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Leaving facebook

naught101 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +1100

Posted as 3 posts on facebook. I left them up because I wanted people to be able to find them. I changed my passwords and then deleted them form my password manager.

This is my third last post on facebook ever. I'm splitting it in three, because Meta has been …

Flow basics: How to flow good

naught101 — Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +1000

Writing this because a few people have asked me for help with flow, and I figure it's better to just stick all my thoughts in one spot.

Flow is a skill that anyone can learn the basics of, but that does not mean that it's easy - building the ability to …

How to record vox good

naught101 — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:26:00 +1100

This was originally written as a post on Keyboard Warriors, as a beginner recording tutorial.

Tips for getting good vocals for submitting to KBW

Main points

A $5 mic is bad, but anything better is fine. Smart phone or better mic.
Try to minimise background noise, especially resonance and reverb …

Bad Poetry: a game of wordplay

naught101 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1100

Bad Poetry is a poetry-building game, that allows you explore word-play of all types, and create terrible poetry along the way.

This game is a work in progress. It has only been play tested a little bit, but the rules are simple, and you can modify them as needed. Feedback …

arrangement strategy

naught101 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1100

I often find it easy to build up good fun music loops, and then get stuck on figuring out where to take the track. These are my notes on how to speed up the arrangement process.

Start with a loop

Do this however you want.
A very good method is …

Trip-hop recipe

naught101 — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1100

Concepts

Slow tempo - 60-90 bpm
Moody vibe. Dark, melancholic, but with an undercurrent of anger, or cool.
Slow evolutions.

Elements

Drums:
- Break beats, often from funk tracks, usually slowed down.
- Muted - just a slowed down loop will do this, but if making drums from scratch try low pass or reduced …

Lyric Writing Process

naught101 — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +1100

This is a summary of the ideas laid out in the Process chapter of Pat Pattison's Writing Better Lyrics, plus my interpretations. It also includes some ideas from Jeff Tweedy's How to Write One Song, and probably some other sources that I might eventually remember.

Process

Start with an idea …

What am I?

naught101 — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:00:00 +1000

I'm a musician, and I hear. I'm a writer, and a clear thinker. I can draw, because I can see. I'm a scientist, I'm interested, I love new things, I devour information. I'm an engineer, I'm logical, I solve problems, I make things. I'm neat and organised. I'm fun, and …

Awareness

naught101 — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +1100

Today I saw a dude swan dive into the waves - a steep beach, shallow water, no idea where then next sandbar was.

I've done that before. Landed head-first in a sandbank. It felt like the stupidest thing I've ever done then, and it still ranks. A few centimetres of luck …

Something is wrong

naught101 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +1100

Something is wrong. I know it. I can't see it properly, or hear it, but I can almost smell it. Faint, like burning tin.

It feels as if someone has picked up the entire world, moved it four centimeters sideways, and put it back down askew. Now only three of …

Letter to Bobin, after the fires

naught101 — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +1100

Hey Bobin,

I came home today. I wasn't really expecting to. I got a call when I was still asleep, asking if I wanted to drive up to see if the house I grew up in still exists. It does. I'm glad I came.

We're reasonably well fire prepped, but …

Introversion/Extroversion

naught101 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +1000

Introversion Extroversion candle flame burning bright starry night city lights buena vista dizzy heights buckle in hold on tight heart at peace spirit free sheltered beach open sea solitude ecstasy melatonin dopamine more time more fun more dry more sun more deep more broad live by the book die by …

Patterns in music

naught101 — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 11:02:00 +1000

[Work in progress]

I'm really interested in what makes good music good. Some of that is described in Western Music Theory, but a lot is not - particularly broad scale patterns more focussed on rhythm than on the interactions between harmony and melody. I plan to try and document some of …

Creating interesting drums

naught101 — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:04:00 +1000

Initially posted as a reddit comment.

Something that I learned recently (from a bass lesson video) is that when the bass/other instruments are doing something complex, then the drums should be simple. When the bass/other breaks down to something simpler, then the drums can step up their complexity …

Welcome Home!

naught101 — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:30:00 +1000

Schweet. I've moved off wordpress.com. Finally.

I've been meaning to do this for years. You may notice that this site is based on drupal. I use drupal for most website designs, and it's far more expandable than wordpress. Which is what I plan to do. I've been meaning to …

We've got our anonymity back!

naught101 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:20:00 +1000

We'd better use it wisely:

Yeah, that's me.

