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k0nduit

Rider of the Apocalypse

About Me


Likes:
Old tunnels, underground facilties, junk yards, freight yards, storms, strange people, wolves, fantasy, sci-fi, girls (as in NOT boys), flying airplanes (me flying them and flying in them), computers/electronics, electricity (like the big evil-scientist lab setup), metal and chrome, large machinery, heavy industry, old steel bridges, trains, tanks, cannons, computer and hand-drawn animation, landscape design, architecture, music, big cities, futuristic concepts, food, driving fast, acceleration, rockets, rally racing, poetic justice, creative people, the pursuit of the cause of decision making, challenging realities, the kind of love that would make you take on the entire world, those moments when you feel your imagination can make anything happen, watching over everyone, braided steel hose, turbines, robots, ordered chaos (you figure it out)...
Dislikes:
Most sports, stupid drunk people, guys with something to prove (you know, the ones with their arms all puffed out at their sides as they walk through the club bumping into everyone...makes me want to carry a tazer - all those muscles would just seize up, then you'd just dance on them a while,) people who screw each other over, things done half-ass (like my many side projects), cars cruising by booming with music vibrating the panels (oh so cool, you have a stereo. How about a nice set of headphones with a seat vibrator, then it'll go as loud as you want and the rest of us can be spared), mainstream advertising and media, people that don't pay attention to their surroundings, people who know they don't have a clue but try to fake it instead of just admitting it and asking questions, jealousy (I HATE IT GRRRRRR BECAUSE I CAN GET SOOOOOO JEALOUS), animal abuse, any who prey on children and no I don't have to fucking define what a child is do I? Any who would seek to exploit another to fill their own void... you are warned...
I also don't get how all of the really awesome clothes are made for girls. Sure they look prettier but come on. Things are getting a little better but I really think I'm going to have to start designing my own stuff. Sometimes it just seems like girls would get like 100 pages of things to choose from and if I was looking for some pants I would get the classic TWO choices: bondage pants or PVC pants ("fruit smugglers" I call them which by the way, I dislike as well. I mean okay you're a guy and so you have the required organs but that doesn't really mean I want to see them in a detailed PVC or spandex clump. And yes I'm going to look because it's just there. Wear what you want but I'm not wearing that.)
Fleas - I really need to have a long sit-down discussion with who or whatever caused fleas to exist. All they do is cause misery and serve no other purpose whatsoever (like some people I've met.) I mean, at least there are things that eat mosquitos (I don't like mosquitos) but the only thing that ends up eating a flea is the animal it's on because it's itching to death and then they get worms and I guess you'd have to eat like a hundred million of them to make a meal.
Allergies - I guess I'll need to have another sit-down about this one too. Come on, we (the human race) have been here HOW long? And we STILL have allergic reactions to plants and animals that are native to the world? The only conclusions I can come to are that either we aren't native to the Earth, or those things aren't or somehow we're just not connected the way we should be. Yeah I guess it's not really a "conclusion" if there are three options.
Not knowing- I wish I would be told all sides of a story before being made to judge it. That's part of the reason I don't watch TV any more and don't really listen to the radio much. But how would I really know if I had been told all sides to a story? And if they were true? This all reminds me of a quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "We demand there be rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
I don't like seeing people hurt or upset. I don't like witnessing any kind of suffering. Especially when there's nothing I can really do about it. As I get more and more exposed to it, I lose all caring about it. Now I can generally see the habits that cause suffering.
What's with everyone and their little sister having a DJ name? Are there really that many talented spinners out there? NO. But just for the pure "pay attention to me, I'm pretending to be more important than others" sense of it, I'm DJ ToiletBrush ok?
How far can you go? How far will you reach? How hard will you fall? Suffocate on your pitiful self-image. BECOME OR PERISH! It's the only way.
The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million? They were the worst too. I couldn't stand the third ten million at all. Then I went into a bit of a decline. (Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
I'm trying really hard to not consider the creation of a webpage about myself by myself as being vain. I don't really think anyone else that is doing the same is vain so why should I think that about myself? Well, maybe I DO like a little attention. Is that vain?
The whole concept that hanging out on a rock that's flying around a ball of exploding gas can make you get older is totally absurd. There's a million ways to get sold BS. Some of the real good ones will come from yourself though. "You must unlearn what you have learned."
I'm here to interact with and meet those I wouldn't get to meet otherwise. That said, I'm not going to get into much else here, so maybe you'll catch me out in the world somewhere... I derive some enjoyment from seeing others have a good time.

My Interests



Blast
The rapid release of energy in an explosion creates a shock wave of overpressure. Very close to the centre of a nuclear explosion, overpressure is equivalent to several thousand pounds per square inch. This is hundreds of times greater than the pressure in a pressure cooker.

The overpressure crushes objects. Human lungs are crushed at about 30 psi overpressure. Brick houses are destroyed at about 10-15 psi overpressure. The blast also generates high velocity winds which can turn humans or objects into missiles. At 15 - 20 psi the winds can fling a person at several hundred kilometres per hour.

