apparently, how you draw a pig says stuff about you.

Unfortunately, regardless of I drew a pig, most of those criteria are non-existent and invalid.

but my pig DID say something important: I hate you, don’t ever attempt to draw again.

via Sarcasmo

this sucks.

this is taken from Yummy Brain Gravy, and I’ve done my best to be able to give answers to these questions well…there is an argument that Leviticus was made to apply to the levites, thus the more stringent laws as they were the priest caste(hence the name ‘leviticus’), however, as the christian I am, I’ll do my best to answer your questions.

a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
Yes…they’re godless heathens.

b) I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
going price for lean daughters is $3.82/lb, for more fat, it’s about $2.00/lb. If it is for labor, and not eating, going price is about $10/lb/year in age up to age 30, and then $5/lb/year afterwards.

c) I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
Just stay away from feisty females. You have a very good chance that they are the ones menstruating.

d) Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians?
Canadians are not human. Nor are they good workers. Only hard working slaves are acceptable, and canucks have proven time and again that they are lazy lazy people.

e) I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
See answer to A.

f) A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an Abomination (Lev 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this?
Depends on how the shellfish is cooked. And how much it costs to eat it. Red Lobster and down…worse abomination, higher echelon not as much. Long John Silvers…about on the same par as homosexuality.

g) Lev 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
No wiggle room. Let the Levites approach the altar of the LORD. They don’t have enough to do anyway.

h) Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev 19:27. How should they die?
As long as they are making the appropriate amends to the LORD they need not die. If not, then they should go painfully and fully aware of what awaits them in Sheol.

i) I know from Lev 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
no. NERF is the choice football of the heavenly host.

j) My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
Eh. Sounds like he’s got a wife that makes his life miserable enough.

apparently I am going to be ‘best man’ at my former roommate’s wedding on June 4th.

obviously, because aside from the groom, the Froyd is the best man at any wedding. And I’m humble!

first thing to do: get a date to go to the wedding. Apparently their clothes of choice will include dress slacks and suspenders…this may be someone’s one and only chance to see me in suspenders!

But anyway. I have no idea what responsibilities are mine as best man. I’ve been to I think 3 weddings in my entire life that I’ve been part of, either as a groomsman or as an usher.

now I’m best man.

what to do, what to do…

so I biked to school today. 2.5 miles each way.

ugh. Now I feel like collapsing in bed and just going to sleep.

no $ beers for froyd tonight. I figure in a week or so, my legs should be used to bike riding and won’t hurt like hell the next day.

on the morrow though, I am pretty sure they will be trying to kill me.

ah well.

time to empty the bike helmet of bottle caps

So last night I organized Kamran’s old room into a ‘workout’ room. Plenty of open floorspace to start practicing my Kum-Do techniques again, and stretching and maybe lifting weights…? We’ll see.

And today…I’m riding my bike to school. 2.5 miles(give or take a tenth of a mile)…so we’ll see how much I am in pain tonight. Because I’m going to ride there, be at school until 9, and then ride home.

ugh. Exercise, my old nemesis…we meet again!

my coffee is old and needs to be replaced.

after 40 days sitting on the counter…it is less than refreshing. If only I’d used tupperware!

it is no longer valid.

Apparently our advisor for Fire Ring Voices only asked for $1193 from the foundation here at school.

So today, Holly and I ran around looking at quotes, to see how much we’ll have to beg from other businesses.

Last year we had a similar funding problem(also caused by the same advisor), but we were told that we could not ask area businesses for donations because they already donated to the Foundation.

Well, here we are, probably $500 short due to that advisor. So, in essence, we’ll be begging cash from people as soon as we’ve got an exact quote of how much we need. As well, we’ll have the book in front of them on my computer, where the business logo is going to go IN the book, and a quote showing them exactly how much we need. So hopefully things will go ok.

I’ve learned that both here at school and in real life, nothing gets done unless you do it yourself.

is a lot of work, a lot of decisions, and a lot of technologically advanced savvy to get things to work out just right. We are hours away from being done with Fire Ring Voices, and I couldn’t be more pleased or proud of the book.

In the last two days, we’ve gone by having hard copies of the pieces and between Holly and I we’ve typed and edited onto computer all of our submissions(no text recog software glitches for us!), decided on font and format of the book. Andin two days I’ve leared pagemaker well enough to be employed using it.

Now today we run the finished copy to the printers, dust off our hands, and say to everyone involved ‘congratulations folks!’

coffee, how I’ve missed your tastiness when mixed with cream and sugar!

