Sidepocket_Pro`s Living-Dead Journal

Today is 10/10/10!

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:08:13 GMT

Fun Fact:

In binary, 101010 comes out to 42 decimal.

This makes it the most significant day this year! =D

That is all,

-- Jordan

My Top 20 Most Memorable Video Game Bosses List!

sidepocket_pro — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:18:30 GMT

While some games like Half-Life 2 can forgo such gaming convention as bosses and still be good, I still think that well designed bosses are very important to any type of video game were action is involved.

So to waste some time, I compiled my current list of the bosses in video games that I really stuck out to me. There are 20 and I left MANY off the list. Also, this list changes as the years go by so if I do it again there will be most likely new big bad guys in the slots.

1) Super Bowser -- Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)

2) Great Mighty Poo -- Conker's Bad Fur Day (Nintendo 64)

3) Silver Sonic & Egg Mech (Genesis)

4) General Razorbeard -- Rayman 2: The Great Escape (Dreamcast/Nintendo 64)

5) Kaptain K. Rool -- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (Super Nintendo)

6) Ganon -- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64)

7) Mother Brain -- Super Metroid (SNES)

8) Psycho Mantis -- Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)

9) Marx -- Kirby's Super Star (Super Nintendo)

10) Dr. Andross -- Starfox 64 (Nintendo 64)

11) Kefka -- Final Fantasy VI (Super Nintendo)

12) Magician -- House of the Dead 2 (Dreamcast)

13) Destroyman -- No More Heroes (Wii)

14) N. Gin -- Crash Bandicoot 2 (Playstation)

15) TV -- Clockwork Knight (Sega Saturn)

16) Adam the Clown -- Dead Rising (X-Box 360)

17) Akuma -- Street Fighter 2 (Arcade)

18) Wild Dog -- Time Crisis (Arcade/Playstation)

19) Aaron -- Clive Barker's The Undying (PC)

20) Gulpo -- Nights into Dreams (Sega Saturn)

P.S. I'll add explanations to each ranking and the memorable thing about them as the night goes on.

-- Jordan

Why The WASPs at Ground Zero Scare Me

sidepocket_pro — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:24:23 GMT

As a follow up post I figure I would share this gem about the stuff that I, an African American Polish Portuguese Atheist who just happens to look like an Arab Egyptian from the Byzantine Empire, go through when other groups of brown people screw up social life in America and mindless WASPs act on it:

In this video a brown man walks through the crowd at the Ground Zero protest and is mistaken as a Muslim. The crowd turns on him and confronts him. The man in the blue hard hat calls him a coward and tries to fight him. The tall man who was one of the organizers tried to get between the two men. The brown man's name was Kenny and he is a Union carpenter who works at Ground Zero.

And two more just for fun...

Yeah.

-- Jordan White

Eleven Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Muslim Community Center VS Ground Zero Debate

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:58:40 GMT

1. It's not even a Mosque!

2. It's not even at Ground Zero!

3. There is already an Islamic Community Center four blocks away! This would be two blocks away from one corner of the giant hole that is Ground Zero aka The Grand Canyon 2. There's over 100 Mosques already in NYC and many of them are only a few blocks from Ground Zero.

4. This is closer to an Islamic YMCA/Chef school than anything, with a swimming pool, basketball court, auditorium, culinary center and yes a prayer room so that the Muslims won't have to do complicated geometry to figure out were Mecca is. Same how Jewish and Christian Community Centers will have alters for prayer to the Yaweh god.

5. There is already a strip club and a sex toy shop two blocks from the"sacred" ground zero. Plus liquor stores and a peep show: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/16/2010-08-16_a_sea_of_filth_near_ground_zer0_mosque_gets_all_the_press_but_porns_around_corne.html#ixzz0wpmc8VYR

6. There are Christian churches in Hiroshima & Nagasaki...cities that were nuked by Christians.

7. Timothy McVeigh was raised as a Christian so why not ban all Churches in Oklahoma City then?

8. Even Tehran, Iran allows for Synagogues to be built and in fact the city has four of them!

9. WTC Tower #2 actually had a Muslim prayer room in it and Muslims died on 9/11 in the towers as well. Extremest no know bounds and everyone is the enemy.

10. The Pentagon (also attacked on 9/11) has had in Mosque within its walls since 9/11 - for Muslims who work in the Pentagon ...http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/05/muslims_infiltrate_pentagon

11. Just because they have the freedom to build the Community Center does not mean it should not be monitored by the authorities. In fact, since Muslims are concerned about extremest corruption in their religion many insist that investigations should be the priority. And they should for all three Abrahamic religions since Christians love to rape children and Jews smuggle drugs and run black organ markets.

