I don't think I'll ever understand how a person, any person, think like this, assuming there was thinking involved.
I will never understand what can make a person become like that either.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Sex maniacs, are these real?
If you live in Egypt please help me out here, is this real?
http://malek-x.net/node/268
If you're a girl who lives in Egypt, please be careful. Try to avoid the busy spots and downtown at night. Better safe than sorry.
I don't know what to say, it's a new low.
http://malek-x.net/node/268
If you're a girl who lives in Egypt, please be careful. Try to avoid the busy spots and downtown at night. Better safe than sorry.
I don't know what to say, it's a new low.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
The Smiling Cucumber
You probably thought the title was some kind of metaphor or hoped the post would have some deep insightful meaning to it.
If you did, then I am actually not terribly sorry to disappoint. This post is exactly and literally about what's in the title.
After 25 years of eating cucumber, I can announce that I have a photo of what up to my knowledge is the first smiley embedded in a cucumber. There is no manipulation of the cucumber or image processing of any sort. This is what I saw looking back at me when I looked at a piece of cucumber I was biting.
If you did, then I am actually not terribly sorry to disappoint. This post is exactly and literally about what's in the title.
After 25 years of eating cucumber, I can announce that I have a photo of what up to my knowledge is the first smiley embedded in a cucumber. There is no manipulation of the cucumber or image processing of any sort. This is what I saw looking back at me when I looked at a piece of cucumber I was biting.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Flying Spaghetti Music
I'll keep it sweet simple, I'm sure the less I talk the better a post it is :)
-Pastafarianism
Nothing for me to say, the wikipedia page says it all. Awesome stuff.
-Pandora Box
The only such website that I see actually works. It's realy cool, just tell it what you already like and it'll guide you through discovering music that you most probably never heard before but will like. And it works!
-Pastafarianism
Nothing for me to say, the wikipedia page says it all. Awesome stuff.
-Pandora Box
The only such website that I see actually works. It's realy cool, just tell it what you already like and it'll guide you through discovering music that you most probably never heard before but will like. And it works!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Bloggerhea
Recently I've been blogging more than I used to so that's the term I came up with to describe the phenomenon. I have a feeling it'll become popular one day, maybe just with the guys. I know all the girls are saying "ewwww" together right now, no big deal.
The newly coined term swiftly takes me to the topic, which is probably going to provoke more ewwws. It's just I noticed what looked to me like an interesting phenomenon. The naming for bathrooms.
Every few years English speaking people seem to get fed up or disgusted by one name and decide to switch to another. So far we have bathroom, water closet, washroom (mostly Canadian), men's/women's room, loo, toilet, can, and lavatory as words that are pretty much referring to the same thing. I conjecture that this is the one physical object with the largest number of words associated with it in the English language.
It seems to me that the new word gets associated with the concept and disgust ensues, and then people think they can solve that by using a a new word and designating the old one as non-PC (politically correct). Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Seriously, what difference does a word make if we understand we're referring to the same concept?
The newly coined term swiftly takes me to the topic, which is probably going to provoke more ewwws. It's just I noticed what looked to me like an interesting phenomenon. The naming for bathrooms.
Every few years English speaking people seem to get fed up or disgusted by one name and decide to switch to another. So far we have bathroom, water closet, washroom (mostly Canadian), men's/women's room, loo, toilet, can, and lavatory as words that are pretty much referring to the same thing. I conjecture that this is the one physical object with the largest number of words associated with it in the English language.
It seems to me that the new word gets associated with the concept and disgust ensues, and then people think they can solve that by using a a new word and designating the old one as non-PC (politically correct). Lather, rinse, and repeat.
Seriously, what difference does a word make if we understand we're referring to the same concept?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Superlatives
Sleep has a funny habbit of evading me for a few days every now and then. Tonight, reading the last 100 pages of the book I was going through hasn't helped. Turning in bed for a few hundred times didn't help either, and I found thoughts racing through my head. They're doing so even faster than what I'm used to in the shower which by now everybody knows is my inspirational place. If we can be so misled as to call these things in my head inspirations, that is.
