I noticed in the last post, Obama’s Bush - A Facebook Conversation, that humans (at least people in *this* society) have an innate need to believe in something. People have to put meaning into everything even if the meaning is pure conjecture. It is not enough to stop at the “observable” and take it for what it is. We must ask why it is or even worse, create our own explanation for it. We should be more like the “Fair Witnesses” in the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein:

Anne was seated on the springboard; she turned her head. Jubal called out, “That new house on the far hill top can you see what color they’ve painted it?” 

Anne looked in the direction in which Jubal was pointing and answered, “It’s white on this side.” She did not inquire why Jubal had asked, nor make any comment. 

Jubal went on to Jill in normal tones, “You see? Anne is so thoroughly indoctrinated that it doesn’t even occur to her to infer that the other side is probably white, too. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t force her to commit herself as to the far side unless she herself went around to the other side and looked and even then she wouldn’t assume that it stayed whatever color it might be after she left because they might repaint it as soon as she turned her back,” 

“Anne is a Fair Witness?” 

I think emotions have such a profound influence in this society that it dominates our thinking. It’s the “I need to look out for ‘number one’” mentality. It is no wonder why there is so much anger, paranoia, disrespect and fear in this country (Oops! Wouldn’t that be my observation?) Let hope that we don’t go the way of the Vulcans and force logic to solve our undisciplined emotions.

I don’t get it.

On-line social networks like MySpace, facebook, Twitter, Plurk, etc. What’s the point? I have accounts on these networks, but every time I get an update, read a post, get a “poke” I always face mediocrity.   Read the rest of this entry »

I’m the kind of guy who likes cutting edge stuff. I update my operating systems often, even on my phone. I always have the latest entertainment technologies (Blu-ray, HD DVR, DLP TV, etc), but the one thing I don’t like cutting edge of is food. I don’t like processed or “microwaved” food (btw, my microwave is a Kenmore Elite stainless steel model with a “jog wheel” for controls made by LG). I like the old fashioned way! Hence, why I’ve succumbed to marketing and eat an Wendy’s. Yesterday I got in the drive-thru at a Wendy’s across from Milenia Mall (I’ll leave y’all to figure out where that is) and as I was ordering, the order display was distracting me, like the stains in the Tide commercials that talk distractingly while the person with the stain is talking (see commercial here). Anyway,  it occurred to me that the screen was not blank, yet it wasn’t changing. To my surprise (warning: nerd/geek references here) the screen had a DOS prompt on it. In fact, not only was it DOS, it was Caldera DOS (can’t get any hokier than that)! Here’s the screen shot… Read the rest of this entry »

Ok. Chyrp didn’t do it for me. So at the behest of my wiser friend, I installed WordPress. I will be re-posting the entries from Chyrp shortly. In the meantime, you can go to http://archive.nothinginfinityandyou.com to peruse the old site.