In short, this whole thing is a waste of time. I would rather see this kind of fury and revolt be put to on getting an actual monument at Ground Zero since it's been ten years since the tragedy, to fight Al-Quada who is still at large and to fight against the Democrats and Republicans who shot down the option of giving 9/11 First Responders free health care just to save them enough money on top of their billions to send the family monkey to Mars.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Tags: The Daily Show: I Give Up - 9/11 Responders Bill, COMEDYCENTRAL

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-4-2010/i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill

P.S. I am not going into NYC on September 10th or November 17th. The holidays of Eid al-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr are on those days and I have a feeling that with the celebratory nature of ur-Fitr so close to 9/11 and the slaughtering of Animals on al-Adha that there will be roaming bands of white people roaming around to attack anyone brown. -,-;

-- Jordan

The Racebending of Today is the Racebending of the Future

sidepocket_pro — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:54:21 GMT

As someone who is bored with white people in the media and writes about multi-cultural worlds...try watching this and not puking...

-- Jordan

My Summary of The Last Airbender Movie

sidepocket_pro — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:12:55 GMT

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/the-last-airbender-audio

-- Jordan

For Everyone at Racebending.com -- Please Read

sidepocket_pro — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:41:45 GMT

I feel like there is huge amounts of disinformation out there about me and reading many of these comments from people who are my comrades and (who I thought were) my friends just makes me want to puke. I fee like I have a knife in my back.

First on that Twitter post, it is gone. I apologize for writing something that poorly written and thought out but I was overwhelmed just like you all were for the negative press that is coming out over the movie both in terms of racebending and as a film in of itself.

From a person who got death threats, had his computer hacked and to see his friends get bullied over this issue since the near beginning, I was full of emotion and typed with my gut instead of my brain. This will not happen again and I will be more careful about tweeting to make the organization look good.

Secondly, even though my friends at Racebending.com had posted that I stepped down from my position at my own free will there seems to be this view that somehow I was "fired" from the staff. I thought later on (I was going to write a book about this whole Racebending thing and sell it for charity) after the film came out I would tell the "True E! Hollywood Story" about why I stepped down but it seems like I am going to have to explain myself earlier so here it is...

As everyone remembers, one of my main jobs was to upload and maintain the YouTube page. Once and awhile, a troll would hack the page and start spamming flames at everyone connected to us. I would have to go in, delete such nonsense and apologize to such people. Well, one time when this happened the Dragonball Evolution Protest group was one of the victims of this. Turns out the guy running the YouTube is different from the other mods in that group and he has hated Racebending.com since they pledged allegiance to support us. I tried to be civil about it, I tried to remain calm and inform him of the issues but he wanted to hear no end of it.

So a short time later, he convinced the rest of the DBE movement to follow him and troll Racebending.com social portals. The huge thing they did was to mass spam the "REPORT" function on Facebook and that is how our Facebook was deleted. We were all upset and horrified about it and I had to make a choice. Talking to the YouTube DBE guy, I knew that he really hated me and saw me as the movement. And as I told the others, I rather see the Racebending movement to succeed with or without me taking and active roll in it. So I figured that if I resigned my staff position, the trolls will attack me instead of Racebending. Even though some people said I should not step down, I did so anyway to get rid of the DBE trolls. And it worked. They have been trolling (and failing at it) me ever since and it took them away from Racebending.com

Not only now do I have time to do other things, but I have STILL been doing things for Racebending.com behind the scenes with approval of the current staff. There! That's the story. Everyone makes it sound like I was some rat who was fired and now they get to celebrate urinating all over me for all the work I did because they never heard the full story.

Again, I am still very sorry for any person I have made uncomfortable or angry over my time and I wish your flames at me were heard when I was in person and not when you figured I left the movement forever so you can bitch about me free-for-all all you want. It breaks my heart to think this is how I get treated, mocked and dissed behind my back like this and I am deeply hurt by this.

Again, I was not a saint when running the group. I know that. Note how I was fine in the beginning but towards the end things started to go fubar. Basically, all the stress and death threats, trolls, hacks and slander at me took it's toll and so I got worse and worse over time. It was one of the other reasons I stepped down, being one of the main faces of Racebending is not easy and I thank Mike, Darine, Loraine and the rest for keeping their cool. Trust me, we constantly were freaking out and being a hairs way of exploding and so I am sorry that I was one of the first for this to start getting to me.

Lastly, I want to clear up something that neurotic_rat said which as a strong feminist really broke my heart. It was a misunderstanding of a quote I made a long time ago. I obviously did NOT sign up for this group to "get laid". Hell if you read my old posts (such as the barbification of Katara), I am a huge Womens Rights activist and it's one of the many reasons I love the show Avatar: The Last Airbender. What I said (or was trying to say and maybe came out the wrong way) is that in my past experiences with protesting those said protest were very much male dominated. So I was uplifted, impressed and ecstatic that a huge protest group was manned by smart, intelligent, funny and beautiful women and could do it better and more professionalism than any protesting group I have ever worked with.

You all should be really proud for that and go women! Girl power! THAT is what I said. It makes me sick to see that because of a misconception of that quote that now I am seen as some sort of unclean pervert who was trying to act like a pimp. Ugh!

