After spending two solid days in front of the computer, processing a huge assignment project, I'm kinda burnt out.

Alas - I'm also too tired to delve back into my amazing book Sophie's World, or to play my favorite PS2 game - and TV seriously bores me these days.

What to do?

How about a nice flowy-psychedelic flash game instead? Yeah, that put me *almost* to sleep ...

Or maybe a stroll down memory lane perhaps... (never mind that most links in my old tragically-Zope-based blog are dead and gone ...).

Ah, I see I used to be a real NERD blogger (reading backwards through my old blog anyway, starting in November 2001) - what happened to me? Oh, right. I went to Burning Man and lost my mind. So after a moment of utter panic, I just put Slashdot back into my RSS feed. That should fix it. I think.

Some of the writing I used to do way back when kinda surprised me today. For example this California-power-outage-induced blip:

A long blog rant had just vanished into thin air - all the words I had so carefully extracted from my brain, cruelly extinguished in less than a blink of an eye. My freezer was defrosting its contents by the minute, and I could almost hear my stash of ice cream scream in terror. All the lightbulbs in all the rooms seemed to have grown eyes, dull blank ones, and were staring at me mockingly. The phone was disturbingly quiet and appeared to sneer at me with a sardonic grin. For a few mintues, I had a claustrophobically Orwellian notion of what it must be like to live in a completely wired dwelling.

And also: And if I sound a bit incoherent today, blame it on the Dayquil. My head is soft and buttery like candy cotton, my facial skin is oddly numb, and my eyeballs feel as if they were ready to abandon shop and peel out of my brain.

God, why can't I write like that anymore? What is wrong with me? Or is it the world? A pathetic lack of power outages here in Bend, perhaps? Or maybe I need to re-subscribe to this...

Random quote collection:

"They should have saturated Afghanistan with liquid LSD and got everybody goofed out of their minds. Then they should have sent in the military dressed as Teletubbies." - Johnny Depp

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded, dead." - Woody Allen

"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are." - Matt Lauer (on NBC's Today Show)

"Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal." - Voltaire

"All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me." - Michael Palin (Monty Python’s Flying Circus)

This entry is a good reminder to myself too of what I still need to do before I die ... and this one of why I am here in the first place.

This one shows how precariously close I sometimes am to completely losing my mind, and this one to losing my life. This one helps me to appreciate just how fucking WRONG I can be sometimes (I love "Sin City" now).

Thankfully enough, I found this post which reminds me to be more politically aware and should/could serve also as a memo to myself that I indeed do have a brain (doubtful at times - I know) ...

But right now, I'm bored. Anybody got any other distractions for me?

"Anybody got any other distractions for me?"

Find me a job ;-)

--You now who