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Behold the Lizardman
WhiskeyJack writes "At the cutting edge of body art, student Erik Sprague
of Albany New York has turned himself into a human
lizard. His parents must be awfully proud. :) " Surgically split tongue. Ridge implants in his forehead. Green scales. And then there's me: scared to put on a rub-on tatoo ;)Update: 12/21 08:26 by H : For the not-so-squeamish, Zorro sent us some shots and pictures of the lizardman. Forked tongue, indeed.
Here's a time magazine article,an interview , his bio.
Bad Command Or File Name
My researches indicate two alternative methods of getting written up on slashdot:
1) Code up some brilliantly clever software and release it under the GPL.
2) Cut your penis in half and hammer some nails into your head.
...now, where in hell did I put that hammer...
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
Where are the pictures?
I want to see PICTURES of this guy!!!!!!
anyone have a link? or is this just a text story?
How can anyone post a story like that without pictures?
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Dude, power on if you're doing what you feel to be your calling in life. Congratulations. But, I can think of about 1,000 other ways to express one's creativity, be rebellious, get press, etc., that (1) leave you multiple options in the job market, (2) don't make you look like a moron when (or possibly WAAAAY before) you turn 60, (3) won't get your ass kicked between the pinball machines if you happen to have a layover in San Antonio, and (4) are reversible.
On a social level, I see the word "extreme" batted around in relation to this. "Extreme", as in "probably a bad idea", yes. "Extreme" as in "cool and MTV-televisable", who gives a shit? If we, as a society, took more notice of the things right and wrong around us, with an eye to making things more equitable for our fellow {men,women,lizards,klingons,lawyers,etc.}, than we do of someone making an arguable artistic statement by spending his government loan stipend and circus checks on scale tattoos and tooth filing, do you think maybe we wouldn't be completely fucked up as a race?
"Cause there's 40 different shades of black, so many fortresses and ways to attack, so why you complainin'?"
Nah, he called his company "Microsoft" for a reason you know :P~
WHOOPEEEE!
And the brethren went away edified.
If /. is going to be publishing stuff about body modification, why not go with someone who has something to do with computers? He's been the editor of Phrack, he has really cool body modifications, and he produces code.
/.? There's a lot of good stories that are getting rejected, and we get stuff like this? I guess I would feel better about it if there weren't 200 stories in the queue right now. Some of those are probably really interesting things that we won't see.
Check out Nirva.
>rant<
Personally I think that body modification is cool, but do we really need it on
</rant>
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Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Ah, IDIC, right? I wonder if he just lays around and slurps up houseflies for a living?
Say.. On that note, I wonder if I could get PAID for laying around slurping up houseflies for a living! Hmmmmm.. Food (--- Arghhh!) for thought!
"I don't marshal my words to be quotable" - Captain Sodium, Gigsville...
Funny, I remember when slashdot posted almost nothing but linux stories, people complained about being too focused on linux. Now that they're spreading their spotlight, people complain that they've sold out.
I'm not saying slashdot is perfect in anyway, just that people will always complain, no matter what goes on.
These things you say may be true, but consider, lest we forget:
he got posted on Slashdot.
All was not in vain.
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grappler
Vidi, Vici, Veni
Oh ... PLEASE .. spare me the "outside the box" "all societal norms are wrong" "brave vanguard" crap.
Value neutral here. The guy may be a genius. He may be a moron. He may just be having fun.
YOU sir, are just as guilty as those you condemn, by denigrating those who choose to live in their "feeble bodies" (by implicationin you call us feeble). I have no piercings, no tatoos, and if I'm rejected as timid or conformist because of that, then I want nothing to do with you anyway.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I don't think it's him; just some other twit with a split tongue.
And the brethren went away edified.
hey tim! heh
I always just tell the story about how my girlfriend got busted on the candian border in a car with eric and one of their other friends, and how the candian border police treated them.. heh.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
There are freaks out there. get used to the idea. and not all of them are freakish on the inside like yourself, some like the outward freakish appearance.
There are the share of posers, but how many script kiddiez do you know that think they are bad ass because they have 0-d4y \,\,4R3Z!
this guy is the real deal.. heh
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
Secondly, there's RAB and #bodyart on EFnet. I used to hang out there, and it's a great place for the freaks. It's funny that it gets so easy to spot the posers ('I got my belly button pierced') and the hard core people ('I got this piece of plastic embeded in my forhead!').