Again, I am sorry for the Twitter quote. I got over excited and jumped the gun again. Keep up the great fight, lets show that white washing a series as fantastic as this is very uncool and I hope you are now informed about what was really going on all those months ago.

-- Jordan

First Wisdom Tooth Extraction

sidepocket_pro — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:43:51 GMT

Overall, not bad. The worst part was waiting a half an hour before I could go in. Then waiting a couple of minutes before I was totally numb. Nothing like a brat Spanish kid in the other room screaming like he was having root canal instead of simple drilling. Even my dentist said "Oh, he was just a brat!" XD

Very quick. No pain. Tools were weird, they looked like architectural tools. I was waiting for the cement truck, rhubarb and them to plant a flag on the foundation. XD

One down, one more simple extraction and then two surgical ones to go...

-- Jordan

The Science Behind Bending AKA Why M. Night's View on Firebending is Wrong

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:13 GMT

This is an old post that was rejected by the racebending and avatar_fans so since people have been asking here I am reposting it to my LJ.

P.S. I am not a physics major holding any degree. This is all merely based on some observations and my general knowledge of science. You have been warned.

So basically, after spending many hours watching the show just marveling over how culturally East Asian/South East Asian/Inuit the show is, I managed to get beyond this to find a very great show. I started to find characters I like, favorite episodes, ect. But then another megaton hit me...

I started to watch the entire show more closely about the art of bending. The history of it, how it works, ect. Then, combined with the Scrolls about how bending works and the Show Bible that proved this postulate...

All of the bending of elements are scientifically sound!

In fact, this is one of the few franchises besides Harry Potter and the Matrix where the fantasy elements are very grounded in reality. Ergo, it does not violate any laws of physics and everything has an easy scientific explanation, unlike such things as Star War's Lightsabers and Repulsortech.

It all starts with that the Show Bible clearly states that there is no "magic" in the world and the only fantasy elements are the creatures, bending and Spirit World. No teleporation, no ki-blasts, no magic flying, ect.

It also continued with the way Firebending is explained by Mike and Brian (which I will get to in a minute) and this whole thing is fuled by one thing: That M. Night has no idea how bending works and is doing it wrong in the movie.

==HOW BENDING WORKS==

There is an old saying in Science:

"You don't see things, you see light bouncing off of things"

Ergo, you don't actually see an object, what you are seeing is a representation of an object vial the light reflecting off it's surface. It's a common thing in science to expect common intuition to only be a half truth, with an ironic and often disturbing meaning behind it.

Well that is when it hit me:

"Characters don't bend elements, they bend forces that create/control said element."

This is why it's called bending. They are not magically conjuring fire, water, wind or earth. Instead they are manipulating a core aspect of that natural force to make the properties of that matter work for their bidding.

It also makes sense when you understand the history of bending. Before the current bending system, people practiced a base form called Energybending. They basically could manipulate some core aspect of the universe (Strings, Quarks, Quantums, Chi, P-Branes or what have you) to directly manipulate the matter of objects. The main use of this was to "hack" each other so they could pass down or remove skills/traits/memories and the like.

The thing about Energybending is that since you are manipulating the direct physic of that property that it's labor extensive and requires a lot of focus. Look at Katara's healing, a possible remnant of such a system where it completely drains her, she can only do so much with it and has to use another form of matter (water) to preform the energy transfer.

So naturally, bending had to evolve.

Two simple things happened:

One, is that the science of their world expanded, allowing them to understand the direct properties around them.

Two, is that because of this, they simply specialized. Instead of slowly wasting energy trying to directly manipulate one form of matter, you could waste less energy simply making minor edits to naturally occurring properties that directly influence matter.

In short, the people of Avatar end up specializing into various manipulation forms and it has served them well for so long that the old techniques of Energybending have been mostly forgotten.

So with that said, lets go into what the benders actually bend.

==AIR==

Bending Property: Atmospheric Pressure.

Explanation: Basically, when Aang is bending he is NOT directly move gasses around. What he is doing is increasing or decreasing the mass of other gasses so that the gasses around them move in the direction he wants.

Note how when he wants an object to move towards him, he does not simply make a "come here" gesture like a telekinetic would, but instead uses a motion simulating suction of space. What Aang is theoretically doing is removing the pressure in front of the object so the object moves forward aka wind pushing from behind.

Similar to Aang moving away objects, his arm waves and kicks remove the pressure outside of the object's range and thus the air rushes in to fill the void and thus...you have Zuko flying into a rock behind him.

Properties: Airbenders are the best in high altitudes because there is lower pressure up there so manipulating pressure is easier to do, and can create massive wind changes and turbulence. It also has less oxygen which would make the Fire Nation hard to attack. Also note the opposite, Aang has a harder time bending Air underwater since the pressure is too great. This will also come to play later in the Firebending Section about Combustion Man.

