getting my shit together.

The enemy's gate is down.

"So do you ever think about me? Because I've been thinking about you way more than I should."
"No, not really."

In quiet moments of reflection, the Capitalist searches his soul, the depths of his true being, for answers to the essential questions of life and meaning...
"There must be some way to restrict access to oxygen so I can commodity it."

Headline: "North Korea Under Martial Law."

I laughed.

"They shot a golden retriever into space and it made me sad."
"Just think of it as intergalactic fetch."

Shut down Rel Por last night. Feeling like complete shit today. Not related.

Ccccrrriinnnngggeeee at that dude in the audience.

Finished all of my law school applications. Applied to UC Irvine, Hastings, Davis, University of Washington, Lewis & Clark (Portland), Pacific McGeorge, Santa Clara (San Jose), and University of Illinois.

I expect to get into Santa Clara and Pacific McGeorge, the rest are up in the air. My LSAT is high enough for them to consider me, but not high enough to be guaranteed. It's all going to come down to how impressive they feel my personal statement is.

Zero Dark Thirty plot spoiler: Osama Bin Laden dies at the end.

In all seriousness though, removed from historical context the movie is absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately this is reality and we can't quite do that... Throughout it one is rooting for torture as a necessary evil, rooting for the CIA, and rooting for the Navy Seals. This is achieved by Bigelow's stereotypical bucketing of all the Middle East hate as typical one-dimensional bullshit through forcing the closed-minded American perspective on the audience.

I could go on and on, but I'll leave it at even though I left the theater thinking the US Military produced the movie I'm happy it isn't as offensive as the new Batman movie is.

The guy who wrote and directed Primer (greatest low budget film of all time - $7,000) has a new movie coming out: Upstream Color.

Saw a super friendly lost dog on my ride today. Checked its collar and knew the street it lived on to about four miles away. Attached my spare tube to its collar as a leash and took it home. I rock.

Lance Armstrong represents everything that's wrong with society today. He lied his way to the top, he collected hundreds of millions of dollars by cheating, he bullied and threatened anyone who got in his way, and now he stages a public relations "confession" on Oprah that smacks of yet more manipulation of the public eye. It's all so pathetic it makes me want to vomit.

Rest of the article.

I just found a paper I wrote in 2009 entitled, "History, Power, and Society". In it I argue what makes a good work of historical scholarship and why history is important.

Rereading it I'm pretty impressed by myself and depressed that it, in all likelihood, represents the peak of my intellectual progress. I'll post it to the right in a couple of days.

After spending probably forty hours on the most promising version of my personal statement I decided it's absolutely horrible and god-awful boring. I've thrown it in the trash and am starting a new one.

Must squeeze water from rocks...

I love eating shit. I'm just disappointed it tastes bad.