If, for example, you were ever bored, you might be able to pass the time very pleasantly clicking around the picture of everything. I consider this to be a form of art, as the artist clearly has taken capturing a meme to the point obsessiveness; lingering around the point of insanity.
I am currently watching Human Nature. I highly recommend anyone to watch it – it’s one of those finger pokes at society that some people should take notice of.

This will be a brief post – it’s almost 3am and I have a flight to catch tomorrow. I’ll be spending the week with my buddy sl8r and hopefully many others… We’ll see. The reason for the lateness? I started packing at 2:30am. What was I doing until 2:30am the night before I left? Writing my short story for the CBC literary awards. After much internal debate and close examination of the rules and regulations, I’ve decided that I cannot post it here as enRoute has the right of first publishing unfortunately…. So it will have to wait until some time after February. What with K5 having a fiction competition, this is a great disapointment to me… I’d really like you guys to read it. Unfortunately it cannot be. 😐
Anyways, I’ll be updating while I’m away with my adventures in the ‘most boring city in Canada’. Maybe it’s time to liven it up a bit. 😉

One of the great things I love about TGM is the forums where every one in a while brilliance emerges. My milenko brother * 99 Cent * has produced the greatest shit since sliced bread, honestly. Especially if you’re a bush basher. All of those bush backers might have a few words to say, and I’d love to hear them. The ensuing discussion is quite interesting as well, if you’re bored and looking for something to pass the time.
There are elements of evil in our society that we have become so used to that we don’t even give it second thought. It seems funny to me that christianity has so tightly held onto the belief in the fact of Jesus that they’ve forgot the teachings of God. Wasn’t he all about the 7 deadly sins? Why do people seem to forget these things, or pervert them out of some sense of owed comfort? Why don’t people ever talk about virtues? Aren’t there things we should be striving for that can make us better people? I know there’s nothing written in a stone tablet handed down from god himself but surely a collective of people can come up with some virtues that are good for the best of everybody?
The Bush’s Resume post led to an interesting discussion about the values and aspirations of the republican party as well as some derogatory discourse about the democrats. I’m all about finding the balance, so I had to post my idea of a perfect governing system:
Why is it that everyone assumes that it has to be either free enterprise democracy or marxist communism? Aren’t there benefits to both systems? Perhaps a democratic communism with information and entertainment as the main currency and not so much the big house, the SUV, the fur coat.
Everything in the world changes, new theories come about and adaptation is a strength that humanity relied on to get this far. If we start viewing the system as rigid then we lose sight of this. Remember, we invented the currency system and there’s absolutely no reason to think it’s set in stone. We can easily reinvent it. Change it. Mold it into a better purpose for humanity. But everybodie’s so fascinated with the big house, the SUV, the fur coat.

The one thing that I always enjoy at parties is the new connections you can make with people you might never have talked to under everyday circumstances. I went to a good friends birthday party tonight and I had an awesome time. Good people, good conversation, good vibe. I felt like a stranger when I arrived but a friend when I left. I told a couple of them about this site so I hope they’ll post a comment or two.

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I saw an interesting movie poster on Wednesday while going to see Kill Bill. The title was 21 Grams and at first I thought hmmm, another film about drugs and then I read the tagline: “How much does life weigh?”. Ah, right. I can remember hearing something about this some time in the past. The questions this meme asks us are both intriguing and scary but ultimately beneficial to our growth as a society. Is it possible that the human body loses an amount of mass when a person perishes?

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Not much to say, I’ve been busy reading the debate going on in my ghettopoly post. I’m getting a surprising amount of traffic from google and other search engines with ghettopoly as the search term. There’s some interesting comments and I suggest you click the link.
So yeah, November 2nd was my last post. On Novemeber 3rd, I bought Crimson Skies on the advice of the boys at Penny Arcade and all my spare time has gone into that. Yeah, I’m an addict, what can I say. I love video games. It’s been a while since I’ve found one that engrossed me like this one does – I only hope that I can pull out long enough to write a short story for the CBC literary awards… Of course one needs an idea first… Ah well.

One of the things that I’m jealous to see my southern neighbours enjoy is the rare spectacle of the Northern Lights. I wish I could keep that quiet majesty all to myself here in Winnipeg. The Northern Lights have inspired me greatly for the last year, I’m glad to see that it’s inspiring others with the solar activity as of late. I can still remember the first time I really appreciated the Aurora Borealis, I had to write it down. I don’t know what it is about the Northern Lights that consumes me but maybe it has something to do with the same kind of energy that was prevalent at my Halloween party tonight. Man I love to throw a party.

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Well, emergency’s over and TGM is back up. It’s a strange experience, being heavily involved in a forum. I’m sure a lot of the people on the internet can relate, and it sometimes feels dorky, but it really does have the essence of a small town community in the day to day goings on. The boy / girl ratio is the only thing that I would change. As it stands in todays gaming world there are still *very* few girls interested in FPS 3d shooters. Percentage wise, of course.

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Agggh, this is not funny anymore – my favorite forum, TGM, has been down for almost three days now! Any milenko brothers who are floating out there in the void, I’ve created a temporary forum that we can use until this matter gets resolved. I hope it will all be fixed up tomorrow (the first of the month), but who knows! Argh!!!

Well I got my first spam comment today. I guess I’m going to have to look into this mt black list thing I read about a while ago. In the meantime, I’ve pre-emptively removed the ability to post anonymous comments.. I didn’t really want to but ah well, that’s the shitty part about the internet. Seems to me the internet used to be a great place up until people started to use it as a medium to peddle their wares and ‘get rich quick’. I suppose it goes hand in hand with technology, but at the same time I miss the purity of the net before it became so commercialized.
Ok, I’m done with the bitching.

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