Born Into it....

Do you ever wonder why you follow certain trends, certain rules and laws? Do you ever wonder why these things are unquestioningly followed by those around you? If you do then read on and contribute, if you don't well then frankly I'm worried about you.
I was just sitting at home bored and I was wondering why people feel it is necessary to "keep up with the Jones's". Why is it that everybody needs an ipod or an itouch? Why is it that people can't seem to live without there cell phones or the Internet, even though less than 20 years ago these things weren't even being used. Why does everyone have to have a car? How come we need to abide by laws that we never had a hand in creating(gay marriage, marijuana, etc), or support an economic and political system that we never endorsed. How come no one brings this shit up?

I was thinking about our national debt which is in the trillions when I wondered how long it would take to count to a trillion assuming I counted one digit per second 24 hours a day. I found it would take: 31688 years 32 days 1 hour 46 minutes 40 seconds, and that's assuming you could say One hundred thirty six million nine hundred and seventy two thousand four hundred and sixty three in one second(which of course you can't). Anyway my point is how fucking ridiculous is this? Why am I supposed to give a shit about some fairy tale number like that. What impact can anyone have on that number and why should anyone bother. I mean if our country is trillions of dollars in the red how the fuck does anybody have any money at all? It doesn't even make sense.

Anyway back to the rules and laws aspect of this rant, what the hell happened to the nation of the free that this country is supposed to be? How can you tell someone what they can and can't do? Some things make sense when it comes to endangering others but things like Gay marriage, Euthanasia, marijuana just don't make any sense. Why the fuck should anyone care about these things. If your not a fan of these things then don't indulge in or promote them, but don't you fucking dare tell me I can't.

I'm jumping all over the place right now but I don't care, I want to touch on the whole "I want what he's got" syndrome this planet is suffering from. Now basic amenities i understand; shelter, food, water, medical care, etc. unnecessary things that people constantly claim to need and buy. I'm going to make a mini-list of things that people seem to "need" that are either totally useless or extravagantly excessive(feel free to add): Jewelry(has never really made sense to me), itouch(see TV), hummers(your not in the military), Television(possibly the most mind-numbing invention ever), any more than 2 pairs of shoes that are the exact same shoe but differ in color(wtf!?) Also anything in excess is just fucking ridiculous what is with packrats and people who horde what do you need all that shit for?

When people watch TV or go on the Internet, they seem to yank the filter from there brain and vacuum as much nonsensical garbage as they can into there minds, and then do it again the next day. Over and over again. Why is TV considered such a necessity? Sometimes when I turn on my TV and skip past G's to Gents on to the 7th iteration of Mtv's The Gauntlet (35 year-old no life fuck-ups manifesting pointless drama with absolutely no shame) I can't help but wonder how and why? How these shows without an ounce of substance made it on the airwaves? And why the fuck anybody would watch them willingly? You want to know what annoys me even more? No? Well fuck you I'm saying it anyway, the thing that annoys me the most is that despite my attempts at avoiding these things, I still know all afuckingbout them because everyone around me loves this shit, and I can't even open the paper or watch the news without some nonsensical bullshit squirting through and occupying space in my mind. That's what pisses me off, I can't even turn my TV against the wall and be rid of it because it has saturated the very air around me. No wonder it's so fucking muggy today.

Really Though?

I ran into a bit of a quandary tonight(it’s Aug 4th BTW). At roughly 2:05am Pacific standard time, I made an attempt at purchasing a 20 oz. Coca Cola bottle from the Dasani Dispenser located within the Millbrae 24 Hour Fitness. At the relatively steep price of 2.00 dollars, I was already hesitant to buy it. Yet I also needed to work for 4 ½ more hours, I needed some caffeine…..Badly. So I inserted my bills into the proper receptacle, found my drinks respected number and punched it into a trusty keypad.

The front of the machine is entirely clear so that you could see your potential choices. It was due to this engineering feature that I was able to watch with curious intent as the machine began to retrieve my soda from it’s comfortable resting place 4th row up all the way to the left. A vertically placed hydraulic pump began to lift a horizontally moving conveyor belt up to the fourth row. A smile began to form at the corner of my mouth as I realized how they intended to attain my drink. I looked up quickly to see the efficient tabs holding the drink pop open, and waited for it to fall on the conveyor belt. It didn’t. Interesting. I directed my attention back up and discovered my coke leaning against the glass in a rather awkward looking position. I thought hmm now why is this occurring . Upon closer inspection I discovered that it was because of a faulty tab that didn’t open as it was supposed to.

