Conversations With Self

Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Hmmm... interesting. I made a post the last time, and posted and published it, but it seems to have gone.

Thought of the day: To err is human, to really screw things up, it takes a computer.

Friday, July 19, 2002

There is no problem which has no solution. Look at current world problems we face now. World hunger, drugs, prostitution, war, AIDS, child slavery, poverty, threat of a nuclear war and running out of resources such as fossil fuels and arable land.

There is a reason why all these problems are there to stay. No one wants to solve them. People just don't care. You don't tell me you care about the people dying in a foreign land because you aren't even there. It doesn't affect you therefore I find it hard to believe that you care. Even if you do care, you don't care enough to do something about it.

Wars can be solved, because generals can be likened to little kids with big guns. I'm sure every man out there, was a boy once who wished he had big, big guns and could terrorize the neighbourhood school kids. Just take away their weapons. There are politicians out there who would like to complicate the matter of war. War isn't just a diplomatic tool to deal with others, it is also a tool to divert attention from the country's problems and focus on beating some other poor country up. Tell me this sounds reasonable.

Then there is the problem of poverty. The people with the means to overcome this problem are the people with money, and I don't see them willing to give up their hard earned dollars to do something about this. Why bother?

Look the entire crux of the problems is that no one wants to do anything about it, and the maine xcuse given is why should we? Why should we, indeed?

Because who else is there?

Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Is there such a thing as an idealistic cynic? Or a cynical idealist? What's the difference? Anyway it doesn't matter.

I believe there would be a time where there is no war on this planet. Yes world peace, the bimbotic phrase, can be achieved. There are many solutions to handle this problem of constant conflict on this planet. One way is to simple nuke the entire world to oblivion. Yes, then we would have peace. Why not? Does this sound like a ridiculous solution? I think war sounds like a ridiculous extremity therefore a ridiculous problem requires a ridiculous solution.

So does this bring to mind a idealistic cynic? Or cynical idealist?

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

It has sunk to this. What is the entire point of email? Isn't email something that sends words out to another for almost instantaneous communication? Isn't the whole point for people to reply? What's the whole point of sending out an email to people who wait an entire month before replying their mail? Can someone tell me?

Despondence.

Tuesday, July 09, 2002

Three-day weekends are perhaps one of the best things in the world. Of course then there are 4-day weekends, 5-day weekends and 6-day weekends. But a three-day weekend gives you an additional 24 hours of what joy you could spend sleeping, slacking and doing completely nothing. And it takes away 24 hours from what you dread to do, like homework, tutorials, lectures and horrible teachers with high-pitched shrieks.

Now that the three-day weekend is over, I so do look forward to the next one.

Thought of the day
If a pear falls from a tree and no one hears it, does it make the same sound as an apple falling?

Friday, July 05, 2002

I need bandwidth like a fish needs water. It sometimes surprises me how I can tolerate a 56.6kbps connection, while these days the norm is broadband with at least 256kbps. How can a measly 56kbps modem actually support my downloading habits??

Thoughts of the day
If an apple falls from a tree and no one hears it, what sound does it make?

Thursday, July 04, 2002

Things I Wish To Do By The End Of The Year

~ Sleep at least 8 hours a day
~ Get an A grade for my Maths
~ Go to a posh buffet teppanyaki restaurant
~ Finish my tutorials
~ Get stoned
~ Be me
~ Write a book
~ Master WarCraft III
~ Live happily ever after
~ Find the meaning of lief and the secret of true happiness
~ Discover the grand unified theory
~ To prove that aluminium (III) chloride is ionic

Tuesday, July 02, 2002

There was a list of things I want to get done by the end of the year... if only I could find it.

Is Earth alive?

http://www.magna.com.au/~prfbrown/gaia.html

Monday, July 01, 2002

Spam is rampant and spreading. The amount of spam I recieve in my mailbox each day is increasing to a ridiculous amount that it just clogs up everything. I have only one thing to say to those subhuman denizens of the Internet who plague me with spam each day. I hope your Internet connection clogs up so bad that the information just backwashes into your computer, sapping up valuable memory causing the entire system to be unable to handle the 0's and 1's that fill up your screen, then crashes and refuses to reboot again.

Damn ye spammers with no decency to think about ye alleged "subscribers" to ye incessant junk mail.
Damn ye spammers with no integrity to remove ye victims email account from your mailing list.
Damn ye spammers who sell ye victims email addresses to put more foul money into ye pockets.
Damn ye spammers.
Damn ye all.