==WATER==

Bending Property: Electromagnetism

Explanation: Anyone can be a water bender in real life. Here is a trick that I love to show kids who are fans of the show:

Take a comb. Now run it through your hair really fast for about five to ten minutes. Then turn on your sink's water and hold the comb near the water flow but not enough so that they touch.

The water flow will actually BEND towards the comb! CONGRATULATIONS YOU GRADUATED FROM THE SCHOOL OF PAKKU! Why do you ask?

Because what you did was electromagnetically charge the comb by using the friction of the comb through you hair. This is also theoretically how the Water Benders manipulate water. Not by combing their hair, but by creating electromagnetic fields and currents that redirect the electron flow of the atoms in water and thus moving volumes of water. This is further supported that only in the North and South pole water freezes, they do not affect the state of the water but only it's electron flow.

Considering that the Water Tribes learned Water Bending from the moon, which bends water due to electromagnetic gravitational pull of the tides, this is one of the strongest sciences behind any of the bending on the show.

Lightning Redirection: It also is why I was not surprised that in the second season, Iroh's method of redirection of lightning was based on him studying the methods of water bending. Since Water Bending movements and philosophy is about controlling electric currents and fields, it makes sense that redirecting a high voltage electric current could only be possible by using Water Bending techniques.

==EARTH==

Bending Property: Atomic Structure and Mass

Explanation: Earthbenders rearrange the electrons in Atoms so that their structure changes. They seem to only do this to solid structures, but theoretically a master Earth bender could use this to change a property's element. Also, no wonder a scientist would be an Earth Kingdom native since they would also be potential master alchemists.

When one bends earth, they never bend earth into odd shaped structures. All structures that earth benders build on the show are structures that would be natural to said property. Rocks come out in slabs and chunks, not into perfectly round circles or trapezoids. Hell even when Toph sandbends (sandbending has a special note since sand can be manipulated by electrostatic properties and thus why it's also part waterbending movements) the map of Ba Sing Se, all the buildings and statues are rough geometric outlines instead of highly detailed smooth figures.

Metal Bending: Metal is a refined element. When you refine basic elements into a compound (NOT A MIXTURE) you get this unnatural property. Earthbenders seem to only be able to bend base solid elements so when they become refined compounds, the Earthbender cannot "lock" onto the individual elements and thus cannot bend the material. Hence why it's no surprise that Toph can metal bend because of the unrefined particles inherited in refined compounds and ironically, ULTRA SOUND is how one detects unrefined particles in a solid compound.

This also explains why Earth Benders NEED to be directly connected to the element they are manipulating and, much like how Gekkos can manipulate electrons in atoms to stick onto flat surfaces, Earthbenders can adhere to walls.

==FIRE==

Bending Property: Thermodynamics

Firebenders manipulate Thermodynamics. They can basically transfer heat from one source to another. The way a firebender creates fire is by drawing and/or magnifying their local heat source to high temperatures. This can be their own body heat (which will exhaust them) or from external heat sources like other people's body temperature, atmospheric temperature, the sun, comets, ect.

By super-heating the air around them, it rapidly oxidizes the other air particles (mainly nitrogen, methane and other compounds) and uses the surrounding oxygen as a fuel source. This is very different than "Pyrokinesis" which is what M. Night and fans claim...who are very wrong. Pyrokinesis would mean that the Firebenders can literally conjure fire when ever they please. They would not be affected by water, temperature or low oxygen/air pressure and thus they would not have to use a passing low orbiting comet as a large heat source to overpower the Air Nomads. In fact, if they were Pyrokinetic, they would be virtually unstoppable compared to the rest of the bending arts and would violate all the physics rules that are in said arts.

This is proof because a pyrokinetic would be able to keep fire in a sustained environment without worry of the fire dissipating/snuffing out and would be able to form it into various shapes ala Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix movie. They would also be totally immune to any kind of burning (aka no Zuko's scar) and would directly produce it from their bodies. If you watch the show, fire has a air of separation between the bender and the user, because the fire is created externally from the user's self. The fire, unless it hits an object also dissipates once it reaches a certain distance just like real fire does in air. Meaning they simply create fire naturally rather than directly manipulating the element.

This explains many things. For one thing, it explains why Firebenders can heat up objects without creating flame such as when Iroh burns the Earth Mercenary with his shackle...he was simply transferring one heat source (body temperature/air) to the metal shackle and since most metals are perfect heat conductors they burn very easily. This also explains why their weaknesses is lack of heat sources (Eclipses/Night/Rain/ect) and also why the Boiling Rock's prison's Freeze Chambers are so damaging to Fire Benders. They remove all the available heat sources and thus they cannot bend any thermal around them.

Lightning Generation: While the exact nature of how lightning created is unknown, what is known is that it involves either super heating or super cooling of the air, something a thermal energy manipulator like a Fire Bender can do. It also involves water vapor and it involves ionization of air particles. The theory is that Firebenders can either super heat or super cool (maybe both, very rapidly) the air around them to ionize the air around them, thus forming an electric current. The current then can be aimed by directing the electromagnetic flow to the target depending via the one with the most positive charge.

