This is an early picture from the Internet that made its rounds way back in the day. Apparently, it was also around this time that document scanners were first invented.
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Show Your Enemy What You Look Like
Leathers 
(track 03 from the Koi No Yokan LP by Deftones )
This is your chance
Revolt, resist!
Open your chest
Look down
Reach in
Shedding your skin, showing your texture
Time to let everything inside show
You’re cutting all ties now and forever
Time to let everything outside you
This is your test
Come forth, confess!
Extend your tongue
Speak out
Go on
Shedding your skin, showing your texture
Time to let everything inside show
You’re cutting all ties now and forever
Time to let everything outside you
Shed your casing
Show your lines and shapes
Wear your inside on the outside
Show your enemy what you look like
From the inside
You’re cutting all ties now and forever
Time to let!
Shedding your skin, showing your texture
Time to let everything inside show
You’re cutting all ties now and forever
Time to let everything outside you
Shed your casing
Show your lines and shapes
Wear your inside on the outside
Show your enemy what you look like
From the inside
Word of the Day, Entry 1: Gaslighting
A benefit of growing one’s vocabulary is that words are sometimes discovered which identify esoteric feelings and experiences. Here’s an interesting one:
Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abuse in which a victim is manipulated into doubting their own memory, perception, and sanity. Instances may range from the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, up to the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
My most expensive life lesson will forever be about narcissistic Peruvian mafia princesses who like baseball and how they are experts at this deleterious form of personal treatment. I learned that some people simply get a charge out of discovering and then enacting whatever it takes to crack another person open.
Blurring the Boundaries of Entertainment (and Good Taste)
Kraid’s Theme (track from Metroid Metal by Stemage )
Norfair (track from Metroid Metal)
Brinstar (track from Metroid Metal)
Metroid Metal is one of the very few cases where two totally unrelated cool things were successfully combined together to produce something even cooler. That said, a person performing heavy metal renditions of video game songs almost always turns out poorly, and that’s how it should be.
It’s like putting scoops of chocolate ice cream on a pepperoni pizza—maybe it sounds like a good idea at first, but reality will quickly set in after scarfing a bite or two. Some things are just better kept separate from one another, and putting too much good stuff in one place can taint a person’s previous experiences and render future experiences as unpalatable, or even disagreeable.
For example, watching people record themselves playing distortion-laden versions of video game songs and then uploading them to YouTube makes me hate heavy metal, video games, and the Internet all at the same time!