[ life:revisited 2010 + 1 ]

Well I guess I am a follower, I redesigned my blog. Now, as most of you know, I am somewhat of a techie. Aw hell, I am a full blown gamer geek. But there comes a point in a techie's life where they can sense technology passing them up a bit. The genesis of HTML is one of those areas. I remember making my first webpage, and it was horrible. Ghastly. Now there are ways to cook up a damn good site faster than you can say methamphetamine. CSS, XML, Javascript, all tech that I never learned in skool, but I have slight working knowledge of them now, just from working with this blog. I hope I can get better at this type of design, and one cool link to check out with web design is css Zen Garden.


But, for all of you who are wanting to do some redesign, google blog templates, or check my links area. All cool stuff, but be careful, you can screw things up pretty quick. Trust me, I know. My little chicky is heading out to Nashville for a big conference this weekend, leaving me to trash the house and throw up all over my clean kitchen, so that should be a fun time.. :)

Also, get to go finally see James Lauer at Vision in Chicago, with Underdog and Annette. Rock and Roll. So I am super pumped, considering I will be in that area soon, I need to learn as much as I can about the city.

Well that is about it, test out the new layout and comments, and email me if there are any weird things goin on. Enjoy.

P.s. When Chuck Norris was being born, the nurse screamed "Oh my God its Chuck Norris!" He then had sex with her. It was the third woman he had sex with so far.

I'm what you call, a "Professional babbler".
Yeah I'm in a bit of a rut today, not feeling too well. The moms is coming down tonight to have dinner with me, and she is bringing my uber-late Xmas present, my new iPod. Who knows, maybe there will be PodCasts in the future for good ole L:R.


Just some more fun stuff to learn about with tech and science. How quaint.

Ain't technology grand?

Get to go to the ole Club de' FunnyBone this weekend, I believe most of the clan here in B-N will be in attendance, should be hilarious, or I will drink until Captain Picard asks me to play ping pong, then it will be hilarious.

Nothing like some totally random text to make me in a bit of a better mood. I have been watching a lot of Mythbusters lately, just because I am a science/engineering/blow stuff up aficionado, and I began to think of all of the work it takes for them to do some of the experiments they do. They make it look so simple, like MJ made hoops look simple. They just woke up one morning, and said, "Hmm, I wanna make something that can shoot a chicken through an aircraft window at 130mph using 200psi." A few days later, said poultry is not only absolutely hilarious, but doing something scientifically beneficial. Also, makes me wonder what JPL is doing over there, with more hardware and brains then the Mythbusters are ever going to have. Sorry Adam and Jamie, but I think they may be smarter, but maybe they just aren't having enough fun to build some cool shit that can fly into space.

To end my little postie here, Life:Revisited will be undergoing some aesthetical changes, to make it a little more unique in the blog world. Underdog has remodeled his blog rather wonderfully, check out the link over dere. Well, until next time, may you not do anything that makes you combustible.

Yep. The great author Henry David Thoreau said to simplify life. If only he knew how complicated the world would become after his lifetime, he would probably simplify his life by having a stroke after seeing today's world. Everything is so intertwined: Personal relationships, job issues, money issues, health problems, family matters, and all the host of other things that assault you in your daily routines. It can almost be overwhelming when you get home and try to write checks for the bills, only to see that you forgot to order checks. Goodbye calm, hello postal.

Most of us today do not have any way to truly simplify, so no amazing knowledge from me. I can't just move to a state park somewhere and live off the land. I happen to be a techgeek, so no electricity make Homer go something something. Crazy? Don't mind if I do. But at the same time, I have complicated my life with so much inane crap (see Z3ro's blog posting on the side links), that its hard to concentrate on what matters, or even truly know what does matter! WTF?!?

I see other people's lives, and I think they are wayy easier than mine, as I am sure we are all guilty of. But my logic tells me that they are in the same short bus I am, and they have just as many issues, they just happen to hide it better, or I don't see them when the fecal matter hits the rotary oscillator. Hopefully I appear the same way, or I must look like I am stark raving mad sometimes. I wonder if this is the same for everyone else, or am I just being neurotic. Or maybe just more neurotic than usual.