Scratching my chin I debated on the most intelligent way to proceed. I needed this coke. I mean, it was already 2:08am and I still didn’t have the sugar and caffeine rush my body so desperately craved. So naturally I did what any self-respecting intelligent man does when he runs into something he can’t fix. I kicked it, pounded on the glass and shook it. It was only then, after I had shaken the entire machine that I was able to jostle it from the precipice on which it lay. It fell and landed with a thud onto the conveyor belt where it was pushed along at a slow clip until finally it………hit the side of the machine and went absolutely FUCKING NOWHERE! Apparently my enthusiastic disturbance had dislodged the petite and fragile mechanism from it’s cradle, and now it was entirely ineffective. So my $2.00 is gone, and my coke sits there grinning it’s devilish red smile from a mere row away from it’s intended resting place. I didn’t have 2.00 more dollars on hand. It was over, my quest for a coke and open-eyed salvation was nothing but dust in the wind. I pivoted on my heel and walked back to the front desk after stopping for an unsatisfactory sip of water from the fountain. Lame.

While I was content with the fact that I would not have a coke tonight, I still had a bone to pick with the idea-men at Coca-Cola Enterprises. I mean what happened to the old school machines, were I clicked the square that had the drink I wanted and it was either sold out or I got it. There are 6 fucking rows of water, 6 rows of grape flavored powerade, 6 rows of diet coke, 6 rows of sprite, and 1 row of regular Fucking Coke. 1 row! Does that make any sense at all? No it doesn’t, and why the hell are they selling soda at a gym in the first place. Granted I’m not working out, if I was I wouldn’t put that in my body before or afterwards. I’ve never seen technology get so complicated and yet backtrack so badly. In this case technology tripped on the top step and fell all the way down the stairs, or maybe that was just the Engineer. In any case who needs a hydraulic pump and a conveyor belt when the machine could just drop it to the bottom for me to grab. True I might have to wait for the pressure in the bottle to wane, but at least I would get my drink. Also what the fuck is up with having 18, yes 18 buttons to press. Isn’t it supposed to be simpler? What is up with this A9 bullshit, when I could have just clicked a picture of a Coke. Not to mention when there are 6 rows of Diet Fucking Coke couldn’t they all just be A1 rather than A1-6, I mean really though what is the point of all this madness? Aaaaaaaannnnnnndddddddd END RANT

Song of the Day

Slightly Stoopid
Collie Man

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The Dodo and Us (Part 2)

Before reading this article I would like to warn the reader that many of the views in this article may upset you. They are brutal in there honesty and common sense. Please If you are weak-minded kindly turn the fuck back.

As we have looked at the world around us over time, people in history as well as the present have noticed a great many things of importance. I will not be covering a great many of those things, in fact I will only be discussing one today. Don't worry though constant reader. I have more than enough time to go over the vast majority of those things in the future. I don't plan on going anywhere and the Internet seems to be sticking around, ipso facto so will my blog and my topics that no one reads. Now with the formalities behind us I would like to move on. I would like to discuss a very obvious and critical flaw in human society. Of course the flaw that I am talking about is Natural Selection. I put forth a challenge for anyone who reads this to prove it otherwise. Now I understand that stupid people exist, and just like our modern day portrayal of the Dodo many of these people will fall off the proverbial cliff and die. The problem is that not enough will die in this manner. I'm sure that right now many of you are thinking OMFG what is wrong with this guy, I assure you that other than thinking way too much there is absolutely nothing wrong with me. I'm merely stating the obvious.

Looking at the newspaper for the past some odd years, the majority of headlines have read like an ongoing horror story where everyday some sick bastard adds a chapter to our already fucked up story. My point is, that every day i read the paper there is an article about being short on money for this, or how were missing resources for that. Late last year California was on the verge of a drought, luckily for us Californians that fear has now passed as we were and are presently being pissed on. How long will that last though with our and the world's freakishly increasing population. More importantly and this really is my main point. How do we intend to survive as a species while we sit here defying nature? We defy natural selection on a daily basis and we use vast amount of resources to do it.

In Nature when an animal is born without the necessary equipment such as legs, fingers etc, it dies. When an animal reaches a certain age, or breaks down to a certain point, it dies. If an animal is 100 percent alive and merely runs into another animal that is stronger, it dies. Animals that catch disease or break there legs will more often then not die. Not our species, not anymore. We've become to smart for our own good. Don't get me wrong I'm all for compassion and helping people who need it. I just feel that at our current rate of consumption as far as natural resources are concerned. We are driving ourselves into the ground. When a person is born with missing legs or loss of vision, instead of being killed they are given a placard and state supported medical insurance. When a human reaches a certain age where it's difficult to keep up with modern day going ons they retire and collect social security. If a weak human runs into a stronger human, be it mentally or physically, nothing occurs, we nod peacefully and move on. Also, and we've really screwed ourselves on this one. All the diseases and viruses we have saved ourselves from with "miracle cures" like penicillin and what not, are becoming immune and showing us that natural selection cannot be defeated or overcome at least not until we have completely and utterly mastered technology, and obviously where not quite there yet. Will we go the way of the Dodo for the same reasons(the intervention of ourselves), only time will tell. Wrap that around your brain for awhile and get back at me.