So I thought blogging as a means of documenting my brain's electrical activity was in order.
Of course, the net had to be down at my place. For only the 3rd time since I got it here a year ago probably. But, like sleep, it seems to go away when I want it the most. Or maybe we've grown too attached to our online "presence" that all the time is when we want it the most, but I digress.
So anyway, I'm writing in notepad and will post it later, I think.
My amusing thought of the day is about human nature and competition. If there is anything that human beings are best at, it's getting better at something. Every day people in all walks of life outdo other people as well as previous versions of themselves in a relentless quest for something that I can't figure out yet.
Sometimes it's about wealth, and sometimes it's about fame, but most of the time you can't really tell what it's about. People are breaking records and outdoing everyone else noisily and quietly every day and at things ranging from the grand medical or technological breakthroughs to the absurd eating records.
We're all proud of ourselves and how well we do a specific thing or two, be it our jobs or playing a sport, musical instrument, or a particular video game. I know I am. But a little exposure to the best in the world usually changes your perception of just how good you actually are.
Look closer and there is someone who's stronger than you are, another one who's taller or shorter or fatter or thinner, someone who's better at doing what you do for a living, and someone who's better at playing your favorite sport or video game. There's someone who's more social, someone who can speak more languages than you do more fluently, and someone who can drive faster.
You can only attach superlatives to yourself in a (very) limited context, and it's a scary thought, even a depressing one if you let it get to your self confidence and sense of self worthiness.
After all, if that's the case then you're pretty much disposable from a world point of view.
I thought this would be the end of this post when I started it, but as I type the thoughts came flowing and I think I found a way out.
I guess this is why I keep on blogging.
Most of us can't be the best at everything or even one thing almost by definition. As long as there are more people than things to gauge skill at this has to be the case. There just can't be 10 best people at doing 5 things. There can only be 5, and this doesn't bode very well with 3 billion people in the world.
But each one of us is the (relatively) unique combination of how well he/she is at those things combined. I am the mix of an 8/10 driver, an 8/10 gamer, a 7/10 programmer, a 2/10 ping pong player, an 0.1/10 squash player and a 0/10 singer. As well as a bunch of other stuff, but you get the idea.
It's not only the things we're good (or best) at that makes us who we are, but also what we're fairly good at, not so good at, and absolutely bad at.
Maybe now I can sleep.....
So I thought blogging as a means of documenting my brain's electrical activity was in order.
Of course, the net had to be down at my place. For only the 3rd time since I got it here a year ago probably. But, like sleep, it seems to go away when I want it the most. Or maybe we've grown too attached to our online "presence" that all the time is when we want it the most, but I digress.
So anyway, I'm writing in notepad and will post it later, I think.
My amusing thought of the day is about human nature and competition. If there is anything that human beings are best at, it's getting better at something. Every day people in all walks of life outdo other people as well as previous versions of themselves in a relentless quest for something that I can't figure out yet.
Sometimes it's about wealth, and sometimes it's about fame, but most of the time you can't really tell what it's about. People are breaking records and outdoing everyone else noisily and quietly every day and at things ranging from the grand medical or technological breakthroughs to the absurd eating records.
We're all proud of ourselves and how well we do a specific thing or two, be it our jobs or playing a sport, musical instrument, or a particular video game. I know I am. But a little exposure to the best in the world usually changes your perception of just how good you actually are.
Look closer and there is someone who's stronger than you are, another one who's taller or shorter or fatter or thinner, someone who's better at doing what you do for a living, and someone who's better at playing your favorite sport or video game. There's someone who's more social, someone who can speak more languages than you do more fluently, and someone who can drive faster.
You can only attach superlatives to yourself in a (very) limited context, and it's a scary thought, even a depressing one if you let it get to your self confidence and sense of self worthiness.
After all, if that's the case then you're pretty much disposable from a world point of view.
