#45 Summer

I've made a new chart, really MS Painty. The idea behind it is one of these chunks of pie will eventually eat the other 2. When that happens, we'll all have peace. I'm not sure an entirely homogenous culture would be so good. Still, it's worth a try. I'm hoping science will be able to fix the biggest problems.

Been watching talks over on Ted.com. Rather good that. I feel perhaps I have established a rut for a few years hench.

Knowing without doing - could I be happy? I reckon I'll just keep whining about myself for a while but deftly avoid changing in any way.

We sit and wait,
The mountain and I,
Until only the mountain remains

#44 Good idea, Bad idea

Good idea - Internet
Bad idea - Diseases
Good idea - Doctors
Bad idea - Internet Doctors
Good idea - Chimps
Bad idea - Chimp in a space suit
Good idea - Seesaw
Bad idea - Chainsaw
Good idea - Watching films
Bad idea - Watching films where there are chimps in space suits
Good idea - Blogging
Bad idea - Blogging about watching films where there are chimps in space suits

Yeah, these are better. Those old blog posts just weren't getting to my target market.

ROFL HARRSI!

#43 Simplicity

I saw a sign on a car the other day. "For Sael"

That's what it said. The sign on the back was fine. I took a photo for myself to prove I didn't make it up.

This next trick is called simplicity. All you do is think happy thoughts. Slight problem though is that for me at least, happy thoughts is fully raytraced realtime overpumped dynamic range graphics.

I've been reading a little about human dynamic range. It's a bit like trying to thread a needle with a sausage. Salami would be more accurate. All the stuff that we could see is rather filtered out until we find ourselves left with a washy notion. It'd be nice to see gamma rays, but I'll still find reasons to complain.

So.

Simple it is. Think happy.

#42 Life in lines

I decided to do up a UML diagram of life thus far. It's helped put a few things into perspective. The only problem is that I'm finding it easier to put in a lot of downers, mishaps and failings as opposed to successes, cheer-ups and lucky days. To be without thought could perhaps be to be without unhappiness. Defaulting to glum seems to be a factory mental setting. That has to be a way of adjusting that. As it stands, perfection would fail to satisfy, especially given the imperfect mind perceiving it.

I'll keep at it, trying not to list any major depressing significant events (e.g sackings, heartbreak, financial loss etc.) It would appear that society has an important role in individual happiness. A society of one is unlikely to be happy.

#41 Time marching onwards

It's been 7 months since I checked GE. I dusted off the old posts and left a short update.

Thusfar I am the sum total of no achievement whatsoever of worth to mankind. Arrested development is mine face in the dictionary. Writing helps, albeit in an impractical way. Where it will end is hard to know.

Happy April Fools day. Conficker.c passed without incident. Within my faculties, day pass, and I estimate less and less ability. I simply do, be, and am. A cursor may blink a thousand times, but patience waits for godot. There is importance here - mark the passing of time in any way possible lest it seem like so much sand in a desert.

#40 Up and coming

Oh you know. Motorcycle test is all I'm doing right now. I won't might not get it, but that's not a problem. Real life might not have undo, but it does have redo.

I've learned. That's the important thing.

#39 All fail

Only plan D remains. A near complete relapse into contrived reality has occurred. It has become a near acceptable alternative to the commonplace goals of the mainstream. None are sought, none are asked for. Both await external change.

The simple thing could be just a kind word at the right time.

Why should I wonder or wish? What is desire but an end unto suffering? Could the ultimate end of technology be a way to stop desire? How different would the world be without need? Boring?

And so we resort to the simple. Try. Ask. Do. What could possibly go wrong?