mind melt

oh, man - the apple / amazon hack is scary as hell (o_O)

shadowrun online! - 21 hours to go, and almost enough cash! please, world: make it happen!

we just watched the season 2 finale of the walking dead. i'm gobsmacked. completely not like the first season finale, and totally hardcore.

---the day started off with a lot of job applications, and at work i finally got over the stupid* to publish my second web role. it works like a bomb! very pleasing. also pleasing was figuring out a shortcut around another big problem: it's dirty, but at least i could cut it tidily enough that it can be un-patched later :D

* visual studio does bizarre things sometimes, like removing references you've added and quietly exchanging connection data between parameters.

i returned home later than i expected, just in time to go out to the wall. we were both kinda tired - i yawned a lot - but in spite of that my first attempt at the 90º section was almost a success! i'm exceedingly pleased, and determined to make it work. to make that even better, my first attempt at the reverse incline was successful, even if i only almost made the second attempt. the rest of the evening i've been barely capable of holding my iphone, let alone keeping myself in the air :P

after showering we went down to the street for some great pasta, and we were almost ready to call it a night... now that we've seen that final episode, though, it might take some toning down first.

or i could, to use the term i used to describe to my mother the experience of reading ayn rand - atlas shrugged, wallow for a bit before turning in.

---for all of my non-israeli compadres: over the past years the palestinian authority has continued to indoctrinate its youth to hate israelis on grounds ranging from the believable to the absurd, and it's not possible to become "partners for peace" with that in the background. it's the equivalent of cold-war americans and russians "just wanting to get along".

not a lot of very smart people can look past institutionalized hatred and fear, and most people are really, really not very smart. and the rest of the world is NOT aware of what's going on in this primitive little backwater we call home. so it totally upsets me when i read a post from moshe ya'alon explaining that they've been monitoring palestinian authority broadcasts for the past three years in particular, and the kind of stuff they're feeding their children is not child abuse, but life abuse.

they're being brought up to live in an alternate reality where they really are desperate fighters oppressed by evil israelis; the truth is, their oppressors are primarily their cousins in the arab nations who've continued to keep them down and fighting so that they'll keep israel on its toes and the palestinians off of their own land.

it's all about love and brotherhood, really.