Dealing with [Climate] Denial

naught101 — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:10:00 +1000

Here's a straightforward approach to dealing with denial. Most of these points make sense to me:

Tips for dealing with denial

Communicate a consistent message. Do not attempt to “soften the blow” too much, by making the issue seem less than it is.

Try not to provide too much information …

IPCC review under way

naught101 — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:17:00 +1000

The IPCC is being reviewed by the Interacademy Council (which represents dozens of national science academies). And they're taking public comment. This might be a good chance to get some improvements. The comments form is at: http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/comments.html

If you can't think of anything, here's what …

Labor tries to undo 130 years of Conservation.

naught101 — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:10:00 +1000

If you needed any more proof that Frank Sartor is scum, try this:

https://www.npansw.org.au/website/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=657&Itemid=495

Labor are trying to open up National parks for developments. What more can be said?

Sounds good: Worse targets than Kyoto

naught101 — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:31:00 +1100

Of the three announced national carbon targets I've heard of lately, two are arithmetically worse than Kyoto targets, and one is technically worse. The latter is Australia's target, already discussed here.

The others are the recent US announcement, and the recent China announcement.

The US announcement was for a 17 …

Some mothers do have 'em!

naught101 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:24:00 +1000

There's a pigeon nesting in the apple tree in my yard. The pigeon has already laid its eggs - two creamy pink ones. The apple tree hasn't dropped it's leaves yet - some are yellow, some are still green. It's the 7th of July - the middle of winter.

Granted, both species are …

Population and climate

naught101 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:40:00 +1000

This is in response to a discussion about population control and climate change on an e-list I'm on. In particular, it's in response to a line by a mate, Jono:

it's not the number of people that is important, but rather the power of the argument. Population control arguments need …

Politics

naught101 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:30:00 +1000

Terry Pratchett notes in one of his discworld books that politics is fundamentally about the running of the city. Politics - from Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state,", from the Ancient Greek polis - the city state.

Something - perhaps Greg Combet's assertion that "[it is] very widely agreed throughout domestic politics and …

CFMEU keeping the bastards honest.

naught101 — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:09:00 +1000

CFMEU rejects carbon trading job claims - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Electrical Union (CFMEU) says the release of figures warning that emissions trading will cost thousands of jobs is part of a scare campaign.

The Minerals Council says emissions trading will cost 23,000 jobs …

What kind of fallacy is this? Science and Technology.

naught101 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:33:00 +1100

For anyone even vaguely involved in the world of blogs and climate change, logical fallacies are a familiar thing. The straw man, the appeal to authority, ad hominem attacks, the biased sample/cherrypicking, and many more are all used by both sides of the argument, to a greater or lesser …

Useful questions

naught101 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:05:00 +1100

Been thinkin' with a few friends, about what makes people get up and get active around problems like climate change. For some of my friends, it's love - for family, for society, for other species. For me it's anger. For some, anger comes because others are infringing on their own rights …

Journalism, truth, and climate change.

naught101 — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:32:00 +1100

I'd like to declare here and now that I'm sceptical about the "reality" of the round earth. There are many dissenting voices, sceptics of the current "consensus", and significant evidence to show that the earth is not round. Not to mention that it's bleedingly obvious - just look out the window …

Climate Stats tutorial, how to, and how not to.

naught101 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:31:00 +1100

I've been starting to learn Octave, a maths programming language. Octave is similar to other packages that are often used to create nice graphs that you often see around the place, especially when it relates to climate change. This is a bit of a slap-dash tutorial on how to get …

Carbon Satellights

naught101 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:55:00 +1100

Until now, the technology hasn't been available to obtain fine-scaled, precise measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere. But the launch next year of two carbon-detecting satellites, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory and the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, should soon help to fill in this knowledge gap, which is critical to …

Looks like the Clean Coal Carollers got cleaned out.

naught101 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:55:00 +1100

There was such an uproar in response to this hilariously crap PR campaign, that America's Power has killed it. It's not on facebook, and it's not even on their own website any more. Fucking classic. That PR agency won't be popular next year. America's Power's has made some weak excuse …

Rudd targets: 13% increase

naught101 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:53:00 +1100

That's right, Rudd's targets of 5% by 2020, from 2000 levels mean almost nothing.

According to the UN⁽¹⁾, Australia's 1990 emissions totalled 416.2Mt. In 2000 it was 495.2Mt - an increase of ~19%.

