Where'd Everyone Go?

Looks like almost everyone I knew through blogging has disappeared. One of them has become a "real-life" friend, and a good one at that, so it isn't a total loss. But man, the old scene is no more! Guess I should expect it, given how long I've been gone, but some of them have been gone for quite some time.

Maybe as bad, is that my BlogRoll is quite stale, and I forgot my credentials in order to change it. I'll figure something out, no big deal, but I still find it kind of funny.

At this point, I have to admit to myself it won't ever be the same. Very few, if any, people will probably read this blog. I'm not sure if it is sad or liberating (in some way). To be honest, I was never one for reading other people's blogs, unless they had drama going on in their life or if they were exceptionally entertaining and informative.. and that person is the friend mentioned above. So, if you read this, and you have a blog like that, let me know.

This is some Blade Runner shit, right here!

You got to check this site out:

"Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next."

My current job in IT is a bit bland and stall, but after looking at what these people did with their computer time, I'm more than jealous - I'm depressed. What do I have to show for my work at the end of the day? Nothing like this, I know that! I know there was a team of people behind this, but damn, they make me look like a total dumb ass in comparison!

But in one way, it did make me feel better, (besides being suitably impressed). The subject matter for the demo happens to be St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. I went there last year, and it made a lot of great memories come flooding back.

I'm back...

Been a long, long time, must mean I need to switch jobs again. Not sure why I came back, but I feel compelled to for some reason. Haven't been reading into politics as much, lately. So many bricks find their way lodged into my skull that you will have to forgive me for no longer making a hobby of bashing my head against the illogical and insane.

All this is owed to working in IT. You realize the futility in making the world a logical place. Or maybe it is owed to the movie Idiocracy, that I feel this way.

I suppose I can spout off about the plastic, or (at least) ambiguous, nature of truth. But lets be honest, when the world is struggling with logic, (at least lately), talking about truth is a bit presumptuous.

Yes, you may be a dreamer, and you may not be the only one, but it is going to be an awfully long nap time before the world you imagine comes to fruition. I think I'll concentrate on damage control, trying to prevent this country, and world, from turning into a bad rip off of 1984. Or maybe Idiocracy is a more likely scenario.

I know, I'm being cynical, but that isn't exactly new.

So what now? I'll probably not be posting about politics. While you can try to feed your neighbor, the world may be a bit too lofty. While the world (as a whole) probably has the capacity to easily care for its downtrodden, it assumes competency, (see above). While we have it in our means to cure the world of common diseases, ensure peace, invent new.. well, you get the idea, it's a long shot.

But I guess I do have one "cause" that always pulls at me: freedom. What you do with your freedom, well, that's up to you. Of course, there is even a debate into what freedom entails. But the one thing you can't debate, (though, given this freedom, I guess you could), is the freedom to question, and to communicate this questioning. That is the start of many things, (including logic). We take it for granted in America, though, there are places around the world where that freedom is a dream. And there are those in this very country that are chipping away at this right, each and everyday, right before your eyes...

Okay, maybe I'll talk about politics a little.