Searching For (Genius)

Runes of Magic

2008-12-17T16:14:00.001-08:00

Begin playtest.

Brave New Dawn

2008-12-17T14:54:00.000-08:00

I can't even begin to express how happy I am to have been born when I was. I am almost certainly going to have a chance at traveling to space in my lifetime.

Plus, the internet is kinda cool.

The unhappiest state

2008-12-10T13:25:00.000-08:00

http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/12/08/news/porter_county/doc60da4d3a78fefc07862575190004d925.txt

Indiana bans smiling on driver's license photos. WOW.

I swear to god

2008-12-08T10:56:00.000-08:00

Next protest I hear about in DC or Richmond I'm doing this

In the order of distractions

2008-12-07T13:32:00.000-08:00

It is my position that school is the single greatest distraction from my education.

The mind was not meant to learn in this way. My mind at least, wot wot?

I say this every exam week, but it all feels so unnatural. Being pulled in 5 different directions at once and having to divide your attention between them; the strict, regimented, and segmented progression ever-forward - sometimes in pulses and sometimes a steady line, always indifferent to the student's own intellectual pace.

God forbid some bit of study should grab my interest! My mind can barely split in two without shutting down completely. If I actually pursued the passing passion, that'd be the end of me and my degree. I should incorporate copious quantities of alliteration into all future posts.

Semester's almost up!

2008-12-01T14:03:00.000-08:00

And I have no idea how things'll land!

Management 319 will be over though, and I will have passed. So whatever happens in other courses, I know I'll never have to take that course again! Hip-hip, Hooray!

Participating in my first research study! Not as an administrator, though - as a specimen:( It pays 30 bucks though!..

I really wish I knew more about engineering. I come up with all these things I wanna build, but most all of them require the building of circuits, motors, hydraulics or some such complexity beyond my skills with a hammer and soldering iron.

{sigh}

2008-11-29T19:27:00.000-08:00

I miss being medicated.

I need to get money, and fast, or I'm in for a world of hurt. So many bills piling up. Going to go to collections, jail, or both. Car tax due in like a week and I Can't pay it. Car insurance due in like 4 days, and I can't pay it. Gotta get my car inspected before the court date mid-January and I can't afford it. Doctor's bill due I forget when and I can't pay it. Gotta make another appointment to get more medicine, and I can't see the doc without paying up front, and I can't afford it. 2,000 miles overdue for an oil change, and I can't afford it. Almost out of diapers.

Bugger, I'm F*****

Thing to Do Before I Die, list - Version 0.001a

2008-11-28T19:29:00.000-08:00

If I absolutely must die - that is, if the much and usually annoyingly prophesized nano-revolution doesn't come through for me - I hope to have these and many other things, presented in no particular order, done:

- Kill a lion
- Learn to speak Chinese (so I can survive and get ahead in the People's Republic of Earth [PRE])
- Run at and up a wall and then execute a perfect backflip off of it
- Get into a real fist fight
- Be interned overnight in a local police station holding cell
- Try various novel methods of begging, recording the hilarious results for posterity
- Figure out what approximately the heck the LHC does and roughly how
- Write a book, any genre except self-help. On second thought, self-help's fine, why limit myself
- Graduate from university
- Pay last year's taxes (here's hoping the IRS doesn't ever connect this blog to me!)
- Own an island (natural or of my own manufacture)
- Run a business (where doesn't matter: around the block, into the ground, w/e)
- Beat my older brother at Age of Empires 2
- Beat my older brother at a 1v1 roller hockey match (with or without cheating)
- Found a secret society or club
- Hold a public office (...here's hoping the IRS doesn't ever connect this blog to me!)
- Hold a party (other than a birthday party)
- Hold another man's life in my hands and spare it mercifully
- Visit Europe (cliche much?)

Almost forgot to mention

2008-11-28T18:25:00.000-08:00

This is nothing more than a personal (b)log, the specific purpose of which is now, and with luck always, undefined and almost certainly inconsequential to all but me (myself? I'll never understand the mechanics or the purpose of this distinction).

I usually begin things like this with a promise to MeSelf (I'm going to stick with this compromise. Seek the middle way, isn't that what the daoists say?) or some other self (Come to think of it, 'myself' is a bit redundant, isn't it? Actually, there's 'yourself', which is the same as 'you'. So I guess myself and yourself are not redundant so much as 'self' is superfluous in these usages) to update regularly. But I am older now (why in the name of Ra are you not supposed to start sentences with conjunctions? Doing so makes as much sense as, I'm assured by very smart people, particle physics does). With age and experience I have become wiser and more jaded. I know I am unlikely to follow through on such a promise, that I will feel guilty for having broken it, and that ironically I am even less likely to accomplish the thing once promised.

To sum, not only should what I write be of no interest to anybody reading, but even if one is inexplicably drawn to it (perhaps keen on my rather amorphous, oft rambling, succinct and insincere style of prose [or poetry, who knows; recall, the purpose of this blog is undefined {though of course cruel fate and my own weak will might yet cast this blog in a purposeful role. To declare it necessarily aimless would be too much definition for my comfort}]), the sporacity (Like The Poet, I recklessly invent words where I percieve a need, and offer no apologies) of updates should ensure nobody's attention is held for too long.

If anyone labored through this post to read this final thought, god help them. If they skipped straight to the end as so many do, shame on them. It's an affront me as an artist. To waste all this thought, and time carefully contemplating and endlessly putting to pen (well, obviously I'm not penning this, but I think the saying holds up reasonably well even in this digital age) revisions, to guide the reader and to ensure...

Whoa, lost my train of thought there. No matter!

The World

2008-11-28T18:16:00.000-08:00

The world is my/your/our/their/a/an oyster/puzzle/challenge/pain/adventure/responsibility.