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Yesterday, a guy in Chicago burned himself to death in protest against US foreign and domestic policy. He wrote his own obituary and posted it online ahead of time. That next to last paragraph reads “He had many acquaintances, but few friends; And wrote his own obituary, because no one else really knew him”.

Regardless his suicide, his letters are worth reading. If nothing else I see myself in much that he wrote, and he didn’t take himself too seriously even when writing his last letters.

Read the obitiuary here: http://www.savagesound.com/gallery100.htm
Read him expaling why:http://www.savagesound.com/gallery99.htm
Infoshop has a short article here: http://www.infoshop.org/inews

I got the story from boingboing.net and it feels odd. Shouldn’t this be on the front page of papers and such? This is quite an extreme thing to do, and considering all the text he posted about both his planned suicide and his political stance it wouldn’t be too hard to do a background check.

And if you want to distance yourself from his very personal letters and despair, you can always check out the list of others who have set themselves on fire in protest.

Unless he was mentally ill and planning on killing himself regardless, do you realise what level of despair is required to do something like this? How furious you have to be at the willfull ignorance of people in general? My head is spinning slightly, because I get a sensation of vertigo reading through his texts.

note to self:

* there is a good reason why you hate windows: there are no standards, no accountibillity, you get pushed between vendors who point the finger at the other one, your browser plugin might interefere with the copy-past function in a sound application that doesn’t install properly anyway.

* the main reason why you hate windows is because you don’t know how it works and it makes you feel like a stupid child.

* if you’ve lost the 9$ you had invested in online poker, the first impulse should not be to transfer more money unless you plan on learning from your mistakes and not go all-in with two pairs against an obvious flush. fuck.

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i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

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a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

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and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

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i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

a href=”bork bork”

i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

a href=”bork bork”

i got some comments on the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and they mostly boil down to two things:
1: too many sex jokes.
2: the chronology isn’t all that chronological.

obviously, most people don’t know anything about the chronology, but have inferred that from what appears to be my lack of learning anything. and although it’s partially true that i have a hard time learning from experience, it’s not as bad as the list might give an impression of.

and although i didn’t receive any comments regarding the big “LOVE” in the background, i gotta replace it. it does frame the whole poster quite nicely though…

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

a link to an article on fragging at wikipedia.org.
i’ve always known the term as meaning killing in a computer game. how the times change, eh?

from the article:
Frag is a term from the Vietnam War, most commonly meaning to assassinate an unpopular member of one’s own fighting unit by dropping a fragmentation grenade into the victim’s tent at night.

nowdays, in online games, killing your own is called tk or tk-ing, as in team kill(ing).

[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[][]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]()[]

and for those of you who are not up to speed on your internet abbreviations, there’s a brief list available here: wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang.
(some folk still don’t know what “afk” or “brb” means. get with the program, people)

and there’s a really extensive computer jargon file available here, with common syntax rules and all: www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html
it’s a good and long read even if you’re not into computer history, mostly because you can trace the development of the modern geek. if you like dorky and extremely internal humour you’ll appreciate it as well. the frustration of all these people with management and stupidity seeps through the screen.

in progress

i don’t want to sweat the poster too much. currently it’s six different variations along the same punky theme. i need to spice it up a bit, twist it a bit, and tweak it a bit, but i’m hoping to be more or less done tomorrow.

two colours + paper white works. less colours, less mess – i’m silkscreening this and the alignment is never perfect.

feedback is much appreciated. oh, and would you buy this for yourself or someone else? what price point? i could go the limited edition, signed prints way, or the hey, a cute & bitter & trashy poster way, and the price will change accordingly.

i’ve already spotted one spelling error, and i’m sure there are others. lemme know.

and going through my music library i found this: DJ nono / Fuck Happy

[audio:http://www.monocultured.com/audio/Happy_Happy_Joy_Joy.mp3]

nude once again

instead of making funny remarks about how cold it was or somesuchit was very cold. really i’ll just give a few advice to the people who feel inspired and would like to try out modelling.



a) you will not freak out about being naked in front of ten attentive people nearly as much as you think you will.

b) no matter which position you choose (standing, sitting, leaning or laying) you will start to shake uncontrolably within minutes.

c) if your position includes a bend joint under stress, that’s the one that will hurt. everything else will hurt as well though.

d) you will be surprised at the amount of sex you try not to think of that you actually will be thinking of.

e) if you go pee in the break, really make sure you shake and wipe well enough afterwards. seriously.

f) it’s ok to smile slightly when the tutor says “see how the lower buttcheek is squashed out to almost double the size of the other”.

g) you do not move unless you’re told to. nor do you scratch or sneeze or caugh or try to sneak into another position because the current one is horribly painful. you will take pride in the pain.

h) the people drawing are at this point more vain than you are. even if you’re not qualified to give opinion on their artistic technique it’s fun to do so because somehow you’re perceived as having an interest in how you are represented.

that’s it. now go practice standing still. pretend that you’re avoiding a very sensitive motion detector. like mission impossible or something, whatever floats your boat.

fsm is real!

for those of you that don’t know, flying spaghetti monster is the god of pastafarianism – a religion spouted in the usa to counter creationism/id in schools. it’s turning into quite the movement, and now has devout followers all over the world, all praising His noodlines in all of His tomatoe sauciness. behold!

not sure on gender, but in english the god is referred to as a He.

more on fsm: wikipedia.org
His gospel: wikipedia.org

cold. so cold. (#34)

winter arrived officially in gothenburg yesterday. it’s now really fucking cold™ and i should start wearing longjohns and a big thermo-coverall and not leave the house unless there’s a lifethreatening situation.

so. past couple of days using images:



uno) i’m fiddling with the layout of the “what i’ve learned…” poster, and might go for a more gender neutral title to allow both sexes to enjoy the bitterness.
dos) i woke up yesterday and this was the view outside the window
quarter) some sassy sources claim that my hair is now quite close in appearance to “brandon” in beverly hills.
zink) i drink a lot of coffee. too much to bother washing the cup in between refills days months, and this is how it looks sideways (for example, if you’re laying with your head on the desk while gently hyperventilating, this image is a fair representation).

i’m modelling later today. in two hours in fact. i’m getting slightly freaked. only ever so slightly.