JZino [2009-03-16 02:56:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the fave!

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nonculture [2006-11-04 22:56:23 +0000 UTC]

jk, what the fuck, where you at

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rebellious-boy [2006-01-26 01:00:20 +0000 UTC]

nice gallery

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ndifference [2005-02-25 20:40:58 +0000 UTC]

Tease!

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ndifference [2004-12-25 02:52:30 +0000 UTC]

Merry Xmas, you yutz. Ever going to come 'round?

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Vanilla-Skies [2004-11-11 13:02:32 +0000 UTC]

eesh lovely gallery

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ndifference [2004-06-06 21:49:10 +0000 UTC]

I'll be back around after I cook my kids some burgers.

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nonculture [2004-06-05 16:21:53 +0000 UTC]

so, you're back or never left?

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ndifference [2004-04-12 15:56:28 +0000 UTC]

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loudmouse [2004-02-28 01:48:33 +0000 UTC]

Oh and good work! @_@;;;

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loudmouse [2004-02-26 00:31:16 +0000 UTC]

Know of my indecent exposure you foul cretin! Well anyway I'm back...and better than evar.

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ndifference [2003-11-11 17:19:18 +0000 UTC]

I'm tired of watching your "Last Visited" counter. Fucker. 4 weeks is enough.

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wu-wei [2003-11-04 18:08:04 +0000 UTC]

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nonculture [2003-09-26 08:05:42 +0000 UTC]

You still dead? I've been poking around here again a bit, whether that lasts remains to be seen.

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chuldowite [2003-09-03 12:20:32 +0000 UTC]

Visit my gallery for martial arts pics! thanx

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sumants [2003-08-06 22:56:55 +0000 UTC]

Hey...just stopping by for a look-see. I'm guessing that you're a full-fledged member of the American workforce with not enough time to donate to these parts...

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ndifference [2003-07-31 03:13:18 +0000 UTC]

Ah, but Kristen Jonhston makes me laugh my ass off. Anyone with legs that long and that kind of slapstick sense of humor...I say bring it on.

Looks like you're growing up. No time for us slobs.

Don't be such a stranger - check in a little more often (wouldn't kill ya, would it?)

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ndifference [2003-07-18 18:44:38 +0000 UTC]

Where've you been? I stop by on occasion to stare at fidget's nipples.

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rajivmathur [2003-06-17 18:35:54 +0000 UTC]

hello.

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mariamaria [2003-05-16 00:08:18 +0000 UTC]

It's all about you, Johnny.

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ldemosthenes [2003-04-26 18:38:17 +0000 UTC]

Haven't seen you in a while!

I've been on a bit of a hiatus so just checking up on people. Hope you've been well!

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visioluxus [2003-04-23 23:51:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you or your verbose comment on the Lace set! With this particular model I have to agree, she has such a amazing face.

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sirensin [2003-04-22 21:09:26 +0000 UTC]

haha, very clever about using sarcasm to display your superior knowledge of my little details

i knew about the statue's origins, too...i've seen it in person, actually, and the effect it has is very interesting. there it is, sitting on a rock, quite a ways away from the seawall, sitting all lonely in the bay, nothing else around it...gazing across the water and onto factories. very symbolic of society and all that jazz.

yea i've been wondering what happened to new stuff from you hope you post something again soon. my email address is wicked4witch@hotmail.com, since you asked

see you around!

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sirensin [2003-04-21 03:14:16 +0000 UTC]

btw, that comment you left on siren's irony made my jaw drop...i think it's the shortest comment you have ever written

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sirensin [2003-04-21 03:13:26 +0000 UTC]

why is hans christen anderson a beast?

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siedhr [2003-04-19 15:52:00 +0000 UTC]

hey, thanks for the comment. I didn't forget about my promise, i just don't have any free time at the present. should solve soon.

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epimetheus [2003-04-18 17:19:36 +0000 UTC]

Hey,

You still around?

Adam

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ndifference [2003-04-11 14:30:24 +0000 UTC]

You must have read books when you were a kid. Expand your mind, ruin your eyes. My brother was like that as a kid - always fascinated with the idea of being a pilot. As far as I can recollect, he never once cracked a book unless it was for school. In fact, he used to try to bully me into doing his book reports for him.

Now he's a Colonel in the USAF and currently flies Air Force 1. How's that for a success story? Last Xmas he sent me several boxes of m+m's from the plane - with the Presidential seal on them. I noticed that all the candies were stamped with a little white "w" and thought that was cool, until I turned the candy around and realized that is was just an upside-down m. But Dubyah insists it's a w and the Mars company said, "Yes sir. Those are w's. "

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spyed [2003-04-10 10:16:36 +0000 UTC]

Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire deviant life, that there's something wrong with the story. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

You take the blue pill, the story ends. Your browser closes and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I offer only the truth, nothing more.

Take: The Red Pill
Take: The Blue Pill

spyed, nobody has ever done this before.
I know. That's why it's going to work.

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wu-wei [2003-03-17 20:47:05 +0000 UTC]

You know I rounded up on that. Always to the next 6 minute increment (aka .10 hours). I love the blunt westernization of time in certain professions. Ack.

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nonculture [2003-03-15 00:17:06 +0000 UTC]

Eh, I avoided reading that topic. Then I went and read it. I'd bill you, but I see WW has already sent you a cheaper one.

Yeah, in some aspects there you're right, she tends to go shooting off at the mouth then have the gall to call herself a professional. Whatever. I'm sure, unfortunately, some topic will come up in the future that will force me to level down again and have to dance with her. But this time I'm taking the back seat.

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thelambofgod [2003-03-14 00:18:49 +0000 UTC]

you're time here isn't valued. please remove your head from your ass before typing again. thanx.

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wu-wei [2003-03-13 20:48:58 +0000 UTC]

I just stopped by to say thanks for the invitation, but I'm not biting. Anyway, seems there's been a flurry of activity on your page in the interim. I really don't care to embroil myself in useless squabbles over shit that doesn't concern me anyway.

Admins feel like their job is tough - and I'm sure it is, but they DO choose to continue doing it. Nonetheless, I feel pretty grateful that someone is willing to handle all the bullshit that must fly at this site and its hardware.

I would rather pour my energy into writing or thinking or *gasp* my job, instead of adding to the admin tasks. I'm sure that our witty criticisms are a welcome break in the endless sea of hacker kiddie shit they must see, but I just don't have time to brighten euphoria's day in that special way anymore.

I don't pay a thing for my membership in this community, so I do my best to keep my criticisms in proportion to my financial contribution.

BTW, I'm billed at over $100 per hour (more like 125) so there should be an invoice heading your way, reflecting a balance of $25.00 due and owing for this comment.

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ndifference [2003-03-13 19:49:09 +0000 UTC]

You should know better than to poke a stick into a rotting log. All kinds of icky things will wriggle out. See! What did I tell you? Ewwwwww.....gross!

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ilblissli [2003-03-13 18:28:57 +0000 UTC]

Wow, aren’t you the clever one? Well I tell ya what seeing as how euphi’s time isn’t “worth as much as yours” I’ll let her take up some of mine any time she pleases, and I guarantee that my time is worth more than yours.

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euphoria [2003-03-13 18:25:22 +0000 UTC]

Some points you may want to consider, BEFORE posting your dissertation on multiple deviant userpages:

1. All complaints will be immediately discarded into the collective rectum; therefore do not waste your time - and more importantly, ours!!

The article was written by jark and I, collectively. That part happened to be his. While I can assure you that the point of that statement was certainly not to insult anyone, apparently that doesn't really matter, because it's much more convenient to simply add this to a list of petty squabbles as evidence that I am somehow responsible for the entire supposed downgrade of DA, or, as *ndifference put it, 'a fucking pill'. [That statement was actually made in an effort to lend an air of finality. We generally get over 100 emails a day, all of which take time to research and answer, and in a case like this, that number doubles with people who choose to complain about the decision. Not insulting anyone...simply trying to keep our day manageable].

2. From what I gather in terms of employment histories, the author of this post chooses to sell her time for what I gather to be less than I sell my time for, therefore I would conclude that my time is actually more valuable than hers.

The intrinsic arrogance and ignorance in this statement was almost enough for me to simply laugh at it, but I figure I'll answer anyway.