I thought this would be the end of this post when I started it, but as I type the thoughts came flowing and I think I found a way out.
I guess this is why I keep on blogging.
Most of us can't be the best at everything or even one thing almost by definition. As long as there are more people than things to gauge skill at this has to be the case. There just can't be 10 best people at doing 5 things. There can only be 5, and this doesn't bode very well with 3 billion people in the world.
But each one of us is the (relatively) unique combination of how well he/she is at those things combined. I am the mix of an 8/10 driver, an 8/10 gamer, a 7/10 programmer, a 2/10 ping pong player, an 0.1/10 squash player and a 0/10 singer. As well as a bunch of other stuff, but you get the idea.
It's not only the things we're good (or best) at that makes us who we are, but also what we're fairly good at, not so good at, and absolutely bad at.
Maybe now I can sleep.....
Monday, October 16, 2006
Stack overflow
Lately it's been feeling like very little bit of new information that makes its way through to my head displaces an older one. I feel like I've hit the (admittedly low) limits on my memory and now I'm starting to merely replace old information with new one.
Maybe I have to stop acquiring information...
Maybe I have to stop acquiring information...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
UnNews
I woke up today to a text message from Nagaiaia asking me to remind her of the wikipedia parody website. Took me a bit to remember she was talking about Uncyclopedia
Having been reminded of it I took a glance and the UnNews section actually contained a couple of hilarious posts.
This one should be enjoyable by the geekier population. If you'd caught on the computer thing long enough to remember Duke Nukem 3D (circa 1997) you should be good to go.
I also came across a more general audience "article" and it's just as hilarious. The news? A man had bad picture taken of him.
Having been reminded of it I took a glance and the UnNews section actually contained a couple of hilarious posts.
This one should be enjoyable by the geekier population. If you'd caught on the computer thing long enough to remember Duke Nukem 3D (circa 1997) you should be good to go.
I also came across a more general audience "article" and it's just as hilarious. The news? A man had bad picture taken of him.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Geek, Geekier, Geekiest
Let me state the obvious first, I (surprise!) have changed the template. This one looks better imho and it isn't messed up on some computers like the other one was after I'd tried to make the post pages wider and messed it all up. Ironically this one is just as narrow as the old one was before I messed it up, so I'm back to square one. Anyway, just let me know if something is (not?) broken with the change.
I've always been a supporter of the cool geek concept. I believe that being a geek doesn't have to carry the negative connotations it does, it makes me sleep better at night you could say. In that vein I have some of the geekiest confessions to make.
One day this week it just hit me that I dreamt of Windows Vista the previous night. I had dreamt that Microsoft "called it off" and the whole company was in jeopardy because of the announcement. This has got to be one of the geekiest things that happened to me, or maybe even to anybody. Don't ask.
I happen to have another confession in the same vein that I've kept a secret for a long time.
Sometimes, in real life, when someone says something really funny, instead of laughing I find myself "LOLing". That is actually saying the word 'LOL' instead of actually doing the act and laughing out loud. Weirdly enough people didn't seem to notice the 3 or 4 times I've done that. Apparently few people actually listen to me, not that it's a bad thing.
There, I said it all. Got Geekier?
I've always been a supporter of the cool geek concept. I believe that being a geek doesn't have to carry the negative connotations it does, it makes me sleep better at night you could say. In that vein I have some of the geekiest confessions to make.
One day this week it just hit me that I dreamt of Windows Vista the previous night. I had dreamt that Microsoft "called it off" and the whole company was in jeopardy because of the announcement. This has got to be one of the geekiest things that happened to me, or maybe even to anybody. Don't ask.
I happen to have another confession in the same vein that I've kept a secret for a long time.
Sometimes, in real life, when someone says something really funny, instead of laughing I find myself "LOLing". That is actually saying the word 'LOL' instead of actually doing the act and laughing out loud. Weirdly enough people didn't seem to notice the 3 or 4 times I've done that. Apparently few people actually listen to me, not that it's a bad thing.
There, I said it all. Got Geekier?
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