A 5% cut from 2000 levels is approximately a 13% increase from 1990 levels. Even …

CSS3 advanced layout module: templates. Discussion and proposal.

naught101 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:56:00 +1100

CSS template-based layouts, or something like them, have been a long time coming. John Resig has blogged about them recently, echoing the attitudes of a few people, it seems. I generally agree: this looks great, and will be a vast improvement for HTML+CSS web development: finally HTML document structure …

Arctic ice melt in the 1930s: Another denier argument debunked.

naught101 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:32:00 +1100

When I'm reading about climate change in public forums like the internet, or newspapers, I expect to see denial argments all over. Usually, they're the same old shit, that's been roundly debunked by numerous people. So it's a pleasant suprise to find new arguments - it gives you something to think …

Solar power rebate

naught101 — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:11:00 +1000

I don't usually like spruiking for the corporate media, but channel 7 is doing something good with their Sunrise solar panel petition. I don't make any comment on the rest of what channel 7 does - I usually avoid it like the plague.

But they're right, a means test on the …

Oh... Petrol prices...

naught101 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:29:00 +1000

After months of wondering why Americans are always complaining about petrol prices, I finally figured out why.

This might seem obvious to some, but the solution everyone seems to come up with seems pretty stupid to me. To start with, let's compare fuel prices in a few countries (unleaded fuel …

A Short History of Progress

naught101 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:00 +1000

I just read "A Short History of Progress", by Ronald Wright(1). Pretty gloomy, if you need any impetus to become either an activist, or completely depressed, this is it. Wright maps the rise an fall of numerous civilisations, and points out that our current technological and social trajectories are …

Carbon capture and storage in Australia

naught101 — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:19:00 +1000

There's a useful new article on envirowiki on CCS and Clean Coal: Carbon Capture and Storage in Australia.

The article covers all the projects planned in Australia. If you find any more info on each of these, feel free to add more detail on the pages, it's a wiki after …

Climate Camp video

naught101 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:16:00 +1000

Video to promote Climate Camp Australia.

This video was made with Kdenlive. I have to say, I'd never enjoyed using a program that crashes every 5 minutes (including system crashes) before using Kdenlive. It's easy to use, and intuitive. Can't wait for version 1.0.

Comments

Clare and Jim Rourke …

Discussion about the semantic web

naught101 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:49:00 +1000

The following is a discussion from #swig on irc.freenode.org - the Semantic Web Interest Group. It's logged here if you don't believe me: http://chatlogs.planetrdf.com/swig/2008-04-15#T10-32-11. Edited slightly for clarity.

I think the semantic web is an extremely useful tool, but as I mention down …

Dear Mr. Quinn

naught101 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:35:00 +1100

Daniel,

You argue that the major defining factor of population size is food limits. Australia (to give an example), currently has a birthrate less than 2 births per woman. We have an overall annual immigration, so our population is growing, but if we had no immigration, our population would be …

Post-Taker culture and other questions

naught101 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:51:00 +1100

I just finished reading Daniel Quinn's Ishmael for the second time (I previously downloaded the audio-book, which was amazing, but I think the book is slightly better). If you haven't read it, read it. I'd say it'd be life-changing for anyone wants to do something about the state of the …

Why I use a non-commercial license.

naught101 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:54:00 +1100

There's a huge wave of open-licensing sweeping the 'net, and it's starting to get into the real world. This is definitely a good thing - freedom of information is a great. The most common licenses, such as the GNU FDL, or the Creative Commons BY-SA stipulate that anyone can use the …

Recovering files on ext3 the easy and shoddy way

naught101 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:22:00 +1100

I just deleted about 100 photos from an ext3 external hard drive that I really would have preferred to keep. With shift+delete (do not pass the trash, do not collect $200). So I went looking for an answer.

If you've looked around the 'net for a way to recover …

Horse-Electric Hybrid: The Way of the Future!

naught101 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:43:00 +1100

You heard it here first, folks!

Layperson's guide to the favoured transport of the future:

Horse. Equus Caballus. This will eventually replace the petroleum internal combustion engine as the power source of a large percentage land based transport. Smaller versions of this vehicle may be powered by pedal, and one …

To keep the Internet?

naught101 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:44:00 +1100

In wanting to create a new society, I have a few obvious "core" values (quote marks due to our ex-prime minister's bastardisation of the word in the phrase "core promises") .

These consist of:

Best practice environmentalism (not best as in better than everyone else, but best as in as good …

A fall from grace for one man, a step forward for the rest.

naught101 — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:12:00 +1100

Howard is gone.

Not only have the libs lost the election, by an avalanche, but it's pretty certain that Howard has lost his seat as well. Fucking good riddance.

