Wesha the Leopard

wesha @ 2009-10-31T13:32:00

2009-10-31T18:33:49Z

Не знаю, сможет ли хоть один русский не заплакать... Впрочем, я не знаю молодого поколения.

Golden!!!

2009-06-11T19:04:10Z

If God couldn't stop Adam from plucking apples off the tree in the garden of Eden, what chance does a company have in stopping millions of people from downloading software from millions of servers?

-- an anonymous blog comment

wesha @ 2009-02-23T16:57:00

2009-02-23T23:01:24Z

12 days and 19 hours till THE KITTEH DAY.

Hold your fingers for me. I need it =^.^=

2009-01-28T20:28:22Z

wesha @ 2008-12-26T13:10:00

2008-12-26T19:12:08Z

This is so spot on... perfect timing too.

I guess I need to become a jerk?

wesha @ 2008-12-25T12:11:00

2008-12-25T18:13:43Z

Merry undocumented birthday of allegedly existant ancient man who left no physical traces in history!

This way or the other... just wish y'all happiness!

wesha @ 2008-08-11T10:21:00

2008-08-11T15:23:23Z

In a nutshell.

I'm tired of this crap.

2008-04-07T16:12:17Z

I'm just soooo tired about everybody and their brother complaining about that China vs. Tibet issue.

For one, they're on the other side of the globe. It's their land and their own affairs. It's not anybody else's business, for that matter. At least it's definitely not mine. And after all, why such selectiveness? Why nobody's complaining about, like, USA vs. Texas? Great Britain vs. Scotland? "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

And besides, all that "independence" thing is, honestly, utter crap. From what I see, the only reason behind any claims for "independence" is to stir up some poor people and get yet another gang of bloody greedy politicians to raise to power on the shoulders and blood of the said people. Not in my name, thankyouverymuch. I don't care about ANY kind of "independence" as long as me (and my friends) are not being threatened in my home and on my property (and if somebody tries to threaten me there, they'd better be prepared to leave my property in a body bag). I don't need any other bloody "independence".

And you crying for Tibet, you better stop, turn around and fix the rampaging idiocy and stop using Constitution as a throwrug in your own home.

Thank you for listening. :/

wesha @ 2008-03-27T21:51:00

2008-03-28T02:53:50Z

*sigh* Why people just can't get to live happily?

Anyways...

Blatant plug!

2008-03-27T22:42:10Z

Please check out the commission auction (Adult, NSFW) from one of my talented artist friends, Wolfy-Nail!

wesha @ 2008-03-05T10:35:00

2008-03-05T16:40:09Z

For you, artists & creative types here... first and foremost, ksharra, xianjaguar and others.

A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.

A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can't wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.

-- Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans

Today's piece of wisdom

2008-02-22T00:38:15Z

"It has been pretended by some, (and in England especially,) that inventors have a natural and exclusive right to their inventions, and not merely for their own lives, but inheritable to their heirs. But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."

-- Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

wesha @ 2007-11-29T15:46:00

2007-11-29T21:49:13Z

Ohh, so now I know what NATO civil emergency plan is: call Russians! (The helicopter on the picture bears the logo of Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.)

My Life's Soundtrack

2007-11-25T20:25:30Z

Choose 10-12 songs that define major events or parts of your life. You don't have to explain why you chose them, or what events they go to, just list them in chronological order...

1. He Lives In You -- Lebo M.
2. Sealed with a kiss -- Brian Hyland
3. Cowboy Take Me Away -- Dixie Chicks
4. Englishman in New York -- Sting
5. Ma Baker -- Boney M
6. The Animal Song -- Savage Garden
7. Goodbye To The Circus -- Aqua
8. Delilah -- Tom Johns
9. The Snow Leopard -- Rick Wakeman
10. I Breathe -- Vacuum
11. Could I Have This Kiss Forever -- Enrique Iglesias
12. Dov'e l'Amore -- Cher
13. You're Where I Belong -- Trisha Yearwood
14. Life for Rent -- Dido
15. Show me the meaning of being lonely -- Backstreet Boys
16. Wish You Were Here -- Ritchie Blackmore
17. When I Dream at Night -- Marc Anthony
18. Still Alive -- Jonathan Coulton

Definitions...

2007-11-23T03:40:02Z

Came to my mind after fiddling around with one of these $25 RC airplanes...

Adulthood: n. time when you can finally buy all these cool toys you've been drooling over.

A Fair(y) Use Tale

2007-11-04T00:27:49Z

A rather witty video illustrating what fair use is =^.^=

If we lose Net Neutrality...

2007-10-25T20:30:32Z

As usual: one look worth a thousand words.

wesha @ 2007-10-06T11:08:00

2007-10-06T16:12:32Z

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

-- Albert Einstein

Yay! Somebody stole my credit card number!

2007-09-21T03:29:02Z

No, nothing to worry about - I called fraud dept even before a single fraudulent charge showed up on my account, they cancel the card, yadda yadda, everything is fine.

The fun part is: for the past 8 month, this card was used ONLY at 3 sites:
* Amazon
* T-Mobile
* SofaWolf Press.

I'll leave the guessing of who leaked the data to you. =^.^=

Worth a thousand words...

2007-08-18T03:01:04Z

http://www.kimbawlion.com/christian.htm

wesha @ 2007-08-16T14:40:00

2007-08-16T19:43:06Z

MUST READ for universal_blue, ksharra, indyatigress, and maybe xzion; highly recommended for others. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/08/life-sucks-then-you-die/

More idiots on the march

2007-08-06T05:35:26Z

Niyoka Blackshire counts two or three northbound Red Line trains for every one headed south.
[...]
"Like [President] George Bush, they don't care about black people." Blackshire said. "Black riders are consistently being forced to ride the overcrowded buses and trains. I really think CTA sees less value on their South Side customers."

-- Kyra Kyles, 'They wouldn't dare do that on the North Side', RedEye, December 6 2006

Dear ms. Blackshire! First, please put your race card down. And now try to turn on the remainder of your brain and follow my thought. Red Line is just that: a line. Not a circle, a line. And guess what, over time, the number of trains that went one direction will ALWAYS be equal the number of trains that will then go the other way. Let me assure you, despite your paranoia that might be saying otherwise, once reaching the North End, northbound trains don't magically teleport to the South End so they could annoy you.

On "age" stuff...

2007-07-26T20:31:09Z

I would never ever agree and enforce any "age restrictions", until somebody could reasonably explain to me, what exactly kind of magic happens to a person in the very precise moment between age of 17 years 11 months 30 days 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds and age 18, yet but never earlier or later. ^*

Really, guys. It's the responsibility thing. I knew a 12 year old who would beat many soccer moms hands down on that, and I happen to know (sometimes a little closer than I would appreciate) a few 25+ years old people with kids who aren't quite capable of surviving on their own, let alone properly parenting the aforementioned kids.

^* Nitpicker's corner: substitute 18 for 16, 21, or whatever is the legal age in your country/locality.

wesha @ 2007-07-10T21:53:00

2007-07-11T03:00:01Z

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, and even where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band - he could see it. In his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days and weeks passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside.

He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall. The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

"Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you," she said.

AC

2007-07-05T15:01:22Z

Am there. Rm 1908. Come hug meow!