Brielle's Ramblings - Me

Hearing voices, and talking to one's self

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:47:32 -0700

Over the years, I've resisted many attempts by people to convert me to their religion. This is a quote of mine from long ago that pissed off quite a few people, but is perhaps one of my most favorite lines of all times:

QUOTE:

There's only two places in this world where talking to yourself and hearing voices in your head is normal and accepted way of life - church and a psych ward. I should know, considering I've survived both.

My response to the Atheist Challenge questions

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:27:23 -0600

While browsing the Friendly Atheist, I came across the Atheist Challenge by Brett Keane.

Here are my responses in order:

Jesus junkie spam via Facebook

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:09 -0600

I got this today via my Facebook account - a friend invite from a Jesus junkie.

Messenger ForVietnam — via Invite Tool

LORD JESUS CHRIST Speak to You : I call you whit LOVE ! To believe in ME ! Give ME your heart and follow ME !..............
Are you sad?are you angry? Do you want find answears about life?............
www . whygod . co . uk/wires/whodoyousay.html Did Jesus Ever Say He was God? ........
.........www . vietchristian . com/kinhthanh

.........www . jesusfilm . org/languages/index.html...........VIDEO in VIETNAM language

.........www . wbtc . com/site/PageServer?pagename=downloads_vietnamese............WORD of GOD.....
.........www . biblebible . com/Vietnamese/John..........AUDIO

.........www . endoftimes . webs . com/sinnersandangrygod.htm......

.........www . biblebible . com/Hmong/John........AUDIO

........Please go in house (Church) of GOD and you will understand the truth.GO find the Evangelical Christians,DONT BE AFRAID........

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting LIFE.

I had forgotten how easy it is to justify doing things that most people would find rude and inconsiderate, as long as its in the name of jebus!

Regardless, flagged and reported.

What is patriotism?

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:32:34 -0700

Patriotism is standing up for your rights in the face of others who seek to deny you the rights they take for granted.

Patriotism is knowing full well that you will face hate, ridicule, and bigotry, and still being who you are with no compromises.

Patriotism is protesting the laws and actions of this government when they are based on the demands of a few small loud mouth religious fundamentalist zealots.

Patriotism is electing a president who isn't afraid to show he is a human being, and is willing to admit mistakes.

Patriotism is being an active participant in the world, and not the loud mouth bully that Bush made us out to be for the past 8 years.

Nampa rec center rejects same-sex couple

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:26:50 -0700

Some local news, looks like the Nampa Recreation Center (one of the next cities over from where I live) rejected a same sex couple from getting a family membership on the grounds they couldn't prove that they are legally married.

Idaho Statesman: Nampa Rec Center Rejects Same-Sex Application

The comments got a tad bit heated, but there are obviously still some logal and cool-headed people out here.

Now, I get to ask the obvious question - do they make hetero couples prove they are married before allowing a family membership?

Why does Focus On The Family shove their nose in everything?

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:46:13 -0700

One thing that has always bothered me about these 'Faith Based Orgs" is the ease at which they shove their nose up in the issues of things that noone other then the individual/family/doctors have any right beind a part of.

Puberty-halting drug 'tragic,' 'ethical bankruptcy'

Not that I am surprised or anything that Caleb Price is browning his nose... But, Focus On The Family really needs to start focusing on themselves and the republican party with their romps in airport bathrooms before they start judging anyone else.

If I had been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder/Gender Dysphoria when I was 6 or 7 years old, and been given the chance to delay puberty, it might have made a huge and positive difference in my life. Because I couldn't trust my parents, and under the knowledge that they would have probably abandoned me had they known I wanted to be girl, I had to keep everything inside.

Now, at 27 years old, I'm undoing alot of physical changes/damage that could have been avoided had the doctors provided me with hormone blockers.

Focus On The Family, stay the fuck out of my life. Stop trying to 'fix' people like me, stop shoving your nose in things you have no business being part of. Grow the fuck up.

Server move to Tacoma complete

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:50:20 -0700

Well, the job has been complete and we are on our way home to Boise. The entire SOSDG and Wiztech server farm has been successfully moved from Boise to Tacoma, and we now hosted by OpticFusion.

We've also got BGP fully working, so our legacy /24 is online as well. Sales of space in our rack is now an option - contact me if you'd like a 1U or 2U rack space with up to 5mbit of bandwidth and justified IP space.

And so history is made in the USA...

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:30:08 -0700

Today, history was made here in the United States Of America. Against all the hatred, the discrimination, the attacks, the tricks, we elected our first african-american president.

My faith in this country has been restored.

Don't leave your political bullshit on my door

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:03:05 -0700

Recently written on the back of a political flier left by some republican dingbat (She looks great with a mustache I might add), and left on our front door:

In other words, if you want me to treat you with the slightest grain of respect, don't be stupid and put anti-gay political fliers on the door of the home of a pair of lesbians.

Last day of my old life, beginning of a new one

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:22:18 -0600

Today is the last day of my life in the apartment in NJ.

Home for almost two years of my life, it will soon be nothing but a distant memory.

In a way, it's a relief, an end to a portion of my life where I struggled just to survive.

Pictures from the recent trip out west

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:24:11 -0600

These are some of the pictures from my recent trip out west to Boise/Portland/Seattle:

An update

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:05:17 -0600

Well, there is a bunch of stuff to talk about, so let me get right to it.

The AHBL is on hold until November.
We've been considering this for a while, and finally decided it's time to revamp and redesign both the website and the database backend. This is going to take a while, but once it's done, we should have most things automated. Sept. 1st, we plan to clean out the existing AHBL database until the site comes back online. We are not shutting down, nor are we stopping our spam fighting efforts.

ClamAV/SOSDG is on hold until November.
I just don't have the time to work on the Windows builds of ClamAV for now.

I am moving.
Yes, you heard it right! I am moving. I can't disclose where I am moving to yet, but unfortunately I need to leave the NYC metro area for personal reasons.

The Sunday From Hell

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:02:16 -0600

Tammy and I took the Amtrak Cascades line from Seattle to Portland. Like all of my trips so far on this vacation, this one just had to be the worst.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/26224994.html

In the picture, if you go back two cars from the locomotive, that was the car we were in. Needless to say, emotionally, this fucked me up, pretty badly. We ended up staying overnight in Hillsboro since neither of us felt comfortable doing the final part of the trip to Boise.

More delays

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:46:50 -0600

We got delayed yesterday evening due to traffic, never made it to our train to Seattle. Rescheduled for today instead.

So, anyways, got alot of great pics at least so far. I've also got the Powerbook G4 laptop which is a nice, since its half the size of my main laptop, and much easier to carry with me. I did get to see Live Free or Die Hard last night, which was a great movie.

Mt Hood Railroad Pics

bruns@2mbit.com (Brielle) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:49:44 -0600

Here are some pics from my trip to the Mt Hood Railroad: