"I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes. Let my own lack of a voice be heard!" He achieves this by calmly pouring gasoline over his body and setting himself on fire.

The closest thing I could find to a direct transcript. It will do nicely.

Well...

Am I just going to sit here and listen to Marilyn Manson all evening, or am I going to type something? Or better yet, do something. (Though what that might be, I can hardly imagine.)

Slashdot is rightly up in arms about the CBDTPA (formerly SSSCA, also labeled "The Crippled Computer Act"). When I see this stuff apparently being seriously considered by congress, I think, "Is this really the country I live in? How can this be?" Many people (myself included) thought the Clinton Health Care plan was an awful idea at the time, but it was nothing compared to the insanity now being proposed. Want to make a computer not approved of by the Disney corp? Congratulations, you've just been awarded jail time!

There's that, and...

Rumors of some sort of stupid shit happening at work. Well, as far as I'm concerned, it is still all just vague, anonymous rumors at this point, so I probably shouldn't even comment about matters (or non-matters) of which I have no real clue. So I won't.

I'll just say there's a lot of pent up angst in my soul, so please excuse me if I take a moment to vent. Virtually speaking.

There. I feel much better now.

Fuck sitting around in this apartment. I'm going out to a club, or something. (Or something.)