Not that Rudd will be much better. He's definitely got some things going for him over Howard, but his acceptance speech …

Coal Train blockaded in Newcastle

naught101 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:42:00 +1100

FUCK YEAH!

http://www.climateimc.org/en/climate-actions/2007/11/19/coal-train-blockaded-newcastle

Rising Tide stopped a coal train this morning, in the world's biggest coal port. They blocked the whole line to the Kooragang terminal, and that backed up the rest of the coal line, blocking the whole port.

Thanks …

Fuck Social Networking, I want Social computing.

naught101 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:36:00 +1100

Sharing your bookmarks and photos is all well and good. Discussing stuff on forums can be interesting. Editing Wiki pages is better - coming close to a collective conscious.

But the computer has always been an individualistic tool, which sucks. No matter what I do on a computer, it's always just …

Anarchy and open source.

naught101 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:27:00 +1100

Richard Monson-Haefel's "Open Source Is Anarchy, Not Chaos" on Biosmagazine.co.uk is an interesting article, but it misses some major points, and gets one completely wrong:

Richard is quite right about open source being anarchistic, but is way off in his description of how.

Let's start with: "All open …

Embiggen this!

naught101 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:55:00 +1100

I've just started the Big List of Environmental issues - on Envirowiki. You should add to it. Hopefully, after a few decent edits, this page will list all the big issues, and after a few more related issues.

The reason that all the links are red is that those pages haven't …

Did I mention that I love linux?

naught101 — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:29:00 +1000

I just upgraded from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy (which is still in beta). about 6 hours later, a couple of hiccups, and one or two fixes required for problems that I caused myself (and due to running out of hard drive space part way through), I'm running the new …

Police state now!

naught101 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:40:00 +1000

Holy shit.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/09/16/1189881342905.html

We really are becoming a police state. But I guess a lot of people realise that already. Nice that the SMH points out that the Liberal's policy isn't particularly "liberal".

Comments

Asher, Sun, 09/30/2007 - 22 …

Limits to Density: Beginning

naught101 — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:33:00 +1000

I've spoken to a number of people about this topic, but I've never seen any definitive answers. So I'm going to try and find some of my own. For a student or architecture, permaculture, and ecology, it's important to understand just how much of an impact it's possible to sustain …

Blast from the past

naught101 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:52:00 +1000

just visited Deviant Art (a great art site, if you can get past all the shit anime), which I've been going to for long stints with large breaks for a few years (since mid 2001), and I noticed that my website was still listed as http://naught101.atspace.com/, which …

Spark from Bookchin

naught101 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:17:00 +1000

This is something I started that was going to be the first post on this blog, about 6 months ago. As you'll see though, I got lost, and I have never really made it back to it, having gotten lost in many other things in the intervening period. I thought …

Top ways to save money AND go green!

naught101 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:16:00 +1000

Please note that the intent, order, and formation of the title of this post is sarcastic. There is no way that I would ever put "money" before "going green" in normal conversation.

Anyway, looking around for places to promote envirowiki (http://www.envirowiki.info/ - knowledge database for environmentalist and social …

Clean Coal

naught101 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +1000

Aint.

The term's been popping up a LOT lately, so I thought I'd give a few links to pages worth reading (there's not much point me re-doing it, it's already done so well)

Steve from Rising Tide Newcastle has written a clean coal fact sheet, with a lot of good …

Greens pro-cops, anti-Green

naught101 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:55:00 +1000

We didn't hear much about it on the east coast, but the Greens just became the New Labour. No, they haven't sold out on Uranium yet, but they're on their way! One of WA Senator Rachel Siewert's staffer's went to a protest at Julie Bishop (Lib/Nat Minister for Science …

What the fuck is up with the media today? ABC in the corporate pocket?

naught101 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:27:00 +1000

Just listening to radio national news/current affairs, and this piece about the Geelong ford factory shutdown/worker layoffs and the newsreader says, roughly:

"The Factory's manager admitted today that the decision was a hard one, given the impact it would have on Geelong"

ONE word in that really gets …

We need value changes, not technofixes: the Aswan Dam as a metaphor for climate change.

naught101 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:28:00 +1100

I had a very interesting lecture today, on thermodynamics, ecosystems, and human values relating to technology (lecture 4, Technology and Human Values, PHIL3910 at the University of Newcastle. I recommend it). It didn't give me a lot of information that I hadn't heard before, but Yin Gao's presentation definitely cemented …

Rising sea levels: Brought to you by mining

naught101 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:55:00 +1100

it's true, this website told me so: http://www.miningnsw.com.au

not that I didn't take part in making that website. but that's not the best bit. The best bit is that this website is actually a parody of a site set up by the NSW Minerals Council, as …

