One of the things that I hate about days with this much rain is how frizzy it makes my hair. *sigh* It's just so not manageable!
hahaha....
Wednesday, 31 August 2005
Tuesday, 30 August 2005
Blogging from home again
The switch to a "new" ISP now done, I am again able to do all the important stuff like blog, plan a route to someone's house, order pizza, etc. again. It really gets me just how much we rely on having an internet connection all the time. I can deal with no tv or radio, but take away the net and I am lost. Simple things like ordering a pizza become a chore when you don't have the places phone number or know what they have. Weird. Less than 10 years to become totally and utterly dependant. Ah well. There are worse things I guess.
Wednesday, 24 August 2005
Ow ow ow...
The thing that sucks about stopping running is the pain you have to go through again when you start. All my hard earned foot callous' have disappeared. Now I am getting them back with blisters first. I hate feet blisters. :-(
@*(&$^@
I really wish that I hadn't taken such a big break from running. Ah well.
@*(&$^@
I really wish that I hadn't taken such a big break from running. Ah well.
Tuesday, 23 August 2005
All quiet on the Jim front...
It's been a while since my last post. I am currently changing ISP's so I can't blog from home and I always feel bad about blogging from work even though I do it. (I'm waiting for the test suite to finish).
Not too much is new with me. I ran yesterday at lunch. I had not run at work for a long, long, long time. Probably almost a year. Scary. I didn't run today 'cause, well, I'm lazy. But I was able to see my running buddy that's off sick. That was good. ;-)
So much to say, so little time to say it in. *sigh*
Not too much is new with me. I ran yesterday at lunch. I had not run at work for a long, long, long time. Probably almost a year. Scary. I didn't run today 'cause, well, I'm lazy. But I was able to see my running buddy that's off sick. That was good. ;-)
So much to say, so little time to say it in. *sigh*
Thursday, 4 August 2005
Science is about asking questions
A slashdot story started my brain rolling about what is science exactly. There are many different explanations like the dictionary one or the wikipedia one, but what it means to me is asking questions. It's about not being happy with the answers if they don't match what you see. It's about not actually thinking that you have "figured it out", but for any science that we "know" accepting that as the best idea we have right now. It might change tomorrow.
Growing up I assumed what I read in textbooks in school was fact. Star Wars taught me that facts are only from a certain point of view: you change your view, the facts can change. I guess like in quantum mechanics the observer is very important. (don't assume that me linking to Q.M. means I understand it).
Getting back to the /. article, what's true: Creationism or Darwinian Evolution? Both have holes in them (one of the reasons for the argument), so I will hold that neither are true. I think that there is something we have not figured out yet that will make more sense than either of them. Maybe it's a mixture of the two. Assuming that there is a god, it would make more sense to me that he (she, whatever) would set up the rules for the physical universe rather than be involved in the life / death of each and every being in it. Maybe everything here is chance with no noble purpose and will come to a random end. Maybe each and every life has been planned from beginning to end.
In the end I don't think that it matters to me one way or another for day to day life. I'm still going to try and be a good*, happy* person. I'd prefer to think of it as being my responsibility for those rather than god's though. That way I won't sit on my ass and complain when they don't happen.
Carpe diem and all that. ;-)
* as defined by me
Growing up I assumed what I read in textbooks in school was fact. Star Wars taught me that facts are only from a certain point of view: you change your view, the facts can change. I guess like in quantum mechanics the observer is very important. (don't assume that me linking to Q.M. means I understand it).
Getting back to the /. article, what's true: Creationism or Darwinian Evolution? Both have holes in them (one of the reasons for the argument), so I will hold that neither are true. I think that there is something we have not figured out yet that will make more sense than either of them. Maybe it's a mixture of the two. Assuming that there is a god, it would make more sense to me that he (she, whatever) would set up the rules for the physical universe rather than be involved in the life / death of each and every being in it. Maybe everything here is chance with no noble purpose and will come to a random end. Maybe each and every life has been planned from beginning to end.
In the end I don't think that it matters to me one way or another for day to day life. I'm still going to try and be a good*, happy* person. I'd prefer to think of it as being my responsibility for those rather than god's though. That way I won't sit on my ass and complain when they don't happen.
Carpe diem and all that. ;-)
* as defined by me
Tuesday, 2 August 2005
Things to do...
But I don't want to do anything right now. Ever feel like that? *sigh* Maybe this is a good time for a nap.
I don't want to watch tv (even though I found some more channels we get), I don't feel like watching a movie, I don't feel like going out, I don't feel like cleaning the apartment, I don't feel like doing more "setting up" more corporation stuff, I don't feel like playing nintendo. I just have to make sure that I don't eat all the cookies. So hard.
I don't want to watch tv (even though I found some more channels we get), I don't feel like watching a movie, I don't feel like going out, I don't feel like cleaning the apartment, I don't feel like doing more "setting up" more corporation stuff, I don't feel like playing nintendo. I just have to make sure that I don't eat all the cookies. So hard.
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