Stuff I'm not qualified to say

Something From Something Something

Collin Van Uden — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:55:04 +0000

Predictably (and cleverly, given how much I now want to read the book), this pushed a number of buttons, two of which I want to briefly discuss in detail.

The first:

‘But I don’t really give a damn about what “nothing” means to philosophers; I care about the “nothing” of reality. And if the “nothing” of reality [...]

The Heart Of War

Collin Van Uden — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:27:35 +0000

The 25th of April

They herald the rising sun

Rememberence done

They go back – every one

To their bombs and their tanks and their ships and their guns.

“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

If ever an evil thing existed, it must surely be the madness named war.

In their rapacious pursuit of a [...]

Are Employers Really Thinking This Facebook Screening Thing Through?

Collin Van Uden — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:35:16 +0000

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A story from Associated Press has been making the rounds this week about employers asking potential employees for their Facebook login credentials during interviews.

If you haven’t already, go read the article.

Iit’s rife with rage inducing nuggets of derpery that have set the privacy pundits ablaze, and for good reason, but there was one snippet in [...]

Reflections On An Unpleasant Mind

Collin Van Uden — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:23:34 +0000

Beauty was never in the eye, but the MIND of the beholder. If you can’t see the majesty in a single act of courage, a quiet word of pained reflection or the fearsome rage of an unbridled heart then I put it to you that your very mind is poisoned, your soul but a pitiful shadow [...]

It rhymes awfully better than #ozlog

Collin Van Uden — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:07 +0000

1981, 81, 81 We’ll have an awful lot of fun with HR1981

Taken to it’s dark conclusion it’s a permanent intrusion (no of COURSE we won’t misuse it) but it’s not like we’re imposing on your right to own a gun

We’re protecting all the children by assuming you’re a crook (in another year or two we’ll catalogue [...]

I am (Part 1)

Collin Van Uden — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:36:09 +0000

I know, right?

I am the wind that whispers Carrying voices long dead upon my wings I am the silence of the moon reflected From the surface of countless pools My gentle touch pierces their their depths without trace Without disturbance I am the shelter and the storm The rain, the shine The seeing and the seen I am the eagle soaring And the prey on which [...]

Madness Descends

Collin Van Uden — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13:12 +0000

Said the cat to little Alice “We’re all mad here!” Said Alice to that grinning beast “Madness I don’t fear.” Said I to the madness “Just leave me alone!” The Madness spake so: “Never while you’re flesh and bone“ “There’s a method to the mayhem?” Says the puppet to the string The string says naught, Not a word, not a thing “The end is nigh!” Says the prophet [...]

Quantum of Solace: The Undertow

harlequinraw — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:20:39 +0000

Remorse, regret, fear and ruin – melancholy made manifest, devourers of provident hope.

Romance, lust, joy and aspiration – a heart unbound, rampant and rife.

Love and grief, imbuing a certain narcissism, a subjective self reflection looked upon awkwardly by peers unable to empathise with the grievers lament, or the lovers bliss.

An oddity, is such a narcissism. Woe’d, [...]

I AM – Part Two

Collin Van Uden — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:58:00 +0000

I am elation I am sorrow I am yesterdays tomorrow I am the golden sunshine And the driving rain I am the balm for your wounds And the cause of your pain

I am the storm I am the calm before I am the tempest and the wreck ashore Like a force of nature I’m the rising din The very breath of Hades hot against your skin

I’m [...]

The Quantum of Solace – Riding the Spectrum of Love and Loss

Collin Van Uden — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:49:01 +0000

Hi there internet. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Apparently I’m trying this whole ‘put a bunch of scattered ideas and notions into something resembling coherency’ thing again and here’s what came out first. Enjoy. Or don’t. It’s your screentime douchebag – do what you want with it.

The opposite of love has never been hate.

Once upon [...]