First of all, your value system is flawed. If you choose to define your time spent solely by the hard cash aspect of it, then you will consistently miss out on things that are far greater than money. I choose to spend my free time doing a wide variety of things, ranging from violin to piano, to serving in the AF Aux, to spending time with my son, volunteering at various agencies, and on this site, all of which pay me nothing. As for your 'employment history' comparison...I'm not sure what you think my income is, and I certainly don't feel as though I need to disclose it to 'prove' anything, but you really shouldn't assume. It's bad form.

3. Not that this proves anything, but it does have a little more thought behind it than the rash comment she made.
Now she can prove how much my time isn't valued on this site by banning or PV'ing me.

Wow. You're right. It proves nothing, except that you have stooped far below whatever level you accuse me of communicating on. As for me PVing or banning you, well, I think I'll pass. You technically didn't violate policy, and besides, according to your system, since I don't get paid here, it's not worth my time.

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ndifference [2003-03-13 17:31:42 +0000 UTC]

She's a real fucking pill. No doubt about it.

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terov [2003-03-11 10:02:41 +0000 UTC]

That's good. The only animosity I've ever earned from DA members was earned drunk. No real resetnment from me either... Definitely sticking with tequila for the next few months

Peace

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raguel [2003-03-10 20:56:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for commenting on version 2. I liked being able to expand the study a little and I feel that what it may have lost in rawness it has gained in narrative. I tend to leave things as wide open as possible so as not to hem in the reader's interpretation of a piece, but that's partl authorial cowardice. I don't like to feel that I am lecturing the reader, however taking the time to work on this piece a little more has shown me that in order to make writing work coherently, well, I have to actually write....

I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Maybe I'll just save that 1% to blow your mind sometime soon...



Luce

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sumants [2003-03-10 18:20:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for your comments. I agree on both aspects of your remarks, although I'm not sure what I can do to rework it. The second verse just jumped out at me and stuck. I can't find a better way to write it at this point, definitely not if I had to expand out of a haiku into a longer verse.

The first one is kitsch, but if only you knew how absolutely perfectly that definition applies to a newbie researcher...

Maybe I will spend more time on them in the future, but for now, I'm happy the way they are. I think I need a lightning bolt to strike before I touch them again....

Cheers.

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rajivmathur [2003-03-08 13:44:33 +0000 UTC]

I had nothing to do with it this time. I've stopped picking Dp's; But am still a fan of your poetry.

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nonculture [2003-03-08 00:08:25 +0000 UTC]

"positively dripping with anticipation" came across a little odd, but hilarious, know what I mean?

Or is my mind the only one that's constantly drifting in the soiled sheets? Yup, probably is.

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sumants [2003-03-05 22:30:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the comment on my journal. More than disillusionment over my literary ineptitude, it was the frustration of not being able to create that I was trying to talk about. Writer's block is the worst thing in the world when all you have are your words to create with, and you run out of them. My ego is perfectly in place, and hopefully gathering steam as the days go by...

About your poem, I'm not sure why the stanzas stood out. The third stanza about the rouge in the sky flows through as part of your description of the scene, but it felt like you wanted one more description of the sky, and you stuffed it in there. The last stanza is hard, because while I understand the idea behind ending it the way you did, I feel like this poem should have had at least two more verses before the last one. You introduce the concept of the Maker in the previous stanza, but before you can say anything more, the poem is over. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you spent too much time drawing the picture and left the main character to sit in one corner.

Sumant

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siedhr [2003-03-05 19:55:55 +0000 UTC]

actually, that night I went on a commenting spree and I probably shouldn't have seeing that I managed only to point out bad aspects. I shan't do it again. I guess I was looking for something more than a clear-cut statement. I read with prejudice, really.
It didn't feel flat, it felt somehow emotionless which surprised me seeing it was a confession of sorts. as for the information itself it wasn't new because I though along the same lines more than once (I don't do exactly those exercises, but something similar, not that organized and rational though).
and I did like your style, it was clear and sharp (also I don't think I can judge it after only one example), enough to make me comment and look for more (I'll be back to your gallery some time soon).

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wu-wei [2003-03-03 20:52:49 +0000 UTC]

BANG.

