time keeps on slipping….slipping….slipping……..into the future.

doo doo Doo doo.

I haven’t even thought about this place in awhile, and i think it’s time to start forcing myself to write again. things are hectic, yes, but they always are. i feel my brain is slipping into extreme atrophy, when i can basically catalogue my life by what i was watching on TV or reading at the time.

i.e. : This is the time of my life when i am watching the wire, finishing up arrested development, and reading the journeyer. i have also been playing rockband and deadrising on my Xbox 360. these are the medias i am consuming at the moment, and should provide an accurate cross-section of how rediculous my life is.

work comes in waves, relationships come in waves, i can feel them washing over me and receding. back and forth, back and forth. Each time the tide goes out it erodes just a little more of my brain, sweeping it out into the fathomless expanse of electrons, and other things composed of matter, where it really wants to be. my body isn’t really that efficient. it thinks it’s OK to go around losing all sorts of building blocks and all sorts of good stuff to keep things running smoothly. there’s gotta be a tradeoff i suppose, but i guess i should give it a couple million more years, and see what happens then.

i need to cheat for myself and find some website that gives you something to ponder on a daily basis. get that first sentance down, the door cracked open a little, and then the wall can come tumbling down. get down all those thoughts that will flesh out ideas i already hold, and see what happens. something good is bound to happen from this huge collection of ideas i have. it’s a matter of odds. actually i got a better idea. i’ll just start going to wikipedia, and clicking on their random article, and see what kind of discussion i can get going about whatever it feeds me. if i’m clever and resourceful enough, i should be able to bring the topic back to myself, maybe throw in a few random daily occurances, and viola! instant progressive thought. i should try to do this at least a couple of times a week.

let’s start now!

Wikipedia article: Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Ahh research, how familiar yet unfamiliar i am with thee. This is the major research center for IBM, i can’t even imagine the types of rooms they have in that place, but if it’s like most research labs i know, it’s loaded with all sorts of equipment that was on the cutting edge 4-5 years ago, and is still very functional. this is supplemented by loads of equipment that is over 10-20 years old, and is the majority of the equipment. they do what their supposed to (i mean, how many improvements can you make on adjustable voltage power supply or a centrifuge?) and people do experiments where they change parameters, hoping for that moment of serendipity, which will eventually happen, if you keep at it.

of course this is IBM though, so i’m sure there are machines that are super crazy, and they got all sorts of machines to help set up carbon nanotube constructs and variable semi-conductor reasearch centers that are completely dust free, and you have to dress up like you’re dealing with ebola virus research, or deep sea diving. Are these the places where the future is made? or maybe a front of some kind? i mean, it is located at columbia university, a well know haven for liberals hell bent on ruling the world. at least i think.

is there some sort of irony linked to the fact that i’m typing this on an IBM laptop? Or is the universe trying to tell me that things are so interconnected, with seemingly random circumstances, that aren’t random?

who knows, but i guess i’ll keep an open mind.