this is still one of my favorite videos, and it's a great song... plus, my friend brian is in it! ♥

Man admits setting fire in online spat
He gets seven years; blaze was revenge for being called a nerd

12:00 AM CDT on Friday, July 27, 2007
From Wire Reports Angela K. Brown, The Associated Press

ELM MOTT, Texas – It was an Internet feud that got out of hand.

Russell Tavares got mad when someone mocked him as a "nerd" over the Internet, climbed into his car and drove 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas. He recorded his progress by posting photos online showing welcome signs at several state's borders. Then he burned down the other guy's trailer.

This week, Mr. Tavares, 27, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading no contest to arson and admitting he set the blaze.

"I didn't think anybody was stupid enough to try to kill anybody over an Internet fight," said John Anderson, 59, who suffered smoke inhalation while trying to put out the 2005 blaze.

The feud started when Mr. Anderson, who runs a haunted house attraction near Waco, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After he blocked some people from his page because of insults and foul language, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him, he said.

Mr. Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Mr. Tavares, a.k.a. "PyroDice."

Investigators say Mr. Tavares boiled over when Mr. Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Mr. Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under the words "Revenge of the Nerds."

Mr. Tavares took leave from his post as a weapons systems operator at the AEGIS Training and Readiness Center in Dahlgren, Va., and started toward Texas. Investigators say he told them he planned to point a shotgun at Mr. Anderson and shoot his computer.

Instead, when he got to Elm Mott – after posting a photo of a "Welcome to Texas" sign – Mr. Tavares threw a piece of gasoline-soaked plastic foam into the back of Mr. Anderson's mobile home and lit a flare, authorities say.

Mr. Tavares' attorney, Susan Kelly Johnston, said his trip to the Waco area was a last-minute decision during a cross-country trip to visit his parents in Arizona. She said he never intended to hurt Mr. Anderson.

James Pack, an investigator with the McLennan County sheriff's office, caught up with Mr. Tavares after talking to people who had been involved in the online feud.

"He lost everything – all over an Internet squabble," the investigator said.

Mr. Tavares was discharged last year from the Navy, where he was a fire controlman 2nd class petty officer. He had been in the Navy for nine years.

He wouldn't let the feud go even at his sentencing. Mr. Pack said Mr. Tavares took cellphone photos of Mr. Anderson in the courtroom while the judge was hearing another case. Authorities ordered the photos erased.

Angela K. Brown,
The Associated Press

source: http://tinyurl.com/2zfy5t

i made a poll in my dream journal asking how often you remember your dreams. please go answer it for me! i'm genuinely curious. i'd link to it directly here, but since it's a different thingy, i can't. =[

it's also really ugly looking in IE. i hope they fix that so it works with templates. what a blemish on my pretty black blog.

so please go answer it for me if you have the time/inclincation. it's at http://ippagoggy.blogspot.com! thanks to all of you that do it! YYY

meet Jellybones!


he came to me via beeble's deft hands.
also, add me http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/112131!!

if you play WoW and know a paladin or play a paladin, this is hilarious:

http://tinyurl.com/36svl9

xoxo,
nef

example post:

The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.

Don't... don't care?

It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and we take Mag down just a little bit quicker, I don't see a guild promotion; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different class leads right now.

I beg your pardon?

Eight class leads.

Eight?

Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people yelling at me on Vent about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my raid slot. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get /gkicked.

to quote someone else:

I was taught that when someone dies, no matter how awful they were, you should only say good about them.

Jerry Falwell is dead?

Good.

Drawn by Josh Lesnick, colored by Jin Wicked.

Spread the word!

don't let the dress trick you
i love you less now that i know you
i won't count the scars again
i love you less now that i know you

Poll #951696 Amor vincit omnia
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Do you believe that "love conquers all"?

just curious.
feel free to leave any thoughts you have on the subject in comments.
♥

i've posted a poll to fridaypoll. the poll is here.

please go take it. it is silly, but so am i.
♥ thanks for your participation!

Get your own valentinr

and my current horrorscope:
Capricorn (December 22 - January 19): While you've always believed in love at first sight, ten years of marriage will soon test your faith in love at repeated sight.

so i really love the burning crusade trailer for WoW. i really, really do.
mostly because i've been in <3 with illidan for a long time. yeah, i know.


anyway, there's a wee version on youtube here or a high-res version on http://www.worldofwarcraft.com.

and i got my beta key finally! YAY!

happy thanksgiving to all of my american friends! ♥

i got some fantastic responses from my faitful intarbets!
there are some things i plan on reponding to individually, but i do want to clarify a couple of things:

(and please keep in mind, i have a degree in anthropology -- i'm not flying by the seat of my pants that much)
( cut for length )
♥

my individual responses that i have to make will be slow and not happening all at the same time. i'm saving them for break time from studying for my test on monday. x_x

*just because i want to clarify my really dumb joke - deux(dy) = doodie. hah. haha.

yesterday in class, one of the girls was looking at photos of another girl's niece that is about 5 months old and said, "awwww she's so cute! look at those chubby cheeks!! i could just eat her up!"

i know i've said it a bunch of times, too. i see something i like, and depending on what context it is (like the baby thing above, if i see a hot guy, etc), i sometimes make a comment on consuming it in one way or another.

wtf is up with that? and obviously, it's not just me. i know i've seen a ton of you on my friends list either in person, on here, or over aim say something about consuming someone/thing that is not generally considered a food item.

like in "soapdish":
hot guy walks by.
chick1: yummy!
chick2: ...with a spoon!

yeah. so do we as a speces just really adore our food that much? it seems possible. it's part of "the fat problem." especially in creatures that evolved in plenty/scarcity type situations (many creatures, including humans). if there's a situation with plenty, it's a natural thing to want to consume as much as possible in preparation for the next famine/winter/etc. food is a precious thing!

or is it something else? is there some primal urge to simply consume things we desire or find wonderful or want for ourselves?

obviously, sometimes this is taken way too far. some well-known examples are issei sagawa and jeff dahmer. is this something like the above except taken to extremes? taken too far due to mental illness/sociopathy?

for some reason, this was on my mind all day yesterday. then i had a dream about it. i figured i should post some of my wee ramblings (this is just a tiny tidbit of all the crap swirling in my head about it).

so i leave you with my favorite line from "ravenous":
HE WAS LICKING MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from your local Not Nice Nurse™




thanks to czarina69 for the wig!! ♥