It is good to have you back.

Lent is over! wheee!

wow. Over a year and I’ve been at the blog. Now, I do believe, this is the exact time point that I decided to close down Froyd’s House of Games two years ago.

Do I plan to close down this blog? Hells no.

Stats so far:
Posts 1000
Visits 20508(Unique visitors), 32509(including reloads)
Highest day: 118 on January 24, 2005
Average Visits per day over the last year: 47

Top 5 Referrers:
Froyd.net 3559
Blogs and Wikis Daybook 1047
SweetAndSourGoth 759
Long and Winding Road(Angel) 507
Miniette(Julie A) 294

The top 5 search strings(other than Froyd):
91 2.75% sigmund
79 2.39% the
68 2.05% and
38 1.14% corrupts
37 1.11% power

I want to give you my favorite posts from the past(in no particular order):
Just a Thought
Carrion Luggage Only
Sunday Comics Commentary
One liners
Google Fu
Important Knowledge about Drinking
Anti Violence
Kikkoman!
Greenday sucks
Sigmund Froyd != Sigmund Freud

Now, you may wonder what other art I’m involved in…and the answer is pretty much nothing. What!!?!? I can hear many of you ask. 1000 posts of writing, and you’re not at all artistic in other areas?? It’s true.

All of my artistic ability in painting and sculpture was taken up in middle school when I created the dragon sculpture.

All of my artistic ability in drawing was taken up before there were any written records for me to embarrass myself with. Although, I’m sure there exists some images somewhere, they are of the quality that no one could possibly A.) Attribute them to me, and B.) Tell they were art.

As for video production and making? Well, do I have a feast for you loyal blog readers! In the original format of RealMedia I have two such objects for your downloadable enjoyment….
Julius Caesar..around one minute and thirty seconds.
Marquis De Sade..around eight minutes.

The first was produced via lego technology by myself around 4 years ago, and the second was produced by the Honors Group of People that consisted of Jesse Whiting, Shane Wahl, Shannon Murray, Andrew Green, Eric Kuha and myself. Oh, and lil’ Richard was in there as well.

Now you know why I don’t do videos anymore…though there is one video “Episode 28: Or what we think for once” that was made by a group of friends and myself that bears seeing…as soon as KDFR gives me the video back so I can put it up on the web. That one, while adhering to my high production values, has a sort of coherent plot and much better music than the two above.

All right, some of you say, now we know about your other artistic ventures…what goes on in your mind when you write? Well…that’s a good question. And you all really deserve an answer. I don’t really think when I write, I more think out loud. And when I’m writing for the blog(and really, any other time) it sounds something like this:
Froyd writing

You may want to save that to your desktop to better listen to it over and over again when you need some inspiration.

and that about wraps up my 1000th post…but before I go, here’s the image I promised before:

heading to Florida…don’t know if there will be any blog entries down there, I’ll try.

but I know that if there aren’t, then I can plan for my big 1000th posting.

I’ll have stats, favorite referreals, favorite search engine terms, maybe some confetti, and perhaps a picture of a ninja turtle.

And maybe…just maybe…a picture of my archnemesis. The evil sean froyd, he whom fights against all my efforts.

stay safe…and have a good weekend.

So, in order to complete the paper of the Hindu class from last quarter at Pacifica, I’m rereading the Mahabharata. It is one of the great epics from India, and is a right good tale.

However, the translations of it differ in quality. to begin with, I would suggest reading William buck’s rendition.

Now, some people may complain because his translation is not ‘literal’ and does not have exact translation of the epic. You’re right. it doesn’t. Now the question remains…which translation is the correct one?

that’s the thing about Indian epics, none of them have one progenitor. They may have one version that is accepted as a main voice, but it is not seen as the progenitor of everything else.

the easiest way to show an example of this is the gospels. they are all tales based on Jesus’ life, but they are all differing in subtle ways. Yet not one of them is considered above the other ones. Such is the case in the epics of India.

and such is why, even though Buck did not take an exact translation but an approximation of it, I suggest the book to you to start out with. It retains the spirit and the tale, and while not exact in translation, these are what is needed in order to appreciate the story.

so. Read it. but then go on to read some other translations, because buck did change some details that are important to the original. Not so important to lose everything, but important enough to demand the original be read.

So I finally went in to get my prescription updated on my glasses to where my contacts were…a measly .25 from 1.5 to 1.75 on the left.

it is amazing, the difference.

I can see things clearly at a distance now.

it’s splendiferous!