No worries on not feeling something in that haiku . . . I figure the folks who frequent my dear ~laurel 's page will get it, and those who don't won't. I do commend you to check her out, though - her artistry is divine.

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casualtea [2003-03-01 15:23:36 +0000 UTC]

thanks a whole belated lot. great points

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livingbyair [2003-02-28 22:05:58 +0000 UTC]

ok - i admit - "you forgot the cherries" is a very bizarre piece of mine and jammed with metaphors etc etc - ok, so about my writing style - when i have an idea, i write it just like any good writer would of course, than wait until the poem wants to come out and when it does put it all on paper, edit, reword, rewrite, etc - but in the end, i interpret my own work, i dont have a set metaphor im trying to write from the beginning, so my work can be interpreted in many ways. but if you care to read, ill explain how i view this poem:

Everywhere I look;
oranges bob up and down,
and apple cheeks smile.
-most everyone is classified as an orange or an apple but either way, it means they're "happy" b/c after all...fruits are just happy by their color and taste and all that.

Some walk in circles,
-some are happy b/c they keep doing the same things that keep them "happy"

and others walk a strait line--
-others like change, change is what makes them "happy"

strait off the plank into the ocean.
-an example of change, but showing its not necessarily a good thing. also showing people are naive.

The ship is no longer safe!
-but once they've left what they once thought of as "happiness" it is no longer as they thought. Again, people are naive.

But what ever you are;
watch out for the bananas.
-be careful around the people that will make you stumble

You know as well as I
that we don’t want to slip
again.
-no one wants to be unhappy

--about the title--
'you forgot the cherries'
the cherries are inferred to be rare, they are the truly genuine people, the best of the best, they are the ones that don't need to be "happy" b/c they are Happy!

^^ aight hope all that made sense, but yes, your right, my writing is very...odd in some places and "brilliant"(as i've been told from time to time) in others.

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sirensin [2003-02-27 23:18:28 +0000 UTC]

thank you for your words about alive they made me happy hehe, that you think i did well on it--i highly value your critical advice, i know you give it honestly--when you say you like something that means a lot, especially since it comes from a writer i respect like you .

about rebirth, i see what you mean about how i change focus in the poem from what the "exterior" of the renaissance to the "interior;" introducing the renaissance gave me trouble; i was already finding it difficult how to make it clear the poem was about the renaissance without actually saying so. in the 2nd stanza i was trying to introduce the idea of "Creation" and how the creating was almost more important than the art at the time. if can have thoughts on how to better introduce the theme i outlined before, i'd really appreicate the advice

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piksee [2003-02-27 00:49:54 +0000 UTC]

Re:your comments on my comments
I agree that society and one's environment shapes a person. My environment has shaped things in me that were really what I saw until I came to be around 15, and started the long process of questioning what I believed in order to understand the metaphysics behind them. Everyday, I wonder if the things I hold valuable are because I have educated myself on the pros and cons, or if it's what I've been told is right. It's difficult and convoluted, so it's an arduous process!
The problem I have with you shaping your wife is that it seemed to me that you shaped her to suit yourself, rather than the relationship. The two might be intertwined, though. The real problem is I think you fall in love with a person for who they are, not what you make them.
Re:saying you are in love with yourself
I said I thought you were in love with yourself because of many things. The pictures of you shirtless, the fact that you love your wife, as you said, because she is so much like you, and all of yourself you put out here for the world to see.
Re:Brave Little Toaster
Thank you very much for commenting on it. Nonculture slapped me out of the flaw of whining about a whiner. I didn't realize that's what I was doing until afterwards, and I'm trying to revise it.
Re:My thoughts on you
I respect the fact that you analyze the things people say so deeply, most people just say "This comment was good/bad," and take it at face value for their own self-service. When you said in ISI that the only opinions you value were your wife's and your own, I had to stop for a second. I don't believe that for a second, since you put your work up here, I have to assume you want to hear what people think.
Anyway, as with most people, my skills get better with time. Brave Little Toaster isn't my favorite, mainly because I've found I do better with prose. Thank you again, for your thought out comments and responses.

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ignite [2003-02-27 00:22:04 +0000 UTC]

thank yoooooooooooou.

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