Happy New Year!

This was the third consecutive year that I did not go to a New Years Eve party. Not That I have ever gone to a real New Years Eve Bash: I have definitely had a lot more fun than sitting at home and watching other people at New Year's Eve parties, though. I will have to work on ending that streak next year.
This New Years has been thought provoking. If someone had told me that, I would be in farm country marveling at the size of the ant-hills at this time last year, I would have laughed at them...
This is such a stretch from what I am used to that it caused me to think about the past and some outrageous situations that i have seen or been around. I have come to the conclusion that a lot of it happens because of a combination of a "F*** it, why not!" attitude combined with the fact that No matter what was going on, someone not-too-far away was always doing something even more outrageous.
I used to hang out at certain coffee shops for hours, but there was always that guy who took it to the next level. I remember a guy at a coffee shop who had 2 laptops and a printer set up at a table and was trying to teach himself Linnux. Why was he doing that? "Cause f*** it, why not?!" Is the only reason that I can come up with. I wonder who he was looking at that made him think, "This is nothing compared to what that guy is doing..."
Its Interesting to think about....

Random Thoughts

Recently I was talking to someone about Myspace.com. He asked whether I thought that he should get a Myspace account or a facebook account. My immediate reaction was that he should get a facebook account. It seemed to meet his needs the most and I couldn't say how much longer myspace would be popular. I thought about it some more, and it seemed that myspace would need to change the format to stay competitive in the future. Soon afterward, myspace,com changed its format. Its going to take a little bit more than myspace changing the arrangement of links and banner ads on the page for it to stay around...

I was thinking of watching cartoons when I was growing up. I always had my favorites. At the end of the season, there was always the option of watching reruns of all of the cartoons that I watched already, or watching a season of some other cartoon on some other channel. I probably chose to watch reruns of the same cartoons 90% of the time as opposed to watching episodes of a different cartoon that I had not seen. It would be interesting to know what that says about me. I am still that same way except that it applies to things other than cartoons now.

I was goofing around on facebook and I saw an "I hate Andre" page for some guy who has the same name as me. I thought it was interesting: Was it a joke that he was in on? Is he oblivious to this page? Its funny to think about these sorts of things...

An Interesting Theory

It has been suggested that my blog is a diary. It definitely does not explore the inner-most recesses of my mind, but I see the person's point. I had an interesting conversation with someone recently. It seemed blog worthy soooo...

I havent studied this sort of thing or read much about it, but I wondered what a friend of mine thought of this idea. It didnt receive as poor of a response as my blog about coffee abuse...
A while ago, I read an article about a person who was born with webbed feet. If I recall correctly, it was said to be a result of some sort of mutation. I wondered if that was not the case. I wondered if webbed feet was some sort of building block: Perhaps we evolved from having webbed feet and since what we are now is built on top of that, people are born with webbed feet occasionally as some sort of evolutionary glitch. I thought that this could apply to some other abnormailites as well.

The person who I had the conversation with thought that it was an interesting theory but made the counter argument that some people are born retarded but that doesnt mean that we evolved from people who are retarded. I thought that we could have evolved from beings who had similar capabilities to someone who is retarded at some point in history. Interesting to think about...

Hackers

Privacy has been a major issue with my online experiences lately. My myspace blog has been hacked into numerous times. I have had blog entries deleted from that particular blog as well as other issues. It has gotten to the point where I log into myspace and there are minor alterations to my page like changing my height that let me know that my account has been hacked yet again. I change my password very frequently....How does one prevent this from happening? Is it possible to prevent hackers from getting into online accounts?

Webpage

I was thinking of creating a webpage. So many people have a webpage (in addition to their myspace, facebook, etc), that I almost (ALMOST) feel left behind because I havent created one yet. I have a lot of different ideas for a webpage but I want to make sure that they are completely set before I create one. I have so many pseudo-websites and online creations that I may just combine them all and present the finished product as a website. I probably have an F3 for my combined online efforts up to this point...Though this has been a successful rating for me, I will aim for something different when i create my website...

Irony

When I was a kid, one of my favorite shows was Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I was not born when the series was on television, but I watched reruns on a station that showed shows from the 60s. The interesting thing about the show was that it hit on the fact that Irony could be very scary. Almost every episode followed a formula where the was a mystery that had a creepy build-up that ended in an ironic plot twist that was scary and often lingered in my mind for a few days. This formula was present in almost every episode, yet it was done so craftily that it almost always worked.

From what I can see, using irony to scare people is a lost artform. This formula was used in the movie "The Sixth Sense" and it worked very well. I have seen other movies that attempted to do something similar to this but it didn't work nearly as well. I think that this is funny because Alfred Hitchcock used this Formula for a half-hour every week (or however often the show aired) and was always successful with it. The Twililight zone aired at the same time as Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Since The Twilight Zone often used this same formula, A person could see an hour worth of that type of plot every week and it was always quality.

I wonder why irony is not used to scare people anymore. Maybe they overused that style in the 60's and no one wanted to use it anymore. It would be great if someone cared enough to perfect it again, though...

I Don't Know Where I Am

There are so many situations where things are very much not what they seem to be by outward appearances. Looking at it with no further context, it basically looks like standard fanfare. Then someone explains that there is more to it and casts a completely different light on ths situation. I remember once when I was in Hollywood, I went to a bar by myself. This was a pretty standard bar and the theme was that it played a certain type of music. It seemed pretty typical and this was always the case when I was there with friends. A guy who I knew randomly from being around Hollywood in general advised me that I should always go to that particular bar w/ a girl and that I would never meet girls at that particualr bar. I was talking to a girl right at that moment when he showed up but apparently what I was experiencing right then was a very unrandom sample of what happens there. This is an intense paraphrasing of the conversation but it definitely made me think long and hard about what I think I am seeing when I look at a stiutation and whether it is a different place altogther to a person who has some "insider-info" about it.