But please remember the Media distorotion that happens. He might look like a Reptile, but he's a nice enough guy. Smart too.
I started hanging on #bodyart cause my friends did, posted to RAB a few times, met my current girlfriend at a munch party, ran the bot on #bodyart, and then gave it all up. I don't look like a freak, but there is a reason people call me Gonzo in real life, i'm told anyway.
Gonzo Granzeau
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.." -Roy Batty
I thought this article was about this guy I saw on a special about human freaks. He had lizard skin tatooed all over his body, and implants in his head to give the impression of little nubs (horns). I believe this guy was on the X-Files at one point, but I haven't watched the show in years (no cable, rural Vermont) so I can't really give insight to that.
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'
I'm so excited! Now we can have a "Balrog Wings" thread just like on rec.arts.books.tolkien!!
I guess the question is whether this guy should get prosthetic wings next or not.
And the brethren went away edified.
Here's an idea. Maybe it's been talked about before, but let me run it by you anyway. In the tradition of "fool.com" why can't we have strongly moderated forums on particular subjects? Some days I just feel like talking about the newest linux distro and there's no related stories so I can't. This makes sense when you realize that usually the threads digress to these popular subjects anyway. Just imagine if there were 50 forums here on linux, each one taking on a slightly different variation? The reason I think the forums should be strongly moderated is to keep the topics on focus. If you are posting on the corel linux distro forum and you digress, then it gets deleted. If you spam, it gets deleted. If you post natalie portman trash, it gets deleted. The goal is not to interfere with free speech, but rather to remove the signal noise that is rapidly overtaking slashdot. The moderation angle seems to be working really well on fool.com, for example, because they have forums on incredibly specific subjects and these are some of the most popular forums on the site. Now I'm not saying we can't still have news articles and respond to the news. I think we can have both, and then see which is more popular. Just an idea, anyway. What do you think?
Unless you're capable of bending I-beams with your bare hands then you have a feeble body. Indeed I did imply that you have a feeble body. But I painted the entire human race with this brush. We've all got feeble bodies!
All that I ask is that if you call me or anybody else "sick" because we've got tattoos, piercings or other mods you provide some argument for your accusation. It doesn't bother me that you're un-modded. Don't let my body bother you.
/peter
Nothing against the lizard man. More power to him. He's looking pretty good in the most recent pics, but come ON!
I guess I won't even bother with Reverend Alexander Cornswalled's essay on how Pokemon is from the Devil.....
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
There is a web site dedicated to body modification of all sorts... there are people who have done things to even make this a bit tame.
Body Modification E-Zine, at www.bme.freeq.com, is dedicated to this.
A warning before you look, however - it's not a place for the squeamish. There is some really odd stuff, especially in the extreme section.
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"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Damn... this is for real! http://www.achilles.net/~dextr a/spako/spidergod.html
Reality has a liberal bias
You can see more of "Amago", the lizard boy at the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow site: http://www.ambient.on.ca/jimrose/ - I'm a longtime fan of the Circus, and I blew off the show the last time they showed up in SF. I'm very sorry, and I promise I'll never do it again.
Sure... although he does have a tendency to fall asleep if his desk is too far from the window...
Madness takes its toll. Exact change please.
man.. I know why they didn't attach any pictures. Because the guy doesn't even look like a lizard.. Here I am expecting some hard core green guy with scales and I get some biker who slipped with the knife whilst eating spam. LAME.
How we know is more important than what we know.
So what makes this just SO wrong? Because Eric doesn't look like you? Because he doesn't fit one of your preconceptions about what people are supposed to look like? Is all cosmetic surgery wrong, or just surgery which doesn't make you look more "normal"? What makes the ear piercings done by some untrained, unsanitary teenager in a mall with a reusable(!) piercing gun less wrong than Eric's large gage tunnels?
Eric's part of a vanguard of pre-cyborgs who have taken control of their own bodies and aren't constrained by the feeble bodies evolution has given us. Admittedly the mods are mostly cosmetic at this point, but, at least in my opinion, it's one of the first steps to a bionic body.
Hairiest lizard I've ever seen...
-Chris