I've decided it. I'm not eccentric. I'm just fucking bonkers.
My strange behavior is less intentional than I realized. This is a scary realization.
Oh yeah. Random intense anxiety? Fuck it.
. . . scares the shit outta me!
Also, does anyone think the reanimated headless dude from Herbert West - Reanimator is the same guy as the old man with the waxy face from The Festival?
Quick hypothetical:
Say someone wanted to try psychedelics and do a personal blog on it. What's the legality of posting information about consuming illegal substances online? Can one be prosecuted in anyway? Obviously, this would be done anonymously.
Alright, back to Economics homework.
Peace.
I'm super excited about Spring Term. I'm just about a week in, and I'm very happy.
It breaks down like this:
ASIA 399 - The Indian City
A super fuggin' interesting class about the development of cities through the ages in India and the various cultural and religious reasons behind their design, architecture and layout. This is so far seeming to be the most dry of all my classes, but hey, it's India. If it's India, it's interesting.
PHIL 211 - Existentialism
I fucking love existentialist philosophy. I love this professor. I love this class. Best Gen-Ed Requirement ever.
ES 199 - Race, Gender, and Globalization
I'm almost considering making Ethnic Studies a minor. The whole department is made of awesome and win. This course is already making me look at things like Neoliberalism from an entirely new perspective, dealing with the experiences, movements and changes of different ethnic groups.
INTL 442 - Social Change and Development in South Asia
Another India-related class, so of course, it's awesome.
EC 201 - Intro to Microeconomics
This class is basically going to inform whether or not I take Economics as a Major or Minor or neither. I've already taken two terms of Business/Econ. Calculas, which I found fascinating (though very very difficult.) So far, this class is turning out to be equally fascinating. I like this professor a lot, and I've heard some great things about the department as a whole.
Updates later n shit.
This post was a mistake. Sorry.
We're all chattel slaves, now.
First they commodified our emotions.
Then they commodified our food.
Then they commodified our water.
Next, they'll commodify the air.
Corporations once existed for the public good
They were only granted their charters temporarily
Now they have equal power with the governments
Both mutually reliant on the other.
The corporation requires the state to exist.
But the state has put so much stock in the corporation, that it gives it free reign
First the corporation is equal to a person
Next, it becomes more free than a person
Free to restrict freedoms. Take over a nation's infrastructure.
The weak nations first, but as the powerful states become more dependent on the corporations than the corporations are on them. . .
It's the new fascism.
What once was free and a right
Is now a privilege only granted to the obedient.
Self-reliance and independence become impossible,
yet we are more distant from each other than we've ever been.
Big brother is there, but we didn't need the misguided revolution.
All we needed was passive acceptance.
You wanted to care, but you wanted a new T.V. more.
When we're in shackles, we'll have only ourselves to blame. There was no conspiracy. No master plan. It was us, supporting the system that now controls us.
The new fascism is a mark of failure for the human spirit. Only those who once lead us in reason can lead us to peace.
For y'all who don't know, the Gorillaz is probably one of my favorite bands in existence!
And guess what? You can listen to their entire new album
here.
And it's good shit.
Ever since I was young, I always hated the North American Standard mm/dd/yy. It just ticks me off. It makes no sense, other than it tries to express the way we say "May 10th, 2006" or "January 9th, 2009." But seriously, it's annoying and confusing. Why wouldn't we have the numbers go in order of scale!!!
When I learned in grade-school that the Europeans used dd/mm/yy I was pissed. Why can't we use that, said I! I've since wanted to always use that, but that can get confusing for people. 3/5/01 and 5/3/01 would get mixed up if I tried to go against standard. So, for most of my life, I've used dd MMMM 'yy (as in 2 March '10) because I think it looks the most aesthetically pleasing, and makes logical sense.
Naturally, I've had to use mm/dd in official things, but I've grumbled about it all the way!
Well just recently I realized, hey! How come our time-of-day format doesn't match our date format?
Even if we use the European standard of dating, it's inconsistent. Time goes from bigger to smaller (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) and date goes from smaller to bigger (day, month, year).
So, from now on, whenever I can, I'm gonna structure my dates and times into biggest to smallest, the way computer databases often do. This will do wonders for organization, especially when it comes to files on my computer, and hell, it just looks cool.
So, here's the current date of time in my awesome-looking standard.
2010-3-2 12:19 am.
See how pleasant that looks? But just now I realize that maybe it would be nice to have the smallest measurement first for the date, since you'd get the info you're least likely to remember first. . .
Oh well.
EDIT: However, I'm having trouble changing the CSS to make my post's time stamp into this format. I know I need to stick this: #config timefmt="%Y-%m-%d %r" into something. . .
Need to stop being delicious.
