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Random Thoughts
I don't collect anything.
I have a mild fetish for gothic women in long flowing black dresses, black military boots, and smooth alabaster faces. Black hair with subtle blue or red highlights kill me. I'm a dead man when the right woman pulls off that oh-so-cool Cleopatra haircut....
I can dance only to industrial music in dark, dark places.
Four words: Gary Larson, fucking genius.
Another Far Side note: someone once asked me who I really admired. I guess it's Gary Larson. Here's a guy whose making a living making other people laugh through twisted and intelligent pieces of artwork and text. The man finds humor in science, anthropology, medicine, psychology, religion - everywhere (I swear the man has taken every 101 course in college).
I would love to become a university student for life, letting knowledge soak into me without worrying about my overall GPA.
I was shocked to find out that my GPA meant nothing in the real world.
eBay: dangerous to one's bank account.
I have a bat house up in a tree. I check on it periodically but the only thing that dwells within it are a few rather large and hairy spiders. I don't like spiders that much due to an incident.
I'm a positive-pessimist: I expect the worst so I'm not disappointed when it happens. When something better happens, I'm pleasantly surprised.
I have a black cat with pointy white teeth and sharp claws. I have fresh scars on my arms to prove it.
I find a remote wooded grove to be more in touch with God than any institution.
I feel that libraries are the single most important institution society has to offer. Knowledge should always remain free and accessible. When a community stops funding its library, that community is opening itself to further corruption and control by the few.
The trick to conversation is to actually ask one another questions. You'd be surpised at how many people don't do this in practice. They can only talk about Me. Me, Me, and Me. I call these people Mi-Mi's. The other trick is reciprocation. So, what about you? (Yes, I realize that almost every line on this page begins "I" but you did click on the Who link.)
When I was a kid, I prayed to God that He would give me a lightsaber. I don't know why I'm telling you this.
I had the most wonderful dream the other night that I was on vacation in Italy and having sex with Elizabeth Hurley. Again, I don't know why I'm telling you this.
I am happiest during Fall semi-spooky nights around Halloween when the air is crisp, the trees and dry cornstalks blow in the gentle wind, and the pale moon looms in the night sky. Nature is absolutely sublime in her cyclical efforts to die gracefully before the oncoming Winter.
I deplore the malicious misuse of quotes; e.g., "seedless" grapes. They're either seedless or not, quotes are unnecessary here unless you are making a point of irony. And I find that the grocery store, while stocked with many items, is not a place that exudes irony. I Also, I hold to the old school that you put the end quote outside of the punctuation, except in technical situations such as internet addresses.
I don't watch TV. I read when I have the time. I stopped watching TV when Star Trek: TNG went off the air, though I do miss The Simpsons.
I think the biggest difference between the Internet and television is that you control the flow of information that comes to you from the Internet. Television feeds you what it wants, when it wants to. The Internet is more akin to the library metaphor, though it is an astoundingly poor substitute for a physical library.
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