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Imagine an alcoholic ninja. That has nothing to do with me, but it sure was fun wasn't it?
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I'll follow you if you follow me; nothing like running around in circles
OctoberOct 28 Wednesday Wed 09
Dreams and nightmares
I've found that it is quite easy to improve yourself, but it is nearly impossible to ever change.
OctoberOct 6 Tuesday Tue 09
SeptemberSep 28 Monday Mon 09
Bodies of Men
Now that we are civilized, the smaller the fraction of how we provide, the more successful it would seem we are, the baker gets the food, the builder builds the house(and this is subdivided further with the builder consisting of framers, masons, architects...) In a modern society the individual is next to nothing without the collaboration of the rest of the herd. Mankind is now a body with organs made of professions and cells made of individuals. This simile can be broken down even further, there are individuals which do not belong to any part of the whole, that cling onto the body of man as useless fat, and the brain of men fervently does it's best to exercise this fat into muscle or commits the worst types of atrocities in the name of liposuction. There are germs of men who have made their lot of little more than destructive parasites, and in turn they are chased down by the white blood cells. Sometimes there are other bodies of men, and they'll wrestle and quarrel like brothers, skinning knees on carpets, never even giving a thought that their blood is made up of nearly the exact same thing. Does one mans blood cells hate blood cells of another in the same way we hate our adversaries when we are competing for limited resources? In the middle of this body there is a certain type of amoeba. It is perfectly capable of fitting in as any part of this body, should it be part of the brain, providing the direction for this body? The lungs, breathing in the currency of air that keeps the fragile body intact? Should he continue searching for the heart of man? Or perhaps does the best course of action resides with being it's own entity, providing for it's own welfare, shelter, and sense of direction? No amoeba can match the glory of even the least of men, but can any of a man's billions of individual cells claim mastery over it? In modern society the freest of men also the least important and most dangerous? Or the most irreplaceable?
SeptemberSep 16 Wednesday Wed 09
SeptemberSep 15 Tuesday Tue 09
The silly coincidences that bring me back to Virb....
Of all the places my iPod could have fallen, did it have to pick the toilet? This brought on the digital journey through google, but searching "WTF do I do if I was retarded enough to drop my iPod into the toilet" brought nothing but sorrow. The best advice they could give me was to turn it off, remove the battery, and put it in a tupperware container with silica packets. Problem, the Ipod touch doesn't have a hard off button, you have to use the touch screen. And you can't remove the battery. Even using the industrial dessicant packets they use to keep moisture out of missiles was to no avail, my iPod was dead. Thank god Apple doesn't cover water damage, it really made me feel good about paying extra to buy that extended warranty. Anyway, the trip involved to get a new iPod might as well have been the first "Lord of the Rings" movie, it was 11:30 and the PX was closed, I had a flight to Kuwait the very next day so I couldn't just wait to get a new one(and if you've ever been deployed you'd know that going without was no option either)But!!!! There was a 24 hour shoppette only 3 miles away. So we're walking, and we're walking.... still walking..... Wahoo! and they even have one left! So I threw down the $300, cry a little as it comes out of my bank account, and start walking.... and walking... still walking...back to the Barracks(Maybe the trip back was "The Return of the King"?) and...where was I going with all this? Oh yeah, the last time I did a back-up of my old iPod I had 30 fewer apps, and .....a little note with my Virb password. Hello again!