herbancowboy

Sure , I'll be your friend even though you don't have big boobs ..I once dated a girl who was "getting clear" in the scientology cult..I explained to her that it's a money making scam and it took me a week of threatening to burn down the local office until they finally stopped calling her...

Thanks for the link - I'm gonna check it out.

Did the 50 pages work out? I did 29 in a couple of days at the end of the fall semester, and probably another thirty or so of code in a few days for the spring semester. It's not so much 'procrastinating' as 'highly compressed', right?

Gah! Don't say ages! Hehe.

I feel the need to be careful of what I write. A journal now would only be a further elucidation of why it's difficult for me to talk about a subject that's bubbling under the surface. All the while the tale at issue will be deeply personal, and probably of interest only to myself.

You wouldn't want that. Hell, I wouldn't want that.

1) You're pops sounds like a smart man.

2) I can understand where you're coming from. My dad slaves away and seems very unhappy, and he doesn't need to be. I'm like dad why don't you just get a cabin in the woods, fish, and write your book (that's what he wants to do). He just responds, I'm doing it for you children. I tell him I don't need it, I'm fine, but he won't accept that. I think part of it is he's a workaholic (everybody is some type of "aholic"). Then I think of my grandparents who slaved away to give my parents the opportunities to work hard and give us lots of stuff. At what point does it stop? At what point as humans do we say, I have enough, now let's be happy and enjoy it. I know my parents are certainly there, but they fail to realize they've reached their goal. This is why I say progress for progress sake is necessarily a good thing.

3) I'm not sure if you were getting to this theme, but you're post made me think of it. My old roommate moved to America from Uzbekistan with a Masters in Electrical Engineering. His degree is worthless here. He's a pizza delivery guy, but living and eventually bringing his family to America is more important than working as an engineer (he could just stay in Uzbek, his parents own an engineering company there). I have to say I admire him though even if outwardly it appears stupid.

Conclusion: sometimes life is about having a goal and achieving that goal no matter what. Maybe that's all life is really about. It may sound better if you call it a dream, 'cause really, what would we be without our dreams?

It's been my experience that creativity fuels itself. So, try not to stop the train. Though, I have experienced the phenomenon of pressure being a creativity activator. I have done some amazing shit being high on pressure.

Do you mean, specifically, Rememberance Of Things Past?

By the way, thanks for adding to my reading list. I'd forgotten about Proust's Remembrance.

There was a universal golden era for humanity that I'm not aware of?

Well, there is an inherent looseness in diversity. I think diversity is a strength, in the long run. I haven't, personally, witnessed the cannibalism that you speak of. I'm not sure what you call a loss of a common enemy. As far as I can see there's a shit ton of work to be done. I think that human rights issues, health care issues, environmental issues, worker issues etc., are yet to be satisfactorily dealt with.

Unless I misunderstand your meaning.


Do you know anything about Mac laptops? I need to figure out which Power book I want in about twenty minutes.

How long are you going to be in Houston?

And I also went to Klein Intermediate, and Epps Island Elementary. (Willowood Reprezent)

Although, honestly, I pretty much hated going to KF. It had gotten so crowded, and the teachers were so busy battling unruly students that most of us were left to fend for ourselves.

I posted back in the 'hate TX' thread, but I'm a KF grad too. '00

Don't know how much you keep up with that kind of stuff back home, but they added another high school, so now there is a Klein Collins.

"Were we even in the Vietnam War?"

Curiously enough, that did cheer me up. Any empire peopled by such indisputable morans is foreordained to be short-lived.

On the other hand, though, the video demonstrates what I've always regarded as one of the principal futilities of human existence, namely, that improvements in the general sum of human knowledge are in no way necessarily contributive to improvements in the knowledgeability of individuals. Moreover, considering the more specific implications of the video, there's always the question of how much damage can be done by puke-ignorant barbarians with a nuclear material culture.

On the third hand, of course, that was damn funny. Thanks.

Yeah, Thanks man. My dog was the BEST.
Yeah I've been enjoying the I'm with stup pic too. Curiously, it hasn't killed any threads.