Combustion Man: His abilities are based on that he can superheat air to such an degree that no other firebender has reached. He also seem to only be able to do this at one specific concentrated location in space as oppose to a wide area. He simply super heats air particles so much that he causes them to expand rapidly creating his infamous explosions. Such a high level of expansion means that even someone as powerful as Aang cannot create air pressure strong enough to deflect it and thus Aang can only doge it. Maybe in the Avatar state he could, who knows!

==CONCLUSION==

The point is not only to show how much thought was put into the bending (consciously or subconsciously who knows) but also how M. Night is simply getting it wrong. With this kind of logic layout, all his statements about bending and in particular Fire Bending are all wrong!

There is no need to make the bending more "grounded", it already is very scientifically grounded! There is no reason, with the way firebending is in this framework, to gimp them by only using existing sources. They manipulate the properties that control elements, NOT magically the element them self's which seems to be the case in the film. It also shows that the Martial Art forms from the original were prefect (Tai-Chi = Current Flow, Baqua = Push and Pull, Hun Gar = Rooted Geometric, Northern Shaolin = Kenetic Energetic) and thus M. Night has no idea what he is doing with the forms. His claim of trying to ground things such as the bending, culture, ect has no basis since most of the show is pretty grounded and thought out anyhow.

In short, if M. Night cant take five minutes like I did to figure this out...and that he is obviously knows no basic anthropology...how can we trust him to get any other aspect of the show he is adapting right?

Thoughts?

Notacon Picture Summary

sidepocket_pro — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:35:59 GMT

To lazy for a written summary and a picture is worth a thousand words. So I expect to leverage 29,000 words out of this entry.

I wonder how many words will I get out of video?

-- Jordan

Writer's Block: Too scary!!

sidepocket_pro — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:14:04 GMT

Yes. When I was in Summer Camp (picture my ass in camp...yea) there was an archery class. I was one of the few who could strung the bow but I was so bankrupted in self-esteem and my rotten luck that I was worried even if I fried the arrow strait at the target...it would ricochet and hit someone.

So I always on purpose screwed up and made the arrows hit the ground. I never told anyone that, they just thought I was mentally retarded.

Now I wish I could go back. I have never done archery since and now that I know I can shoot strait, I want to bulls-eye that mother fucking target to death!

-- Jordan

Preping for Notacon

sidepocket_pro — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:59:15 GMT

I am a speaker at Notacon! Big pressure!

My rival talk is going to be my good friend Tiffany Rad. I have to follow and lead up to two other big acts. I swear they want to kill me. Very excited. Going to fly out and I have my own seperate hotel and room to stay at. Plus my friend *wink, wink* 0ph3lia will be there so do not be suprised if I start walking funny after one day with her.

Wish me luck!

-- Jordan

April Fools!

sidepocket_pro — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:10:02 GMT

But seriously, this is the new me:

Well this now answers rob_t_firefly's question. Also, first time I've seen myself without facial hair since the seventh grade when I first grew my entire mustache out.

Thoughts?

-- Jordan

Playstation Move....Yea....

sidepocket_pro — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:44:21 GMT

'Nuff Said.

-- Jordan

Operation Crystal's Gift -- Total Success

sidepocket_pro — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:33:18 GMT

I feel like our friendship is at full swing. I'm happy and she is happy. I hope she has an amazing time in Paris!

She needs all the happiness that she can get, because while it is preventable, she just found out from her doctors today that the cells in her body are unstable and that if not corrected will lead to cervix cancer.

:(

Let's hope the rest of my Valentines Day/Chinese New Year plans are good news both for me and the recover!

P.S. I'm sorry I don't have very good pictures of the necklace and the amazing custom wooden box it came in. When I get them, I'll post 'em!

