Star Trek Character Test

Ok, you guys got me interested in these silly tests. After getting Sir Dedevere on JPW's page, I have to earn me honor back. I took the test located at: http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/trek/.

It told me that I was:


---Data---
"I am incapable of Feeling"

Ugh, this always happens to me... Please tell me one of you gets something else.

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*Check out Tabloid Physics
(A joint venture in intellectual ineptitude between GoofTroopAG and The Citizen Bob)

*Also check out Kiki's new page, Wasted Words
("Another one rides the bus" - oops, "bites the dust")

Today's Attitude:
[Poetic]


Beware of the Amoralist

By Robert A. Haaser – Original, June 7, 2002
Robert A. Haaser – Last Modified, March 28, 2004
[Free verse - no meter - Needs Work :( ]

[Widen browser to Full-Screen for best results]

Keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
In the hearts and minds of men.

Make friends wisely and do not be shallow.
Befriend your Muslim and Christian neighbors.
Do not demean your Catholic or Baptist brethren.
Pat your vegetarian and yoga friends on the back.
Trade good will with the Hebrews and ethical atheists two doors down.
Encourage your Agnostic University friends to explore new horizons.

Invite into your home the ethical people,
Those of all ethnic backgrounds with an infinity of beliefs
Who are dedicated to reason, happiness and cooperation,
To the visiting Mormon or Jehovah’s witness evangelists,
Offer a porch rest and a cool drink.

However, beware of those who live as wolves in sheep’s skin.
For, true danger lies beneath outward ethnicities.
There are most certainly things far more dangerous in this world
Than minor religious and ideological differences.
True Devils lurk in the shadows of the ranks and masses
of every religion and political organization in the world.
These devils of every age are the worst kind of being in existence.

Such are the amoralists.
They take pleasure for themselves from everyone and anything they can.
Of all the ethnicities I have known,
I have met just as many such devils in each.
When amoralists gain power, and they often do,
they sift dark and damnable attributes
To the forefront of their followers’ minds: [And they don’t even realize it]

They thrive on fear and step on those who struggle.
They speak with unwarranted alarmist words for their own control and gain.
They declare manipulated, consistent facts to be truth without due process
And often manipulate statistics in support of their unethical goals.
They declare that good results justify any means to achieve them.
They discourage cooperation and participation with other groups and ethnicities.
They declare themselves and their group far more righteous
Than any other in the entire history of the world.

They attempt to punish those who do better than them.
They always pass the buck.
They rage on non-crowded roads when drivers don’t move out of their way.
They always want more power.

They thrive on war.
They live for the suffering of others.
They want only to gain wealth
Or heavenly rewards, at someone else’s expense.

If the devil, itself, is to truly come at all,
Then it will most certainly come
from within each and every church, mosque and temple
from the best and worst governments at the same time,
from the wealthy, middle class and the poor,
from old, middle aged and young individuals,
from intellectuals, religious people, and the uninformed
oozing through the unseen cracks of each
in the fabric of civilization, religion, intellectualism and freedom.

So, keep an open mind.
I mean not to offend,
Only to warn of unseen danger
Lurking in the hearts and minds of men,

And Beware of the Amoralist
or you will be his slave.
You will not own your soul
Nor control the destruction you help bring
To the innocent and good of an unwitting world.

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Today's Attitude:

NO BUTTS ABOUT IT

[*****Freaked and Frightened*****]

...Don't Ask...

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Today's Attitude:

[---Manic!---]

Special Thanks: Thanks to The Jelly-Pinched Wolf, Kashi and Goof Troop AG for linking to Weirdsville, USA. It's alot of fun sharing my trials and tribulations with you guys/gals.

Girl Scout Cookies

Ok, last week, I was walking down to the 'ThriftWay' and in-front of the mom&pop supermarket were three girl scouts pushing their evil, addictive edibles, known as "Girl Scout Cookies". Needless to say, I pulled out a $20 bill and did my worst. In the end, I went over-board on my craven purchase: 5 boxes of Thin-mints and 1 box of Samoas.

Incidentally, this is not the first time this has happened. In fact, Steph and I bought 2 boxes of Thin-mints and 1 box of Samoas the week before that, and had gluttonously eaten the entire haul in a few days.

My question is: If we normally buy cookies and slowly, but surely, eat them after meals until they are gone, what is it with Girl Scout Cookies?!?! (not to sound like Jerry Seinfeld) Does anyone else experience this horrible addiction? Should we get the FDA to look into the potential criminality of this secret society that lures us to these evil tidbits,,, and then make us thirst the rest of the year, not allowing us to purchase anymore?

bfbgfbgbb (head shaking) - I wish I had the answer.
-The Citizen Bob

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Today's Attitude:

[Serious and Logical, yet at peace.]

