August 7, 2007
Piratical Thinking
As a rather Piratical leaning sort, I've oft pondered just who will win the global Pirates vs. Ninja battle. I mean, obviously Pirates are much cooler than Ninjas, but those black enshrouded fellas can be pretty darn sneaky! So it was with much relief that I located this first ever "scientific" discussion of the whole Pirates vs. Ninjas issue!
February 13, 2007
Beauty
I recall a conversation with a friend once who decided to classify people in to two categories "what people" and "why people".
"What people" were the most common element of society, the worker bees, the drones as you would have it. There were concerned with what was happening to them in the immediacy and tended to be obsessed with the illusionary surface of the world.
"Why people" were more rare, they were inventors and leaders, the people that look underneath, shatter illusions, they're concerned with why things happen and how things work.
Now, while I think it's quite impossible to classify humanity into only two categories, I also know that the second definition very much describes a large part of my own personality. I've always taken things apart to figure out how they work, I never take anything in life at face value; I always have to ask why.
To a certain extent I'm convinced that while I'm enamoured with asking why, it also makes life more complicated, as a good part of each day has to be spent processing data internally, both input and output, or as my mom was apparently fond of saying GIGO! (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
The other day I found myself in an oddly disgruntled mood, I couldn't figure out what was wrong for the life of me. I processed my feelings over and over, trying to locate the anomaly. Not that repairing the error was even necessary, I was just driven to discover what it actually was, in other words, I needed to know why.
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April 2008