-- Jordan

Bi-Racial Hair

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:07:36 GMT

I have bi-racial hair
Pantene Pro-V waves on the top
Easy to style, comb, rock-
Until-I encounter my naps,
I’m not talking about those-cute detangle with the spray naps.
I’m talking about those, slave naps, like,
No comb, brush, or man can handle the kind of naps I got- like,
No way you are touching my hair-naps like
Back 10 feet up, or we can dance naps
Those naps like-
DAMN!
I have bi-racial hair,
Those smooth and silk rafts hanging all through my mane,
Until you get to the back, and encounter the jungle, in which you can find Tarzan and Jane.
In the front you forget and relax in the pleasure,
Until you get to the back and remember pain
Baby hair slicked back with that good 4 dollar pomade,
That goes with roots and tangles,
Soaked with that same olive oil; mixed with that spaghetti sauce momade.
I have bi-racial hair,
Combs run freely through my fine breezy, just to the part, the most you can make,
Until it gets to the back and...
Breaks.
I have bi-racial hair
Like-
The only thing my mother could put it in was 2 big braids,
And sometimes that was to much,
So she left half undone.
I was in the mirror, I was in the mirror,
Convincing my self I looked just like a dark-skinned Alicia Keys
I have bi-racial hair,
Because I have bi-racial blood.
I’m not talking about that-cute they met then fell in love, blood
I’m talking about that- slaved raped six times by the master,
Birthing 6 mixed babies, later hung blood
I’m talking about that cross burning in the mud, blood
And you call me a mud blood,
Slit my rist,
My blood does not excrete in black and white.
I drean in verse and in red
Like what drained from Emmit Tills’ lips when he was killed for breaking down color lines
Bi-racial who surcomes to the abuse from her peers in her middle school,
Those whose who constantly called me an Oreo
Well she’s not white, its more like Reese’s cookie, mixed breed or a mullato
That’s what it is a reverse mulatto
I AM NOT A FUCKING COOKIE OR A BITCH!
My roots are deep too
My bi-racial roots are not blind
Or more than cotton soft
Cause my blood were in the sun, picking cotton too
A thousand times discrated for my race
A thousand time discrated from my history y’all never get
Let textbooks be your truth
And sprinkle the ashes of your history into streams
I dream for a time and place where
Maybe y’all all accept me
Maybe we need to wake up again and remember a morning of you
Like something new
Baby I’ll be green cause my people drove there
You people drove me there
With my tender heart
Tender head
And my bi-racial hair

-- Zora Howard

-- Jordan

Go, Fat Hamster Go! -- I Haz Made A Video Game

sidepocket_pro — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:40:17 GMT

So...why did I fell off the face of the Earth for the past three days?

I attended the Global Gaming Jam at Bloomfield Collage were you have to make a game with a certain theme from start to finish in only three days.

The theme this year was "deception". I end up coming in late of Friday so I was shoe horned into a pretty fucking awesome team. Our programmer was a god, our lead artist was a goddess and everyone else really hauled gear.

I did most of the game design stuff (although everyone had their say about the game), I managed the team so the pipeline was smooth and we all reached our end goal. I also did all the Audio (pulling off the achievement of all sound effects done with my own body) and the Opening and Closing videos.

Here is a video of it in motion (spoilers!):

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE!!

Spread the word!

-- Jordan White

The Big Googowski

sidepocket_pro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:14:32 GMT

::SCENE INTRO::

APPLE hurls new product out on the market. POW! It's another GOLDMINE!

Apple: WHOOOO!

Apple walks back to his team with a SHIT EATING GRIN plastered on his face.

Apple: I'm generating high profits tonight! Mark it Goog!

APPLE sits down with GOOGLE AKA "The Goog", a hippy-looking guy looking PISSED off next to MICROSOFT, an overweight man with aviator glasses looking even MORE PISSED OFF.

Microsoft: This was a valued search engine...*CLEARS THROAT*...this was a-

Google: Yea, man, it really tied the internet monopoly together...

Microsoft: So this was a valued uh-

Google: YEA!

Apple: What tied the internet monopoly together Goog?

Google: Google China.

MICROSOFT is tapping a cigarette against his zippo lighter, staring at APPLE FURIOUSLY.

Microsoft: Were you listening to the Goog's story Apple?

Apple: What?

Google: Microsoft...

Microsoft: Where you listening to the Goog's story!?

Apple: I was shipping units.

Microsoft: So you have no frame of reference here Apple! Your like a CHILD who wanders into the middle of a movie wondering what-

Google: Microsoft. Microsoft! What's the point man?

Microsoft: There's no reason, here's my point Goog, there's no fucking reason why these fucking-

Apple: Yea Microsoft whats your point?

Microsoft: HUH?

Google: Microsoft. What is the poin-look! We all know who is at fault here! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?!

Microsoft: Huh!? No what the fuck are you!? I'm not!?!

MICROSOFT, PUZZLED, takes a minute to rethink his words.

Microsoft: We are talking about UNCHECKED AGGRESSION here Goog-

Apple: What the fuck is he talking about here?

Google: My search engine.

Microsoft: FORGET IT, APPLE YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!

Google: MICROSOFT! The Chinaman who hacked my private emails-I can't give him a fine...so what the fuck are you talking about!?!

Microsoft: What the FUCK are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here Goog! I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand Goog, across this line, YOU DO NOT-

MICROSOFT changes his tone of voice.

Microsoft: Also Goog...Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature...Asian American please.

Google: Microsoft...this isn't the a guy who built the railroads here...this is a guy-

Microsoft: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TA-

Google: Microsoft! They SHUT DOWN my search engine!

Apple: They shut down The Goog's search engine!

MICROSOFT is FURIOUS.

Microsoft: APPLE YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT-Goog! The Chinaman is NOT the issue here!

GOOGLE get's up to stretch in preparation to throw his content into market.

