Party at ground zero
A "B" movie starring you
And the world will turn to flowing
Pink vapor stew

Johnny, go get your gun, for the commies are in our hemisphere today
Ivan, go fly your MIG, for the Yankee imperialists have come to play
Johnny goes to Sally's house to kiss her goodbye
But Daddy says to spend the night
They make love 'till the early morning light
For tomorrow Johnny goes to fight
Johnny, Ivan, Ian, everybody come along for our nations need new heroes
Time to sing a new war song

Please do not fear 'cause Fishbone is here to say (say what?)
Just have a good time the stop sign is far away
The toilet has flushed and green lights are a ghost
And drop drills will be extinct
Speed racer cloud has come
They know not what they've done
Sin has just won
The planet is a crumb

LOL, glad it was interpreted in the cold war rather than geek way.

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I haven't been pinged since Uncle Ivan used to fuck with us when I was in the Navy. PING! Right back at ya, comrade. I read you loud and clear.

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ping - http://www.videosift.com/video/Rabbits-in-Prison-6-10#comment-293404

Teaching an elephant to paint

An elephant trainer at a circus decided to teach his elephant to paint. After a while, he's taught it how to hold a paint brush. Later, he manages to teach the elephant how to dip the paint brush in the paint. Some time later still, he's managed to teach the elephant to stroke the brush against the canvas. Many years go by, and he teaches the elephant to paint better and better. Then one day, a reporter hears the story and comes to see the elephant paint. The elephant trainer says, "watch this"; he gets the reporter to sit on a stool and pose, and tells the elephant to paint a portrait of the reporter. The elephant paints deftly, with apparent confidence. After 20 minutes the reporter is excited to see the resulting portrait. The elephant trainer proudly turns the canvas around so the reporter can see it. It's just a mess of random colors. The reporter says "errr, it's crap". The elephant trainer is unperturbed. He beams with enthusiasm and pride "Maybe. But isn't it amazing - I've taught an elephant to paint!".

Source: http://ivan.truemesh.com/archives/000562.html

I haven't been pinged since Uncle Ivan used to fuck with us when I was in the Navy. PING! Right back at ya, comrade. I read you loud and clear.

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ping - http://www.videosift.com/video/Rabbits-in-Prison-6-10#comment-293404

The dollar is dissed because of a lack of consumer confidence. We deserve it because America is not acting as crazy as it should be. We're the tall dog and need to start acting like it: tehran needs to be leveled, chavez needs to join saddam and Ivan and the Dragon need to relearn who is #1.

Only the strong survive. That's the natural law that "replaced God", remember? If you want to complain about America's military and root for bearded weirdos like I'm-a-Dinna-Jacket then skip a step and learn Chinese.

That is fake as shit. Either totally fake or Ivan decided instantaneously to feign unconsiousness the moment he screwed up the jump. You don't fish flop up onto your head with your hands stiff at your sides if you're genuinely unconscious.

"Health and responsibility have been made largely impossible from a technical point of view.
This was not clear to me when I wrote Medical Nemesis, and perhaps was not yet the case at that
time. In hindsight, it was a mistake to understand health as the quality of "survival," and as the
"intensity of coping behavior." Adaptation to the misanthropic genetic, climatic, chemical and
cultural consequences of growth is now described as health. Neither the Galenic-Hippocratic
representations of a humoral balance, nor the Enlightenment utopia of a right to "health and
happiness," nor any Vedic or Chinese concepts of well-being, have anything to do with survival in
a technical system.
Health as function, process, mode of communication, health as an orienting behaviour that
requires management - these belong with those postindustrial conjuring formulas that suggestively
connote but denote nothing that can be grasped. As soon as health is addressed, it has already
turned into a sense-destroying pathogen, a member of a word family that Uwe Poerksen calls
plastic words, word husks that one can wave around, making oneself important, but which can say
or do nothing.


The situation is similar with responsibility, although to demonstrate this is much more
difficult. In a world that worships an ontology of systems, ethical responsibility is reduced to a
legitimizing formality. The poisoning of the world, to which I contribute with my flight from New
York to Frankfurt, is not the result of an irresponsible decision, but rather of my presence in an
unjustifiable web of interconnections. It would be politically naive, after health and responsibility
have been made technically impossible, to somehow resurrect them through inclusion into a
personal project; some kind of resistance is demanded.
Instead of brutal self-enforcement maxims, the new health requires the smooth integration of
my immune system into a socio-economic world system. Being asked for responsibility is, when
seen more clearly, a demand for the destruction of sense and self. This proposed self-assignment to
a system that cannot be experienced stands in stark contrast to suicide. It demands self-extinction
in a world hostile to death. Precisely because I also seek tolerance for suicide in a society that has
become a-mortal, I must publicly expose the idealization of "healthy" self-integration. One cannot
feel healthy; one can only enjoy her own functioning in the same way as one enjoys the use of her
computer.
To demand that our children feel well in the world that we leave them is an insult to their
dignity. Then to impose on them responsibility for this insult is a base act."
Ivan Illich

Just thought id ad a little spice to the discussion.

Series one back story to Ivan Dobsky & Mr Hoppy: Part One & Part Two.

a nice advert by Ivan Zacharias. does a great job controlling the light.

This aired in the States a few years back, I think.

The logical extension of Ivan Sutherland's groundbreaking "Sketchpad".

It's worth pointing out that this was written and directed by Jason Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman of "Ghostbusters" fame. This short is from 2004, and got him a lot of buzz. Since then, he directed the feature film "Thank You For Smoking", and has another film coming out next year.

As a law student, I think this is one of the funniest freakin' things I've ever seen.