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2001 (Marik's first Entry of the New Millennium)
Posted Jan 3, 2001
I was thinking about this during my free period today and I just kept pondering it.
Why is it that the vision of the future we had in 1970 (i.e. what was in "2001: A Space Oddyssey") hasn't materialized yet? It seems that we have only gone forward with respect to computing power and the almighty Internet. Why have we no flying cars, just the magically disintegrating Firestone tires? And why is it that instead of a "Planet of the Apes" situation where monkeys rule the entire world, that we just have a monkey who's going to take the presidency of the US? (Yes, I am very anti-Bush, and completely unrepentant about it.)
And why, pray tell, have we no spaceships that will fly me to Callisto for a meeting with a 1:4:9 monolith that will raise me to a higher level of existence?
(Note: I watched "2001," but I never got up to that point. I fell asleep way before it.)
Now I must get to Phys Ed... Oh how I hate that class. Ah well...
l8r
~Marik~
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The Rolling Recliner
Posted Dec 21, 2000
I was sitting in Physics today and I had a flash of inspiration. I thought... why can't we make mobile recliners?
Imagine for a moment your typical La-Z-Boy recliner. Now imagine that it has somehow acquired wheels or treads or something to move it around. Now consider that it can be moved around via a hand-held remote-control unit that can be used when one is sitting in the chair. You could roll around on the recliner and never get up.
Options would include an automatic beer dispenser (operated by a pneumatic ram that fires the beer can from a refrigerated compartment below the chair to a point on the arm,) a flat-screen TV (for watching Monday Night Football,) and, of course, a small voodoo doll in the shape of a football referee.
More on this later, I must get to a choir rehearsal!
~Marik~
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Opinions
Posted Dec 19, 2000
Given: There is no such thing as a wrong opinion.
Therefore by logical analysis, one can assume that the only wrong thing is to not have an opinion in the first place.
Given: Impartiality or neutrality is the state of not having an opinion.
Therefore impartiality is bad.
Given: Indecision implies that you will make a decision (and thus have an opinion) sometime in the future.
Therefore indecision is not bad unless it results in impartiality.
So with all that said, I offer the following question:
If judges and juries are supposed to be impartial, then how can we have faith in our own judicial system? I certainly don't!
That's it, just some thoughts I was having... I must get to class now... l8r Marik
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Opinions
Posted Dec 19, 2000
Given: There is no such thing as a wrong opinion.
Therefore by logical analysis, one can assume that the only wrong thing is to not have an opinion in the first place.
Given: Impartiality or neutrality is the state of not having an opinion.
Therefore impartiality is bad.
Given: Indecision implies that you will make a decision (and thus have an opinion) sometime in the future.
Therefore indecision is not bad unless it results in impartiality.
So with all that said, I offer the following question:
If judges and juries are supposed to be impartial, then how can we have faith in our own judicial system? I certainly don't!
That's it, just some thoughts I was having... I must get to class now... l8r Marik
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Marik listens to ska, breaks rules
Posted May 30, 2000
May 30, Year 2000
2:52 PM
THE SITUATION: Marik is sitting in a computer lab at his high school listening to ska and writing his newest Journal entry. Of course, the people who are in the computer lab do not seem to be too appreciative of Marik listening to ska (even though it's only in headphones,) or the incessant sounds of the keyboard as Marik types out the entry.
THE ENTRY: Hello there. I've come to several very important conclusions today, all on this crazy, messed-up Tuesday. One is that people are stupid. Another is that I need to find some other way to write these entries besides hanging around in a computer lab after school... (maybe i should do these things at home!) And the last is that SKA is great. I shall elaborate on the last point. I'm sitting here in the computer lab with two internet windows open. One is playing songs by the Hippos (a ska band,) and the other, of course, is open to allow me to write this. The computers in the lab here have headphones connected to them, allowing me to listen to ska without bothering the other occupants of the lab.
So thus, I can listen to the Hippos without bothering anyone. I love ska. It's inexplicable, really. Ska is just fun music to listen to. Rock music with a horn section is cool!
I can elaborate, but the bell is about to ring and I have a bus to catch. So PEACE OUT till next time,
Marik
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