Google: So...who? Who-

Microsoft: Li Changchun! The other guy who runs Google China. THE MINISTER OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS!

Google: *stretching* That's fucking interesting man-that's fucking interesting!

Microsoft: Plus! He has the wealth...obviously! AND the resources. Uh. So there is no reason-THERE'S NO FUCKING REASON-why his HACKERS should go out and break into private E-Mail all over your systems and then they come AND THEY SHUT DOWN YOUR FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE! AM I WRONG!?

Google: No...

Microsoft: AM I WRONG???

Google: Yea...but-

Microsoft: OK THEN! UGH!

MICROSOFT sticks a cigarette in his mouth and lights his zippo lighter.

Microsoft: That search engine really tied the internet monopoly together did it not?

Google: Fucking A!

Apple: And this guy shut it down!?

Microsoft: Apple. Please.

MICROSOFT lights his cigarette.

Google: You know this is the fucking guy-I could FIND this Changchun-Google China guy!

Apple: His name is Google? That is your name Goog!

Google: This is the guy who should compensate me for the fucking search engine!

GOOGLE takes a quick sip of his BEER.

Google: His hackers go around breaking into private E-Mails and they shut down MY search engine.

Microsoft: They shut down YOUR fucking search engine?

Google: ...they shut down my fucking search engine.

Microsoft: That's right Goog...

MICROSOFT looks at GOOGLE with FURIOUS INTENT in his eyes.

Microsoft: ...they SHUT DOOOOWN YOUR FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE...

fin

-- Jordan

Apple Comes Out With New Fail Product

sidepocket_pro — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:04:13 GMT

I liked it better when it was called the Bashful.

-- Jordan

I Told You So...

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:16:12 GMT

Seriously, is ANYONE surprised by this. If you are, your a giant moron and you should not be allowed to vote even for the PTA meeting.

-- Jordan

Celebrating MLK Day by Telling the Truth

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:26:58 GMT

-- Jordan

Daily Show Riffs on James Cameron's Avatar

sidepocket_pro — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:16:43 GMT

It's no secret that I really hate the Avatar movie.

So I thought I would share my favorite riff of it so far...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-4-2010/the-best-f--king-news-team-ever---tiger-woods--faith

BONUS HILARITY!

I have a comic idea for a riff that I might draw and upload this week.

More Project Four stuff soon. =D

-- Jordan

Sudan 365 -- Video of Me with Electric Guitar T-Shirt!

sidepocket_pro — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:48:10 GMT

On January 9th 2010, Sudanese communities and activists around the world joined together to call on international leaders to take urgent diplomatic action to prevent an escalation of conflict in Sudan that could lead to massive human rights violations

January 9th, 2010 also marks the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which signaled the end of the civil war. Millions were killed. Millions were displaced. Millions suffered dire human rights abuses.

And one year on from January 9th 2010 – in 365 days – a referendum is due to be held to determine the future of Sudan.

But there is a real danger that war will return. Violence is on the increase in Southern Sudan and in Darfur millions continue to suffer daily in camps.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/93512/3-points

-- Jordan

China is Evil Just Like Any Other Nation -- Fact

sidepocket_pro — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:23:06 GMT

This is for various people I've met over the years, including on Racebending, who have this glossy eyed view of China because they are Chinese.

All countries are controlled by evil bastards and are full of shit. I hate anyone that looks at their country with blind eyes and offers excuse after excuse for fucking people over because it's their homeland.

And out of all the people I met, South Koreans and the Chinese are the worse. So let me start with China:

Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed. But the truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. The truth is this: China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful "deal" so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen.

China's strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks, and then ensure that the closed-door deal made it look as if the west had failed the world's poor once again. And sure enough, the aid agencies, civil society movements and environmental groups all took the bait. The failure was "the inevitable result of rich countries refusing adequately and fairly to shoulder their overwhelming responsibility", said Christian Aid. "Rich countries have bullied developing nations," fumed Friends of the Earth International.

All very predictable, but the complete opposite of the truth. Even George Monbiot, writing in yesterday's Guardian, made the mistake of singly blaming Obama. But I saw Obama fighting desperately to salvage a deal, and the Chinese delegate saying "no", over and over again. Monbiot even approvingly quoted the Sudanese delegate Lumumba Di-Aping, who denounced the Copenhagen accord as "a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries".

Sudan behaves at the talks as a puppet of China; one of a number of countries that relieves the Chinese delegation of having to fight its battles in open sessions. It was a perfect stitch-up. China gutted the deal behind the scenes, and then left its proxies to savage it in public.

Here's what actually went on late last Friday night, as heads of state from two dozen countries met behind closed doors. Obama was at the table for several hours, sitting between Gordon Brown and the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi. The Danish prime minister chaired, and on his right sat Ban Ki-moon, secretary-general of the UN. Probably only about 50 or 60 people, including the heads of state, were in the room. I was attached to one of the delegations, whose head of state was also present for most of the time.