Dr. Who Rises from the Dead again in 2005
http://www.gallifreyone.com/


And this time, I SWEAR!, I will try not to fall asleep. :)

Today's Attitude:

[Wired, yet Mystically Brain-fried]

Glutton for Punishment

I just worked another 14-hour shift at ITT - no, I'm not kidding. I arrived, this morning, at about 8:30am and left at 10:30pm and now I am shaking uncontrollably. The question I am hoping some will help me ponder is "Why does this always happen to me?"

When I was working at DuPont, people would come out of the wood-work and ask me to do a whole lot of stuff. The better job I did, the more people would ask me, until I was a continuous buzz of activity, all-day. Then, as now, I got made fun of, because I increased my efficiency by increasing my rate of travel within the office. Today, I was really getting nervous that I wouldn't finish anything before my Physics class, this evening, and the only way to finish was just to speed up - ok, so I finished 90% of it. ITT is having me teach in the early morning and late night on three of my five days there (including Saturday).

No matter where I seem to be or what my job is, I always end up pigeon-holed in this state. The only way to improve things is to move faster and faster - as more requests drop on my desk - until people watching me in a bizarre curiosity - having a hard time keeping track of me because I am moving so fast. The result on me is that I suffer dehydration, a distinct shaking feeling by the time GoofTroopAg shouffer's me home and an intense hunger for sugar and alcohol.

I suppose I could just tell people off when they ask me to do something over std capacity ("Take a number"), but I hate telling people that - it messes with my ego. But, just like DuPont, at the height of my efficiency, speed and usefulness I will depart for a far-away city - the 'El Durado' I seek, Austin, TX - and away from the dreary, sue-happy Seattle, but closer to family and friends.

It has taken me almost two years to convince them that I am the hardest working person they will ever know, and I will abandon the effort to start over again, as I did two and a half years ago.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss. I do not want to tell people off like many others do, but I feel like they need it to manage people better in the future - but who am I? Their mentor? No, just someone who cares about what I am doing to help those who want to turn their life around.

Let me know what you think.
-The Citizen Bob

Today's Attitude:

[Angered, Rabble Roudy]

SCOOBY DOODOO (warning: SD I spoilers contained)

Ok, here's a vent. Not since the bomb squad showed up at my apartment a few weeks ago have I been so angered and purplexed as when I saw the advert for the second Scooby Doo movie.

The authors of these Hollywood travesties have blown everything that the original Scooby Doo proved to me as a kid week after week,,, Corrupt People often use monsters and superstitions in order to frighten and control others. The second point that was hammered home on a weekly basis was that no matter how mystical or deceptively clever you are, your actions must ultimately answer to the laws of physics and logic,,, The True Laws of all that Exists.

No matter how scared the locals were or how magnificent the "spiritual spectacle" was (keeping people from asking questions or prodding into the criminal organization that was invariably in operation behind the scenes) the "team" get "to the bottom of it",,, but only after some serious and reasonable investigating,,, always asking every question, and never giving up.

In every single episode, "village curses" and "magic spells" were shown to be very very clever deceptions (as I have later run into with most UFO material). Kudos to those who are good at it and have the balls to admit it when the show is over, and then amaze us again the next time around. And the manipulators would have never been exposed "if it hadn't been for you snoopin' kids."
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The first scooby Doo movie revealed in the end (Sorry if I ruin it for anyone) that Scrappy, having been ousted from the team because of his constant jabs and nonstop arrogance, finds a "real curse" that he uses against the team, Rowan Atkinson and others. I felt defiled while watching the movie. That which shaped my exploration/scientific philosophy as a child, has lost its meaning to a new generation of movie producers. -- Similarly, though I respect Tim Burton's work a great deal, I was also saddened by shift in philosophy in his version of 'Planet of the Apes' - but those are comments for another day.

I may view the movie in the theater anyway, because I think the actors who play the old cartoon characters are a hoot, but I expect to leave the theater, again defiled, in a massachistic rage. I suppose I could put my foot down and wait until it comes out on video. :)

Anyway, dear reader, I'm sure there are plenty that disagree with me, as there always are. Please leave comments that may add to my observations, or even refute them.

Thanks for your eyes (Ethereal ears),

-The Citizen Bob

Ok, fine!!! After weeks of prodding, Stephanie has convinced me to vent into a blog. I hope, if you're reading this, that you understand that it is my I intent to write my weird views on life, the universe and everything (no, not the book by Douglas Adamas).
I hope you enjoy my subsequent posts. :)

Always anxious to learn new things.
-The Citizen Bob