"I don't know why I've always loved talking about poop, but to me it is a great tool in detecting what's wrong in our bodies. I continuously monitor [my son] Evan's poop by sending it to labs to get tested to make sure things are all running smoothly..."
- Jenny McCarthy (anti-vaccination nut)
I need to stop wasting time. That's what I've been doing for the last fortnight - a lot of mental activity, all spent on pointless persuits.
Last week I hacked a porn site. Or rather, last week I spent five minutes figuring out how to hack a porn site, another five finding an effective but inelegant way to get around the DRM...followed by two days failing to get a more elegant way to work. And then five days of downloading smut from the 70s and 80s.
One day I might feel like watching it.
This week was spent mostly arguing with net nuts on youtube. Here's a sample of their wisdom:
"Black people have dancing in their blood they are born with it thats why they got rythym and they have amazing moves." [ILoveKelseyBriggs]
"i can be friends with gay but i dont like when some 1 stand behing me lol" [ghhf1]
"An elementary rule of Scripture is that God has deliberately included SEEMINGLY contradictions in His Word" [bornagain001]
"god doesn't like homos - he finds them awfully irritating." [dirtyskank007]
"New Coke wasn't a blunder it was a deliberate long-term strategy to make regular Coke into the more prestigious Coca-Cola Classic" [derpenstein]
"How gives a shit about mixed up gay people. Fuck them." [Machtvollkommenheit]
"Global warming is a huge lefty scam to take money from the poor and give it to the rich, like Al Gore." [unknown nut]
"I decided to be heterosexual because I was raised that way." [TheFlashBeer]
There's been other things - weeding someone's garden (two days), fixing someone's computer (two nights), writing blog rants then deciding not to publish them (too much) - but I'm feeling the need for something that
(a) stretches my abilities a bit
(b) is enjoyable
(c) I actually want to do, and
(d) isn't a complete and utter blithering waste of time.
So I'm going to invent some musical instruments. Software ones, that is. I've been hovering around the forums for the software that makes software instruments...and I reckon a week of intensive study should get me famillar with it.
So this is me, not wasting time anymore.
I continuously monitor [my son] Evan's poop by sending it to labs to get tested to make sure things are all running smoothly..."
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I was bonkers.
Thanks for the quote. It made me feel better.
ReplyDeleteI may not be doing anything great, but at least I'm not shitting away my life (so to speak). :-)