What I saw was profoundly shocking. The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the meetings personally, instead sending a second-tier official in the country's foreign ministry to sit opposite Obama himself. The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world's most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around as the Chinese delegate went off to make telephone calls to his "superiors".

Shifting the blame

To those who would blame Obama and rich countries in general, know this: it was China's representative who insisted that industrialised country targets, previously agreed as an 80% cut by 2050, be taken out of the deal. "Why can't we even mention our own targets?" demanded a furious Angela Merkel. Australia's prime minister, Kevin Rudd, was annoyed enough to bang his microphone. Brazil's representative too pointed out the illogicality of China's position. Why should rich countries not announce even this unilateral cut? The Chinese delegate said no, and I watched, aghast, as Merkel threw up her hands in despair and conceded the point. Now we know why – because China bet, correctly, that Obama would get the blame for the Copenhagen accord's lack of ambition.

China, backed at times by India, then proceeded to take out all the numbers that mattered. A 2020 peaking year in global emissions, essential to restrain temperatures to 2C, was removed and replaced by woolly language suggesting that emissions should peak "as soon as possible". The long-term target, of global 50% cuts by 2050, was also excised. No one else, perhaps with the exceptions of India and Saudi Arabia, wanted this to happen. I am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would have left Copenhagen with a deal that had environmentalists popping champagne corks popping in every corner of the world.

Strong position

So how did China manage to pull off this coup? First, it was in an extremely strong negotiating position. China didn't need a deal. As one developing country foreign minister said to me: "The Athenians had nothing to offer to the Spartans." On the other hand, western leaders in particular – but also presidents Lula of Brazil, Zuma of South Africa, Calderón of Mexico and many others – were desperate for a positive outcome. Obama needed a strong deal perhaps more than anyone. The US had confirmed the offer of $100bn to developing countries for adaptation, put serious cuts on the table for the first time (17% below 2005 levels by 2020), and was obviously prepared to up its offer.

Above all, Obama needed to be able to demonstrate to the Senate that he could deliver China in any global climate regulation framework, so conservative senators could not argue that US carbon cuts would further advantage Chinese industry. With midterm elections looming, Obama and his staff also knew that Copenhagen would be probably their only opportunity to go to climate change talks with a strong mandate. This further strengthened China's negotiating hand, as did the complete lack of civil society political pressure on either China or India. Campaign groups never blame developing countries for failure; this is an iron rule that is never broken. The Indians, in particular, have become past masters at co-opting the language of equity ("equal rights to the atmosphere") in the service of planetary suicide – and leftish campaigners and commentators are hoist with their own petard.

With the deal gutted, the heads of state session concluded with a final battle as the Chinese delegate insisted on removing the 1.5C target so beloved of the small island states and low-lying nations who have most to lose from rising seas. President Nasheed of the Maldives, supported by Brown, fought valiantly to save this crucial number. "How can you ask my country to go extinct?" demanded Nasheed. The Chinese delegate feigned great offence – and the number stayed, but surrounded by language which makes it all but meaningless. The deed was done.

China's game

All this raises the question: what is China's game? Why did China, in the words of a UK-based analyst who also spent hours in heads of state meetings, "not only reject targets for itself, but also refuse to allow any other country to take on binding targets?" The analyst, who has attended climate conferences for more than 15 years, concludes that China wants to weaken the climate regulation regime now "in order to avoid the risk that it might be called on to be more ambitious in a few years' time".

This does not mean China is not serious about global warming. It is strong in both the wind and solar industries. But China's growth, and growing global political and economic dominance, is based largely on cheap coal. China knows it is becoming an uncontested superpower; indeed its newfound muscular confidence was on striking display in Copenhagen. Its coal-based economy doubles every decade, and its power increases commensurately. Its leadership will not alter this magic formula unless they absolutely have to.

Copenhagen was much worse than just another bad deal, because it illustrated a profound shift in global geopolitics. This is fast becoming China's century, yet its leadership has displayed that multilateral environmental governance is not only not a priority, but is viewed as a hindrance to the new superpower's freedom of action. I left Copenhagen more despondent than I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/22/copenhagen-climate-change-mark-lynas

The First Emperor buried people alive to develop a nation that became addicted to a drug and then tried to erased all its history by forced reeducation and murder.

It's time for people in China to face their own actual problems instead of keeping their heads low and ignoring it or making excuses...

Or as it's been called by various Chinese nationalist: The Chinese Way.

Pathetic.

P.S. STOP FUCKING!!!!

-- Jordan

Project Four -- Concepts Part One

sidepocket_pro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:08:43 GMT

Here are some concepts for the game I'm going to work on....

Sorry for the watermark but I'm making sure that my name is on these.

More concepts coming soon. Then I'm going to work on making some rooms and see how much I can model before I start putting a team together...

Wish me luck!

P.S. If anyone needs help reading my horrid handwriting, just let me know! =D

-- Jordan