Thursday, December 29, 2005

A merry Christmas, finally another mad holiday rush is over. All in all Christmas was relatively peaceful, oh sure there was the occasional family fight, but everyone still has all their limbs and virtually no property damage. The most stressful part of the whole 'X-mas' experience was deciding on gifts and last minute shopping (I'm a consumer whore). As much as one would want to take a moral stand and say "No gifts this year... I'm putting the Christ back into Christmas!" or some such noble sentiment, if you are the only one who doesn't give anything... well you kind of look like the biggest jerk in the world. Like it or not, giving Christmas gifts is an important part of the holidays and the best one can hope to do is to put some thought into gifts instead of last minute bargain shopping (though some of those boxing day deals are awesome). Personally I think giving gifts is great, its only when you get to wrapped up in the hype and senseless consumerism that meaning gets lost.

Saturday, December 03, 2005

I've been thinking, which is hardly a productive event yet nevertheless usually some partially interesting thoughts are given expression. Lately my belief that 'humanity is neither inherently good or evil - just incredibly stupid', is starting to depress me, as all idiotic behavior does. It's not that I have any real sympathy toward the idiots of the world, more its that cleaning up after idiots is extremely tiring. So for someone as lazy as myself even the thought of someone out there just creating unnecessary work is enough reason break out the alcohol and binge McDonald's. Lest I seem to be judgmental, I count myself amoung the throngs of idiots. It is with certainty that there is someone working a little harder than they should, because of some idiotic thing I have done. There isn't anyone innocent of being idiotic, (which according to some dictionary is: showing a complete lack of thought or common sense) seriously who has the energy to think through every decision in their life? I guess the problem isn't with people making mistakes, its the willingness to repeat ones own idiocy over and over again. Most of us know when we're doing something completely stupid, unfortunately it is actually pretty comfortable being an idiot. To an idiot the world doesn't have to make sense, nothing has to be taken seriously and as long as they get what they want - how and why doesn't really matter. Though I suppose ignorance contributes much to the idiocy of the world, the whole "If only we knew then what we know now" bullshit. Honestly I like being ignorant of a lot of things, especially if knowing about something means I have to deal with it. Society doesn't help matters much either, much of our economy is idiot based. If people bought only what they really needed probably 99% of the companies out there would go bankrupt. This isn't a condemnation of our economy or anything, just a bit of inane rambling on my part. I guess being idiotic is just another part of daily life, though one would be much happier if they were ignorant of that.

Friday, December 02, 2005

Another late night, I honestly tried to publish a post that was well researched and had pictures links.. the whole nine yards, but by the time I was finished the issue was pretty much closed. So now I'm trying to decide if I should rewrite the entire post or back publish it. Now I understand why so many sites disappear after about a year... unless you're making money or don't really have a life (I might be able to claim the latter) it doesn't make much sense to invest a lot of time in a personal website. Though I guess avoiding real work could count as a vaild excuse as well, ah well. Personally I enjoy writing occasionally in an 'unstructured' manner every now and then so unless blogspot starts charging for webspace will probably at least keep this site up, if not really updated frequantly.