The mrxak Blog

Vice President Dick Cheney Shot a Man

Very few people can claim to have been shot by the Vice President of America. Frankly I find the entire thing rather hilarious, and I can't help but to say, only half-jokingly, that it seems suspicious. It doesn't take much imagination to come up with all kinds of conspiracies. And hey, Dick is known for his temper.

Was it *really* an accident? We may never know...

What was most amusing was when local Rochester stations picked up on the story for their little advertisement during the evening hours. Instead of saying "Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter in a hunting accident, news at 11!" they said simply "Dick Cheney shot a man!" in their rundown of the night's headlines.

Anyway, I expect the usual comedy types of things to have a field day with this news story.

Enjoy!

Yellow

Okay, so here's the deal on yellow.

Yellow is perceived by the long-wavelength cone cells in the retina which are stimulated by intense light.

But, yellow doesn't actually exist. Certain wavelengths of radiation exist, certainly, but there is no such thing as color, merely frequency. The very idea of vision is absurd. The brain is interpreting signals from the optic nerve. What we "see" as yellow is nothing more than a chemical and electrical process.

So since vision doesn't exist, and yellow doesn't exist, I'm not going to acknowledge anything emitting or reflecting radiation in the wavelength of 565-590 nanometers. I expect all my loyal readers to do the same.

Enjoy!

Honesty

I hate to do a serious entry, but I have to.

There are things I stand up for, my core values I cannot compromise. Honesty of self is one of them. If somebody held a gun to my head and ordered me to reject certain parts of myself, I'd smile and tell them to pull the trigger.

I'm a weird cookie. I think I'm delicious, but some of the ingredient choices are questionable by the general populace of taste-testers. My personality type (you know, those 4 letters I/E, N/S, T/F, J/P) is one of those really rare ones. According to some sources, about 1-2% of the population is like me. We don't think like normal people, we don't want to think like normal people. One trait we have is stubbornness; I won't deny it. It comes from a unique understanding of oneself, and an iron-will based on logic.

And yes, I used a semicolon in that last paragraph.

What caused this little rant was what essentially boiled down to an argument about time. I don't believe that I waste any time, and cannot honestly list time-wasting activities in my life. I live with a purpose. From watching television (entertainment maintains a healthy mental state and keeps people up-to-date on cultural and social events) to contemplating the meaning of yellow for an hour (wonder adds meaning and value to human existence), I try to live a life worth living. Even my failures I see as experiences to learn from, and the time failing was not wasted at all. I derive meaning out of every second that I am alive.

So don't ask me about the time I waste. I could give you the kinds of answers you'd expect, but that wouldn't be honest, and I cannot misrepresent myself in that way. Everything I do has a purpose. Right now I'm releasing pent-up irritation.

Sorry about the serious post. Next time it'll be random stuff. Maybe my thoughts on the color yellow.

See you later!