Thermal Radiation
Thermal radiation includes light and heat. Nuclear weapons release a huge amount of energy as light (utlraviolet, visible and infrared). The light is so intense that sand explodes, shadows burn into concrete, skin burns and clothing ignites miles away.

Approximately 35 percent of the energy from a nuclear explosion is an intense burst of thermal radiation - heat. The effects are like a 2-second flash from an enormous sunlamp. Since thermal radiation travels at the speed of light, slowed partially by atmospheric particles, the flash of light and heat precedes the blast wave by several seconds. The visible light from a one megaton blast will blind up to 13 miles, and cause skin-destroying third degree burns up to 5 miles away on any exposed skin within the line-of-sight. When your brain interprets the flash of light and signals the eyelids to close, your skin is burned. Within a few seconds, the crushing blast wave hits.

The heat at the centre of the explosion is so intense as to vaporise most materials. The thermal radiation creates a fireball which expands rapidly outwards consuming oxygen and, combined with the blast effect, creating near total destruction for some distance from the epicenter.

I'd like to meet:




I'd like to meet myself from 40 years in the future just to see if I'd take my own advice because it's not working right now.

I'd also like to meet the ones who first concluded which mushrooms and other plantlife were fatal to consume. Did some caveman walk up to 25 of his dead buddies all with mushroms on their face and conclude that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to stuff everything down his throat? I guess I wouldn't really like to "meet" them personally, maybe just watch them on some kind of cosmic video cam that recorded their thinking.

Movies:


Audio Input:
What? I'm supposed to remember all those names? I know what I like when I hear it such as music that just hits you in the chest with meaning, instrumental movie soundtracks... Don't expect me to say "oh yeah, that's (insert band name here)" and don't expect me to spell them all right either or know their history. For me, music adds to the overall experience of where I am and what I'm doing. If it's a match it makes me feel like I'm in more of a movie. I use music as a tool.
A/V Input:
The Day After, the Terminator movies, Matrix, CoolWorld, Pulp Fiction, Usual Suspects, Wolf, Ladyhawk, American Beauty, Blade, Underworld, Fight Club, 5th Element, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blade Runner, Mad Max
and plenty more. The Road Warrior, ah yes, I remember him.
I have a big imagination so I don't pick apart the little inconsistencies in a movie. I like to suspend my beliefs and dive into a good film. I've never seen Wayne's World or similar type movies and never will. There's plenty of people I've run across that if I really want to see something that useless, I can just watch them for a while and for free instead.
Maybe life is a movie. Maybe you write the script. Maybe it's already written. Maybe you don't. Maybe it isn't. Maybe it doesn't matter either way.
Television:
Yes I have one. It fills a void in the corner of my place and makes it look like someone lives here. Maybe I'll use it as a shelf. I could get cable to have something decent to watch but I'd rather save the money... for another television.
Books:
Random studies on the effects of a nuclear blast versus buildings, infrastructure and human bodies. One of my favorite reads. Never gets boring.

My Blog

Baseball, hotdogs and beer

I talked to friend I worked with at the company here in San Deigo on Tuesday to see how she was doing with her job search since she was laid off at the same time I was.  Things seems to be going ...
Posted by k0nduit on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:37:00 PST

A little update

Finally the weather this afternoon was decent enough to get some riding in.  March has been, and will continue to be a real crunch financially but by April, I should be all set again. I'm saving ...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:05:00 PST

Never forgotten...

Don't think for a moment that I will forget what you have done.  In the shadows of your sleep I come for you. With each hateful thought you act upon, I bring you a little present. May you never r...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:34:00 PST

MY GOD! DO SOMETHING!

Listen, damnit.  We (at least those of us that work and pay taxes) have been contributing funds forever to help in situations like this.  I'm no disaster management expert but JESUS!  W...
Posted by k0nduit on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:48:00 PST

-PUBLIC NOTICE-

I've cleaned up my friends list some.  If I have never interacted with you AT LEAST in chat a few times, or don't know you personally, you were removed.  This could mean I've never met you, ...
Posted by k0nduit on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:01:00 PST

Another happy moment

Yesterday evening, I saw 4 lives affectedby the loving embrace of dedication that is called "marriage."  Troll & Lexi, I wish you and your children many many happy years!    ...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Public (rant) If i had a nickel...

... for every mother fucking tear I've cried over someone else, individually or en masse, I'd never have to work again. I've even cried for the devil's plight. Listen to the song "Hurt" by NIN. To m...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Crawfish boil

Music: Diary of Dreams - But the Wind was Stonger Saturday a coworker invited me to a crawfish boil. I was the only one in all black - how appropriate. I was also the one that got everyone wasted...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

-Public Notice-

My Blog is pretty much my diary. If you're not at least on my friends list then you don't get anything but this notice. I can almost completely assure you that nobody else will be able to provide my...
Posted by k0nduit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST