log entries of timotheus

I’m realizing I don’t like this theme, because it gets rid of my extra lines, and bunches my paragraphs together. I don’t like that.

Did anyone watch 60 Minutes last night, with the interview of MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, the President of Iran? Well I didn’t, but I did read the transcript.

My initial response is that Scott Pelley (the 60 Minutes interviewer) managed to hurt the worlds opinion of Americans even more that it already is.

Read the transcripts. Which person sounds like an educated man patiently trying to explain his point, and which person sounds like a rabid sound-byte loving follower of this administration? Yes, it’s Pelley that sounds like an idiot. He lumps all Americans (as in, “But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world.”) in so many questions, it’s shocking. AHMADINEJAD calls him out on it several times, with a “Well, I’m amazed. How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?” And I have to agree with him.

Pelley is a reporter, not a politician. Instead of giving a position-neutral interview, it is very obvious this guy is very pro-war and anti-Iran.

I’m not saying I am pro-Iran necessarily, but this guy Pelley is so rude if I was AHMADINEJAD I would have just walked out before I got angry. I mean, no matter what you think of him, AHMADINEJAD is the President of a nation. Would Pelley be so harsh to, say, Bush? No. Many times Pelley refers to his talks with Bush like they’re best buds or something, and that just makes the predijuce more obvious.

These type of questions though just blew me away. “At the moment, our two countries may very well be walking down the road to war. How do you convince President Bush, how do you convince other nations in the West . . . . ” And AHMADINEJAD is like “um, why?”. It was like Pelley was declaring war or something, and this guy is just a reporter. He doesn’t speak for all of us.

Basically, Scott Pelley was being an arrogant American to a President who was being a gentlemen. And since Pelley was representing us by being there, it was insulting to me.

So I just saw on some news feed that the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is actually now in production.

If you go here, you can sign up to purchase two, for $399. You receive one, and one is donated to a child. What a great deal. (Actually you go on a mailing list, and you’re contacted Nov 12th.)

I was looking at the specs, and I just know this will be linux’ed in about 3 weeks after it comes out. And Ultra Low power laptop, with a power generating attachment of some sort, that has only flash memory and 802.11b/g support?! Why not!

I did a serious double take when I looked at my news feeds today. Look at this headline:

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

This is how zombies get started, people. Stock up on the essentials. Barricade the doors.

So I took the theme RoundFlow 1.0 by The undersigned and tweaked it to meet my color needs. This is a low-power color scheme I made, but I like it. I think the pale orange and blue complement each other nicely.

I’m still not sure on what I want the name of this to be. It’s hard to pick a name for this, for some reason.

This is my first post on my new blog. Yay.

I’m tired of using Vox, mostly because I can’t customize anything to my level of peculiarity, which is disappointing. Now I’m going to look for a retro theme for this site, so people can look away in disgust!

I <3 two-color themes..