keeping sane, one word at a time
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Male; Age 25; Likes Ultimate Frisbee;
Here's a favorite quote of mine from Tropic of Cancer p.99, "I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which i have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which the lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself."
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Friday, August 22, 2003
Steadman - Carried, fav song of the day. South - Paint the Silence, second fav song of the day (been a good day:).
My employment with radioshack is officially terminated on the 15th of September, nearly one year from when it started. Could it be my last minimum wage job?
10:33 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Rain, beautiful rain.
I spent 3 hours the other day tuning my bike; she absolutely purrs now. Found a new lubricant. I love a smooth running machine. I'm reading "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood". Chemistry was never so interesting....
8:54 PM
Sunday, August 10, 2003
From the 0 to ~1100 A.D. humans thought the earth flat.
From 1100s on humans thought the earth spherical.
From the 1900s to some future date, humans will be remembered as thinking the earth infinitely large.
2:37 PM
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
so, high-powered lasers used to treat radioactive waste - completely inert in under an hour. If nuclear goes green we're saved.
11:04 PM
Recipe for a Long Term Forecast.
Forecast each day of the week using descriptions like: Variable cloudiness, Cloudy with sunny breaks, Partly cloudy and Cloudy periods and consider these different predictions.
Got some new cleats for Ultimate tonight (it better not rain). Brought my old ones to a cobbler to see if anything could be done, but he pronounced them dead as soon as I got them out of my backpack. Hope these last a little longer.
6:50 AM
Monday, August 04, 2003
"your girl, she's a renegade, a hurricane that's keeps you there, safe"
My new fav song, Stars - Look Up
was taking in a little DUNE on the space channel. LONG LIVE THE FIGHTERS! that would be a damn slick halloween costume if i could get my hands on one of those "desert suits" and maybe some glowing blue contacts...
9:28 PM
Saturday, August 02, 2003
We're on the verge of a number of revolutions. I was under the impression I'd have to grow old with nothing more than the latest version of the Ford Thunderbird or remake of Superman to look forward to, but it looks like we might actually be in for some interesting growth.
For one, numerous governments across the planet have begun investing millions into nanotechnology research. And we're already starting to see its influences in RAM (Random Access Memory) and others. Two, fuel cells are beginning to take off. I'm living in what's becoming a major canadian fuel cell hub; there's currently research at Dupont, RMC, Queen's and Fuel Cell Technologies - all located right here in Kingston. Three, Canadian competitors in the X-prize are looking promising (davinciproject.com) and the X-Prize will most likely be won sometime this year. Four, this is longer term, but we've only got around 15-20 years of oil left in current reserves for the planet. It'll be a regular hoot to see how our generation deals with this, cause we'll be in command when the shit hits the fan.
In short, woooohoooooooooooooooo! If for some terrible reason I was horribly disfigured or paralyzed and committed to a wheelchair I'd still have something to live for:)
New thought:
I was listening to a radioshow on KEXP.org this morning and this dude was discussing an upcoming "Take-back-your-time" Day (US). He's studying how much other industrialized countries work and has come to the basic conclusion that North Americans are working too many hours, well he was probably talking about americans. He was quoting figures from Norway, about how much less they work and how much more productive they are in those hours. The most interesting point of the show was his viewpoint on the GDP of a country. How too many countries are obsessed with increasing it and how lacking it is as a test of a country's health. His examples, if divorces were to increase across a country and cause families to need two homes the GDP would go up, more houses would need to be built, furnished, powered, etc, or if large-scale environmental damage were to occur, the GDP would go up, cleaning crews, products, etc would be needed. This scenario is more directed towards americans, but i think it's still relative here. I think i'm going ot have to read about it some more. One of his last points was that we're living unsustainable lives as is, so do we really need to be producing all this shit? I work at Radioshack, there's not one thing in the entire store that anyone actually needs. It's all crap and it's all plastic, which all comes from petroleum.
Sleep is good.
10:08 PM
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