An economic policy

naught101 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:09:00 +1100

I think I've finally realised a complete ethical foundation on which I can base all my economic decisions. It's been a while in the making, and although I like it in its current state, it's possible it will change in the future. we'll see.

basically, it consists of two rules …

Boortz on the attack - with a plastic spoon

naught101 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:29:00 +1100

Luckily for me, I'd never heard of Neal Boortz up until the release of the IPCC's Summary for Policy Makers, 2007. then in comments on an intro report on the SPM on realclimate ( http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/02/the-ipcc-fourth-assessment-summary-for-policy-makers/ ), a few people mentioned his latest attack …

naught101/eco1, signing in

naught101 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:39:00 +1100

This blog is going to be slightly random, eco-anarchist centered rants, musings, and other bits and pieces. don’t expect it to be learnéd, cause I’m not yet. Expect it to be over-the-top, and slightly undereducated. Infact, educate me.

“the best way to learn is to teach, the best …

Climate denial is not skepticism!

naught101 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:17:00 +1100

lets see. here are the relevant entries from Wiktionary (if you don't agree with them, you can change them!):

skeptic - Noun - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeptic

Someone undecided as to what is true.
Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs and claims presented by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting …

Slamming the deniers

naught101 — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:45:00 +1100

I think I've found a new hobby! it's more fun than clubbing seals, and it's ethical too! it's climate denier bashing! I'm not talking climate change skeptics here, skepticism is well and good, but most of what you hear these days ain't skepticism, it's denial pure and simple (I've posted …

Weekend holiday

naught101 — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:24:00 +1100

Went on a weekend holiday Flew from Sydney to Byron bay the Flights are so cheap there's no bloody way that I was getting on a train

the Villa was great, air-con all day Lights all night and the stereo playin' went out on a jet ski I'd hired trashed …

Re: Another brave soul speaks out against Gore (Giegengack)

naught101 — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:46:00 +1100

posted in response to a forum topic using a Bob Giegengack biographical piece in an attempt to discredit climate science

'"For most of Earth history," he says, "the globe has been warmer than it has been for the last 200 years. It has only rarely been cooler."'

I like that …

Why James Lewis is Probably a Bullshit artist

naught101 — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:42:00 +1100

the post was made in response to a forum post using James Lewis's article "Why Global Warming is Probably a Crock" on american thinker to discredit climate science.

response part one

there's a serious flaw in the logic of that article:

see, that only works if you want to be …

Science is political

naught101 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:56:00 +1000

I like Dan Carmody's articles. They're often very scientific, always amusing and, at least the science part, if not the hippy-bashing part, is usually pretty objective. But I sometimes get the picture that this isn't always a matter of choice, but sometimes a matter of lack of political awareness. And …

Open Source Architecture Software

naught101 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:56:00 +1100

Originally posted on pushpullbar.com. there've been a lot of good follow ups. if you're interested, check it out: http://pushpullbar.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2547.html

first post here, thought I might do a bit of agenda pushing straight up.

I'm looking to move completely to open source …

Architecture

naught101 — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:40:00 +1100

She grew up with me. I guess I hardly even noticed her, a lot of the time. She was always there though. She and my Dad went out sometimes, mostly in the local area, and now and then I'd tag along. She was a pretty earthy kid, which was normal …

The Online Alternative

naught101 — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +1100

Your guide to internet media. It's free! (yes, both of them)

ned haughton

username: > opused

password: > ********

welcome to freeISP.org.au.

<opused@freeISP.org.au>:
> GET <http://www.opus.org.au>

welcome to opus.org.au

Opus is a real voice for students, but one that is going to get …

New Gods

naught101 — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:39:00 +1100

Old Gods step aside for the New but the New Gods do not speak the truth.

Taking words of innocence they bite and chew and swallow and spew forth feigned intelligence their best of friends: our ignorance

power fuels control control returns the favour the one true mind- and-soul-enslaver

their …

Mister Milton

naught101 — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:07:00 +1100

Mister Milton never told me why It is that we all have to die. He said it might be painful, It might last a while. He tells me it's the end, But something new might begin.

Mister Milton never told me why We have to live this life. He says …

what are you waiting for?

naught101 — Mon, 31 May 2004 23:54:00 +1000

What are you waiting for boy? You've got the ideals, the passion, the zeal. You can make this a big deal.

Do you know what you're fighting for? For blood and vinegar? Or against a war?

What crime will you commit? It's society that's the pits... Don't lose your wits …