The Dodo and Us

I'm sure everyone remembers the Dodo. It's been a long time since the little goofball crossed my mind. I guess there is a legitimate reason for that, the Dodo has been extinct since roughly 1693. A flightless and pudgy ball of feathers, the Dodo was a comical looking animal. Enough so for it to become recognized by millions as the first animal killed off by the intervention of humans. I can recall being a kid and wishing I could see the dodo(hell I wanted to see dinosaurs too) in real life. Its easy to forget about things like the Dodo when you have an iPhone, a PS3, and a bitchin car. Lately I've just been realizing that some of the most amazing animals on this planet are on the verge of dying out forever. The largest Ocean going animal as well as the largest land dwelling animal are both on the endangered species list. The Blue Whale and The African Elephant. Creatures Like the Panda and the Aye-Aye will soon cease to exist except in textbooks and museums. It can easily be chalked up as natural selection, when looking for a reason as to the demise of these animals. It only bothers me so much because I realise that it can and will only get worse. With the amount of people on the earth combined with the lack of resources such as land water and food, it is inevitable that more and more species of animal will continue to become extinct, and at a more and more frequent rate. How does natural selection, Darwinism, and extinction tie into the human race? TUNE IN TOMORROW FOLKS FOR THE STUNNING CONCLUSION.

Intricacies of Space Flight

Sitting around looking at my DVD collection I came across something I thought was odd and kinda funny. Back in my heyday when I was like 12 years old, I would always be amazed at the scenes where the spaceships in Sci-Fi movies would come cruising in to land on Earth or wherever. Just this epic scene of ships taking up the view of the sky or landing with flashing seizure lights, Fold down steps(are you kidding me?), and shiny reflector crap. I remember they would always reach our planet in three distinct ways. Either they would swoop down Independence Day style in this slow drawn out 2 day voyage from like the moon to the surface of the earth. When they finally arrived there would always be this little contingency of people waiting to welcome the new beings to earth. "Hi!, I'm like the president and this is uh earth........so yea, Welcome and stuff".

The second way that I remember Alien forms getting to earth is through the good old fashion crash landing. Generally an alien infested meteor or space ship or better yet a pod will come rocketing down to earth in a curtain of bright blue flame that no one sees, crash into an enormous cornfield and leave the alien(or entity) to slip out and seek the nearest human. Once the human is found by the alien they almost always have sex or brutally kill each other, It's just protocol.

The third way, and this is my favorite. It's probably sometime in the not so distant future, we've attempted to colonize and harvest some other planet, or probe the far reaches of space with a crew of like nine specialists(who never end up solving any of the problems they are their for) on some ridiculous mission. Like..........Uh I dunno, finding out what happened to the ship that mysteriously disappeared 4 years ago in the same sector/quadrant. Upon the ships arrival to said location everything goes drastically wrong. "Oh my god what's going on" <---------Always necessary to state the obvious

Anyway what I'm getting at is I can't believe any of that crap anymore. If I am to understand that these aliens are capable of traversing galaxies to arrive on Earth in a ship, I have to believe they have some kind of improved form of transportation. Whether it be the typical "Faster than the speed of light" travel, or folding the space time continuum and creating wormholes to travel wherever you please, I have to think they're doing something different. So then my point is why the fuck do they land on a tripod, I mean a tripod? This thing travelled across universes to land on a fucking tripod? So, what? It just wouldn't land if there was rough terrain or a mountain, or water? I can just picture the alien co-pilots looking at each other

Pilot "So...... you wanna cruise to the surface or...."
Pilot2 " eh I dunno.....I mean it looks a little uneven doesn't it..... it might be a little hard to like...?
Pilot "yea, yea I see what your saying these tripod models are like 23,000 Gelkacs out of date(scratching face) well........you wanna just like keep going till we hit another planet?"
Pilot2 "Lets just do that (engages the clutch and takes off)

I always imagined like this Perpetual motion Anti-matter gyroscope that mulched the very elements around it into a smooth glass-like landing pad that the ship just settled on gently, with all the aliens sliding down to the ground on giant twisty slides. Folding space, to land on the surface of a planet in a flash would be chill, but another question arises from it all. Why are we so fascinated that it must be us that they visit. In space they have estimated that we have as many galaxies as we have grains of sand on the earth. How would they find us in the first place, and If they did why would they waste there time we may as well be rats to a species of beings that advanced, like a planet of parasites. Q: Do I think there is life on other planets in the universe? A: If the galaxy to grains of sand thing holds true than yea, with that many galaxies there is so much possibility for another random alignment of things that could bring about life. Will we ever encounter it? Not a fucking chance. But movies will continue to believe, and I'll continue to laugh.

Song of the Day

Jedi Mind Tricks ft. Planet Asia
I Against I

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