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It’s about time!
So, I definitely haven’t posted anything since school began. It’s okay, though because I’m so excruciatingly busy that I have excuses for anything.
If it helps, I definitely cry myself to sleep about every night. It’s actually my favorite thing about my day because the rest of it is hell.
I’m overwhelmed.
No, really. I’m overwhelmed. Screw my life and most of the people in it.
In other news, I’ve been trying to decide on a future! And, going nowhere, I’ve given up and have decided to just.. not worry. So let’s see how long that works. Maybe I wont cry myself to sleep for awhile becaucse of this. You know, until I remember that I can’t just ignore my future.
P.S. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Hello.
I’m sitting here reading about Native Americans and the European settlers in the early days of what is now the USA. I’ve stumbled across a few really interesting facts, that I figured I might share.
First of all, how do you picture Native Americans, or as they were called 300 years ago, the Indians? Chances are you picture a person in an elaborate leather/feather costume, riding a horse with a bow and arrow, like the hunters of the great plains regions. Kinda like this:
Well the interesting thing about this, is that although there were horses on the american continents millions of years ago, they died out. The Native Americans did not have access to horses until the Spanish settlers brought them over in the early 1800s. Also, they did not have bow and arrows, not until the eastern communities brought the technology over. Strange, huh?
Well, it gets better. We all know how this story goes, Native American culture flourishes, then the western settlers come along with their guns and shoot everyone. Right? Wrong! Actually, what killed most of the Indians were not bullets or cannon shells, but what has been termed “the biological unification of mankind”. People from Europe brought over strange diseases that killed off many of the natives. In the 1760s, the British even ransacked smallpox hospitals for contaminated beddings that they gave the natives as gifts. So it wasn’t all accidental!
I shall end this brief history lesson with a quote from my college curriculum:
“The destroyed cultures represented a kind of ecological harmony that was obliterated by selfish capitalist and Christian Europeans.”
Vegard
My dear, sweet readers. I have a challenge for you!
But first, a picture that was taken at a pub a while ago. (I am the creepy face in the background).
This image sparked a trend of awesome pictures. Allow me to explain:
And, because this is the internet and the internet has its own humor:
So my challenge. Take the top picture, cut out my head, and make it as amusing as possible! Fly, my pretties. FLY!
Vegard
Alright.
This entry is simply to pay my respect to the most awesome invention ever: sweet chili sauce!
I am not entirely sure what ingredients it consists of, probably something sweet and a pinch of chili. But it is so ridiculously, amazingly delicious that I do not care! It could contain the souls of babies, and I would still enjoy it!
Imagine the following dinner: cheap, store-bought fish sticks, and a dull, store-bought 1-minute bag of mashed potatoes that regularly tastes like plastic. Sounds awful!! But with the addition of sweet chili sauce, it became so amazingly yummy, i hardly know how to describe it.
Sweet chili sauce is AWESOME!
Vegard
Also:
Hey.
Lately, I’ve been closely following the work that Google is doing with their new OS, called Chromium OS (as of now). Rather than explain what it is, I offer you this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw
Now, as you can see this is a pretty cool idea. What got me thinking was, if everything is being done in read-only, so you don’t actually save stuff, obviously downloading will die completely. Since it is way tougher to cheat DRM and copying restrictions when you can’t copy the actual files, but are dependant on separate servers, this could possibly be the change in internet computing that the corporations that deal with games, music, movies etc. are all searching for. Imagine, if all your movies, your music and your games are streamed instead of saved and played, the aera of free stuff on the internet would die. The internet as the communism that it is would cease to exist.
Of course, it could go the other way, not pick up that much notice and slip by us as a pimple on the history of the internet. Personally, I think that Google has got a brilliant idea with their cloud-based OS, and I actually hope it takes off and people start designing stuff for it (Spotify, I’m looking at you to create an in-browser streaming site).
That’s all I want to let out of my head right now. Peace out, yo