Well, at the risk of turning this into a "What does it all mean" or a "Life is...." post(which I am sure will come in the future anyway), I will settle for this post hopefully making you think about simplifying life to make it easier. No, not by buying an iPod or PDA, but just to make you think. Hopefully it did not make anything more complicated with you, so I leave you to think about simplifying, and any good ideas, you know where to stick'em.

Drink: Going to get more icewater.
Soundtrack: Brand New - Quiet Things that Noone Knows.
Weapon of Choice: My uncomfortable office chair.

Man. What a worthless day. I woke up this morning not wanting to talk to anyone. Mainly because I woke up to a country radio station, and my sluggishness is what barely saved my alarm clock's life. Couldn't find a good parking spot at work, so I had to make my own by crashing through the foyer(not really, just had to park far away from the door). Now I sit here, another day of listening to people's asinine issues(albeit once in awhile, I will get a genuine issue), wishing I was somewhere else. Ahh the helldesk, in all of its glory.

Upside is I did get paid today, so I can survive for a little while longer, and finally eat something other than PB&J for lunch, which I have been eating every day for lunch for about 2 weeks. Burger King? Subway? Dare I even think.........Steak & Shake? Yeah. I'm excited for Steak & Shake. Just hit me now.

It's probably just me, but today is one of those grey days. Nothing horrible is happening, but I am not screaming how much I love my life from the rooftops today. Yeah, and for those of you that know me, you guys are probably thinking that I need one of those "Terror Alert" color guides for all of my moods, considering they will most likely change daily. "Well, today is a Blue day, no Red, now its Black!" Watching me wander thru today is like watching Stevie Wonder try to drive an 18 wheeler. Funny, and yet tragic. But with no good soundtrack or sunglasses.

Well, back into the fray of people that are whinier than me(hard to believe), and act like I truly care. When in reality, I am just wanting to hang up on them. Ahhh C'est la vie.

Whoo ha. I got you all in check. It's been a good new year so far, all 2 weeks & 3 days of it. Strange problems at work have put me in a different mood today. I think Earl Grey tea has a lot of caffeine in it, because my hands are shaking. And my ears are bleeding. Well not really. I am going to submit a new way of babysitting your kids to the patent office, using duct tape and bungee cords, but I need to work out a schematic first. I think the idea will revolutionize parenting, much like the Segway did for travel.

So as my erratic post rambles on like a old man walking down the street with a walker that is too short for him, I ask myself, why am I writing this? I don't really have a point to write today. What is my deal?

My answer is Finland. If that one doesn't work, then I will take "Corny Answers" for 500, Alex. Hey! It's the Daily Double! The answer is "Hit him with a hammer." *Buzz!* Darkstar, what is the question? "What to do when a user gets mad at you because he enters his passwords wrong?" Correct!!! What did you wager? Texa$. Simply stunning.

None of the animals used in today's activity were harmed, but the user had to go the the nearest hospital, where the doctor happened to choke him with a stethoscope, totally on accident. (I am very glad to know people in the medical field)

You may be asking yourself, "What in the hell just happened?" My advice is just to walk away, shaking your head, and holding your crotchal area.

Word.

I was feeling slightly philosophical today, so I have compiled 10 of my favorite quotes for my "faithful" reader(s) :)

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
-Woody Allen

"There are more things in heaven and earth, then are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"-Act I, scene V

"The first key to greatness is to be, in reality, what we appear to be."
-Socrates

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Logic, logic, logic. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
-Spock

"Send lawyers, guns, and money; The shit has hit the fan."
-Warren Zevon

"You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
-Marcus Aurelius

And finally, one of the great cliche'd, but still great quotes that I love:

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, Love is kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful.
Love does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide. These three.
But the greatest of these is love."
-1st Corithians, verse 13

Ahh. Good stuff. Anyone have any good quotes, please comment!! By the way, first person to guess the name of the sculpter in the above painting and comment the correct name, wins today's special prize.....

A HAM SANDWICH!!!

//*begin apocalyptic post*//

What more do we have to learn on this earth?
What more do we have to do here?
What more do we have to endure in the name of gods here?
Why do we endure so much hate and pain here?

The most apropos question happens to be: why at all are we here at all?

//*end apocalyptic post*//