shit. how the fuck am I out of bandwidth when I never USE that account!??

Why is it that when good things happen, bad things happen to offset them. And why is it that the bad things are so much worse than the good things are good?

I got 15 hours of sleep yesterday/today... I feel much better.

My laptop won't turn on. The power light comes on, but nothing happens. No cpu startup, no fan turning on, no screen turning on. Goddammit.

anything interesting happening today?

If not I'm cleaning and doing laundry... please don't make me do that!

Photos I took last night at draw-a-thon 2005:




THERE. This time it better not disappear.

once again... a post of mine disappears. fuck. I should be used to this by now.

that's sweet.
my suggestion: buy lots of powdered milk.

Alison! I had totally forgotten about the immortality rings. Leo posted them and said someone should sign up for the "get rings for free" program. So I did.

http://www.alexchiu.com/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=becktwentyfour

I need 80 unique IP hits and I he'll mail me my free immortality rings!
Now to start planning the rest of my life on a new eternal time scale.

This is a pretty funny audio clip from the CBC radio in 1971. The Science Council of Canada proposed the notion of developing a "network of computers" (apparently the term "internet" hadn't been thought up yet), and a representative prepares to discuss and answer questions on this idea during the course of a broadcast. However, a bunch of women start calling in and do no less than lambaste him with accusations of the terrible woes such technology will bring to society!!! Hearing this now in an age when the internet is a pervasive technology, it is sobering to realize that our own conceptions of the future TODAY are probably just as misconstrued and exaggerated as those listeners in 1971. Let us learn something from this and not be so quick to disparage technology and progress due to our own irrational fears of the future, of the seemingly unknown. Humankind's destiny must necessarily lie beyond our petty social frictions here on earth, but in the understanding of our home, the earth, and the universe. Our viability as a species may very well be dependent upon it.

This is somewhat tangential, but what do we do when we have depleted our resources on earth? It sounds like a problem so far removed from our current situation that we don't need to worry about it for at least a few generations. But the fact of the matter is that this is a very real and immediate threat. And I hate to be an alarmist, but the chance of earth being struck by a catastrophic meteor is 100%; it's not a question of "if" but rather "when". It could happen tomorrow... and have we done anything about it? Not a damned thing.

Furthermore, we must as a species grow up and explore beyond the nest. I foresee no immediate future wherein the earth will be abandoned; it will remain the hub of human civilization for countless thousands of years at the least. But if we don't get a move on colonization and the attempt to harvest and cultivate the untapped resources of entire worlds (where at least living ecosystems won't be destroyed as is the case here on earth) at our disposal, then the end is inevitably imminent.

We are fast approaching a fork in the road. One path leads to overpopulation, the depletion of precious natural resources, war, terrorism, famine, freshwater drought, energy crises and the worldwide degradation of standards of living, whereas the other path reveals a future that encompasses the greater whole of our solar system. Whether or not this alternative will alleviate any or all of the aforementioned problems is uncertain, but one thing IS for certain: we gotta fuckin TRY!!!

I admittedly use vulgar language regularly, but I am NOT one to use the Lord's name in vain. That being said, I mean this in all literal seriousness:

God damn every last one of our one-tracked preoccupations with war and superiority. This is humankind in a fine state of stagnation.

If I start saving money now, I can go see sigur ros in vancouver! Who wants to go?