Television and Overused Statements...

I don't watch television often, but sometimes I watch television I see something on a program that is thought provoking. Recently, I saw a marathon of a show that I used to watch when I was younger. It was great to see this show, but this marathon didn't show any "Classic" episodes. Marathons that don't show classic episodes are inherently weak: If my first impression of this show was based on watching that "marathon," I would wonder why it was ever popular. I guess I will have to find the episodes that I expected to see during the marathon on Youtube...

I was watching television after midnight one night. At that time of night there are pretty much only infomercials, re-runs of talk shows, COPS, and weird "caught on video" shows. One of the weird "caught on video" shows had a segment about a kid who was raised by a pack of wolves. The kid was a part of the pack and more or less behaved like a wolf. I don't buy that at all and am very skeptical about what sort of weird subliminal they were trying to send underneath the radar...

Recently, I had a conversation with someone. We discovered that we knew people in common or something of that nature and I said "Small World." Usually, this type of remark is said without incident: One person says "Small Word" then the conversation moves on to a different topic. Not this time. This person adamantly disagreed with me and took me to task on the idea. Mind you that I keep a can on Pepper Spray with me just in case a remark like "Small World" devolves into some sort of incident. I listened to the person's argument and he made some valid points. This caused me to think... If its not a "Small World,"what are the implications of that?

You Tube...

Lately I have heard a lot of arguments and ideas that are not based in any logic or standards. It makes me wonder if I should give up on attempting to "make sense" and logic entirely. Needing to "make sense" or be logical is an extreme handicap when no one else is held to the same standard.

Recently, I began using You Tube again. I started using You Tube a few years ago and I assume that most You Tube users started using You Tube a few years ago also. I am using You Tube again because I recently realized that depth of the material that is on You Tube. Every commercial, every movie clip, every TV show, every video, Every sporting Event: You can find it on You Tube. I realized that You tube was extensive before, but there is a huge difference between that and being able EVERYTHING on the website...

Interesting...

I had an interesting dream recently. After i woke up and thought about it, it seemed like a good allegory/metaphor for my life. I was playing in a basketball league. The season was going very well: I was averaging twenty-five points per game. The interesting thing about it was that every point that I scored was a result of goal-tending. The other team literally goal-tended every shot that I took that wasn't a last -second shot. It was great, to score twenty-five points per game, but it was a bit demoralizing to almost never actually score a point under normal circumstances.

Friends have often said that my use of metaphors was a bit excessive and that I should be more direct, but this metaphor seems very on-point. In life, I have been scoring a lot of points, but I rarely actually get to see that ball go into the basket...

"Inadvertent or not it happened!"

I was thinking more about being an "Extreme Eventist." Extreme Events continue to happen so its not difficult to do so. I have come to the conclusion that when a person is an "Extreme Eventist," it is important to check every event that crosses the line in whatever way is appropriate. If an objective assessment says that your life should be relatively "eventless" but you still witness or are a part of an Extreme Event every other day, it is important to check. It is normal to let a lot of things go in life, but when you are an Extreme Eventist you dont really have that luxury...

Of course, a lot of events can't be checked. Yesterday, A flock of birds that I had previously only seen in zoos landed in my backyard and hung out there for an extended period of time. I have no idea how typical this is (I am new to the area), but this was an absolutely new experience for me. I didn't "check" this event and chase the birds off of the property. I just watched the spectacle. It wasn't a negative thing to occur, but these sorts of events take a bit out of me even when they are positive. I am hoping that the next Extreme Event that I am a part of isn't a powerful hurricane that puts me and my apartment in the ocean..

A few days ago I was writing the date and almost wrote "2007" instead of "2008." This happened because I had recently looked at something that had "2007" written on it. This made me try to remember the latest time of the year when I accidentally wrote the date from the year before. The latest that I can recall is mid-February. I bet some people out there recently wrote "1998" and had to catch themselves because the year is "2008" now...

Spy-ware...

I have used a free Anti-virus program for a while. Recently they came up with a new 2007 version of it that I downloaded. I had both the old verson and the new version of the program on my computer for a while. The interesting thing was that the old version found a lot more spware than the new version. In fact, the new one only found low-level spyware. For a while I wondered whether there really wasn't any signifcant spyware or my computer or if the new version of the free program was worthless. When I ran an Anti-Virus program that was not free, it found more than 500 Critical/ High level bugs on my computer that the free version missed. Miraculously, it didnt take ten minutes to load a page and my computer no longer randomly sent me to random sights. I undersand not wanting the free version to be so good that there is no need for the non-free version, but why create something that is utterly worthless?

Recently, I have grown accustomed to the lizards that are everywhere instead of insects where I live. At first they surprised me a bit, but I have grown accustomed to seeing them. Apparently they are harmless, but I realized that I should probably get a more expert opinion about that. The last thing I would want to be is mistaken about whether something is harmless or not...

Extreme Eventist

I have discovered that I am a member of a profession that I never realized existed. I am officially giving it a name: Extreme Eventist. It doesn't pay any money, but it tires you at unheard of levels. Basically I witness or am a part of some Extreme Event or Incident purely by virtue of circumstances. The kind where if someone else is there you say "Holy S***!! Did you see that??!! Are you kidding me??!!" Otherwise you call people and say something similar later. At that point you try to cope until 2 hrs later when somthing else of that magnitude happens and the process starts all over again...

On a different note...I wonder about craigslist sometimes: What percentage of it is legitimate and what percenage of it is a Phishing site?

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....